Chapter 37: Daoist Li
Li Daoshi's name is Li Long. His father Li Laodao gave birth to a total of three children, and he, his brother and his sister were named Li Long, Li Hu and Li Shan respectively. According to Li Laodao's statement to the outside world, the names of the three children are connected to the origin of the master who pointed out his Taoism.
When did Li Laodao meet the master, no one knows. However, his Taoism is profound, but it is recognized.
That day, Li Laodao, who had just returned from studying from a local Taoist priest in Lingxian County and was about 15 years old, didn't know why he quarreled with a Laizi in the same village, only to see him casually say a few curses, and the sky suddenly exploded with a thunderclap. A group of villagers who were also sheltering from the rain under the eaves were dumbfounded.
Since then, Li Laodao's fame has grown. Li Laodao is very eloquent, and he is very good at using some Taoist terms that others don't understand. Therefore, in the eyes of outsiders, he is not just a rural Tudao priest, but a master of the Tao with mysterious abilities. Even when he broke the four olds, no one dared to touch him at all.
Li Taoist is very proud of having such a father as Li Laodao, he has been learning Taoism with Li Laodao since he was a child, learned to draw talismans and write urns at the age of six, learned to recite various Taoist scriptures with ten rhymes and Shangqing dialect at the age of eight, learned to use various Taoist instruments to follow the rhythm at the age of ten, and began to be a little deacon at the age of twelve in the Zhaijiao Keyi Middle School presided over by Li Laodao.
But Li Laodao did not teach him how to subdue demons, subdue demons, hide, and clear valleys. At first, he thought that Li Laodao was biased and was going to teach his second brother the secret arts, but later he learned that Li Laodao actually didn't know how to do it.
Li Laodao has never met any master from Longhu Mountain, nor has he ever had any master guide him to Taoist secret techniques, he is just a rural native Taoist, and even his methods of exorcising evil spirits and eliminating disasters that others believe in are only a false appearance.
As for the thunder who killed Laizi, it was just a coincidence.
At that time, Li Laodao couldn't quarrel with Lai Zi, who was full of swearing, and he was angry and angry, and casually recited a few scaring spells, although Lai Zi didn't hear those few awkward words, but he realized that this Li Laodao was scolding him, so he raised a hoe that was placed under the eaves by the master's hand against the wall, and was ready to chase Li Laodao, at that time, it was the time when the spring thunder was rolling......
Daoist Li did not have any extraordinary talent in learning the Tao, and he relied on the motivation to learn the mysterious ability to survive, and he learned to become the current situation. But Li Laodao told him that there was no mysterious ability at all, and that thunder was just a coincidence. Knowing the truth, his tears fell, and he knew that he would be like his second brother, so he gave up early.
For a long time in the future, Daoist Li was very negative, like a marionette, and Li Laodao would only move when he mentioned it.
Li Laodao is also getting older, one day, he went to preside over the Zhai Jiao ceremony, a spell Gangbu, incense praise ceremony down, people are a little unbearable, he fell ill.
The sick Li Laodao called his eldest son to the bed, and said earnestly: "You always say that I am not right to deceive people, but I have never sought money and killed people, as for those who are sick and ask me to exorcise evil spirits and eliminate disasters, I have always told people to see a doctor first." ”
"You've learned so many things, which one can be easily learned? You're going to let them rot in your stomach?"
"You should also get married, you will have to support your family in the future, you take over my class, work hard, you should treat yourself as a charlatan, after all, this job is not easy......"
Yes, I think I am a performer, performing and performing, Daoist Li is also old, and now, he is also a grandfather.
His only son didn't want to take over his shift, so he took his daughter-in-law south to work, leaving a grandson at home to take care of him and his wife.
His grandson has just entered the first grade of primary school this year and is studying in Zhoujiawu Primary School, and he is not worried that his grandson will go alone, and he will always pick him up and drop him off in person.
At about half past nine this morning, as soon as Daoist Li, who had taken a seat at a friend's house after sending his grandson to school, returned to his door, he saw several women in their thirties sitting around the large round table facing the door of their house, looking out anxiously.
When the business came to the door, Daoist Li straightened his clothes, straightened his waist, and stepped his feet into the door while pinching his fingers. As soon as they saw that Daoist Li was back, the women immediately stood up and nodded their heads in greeting.
Daoist Li didn't say anything, and sat down on the round table by himself, his right thumb twitching irregularly between the other four fingers.
The women stopped making noise and quieted down, so as not to disturb Daoist Li's reasoning.
Da Niu's mother couldn't help but want to speak, but another woman next to her gently held her hand and patted her, signaling her to be restless.
Daoist Li rolled his eyes, glanced at Da Niu's mother, stopped with his right hand, and said to Da Niu's mother: "But the children in the family are scared?"
When the women heard this, they all praised in their hearts: "It is worthy of being the son of the master Li Laodao, this look is the true inheritance, and before we have explained the intention, he has already calculated it first!"
Seeing the praising looks on the women's faces, Daoist Li couldn't help but feel proud in his heart. Although he doesn't have his father's clever mouth, he still doesn't lose to his father in terms of words and feelings.
Every year, in addition to holding ancestral hall ceremonies for various villages and funeral ceremonies for the dead, few people will come to him to do things, and if they do come to him, nine times out of ten, someone in the family is uncomfortable.
The people in these ten miles and eight villages are superstitious, and when they feel uncomfortable, they say that they are "frightened", and as soon as they are "frightened", they will first "call the soul", and if the "soul" has no effect, they will come to ask him to do a small ritual to exorcise evil spirits.
Daoist Li observed these women through the gap of pinching his fingers, they were all old and young, although they had anxiety on their faces, but they did not see sadness, so it must not be that someone died. I don't see any sickness on their faces, so it must not be themselves who are uncomfortable, but their families.
Nowadays, men are the pillars of the family, and if their men are really uncomfortable, they will definitely go directly to the doctor. If the elderly in the family are uncomfortable, to say something unpleasant, the world is declining, and as a married daughter or other daughter-in-law, they will definitely not be so anxious.
In this way, it must be the children in their families who are uncomfortable. And the anxious look on Da Niu's face was the most obvious, so he opened his mouth to ask Da Niu's mother.
Da Niu's mother nodded with admiration: "It was my child who was scared, and he was scared in front of the haunted bamboo bush in the mountain behind our village......"
Da Niu's mother told Da Niu that they wanted to catch bamboo rats, but they were so frightened that they came back crying, and also told them about the abnormal situation they saw when they went to call the soul before.