MTL - I Was an Abbot in Ancient Times-Chapter 22

【Ding-

Congratulations on your achievement. The cumulative income of the temple has reached 5,000 taels, and you will be rewarded [Peanut Seed x1]. 】

Lin Zhao was overjoyed when he heard the latest system notification.

He finally collected two packets of peanut seeds.

Start growing peanuts.

Pray for golden peanuts.

Excitedly, he sowed a piece of farmland with peanut seeds, and then sat aside and gasped for breath.

Shantong thoughtfully brought a plate of jujube cake and a cup of tea.

In fact, Lin Zhao's life as an abbot after completing the daily tasks is quite unremarkable.

The back chef Shantong is in charge, and the temple is currently only the first hall, with Buse and Huitong on duty in the bell tower and drum tower, and the backyard chief Mao wandering around.

There is Bulei Buer in the main hall to help guide the pilgrims, and Buer in the farmland also helps to look after it from time to time.

There is now a protection system for security issues, so he doesn't have to worry about it.

Lin Zhao had nothing else to do except to make inspections occasionally and pay attention to which facilities in the squatter rooms needed to be replaced.

If you are idle and bored, go to the Palace of Heavenly Kings to unwrap the lottery for others, and eat a few mouthfuls of melons from other people's homes.

Or as a human observer for a while, watching the life of the pilgrims.

No, a young woman and a 30-year-old woman with a sad face stepped into the hall together, Lin Zhao guessed that they should be looking for marriage.

If you are not tired but here, you will definitely recognize this young woman as the Seventh Miss whom you met for alms in the manor.

Seventh Miss is carrying Mrs. Cheng Enhou, her stepmother.

When she saw Lin Zhao, she felt like a drum was beating in her heart.

Without him, she had heard too many miraculous deeds of this national teacher in her previous life, and she was afraid that she would be seen through.

She brought her stepmother here this time to impress the national teacher with sincerity, obtain such a treasure, support her stepmother to fight against the other side, and regain the momentum.

In her previous life, she mistakenly believed that her stepmother was the culprit who killed her mother and sent her to Zhuangzi. She mistakenly took a thief's heart as a kind heart and an enemy as a relative, and she was the one who was pecked blind!

In this life, she wants to take advantage of the opportunity to regain everything she should have, and send her enemies to a place where there will be no redemption.

Therefore, even though she was afraid in her heart, she still bit the bullet and pulled her stepmother to ask the national teacher to release the lottery, so as to make her face familiar.

Ah... so it was about pregnancy and childbirth. Awkward.

Lin Zhao realized that he had made a mistake in guessing, and once again lamented that his eyesight was not enough.

"Please donate a lot and do good deeds. If you are sincere, you will be spiritual. The Bodhisattva will bless you."

After dryly reading from the booklet, Lin Zhao greeted the two of them with his eyes.

Unexpectedly, the other party seemed to have received some oracle, and blessed the body with excitement, "Thank you, Master, for your guidance!"

Lin Zhao wondered, what did he point out? I think should not be…

I don't know why, but I still smiled calmly, "It's still early, if the benefactor is not in a hurry to go down the mountain, you can go to the hall and eat fast."

Seventh Miss smiled back and helped her stepmother to go to the dining hall.

In the hall of the Zhaitang, there were many women and children at this time, and at the same time, a few students in long gowns were also seen.

Seventh Miss was eating a vegetarian meal, quietly observing the appearance of these students, to see if they could match up with those officials in the previous life.

She clearly knew that most of the officials in the court later came from monastery students, and they had a good relationship with the abbot.

So when Emperor Xuantong said that he wanted to be appointed as the national teacher, the voice in the court was so loud that the national teacher ascended to the high position with the attitude that everyone expected.

It was even heard that the crown prince had quite a friendship with this national teacher.

Lin Zhao didn't expect that after helping the young lady and her mother untie the contract that day, the other party seemed to have received some advice.

For a month, I went up to the mountain to worship every day, and it was the two of them who opened the gate of the temple to meet each other. Every time I donated incense money, I was very generous.

Even after chatting with them, I learned that they really do charity every day in the city, and even built a women's nursery to take in women and children who have nowhere else to go.

Lin Zhao felt a little stressed.

What advice did they get?

Finally, after more than ten days, the older woman asked eagerly, "When will the Bodhisattva give blessings?"

Lin Zhao's head is getting bigger. Could it be that they are the first ones to go up the mountain to worship every day because they believe that sincerity makes spirit? Don't do good deeds?

What are they asking for? Pregnant and have a baby? He won't.

At this moment, the peanuts he planted were ready to be harvested.

Lin Zhao found an excuse, and went to the backyard to collect peanuts as if fleeing, not paying attention to the sudden light in Miss Seven's eyes behind her.

Sure enough, a golden peanut was harvested after harvesting a field of peanuts.

"Abbot, there's another golden peanut!" Buer also looked up at the peanut that Lin Zhao was holding.

"Do you want to continue offering?"

"No." Lin Zhao said firmly, "Put it away first."

He didn't want to go through the white snake incident again.

"Can you give it to us?" Suddenly came a weak request from behind.

Lin Zhao and Buer looked together, they were the two women from the Heavenly King Hall just now.

"This…"

"Abbot, please cut the love." The younger woman looked firm.

Seeing their firmness, Lin Zhao's eyes were longing, and he thought about the sincerity of this month's incense money...Give it to them.

"Thank you abbot!" The woman was overjoyed, and blessed him gratefully.

Lin Zhao waved his hand, just plant golden peanuts again, but I don't know what the effect is, something that the white snake will swallow all the time, there is no harm in short.

"It's okay, come to the temple to fulfill your wish if you have good fortune." He wanted to know what effect it would have.

"Yes." The two bid farewell and left the yard.

"Abbot, I recognize the young lady just now. She was a beggar from the manor last time. She was very kind to us." Fuerchao Lin Zhao said.

"It's a sincere one." No way, they gave too much money for incense.

I also get up early every day to climb mountains and give alms, which is easier said than done, and I have no bad intentions, just give it.

When they went up the mountain again to fulfill their wish, Lin Zhao heard that the older woman was pregnant!

He has a weird face, so the result of eating the big white snake is also pregnant? Not likely.

"Oh!" A sigh.

At first, Lin Zhao thought it was because he sighed unconsciously, so he didn't pay much attention.

Unexpectedly, sighs sounded one after another.

Lin Zhao followed the source of the sound and found a dejected scholar behind a tree.

"Why are you moaning?"

The scholar turned his head when he heard the words, and when he saw Lin Zhao, he got up and bowed.

"It's the abbot. I don't know the reason, but I can't study at ease recently. If this continues, how will I get fame?" The scholar sighed again.

"If you are alive, why should you be obsessed with obtaining fame? There is nothing good about being an official."

"Abbot, how can Xiaosheng live up to the high expectations of the family? It is my ambition to shine brightly in the family!" There was an expression on the scholar's face that you don't understand, abbot.

"...you come with me."

Lin Zhao took him to the Palace of Heavenly Kings.

"shake!"

"what?"

"Draw a lottery and see your academic fortune. It will ease your anxiety."

"…Row."

Shake it—slap. Dropped a sign.

"..."

The scholar's eyes wandered to Lin Zhao in a daze, and Lin Zhao looked back silently.

"Unlock the sign for you."

After thinking about it, I added another sentence.

"It's free."

He skilfully took out the handbook: "The signature says: Su Qin achieves ambition. Pedestrians can't swallow their grievances, suddenly disasters are approaching, and birds break their nests and have nowhere to stay. They can find a safe place in the deep."①

"This is the image of birds and magpies leaving the forest. Everything should be done according to one's heart. The solution said: If you have a grudge with others, when can you extend it. If you don't listen to advice, you will fail. ②

If what you are looking for is schoolwork, everyone will fight, and it is sad to pass this pass. It is recommended to wait quietly and wait for time. "

Lin Zhao patted him on the shoulder: "Now feel at ease."

Scholar: "..." In fact, he didn't really want to ask for a lottery.

Lin Zhao: The pure place of Buddhism, how can you let you sigh, if so, please ask for a lottery to relieve your worries.

Scholar: ... Abbot, I was wrong.

Another restless heart was soothed, and Lin Zhao felt that today's abbot was also very successful.

With a somewhat complacent mood, he came to the Zhaitang, and his mood was spoiled by its ugliness at a glance.

The table is too ugly, the bench is too ugly, and the floor and wall are also ugly!

Replace all.

The tables and chairs are all replaced with mahogany, and the carved patterns look exquisite.

The walls are repainted, and the floor is replaced with a wooden floor. The neat wooden floor craftsmanship looks comfortable for a long time.

Then start from the stove.

Replaced with bluestone brick and it didn't look so bad.

Next to it was a shelf that Yu Tian built himself, on which were placed two jars, one large and one small, with red peppers hanging from the bottom.

The dish rack is replaced with a multi-layer dish rack with a larger capacity, which is convenient for more people to use, and baskets, altars, and jars can also be placed on it.

The vegetable racks are also replaced with multi-layer ones, arranged in layers, clean and tidy.

Yellow potatoes belong to yellow potatoes, green cabbage is green cabbage, and white radish is piled with white radish.

There is also a rice jar replaced by a clay round-bellied rice jar, with black letters and red paper pasted on it, which is very beautiful.

The water tank is made of stone. It is hollowed out from a whole big stone. It is hard and not easy to break.

With such a renovation, it seems that it has been promoted from the back chef of a food stall to the back chef of a big restaurant.

The pilgrims stepped in again and praised it one after another.

"The abbot is really hardworking. How beautifully this fasting hall has been repaired."

"It's quite beautiful, and it's almost catching up with the Fucheng Restaurant."

"Hey, did I go to the wrong place? I haven't been here for a few days, what a big change!"

【Ding! Congratulations, you have achieved the achievement—the temple has unlocked 40 decorations in total, and you will get rewards [wheat seeds x1], [grass fan x1]. 】

Lin Zhao put away the wheat seeds, and waited for this wave of crops to be harvested before planting the next wave.

He took out the straw fan, which looked no different from the big cattail fan that my grandmother used to shake in the previous life.

He tried to fan it.

Wow! It's so cool and the wind is so strong!

Lin Zhao's eyes widened, he looked at the treasure in his hand miraculously, and slapped it again.

He could clearly see the trajectory of the wind, and it seemed to be cold. This is some kind of magic weapon to relieve the heat.

To be honest, in the ancient summer, people who had no conditions could rely on calmness to cool down naturally. It was okay if there was no big movement, but if there was a big movement, they would be sweating profusely, and the fan would make it hotter.

It's cool on Lingwu Mountain, but I can't stand the temperature in the afternoon.

Those who like to scurry around are not tired and those with thick beard and long hair have no forehead and no sweat.

Lin Zhao was wearing a monk's robe produced by the system, and didn't feel too hot, and the face of Buti, who was wearing a cotton long-sleeved monk's robe next to him, turned red.

Lin Zhao slapped him.

Bulei, who was suddenly hit by a gust of cool wind, was startled at first, then turned around and saw that it was the abbot, he was overjoyed and coquettishly asked him to slap him a few more times.

Lin Zhao's love for the cubs disappeared after a few slaps, so he threw the cattail fan to Buti and let him fan it himself.

Not tired to come to the temple for a while, loved by the senior brothers, finally know to give back, after cooling down for a while, he ran to the other senior brothers to fan together.

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