Chapter 44: Do You Know How to Use a Brush?
Ignoring the laughter of the neighbors, Daoist Niu led Wan Sheng into front of a portrait of an incense altar in the inner room and said solemnly: "Since you enter my Daomen, worship Sanqing first! Sanqing is Yuqing Yuan Shi Tianzun, Shangqing Lingbao Tianzun, Taiqing Moral True Monarch!"
So Wan Sheng followed him and kowtowed nine times. After getting up, Wan Sheng was puzzled and asked, "Who is the boss of these three Qings?"
Daoist Niu said in a sullen voice: "In the past, it was the Yuan Shi Tianzun, and now it is the Moral True Monarch, that is, the Taishang Laojun." ”
Wan Sheng was surprised: "Can this boss's position still be conceded?"
Niu Daoist whispered: "Taishang Laojun's surname is Li, and my surname is Li when I am the emperor, you know?"
Wan Sheng seemed to understand: "Then the emperor worships Taishang Laojun as the boss, and Yuan Shi Tianzun is not angry?"
Daoist Niu said angrily: "How can Tianzun care about such a trivial matter?"
Wan Sheng was surprised: "It's not that people fight for a breath of Buddha for a stick of incense, this is a trivial matter?"
Daoist Niu cut off: "That's the Buddha, not the Tao! How can the transcendent realm of my Taoist Tianzun be comparable to the Buddha's family? Okay, now start learning things, teach you some real skills for the teacher, and teach you how to draw talismans first!"
Wan Sheng was overjoyed: "Master taught me the Five Thunder Mantra from yesterday!"
Daoist Niu cut off: "That's a high-level talisman, you can learn it as a newcomer?"
Wan Sheng had to retreat: "Then teach me to exorcise ghosts, I work in Yizhuang, and I have to go to the mass grave to bury the body, I am most afraid of encountering ghosts!"
Daoist Niu smiled proudly: "Okay, as a teacher, I will first teach you the ghost killing curse! Let others know the ability to be a teacher!"
So the Taoist priest spread out a piece of yellow paper, and took out a ruler engraved with words and began to explain: "Do you know this ruler? This is not the ruler of your family's cloth cutting, this is called the door meter, also called the Luban ruler, to build a house to make the door must be based on the auspicious size of this ruler, the size marked in red is auspicious, and the black character is fierce!"
Wan Sheng looked at it, and sure enough, he saw that each scale of the ruler was marked with the red characters of "Daji", "Wangcai", "Tianding" and "Fugui" and black characters such as "robbery", "loss", "disease" and "death".
Niu Taoist priest explained: "The paper of this drawing talisman is not the paper that wipes the butt in the pit, the size must not be casual, and it must be cut in the auspicious size of the door meter, in short, this is advanced feng shui, not what you want to learn, you just cut the paper according to my size......"
So under the explanation and demonstration of the Taoist priest, a large yellow paper was cut into dozens of small yellow papers. After the demonstration, Daoist Niu spread out a piece of yellow paper again: "Have you remembered the key points that the teacher said just now?
Wan Sheng nodded: "Remember!"
So Wansheng also began to cut it himself, in addition to this size is particularly particular, the rest and Wanshengjia cutting cloth handkerchief is no different, so Wansheng is also familiar with it, this large paper cut is clean and neat corners, more neat and pleasing than Niu Daoist's cut.
Daoist Niu stared at the bull's eyes, and his face was also full of incredulity: "Okay! Practice makes perfect, you cut all this pile of paper!" So Daoist Niu removed a large stack of straw paper from the dusty shelves, I am afraid that there are hundreds of sheets.
Wan Sheng was stunned and said: "All cuts? My family is the one who opened the embroidery village, I cut things very well, okay?"
Daoist Niu cut off: "Then do you know the size in your chest? When you encounter a ghost in the middle of the night, will it be difficult to carry the door with you? Can you see the size scale clearly?"
Wansheng was speechless, so he had to cut it according to his words, and then the Niu Taoist priest Meizizi packed and bundled the small paper cut out by Wansheng and put it on the shelf. Wan Sheng wondered if this was the legendary "exploitation of apprentices"?
In short, it took nearly an hour for Wan Sheng to cut these hundreds of large pieces of paper quickly and well, and there were more shelves of rune paper on the shelves of Niu Daoist. But don't really say it, now Wansheng really doesn't need to take a ruler to measure it from time to time, and the size comes out with a touch of the palm of his hand.
Niu Taoist was quite satisfied to open the cinnabar box and explain while grinding: "Then there is grinding cinnabar, the drawing talisman must use cinnabar, cinnabar can drive away ghosts and evil spirits! If there is no cinnabar, you can use pine smoke ink, but that is too expensive." If the exorcism battle is fierce to the end of the talisman, you can also bite your finger and draw the talisman with blood! You can find a teacher to buy cinnabar, and for the sake of you being a disciple of this sect, you can get a twenty-percent discount, eight pennies a pound!"
Wan Sheng was stunned and said, "Master!"
Daoist Niu glared at Wan Sheng: "What?"
Wan Sheng sighed: "The disciple has just learned, can you give the disciple some materials for the sake of the disciple cutting so much paper for the master?"
Daoist Niu cut a voice: "What do you mean by cutting for the teacher? Is it for the teacher to give you materials for practice, okay? I can give it to you on credit first!"
Wan Sheng had to nod helplessly.
Then Daoist Niu took out a broken book and gave it to Wan Sheng: "This is my Taoist mantra for cultivating the mind, you must memorize it all." Before drawing the talisman, you must first recite the mantra of purification, beginners should recite it seven times with your heart, you should first recite it for the teacher, and you must memorize the mantra of purification!"
After speaking, the Niu Taoist cleared his throat and began to chant the mantra aloud: "Danzhu mouth god, spit out filth and remove the atmosphere, tongue god is upright, and life is nourishing...... Thinking about the spirit refining liquid, the Dao Qi lasts forever!"
Wan Sheng was confused after reciting the long mantra of the crosses: "What do you mean?"
Niu Daoist smiled proudly: "So, the ghost and god who don't know how to draw talismans must understand the meaning of these spells before drawing talismans, in short, this is not something that can be explained clearly in a few words, you just memorize it first, and when you cultivate to a high level, you will naturally comprehend it." ”
Then Daoist Niu picked up the red pen, spread out a small piece of yellow paper, and let out a breath on the paper and pen: "This is called giving the pen and paper a little spirit! ”
Wan Sheng frowned, Wan Sheng did see a whirlwind from the master's mouth swirling around the pen and paper, this spirit is indeed famous. In other words, the incantation just recited is used to ignite the spirit?
Then the Niu Taoist priest began to formally draw the talisman: "This talisman is composed of five parts, the talisman head, the main god and Buddha, the talisman belly, the talisman gall, and the talisman foot, each part is broad and profound, and it is not a few words that can be explained, you don't care about that much, just draw it according to me, but the same as the one you draw is useless, because you are a beginner, you can only draw the shape first, and then comprehend the mantra spell before you can have both the form and the spirit, first draw the talisman!
Wan Sheng had heard this mantra yesterday, so he held the brush while reciting it and followed the master to write it.
Niu Daoist sketched three rounded arcs with three strokes of his pen on the paper: "This is called three hooks, which refers to the three Qings-" Speaking of this, Niu Daoist glanced at Wan Sheng's rune paper, and saw that Wan Sheng drew three thick strips on the rune paper!
"What kind of bullshit did you draw?" Niu Daoist looked at Wan Sheng's hand holding the pen in shock, and couldn't help but be annoyed: "Do you know how to use a brush?"
Wan Sheng blushed: "No, it won't!"
This is the sore spot of Wansheng. Before the Sui Dynasty, there was no imperial examination, and they were all recommended by the door valve of the high-grade and low-grade non-poor families, and the study was all about relying on the relationship to find famous scholars to worship protégés, and there was no private school for teaching and learning for ordinary people. And now although it is the Tang Dynasty, but the imperial examination has just emerged, and the private school has not been fully popularized, Wan Sheng, a young man who has recognized a lot of words under the teaching of his mother-in-law since he was a child, is already commendable, and as for writing, he thinks too much! Except for every time he delivers a pen to Mrs. Wang, he usually has no chance to hold a pen at all.
At this time, Niu Dao's morale was not in one place: "I can't even use a pen, isn't this a waste of paper and ink for the teacher?"
Wan Sheng was entangled: "Then wait for me to learn to hold the pen first?"
Daoist Niu said angrily: "Let's memorize the spell first." As for this talisman, the anger can't be vented-" So the Niu Taoist shouted angrily: "Order Tongzun to brake the spirit and kill the thunder and lightning to extinguish!"
When the spell was completed, the Taoist priest Niu handed over the cyclone-surrounded talisman to Wan Sheng: "This talisman is the ghost killing spell, you can observe and remember the strokes at any time on your body." Then, you memorize this purifying mantra and explain the true meaning of the first few mantras to the teacher, and how much you can comprehend depends on your path. ”
"Thank you, Master!"
So, Wan Sheng memorized in a daze, Niu Dao Chang taught mysteriously and mysteriously, and at dusk in the afternoon, Wan Sheng could be regarded as memorizing all the mantras in the broken book. It's just that I don't understand the meaning.
Niu Dao sighed: "That's it today, let's get some paper and pen on credit for the teacher to let you go back and practice slowly, a total of two cents, and then come to the teacher when you learn to hold the pen." ”
Wan Sheng was also a little discouraged: "Thank you, Master!"
When Wan Sheng went out with a bundle of yellow paper, of course, he was inevitably teased by the owner of the coffin shop and the neighbors: "Ahhh