Chapter 56 Wild Fruit on the Fifty-fifth Tree

Where there are many plants, there are naturally many wild fruits, and Maoshan is no exception. Not all wild fruits are edible, but for Jie Chen who lives in the mountains all year round, this is of course not a problem. Most people who have stayed in the mountains for a period of time will know which fruits can be eaten and which ones cannot. Anger is also very good.The formation of this recognition ability can be traced back almost ten years ago. At that time, Suppression of Anger and Suppression of Pride were only in their teens, and after discussing the profound Buddhist scriptures, they would talk about simple topics, and most of these topics revolved around food.It didn't take long for us to study the edible plants around Tenmyoji thoroughly.

In autumn, when the fruit trees are ripe, Jie Chen and Jie Ao will stand under the trees helplessly, monitoring the process of fruit ripening.Jie Chen always feels that the days pass too slowly, or why the fruit on the tree is always green and not big? I remember one afternoon, Jie Ao came to look for Jie Chen, his clothes were full of fruit, and asked him about the origin, Jie Ao said that he had just picked it from a tree.Looking at these fruits, the green ones are still the main ones. It seems that it is more urgent to quit arrogance than to quit anger. We searched excitedly, trying to find a few to taste, but we were bumped into by Master Zhiheng who was oncoming.Not only did we not eat any fruit that day, but we were also scolded by the master for a long time, and we were not allowed to climb trees anymore. You must know that the trees around Tenmyouji Temple are old, and it is really dangerous to accidentally slip up.

We promised Master that we would not climb trees anymore, but sometimes when we walked out of the temple gate, we still couldn’t help but look up. Those wild fruits really grew a lot more, and they grew a lot.Jie Ao stood under the tree and sighed, feeling why the apple in the law of universal gravitation fell on Newton's head, but none of the many fruits on the tree fell into our arms, and I couldn't help feeling a lot of melancholy. A few days later, when we woke up in the morning, there were a lot of fruits on the table, all brought by Master Zhiheng from down the mountain.Jie Ao and I happily ate several of them. Although the fruit tastes sweet and delicious, what we keep in mind is still the fruit from the big tree outside the temple.

After waiting for a few more days, seeing the fruits on the tree growing more and more attractive, Jie Ao couldn't bear it again, and took out the bamboo poles for drying clothes from the yard. A few of the fruits fell down. We ran to the kitchen to clean up the fruits of our self-discipline, and found the biggest and reddest one, and happily bit down on it, only to find that the taste of the fruit was unbearably bitter, compared to the taste of the fruits bought by the masters, it was heavenly Farewell badly. Sometimes the things we pursue with all our efforts may be far less beautiful than we imagined, and those that come easily are not necessarily bad.