Chapter 6: Visit the old turtle to find the traces of the prodigy
The sound of an urn came out of thin air: "When did the immortal master come here, I haven't seen this for several years, and I want to be angry." "This voice is actually the voice of this golden-armored old turtle, if it is heard by that ordinary person, it will be shocked, isn't this a monster?
Looking at the red pine nut again, he was not surprised, and said with a smile: "You old turtle, I'm afraid you don't miss me, you miss my elixir, right?" ”
"Huhaha, where is it, the immortal master also thinks about it, and the pill also thinks about it!"
"Hahahaha, you old turtle, you can be regarded as speaking your heart." Akamatsuko laughed and said, "Don't talk to me like this, turn into a human form to avoid shocking the world." ”
I saw that the old turtle's body shook, a gust of wind rose, and then looked, the old turtle was gone, and what appeared was a one-body thin old man in black, with no beard under his chin, and a small golden hat on his head, and I saw the old man speak: "This appearance is not as convenient as the body." After changing the topic, he asked, "The immortal master went out of the mountain this time, but what happened?" ”
"Exactly." Chi Songzi found a piece of bluestone and sat on it, "This world is about to be turbulent, every time there is a talent in troubled times, this time I calculate, there will be a genius in the world, or it can achieve our way, I am here to find this person." ”
"Oh, that's a good thing, think of my world, there are so many sentient beings, there are very few people who can attain the Tao, and it is true that some like-minded people need to support each other to make great progress."
Chi Songzi nodded and said: "Yes, since Emperor Xiwa attained the Tao and created the Kunlun Realm, to this day, there are only one or two hundred, and the talents are withering." As he spoke, he took out the packet of herbs, and with a movement of his palm, a flame came out, refining the elixir out of thin air.
When the old turtle saw it, he was full of smiles, rubbed his hands, and grinned at the corners of his mouth: "Immortal master, pay attention, don't destroy the pill." His eyes were fixed on Chi Songzi's hands, and he said, "Didn't there be two Dao attainers before, did they enter the Kunlun realm?" ”
"You're talking about Kong Qiu and Lao Dan, Kong Qiu has gone, and Lao Dan is still wandering around, saying that he wants to have a good life and experience the common people, which is more conducive to cultivation and improvement, which is also the method of cultivation. I have also read his "Tao Te Ching", it is indeed not good, and I don't know how he cultivates, his cultivation is really not low, even stronger than some people who have cultivated for thousands of years. Turning his head and looking at the old turtle, "I said the old turtle, you have been cultivating in this area, what's the point, and no one communicates, why don't you also enter the Kunlun realm, how good?" ”
"Forget it, I'll wait and see, although the Kunlun realm is good, it is also a place in the rivers and lakes, my head is not flexible, and I can't play with them."
"Aren't you going to learn to be as flexible as a human?" As Chi Songzi spoke, the elixir had also been refined, extinguished the flames, and threw the reelant to the old turtle.
"Hey, hey, I said be careful!" The old turtle hurriedly caught the elixir, and threw the hot elixir with his hands in turn, and with one mouth, a green qi erupted, wrapping the elixir into his mouth, "It's so comfortable, the elixir refined by the immortal master is much stronger than the one I refined indiscriminately." ”
Chi Songzi clapped his hands and stood up: "Old friend has seen it, the pill has also been refined, I should also go, we will have a date later!" ”
"Hey, I'm about to leave after just a few words, and I don't know how long no one has spoken." The old turtle got up and sent him off, "In the future, lead that heir to me, and I will also pass on a few skills to him to help him attain the Tao as soon as possible." ”
"Haha, that's what I mean, old friends stay, I'll go!" A flash of light flew away, disappearing into the sky in an instant.
"Oh, I'm doing this at a loss, and one pill is exchanged for a few skills." The old turtle just came back to his senses at this moment, and Chi Songzi deliberately didn't mention it, just to induce himself to come to the door. While shaking his head and muttering, he raised his legs and stepped into the water, and disappeared after a while.
Not to mention the old turtle back to the nest, a single table of red pine nuts, after bidding farewell to the old turtle, all the way north, according to calculations, that strange people should be near Tengzhou, red pine nuts know that the north of Tengzhou is Qufu, there is the hometown of Confucius, a few years ago I also saw an auspicious beast unicorn on the mountain near Jiaxiang, that unicorn also has a talent for cultivation, I don't know how to progress at this time, just stop by to see it, if possible, then point out one or two, speed up its cultivation.
This practice is fast, the red pine nut stops and goes, this day came to the mountains south of Jiaxiang (now Jiaxiang County, Jining, Shandong), released his divine sense, check the location of the unicorn, but searched again and again, the unicorn is nowhere to be seen, the heart said, could it be that this unicorn ran out of this mountain area to other mountains. I closed my eyes, pinched my fingers, and my brows suddenly furrowed, what's going on? The unicorn is dead. It is speculated again that the bones are buried somewhere on the west side of this mountain. The figure disappeared in a flash, and when it reappeared, it was at the foot of a mountain, where there was a mound of earth, and there was a stone tablet in front of it, on which was written "unicorn mound".
How so? That Qilin can be regarded as some cultivation, and ordinary people are not its opponents at all, how can they die. Chi Songzi was a little sad, walked down the hill along the path, all the way, there were several families on the side of the road, and there was a tea shed, so he walked in and sat down, the shopkeeper immediately stepped forward to greet him, Chi Songzi asked for a pot of hot tea, the shopkeeper was just about to turn around and leave, Chi Songzi stopped and asked: "Shopkeeper, I asked you about something, I walked along this road, there is a unicorn mound in front of it, what is going on?" ”
Hearing this, the shopkeeper sighed, stretched out his hand to pull over the bench and sat down, put the towel on the table, and said, "When I see that the guest officer is not from his hometown, the guest officer does not know anything." ”
The shopkeeper was a warm-hearted person, and when he saw Chi Songzi asking, he told the story from beginning to end.
In that year, that is, in the fourteenth year of the reign of Lu Ai (481 B.C.), the lord of the country, on a whim, decided to lead his ministers to hunt, and the location chosen for the hunt was the south of Daye (now Juye County, Shandong). After this divine beast was disturbed, he fled in a hurry, and Lu Aigong and his ministers saw a divine beast that they had never seen before, and felt very curious, so they desperately chased after it. One of the ministers, Sun Shushi, told the Che Zi Shang to run faster, and the Che Zi Shang shot an arrow at the unicorn in the back, and the unicorn continued to run westward after being hit by the arrow. Later, according to the speed of the war horse, everyone calculated that it should be a long distance, and this distance is the distance from Jiaxiang to Daye. In the end, the unicorn was surrounded and captured by a group of people and horses in the west of Wolong Mountain, which was a female beast that had never been seen before, and soon Lu Aigong and others also arrived one after another, everyone gathered around to discuss, and no one was sure what the name of this divine beast was. Lu Aigong then invited many people to come to identify, including Confucius, a famous scholar of the time generation. Confucius was very sad when he saw the injured and frightened appearance of the divine beast, and said to Lu Ai: This is Lin Ye, the first benevolent beast in the world. Then he grieved and said justice to Lu Ai: people gather like things, things are divided into groups, benevolent people love all life in the world, and the compassion is indescribable, and suggested that Lu Aigong take the unicorn back to heal. I never thought that the unicorn would die soon after not eating or drinking due to excessive fright. So Lu Aigong ordered the unicorn to be buried in Daye, and set up a monument, and wrote the inscription "Qilin Mound".
After the shopkeeper finished telling the matter, he couldn't help shaking his head and said: "The killing of auspicious orcs is the misfortune of the country and the misfortune of the world." I heard that Mr. Kong was still writing a book "Spring and Autumn" because of the Qilin incident, but because of his sadness, he stopped writing in Yulin! Picking up the towel, the shopkeeper stood up, "Since the death of the auspicious beast, there are constant disputes in the world, and I don't know if it is a man-made disaster or a natural disaster, and the guest officer is still careful when he is in a hurry." ”
Died because of hunting, Chi Songzi sighed in his heart, that person in the hunt, there must be a cultivator, otherwise it will be difficult to kill the unicorn.
After drinking a pot of hot tea, this red pine nut decided to do the business first, found the strange person, took a short rest, and began to travel on foot.
Coincidentally, on this day, this red pine nut traveled to Rencheng, the capital of a small vassal state on the edge of the Song Kingdom, and was drinking himself in a tavern, when he listened to the two strong men at the next table, talking while drinking.
A said, "I say, man, have you heard of a strange thing?" ”
B asked, "Tell me what strange things are there?" ”
A took a sip of wine, took a mouthful of food, put it in his mouth and chewed it twice: "At the foot of Tengcheng Hui Mountain in the south, I heard that there is a prodigy, this son is extremely extraordinary." ”
B asked curiously, "How extraordinary?" ”
"I heard a friend of mine say that the little baby is extremely smart, and he can memorize "Liutao" at the age of three, "Guanzi" at the age of five, and "Ziyu Law" at the age of eight.
"Oh? So powerful? This kind of prodigy, whose child is that? ”
"Hey, that's the key." A squinted his eyes and didn't speak.
"Hey, I said dude, you're not right, you're halfway to seduce people, come, I'll respect my brother for a drink!"
Najia got face, drank the wine in the cup with a 'squeak', put down the wine glass and leaned forward, and said: "It is said that this little baby is the queen of the famous family, and its ancestor is the Huizi of the Shang Tang period, and the descendants of the modern Song Dynasty. ”
"Wow, sure enough, after the celebrity, it's extraordinary!" B said enviously.
The speaker has no intention of listening, the two of them chatted, but aroused the interest of Chi Songzi, this description of the little baby, is in line with the characteristics of that strange person, at the foot of Hui Mountain, Chi Songzi nodded and wrote it down. After a few more sips of wine, he didn't hear anything of value, so he dropped a few pennies and left.
This walk, but there is a direction, straight to Huishan, along the way, there are always people talking about Huishan prodigy from time to time.
At that time, people who read books were very rare, and many of them were from aristocratic families, ordinary people, and they had never even seen a book, let alone read. Therefore, whoever has a little baby who can read must be a green smoke on the ancestral grave, a great thing, and it will be passed down from generation to generation.
Closer and closer to that Hui Mountain, I heard more and more news, some people said that the little baby not only read well, but also practiced a good ability, boiled a good body, at the age of seven to kill a vicious dog with his bare hands, saved a three-year-old girl.
This little baby is very tenacious, since the age of six, every year after autumn, must go barefoot to the river, cold water to wash the face, cold water bath, after freezing, every day to go to the river, chisel the ice, take the ice water to wash the face and bathe, practice boxing and meditation in the ice water, day after day, year after year, even if the cold wind is cold, even if the goose feathers and snowflakes are flying, never stop.
This little baby is particularly skillful, following his father, all kinds of carpentry are mastered, the mechanism news city model, swords, swords and sticks are made of all kinds of toys.
Although this little baby is young, it is deeply popular, and many parents have arranged for their children to follow this little baby and be that follower, including many older teenagers.
The whole baby of someone else's family, every time he talks about it, he shows envious eyes.
The closer this red pine nut got to Nahui Mountain, the more certain it was that this little baby was that strange person, and the pace became faster and faster.
When he reached the area less than three miles away from the foot of Nahui Mountain, a piece of news stunned Chi Songzi. The little baby was born in 480 B.C., but this year is 472 B.C., which means that the little baby is nine years old this year. The year this little baby was born, she happened to encounter Ying's confusion and guarded her heart, and Song Jinggong was able to resolve it wonderfully. But what surprised Chi Songzi was that in 481 BC, the big wild auspicious beast Qilin was killed, and Confucius stopped writing "Spring and Autumn". Is it a coincidence, or is it really so magical?
Providence is unpredictable, and providence cannot be violated. Even if it is as strong as a red pine nut, he also knows that everything in the world is destined, and even if an individual forcibly tries to change, he will not pass the chance of changing the one or two percent.
Chi Songzi shook his head, not thinking about the will of heaven, he cleaned the dust on his body, tidied up his hair in a neat bun, and restored the dress of the master. When I go to the door to collect disciples, I can't be sloppy and lose my master's face.
The red pine nut walked steadily towards Zijian's house, and on the way to it, he had already inquired and understood, Zijian's family lived under a ginkgo tree.
After a short time, I came to the courtyard of Zijian's house, through the fence wall, I could see under the ginkgo tree in the courtyard, an eight or nine-year-old child, with a somewhat dark face, wearing green clothes, was using a wooden long knife to fly quickly, the knife was calm and powerful, there were rules and methods, although the knife was a wooden knife, but Chi Songzi believed that if this knife was a machete body, it would be like a real knife.