Chapter 1: Master and Apprentice

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When Wu Yue opened his eyes, the sky was only cloudy, the moon was still hanging in the sky, and a little bit of cold and bright moonlight was scattered everywhere. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Wu Yue looked up at the roof, the high beams, in a dim and dim blurred shadow, looking strange and scary. There was another bed a foot away from him, and it was dark and he couldn't see it very clearly, and he didn't know what the other person looked like, but he could vaguely see that the other person was thin, with long hands and long legs, and it was an adult. I could still hear the man's snoring from time to time.

Wu Yue rubbed his eyes, got up and sat up, his eyes didn't know where he was looking, so he put on his clothes in a daze. He thought to himself: It's still early, Master can sleep a little longer.

Wu Yue is only seven years old this year, but he can cook on the fire, chop wood and carry water. Wu Yue didn't know who his parents were and where his home was, and the master told him that he had picked them up, but Wu Yue didn't cry like other children when he heard this, but just looked at his master with wide eyes. Wu Yue was picked up by his master four years ago. According to his master, he was traveling outside, and when he traveled to Wujia Village in Shuanghe Town that day, he saw the ruins of Wujia Village after the fire, and the people in the village were all dead, and finally heard the cry in an abandoned well in the village, and when he fished it up and looked at it again, Wu Yue was crying inside, and had a high fever, and when he cured Wu Yue, Wu Yue was stupid, asking nothing and not talking, nor crying, at that time Wu Yue's master was still thinking, this child would not be stupid. Later, Wu Yue was taken by his master, his master was originally an unrestrained, idle person, after taking Wu Yue, he felt that it was very inconvenient to take a child to run around, so he took Wu Yue to the Yunmeng Temple on this Yunmeng Mountain. Speaking of which, this Yunmeng Temple turned out to be a big view, and then there was a fire, burning seventy-seven eighty-eight, the people in the temple are gone, the villagers under Yunmeng Mountain learned that Master Wu Yue is a "master of the Tao", and after being proficient in medicine, they repaired the Taoist temple a little, and they can barely live in people, Wu Yue and his master have lived here since then.

Although Wu Yue was dull and not clever, he didn't speak until he was six years old, and he was congenitally deficient, but he was extremely diligent and diligent in the day after tomorrow, and he was no worse than others in anything. The master taught him to read and read, and if he didn't work once, he would do it again, and if he couldn't do it again, he would do it again one day; Teach him to participate in the sutras and monasticism, so that he can spend a whole day on the futon alone. Although he was stunned, he was able to endure the boredom, and he only relied on his own perseverance to do one thing perfectly, so he learned everything very slowly, but he learned very solidly and reliably. His master said to him, "Ah Yue, you are a good material for cultivation!" ”

Wu Yue didn't know what his master's name was, and he never asked, just "master, master", and the villagers under the mountain called him Taoist, and even the name 'Wu Yue' was taken by him casually. The two of them went down the mountain on the fifteenth day of the first month of each month, one was to bring some medicinal herbs to see a doctor for the villagers under the mountain, and the other was to go to Huayuan, but it was said to be Huayuan, every time his master saw someone else, because he didn't charge money, he got a lot of food, enough for the two of them to eat.

Wu Yue put the rice into the pot, sat under the stove, on this firelight in the endorsement, a white and clean little face was reflected red by the firelight, "at the beginning of the person, the nature is good, the sex is similar, Xi is far ......away, and so when Wu Yue's master got up, the sky was already bright, and then he saw his appearance clearly, Wu Yue's master was very tall, and because of his thin body, he was taller, although he was old, he was not sloppy, his white hair and white beard were neatly combed, because he had traveled in the mountains and rivers before, his skin was very tanned, he was wearing a water-blue robe, and he wore a wooden hairpin. Holding a whisk of dust, it looks like a fairy wind from a distance. Yunmengguan is located in the deep mountains, surrounded by dense forests, and there is only one path leading to the view, which is already full of golden light at this time. "Ah Yue! Ah Yue! He cried out there, but no one answered him, except for the birds in the mountains. Wu Yue's master walked out of the door, stretched his waist, saw the freshly washed clothes drying on the railing, and was still dripping water there, knowing that Wu Yue was busy again, so he played a set of five poultry plays first, and then slowly went to wash and eat breakfast. When Wu Yue came back from collecting firewood, his master was sitting on a futon in the central hall, and above the main hall was a damaged statue of Yuan Shi Tianzun. Wu Yue knew that the master should not be disturbed when he was meditating, so he walked lightly to the kitchen to set up the firewood he had picked up, then washed the dishes and chopsticks that the master had eaten, and finally came to the main hall lightly, sat on another futon next to his master, and did it properly, and learned from his master to sit up. After about half an hour, Wu Yue's master opened his eyes and saw Wu Yue's small body, but he was sitting straight like a log, his breath was steady, his face was calm, he nodded, and smiled, although his face made of orange peel did not look very good. After a while, Wu Yue also opened his eyes, and the master and apprentice looked at each other and smiled.

"Master, today is exactly the fifteenth! When will we go down the mountain today, I'll finish everything in the view! ”

When his master saw Wu Yue like this, he knew that his little apprentice sometimes couldn't bear the loneliness in this view, and laughed, "Go down the mountain, of course you have to go down the mountain, but Ah Yue, I see that the firewood in the kitchen is about to be put down, why are you still going to collect firewood!" ”

"No matter how much firewood you have, it will run out one day, and when you run out, it's too late to pick it up."

"What's too late?"

"Master, we need firewood every day for cooking, boiling water, and heating, how can we live without firewood!"

Wu Yue's master looked at Wu Yue with a serious appearance, his heart was gentle, and he thought: No wonder the folk say 'raising children to prevent old age', and said to Wu Yue, "Okay!" Go and bring me my medicine box, and we'll go down the mountain." ”

Wu Yue happily carried the master's small medicine box on his back, and went down the mountain with the master, and the two of them walked for an hour and a half before reaching the foot of the mountain. Wu Yue was tired, the medicine box had already been given to his master, the two of them just arrived in the village under the mountain, they were warmly welcomed by the village, and were invited to the house by the local village chief, the village chief's house was already crowded with people, the crowd was divided into two piles, one pile was cured before, and the other pile was waiting for treatment this time, the cured person held a basket or bag, which contained some eggs and dried bacon and the like, most of the people waiting to be cured were haggard and not in good spirits. Wu Yue followed his master to recognize a lot of herbs, and when his master treated people, Wu Yue was there to help and make a start. Wu Yue was bandaging a person's wound at this time, a small face was serious and skillful, and the people next to him laughed at him when they saw him serious,

"Little Daoist, why are you more serious than your master, why don't you smile more when you're young?"

"I'm bandaging people's wounds, this kind of big thing, I can't help but be serious!" After he finished bandaging, he breathed a long sigh of relief and his face relaxed a lot. Everyone around him laughed, and his master touched his head and smiled very heartily.

After the villagers' illnesses were finished, the village chief left Wu Yue and his apprentices, a good meal was inevitable, there was meat and wine, everyone ate and drank together, listened to the village chief talk about some trivial things, and complained. Wu Yue's master had already drunk a lot of wine, and was about to continue drinking, when he saw Wu Yue frowning and staring at him without eating, he asked,

"Ah Yue, why are you staring at me if you don't eat?"

"Master, you've already drunk seven cups today, you can't drink any more, if you get drunk, I can't carry you." His master laughed when he heard this, "Okay! Then I'll listen to Ah Yue, and I won't drink it today. Wu Yue laughed and continued to eat. After the meal, the village chief led a group of villagers, and the village chief said:

"Dao Chief, I'm glad to have you in the past few years! You are the great benefactor of our village! ”

"Where and where, when I first arrived in your land, you were willing to accept our master and apprentice, and cultivate Taoism for us, and give us food, we should be grateful to you, my little medical skills are less than one-tenth of what I will return to you."

"Dao Chief, I see that although the Taoist temple on the mountain has been repaired, it is still broken, and the mountain road is far and difficult to walk, why don't we build you a house in our village, and you master and apprentice move to our village, how about it?" The villagers also chimed in, "Yes, yes." ”

Wu Yue's master turned around and asked Wu Yue behind him, "Ah Yue, do you like the mountain or the mountain!" ”

"As long as Master goes, I will go wherever I go."

When Wu Yue's master heard this, he laughed and said to the villagers, "Thank you for your kindness, but I'm used to being quiet and staying in the mountains, so it's better to continue to stay in the Taoist temple!" When everyone saw that the Taoist chief was unwilling, they didn't say anything. The master and apprentice stayed in the village until the sun went down before going up the mountain.

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