asked Liao Yuan, who was in charge of the affairs of the monk in Yunshui Hall, for a pot of hot water, Xiao Shamen Takemoto carefully brought it into the monk's house, and said to Aslan who was sitting at the table: "Uncle, we are late to come back, Liao Yuan said that the dining hall has passed the meal, and there is no food." ”

Aslan sighed and beckoned, "Zhuhui, get up." Open the bag and take out three pieces of bread. ”

Xiaoshamen Zhuhui, who was curled up in the corner of the hot kang, got up, turned over the cloth bag beside him, took out three dough cakes and put them on the table: "Uncle Shi, after eating these, there are still three left." ”

Aslan nodded, and one of them divided a dough cake, and the three of them devoured the hot water in the pot, and ate the dough in a few bites.

Takemoto licked the crumbs on his palm, and said angrily: "There is obviously food in the dining hall, but when I came back, I saw someone carrying a food box coming out of it, and the green onion noodles were so fragrant......"

Aslan soothed: "Since we are staying in the temple, we will live and abide by the rules of others, since we missed the meal, we will endure it, and everyone will go to the dining hall early tomorrow morning to eat." ”

Zhu Hui muttered, "They just look down on us!"

Aslan touched his nose and was silent for a while.

Zhu Hui's complaint, Aslan didn't know. They are from Qilian Mountain South Road, the temple is located in Tianmatai Mountain, which is surrounded by the Hanhai Desert, and it is difficult for people to have homes, so incense is very problematic. It is common for small temples and poor temples like them to come from a remote place, and in a prosperous place like Xingqing Mansion, it is common for them to be looked down upon.

Because the temple has no permanent property, the believers are scarce, for hundreds of years, the elders of the temple have traveled abroad, picked up those orphans who have no one to take care of, and returned to the mountain gate to become monks. Therefore, there are all kinds of people in the temple, such as Aslan was born in Zedan, a small country in the Western Regions, with blue eyes and a high nose bridge, and he is not a person from Middle-earth at a glance. The situation of Takemoto and Takehui is similar.

When Aslan was 8 years old, he wandered on the old road in the Western Regions, adopted by the senior monks in the temple, and took the legal name Xuanheng. It's just that Aslan doesn't have the talent for cultivation, so he can enter the realm of vision, and if he opens his fame and color recognition wisdom, he will no longer exist.

When he was almost thirty years old, the temple planned to open a conversion method for him, but there was a lot of risk hidden in it. Aslan was timid and did not dare to try, and the abbot had no choice but to let him turn to mundane affairs.

Now Aslan has taken over the mundane affairs for six years, running from place to place, and deeply feeling the difficulty of making a living. Tianmatai Temple sounds very beautiful, but the reality is very bad, there are more than 200 monks in the temple, only rely on the hundreds of acres of poor land opened between the mountains to make a living, the mountain is a bare stone mountain, surrounded by the vast desert, the road is remote, the transportation is inconvenient, there is neither tenant rent, nor the courtyard property, less pilgrims come and go, the livelihood is extremely difficult.

The monks of the monastery all rely on the lay monks to run around, or to make marriages, or to do some small business, and earn some money as a subsidy.

After Aslan turned into a lay monk, he traveled in the world all the year round, and he almost forgot his own Xuanheng Dharma name.

Sometimes Aslan will also envy those big temples and famous temples, such as the Longmatai Temple where they placed an order in Xingqing Mansion this time, which is only one word different from Tianmatai Temple, but life is like the difference between heaven and earth.

Longmatai Temple has 1,200 acres of fertile land in Xingqing Mansion, and there are 13 real estate shops on the street in front of the temple, and the annual income from land rent is more than 2,000 taels of silver. This is not the big head, the big head is the incense money offered by the pilgrims who come and go!

Envy is envy, but Aslan is not a person who forgets his roots, he is raised by the monks of Tianmatai Temple from a mouthful of food and feeding, no matter how barren Tianmatai Mountain is, it is also his home, the only thing he can do and must do is to find a way to earn more money for the temple and pull more food back.

He still remembers that the seven or eight babies who were still waiting to be fed were orphans picked up by the monks when they were traveling outside, and they were the hope of Tianmatai Temple to pass it on.

This time down the mountain, Aslan went to Hui'an Hall to deliver medicine, this is a bottle of black ginseng pills refined by Tianma Taishan, a total of three pills, the total price is 1,500 taels of silver, this is the largest income of Tianmatai Temple in more than ten years!

The refining of the three black ginseng pills consumed the elixir produced in the narrow medicine garden of less than half an acre of Tianma Tai Mountain, in order to ensure that the medicinal materials were not wasted and the pill was not wasted, Master Longji, who was in the Luohan Realm, personally took action, and the alchemy was successful.

This business was finally negotiated by Aslan by chance, exchanging the elixir for silver taels, and the words he said were incredible in the entire Buddhist sect. After receiving the news of Aslan's flying talisman, the abbot, abbot and the head of the four major classes of Tianmatai Temple totaled for a long time, and finally agreed to this business - this winter, the entire Qilian Mountain suffered a big white disaster, and Tianmatai Temple really couldn't hold on.

After getting the silver, Aslan was originally going to buy a batch of grain, seeds and alpacas to send back, but when Hui'an Hall delivered the silver taels, he happened to see the price of the snow lotus on the water sign.

Sixteen leaves of Kunlun Mountain Snow Lotus, each sixteen taels! At the beginning, Aslan Chun looked at it as a joke, but he couldn't stop the endless talk of the doctor in the pharmacy, and from that day on, he paid attention to the snow lotus.

In the next few days, the price of Snow Lotus continued to rise, almost one day at a time, the entire Xingqing Mansion was boiling, everyone rushed to chase Snow Lotus, buy it at a high price, and then sit and wait for it to rise, and there are legends of speculation that Snow Lotus made a fortune everywhere.

Aslan couldn't help but use the precious flying talisman to inform Tianmatai Temple of this situation, and the monks in the temple who were scared were also quite concerned about this, and discussed whether to buy snow lotus several times in a row.

When the snow lotus of Kunlun Mountain rose to 25 taels, the temple finally agreed to Aslan's motion, and decided to join in the hype, and the abbot told Aslan in the flying charm that as long as 1,500 taels of silver became 3,000 taels, it would be sold immediately, and it would rather earn less than be greedy, even if it rises higher later, it has nothing to do with Tianmatai Temple.

So, Aslan bought all the snow lotus, and now the sixty snow lotuses are in the monk's house where he has a loan. In order to maintain the quality of these snow lotuses, Aslan also spent 3 taels of silver to ask craftsmen to make a layered sandalwood box, which was specially used to store the snow lotus. The cost of these 3 taels of silver spent most of the two months spent by Aslan and the other three in Xingqing Mansion, which directly caused the three of them to fall into a predicament.

When the price of snow lotus continued to rise, Aslan, Takemoto and Zhuhui, two teachers and nephews, broke their fingers every day to calculate the income, and they were so excited that they couldn't sleep every night.

It's a pity that the good times didn't last long, and when the price of snow lotus rose to 35 taels, it suddenly stagnated.

A few days later, I heard that Jinbo Auction House was closed for half a month due to relocation. It's been a month since he participated in the hype of Snow Lotus, and Aslan is quite familiar with the doorways inside, and knows the role of Jinbo Auction House in this wave of Snow Lotus market, so he immediately felt that it was not good.

Sure enough, the price of Snow Lotus in Kunlun Mountain plummeted, 35 taels, 32 taels, 30 taels, 28 taels, and 26 taels......

When Snow Lotus fell below 30 taels, Aslan wanted to ship, but unfortunately he ran all over the entire Xingqing Mansion to more than 20 pharmacies, large and small, and he couldn't even sell one, even if he pressed the price to 25 taels to protect the line, people would not accept it!

Fortunately, when they continued to sell snow lotus on the street today, they heard the good news that Jinbo Auction House had successfully completed the relocation, so it opened in advance, and the opening time was set for the day after tomorrow!

Aslan breathed a sigh of relief today, he planned to go to the auction house tomorrow to register, and clear the sixty snow lotuses in his hand at one time, and the auction reserve price was set at 26 taels each. Aslan prayed to the Buddha for blessing, as long as he earned 1 tael!

The next morning, Aslan asked Takemoto and Takehui to carry the boxes, and the three of them went to the Jinbo Auction House. The place was already overcrowded, but fortunately, there were servants from the auction house to maintain order, so there was no chaos.

Aslan lined up in the long line, and when it was almost noon, it was finally his turn.

At this time, he found out that if he wanted to participate in the auction house's auction, he also needed Rausch's membership card. Just when he was flustered, the other party casually asked about the goods he wanted to auction, and after learning that it was the snow lotus of Kunlun Mountain, he waved his hand and let him in.

It turns out that tomorrow's auction is what is the "Snow Lotus Special", all merchants who participate in the auction of Snow Lotus, as long as the amount of goods is more than 10, will not use membership cards.

The master of the auction house inspected the snow lotus brought by Aslan and asked him to carry it into the warehouse, make a record with paper and pen, and let Aslan draw it for acceptance.

When asked about the final price, Aslan was ruthless and changed the original 26 taels to 25 taels - after waiting in line for so long just now, he no longer had any expectations for making money.

If there is any earning, it is the blessing of the Buddha, if it is not earned, it should be in vain this time. It doesn't matter if you are busy working for nothing, as long as you don't fold the life-saving money in the temple.