Chapter 135 – Calculating Fortunes
After breakfast the next day, Jiang Yixi took Hua Hua and Shui Xiang, two pounds of tea leaves in a carriage to the Temple of the Annunciation. This time, to meet with Yu He, afraid of Shui Ling’s leakage, he brought Shui Xiang.
Newspaper State Temple is less than ten miles from the Western City Gate, but the Jiang family is farther away from the Western City Gate, or used one and a half hours.
The Temple of the Annunciation is located at the foot of the Western Mountain, it is the largest temple in the Jin and Dynasty, and also the one with the most incense.
They got off the carriage and just entered the temple, a young monk standing at the entrance first glanced at Hua Hua in Jiang Yishi’s arms, folded his hands and said, “Amitabha Buddha, may I ask if it’s Master Jiang?”
Jiang Yishi replied, “Yes.”
The young monk was seven or eight years old, with white teeth and red lips, extremely cute. He added, “Poverty Monk Ring Nine. Master sent the poor monk to wait for you here, this way please.”
Quit drinking? Jiang Yishi secretly slandered, Master Yuhe’s Buddhist teachings were profound, but taking a dharma name was extremely general. Li Zhenbao’s dharma name was Diet, and this came with abstaining from alcohol.
They walked along the corridor around to the back hall, then walked through the woods and gardens, around a bamboo forest, and came to the front of a Zen garden.
The Zen garden had pink walls and red flowers and willows, and a blue stream went in and out. It was deep and elegant, indeed a good place for meditation.
The young monk invited Shui Xiang to rest in a pavilion outside the Zen garden, and the young monk he saw the day before took the tea box in Shui Xiang’s hand and invited Jiang Yishi, who was holding the flowers, to enter the Zen garden.
He also introduced himself, “Poor monk Quest Seven.”
Only then did Jiang Yishi figure out that the young monk from before was Quest Nine.
Shui Xiang was reluctant to leave her master, and Jiang Yishi nodded at her before she went to the pavilion.
The Zen garden was even more secluded.
Ring Seven directly invited Jiang Yishi into the side room of the Zen room before placing the tea box on the kang table.
Master Yu He was sitting on the kang. As soon as Jiang Yishi entered, he stared at Hua Hua, and Hua Hua stared back at him.
A monk in his thirties in the room invited Jiang Yishi to sit on a chair, poured her a cup of tea and then retreated, closing the door again.
Only two people and a cat remained in the room.
It was only then that Master Yu He laughed and said, ”How fortunate is Lao Na to be able to meet the little thing in this life. Fate has come and gone, and you can’t even fight it away.”
Hua Hua was delighted by his praise, and seeing his kind brows, he did look like a monk with cultivation, so he wasn’t afraid anymore. She jumped onto the bed and climbed onto his lap, staring at him with wide eyes, and even stretched out her paw to touch his white beard.
Master Yu He laughed loudly, took Hua Hua into his arms, smoothed the fur on its back and said, “The little thing is very pleasing to the eye, in the future, if you have nothing to do, often come as a guest.” After saying this, he picked up a piece of veggie point on the table and placed it on its paw.
The little thing belongs to the pot of incense, a few mouthfuls of food and then stretched out its small paws to ask for.
Master Yu He smiled and gave it another piece.
Jiang Yishi took the bamboo tube out and handed it to the old monk.
“I only have this much, I’ve brought it all to Master.”
The old monk opened the lid and there was no odor. As his nose approached the bamboo tube, an ethereal fragrance greeted him.
He closed his eyes and inhaled before he opened his eyes and smiled, “Strange fragrance, still only a square inch.”
Looking inside again, there was only a bottom. Sighing, he said, “It is indeed too little, I’ll bring some more later.”
Flower was not happy, this was the tear of its sadness. It meowed viciously at the old monk a few times and tugged at his white beard again.
Master Yu He smiled and smoothed its fur again.
Jiang Yishi still didn’t quite believe it, “This water will prevent war and famine?”
The old monk laughed, “Heaven’s secrets cannot be revealed, when the time comes the female master will solve the confusion.”
Jiang Yishi added, “May I ask master, will the Fan Wu monk and Xuan Eagle come here, and if so, roughly when?”
The old monk pinched his fingers and laughed, “Female monks think too much of Lao Na, Lao Na is at most a magician, but not an immortal, how can he know everything so clearly. When time is far away, it will also be miscalculated, just like the karma of small festivals and small things. Big things are also projected roughly, and can only be calculated accurately when the time is near.”
Jiang Yishi was so disappointed, “Master promised to tell me in the beginning, you can’t just not honor your promise once you get the Divine Fairy Water, right?”
Hua Hua was also unhappy, this old bald lady tricked it? Stretching out his claws again, he pulled his long beard twice.
Grandmaster Yu He laughed, “Don’t be anxious, the old Na hasn’t finished yet. At least within a year, the Fan Wu Monk and the Xuan Eagle should not set foot in the Central Plains. As for later, we can only figure it out when time is close.”
Jiang Yishi was fully convinced that he was deliberately dangling them, so that they would once again bring tears and water before saying what was next. Before, Master Yu He was an idol that she worshipped and worshiped, thinking that he was more than just profound in his magical powers, his character was beyond criticism, but now ……
was at least an old smoothie.
Hua Hua couldn’t think of that much, but she was so happy that she could just go to the forest to play this year.
The old monk saw Jiang Yishi was not too happy, and laughed again, “female monks think that the old Na took advantage of a great advantage? Taking advantage of not old Na, is ……” he heated two, bear down the following words, and then said, “save a life is better than building a seven level pagoda, the female施主 and the little thing to save but countless lives, don’t suffer from the loss, it’s worth it.”
Jiang Yishi thought about it and was right. No matter what method he used, it was all for the sake of saving people, and also counted himself and the little thing indirectly saved people.
Still, he said, “I’m not the same as the master, the master is an accomplished monk with a heart for the world. And I, the biggest wish is just want to let the loved ones around me to have a smooth life, let the little thing which is full of heart and eyes to trust me to be peaceful and safe.”
The old monk laughed, “Both of the female monk’s wishes are not low, and are the same as Lao Na’s wish.” He owed it to him to take out five small brass cylinders over an inch tall from the kang cabinet, “These small cylinders the female abbot takes back, these are well sealed and suitable for holding that kind of water.”
Even the container for tear water was prepared, and there were so many of them.
Jiang Yishi was both angry and amused. The little thing was just crying for a few years, and the tear water wouldn’t fill a small tube.
Master Yu He touched the two packets of tea leaves on the kang table again, “Lao Na doesn’t like to owe favors, after getting so much good tea from the lady cultivator, I still need to tell the lady cultivator’s fortune.”
Jiang Yishi came to be interested and looked at him.
Master Yu He looked at Jiang Yishi’s face, and then pinched his fingers and said, “The female abbess is a life of great fortune and great nobility. Fortunes come and go, great fortune and great misfortune, all because of the four times of ‘water’. The female cultivator has already passed through three times, and there is still one more time, if the danger is resolved, it will be smooth for the rest of …… Amitabha Buddha’s life.”
His words caused Jiang Yishi’s heart to lift. Urgently, he said, “Master, what you said is too generalized. The concept of water is so big, falling into water and getting drowned, drinking water and getting poisoned, slipping and falling by water …… Can you say it more clearly, so I can also take a precaution.”
Master Yu He had a helpless look on his face, “Amitabha Buddha, Lao Na is not an immortal, he can only calculate up to this point. The specific events have to be thought out by yourself, if you can’t think it through, Lao Na can’t do anything about it.”
After saying this, he folded his hands and closed his eyes, in a send-off stance.