Fang Zheng clasped his hands together and said, "I'm afraid the poor monk will disappoint the donor. The poor monk has little talent and knowledge, so he may only be a listener."
After hearing the previous words, Li Xueying's heart sank. She really didn't come here to find someone to solve her problems. She knew her own problems. I just feel uncomfortable inside and want to find someone reliable to talk to. Fang Zheng gave her a good feeling. Although it was only the first time they met, he still gave her a natural sense of closeness and a sense of security. The point is, this monk doesn’t know her!
After hearing the second half of the sentence, Li Xueying breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile: "Then just listen."
Li Xueying was about to speak when she suddenly heard a commotion outside. Someone shouted loudly: "Li Xueying! Li Xueying!"
Li Xueying panicked...
Fang Zheng said: "Donor, it seems he is looking for you."
Li Xueying sighed: "Well, it seems that this is all we can talk about today. Well, if it's okay, don't say what I said to you today to other people, okay?"
Li Xueying asked.
Fang Zheng nodded and said: "The poor monk can help the donor keep it secret."
"Thank you. I like the tranquility here very much, and I also like your unadorned feeling. You made me understand a truth." Li Xueying said with a slight smile.
Fang Zheng asked curiously: "What's the point?"
"Sometimes people's thoughts are too complicated. Of course, you can gain something, but you will also lose something. It's really easy to be simple and return to nature. Unfortunately, it's easy to realize but hard to do, and I can't do it. Alas... "
After saying that, Li Xueying turned around and left, with a relaxed smile on her face. But the moment she left the temple, the smile faded, she put on a professional smile, and silently put on her sunglasses.
Behind him, Fang Zheng was stunned.
"Be simple, return to nature, is it really relaxing? Return to nature, be simpler? Mountains are mountains, water is water?" Fang Zheng suddenly woke up and laughed loudly: "I understand, Zen farming, Zen farming is a poor monk who thinks too much It’s time to farm! Just farm, put down all your baggage, and just go farm! Hey, Zen, Zen, Zen, when we talk about it in ordinary times, we just talk about it casually. Knowing whether it is emptiness or nature, realizing that the heart of heaven is returning to the original nature, it really comes into use. At that time, I actually forgot.”
Fang Zheng shook his head and laughed, closed the door of the temple, and went to sleep happily. Starting tomorrow, he can farm!
That night, Fang Zheng had a dream. In the dream, he saw a field of mature crops dancing in the sun and the wind. It was very beautiful...
The next day, before dawn, Fang Zheng got up and woke up the sleeping monkey. Fang Zheng cleaned the Buddhist hall, the monkey swept the fallen leaves, the lone wolf was responsible for taking out the garbage, and Fang Zheng threw the squirrel onto the beam to clean up the cobwebs. Silk and other things, the wolf cried and the mouse complained in the temple that was mixed for a while, the monkey was irritable...
However, Fang Zheng said that once the work was done and there was food to eat, everyone started to work obediently.
After cleaning the temple, boil a pot of crystal rice, then take out the picked young shoots of Artemisia annua, add it to the boiling water to remove the bad smell, take it out, and squeeze out the water inside. Then I took out the sauce, put a chopstick of willow sprouts into the sauce bowl, dipped it in the sauce, put it in my mouth, and my mouth was immediately filled with fragrance!
This is the unique fragrance of willow buds, coupled with the slightly salty sauce, Fangzheng seems to have tasted the taste of spring! After taking a last bite of crystal rice, Fang Zheng narrowed his eyes in happiness.
The squirrel sat on the table and looked at Fang Zheng with wide eyes.
The monkey was thoughtful, is this stuff really so delicious
After Lone Wolf glanced at it, he continued to eat crystal rice. In his eyes, crystal rice was enough, and the rest was nonsense! It is the last word to finish your meal early and grab the meal!
"What are you doing, poor monk? Let's eat. After we finish eating, let's go plant crystal rice. Once the planting is completed, once the harvest is harvested, hey, I'll make you have a full meal!" Fang Zheng said with a smile.
As soon as they heard that they were going to work, the guys immediately became weak, but when they heard about the benefits of working, they immediately became energetic.
However, the squirrel still ran over and grabbed two willow sprouts. He also followed Fangzheng's example, dipped some sauce in his mouth and chewed it for a while. Then his eyes lit up. He took a mouthful of willow sprouts and a mouthful of crystal rice. What a joy.
Fang Zheng laughed loudly when he saw this, took a small rice ball, got some willow sprouts, stuffed them with sauce, and then took a piece of side vegetable to make a vegetable bun for the squirrel. Squirrel licked it and looked at Fangzheng suspiciously.
Fang Zheng said: "This will only taste delicious if you eat it in one bite. Give it a try."
The squirrel closed his eyes and stuffed the food directly into his mouth. His cheeks were puffed up and he was jumping around excitedly.
The monkey followed suit and took a bite of willow sprouts and a bite of crystal rice. Sure enough, the taste came out and the texture was excellent.
For a while, one person, a monkey and a squirrel were there. When the lone wolf realized that something was wrong and wanted to come over, the last willow sprout had already entered the squirrel's mouth. The lone wolf looked at it with a look of grief and anger, and whined, as if to say: "You bunch of unloyal bastards... don't even leave any for me."
After breakfast, Fang Zheng took out the farm tools used by Zen Master Yi Zhi for farming, carried the hoe and went out.
At the end of March, the weather has only warmed up. At this time, planting has not started in the Northeast, especially on the top of the mountain, where the temperature is much lower than below the mountain, making it even more impossible to plant. But crystal rice is different. Crystal rice is basically not picky about the climate, so plant it early, harvest it early, and get rid of poverty as soon as possible and have enough to eat. For this idea, Fang Zheng didn't care so much.
Yizhi Temple originally had no land, but later the village allotted Yizhi Temple a field at the foot of the mountain. However, after Zen Master Yizhi left, it was already winter, so naturally no one took care of it. And now Fang Zheng doesn't want to go down the mountain. Why go down the mountain when you can plant it on the mountain
So Fang Zheng chose a place with fertile soil, few rocks, and flat terrain behind the temple as his own food base.
But the first problem is weeding. There are a lot of grasses on the mountain. Although it is only the beginning of spring and the young grass has just grown up, there was a lot of dead grass last year. But it's not a big problem for Fang Zheng. After practicing the Powerful Vajra Palm, he has nothing but sufficient strength!
I waved my hoe and dug all the way. In half a morning, I dug out a small piece of open space, about one hundred square meters in size. I dug out useless stones and surrounded them. All I had to do was fill the middle with water and scatter seeds. Planting and sowing crystal rice is that simple, but the follow-up is troublesome.
Fang Zheng took the lone wolf, even the monkeys, and went down the mountain to fetch water with a big basin in hand. First, it was poured into a Buddha vat, turning it into rootless pure water, and then poured into paddy fields.
Filling a hundred square meters of rice field is no small project. Several guys have been busy all morning. At noon, they only filled half of the rice field. Fang Zheng smiled bitterly and said: "I'm starting to regret farming in the mountains. This Aren't you causing trouble for yourself..."
(End of chapter)