On the fifth day of the Dragon Boat Festival in the first month of May, Chen Caoyi got up early in the morning to open the door, and saw Xiaochan and Qingzhi Erwen were already waiting in front of the door, and couldn't help but say that he took Chen Caozhi to the bathroom on the first floor to bathe Chen Caozhi, saying that this was ordered by the old housewife, because today is the Dragon Boat Festival, and he should bathe in orchid soup to remove pollution and ward off evil spirits.

In the bathroom, there are two large two large and four bath buckets, one of which has been filled with half a bucket of hot water, and the water surface is floating with fine broken orchid petals and grass blades, steaming hot and fragrant.

Xiaochan stretched out her hand to test the water, and said, "The water is still hot, it should cool for a while, Qingzhi, first untie Xiaolangjun's bun." ”

Chen Caozhi said: "Two sisters, I used to take a bath by myself, how can I bathe today-"

Qingzhi stretched out his hand to Chen Caozhi's hair and said: "Today is the Dragon Boat Festival, and the children have to bathe in the blue soup in the morning, so that there will be no disease and no disaster, and there will be no boils." ”

Chen Caozhi was speechless, he was not yet fifteen years old, and he could only be regarded as a boy like the eight-year-old Zongzhi, so he had to be at the mercy of Xiaochan and Qingzhi.

It's appropriate to try the water, and the two pretty maids came together to untie Chen Caozhi's wide clothes, Chen Caozhi was not embarrassed, Xiaochan and Qingzhi had crimson cheeks, Xiao Langjun grew up, and he was taller than both of them-

Chen Caozhi said: "Two sisters, let's do it myself, otherwise, your two faces will drip blood." ”

"Ahh The two maids let go of their hands together and touched their cheeks, which was hot.

Chen Caozhi was in the shyness of the second maid, undressed naked, stepped into the bath bucket, slowly soaked down, and watched the water surface sprinkled with Lanhui flowers and leaves come up.

Xiaochan and Qingzhi glanced at each other, and said with a smile: "The two of us who are **** Xiao Langjun made fun of it, it's really embarrassing!" ”

The two pretty maids were ruthless together, and Chen Caozhi pressed into the bathtub when they stepped forward, bathed their bodies, rubbed Chen Caozhi all over their bodies, and ate and laughed endlessly in the bathroom.

Zongzhi and Run'er were also taken by Yinggu to the bathroom to bathe in the orchid soup to ward off evil spirits, separated by two small screens to separate the three bath barrels, Run'er smiled "Gege", splashed green branches, and was naughty and happy.

After the three uncles and nephews bathed, they changed into clean and delicate fine kudzu clothes, and at this time, Chen's mother Li came in, rolled up Chen Caozhi's left sleeve, wrapped a strand of five-colored silk around Chen Caozhi's arm, and said: "This is the Dragon Boat Festival, also known as the longevity thread, which can be used to dispel swords, dispel ghosts and beasts, and get rid of the plague, and bless my child to be free from illness and disaster, and live a long life." He also tied a small bag containing realgar and other spices to Chen Caozhi's belt.

Zongzhi and Run'er's five-colored longevity wisps were not tied to their arms, but were hung around their necks by a small piece of jade, and then they were blessed by their grandmothers.

Xiaochan waited for Chen Caozhi's hair to dry a little, so she combed his hair in a bun, put on a small crown of black lacquer splens, tied a ribbon, took two steps back, looked up and down, and said with a smile: "Qingzhi, do you think that Caozhi Xiaolangjun is not like what Mao Shiqi wrote - there are bandit gentlemen, such as cutting and learning, such as grinding?" ”

Qingzhi said: "There are bandit gentlemen, such as gold and tin, and gui and bi-"

According to legend, the maids of Zheng Xuan, a great Confucian in the Eastern Han Dynasty, were all poetic, and once a maid was punished to kneel in the courtyard, and another maid passed by and made fun of him and asked: "Hu is in the mud?" The kneeling maidservant replied: "Bo Yan is angry, and he is angry." "The questions and answers of the two maids are the original sentences of the Book of Songs, the origin of family learning, and even the maids are so elegant.

Xiaochan and Qingzhi have followed Ding Youwei for many years, and when they arrived at Chenjiawu, Chen Caozhi's uncle and nephew chanted endlessly every day, and they were familiar with it, and the good sentences of the "Book of Songs" were blurted out, not allowing Zheng Kang to become a family and maid to be beautiful in the front.

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Two days after the Dragon Boat Festival, Laifu went to Qiantang County to pick up the two tenants to Chenjiawu, and also went to Feng County to inquire about the household registration matter.

It was almost noon on this day, a soap-robed Taoist came to Chenjiawu and asked to see the patriarch Chen Xian, who claimed to be the waiter of Ge Hong at the beginning of the Treasure Mountain, and asked Chen Jiawu to visit the young man he had not met the day before yesterday to meet again in the first balcony Taoist courtyard.

Chen Xian knows Ge Hong's reputation, Ge is a Jiangnan scholar, his grandfather has been the official of Eastern Wu, his father is a Shaoling Taishou, Ge Hong himself is also a marquis of Guan, but Ge Hong is dedicated to the Tao, has no intention of benevolence, Wang Dao once invited him to serve as a consultant to join the army, scattered cavalry standing attendant, Ge Hong did not resign, went to Lingnan Luofu Mountain to make alchemy, is the ancestor of the Taoist Jindan faction.

Chen Xian also heard that Ge Hong had come to live in seclusion near Mingsheng Lake recently, but he had never met, and he didn't dare to visit, for fear of eating behind closed doors, it was rumored that Ge Hong was extremely arrogant, and Wu Jun Lu Shi made a special trip to visit him and ignored it, but now he specially sent a waiter to invite Chen Jiawu's people to go to the Taoist Academy to talk, which really made Chen Xian surprised and happy, guessed that it was Chen Caozhi, let people ask, sure enough.

Chen Caozhi also wanted to meet the famous hug Puzi, so he immediately brought Zhen and Laide to walk with the waiter to Geling on the north shore of West Lake.

The mountain path is deep, the Taoist courtyard is quiet, and Ge Hong, who has white hair, watched Chen Caozhi walk up from the mountain, and said in his heart: "It turns out that he is really just a young man - only in this mountain, Yunshen doesn't know where to go, well, this son is not good, although the Qiantang Chen family is not a scholar family, but the poetry and books are heirlooms, which are hundreds of times stronger than those children of the scholar clan who apply powder and incense and talk exaggeratedly." ”

Ge Hong's family was poor and childless when he was a child, he was responsible for studying, borrowing books and copying, quite a taste of human warmth, a deep understanding of the world, and did not pay much attention to the distinction between scholars and scholars, only asked about elegance and vulgarity, and the vulgar were not seen.

Chen Caozhi looked at the old Taoist under the ancient pine, whose hair was like snow and his waist was straight, and thought to himself that this was Ge Hong, now he is almost seventy or eighty years old, and he can also climb the mountain to collect medicine, which is really awe-inspiring, Ge Hong is not the kind of retreating Taoist priest who blindly seeks immortals, he pays attention to practical results, alchemy medicine is for this, ten years ago the Lingnan plague was epidemic, Ge Hong hung the pot to help the world, and there were countless living people, known as Ge Xianweng.

Chen Caozhi took a deep look after more than ten steps, and said respectfully: "Boy Chen Caozhi, there is a disturbance to Immortal Weng Qingxiu." ”

Ge Hongsheng Ruohongzhong: "What do you do when you come to visit the old Tao at a young age? Do you want to live forever too? ”

Chen Caozhi said: "There is a precedence in hearing the Tao, how can it be young and old!" That is, in terms of Taoism, the drooping boy can win the white-haired old man, why not? ”

Ge Hong laughed: "Young man, your tone is not small, you want to talk about the Tao with the old Tao?" ”

Chen Caozhi said: "I want to ask the immortal for advice." ”

Ge Hong said: "The old Taoist asks you a difficult question, if you can answer it, please enter the Taoist courtyard to sit, otherwise, where to go back and forth." ”

Chen Caozhi said: "Dare to ask the immortal to ask the difficulty." ”

Ge Hong's snow-white eyebrows trembled slightly, and he groaned: "My life is in my absence, and I will be gold for hundreds of millions of years-what do you mean?" ”

Chen Caozhi thought for a while, and Lang Lang said: "Confucianism thinks that fate is predestined, while Taoism believes that you can change your destiny by refining qi and serving pills, and even control your own destiny, and live a long life, which is not ethereal and unattainable. ”

Ge Hong's two sentences are not profound, and with the insight of Chen Caozhi and the two lives, he naturally responded fluently, but in Ge Hong's opinion, the young man's answer was enough to surprise him, and he asked: "Then according to your opinion, Confucianism and Taoism are two schools of life, which is better or worse?" ”

Chen Caozhi smiled and said: "Immortal Weng, this is the second difficulty, it seems that you should enter the Taoist Academy and sit down and talk about it." ”

Ge Hong laughed, stepped forward to take Chen Caozhi's hand, and walked into the Taoist courtyard side by side.

The first balcony Taoist courtyard is quite simple, there is only one Sanqing hall, dedicated to the first heavenly king, Yuchen Daojun and Taishang Laojun, the other few are the Dan room, the study, the bedroom and the waiter Daotong's room, a small courtyard, there are several plum trees planted by Ge Hong.

Ge Hong took Chen Caozhi's hand to the study and sat down, Chen Caozhi saw that the scrolls on the four walls of the bookshelf were full, and he couldn't help but be overjoyed, so he begged Ge Hong to allow him to borrow the book and go back to copy it, and it would be returned within five days.

Ge Hong's family was poor when he was young, and he also begged for books to copy by hand, and now he saw that the young man was studious, and he was very happy, and said: "Okay, only borrow one volume at a time, and return it to borrow another." ”

Dao Tong served bitter tea, the old and the young asked difficult to debate, Chen Caozhi did not know much about Taoist classics, only one "Lao Tzu" is quite popular, what other "Taiqing Jiuding Dan Liquid Sutra", "White Tiger Seven Changes Sutra", "Dongxuan Five Fu Sutra" He has never heard of it, but Chen Caozhi has insight, quick thinking, and uses the chemical knowledge of later generations to understand Ge Hong's golden pill technique, but can frequently complain to Ge Hong's itch, after all, it is very lonely to live in seclusion without knowing oneself, and it is even more lonely to ask no one to talk to in the chest, so, The old fairy Weng who was like snow was very happy, and the conversation was full of interest, but he didn't realize that the day was dusk and the sky was dark.

Chen Caozhi was shocked and said: "Ah, hearing the high talk of the immortals, the kid has benefited a lot, but it's getting late, and the kid is going back." ”

Ge Hong was still reluctant, and said: "Let your servant go back to report the news, and you will rest in the Taoist courtyard and come back tomorrow, so as not to rush in the dark." ”

Chen Caozhi said: "Jiaci will rely on Lu to look forward to returning, and the kid will leave." ”

Ge Hong didn't keep it anymore, and told Chen Caozhi to visit him when he had time, and he browsed the books in the Taoist Academy, and ordered the burly man who seemed to be a deaf man to give Chen Cao's master and servant a ride.

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