Chapter 7 The Dream of the Ancestor of Taoist Medicine
That night, Ye Fan had just fallen asleep, and he saw a crane with a childish face and a fairy wind and bones.
"Very good, I haven't looked for you yet, but you came to the door yourself. Ye Fan was holding his breath, so he said loudly.
"......" Lao Dao looked at him with a confused expression.
"Aren't you the star king who is in charge of the fate of the world?"
"Definitely. Lao Dao smiled slightly.
"Could it be that you are too platinum star?" Looking at the smiling and harmonious look on his face in front of him, Ye Fan guessed whether it would be this immortal.
"......" Lao Dao shook his head and looked at Ye Fan with interest, "No, guess again!"
"Could it be that you are too old a king?" The immortals in the sky, who have grown into old ways, Ye Fan can only think of these few in his mind in a hurry.
"Bold, how can you call the name of the Daode Tianzun!" Lao Dao frowned, a little unhappy: "This disciple Sun, don't hurry up and meet the ancestor." ”
"Ancestor?" Now it was Ye Fan's turn to look confused.
"Private child, I won't care about you if you look good. The poor road is Chang Sangjun, yes, yes, you still talk about me. Lao Dao suddenly changed his accent, and it sounded like Hebei dialect.
Ye Fan remembered that Changsangjun was a native of Zheng (now Renqiu, Hebei) in Bohai County, and now the ancestor appeared in person, so he came to teach the true "Secret Recipe of Immortal Teaching".
didn't have time to think about it, Ye Fan hurriedly knelt down.
Raise your hands above your head: "The ancestor is on top, please accept the worship of the disciples!"
"Come to Seger. Chang Sangjun regained his smiling expression, and he actually spoke the dialect of Xuzhou, and it seemed that he was really an old playboy.
"The Ancestor Master has stayed in Xuzhou before, and the dialect here is so standard, the disciples admire it. Ye Fan praised from the bottom of his heart, he has been in Xuzhou for a month, not to mention learning to speak, it is very difficult to understand.
"Little CASE, that's very easy." This time, Chang Sangjun actually used the rice language, and it was the pure accent of the capital of the United States.
Ye Fan was stunned after hearing this!
"Okay, don't be stunned, these are all carving insect tricks, time is limited, let's get down to business. Don't take a bite of an ancestor or something, call me the ancestor master, it sounds kind. Chang Sangjun's accent finally returned to standard Mandarin, and it was all colloquial.
"Okay, Master Zu, do you come to the apprentice this time to teach the book "Immortal Secret Recipes"?"
"Aren't the two volumes of "The Secret Recipe of Immortals" in your hands?"
"I got it.,But there's only the first few pages of the book.,The text behind is all blank.,I thought it was fake.。 ”
"Idiot, if you don't scrutinize carefully, you will lie false. Have you read all the previous content?"
"Yes. ”
"Do you know what you mean?"
"It's basically clear, but I don't know what it means by the last sentence of the preface: 'The path of cultivation is achieved, and the content is self-revealed'. ”
"I can't even understand this, and I don't know how Daode Tianzun chose you in the first place, and he said that he couldn't be wrong this time. Chang Sangjun frowned again, and then said, "Isn't the meaning obvious? As long as you cultivate the Dao Method, the content of the book will naturally be revealed. ”
I understand the literal meaning of this, but there is no content describing the method of cultivation, what kind of cultivation can I take, if I can't cultivate the Tao, the content will not be displayed. It's like there is a vacant piece of land, and you want me to build a house on it, but to build a house, you need money from the sale of the land, and this land needs to be built before the house can be sold, isn't this a contradiction?" Ye Fan defended with some grievances.
"Haha, it's kind of interesting, your analogy is very clever, it seems that the brain is not stupid. However, there are some things that cannot be said too bluntly, and you need to understand and experience them yourself. Chang Sangjun paused and continued: "Do you know who the old Taoist who saved my life when I was injured by poisonous insects?"
Ye Fan shook his head and thought: Isn't this knowingly asking, there is no written record of these thousands of years ago, and I know it with the naked eye.
"He is the eldest disciple of the Daode Tianzun, who was demoted to the mortal world for violating the rules of heaven, and borrowed a priest's body to return his soul. Tianzun asked him to wait for someone who was destined to be enlightened before he could atone for his sins and return to heaven. ”
"And then you are the one who is destined?" Ye Fan asked tentatively.
"That's right, before being demoted to the mortal, Daode Tianzun confessed that when he found a person who was injured by a red poisonous insect all over his body, he was the destined person to be found. Just two hundred years later, after rescuing me, the master enlightened me, and taught me the art and medicine, that is the booklet. Later, I added my own clinical practice experience and compiled the book "The Secret Recipe of Immortals", which is divided into three parts, the first two articles are combined into the first volume, and the third article is the second volume. ”
It turned out that this was the case, Ye Fan suddenly realized and nodded. looked at Chang Sangjun with expectant eyes, waiting for the following.
Chang Sangjun didn't continue, but smiled mischievously at Ye Fan: "Let me ask you, guess what, am I an immortal?"
"Needless to say, of course Master Zu has already cultivated and become an immortal, otherwise it would be impossible to live to this day thousands of years later. Ye Fanman thought that his guess would definitely not be wrong.
Unexpectedly, Chang Sangjun shook his head a little frustratedly: "Alas, it would be nice if he could really become an immortal." I don't need to talk to you in this dream, all you see now is my soul, and my body was corrupted thousands of years ago. At the beginning, the great disciple of Daode Tianzun, that is, my master, was able to ascend to immortal and return to heaven because I was enlightened and completed my cultivation. If I want to become an immortal, I must also find someone who can finally complete my cultivation, so only you can help me become an immortal, don't let me down. ”
It is no wonder that the eldest disciple of Daode Tianzun, that is, Chang Sangjun's master, is more than two hundred years old, and although his face has aged, his energy has no signs of aging at all. For cultivators, the life span of the physical body attached to them is limited, but the soul can live forever after the completion of the path.
"Me?" Ye Fan exclaimed, "But what can I, an ordinary mortal, help?"
"Before that, you were indeed just a mortal, but now that you are under my door and have become the heir of the Taoist doctor, from now on, you are no longer a mortal. ”
"But how did you choose me, I think I'm very ordinary, I look a little handsome, but I'm also handsome and ordinary, a little smart, but also mediocre qualifications, although I am one of the few college students in the village, but I was only admitted to a second-rate undergraduate university of Chinese medicine, compared with Huaxia Qingbei University, the difference is more than 108,000 miles. I really can't think of anything else that makes me different. Ye Fan looked dazed.
"A pair of stinky skins, what's the use of being born good-looking, we don't choose a male concubine. As for being admitted to a good university, it only means that he can take the exam, and he is not necessarily really smart, just like those champions in ancient times, how many can he be named?"
"That's right. Ye Fan felt that it made sense, but he still couldn't think of any advantages he had.
"Think again, where do we meet now?"
"In a dream. Being prompted by Chang Sangjun, Ye Fan seemed to think of something: "You mean that I love to dream, I can go to heaven and earth in my dreams, and I know that I am dreaming in my dreams?"
"The child can be taught!" Chang Sangjun stroked his long white beard, and continued: "Exactly, it is not just a dream, but also a fate. ”
"Of course, it is not enough to have a Taoist fate, through the understanding of your growth for more than 20 years, I know that you are an upright, kind, and benevolent person who purifies all sentient beings, which is also the basic requirement to become a Taoist doctor. The other day on the street, you recklessly rescued an old beggar of the most humble status. Do you know that at that time, my soul was temporarily attached to the beggar, and this was also the final test of your ability to enter the sect. After passing, I left the first volume of "Immortal Secret Recipe" for you. In order not to be thrown away as garbage, I also deliberately used modern old paper to transcribe it. ”
I see, now almost all the doubts have been solved.
"Thank you for your love. ”
"Don't be too busy thanking just yet. It's been thousands of years, generation after generation, and I've been waiting for the flowers!"
"My eldest disciple Qin Yueren has heard of it, right?" Chang Sangjun swallowed his saliva and then asked.
"Of course, those of us who study Chinese medicine know that he is the originator of Chinese medicine. ”
"That's right, he was originally just a hotel manager, and then I found out that he was talented, and I enlightened him and made him my first introductory disciple, I originally hoped that he would carry forward Taoist medicine, but I didn't expect that he was just interested in treating diseases and saving people, and only carried forward medicine, and ignored Taoism, and created a line of Chinese medicine. ”
"That's also amazing!" Ye Fan praised sincerely.
"Alas, but if I can't complete my cultivation, I still can't become an immortal. Chang Sangjun sighed, and continued: "Ge Hong, Tao Hongjing, Sun Simiao...... You've heard of these people, and they're all disciples of our Taoist doctors, and they've all been enlightened by me personally. ”
"Of course I've heard it, it's like thunder. These names are well-known in the course "History of Medicine" at Apprentice University. It seems that our Taoist doctors are such a hidden dragon and a crouching tiger, and there are many talents!"
"Stop here, don't be busy with emotion, all these disciples, like the Yue people, all of them have failed to complete their cultivation of the Dao by emphasizing medical skills and ignoring the Dao Method. ”
"These seniors are all geniuses in the world, if they can't succeed in cultivating, I'm afraid that the disciples and grandchildren will also have more than enough heart and not enough strength. Ye Fan originally thought about swearing to express his sincerity that he would definitely help his ancestor ascend to immortal Yunyun, but after hearing these names, he lost his confidence.
"It's not promising!" Chang Sangjun hated a little that iron could not be made of steel, and he frowned again: "It's all like you, how can science and technology still progress, how can the world still develop?
Ye Fan thought about it, that was the same. Although the previous medical skills were excellent, they couldn't clone people. There are countless high-tech, the ancients didn't say that they invented it, but they were afraid that they couldn't even think of it.
Times are progressing and everything is becoming possible.
Therefore, it also embodies the spirit of the Tao, which is all-encompassing, ubiquitous, and endless......
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