Go back to the valley to farm

Chapter 338 Wanjia Aquaculture Comes

Chapter 330 IX Wanjia Aquaculture Comes
Master Guoshan smiled and said, "Then you continue copying the scriptures, and I'll get you some rice to make porridge, okay? Have you cooked your own food?"

Xiaozhi shook her head: "My mother made them all."

Master Guoshan shook his head and said, "You are such a big girl, how can you not cook by yourself? Cooking is actually very simple. We will do it together later."

Arranging for Xiaozhi to continue copying scriptures, Master Guoshan went to find a pinch of rice, a coal sand pot, and two vegetable leaves.

Add water to the coal sand pot, add rice after the water boils, and then stir slowly with a slender bamboo spoon.

The rustling sound of the bamboo spoon scraping the bottom of the pot seemed to make Xiaozhi's mood extraordinarily peaceful.This time she did not pause, but copied the scriptures word by word.

Master Guoshan smiled and said, "Very good, you can chop those two vegetable leaves now."

Xiaozhi smiled and said, "This is quite simple."

Master Guoshan smiled and said, "Isn't it simple? Many things are not as complicated as you imagined."

"But although it is simple, there is actually a way to practice it."

"For example, before we eat, we need to have five kinds of visualization, that is, to think carefully from five directions. If you are a monk, you should also have an attitude when eating a meal. Anyway, there is nothing wrong, let me tell you, okay?"

Xiaozhi cut the vegetable leaves with a knife, and said with a smile: "Master, your words are very reasonable, and your words are also pleasing to the ear. Tell me to listen."

Master Guoshan continued to stir the bamboo spoon, while saying: "The first one is to count the amount of merit, and measure where it comes from."

"Measuring where he comes from means to think about how much effort is spent on this meal. For example, this pinch of rice, from seedling raising, through transplanting, plowing, harvesting, threshing, milling, and cleaning, to the present Cooking takes a lot of work, so it must be cherished."

"How much merit is counted is to ask yourself, whether what I say and do today is worthy of this meal? Is my virtue worthy of this offering? If there is a deficit, how can I make up for it after the meal? "

"Let's talk about one more defense, but the three poisons."

"The three poisons refer to greed, anger, and ignorance."

"Food is divided into three categories, sometimes good, sometimes poor, sometimes mediocre."

"When things are good, it's easy to get greedy and eat more; when things are bad, it's easy to get angry and complain that the food is not good; .”

"These three kinds of emotions are not to be tolerated, so you must first rectify your mind and warn yourself to stay away from these three kinds of thoughts, so as to develop the three roots of goodness."

"What are the three roots of goodness? That is, no greed, no hatred, and no ignorance. Similar to Confucianism that filial piety is the origin of all virtues, we Buddhists believe that this is the root of immeasurable goodness."

"When the three roots are complete, the pure land is the beginning of all goodness, so it needs to be cultivated emphatically."

Master Guoshan saw that Xiaozhi had already cut the vegetable leaves, so he gave her the bamboo spoon to stir it by herself, and said with a smile: "Today you came so far to see me, and you copied the scriptures for me, and you made it yourself. Even though the meal is simple, it is hard to come by, and you can afford this meal, so you have to seriously experience it later.”

"We have to give food before eating, because Buddhists believe that there are still many hungry souls in the universe. They are eager for food, hungry, but unable to escape."

"So when we get food, we can't forget them. We hope that with the help of Buddha's power, we can help them and make them no longer suffer so much."

"Many people, even Buddhist monks, give food in order to seek blessings, accumulate merit, pray for the safety of their families, and hope that their deceased relatives will be liberated."

"But I think these are secondary. Giving food without asking for anything in return, and protecting that little flame of kindness in your mind is the supreme merit."

After talking about the porridge, the porridge was ready. Master Guoshan asked Xiao Zhi to put the crushed leaves into the coal sand pot and stir them a few times. After the crushed leaves were scalded with rice soup, they would become emerald green.

Vegetable porridge is very beautiful and fragrant.

Master Guoshan added a little more sesame salt to the porridge, then took out a clean cup, filled it with a little rice porridge, and handed it to Xiaozhi, "Come on, young girls are pure in thinking, for those souls, They are more willing to accept your food, let's do it together."

Holding the small cup in both hands, Xiaozhi obediently followed Master Guoshan to the flower tree outside the meditation room.

Xiao Zhi respectfully put the small cup under the tree, bowed her head and lowered her eyes, Master Guoshan recited together: "At this time, this food fills the void and pervades the Dharma Realm. All living beings in the Dharma Realm will have nectar to eat and drink for a while, without dissolving bad blood, and without shelter. All hungry ghosts will open their throats and extinguish the fire with the power of this mantra. Infinite."

Read it a few more times, let Xiao Zhi pour the porridge under the tree, let her visualize food spreading all over the universe, and the ceremony is over.

Bringing Xiaozhi back to the meditation room, Master Guoshan also served her a bowl of porridge and said, "Come on, you are doing a show, so it should be easy to take on this role? Now imagine that you are the recipient of the food just now, After getting this bowl of porridge, I finally relieved the hunger and thirst of a hundred years, and let your body tell you how happy and grateful they will be after getting such relief."

Xiaozhi closed her eyes and thought for a while, then scooped a spoonful of porridge into her mouth, chewed it lightly a few times and swallowed it, feeling the long-lost warmth rising from her body, tears could not stop streaming down.

No longer resisting, no longer repelling, but enjoying the beauty that food brings to oneself with joy and gratitude.

Xiao Zhi’s mother was watching her daughter eat porridge spoonful by spoonful with eyes closed and smiling. She had been crying until the pear blossoms rained down, and she couldn’t stop saluting to Master Guoshan: “Buddha bless you, thank you, master, thank you, master. The magic power is boundless..."

Master Guoshan waved his hands and said: "The little girl is very smart, and it has nothing to do with me. She figured it out by herself. If she figured it out, it will be fine."

Li Junge was amazed, this effect cannot be achieved by Confucian classics.

But on second thought, if Xiaozhi had studied Confucian classics since she was a child and had a clear mind, she probably wouldn't have come to this point.

But anyway, the matter is more than half resolved.

After eating a bowl of porridge, Xiaozhi thanked Master Guoshan: "Master, this time I didn't feel any resistance, I only felt joy and peace."

Guoshan smiled and nodded: "That's right, but you may not be able to accept the big fish and meat at the bottom of the mountain for a while. It just happens to be the season for growing vegetables. You will work with me these few days. We grow tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplants, etc. , by the way to chat, okay?"

Xiaozhi nodded happily and said, "That's great, I can also listen to your reasoning by the way."

Liu Xiaozhi and Xiaozhi's mother planted and watered vegetables on the mountain, while Li Junge and Si Xingzhun bid farewell to a few people and went down the mountain.

Si Xingzhun said to Li Junge: "Master Guoshan is really good, even I benefited a lot from being beside me. Hey, Erpi, don't you claim to inherit the mantle of Confucianism? Why have I never seen you say such a truth? ?”

Li Junge said: "'Peaches and plums don't say anything, and the world will form a path'. My truths are made, not spoken. If you don't feel it, it's because you are stupid, not because they don't exist..."

Si Xingzhun laughed loudly: "This forced me to give you one hundred and one points, and one more point is to reward you. You succeeded in making me laugh... Hahahaha..."

Li Junge shook his head: "The Master said: 'You can't carve a rotten wood, and you can't make a wall of dung.' Little benefactor, I'm talking about you..."

The two returned to Lijiagou, teasing and joking with each other.

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After a week of hard work, the thousand acres of rice fields were finally planted.

After transplanting rice seedlings, there is another ceremony called "closing the rice seedling gate". The uncle led Li Junge to walk around the terraced fields, and finally pulled out a handful of rice seedlings and took them home, throwing them by the door wall, saying that "the rice seedlings know the door of the house, and the harvest comes from Come in here."

There were many seedlings left, and finally the uncle made the decision to replace the land of the first cousin, the second cousin, the younger cousin and his own family with the rice seedlings of Wujinxuemi.

After the seedlings are planted, the vegetable field starts again. Once the plastic film is put into the ground, the cucumbers, peppers, eggplants, tomatoes, green beans, cowpeas, loofahs, wax gourds... all have to be planted.

Vegetables are selling well, and the supply of vegetables in his own vegetable field is in short supply. Li Junge has contracted dozens of acres of vegetable fields, expanding to a scale of [-] acres.Mainly for the farmhouse, the big brother, Liu Sangao's Jiudou bowl, and the fishing center next.

The foundations of a building on both sides of the lake have been laid. If Li Junge hadn’t taken the initiative to visit sometimes, Zhu Chao’an would have seen no one every day. That child is now running back and forth between the two construction sites wearing a hard hat.

On the other hand, Uncle A Chong’s side is progressing very fast, and another six wooden buildings have been framed. Zhu Erchong’s side is too busy. Li Junge can only take over the internal construction of independent kitchens and bathrooms and decoration, and he also brought Ah Uncle Chong and Tong learned a full set of techniques, starting with piping and wiring, so that they could master the construction methods of modern wooden villas as soon as possible.

The previous six buildings belonged to experiments and running-in, and the manpower was limited. It took six months.Now Uncle A Chong's team has expanded a lot. Li Junge estimates that the six new buildings can be completed before June, and the construction period can be doubled.

One day, Li Junge was explaining the piping and wiring to A Tong in the wooden building. He Miao came to find him and said that Wanjia Aquatic Products had come.

Li Junge quickly took off his helmet and followed He Miao to the fish pond.

All four kinds of fish are in one fish pond, divided into four small net cages. A young man is carrying a backpack and shaking his head by the fish pond.

Seeing Li Junge approaching, the young man reached out to shake hands with Li Junge, and introduced himself: "I am Feng Zheng from Wanjia Aquatic Products. Brother Nian said that your Lijiagou has entered a batch of fish species from our aquatic product company. Mr. Wu here He and I are brothers, so I asked me to come and see if there is anything I can do to help, but you don’t seem to be planning to start fry production here!"

Li Junge hurriedly said: "Hello, hello, we are looking forward to the experts. The conditions are not good, but we are raising these batches of fish well. This is just a breeding pond, and the hatching pond is in another place. Otherwise, you will be tired." Come take a look over there with us first?"

Feng Zheng said: "It's okay. Anyway, I came here to understand the investigation first. There is still a month for the fry to breed, so there is still time. Let's take a look at the species of fish first."

He Miao took some rubber leather pants from the shed beside the fish pond, and the three of them put them on and went down into the water, pulled up the nets of the cages, and let Feng Zheng watch the fish.

The first box was rock carp, and Feng Zheng was startled when he saw it: "How is it possible!"

He quickly went to look at the other three boxes, and each box surprised him.

On the shore, Feng Zheng couldn't help shaking his head: "This is unscientific! The way you raise grass carp in this pond should be to raise grass carp, then feed the forage, and feed other fish with grass carp excrement. It's a green ecological model, right?"

Li Junge nodded and said: "Yes, yes, we still need to add some concentrated feed occasionally. After all, we grow fish, and the nutrition must keep up."

(End of this chapter)