A long time ago, there was a poor couple in the village. They are very kind-hearted. They have given birth to many children, and it is very difficult to feed so many children. Their eldest son helped his father with farm work when he was just 14 years old. Not to mention the girls, they almost learned to help their mother with housework since they just learned to walk.
However, the couple’s youngest child does not seem to be engaged in hard work. This little boy is very smart, smarter than all his brothers and sisters, but he is very small and weak, and people say he will not grow up. The couple believed that their youngest son was not suitable to be a farmer and should be the abbot of the temple. They found the abbot of the temple in the village and asked him to accept their young son as an assistant and teach him everything that an abbot monk should know.
The abbot spoke to the young man kindly and asked him many difficult questions, and the boy answered very well. Finally, the abbot happily left the boy and taught him many things that a temple abbot must know.
The little boy learns very fast, and he obeys teachings in everything. But the little boy has a shortcoming, that is, he likes to draw cats when he is studying, and he draws them where they shouldn’t be. As long as there is no one around him, he will paint, paint on the blank spaces on the abbot’s scriptures, on the screens, walls and pillars in the temple. Several times, the abbot told the little boy that it was wrong to draw cats everywhere, but the little boy could not help it. He has the talent of an artist. Perhaps because of this, he is not suitable to be an assistant to the abbot. A good assistant should spend more time studying scriptures.
One day, after the little boy drew a few more pictures on a paper screen, the abbot said to him sternly: “Child, you have to leave the temple immediately. You will never Become a good abbot, but you will become a great painter. Now, I give you one last piece of advice, you must keep in mind: avoid big places, stay in small places.”
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The little boy didn’t know what the abbot meant. When he packed his clothes, he thought and thought, but still couldn’t understand, but he was afraid to ask the abbot, and he just said “goodbye” and left.
Leaving the temple, the little boy began to think about what he should do. (Uncle Ghost: http://www.guidaye.com/ please keep the reprint!) If he goes home directly, his father will punish him, so he dare not go home. Suddenly, he remembered that there was a big temple in a village 12 miles away. He heard that there were a few monks there. He wanted to go there and asked them to keep him as an assistant. However, the big temple had been closed. The little boy didn’t know it. A fairy scared away the monks and occupied the whole temple. One night, some brave warriors rushed into the temple, trying to kill the goblin, but none of them survived. No one had told the boy about these things, so he continued to walk towards the village, hoping that the monks there would be betterKeep him heartily.
When he arrived in that village, the sky was completely dark, and every house was closed tightly, and there was no light. But there is a hill at the end of a main road, and the temple on the hill has lights. People said that the light was a lone nightwalker who was tempted by the goblin to find a place to stay. The little boy walked straight to the temple and knocked on the door for a long time. No one came to open it and there was no sound inside. He pushed slightly, the door opened, and inside, no monk saw it, only the lamp was on lonely.
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He thought that a monk would come out soon, so he sat in front of the lamp and waited. He noticed that everything in the temple was shrouded in dust, gray, and there were a lot of spider webs. Therefore, he thought that the monks in the temple needed assistants, at least they could help with cleaning. He didn’t know how the monks in the temple could tolerate so much dust and cobwebs. However, what makes him happy is that there are some large white screens, which are best for painting cats on them. Although he was tired, he hurried to find a paintbrush, rubbed the ink, and began to draw cats on the screen.
He drew a lot of cats on the screen. After painting, he started to feel very tired. Lying in front of the screen, before falling asleep, he remembered the command of the abbot of the previous temple: “Avoid big places and stay in small places.” Now the temple is too big, although he doesn’t understand the meaning of that sentence, but Still a little scared, he started looking for a small place to sleep. He found a small cabinet with sliding doors, got inside, closed the door tightly, and fell asleep soon.
In the middle of the night, the little boy was awakened by a terrible sound. It was the sound of fighting and screaming. He did not dare to look out from the small crack in the cupboard, just quietly Lie down, holding your breath in fear.
The lamp in the temple went out, but the terrible sound continued, and the whole temple shook. After a long time, silence fell again, and the little boy still did not dare to go out. It wasn’t until the morning sunlight came in from the cracks in the cabinet that the little boy climbed out carefully. He immediately found that the floor was full of blood, and a demon rat bigger than a cow died on the ground.
But, who killed this mouse? No one else, no other animals. Suddenly, the boy saw that every cat he painted on the screen was covered with blood.
Later, the little boy became a famous painter.