Do you need help to touch the stone monkey
Hearing this voice, Ye Feng was stunned.
"Female donor, it's not impossible to touch the stone monkey, but we've already written a price tag, 200 yuan per touch. If you can't afford that, we can't help you. Everyone is tired of waiting in line, so don't make a fuss and waste the time of the people behind you."
At this moment, a lazy middle-aged male voice was heard from the crowd.
And from the way he spoke, it seemed that this guy was a monk.
It costs two hundred yuan to touch the stone monkey. Even if this broken monkey is made of gold, it shouldn't be so expensive, right
Ye Feng couldn't help being speechless when he heard this, and he sneered in his heart.
The ancients carved stone monkeys so that ordinary people could place their aspirations for beauty, but now these monks have turned to using the stone monkeys as a tool to make money, charging two hundred yuan for just touching them.
"Please, my child has polio, and the doctor at the hospital said there is no cure. They say the stone monkey in Baiyun Temple is efficacious, so please let him touch the stone monkey, so that the gods and Buddhas can bless him and drive away the disease from him!"
At the same time, the woman's plaintive pleading voice rang out again, and her voice was a little choked.
"No, if I set this precedent for you and the tourists who come after me also want to get in for free, how am I going to explain this to the abbot?"
But unfortunately, the heart of this monk who collected money seemed to be harder than iron and stone. After rejecting her coldly, he waved his hand impatiently and said, "Don't even think about touching the stone monkey if you don't have money. Go back. If you make trouble again, I'll have someone kick you out!"
As soon as this voice came out, Jiang Yuxin immediately tugged at the corner of Ye Feng's clothes, her eyes full of sympathy, hoping that Ye Feng could help the poor mother and son in the crowd.
Even if Jiang Yuxin didn't pull him aside, Ye Feng couldn't listen any longer. His eyes turned slightly cold, and he stretched out his hand and gently made a way to the center of the crowd.
With a quick glance, he immediately saw a small monkey carved out of white marble on the ground in front of him. The monkey was only about ten centimeters in size, carved to be lifelike, and because it was often touched, it was shiny.
Next to the stone monkey was a huge merit box that was almost half a person's height. Next to the merit box stood a fat monk wearing a yellow cassock with gold threads. This monk did not look like a monk at all. He had a fat head and big ears, a bulging belly, and five wrinkles of flesh on his neck.
In front of the fat monk stood a pale-faced woman who looked to be in her thirties, holding a baby in her arms.
"Master, please, have mercy on me and let the child touch me."
The moment Ye Feng squeezed into the crowd, a woman just happened to walk up to the fat monk with a swaddled baby in her arms, hoping that the baby in the swaddled baby could touch the stone monkey that symbolized good wishes.
"You don't listen to me, get out of here!"
The fat monk saw this and showed displeasure in his eyes. He suddenly stretched out his hand and pushed the woman.
The woman looked malnourished and frail, how could she withstand such a push
With just one push, she staggered and fell to the ground, and the swaddling clothes in her arms flew into the air.
“The child… my child…” The swaddling clothes slipped out of the woman’s hands and she struggled to get up and catch the child. However, in a desperate situation, she tried two or three times but failed to stand up successfully.
At this moment, Ye Feng stretched out his hand towards the air and lightly took the swaddling clothes in his arms. Then, he lifted up the swaddling clothes and took a look. His brows immediately twisted into a knot.
In the cradle is a half-year-old baby. The little one has regular facial features and looks pink and tender, very cute.
But his two arms were extremely strange, twisted like a pretzel, and extremely thin, as if there was only a layer of skin covering the bones.
The ferocious appearance and the innocent little face formed a huge impact that made people unable to bear to look at it.
It really is polio!
Moreover, it was extremely serious and did not receive timely treatment, resulting in polio with sequelae!
After examining the baby's legs again and discovering that the hip joints also had varying degrees of deformity, Ye Feng couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
Poliomyelitis, also known as poliomyelitis.
This disease is extremely cruel because it does not occur in adults, but only infects children between one and six years old.
Once you have polio, if you don't get timely treatment, you will suffer from irregular and varying degrees of flaccid paralysis throughout your body. This kind of paralysis cannot be recovered even with physical therapy and is destined to accompany you for life.
In short, once a child is infected with polio, it means that he will be looked at strangely for the next few decades of his life, and may even be regarded as a monster by some of his peers. Not to mention getting married and having children, even a stable life is a luxury.
"My child, my child..."
At this moment, with the help of Jiang Yuxin, the woman finally struggled to stand up. As soon as she stood firm, she hurried towards Ye Feng, took the swaddle, carefully looked at the baby in the swaddle, and hugged him tightly to her chest.
Parents love their children. No matter what disease their children have, they are still priceless treasures in their eyes.
Looking at this scene, Ye Feng couldn't help but sigh softly.
"Go away, go away, don't stand here and waste time!" At the same time, the fat monk did not show any guilt on his face for pushing the mother and son, and he kept waving his hands impatiently.
The woman knew that even if she persisted, she would not be able to touch the stone monkey. She could only thank Ye Feng and Jiang Yuxin, with tears in her eyes, and prepare to walk out of the crowd.
"Wait a minute." But before she could turn around, Ye Feng suddenly grabbed her, then turned his head and looked at the fat monk with a smile and said indifferently: "What's wrong with you asking her to touch the stone monkey?"
"Two hundred yuan for touching it, that's the market price! You can only touch it if you pay." The fat monk said lightly without even raising his eyelids.
Jiang Yuxin heard this, her eyebrows raised, and she said angrily: "How can you be like this? Aren't monks supposed to be compassionate? If she can afford it, do you think she would not give you money?"
"Monks are compassionate, but they must abide by the precepts. If you want to help her, just pay for her." The fat monk shrugged and said with a smile, "Besides, what's wrong with being a monk? Didn't you read Journey to the West? When Tang Monk went to the West to obtain the scriptures, didn't the Buddha take away his purple gold bowl before giving him the scriptures?"
This guy actually used Journey to the West, which seems to be metaphysical but is actually ironic, to justify his own dirty behavior...
Upon hearing this, Ye Feng couldn't help but laugh, and then said calmly: "According to what you said, you and your Buddha only save rich people?"