Chapter 55 The fifty-fourth entrustment of Master Zhiheng

Talking about the culinary skills of several masters in Tianming Temple, the best is of course Master Zhiheng, while the worst is Master Zhiyuan.It's strange to say that just looking at the cooking posture of Master Zhiyuan, he also has the style of an elegant hermit. The dishes he makes look good, but the taste is very strange.Every time we have to muster up a lot of courage to eat a small piece, sometimes we feel that there is too much left over and it would be a waste, so we quietly put it in the bowl of Jieyan, but Jieyan has a trickier mouth than us, and would rather I don't even eat these dishes on a hunger strike.

Therefore, we try our best not to let Master Zhiyuan participate in such things as cooking. Sometimes Master Zhiyuan wants to cook a few dishes for us when he is in the mood. Jie Ao will desperately replace Master Zhiyuan, so that Master Zhiyuan I regret every time. Jie Ao's culinary skills may be second only to Master Zhiheng in the temple, but eating the dishes cooked by Jie Ao has certain risks.He often mixes some unknown plants into the dishes without knowing where, and introduces the nourishing effect of this plant to us while eating.Later, every time we were sure that it was a dish made by Jie Ao, we would encourage him to eat some first, and then observe secretly for a while, and then eat the chopsticks after confirming that there is no problem.

Whenever Master Zhiheng cooks, we will scramble to help Master, so that we can help Master taste the taste of today's dishes while working. Among the dishes made by Master Zhiheng, there is a side dish that he pickles himself, which is the favorite of all eunuchs.This kind of side dish is not easy to make. Every autumn, Master Zhiheng chooses five or six kinds of vegetables, chops them up and mixes them together, and mixes them with various condiments. It takes a month of marinating to complete. Although it takes time to make, this kind of side dish is something Master Zhiheng must make every year.Because living in the mountains actually has a lot of inconveniences, sometimes in winter, when the snow falls heavily, we cannot go out to Miao Town to buy food, and we often rely on this kind of food for emergency.

One year, Master Zhiheng suddenly had to leave the monastery for a few days. Before leaving, the master specially explained that he placed a small pot next to the storage room door in the backyard, which contained the freshly pickled vegetables.Because the pickling process of side dishes should not be exposed to moisture and sunlight, Jie Ao and I remember to always open the door of the utility room to maintain a ventilated environment. We nodded in agreement, and went to open the utility room door every morning and close it at night. That afternoon, when it rained suddenly, we were in a hurry to collect the clothes and forgot about the utility room in a hurry.

At night, sleeping until midnight, Jie Ao suddenly remembered this matter.He sat up from the bed and said, it's too bad, I forgot to close the door, and the small pot was placed at the door in such a heavy rain, it is estimated that there will be a lot of rainwater, and the task that the master instructed will not be completed. I hurriedly got up and went to the utility room with Jie Ao, but unexpectedly found that the door of the utility room was closed by someone. The next day, when we were having dinner, we asked about this, Jie Chi suddenly giggled, and he said, I closed the door.

We were very surprised because Jie Chi would not tell lies. Since he said it, he must have closed the door, but none of us told him about it. How did he know to close the door? ? We asked a few more questions, and Jie Chi said that yesterday afternoon he was playing hide-and-seek with Jie Chen in the yard, and he hid in the utility room, and closed the door when he came out. Jie Chi, who didn't know the truth, unintentionally helped us do a forgotten thing, so that the side dishes that might have gone bad were preserved. In life, in fact, we often encounter some small accidents, and are often changed by some inconspicuous little things.

Most of the people living in this world are small people, but any small person and any small action may change and affect the future.