Water Margin people

Chapter 58 Master Caitou Lu

"Brother, didn't I tell you to wait for Sajia!"

Just as he turned to leave, he suddenly heard Lu Zhishen's voice. Looking back, he found that Lu Zhishen was walking from the crowd offering incense.

"I've been waiting for a long time, and I'm hungry. It's not like you, eating delicacies from mountains and seas in the temple."

Sun Lei glanced at Lu Zhishen and said, this guy has no sense of time.

"Nonsense, Sajia hasn't eaten for a long time!"

As he said that, Lu Zhishen rubbed his stomach unconsciously, and then remembered that he went to Daxiangguo Temple for a long time and didn't even have tea or food.

"Seeing that you are so self-satisfied, what kind of errand do you have? Looking at the vegetable garden?"

Sun Lei asked jokingly.

"Brother, how do you know? They really let the Sa family go to see the vegetable garden. They said it was some kind of vegetable head. They were really stingy. They thought that with the letter from Elder Zhizhen, they had to arrange a capital temple and prison temple for the Sa family. At worst, he must be the head of the house, but the old monk said that the Sajia should start with vegetables! The Sajia was so angry that if it wasn't for the sake of the elders, the Xiangguo Temple would have to be smashed!"

Lu Zhishen's stomach was full of bitterness, and he was very dissatisfied with being just a vegetable.

"It's still guesswork? First, you are a monk who committed a crime. The abbot of this temple must be afraid that you will cause trouble. Second, what you did in Wenshu Monastery is probably known here. This is because of Elder Zhizhen's face." I don’t want to drive you away, but I don’t want to leave you making trouble in the temple, so I sent you to see the vegetable garden outside the temple.”

Sun Lei said casually, there is no need to guess about these things, thanks to Lu Zhishen who dared to speak loudly. He was just an ordinary monk in Wenshu Monastery. Fat Cha, if it wasn't for the fact that Elder Zhiqing and Elder Zhizhen were brothers who knew everything about him, they had to think that Lu Zhishen was the illegitimate son of Elder Zhizhen, otherwise why would he be so arrogant?
"It turned out that I didn't like the Sajia, so I sent the Sajia away on purpose! He also said that next year, the Sajia would be transferred back to be a pagoda head, and a year later, the Sajia would be promoted to Yutou, and three years later, the Sajia would be able to become a prison temple! It turned out that they were all deceiving the Sajia. Yes, go find them now!"

When Lu Zhishen heard that he had been sent away, he was furious and wanted to ask for an explanation with his Zen stick in his hand.

"I think you'd better not make trouble. This Daxiangguo Temple is no better than Wenshu Monastery, but no one is covering you. Besides, monks can't be promoted so fast. According to your statement, you will be promoted to a higher level every year. Within ten years, you will be promoted." Can't you become the abbot? Don't you think it's too simple?"

Sun Lei looked at Lu Zhishen who was about to get angry and said, if Elder Zhizhen hadn't protected Lu Zhishen in Wenshu Monastery, this unruly and violent person would have been kicked out of the monastery a long time ago.

"Actually, there's nothing wrong with looking at the vegetable garden. It's considered a fat job. You don't have to worry about eating and drinking in the vegetable garden, and you are free. You can eat meat if you want, drink alcohol if you want, and no one cares about you all year round."

Sun Lei also told Lu Zhishen the benefits of being a vegetable head. He had already inquired about it just now. This Daxiangguo Temple is not simple. With more than ten thousand people, it is the largest temple in the capital and the national center of Buddhism.At the same time, because its abbots are all canonized by the emperor himself, and the emperor's visits, prayers and thanksgiving are often held here, so Daxiangguo Temple is also known as the "royal temple" that "opens the temple for the country".

This vegetable garden is responsible for supplying seasonal vegetables to the monks of Daxiangguo Temple. The area is definitely not small. Monks, they are all vegetarians on the surface, and their daily vegetable consumption is a large number.

But now that these vegetables are under the management of Lu Zhishen, the operability is very great. There must be extra vegetables in the vegetable garden. These are sold for money, and Lu Zhishen is the most annoying person to manage. He is the host in the vegetable garden. He is the biggest in that abbot's land, and he can do whatever he wants.

"Brother, it's not bad that you say so well!"

Lu Zhishen thought about it carefully and immediately laughed. The vegetables in this vegetable garden really fit his heart, and he was free and unrestrained.

"Let's go, go drink, the Sa family is hungry!"

Satisfied, Lu Zhishen greeted Sun Lei and was going to drink. If there is something happy, one must celebrate. The best choice for celebrating is to eat and drink.

I found a restaurant next to the Daxiangguo Temple, and after eating and drinking Sun Lei was dragged to the vegetable garden by Lu Zhishensheng.

Going north out of Suanzao Gate, you can see a lush green vegetable garden, which is so huge in scale.

"Caitou, it's incredible, what a huge fortune!"

Pointing to the large-scale vegetable garden, Sun Lei teased Lu Zhishen, saying that having such a piece of land in the capital is something to brag about.

"Ha ha!"

Lu Zhishen didn't hear Sun Lei's joking tone, instead he laughed very complacently.

Walking into a few houses next to the vegetable garden, I saw an old monk knocking on a wooden fish and chanting scriptures in the main hall.

"Senior brother, you are being polite!"

Lu Zhishen strode into the main hall, yelling in that energetic voice, it didn't look like he was visiting at all, but rather looking for trouble.

"This... poor monk returns the gift!"

The old monk turned his back and didn't see Lu Zhishen, but his voice sounded like a ferocious military man. He got up in panic at first but saw that it was a burly and fat monk, and then he returned the Buddhist salute.

"Sajia Lu Zhishen, Elder Zhiqing of Daxiangguo Temple asked Sajia to come here to replace you in managing the vegetable garden. This is the elder's post and post."

Lu Zhishen took out the post given by Elder Zhizhen and showed it to the old monk. Originally, Elder Zhiqing planned to have two monks accompany Lu Zhishen tomorrow, but when Lu Zhishen thought about it, Sun Lei was waiting outside Xiangguo Temple. Sun Lei's temper must have gone away, and he probably won't be able to find anyone in the future. He declined the elder's kindness, and took the post and the announcement himself to take office.

"The Buddha is manifested, the Buddha is manifested, Amitabha!"

The old monk started talking nonsense when he saw Fatie's surprise, but he was very excited, if he wasn't old, he might have danced.

"Is this old monk crazy?"

Lu Zhishen asked Sun Lei in a low voice, he just came to take over as the head of the dish, is this old monk so crazy?Is this vegetable garden so bad?
"It looks like this vegetable garden is not easy!"

Sun Lei smiled inscrutablely. The old monk was probably disturbed by those thugs who stole vegetables and the soldiers around him. Now that he is finally relieved, how can he be so happy for a while.

"Master, wait here for a while, and the poor monk will go and call all the Taoist priests who are farming and doing odd jobs."

The old monk didn't seem to want to wait for a moment, he hurried out and went to the vegetable garden to call the Taoists who grow vegetables and do odd jobs.

After a while, the old monk called more than a dozen vegetable growers over, explained the reason, and asked them to pay homage to Lu Zhishen. Finally, he took a large bunch of keys from his waist and handed them to Lu Zhishen. This is considered to be the end of the handover.

(End of this chapter)