I’m the Farmgirl You Can’t Mess With
Chapter 1024 - Chapter 1024 Suffering

Chapter 1024: Suffering Chapter 1024: Suffering Editor: Atlas Studios The six children were kneeling in front of the Buddha with solemn expressions and kowtowing to make a wish.

Even Little Fu was on his knees beside his mother and kowtowing, albeit unsteadily due to his young age.

As soon as his hand left the ground, his body tilted to the side.

Little Bear bowed with one hand and supported him with the other.

Just like that, they finished the bow.

After leaving the main hall, Little Bear looked at Little Fu helplessly.

“Did you actually understand what we were doing?” Little Fu looked at him with big innocent eyes, obviously not understanding.

Little An had already made arrangements with Little Lion and the others to head to the back mountain to play.

Seeing that his younger brother didn’t follow, he turned around and ran back to hold his hand before rushing forward.

Little Bear quickly picked Little Fu up and said, “How can he run when he even sways when he walks?

Forget it, I’ll go with you.” However, as soon as they turned the corner and left the courtyard, they were surrounded.

With a smile, Mrs.

Yan pulled her daughter and her sons forward to talk to Little Bear and the others.

Little Bear and the others opened their mouths wide and looked at the many madams following behind Mrs.

Yan.

They wanted to turn around and run, but their good upbringing made them stay where they were and squeeze out a smile to greet them.

No matter how bratty they were at home, their parents would at most get smacked.

On the other hand, if they embarrassed the royal family outside, they would be flogged.

Little Bear squeezed out a smile to socialize.

Fortunately, the smiley Winter quickly came over to save them.

As she invited Mrs.

Yan and the others in to offer incense, she expressed that because it was cold up here on the mountain, the young masters had to leave to put on additional layers of clothes.

Little Bear quickly retreated with his brothers and ran to the back of the mountain in one go, very much wanting to stay there for the entire day.

However, the back mountain was actually not quiet either.

From time to time, people would wander over.

Little Bear said in distress, “We’re not here to play.

We’re being treated like monkeys.” For people’s viewing pleasure.

Seeing that their faces were all scrunched up, Mu Yangling turned to face Spring and said, “Go and tell the madams waiting outside that I’m treating them to stay for a vegetarian meal.

Since there are many people here today, there might not be enough people in the nunnery.

Bring a few maidservants to help.

Just have the nunnery prepare their food as usual.” Spring held back her laughter and left.

Considering Cining Temple was known for its ascetic practices, how could its food be as delicious as the vegetarian dishes served at places like Putuo Temple?

Here, they simply added some oil or salt before stir-frying it and serving it.

Even the staples were coarse grain steamed buns made using a mixture of wheat and corn flour.

It was unlike the fluffy fermented corn buns with some sugar in them.

Instead, the texture was so tough and firm that one could choke to death on it.

Generous with the usage of flour, one steamed bun was equivalent to four normal steamed buns.

The mischievous Mu Yangling got someone to go to the kitchen in advance to get a handful of rice and some mushrooms to cut up and cook porridge with.

When it was almost ready, she even added two eggs into the porridge.

This porridge was for Little An and Little Fu, who had weak stomachs.

The children of the Qi family had very good spleens and stomachs, including the Second Prince, who had been pampered since he was young.

When hungry, he could simply fill his stomach with dry steamed buns and water.

Therefore, Mu Yangling only had to take special care of Little An, Little Fu and Little Madam Xia, filling up their stomachs a little beforehand.

After that, Mu Yangling brought her people to the front to eat vegetarian food.

As there were too many people and due to the space constraint at Cining Temple,there were many long tables and benches placed outside the dining hall.

Everyone queued up to get food before taking a seat at the tables to eat.

With the thought of coming early to see the Princess Consort, before it was time for mealtime, there was already tons of people wandering outside.

Hence, everyone watched as the reception monks led a few nuns to carry out the dishes one by one and place them at the long table.

There were five pots of boiled cabbage, five pots of stir-fried radishes, and two pots of pickled vegetables.

The reception monk said to the widened-eyed devotees, “Everyone, don’t worry; there will definitely be enough food.

There are still a few pots left which will be served in a while.” The pampered madams couldn’t help but swallow their saliva.

They couldn’t bear to look at the vegetarian dishes on the long table.

Were these things really edible?

Even Mrs.

Yan’s smile froze slightly, and she hesitated if she should find an excuse to go down the mountain.

Some people secretly brought their children down the mountain when they saw the food on the long table, but most of them stayed behind.

Not believing that the Princess Consort also ate such things, some had their servants hand money to the reception monk in the name of making a donation to the temple.

As long as they made sufficient donations, they should be able to eat the same food as the Princess Consort, right?

Everyone kept comforting themselves this way, especially seeing that the Princess Consort had also brought the young masters with her.

Huining glanced at the banknotes and silently chanted, before saying to the reception monk, “Note down the sums accordingly and return it to them when they leave the mountain.” Cining Temple was known for its ascetic practices.

She was naturally to see that people had made donations to the temple, but even if there wasn’t any, it didn’t make much difference to them.

But since it was best to be sincere when cultivating Buddhism, it was better not to accept such donations made out of selfish desires.

When it was meal time, Mu Yangling and Little Madam Xia came out with the children.

Abbess Huining first spoke in Buddhist language and then explained the rules here.

The devotees were to only take as much as they could eat and not waste food.

Hence, Mrs.

Yan saw the Princess Consort solemnly bringing the young masters to collect the bowls and line up to get food.

Even the youngest, Little Fu, carried a bowl and filled it with Little Bear’s help.

The nun who brought them vegetables and steamed buns really didn’t want to give the children so much, especially when it was Little Fu’s turn.

The little one was only given half a spoonful of each dish and a steamed bun.

However, although Little Fu was young, he knew that he was given relatively little.

He looked at his brothers’ rice bowls and then looked down at his own.

Then, he opened his round eyes and gazed at the young nun.

The corners of the young nun’s mouth twitched as she emphasized, “You have to finish eating whatever you take.” The brothers surrounding Little Fu nodded repeatedly.

With them around, what was there to be afraid of?

Little Fu nodded as well.

Seeing how much his older brothers were given, how could he be given so little?

The young nun could only fill Little Fu’s bowl helplessly.

When Mrs.

Yan and the others saw that the Princess Consort and the few Young Masters were also eating this kind of food, they had mixed feelings.

After hesitating for a moment, they still brought their rice bowls forward.

However, they did not dare to ask for too much, only asking for a steamed bun and some vegetables, which was the amount that the young nun had given Little Fu at the beginning.

After everyone got their food, Abbot Huining recited a Buddhist proclamation, indicating that everyone could eat.

Mrs.

Yan and the others looked at each other, unable to bring themselves to pick up their chopsticks.

Everyone looked at the table in unison, only to see that Mu Yangling had already started eating.

Actually, the food at Cining Temple wasn’t terrible.

It was, in fact, much more delicious than the big-pot-dish that Mu Yangling had eaten for three years in junior high school.

In particular, the pickled vegetables were yummy, and Mu Yangling ate them with relish.

The four children of the Qi family also ate with relish.

They had been out all morning and had only eaten two snacks before all that praying and avoiding those people.

After all that physical exercise, they were already starving.

In addition, it was past mealtime now, so they gobbled up the food.

Little Bear and his two younger brothers often ate at the fishermen’s houses when they were playing by the seaside, so they were used to such food.

Even Little An, who had a weak stomach, also ate half a steamed bun with pickled vegetables.

The Second Prince choked at first, but he quickly adapted, allowing Mu Yangling to again witness the Qi family’s ability to adapt to hardship.

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