Chapter 464: Wang Mazi
Wang Mazi felt that the new kid was a little strange, obviously looking like a weak tuberculosis ghost, but he didn't expect to be able to barely qualify for the job of a handyman.
As an overseer in the kitchen, Wang Mazi is actually a smart person, but he looks particularly vicious on the outside.
In fact, he understands the proportions and heat of this job very well, it seems that he is just a very inconspicuous supervisor, but in the eyes of many people, this is still a fat shortage, at least there is a lot of oil and water in the kitchen, and the work is very easy.
It's not like the overseer on the side of the mine and the grange, not to mention the tiredness and tiredness, there are many people staring at it, and if you accidentally anger any Buddha, it won't end well.
Of course, the work in the kitchen is not so easy to do, but the real trouble is the inner kitchen, that is, the kitchen responsible for the food in the temple, which is for the Buddhas, and it is the duty to do a good job, and if you don't do it well, you have to lose your head.
Fortunately, Wang Mazi's side is the outer kitchen, responsible for the miscellaneous food supply, although the work is more heavy, and it is not as easy to please the Buddhas as the inner kitchen, but the risk is not big, anyway, Wang Mazi is quite satisfied with the current work.
He's been in this position for more than three years, and he's a bit of a fish in water, and he's smart enough to keep his balance, neither acting so shrewd and capable as to make any mistakes.
To put it simply, it's a hyplocity.
Wang Mazi doesn't want to be promoted at all, or he understands very well that with his own relationship and background, he can mix in the current position, even if he burns high incense, if he really takes shit luck and goes up one level, it will be a curse rather than a blessing.
And his current boss, that is, the monk stationed in the kitchen, is also an old guy who has no backing, and he was arranged to come here to retire by virtue of his qualifications, and he usually doesn't care about anything, so Wang Mazi is actually equivalent to the person who talks about things here, and he lives quite nourishingly.
The old monk is also good to him, many things are delegated to him, and there are no special requirements, the bottom line is that nothing happens in the kitchen, don't make trouble for him, and there are no other requirements.
Wang Mazi is very grateful to the old monk, and he does his work on weekdays without leakage, and manages the back kitchen in an orderly manner.
Of course, the most important thing is to be low-key, or that sentence, Wang Mazi's work is neither good nor bad, and the back kitchen is not an eye-catching place, so it has been low-key and low-key in the past few years, and there has been almost no turmoil, which makes the old monk quite satisfied.
If you really want to talk about oil and water, there are some oil and water in the back kitchen, such as the procurement and supply on weekdays, which can be up and down, although the amount of current accounts is far less than that of other key departments, but there is always a part of oil and water.
But Wang Mazi is very restrained, paying attention to a long stream of water, but he can't really be honest and self-disciplined, isn't that a big fool?
And if you really don't fish for any oil and water, then don't say anything else, just for the filial piety of the old monk, you have to ensure the quality and quantity, and if you don't have money, you still have to pay homage to the ball, and the old monk will definitely be the first to trouble him at that time.
So Wang Mazi also fished, but he was very restrained, at least he was not insatiable, and while fishing for oil and water, the daily operation of the kitchen was not affected much.
In short, this guy is a smart person, and being able to mix from an ordinary civilian handyman to his current position is already his limit.
If you want to go up again, you have to have the Buddha as a backer, and it can't just be a waste Buddha like the old monk, otherwise even if you are lucky enough to get on the throne, there will be no good end.
Of course, for Wang Mazi, what he wants to do most is to be able to pass the annual examination in the temple, so that he can become a trainee monk, and he has the hope of becoming a real Buddha.
After all, in this land, no matter how hard a commoner tries, he is still a civilian, and to put it mildly, he is just a pig and a dog, and he has no status at all.
As for these slave laborers, it is even more unbearable, it can be said that pigs and dogs are inferior, and they belong to the lowest class.
Only by becoming a Buddha can you be called a person, not to mention walking sideways, at least you have the opportunity to continue to go up, and your status is extremely lofty.
Of course, there are also nobles, families, and wealthy families here, but only top-level nobles like the Xia family of Nanling Wang can stand still.
As for those weaker wealthy families, they still have to be a head shorter in front of the Buddha, but most of the new and old nobles have a deep or shallow relationship with Buddhism, and even many families have a relationship with Buddhism, and the relationship between many families and Buddhism is one and the same, and they have long been indistinguishable from each other.
For example, the Xia family of Nanling Wang, as the top aristocratic force in the entire Nanling, is also the most closely related to Buddhism.
And there is no shortage of geniuses in it, and there have even been several peerless monks, so in the entire Nanling, the Xia family is also recognized as having a relationship with the Buddha.
Even the folk say that the first ancestor of the Xia family is the reincarnation of the Buddha, even within the Buddhism, the respect for the Xia family is also very high, and the monks of each generation of the Xia family are basically worshiped into the top forces in Buddhism.
For example, the "Reincarnation Temple", which is recognized as the most corrupt in Buddhism, has extremely strict requirements for recruiting inner disciples, and it can even be said that it is harsh to the point of perversion.
But for the children of the Xia family who want to become monks, the "Reincarnation Temple" is almost unrefusal, basically as long as you are willing to come, it must be an inner disciple.
And at worst, it is to worship under the disciple of a certain enlightened monk, unlike ordinary inner disciples, who have to go through layers of assessment and trials, and finally have to see if they meet the master's eyes.
Of course, for a low-level harder like Wang Mazi, not to mention the inner disciples of the top Buddhist sect like the "Reincarnation Temple", or the miscellaneous disciples of the outer gate of the "Liantai Temple", it is already the ultimate dream of his life.
In fact, the standard of accepting disciples at the "Liantai Temple" is certainly not comparable to that of the "Samsara Temple", which is said to hold a "Buddha Relationship Conference" every three years to select trainees from the outer sects.
As for the inner disciples of the "Reincarnation Temple", there is no fixed recruitment time, it really depends on fate.
On the side of "Liantai Temple", an annual examination is held every year, and it is a wide-ranging audition, and there is almost no threshold, as long as it is an individual.
Of course, if you want to take the annual exam, you must first pay a certain amount of offerings, that is, incense money, and the current market is almost a silver carat.
One silver carat, this is not a small amount, for the vast majority of people living in the Great Black Tide area, let alone a lifetime, even a few lifetimes, it is very likely that they will not be able to save this amount.