"Finally we're going to eat!" Cuizhu said excitedly, rubbing her hands, her eyes fell on the vegetarian dish sent by the little novice of Qixia Temple.

Several young monks from Qixia Temple brought several large food boxes, and brought out plates of good-looking vegetarian dishes from inside.

Jing Lan sat at the table with Cui Zhu and the other two maids Shen Wan brought from Xiao's house.

An Chun and An Dong were still in front of Shen Wan, serving her for dinner.

Jing Lan soon discovered that the dishes served to them by Qixia Temple were exactly the same as those on Shen Wan's table, there were eight dishes in total.

The little novice brought out the dish, and reported the name of the dish to Jing Lan and the others: "Pumpkin mixed with mushrooms, sweet and sour lotus root steak, fresh vegetables with five treasures, jadeite jade rolls, wishful high..."

"Oh, these dishes are delicious just because of their name, tsk tsk tsk!" Cui Zhu swallowed her saliva and muttered with bright eyes.

However, Jing Lan remembered the names of the delicious dishes in Qixia Temple that Shen Wan had mentioned just now, which seemed to be the same as the names of the dishes reported by the little novice who delivered the vegetarian dishes.

She asked the little novice who was presenting the dishes in front of her: "Dare to ask the little master, do all the donors who come to your temple to worship the Buddha and give alms eat these dishes?"

The little novice told Jing Lan with a smile that this was impossible, only the great benefactor could enjoy these vegetarian dishes, and these vegetarian dishes were told to the Zhike monk by the great benefactor just now, and asked the master who made the vegetarian dishes in the kitchen to deliver them.Moreover, Master Shen said that Buddhism values ​​the equality of all beings, so she has to eat the same vegetarian dishes as the maids who came with her. dish.

After hearing this, Cuizhu and the others said that the master they served was so kind, and they wanted to pray to the Buddha to bless her with a long life and a safe and smooth life.

The little novice answered: "Yes, Master Shen donated [-] stones of good rice to the monastery for porridge. The villagers from far and near can come to eat porridge. Such a kind deed can save many people who have suffered a lot due to the drought last year. The gods and Buddhas of the heavens will bless the people who are starved after harvesting."

Jing Lan stopped talking, but picked up the bamboo chopsticks and ate the vegetables first.

She quickly picked up a chopstick of food from each plate and put it in her rice bowl, as if she was afraid that the food would disappear in the blink of an eye.Then, she began to shove vegetables and rice into her mouth.

Cui Zhu and the others noticed that Jing Lan had started to move, and stopped talking to the little novice monk, each of them picked up chopsticks and stuffed vegetables into their mouths.

However, Jing Lan thought much more vigorously than Cui Zhu, when Cui Zhu had only picked up four chopsticks of vegetables, she had already finished the first round of Vegetarian food that she put into the bowl, and the rice went down half a bowl.

She picked up the second round of dishes faster than the first round, and Cui Zhu couldn't help but shouted: "Sister Lan, you are reincarnated from starvation, you have eaten half of the dishes these two times!"

Jing Lan ignored her and focused on eating hard. She felt that if she didn't eat hard, she would really be sorry to Master Shen.

Shen Da benefactor showed kindness, and hungry villagers from far and near villages could come to eat porridge for ten days in a row, but why didn't she show kindness to herself and let herself go, regardless of her brother and Ah Hu stealing rice, let them go The ignorant children go back.

Today, I went out with Shen Wan, and seeing the familiar villages and villagers, she envied them for living freely.

The shame of being a slave came back in an instant. I heard everyone praise Shen Wan's kind deeds just now. Compared with the two, I felt very uncomfortable. Now I regard the food as my enemy and start to eat hard.When girls are in a bad mood, some of them will eat hard like Jing Lan, which is probably a way to cure bad moods.

Shen Wan was eating in the meditation room, and when she heard the cries of green bamboos outside, she asked An Chun to divide half of the vegetables on her plate and send them to Jing Lan's table outside.

An Chun really wanted to say don't worry about the little maids outside, they are all reincarnated from starvation, and they would snatch anything delicious if they saw it.

The words came to her lips, but she didn't say them out, thinking that today the master came to Qixia Temple to worship the Buddha and do charity, so distributing the vegetarian food to the maids who robbed the vegetarian food outside is probably a kindness.As for her, she is not suitable to stop the master from doing good deeds.

"Yes, girl." An Chun agreed, found a clean plate, and really divided the eight plates of Vegetarian Vegetables on the table into half, put them on empty plates, and took them outside in a food box .

Cuizhu and the other four were scrambling to eat vegetarian dishes, and when they saw the big maid An Chun coming over, they immediately became more refined, even Jing Lan restrained herself a bit, and didn't eat so fast.

An Chun put the food box on the table, opened the lid, put the dishes that Shen Wan asked her to share on the table one by one, and said to the dazed maids: "This is what the girl asked her to share for you to eat." Eat the vegetarian food slowly, don't grab it, people will think that the maids of our Shen family have no rules, and they are all reincarnated from starving ghosts."

After speaking, he took another cool look at Jing Lan, closed the lid of the food box, and carried away.

Except for Jing Lan, Cui Zhu and the other two maids who had been trained by An Chun became more refined when they picked up vegetables with chopsticks again, so they stopped grabbing.It was probably because four more dishes came out on the table, and they felt that Jing Lan couldn't eat so much, so there was no need to compete with Jing Lan.

Jing Lan ate three bowls of rice in a row, and she ate more than half of the vegetarian dishes on the table. She was so full that she couldn't eat any more, so she put down her chopsticks.

This meal was the one she ate the most after entering the Shen family's other courtyard, or even after passing through. Her stomach was so full that she felt a dull pain in her stomach, and she even drank the high-quality fragrant tea made by Qixia Temple sent by the little novice at the back. I can't go down.

In the past, when Shen Wan came to Qixia Temple to worship the Buddha, after lunch, she would take a short break, drink a cup of tea, and then go for a stroll in the garden at the back of the mountain.The garden on the back mountain of Qixia Temple is also well-known, and it is very well treated by monks who know gardening. In the garden, there are forest springs, strange stones, and hundreds of flowers blooming. It is really a pleasure to go to the garden especially in this season.

After lunch, Shen Wan rested for a while, then came out of the meditation room, and took Jing Lan and others to the garden in the back mountain.

Jing Lan accompanied Shen Wan with an oil-paper umbrella, she only held the umbrella for Shen Wan for a while, and Shen Wan told her to put it away.

She said that the back mountain of Qixia Temple is full of trees, and the scorching spring sun cannot penetrate the leaves, so there is no need to open an umbrella.

After wandering around the garden for a while, Shen Wan fed the fish by the pond and watched the flowers everywhere, and suddenly found that Jing Lan's beautiful eyebrows were slightly frowned, and there was fine sweat on her forehead, so she hurriedly asked her what was wrong.

Jing Lan laughed bitterly: "I ate too much at noon, and my stomach hurts right now."

"You." Although there was reproach in Shen Wan's voice, she felt sorry for her in her heart.At this moment, she regretted a little in the Zen room at noon when she heard the green bamboo outside saying that Jinglan was robbing vegetarian food, so she hurriedly asked An Chun to share half of her food and give it to Jinglan's table.

"Do you want to go to the bathroom?"

"Ah."

"Then I'll ask An Dong to take you there."

"it is good."

An Dong followed Shen Wan to the garden on the back mountain of Qixia Temple several times, and he also knew where there was a latrine for female guests nearby.

So An Dong took Jing Lan to the toilet, while Shen Wan sat in a hexagonal pavilion in the garden and waited for Jing Lan to come back after using the toilet.

While waiting for someone, An Chun couldn't help talking to Shen Wan again, she said that Jing Lan was a meddlesome girl, since she entered Shen's other courtyard.Now that he came to Qixia Temple, he completely disregarded the face of the Shen family and made a fool of himself, making the monks in the temple think that the Shen family was abusing their servants.Let's eat too much, my stomach can't take it anymore, and in the end I have to bother my master to wait for her.I really don't know whether she is the master or the girl is the master.

"She is just a little girl from the village who has never seen the world. She is always hungry. She eats delicious food, so she will inevitably be greedy. I happen to be tired from walking, so it's good to take a rest." Shen Wan said with a slight smile.

An Chunman thought that the girl would be angry with Jing Lan if she said this, because since she came to serve Shen Wan, Shen Wan had never waited for a servant.If other maids were like this, An Chun can guarantee that Shen Wan would have scolded her long ago, let alone sit down and wait for her.

Such a master, An Chun felt a little strange.

When she opened her mouth and wanted to say something, she suddenly heard a woman's exclamation from the place at the end of the stone corridor in front of her that was obscured by the lush flowers and trees.And that road was exactly the way An Dong took Jing Lan to find the toilet just now.

Shen Wan also heard the woman's scream, stood up immediately, and brought a few maids around her out of the pavilion, and hurried to the place where the woman's scream came from.

An Chunna told Shen Wan not to go, and she didn't say anything about taking someone to see it. Shen Wan had already walked down the stone steps under the pavilion, so she had to follow quickly, and ran to Shen Wan's side, telling her to let her go. Shen Wan was careful, and put herself in front of Shen Wan for a while.

Because Jing Lan took the cobbled path to go to the toilet and didn't come back, and because she couldn't tell whether the woman who screamed just now was Jing Lan's voice, Shen Wan was anxious to take someone over there to have a look.If it wasn't Jing Lan, but someone else, Shen Wan would have stayed where she was, and just ordered someone to take a look.

This made An Chun puzzled again.

A group of people hurried to the end of the Yonglu Road, turned around the beautiful trees and flowers, and the first thing they saw was Jing Lan holding a four-foot-long bamboo pole, and was chasing away a blue three-foot-long snake.The snake didn't seem to be afraid of people, and confronted Jing Lan with a message.Jing Lan hit the snake one foot in front of the snake with a bamboo pole, making a crackling sound.

A few steps behind Jing Lan, besides An Dong who opened his eyes wide in fright, there was also a beautiful girl of fourteen or fifteen who was so pale with fright, dressed like a young lady, and a A woman in her early twenties with a gorgeous face and a coquettish physique.Beside these two people, there is also a mother-in-law and several little maids.

Judging from the pale face of the handsome young lady covering her mouth, the woman who screamed just now should be her.

Shen Wan judged that Jing Lan and An Dong should have come back after going to the toilet just now. When they heard the woman's screams from the front of the Yong Road, the two ran over to have a look. They saw a snake on the Yong Road, and Jing Lan ran away. Go and pull out a bamboo pole used to cultivate flowers in the flower garden, and use it to drive away the blue snake.

Looking at the blue snake, Shen Wan knew it was a poisonous snake called Zhuyeqing.Because the head of the snake in front of him was triangular in shape, and there was a section of reddish yellow in the tail.

Jing Lan dared to fight the snake, she must have recognized the blue snake as a non-venomous green bamboo snake.The Green Bamboo Snake has a blue body, a blunt round head, a blue body, and even a blue tail.

Because the two kinds of snakes are both blue in color, it is easy to confuse them. Shen Wan thought that Jing Lan must have recognized the snake in front of her as a non-poisonous green bamboo snake.

Thinking of this, Shen Wan was so nervous that her voice became dry and she couldn't speak smoothly. She stammered and reminded Jing Lan loudly: "Alan, that one is Zhuyeqing, you...you stop and run, if you get bitten ……The consequences could be disastrous!"

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