Xiaoyao Xiaodu Doctor brings space to raise cute brothers and sisters

This question confused Wang Xin.

The name of Liushuixixi originated from a temple.

Every year on March 3rd, temples hold temple fairs as usual.

At that time, people were coming and going on the Shanyin Road, and it was extremely noisy.

In order to show the compassion of Buddhism, the temple requires all those who come to burn incense during the temple fair, regardless of gender, age or status, to give a vegetarian meal.

At the beginning, people who received vegetarian meals were allowed to find any place in the temple to eat. It was a chaotic, disorganized, messy and unhygienic scene.

Later, a monk came up with an idea. He built a horizontal stone canal along the shape of the mountain and using the power of mountain spring water. The canal extended all the way to the open space outside the temple. He then built a row of stone tables on the open space for people to eat.

The monks' chefs prepared the food, placed it on wooden plates, and floated it on the canal.

The dish drifted slowly along with the water flow and floated to the stone table where they had dinner.

Those who came to burn incense were served a long plate of food each according to the order in which they came.

This way, everything is well organized and people can eat whenever they want, which is both convenient and novel.

The abbot of the temple gave it a very descriptive name, "Since the banquet is served by running water, let's call it the running water banquet."

Later, many families discovered the convenience of setting up banquets in this way. Whenever there was a happy event in the family, they would often set up a one-day or three-day banquet.

It’s just that not every family has the conditions to build canals, but the convenient custom of serving dishes like water at banquets and allowing guests to eat as they arrive has been used until now.

Over time, the name "flowing banquet" has been used until now. It does not just mean that there is flowing water on the banquet, it is just a figurative metaphor.

The more common meaning is to describe that people who come to the banquet come to the table as they please, like a constant flow of water.

The twins, boy and girl, opened their big eyes with clear black and white distinction and listened to their aunt tell this story.

I felt very unconvinced. Can it still be called a buffet if there is no flow of water?

You know, they knew in the morning that there would be a buffet, and they had been looking forward to it for a long time.

Wang Xin looked at the two little guys' depressed expressions and promised to take them to experience the real buffet they had been looking forward to before returning to the capital.

The twins then left in a depressed mood and went to find Xiaoge'er.

But children's emotions come and go quickly.

Wang Xin went back to the yard, and when she came out, she found the twins, the boy and the girl, were being led by Xiao Ge'er and playing with her group of friends.

When the twins were in the palace, they had no playmates of the right age and spent most of their time in the Eastern Palace.

Occasionally during festivals, the princess' mother would take them to the Duke of Protectorate's Mansion to play, but there were no cousins ​​of their age in the mansion.

Now seeing Xiao Ge'er surrounded by twenty or thirty little kids, chattering at the same time, they all felt it was very novel.

Since it was a buffet, there were no fixed seats, and the dishes on every table were almost the same anyway.

The little boys and girls in the village usually sit at the table with their parents.

But today, firstly, they had been separated from Xiao Ge'er for a long time and did not want to sit apart from her; secondly, the dishes on each table were almost the same, and if there was a shortage, there would be someone to make up for it, so there would be enough to eat; thirdly, the villagers also wanted to use the children to get closer to Wang Xin and her siblings. If any child was favored by these three siblings and taken care of by them, wouldn't that be a rare opportunity?

So everyone indulges themselves intentionally.

Gradually, the older children, around six or seven years old, came and sat at a table alone with Xiaogeer, who had just returned from hunting.

This made the younger children jealous, and soon they came over and occupied the table next to them.

So, those little kids who were the same age as Xiaoge'er were not to be outdone and also occupied a seat at the other end of the table next to Xiaoge'er's.

A group of children were making a lot of noise while filling their cheeks with braised pork.

Judging from the entire buffet, these three tables were the busiest.

Xiao Ge'er had seen a lot of the world in Beijing and knew that there must be wine at a banquet. Seeing the adults around her toasting at the tables, but only their three tables had no wine, she couldn't help but feel itchy.

They are still children, and their older sisters and brothers would definitely not let them drink, even if they were twins.

She rolled her eyes, pulled over the guard who had just added food to their table, smiled sweetly, and said, "Brother guard, please tell my sister that I need three more pots of honey water."

Children in mountain villages usually don’t even drink sugar water, let alone the scarce honey water.

Children don't know how to hide their emotions. When they heard Xiaoge say this, they couldn't help but clap and cheer.

Although the guard didn't always serve Feng Ling, he was a man with good sense, otherwise he wouldn't have been brought to Changshou Village by Feng Ling.

At this time, seeing that his master's sister, the future princess, had a request, he readily agreed and was about to turn around to report.

Unexpectedly, a slovenly man sitting crookedly on the seat next to him suddenly spoke up: "Brother, please ask me, since Dr. Wang is kind-hearted, why don't you give more? People in the county usually hold a buffet for three days. Dr. Wang's banquet is so sumptuous, why don't you also hold it for three days, so that our neighbors can all benefit from it, and it will be good for everyone if the news spreads. What do you think?"

His voice was mixed with the noise of the children nearby and was not loud at first.

However, the children's cheering had just stopped, and his words were long, so they were clearly heard by the people at the nearby tables.

Everyone who heard it looked at him strangely.

The village chief Zhang Quanfu was not here, but his younger brother Zhang Quangui was. When he heard this, his face changed suddenly.

I recognized that the person who was speaking was the ruffian son of widow Yang at the village entrance.

To be honest, Widow Yang is a pitiful person.

Widow Yang's parents died early. At the age of fourteen, she was sold to Changshou Village by her brother and sister-in-law for five taels of silver. She became the wife of the sickly only son of the village old man Yang.

Unexpectedly, within two years of getting married, Old Man Yang's only son accidentally caught a cold and died.

Old man Yang and his wife have only this one precious son, and they love him like the apple of their eye.

When their son left, the old couple felt sad and thought it was all their daughter-in-law's fault.

It was because their daughter-in-law did not take good care of their son, and then they believed the rumors that their daughter-in-law was unlucky for both his parents, and now she has killed their only son.

How could the old man and his wife Yang, who believed the rumors, let it go?

As soon as he got home, he took out all his anger on his only daughter-in-law and tortured her as much as he could.

As a result, one day while being punished to kneel, Widow Yang fainted.

Old man Yang and his wife hated their daughter-in-law to death, so why would they hire a doctor for her?

Later, the village chief heard about this and was afraid that they would cause a loss of life, so he came over and gave Old Man Yang and his wife a severe scolding, and even hired a doctor to see them.

The doctor examined the baby and told the old man Yang and his wife that their daughter-in-law was pregnant for more than three months and the fetus was unstable, so she needed careful care.

When Old Man Yang and his wife learned that their daughter-in-law was pregnant, they were shocked. However, considering that she was pregnant with their eldest grandson, they stopped torturing her until their grandson was born.

But as soon as Widow Yang gave birth to her son, he was taken away by her parents-in-law. Except when he was breastfeeding, she was not allowed to see him at other times, let alone get close to him.

Everyone in the village was superstitious, and Widow Yang also believed that she had a hard life and had brought misfortune upon her father and mother, as well as her husband, so she did not dare to take the initiative to get close to her son.