Chapter 24 Let the monk know the magic of the comb
Feng was busy, and Tubao shouted at the gate: "Young Master, do I still have to see the gate? It's been a long time since I haven't come alone, I'm hungry!"
Wang Anran had not agreed, but Feng said, "You can even starve you at the door. What else can you do? Why did I pick up a foodie like you back? It's more troublesome to support you than to support a daughter."
Tubao was shocked and shouted, "Did you pick me up by my wife? Didn't I buy it with you for money?" After saying that, he turned his mouth and was about to cry out loud.
Tubao grew up in the Wang family since she was a child. She didn't know who her parents were, and she never thought about her parents. Although Wang Duosun and Feng always talked about her, they treated her like a daughter. The little girl lived a happy life and never thought about her life experience.
In the past, Feng told her that she bought her for money, so she asked her to work hard and be a good maid. Tubao has always used this as her goal, but today she suddenly heard that she was picked up, and the little girl was immediately sad!
Wang Anranqi said: "Why do you cry? Is there any difference between buying and picking up?"
Tubao said: "Of course there is a difference, the difference is so big! The lady said that when I bought me, I spent 100 guan, which was a huge sum of money. At that time, I was a baby, and I was worth so much money. Now I have grown up so big, so I can't be worth more money. I'm very valuable!"
The cute little girl asked the sky speechlessly, she burst into tears, life has no ideals, no value, and is old...
After thrilling, Wang Anran shook his head and said, "Even if you are valuable, our family will not sell you. What are you going to worry about?"
Tubao's crying face changed instantly, turning into surprise. Before she could wipe her tears clean, she shouted: "I don't have any worries. I think I don't have the best skills and I will have no shame to see people in the future!"
Feng and Wang Anran were both very surprised. Where did this start? Shen Juezhao is not a maid. He is the granddaughter of Li Zheng. What is the saying that it is valuable or not?
Tubao is very formal and is very serious about this issue, so it must be made clear and must not be vague. She said: "I had talked to Sister Juezhao in private before. She said that she would get married in the future and her family would get at least fifty taels of dowry, which is the most dowry in our village. But I told her that when I was a baby, I was worth 100 taels of detention. I was worth it by one of them. I was much more respectful than her. But now my wife said that I picked it up or picked it up from a pile of rags. If I don't have a penny, I'm so shameless, and I won't be ashamed to see people in the future!"
After being stunned, Feng and Wang Anran laughed loudly, laughing so hard that they were together. Such a small girl movie, you know that you have taken care of your face. When you grow up, you will be better off and have no shame to meet people. She really knows how to think about it!
Tubao stopped crying, but he didn't laugh, and said seriously and very solemnly: "Don't tell anyone about the fact that I was picked up, so as not to raise my head in front of Sister Juezhao!"
Feng and Wang Anran nodded together and said, "Okay, okay, we won't say it!"
"This is almost the same. When will we have a meal?" The problem of face was solved, and Tubao's attention immediately returned to the issue of eating.
Feng said: "I'll cook now. I'll eat it when our master comes back. Is it okay to eat egg bread rice?"
"Okay, okay, I want to eat two. My favorite egg bread rice!" The bunny became happy. The little girl was so sad that she was even happier.
Wang Anran said: "I thought your favorite thing was fresh soup dumplings, but I didn't expect that your favorite thing was egg dumplings."
"I also like fresh soup dumplings, but I prefer to eat egg dumplings, which are more delicious than the sweet eggs in the temple!" Tubao suddenly said this, showing that she made a comparison in her little heart, and the object of comparison was the sweet eggs in the temple.
If it were normal, Tubao said that the temple's sugar water eggs would not pay attention to the two words "Sweet Water Eggs", but would only pay attention to the three words "Sweet Water Eggs", and would think that the sugar water eggs were delicious. But now he was thinking about how to deal with monks, and Tubao's unintentional words immediately attracted his attention.
Wang Anran quickly said, "What kind of sugar-water eggs? There are sugar-water eggs in the temple? Shouldn't eggs be considered meat dishes?"
Tu Baoqi said, "Meat dishes? I don't know. Can you eat sugar and water eggs after giving the money to sesame oil? Master, you forgot that the wife took us to the temple to incense. After worshiping the Bodhisattva, the wife gave the money to sesame oil. After coming out, she ate sugar and water eggs outside the temple. I said it was delicious, so you gave me your bowl, but you didn't eat it yourself!"
The little girl couldn't speak clearly, just around eating, but didn't say the reason for the sugar-water eggs.
Wang Anran asked Feng, "Mom, I forgot about Tangshuidan. What's going on?" In his memory, he was very vague about this past, and it seemed that he had never been concerned about it, so he really couldn't remember it.
Feng then talked about the reason for sugar and water eggs. It turned out that the monks in the temple also had to live, and their main source of life was to rely on temple production. The temple also had land production and rented it to tenants to cultivate. They collected grain as rent, but they could only provide food and drink for food. Monks were not easy to trade, so their cash income could only rely on sesame and oil.
If a pilgrim gives more than twenty cents of incense after incense, then to express his gratitude, after leaving the temple, there will be a rice stall outside the temple. The stall does not provide any other sugar and eggs, so there is no need to pay additional money, which is to give the pilgrimage to the pilgrimage. Sometimes if the pilgrimage gives a lot of incense, the monk will invite him to the backyard of the temple and personally entertain a vegetarian meal.
This is similar to the method of entertaining pilgrims in later temples. However, the method in the Tang Dynasty was relatively simple. At that time, most people accepted this method and did not think that monks were greedy for money. Monks also had to buy robes and repair temples. It is understandable. Of course, some monks despise the poor and love the rich, so it is a different matter and cannot be generalized.
After listening to Feng's explanation, Wang Anran felt very happy. He was thinking just now, how could he let the monk accept lavender essential oil? It was not the goal. How to promote lavender essential oil to noble lavender through monks? The process required a huge technical content, easy to say, but quite troublesome to do. He had no idea at first.
But now I have an idea. The monk wants to get more money for indulgence and oil in the temple. He also wants to live. No matter who he is or what kind of identity he is, as long as he has something to do, he will have something to ask for. As long as he has something to ask for, the breakthrough will be opened!
Wang Anran thought to himself: "I have to let the monks in the temple see my methods first, and then, everyone can discuss everything! How can you let the monks see my methods? It's better to let the monks know the wonderful use of the comb."
That night, after Wang Duosun returned home, he heard that his son had made a fragrant medicine, which was comparable to Dali Pills. He quickly asked whose ancestors were the sons. After getting the answers from being the ancestors of the Wang family, he was satisfied and felt that his status at home had improved. Even Feng's tone of speaking to him was a little gentler. Of course, he felt good about himself. After the meal, Feng still instructed him to wash the bowl, but he still did not dare to resist.
The next morning, Wang Anran told Wang Duosun and Feng that because of the appearance of his ancestors, he wanted to go to the temple in Liangzhou City to worship the Bodhisattva and ask the Bodhisattva to bless him more.
Wang Duosun and Feng naturally agreed and prepared a hundred ounces of incense and oil for him. This is not a decimal point. The main reason is to give more incense and oil to attract the attention of the Bodhisattva, and more importantly to arouse the Bodhisattva's favor so that he can take care of the Wang family more in the future.
Tubao was clamoring to go, but although the egg bread rice was delicious, she wanted to eat sugar water eggs. Anyway, after spending twenty cents on sesame oil, she would have sugar water eggs to eat, so there was no need to save a few bowls of bowls in the temple. Feng naturally agreed and asked Wang Anran to take Tubao with him.
Riding on the horse, Tubao sat in front, Wang Anran sat in the back, and rode two people toward Liangzhou City. On the way, Wang Anran asked which temple was the largest in Tubao City. Tubao couldn't explain clearly, and she had no idea about the area of the temple. Wang Anran had to change the method and asked which sugar-water eggs outside the temple were the best. This time Tubao could answer, saying that it was Jinguang Temple, and the Buddha statue in that temple had the largest, with the most incense pilgrims and the most lively.
Wang Anran understood in his heart that according to general common sense, Jinguang Temple should be the largest temple in Liangzhou City.
The distance is not long. I rode a horse and arrived in Liangzhou City soon after. After entering the city, I led the way from Tubao to Jinguang Temple. Jinguang Temple is located in the west of the city. It is not prosperous. There are not many residential houses around and there are few shops doing business. Specifically, there are only one inn with plaques, while the others are small businesses and stalls, and they are not listed.
Wang Anran looked at the Golden Light Temple and felt a little disappointed. Although the temple covers a large area, the gate of the temple is a bit dilapidated, and there are not many pilgrims. There is indeed a stall at the door, but there is only one person dressed up in the stall, but there is no pilgrimage to eat sugar and eggs.
Seeing this, Wang Anran asked, "Bunny, don't you say that the pilgrims in Jinguang Temple are so lively, but they look different from what you said!"
Tubao immediately turned around, shook his trumpet braid, and said, "It was not like this before, I don't know why it's not lively now. Master, then do we still go to this temple today? Will we give you money for indulgence and oil?"
Wang Anran smiled and said, "You want to ask if you can eat sugary eggs here, right?"
"Well, that's what I think!" Tubao was very honest and did not hide her desire for delicious food at all.
Wang Anran said: "If you really like to eat, you may not have to eat in the city. I will make it for you when you go home..."
Before he could finish his words, he suddenly stopped his horse and looked at the inn not far from the temple. He saw the plaque on the inn door. The plaque had four words written on it, Zhouji Inn.
This is not the inn by Zhou Papi. I wonder how Zheng Conghu's affairs are going. If it goes well, this inn should be my property. I really didn't expect that this inn was actually open here, adjacent to Jinguang Temple!
Chapter completed!