Chapter 20 Nineteenth House and Wild Flowers

Master Zhiyuan likes to grow flowers very much. He made a flower stand in the courtyard of the temple, and then placed all kinds of flowers he planted on it.There are no particularly precious flowers and plants on the flower stand, but it still adds a little color to the simple and rough temple. Although Master Zhiyuan likes to grow flowers very much, his ability to grow flowers is average, and the flowers on the flower shelf will wither in a pot or two from time to time.Fortunately, the benefactors who came to offer incense often brought pots of flowers to Master Zhiyuan, so the flower shelves did not become sparse.

Among so many flowers and plants, there are also a few pots that people in the temple like more, for example, there is a pot of small red flowers, which Master likes very much.Most of the time, Master likes to put it on the windowsill.The flowers are not gorgeous, but whenever the sun shines in through the window, the flowers are covered with a layer of blush, which is so bright that it makes people feel dazed.And only when the weather is fine, Master will put it on the flower shelf outside to see the sunshine. Junior Brother Jie Ao once searched for the species of this flower on the Internet, remember that Junior Brother Jie Ao also told Jie Chen the scientific name of this flower.It's a pity that Jie Chen's memory is not good, and the name is not catchy, so soon after Jie Ao finished speaking, Jie Chen forgot.

On weekdays, when Jie Chen was walking around Miao Town, he had never seen any benefactor who raised similar flowers. Instead, he once saw a similar wild flower in Maoshan. That day, Jie An and Jie Ao went to the top of the mountain to do something, and Jie Ao found that wild flower by the side of the mountain road. It happened to be in the afternoon at that time, when Jie Ao found it, the sun was shining on the hillside, and only this bright red flower grew on the green grass, which was very conspicuous.Jie Chen and Jie Ao took a closer look, the little flower was illuminated by the sun, covered with a layer of blush, quite similar to the potted flower on Master Zhi Yuan's window sill.Although it is not as expensive as the potted flowers in the master's room, it still has its own flavor.

Jie Ao said: "Master will like such beautiful flowers when he sees them. When we get back to the temple, we will find a beautiful flowerpot, and then we will transplant the flowers into the flowerpot and give it to Master. I must put it Put it in the most conspicuous place in the Buddhist hall, so that in the morning class, if I read the wrong scriptures or say the wrong words, and the master wants to hit me on the head with a ruler, there will be a great chance to see this basin. Flowers full of filial piety, so that Master may not hit me with a ruler." Although Junior Brother Jieao's idea is a bit wishful thinking and suspected of being opportunistic, Jiechen also supports it.After going down the mountain, we dug out a suitable flower pot from the utility room in the yard, but it was getting late, so we discussed going up the mountain to transplant wildflowers the next day.

It rained all night that night, and the next morning Jiechen and Jieao rushed up the mountain, only to find that after the wind and rain, the wildflowers had scattered many petals. Although they were still open, they were no longer the same as yesterday look.We were afraid that the wildflowers would wither if they were forcibly transplanted after experiencing wind and rain, so we gave up our original intention and left with regret. Back in the temple, when Jie An saw the bright flowers on the window sill, he couldn't help thinking that there was a difference between wild flowers and domestic flowers that looked similar on the surface. After a night of wind and rain, the wild flowers lost their color.

A few months later, one day, Master Zhiyuan took out the small flowers in the house to bask in the sun, but at night, he forgot to take them back into the house.As a result, after a few days, the little flower in the pot actually withered. Jie Chen couldn't help being sad for a while, Jie Chen suddenly thought of the wild flower a few months ago, at that time he thought it was no match for the house flower in the master's room.But in fact, the wildflowers are obviously better able to withstand the wind and rain than the pots of flowers raised in the room, because the flowers that have always been kept in a warm room lost their vitality after only being outside the house for one night.

Jiechen also thought that there are actually many things like home flowers and wild flowers in life. We often cannot tolerate or even hate certain people's behavior and way of doing things, thinking that we can stick to our bottom line and principles no matter how difficult life is.It's just that when we said these words, we may not have considered at all that we are actually just a pot of flowers that have never been out of the house.