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Chapter 534 Old News of the Bronze Buddha Temple ([-])
Chapter 534 Old News of the Bronze Buddha Temple ([-])

What is money?
For the little novice, money is a tool, and he doesn't think too much about money.

One copper plate can be exchanged for two steamed buns, which is enough to keep him from feeling hungry for a whole day. He can get 120 copper coins for copying a Buddhist scripture for others, which is enough to feed the family for three months, which is less than [-] copper coins. .

Meat?
The little novice likes to eat it, but it doesn't matter if he doesn't eat it.

Having Buddhist scriptures every day, not having to go hungry, and being able to visit Yunying every now and then, is enough for the little novice.

He used to think that Yunying thought the same way.

As long as she is not hungry, she wants to eat all she can eat.

So every once in a while, the little novice would exchange scriptures for a bag of rice.

But today the little monk discovered that people can change.

A hungry person wants to eat rice, and a person who eats rice wants to eat meat.

The little monk is very simple, like a piece of flawless jade, not polluted by the world, but this does not mean that he is stupid.

In fact, the little novice is very smart and very good at thinking. He realized that all these changes lie in - money!

Master has money, so he has a bigger temple.

The villagers who took the money exchanged meat and houses, and even brought their children to private schools instead of catching bugs at the entrance of the village.

The little monk felt that he understood something, but felt that he didn't quite understand it.

So...you need to try it yourself?
"Master, I want silver."

So many years have passed, although the temple has changed a lot, and the old monk has many wrinkles on his face, but he did not live in the gorgeous temple, but continued to stay in the dilapidated small temple back then.

"Dong dong dong..."

The crisp sound of the wooden fish stopped, the old monk raised his eyelids, and looked at the little novice in front of him. His eyes were clear, like a mirror, which reflected everything about the little novice, and slowly asked a question:
"What is money?"

Without hesitation, the little novice subconsciously replied:

"Money is money, something that brings pleasure."

In his opinion, this is the essence of money. The more money you get, the happier you will be, but the old monk shook his head, his clear eyes were a little disappointed:
"You're not talking about money."

The little novice remained silent, quietly looking at the old monk in front of him:
"..."

Looking at each other, watching the little novice's eyes change from clear to paranoid, the old monk was silent for a long time, and finally sighed:
"sigh……"

The old monk did not give money to the little novice. There are three realms in life—a mountain is a mountain, a mountain is not a mountain, and a mountain is still a mountain.

As someone who had experienced it, the old monk realized that the little novice's heart was disturbed, and there was an invisible layer of dust on it.

This is a bad thing and a good thing, because it means that the little novice monk has gone from the mountain on the first floor to the mountain on the second floor, which means that the little novice monk has understood that money is not just money, but may be other things thing.

But this is not enough. The old monk hopes that the young novice can understand that money is money, and it can only be money. Only in this way can he step into the third level and realize that money is just a tool to achieve goals and has no difference from other tools.

After all, he is his own disciple, the child he has watched grow up since childhood.

The old monk hopes that the little novice can do better, so as to inherit his mantle. This requires tempering, and it is also the path that every great monk must pass. The process is very difficult and there will be various difficulties, but the old monk believes that the little novice can Sit and wait.

So from the next day, the old monk gradually handed over the rights in his hands to the young monk.

He didn't give the little novice money directly, but indirectly gave the little monk the right to use the money.

As long as it is reasonable, the young monk can get a lot of money from the old monk.

Carts of wood that has been dried in the shade, square bricks, wages for building temples, and food and clothing for everyone on weekdays.

Overnight, the little monk mastered tens of thousands of wealth.

Unlike the old monk, although the master and the apprentice are both talented and intelligent, the young monk has a lot of energy that the old monk does not have.

Under the leadership of the young monk, the temple is flourishing and the incense is getting stronger and stronger. Even nobles from the bustling city come here admiringly. The old monk is a generation of eminent monks, while Xiaohe is a shining new star.

Everything seems to be going well.

Until one day, Er Zhuzi, whom he hadn't seen for a long time, found him...

It seemed to be raining that day, and it seemed to be a rare good weather.

The memory is a little fuzzy, and the memories in my mind are mixed together, like a pot of sticky porridge.

The little monk remembered that Erzhuzi took him to his house, and then he hid aside with a smile.

In the dreary room filled with a certain primitive atmosphere, the little monk saw Yunying in the past. Under the contrast of the emerald green bamboo bed, Yunying's skin was dazzlingly white, warm and soft like someone at his mercy. Aries.

A few months later, in order to speed up the construction of the temple, a large number of houses were built around the Tongfo Temple. The villagers at the foot of the mountain also moved around the temple, and got the second pillar of a big house next to the temple for free, which became the envy of many people. object.

Overnight, new shoots sprouted like mushrooms after rain.

The once deserted temple gradually became prosperous and lively.

Originally, it was just a ruined temple in the mountains, but it gradually became a famous temple with a radius of hundreds of miles.

And the village next to the temple has now become a prosperous town.

Neat streets and beautiful houses. In the past, if you want to buy some cloth, you need to walk dozens of miles to the market for trading. Now there is a market in the town, and there are even cloth shops, restaurants, teahouses, etc. in the town.

But the most talked about is the widow Yun's family living next to the Copper Buddha Temple.

Although Widow Yun has lost her husband, she is a strong woman.

In that era, there was no habit of binding feet. Although women were not as good as men, they could barely support half the sky. At first, they opened a steamed bun shop, and then the business grew bigger and bigger.

The business is getting bigger and bigger, and the original small house has become a big one.

It's not that there are rumors, but most people take it as a joke. After all, one is a widow and the other is a monk. Even if the two get together, what can happen.

But is that really the case?
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Why do people need morality and law?

Not because it is more convenient for superiors to control, but because human beings are creatures without a bottom line.

At the beginning of human nature is good.

All young children have learned the Three Character Classic, but not many people really understand the truth of this sentence.

Kindness is not kindness, but because you don't understand anything.

The more you know, the more you want to steal and play tricks, as if you want to get something for nothing.

When the first person does this, the second will appear.

Some people may not want to, but when this trend spreads, those who work hard will feel unfair, and then they will give up or even join in.

This is the evil of human nature.

An evil that expands infinitely without restraint.

Similarly, this is also the curse of intelligent life. Because of greed and evil, it will eventually go to destruction.

Others only know that Widow Yun has a big business, but they don't think about whether Widow Yun's financial resources can support her increasingly extravagant life.

I won't talk about silk and satin, just talk about eating.

Boil more than a dozen chickens at the same time, skim off the chicken oil, and the chicken broth will dry out, and yellow and white powder will appear at the bottom of the pot. Then, knead the white powder into the dough and cook it into a bowl of noodles. It looks clear and light, but it is actually very delicious.

Such an extravagant life is probably no more than that of the royal family.

But everything has a price. Only the old monk and the young monk know about the copper mine in Houshan, which means that only two people mine it.

Before, only temples were built, and the amount of copper mines that needed to be mined was not much.

But after the little monk took charge, the income and expenditure began to become unbalanced.

Why Widow Yun's steamed buns filled with meat can sell so many, could it be because of her good craftsmanship?

Don't worry, no matter how cheap steamed buns are, they still cost money. It's not easy to make some money these days, after all, people usually trade things for things.

With this money, wouldn’t it be nice to buy some noodles and steam buns at home?

The rest of the money can be used to send the children to private schools.

The reason why Widow Yun's steamed bun business is booming is that all the money is paid by Tongfo Temple.

After Tongfo Temple bought these steamed buns, because they couldn't eat them, they gave them to the villagers who built the temple at the cost or even lower than the cost.

In this way, the little monk fell into an endless loop.

If he wants to continue his current life, he must go to the back mountain to mine, but if he goes to the back mountain to mine, he has no time to enjoy the current life.

How to do?
The young monk found the old monk and planned to find some people to mine the copper mine, but was rejected by the old monk. This made the young monk very dissatisfied, so he had a quarrel and finally broke up.

(End of this chapter)