On this day, Zhang Chu had a flash of light in his heart and felt that he should go out for a walk, otherwise, if he always stayed in the small shop, he didn’t know how long it would take for him to get enough merit.
So Zhang Chu said to Ye Lei, “Ye Lei, I’ll give you a half day off, I’m going to go out with Hot Pot, and you can come back to work tomorrow.”
“Many thanks boss!”Ye Lei said happily.
Immediately after that, Zhang Chu said to Hot Pot, “Hot Pot, let’s go, let’s go find Monk for a drink.”
“Woof woof! Alright Grandpa.”Hot Pot shouted a few times and immediately followed Zhang Chu as he left.
Carefree Temple.
After Zhang Chu paid the thirty yuan parking fee, he took the hot pot and walked inside.
Nowadays, the Worryless Temple was filled with incense, and there were many travellers offering incense.
Zhang Chu took the hot pot inside, and after a few steps, Zhang Chu saw that in front of a merit box, there was a little girl holding a thin wire, using the wire to “fish” for the money inside the merit box.
The girl was about five or six years old, wearing old clothes, her face was red, and she looked a bit pitiful.
Not long ago, the little girl “fishing” out a hundred dollar bill.
After fishing out the money, the little girl knelt down in front of the merit box, kowtowed three times, and muttered in a low voice: “Bodhisattva, Bodhisattva, my grandmother has no money to spend, can I get another hundred yuan?”
“If you don’t agree, just shake your head.”
“If you don’t shake your head, it will be considered that you agree.”
After saying this, the little girl raised her little face and looked carefully at the idol with very pious eyes.
As a result, the idol did not shake its head, and the girl instantly carefully took the wire and probed into the merit box again.
The hot pot took a look and was instantly unhappy, “Woof woof woof, grandpa, someone is bullying my brother!”
“Who is your brother?”Zhang Chu looked odd.
The hot pot immediately said, “Woof woof woof, my brother is Ninety-Nine ah, the Abbot of the Carefree Temple, and also your friend.”
Zhang Chu was instantly speechless, when did Hot Pot and Ninety-Nine worship each other? How come I didn’t know!
Of course, Zhang Chu didn’t bother to stop that little girl, but instead, he brought Hot Pot and walked straight towards the temple.
After turning a few corners and entering the backyard, Zhang Chu finally saw Monk Ninety-Nine.
At this moment, Ninety-Nine was drinking, and Flowing Crisp was sitting on Ninety-Nine’s lap, the two of them were extremely close.
“Cough cough cough ……,” Zhang Chu pretended to cough.
When Ninety-Nine heard the sound, he immediately looked at Zhang Chu. Er.
Immediately after, Ninety Nine happily shouted, “Zhang Chu! Come and sit down, I said this morning that the magpie in the backyard was screaming non-stop one after another, there must be a nobleman coming today, look, Zhang Chu is here, isn’t he.”
Flowing Crisp moved away from Ninety Nine’s lap, she nodded slightly towards Zhang Chu, “I’ll go get a few dishes.”
After saying that, Liu Crisp turned around and left.
At this time, Zhang Chu sat down across from Ninety-Nine and laughed, “You’re living a comfortable little life.”
Ninety-nine was not modest: “That’s true, if a monk is not living comfortably, then there is no one in this world who can live comfortably.”
At this time, Zhang Chu said, “By the way, just now when I came over, I saw a little girl taking the money in your merit box, I think, you should know about this.”
Ninety-nine nodded, “I know, that child’s name is Yang Xiaoxi, she is a bitter child, her parents died in a car accident, leaving only her and her grandmother to depend on each other.”
“Her grandmother’s health is also not good, before relying on a few acres of land to live, but also to take medicine all year round.”
Saying that, Ninety-nine drank a glass of wine: “Seeing her pitiful, I taught that child that she could use a wire to fish for money inside the merit box, and told her to ask the idol if it agreed when she fished for money.”
“Eh? You taught her those words of asking the idol, huh?”Zhang Chu immediately looked at the monk somewhat differently.
Ninety-nine, on the other hand, stretched out comfortably, “I taught her, or else she wouldn’t quite dare to do it.”
“Besides, since that box is called a merit box, it should always do something meritorious, don’t you think so?”
Zhang Chu was instantly puzzled.
Ninety-nine then looked at Zhang Chu, “Did you come here for the power of merit?”
Zhang Chu was instantly surprised, “How do you know?”
Ninety-nine laughed, “Haha, I told you long ago, I know astronomy and geography, and I can calculate.”
Zhang Chu carefully looked at the monk for a few moments, and found that on his body, he really did have some more Xuanmen aura.
“Hm? You can’t really be able to tell fortunes, can you?”Zhang Chu asked in surprise.
Ninety-nine, on the other hand, whispered, “I don’t know, but I feel it’s kinda magical, sometimes when I come to some guests and ask me something, I inexplicably get a flash of light in my head and can sense something.”
“Sometimes when I casually say something, I can actually say a lot of things.”
Zhang Chu immediately said, “You kid, you really do have wisdom!”
In reality, if one wanted to learn to tell fortunes, there wasn’t only one way to learn Taoist arts.
Monks like this, who had been close to the Gods and Buddhas for a long time, could also develop a trace of “true spirit”, and as long as they could grasp this trace of true spirit, it was entirely possible to have the ability to tell fortunes.
Of course, most monks do not have this wisdom and enlightenment, even if the time to keep the God and Buddha even longer, it is not possible to be born out of this kind of aura of the ability.
But ninety-nine had enlightenment, and after a long time, it was normal to be able to slightly give birth to some mysterious abilities.
At this time, Zhang Chu nodded, “It seems that you have become a high monk.”
“Haha, I was already a high monk!”Ninety-nine said loudly.
At this time, Zhang Chu said, “You’re really right, I do want to obtain some power of merit, tell me your opinion on the power of merit.”
Without even considering it, Ninety-Nine directly blurted out, “Doing whatever your heart desires is merit.”
“Hm?”Zhang Chu frowned, “Follow your heart?”
Ninety-nine nodded, “That’s right, in my opinion, merit and virtue cannot be forced, the more deliberately one tries to obtain it, the more likely it will not be obtained.”
“Instead, if you follow your heart and don’t think about it that much, you can obtain merit.”
Zhang Chu instantly frowned, “For example?”
Ninety-nine pointed outside the courtyard, “For example, that little girl, I taught her to take the money in the merit box, not for the sake of merit, but to simply see her pitiful and want to help her.”
“As a result, because of this incident, I got quite a lot of merit instead.”
“Another example is that when I used to be on Furong Street, when I saw some young ladies standing on the street, dressed so thinly in the cold winds of the night for a few hundred dollars, I would sympathise with them, and thus take care of their business.”
“At that time, I didn’t care about any merit, I just simply wanted to take care of their business.”
Zhang Chu’s face darkened as he listened, “I think that the others were also simply trying to take care of their business.”
Ninety-nine nodded, “All in all, my point is that it is sufficient to do as one pleases, there is no need to deliberately force it.”
“Alright, the two of us are not travelling the same path, I can’t learn from your approach.”Zhang Chu said.
For his part, Ninety-Nine gently drank a cup of wine and suddenly whispered, “Zhang Chu, if you are in dire need of the power of merit, I really do have a big job.”
“Hmm? What big job?”Zhang Chu was instantly interested.
Ninety-nine whispered, “I’ve recently met a big boss, a woman, and she took on a big project to build a large area of protected housing, but something went wrong with her construction site.”
“She came to me, but I instinctively felt that it might be dangerous for me to go, so I didn’t promise her. But if you’re willing to help her go and take a look, there’s no chance you’ll be able to get great merit.”
Zhang Chu’s eyes instantly lit up, “This can be had!”
