Splendid peasant girl busy farming

Chapter 6221 The Afterlife
Old Bart was lying on a white cloth, gasping for breath, as if he was going to spit out the breath of his life.

He didn't turn his head until he heard footsteps outside, and looked at the door curtain.

After the door curtain was lifted, the female herdsman and Master Qiku walked in one after the other.

"Master, this is our old Bart." Seeing the old Bart's appearance, the female herdsman began to cry again.

On the prairie, the man in the family is the most important. If there is no man, the family will collapse.

The people nearby will quickly swallow up the house alive, and all the money may be robbed. This is the most primitive law of the jungle in the grassland.

Master Qiku proclaimed the Buddha's gatha and approached slowly.

In his eyes, the man in front of him was already thin and out of shape. It seemed that he would not live for a few days.

"If you don't mind, let the poor monk take a look." Master Qiku turned his head.

"Okay." The female herdsman nodded hurriedly. In her opinion, the master, like the priest, can communicate with the gods. He naturally has his own set of rituals.

What Master Qiku was going to do was not a ceremony of transcendence. He stretched out his fingers and put them on Old Bart's wrist, pinching his pulse.

In his opinion, this person is not a mortal disease, because there is still a trace of life in the dead air.

After pinching his pulse, he understood it in his heart.

Old Bart is not sick, he is probably just hungry, how long has he been hungry?

But knowing the problem and wanting to treat it is not a matter of saying a word.

If it was in the territory of Daqi, this kind of problem would gradually get better after ten days and a half months of recuperation, but here, it is not that simple.

The lack of food and clothing turned this starvation into a terminal illness.

"How long has old Bart not eaten?" Master Qiku asked.

There was a gurgling sound in Old Bart's mouth, but he couldn't utter a complete sentence...

However, the herdswoman knew what old Bart meant.

Old Bart meant to leave him alone, and keep the rations for her and the children.

The female herdsman covered her face with her hands, tears streaming down her face.

"It's been a long time, he doesn't eat very much, and the family has no rations. They are reserved for the two children. There is no way."

The herdswoman was uneducated, and she couldn't tell how long it had been since old Bart had eaten.

"Old Bart, he won't eat it. I'll give him some cake, but he won't eat a bite."

The female herdsman's voice was choked up. She never refused to give old Bart food, but old Bart refused to eat it himself.

Master Qiku sighed.

He is very clear about the state of old Bart.

At first, he may have thought that he would eat less and save more for the children.

But later, he just wanted to eat, but couldn't eat anymore.

Because his intestines and stomach were starved and damaged, and without medical treatment, it was impossible to recover by himself, and thus he came to a near-death state step by step.

Master Qiku shook his head and sighed.

There was nothing he could do to save old Bart.

"Master, Zoya said that there are six reincarnations in the world. If you do good deeds in this life, you will live a better life in the next life. Is this true?" The female herdsman burst into tears, but there was a look of hope in her eyes. .

"can."

Master Qiku told the story of the Six Paths of Reincarnation in detail.

Afterwards, he clearly felt that Old Bart's breathing was a little short.

That night, Bart Sr. passed away.

However, at the funeral on the second day, the female herdsman said that Bart left with a smile. At that moment, the fear of death disappeared from his eyes, and he walked peacefully.

After reading to Old Bart, Master Qiku left.

However, the story of old Bart spread, and gradually, more and more herdsmen were looking for Master Qiku in the vicinity.

Master Qiku didn't charge money, and the herdsmen felt sorry, so they became more patient and listened to Master Qiku's preaching.

Master Qiku didn't even expect that the Buddhist teachings, which were originally difficult to spread, were actually spread in this way.

Of course, he made some revisions to the teachings, deleted those rules that do not allow killing and marriage, and focused on the six reincarnations, focusing on cultivating blessings in this life, and getting blessings in the next life.

The grassland people's life at the bottom is really hard. They have no hope in this life, they can only count on the next life.

Master Qiku still lives in the stable of Zoya's family.

Because his prestige among the herdsmen was getting higher and higher, Emma didn't dare to scold him anymore, and apparently she didn't stop Zoya from learning characters and knowledge from Qiku.

Zoya has a very flexible mind, and learned a lot of knowledge from Master Qiku. From the beginning, she could only write her own name. Later, she not only knew a lot of characters, but also recited some simple scriptures and sang some grassland songs. song.

In Master Qiku's view, this Zoya is no worse than the little monk Qixi, and they all belong to the kind of talent that is more outstanding.

But born among the nomads in the grassland, she was still a little girl. If she hadn't met him, she would have disappeared from the crowd very soon, and finally fell on top of the natural disasters and man-made disasters in the grassland.

Facing the turbulent torrent of the times, Master Qiku felt that his strength was weak.

Originally, I thought I could live a stable life like this and spread the word slowly, but it didn't take long before man-made disasters other than natural disasters appeared.

A strange prairie tribe attacked. Emma was snatched away by people from the strange tribe on the way of grazing. The nearby herdsmen and men above the height of the wheel were all killed. Only children and women survived.

The surviving children and women will be the spoils of the new tribe and will be divided up by the men in their tribe.

Older women, who are of little value, are treated as slaves.

Women who are still able to bear children become the reproductive tools of the new tribe, especially women who have already given birth to children are even more sought-after.

Because, the birth of a woman on the grassland is a gate of hell, and many women die at this barrier. Those women who survived and experienced are of course high-quality assets and are sought after by others.

Emma is one of them, so safety is not a big problem.

However, Master Qiku took Zoya away in the chaos.

If Zoya is caught by a strange tribe, no one can imagine what kind of bad luck such a young girl will suffer, it is extremely terrifying.

"Do you miss your mother?" By the river, Master Qiku leaned on a piece of bluestone and asked the little girl in front of him.

"I think." Zoya nodded.

"But the poor monk can't send you back." Master Qiku said flatly.

"Master, you are right. If I go back, it will be very miserable." Zoya said something reasonable. She has already worshiped Master Qiku as her master. In her eyes, apart from her own mother, Qiku Master Ku is also an extremely important relative to her.

After confirming that her mother was safe, she had already decided to practice with Master Qiku.

"Everyone in the world suffers, and our practice of Buddhism is to overcome the suffering of the world... Let's go, Zoya, let's go." Master Qiku proclaimed a Buddhist verse, stood up slowly, and looked into the distance.

(End of this chapter)