Chapter 256: Bus 2
Chen Xiaomao also heard the story of the war, I don't know how much, whether it is the Yagil people called Tartars in the northern army household registration who fled from the north to the south, or the pirates and bandits that Xiang Yong usually said, everywhere is endless, when will it ...... Can this Maidno people still find work in the Wu Dynasty? This...... Is this still the world of the Wu Dynasty?
But he didn't want to ask any more, and at every stop he made with a smile on his face, he would happily jump out of the car and happily feed the cow with his last remaining right hand, or feed it some grass, or touch it affectionately on its head. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ο½ο½ο½Uο½Eγ Info And this Maidno man, who is known as Big Joe, walks up and down the bus aisle from time to time with a smile on his face, and when he is about to arrive at the station, he will enthusiastically report to the station, even if someone asks him where he has been, he will smile and explain it in his Mandarin, which he is not proficient in.
"Master, why are you so happy?" Chen Xiaomao looked at it for a while, but finally couldn't hold back the doubts in his heart and asked out loud.
"Happy?" The handlebar smiled and asked the back, "Big Joe, how many are there today?" β
"It's already five corners and six points, and if you sell it for four corners and four points, it's one piece today!" Da Qiao beckoned to him happily, "You can still run a shift in the afternoon, there should be no problem with two pieces today." β
"You can earn two dollars a day?" Someone in the car asked curiously, "Isn't it more than 60 yuan a month?" β
"That's not what you do, fellow!" Da Qiao continued to explain in his awkward Mandarin, "Two yuan a day is not a particularly difficult thing, but the vehicle rental fee costs up to eight corners a day, and the mortgage and pension insurance are deducted every month, and the accumulated amount is only more than ten yuan a month." β
"Pension insurance?" Some people expressed a strong interest in this word, "Aren't they all raising children to prevent old age?" How can thieves still care for the elderly? The person next to him immediately kicked him, and the person immediately understood that he was cheap, and hurriedly asked, "How is this pension calculated?" β
"Well," Da Qiao smiled, "it means that some money will be deducted from his salary every month, and when he is fifty years old, he will be able to receive a sum of money from the Senate every month without having to work, and he will be able to ensure that he will have food in the future." β
"Until death?" Someone questioned this, "The beard is not your parents, and he is not your son, so he still cares about your pension?" β
"It's just that my son may not be reliable these days."
Da Qiao could only shrug his shoulders, "I don't know, but what the chief said, the Senate will not lie to us, if we don't want to enter the pension insurance, we can take out the money at any time and return it according to the bank's interest." β
"What is a bank?"
"It's the money bank," someone on the side who knew about this hurriedly interjected, "The people of the house have now set up a high-virtue money village." β
"Isn't Gaode a grain store? How did it become a money bank again? β
"I don't know, but Gaode Qian Zhuang is very good, if there is something to sell, first get the appraisal office of the beard to evaluate first, and then you can get a small fold at the appraisal office, with someone's name on it or something." The one who spoke was also a businessman, and it could be seen from his tanned face and the big back basket hanging outside his window, "Take this fold to Gaode Money Village to take out the money, and don't lose this fold, you can continue to use it, if there is more money can still be stored in it, the money bank will give three and a half percent interest every month." β
"Cut, you just blow it, doesn't it cost a storage fee every month for money stored in the bank? How can there still be interest-bearing money? Are you supposed to be a lender? β
"It's true, I sold something last month, got three yuan, went to touch the prize and won ten yuan, and thirteen yuan was put in Gaode Bank and not withdrawn, and when I came this month, I had more money."
"Really?" The group suddenly came to their senses, and hurriedly came up and asked, "How much?" β
"It's not a lot of money, it's only thirteen taels of silver, how much interest can you have? It's just a few cents, but if you keep your money at home, it won't make a little money. β
"You guys," Da Qiao laughed on the side, "if you deposit a fixed amount, it will be much higher, if you say that fifty yuan is stored in the bank for a survival period, it will only be five cents in three months, and if you save a fixed term for three months, it will be two cents and eight cents." β
The interest of a group of people jumped up, and they asked Da Qiao how to save money, forgetting all the curiosity about pension insurance just now.
The bus drove for more than an hour, and it has begun to pass through the Xishan Martyrs Cemetery, the Haichao Temple in front of the cemetery now begins to have some believers who often come to the temple to burn incense and make wishes, and there are many people who wish back, it seems that their previous wishes have almost succeeded. On the red wall of the courtyard is written in lime "Freedom of religion, freedom of belief", and on the other side is written "The monks of Haichao Temple strongly support the resolution of the Senate!" βγ Out of the side gate next to Haichao Temple came a group of monks from the temple, dressed in monk's clothes and carrying all kinds of farm tools on their shoulders, led by a monk wearing five clothes, walking along the avenue in the direction of Dongfang Port, chanting scriptures aloud in unison.
"Ji Shou is pure and pure, and the Buddha is full of great mercy
The southern world is full of incense clouds, fragrant rain, flower clouds and flower rain
There are countless kinds of treasure rain and clouds, which are auspicious and solemn
The celestial beings asked the Buddha why, because the Buddha said that the Bodhisattva of the earth is here
The three worlds took refuge together with the Bodhisattvas of the Ten Directions
I am here to plant good karma and praise the true merits of Jizo
Kindness accumulates goodness, vows to save all beings,
The golden tin in his hand vibrates open the gates of hell.
The pearl in the palm of your hand, the light of the world.
In the sound of wisdom, in the auspicious clouds,
For Yan Fu to suffer sentient beings, to be a great proof of merit.
Great compassion and great wishes, great saints and great mercy,
The deity Jizo Bodhisattva Mahasattva. β
Many of these people were rampant bandits not long ago, and it is not uncommon to kill people and rob the road, although they don't say that they stop children crying at night, they can still scare people to run away when they see them from afar. But at the moment, walking on the avenue of Dongfang Port wearing monk's clothes and carrying tools, there is no sense of fear at all. Instead, many devotees and pilgrims bowed to the monks on both sides of the road, and even children who were not yet of school age would jump behind them and recite scriptures.
Haichao Temple now has more than 100 monks, in addition to the dozens of people under the Yiyi Yan who has been renamed Yuantong, many of the bandits caught during this period have been coerced into the gang, and some even provide help to the Senate army in the bandit suppression operation. After several audits by the Counterintelligence Service and the Public Prosecutor's Office, the former bandits who were forced to join the gang were given limited freedom, and they could move freely in the temple as monks, but they could not escape, and it was only after a year that they could fully regain their freedom.
This arrangement was decided after the Executive Committee held a meeting to discuss it, and no matter how good these people are, they will always learn some bad habits more or less in the gangs, and if they are let go without screening at all, if they do something harmful to society, they will blame the Senate for negligence. However, it would be too ruthless to send all of them to the labor camp, and there are even some meritorious personnel among them. In the end, the Executive Committee decided to send these people to Haichao Temple for a year of religious training, after all, Buddhism, an indisputable religion, can still change people.
Master Lotus is now very happy every day, he never thought that his curious journey from the north to the south at that time can evolve to such a successful point, although many of the more than 100 monks are now in his temple for a year before leaving, but now plant the seeds of goodwill in their hearts, sooner or later there will be a day when they will bloom, and there is always a chance to make people happy at the end of the good karma.
According to the laws of the Senate, the land under the rule of the Senate was to be nationalized and not allowed to be owned by private individuals, so that the establishment of industrial and residential areas and agricultural areas would not be constrained by land ownership. But this also brought a lot of trouble to Haichao Temple. Generally speaking, temples have their own temple economy, and the temples in this time and space mainly buy land near temples, and then rent them to farmers to cultivate them to obtain some profits to maintain the normal expenses of the temple, but the land under the Senate is nationalized, and there is no way to obtain funds without land. And want to ...... through the donations of ordinary people In terms of the purchasing power of the people under the rule of the existing Senate, it is not enough for the time being, so the Haichao Temple of Lotus Yizhixu once had an embarrassing phenomenon of shortage of silver after the suppression of bandits. At this stage, Master Lotus has a headache about how to get money to support these more than 100 people, so he can only take them to work on the construction site every day in the name of the monk labor team according to the requirements of the Civil Affairs Committee, so that he can eat without spending money and get some religious allowances. He knew that these monks were now under his jurisdiction almost exclusively because the power of the Senate was still there, and if they waited until their fear of the Senate gradually decreased, he might have to question the correctness of his leadership of Haichao Temple.
Despite this, Master Lotus still led the monks to recite scriptures to work on the construction site every day with a smile on his face, and he also gave lectures to the workers present when everyone was resting. Although there were not many people who listened, there were many more people than he was preaching at the gate of Haichao Temple at that time, which made him fully feel the phased results of the expansion of believers.
Although Chen Xiaomao didn't know this great monk, he could see that this confident and successful smile on his face must be the abbot of this temple, he smiled and saluted Master Lotus Yi with his hands together, and continued to look at the Xishan Martyrs Cemetery. At the entrance of the cemetery, two marines wearing blue dresses and white hats, with a white armed belt wrapped around their waists, were slowly patrolling back and forth at the entrance of the cemetery with mechanical steps of one second and one step. These two marines are specially selected honor guards, and their stature is "very tall" 1.65 meters, and they wear big white caps, so they stand out in front of the common people who are generally about 1.5 meters.
These honor guards are not vases, they patrol the gate of this martyr's cemetery every day, the first is to show the majesty of the Senate, the second is to maintain law and order in this area, they have pistols on their waists, this is a public place, this kind of pistol with good direction will be more suitable, in addition, they also have an important task is to supervise these "monks" in the Haichao Temple, although they are all vetted former bandits, but bandits are still bandits after all, no one can say what will happen in this year.
In front of the martyr's cemetery is a crop field, this crop field is so big that Chen Xiaomao can't help but be a little staggered, there are thousands of acres, most of them are dry land, planted with all kinds of crops that have never been seen before, and a large area of green is very good-looking. There were also several crops planted in large fields, with many red pointed fruits, and he couldn't help but wonder if it would be sweet. Then several large pieces of crops came into view, and there were vine-like crops in them, crawling all over the shelves, and the fruits on them were also of various shapes, and he recognized several kinds of vegetables, such as cucumbers and loofahs, but there were many of themβthey were clearly vegetables, such as round green vegetables, which looked like cabbage; There were also round fruits with red, green, and green hanging on the vines, and he didn't know what kind of vegetables they were, so he felt that his saliva was flowing out for a while, and he even wanted to try what it tasted like. However, these fields were fenced off from the roads and other roadside facilities, and it was not easy for one to climb into them, and every two hundred feet or so there was a tower on which stood a soldier with a musket, watching his surroundings vigilantlyβit seemed that he could not eat.
Then he saw a canal in the middle of the crop field, a grey stone canal, about six or seven feet wide, in the middle of which flowed water from the channel, and went round the farm, and then passed through a culvert under the road, and went westward, presumably leading directly into the sea. Such a canal is very convenient, and it is possible to supply water to all the blocks along the route through small irrigation channels, which is convenient for irrigation and drainage, and it is not at all like your own home.
He suddenly remembered his farmland, all along, several families of the Chen family had often quarreled over their fields, often quarreling with people outside for water, and even fighting. If there is such an irrigation channel, why not do it? By the way, didn't Ji Shuyuan say that he wanted to build an irrigation canal? He suddenly came to his senses, this is a great thing...... Usually, I always have to take advantage of the dry season to repair irrigation canals, but now hundreds of people have come to repair water conservancy for themselves, and I have to run stupidly to find the big boss of the people, isn't it stupid? They can repair it as much as they want, they will definitely not do it at a loss, as for those brothers of the Chen family who want to find trouble, let them go to the trouble of the people.
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but feel relaxed in his heart, he wanted to go home, but he heard Da Qiao reporting the station in Mandarin, "The terminal station is about to arrive at the East Port City West Transfer Station, please pack up your salute and get ready to get off, thank you for taking the bus all the way, I wish you all a happy journey." β
It's all here? Chen Xiaomao couldn't help but smile slightly, and looked left and right, since they have all arrived at Dongfang Port, they have all come out anyway, so it is better to go to the city for a walk.