In the first year of Gaozong Shaoxing in the Southern Song Dynasty, the weather in June, the sun is like fire, the clouds are light and the wind is light, in the Liuhe Temple in Hangzhou, there is an eighty-year-old one-armed monk who is sitting on the rocking chair in the temple, squinting at the sun, and said to the little novice beside him: "The teacher is leaving, take good care of yourself, you have to avoid the heat in summer, and wear more clothes when it is cold in winter, and you can bury me in Tallinn after I die, don't be too far away from the bald donkey." Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info" stretched out his finger and pointed to Lu Zhishen's bone tower, and then said slowly: "The brothers of Liangshan can get together again." In this life, my mission is war!"

Time goes back to the Northern Song Dynasty Renzong Jiayou for three years.

On March 3 of that year, the emperor went to the early court, and hundreds of officials performed a great salute of the monarch and ministers, and some eunuchs shouted loudly: "Those who have something can play early, and those who have nothing to do must retire from the court." Prime Minister Zhao Zhe and Deputy Prime Minister Wen Yanbo came out of the class and said: "Now the plague is rampant in the capital, and the soldiers and civilians are dying a lot every day, I hope the emperor can give amnesty to the world, pray to heaven, and save the people of the world." ”

When the emperor heard this, he ordered the Hanlin Yuan to write an edict, one is to release the criminals from the criminal law and the people's taxes. The second is to let the Taoist temples in the capital do more good deeds and pray to eliminate disasters. Unexpectedly, the plague was more prosperous that year, and the emperor was anxious after hearing it, and discussed with the officials how to solve it. There was a minister who crossed the ranks, and the emperor saw that it was the minister Fan Zhongyan.

After saluting, Fan Zhongyan said: "Now that natural disasters are everywhere, the soldiers and the people live in fire and water, and there will be no peace sooner or later. Song Renzong approved, and immediately wrote an edict in person, put on a stick of incense, and specially sent the former palace captain Hong Xin as the imperial envoy to Xinzhou Longhu Mountain in Jiangxi, announcing that Zhang Zhenren, the heir of the Han Dynasty, would immediately enter the court and eliminate the plague.

The imperial incense was lit on the palace, and then the emperor personally handed over the edict to Hong Xin, and immediately went to ask for it.

Hong Xin received the holy decree, bid farewell to the emperor, filled the incense burner with imperial incense, took dozens of followers, rode away from Bianjing City, and went straight to Guixi County in Xinzhou.

Hong Xin took his entourage and arrived in Xinzhou, Jiangxi Province in a few days. The officials of Shinshu all went out of the city to greet them, and then called for someone to tell the abbot of the Qing Palace and all the Taoist priests on Longhu Mountain to prepare to welcome the edict.

The next day, these officials sent Taiwei Hongxin to the foot of Longhu Mountain. Many Taoist priests from the Shangqing Palace came to greet them, until the Shangqing Palace, the presiding real person and the Taoist attendants led Hongxin to the Sanqing Palace, and the emperor's edict was placed in the center to offer.

Taiwei Hong Xin asked the Taoist priest who presided over the Shangqing Palace, "Where is Tianshi Zhang now?" The real Taoist priest told Taiwei Hong: "The ancestor of this generation is called Xujing Tianshi, who has a high personality and is lazy to greet and send off. ”

Hong Xin said: "Now that the emperor has summoned the Heavenly Master, how can he see it?"

The Taoist priest replied: "The edict has been offered to the palace, and I dare not wait for the Taoist priest to read it, so I will first invite the Taiwei into the guest room to drink tea and fast, and then speak." ”

Taiwei came to the guest room and sat in the middle, someone offered tea and fasting, and after eating tea and fasting, Taiwei asked again: "The Heavenly Master is in the mountaintop nunnery, who should he ask to invite him down to meet so that he can read the edict?"

The Taoist priest replied: "Although this patriarch lives on the top of the mountain, he is amazing, he can soar through the clouds and fog, I don't know if he is there, and we can't usually see him, how can he be invited?"

Hong Xin said: "If this is the case, how can we see it? Now that the country is full of plagues, the emperor has ordered me to come to the Heavenly Master with a holy decree, hoping to save the people, what can I do?"

The Taoist priest said: "If the emperor wants to save the people, as long as the Taiwei shows a little sincerity, fasts and bathes, changes into coarse cloth clothes, does not bring a person, carries the edict on his back, burns the imperial incense, and walks up the mountain, it is possible to meet the heavenly master." If the heart is not sincere, I am afraid that if I have to go back empty, it will be difficult to see it. ”

After hearing these words, Taiwei Hong said: "I have been a vegetarian all the way from Bianjing to here, why am I not sincere? In this case, I will listen to you and go up the mountain early tomorrow morning." ”

The next morning, after Hong Xin bathed, he changed his cloth clothes, wore straw sandals, ate vegetarian rice, wrapped the holy decree in yellow cloth and carried it on his back, held a hand stove in his hand, burned imperial incense, and the Taoist priests sent him to the back mountain and showed him the way up the mountain.

The Taoist priest told Hong Xin again: "If Taiwei wants to save the people, he can't regret it, he must go up the mountain sincerely." ”

Hongxin separated from the others, and then went up the mountain. After walking for a few miles, I couldn't walk anymore, and complained: "I am a big official of the imperial court, when do I wear straw sandals and walk on mountain roads, knowing that the Heavenly Master is on the mountain, and let me suffer this crime!" After walking dozens of steps, suddenly a white tiger came out and startled Hong Xin and fell to the ground. The tiger watched Hong Xin turn around a few times and jumped down the back hill. When the tiger walked for a cup of tea, Hong Xincai stood up tremblingly, packed up, and continued to walk forward, making sure to see Zhang Tianshi. After walking a few dozen steps, he complained again: "The emperor asked me to invite the Heavenly Master, but I was actually frightened by this." Before he could finish speaking, another snowflake python came out of the bamboo forest, fell down, and Hong Xin shouted: "This time I am dead." ”

The giant python looked at Hong Xin and went down the mountain. Hong Xin saw that the giant python was gone, got up, and said, "I'm scared to death." He scolded the Taoist priest again: "These bulls, when I go up the mountain, I can't see Zhang Tianshi, and after I go down the mountain, I will pick your skin." He took the incense burner again, and was about to go up the mountain, but he saw a little Taoist boy playing a flute and riding a ox and coming to him. Hong Xin asked the Dao Tong, "Where did you come from? Do you recognize me?" The Dao Tong said to Hong Xin, "Are you what kind of Hong Taiwei?

Hong Xin was shocked when he heard this, and said, "How do you know this little Dao boy? Who told you?" Dao Tong said: "I heard from the Heavenly Master in the Cao'an earlier, and a certain Captain Hong asked him to go to Bianjing to eliminate the plague, and the Heavenly Master has already gone to the clouds, so you don't need to go up the mountain, go back quickly! lest the poisonous insects and beasts in the mountains harm your life." After saying that, Dao Tong rode a bull and went.

Hong Xin thought for a while and said, "How does he know, it must have been told by the Heavenly Master, and the Heavenly Master must have gone." "I still want to go up the mountain, but I was scared enough just now, so it's important to go down the mountain, and I return the same way.

When they arrived at the bottom of the mountain, they were greeted by a Taoist priest. The Taoist priest asked Hong Xin: "Has the Taiwei seen the Heavenly Master?" Hong Xin said: "I was frightened a lot along the way, a tiger will be strung out for a while, and a big python will be strung out for a while, which scares me to death, it must be you bull-nosed ghosts who are playing tricks on me." The Taoist priest said, "We don't dare, this is the Heavenly Master testing whether you are sincere." Hong Xin also said: "I was about to go up the mountain, and I saw a little Taoist boy, who told me that the Heavenly Master had gone to the capital and asked me to go down the mountain, so I came back." The Taoist priest said, "It's a pity that Taiwei, you missed the Heavenly Master, and that Dao Tong is the Heavenly Master." Hong Xin asked, "He is a Heavenly Master, why is he so young?"

The Taoist priest replied: "Although the Heavenly Master of our generation is young, he has great magical powers, and everyone in the Quartet calls him Daotong Patriarch. Hong Xin regretted and said, "Why didn't I see it? ”

The Taoist priest told Hong Xin: "Since the Heavenly Master said that he went to the capital, he must have gone there, and when the adults return to Beijing, the Dharma has already been done." ”

After hearing these words, Hong Xin put down his heart and stayed in the temple to live.

The next day, someone led Hong Xin to watch the scenery of Longhu Mountain, walked around and came to a large hall door, there was a golden plaque that said "Fu Demon Palace," the door was written with a spell, with an iron lock to lock the temple door, I wondered in my heart, I asked to know, it turned out that the Tang Cave Xuanguo Division blocked the demon king here, more curious, ordered someone to open the temple door to see what the demon king looked like, the Taoist priest blocked it in every possible way, Hong Taiwei insisted on seeing, had to open the temple door. This hall has not been opened for hundreds of years, everyone entered the black hole in the hall, Hong Xin asked people to light torches, saw a big stone turtle trapped in the soil, there is a stone tablet on it, take a torch to shine, the front is engraved with the book of heaven, do not recognize, a photo behind it is written "open in the flood," Hong Xin looked at it, opened his mouth and laughed and said: "Hundreds of years ago, my name and surname were written here, this is for me to open and see! You find more people, take a shovel and shovel to dig it for me, and the demon king is below." The Taoist priest persuaded hard, Hong Xin did not listen to the people to move the stone turtle, and dug three or four feet deep, digging the bluestone slab, below is a bottomless black hole, Hong Taiwei took the torch and threw it in, and saw a cloud of black gas rolling out, and dozens of hundreds of golden lights broke through the roof of the main hall and dispersed in the air. Everyone was so frightened that they ran to the bottom of the corridor, and Hong Xin asked the Taoist priest, "What kind of demon did you get away with just now?" The Taoist priest informed: "It's the Thirty-six Heavenly Gang Demon King and the Seventy-two Earth Demon Lords." Hong Xin returned to Beijing for fear of being punished, so he concealed the matter, and the emperor did not know.

In the blink of an eye, during the Zhezong period, Hong Taiwei mistakenly released one day of the Tiangang Star to hurt the star, and was born in the family of a person surnamed Wu in Qinghe County, Hebei Province as a son, the Wu family has two sons, the eldest son is called Wu Zhen, and the second son is called Wu Song. Wu Zhuang is short, because he is the boss, he is more modest, the neighbors call him Wu Dalang, he sells cooking cakes for a living, his parents died early, his younger brother Wu Song was raised by Wu Da, so Wu Song is the closest to his brother, Wu Song is already more than eight feet tall when he is fifteen or sixteen years old, handsome, hot-tempered, he does not learn when he grows up, he is worried about Da Lang, Da Lang let him learn literature, he refuses to learn, Da Lang let him learn martial arts and Wu Song is bad, Wu Da once did hard labor in Songshan Shaolin Temple, so he knew the abbot, so he wrote a letter of introduction to Wu Song, let Wu Song go to the temple to learn art, Wu Da still lives by selling cooking cakes, and sends a letter to his family from time to time, so that Wu Song can practice martial arts with peace of mind and be a useful person in the future.

Wu Song walked for two months and came to the Shaolin Temple in Songshan, knocked on the door of the temple, and a small novice came out of the door, put his hands together and asked: "Who are you? What are you doing?" Wu Song said to the novice: "My name is Wu Song, and I am here to learn art." As he spoke, he took the letter of recommendation from Wuda to Shami, who looked at it and said, "You wait here first, and I'll go tell the abbot." After saying that, he took the letter and turned around and went in, and closed the temple door with a bang.

Wu Song waited outside for an hour, and the door finally opened, and Shami said, "Donor, let you wait for a long time, Master Abbot invites you to speak inside." Wu Song said angrily: "What kind of weather do you see this? In the middle of summer, you know that you have kept me waiting for a long time, why didn't you open the door earlier?" Wu Song said as he walked inside: "You little monk, you don't dare to disturb the abbot, why don't you ask me to go in to escape the summer." Xiao Shami stuck out his tongue and led Wu Song to the Daxiong Treasure Hall, Wu Song saw the abbot and said, "My brother asked me to come here to learn art." The abbot interrupted Wu Song and said, "I already know this, your brother has already said in the letter, to be a lay disciple, you don't need to shave, go to the room to pick firewood first!" and then let the little novice lead him to the room.

In a blink of an eye, more than a month, Wu Song was annoyed with chopping firewood every day, and he always said that the abbot was short behind his back, someone told the abbot, and the abbot asked Wu Song to go to the meditation room to talk, Wu Song came to the meditation room, and pushed the door without permission to go in. The abbot said to Wu Song: "I know that you are angry with me, close the door first, come and sit down, I have something to tell you." ”

Wu Song closed the door with his hand, came to the abbot, and sat down on the futon. The abbot said: "You are young and vigorous, the old man did not become a monk when his temper was similar to you, my surname is Zhou, the name is the same, there are four apprentices, three of them are the stars of heaven, the eldest disciple Lu Junyi, now in Hebei as a staff member; the second disciple Shi Wengong, in Zengtou City as a teacher of the nursing home; the third disciple Lin Chong is the head of the 800,000 forbidden army in Tokyo, and was forced to Liangshan by Gao Yu; the fourth disciple Lu Zhishen gathered righteousness in Erlong Mountain, and fell into the grass. I teach them all their martial arts, and I can teach you whatever you want to learn. ”

Wu Song was taken aback when he heard this, knelt down and kowtowed, and said, "Master, I don't know what to learn if I have the strength?" ”

The abbot said, "Go outside with me first." The two walked out of the meditation hall.

The abbot pointed to the bluestone carved lion and said, "This lion weighs about a thousand catties, can you move it away?" Wu Song approached the stone lion, clasped one hand in the lion's mouth, and supported the lion's abdomen with the other.

Seeing this scene, the abbot couldn't help but praise and said: "Good strength, can be compared to the overlord to lift the crown, the future will definitely be the pillars of the material, Lu Junyi and Lin Chong are both kung fu immediately, Shi Wengong learned to ride and shoot, Lu Zhishen learned to step down the long weapon, as a teacher, I will teach you the short blade under the step! But the stick must also be learned, I will teach you the Wulang gossip stick first!" After speaking, he asked Wu Song to take a stick, and he also took one himself, and taught Wu Song a set of stick techniques. Half a month later, he handed over Wu Song a set of kung fu to make double knives.

Wu Song stayed in the Shaolin Temple for six years and learned martial arts, and one day the master suddenly said to him: "It's time for you to go down the mountain, you are twenty-three years old this year, right?"

Wu Song replied: "Yes, the disciple is twenty-three, why did the master let me go? ”

The abbot said: "You didn't make a mistake, you have bigger things to do, you can't live in the temple for a long time, and you haven't been ordained ordained, you can't be considered a disciple of Buddhism, it's time to go home to visit your brother, go down the mountain!" Wu Song reluctantly said goodbye to the abbot, packed up his belongings, carried a stick down Songshan, and returned to Qinghe County, Hebei.

The abbot looked at Wu Song's departing back and said, "This son should be the star of heavenly injury, and if he hurts others, he will also hurt himself!"