Chapter 17 The Crane-haired Toad and the Apprentice
When Changsheng walked through the ruins and saw the legendary fairy girl, the original imaginary image of the fairy wind bone, Tsing Yi fluttering in the imagination completely collapsed, this fairy girl, the hair was messy, and there was no difference from the artemisia grass in the field, the only difference was that the artemisia grass was white...... A good hair like snow, messy like grass.
The face is more fresh and tender, at a glance it seems to be broken, but the color is as black as charcoal, the contrast between black and white is particularly clear, wearing a tattered green coat that may have not been washed for several months, with a hosta hanging from his waist, he is sitting on the bluestone and playing the piano lazily.
Yes, you read that right, this crane-haired, ragged Dao Gu is playing the piano.
Changsheng has not received education in various dramas and movies, and was deeply shocked by the atmosphere created by this grandmother, and I was in my heart XX This mysterious grandmother, "Love to pretend to be B, was struck by lightning!" ”
"I'm 100% sure this well-maintained grandmother is doing it!" I whisper with immortality.
"Immortals... Road...... "Aunt" Changsheng stepped forward and called out embarrassedly, this old woman was dressed like a beggar woman, but she was very energetic, and she could vaguely see that she was a cultivator through Tsing Yi.
The mysterious fairy girl didn't pay attention to Changsheng's greeting, and she didn't even raise her eyelids, only to see her jade hands lightly pick up the silver strings, and her hands were plucking on the guqin, and her voice was like a beautiful and rhythmic, like the sound of heaven...... To be honest, this song is really good, Changsheng and I are drunk listening to it.
After a long time, after finishing the playing of this song, the mysterious fairy girl turned her head slightly, looked at this young man with clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, and dressed in a small way, her eyes flashed with a fine light, and then dimmed.
"No one else is welcome here, get out of here." The mysterious fairy girl and her constant wipe her face with a sleeve that can basically be used as linoleum, regardless of her image, and said coldly.
"I ...... I'm here to find someone, I don't know ......."
Before Changsheng could finish speaking, he was rudely interrupted by the mysterious fairy girl: "There is only the old woman and me here, there is no one else, you are welcome if you don't leave!" ”
I didn't expect this old woman to be so simple and rude, and she didn't give her a chance to explain her intentions at all, seeing that she rolled up her sleeves and really wanted to drive people away, Changsheng hurriedly said: "Wu Chengzhen ...... Do you know Wu Chengzhen...... Human life is at stake, I will find her to go to the corpse field of Shanshui River......" Changsheng was in a hurry, so he shouted a few words indiscriminately.
Hearing Changsheng's shout, the mysterious fairy girl's face immediately changed from cold to happy, and with a slight touch of her toes, she came to Changsheng, looked up and down, and smiled with a wrinkled face.
"Do you see the corpse field on the edge of the mountain and river?"
"Yes, but brother...... The disciple didn't know how to crack it, so he came to ask for advice......"
"How about you being my apprentice?" This mysterious fairy girl didn't hear what she said just now.
"Huh?" Changsheng's heart was broken again.
This person is really weird, an old woman who is not much better than Hanako comes up and wants to recognize someone as an apprentice, alas, it is too unbelievable.
"Fairy Gu, I'm just..."
"Okay, don't say it, you will worship me as a teacher." After that, the mysterious fairy girl took a breath, and even hummed a little song and inserted the jade hairpin on her waist into her hair, and her posture was quite enchanting, and Changsheng was left in the middle of the air by her, and she ignored it directly.
"That'...... That fairy girl, I came to find my aunt, her name is Wu Chengzhen, I didn't come to apprentice! Besides, I have a Master! Changsheng was so embarrassed by this crazy woman's fairy aunt that he couldn't cry or laugh, and hurriedly explained.
"Your aunt is Wu Chengzhen's old girl, so is your master Yi Xinying or Yuan Yangzi?" Hearing Changsheng's explanation, the mysterious fairy girl suddenly asked.
Yuan Yangzi is the Dao number of the Immortal Master, is Yi Xinying a one-eyed fairy woman? Such a vicious and vicious mother-in-law still has such a euphemistic name. Seeing that this mysterious fairy girl was so familiar with these people, I was puzzled, and Changsheng was of course even more puzzled.
"My master is Yoko Hara, but he has been feathered." Changsheng replied honestly.
"Haha, dead is dead, what kind of feathering, I didn't expect that little bald child to die so early...... It's a pity, but it's just a shame that you can worship me as a teacher. The mysterious fairy girl smiled, and the wrinkles were all squeezed together.
I was speechless, there was such a thing of robbing apprentices, and this master looked extremely unreliable, but I didn't dare to communicate with Changsheng too loudly, in case this old woman was really a fairy god, and she found out that I was immortal, then I wouldn't be dead, and I didn't even have to do ghosts.
Changsheng's face was black, and he didn't know how to answer, so he had to hesitate: "This ...... That...... Disciple...... Think about it! ”
"You little Taoist priest, and your master have the same virtue, it's really annoying to grind around...... By the way, you just said that you were looking for Wu Chengzhen's old girl, what's the matter? ”
Hearing her question, Changsheng added fuel and vinegar to describe how he bravely fought ghosts, and how he wittily analyzed the corpse on the side of the mountain and river...... I blushed as I listened to the little broken Taoist priest boasting about himself.
"Little Daoist, sister misjudged you, I didn't expect you to be such a shameless person!" I shouted from the bottom of my heart.
The old woman listened to Changsheng's boasting, she simply loved her apprentice to death, in this era of chaos everywhere, to receive this kind of talented apprentice, it can be regarded as a Taoist disciple The incense should not be broken, but her tone changed: "Wu Chengzhen's old girl was indeed in my white jade toad a few days ago, but she has already left ......"
"Where did Aunt Shi go? When will you be back? Changsheng hurriedly asked.
The old woman soothed her tone and said lazily: "The old girls are all wandering around, maybe the next time we meet will be many years later!" I don't know if there's any chance to see you again, hey......"
Listening to the old woman's faint sigh, Changsheng couldn't help but say, "Then what should I do?" How to solve the problem of the corpse land? Human lives are at stake......"
"Hey, I'm really old and confused, the willow tree opposite the corpse seems to be planted by the old woman and I asked the villagers to plant it......"
"Uh...... Fairy Gu, so you can solve the problem of the corpse land? "Changsheng is careful.
The old woman answered some questions, but said lightly: "It seems that I still have an apprentice...... Apprentice ......"
You know the meaning of the mysterious old woman, so Changsheng was confused and apprenticed.
Subsequently, I overheard the conversation between Changsheng and the old woman and learned that her real name is Li Dangdang, and her name is Ying Toad, and she is the current host of Bai Yuchan, and Bai Yuchan actually has no host, because she is the only one.
Grandma Ying Toad told Changsheng that she was already 101 years old, but in my opinion, she was only in her 60s at most, and she could jump around, how could this be a centenarian? Regarding Ying Toad's statement about his age, Changsheng will always be skeptical.
Of course, the first thing Changsheng did was to show Ying Toad the record of the "Green Capsule Sutra", but he didn't expect Ying Toad to jokingly say "Child's play... Child's play..."
It turns out that this Ying Toad is the descendant of the Taoist master Ma Danyang, and the master Ma Danyang is the head of the "Quanzhen", the Ying Toad in front of him, proficient in the essence of the Taoist schools such as Sutu, Mai, Zhongge, Quanzhen, Maoshan, etc., Changsheng holds this "Green Capsule Sutra", in the view of Ying Toad, it is only a vernacular book in the late Qing Dynasty, which only illustrates the identification and solution of some simple phenomena, but does not give any explanation to the "heart technique" of Taoism.
"Mind art" is the essence of Taoism, which is a method to stimulate some of the degraded instincts of the human body, and use it to cure monsters and drive away evil spirits. Just knowing how to draw talismans and make up materials is simply too rudimentary for a broad and profound Dao technique, and some imps and monsters who are not in the climate may be cured, but there is no way to do anything about such a powerful thing as a ghost fetus that has been bred by Yin Qi for decades.
In fact, the haunting of Changxian Temple, Ying Toad has also heard of it, but at this time, the small warlords of a town have begun to fight, and even their own nest has been burned down, and the mud bodhisattva crosses the river, how can he still care about others?
Ying Toad took Changsheng to a clearing not far away, and dug out a box, which contained the "Quanzhen Thirty-six Law Interpretation" and a "Qing Capsule Ancient Scripture" that looked much older than the "Qing Capsule Sutra", as well as several medical books and a compass, which was the housekeeping treasure that Ying Toad's grandmother hid in advance when her catastrophe was coming. Among them, the "Interpretation of the Thirty-six Laws of the Whole Truth" is completely a strange posture like acrobatics in the eyes of Changsheng, and what the ancient "Qing Bao Ancient Sutra" describes is some bizarre doctrines that Changsheng has never heard of and thousands of times stranger.
At the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the war was continuous, the corpses were all over the field, and the ghosts wept for thousands of miles, and it was this special historical background that created the prosperity of Taoism.
I just worshipped this grandmother as a teacher, and she was a little embarrassed to live up to my parents, and she was a little embarrassed to live up to the fiery pure Zhen who seemed to be going to pass on the mantle of inheritance.