In the morning, on a rare sunny day recently, a team of about nine people was walking quietly on the road.

Among them were monks, strong men, and fierce women.

Some of these people have indifferent expressions, some are intimate with each other, occasionally do intimate actions that make other people feel spicy, and some are exhausted.

They come from organizations such as the Dongcheng Temple, the Manhood Philosophy Society, and the Equality Society.

On weekdays, they are also active in Liangzhou County, but due to the small number of groups, they cannot call hundreds of people to parade the streets and publicize each event like the Life Association and the Luohan Association.

Compared to others, they are just entertaining themselves, and even ordinary people don't even know about their existence.

So naturally, the minority was self-proclaimed as tasteful, elegant, and not in the same stream as the world, and it was already difficult to recruit new members, so they became a recommendation system.

With the exception of Dongcheng Temple, newcomers can only join if they are recommended by two or more members.

Usually, they meet once a week, usually at a member's home, or in a tavern, where everyone talks and laughs, shares news, fosters relationships, and complains that others don't understand their ideas and pursuits.

But since three of the four county roads were cut off, food was scarce, and the animals in the farms were "released" into the wild and forests by the Life Association, the price of food in the city continued to rise, and the people could not make ends meet.

I can't eat, and when I'm hungry, no matter how ambitious my ambitions are, I can't help but lose my strength.

What's more, it's just getting together with a group of guys in similar situations to spit out bitterness?

The only special thing is the Dongcheng Temple.

Usually the incense in the temple is average, but the number of monks in the temple is not large, and the abbot has foresight, so he will save some food every year, so as not to encounter a disaster year, the monks in the temple can not eat.

As a result, it is now used, although they are not rich in the temple, but everyone can also mix food and clothing, continue to do nothing, and recite scriptures and worship Buddha back and forth.

This also led to many ordinary people abandoning their families and children after hearing about it, kicking away their wives of chaff, resolutely cutting off their hair and becoming monks, and "escaping" into the empty door.

The lives of their children and wives are no longer cared for, they just want not to starve to death.

There are more and more monks in the temple in Dongcheng, even if the abbot adjusts the conditions and consciousness of entering the empty door, there are still many people who are crowded at the door and their heads are bleeding, just hoping to be a little novice who sweeps the floor in the temple and eats a bite of food.

As a result, the food in the temple was slowly unable to support it, and the abbot had to ask his little novices to go to the aid station for the unemployed in Dongcheng District to find suitable jobs.

I heard that a lot of people have died in the city recently, and maybe there is a need to recite scriptures to overtake the work of the dead, and in this regard, their monks are professional.

Just by virtue of the dice scars on their heads, others can't compete with them.

The abbot and the presiding elder went to the wealthy merchants one by one to seek opportunities to give lectures.

It's just that now the whole Liangzhou County is in a recession, and the rich businessmen are even more reluctant to spend extra money when they see the situation in Liangzhou County, and they directly become a dime of iron roosters, guarding their own granaries and surplus wealth, and they plan to survive the winter.

In this kind of year, even they are unwilling to invite a few bald donkeys to their homes to recite scriptures.

As for the annual incense to the temple, it has long been cut off.

There is another reason for this.

When the people of the Life Association "released" the animals in the farm, I heard that the members of the Arhat Society were also involved.

Behind the Arhat Society, there are several temple elders involved.

Without the supply of pigs, cattle and sheep, the rich merchants could not buy meat even if they had money, and they were usually used to food and clothing, so they naturally hated the Life Association and the Arhat Society, and by the way, they hated the Dongcheng Temple.

Later, as soon as the big monks and small monks in the temple communicated and reported the situation, they found that none of them earned incense money.

The little monks found that the families of the dead people were worried about the matter of food, and although there were relatives in the family who were very sad to die, they had tried their best to sweep the burial, and there was no money left to spend the souls of the deceased.

People also said: "The living person has no money to eat, and the family will go down to accompany him when he doesn't know when, how can he have the money to ask the monk master to recite the scriptures again?" I believe that the relatives will also understand under the Nine Springs, not to mention, since the monks are compassionate and even ask for compensation for things that transcend the soul, how can they have a little compassion? ”

The little monks were speechless.

As for the great monks, it is impossible to say that the rich merchants offer incense, so naturally they have no money to buy food.

At this time, the monks in the temple discovered that the melons, fruits and vegetables planted in the "Lingzhi Garden", one of the courtyards that they despised the most, and the shallots and potatoes in the winter greenhouse had become their biggest life-saving straw.

In the end, when the Dongcheng temple summed up the method, it raided the novices in the temple to recite the scriptures, and expelled all those who did not meet the requirements from the temple.

By the way, the elders and masters changed their strategy, using "there is evil in the donor's family" as the reason, combined with the current situation in Liangzhou County, coaxed and threatened wealthy businessmen, and asked for incense in the name of opening the altar to preach the Dharma and reciting scriptures to drive away evil spirits.

As for the novices, they are able to farm the land, and the temple pours all the glazed resources to build a greenhouse, and those who do not know how to farm go to the aid station for the unemployed every day to find a suitable job.

It's just that these little novices who came to look for jobs are now the most despised.

They can't make money, they can't cheat incense, they eat white food every day, and other monks often look at them with strange eyes, and they also say behind their backs, "What's the use of only reciting scriptures."

They wanted to say that there were only a few things taught in the temple, either cleaning and cleaning work or chanting scriptures, at most carrying water to water the ground, and going to the outside world, where could they find a job.

It's a pity that they can't, and if they dare to speak up when they can't make money, they will definitely be expelled from the temple, and then they will starve to death on the streets.

Therefore, a few small novices in the team attach the most importance to this mission.

As long as you live in groups near Yingchuan Road for a period of time, you can receive three silver dollars per person, where can you find such a good thing in the world?

Although among the few people who traveled with them, they often saw some indecent scenes that made them dare not speak out, and they could only silently recite "Amitabha", but for the reward of this mission, they still endured.

"Look at what, Dengzi!" A muscular, tough-looking woman said to one of the two men in her group.

She stared at cowbell-like eyes, and her words shook like thunder.

"Amitabha." Shami Xuankong recited the Buddha's name, originally wanting to persuade women.

As a result, the woman glared and pointed at Xuankong: "Little bald donkey, do you dare to interject and take a look?" ”

So Xuankong was immediately opened by his companion's clearance, so as not to be contaminated.