Chapter 8 Seventh Slab

Last year, because Jie'an's room was leaking, the masters specially invited the engineering team to do a simple repair on several rooms in the backyard of the temple. Jie'an went home and stayed for a few days because of this. When Jie Chen returned to the temple, the house had already been repaired, and the donors of the engineering team also left the temple, but there was a long stone slab beside the wall in the backyard.Jie Chen wondered in his heart: It is just to repair a roof, what do you need such a big stone slab for?If you put a roof on it, it won't collapse the house?

Jie Chen went to ask the master and brothers, all of them said they didn't know.Master Zhihui said that such a large stone slab should not be useless. Let alone it for the time being, the benefactors of the engineering team may come to pick it up in a few days. The courtyard wall is relatively narrow, and the long stone slabs are actually quite obstructive.After several days, no one came to pick up the stone slab. Jie Chen simply called the benefactors of the engineering team, and the answer he got was: this slate is waste and can no longer be used. Jie Chen told the masters the answers of the benefactors, and the masters said: "Then you and Jie Ao can carry the slate out together, so as not to get in the way."

Jie An nodded in agreement, went to the backyard with Jie Ao, and carried the big stone slab out.The stone slab is very heavy, and it takes a lot of effort to lift it. We need to sit and rest for a while every time we lift a short section.The two young monks Jie Chen and Jie Chi watched us carry the stone slabs but were very happy, bouncing along beside them, eager to try to help.We hastily declined.With the weight of the stone slab, I'm afraid that the more the two little guys help, the more they help, not only can't relieve the pressure, if the stone slab falls, it is very likely that they will hit their feet.

Walking to the mountain road not far from the temple, seeing the open space, Jie An really didn't want to carry it anymore, so he and Jie Ao threw the stone slab down the hillside. This incident was quickly forgotten by everyone. After a few months, Jie An and Jie Ao went to the foot of the mountain together, in order to save time they took the path.Jieao heard a few jokes from somewhere, and walked while talking.Jie Chen was not paying attention, and suddenly tripped over something, fell down, got up, looked at the grass, and it turned out that what tripped Jie Chen was the long stone slab that was discarded at the beginning—it was exposed in the grass. For a short while, Jie Chen didn't notice.

Jie An hastily pushed the stone slab to the side of the road, not wanting it to trip over others again. Back in the temple, he wiped the potion on Jie Chen, feeling a little resentful in his heart, but after thinking about it carefully, the fall he fell now was precisely caused by his own fault a few months ago. If I and Jie Ao spent a little more effort that day and threw the long stone slab to a place where no one would pass by, it would not be so embarrassing today. The cause and effect in the world is often like this. We often complain that we have been hurt, but in fact these injuries are caused by our own faults.