At about the second watch, the old nun walked out of the gate of Baji Temple to burn incense beside the Danquan on the hillside, bowed and said silently, God of Danquan, God of Danquan, please restore this Danquan quickly. The man had been fetching water for the nunnery for a week, so he admitted his mistake. It was not good to ask others to fetch water all the time.
Suddenly, I felt a beam of light coming, and the sound of footsteps. The old nun who was kowtowing raised her head and saw that there seemed to be a few people standing in front of the gate of Baji Temple. She simply stood up and walked over. She found four men. One of them was carrying a load of water. She stopped and held the pole with both hands. Hook, shouted towards the nunnery door, "Hey, where are you going to pour this water?"
Wait. The old nun was walking and talking. She didn't know what to say next because there was still half a tank of water in the kitchen of the nunnery.
The man picked up the resting bucket and was about to step through the nunnery gate when a tall woman walked towards him. The woman told him not to carry water into the nunnery because there was no water in the nunnery.
So where should this load of water be poured? asked a man who was helping with the flashlight, and waved the flashlight beam on the woman's face.
I led the way and carried water to the vegetable garden to water the seedlings. The woman who replied was the current She Qingye. She woke up from meditation at the right time, walked out of the monastery and came to the door of the nunnery.
Don’t be afraid of being tired. How about carrying water to the vegetable garden at night to water some seedlings? What did you do during the day? Another man standing next to him said complainingly.
Don't say that, if you hadn't invited me to play cards, I, Ma Wu, would have carried a load of water up during the day. Ma Wu seemed helpless when he said this. He didn't want to be companions and the three poker friends who came with him talked nonsense and offended the gods, so he kept a low profile and did not dare to be presumptuous.
Now She Qingye led Ma Wu and others who were carrying water towards the vegetable garden on the other side of the mountain. The old nun gently pulled her sleeves and said, White Snake, you are really powerful.
In fact, this is not false. It rained heavily on the second Friday. It was said that we didn’t have to carry water because it was difficult to walk, let alone the mountain road. But Ma Wu still behaved himself, wearing a bamboo hat and carrying a load of water to the mountain. There was a full tank of water in the kitchen of the nunnery, so it was said that it was not needed.
The reason why Ma Wu came to carry water was because he was afraid of being punished at night like last time. It was sunny that night, but now it was raining. He thought: Carrying water during the day on a rainy day is better than carrying water at night on a rainy day. So I don't dare to take any chances and find reasons not to do it.
At this moment, the rain outside the nunnery wetted his trousers, and he didn't care. As soon as he carried a load of water to the nunnery, She Qingye came to greet him.
The old nun followed her and said, "White Lady, there is a full tank of water in the kitchen of the nunnery. There is no need for water." Now She Qingye turned around and whispered into her ear that she wanted to punish him. Who asked him to join the other two people in soiling the alchemy spring and causing it to dry up.
At this time, Ma Wu, who had not yet stopped carrying a load of water, looked at She Qingye and asked, where should this load of water be poured? It's raining today, so you don't need to carry water to water the vegetable garden, right? !
No, you come with me. Now She Qingye said that and walked towards the Danquan at the head of the mountain. Pointing to the grotto where Danquan once gushed out, where there was still no water and no water accumulated despite the rain, he said, "Bring the bucket of water you brought here."
Ma Wu, who had followed him, seemed a little guilty when he saw the grotto where there was no more Danquan. He poured down the two buckets of water one after another silently and carefully. The water in the grotto dried up quickly. Now She Qingye said, you see, you guys have offended the Danquan God. Not only will the Danquan no longer come out of this grotto, you can't even hide the two buckets of water you poured in. Stay, suck them all dry.
What a sin. The old nun also interjected.
Ma Wu still bowed his head and said nothing. Before leaving, he knelt down in repentance and kowtowed a few times to the grotto where the alchemy spring once gushed out.
Ma Wu carried water honestly for a week, and after saying goodbye to the current She Qingye, there was no longer an uncomfortable and suffocating feeling on his neck like a snake wrapped around him.
He thought to himself: I will never go to Bajian again. But looking at the stacked mountains of Baji Mountain that runs east to west, I always feel a little intimidated. The day after he finished carrying water, he met his fellow hunter Hu Nenglai, who was swinging down the mountain road with two empty buckets, smiling and looking proud. Ma Wu teased him, "Why are you so happy that you can come? Your grandma is buried on Laughing Mountain?"
Can you be unhappy? I won't need to carry water for Baji'an tomorrow. As Hu Neng spoke, he slapped the pole on his shoulder with one hand, as if playing music to cheer for his triumphant return.
I couldn't afford it, so I carried water for Baji'an for a whole week. The last two days were rainy days, so I carried all the water. At the beginning of the night, we carried water in the dark. Ma Wu said this with a feeling of being unconvinced at a disadvantage.
Even if it rained for two days and you didn't encounter good weather and were unlucky, then why did you go to fetch water at night the first day? Hu Nenglai asked.
Ma Wu was at a loss for words and didn't want to explain, but avoided the topic and shouted, "This is unfair. I have to go to Baji'an to ask for an explanation."
forget it! Ma Wu, do you want the two nuns in the nunnery to let me carry water for a week and come to the church every day? Hu Nenglai saw through Ma Wu's thoughts and simply said what he wanted to say but didn't say.
Being able to come, of course I feel a little unbalanced. It turned out that there was no shortage of water in the nunnery for a few days, and there was water. The new nun who came there turned out to be the director of the Women's Federation of Team 1 of the Shijiafan Brigade, and she insisted on me doing it. On a day when it rained for two days, there was no shortage of water for food in the nunnery and water for watering the seedlings in the vegetable garden. She also asked me to pick up the water and pour it into the dried up Danquan Grotto. It’s really annoying.
Ma Wu looked at Hu Nenglai and said, I don't know why the new nun didn't punish you.
Do you want me to be fucked? Hu Nenglai stared at him and asked.
No, I just feel it's unfair. Ma Wu repeated something with similar meaning.
The new nun won't punish me. Even if she wants to punish me, she is willing to let me carry water for a week. It doesn't matter. Hu Nenglai, who said this, still had a trace of smile on his round face. He swung an empty bucket and was about to leave. When he left, he said, I don’t think the new nun needs to tease me. Let me tell you, Ma Wu, the Danquan Grottoes on Baji'an Ridge have resumed water flow today, so there is no need for me to carry water there again.
is that true? Ma Wu caught up with Hu Nenglai who had walked a few steps and asked in a suspicious tone.
If you don’t believe it, you can go and see it. As Hu Neng spoke, he hit the road without looking back.
Ma Wu went up Baji Mountain and came to Baji Temple, but there was no movement. There was no one at the door, and he did not hear the sound of chanting sutras. He didn't go into the nunnery first, but ran to the hillside in front of the nunnery to take a look. Sure enough, the Danquan Grotto was filled with clear spring water. He said in his heart: No wonder Hu Nenglai doesn't need to carry water.
Ma Wu turned around and left. When he was walking down the slope, he suddenly seemed to be kicked in the face. He staggered. He had not yet fallen, but he felt pain in his knees. He pulled up his trousers and saw that his knees were swollen with a bruise. blister, I became more and more dissatisfied, but had nowhere to vent, so I had to admit that I was unlucky.
At this moment, he couldn't walk fast, and his knees hurt even more when he walked fast. He had no choice but to walk slowly, walking into the nunnery to find the new director of the Women's Federation who had become a nun, and tell him his inner grievances about carrying water.
In a room in the nunnery, the old nun was shaving the current She Qingye. Instead of letting the black and thick hair fall to the ground, the old nun grabbed it in her hand and put it into a red cloth. The package was handed over to the now bald She Qingye.
She said, She Qingye, I will give you a Buddhist name now, Jingsu, which means Nun Jingsu! I won’t call you by your common name anymore. Then he pointed to the red cloth bag that Nun Jingsu held in her hand and said, "Take out this red cloth bag with your hair in it. It's best to bury it in the soil." You cut off the threads of worries and let the threads of worries in this mortal world return to dust.
Nun, please do as you please. Having said this, Jingsu stood up from his chair and brushed his new light blue nun's robe. He was about to take the red envelope in his hand to the nunnery, dig a hole uphill with a big hammer and bury it, when suddenly there was something in his ears. A voice is saying, Jingsu, congratulations on your successful tonsure.
When Jingsu heard that he was the Danquan God, he replied, "Thank you, the great god, for your good words." When the old nun heard this, she asked, which great god are you talking to?
It is the Danquan God who restores water to the Danquan Grottoes. When the great god talks to me, only I can hear it, not the nun. Speak truthfully. Just as he was about to move, he heard the Danquan God saying in his ear, Ma Wu, the water carrier, is here to find you. He is disrespectful to the god. When he saw the water coming back to the Danquan Grotto, he did not salute. I kicked him just now. He kicked him just to teach him a lesson.
As soon as the words stopped, someone shouted in the front hall of the nunnery, is the director of the Women's Federation of Team 1 still in the nunnery?
Jingsu immediately went out and rushed over. She saw Ma Wu, who was walking in the front hall with a slight limp in his right foot, shouting the same words in the deer head. She replied, there is no director of the Women's Federation of Team 1 here. , only pure.
The old nun who followed said, "Donor, Jingsu has become a monk. In the future, you should not call her by any lay title or name."
Ma Wu carefully looked at Jingsu, who was dressed in a nun's robe, bald and unsmiling, and directly expressed his inner unhappiness, "Nun Jingsu, why are you treating things unfairly?"
What injustice? Jingsu asked rhetorically.
You asked the two of us to carry a load of water to Baji'an every day for a week, why did only Hu Neng come to carry a load of water? The three of us were responsible for the dirty Danquan water. Why should Hu Nenglai be held accountable so lightly? It's like not being held accountable. They were very harsh on me and asked me to carry water up the mountain on rainy days. This was so unfair. When Ma Wu said this, he turned his head to one side, as if he did not dare to look at the pure nun in front of him.
I don’t need to explain it to you. Just ask Dad Hu, a blind five-guarantee household in the 7th Production Team of Shijiafan Brigade. Nun Jingsu said this and looked at his lame right leg and said, "If your arrogance doesn't go away, the blisters on your knees won't go away either."
So you fucked me again? Ma Wu said, but he didn't dare to sound harsh. He pulled up his right trouser leg, revealing the blue and swollen blister on his knee that looked like a bird's egg.
Where do I punish you? You brought it on yourself. Nun Jingsu said this, walked to the corner of the door, gave him a wooden stick, and said that if you use this to carry him down the mountain, your arrogance will disappear, and the blisters on your knees will naturally disappear.
Ma Wu took the stick and felt grateful. Then he knelt down on his still healthy left leg and kowtowed to Nun Jingsu, saying that I would go down the mountain to find the blind five-guarantee father Hu and ask for the reason.
If you don’t understand the rules, you should salute the old nun, so go ahead! Nun Jingsu said.
No need to give me any gifts. The old nun standing aside said, shaking her hand and showing a kind smile on her face.
Ma Wu listened to Nun Jingsu and bowed to the old nun, then went down the mountain with his wooden staff. It was said that he had some pain in his right knee and that he should go home to rest or go directly to the commune health center to see a doctor and apply some medicine. However, he had a stubborn temper and did not change his original decision. The first thing I decided to do was to find Father Hu, a blind five-guaranteed householder in Production Team 7, and ask him what business Hu Neng had to do with carrying water.
