Chapter 26: The Law of Peace and Enlightenment in the World (1)
On the third day of the Lantern Festival, Chen Yue was shouted out of the bed by his mother Qiu Yun early in the morning.
The Lantern Festival Lantern Festival was watched for five days in the Song Dynasty. Even if there were not as many as the first night, there were two large-scale literary gatherings that set off a gorgeous atmosphere, there would still be various colorful performances and small-scale gatherings of literati in the following four days. By the evening, various colorful lanterns would still bloom like the bright daylight, and the bustling and prosperous life would not diminish slightly.
After a day of diffusion and digestion, Chen Yue's "Qingyu Case" that night, with the intensive festival abortion performances, coupled with Cheng Bolun's aggressive "kicking the hall" behavior of the West Lake Cultural Association, spreading at a speed far beyond the usual days, has become the most common topic of talk on the streets and alleys. Poetry, the most popular art of this era, and gossip anecdotes that the masses like, may be difficult not to become famous.
While Chen Yue's name quickly entered people's eyes, Cheng Li, Chen Yu and even Zheng An, Tangyu Lake and Zhang Yuzhi were also used as sharp contrasts.
The doubts about Chen Yue will naturally follow, but he has not gone out at home these two days, and the doubts outside have not affected him. Yesterday’s family banquet was actually not unquestionable to him. As soon as he used calligraphy to test, Chen Yue took the blame for the matter of ghosts and gods, and it was difficult to ask later. As for how many people really believed it, he couldn’t control it.
Chen Yue reluctantly got up and finished washing up, Qiu Yun came over again: "Today with me, go to Donghua Temple to burn incense," he looked around and saw Xian'er carrying the basin and walking out, and asked again: "Shangwen, tell me, did you write the poem the day before yesterday? At first I just thought it was well written, but I heard your father say that there has never been a comparable Lantern Festival lyrics in Hangzhou. How is this possible?"
Chen Yue wiped the water stains on his face and scratched his head with a headache.
"I was taught by people in my dreams. I heard him recite a few songs and then wrote them down."
Xian'er came back after pouring the water. When she heard the previous words, she thought the young master was not able to say the words for her and said so. Her cheeks became slightly hot for a moment, and she blushed and lowered her head to stand aside.
Seeing that he was still talking about this, Qiu Yun gave him a thrill. He didn't know whether to write it or not, nor did he want to ask at this time, so he urged: "Carry your clothes quickly, and take me to Donghua Temple after breakfast."
Chen Yue touched his forehead that was knocked so painfully, said "Oh", picked up the pasta that had already been brought over on the table and started eating.
There were many types of staple food samples in the Song Dynasty. In addition to meals, there were also pasta, wontons, rice and noodles, as well as food, including various cakes, steamed buns, buns, etc., and various porridge. According to Volume 2 and Volume 3 of "Tokyo Menghualu", Volume 16 of "Menglianglu", Volume 6 of "Wu Lin Old Story", Volume 6 of "Additional Martial Arts", Volume 8 of "Additional Martial Arts", etc., there are hundreds of kinds of materials provided.
The shop in Yujie rose up when they heard the bell (about 4th update) and sold dim sum in the morning market. From here, it can be seen that the Song people got up early. There was an early market in the morning. The buyers and sellers started to move around at the fourth update. The morning market was very interesting, including those selling sesame cakes, steamed cakes, glutinous cakes, ice cream and other snacks, so as to catch the morning market until the meal was in front of the meal. In terms of eating habits, they had to eat at least three meals. If there was a night, they had to have a late-night snack.
In fact, after being here for so long, Chen Yue is still not used to the diet of this era. Especially some pasta made in breakfast has not been fermented like that of later generations. It tastes a bit strange. However, now he doesn't care about these things, and he takes a few bites into his mouth and goes out with Qiu Yun.
Donghua Temple is not too far away, but it took a lot of time to be in the lively crowds during the Lantern Festival. It took an hour before Qiu Yun took Chen Yue and two maids to the temple gate.
The lively Lantern Festival also brought a lot of popularity to Donghua Temple. Through the door more than ten feet wide, you can see that there are crowds of people inside. Several little monks running back and forth are almost unable to deal with it. The incense tripods in front of the door were densely filled with incense of various sizes. There were bright red candle tears under the candlestick, and there were countless incense and candle burning.
Chen Yue frowned and didn't want to join in the fun, but was dragged into the temple gate and walked towards the main hall.
A monk from the guest next to him happened to come out of the backyard and glanced at the crowd. He immediately came up to meet them when he saw them.
"Don't you know if you are asking for a visa or fulfilling your wish?"
Chen Yue was slightly surprised. He turned to look and saw that he had a pretty face, bright eyes, a humble and not flattering expression. He was able to discover the potential of his own group of people who were rich and surrendered from so many people, but he was born to do business.
Today, my mother is led by her mother, and her clothes are naturally somewhat different from ordinary rich families. You can see that there is money here. The difficulty is that it can be seen at a glance among so many people, and it seems to be unhappy in the subsequent questions. The question is still "several people" rather than "two people". The two maids behind her are also included, reflecting a little "equality of all beings" and will not be seen too much by officials.
Chen Yue had no doubt that if he received a wealthy businessman full of jewels, he would immediately pretend to be a grandson to cater to the guests' preferences.
However, Chen Yue worked hard in the shopping mall for a long time in his previous life. He could see through and understand. Not only would he not hate him, but he also admired such people very much.
Qiu Yun didn't know that Chen Yue's head had filtered so much information in an instant, but he just told the guest monk: "First burn incense to Guanyin Bodhisattva in front, and then go to Manjushri Bodhisattva in the side hall."
The monk smiled and folded his hands together, then made a "please" gesture: "The little monk's Dharma name is Fa Guang, please follow me." After that, he turned around and took a few people in to burn incense. He didn't see how he could take a detour, but he could always lead people to a place with less tourists and walk forward.
He had incense for Guanyin in the main hall, but when he arrived at the side hall, Qiu Yun took out ten cents of money to donate it as incense and oil.
It is absolutely not small to buy ten stones of grain at this time. Although there are wealthy businessmen donating dozens or hundreds of coins at a time on weekdays, those are made in advance and set up a formation to be received by others. The monk Faguang of Zhike took the box handed over by the maid and handed it to the nearby little monk. The expression on his face still maintained his previous smile, calm, which made Chen Yue unable to help but look up to him a little higher.
The little novice monk next to him was quite excited to take the money and came over to thank Fa Guang. When he saw Chen Yue, his eyes lit up and stared at him and said, "Hey, isn't this the young master whom Brother Fa Guang rescued a few days ago?"
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I'm very nervous to ask for a recommendation tomorrow.
Chapter completed!