Dagong Mountain is a continuous mountain, with mountains and peaks overlapping, thousands of pines towering, and strange rocks standing. The high waterfall passes through the mountain peak, and the cascade is like the sky leaning.
Contrary to the beautiful scenery, the ruins of the Taoist Temple not far away can be blown down by a slightly stronger wind. Surrounding weeds and sentient beings. From the broken wall, you can see more broken statues. From the quantity, they look like the gods of Sanqing Tianzun, but they are all lower bodies.
While standing in front of the Taoist Temple, there was an old Taoist with unkempt head and dirty face, whose white hair was streaked with long silk hair, which was more dirty under the rendering of dust. The broken Taoist robes are three times worse than the beggars on the street. If it wasn't for the dust in my hand, I couldn't tell whether it was a Taoist or a beggar.
"Alas! Five years ago, it's more dilapidated. Alas! I hope Yanqing is in his martial uncle's place?" The Taoist priest looked at the dilapidated Taoist temple, muttered, looking sad and more helpless.
Suddenly, he turned to look at a path not far behind him, and then frowned slightly.
A few minutes later, there was a person he didn't expect. Although this place is beautiful, it is also desolate and uninhabited. If it were not for the people who are familiar with it, they would not know that there is a Taoist temple here.
It was a woman who came over. She wore a Tibetan blue coat, wide cotton trousers, and a turquoise headband on her head, which was tightly wrapped. This kind of dress is very common in the countryside. But she still held a swaddling cloth in her arms, which made the Taoist frown again.
Maybe it's seeing people, maybe it's seeing a ruined Taoist temple. The woman quickens her pace, walks to the old Taoist priest in three or two steps, and kneels down directly. Before he could speak, he choked up and tears washed his pale face.
The Taoist priest looked down and saw that the girl was very young. Although she was pale, she could not hide her beautiful face.
I was very surprised, very surprised, but after looking at the girl with both eyes, I saw the hopeless look of the girl. My kind heart lit up and said to the girl, "Please, benefactor." After saying that, I frowned again and looked at the direction of the path where the girl ran.
When the girl saw the Taoist priest frown, she cried even more, holding the swaddling cloth in her arms with one hand and grasping the Taoist priest's tattered robe with the other.
"Prick!" It looks like a withered and yellow leaf, and a corner of the caught Taoist robe has been torn off. The Taoist priest was even more surprised. If he caught it again, there was little left on him.
"Please get up quickly. If there is any difficulty, just touch it and pull it again." The Taoist priest was worried not because he was worried about his clothes, but because he looked at the path not far away again.
"My child, the child is innocent. It only takes three years for Taoist Priest to take him in. I will take him back in three years. I beg Taoist Priest." The girl knelt and cried, and handed the swaddling cloth to Taoist Priest.
The baby in the swaddling clothes was sleeping peacefully, and the mattress was very thick. The Taoist priest looked at it, said a few words to himself, and looked at it again. Maybe the Taoist looked hesitant. When the girl saw his expression, she stood up directly, put the child in his hand, and ran out sideways.
After running for ten or so steps, he suddenly stopped, and then took off a crystal pendant from his neck. He turned to the Taoist priest, put it in the mat, looked at it more and ran out with tears on his face.
The Taoist priest had a helpless look at the girl's back, then looked at the path, and then looked down at the baby in his hands. He looked more kindly. The corner of his mouth also smiled slightly and said to himself, "I have left one disciple and sent a better one. Hmm, it seems that you and I are still out of luck!"
Then he turned around and looked at the path. He looked a little stunned, and murmured: "It's been so many years. Is it not over yet? I'd better hurry to get out of the way, Taoist Priest!"
He looked down at the baby in the swaddling clothes and saw that she was sleeping sweetly, and a smile appeared on her face. Then he stepped up and left quickly.
About twenty minutes later, a team of twenty or thirty people appeared in front of the broken Taoist temple, with shovels, sticks, red tassels, and some people carrying ropes.
The leader, a man in his forties, pinching his waist with both hands, looked around, took off the blue hat on his head, wiped the sweat on his forehead with the back of his hand, and then used the hat as a fan to fan his face twice. His worried and slightly pale expression added to his mouth and said, "Why are you running here? It's difficult to become a wild boar."
"Lengzi, after chasing the ruined temple on the top of the mountain for a long time, the guy was also injured. Why did he lose him?" The speaker ignored Lengzi's expression and looked around, looking at everyone's tiredness. He either sat down on the spot or held the tree and gasped for breath.
If the Taoist priest just heard their conversation and intentions, he would definitely vomit three liters of blood. It was the wild boar that chased him here, not to continue to smash his dilapidated temple!
Five years ago, because of the danger of breaking the four old, I had to go into the mountains to practice and hope to escape the crisis. I thought that five years had passed and it was time to end the matter, but I was interrupted before I stood in front of my Taoist temple. Maybe he was just a chance, but who would have thought that another wave of people could upset the old man's calculations.
The dilapidated Taoist Temple is called Qingyun Temple, which has a history of 600 years. It was built in the early Ming Dynasty, and its originator was Qingyun Immortal. It combines the five skills of Taoism metaphysics, medicine, and divination. Among them, medical pills are the main ones. Its purpose is to cultivate truth, take medicine to refine qi, accumulate virtue and do good deeds, and make achievements.
It is the same as the tenet of Quanzhen Taoism, inheriting the internal alchemy thought of Zhong and Lv, and cultivating with gold alchemy. As time went by, because of its special geographical location, Qingyun Temple was located at the height of the mountain, and few believers came. With the help of environmental advantages, we can collect many medicinal materials for alchemy in the mountain and concentrate on cultivating in the Golden Elixir Avenue. We are not so enthusiastic about preaching.
Since then, the number of Taoist temples has also become smaller and smaller. The sixteenth generation disciple, Taoist Priest Shan Yun, raised a big question about the Golden Elixir Avenue. The theory that alchemy can really achieve good results has indeed caused fierce rejection of the whole sect, and was expelled from the Taoist temple to start a new door. After this aftereffect, it left a big shadow for many people. They were not so enthusiastic about alchemy, and gradually turned to the other two skills, the skill of mountain and divination.
The old Taoist who walked in swaddling clothes, with the title of Yuzhen, also grew up from Qingyun Taoist Temple when he was young. There are three people left in his generation, one is a senior brother who is more than 20 years older than him, and the other is his apprentice, Taoist Yanqing.
The Taoist priest is already 100 years old and was born in Tongzhi period. It was also the year when Taoist Priest Shanyun set up another door. Since he began to practice Taoism, he was also keen on alchemy at first, but he gradually became interested in divination. He thought that the modern divine operator, in fact, by his middle age, there were few people in the mountain. Old, old, dead, of course, people call it driving crane to the west.
He was good at calculating all his life. Unfortunately, he failed to calculate several important events. In recent years, he calculated that there would be disasters? It is not clear what the disaster is. When we make a careful calculation, the disaster of extinction suddenly comes. If he had not eaten pills as sugar beans since he was a child, it is rare for a man of 100 years old to be able to run fast in the mountains.
Under the general situation, he was also helpless. At that time, there were many people coming up the mountain, calling for breaking the old four and sweeping away all ghosts and gods. I was thinking that I would use self-defense to fight against this group of people and guard the foundation left by his ancestors. But the situation at that time was too terrible. The group of people saw him as if they had found a treasure. Their eyes were shining, and the weapons in their hands were all common shovels and pickaxes in rural areas. They would hit anything they saw, even the Three Qing Ancestors would not let go, and the outer wall was directly knocked down, It didn't take much effort to push the wall because it was in disrepair.
The Taoist priest and his disciples ran out, leaving the crowd far away and running across a mountain peak. The Taoist priest said to his disciples, "Yanqing! I have to count my fingers. There are still several years of doom left. You should first find your martial uncle to settle down, and then come back to see here, and guard the foundation left by our ancestors." Then he slipped away, not like a master.
It was the disciple Yanqing balsam pear who said silently with his face and fingers. Then he looked up at the direction where the master slipped away and murmured, "Master, why don't you calculate for me? I can't calculate myself!"
Old Taoist Yuzhen held the crying baby in her arms with a helpless face. She grew old and unexpectedly brought a small one. Pick some wild fruits on the mountain, squeeze out fruit juice, and feed them little by little. The wind is strong in the mountain. Take off the nearly broken Taoist robe and wrap it up again. I feel very cold.
"It's freezing you, Taoist priest." The Taoist priest said, looking down at the baby's face in detail, looking up carefully, and then said, "You are a smart man with a beautiful face, strong facial features, beautiful eyes, and smart eyes. A pair of expensive eyes, you will have no worries about food and clothing. Three bright eyes, wealth comes from heaven. Hehe! Taoist priest, I will give you a finger count, count your destiny!"
Then he stretched out his left hand, and his thumb quickly pointed at the other four fingers
Two days later, Taoist Yuzhen came to the gate of Qingsong Temple, which was several times better than his Taoist Temple. After sighing, he carried the child into the temple.
A middle-aged Taoist who was sweeping the floor looked up and was surprised when he saw the visitor. After a short period of surprise, he went to the front to check. Said: "Martial Uncle Yuzhen, why are you here?"
"Why can't I come here, your master?" Yuzhen said and walked up to him, handing the child in her arms to the younger generation in front of her. I can't help it. My chest is too wet. It's cool when the breeze blows. Give the child to the other party first, and then speak slowly.
The Taoist who took the child said to Yuzhen, "Martial uncle, where is the master in the back hall?"
"Oh! By the way, have you ever been here, Senior Brother Yanqing?" The Taoist asked, which made this person even more surprised.
"Martial Uncle, don't you know? Yanqing, Elder Martial Brother Yanqing died five years ago!" This one was holding the child, and his face was a little sad.
"Eh! I thought he was not so unlucky! How could he leave earlier than me!" Yu Zhen's words had just ended when a yelling voice came from the hall.
"It's really a miscalculation. It's a miscalculation everywhere. Do you really think you can count? Even your apprentice and yourself are poor, which really shames Qingyun Taoist Temple." While talking, an old Taoist priest came out of the hall. Looking at Yuzhen's dilapidation, she shook her head and said, "It's a miracle that you can live till now. Why didn't you calculate when you could fly!"
"Younger Martial Brother! If I can't figure it out, I won't come to you. At most two years, the deadline is coming. My place, alas! It's much worse than yours. I was chased by those people just after I left the mountain. Eh! You haven't been impacted here?" Then I looked around the environment and was a little surprised!
"That wave has passed long ago, and it was smashed here. Well, your disciple Yan Qing died in their hands. I heard people at the foot of the mountain say that they caught a Taoist, and when we hurried there, they had already been criticized. We had been fighting for more than a month, but he didn't survive in the cowshed!" Yuzhen's younger martial brother said!
"Where is your life saving golden pill? Didn't you give it to him?" Yuzhen raised her eyebrows and asked eagerly.
His younger martial brother slowly closed his eyes and did not speak. There was a trace of sadness in his expression.
Yu Zhen didn't ask again. In that kind of environment, she didn't have to think about it. She could also guess that the younger martial brother didn't have pills on his body. Maybe his only disciple was seriously injured to the point where there was no remedy. The reason why I didn't learn well also made me unable to figure out the difficulties of my apprentice.
He looked down at the child in his arms and sighed. Yuzhen knew that he had no chance with the child in his arms. He handed over his hands to his younger martial brother and said, "This son, I have counted, is very rich, very noble, and has a deep source of blessing. If you can accumulate more sources of blessing, the Golden Elixir Avenue may not be completed, but in the next generation, princes, generals and ministers are certain."
His younger martial brother took the child and looked at his face carefully. At this time, the child opened his eyes wide and saw a head in front of him, grinning. The smile is naive and cute.
When Yuzhen left, she not only left the jade pendant before the child's mother, but also left the school seal jade pendant on her. His time has come. It's useless to keep it. The sect has been destroyed in his hands. I hope this boy can pass on the seal.
Fifteen years later, the baby boy is already handsome and handsome. It's a bit out of place with the Taoist robe on my body.
With a schoolbag on his back, he still had to go to school in the county 40 miles away. At the age of 17, he was facing the college entrance examination.
Before leaving, his master said to him, "Good luck, your elder martial brother Shanshui went to the United States ten years ago and developed well. Yesterday, I called my master and said I hope you can go there to receive education."
"Master, I hope to stay with you. You are very old. Besides, the education in China is also very good. I am ready to apply for the National University of Medicine?" Li Shanyuan said respectfully, looking at the master over 100 years old with a smile on his face.
"You were smart and resourceful when you were young, and you are familiar with the scriptures and pharmacopoeia in the Sutra Cave. You are also proficient in preparing and refining pills. For the university of traditional Chinese medicine, even if you don't go to the university, you are a good hand, no less than those old men. What you lack is the experience of tempering. If you want to go to the United States, you want to learn the advantages of foreign devils. Some of the treatment of opening your belly is faster than our traditional medical treatment. Shifu is not rigid, otherwise your Shizu would not be expelled from the school and set up another school. "
"Shifu, I'm leaving. Who will take care of you? After all, you......" Li Shanyuan hesitated and said with a worried look.
"As your Shibo said, the destiny is the way, there is no way in your heart, and you don't need to worry about it when the deadline is coming. Taoism follows fate, and pays attention to purity. Although we build the world with Tao and live in a Taoist temple, we are not pure Taoist family. Your heart can not integrate the essence of Taoism, otherwise you will not be allowed to go to school in the town and county. This is to hone your experience of entering the world. You still have a long way to go to experience the world of mortals. Remember, no matter where you go, you should keep a good heart! " So far, he waved to Li Shanyuan to let him out.
