Chapter 7 The sixth release dust

The youngest monk in Tianming Temple is Jiechen, who is eleven years old this year.When Jiechen first came to the temple, he was only four years old. At that time, Jiechen was very cute, with a round face and flushed all day long. Jie Chen's monk robes were left over by Jie Ao when he wore them too small, and they looked huge on Jie Chen's body, but the masters felt that Jie Chen was growing anyway, so they didn't make new ones for him. Sometimes when Jie Chen sweeps the floor in the yard, the person he fears the most is Jie Chen, because if he walks through the yard after sweeping halfway, his long robe will drag the dust everywhere, and he has to sweep it again. again.

Jiechen people are small, but they are the easiest to attract the attention of benefactors.At that time, there were often pilgrims visiting the monastery, and there were often benefactors who secretly pinched Jiechen's face while we were not paying attention. Jie Chen is also very vigilant towards them, every time he sees someone making such an attempt on him, he quickly walks away. One year, several foreign female patrons came to the temple. The brothers and sisters in the temple rarely saw foreigners, so they couldn't help but look at them more.The foreign female benefactors walked around the temple and saw Jie Chen beside them, so they consulted Jie Chen with some Buddhist questions.

Surprisingly, except for the weird voice, these female benefactors can speak Chinese quite well. Jie Chen patiently introduced the things in the temple to the donors, turned around, and suddenly saw Jie Chen coming from behind dragging his robe.One of the benefactors pointed to Jiechen in amazement and said to the others: "There is a very small monk." It was also the first time Jiechen saw a foreigner, he looked at each other in amazement, and the two stared at each other for a long time.A female benefactor walked towards Jie Chen, Jie Chen had encountered this situation many times, so before the female benefactor approached, he turned around vigilantly, ready to run away.

But the female benefactor took out a piece of chocolate and said to Jie Chen, "Here you are." Jie Chen turned halfway around and saw the chocolate, so he turned back again, smiled a little embarrassedly, and reached out to take the chocolate.The benefactor put the chocolate in Jie Chen's hand, and stroked Jie Chen's head.Although Jie Chen is small, his movements are very quick, if normally, before the donors touch Jie Chen's head, he would run far away.It's just that I took the donor's chocolate today, my attention was a little distracted, and I was grateful, so I didn't dodge it.

The female benefactor reached out and touched Jie Chen's head several times, then suddenly knelt down and kissed Jie Chen's face. The senior brothers around and Jie Chen himself were stunned by the benefactor's actions, they all opened their mouths and were speechless.Jie Chen pursed his mouth, his lips began to tremble slightly, and the benefactor was also stunned by Jie Chen's strange reaction.Jiechen burst into tears suddenly, dragged his robe and ran past us, crying and saying, "The precept has been broken." The female benefactor asked us with some doubts: "What's the matter with the little monk?"

For a while, Jie Chen didn't feel comfortable explaining to the benefactor why Jie Chen wanted to run away, so he just said a few words casually, then hurried back to the backyard to see Jie Chen. Jie Chen locked himself in the room and cried, Jie Chen sat outside the door, and he didn't know how to persuade him.Violating lust at such a young age would be unacceptable to anyone else, but the foreign benefactor obviously doesn't understand the precepts of religion, so it's not easy to blame her too much. Jie Chen comforted Jie Chen a few words, but he cried even harder.Jie Chen had no choice but to go away quietly, maybe it would be better for Jie Chen to calm down by himself at this time.

During lunch, halfway through the meal, Master Zhiyuan suddenly asked, "Where did Jiechen go?" Jie Chen was stunned, not knowing how to answer.A brother who saw what happened told Master Zhiyuan everything. The senior brothers were very sad for Jiechen.Master Zhi Yuan sighed, and told Jie Chen to go to see Jie Chen first, and then go to see him later. Jie Chen took a few steamed buns and went to Jie Chen's room, Jie Chen still locked himself in the room and cried, but after all, he had been crying for a long time, and his voice was much quieter. Jie Chen said: "Jie Chen, we monks don't eat past noon, it will be noon, if you don't eat, you can't eat today."

After a while, Jie Chen opened the door a little, stretched out his small hand to take the steamed bun in Jie Chen's hand.Jie Chen took the opportunity to sneak into the house, watching Jie Chen sadly eating steamed buns. After eating half of it, Master Zhi Yuan entered the room, Jie Chen thought of sad things again, and was so sad that he started to sob again. Master Zhi Yuan looked at Jie Chen and said, "Actually, even if a female benefactor kisses her, it may not be considered a violation of the precept." Jiechen was surprised, put down the steamed bun, and looked at Master Zhiyuan suspiciously.

Master Zhiyuan said: "Breaking the precepts does not necessarily reflect in action, the mind is more important." Master Zhiyuan asked Jiechen: "Jiechen, when you were kissed by the benefactor, did your mind ever move?" Jiechen said sadly: "I was kissed before my mind could move." Master Zhiyuan said: "Yes, then it is not considered a violation of the precepts." Jiechen finally felt relieved, and happily ate several steamed buns, but he dodged faster when he saw the female benefactor later. As for the day when Junior Brother Jiechen started to develop his hobby of painting, Jie Chen actually can't remember clearly, but he only remembers that Junior Brother Jiechen was still very young at that time.

During that time, Jie Chen had a sudden whim and fell in love with painting.At the beginning, Jiechen just took various colored chalks and drew on the ground of the monastery. Most of the paintings were scenes in the monastery, including incense burners, wooden fish, and trees. But hobbies belong to hobbies, talents belong to talents, and Jie Chen's paintings are not very similar.When the pilgrims saw Jiechen lying on the ground painting, they couldn't help asking him: "Little master, what are you painting?" Jiechen would patiently explain to them what kind of scenery he was painting.Of course, if Jie Chen didn't explain, it would be difficult for the benefactors to see what Jie Chen painted.

Although Jiechen's paintings are not good, the donors who come and go will always express their appreciation for Jiechen's paintings for the purpose of encouragement. Junior Brother Jieao said later that usually when we do something, the best state will trigger a virtuous circle.Take painting as an example, Jiechen's paintings are praised by the benefactors, then Jiechen's painting skills will improve, and then the benefactors praise him again, Jiechen's painting skills will improve again, this situation is a Virtuous circle. However, what Junior Brother Jieao said above is just an example, the reality is often crueler than the ideal.Junior Brother Jiechen's drawing level not only did not improve because of the praise from the benefactors, but his determination to draw scribbles became stronger because of it. On Jiechen's birthday, Master Zhihui went down the mountain and bought a box of colored pencils from a small shop in the town, plus a stack of white paper, and gave Jiechen as a birthday present.Jie Chen who received the gift was naturally overjoyed. The next day, Jiechen showed everyone a painting at the end of morning class, saying that he drew it last night.Turning over the drawing paper, there was a portrait on it, and everyone in the temple was so surprised that they couldn’t speak after seeing it——the person in the painting knew it was Jiechen, because the demeanor and figure were somewhat similar to Jiechen. Unexpectedly, Jie Chen drew this kind of effect the first time he drew on paper. It seems that everyone really underestimated Jie Chen before.It turned out that Jiechen didn't draw well, but that we didn't give him a chance to express himself. People in the monastery were astonished, but they naturally did not forget to praise Jiechen's painting skills. Master Zhihui was also very proud, thinking that Jiechen is a malleable talent in painting.He also said that next time the town's well-painted Master He, if he comes to the temple, he must let him guide Jiechen. I just don't know why Jiechen didn't seem so happy after hearing everyone's praise, everyone was talking, Jiechen suddenly turned his head and ran out.Everyone said that Jie Chen was actually too embarrassed to be praised. After a while, Jie An passed by the door of Jie Chen's room, and heard the faint sound of crying inside.Jie Chen hurriedly opened the door and went in, only to see Jie Chen lying on the bed and crying.He turned his head and saw Jie Chen coming in, crying even more sadly. Jie Chen sat by the bed, not understanding why Jie Chen was crying, and didn't know how to comfort him for a while, so he could only silently watch him cry.Jie Chen was crying and crying, suddenly raised his head and asked Jie Chen: "Brother, do you think I want to continue painting?" Only then did Jie Chen realize that it turned out that Jie Chen was crying because of the painting.Jie Chen pulled him to his side, comforted him sincerely and said: "You are very good at painting, you can see that you have painted your brother so alike, it shows that you have great potential, as long as you have confidence, you will definitely achieve something." .” As a result, Jiechen heard Jie Chen's words, tears flowed again, he sobbed and said: "I drew Master Zhiheng, not you." This time it was Jie Chen's turn to be surprised, because Master Zhiheng is fatter, while Jie Chen is thinner, if Jie Chen painted Master Zhiheng, then the painting is indeed a bit unreliable. Now Jie Chen doesn't know how to comfort Jie Chen, this feeling of hitting the ten rings of the nearby target with a single shot, Jie Chen also quite understands.Jie Chen had no choice but to comfort Jie Chen and said: "Painting focuses on resemblance in spirit rather than appearance. In fact, your painting style belongs to the abstract school." Only then did Jie Chen feel a little more comforted, and slowly held back his tears. Children's confidence is often unpredictable. At first, Jie Chen was worried that after the blow, Jie Chen's attitude towards painting would change and he would lose the randomness of the past, but Jie Chen soon discovered that his worry was extra. During that time, there was a He Shizhu with a very high level of painting in the town who guided Jiechen.Under the suggestion of He Shizhu, Jiechen began to expand the scope of painting. Originally, Jiechen only painted static scenes, and gradually began to paint some other styles of works, such as figures and animal paintings. The change of style has also led to an increase in the difficulty of painting. Of course, this difficulty does not come from Jie Chen himself, but from those of us who act as models for Jie Chen.Generally speaking, people who model for Jie Chen will not do it again, because after experiencing the torture of not being able to move for half a day, everyone is unwilling to go again. Jie Chen was lucky enough to be a model once, and also received Jie Chen's work.Jie Chen was a little dumbfounded when he saw the work. Although it said that form is emptiness, Jie Chen was still very sad when he was painted so abstractly. There are only two models in the temple who can be Jie Chen's models for a long time, one is Jie Yan, because as long as Jie Yan is asleep, no matter how Jie Chen makes it pose, there is no problem, and if Jie Yan is awake, it will Wagging his tail and wandering around the temple, Ren Jiechen refused to stop no matter how tempting he was. Therefore, in Jiechen's writing, Jieyan is usually asleep.Jie Chen knew that Jie Chen had also made some efforts, such as putting a large bowl of delicious food in front of Jie Yan, but unfortunately, Jie Yan ate too fast, always before Jie Chen could finish his work, he was already full and went to the mountains Went for a walk. Regarding this, Jiechen also complained a lot, but Jieyan still couldn't be considerate. In Jie Chen's impression, Jie Chen only painted one painting of Jie Yan awake, called "Jing Yan Taking a Walk After Dinner".At that time, Jie Yan ate too much lunch, so that his movements were slow after eating, coupled with the explosion of Jie Chen's painting potential, that's why he completed that rare painting. There is also a model in the temple named Jie Ao, who is also the only one who can be manipulated by Jie Chen while awake.Jie Ao also tried to escape, but unfortunately, as soon as his body turned 30 to 40 degrees, Jie Chen would say from behind: "I want to tell Master that a certain brother secretly ate biscuits when facing the wall, I want to tell Master that a certain brother hid the biscuit under the bed." For things that can explode, I have to tell Master and a certain brother to shave the hair on Jie Yan's body for an experiment." After hearing these words, Jie Ao had no choice but to turn back. For his own works, Jiechen has always been very precious. Every time he finishes painting, he will carefully hide them in the cabinet in his house.One year, when it was the rainy season, Jie Chen and Jie Chen specially reminded Jie Chen that in this kind of weather, the paintings in his collection were prone to damp and mildew. So Jie Chen carefully took out these paintings, and then used clips to hang them on the clothesline to dry in the sun. Jie Chen and Jie Ao walked into the backyard and stood among these pictures gently swaying in the wind, as if they were watching the solo exhibition of Junior Brother Jie Chen. Although the gods and shapes of all the paintings are not similar to the models, Jie Chen knows that whether it is the person in the painting or the painter, the happiness in the heart is real. Indeed, everything in the world does not have to be perfect to be considered satisfactory. As long as we do anything with joy, no matter good or bad, the corners of our mouths can naturally curl up. Jie Chen's younger brother, Jie Chen, is very smart, but he often doesn't remember people, there are many benefactors coming and going in Tianming Temple, even if the benefactors who have been to the temple many times, Jie Chen still can't figure out who they are.But there are two benefactors Jiechen in Miao Town who are very impressive, because these two benefactors are selling candied haws in the town. These two benefactors who sell candied haws are not young anymore. One of them sells them on a small street in the center of the town, while the other benefactor Wu is very weird. stand. Miao Town was not originally a place with well-developed commerce, so benefactor Wu's business is naturally very mediocre. Once, Jie Chen and Jie Chen passed by Wu's stall, and they happened to meet an old lady from the town with her child.The child was crying and asked the aunt to buy candied haws for him. The aunt might not be willing to buy it for the child, so she frightened the child and said, "Look at this grandpa who sells candied haws. Whoever eats his candied haws will be abducted and sold." The child was dubious, and walked away crying. Jiechen heard what Auntie said that time, and from then on, every time we went back to the temple from the town and passed Donor Wu’s stall, no matter how happy we were before, Jiechen would suddenly become very nervous, clasping his hands tightly Don't let go of anger. Jie Chen took great pains to explain to Jie Chen: "Benefactor Wu is definitely not a kidnapper." But Jie Chen still didn't quite believe it. It may be that Jiechen looks cute, so benefactor Wu is also very curious about him, every time Jiechen passes by, he wants to lean close to him. Therefore, Jie Chen became even more nervous, and he also told Jie Chen that kidnappers like to kidnap and sell cute children like him. Jie Chen explained for a long time that it didn't work, Jie Chen always felt that Wu benefactor is a very ambitious person, then Jie Chen had no choice but to say: "Children without hair are not sold, so kidnappers are not kidnapped." Jie Chen was dubious , this is a little relieved. It's just that Jiechen was still very afraid of Donor Wu, until one time, Jiechen was fascinated by watching kites flying in the sky on the road, and walked to the side of Donor Wu's stall unconsciously.When he found out, just as he was about to flee, benefactor Wu suddenly handed him a candied haws, Jie Chen hesitated for a long time, and finally took it. After that, the relationship between Jiechen and Wu benefactor increased day by day, Jiechen was no longer afraid of Wu benefactor, and would take the initiative to go forward every time. Jie Chen later felt that the relationship between Jie Chen and Wu benefactor was quite interesting.If we blindly fortify others, we will lose a lot of fun in life. Therefore, we should tentatively treat others with an open mind, instead of rejecting them thousands of miles away. Of course, Junior Brother Jieao has always felt that villains with ulterior motives would actually like a kid like Junior Brother Jiechen very much. This is not entirely because of his cute looks, but more importantly because the cost of committing the crime is very low - a candied haws It was enough to open Junior Brother Jiechen's heart.