Chapter 21: Seven Days in the Mountains

In the morning, it was not very bright, and the people in the Taoist temple got up and washed up, and the two Taoist aunts Jingyun and Jinglan were silently doing their work, weeding, carrying water, sprinkling and sweeping the temple, and making breakfast. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info Mrs. Cining took Han Yue'e to Sanqing Hall for a morning class, and today she recited "Taishang Laojun Says Changqing Jingjing". Zhang Taiji and a few little girls also ran along, kneeling there and chanting scriptures. They weren't very religious, they just thought they were fresh and interesting.

After finishing the homework, go to the dining hall to eat. When the meal is served, it is necessary to recite the offering mantra and the fasting mantra

Zhang Taiji and Ling'er naturally don't know how to chant mantras, just follow and bow their heads to do contemplation. Breakfast was steamed bread, gruel, and a plate of pickled side dishes. There is only a bowl of black unknown liquid in front of Mrs. Cining, and she looks like she drinks it with relish! Zhang Taiji also wanted to try it. In the Taoist temple, there are big rules when eating, and it is forbidden to talk and look around. Although Zhang Taiji was curious about what the ingredients of the bowl of liquid was, he didn't dare to ask, so he could only eat with his head bored, and when he had time, he would ask his mother Han Yue'e, she should know.

After eating, Mrs. Cining began to take the school Han Yue'e martial arts exam to find out if Han Yue'e had slacked off over the years.

In ancient times, people would practice a skill for life. First, because it is not easy to apprentice, whether it is martial arts, face telling, iron and porcelain, etc., if you want to learn these skills, you need to pay a lot of hard work in order to be taught. Some skills are still passed down from family to outsiders. Therefore, the ancients also had great respect for the master who taught the profession. The so-called "one day as a teacher, a lifetime as a father." "The second is because after learning a certain skill, you may have to rely on it for the rest of your life to eat and earn money to support your family. If you are not good at learning, you may not be able to earn money and go hungry, so you will practice diligently. But for example, Han Yue'e has a wealthy family and does not rely on martial arts to support her family, it is because of her love for martial arts that she has insisted on practicing diligently over the years and has never stopped.

Han Yue'e practiced martial arts, and Zhang Taiji saw her every day when she was at home. What he wanted to see was Cining Shitai practicing martial arts. Imagine, a skinny old Taoist girl like a little skeleton, kicking her legs, jumping and jumping, will she practice and practice, 'Kaba' and bones shattered to the ground!! It's a pity that Zhang Taiji was disappointed, Mrs. Cining just sat on the chair next to her, watching Han Yue'e practice, and she didn't mean to make a move! Han Yue'e first demonstrated her fists and kicks, and later changed to weapons. Later, he fought with the beautiful Taoist aunt Jingyun. Jingyun Daogu wore a tight-fitting outfit today, showing her bumpy figure, she was beautiful, and her martial arts were not bad. and Han Yue'e dismantled the trick and changed the style to fight together. At first, the movements were not fast. One move and one style is like a performance. Fighting, both of them moved the real fire, and the fists and feet accelerated and intensified. From time to time, fists and palms hit each other to make a snapping and banging sound. After the work of a meal, the two were equal, and no one was helpless, but they were both tired and panting, staring at each other, and they were not convinced by each other!!

Several little girls shouted and clapped their hands on the side, cheering them on, while Zhang Taiji compared the martial arts competition scene in front of him with the martial arts movies he had seen in the video, "There is no light skill, no acupoints, no internal force!" There's no comparison! I don't know to what extent Zhang Sanfeng's martial arts are there? If you have the chance, you must see it! ”

Mrs. Cining kept smiling and watching the two fight, not speaking and commenting, and the two of them didn't stop it when they hit the real fire. It wasn't until the two of them couldn't fight anymore that they said: "How old are you, and you still fight like you did when you were a child!" As the teacher has long said, the purpose of cultivating martial arts is to cultivate the body, open up the meridians and strengthen the body, and then nourish the soul with a strong physique, so that the soul can grow. Cultivating the true nature will condense and stabilize the soul, you two have done a good job in self-cultivation, but there is no progress in cultivation, you still need to work hard!. “

Zhang Taiji heard Mrs. Cining's words on the side, "How does it sound like the theory of 'entering the Tao with martial arts' in Xiuzhen's novel!" Look at her eyes that glistened like soul fire. A skinny body like a skeleton. I sighed in my heart: "Genius and madman are sometimes just a thin line!" In order to cultivate the Tao, Mrs. Cining went on a hunger strike and made herself look like an old witch, it is difficult to say whether it is right or wrong! It can be said that she is determined, or it can be said that she has gone crazy. Without affecting himself, Zhang Taiji was happy to stay out of the matter, go with the flow, and be an observer. ”

The cooing pigeons on the eaves add a lot of life to this quiet Taoist temple. These pigeons were not kept in captivity by Taoist aunts, but naturally settled under the eaves of Taoist temples. Taoism emphasizes being close to nature and living in harmony with nature. So the pigeons are taken care of by the Taoist aunts, and occasionally fed some grains and grains. The pigeons come and go freely, when there is less food in winter, there are more pigeons here, and now there are dozens of them, the pigeons are very close to the people in the Taoist temple, Cining Shitai goes out to collect medicine, they sometimes fly with them, so when I saw the pigeon coming back yesterday, Jing'er knew that Cining Shitai was back.

Zhang Taiji was very interested in these pigeons, in this era when communication is difficult. If you can train your own carrier pigeons, the convenience brought by the 'flying pigeon biography' is immeasurable! Zhang Taiji pondered how to get a few back. It will definitely not work to catch it clearly, it will be stopped by Dao Gu, and you need to think of a better way.....

The days passed peacefully, and on this day, Zhang Taiji and a few little girls followed Jingyun and Jinglan to collect medicine.

Zhang Taiji followed them. Enjoy the roadside scenery as you walk. Walking through the mouth of a valley, the front suddenly opened up, and a large piece of flat field appeared, and the area could be more than 200 acres. There are all kinds of seedlings planted in the fields, there are several old farmers working in the fields, surrounded by mountains and forests, a small river flows through, the fields are all by the river, the land is fertile, and irrigation is also very convenient. There are several wooden houses near Taniguchi. Apparently the residence of those peasants.

The two Dao aunts took a few children to a field, which was planted with a variety of medicinal herbs, which turned out to be a medicine garden. Jingyun taught a few children to harvest and pick those suitable herbs, and a few children were very happy while helping, talking, laughing, and playing. After a busy period of work, the old peasants probably called it a day and went home. I made a special detour to the side of the medicine field to greet the two Dao aunts, and the two Dao aunts returned the courtesy politely.

Zhang Taiji found that the old farmers were all forty or fifty years old, and their faces were honest. No young people were found, and there were no children. Curious, he asked the beautiful Jingyun, "Senior aunt, why do you only see a few old farmers, but you don't see any young and strong ones?" ”

Jing Yun was busy lowering her head to pick out medicinal materials, her pink neck was lowered, and when she heard Zhang Taiji ask her, she didn't raise her head, "I have selected them before I came, and the young ones are not easy to control, we don't want them here."

"Do you have to choose here? Isn't this their home? Zhang Taiji asked curiously

Jing Yun raised his head and glanced at Zhang Taiji, "You kid, there are quite a lot of problems!" This piece of land is the property of Yunuguan, and those old farmers are the tenants we invited to help with farming. ”

"Why are these places owned by the Jade Maiden?" Zhang Taiji pretended to be innocent and asked

"Of course, it's our jade girl's view! What do we eat without these? Jing Yun seemed to answer the question, and then said: "I heard from the master, it was the master who reclaimed this field with his own hands, and it was not so big at the beginning, and after many years of expansion, it has such an area. Jing Yun seemed to have found a basis, and said affirmatively: "The ancestor handed down it, of course, is our Jade Maiden View." ”

Zhang Taiji did not speak, and fell into deep thought again. "A small jade girl view, only a few Taoist aunts live! But it has such a large piece of fertile land. The Taiqing Palace is built on a grand scale, and there are hundreds of Taoist monks practicing the Great Dao Temple, how many fields do you have? How many tenants do you need to hire to farm? With the prosperity of the Taiqing Palace, I am afraid that there are more than a few thousand acres of land, and the tenants must be at least tens of thousands!! Thinking of those Buddhist temples that were rewarded by the Yuan Dynasty, I dare not think about how rich those monks were!! ”

Ling'er and the two sisters have long been accustomed to it, and Zhang Taiji wanders out of the world from time to time. Jing Yun was very curious, bent down and stretched out a pair of white and slender palms, dangling in front of Zhang Taiji's eyes, seeing that Zhang Taiji did not react. He stretched out his hand again to pinch Zhang Taiji's face. Zhang Taiji just came back to his senses, and a pair of towering twin peaks appeared in front of him, and he involuntarily blurted out, "It's so big!" "The voice dragged on for a long time...

Jing Yun bent over, stretched out his hand and just wanted to pinch Zhang Taiji's little face, when he saw Zhang Taiji come back to his senses, staring at his chest and staring at his chest, his eyes were straight, and his mouth was so big! She still wondered, how big? What's so big? When he looked down and reacted, he immediately protected his chest with one hand, grabbed Zhang Taiji's ear with the other, and said coquettishly: "Stinky boy, where are you looking?" It's huge! What's so big you can make clear? ”

Zhang Taiji grinned in pain, "The field is so big, the field is so big....."