Charity banquets held by religious people include tables full of hard-to-prepare seafood, but the price of these vegetarian dishes and wine is only slightly more expensive than real meat dishes. The braised lion head is plain and made of beans, but it simulates the taste and texture of meat through the blending of five flavors. The wine that goes into the throat is a low-alcohol vegetarian wine, and its value is far higher than that of ordinary meat wine.
Xu Changshuo was only twenty years old. It was the first time that he followed his master to leave his hometown and come to the capital city to see the world. He had never eaten such delicacies before. For a moment, he was dizzy and everything he saw was new. Hands and mouth were full. The Taiji Taoist sect she belongs to was once a large and prosperous Taoist sect, and even became the orthodox Taoist sect in the Ming Dynasty. By the generation of their masters and apprentices, they were completely in decline, but they still occupied a high position in the religious world with their past glory.
"What does your master usually give you to eat?" Li Muye looked at the way she was eating, a little suspicious that she deliberately skipped lunch for this dinner.
Xu Changshuo said plausibly: "My parents sent me to Wendang Mountain to practice with the master since I was a child. The farthest I have done is to perform rituals for people in the county town several times. Where can I get such good food? After eating this meal today, I may not be able to eat it again in the future." If you have a chance to eat it, of course you have to eat enough."
"Do you believe that after tonight, there will be many people lining up waiting to treat you to such delicious food?" Li Muye said: "By then, you should be too lazy to eat."
"This bragging is more refreshing and refined." Xu Changshuo said: "But senior brother, you said this too early. I want to eat such a meal anytime, how can I be too lazy to eat it?" As soon as she said this, she suddenly quickly He handed the plate in his hand to Brother Xiaoye's hand and said in a weird manner: "Oh, you know how to make me eat hard. I will almost gain weight after entering Beijing."
Li Muye was holding the plate and noticed that she was looking at a woman in blue who was about the same age as her. She was wearing a royal blue dress that looked like a cassock and a skirt. She was looking at Xu Changshuo with a mocking smile.
"Is this woman your rival?" Li Muye asked quietly, "A love rival or a best friend?"
Xu Changshuo whispered: "My senior sister is now a member of the Laolin Temple Group and a senior assistant to Monk Jue'ai."
"Traitor of the master's sect?"
"Yes." Xu Changshuo said: "The master treated her very well when she was in Wendang Mountain, but as soon as she left the mountain gate, she betrayed the master and cut her hair and became a fake nun." He added, "We had a close relationship when we were young. Very good, but she used me to lie to Master, and she made me and Master so angry during the conference before."
"She's here, who do I think you are?"
"I don't know, you are Lao Jianghu. I think you should find a suitable identity for yourself. Anyway, you can't let me lose face in front of her." Xu Changshuo said: "She came to us, and I completely depend on you. "
The woman in blue walked straight forward, looked at Xu Changshuo first, then looked at Li Muye a few times, and suddenly changed her color and said: "Xu Changshuo, are you crazy? How dare you get so close to him? What do you really think An Yiru's problem is? Can I bear it for you? Or is this what An Yiru meant? "
The little nun immediately slapped Xu Changshuo on the spot, which confused Xu Changshuo. She glanced at Li Muye, snorted and said nothing.
Li Muye said, "Have we met this lady before?"
The woman in blue said: "Director Li, please stop scaring me. Although this city is big, there are not many people who dare not know you." Then she said: "Today's party was initiated by the Laolin Temple Group, and I happen to be the organizer. One of them, but I didn’t expect an uninvited guest like you to come, so of course I have to pay special attention to it.”
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The little nun has sharp words and dares to criticize Brother Xiaoye. It is indeed a bit unexpected, but it is reasonable. It is said that women are difficult to raise, and because she was young and a girl, she spoke a little too hastily. As Li Muye, it was not easy to argue with her.
"Since you know me, you should be considered a member of the circle." Li Muye looked at her with a smile and said, "Even a little girl like you dares to talk to me like this. This shows that it is time for some changes in this circle. Yes, I am very optimistic about your former master An Yiru."
The little nun frowned, glared at Xu Changshu, and asked rudely: "Is this An Yiru's intention? Or did you make your own decision?"
"Lin Qiong'e, please stop talking to me in this tone." Xu Changshuo said: "You are no longer a member of the Tai Chi sect. It has nothing to do with you whatever choices Master and I make."
Lin Qiong'e had no expression on her face, gave her a cold look, and said: "The capital is a prosperous but very complicated place. It may not be suitable for everyone, and some games are not affordable for you to participate in. I advise you and An Yiru to Go back to the mountain as soon as possible, lest you make a wrong step and don't even have the chance to look back."
Xu Changshuo had no intention of siding with Li Muye, but he was provoked by Lin Qiong'e's words. In a fit of rage, he blurted out: "Lin Qiong'e, if you want to say that, then I will admit it. We just want to follow Director Li, let’s go together, what can you and your fat old lover do to me?”
"Xu Changshuo, your filthy words are too deceiving!"
"Lin Qiong'e, don't be afraid of others saying what you have done. If you don't say it to your face, no one will know behind the scenes that you and that fat monk are in love with each other." The little Taoist nun is young and fierce, and she has no control over her mouth. She talks faster and faster. The more outrageous it is.
"Hehe." Lin Qiong'e laughed angrily and sneered: "It's just that An Yiru relies on his kung fu and Taoist medical skills not to take the executive committee members of the religious association and the leaders of the affairs management center seriously. Even you Xu Changshuo also dared to casually slander an important executive member of the association and the branch president of the provincial branch of the Buddhist Association. As expected, you have found a good person to support you. I don’t need to tell you what the reputation of Director Li is. Everyone knows it. I want you two masters and apprentices to come. You have all been accepted by him, I would like to congratulate you."
Li Muye stopped the little Taoist nun from saying something even more unpleasant, saying: "It's useless to argue with words. In the end, you have to rely on your strength to speak. The people are almost here. The show is about to begin. I'll take you to see something more interesting." As he said that, he didn't say anything. Paying no attention to Lin Qiong'e's thoughts, she held Xu Changshuo in her arms and walked toward the rostrum.
"Dear guests, please be quiet." A monk in white walked up to the host's seat, attracted everyone's attention and said: "The leaders of the management center, and colleagues from various branches across the country, as well as the zealous religious enthusiasts in the capital Dear men and women of charity, Amitabha, I am the merciful Buddha. I would like to first wish you all a good evening. I look forward to spending a pleasant and successful evening with you here."
"This monk's name is Guangyuan, and he comes from Putuo Mountain." Xu Changshuo introduced quietly: "Like my master, he is also one of the executive committee members of the religious association, but his monastery is large and he has made great contributions, so he naturally has more say than my master. Much more.”
Li Muye smiled and said, "I think he has a big head, so he should be a very smart person."
"You're right." Xu Changshuo said: "He is a master of Buddhism. He enlightens young people, gives lectures to companies, runs a website, and sells Vajra magic tools and Buddhist classics. His monthly income is enough Master and I have been working hard all our lives treating people in all weathers."
"Do you envy a monk like him?"
"It would be strange not to be envious." Xu Changshuo said: "It's a pity that Master and I don't have the skills and connections of others. Modern people just follow their tricks. Wendang Mountain is very prosperous. It's the Sloppy Taoist Gate and the Turtle Snake Taoist Gate, which specializes in some land and water." I make a lot of money from rituals, Feng Shui reading, and fortune telling, and the food and clothing expenses are countless times better than our little ruined temple."
"Since you are envious, why don't you imitate your senior sister, or change your family, or find a big shot to attach yourself to?"
"Does envy have to be like them?" Xu Changshuo said: "I was raised by my master. I will live the life she likes."
After the monk on the stage finished speaking politely, he talked endlessly about the theme and significance of today's banquet. Guangyuan is worthy of being a new generation of Buddhist masters who keep pace with the times. His speech is quite skillful. Li Muye can clearly understand in the audience that this so-called charity dinner is actually an alms meeting. Masters in the religious world gathered together to show off their magical powers, draw talismans, write inscriptions, and present consecration scrolls and cassocks. Finally, the wealthy businessmen present paid the bill.
"Dear Buddhists, Taoists and Catholics, on this beautiful occasion, I have a few words from the bottom of my heart that I would like to share with you." Monk Guangyuan said, "What should I say? Let me tell you from the prosperous age of religion in which we live. Come on, everyone, we are all lucky to have caught up with this great era of peaceful development, where various ideological trends and cultures converge and integrate, promote and spur each other, what is a great renaissance? I think this is it!"
"Looking back at the past, although the master of the poor monk, Holy Master Xuyun, practiced cultivation and became a saint, he saw the light of the Buddha, but he did not see the light of the Buddha bathing the world like we mediocre monks did. The old patriarch's lifelong wish was for the world to be harmonious and peaceful. We have lived in this world for one hundred and twenty years but have never seen him. We have been waiting for decades, and the time spent practicing Zen and seeking Taoism is not worth mentioning. However, we are lucky enough to see, experience and participate in this day, and spread the spirit of our respective teachings to the world... "
He continued: "Starting from culture and religion, human beings in the East and the West accept and learn from each other and enhance understanding... The poor monk believes that peace and exchange will be the theme of the world in the next hundred years or even longer, and today's participants All of you and our descendants will be witnesses and owners of this great era."
"To say that he talks shit is an insult to shit." Li Muye quietly said to Xu Changshuo in the audience: "Did you see the foreign woman on your left? That girl's name is Selina, a senior CIA agent who has just been promoted to Director of the Greater China Bureau at the deputy bureau level, do you know how many deputy bureau-level branches the United States Military Intelligence has around the world? There are only two in total, one is in Odessa in the Middle East, and the other is in our South China Sea."
"I don't quite understand what you mean." Xu Changshuo looked at Li Muye blankly with the expression of a businesswoman who didn't know how to hate her country.
"It's very simple. The Middle East is the most war-torn region in the world, and in the future, around the South China Sea, the strategic goals of the United States have been pointed at us." Li Muye said: "So this bald donkey's so-called peace expectations are simply nonsense." Look. Looking at Xu Changshuo's apologetic look, she knew that this topic was a bit out of reach for a little girl who had lived in the mountains for twenty years and had only seen a few months in the world of mortals. She waved her hand and said: "It's okay, you Just know they’re not right.”
Xu Changshuo nodded and said: "I think you are right. Master and I came to the capital in June. In the past few months, we have been squeezed out by these people. These people have been bad for a long time. If they can tell To use my master's words, there are only two words for this true knowledge and insight: fame and fortune."
Li Muye handed her a prepared mobile phone and said: "You go and give this phone to Selena, and then don't say anything. After today, these sycophants should surround you two masters and apprentices." It's going around in circles, fame, fortune, everything is here, do you think this game is fun or not?"
"Why does it sound like a daydream?" Xu Changshuo obviously didn't believe it.
"It's a dream to you, but it's a game to me." Li Muye smiled and said seductively: "Your senior sister is secretly watching you. She sent you invitations on purpose just to step on you. You don't want to step on you." Go back?" (End of Chapter)