Chapter 439 Xiling Temple
"Master, why not exchange a robot servant for taking care of Mrs. Liang?" Anna suggested, "With the robot servant farming in the planting space, the master can save a lot of worry."
Ye Youran thought, so too.
Then he summoned the screen, exchanged for a female robot servant and threw it into the space, and then took Anna to Xiling Temple.
Xiling Temple is located on the hillside of Xiling Mountain, covering an area of more than 30,000 square meters. It has a main hall, left hall, right hall, back hall, and four halls. It houses more than fifty statues of gods and Buddhas. The most eye-catching thing is the 18-meter tall statue of Guanyin Bodhisattva behind the hall.
She stepped on the lotus seat and held a crystal bottle in her hand. She looked lifelike and kind-eyed, which made people intimidate.
It is said that this Guanyin Bodhisattva is very effective. Any pilgrim who comes here will realize whatever she asks for. Therefore, this Xiling Temple is very famous in the capital and has a strong incense.
Xiling Temple is also called the Royal Temple.
I heard that a prince became a monk at Xiling Temple.
However, she had only heard of it. In her previous life, Ye Youran would accompany her grandmother to Xiling Temple to burn incense every year. She would stay for three or five days every time, but she had never seen the old prince once.
It was already noon when Ye Youran’s master and servant climbed to Xiling Temple.
"Amitabha." A little novice monk who was sweeping at the entrance of the hall came over, folded his hands together, and asked crisply, "Donor, are you here to burn incense?"
"Well, I'll talk to Master for a few more days. We are here to get to the bark."
The taboo for vegetarian food is to stay in temples and eat vegetarian food and listen to Buddha.
"The donor, please follow me."
The little novice monk took them to the yard where the female guests stayed, chose an empty room, and told them, "Just after lunch, if the two donors are hungry, they can go to the kitchen and ask Senior Brother Pumu to make vegetarian food for you."
"Okay, thank you little master."
Ye Youran took out a 100 taels of silver bill from her sleeve bag and stuffed it to the little novice monk, "This is the food, accommodation and money for both of us here."
The little novice monk looked at it and asked, "Donor, how many days do you want to stay?"
Staying overnight in Xiling Mountain is not free, and you need to pay for food, accommodation and money.
The food and accommodation here are divided into three levels: upper, middle and lower, and the best food and accommodation. They live in a unique courtyard. The vegetarian food they eat is five dishes and one soup, and the staple food is eight treasure rice, sweet steamed buns, rice, etc. The charge is based on the head, and each person is five taels of silver a day.
Medium-sized food and accommodation, and a private courtyard where you can live, you can eat and stay for three dishes and one soup for one person. The staple food is rice or pasta, and two taels of silver per day for one person.
The lowest price is one person who costs half a day, and they live in a collective courtyard. The vegetarian dishes are two dishes and one soup for each person, and the staple food is mixed grains and rice.
This price was drafted by a monk who was enlightened in the temple a hundred years ago.
It is said that a hundred years ago, there was a drought in the capital. Many people who had no food came to Xiling Temple for free food. After eating, they pretended to be pilgrims and refused to leave.
The temples are full of monks who save all living beings. They can't bear to watch the people starve to death, so they kindly took them in, but this intake caused disaster.
I don’t know how this news was released. When the victims learned that the temple had food and could eat at will, they rushed to Xiling Temple and squeezed a temple of tens of thousands of square meters into a scattered water.
With so many people, they can eat up all the food in the temple in one meal.
The monks were anxious.
But I can't drive people away.
I had to take out all the grain to cook porridge, hoping that each person could eat one bite.
But the victims who came stopped doing it.
They climbed the mountain all day long with hunger, thinking of coming to the temple for a full meal, but now they only eat a bowl of sparse porridge that can reveal the figure.
They are unwilling to give up.
Some rogues who do not believe in ghosts, gods and Buddhas scold the monk on the spot.
Later, they started fighting.
Some victims even rushed into the temple kitchen and snatched the food they could eat inside.
Later, seeing that there was no food in the temple, the victims gradually went down the mountain.
The victims left, but the monks were hungry.
More than a dozen monks starved to death.
Later, the emperor learned the news and sent someone to send some food to save the remaining monk.
Later, a monk who lost his master formulated a rule that pilgrims would need to pay food and accommodation fees when staying in Xiling Temple, and they could not eat, drink and live in vain.
"I stayed for half a month, and let the rest of the meal master help us make some snacks for us. I heard that the dim sum at Xiling Temple was awesome, so we happened to try it."
Ye Youran settled a private courtyard, two people paid four taels of silver a day.
Chapter completed!