Taking a deep breath, the unique sour smell of pickled cabbage floated up. Fang Zheng swallowed and said, "This is forcing the poor monk to eat pickled cabbage powder at night!" [Read "ji" here.
"Master, pickled vegetable powder? What is this? Is it delicious?" The squirrel came after smelling the sour smell. When he heard Fang Zheng talking about food, he immediately became energetic. He climbed up the ladder and squatted on the edge of the Buddha vat.
He looked inside and asked, "Is this pickled cabbage? Why did it change from white jade color to gold color?"
Fang Zheng said: "This... chemical reaction, after marinating for a long time, that's it."
After saying that, Fang Zheng reached out and picked up the big stone on top. Without the obstruction of the big stone, he could see more clearly! At this moment, the white jade cabbage has been pickled for a long time, and the leaves have turned golden.
, the golden light is very dazzling. The cabbage clapper was originally white jade, but now it is also white, but with a little gold in the white, just like a thin layer of gold inlaid on the white jade, it is also very beautiful.
But this is no longer important, it will go into the stomach anyway. Fangzheng didn't care about that, first pulled out a large piece of cabbage leaves, asked the monkey to bring a big pot to put it in, then put the big stone back, and returned the Buddha vat to its place.
When Fang Zheng came down again, he saw a group of disciples and salted fish surrounding the big basin of pickled vegetables, watching the fun with curious faces.
"Is this sauerkraut? It looks delicious..." The squirrel licked his lips, touched his belly, and his little eyes began to shine.
"I don't know, this stuff is so sour, I guess it won't taste good." Xianyu said, "I have lived a long time and have experienced a lot, so what I said is right."
Hong Hai'er was about to say something when he saw Fang Zheng at the door. He rolled his eyes and said, "You've never eaten it, how do you know it's not delicious?"
Xianyu hummed, "I've lived for so many years, what haven't I seen before? I've eaten all the peaches! Is this the only thing? It definitely doesn't taste good!"
"Very good, there is no salted fish for dinner today. Let's go and eat peaches." At this moment, Fang Zheng's voice rang out. When Xianyu heard this, he was dumbfounded! He suddenly turned around and took another look.
The red boy, with a proud look on his face, wailed: "Master, you can't blame me! This is just trying to trick me! You have to take care of yourself when you trick your own family, right?"
Honghai'er said: "You said it yourself, not me..."
"That makes sense, Jing Xin must be hungry today." Fang Zheng said with a smile.
Upon hearing this, Hong Hai'er's original pride disappeared instantly, and he wailed: "Master, you can't be like this. If he doesn't think so, there's no point in asking? It's his own fault..."
Fang Zheng said: "It is indeed his own fault, but your starting point is to trick him. So, just accompany him to starve. The poor monk has long said that fellow disciples and monks who eat in the same temple should support each other.
, so much love."
"Master, you are talking about fellow disciples... er, fellow fellow disciples?" Hong Hai'er suddenly reacted and exclaimed.
I was originally dejected, thinking that I would starve just after I had done meritorious service. This was too inhumane. I kept muttering in my heart: "Thieves who are bald don't have hair..."
After hearing this, Xianyu suddenly raised his head and shouted: "Fellow fellow disciples? Master... what do you mean?"
Fang Zheng glanced at Xianyu and asked, "What? You don't agree?"
"Master, please bow to Xianyu!" Xianyu knelt on the ground and kowtowed immediately!
After coming to Yizhi Temple for so long, Xianyu has long seen that the core of Yizhi Temple is one master and four disciples. If you don't enter this threshold, you will always be considered an outsider, and even he is only half an insider.
Similarly, as the core, it is good to have enough food and take care of yourself is the biggest benefit.
The point is... Xianyu really envies the relationship between Fang Zheng and his four disciples. The feeling of a family where one family is close and the other is harmonious makes him envious.
Although he doesn't say it in his heart, and even always thinks of himself as an ancestor, the fundamental reason is that he wants to behave differently and arrogantly, so as to cover up his envy and loneliness.
Now, he finally has the opportunity to integrate into this big family. How can he be unhappy? How can he not worship?
Seeing this, Hong Hai'er immediately ran to the side, poured a bowl of water, threw in two pieces of cold bamboo, and said reluctantly: "Here, let's have tea."
Monkey placed a chair behind Fang Zheng, Fang Zheng sat down, and Xianyu immediately handed him tea.
Fang Zheng nodded with satisfaction, and after drinking tea, he said: "Xianyu, you have been coming to my Yizhi Temple for so long. Although you still have some indelible ruffian spirit in your bones, after the observation and test of the poor monk,
You meet the requirements for joining this temple. Today, the poor monk will officially accept you as a disciple and give you the dharma title: Jingqin. In the future, you must work hard and encourage without neglect."
"It's Master!" Xianyu shouted quickly.
Fang Zheng nodded with satisfaction and said, "Okay, you and Jing Xin go out to take care of the temple. You can only eat from tomorrow."
When he heard that he had no food to eat again, Xianyu suddenly had a bitter look on his face, but it was a great joy to think that he finally got a long-term meal ticket and did not have to do part-time jobs or deceive others to make money. He was very happy.
out...
Hong Hai'er followed him out with a bitter look on his face, and the two guys muttered something as they walked...
"Really? Did you pretend that the previous bet didn't exist? You didn't take away half of my food rations?" Hong Hai'er exclaimed.
"Of course, we are senior brothers. Junior brother, I have just started, so I still need some support from my senior brother..." Xianyu said.
Hong Hai'er laughed loudly and said: "That's natural. Let me tell you, with my status in our temple, that's..."
Hong Boy paused for a moment and quickened his pace. After taking Xianyu out of Fangzheng's sight and making sure that others couldn't hear him bragging, he continued to brag. He completely forgot that Xianyu also came to Yizhi Temple to do this.
After a long time, wouldn’t Xianyu know his status?
Shaking his head, Fang Zheng ignored them and came over to carefully examine the sauerkraut in the basin. He tore off a small piece, washed it briefly with water and put it into his mouth. The sourness in his mouth brought with it a unique softness, and with a gentle press, it tasted sour and refreshing.
The juice inside then came out, and the unique sour taste exploded instantly. Fang Zheng felt as if all his taste buds had been activated! The sudden increase in body fluids in his mouth was a sign of a great appetite!
I swallowed the sauerkraut into my stomach in one gulp, and I felt a gurgling sound in my stomach, followed by a loud noise!
Fang Zheng turned out to be—hungry!
He felt as if he could eat a cow in one go! And everything he saw was particularly appetizing... For example, he wanted to eat sauerkraut when he saw it, he wanted to eat crystal rice when he saw it, he wanted to eat dog meat when he saw a lone wolf, and he wanted to eat monkeys when he saw it.
Want to eat monkey brains...well, seems to have gone astray.