Chapter 39: The Eve of the Ceremony
The ceremony of accepting apprentices is a grand event in Taiqing, because it is the last year of the two eras, the momentum is greater, all halls are involved in the preparation and planning, Shangxuan Hall began to solicit the intention of Ziqi real people to accept apprentices, Taiqing Sect only the disciples of the sect are qualified to accept apprentices, and only Tianchengzi and other three people have not yet advanced to the mountain, and the others have been promoted to the mountain and become the purple qi real person. The intention of these disciples to accept disciples directly determines the number www.biquge.info of disciples recruited this year.
Zhongweidian is responsible for preparing for the six-level assessment, and the exam questions and assessment methods are different every year, but the number of sessions is established, and they are all six levels.
The lower and the hall is responsible for preparing for the three-question assessment, the three questions are three questions as the name suggests, these three questions will change every year, can not be speculated, and there is no fixed answer, as long as the chief of the lower and the hall and the two assistants who are responsible for the examination are satisfied with the answer, they can pass.
Due to the approaching ceremony, there were many more guests in the mountain, and the Richa Hall was dispatched more frequently to prevent the disciples from violating the rules and ruining their reputation during the ceremony.
The collection hall is responsible for printing all kinds of scriptures for the Taoist who is about to get started, and the Taoist priest needs to learn the basic scriptures, the Tao Te Ching, the morning and evening homework scriptures, the Beidou Sutra, the Duren Sutra and so on more than a dozen.
The Hall of Rites is busy preparing all kinds of things needed for the ceremony, and rehearsing various ceremonial music for different occasions.
During the apprenticeship ceremony, all branches of the Taiqing Sect Taoist Temple will come to congratulate the ceremony, the officials of the imperial court will also be present, as well as a large number of candidates and the family members who sent them over, the Taiqing Sect can not help but marry, and the master of the sect is the protector of the country, so many parents are willing to send their children here to learn the Tao, both to learn the skills, but also to have a future, these people's residences are temporarily built by the Secular Palace, and everyone's diet is also arranged by the Secular Palace, as well as the construction of the canonical platform, and the Secular Palace also needs to send people to assist the Lile Hall to complete.
Sun Ministry was very concerned about Nanfeng, and stopped Nanfeng's errand a month before the apprenticeship ceremony, and let him stay in his residence, nominally to help in the kitchen, but in fact to let him memorize more scriptures and practice more words, although Nanfeng can write, but the writing is ugly, some questions need to be answered on paper, and a good hand can also be pleasing.
Nanfeng is very sympathetic to Sun's ministry, but he does not study hard, as the apprenticeship ceremony approaches, his heart is getting heavier and heavier, he is used to being unrestrained, he doesn't like the template-like routine life, once he gets started, he is not as free as he is now.
The main thing is that once you get started, you will be completely involved in the whirlpool of power struggle, and it will be even more difficult to get out.
There is still half a month before the apprenticeship ceremony, and the Taiqing outer branch sects who came to congratulate have arrived one after another, and the students who came to refer to it also gathered hundreds of people, the outer branch sect lives on the mountain, and the reference students live under the mountain, and the east and west sides of the Yin and Yang Square have set up long wooden houses for the reference students to live.
These people's meals are provided by the secular palace, Nanfeng under the guise of delivering food, he will go to the front of the mountain every day to take a turn, he hopes to be able to meet Tianchengzi, and tell Tianchengzi his thoughts, like him, he can leave Taiqing Mountain, go to a quiet place to practice Taoism, and then come back when he is older, he has been living on the mountain, he has been in danger.
The hard work paid off, Nanfeng finally met Tianchengzi, Tianchengzi sent a middle-aged man who looked like an official and his child down the mountain, Nanfeng stood aside, and waited for Tianchengzi to send the other party away, before he stepped up and whispered his thoughts.
"The Taiqing Dharma Seal is in their hands, and without the Dharma Seal, it cannot be given to you, you must stay on the mountain. Tianchengzi finished speaking and left quickly.
Nanfeng returned in frustration, Tian Yuanzi once told him about the situation of conferring the urn, the Taoist priest could not ask the gods to control the ghost if he did not confer the urn, the Taiqing Dharma seal that Tianchengzi said should be a special seal, and only the prayer of the conferral with the seal can reach the heavens.
"Nanfeng, what are you talking about with Uncle Tiancheng?" came Ling Xizi's voice behind him.
Nanfeng stopped when he heard the sound, turned around and saluted Ling Xizi, "He asked me if Ling Yanzi had beaten me again." ”
Lingyanzi was seen by Nanfeng without clothes Many people in Taiqing Sect knew about it, Lingxizi believed it as soon as he heard it, and pulled Nanfeng towards no one's land, "I'll tell you, take the left passage when referring to the three questions, I have already said hello to Auxiliary Qian to ensure that you pass the test." ”
Nanfeng hurriedly thanked him when he heard this, Ling Xizi was a good person, although he was greedy for money, he was not greedy in vain, but he was worried that Tiandezi and the others had other arrangements, so he asked, "I heard that Master Tiancheng is also ...... exam."
Ling Xizi slapped Nanfeng's head, "You decrepit boy, Uncle Tiancheng is the most strict, if you take the right passage, you will definitely be more than lucky." ”
Nanfeng couldn't say anything more, so he had to thank him again and catch up with the food delivery team and return together.
There are still seven days before the ceremony of accepting disciples, and the Shangxuan Palace issued a public list, and the number of people included was set, ninety-six ordinary disciples and three disciples in charge, a total of ninety-nine people.
As soon as the list was issued, Yamashita immediately fried the pot, in previous years, each session of the apprenticeship would not be less than three hundred, this year there are less than a hundred, the most terrible person this year refers to a lot of students, three or four times as many as in previous years, enough for more than 10,000 people, such as a fake one in a hundred.
Few of the students who came to refer to it came alone, and most of them were accompanied by servants or family members, and seeing that the gate was too small, they were worried that their children would not be allowed to enter the door, so they tried to go through the back door and the side door.
Taoist priests are also people, and there are also people who are sophisticated, most of those purple qi real people have a deep or shallow friendship with the officials of the current dynasty, many officials contact privately, directly through, some purple qi real people will insist on justice, and some can't bear the other party's stubborn grinding, rush down and say that I accepted someone, their words, the quota will be one less.
There are still three days before the apprenticeship ceremony, and there are already more than a dozen Purple Qi Zhenren who have already set the number of apprentices to be accepted, and the list has already been issued, and they can't temporarily increase it, ninety-nine places, I'm afraid that even half of them are left.
Kong Yiming and the others heard the sound of the wind, they were as anxious as ants on a hot pot, they were different from Nanfeng, Nanfeng is a flower child, it feels very comfortable to live here, they are all family people, and they have stayed in Taiqingzong to pour the toilet for a year, and in the end they are likely to be busy in vain.
Tomorrow is the ceremony of accepting apprentices, everyone in the secular palace has been busy until late at night, Nanfeng prepared some wine and food from the kitchen, and when everyone came back, he called two good friends to eat wine together, one is Kong Yiming in the same room, and the other is Cao Meng, who is also a coachman.
Kong Yiming and Cao Meng were so worried that they had no intention of eating and drinking, and they kept sighing.
"You're worried that you won't be able to get in?" asked Nanfeng.
"Which one is as heartless as you. Kong Yiming let out a long sigh.
"I've taken the exam from twelve to twenty, and I've taken the exam nine times again, and my eyes are yellow again, how can I explain to my parents?" Cao Meng cried with a sad face.
"Jiren has their own natural appearance, come, drink. "The south wind drinks and persuades wine.
The two of them took a sip of their glasses, put them down and began to sigh again.
"After tomorrow, the Taiqing Sect will no longer recruit disciples within twelve years, what are your plans?" Cao Meng looked at the south wind.
"What are your plans?" asked Nanfeng rhetorically.
"At my age, there are several children, and I am completely dead if I fail the ninth attempt, so go home with a cheeky face, I can't die outside. Cao Meng said.
"What about you, what are your plans?" Nanfeng looked at Kong Yiming.
"I don't have the face to go back, and I don't want to stay in the mountains, I want to go to the Shangqing Sect of the Eastern Wei Dynasty to try my luck. Kong Yiming said.
After tomorrow, Nanfeng will not return to the secular palace, he invited the two to drink tonight, the original intention was to see the two off, but when he saw the appearance of the two, he couldn't bear it in his heart, and swallowed the words a few times, he couldn't take the two with him, otherwise he would put himself in danger.
The two of them don't drink as often as Nanfeng, and after a few drinks, their emotions are out of control, and they start to cry, and Nanfeng is moved by compassion again, but he still hasn't said anything, let's see it tomorrow, and if you can, you can pull the two of them.
In the early morning, the aunt in the back kitchen made breakfast for everyone early, and everyone ate breakfast and went to the front of the mountain to gather......