Chapter 062: Master and disciple and master and disciple

Wudang has eighty-one peaks towards the big top of the spectacular, but not all peaks are built with Taoist temples, not all mountains have Taoist practice, which is located in the north of the small pillar peak, with the king of the northern Liang in the mountains of the east wind, to build a new Taoist temple, the master of the old Taoist Song Zhiming youngest apprentice Han Gui, the young Taoist cultivation of the heart does not cultivate the power, even the old head master Wang Chonglou has given a sentence of “This son is sincere, the future more and more far” comments, but even if Wudang’s simple mountain style, but Han Gui neither alchemy nor talisman, and even that fortune-telling skills are also sparse, so Song Zhiming has been forbidden to this closed disciple “open peak”, of course, with the former Wudang Mountain incense, the old Taoist priests, the youngest disciple of Han Gui. Of course, with the former Wudang Mountain incense, more or have the heart but also powerless, so that after the death of Wang Chonglou, the head teacher by Hong Washixiang into Li Yuaxe, Han Gui is still lukewarm practice to ask.

Green Mountain View newly completed, after the initial peaks of the Taoist temple of the lively congratulations, Han Gui is not what long-sleeved Linglong people, the remote location of the small pillar peak soon fell silent, the Green Mountain View of the incense is even more few, a ten days down, a handful of fingers. However, there is a child who often comes to play in Castle Peak Guan, and the sweeping Taoist boy to get acquainted, and then the child brought a young man to the incense, said to be his master. Guan master Han Gui young mountaineering, study the books, has always been living simply out of the world, also can not recognize that not generous incense guest, incense guest into the mountain for the third time to pay homage to the incense, Han Gui even still did not recognize, but it is the sweeping of the disciple remembered the face of that person, secretly whispered to remind Han Gui hastily stepped out of the doorway, shouted at that a fine look at the temperament of not vulgar, said the Taoist temple is simple only coarse tea to welcome guests! The man who was so handsome and dignified, like an exiled man, was a great man. The god of the rich Ying Yi like banishment immortal incense guest did not refuse, smiled and agreed to go down. Han Gui cooks a good hand of tea, tea is wild tea on the mountain, Han Gui tea but not like those rules of the cumbersome Jiangnan celebrities, do not pay attention to the water of the cooking tea. Two people drink, claiming to be Liangzhou people Xu Qi incense and not much to say, only praised the tea flavor faraway, Han Gui also do not know how to polite pleasantries, can only laugh it off.

When they are drinking tea, the child who runs to play with Han Gui’s disciple Qingxin from time to time, two children of about the same age, sitting on the stone steps outside the hall chatting about the sky, Qingxin not to look at the age of small, and in the Castle Peak view every day there is a busy coursework and work, but the seniority of the peaks in the Wudang is not too low, the old headmaster Wang Chonglou that a few, the highest seniority in the mountains, but with the oldest Song Zhiming died, now only Chen Cao and Chen Qingli are left, the oldest and the oldest, the oldest, and the oldest, the youngest, and the oldest. Now there are only two old real people left, Chen Carefree and Yu Xingrui, the next is the new head teacher Li Yuaxe’s generation, because the previous generation has few disciples, Han Gui, as one of the six disciples of Song Zhiming, and Li’s generation is equal to that of the head teacher, and the next turn will be the generation of the word of the Qing Dynasty, Wudang Mountain, there are probably more than 40 people, although the number of people is gradually growing, but the little Taoist boy Qingxin, if you are going to Lotus Peak, Jade Peak and those few places that are very prosperous, many middle-aged people are not confused about what is happening. Many middle-aged Taoist priests who were not confused might even call out for a senior uncle. The young Taoist priest Qing Xin is wearing a common martial arts Dong Xuan scarf, the top of more than an inch of cotton and silk folded, scarf face painted with auspicious clouds, such as bamboo slips hanging behind, the teacher in the immortal Lu Zu. At the moment, the young Taoist is talking to his new peer partner about his own half-understanding of health, “Today is the Autumn Equinox, I teach the canonical book “Tian Su Jian Li Zhen Lun” records that by this time the thunder is beginning to close the sound of the yin qi gradual growth of our generation should lie down early and early to get up, and the chickens are with the Xingxing. Moreover, my master said that the dryness of autumn is also divided into warm dryness and cool dryness, so we must be more in the place of the high altitude, diligent exhalation, knocking teeth and swallowing fluids. The method of health care, in a nutshell, is the convergence of the two words …….”

Listening to the Taoist boy’s literal speech another child babbled um and ah, looked a little careless, but curiously asked: “Since there is little thunder in the future, is it that there will be more demons and monsters? Then will you Taoist priests be busy going down the mountain to remove demons and capture ghosts?”

Qing Xin rolled her eyes and sulked a bit as the chicken talked to the duck.

The kid who knew he had made a mistake scratched his head, not knowing what to do.

Still, Qingxin did not care about this guy, suddenly looked greedy, even wiped the saliva at the corner of his mouth and whispered, “Earth Dragon, let me tell you, there is a large forest of persimmons on the Little Lotus Peak, it will soon be red, delicious and tight! I’ve discussed with a few senior brothers and other nephews on the peak, when to go pick persimmons, do you want to go? If you want to go, I’ll count you in.”

Yu Di Long was surprised, “Little Lotus Peak? Isn’t it the place where your previous headmaster, Immortal Hong, cultivated alone? You also dare to go and steal persimmons?”

Qingxin shrunk his neck, carefully glanced at his master, and then lowered his voice a few points, “Before Little Uncle Grandpa ascended, we went to pick persimmons without much trouble, Little Uncle Grandpa would personally help us to pick them from the trees, alas, but unfortunately, after Little Uncle Grandpa ascended, Master Chen in charge of the precepts of the ancestors do not really allow people to go there, and some time ago for some reason also issued a ban on the mountain, but the persimmons there are really special. The persimmons there are really especially sweet and delicious.”

Said here, the little Taoist suddenly red eyes, hurriedly raised his cuffs to wipe his eyes.

Yu Di Long hehehe laughed: “Want to eat persimmons can want to cry? A little bit of interest, okay, I will help you pick tomorrow, I guarantee that you eat enough!”

The little Taoist glared at him, “I am missing our little uncle uncle!”

This side of the persimmon and the little uncle uncle, over there Han Gui naturally know what’s going on, sighed, a little lost in thought. I still remember when I met the little uncle who rode the oxen and herded the cows by chance, every time I saw them, if it was this time of the year, I would always try to pull out a few red persimmons from my sleeve, and before handing it to them, I didn’t forget to gently rub it with my sleeve again and again.

Xu Qi, or rather Xu Fenian softly said: ”Daoist Han, I know a little about geomancy, and I also know that Xiaozhu Peak’s mountainous terrain and water veins are sparse and dense, and it also belongs to a number of heavenly sanctuaries in Wudang Mountain. Forgive me for taking the liberty to say one thing, how come the Green Mountain View is built, but the incense is so scarce?”

Although Han Gui is not versed in the ways of the world, in fact, the Taoist heart is penetrating, immediately understood the meaning of this person’s words, and laughed: “As a matter of fact, the feng shui of the Little Pillar Peak is indeed very good, and it should be handed over to the Qing generation by an extremely gifted great disciple to ‘open the sect’, only that year, the little uncle probably joked with the little Taoist and said that the cinnamon of the Little Pillar Peak is especially good. Said small pillar peak of osmanthus especially fragrant, tops all the peaks, Xiao Dao common name has a osmanthus character, life should have. In my heart, not to mention the other, said the Castle Peak view within the statue of the table are copper cast distilled gold, the value is not afraid of Mr. Xu jokes, Xiao Dao these days is really afraid of that thief on the mind, then even if the Xiao Dao desperately block, but also can not stop ah. In fact, on the trail itself, where reading is not reading, where cultivation is not repair, after all, life in the world, eat but a few bowls of rice, wear but a clothes, sleep but a bed.”

Xu Fengyen joked: “Han Taoist as a person of cultivation, also count those yellow and white objects? Shouldn’t it be that as long as it’s something outside of the body, one is not allowed to be attached to it?”

Han Gui laughed loudly and waved his hand, “Wrong, wrong, ‘immortal’, half of it is a human being, as for ‘real person’, it’s all about the word ‘real’.”

Xu Fengyen seemed to have a displeased face, frowned and said in a deep voice, “Forgive my ignorance, I don’t understand the true flavor, I hope that the Taoist Master will solve the confusion.”

Han Gui didn’t care about this Duke Xu’s gloomy look, smiled and said slowly, “Sleeping with one eye open and eating three meals, being diligent with four bodies and cultivating five grains to honor the six relatives, all these are one’s own duties, and may not be done just because of one’s high status. Although the Taoist is a man of the world, but that the road to immortality, after all, the future is slim, we cultivate, that is to say, cultivate the road to longevity, in fact, in the view of the small way, is in the cultivation of a ‘reason’. Let’s say, a person at home, watch the home objects, not lost not bad, is the reason. If you are staying overnight, you should protect the objects in the yard from being stolen and robbed, and even more so. I am a passer-by of the Green Mountain View, but also a lodger in the world. Lost the gilt statue, Xiao Dao if the means of turning stone into gold, can afford to pay, but also will not hurt, but Xiao Dao will only cultivate, will not be able to make money, since it can not afford to pay, but also have to hurt.”

Xu Fenian would smile, “This reasoning of the Daoist, it’s vulgar, but not bad.”

Han Gui smiled and casually said, “There is a vulgar thought, wanting to be a long-lived person.”

Xu Fengyen rubbed both fingers against the rim of the porcelain cup and said softly, “I have met a few people who can live forever but don’t want to.”

Han Gui didn’t feel that this son was just boasting, but sighed heartily, “It’s a pity that I haven’t been down the mountain since I went up there, and I can’t learn from the two masters, so in the future, if I have the chance, I will definitely go down the mountain to have a look.”

Xu Fengyen laughed, drank a large mouthful of tea, sweeping away a lot of depression in his heart, and then “asked” Han Gui to teach him a lot of knowledge about cultivation and health care, the latter replied fluently, knew everything, and did not hide anything.

The sun is slanting in the west, the day is getting late, the two children on the steps have changed from sitting to squatting and then to standing, and then from standing to lying down on the ground, but there is no way to talk about their respective masters are quite strong, and for a while there is no sign of finishing, it is really boring, Yu Di Long and Qing Xin began to doze off, Yu Di Long felt that it is not a thing to wait for, so I have to use a few kinds of food tasted in the Qingliang Mountain King’s House to help the little Taoist monk to relieve the fatigue, what? Green carrot duck soup, what peach blossom stewed Mandarin fish, Qingxin also do not know exactly what the taste, but just listening to is the mouth watering.

Xu Fengyen looked at the twilight in the courtyard, stood up and apologized: “Today, I have bothered you a lot, delayed the Taoist master’s practice.”

Han Gui followed, shook his head and laughed: “It’s not a big deal, Mr. Xu can come to the Castle Peak Guan more often in his spare time, especially when the asparagus comes out.”

Xu Fengyen’s reply was a bit more frowned upon, saying with a slate, “In a short period of time, I most likely won’t have the chance to come here as a guest.”

Han Gui froze for a moment, not knowing how to answer, Xu Fengyen laughed: “My family has a large collection of books, I’ll have someone send some books to Qingshan Guan later on, as a loan for the Taoist Master.”

Han Gui gave a hmmm.

Seeing that his master was finally going to return home, Yu Di Long jumped up and laughed, “Let’s go. Qing Xin, I’ll find you to play later.”

The little Taoist boy hurriedly got up and trotted to the bottom of the steps, following his master to send that Mr. Xu out of the Guan.

Looking at the backs of the small and the large as they walked away, the little Taoist priest was filled with a look of reluctance to let go.

“Master, what are you talking about with that gentleman?”

“Duke Xu asked Master for advice on a fragmented canonical article, so profound that rather than Master solving puzzles, it’s more like Duke Xu teaching. Like a guiding technique. Alas, if one really wanted to study it thoroughly, it would take ten years in the short term, or a lifetime in the long term. It seems there’s no need to rush down the mountain.”

“So difficult to learn? Master, then don’t learn it, there are so many books under the sky, how can one read and understand them all.”

“This one is not quite the same.”

“Master, then you mustn’t teach me this one, if you have to read it for ten years, then I won’t be able to get off Wudang Mountain for a hundred years, I won’t do it!”

“After all is said and done, don’t you just don’t want to cook?”

“Ha, ha, ha.”

“Forget it, today master will do it himself, so that you don’t have a light weight for spreading salt.”

“……”

“By the way, remember that people who cultivate the Way must not spend their lives wandering around and being empty shells. Go, while Master is cooking, copy the Nine Notes of Zunsheng twice.”

“……”

Xu Fenian and Yu Di Long walked down the newly created stone path trail to Xiaozhu Peak, Yu Di Long couldn’t help but open his mouth and asked, “Master, do you think there are really ghosts and gods in the world?”

Xu Fengnian casually said, “Believe it or not.”

The child let out an oh, looking at the dark mountains and forests with some trepidation.

Xu Fengyen, who was originally thinking about his mind, was interrupted by the voice and glanced at the child who was following closely behind him. This eldest disciple’s talent for practicing martial arts was really breathtaking, although Yu Di Long, whether out of his heart or as a result of his impoverished upbringing, hid himself from everyone and had an almost seamless ability to hide his clumsiness. Xu Fengyen once inadvertently determine a thing, this child as long as in any one of the complex structure of the place to walk through, he will be able to not the slightest difference to give you outline a three-dimensional picture, this talent, compared to the simple forgetfulness, but also to come to a more rare and valuable. The so-called martial arts wizards are nothing more than that. Xu Fengyen cold eyes for a long time, found that this disciple is a little hot face and cold heart, do not look at him and the little Taoist Qingxin very familiar, but in the heart of the Yu Di Long, has drawn a clear line, do not go beyond the thunderstorms, do not go against the scales of the dragon, you can laugh and joke, but if it is out of bounds, Xu Fengyen does not dare to guarantee that the Yu Di Long will do something too radical. However, Xu Fengyen was the first time to be someone else’s master, although in his heart he didn’t really agree with the way Yu Di Long got along with Wang Sheng Lu Yun Chang and Taoist boy Qing Xin, he didn’t feel compelled to harden the child’s temperament back.

Xu Fengnian thought for a moment and coldly asked, “Do you think that Lv Yunzhang looks very shrewd, but is actually very stupid?”

Yu Di Long opened his mouth wide, seemingly wanting to deny, but looking at his master’s eyes that were still clear in the night, the child finally remained silent and lowered his head.

Xu Fengnian smiled and continued to walk forward, softly saying, “Masters also have masters, I will tell you a story my master told, it is about his journey of reading.”

Yu Di Long raised his head, looked at his master’s back and bit his lip.

Xu Fengyen slowly said, “There is an allusion to the Empty City Trick, it is about two countries fighting each other, one side’s commander with superior strength was scared off by the other side’s empty city to retreat their troops, through the layers of rendering in the later generations, the former was reduced to a laughing stock, while the latter was honored as a god. When my master was a young man, he read this article and longed for the strategies of the latter. When my master was a teenager, he read this allusion again, and was puzzled. An empty city is just an empty city, if he was the latter, he could have sent a small number of soldiers to act as dead soldiers, and went to the city to find out the reality. Since he was able to think of this, how could the Dafeng Emperor, who later usurped the throne and ascended to the throne, not understand it? So my master had great doubts about this allusion, and he began to go through a lot of official history, and he finally found out the truth, that is, the latter was in a situation where, once he won the former and destroyed the enemy country, he himself had already failed to be rewarded for his achievements, and he could only leave his armor and return to the field, and retire to his home for the rest of his life. After my master finished telling me this story, he told me that there are three realms of reading, and the same is true for recognizing people.”

Yu Di Long blurted out, “Master, I think the story is true, then that the former is also very clever ah, the empty city plan, in fact, itself is not clever, clever is he both with this plan ‘scare off’ that enemy, both have a step down, and by the way, also for their own to win the future generations of generations of respect.”

Xu Fengnian nodded, “That’s what I told my master back then.”

Yu Di Long scratched his head.

Xu Fengnian smiled and narrowed his eyes, saying, “But Master immediately gave a duster on the head and reprimanded me for being ‘smart and superfluous, not beneficial’, I used to feel aggrieved, thinking that being smart is still wrong?”

Face soft Xu Fengnian continued, “Smart people, to use smartness in the right place. Life between heaven and earth, should be beneficial to the world, even if you don’t have the heart or the ability, don’t bully others.”

Yu Di Long said softly, “Master, don’t worry, even if I have learned profound martial arts, as long as people don’t bully me, I will never bully others.”

Xu Fengyen exhaled a breath and said, “You need to make wide friends and have many friends, but brothers are not necessary. If you meet someone who can be a brother in the future, you must be sincere. Master didn’t do a good job of it, I hope you can do a little better in the future.”

Yu Di Long seemed to understand, but still nodded.