Old Bart was lying on a white cloth, breathing heavily, as if he wanted to spit out his entire life.

He waited until there were footsteps outside, then turned his head with difficulty and looked at the door curtain.

After the door curtain was opened, the female herdsman and Master Qiku walked in one after another.

"Master, this is our old Bart." When the female herdsman saw Old Bart's appearance, she started crying again.

On the grassland, the man in the family is the most important. If the man is gone, the family will collapse.

People nearby will quickly eat this home alive, and all the money may be robbed. This is the most primitive prairie law of the jungle.

Master Qiku recited a Buddhist verse and slowly approached.

In his eyes, the man in front of him was so thin that he looked like he didn't have a few days left to live.

"If you don't mind, let this poor monk take a look." Master Qi Ku turned his head.

"Okay." The female herdsman nodded hurriedly. In her opinion, the master, like the priest, can communicate with the gods. He naturally has his own set of rituals.

What Master Qiku wanted to do was not a ritual of salvation. He stretched out his fingers, put them on Old Bart's wrist, and pinched his pulse.

In his opinion, this person is not suffering from a fatal disease, because there is still a trace of life in the air of death.

After pinching his pulse, he understood clearly.

Old Bart is actually not sick, I'm afraid he is just hungry. How long has it been since he had enough to eat?

But knowing what the problem is and wanting to treat it are not just a matter of words.

If it were in Daqi, this kind of problem would gradually get better if it took ten and a half months to nurse it back to health, but here, it's not that simple.

The lack of food and clothing turned this starvation disease into a terminal illness.

"How long has it been since Old Bart has eaten?" Master Qiku asked.

Old Bart made a gurgling sound in his mouth, but he couldn't speak complete words...

However, the female herdsman knew what Old Bart meant.

Old Bart meant to leave him alone and leave the rations for her and the children.

The female herdsman covered her face with her hands, tears streaming down her face.

"It's been a long time. He doesn't eat very much. There's no food rations at home anymore. It's all reserved for the two children. There's nothing we can do."

The female herdsman was uneducated, and she couldn't tell how long it had been since Old Bart had eaten.

"Old Bart, he doesn't want to eat. I gave him cake, but he didn't even take a bite."

The female herdsman's voice was choked with sobs. She never refused to feed Old Bart, but Old Bart himself refused to eat.

Master Qi Ku sighed.

He knew the state of Old Bart clearly.

At first, he might have thought of eating less for himself and leaving more for the children.

But later, he couldn't eat even if he wanted to.

Because his intestines and stomach were starved and damaged, it was impossible for him to recover on his own without medication, and he gradually reached a state of near death.

Master Qi Ku shook his head and sighed.

There was nothing he could do to save old Bart.

"Master, Zoya said that there are six reincarnations in the world. If you do good deeds in this life and accumulate virtue, you will live a good life in the next life. Is this true?" The female herdsman's tears kept flowing, but there was a look of hope in her eyes.

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"Can."

Master Qi Ku told the story of the Six Paths of Reincarnation in detail.

Then, he clearly felt that Old Bart's breathing was a little faster.

That night, Old Bart passed away.

However, at the funeral the next day, the female herdsman said that Old Bart left with a smile. At that moment, the fear of death disappeared from his eyes and he walked away peacefully.

After reciting sutras to Old Bart, Master Qiku left.

However, the story about Old Bart spread, and gradually, more and more people nearby came to seek Master Qi Ku's herdsmen.

The herdsmen felt bad that Master Qiku did not accept payment, so they increased their patience to listen to Master Qiku's teachings.

Master Qi Ku did not expect that Buddhist teachings, which were originally difficult to spread, would be spread in this way.

Of course, he made some modifications to the teachings, deleting those rules that prohibited killing and marrying, and instead focused on the six paths of reincarnation, and on cultivating blessings in this life and receiving blessings in the next life.

The life of the grassland people at the bottom is really hard. They have no hope in this life and can only look to the next life.

Master Qiku still lives in Zoya's stable.

Because his prestige among the herdsmen is getting higher and higher, Emma no longer dares to scold him, and apparently does not prevent Zoya from learning writing and knowledge from Qi Ku.

Zoya's mind is very flexible and she learned a lot of knowledge from Master Qiku. From the beginning she could only write her own name. Later, she not only knew many words, but also could recite some simple scriptures and sing some grassland songs.

song.

In the opinion of Master Qiku, this Zoya is no worse than the little monk Qixi, and both of them are the kind of people with outstanding talents.

But she was born among herdsmen on the grassland and was still a little girl. If she hadn't met him, she would have quickly disappeared from the rest of the people, and finally fell to the natural and man-made disasters on the grassland.

In the face of the turbulent torrent of the times, Master Qiku felt that his power was very weak.

I originally thought I could live such a stable life and slowly preach the gospel, but not long after, man-made disasters other than natural disasters occurred.

A strange prairie tribe attacked. Emma was robbed by people from the strange tribe on her way to herding. All the nearby herdsmen and men above the wheel height were killed. Only children and women survived.

The surviving children and women will be the spoils of the new tribe, divided among the men in their tribe.

Older women are of little value and should be treated like slaves.

Women who are still fertile have become fertility tools for new tribes, especially women who have given birth to children, and are even more in demand.

Because women's childbirth on the grassland is a hell gate, and many women die at this gate. Those women who survive and have experience are of course high-quality assets and are highly sought after.

Emma is one of them, so the safety problem is not big.

However, Master Qiku took Zoya away in the chaos.

If Zoya is caught by a strange tribe, no one can imagine what kind of misfortune such a young girl will suffer. It would be extremely terrifying.

"Do you miss your mother?" Master Qiku leaned on a piece of bluestone by the river and asked the little girl in front of him.

"I think." Zoya nodded.

"But this poor monk can't send you back." Master Qi Ku said calmly.

"Master, you did the right thing. If I go back, I will be miserable." Zoya said something reasonable. She has worshiped Master Qi Ku as her master. In her eyes, apart from her mother, Qi Ku is the master of Qi Ku.

Master Ku is also an extremely important relative of hers.

After confirming that her mother was safe, she had decided to practice with Master Qiku.
Chapter completed!