"Brother, didn't I ask you to wait for the Sa family?"
Just as he was turning to leave, he suddenly heard Lu Zhishen's voice. Looking back, he found Lu Zhishen walking through the crowd of people offering incense.
"I've been waiting for a long time, and I'm already hungry. It's not like you, eating delicacies in the temple."
Sun Lei glanced at Lu Zhishen and said, this guy has no sense of time at all.
"Nonsense, the Sa family hasn't eaten for a long time!"
As he spoke, Lu Zhishen unconsciously touched his belly, and then he remembered that he had gone to Daxiangguo Temple for a long time and didn't even have food or tea.
"Seeing that you are so proud, what kind of errand have I given you? Look after the vegetable garden?"
Sun Lei asked jokingly.
"Brother, how do you know? They actually let the Sa family go see the vegetable garden. They said it was a vegetable garden. They were really stingy. I thought that with Elder Zhizhen's letter, they would have to arrange a capital temple and a supervisory temple for the Sa family. The worst thing he could do was to be the director of the temple, but the old monk told the Sa family to start from scratch! The Sa family was so angry that if it wasn’t for the elder’s face, he would have destroyed the Xiangguo Temple as well!”
Lu Zhishen was full of bitterness and poured out the water, very dissatisfied with being just a vegetable.
"You need to guess? First, you committed a crime and became a monk. The abbot of this temple must be afraid that you will get into trouble. Second, what you did in Wenshu Monastery is probably known here. This is just for the sake of Elder Zhizhen's face. I won’t drive you away, but I don’t want you to cause trouble in the temple, so I sent you to see the vegetable garden outside the temple.”
Sun Lei said casually, is there any need to guess about these things? Fortunately, Lu Zhishen dared to speak so loudly. He was just an ordinary monk in Wenshu Monastery. When he came to Daxiangguo Temple, he opened his mouth to ask for help from senior officials such as the capital of the temple and the supervisor of the temple. Fat Cha, if it weren't for the fact that Elder Zhiqing and Elder Zhizhen were brothers, and knew everything about him, he would have to think that Lu Zhishen was the illegitimate son of Elder Zhizhen, otherwise how could he be so loud?
"It turns out that I didn't like the Sa family and sent the Sa family away on purpose! He also said that next year I would transfer the Sa family to come back and be a pagoda head. In another year, the Sa family would be promoted to a bath head. In three years, the Sa family would be able to serve as a temple supervisor! It turned out that they were all deceiving the Sa family. Yes, go find them now!”
When Lu Zhishen heard that he had been sent away, he was furious and went to seek explanation with his Zen staff.
"I think you'd better not make trouble. This Daxiangguo Temple is no better than Wenshu Monastery, but there is no one to protect you. Besides, how can a monk be promoted so quickly? According to your statement, you will be promoted to one level in one year. Within ten years, you will Can’t you become abbot and abbot? Are you thinking it’s too simple?”
Sun Lei looked at Lu Zhishen who was about to get angry and said, if Elder Zhizhen hadn't protected Lu Zhishen in Wenshu Monastery, he would have been kicked out of the temple long ago for not abiding by the rules and having a bad temper.
"Actually, there's nothing wrong with looking at the vegetable garden. It's considered a good job. You can eat and drink in the vegetable garden without any worries, and you can be free. You can eat meat if you want, drink alcohol if you want, and no one will care about you all year round."
Sun Lei told Lu Zhishen about the benefits of being a vegetable. He had already inquired about it just now. The Daxiangguo Temple is not simple. It covers an area of more than 540 acres, governs 64 Zen and Buddhist temples, and has as many as 1,000 monks. With more than 10,000 people, it is the largest temple in Beijing and the national Buddhist center. At the same time, because its abbots are all canonized by the emperor himself, and the emperor's visits, prayers and thanksgiving and other imperial rites are often held here, Daxiangguo Temple is also known as the "royal temple" that "opens a temple for the country".
This vegetable garden is responsible for supplying seasonal vegetables to the monks of Daxiangguo Temple. The area is definitely not small. Monks, apparently they can only eat vegetarian food, and their daily vegetable consumption is a huge amount.
But now these vegetables are under the management of Lu Zhishen, which makes it very maneuverable. There must be extra vegetables in the vegetable garden. Selling these will cost money, and Lu Zhishen is the most annoying person to take care of. He is the host in the vegetable garden. He is the biggest in the land of the abbot, and he can do whatever he wants.
"Brother, it's good to support you for saying this!"
Lu Zhishen immediately laughed when he thought about it carefully. The vegetables in this vegetable garden really match his wishes. They are free and unrestrained. I am really the biggest in the world.
"Let's go have a drink, the Sa family are all hungry!"
Satisfied, Lu Zhishen greeted Sun Lei and was about to go have a drink. If something happy happens, you have to celebrate it. The best way to celebrate is to eat and drink.
After finding a restaurant next to Daxiangguo Temple, Sun Lei had a nice meal and then was dragged to the vegetable garden by Lu Zhishen.
Going north out of Zizaomen, I saw a green vegetable garden not far away, which was so huge.
"Caitou, it's amazing, what a huge industry!"
Sun Lei pointed at the large vegetable garden and teased Lu Zhishen, saying that having such a piece of land within the capital is something to brag about.
"Ha ha!"
Lu Zhishen didn't hear Sun Lei's joking tone, but instead laughed very proudly.
Walking into a few houses next to the vegetable garden, I saw an old monk knocking on wooden fish and chanting sutras in the main hall.
"This senior brother is so polite!"
Lu Zhishen strode into the main hall, shouting in that powerful voice. It didn't look like he was visiting at all, but more like he was looking for trouble.
"This... poor monk returns the favor!"
The old monk turned his back and did not see Lu Zhishen, but his voice sounded like a ferocious soldier. He stood up in fear at first, but when he saw it, he saw that it was a burly and fat monk, and then he returned the Buddhist salute.
"Sajia Lu Zhishen, Elder Zhiqing of Daxiangguo Temple asked Sajia to come here to replace you in managing the vegetable garden. This is the elder's dharma post and the list he asked to post."
Lu Zhishen took out the Buddhist scriptures given by Elder Zhizhen and showed them to the old monk. Originally, Elder Zhiqing had planned to ask two monks to accompany Lu Zhishen tomorrow, but Lu Zhishen thought that Sun Lei was waiting outside Xiangguo Temple. If he came out late, he would press Sun Lei's temper must have gone away, and he probably wouldn't be able to find anyone in the future. He declined the elder's kindness, took the dharma stickers and the official list, and took up his post.
"Buddha appears, Buddha appears, Amitabha!"
The old monk was surprised and babbled nonsense after seeing the text, but he looked very excited. If he hadn't been so old, he would have danced.
"Is this old monk crazy?"
Lu Zhishen asked Sun Lei in a low voice, he was just here to take over as the head of the dish, why is this old monk so crazy? Is this vegetable garden so bad?
"It seems like this vegetable garden is not simple!"
Sun Lei smiled enigmatically. The old monk must have been disturbed by those thugs who stole food and the soldiers around him. Now that he was finally free, how could he be so happy that he went crazy for a while.
"Master, wait here for a moment. The poor monk will go and call all the Taoists who are farming and doing odd jobs."
The old monk didn't seem to want to wait for a moment. He hurried out and went to the vegetable garden to call the Taoist priests who were growing vegetables and doing chores.
After a while, the old monk called over a dozen vegetable growers, explained the reason, and asked them to pay homage to Lu Zhishen. Finally, he took a bunch of keys from his waist and handed them to Lu Zhishen. This was considered as the handover was completed.
