Cupid winks

Last night, Master Avalokitesvara entrusted me with a dream, saying that she had periarthritis of the shoulder, and asked me to rub her shoulders. "

Dongming kicked my ass: "Little monk, do you still know about frozen shoulder?"

I also know about gastroenteritis, conjunctivitis, and iodized salt.A young monk must know nothing, but a great monk must know more than me?

Do adults necessarily know more than children?Adults must know the answers to all the questions?Then I asked my mother who owed the Buddha to them, why should I pay it back, she couldn’t answer, she just asked me if I want to eat candy, I asked my father why he didn’t let me go back to the temple, he didn’t speak, he slapped himself?

If they knew the answers to these questions why didn't they tell me.No one came to tell me.

Chen Fan was quite clever, kowtowed and echoed: "I dreamed it too! I dreamed it too!"

Dongming kicked him, Chenfan lowered his head, grabbed the corner of his clothes and glanced at me, I glanced at him too, without looking up, waiting for He Yin to leave.

He Yin cleared his throat and said, "Okay, then I will leave Master Guanyin to the two of you in the future. Don't go to eat after morning and evening classes every day. Go to the Daxiong Hall to clean up first. Don't eat at noon." After taking a nap, go and copy the Heart Sutra in front of Master Guanyin."

I was still thinking about the drawing class exam, so I quietly asked, "Master, what about the drawing class exam..."

Chenfan is talking about me, I will not talk too much, if I am alone, I would like to fight, but there is more Chenfan by my side, if I fight for the crime of starving for three days and three nights in the palace of the king of hell, I will be too sorry him.

After receiving He Yin's punishment, we followed Dongming to the cafeteria for breakfast. There were only two cold steamed buns left in the cafeteria. Chenfan and I sat at the table and ate the steamed buns.I asked Chenfan: "Who got No.1 in the drawing class at the end of the term?"

Chen Fan said: "Brother Chen Chan said that everyone painted very well, there is no No. 1."

"Cough! Doesn't it mean that the paintings are not good!" I said, feeling a little happy for a while, and even the steamed buns didn't feel so difficult to eat.

Dongming poured us two cups of hot water, and Chenfan and I ate steamed buns in the boiling water.Seeing Dongming walk away, Chenfan said to me: "There's nothing good about being a carpenter. If you're just a kitchen monk, you'll have a pretty good life."

I said, "Aren't you going to be an abbot monk in the future?"

Chenfan swallowed the steamed bun in his mouth, touched his belly, and smiled.

I said again: "You can't be so unreasonable when you become an abbot."

Chenfan regained his energy, held his head high, and said triumphantly: "I will become the abbot in the future. Let's eat pumpkin, purple rice and sweet potato porridge every morning! At noon, we will eat mushrooms fried with vegetable oil, and at night we will eat shredded bamboo shoots with fungus and shiitake mushrooms! Inside the flower rolls Put three handfuls of green onions on it, and eat sesame Yuanxiao every month, let’s grind the sesame seeds ourselves!"

I swallowed my saliva: "Can I eat red bean paste?"

Chenfan patted his chest: "Then why not? Yes! Red bean paste with tangerine peel! What do you think? We also dry persimmons in winter! Look at the persimmon tree in our temple, the persimmons are red and big!"

I nodded again and again.

"There are also peanuts! Fried broad beans! Steamed buns... just eat golden steamed buns for steamed buns! Condensed milk is also added!"

"What is condensed milk?" I asked.

Chen Fan said: "Condensed milk is very sweet and delicious! I saw it in Monk Dongming's room. He had to add a spoonful to his tea in the morning. Wow, it tastes so good. Let me tell you, it's delicious. ..."

Chenfan swallowed his saliva, wiped his mouth, and looked far away: "We still need to drink Coke and Sprite! There are more, and..." He thought for a long time, and said, "I still want sandwich bread!"

I continue to nod.After eating the steamed buns, Dongming sent us to work in the vegetable field. While he wasn't paying attention, I dragged Chenfan back into the room. Chenfan was timid and closed the door after entering the room. He took out a small bag from under his pillow and called Chen Fan to come over.Chenfan came over and looked at me, I grabbed a handful of candy from my bag and stuffed it for him, I said: "Here you eat."

His eyes lit up when he saw so many candies, he grabbed a few, peeled off a candy wrapped in orange sugar paper, and ate the candy.While eating, he looked down at his shoes, sat down on the bed, took off his shoes and socks—my duckling socks, he smoothed the socks on the bed, handed them to me, and said: " Here, here you are."

The little duck turned into a stinky duck, and I wrinkled my nose: "You don't wash it!"

Chenfan sniffed the socks by himself, his expression became weird, and he stopped looking at me.I jumped out of bed with the little bag in my arms, and said to him, "You keep it!"

I ran out, ran out of the door, Chenfan caught up, grabbed the door frame and called me in a low voice: "Where are you going? Aren't we going to dig the soil! If Dongming finds out, I have to go to the master to receive punishment Already!"

I waved at him: "If you don't know, you don't have to be punished with me!"

I ran to find my brother.

Sitting in his small courtyard, the brother was grinding wood with sandpaper, wearing gloves, a scarf, and wrapped in a cotton robe.I stood at the door for a long time, but my brother didn't respond. I knocked on the door, and my brother raised his head.Seeing me, the senior brother laughed and said, "Xiaobao has gone down the mountain, and his cultivation has improved a lot. The Buddha has entrusted you with dreams."

I was ashamed and muttered: "Don't mention it." I walked into the yard and walked to the side of my brother.Uncle Yang is not there, there are only piles of wood in the yard, senior brother, and me.

Brother touched my bald head and my neck, he took off his scarf and tied it on me.I smelled it, and I said, "Brother, you smell so good!"

The brother said: "The smell of wood."

He took off his gloves and I leaned over to smell his hand.I said: "I heard that there is no No. 1 in the drawing class this year, so no one will learn to carve Buddha statues or the head of Guanyin in the future, so what should I do?"

The brother said: "I told the abbot, I said Chen Yun is very caring, let him try."

I grabbed his hand: "Really?"

But when I thought of the hundred-headed Guanyin I drew being said to look like a hundred-headed poisonous snake, I became paralyzed. I was afraid that if I didn't learn well, my brother would be scolded.I said, "But I'm not very good at drawing..."

The brother said: "Drawing pictures is drawing pictures. Carving the pictures drawn on wood is another skill. It is a good thing if you have the heart to learn. Sincerity leads to success."

I said: "I usually practice drawing whenever I have time! Practice even if I don't have time!"

I took out my notebook to show to my brother, and I took out my saved candy to show to my brother.I said, "Senior brother, I'll eat it for you. It's so sweet, and there are chocolate candies."

The brother took two, ate one for himself, and fed one for me.

Senior brother looked at my paintings, and he praised me on every page. He praised the man’s eyes that I painted very vividly, and the flowers he painted are very charming. Senior brother turned to the page of "Poisonous Snake", and I grabbed the book and refused to show it to him. up.I said, "They said that what I painted was not Guanyin, but a poisonous snake..."

I don't look at my brother, I hope in my heart that he will say something nice.

Did I subconsciously know that he would tell me nice things?

The brother said: "He who has a poisonous snake in his heart sees everything as a poisonous snake."

I was so happy, I looked at my brother happily: "That's what I said too!"

The senior brother said, "Xiao Bao, this is called having a heart-to-heart connection. It means that you and your senior brother want to go together. How rare it is for two people in the world to think of going together."

I nodded, happier.

The senior brother said: "Xiaobao, come to see the senior brother at night, and the senior brother will take you to a good place, okay?"

Brother said in my ear: "Don't tell others."

Senior brother whispered in my ear: "This is a secret between senior brother and Xiaobao."

At night, I slipped out of the room, and I went to find my brother.

Brother took me to see peacocks.

The peacocks are kept in the small courtyard behind the Hades Palace, where goats and donkeys are also raised, and they are all surrounded by barbed wire. Each animal has an area where animals can move.Sometimes donkeys are lent out to help people carry things, and goats and peacocks have never been used for other purposes except to be raised.

That night, the moon hid behind the clouds, and the wind hid behind the mountains.I followed my brother.The goats slept in front of the sheep house, and the peacocks paced in their territory.

It's strange that everyone in our temple has so little rations. Except for the monk Dongming, the young monks are all like bean sprouts, the big monk is like a bamboo pole, but the peacocks are raised with "big arms and round waists" and the goats are raised to be "fat and strong." ".I stared at the peacock raptly, but the peacock didn't look at me, its black eyes shining brightly in the dark.

The brother flashed the flashlight twice at it.The peacock opened its screen.

I was startled, my heart was pounding, it was the first time I saw a peacock spread its tail.In such a dark sky, the peacock's feathers will shine and flash.They glow blue.I rubbed my eyes several times, and bit my own hand, for fear that I might be wrong, or that I was dreaming.

Brother asked me: "Xiaobao, do you like watching peacocks spread their tails?"

I nod, I've never seen it.I find it magical and mysterious.very beautiful.I curiously asked my brother: "Why does the peacock spread its tail?"

The brother said: "Because the peacock likes the two of us, so let's show it to us."

The brother said, "Xiaobao, do you know that peacocks are very sacred in Buddhist scriptures."

I said, "I know, the master said that the peacock is a holy beast. Because the peacock can eat poisonous insects, our practice of Buddhism is to eat all the poison and sweep away all the roots of the poison."

Brother praised me: "Little Treasure really knows a lot, really amazing."

Brother asked me: "Xiaobao, do you know that elephants are also holy beasts?"

There are no elephants in our temple. I heard that there are elephants in Myanmar, and Uncle Yang may have seen elephants.

I heard that Burmese monks walk barefoot on the road, and the soles of their feet will not be worn out. I heard that there are golden-topped and white-bodied pagodas everywhere in Burma, and gray elephants walk under the pagodas in groups.

Brother asked me again: "Little