Chapter Thirty-Four: Collecting Apprentices and Passing on Arts, Masters and Apprentices Have a Harvest at the Beginning of Summer!

February 1, 1984, the Chinese New Year's Eve, was the first Spring Festival spent by Xiaohui, Hu'er, Dong Taiduo and Lin Qingfeng in Beijing, and the first Spring Festival they spent outside their hometown.

After breakfast in the morning, Hu'er, Dong Taiduo and Lin Qingfeng put on coats, cotton hats and gloves, and shoveled a road from the gate of the house to the courtyard and the alley through the thick snow with a shovel.

They talked as they worked.

Lin Qingfeng said: "Alas! This ghost place is too cold! It snowed all night last night! When there is no heating, how do the people here live?!"

Dong Taiduo said: "Alas! You are too lacking in geographical knowledge! If you dig a few dozen meters underground, you will find a constant temperature layer, and the temperature under the ground is about 20 degrees Celsius all year round.

Lin Qingfeng smiled and said, "Alas, what's the difference between living like that and a mouse?! I mean, it's not as good here as our hometown!"

Dong Taiduo said: "Yes! I think so too! Alas, I hope that winter will pass soon!"

Hu'er said: "Alas, the weather here will get better, and it will be after the Qingming Festival! At that time, this place should be the most beautiful!"

Xiaohui, who was sweeping the snow behind them, said: "Alas, there seem to be only two seasons in our hometown, one is cold and the other is hot!"

Everyone laughed!

After clearing the snow, they began to paste window flowers, spring couplets, and hang lanterns according to local customs!

Then, they went into the house to warm up and prepare the ingredients for lunch and Chinese New Year's Eve.

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On the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year on February 2, the four of them went to Dr. Hou Jingwen's house to pay New Year's greetings in accordance with local customs.

Dr. Hou, Hou Wulong, and a beautiful young woman were very happy to receive them in the living room of Hou's house, drinking tea and chatting with them.

Dr. Hou smiled and said, "Ladies and gentlemen, I will introduce you to my new daughter-in-law! We have just completed the marriage registration! We have not yet come to rush to make a wedding wine! My daughter-in-law's name is Guo Menglian! She is from the northwest!"

Hui'er smiled and said, "We've met Aunt Menglian! We are friends with Uncle Hou!"

Guo Menglian smiled and said: "Alas! I have heard Lao Hou talk about it! You are high-achieving students, and you have come here from the southwest region to study at university! In the future, you should help Lao Hou educate his son Hou Wulong!"

Hou Wulong said a little angrily: "Alas, you have only been in our house for a few days! You dislike me for being in the way of you at home? If it weren't for my father's woman, I would have kicked you out a long time ago! And let someone else educate me? How many words can you know yourself?!"

Dr. Hou said, "Hou Wulong, how can you talk to your stepmother like this? Do you still have any rules? If you do this again, I will beat you!"

Hou Wulong said with tears in his eyes: "Okay! Today, I will move in with my brother Huzi! In the future, I will cultivate with them and become immortals! I will no longer care about your broken antique shop!"

Dr. Hou said: "You unproductive fellow! Don't bother Huzi and them! Wait a minute, I'll send you to Uncle Hou Wenkai! In the future, you will learn from your uncle in the palace museum about the identification and protection of cultural relics! In this way, you will also have a craft of mixing rice when you grow up!"

Hou Wulong wiped away his tears and said with a smile: "Dad! You can't be joking! In the future, I will work in the museum during the day and live in Brother Huzi's house at night?"

Dr. Hou smiled and said, "Alas, why are you asking me about this?

Huzi smiled and said, "Wulong, we welcome you to live in our house, and at the same time, we are also willing to teach you the knowledge and methods of cultivation!"

Hou Wulong smiled and said, "Oh! Great! In the future, I can become an immortal!"

Everyone laughed!

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At 2 p.m. on February 2, Xiaohui, Huzi, Taiduo and Qingfeng took the tea, bacon and other New Year's goods sent by their families to the homes of Han Zihui and Han Yuzhen of Beijing Normal University to pay New Year's greetings.

It just so happens that the father of the two Han students, Han Qinzheng, and the mother Cai Meihua are both at home, and the Han family's parents are both professors at the School of Medicine of Beijing Normal University, Professor Han is also the vice president of the university, Professor Han is responsible for teaching biochemistry and virology, and Professor Cai is responsible for teaching clinical nursing.

After they entered the house and introduced each other, they drank tea and chatted together in the living room of the Han family.

Professor Han smiled and said, "We are so happy to meet you four promising young people from the southwest! We have heard that you have done a good job in Taoist practice! Taoist theory is the theoretical basis of Chinese medicine, so this will be of some help to you in learning medical knowledge!"

Huzi said: "Thank you Professor Han for admitting the four of us! Studying medicine and curing diseases and saving people has always been one of our Taoist pursuits! After half a year of study, we feel more and more that our study aspirations are correct!"

Professor Cai smiled and said, "Alas! I can see that the four of you are all good students with outstanding abilities! Zihui and Yuzhen often praise you in front of us! They said that they want to cultivate with you, and if it is convenient for you, let them cultivate with you! We hope that you can all become immortals!"

Everyone laughed!

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Before dinner in the evening, Hu'er drove to Hou's house to help Hou Wulong and moved his bedding and daily necessities to them.

Huzi installed a bed for Hou Wulong in the big bedroom where they lived, so that Hou Wulong and Huzi lived together.

At dinner in the evening, they talked while eating.

Wu Long said: "Sister Hui! I will only get my salary in the palace museum next month! When the time comes, I will pay you living expenses, right?"

Xiaohui smiled and said, "No! You eat alone, we don't increase the cost! Keep your money for yourself and use it later!"

Wu Long smiled and said, "Okay! My father said, you are rich!"

Everyone laughed!

Lin Qingfeng said: "Wulong! Your father is also a rich man! He doesn't plan to give a share of the money?"

Wu Long smiled and said: "Alas, now, my father is just one of my children! After a hundred years, won't his belongings be mine? I can see that woman, that is, a chicken that can't lay eggs! My father is just lustful! He often likes to take a lot of women home for the night! So, ah, I don't want to live with them!"

Dong Taiduo said: "Oh, Wulong, you are really a pity! Your uncle is good to you?"

Wu Long smiled and said: "My uncle is very good to me! The palace museum is a public unit, and my uncle is the vice president there, and he is the real doctor! I will go there now and apprentice him! In the future, I will also have a doctor! Do you understand? It is the highest institution for the study of antiques!"

Huzi smiled and said, "Oh! I see! Wulong, when the time comes, can you take us to the museum?"

Wu Long smiled and said, "Alas, we are brothers! You want to see those broken tiles, scrap copper and rotten iron! I'll just take you!"

Everyone laughed!

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After the end of February, Beijing Normal University opened, Xiaohui and the others went to school to study, and Hou Wulong also went to work at the Royal Museum as an apprentice.

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One night in early March, after Hou Wulong returned home, Han Zihui and Han Yuzhen also came to Xiaohui's house.

Everyone changed into their practice clothes, meditated, practiced and communicated in the practice room at home.

Huzi smiled and said, "Welcome to Wulong, Zihui, Yuzhen and other three Daoists to join our cultivation team!"

Then, everyone applauded!

Huzi said: "There are melons to be planted, and there is a master for learning art! Therefore, we let the three new students choose their own masters before learning the Tao! We, as masters, must guide our apprentices wholeheartedly and responsibly! Wulong! You should choose first!"

Wu Long smiled and said, "I'll choose Mo Wenhu to be my master! As long as he helps me become an immortal, in the future, I will help him pour and urine!"

Everyone laughed!

In the end, Han Zihui chose Dong Taiduo as his monk, and Han Yuzhen chose Lin Qingfeng as his master.

Xiaohui smiled and said: "Okay! The new students have masters! In the future, Mo Wenhu will explain the collective theory class to everyone! Lin Qingfeng and Dong Taiduo will explain the practice and exercises to everyone respectively! The masters are responsible for answering questions for their apprentices!"

Everyone applauds!

Wu Long smiled and said, "Sister Hui! The masters have a task! What is your task?!"

Xiaohui smiled and said, "My task is to take the assessment! If you fail the assessment, I will punish you for practicing again!"

Everyone laughed!

In this way, Xiaohui and the others used the evening time to start teaching the three apprentices to cultivate the Dao Fa.

They started with the Dharma of cultivating the Tao and becoming immortals, and began to teach their disciples to cultivate from meditation, empty desires, vipassana, meditation, meditation, etc., and then gradually taught them to open their eyes of wisdom, open their heavenly eyes, and their psychic doors, as well as the basic methods of managing the three souls and seven spirits, the five doors and eight paths, and so on.

Then, in educating the disciples, they are cultivating true qi and true life, as well as practicing the methods and techniques of reaching internal and external control through 'minds', and practicing the methods and techniques of channeling and controlling external objects through 'mantras'.

In the end, the disciples were able to do it, using their minds to control objects to hang and fly, and to attack targets in the air with their minds!

Due to the fact that Hu'er and the others had brought purple great energy pearls, the true qi of Wulong, Zihui and Yuzhen were quickly cultivated to a very high level.

One night in mid-June, they drove to a meadow on the outskirts of the capital to practice.

At this time, Wu Long, Zihui and Yuzhen were already able to complete difficult jumping, levitating, flying and other extreme actions!

After practicing flying kung fu, the seven of them sat on the grass drinking drinks and chatting.

Han Zihui smiled and said, "Alas, in the past four months, you four masters have worked hard! If it weren't for your dedication to teaching us, we would definitely not have achieved such cultivation results!"

Dong Taiduo smiled and said: "Zihui! You don't have to be polite! You have achieved such results because you have good wisdom roots and high understanding! Practice hard! The three of you now have the foundation for cultivating the Tao and becoming immortals! You must already persist in cultivation and accumulate good deeds! Let yourself complete your merits as soon as possible, get rid of reincarnation, and become immortals and Buddhas!"

Everyone applauded!

Han Yuzhen smiled and said, "Lin Qingfeng, when can we go with you to slay demons and eliminate demons?

Lin Qingfeng smiled and said, "Alas! This kind of thing of killing demons and eliminating demons depends on the opportunity! We can't dig sweet potatoes and look for demons everywhere."

Everyone laughed!

Wu Long smiled and said, "Master Huzi, when will you get each of us a set, that kind of silver glittering artifact and equipment! With those things, it will be fun to slay demons and eliminate demons!"

Hu'er said: "Now, we don't have any extra artifacts and equipment! When we go back to our hometown in the southwest during the summer vacation, we will bring it back to you when we return to the capital!"

Han Zihui smiled and said, "Oh! What trouble you have brought here! I want to travel to your hometown with you this summer vacation! I heard from my parents that you have picturesque scenery there!"

Wu Long smiled and said: "Alas, the picturesque way of speaking is too vulgar, it should be called 'the southwest landscape is the best in the world'! Only when you talk like this can you be like a cultural person! I will go with you too! I want to see my sister Peony! Oh, now, my sister's name is Mo Xiaowen!"

Everyone laughed!

Xiaohui smiled and said, "Okay! In this way, when we go back to the southwest, the team will be strong!"

Wu Long smiled and said: "Eh, brothers and sisters, in a few days, I will take you to the palace museum to see the treasures, right? We also have an old gentleman over 130 years old, this old gentleman used to be the emperor's teacher, so everyone calls him 'Emperor Li'! I told Emperor Li that you are great Taoist priests, and Emperor Li really wants to meet you!"

Hu'er smiled and said, "Okay! We have never seen the palace or the treasures in the palace in our lives! Let's go and see it!"

Everyone passed by acclamation!

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