webnovelfull Chapter 429: Entering Buddhism 2
Chapter 429: Entering Buddhism 2
Wang Jinyi looked at his father's concerned eyes, and a warm feeling flowed through his heart. He laughed loudly and said:
"Dad, tomorrow is New Year's Eve. Why do we need to start a war now? I will have a plan when the weather warms up in the spring."
The mother continued, deliberately dragging out the words:
"See? You are going to spend money again. These five mountains will cost a lot of money!"
Although she said words of reproach, there was warmth and affection in the corners of her eyes and brows, and even the cold wind seemed gentle.
The original atmosphere of separation became much warmer and more comfortable.
"Let's go, get in the car!"
The father helped the mother into the carriage first. When he turned around and looked at his daughter, there was a mischievous smile in his eyes, but he said nothing.
Wang Jinyi was stunned when she saw this, and quickly grabbed her mother's sleeve:
"Mom and Dad, are you leaving now? You just arrived! Jin'er wanted to keep you for a vegetarian meal and talk to you for a few more words..."
The mother had already sat firmly on the shaft of the cart. She glared at her father in reproach and then stretched out her hand to her daughter:
"Silly child, your father is teasing you. Come, come up! I'll take you to see the farm built for you at the bottom of the slope."
Wang Jinyi looked at his father doubtfully, then at his mother. Seeing that they both looked calm, he hesitantly took his mother's hand and was pulled into the carriage.
The small convoy slowly moved along the rugged mountain road. The deeper they went, the more difficult the road became.
Later, there was really no way to go, so everyone simply abandoned their horses and carriages, climbed up the vines in the mountains, and supported each other as they walked down.
When we arrived at the foot of Luoxia'an Mountain, the view suddenly opened up - a flat slope stood against the mountain, with a mountain stream rushing down not far away, and a pond simply surrounded by stones below, flowing in the cold wind.
The slope had been simply cleared and leveled, and the stones that had been cleared were placed in piles of different sizes. The large lumps of mud that had been leveled out of the frozen soil were frozen hard and scattered in another pile.
The thick wood was neatly stacked and covered with oilcloth. Some scattered broken wood was grouped together. Some bluestone slabs for the floor of the Zen room were neatly stacked...
This is where I prepare materials for building my own Zen room. It is hard to get the feeling of the present by just looking at the Zen room. Construction in winter is not easy and there is no way to simplify the process...
There were several more logs that had been roasted to a dark brown color, with the carbonized layer still untreated.
"This is fireproofing for building wood. Try it. The wood will become stronger and harder."
My father pointed to the carbonized wood at the edge of the slope.
"Your incident happened suddenly, and the clan mobilized the most experienced craftsmen to build the meditation room in a hurry. We originally wanted to build a farm here before the New Year.
But the frozen soil was hard to dig, and the pickaxe only left a few white marks, so I could only dig a shallow hole and then stop."
Mother wrapped her cloak tightly around her and walked around the slope. She turned back and asked her father,
“There are two more cabins here?”
The parents looked at the ten guards at the same time and tacitly said nothing.
Wang Jinyi knew that this was prepared for these guards.
The only thing on the entire construction site except for the neatly arranged materials was a lonely wooden house. The family of three walked over and pushed the door open. The mother pointed and said to the father,
"It's similar to Jin'er's two rooms, except that the room is decorated with..."
Three years later,
Mother was still wearing the cloak she wore three years ago, pointing at the entrance of Zhuangzi and asking Wang Jinyi, who was wearing a monk's robe,
"Have you expanded your farm again? Why does it look different from the last time I came here?"
My father, wearing the robes of a ninth-rank county school official, walked up the newly opened mountain path with his hands behind his back and looked around.
The mother looked at the winding mountain road and sighed,
"This mountain road has finally been smoothed out. We can take a carriage straight to the farm. It's much more convenient than the last time we came here."
"I never thought that it would take three years to build such a small mountain road!"
Wang Jinyi also sighed deeply.
The mother asked with concern, "It cost a lot of money, didn't it?"
"This road will be convenient after it is repaired..."
"What convenience? Do you want to rebuild Luoxia Temple? Look at you, you built the West Hall and sculpted the Three Holy Saints of the West in the first year. It took you a whole year. Not only did it cost a lot of money and effort, but the abbot still didn't accept it." The mother spoke up for her daughter.
Wang Jinyi said coquettishly, "Didn't the abbot accept it in the end?"
The mother shook her head and said:
"Yes, she accepted it. You rebuilt the main hall and made a golden statue. How could she not accept it? What else do you want to do for Luoxia Temple?"
Wang Jinyi pulled her mother toward the gate, waved to her father, and then said:
"This year I want to renovate all the meditation rooms and make the walls and gates better..."
"You! You're not here for retreat, you're clearly here for infrastructure construction!"
My father quickly followed and asked:
"Jin'er has a new idea. He wants to expand the facility?!"
"Mom and Dad, I wanted to do something practical in the past three years, but I didn't expect that the manpower, financial resources and material resources were stretched. This is the only way for now."
"Everything is fine now, why are you still not satisfied?" The father followed the mother and daughter with his hands behind his back and walked towards the door.
The enclosed courtyard wall was covered with green ceramic tiles. In front of the heavy courtyard gate, there was not only a servant sent by Wang Jiaxin, but also two guards.
Of course, they were the guards of the Eastern Palace. Now they were not as inseparable from Wang Jinyi as they were at the beginning, but they still kept her within their sight.
Fengjie and Fengmei led the people down the ramp in front of the door, untied their father's carriage, and Fengjie pulled the horse up the ramp alone.
At the bottom of the slope, my father's driver and the servant unloaded the things on the cart and carried the large and small bags up the slope.
The father pointed to the ramp at the door and asked, "Jin'er, why don't you repair the steps at the door so that it will be more convenient to go up and down."
"Father, this is a private residence, not in front of a nunnery. How many steps should be built on such a long slope? I'm afraid it's beyond the regulations."
"What you said is a problem, but you can build a group of two steps and then build a stepping platform, so that the slope can be solved."
Wang Jinyi brushed his clothes and bowed, saying half-jokingly, "Thank you for your guidance, Academician."
The mother patted her daughter.
"Don't talk nonsense. Your father is not a schoolmaster, but a ninth-rank teacher."
Wang Jinyi smiled and answered repeatedly, "Okay, I'll pay attention next time."
I felt heavy in my heart and always felt that I had implicated my father.
Originally, my father passed the imperial examination two years ago and was awarded the seventh rank official position after the palace examination, and stayed in the Ministry of Rites. But because of me, my father exchanged his seventh rank official position for the current ninth rank Luoxia County Teacher position.
She once asked, "Dad, why don't you stay in the Ministry of Rites? Why did you come to Luoxia County?"
My father didn't answer, but he and my mother came to see me regularly every month.
Wang Jinyi thought about all this in her mind, her face smiling but her eyes full of apology. She tried her best to hide the guilt she felt towards her parents by saying that everything was fine with her.
"Oh, is this a new workshop? What do you want to do this time?" asked the mother, looking at the newly built house by the pond.