Chapter 397 - 397 Good Reason (2)
397 Good Reason (2)
She comforted herself that this old monk did not know her at all.
The abbot seemed to have seen through her thoughts and said, “I can still investigate someone in the capital.”
Shen Yijia was speechless.
She scratched her head in frustration and said angrily, “Old monk, you’re unreasonable.”
The abbot paused. “When have I ever been unreasonable?”
He had been trying to reason with this girl, but he had never seen someone so blatant.
Shen Yijia rolled her eyes. “Your name isn’t written on this pond, and there’s no one guarding it. How was I supposed to know it was yours?”
“This can be considered an unintentional mistake. Isn’t there a saying that the ignorant are innocent?”
If she didn’t know, it meant that she wasn’t guilty. The more Shen Yijia spoke, the more she felt that she was in the right.
She didn’t feel guilty at all.
The abbot choked. He was so angry that his hand trembled. He pointed at the stone tablet standing beside the release pool. “Who said there’s no name? Look at what’s written on it.”
Shen Yijia glanced at him and said self-righteously, “I don’t know how to read.”
If she said she didn’t know him, so be it. Who could pry open her head and see?
“Besides, fish are for people to eat. This is the meaning of its life. Making it into a delicacy is the greatest respect for them.”
“You’re insulting them by raising them instead of eating them.” she thought.
“I’m helping them out of their misery and letting them reach paradise early. This is a great kindness.”
The abbot did not have a beard. Otherwise, it would have been smoking because of how angry he was.
He felt that he was about to reach the afterlife from anger because of this girl.
However, after thinking about her words carefully, he felt that they made sense.
The abbot blushed with shame at his thoughts and muttered Amitabha in his heart. After holding it in for a long time, he could only say, “You’re being unreasonable.”
He could easily discuss scriptures with others, but he was clearly not a match for her.
“You’re not a fish. How do you know that they don’t want me to eat them? You’re the one who is being unreasonable.”
“You…” The host’s eyes widened. He was completely led astray. He really wondered if the fish wanted to be eaten.
Glancing at Xuanyuan Ce’s gloating expression, he suddenly had an idea. “Let’s not talk about whether these fish want to be eaten by you first. It’s a fact that you killed in the Buddhist Sect and dirtied the peace of the Buddhist Sect.”
Shen Yijia blinked. “I’ll sweep it clean for you later.”
The abbot was speechless.
Xuanyuan Ce chuckled and stopped watching the show. He coughed lightly. “Alright, old man, stop scaring a little girl. It’s not like you haven’t eaten meat before.”
Yes, he had eaten it before. The last person to invite him to eat meat was Ji Luo!
The host thought about the days when he was recuperating. It was really bitter. In order not to break the rules, he fought with his benefactor every day. Unexpectedly, in the end, his benefactor was better than him.
With Shen Yijia’s face, which reminded people of Ji Luo, the abbot did not really intend to do anything to her. At first, he did want to scare her, but later on, he was furious.
He glanced at Xuanyuan Ce angrily. “Easy for you to say. These fish are…”
“I heard that you still need some money to repair the main hall?” How could Xuanyuan Ce not see through this bald monk? He had expected that he would interfere.
Although the Hidden Spirit Temple was filled with incense offerings and looked like they did not lack money, their expenditure was not small. They had to provide for so many young monks and repair the temple regularly.
Apart from this, the monks of the Hidden Spirit Temple would go down the mountain every year to distribute rice, flour, and cloth to do good deeds and accumulate merit. This was not a small expenditure.
It was clearly the largest temple in Great Xia, but this abbot’s management was not as good as other temples.
The abbot returned to his eminent monk appearance in a second and looked at Shen Yijia with a smile. “Amitabha. Remember to clean up this place before you go down the mountain.”
With that, he turned around and left. Before he left, his gaze paused on the skewers of fish.
Making delicious food was a form of respect for fish. If that was the case, this girl was completely humiliating these fishes.
Shen Yijia did not know why the beautiful uncle seemed to have become a different person after saying a few words. However, she understood the most important thing. As long as she cleaned up this place, everything would be fine.
She heaved a sigh of relief. After some thought, she asked the old monk, “Then can I still come here to catch fish in the future? I promise not to kill here.”
These fish were so fat that it would be a waste not to eat them.
The old monk staggered. He really wanted to rush back and throw the person who said this down the mountain.