Chapter 538·Tasting tea

The clean room of Jingci Temple is close to the back mountain gate. Although the location is hidden, pilgrims who often come to the temple to pray and listen to scriptures can still find it. Bai Rongxuan and Wu Ma were standing on the roadside. She was wearing a light pink dress, like a branch.

The peach blossoms are as bright as brocade, making people unable to take their eyes away, and inevitably become the object of everyone's scrutiny.

"Oh, whose girl is this? She looks so pretty, white and tender, like a hibiscus." A bold woman whispered to the people walking with her.

Another person said, "Since I like her so much, why don't I take her home and be your wife?"

"I would like it, but my son is not worthy of it."

The group of people were laughing and joking. Although their voices were low, Bai Rongxuan could still hear them clearly.

She turned sideways uncomfortably, avoiding the eyes of a few people. Wu Ma comforted her, "Miss, don't take it to heart, they are all people who talk freely, even if they go to a clean room, they will talk so much.

"

Bai Rongxuan said, "There are people coming and going here, let's go aside and wait."

Mother Wu naturally said yes. The two of them took shelter in a corner, and a breeze blew in their faces. The wind was mixed with a little warmth. Mother Wu sighed, "After the New Year, it is a good day for spring to bloom. Look at this wind

It has become much warmer, unlike the past few days when it felt like a cold knife was scraping across the face. At this time of year, the countryside should start plowing the ground in preparation for spring plowing. The plan for the year is spring, which is the most important

It’s the day.”

Bai Rongxuan thought of those days in Peiping in her previous life. As soon as autumn entered, the weather would be frighteningly cold. The cold wind would come from all directions and there would be no place to hide. The fire in the house had to be kept burning, but even so,

Both the master and the servant still had frostbite on their hands.

Those days... were really difficult.

Bai Rongxuan said to Wu Ma, "Then you must not like the cold?"

"Of course, who would like it?" Wu Ma said with a smile, "I am a true southerner, but I can't stand the cold in the north, it will kill me."

But in the last life, Wu Ma accompanied him to the cold north without hesitation. She always served him with all her heart, and she would eat anything before her. She would rather starve herself than say a word of grievance.

Thinking of the days when the two of them depended on each other, Bai Rongxuan held Wu's mother's hand and said affectionately, "Then we won't go anywhere in this life, just stay in the south. The south has rain, sunshine, warm wind, and four seasons.

If you leave endless flowers in such a good place, why would you go somewhere else?"

Wu's mother looked puzzled when she heard this, "Miss, what's wrong with you? We definitely want to stay in the south. Do you still want to travel far away?"

Bai Rongxuan looked at her with a smile and shook her head briskly.

She had traveled too far in her previous life, and in this life she just wanted to stay in a warm home and never suffer the pain of being displaced again.

She didn't want to go anywhere.

The two people were talking in a low voice, and suddenly there was a sound of footsteps behind the door. The two of them stopped talking at the same time, only to hear a deliberately lowered voice behind the door say, "Has the distinguished guest of the abbot left already?

?”

Another person said, "Yes, he just left through the back door."

"This man is really strange. He came all the way from Shanghai to discuss Buddhism with the abbot." The person from before said, "Also, you can see that he is not very old, but he is on an equal footing with the abbot in charge, and he behaves like he is a peer.

There are no rules at all. The abbot in charge has such a good temper that he can actually let him dictate what he does. If it had been anyone else, he would have been furious."

"How can we say that the abbot's Buddhist teachings are superb?" Another person said with admiration, "Anyway, I would not be able to bear it. No wonder Master always said that we still have a long way to go. It seems that we have to take our time.

Earth science."

It sounded like they were two young novice monks. They found a corner to talk while they had nothing to do at noon. Unexpectedly, the partition wall had ears, and there were actually Bai Rongxuan and Wu Ma standing behind the door.

The little novice monks said a few more words, and then they dispersed.

Wu Ma also breathed a sigh of relief, "These two young monks, instead of chanting sutras properly, talked about the abbot's affairs."

Bai Rongxuan didn't take it seriously. She waited until Tang Xueru and Zhang Yuniang came back hand in hand, and then the three of them walked back to the willow tree.

Mrs. Zhang and Mrs. Ding were chatting with Mrs. Tang, one on the other, leaving Mr. Tang aside. Fortunately, Mr. Tang himself was not a person willing to deal with others, so he sat alone and quietly.

He looked at the sky in trance.

Bai Rongxuan looked over from a distance, completely unable to guess what her mother was thinking at this moment.

Tang Xueru opened her arms and flew over like a little swallow, "Grandma, I'm back."

Mrs. Tang held her in her arms and said with a smile, "You are so old, yet you still act like a child. You are not afraid that Mrs. Zhang and Mrs. Ding will see the joke."

Tang Xueru said with a smile, "How could it be? Mrs. Zhang and Mrs. Ding are people who worship Buddha and have kind faces and kind hearts. How could they laugh at me? They only think that I am innocent and cute, and it is too late to like me."

Mrs. Tang said helplessly, "Hey, yo, you are so shameless and shameless, I almost blush when I hear it."

But who wouldn’t like an eloquent child like Tang Xueru?

Mrs. Zhang laughed so hard she said, "You're right, I just like Xueru. With this kid by my side, I laugh every day. Life is so interesting."

Mrs. Ding watched Wei Dong from the side, her eyes falling on Tang Xueru for a long time without moving away.

After hearing what Mrs. Zhang said, Tang Xueru said happily, "This is because I don't live in front of you. When I cause trouble and you clean up the mess, you will be impatient."

Tang Xueping, who had never spoken at the side, smiled and said, "So you also know that you will get into trouble?"

The adults laughed heartily and looked at Tang Xueru with eyes full of love, especially those from the Ding family, who even looked at her with a bit of envy and helplessness.

After sitting for a while, the young novice monk from the temple came to inform that the tea tasting party was about to begin, and asked everyone to go to the back hall. Mrs. Tang stood up and said, "Let's go there quickly."

The group of people came to the back hall, but there were not as many people attending the tea party as there were in the morning. Everyone found a place to sit down, and soon a monk brought tea. Monks pay attention to the purity of the six roots, not extravagance, and the preparations are naturally nothing.

Good tea, but everyone’s purpose was to discuss scriptures and Taoism with Guangli, so they didn’t care about that.

Everyone was chatting while drinking tea, and it was quiet until Guang Li appeared. Guang Li sat down on the futon and began to talk about scriptures with everyone. He studied the "Heart Sutra" and had quite a lot of insights into it.

People were greatly admired.

It wasn't until ten o'clock in the evening that the tea-tasting party was over. Everyone left the gate of Jingci Temple still unsatisfied, got on the carriage and went home.

Mrs. Tang was thinking about Guang Li's words in the carriage, and couldn't help but said to Mrs. Tang and Nanny Li, "I'm really here at the right time today. I haven't listened so attentively and seriously for a long time. Speaking of which, I still have to thank my wife.

, and also brought me, an old woman, out to gain some experience.”

Tang smiled and said, "If you like it, I will accompany you out more in the future so that you won't be bored at home all the time."

Mrs. Tang said, "As the saying goes, a thousand-mile horse often comes but a bole does not always come. There is plenty of time, but lectures like this do not come often. Those lectures that do not make sense are meaningless even if you listen to them."
Chapter completed!