Chapter 40: Solicitation
Renovating a house is a very important event for the people of this era.
On the first day, everyone went to work as usual, and Zhou Ang also went to the mountain gate as usual, but when he came back, he specially asked his uncle for a leave, saying that the family was going to repair the house tomorrow.
The next day, Zhou Ang didn't go to the mountain, and Zhou Cai's and Zhou Zihe didn't go to wash clothes, but only did their best to repair the roof at home.
First of all, the Zhou family started mud, four or five craftsmen had grass, mud, and upper rooms, not only Zhou Cai's and Zhou Zihe were busy with the work, but even the father and son of the Lu family came to help, but Zhou Ang was a little in the way and couldn't help anything, and everyone stopped him from interfering. In the end, even the thatched roof at the gate was carried with mud, and this time it was enough to be busy until noon.
At noon, the Zhou family took care of a meal, settled the salary, and went to Lu's house in the afternoon.
So the three members of the Zhou family stayed in their own house, beat the mud that was picked off the roof, and filled the yard.
When they were all done, there was a satisfied smile on the family's face.
Not to mention, it really feels like it's been renovated.
But after finishing his own house, Zhou Ang also stood in the yard and looked at the work, but suddenly remembered the pile of snow in the mountain gate - at this time, the pile of snow was piled there, and it still hadn't melted.
It's really weird.
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Night.
After a long day's work, my mother and sister quickly fell asleep.
Zhou Ang finished copying the last paragraph, completely ending today's scripture copying work.
Put away all the scriptures that had been copied properly, but Zhou Ang was not in a hurry to rest as usual, but took another ordinary piece of paper, picked up the pen again, pondered for a moment, and then began to put down the pen -
1. There is too little aura in the body.
2. At present, the strongest sensing distance is about eight meters.
3. The distance that can actually invoke and summon the aura is about five meters.
When he had finished writing, he read it for himself, was stunned for a moment, and then picked up the piece of paper, and without seeing him make any movement, the paper spontaneously combusted without fire.
Originally, he was going to throw it away, but seeing that the fire was spreading rapidly along the ink, Zhou Ang suddenly had an idea, so he simply didn't move, just adjusted the aura in the group, and went to the two fingers pinching the corner of the paper.
The paper caught fire, and it was so fast that it burned to the head in the blink of an eye.
So Zhou Ang quickly felt the temperature of the flame—but even if it had burned to his fingertips, what it transmitted was only a touch of warmth, and there was no burning sensation at all.
Zhou Ang smiled and threw the remaining corner out, seeing that it suddenly burst into flames on the way down, burning all at once, turning into ashes and falling to the ground.
It's still very fulfilling.
It's just that the aura in his body is indeed too little.
Thinking of this, Zhou Ang stood up, standing with his back against the bookcase, and looked at the far distance within the room—it was nothing more than the north wall. It's about a distance of less than five meters or so.
This was limited by the building specifications and building materials of ordinary houses in this era.
If the depth of the room is to be built longer, it will mean that the requirements for building materials and building construction will increase dramatically, and ordinary people cannot afford to buy such expensive good wood materials, nor can they afford to hire craftsmen of that level to design and supervise.
In the state of visualization, looking at a free silk thread, thinking in his mind, "You are coming!" It really seemed to sense Zhou Ang's meaning, and quickly swam this way.
came to Zhou Ang's side, circled around Zhou Ang's outstretched fingers, and swam away easily.
After two days of testing, Zhou Ang gradually figured out the scope of his strength—the ones he had just written on the paper.
The farthest distance of the spiritual energy thread that he can sense is about eight meters, but it is only a rough and vague induction, which belongs to the category of time and time, when the distance is shortened to about five meters, it will be more stable, and when the distance is further shortened to less than three meters, Zhou Ang will be quite agile if he wants to communicate with them.
Reiki itself is not conscious, but it does sense its own thoughts.
According to Uncle Shi, they can actually sense every thought in heaven and earth, but most people can't sense them, and after they can sense them, they are not so easily obedient to the drive of any person - let's say they have no consciousness, and they always feel as if they are very spiritual.
It can only be said that the name of aura comes from it.
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This time, it only took three days, and Zhou Ang copied five copies of the "Diamond Sutra".
After getting up that morning and having dinner, his mother and little sister still went to do the laundry, while Zhou Ang went out with all the scriptures - after the conversation with his mother the day before yesterday, Zhou Ang respected her opinions and opinions, and decided to temporarily end this work of copying Buddhist scriptures. Therefore, this should be the last time I went to the Chen family's mansion.
When he arrived at the second gate of the Chen family, it was still Zhou Ang who went in by himself, and it was still the small courtyard.
The person on duty here today is still the housekeeper who has been handed over many times in the past and is already familiar with each other - although Zhou Ang still doesn't know the name of the person.
Since last time, he didn't even look at the things that Zhou Ang handed over, and received them directly. In his words: "The young brother is very good-handed, but he is sincere, how can he verify a few scriptures? Could it be that with the demeanor of the young brother, he will still deceive me in such a trivial matter?"
This is still the case today, he didn't even look at it, so he took Zhou Ang's scriptures, wrote a post, and put them away.
But when the scriptures were received, he did not rush to write the voucher for receiving the money, but said: "Young Brother Zhou, please sit down for a while, but there are two things to discuss with the young brother today." ”
Zhou Ang was a little surprised, but he still sat down on the high-backed chair next to him.
The housekeeper also sat down, but said, "Come on, serve tea!"
When the words fell, a servant outside agreed, and after a while, he came up with a tea tray holding two hot new teas—Zhou Ang became more and more puzzled.
But he didn't rush to ask anything, took the tea, took a sip of it with his heart - pitiful, he has been in this world for more than ten days, and this is the first time he has drunk this world's tea - and then said, "Good tea!"
The teacup was put down, and he looked at the butler.
This means that the tea has been drunk and you have something to say.
The housekeeper also took a sip of tea and put down the teacup, but he was still not in a hurry to say something, but said: "This outside world, whether it is the training of the subordinates or the use of all kinds of things, it is inevitable that it will be worse, young brother, don't blame it!"
Zhou Ang smiled, nodded, and said, "Tea is good tea." But...... I don't know anything about tea. The poor family in the poor house can't afford to buy tea, and they rarely drink it. ”
The housekeeper smiled when he heard this, and said, "I just said that there are two things to discuss with the young brother. These two things do not interfere with each other, young brother must not misunderstand. ”
"Speak. ”
"The first thing is that the day before yesterday, my old lady suddenly wanted to read the copied scriptures, and she happened to be in front of her, so she presented some scriptures to the old lady's seat, and the old lady looked through a few copies, and was overjoyed, praised the good copying of the scriptures, and ordered me to add money to one of the scriptures. At the next look, it was really the young brother's part. ”
After a pause, he smiled and said, "On the order of the old lady, every scripture copied by the young brother will be added to thirty texts. What you owe in the past will be made up later. ”
"That's one of them. ”
Zhou Ang nodded when he heard this, smiled on his face, and said: "The old lady is benevolent and kind, and she is devout to the Buddha. ”
And all the work done in the past is also paid for, and no one wants to give it for nothing!
The housekeeper nodded and said, "That's exactly the reason, the young brother is really transparent and free!"
"The second thing is that there is a reluctant request below. ”
"Oh? ”
"Don't hide it from the young brother, there are three scholars in our house all the year round who specialize in pen and ink, plus the west seat in the house, the gift list and letters are returned on weekdays, etc., and the pen and ink are already enough. But it happened that there were many things in the house recently, and it was the time to employ people, but the mother of one of the scholars suddenly passed away, and the old man went, and our scholar was bound to keep filial piety, which was as short as three months or as long as a year. It just so happened that Mr. Xixi Zhupi was sick again, and for a while, the pen and ink in the house were overstretched......"
Halfway through his words, Zhou Ang basically understood.
This is the meaning of solicitation.