Chapter 166: Vegetarian Meat Cooking
"Panic, what are you doing?!"
Seeing the little monk's expression, he suddenly felt a little unhappy in his heart, pulled down his face, and reprimanded loudly.
"Master's ......"
The little monk looked cowardly, and said in horror: "The disciple is just under the mountain, see, see ......"
"See what? Is it a cat fight, or a dog fight? ”
Zhi Ran glared at the little monk impatiently: "Such a small matter has to be reported, do you think that this seat is very idle every day?!" ”
"No, Master!"
The little monk's anxious tears were about to come out, and he sorted out his thoughts, and then he said with his hands and feet: "It's not a cat or a dog, it's a matter of Uncle Chen!" ”
"Dust?!"
As soon as he heard these two words, his eyes really widened, and he hurriedly asked, "What's wrong with Lichen?" ”
"The disciple was at the bottom of the mountain, and he found that Uncle Chen was there, in the restaurant at the bottom of the mountain, eating, eating meat!"
The little monk has never seen much of the world, and he grew up in Qingliang Temple when he was a child, and he thought that eating meat was a taboo from the bottom of his heart, so he saw the dust like this, and he was very afraid in his heart, and he insisted on saying this sentence completely.
"Eat meat?!"
As soon as he heard this, his eyes lit up, and he hurriedly asked, "What you said is true?" Did you see him eat meat with your own eyes?! ”
"Master, you ......"
The little monk looked excited when he saw it, and he paused in his heart, and looked at Ran with some surprise.
"Ahem......"
Only then did he retract the expression on his face, changed his sad look, and asked in a deep voice: "I mean, it is really a big sin to eat meat, we can't let him stay like this, we have to save him!" ”
The little monk did not doubt him, and the expression on his face eased a little at this time: "I was at the bottom of the mountain just now, and I saw with my own eyes what Uncle Chen ate Dongpo meat, sweet and sour pork ribs, and several dishes......
"Can you guarantee it?!"
Ran gritted his teeth and asked the little monk with a solemn face.
"Master, the disciple really didn't lie!"
Seeing the distrust in Ranran's eyes, the little monk was almost about to cry again: "The disciple really doesn't know what to do, so he came to report to the master...... Master, let's quickly think of ways to save Uncle Shi! ”
"If you want to save your uncle, you can't rely on us alone......
He sneered, and a flash of eagerness flashed in his eyes: "You don't care about this matter, leave it to the master!" ”
After speaking, he hurried out of the meditation room.
"Master, what are you trying to do......"
The little monk froze in place, a little unclear, so he scratched the back of his head.
But a moment later, the two of them appeared outside the restaurant that the little monk said.
Sure enough, as soon as I walked to the door, I saw that Chen's back was facing the door, and he was eating heavily, with his legs still on the stool, looking uninhibited.
The table was full, and the cups and plates were faintly visible, and a unique smell of meat filled the abbot and the nose of the abbot, and the abbot's heart sank, but he was happy.
"Dust!"
Looking at the abbot Tieqing's face, he hurriedly shouted, helped the abbot into the restaurant, saw the dishes on the table, and immediately said bitterly: "Lichen, you really disappointed me and the abbot!" As a monk, how can you eat so much meat, and all the abbot's teachings to you in the past have been eaten by you into the dog's stomach?! ”
Although his face was painful, he was happy in his heart: the little monk really didn't deceive me, and now let the abbot personally catch the dust and eat meat, this time he must be vigorous and dare to go out of the Qingliang Temple directly!
"Master Abbot?"
Only then did Lichen put down his chopsticks, raised his head, and found the abbot and Zhiran standing in front of him, and asked with some curiosity: "Master Abbot has not come down the mountain for many years, how can he have the strength to go down the mountain today?" ”
"Are you too embarrassed to ask?!"
Without waiting for the abbot to say anything, he couldn't wait to jump out and say, "If it weren't for the fact that I heard that you were eating meat at the bottom of the mountain, how could the abbot go down the mountain himself?!" Dust, dust, you can't even keep the most basic rules and precepts in Buddhism, what qualifications do you have to say that you are a monk of Qingliang Temple?! If everyone in the little monks in Qingliang Temple learns from you, is there still a rule in this Qingliang Temple?! ”
"I know that Senior Brother doesn't have to be in such a hurry to put a hat on my head."
Lichen stared at him inexplicably: "What do you eat meat?" What to break the vows? What the hell are you talking about? Why can't I understand a word? ”
"Master Abbot, look, he's still pretending to be stupid!"
Ran snorted coldly, pulled his face, didn't speak at all, and took a step back directly behind the abbot.
"Dust, you've disappointed me so much!"
The abbot also looked distressed, but his eyes were a little more real than clear.
"When I accepted you into Qingliang Temple, I thought that you had good medical skills and could benefit all the people, but you couldn't abide by the rules and precepts of Qingliang Temple at all, and I wasted my hard work for you!"
Lichen hung his head and didn't speak, looking respectful.
When the abbot finished speaking, Li Chen couldn't help but retort: "Master Qiqi Abbot, it is said that you educate the disciples, and the disciples should not talk too much, but the disciples really don't understand what you mean...... What does it mean to be unable to keep the precepts? Disciple, although the disciple's mouth is indeed a little cheap sometimes, well, his heart is not as kind as the abbot master, but the disciple has not broken the vows! ”
"In front of the abbot master, you dare to open your eyes and say nonsense?!"
Ran really couldn't help it, jumped out again, pointed to the dishes on the table and said to the dust with a disdainful face: "Aren't you eating these things on the table?" Tut-tut, these meals are so fragrant, how could you let them go, Senior Brother Lichen? ”
"Of course I eat these meals, I'm the only one on this table, this is not what I eat, could it be that the Buddha eats?"
Lichen rolled his eyes and looked at him with a mocking expression.
"Amitabha, what a sin!"
Ran clasped his hands together and exhaled the Buddha's name, but the expression on his face became even more proud: "It is another serious sin to speak falsely!" How could the Buddha have eaten such things? Senior Brother Chen, I advise you to quickly bow your head to the abbot and confess your guilt, I can't say it, for the sake of your good attitude, the abbot master can spare you this time......"
"Senior Brother Ran, you are guilty of one sin and one sin at a time, but I really don't understand, what sin did you make me confess? If you don't like me, you can just say it, you don't need to find so many false accusations to detain on my head! ”
Lichen wrinkled his nose and stared coldly.
"Lichen, let me ask you, since you admit that you eat the things on the table, can you tell the old man what you eat?"
Looking at Chen's stiff appearance of a dead duck, the abbot held back the anger in his heart and looked at Dust with a heavy face.
"Oh, this!"
Lichen suddenly realized, scratched the back of his head, and hurriedly picked out a pair of clean ones from the bamboo tube where the chopsticks were placed on the side, and respectfully handed them to the abbot: "Hehe, if the abbot wants to eat, just say it, but this thing was amazed when he took the first bite of his nose, such a delicious thing, I had never eaten it before......"
"Humph!"
Seeing the appearance of the hippie smiling face, the abbot was angry, and flicked his sleeves and shouted: "Until now, you are still so unrepentant!" Let me ask you, are these meals on the table made of meat?! Since we have become monks and become monks, is it the most basic precept to eat vegetarian food and not meat?! You, you are so stubborn, what a waste of the old man's teachings to you on a daily basis! ”
"Who said it was meat?"
I didn't want to be innocent, and I couldn't stand it anymore, so I said directly: "Although I haven't eaten pork, I've also seen pigs run, what you have on the table, this is Dongpo meat, this is lion's head, that is sweet and sour pork ribs, and the one on the very edge, that's plum cabbage button meat, right?" Do you dare to say that these are not meat? ”
Looking at the arrogant look, Lichen laughed out loud.
"Ahem......"
Seeing the abbot's reproachful look, Lichen hurriedly coughed lightly and said in a low voice: "The reason why the abbot master is so angry is that he also thinks that the disciple has indeed eaten meat, so he specially went down the mountain to educate the disciple?" ”
The abbot snorted coldly, glanced elsewhere, and did not look at the dust.
"But Master Abbot is mistaken, these are not real meat dishes, but real vegetarian dishes......"
Lichen said seriously: "This Dongpo meat is actually winter melon, sweet and sour pork ribs, actually lotus root, lion's head is tofu, and plum cabbage button meat is taro...... Even the oil used for cooking is also vegetable oil, which is specially told by the disciple, why, is it possible that winter melon, lotus root, tofu, and taro are already meat dishes? If so, then the disciple has indeed broken the vows, and ask the abbot master to punish him......"
"This ......"
The abbot was stunned for a moment, and looked at the figure behind him at a loss.
When he heard this, he said angrily: "You lie! How could this tofu lotus root be in such a form? Dust, if you make a mistake, you can admit your mistake to the abbot master in a righteous and open manner, why bother talking nonsense here?! ”
"I'm not talking nonsense, it's Senior Brother Ran who deliberately wants to frame me!"
Squinting his eyes and snorting coldly, Lichen used chopsticks to peel off Dongpo meat and sweet and sour pork ribs, so that the two of them could see the real ingredients of these two dishes clearly: "You look carefully, this is meat?" ”
"This ......"
His face turned white, and he shouted incredulously: "How can this be? Who in the world can make vegetarian dishes look like this? Dust, this can't be a trick you used, right?! ”
"Whether this is meat or vegetarian, presumably the abbot master has already made up his mind for a long time, but I have something here that I want the abbot master to see!"
With a cold snort, Lichen took out a ledger from his arms and respectfully handed it to the abbot.