Towering Wuyi, the mountains and peaks are stacked on top of each other, stretching endlessly, it is the most natural barrier in the southeast of the motherland, facing the sea to the east. The mountains are lush with forests and bamboos, and the clouds and mist are shrouded all year round. In the forest, the mountain flowers are continuous all year round, and the wild fruits are endless. Wild boars, bison, pheasants, goats, roe deer, pangolins and other wild animals are infested.

According to legend, Jingxiu Wuyi has 36 Taoist caves and 72 blessed lands, all of which are places for immortals to live and rest. The world thinks that the realm of heaven is auspicious and blessed, and it is admired by Xianhuai. Taoist hidden cultivators, like to live in secluded mountains and forests, so choose more places with fairy legends, build palaces, and hope for the shade of fairy wind and the Taoist garden. Over the years, the Taoist couples have dwelled, pilgrims and tourists have come in an endless stream, so the cave has become the scenic spot of China's Mianxiu rivers and mountains.

In the thirty-six caves of heaven and seventy-two blessed lands, it is especially famous for the water curtain cave and the Taoyuan cave.

The water curtain hole is located in the north of the Zhangtang stream, there is a line of small waterfall on the outer edge from the top of the Xiabin rock and falls down, it is called the small water curtain hole, and the steps go up, that is, the water curtain hole. The roof of the cave is obliquely overlaid, and the cave is deep in the converging rock waist. The entrance of the cave is oblique and wide, and the roof of the cave is cool and shaded from the sun. Two flying springs pour from the top of the oblique overlying rock of more than 100 meters, like two swimming dragons spraying ambergris, floating in the mountains, and like two bead curtains, hanging down to the world from the sky, so it is also called the bead curtain hole.

The water curtain cave reflects the Dan cliff with vertical and horizontal inscriptions. Among them, there are seal characters that extract Zhu Xi's famous sentence of "asking the canal to be as clear as possible, for there is a source of living water". There are Ming Dynasty scenic spots inscribed "Water Curtain Cave" and couplet stone carving "ancient and modern clear eaves rain all day long, spring and autumn flowers and moon a joint bead", dazzling. The water curtain cave not only wins with the scenery, but also is the Taoist resort of Wuyi Mountain, the ancient Taoist temple chooses to build this more, it is the famous cave Tianxian Mansion in the mountain, also known as the Tang Yao Cave Heaven. The cave is bright and bright, and the rock at the bottom of the cave is stacked in several layers, in the shape of a long strip, and there are stone tables and stone benches for people to rest. The whole cave is wide, and the stone fence is set up along the hole, and the water curtain that floats and scatters outside the cave can be enjoyed by the railing. Through the bright crystal bead curtain, you can also enjoy the view of the bonsai-style tea plantation in the mountains.

Wuyi Mountain Taoyuan Cave is located in Wuyi Mountain Liuqu bank, this place is extremely poor and deep, the stone cliffs lean against each other into the door, the resumption of the track and enter tactfully, the stream flowing water under the stone bridge, the inside is suddenly flat, the sun and the moon release the pond Bulie Cave entrance, surrounded by mountains on all sides, peach forest pieces; The field can be one or twenty acres, just like Tao Yuanming's "paradise", so it is named.

The Taoist temple was founded in the Tianbao period of the Tang Dynasty, and it was the saying of the immortals of Wuyi Mountain that attracted a large number of scholars to come here to live and practice in seclusion. Huiji female crown Kong, Zhuang, Ye (later known as the Three Emperors Yuanjun) came to Wuyi to practice, and then all settled in Taoyuan Cave, and developed into a paradise for a secluded place, and peach trees into a forest. Song Confucianism, Chen Shitang, Gaoshi Wu Zhengli also lived here to refine and write, and the five ancestors of Taoism, Bai Yuchan, also lived in seclusion in Taoyuan alchemy. During the Yuan Dynasty, Liu Wenjian Temple and Sanyuan Nunnery were expanded, and the statues of Sanguan Emperor and Liu Wenjian Gong were worshipped. In the Ming Dynasty, Taoyuan Taoist Temple has been famous far and wide, and it is one of the main Taoist temples in Wuyi Mountain. At that time, the three Qing Palace, the Three Emperors Yuanjun Palace, the Sanguan Palace, the Zhenwu Palace, the Niangniang Palace, the Meritorious Temple and other halls were built, the hall covers an area of more than 2,000 square meters, and the Xiuzhen High Road is more chosen to live here; Ming Wu wiped the poem "Visiting the Taoist in the Little Taoyuan Cave": "......, there are ancient villages in the poor source, and there are two or three people who escape from the world; Escaping the world is not avoiding Qin, inhabiting the heart and refining the spirit; The spring fields are self-cultivated, and there is no need for food and clothing; The wind moves the palm flowers to fall, and the rain picks the medicinal seedlings.

really responds to the old saying, the world's famous mountains and immortals are occupied, and mortals in the world are only envious, how can they be compared with famous Confucian immortals. However, any vital teaching will not be shelved and disgraced, it will always lower its stature and extend to the countryside, mountains, and people......

Therefore, in the foothills of Wuyi Mountain extending in all directions, large and small, large and small villages and mountains are scattered with large and small Taoist temples. On the one hand, it satisfies the spiritual sustenance of the mortal villagers, and also provides convenience for mortals to understand the cultivation of Taoism and the mana of Pudu Jishi.

Mortals don't have to go out and don't change their original living conditions, as long as they see the Taoist temple at the end of the village, they will think that there is still a Tao, and if there is anything that can't be let go of in the world, their hearts will suddenly relax......

Baihu Village is a small village at the southern foot of Wuyi Mountain, and there are only twenty or thirty families in the village, most of whom are surnamed Gao.

At the foot of the mountain to the west of the village, there is a mountain lake of four or five acres large, the lake water is clear, and the lake surface will be splashed with white flowers when the breeze blows, and the village is named after it. Not only that, this lake is also a place where Taoist temples on the mountain release life, and the villagers have never fished in this lake, which also adds a lot of mysterious colors to this lake.

On the lake, you can vaguely see a Taoist temple hidden in the depths of the forest, only a corner of the Taoist temple stretches out of the cornice, from the momentum of the eaves can glimpse the temple on the mountain is extraordinary.

In a small ditch on the edge of the hill below the lake, a young boy of eight or nine years old was digging loaches in high spirits. The head of the small ditch blocked the water with a handful of hay and mud, and the ditch was drained by gently pushing forward with a handful of hay and mud.

Every time the little boy dug up a small piece of silt, he kept putting large and small loaches into the fish around him, one, two, three...... It turned out that digging a small piece of silt could dig up more than 20 loaches at a time.

This is indeed a fascinating field in the mid-to-early eighties, the environment is not polluted, small fish, shrimp, and loaches are everywhere, and it is really a field full of hope.

The little boy was so excited that he couldn't stop for a moment. As soon as a small piece of silt was dug up, the loaches that had seen the light on the head were fine, straight and sticking to the mud, and let others catch them. The loaches that got their heads in the muddy water were particularly dishonest, their tails rattling, and they went down to the bottom of the mud again in the blink of an eye. So the little boy was very careful every time he dug the mud, just a little bit of caution, for fear of alarming the loaches.

Just digging a small ditch with a length of zhang, most of the loaches in the fish lou are two or three catties in weight. The loaches in the fish are squeezed and drilled into each other, the upper ones are drilled to the bottom, the lower ones are squeezed to the top, and the ones that are squeezed to the top are drilled to the bottom, and so on, and the sound of "squeak, squeak ......" is made in the fish tower.

The little boy was so tired that his body was a little hot, and his scalp and gills were itchy and painful from the heat. It was as if the heat had been trapped in the fine pores on the surface of the skin and could not come out, as if it was fermenting hot there. The little boy wanted to scratch an itch with his hands, but his hands were full of mud.

The little boy was a little impatient, shrunk his neck and shrugged his shoulders, and rubbed the itch on his head and cheeks with his left and right shoulder arms. As soon as the itch was relieved, my hands dug up a large handful of mud, and the pain of the itch was unbearable, and the pores buried under the skin seemed to be bursting.

The little boy didn't care that his hands were full of mud, and he attacked left and right and scratched the itch on his head and temples with both hands, and finally refreshed. But I don't have to look in the mirror, I know that I must have become a big "flower face", a mud monkey.

"Crackling...... Crackling ......" like the muffled sound of a string of short firecrackers.

I was in a hurry to scratch the itch just now, and I didn't care about looking at the freshly dug mud, but now when I looked up, it turned out to be a loach thicker than a big finger, holding a big tail and swaying desperately to beat the mud and make a loud noise.

The little boy no longer cared about his "flower face", and his mud monkey-like hands were digging in the mud for a while. The right hand had already caught the tail of the big loach, and the skin of the intolerant loach was too slippery, and it still slipped from between the fingers, leaving only the synovial fluid of the loach's epidermis in his hand. When I wanted to dig it with my hands again, the water at the head of the ditch in front of me had already overflowed the grass and poured under my body, and the mud in front of me was also submerged in the water. It was absolutely impossible to catch the big loach again, and this time it was released.

The little boy carried Yu Lou to the stone path by the lake, and stopped digging loaches. Washing your hands and feet by the lake, the lake water is so cool. When I saw my face in the lake, I couldn't help but smile. Then wipe his face with water, but most of the stars and mud spots in the remote part of his face are still there, and a little boy in the countryside will definitely not care about these, and then he plays on the shallow rocky beach by the lake.

Originally, it was not the main purpose of digging loaches by the lake, and such loaches still had half a water tank in the large water tank in their yard. Of course, I came here to play, but I was scolded by my grandmother for this.

The little boy picks up pebbles on the rocky beach, drawing on a large stone slab for each piece he picks. Red, yellow, and cyan pebbles are available.

The little boy was very satisfied, and returned to the stone path with many stones in his hands, and could not sit down on a stone slab, so he stretched his legs and drew seriously. He is not an ordinary child who draws flowers, birds, fish and insects, flies away from animals, or does arithmetic problems and writes. Ordinary people can't understand what he draws, only that he draws some symbols.

I just heard the words in the little boy's mouth:

Connected, connected, connected...... This is dry, which means heaven.

The little boy paused, thought for a while, and said in his heart:

It's kind of interesting, it's really like the sky, the sky is like this layer after layer, and the sky is still connected. The rainbow in the sky is even more like.

Break, break, break...... This is Kun, which represents the earth.

The land was broken off piece by piece, like a house being separated.

There are layers of the earth!

Disconnected, connected, disconnected...... This is Kan, which represents water.

This was originally a kun hexagram, it was the earth, and how could it be water when it was disconnected?

Oh! It turns out that there is movement in the middle of the earth, even if it is blocked, it is constantly blocked, and it is constantly opened, isn't this water?

……

The little boy was fascinated by the painting, one moment drawing, the other frowning and contemplative. While the little boy was pondering, Mihu saw a Tai Chi Bagua diagram above his brow. He felt very strange and quickly wiped his eyes.

This time, the little boy saw clearly, it turned out to be an old man with white hair who stood in front of him at some point.

Lao Dao was dressed in a gray Taoist robe, and he was also wearing a Taoist hat on his head, and the front of the hat was the Tai Chi Bagua diagram he had just seen.

"You stinky old man wants to scare me to death!" Although the little boy was bold, he was also shocked, and he scolded when he was unhappy, "Stand in front of me and don't say a word." ”

"You kid speaks with a conscience." Lao Dao was not angry when he was scolded, and said in a mocking tone, "I saw that you were so engaged, and I didn't want to disturb you, so I didn't speak." ”

"Look at ......, look at ...... You sit in the middle of the road, blocking my path, and I stop like this, and look at your paintings, I think you are too high! There is a way that a good dog does not stand in the way, it is really not as good as a good dog! Lao Dao shook his head as he spoke, and pointed at the little boy with his finger, "But for the sake of your young age, Lao Dao, I won't bother with you." ”

The little boy looked around, and he sat in the middle of the path, and the pedestrians really had no way to go, so he was a little embarrassed to quickly get up and make way for the old road.

"I'm sorry to get in your way!" The little boy scratched his head with one hand, and stood sideways, looking at Lao Dao with an apologetic face.

Lao Dao is also a bit famous in this place, and I have heard of physiognomy, feng shui, and drawing talismans...... and other occult techniques are not comparable to ordinary Taoist priests. Although this Taoist priest lives on the top of the mountain, he often comes and goes without a trace, and many people still haven't seen his true face of Lushan.

The little boy was frightened and angry just now, so he opened his mouth to scold Lao Dao. Now that I have eased up, I realize that this old way is something I have always admired in my heart.

Lao Dao looked at the little boy and said in his heart: I didn't expect this little boy to be very clever, and he still knows a lot of gossip at a young age. I don't know who this little kid learned from, and there is no way to get into his eyes in this place except himself. If there is one person who is not here, he has already gone to Taiwan, and I don't know if he is still alive now.

After Lao Dao saw the little boy standing up, the little fish Lou who was hiding behind him appeared in front of him. Lao Dao's eyes couldn't help but flash a bright color, but ordinary people couldn't notice it.

"Hey! If you can get most of the loaches of Yulou, won't there be all the living creatures that Lord Zhang will release tomorrow? But how do you fool this little kid before he is willing to give the loaches out? ”

Lao Dao looked at the loach, and then at the little boy, his eyes slipped back and forth between Yu Lou and the little boy.

Right! After accepting the little boy as an apprentice, won't the loaches come naturally? This is also a long-term wishful thinking, in the future, if you want such a living creature, you can ask this apprentice to send it at any time, and there is also a certain chance to see him and this kind of metaphysics. In this way, there is also an extra companion in this Taoist temple, and there is a fish and a bear's paw.

"What's your name, kid? Where do you live? I see that you are still a very clever person, and if you know your mistakes, you will change them and not be disliked by others. I want to take you as my apprentice, are you willing? Lao Dao stroked a few long white whiskers on his chin with his right hand, smiling and looking proud.

"My name is Gao Feng. ...... family stays" Gao Feng replied casually, if he could learn from such a master, it would be a good thing to ask for.

Gao Feng opened his mouth, but his words were interrupted by Lao Dao: "Don't be busy agreeing, I have conditions for accepting apprentices!" There are many conditions, and I will talk about them in detail later. If you want to worship me as a teacher, you have to give me a greeting gift first? It's very simple, this Lou loach is a meeting gift for me, right? ”

When Lao Dao said this, he stretched out his hand and pointed at the fish Lou.

"Okay, Master, I'll give it to you! I'll give you a salute, and you'll officially accept me as an apprentice. "Saying that, Gao Feng is about to kneel down and bow to the master and apprentice.

"Slow...... Slowly! The old Taoist has been from the Tao for more than 100 years, and he is also well-known in the Taoist world, but it is the first time to accept disciples, you are my open-door disciple, and also my closed-door disciple, I don't want to be so sloppy. You see how dirty your face is, it's not disrespectful to the Master. ”

"Master Xing! Wait a minute, I'll go to the lake and wash my face. Gao Feng said as he walked to the lake to wash his face.

Lao Dao thinks it's better to test him! See if his heart is sincere.

"Gao Feng, I'd better go first, I'll take this Lou mud first, and bring a Lou Loach to see Lao Dao tomorrow!"

Lao Dao walked away quickly with a loach in one hand, and said to himself as he walked: This kid will accept him when he comes tomorrow, and if he doesn't come, he will pick up a loach for nothing.