Maoshan!

It is a famous Taoist mountain in Jiangsu Province, China, the birthplace of the Shangqing sect of Taoism, and is called the "Shangqing Altar" by Taoists, and has the reputation of "the first blessed land, the eighth cave heaven"!

Because of the twists and turns of the mountain, the shape resembles the word "has", so it is called Juqu Mountain, and the Taoists call "the Jinling of Juqu, which is the blessed realm of raising the truth, and the spiritual ruins of the gods".

In the Western Han Dynasty, the three brothers of the Mao family in Xianyang, Shaanxi Province, Mao Ying, Mao Gu, and Mao Zhen came to Juqu Mountain to cultivate the way and do good, benefiting the world, and the descendants changed the sentence Qushan to Sanmao Mountain in order to commemorate the merits of the Mao family, which was referred to as "Mao Mountain".

During the Tang and Song dynasties, Maoshan Taoism reached its heyday, the front mountain and the back ridge, between the peaks and valleys, the palace, the view, the hall, the Yu and other Taoist buildings of various sizes as many as more than 300, more than 5,000 rooms, thousands of Taoist priests, there are "three palaces, five views, seventy-two thatched hermitage" said.

However, in the eighties of the twentieth century, after the catastrophe of the decade, Maoshan appeared to be a little decayed, although it was restored in the early eighties, but it is still difficult to show the incense in its heyday.

At the foot of the mountain, close to the boundary of Jintan, surrounded by several small villages, the larger ones are no more than 100 households, and the smaller ones are even only a dozen households, and every morning and evening, you can see bursts of cooking smoke rising from all over the foot of the mountain.

When the children in these villages reach school age, they have to walk five or six miles to the school in the town.

In this era, there is no popular boarding, and you have to go home obediently after school, but fortunately, there are no large beasts near Maoshan Mountain, and you are used to running the road, but there are no accidents.

"Brother Ye, tomorrow is a holiday, should we celebrate at night? Is it okay to go to the corn field of Li Er's house to steal corn and eat it? ”

On a mountain path, three or four half-grown children in their early nines and teens were carrying army green schoolbags with patches on them, and a pair of small eyes were groping on both sides of the road, and their cloth shoes with bare toes were not honestly kicking the pebbles on the ground.

When it came to eating, except for the little boy who walked in the middle, the rest of the little guys had bright eyes and couldn't help but swallow saliva in their stomachs.

Although the chief designer had already shouted the slogan of reform and opening up at this time, a city on the southern coast was also vigorously carrying out large-scale construction.

But in this remote mountain village, the children who are at the age of "half the eldest child, eat the poor old man", in their spare time every day, in addition to playing, the most talked about is eating.

Ye Tian, who was walking among several people, heard the words of the little fat man, and said: "What kind of corn to eat, come to my house at night to eat fish, crabs and yellow eels......

If you want to talk about family background, Ye Tian's family is an outsider, and it can be said that it is the poorest of these families, but Ye Tian's father always tries his best to supplement his son's nutrition, and there is no meat to eat, and this fish has never been broken.

Hearing that there was fish to eat, the saliva of a few little guys suddenly flowed out, Uncle Ye's skill in cooking fish is the best, it is the fish soup boiled in white water, which can also make people drink with endless aftertaste.

"Brother Ye, you caught the yellow eel, you are so good, I can't catch it all the time."

A little fat man looked at Ye Tian enviously, ** years old can look like a scale, it is definitely the result of stuffing it into his mouth when he sees something to eat.

This yellow eel fishing is a technical job, the tool is simple, just use a bicycle strip, one end is sharpened, bent into a hook, and the other end is bent into a circle.

After finding the eel hole, you can put the hook into the hole, if there is an eel eating the hook, push it inward, so that the hook all enters the mouth, and turn the angle, pull out of the hole, and hold the neck of the yellow eel with the other hand in time to raise the fish hole.

It's easy to say, but if you want to master the heat, it's extremely difficult, Ye Tianneng can become the child king of several villages around here, in addition to fighting all over the same age without opponents, the skill of catching yellow eels with one hand is not even comparable to many adults.

"Look at what you are gluttony, what do you have to eat for yellow eel, crabs are delicious, this month is just the season to eat crabs......"

Maoshan is located in the south of the Yangtze River water town, the foot of the mountain is full of streams, but people don't seem to be very cold about crabs, few people catch to eat, but people who catch yellow eels and catch fish can be seen everywhere, in this era of poor materials, people are also trying to improve their lives.

Ye Tian pursed his lips, waved his fist, looked at several partners around him with a threatening gaze, and said, "What Yu Qingya cried about today, no one is allowed to tell my father, otherwise ......"

"Brother Ye, don't worry, we won't talk about it......"

With a flattering expression, the little fat man leaned over to Ye Tian and asked, "Brother Ye Zi, do you put the mirror on your feet, do you see clearly inside her skirt?" ”

"Of course I see it clearly, but ...... One look at it and she found out......"

Ye Tian said with a stupid face, this little girl is too unfunny, and she cried and ran to tell the teacher that she had taken the double hundred exam this year, and she didn't get the certificate of the three good students.

However, it seems that after five years of elementary school, Ye Tian has scored full marks in every exam, but he has never taken a certificate of merit at home, either tying the braids of female classmates to the chair, or throwing firecrackers into the men's toilet, and the parents have not screamed.

"Brother Ye, do you want to ...... Let's have dinner and go see the second stunned wife take a bath, right? I know that Li Tunzi is going to the reservoir to lay fishing nets today......"

The little fat man's eyes rolled and he had a bad idea, not that these children developed early, but they were too boring in this remote mountain village, so that these boys had nowhere to vent their energy.

"Cheng, but you guys be careful, don't recruit me out if you get caught......"

Ye Tian nodded, it was not the first time they had done this, it was said that since the day Ye Tian was five years old, Li was stunned and married, he had gone under the bed of the new house, and the next day he went to learn it to the people in the village.

Of course, Ye Tian didn't understand what the "hum yah" meant, and he didn't understand it very much until now.

A few little guys were talking, they had already seen the village not far away, and immediately quickened their pace, running towards the entrance of the village, and a yellow dog that was originally squatting under the big locust tree at the entrance of the village was ready to meet it, and after seeing these guys, he quickly clamped his tail and retracted it.

The village where Ye Tian is located is called Li Zhuang, as the name suggests, in this village except for Ye Tian's father and son, the rest of the people are all surnamed Li, it is said that when the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the two brothers fled from northern Jiangsu to this village.

Li Zhuang is not very big, there are only twenty-three households in total, from the head of the village to the end of the village, you can run back and forth in a few minutes.

On the outer wall of the bluestone house in the village, there are still "to fight for private criticism" and "carry out the proletarian ** revolution to the end!" "And so on lime stucco words.

"Fat dun, Erdan, you guys go home and say come over......" Walking to the head of the village, Ye Tian stopped, his house was at the entrance of the village.

Ye Tian's house was originally an ancestral hall in the village, but in those ten years, the ancestral tablet was smashed by those fanatical red generals who searched all day long to "break feudal superstitions", and the ancestral hall also became the residence of educated youths in the countryside.

However, with the return of the educated youth, the ancestral hall where more than ten people originally lived, now there are only Ye Tian and his son, and the huge place is a little dilapidated.

"Dad, I'm back, I took the double hundred ...... exam again this year"

Ye Tian shouted loudly as soon as he entered the courtyard gate, different from the Jiangnan local dialect he said with his friends just now, Ye Tian was speaking authentic Mandarin at the moment, and it seemed to have a Beijing accent charm in it.

"Stinky boy, why are you doing so loudly, are you doing something bad again?"

As the saying goes, knowing the son is more than the father, after hearing Ye Tian's voice, the middle-aged man in the courtyard stood up straight and scolded with a smile, he has to be taught by the teacher several times a year, of course he understands his son's ability to cause trouble.

Ye Tian's appearance is six points similar to his father, but compared to Ye Dongping's resolute face, Ye Tian's face is a little weaker.

When Ye Tian was young, people who came to the village as guests always praised this girl for being so beautiful when they saw Ye Tian, so that Ye Tian climbed Maoshan alone when he was five years old, saying that he wanted to learn art and become a man.

If it weren't for the fact that there were no monks in Maoshan, after watching the "Shaolin Temple" played by the screening team, it is estimated that Ye Tian would dare to shave his hair and go to become a monk.

"No, Dad, I'll help you kill the yellow eel......"

Ye Tian threw the schoolbag aside, smiled and took a wooden board from the door, and at the top of the board, a nail was nailed.

Putting the wooden board on the ground, Ye Tian reached out and grabbed a yellow eel from the basin next to him, skillfully nailed it to the wooden board, and his right hand didn't know where to conjure a small knife, and with a slight stroke, the yellow eel's belly was sliced open.

After copying it in the water, Ye Tian's right hand flashed a few times on the wooden board, and with a shake of his hand, a yellow eel weighing more than a pound fell into the enamel jar prepared next to him piece by piece.

After Ye Tian cleaned up the yellow eel, the lard in Ye Dong's frying pan was also boiled, and after putting in some green onions and chili peppers, the eel slices were poured into the pot, and with the sound of "snorting", a fragrance filled the yard.

Not long after, a large enamel jar stir-fried eel, a braised fish and a bowl of fish head soup, on the table, in addition to home-grown vegetables, in the countryside, these dishes are also very rich.

Although there are only three dishes, the amount is very sufficient, and the fish alone weighs six or seven catties, plus three catties of eel slices, which is enough for five or six people.

"It's so fragrant, Lao Ye, I bought some rice wine when I came back from town, let's have a few glasses together......"

With a burst of laughter, a person of the same age as Ye Dongping walked in, and behind him, followed by a few fat boys, but one by one they shrank their heads and shrank their heads, glancing at Ye Tian.

"Teacher Yu......"

After seeing the visitor, Ye Tian immediately became a lot more honest, stood up and shouted the teacher in a proper manner, the person who came was not only his homeroom teacher, but also Yu Qingya's father, who knows if he came to sue today?

Yu Haoran glanced at Ye Tian, who pretended to be honest, and scolded with a smile: "Stinky boy, it's good to study, but it's too naughty, and you have to develop morally, intellectually, physically, beautifully, and laboriously in an all-round way......"

Looking at his student, Li Haoran couldn't cry or laugh, Ye Tian's academic performance was not to say, let alone the primary school in the town, he could be one of the best in the county, but he just didn't study well, so he put his mind on playing all day long.

However, the teacher always prefers students with good academic performance, although he is stern in his mouth, he still likes it in his heart, and after calling his parents a few times, Yu Haoran became friends with Ye Dongping.

Like Ye Dongping, Yu Haoran is also an educated youth from outside, but because he found a partner in the local area, he did not return to Shanghai, and has been teaching in primary schools from 78 to the present.

Seeing Yu Haoran's expression, Ye Dongping said with a smile: "Teacher Yu, is this kid in trouble again?" If you don't open the roof for three days, you will be your own child, don't be soft when you teach a lesson......"

"Why, Dad, I'm hungry, let's eat......"

Ye Tian glanced at the teacher with some weakness, but he also knew that since the head teacher and his own Lao Tzu became friends, he hadn't made much small reports, and it seemed that he could avoid it today.

"Eat, eat, come, Lao Ye, let's go for a ...... first"

Sure enough, Ye Dongping didn't mention what happened at school, and after a few little guys gathered around the table, they picked up the glass full of wine and touched it with Ye Dongping.

"This wine...... It's tasteless to drink, it's still strong enough for the second pot......" Ye Dongping swallowed a glass of wine, shook his head, seemed to think of something, and his eyes were slightly gloomy.

Yu Haoran put down his wine glass and said, "Old Ye, I just have something I want to tell you......

The adults drank and chatted, but a few little ones were not idle, chopsticks flew, first a piece of fish meat was stuffed in their mouths, then a piece of eel was buried in the bowl, and finally their eyes were still fixed on the next target, all like little wolf cubs.

"Dad, Teacher Yu, we're full...... three or five minutes later, the dishes on the table were swept away, and Ye Tian stood up patting his little belly, his eyes looking at the door.

"Stinky boy, one can eat more than the other......"

Looking at the empty bowl on the table, Ye Dongping scolded with a smile, stood up and said, "Let's go out to play, Teacher Yu, I'll fry some peanuts again, and you talk about it slowly......"

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Although no one in Lizhuang has installed a TV, the night in the countryside in summer is still relatively lively, and the people who come out to chat after dinner, as well as the frogs and insects in the fields, all add a bit of vitality to this small village.

"Brother Ye, show me ......"

Under the window of a small courtyard, three small heads were squeezing into the house, and by the moonlight outside the window, they could vaguely see the white body in the room with the lights off.

Although they are not old enough to cause changes in a certain part of the body, they are a good asset to brag about to their school classmates, and they are always happy to do this activity as long as they are not at home.

"Little bunny, are you looking for death?"

Just when Ye Tian and a few people were whispering about the black mole on the buttocks of the second stunned daughter-in-law, whether it was on the left or right, there was a sudden explosion at the gate of the courtyard.

"Damn, Fat Dun, didn't you say that the second stunned man won't come back until midnight? I knew I was on my own......"

Ye Tian knew the temper of the second stunned man, if he was caught, the whole village who was designated to shout would know that he didn't think that he had helped him hold the chicken when the second stunned son got married, and he would be treated differently.

Seeing that the two stunned people blocked the yards, a few little guys suddenly scattered and ran to both sides, the wall of this countryside is only more than one meter high, and even the little fat pier can be turned over.

Just as Ye Tian ran to the edge of the wall, there was a fat scream of pain behind him, and when he looked back, he was stunned and twisted his ears, grinning and howling.

"This idiot ......"

Ye Tian muttered a sentence in his mouth, but his movements did not slow down at all, and after his right hand supported himself on the earthen wall that was about as high as himself, his figure jumped up and deftly flipped out.

"Alas, let's go to the master today......"

After leaving the courtyard of the second stunned man's house, Ye Tian didn't go home, and ran directly to the hillside behind the village, he didn't want to be beaten on the first day of the holiday, and it was not too late to go home after hiding in the mountains for a few days when his father's anger was gone.

Although the Maoshan trees are high and dense, Ye Tian is not afraid, he dared to drill into the old forest on the mountain when he was five years old, but he went to the wrong peak, and by chance he met an old Taoist priest who claimed to be surnamed Li in a dilapidated Taoist temple, and he worshipped the master by foolishness.

Ye Tian didn't know how old Daoist Li was, but the old Taoist priest often said that when Commander Chen Yi was fighting guerrillas in Maoshan back then, he called him an uncle.

When Ye Tian was young, he didn't know who Commander Chen was, but after he learned about Chen Yi's origin after going to school, he often laughed at the old Taoist priest for bragging, and the old Taoist priest was not angry, just laughed and said nothing.

Although the old guy is a bit of a chatter, forcing him to memorize awkward books such as "Mai Physiognomy" and "Water Mirror Collection" all day long, but he really has a good kung fu, Ye Tian just followed him to learn some qi conduction techniques, and he beat all the invincible opponents of the same age.

From Li Zhuang to the Taoist temple on the mountain, it takes almost an hour, and when he is halfway through, there is a sudden rainstorm in the sky, and when Ye Tian rushes to the Taoist temple, he has been drenched like a chicken in soup.

"Master, master, I'm here......" Ye Tian slipped into the Taoist temple from the rain curtain.

This Taoist temple is not very big, in addition to the main hall at the entrance, there are only two wings in the back, due to disrepair, the gate has been dilapidated, last year was chopped by the old guy as firewood burned, but it saved Ye Tian to knock on the door.

"Master, what about people?"

Ye Tian walked around the back room of the front hall, but found that the old Taoist priest was not in the Taoist temple, scratched his head and walked back to the main hall, and bowed to a statue enshrined in the middle of the hall.

Different from the Taoist temple of the main peak of Maoshan Mountain, which enshrines Sanqing, the statue in this Taoist temple is an ordinary Taoist statue.

The Taoist priest on the altar was dressed in sackcloth, tied his hair in a bun, put his left hand on his chest, but raised his right hand to the top of his head, holding a palm-sized clay compass, the whole shape looked quite strange.

According to the words of the old Taoist priest, this is their ancestor in the lineage of Mai, although he is not subject to incense in the world, but he must be sincerely worshipped.

"With such heavy rain, nothing will happen to the old guy, right?"

Suddenly, a thunderclap sounded, and the entire Taoist temple seemed to shake, Ye Tian looked back outside, and couldn't help but worry about the old Taoist priest.

"Huh? What was that? ”

Just as Ye Tian was looking outside, he suddenly heard the sound of "quack" behind him, and when he looked back, he found that the clay statue had fallen straight in his direction.

"Master Zu, I don't have to be disrespectful to you......"

When Ye Tian looked up, the statue of the Mai Taoist priest was already pressing towards him like a hill, Ye Tian hurriedly retreated, because of his short stature, he was able to avoid the head of the ancestor.

It's just that before Ye Tian was glad that he had escaped by himself, he suddenly felt a sharp pain coming from the top of his head, but it was the right hand raised above his head that smashed on Ye Tian's little head.

Although it was a clay hand, the strength should not be underestimated, and the blood on the top of Ye Tian's head suddenly flowed down with this slap, and he only felt that his eyes were black, and the whole person fainted.

And the clay sculpture more than two meters high, after falling from the altar, is also scattered to the ground, I don't know if this Mai ancestor thousands of years ago, will he count himself as having this calamity?

The head is the place where the capillaries of the human body are the densest, even if the skin is usually scratched, it will also bleed, Ye Tian's small body fell to the ground, and after a while, the blood stained the ground around him red.

The rainstorm outside became more and more urgent, lightning raged in the sky, and the dilapidated Taoist temple was crumbling in this storm, and it seemed that it could collapse at any time.

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