Volume 1: The Top of Qinglong Mountain Chapter 11: Apprenticeship

I don't know how long Cui Houqing found himself at home, in the familiar simple courtyard, his mother was smiling and holding the soles of his shoes, and his father was also smiling and collecting firewood and grass, but no matter how he called, his father and mother seemed to have not heard it, and suddenly his eyes changed, black clouds covered the sky, and the evil man in black jumped down from the clouds, and his father and mother looked at the sky with a frightened look. The man in black jumped into the courtyard and stabbed his father to death with one sword, and stabbed his mother to death with another. The moon was revealed, and my father and mother were covered in blood, stood up, walked towards Cui Houqing, and said to Cui Houqing: "Hate, my father died so miserably, my mother died so miserably! Quickly avenge my father!" ......

Cui Houqing woke up suddenly, tears had already wet her face, it turned out to be a nightmare!

Cui Houqing sat on the bed, the sky had already darkened, and the mottled bamboo shadow outside the window had already become pitch black, only when the cold wind blew in, did he know that the window was open. The contents of the room have long been indistinguishable, only a vague black shadow. Cui Houqing didn't want to hold the lamp, I don't know when, he already liked the loneliness of no one and the darkness around him, he just wanted to sit alone like this, and just closed himself up.

I don't know how long later, the door creaked open, and a light came in, the light was faint, and it could only shine within three feet. Behind the light was a slightly rough face.

Someone came to the window and shone out Cui Houqing on the bed, he was sobbing alone!

"You're awake, that's fine. ”

Cui Houqing called out weakly: "Senior Brother Dashan." ”

Master Dashan found out that Cui Houqing was crying, he knew what happened to Cui Houqing, so although he was a big man, he couldn't help but feel a little pity at the moment. He walked to the bed, reached out and touched Cui Houqing's head, and said softly: "Little junior brother, don't be sad, we will be a family in the future." ”

He wiped his tears, knowing that it was useless to think too much, so he nodded heavily and said, "Yes, Senior Brother Dashan!"

Master Dashan smiled and nodded, and said, "Okay, junior brother, you have been sleeping for several hours, and you are probably hungry!"

Cui Houqing didn't think it either, but as soon as he said it, his stomach "growled" twice.

Master Dashan smiled and said, "Come, junior brother, let's go eat something, by the way, I will tell you something about the situation of our own sect, and then we will meet the master and uncle together, and I will meet the other senior brothers." ”

Cui Houqing nodded and got out of bed. Master Dashan took him out and said, "Our true disciples of Tongtian Peak of Qinglong Temple are very thin, even if we add you now, the total number is only a dozen or twenty people, so the room is relatively spacious, if you feel uncomfortable, we can change it." Saying that, he walked outside the door, and there was a similar small courtyard opposite, and a few steps out of the courtyard, it was also a corridor, but it was clear at a glance here, there were only dozens of small houses, and the scale was far inferior to the scale on the other four peaks.

Cui Houqing said curiously: "Why are there so few true disciples of Tongtian Peak in Qinglong Temple?"

Master Dashan said: "Cultivating the true way of the Tao, qualification is very important, although there are many people in the world, but there is no one in ten thousand who can cultivate the true Tao." Anyone who can step into the ranks of cultivating immortals is a person with qualifications, fortune, and adventures. Originally, the number of people was small, and there were countless sects in the world, even if I could share more in Qinglong Mountain..."Speaking of this, Master Dashan lowered his voice and said: "But most disciples are unwilling to shave their families, even if they can enter my Qinglong Temple, they are willing to go to the outer gate of the other four peaks. Therefore, our true disciples are very thin, and those with good qualifications have to go to the outer door, and some people with bad qualifications are willing to be real monks. Little junior brother, don't get me wrong, I didn't mean you. ”

Master Dashan paused for a moment and said, "Although the master is lazy by nature, he is strict with the apprentices he has received, and he also hopes that the disciples can be a blockbuster, but it is a pity that every time we fight, we are beaten extremely badly." If you can show your face one day, the master likes it very much. ”

Cui Houqing followed Master Dashan to the kitchen, and learned from him that the elder of Tongtian Peak in Qinglong Temple, in addition to the desert monk, there was only another uncle, Master Yuru, that is, the junior brother of the desert monk.

In addition to the girl Yi Zhen'er and the newly promoted Cui Houqing, Tongtian Peak has a total of eighteen disciples, and nine of the eighteen are going out to practice, looking for heavenly treasures as magic weapons, and rarely come back in a year. There are only nine people on the mountain, namely Senior Brother Dashan, Senior Brother Dayou, Senior Brother Dayou, Senior Brother Xianglong, Senior Brother Guangyin, Senior Brother Daxian Master, Senior Brother Junhe Brother, Senior Brother Xiaochuan, Senior Brother Tianling and the newly promoted Cui Houqing.

Among them, the thirteenth senior brother, the Great Immortal Master, aroused his curiosity, and Cui Houqing asked: "Fourteenth senior brother, why is it called such a name, is he a fortune teller?"

Master Dashan said with a smile: "The fourteenth junior brother's real name is Zhou Changhe, he is a drunkard in the world, addicted to alcohol and gambling, and by chance he was turned up the mountain by the master, and he didn't think about cultivating the Tao when he went to the mountain, but he was obsessed with the theory of fortune-telling and fortune-telling feng shui, and pestered all the junior brothers to tell fortunes and divination all day long, so we all unanimously helped him change his name to Daxian Master." ”

After all, Cui Houqing has a child's heart, and when she heard the words, she felt funny, and her smile widened, and her sad mood faded a lot. Seeing that the senior brother is so kind, presumably the other senior brothers are also easy to get along with, and the original fear of the living has gradually settled down.

After eating in the kitchen, Master Dashan took Cui Houqing to the main hall of Tongtian Peak of Qinglong Temple, "Yulu Hall". Qinglong Temple Tongtian Peak and other people, at this moment are concentrated in the Yulu Palace, here the blue brick paving, red stone pillars, the back wall is painted with a big Buddha character figure, two seats are placed in front of the hall, the overall is simple and simple. There are two people sitting on the two seats, one is Yi Changfeng, the other is a middle-aged monk in his thirties, quiet and dignified, with an excellent demeanor, and there is a little girl standing next to him, delicate and smart, with a pair of bright eyes and watery eyes, which is the Yi Zhen'er who he has seen during the day. Yi Zhen'er saw Cui Houqing from a distance, so she blinked her eyes and said hello, Cui Houqing looked at it, she was in a good mood, and she smiled on her face.

As for the other eight disciples, they were lined up, four on the left and right, fat or thin, tall or short, and their eyes fell on Cui Houqing at this moment.

Master Dashan walked to the front of the hall and arched his hand: "Master, uncle, the disciple has brought the little junior brother." ”

The desert monk snorted coldly, a little impatient, but the middle-aged monk glanced at Cui Houqing twice, and said, "Dashan, have you taken him to dinner?"

Master Dashan said, "Uncle Hui, I have already taken him to the kitchen to eat just now. ”

Master Yuru nodded, glanced at Yi Changfeng, and stopped talking. Yi Changfeng said coldly: "Let's start!"

Cui Houqing didn't know why, he looked at the hall blankly, only to hear someone behind him remind: "Little junior brother, kneel down and kowtow to the teacher." ”

Cui Houqing immediately knelt down, "knock knock" knocked his head three times in a row, and when he saw that no one shouted to stop, he continued to knock, again and again.

"Hehe, stupid!" but Yi Zhen'er laughed next to her. Master Yuru smiled and said, "Good boy, it's okay to knock three." ”

Cui Houqing let out an "oh", raised his head, and his forehead turned red.

Everyone couldn't help laughing when they saw him cute, but in the eyes of the desert monks, Cui Houqing was even more stupid, and when he thought of teaching such idiots in the future, his head was bigger again.

"You come forward" the desert monk said coldly, Cui Houqing was stunned for a moment, stepped forward and walked in front of him, the desert monk held Cui Houqing's wrist with his left hand, stretched out two fingers with his right hand and put it at the pulse gate, and shook his head. Everyone knew at a glance that Cui Houqing's qualifications were not very good.

The desert monk sighed, in a very bad mood, waved his hand and said, "Okay, that's it!" and then said: "Dashan, you will first take him to familiarize himself with the rules and precepts of the door, and teach him to enter the Dharma in the future." ”

Master Dashan replied, "Yes."

After speaking, the desert monk stood up and walked towards the back hall without looking back. Before leaving, he shook a painless sentence: "From now on, your law name: Master Houqing"

The disciples bowed down and said, "Congratulations to the master!"

"Senior brother, I'll help you with the gradient!" said a few senior brothers, pressed Hou Qing on the seat, took the scissors and raised his hands up and down, and after a while, Hou Qing became a bald little monk.

As soon as the desert monk left, Yi Zhen'er flashed forward, stared at Cui Houqing and said, "Master Houqing, you are so stupid!", but Cui Houqing was silent with a smirk. Master Yuru got up but scolded with a smile: "Zhen'er, don't bully your junior brother." He said: "Dashan, Houqing is too young, I'm afraid his homework is a little difficult, you can take care of him!"

Master Dashan bowed down and said, "Yes, Uncle Shi." ”

Yi Zhen'er stuck out her tongue at Cui Houqing, grimaced, and turned around to go back to the back hall with her uncle.

Cui Houqing looked at the pink figure and was a little stunned, and suddenly a face flashed in front of Cui Houqing, with a round face and thick eyebrows, two triangular eyes, a big nose and thin lips, which were not good-looking. A pair of hands grabbed Cui Houqing's face, looked left and right, clapped his hands and said: "The eyebrows are scattered, the corners of the eyes are elongated, a typical murderous peach blossom appearance, I said how can the little junior sister ...... you" Suddenly a hand hit the man's head, and Master Dashan said: "Old Fourteen, you are talking nonsense, if you are heard by Uncle Shi, you can't kill you." The man snorted, slapped his mouth and said, "Slip of the tongue!" The action was extremely funny, his eyes glanced left and right, and chased him out of the door, while saying: "Fifteenth junior brother, your eyes are blank, Yintang is black, there will be a bloody disaster" Then there was a cry of pain: "Ah, don't fight, don't fight!"

"Whoever has a bloody disaster, that's because Lao Tzu didn't sleep well yesterday. ”

Cui Houqing said in his heart, this is the fourteenth senior brother who is obsessed with fortune-telling! Sure enough, the arithmetic is not effective!

As the night deepened, all the disciples dispersed together...

Cui Houqing looked at the empty hall for a while, and only two people were left, himself and Master Dashan, and couldn't help but wonder: "Senior brother, the night is not dark now, why are all the senior brothers in such a hurry to go back?"

Master Dashan said as he walked: "You don't know, we have been practicing on the Tongtian Peak of Qinglong Temple for at least ten years, and we are not allowed to go out on weekdays, and we are already tired of seeing the scenery around here, so we are too lazy to move around, the eleventh senior brother is diligent and likes to practice, like your fourteenth senior brother who studies physiognomy, everyone generally does not come out." ”

Only then did Cui Houqing understand that Master Dashan had two more words of advice and turned to leave.

Cui Houqing walked to his room, lit the lamp, and the candlelight flickered, looking cold and lonely. He blew out the light and lay on the bed, and as soon as he closed his eyes, he saw the faces of his parents, and he really couldn't sleep. He sat on the bed for a while, his eyes gradually adjusting to the darkness, only to see the window slightly slanted, and a faint beam of moonlight slanted in, sprinkled on the blue brick floor, like frost and snow. Cui Houqing didn't feel sleepy, got up and walked to the door, "squeak", opened the door and walked out, the white moonlight spread on him, he only felt that his eyes were white, and when he looked up, a full moon was so close, as if he could hook it with his hand.

There was silence all around, only the mottled and sparse shadows in the unknown places, and the faint sound of sparse insects came from them. He read in a low voice: "I don't know how Lin Haoran is, can't he sleep?" He sighed, turned around and was about to go back to the room, only to feel that his chest was loosened, and a wooden stick rolled down to the ground. Listening to the sound of "dangchang", it was unusually loud in the silent night, Cui Houqing was startled, leaned over and picked it up, but it was the wooden stick that Master Yuqing gave him to devour the sky, there have been many affairs in the past few days, but he forgot about this thing, and now he remembered that the desert asked him to find a cliff valley to throw away this thing. Cui Houqing turned around again, and by the moonlight, he looked at a path not far away, leading through the bamboo forest to the depths, Cui Houqing thought to himself that the bamboo forest was a cliff!