Chapter 1429 The Essence of Chinese

"Master, I was wrong!"

If you make a mistake, you must admit it, and if you are beaten, you must stand at attention.

This is a wise saying summed up by countless sages. From childhood to adulthood, various celebrity stories tell us that if we make a mistake, we must admit it bravely, so that not only will we not receive punishment, but we may even be rewarded.

For example, Washington was very naughty when he was a child. He cut down his own cherry tree. But he finally admitted his mistake with his father, and instead of blaming him, his father praised him.

"I don't think the cherry tree is pleasing to the eye. It's just right for you to cut it down. You can eat roast duck with cherry wood at night!" Father Washington said.

So not only was Washington not punished, but he ate a delicious roast duck at night.

Niu Ben forgot where he saw this story, maybe it was "Yi Lin" or "Reader" or "Friends", of course, it may also be seen on Douban and Zhihu.

He decided to experiment with the above story.

"Where did you go wrong?"

"I shouldn't eat after noon, it violates the ascetic precept of not eating after noon."

"It's good to know that you're wrong." Master Tzu Chi looked kindly, and didn't look annoyed at all: "Jueyuan, I know you just joined the ranks of ascetic monks, and you're not used to it yet."

Niu Ben smiled, sure enough! Sure enough! If you take the initiative to admit your mistake, you will not be punished.

He thought so, but he didn't know the essence of the Chinese language: when you want to express, you suppress first and when you want to restrain, you express first.

Anyone who has been in the workplace circle, especially the system inner circle, must understand a truth. If the leader talks to you, especially when talking about you in front of several other leaders.

If the leader praises you first, don't be too happy. Because after praising you once, the leader will be followed by a [but] immediately! Once there is a [but], then what is said before is all nonsense, and only the words behind the [but] are meaningful.

In the same way, if the leader really admires someone, he probably won't directly boast about him in the first place. Instead, he beat and even belittled a little bit, and only after talking a bucket of nonsense, he praised a few words that seemed neither serious nor serious. But every sentence is on point.

So what the leader said at the beginning is not important, the end is the most important. It's like a college student studying in a foreign country suddenly contacts his parents at home. All the things he said before are bullshit, and the last sentence "Mom and Dad, I have no money" is the most important.

But Niu Ben obviously hasn't grasped the essence of the Chinese language yet, so he is already smiling.

But Master Tzu Chi's next words made him feel like he was going to hell.

"Jueyuan, although I say you are new here. But precepts are precepts, and I won't punish you very much this time. Just run five laps around Luojia Town. Go ahead, don't use your internal strength, rely on Run away physically, I will follow you."

Is running hard? Is it difficult to run five laps of Luojia Town with only the body? But only ten kilometers.

The real difficulty is that Jueyuan and Niu Ben have just had a full meal!

No wonder Master Tzu Chi asked himself if he was full.

Niu Ben ran around Luojia Town, but he couldn't run too slowly, because Master Tzu Chi was right next to him. His stomach is now overwhelming.

The four large oil cakes and a large bowl of noodle soup that I just ate were pouring back and forth in my stomach. It's like there is a Nezha making troubles in the East China Sea in his stomach.

In the end, Nezha couldn't hold back and threw the Qiankun circle into the sea.

Vomit~!

The memory of Niu Ben who vomited madly while leaning on the camphor tree became very clear. He suddenly remembered something. That is, there is a detail in the story of Washington chopping down trees, that is, when Washington confessed his mistake to his father, he had an ax in his hand, a falling cherry ax that could chop off a cherry tree with one stroke...

"Sure enough, you can never just look at the surface when you read a story?" After so many years, Niu Ben finally understood the key to this story. It turns out that everything in society has been told to you in children's stories.

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"Fool."

In a white villa next to the grain drying field, Yiyi looked at Niu Ben running and throwing up in the study on the fourth floor and felt that this guy was out of his mind.

You can't exercise vigorously just after eating a full meal. This is the truth that elementary school students understand. There is such a stupid guy, who ran just after eating pancakes and noodle soup, and ran vigorously.

After closing the curtains, Yiyi didn't bother to deal with this liar. This is still a gang of scammers. More than a dozen monks opened their tents in the grain drying field, laid the floor, and then sat cross-legged on the grain drying field and began to chant sutras.

Needless to say, it has attracted the attention of many townspeople in Luojia Town. Many townspeople pointed and whispered to the group of monks. Because no one knows what they do.

Some Buddhist families wanted to offer incense money, but they were all strictly rejected. The monks sat cross-legged on the hard grain drying ground and recited Buddhist scriptures.

Some people saw that these monks didn't want anything, so they wondered if they could chant scriptures with them. This was not rejected.

Although many people are still curious, these monks are chanting scriptures, why a tall monk is running.

They have an answer.

"Junior Jue Yuan broke the rules and was punished to run."

"What commandment did you violate?"

"It's dinner tonight."

"Is this considered a violation of the precept?!"

The townspeople couldn't understand it, but if you didn't talk about money and only talked about Buddhist teachings, these monks were more than happy to explain it to the townspeople.

Yiyi's home is not far from the sun-drying field, and her family has contracted several hills nearby to grow oranges. Dad also opened a farm near the town, raising more than 5,000 pigs.

They say they are farmers, but they are actually quite rich. The house was also built very large, and Yiyi was sent to study in a key middle school in the city.

If it wasn't for the nightmares she's been having these past few months and the insomnia at night, she'd still be in the city school by now.

When the night was getting darker and the townspeople were falling asleep, Yiyi still didn't want to fall asleep.

Although it was already eleven o'clock in the evening, at this time in the past, she should have fallen asleep long ago.

But now she couldn't fall asleep no matter what, and was even a little afraid of the bed.

"Yiyi, it's time to sleep." Miao Guihua walked into her room and reminded her.

"knew."

"If you can't sleep, there are sleep aids prescribed by the doctor. Or would you take one?"

"I said I got it." Yiyi drove her mother out a little annoyed.

Miao Guihua looked at her daughter's closed door, she was worried.

In the end, she gritted her teeth, even if her daughter didn't like her, she would do it.

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On the drying field.

Niu Ben should have gone to bed a long time ago, but he still couldn't sleep. It wasn't because of the stomach ache from vomiting at night, but mainly because he was still thinking about Yiyi.

I originally planned to go to see her at night, but after being punished by Master Tzu Chi, Niu Ben was a little afraid.

But saving someone yourself is not a violation of the precept, right?

Niu Ben came out of his tent and went outside Master Tzu Chi's tent.

"master."

"kindness?"

"Shall we get rid of Mo Wei Dao together tonight?"