Chapter 0724 – Buddhist Vessel (I)

Zhuang Rui pressed the answer button and spoke, “Brother Zheng, still in Lhasa?”

“In, my grandfather went back to rest, I’m strolling around this side of the Barkhorn Street!”

Zheng Hua was coming to Tibet for the first time, seeing everything felt very novel, coupled with a good young body, did not follow Sir Zheng back to his residence, but accompanied by a staff member of the Religious Affairs Bureau, strolling around the neighborhood.

“My grandfather just now even praised you for having a Buddhist nature, old brother Zhuang, come over and help me pick out a Buddhist artifact, right?”

Zheng Hua’s voice came out from his cell phone, it could be heard that he was very excited about coming to Lhasa for the first time, it’s no wonder, when Zhuang Rui came to Lhasa for the first time, he was also dazzled by seeing so many objects with national characteristics.

“Brother Zheng, I haven’t eaten yet, how about this! You go to that western restaurant on the east side of the eight corridor street and look for me ……”

Zhuang Rui’s stomach is hungry, which has the heart to accompany him to go shopping ah! There is something to eat a full stomach to do.

After hanging up the phone, Zhuang Rui with Peng Fei and the white lion to the memory of the open-air Western-style restaurant to go, today Da Zhao Temple practice, the original eight corridor street at noon will no longer be carried out by the transmigration, has been extended to the evening, Zhuang Rui all the way to avoid transmigration of the people, walking quite hard.

There is also a reason for the white lion, although Tibetans love the Tibetan mastiff, but the size of the white lion is too huge, along the way also disturbed many passers-by.

More than that, there are many people who boast a little money in their pockets, have Zhuang Rui stopped to talk about the price, if it is not followed by the Gegul Lama, maybe there are people who want to get up bad intentions, these days, in Tibet want to get a tranquilizer gun or something, do not be too easy.

“Young man, look very kind ah!”

Zhuang Rui walked into the western restaurant, and saw the Hong Kong boss, counting this person should be almost forty-four or forty-five years old, but still looks like early thirties.

“Boss, don’t you recognize me? Last year’s February, I once came here, well, with a beautiful lady, she’s from the same place as you.”

Looking at the unchanged furnishings in the restaurant, Zhuang Rui couldn’t help but recall last year’s scene, it was in the small garden on the second floor of this restaurant that he got his first kiss from Qin Xuan Bing.

“Oh, I remember, young man your surname is Zhuang, right? Come on, sit inside, where is that Miss Qin?”

After the boss heard Zhuang Rui’s words, he immediately remembered, although there are quite a lot of handsome men and women who come to Lhasa to travel, but there are still not many who can be compared with Qin Xuanbing, as for Zhuang Rui, that is purely dipping into his daughter-in-law’s light, only then was this boss remembered.

“Oh, we are already married, she is pregnant, this time did not come ……” Zhuang Rui replied with a smile.

Perhaps it was the feeling that Zhuang Rui, who looked a bit ordinary, was not worthy of that beautiful lady? The owner of the western restaurant froze for a moment at his words, but then smiled and said, “Congratulations! How about it, do you still want to sit on the second floor and feel the sweet memories you once had?”

“Forget it! Sitting up there in this weather, it won’t take five minutes to get roasted.”

The weather in Tibet in July and August, the temperature difference between day and night is very big, more than thirty degrees during the day and the mainland about the same, but at night the temperature will plummet, sometimes even below ten degrees, this is just after noon, Zhuang Rui do not want to go up to sun out of a plateau red.

To look around, this restaurant is not a lot of people, Zhuang Rui looked for a window of four sofas sat down, said: “boss, give me a steak rice, to seven cooked, and then trouble you to get a dozen pounds of beef and mutton to, to be fresh ah!”

Beef and mutton is for the white lion to ask, small time white lion is still willing to eat a little cooked food, but from the teeth grow up, the white lion only eat raw beef and mutton, and a meal at least to more than ten pounds, every month down, only spent on the white lion diet, it will be more than ten thousand dollars.

Zhuang Rui once thought, is not to buy some goats and calves in the courtyard, so that the white lion is fine to hunt their own food? But think about that scene is too cruel, I’m afraid it will scare YaYa and NuiNui, and and mom said, was Ouyang Wan severely reprimanded, Zhuang Rui can only give up.

“Well, Zhuang Sheng, you this Tibetan mastiff, but I have seen the best.”

The boss gave a thumbs up to Zhuang Rui and ran to the back kitchen to get busy, this restaurant he is both the boss and the waiter, only in the evening when it is busy, he will ask a few temporary maids to help out, this is also a kind of attitude towards life, the boss is happy in it.

“Brother Zheng, this way ……”

Before the food came up, Zhuang Rui saw Zheng Hua walk in, and behind him was the Religious Bureau staff member who had led him in the morning.

“Older brother, why are you coming out now!”

Zheng Hua greeted Peng Fei and Gegu Lama before sitting opposite Zhuang Rui, and had the intention to pat Zhuang Rui’s shoulder to show his affection, but when he saw the white lion lying at Zhuang Rui’s feet, he still shrunk his hand back.

“Mr. Zhuang, why didn’t you call me? We can arrange for you to eat at the restaurant.”

That staff member also spoke out, all the staff of the Religious Affairs Bureau were very busy these days, that is, the director also had a reception task, and gave Zhuang Rui to this staff member to receive him, and specially instructed a few words, so seeing Zhuang Rui come out to eat by himself, this person was a bit uneasy.

Zhuang Rui took the staff member’s business card, knowing that he was surnamed Zhang, smiled and said, “Chief Zhang, no need to be polite, Lhasa I’ve been here before, it’s kind of familiar.”

Between words, the white lion’s food has been sent over, Tibet this place other things do not have, but beef and mutton is certainly not lack of, looking at the white lion open mouth tearing the raw meat in the basin, Zheng Hua suddenly a little shuddering feeling.

Zhuang Rui knew that the way the white lion was eating was hard for the average person to accept, and quickly changed the topic, saying, “Brother Zheng, what good things did you buy!”

“Hey, bought quite a few things, but they should all be fake! You show me ……”

Sure enough, after hearing Zhuang Rui’s words, Zheng Hua got excited and put a big bag of things in his hand on the table, pointing to a brass made meridian wheel, saying, “Older brother, look at this is not real, the man who sells the things, said that this is the living Buddha has used.”

Zhuang Rui couldn’t help but be dumbfounded at the words, this buddy is also in the shopping mall to mix, how to even believe this ah?

“Brother Zheng, someone else told you that it was used by Buddha, you also believe it?”

Zhuang Rui flirted with Zheng Hua, picked up the scripture wheel and gently swayed it from side to side in his hand.

Turning the wheel is the most common magic weapon of Tibetan Buddhism, inside the inner wall of the wheel, equipped with Tibetan scriptures or mantras, through the right rotation, that is equivalent to the recitation of the work.

In this part of Tibet, everywhere you can see those believers, men and women, young and old, are holding a scripture wheel in their hands, constantly rotating, this is because many Tibetans, especially the elderly, most of them can not recite the scriptures fluently, so they use the wheel instead of chanting.

Zheng Hua this turning wheel production is very fine, the scripture wheel inside the Tibetan scriptures, is carved on the inner wall of the wheel, not the kind of paper rolled up into the wheel of the production method, and in the surface of the wheel, but also inlaid with turquoise, it looks like a good object.

After Zhuang Rui played with it, he handed the wheel back to Zheng Hua and said, “This thing is okay, it should be handed down from the temple, it’s worth a thousand or so, but it’s not a living Buddha’s dharma weapon, or else it wouldn’t be so cheap, put it away and keep it to play with it!”

“Really? Hey, I spent 500 dollars to buy it, go back and give it to grandpa to go …… “After hearing Zhuang Rui’s words, Zheng Hua smiled happily.

“When turn back after dinner, I also go to paw to get a transmigration wheel to go ……”

Zhuang Rui suddenly thought of Qin Xuan Bing is also a believer in Buddhism, dzi beads she can not take, to get her a better wheel is not bad, if you can get a Buddhist artifacts, it would be better.

Generally after the monks and virtuoso blessed objects, can be called Buddha, of course, Buddha is also divided into the upper middle and lower three classes, according to the time of the monks blessed, like Zhuang Rui’s string of dzi beads bracelet, in the eyes of believers in Buddhism, it is a priceless treasure.

Folklore says that Buddhist weapons can ward off evils and dispel disasters, originally Zhuang Rui does not believe, but today in the Da Zhao Temple to see the wishing power, so that Zhuang Rui heart is also a little shaken, that the wishing power of the mind to appease, is Zhuang Rui has been received.

“Good, old brother your vision I absolutely believe in, turn back to pick up a few pieces for ah!”

Hearing that Zhuang Rui is going to buy something, Zheng Hua’s eyes immediately brightened up, he had gone to participate in the opening ceremony of Zhuang Rui’s museum, for Zhuang Rui’s status in the domestic antique world, also know exactly, can open up that museum, Zhuang Rui is absolutely with his own real skills.

Zhuang Rui smiled, agreed, this will be his steak rice also came up, do not care to greet Zheng Hua, Zhuang Rui devoured eat up, a large piece of steak under the belly, this is to feel comfortable some, people live in the plateau area, is very easy to feel hungry.

“Mr. Zhuang, bought the bill.”

Just when Zhuang Rui was ready to go to pay the bill, that Section Chief Zhang walked back with the invoice, he is now doing the reception work, can’t let the reception object to pay for their own meal, right?

“Zhuang old brother, go, hurry to go shopping again, I just saw a store, seems to be a foreign girl open, just let’s go to see ……”

Zheng Hua this is already can not wait, pack up the table after the objects they bought, pulling Zhuang Rui to go out, mouth also said: “Tomorrow I go with Grandpa to see the Panchen, may be able to get the Panchen Lama dunking it, to prepare a few good points of the Hada …… ”

“I say Brother Zheng, where do you need to take a hatha for the Panchen Enthronement and bestow blessings?”

Zhuang Rui smiled at his words, he remembered his own last year, stupidly took the hatha to be given to the living Buddha to hang around his neck.

“Huh? It’s really a store run by foreigners ……”

Led by Zheng Hua, the few people quickly arrived at a store that sold various crafts.