Peasant Girl Bookseller

Chapter 121 Great Compassion Temple

After seeing off Nanny Guan and Nanny Li, as soon as Mai Xiang's family sat down, a woman in the village smiled and said to Mrs. Zhao: "Mother, it's no wonder they said that someone delivered something to your house today. I finally saw it with my own eyes, tsk tsk, I'm afraid this old thing will cost a lot of money, right?"

Where have people in the countryside seen such a posture of gift-giving, they are actually pulling things in cart by cart, not to mention the valuables in the boxes, just the bags of rice and flour and the baskets of baskets. The eggs and the whole pork leg are enough for them to look at for a while, you know, they can't eat meat a few times a year!
"No, I have thought of everything for food and clothing. The guy who just eats gave away several sets. Our big girl is really a wonderful person. These rich and big families are so rare." Fang Fang Shi rushed to laugh.

"Well, my second daughter's family is getting better now, it's my eldest daughter's family..." After Yu finished speaking, she looked at the Dachun family who were sitting. Among all the guests, their family was poor.

"I live this life by myself. My eldest son's family has suffered enough to have a good life today." Of course, Mrs. Liu saw what Mrs. Yu was thinking, and said deliberately.

"That's right. Before my second daughter, the family's clothes were worse than that of my eldest daughter. If you can't eat enough to eat, it's better to separate the family. Once the family is separated, life will be easier immediately." Mrs. Yu She also replied with a smile, of course she heard what her mother-in-law said, she is not someone who can suffer.

"That's right, after all, it's still up to us." Mrs. Zhao interjected inappropriately.

"But don't say that, with Maixiang in your family, the days to come will only get better and better." The village chief's wife said with a smile.

"Eat slowly, I'll go out and have a look." Mai Xiang didn't bother to listen, since she was an elder, she couldn't get mad in public.

"Sister, another carriage is here." Mai Zhong ran in and said.

"Another person is here?" Everyone stopped arguing immediately when they heard it, and they all stood up, wanting to see what else was good.

As soon as Mai Xiang pushed open the door, she saw Ji Feng was helping Nanny Sun to get off the carriage. Mai Xiang rushed over a few steps and asked, "Why are you here?"

"What do you mean? You're not welcome? Then we'll be leaving." Nanny Sun scowled.

"No, Grandma Sun, I mean, it's icy and snowy, and the road is not safe. I didn't expect that even you would be alarmed. If there is something wrong on the road, wouldn't it be my fault?" Wrong words.

"Okay, mama is just teasing you. Our master has long wanted to send us here, but he was really busy a few days ago. After the marriage was settled, he went on a long trip. No, he sent us as soon as he came back. Here I am, I still owe you a big gift, and I will make it up this time."

Mai Xiang knew that he was talking about getting married as he wished, and to be honest, she was really curious, how did he do it?
Sun Nanny saw that Mai Xiang wanted to ask but didn't dare to ask, she hesitated a few times, so she laughed and said to herself, "This is just like a child."

"Our master said that this time it was all thanks to Miss Mai Xiang that he won the favor of our ancestors. That's why he said he would give the girl a big gift."

"Really? Is it really like this?" Mai Xiang understood immediately after hearing it, and he really went to ask the Queen Mother for help.

"Of course it's true. Here, here's the gift list." Nanny Sun deliberately suppressed a smile, and handed the gift list to Mai Xiang.

"Well, that's not what I mean, I mean, I'm really happy for him, not about this big gift." Mai Xiang frowned, and it seemed that he would never be able to keep in touch with Hong Rong in the future, after all, there was A Mu Xin Zai.

"You child, I'm making you anxious." Nanny Sun seemed to like seeing Mai Xiang embarrassed and anxious.

"Miss Mai Xiang, our master still needs some sets of dart plates and darts." Ji Feng said from the side.

"I have this, just wait." Mai Xiang just asked Ye Dafu to make a few sets, and they are waiting for the first day of the Lunar New Year to be sold at the Temple of the Reclining Buddha.

Because Mai Xiang heard that there were countless dignitaries who came to the Reclining Buddha Temple to offer incense on the first day of the first lunar month.

After seeing off Nanny Sun, the villagers also left one after another. The chief drank a few more glasses, held Ye Dafu's hand, and said vaguely: "Brother, who will bully you in our village from now on? Just tell Big Brother, Big Brother will stand up for you."

"Okay, I still need you to stand out. Who would be so blind to go against Gege and the prince? I see, you still ask the big blessing brothers to protect you." The white lady supported her husband and said in a embarrassed smiled and left.

After the outsider left, the people from the Ye family were busy helping themselves to clean up the tables, chairs, dishes, and chopsticks, while the people from the Zhao family volunteered to carry the gifts to Mai Xiang and the others' place.

"Big ya, do we still have to move the food?" Zhao Yuanjiang asked.

"It's cold enough, and I won't keep you all. How about this, the family will bring you some meat and flour back home, and save [-] packs of dumplings for New Year's Eve." Mai Xiang said.

"Hey, I'll find an ax to chop it up right now." Sanfu said hastily when he heard that there was some meat after returning the table and chairs.

Mai Xiang divided up the things of each family. The family had about two or three catties of pork, plus five or six catties of white flour, at least thirty nights of white flour dumplings.

Mrs. Yu wanted to stay for a few days and ask for some money for Dachun's family to celebrate the New Year, but Mai Xiang kicked her out, and Winter Solstice directly dragged her away.

After everyone left, Wufu took Li Shi back and turned back. He didn't help Mai Xiang to sort everything until it was dark.

Before going to bed at night, Mai Xiang looked at the five gift slips in her hand, feeling really worried.

Fortunately, the Tong family’s gift is a pair of vases, a set of tableware and tea set, which is estimated to be less than ten taels of silver. The Wan family’s gift is relatively heavy, probably because they know that Mai Xiang has no taste, so they actually sent six pieces of mahogany. The Kang table comes, and there are also a set of tableware and tea sets. Mai Xiang really doesn't know how much money this will cost.

Uladomin gave Mai Xiang a dressing cabinet with a glass mirror on the top and three large drawers on the bottom, just for clothes. This is the most practical.

A Muxin prepared two large camphor wood boxes for Mai Xiang, which contained a lot of clothing and porcelain. The boxes were said to be brought from the south, and camphor wood is rarely seen here.In addition, Adis and Abida jointly gave Mai Xiang a set of pens, ink, paper and inkstones, because they knew that Mai Xiang was learning to write and draw.

As for Hong Rong, he also carried two large boxes into the door, also a box of clothes and a box of porcelain. Mai Xiang looked at the gift list and smiled, and the two of them had the same heart.

In addition, these three companies have given away a lot of food. It is estimated that Maixiang will not need to buy food this winter.

"Eldest sister, why are you still awake?" Mai Huang asked from the next door.

"Elder sister is thinking about something, why haven't you slept yet?"

"I can't sleep, big sister, why don't we sleep together with you? This kang is so big, it's too big for all four of us to sleep." Mai Huang pouted, not understanding why Mai Xiang insisted on A room by myself.

Mai Xiang looked at Mai Huang's rather resentful eyes, chuckled, twisted Mai Huang's face, and said: "Elder sister will have a lot of things to do in the future, and she must sleep late at night, so you should take good care of your younger siblings for elder sister. In addition, you also learn some needlework."

Before the winter grass was frozen, Mai Xiang killed all the ducks and geese, so this winter, Mai Huang had a lot more leisure, besides feeding the sheep and rabbits, there were also a few golden pheasants.

"Understood, big sister, I understand." Mai Huang saw Mai Xiang tried to persuade Zi Ju several times, she certainly understood Mai Xiang's painstaking efforts.

After Mai Huang left, Mai Xiang put away the gift list, opened her account book, did the math, and found that she still had less than ten taels of silver in her hand.Mai Xiang lay on the kang table and made an annual plan for herself. The goal was to earn 200 taels of silver. Basically able to support themselves.

This is her goal for the coming year. As for the future, she has a longer-term plan, provided that she settles the family well first.

Mai Xiang fell asleep with the ledger in her arms. Before going to sleep, she suddenly thought that now that she moved to a new home and had a room by herself, she should also see the true face of Mount Lu in "Story of the Stone", right?
The next day, after breakfast, Mai Xiang cleaned up the house for a long time, and put the things that should be placed, and then took the sewing basket and rang the doorbell of Cao's house.

"Auntie, what happened? Why are you crying?" Mai Xiang was startled when she saw Liu Huilan open the door with red eyes.She has been busy moving these days, and she hasn't entered Cao's house for a long time.

"What do you think about this? Your husband's younger brother is seriously ill. Unfortunately, your husband also has a cold and cannot go out. I am planning to send a letter to my uncle on the mountain. I am going to find you and ask you to take care of me. Come on kid."

When Mai Xiang heard that she was looking at Cao Fu, she hurriedly said: "Master, this is a world of ice and snow, I will accompany you up the mountain, you give me the child, and I will let my mother and my sister watch over it, don't worry, there is also my wheat field. stay with me."

Liu Huilan originally wanted Mai Xiang to accompany her, but she really didn't know what to do when she went out in this weather, so she didn't feel pretentious after hearing this, and wrapped up the child and sent it over.

Mai Xiang told Mai Huang and Mrs. Zhao a few words, then took her to find San Fu, but unfortunately San Fu went out, Wu Fu heard that he was going to the mountain to find someone, so he couldn't help but take a hatchet and followed Mai Xiang and Liu Huilan. come out.

This time I was walking on the way up the mountain, because the road was slippery in the snow, and after more than an hour, when Mai Xiang and Liu Huilan stood in front of the mountain gate, their waists could hardly stand upright.

"What kind of temple is this? Isn't this trying to embarrass others? It's built to the top of the mountain..." Mai Xiang stopped before she finished speaking, because she saw the three words on the gate.

Mai Xiang just stared at the three vigorous and powerful characters "Dabei Temple" on the door plaque in a daze. Looking at it, Mai Xiang felt an inexplicable sadness. These three words seemed to warn the world to use a compassionate heart. When dealing with the gains and losses of honor and disgrace in this world, one should be calm and detached.

The people who built this temple at the beginning must have been hit one after another, and they have seen through all the emotions in the world, so they exhorted the world.

Because all emotions in the world are inseparable from birth, old age, sickness and death, and what life, old age, sickness and death leaves to the world is great compassion.

No wonder Cao Fu chose to become a monk here.

(End of this chapter)