Chapter 8 Money
The next day, Xiaoxue looked for stones to discuss serious issues: they had no money, and they couldn't even afford to pay for the hotel room. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
"If you don't sell him, it will definitely be worth a lot of silver taels, and it is estimated that it will be enough to stay in this hotel for ten days and half a month. The stone disagreed, and pointed to the orangutan brother.
The orangutan brother yelled angrily and looked at Xiaoxue with an innocent face.
Xiaoxue walked over, touched the big head of the orangutan brother, and comforted him, "If you sell the stone, you won't be sold, but unfortunately the stone can't be sold." ”
The orangutan brother was so moved that he almost shed tears, if he wasn't afraid that Xiaoxue's clutches would slap him, he would definitely pick up Xiaoxue and kiss him 160 times.
"I can sell me, but I have to make it clear, I only sell my art, not my body!" said Stone grinning.
Then, they actually bought gongs and drums and sold them on the streets. Xiaoxue is dressed as a girl, but her appearance wants to fascinate the audience, and she is responsible for beating gongs and drums. The Stone and Orangutan Brother is in charge of the show.
"Bang dang", Xiaoxue sounded the gong and drum: "Ladies and gentlemen, as the saying goes, rely on your parents at home, rely on your friends when you go out, our brothers and sisters are going to go to the capital to go to relatives, passing through here, but unfortunately they are exhausted, so they have to perform here. ”
After Xiaoxue finished speaking, thirty or fifty people had already gathered around. Xiaoxue was interested for a while, "Thank you for your support, standing in front of you is my brother, known as Brother Xiaoshi, because his body is stronger than stone, and now he is performing chest crushing boulder to everyone." ”
The stone lay down straight, and the orangutan brother put the stone on the stone, and everyone exclaimed, but they didn't expect that it was the "little stone brother" who broke the stone, and it was a gorilla who held the hammer. Brother Orangutan took a fifty-pound hammer and raised it high, and everyone was so frightened by Brother Orangutan that they took several steps back. The hammer fell, the slate was shattered, and the "Little Stone Brothers" stood up with a grin. The audience applauded, attracting another fifty or sixty people, and suddenly the audience exceeded a hundred.
Xiaoxue saw that the audience was still unsatisfied, and added the show without authorization, "Now my brother, Brother Xiaoshi, continues to perform for everyone, and what he brings to everyone is Mount Tai Press." Please enjoy it. ”
The stone was inexplicable, and ran over to ask Xiaoxue, who whispered a few words in his ear, and he nodded to show that he understood. He ran over and whispered a few words to the orangutan, then lay down straight again.
I saw that the orangutan brother roared, jumped up suddenly, jumped up two stories high, and suddenly hit his body horizontally, fell extremely fast, and fell on the stone with a "bang". When the orangutan brother and the stone stood up, the stone was clearly left on the ground.
The applause continued, but when Xiaoxue took the big basin to collect the reward money, she only took back a few steel hammers. For the people of this town, money can only be spent to show "sincerity", otherwise it is all waste. After a busy morning, they didn't get back the money they had to buy props.
In the afternoon, he concocted the same way, but this time the stone did not let Xiaoxue rush to collect the money, and after the performance, he said the following to the audience:
"The chest is shattered, Tarzan is on the top, do you believe that a mortal can do this? I don't believe it either. When the Living Buddha blessed me and said that I could do these incredible things, forgive me for being foolish, I thought that the Living Buddha was going to punish me for my sins in my previous life. But I still choose to obey the Living Buddha, even if he punishes me, then there is a reason for him, and he has his own arrangements. So I tried, and just this morning, it worked. Truly, as the Living Buddha said, I am the chosen one, and I am his close disciple. He also said that whoever is sincere to me is sincere to him. ”
The identity of the stone has become the child of the living Buddha. They made enough money in one afternoon, enough money for them to spend months.
For them, money is just a necessity for life, and the next day they sell their props and stop performing. They were going to visit for a few days and get a good look at the city.
Xiaoxue bought a lot of paper sacrifices, of course, not for sacrifices, she really thought those things looked like a mess. The workmanship and painting are very fine, and the whole product reflects 100% sincerity. You won't find this anywhere else. Presumably, the people who make these kinds of goods also believe in the Living Buddha wholeheartedly.
In the middle of the shopping street, towering into the sky is a palace-like building, which is the palace of the living Buddha. Before they entered the town, they saw it in the distance, and today they finally had time to come and pay their respects. The orangutan brother stood at the foot of the palace, blocking the sunlight with his hands, and he couldn't see the top of the palace when he looked up, and he even had the illusion that the palace was taller than his mountain forest.
They were told to enter through the door on the left, the main gate was clearly open, but only the Living Buddha and the Four Dharma Protectors could enter and exit, and everyone else could only enter and exit through the small doors on both sides. They were also told that they were not allowed to enter without asking for incense. There is no fixed amount of "incense", the more the better, but if a stick of incense is less than one or two pieces of silver, it is not sincere enough, and sincerity is not enough to enter. They spent three taels of silver, invited three sticks of incense, and squeezed into the crowd.
Entering the palace, in the middle is the golden body of the living Buddha, which is almost as tall as the palace, and is so magnificent that people are amazed at the omnipotence of human beings.
It is said that behind the palace is a wider world, which is the residence of the living Buddha. Only the Living Buddha and his maids, the four Dharma protectors, and the five great monks can enter. The Living Buddha selects maids every month, but not all of them are sent back in the second month, some are kept for five or six months, and some are even able to serve the Living Buddha for a year or two. Others were sent back and married, but sometimes the Living Buddha suddenly remembered and sent someone to take her back to stay for a few days and continue to bless her personally. It is said that there are never less than 100 maids in the Living Buddha's house.
They threw three taels of silver into the cornucopia in front of the Buddha statue, and another three taels of silver each at the exit, before they squeezed out of the crowd.
But when they walked out of the business district, they saw a different picture. It was as if they had arrived in a refugee camp, full of yellow-skinned and dying people. There is also a strange phenomenon: girls under the age of 20 are all white and fat, and they are dressed up in a fancy way, but women over the age of 20 are like dead vines in clothes, and some don't even wear clothes, and they are dry like a corpse.
The men in this place, without exception, have been withered vines since childhood. The people in this place seem to hate boys in particular, but they treat girls with special favorites. In the same household, where girls are munching on meat and boys are munching on tree roots, there are many examples of this.
They also saw that instead of herbs, the wives fed their sick husbands ashes from notes full of garbled words.