Chapter 9 Taoist Temple

The Li family is very inconspicuous in Nanshan Village, after all, in such a place where everyone has a little special craftsmanship, the Li family, who can only farm, is really ordinary. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

The people in Nanshan Village are very capable, the Yang family has a set of management, the Zhang family is very strong in iron, and the carpenters of the Liu family are no worse than those so-called masters in the imperial court's Ministry of Industry. In contrast, Li Chang's father has a specialty in farming, which is really nothing. In these years, it is not a skill to know how to farm.

Li Chang is not young, more than a round older than Wei Xuan, and he has been in the army for several years. He was not in the same army as Uncle Wu at the beginning, and no one knew how he mixed up. But it should be good to think about it, otherwise with so little land per capita in Nanshan Village, the Li family would not have lived so happily.

This time, Li Chang went home, although it was true that he wanted to marry a wife, but he did not mean it. There is no such thing as marriage leave in the Tang Army, and rest in the army is the real situation. Wei Xuan understood that the length of the non-commissioned officer's vacation time during the rest in the army was numerous. Small soldiers for a few days, and those with official positions are appropriately extended according to their size. Li Chang can take a hundred days off, no matter what, he can't be an ordinary person.

Wei Xuan, who returned to the house, didn't sleep immediately, and kept thinking about the conversation between Fang Cai and Li Chang in his head. Taking advantage of the wine, Wei Xuan felt more and more that the story he had just told was very good. What about mythology? Although there are many more fabrications, they are not much different from the actual situation.

If you want to find out the origin of Wei Xuan, you must first get it out of Uncle Wu's mouth, and then you have to find that strange place. In Wei Xuan's opinion, it is easier to find a place than to talk from Uncle Wu. What's more, even if Uncle Wu says that he leaks his mouth one day, Wei Xuan won't care. If you can't find evidence, you can't be sure of anything, even if that's the truth.

The highest level of lying is to tell the truth selectively. Nine truths and one falsehood have the possibility of being exposed, and only the truth can perfectly deceive the other party. What kind of cave heaven and earth, what kind of fortune is really immortal, since someone wants to check it, then check it, if it is really found out, it would be good, Wei Xuan just wanted to know the truth.

Unfortunately, this is something that is not destined to happen.

shook the wine jar, there was no sound, Wei Xuan pursed his lips and put the jar on the ground, lay on the bed with his eyes closed and began to recuperate. If you drink too much, your brain will turn fast, but it will also drain your mind, if it weren't for Li Chang, Wei Xuan wouldn't want to drink so much. It's just that there is no way, it is a matter of life and wealth, and I have to be serious.

Wei Xuan slept soundly, but he still got up early on the second day. After a while in the village, the habit has been formed, and it is strange if you get up late. I didn't drink porridge, just eat a few pot helmets with white water. Wei Xuan is now supported by the people in the village, and what he eats depends on what others take the day before.

I don't have to teach today, I have a day off every half month, which was set at the beginning. On the surface, it is time for children to have fun, but in fact, Wei Xuan just wants to give himself a vacation. It's just that now it seems that the half-moon holiday is still a bit too much, and the seven-day holiday is appropriate. The so-called too much talk will be lost, after last night's incident, Wei Xuan felt that it was better to say less.

Uncle Wu has been obsessed with hunting recently, and several government soldiers in the village who have also retired have to go into the mountains every day, and they feel uncomfortable if they don't go for a day. They all survived on the battlefield, and their hard work was not bad, so the beasts in the mountains were considered to have suffered seedlings. In addition to the black bear, which can't be provoked because it has no sharp weapons, it is the tiger that also makes them clean up. The meat Wei Xuan tasted it, it was not very delicious, it was just fresh. The tiger skin was sold by the village chief Yang in the city, and he got a lot, after all, it was a fierce beast, and it was still rare.

After saying hello to Aunt Wu, Wei Xuan went out. It's rare to relax, and it's good to relax. It just so happened that the beasts on the mountain were scared by Uncle Wu and others, and it was almost winter, so the danger was much smaller. There are a lot of strange flowers and plants in Zhongnan Mountain, and it is easy to get them back if you find a suitable one. Wei Xuan felt that the peach, plum, pine and bamboo were still a little cheesy, and others couldn't show his difference by planting these, so it was good to get something peculiar.

There is one thing Wei Xuan did not say nonsense, Zhongnan Mountain is indeed a handsome place, if it is not good, Taoists will not arrange it into the "Cave Heaven Blessed Land". In such a place, there must be people who practice outside the square. Ten miles west of Nanshan Village, there is a Taoist temple. There is no name, and I don't know when it was built, a large hall, a firewood house, a house, and a side room are all. There is only a pair of masters and apprentices in the view, the older one is afraid of the ancient rarity, the face is charitable, the crane hair is childish, and the younger one is also in his thirties, white and pure, and he can't see the appearance of penance at all.

The Taoist temple has been in disrepair for a long time, and the golden body of the god in the main hall has long been dilapidated, and the master and apprentice do not care, burning incense and chanting the scriptures day by day, but they are very pious. The people of Nanshan Village know this Taoist temple, if they pray for blessings and make wishes, they will come here, and the pair of masters and apprentices will be invited down the mountain to be the main sacrifice during the Spring and Autumn Festival. The people in the village are very strange that they have some money to spare, and although it is not much to repay each wish, it is enough for these two Taoist priests to live. Perhaps it is precisely because of this that the master and apprentice have been able to persist in the view for so many years, Wei Xuan has heard the old man in the village say that the old Taoist priest was in the view when they were young.

The ten-mile mountain road is not difficult to walk, although the stone slabs on the road are seriously worn, they can also walk, plus Wei Xuan went out early, and arrived at the place before noon. Standing at the gate of the Taoist temple for a while, he patted the pine tree next to the gate, Wei Xuan really wanted to dig this tree back and plant it in his yard. There are not many pine trees that look like welcome pines, and this one looks even better than what I have seen in Huangshan before. In the past, I saw a painting called "Confucius Lectures", and now Wei Xuan is also teaching and educating people, and he doesn't dare to compare with the sage.

The door of this temple has never been closed, so naturally there is no such thing as buttoning the door. Wei Xuan raised his legs and crossed the threshold, and he didn't recognize his life, and came to the room with a familiar way. I rummaged through the cabinets and found no meat. Pouted and shook the pot, lit a fire to boil water, cut Kunlun melon and courgette into cubes while looking at the fire, washed the spinach, cut the tofu into mahjong pieces, and threw them in when the fire turned on. I took out a small clay pot the size of a palm from the cabinet, and when I opened it, there was less than half a jar of green salt. Don't dare to put too much, if you have too much, you will be beaten.

At this time, there were no potatoes and tomatoes in the Central Plains, otherwise there would be no courgette and spinach tofu. Kunlun melon is eggplant, courgette is cucumber, although it can be eaten together, but it is not as good as eggplant, potato, and tomato stew together. Doing extraordinary things in extraordinary times, and the conditions are limited, so you can only make a living in this way.

The fire was very strong, and the pot came out quickly, and as soon as a big bowl was filled, the Taoist priest in his thirties walked in. Wei Xuan was not polite, and immediately beckoned to take the dishes away. The Taoist priest was not surprised, and even more ignored it, bent down and lifted a stone slab on the ground, revealing a passage, and walked out after a short time after entering. Wei Xuan looked up, but it was a jar with the aroma of wine, and a large bowl, in which there were two large pieces of marinated sauce meat.

Glaring at the Taoist priest fiercely, Wei Xuan put out the stove with the lid of the pot, picked up the big bowl on the side and walked to the side room. This bowl is full, there is soup and water, and it is still a little hot after serving it for a long time. Wei Xuan walked a few steps and was about to put it down and slow down, but he was much slower than the Taoist priest. Fortunately, the Taoist priest was still quite interesting, and when the things were delivered, he knew that he would come back and take over, so Wei Xuan naturally had no chance to play on the topic.

Entering the wing, the old Taoist priest was already sitting at the table, and when he saw Wei Xuan, he smiled and nodded as a greeting. Wei Xuan also nodded, but didn't speak, sat down cross-legged and lifted the chopsticks and put a piece of sauce meat in his bowl, the middle-aged Taoist priest couldn't help but be angry when he saw it, but he didn't say anything, he gave himself a bowl of condensed stew, and ate it with a stuffy head. The rest of the sauce meat is the old Taoist's, that is his own master, what else can he eat if he doesn't eat stew.

It makes sense to eat without words, and when no one speaks, they naturally eat much faster. Wei Xuan has always been reluctant to clean up the dishes and chopsticks, and after eating, he leaned over the pillar next to him, picked up the jar and poured a sip of wine. The old Taoist priest can't drink alcohol when he's old, and the middle-aged Taoist Wei Xuan doesn't care. The old Taoist priest also smiled when he saw Wei Xuan like this, waved his hand at his apprentice, and the middle-aged Taoist priest got up to clean up the table.

After going out for a while, I came back with a set of tea sets. He respectfully poured a glass for the old Taoist priest, and meditated cross-legged on his knees. The brown color is slightly yellow, and the smell of tea is fragrant, which is very obvious in this room, Wei Xuan, who was drinking wine, couldn't help but be stunned when he smelled it, and then smiled. The old Taoist priest held the lamp in both hands, took a small sip and put it down. Tea is to be tasted, and he still knows that.

"The tea you are talking about is indeed wonderful, the aftertaste is endless, and it can calm the mind and nourish the mind. In recent months, I have tasted tea every day, and I feel that my cultivation has increased by a few points. ā€

"Well, I'll just say that's the right way to drink tea. How can it be called tea when it is crushed and made into tea paste like that, and boiled with green salt, green onions, ginger, garlic and oil? It's delicious, and it's a shame that you can drink it. ā€

"Hehehe......" The old Taoist priest smiled and replied, "Taoism is natural, sencha has the wonder of sencha, and clear tea has the beauty of clear tea. ā€

"Cut...... Anyway, I'm not used to drinking sencha, this wine is good. Teaching you the tea ceremony just depends on how old you are, and drinking too much sencha is not good for your health. ā€

"Hahaha...... I have to thank my junior brother. ā€

"You don't have to, just give me a few jars of this wine, the fruit wine elsewhere is not as good as yours, it's all sweet and greasy, there is no wine taste at all, and it tastes really unpleasant."

"It's easy to say, I've quit drinking for many years, and Xuan Kui doesn't drink either, and the previous years that Lao Dao brewed in his spare time are piled up in the cellar, and it doesn't hurt to give them to you."

"That's very good, if I ask you for wine when I'm hungry, don't you give it away."

"Nature, nature." The old Taoist priest smiled and stroked the long hair under his chin, picked up the teacup and took another sip, and then asked, "Senior brother, when you asked you and me to practice here before, you did everything you could to shirk it, and I have only seen you three times today, how can you remember this?" ā€

Wei Xuan couldn't help but pause when he heard this, and sighed slightly. Putting the wine jar aside, his face was serious, and he said very seriously: "Senior brother, I do have something very urgent. ā€

"Oh? I don't know what? The old Taoist accepts apprentices on behalf of the teacher, you are my junior brother, and I will naturally not stand idly by and watch something. ā€

"Hey...... Senior brother Gaoyi! Actually, it's not a big deal, it's just that I found an ancestor for us......"