Updated: 2013-07-21

It's a year and three months, and it's when the grass grows and the warbler flies, spring is full of joy, and everything recovers. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoYun Muyang After the daily school, he will stay to learn medical science from the master.

"Muyang, do you calculate how much time it has been since you learned medical science from me?" Zhang Lao looked at the little disciple in front of him, full of love.

"Master, Muyang has been learning from his master since he was more than six years old, and he is now nearly eleven years old, and he has passed four years of cold and summer. Yun Muyang called Zhang Lao his master in the school, and called Zhang Lao his master when he studied medical science.

"In the past, when you worshipped me as a teacher, but more than six years old, when I was already the river is down, four years later, I am even more dying, like the twilight of the West Mountain! You are naturally intelligent, sensitive and studious, four years, in the book of herbal medicine has been transparent six or seven, is a person with great perseverance, but the heart is too weak, if not so he will have great achievements in the future. The elder paused for a moment, saw Yun Muyang listening carefully, comforted in his heart, and said, "If you don't seek wealth and prosperity in this life, you can also be a doctor in peace and stability." Now I am afraid that time is short, and you only know the Chinese medicine in books, but you have not practiced it yourself, so I am worried about the teacher. As the old saying goes, read thousands of books, travel thousands of miles, and now you have only seen the tip of the iceberg of practicing medicine. Now it is the spring ploughing season, and the students also need to help with the spring ploughing, so you go back and tell your parents that you will follow me into the mountains from tomorrow. ”

"Yes, master. Yun Muyang only felt infinitely sad, half of it was because of what the master said that he was already dying, and half of it didn't even know what it was like for him to feel, so he only bowed to the master twice.

The next day, Yun Muyang did not make it clear to his father, but only said that he would go up the mountain with his master to collect medicines, so as to better grasp the medical theory and be familiar with the medicinal properties of various herbs. Zhong An and his wife did not object when they heard it, but they were happy, thinking that their children would not have to live on two acres of thin fields like themselves, even though it was the spring ploughing season, they were happy to agree. As soon as the rooster crowed, Green Branch prepared water, rice, oil and salt for Yun Muyang's master and apprentice, and brought some dry food and rain gear. The sky was bright, and Yun Muyang walked towards the master's residence with the package on his back.

Yun Muyang waited for a while, and then heard a "squeak...", and an old man walked out of the door.

"Master. Yun Muyang saw the old man come out and hurriedly stepped forward to bow. The old man helped Yun Muyang up, "Yang'er, let's go when you're ready!"

The master and apprentice walked towards the mountain in the morning light. Yun Muyang saw that his master was old, and wanted to step forward to help Zhang Lao several times, but was repeatedly rejected by Zhang Lao.

The journey of the mountains and rivers, the journey is long, the master and apprentice walk between the mountains and streams, along the way Zhang Lao called Yun Muyang to collect medicine and recognize the medicine by himself, at this time it is spring, everything is beginning to recover, the herbs are also difficult to identify, and they have to be judged according to the seedlings. It was noon again, and Yun Muyang was very puzzled, "Master is already in his old age, but he walks like the wind, and although he is tired walking between the mountain roads, it can be seen that he still has spare strength and is in excellent spirits. ”

Zhang Lao naturally saw that Yun Muyang was puzzled, and when he saw that Yun Muyang didn't ask, he didn't explain himself, but just looked at Yun Muyang with a smile.

"Yang'er, noon has come, let's find a place to rest for a while!"

"Yes, Master, why don't we go a little further on, and when the disciples came, they saw a huge rock there, very flat, and although it had been raining lately, there was also a faint sunlight from time to time, and it would not be too humid, and there was a stream flowing beside it, and there was a fire making a fire in that place for cooking. ”

"Good!"

Yun Muyang found a favorable place on the mountain rock and spread a dry cloth, "Master, you can rest here for the time being, and go find some dry firewood." Yun Muyang put down the things on his back and walked towards the place where the faint sunlight could shine. After looking for some firewood, I turned around and plucked some fresh wild vegetables, spring mushrooms, cut a large bamboo, and cut it into two pairs of chopsticks.

"Master, sit down, and I'll let you see the apprentice's craftsmanship later. Yun Muyang took out the dried meat strips and oil rice in the package, and began to wash the pot and make a fire to cook.

Before half an hour arrived, I heard Yun Muyang say, "Master, you can eat." Yun Muyang knelt on his knees and gave the porridge-like meal to Zhang Lao with both hands, Zhang Lao was very satisfied with this, after the two of them ate, Zhang Lao said to Yun Muyang, "Yang'er, you don't need to add so much water when cooking at night, it's okay for the teacher's mouth." ”

"Yes, Master. ”

"Yang'er, are you extremely puzzled, why can you have such a strong body at such an old age?" Zhang Lao laughed. "As the teacher knows, if I don't say it, you won't ask, you think it's a private matter, and you don't want to ask at will. Zhang Lao smiled heartily.

Yun Muyang scratched his head and looked at Zhang Lao with a slight smile on his face.

"Actually, it's not a secret. Speaking of which, it was more than 60 years ago, when I was only 20 years old, and although my family was poor, I could read and write, and I got married and had a daughter. One day, when I went out, I met a Taoist priest about 40 years old lying on the river, so I rescued him and took care of him day and night with your wife. A few days later, the Taoist priest woke up, knew the reason, and was very grateful, so he taught me the art of medicine for March, and gave me the medicine scripture and me, but my qualifications were poor, and I did not learn the skin in March. After three months, the Taoist priest told me and my wife that our fate was over, and left hundreds of taels of silver, and more importantly, left three pills, and instructed my wife to divide each pill into ten times, and mix it into the meal once a day to take it, which can ensure that all diseases are eliminated, and said that he is not a worldly person, but a Taoist priest of the Lotus Peak of the Elixir Palace of the Jiulian Mountain Range. After that, the Taoist priest departed like the wind, and your wife and I searched for him everywhere after that, and there was no trace of him. Zhang Lao recalled the past, his face was solemn, his expression was complex and indescribable, and when he looked closely, the corners of his eyes were already covered with a layer of mist, "Those three pills are fragrant and pleasant, and the smell of all limbs and bones is comfortable." I and your wife took the three pills according to the words of the Taoist priest, and it was really as the Taoist priest said, the depression left by your mother when she gave birth to her daughter was also good, and I also felt that the body was better than before, and I am still in good health today, and I have never had any illness. After weighing it again and again, despite the bitter pleading of his wife and daughter, he left home with fifty taels of silver to find the lotus peak, but he couldn't find the elixir palace, so he became a Taoist priest in the small Taoist temple on the lotus mountain. When Zhang Lao said this, his eyes were even more moist, his expression was sad, and his voice became lower and lower between his words.

"Master, it's all because the apprentice let the master touch the sad place of the past. Yun Muyang saw that the master was sad, and he was also sad, so he had to persuade him.

"I can't blame you, I miss my wife and children day and night for my teacher, and then I took off my robe and went back to my home, but I only saw a piece of debris, weeds everywhere, and birds flying around. I searched everywhere for my wife and daughter, but I couldn't find it, and then I relied on my shallow medical skills to travel all over the north and south but never found my wife and daughter, and finally came here to take refuge. Zhang Lao couldn't cry when he said this.

"Master, is there a token left behind, if the apprentice goes out in the future, he will find it for the master?" Yun Muyang choked back tears, his eyes staring at Zhang Lao.

"Hey, it's been more than sixty years...", and then paused, "Well, if Yang'er can really find a wife and daughter for me in the future, I will be blind to death." As he spoke, he took out a small jade bottle engraved with a golden lotus flower and a strange pattern from his arms, "This is the medicine bottle left by the Taoist priest when he gave medicine, and the other one is in the hands of your master's mother. I just wonder if my wife threw this bottle away out of hatred?" said and handed the bottle to Yun Muyang, who took the bottle with both hands and put it away with great care.

The two were silent for a long time.

The reason why the teacher took you into the mountains at this time is that I am old and afraid that he will not be able to do this again, and the other is to teach you to recognize the seedlings of various herbs and distinguish the herbs with similar appearances. We will spend tonight in the mountains, and there is an old wooden house on a hill thirty miles away, and we have completed our task for the day before it is too late. ”

Yun Muyang replied yes, then packed up all the items on the ground and put them on his back, and continued to walk towards the mountain with his master.

Zhang Lao pointed out all kinds of herbs to Yun Muyang all the way, and explained the medicinal properties and the diseases treated one by one, some just sprouted, some grew tender green leaves, and the elders also let Yun Muyang identify and point out all kinds of poisonous weeds one by one, and also said the toxicity and antidote methods. Although Zhang Lao only studied with the Taoist priest of Lotus Peak for three months, he later practiced medicine for decades and accumulated extremely rich experience. Fortunately, Yun Muyang's mind has become clearer since he practiced the "Body Cultivation Sutra", and his memory has been greatly strengthened, which is not clear to even himself, Yun Muyang is just wrong from beginning to end, and this place also attracted Zhang Lao's reprimand as "harming human life". Yun Muyang accepted it humbly, and when Zhang Lao saw that Yun Muyang was so humble, he also eased up. In fact, Zhang Lao was extremely satisfied with Yun Muyang, but seeing his youth, he was worried that if he was not strict enough, he would increase his complacency and pride.