The snow fell slowly for more than ten days. In such weather, the cave on Jingmuro Mountain could not be excavated, and those craftsmen and porters stopped working at home, and the mountain was quieter.

In the Xuandu view, there is no one else now.

Bai Ji has been with Yan Qing since the day of the wedding banquet of the prince, and he has disappeared. Shi Zixuan roughly guessed the thoughts of the two, and they should have gone to track down the whereabouts of Taiyi Youxian Dao.

And Fu Jiezi has also gone down the mountain in the past few days. Although he was an idle man, he still had a family after all, and after spending months in the mountains, he always had to go home to see it.

And the second elder of the Bai family also returned to Qinghe County, after all, they are still mortals. It is impossible to stay in the temple of white gargle for a long time.

In this view, now there are only Shi Zixuan, Lu Lao, Bai Duoduo, and Chang'er four people, although there are few people, they are not deserted.

On this day, Bai Duoduo and Chang'er suddenly found that the Guan Zhu did not seem to be meditating in the temple today as before, but was discussing something with Lu Lao.

But after a while, I saw Shi Zixuan hand over a bag of silver money to Lu Lao, and said, "Lu Lao, please ask you to go to the mountain next time." ”

Seeing Bai Duoduo and Chang'er eavesdropping on the side, he couldn't help laughing and said, "You two, come over too, go down the mountain with Lu Lao today." ”

When the two children heard this, they were overjoyed, and the two of them had long wanted to go down the mountain to play. But Shi Zixuan didn't let them go out of the mountain, and they didn't dare to make this request.

Chang'er was overjoyed, and couldn't help asking, "Lord, if you let us go down the mountain, is there anything you want us to do?"

Shi Zixuan said with a smile: "The plaque carved by Master Diao a while ago should have been carved. It's always bad to bother people to take a trip, so we still go over and get it ourselves. Again, it looks like it's the end of the year, this is the first New Year since the Xuandu Temple, how can you prepare some New Year's goods, and have a lively time. ”

"Chinese New Year?"

Bai Duoduo and Long Ears listened. Immediately applauded.

Every year, the New Year is the most lively time in the world. Every family, put down a year's hard work, get together, make the most haode food, set off firecrackers, paste couplets, and be very lively.

Bai Duoduo and Long Ear were as early as when their wisdom was first opened, and they heard Qingqiu Niangniang talk about the excitement of the New Year in the world, which made them yearn for it.

"Viewer. Can you buy some meat to eat for New Year's goods?" Bai Duoduo was excited, and suddenly thought of something, secretly looked at Shi Zixuan, and asked in a low voice.

When Shi Zixuan heard this, he was stunned for a moment, and then said with a smile: "Of course you can." You don't have the precepts, you don't have that practice, you don't need to be forced to abstain from meat. Since I like it. You can buy as you like, the money is with Lu Lao, just buy as you like. ”

Bai Duoduo was overjoyed when he heard this. The thought of meat makes my saliva water.

Since she opened her mind and listened to Qingqiu Niangniang's preaching, she almost didn't eat meat anymore.

For to eat meat is to kill. Although Bai Duoduo is a tiger body, when he has opened his wisdom, he has a childlike heart. Soft-hearted and unbearable to kill.

So all the time, I've been a vegetarian.

A tiger is a vegetarian, this flower is really pitiful.

Because Shizi Xuan doesn't eat the grains and meat in the world, he didn't pay attention to it. Today, Duoduo said that she was hungry for meat, and then she reacted.

As he said, not everyone has to abide by this precept if you are vegetarian and don't eat meat, if you have practiced, you naturally don't need to eat, just like Shi Zixuan, the smell of meat is stinky, how to swallow it?

And there are many Taoist lineages in the world, and they will require disciples who are beginning to practice not to eat meat, but only vegetarian food.

There are two purposes in this commandment.

First, if you don't eat meat, you will kill less. It is to let the disciples in the sect create less karma and gradually develop compassion. There is this intention.

Second, the breath of flesh and blood is the most filthy. Although it can strengthen the body and the furnace, it is easy to pollute the Dharma and make it difficult for the qi and veins to pass, which hinders the cultivation.

And different sects have different requirements for meat rings.

Some Taoist doors do not eat three hates.

Pigeons in the sky, cows in the earth, dogs in people, are not eaten.

There are also turtles, snakes, and foxes, these three kinds of creatures are very easy to enlighten, and they are born with heavy spirituality, so they do not eat.

In some sects, not only are all meat not allowed to be eaten, but even some meat and pungent things, such as green onions, garlic, fennel and other plants, are not allowed to be eaten.

And what should I do if I have a heart for the Tao, but I don't have the state of mind to cultivate it? I just want to eat meat, but I can't help it, what should I do?

If the mind has not reached that point, the precepts and prohibitions cannot be stopped, and the precepts are kept with the heart, and they can't help it, and if they break the vows, they will destroy their cultivation instead.

Therefore, ordinary lay people who practice at home think that they can't do it without meat, so they try to eat only the three pure meats.

When you see the flesh of a slain creature, do not eat it.

If you have heard of the flesh of a slain creature, do not eat it.

You can't slaughter meat with your own hands because you want to eat it.

You can eat the meat you bought for a while. Later, when the cultivation arrived, the desire to eat meat faded, and then slowly quit meat and eat vegetarian.

Bai Duoduo is like this, the cultivation has not yet arrived, but she just heard Qingqiu Niangniang say that it is not good to eat meat, so she remembered it, but she was still hungry for meat in her heart. As soon as I heard that it was the New Year and I wanted to do New Year's goods, I couldn't help but mention it.

And Shi Zixuan also saw this, so he didn't force her to quit meat, so he approved her proposal.

Bai Duoduo cheered, suddenly thought of something, and said with some hesitation: "Brother Dao Chief, what should I do with Dabai?"

"Bai Li, what's wrong with him?"

Bai Duoduo said: "The Taoist chief allows us to eat meat, but Weishenme won't let him eat meat?"

When Shi Zixuan heard this, he couldn't help but smile and said, "He is in a different situation from you. He did not eat meat for the sake of eating meat, but he did not shed his animal nature. I asked him to quit meat because he had harmed countless people in order to satisfy his desire to eat people. You don't have to pay attention to him. Since your sister Bai promised that he would help him, she will naturally do it. ”

Bai Duoduo thought back to Bai Shu's January appointment with Bai Li, and nodded as if she didn't understand.

Shi Zixuan patted her little head and said, "Okay." Let's go down the hill. Go early and return early, be careful on the road. I remember that Mr. Fu taught you etiquette, and you must know etiquette when you meet people. Listen to Lu Lao in everything, don't cause trouble. ”

After speaking, he arched his hand to Lu Lao and said, "Lu Lao, everything is entrusted to you." ”

Lu Lao smiled and said, "Don't worry, let's go down the mountain." ”

After speaking, he took Bai Duoduo and Long Ear, and went down the mountain.

All three are not ordinary people, and they are very fast. In just half a day, I arrived at Fucheng.

Since the turmoil passed a few months ago, the city has gradually returned to its former calm, and the inspection of entering the city is not so strict.

And Lu Lao and the two young, let people see that they are the three ancestors and grandchildren, they don't care, and they don't check carefully, so they let the three of them in.

Entered the city. Bai Duoduo and Long Ear were novel, and they looked around with a little fear.

For them, it's like a new shijie.

But seeing that in the market, all kinds of strange objects, I have never seen the same, so that Bai Duoduo and Long Ear opened their eyes, and walked from the East Market to the West Market, the two small eyes have always been shining, if it is not for their own restraint. I'm afraid that I have to pick up any good things and enjoy them.

Lu Lao is calm-hearted, and he has been to Fucheng a few times before, which is much stronger than the two children.

See the two of them like this. I couldn't help but smile in my heart, and went to buy two candy people and gave them to them, Bai Duoduo and Long Ear had never eaten such snacks. His face immediately smiled like a flower.

The Taoist temple is not as lavishly purchased as ordinary people.

Lu Lao first went to Master Diao's shop and hired two young people for money. The plaque was sent up the mountain.

Then I went to buy red paper to write couplets, and I went to buy some pen and ink, and lanterns. Then I went to the butcher's shop.

I went into a butcher's shop, but there was no one inside.

Lu Lao opened his mouth and asked, "Is there anyone?"

"It's coming, please wait. ”

A soft voice came from within. After a while, I saw a woman come out of the house, dressed in coarse linen clothes, with her hair coiled on her head, with a delicate appearance and a superior appearance, looking soft and weak, but carrying a knife to chop meat in her hand.

Lu Lao and the two children were a little dumbfounded.

A weak woman actually carried a knife to sell meat, this contrast is too great.

Lu Lao couldn't help but ask, "Girl, is this your shop?"

The girl, smiling softly, said, "Yes." This is my shop. It's just that my father usually works, but recently my father got sick, so I came to help. What do you want, old man?"

Lu Lao said: "Come to twenty catties of net chops, and then ten catties of dumpling filling." ”

The girl nodded, "Okay." Please wait. ”

After saying that, he turned around and went to work.

At this time, a woman came in from outside, who seemed to be familiar with the girl, and when she came in, she shouted, "Young lady, my aunt has bought you medicine." You see if it's this. ”

When the girl heard this, she hurriedly put down the knife, walked over, and thanked her repeatedly: "Aunt Chen, thank you very much." I'm tired of you running for me. I don't know how much the medicine is, so I'll give it to you. ”

The woman shook her head and said, "I don't have much money." Most of them were picked up from my family. No need to give. ”

The girl shook her head and said, "No, how can you not give money if you take people's things?"

The woman pushed off for a long time, but she couldn't resist the girl, so she could only collect the medicine money.

When the girl went back to work, Lu Lao couldn't help but be curious, and asked the woman, "Is this girl's family very sick?

The woman, who was also a talkative person, sighed and said, "All iniquities." This girl from the Liu family is good-looking and virtuous. I don't know how many good men have fallen in love and asked someone to kiss. But this girl is a dead eye. fell in love with Lin Jialang, who grew up with childhood sweethearts. The two of them are also on the right track, and they have also made a verbal marriage contract before.

It's just that this Lin Jialang said that he went to Beijing to take the exam, and asked the girl to wait for him to come back, and when the title of the gold list was inscribed, he would come back to marry her. Who knew that this Lin Jialang would be gone for three years. He has not returned for a long time, and there is no news, and he has not come back yet, and he went to the Lin family to ask, and his parents do not know where they went. ”

The woman sighed and said, "Now I don't know whether this person is alive or dead, and this girl has been waiting for her dead eyes." When others came to kiss, she didn't pay attention. Now that I'm older, it's not easy to get married. Recently, her father had a strange illness and has been bedridden. She can only be left with household chores. Hey, this woman, the good times are only a few years, and now she doesn't marry, and she shows up, and she ages faster. When someone is old, how can anyone ask for it?"

As soon as this woman opened the conversation, she went on and on.

When Lu Lao heard this, he couldn't help but say: "What kind of illness does this Father Liu have? I haven't recovered yet? I heard that a while ago, a god rained medicine and fell into the world, but many people's illnesses have been cured. ”

The woman said, "I have heard of this." The blind man next door to my house was drenched in a rain, and his eyes were cured. It's really a fairy apparition. But I don't know Weishenme, Miss Liu's father, not only did not get better, but his condition worsened. ”

Suddenly, he lowered his voice and said: "The villagers in this neighborhood all say that this is because the butcher of Liu kills too many people and creates too many evils on weekdays, so the medicine rain sent by the gods does not work for him." ”

When Lu Lao and the two children heard this, they couldn't help but look at each other.

Bai Duoduo whispered: "Grandpa Lu, this Sister Liu is too pitiful. What kind of disease did her father have? Sister Bai's medicine rain weishenme can't cure it?"

Lu Lao was just about to answer. At this time, a few more people came to the shop, and one of them said loudly: "Lady of the Liu family, I'm here again." ”

When the young lady Liu heard this, her expression was cold, she rushed out with a knife, glared at those people, and shouted: "It's you again! What do you want to do with so many people!"

This girl, with angry eyebrows, delicate and fierce, has a different style! (To be continued......)