In ancient times, there were three religions and nine streams, integrating Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, law, name, ink, miscellaneous, agriculture, yin and yang, vertical and horizontal nine schools, whether it was the upper nine streams or the lower nine streams, up to the immortal emperor, down to the peddlers, pawns, forming today's three hundred and sixty lines, the industry is changing with each passing day.

Nowadays, how many industries in the world are saturated, and there is no real subsistence stunt in hand, and you can only be mediocre and survive all your life.

And often the real stunts are rarely passed on, such as the method of smelting, the secret recipe of food, the knife skills of Ku Ding, and the magic of magicians.

The remaining industries that can disclose their secrets have long been rotten, and for a position, how many people have grabbed their heads.

That is, there are now a variety of professions, it is difficult to starve to death of a person, back to any previous era, food is always the top priority in the world, so today's people pay less and less attention to respecting teachers.

I hadn't thought about it so much before, and I didn't know that Daoist Ma would have a disciple of his disciple in the past, but his strictness made me a little at a loss for a while, and now what would happen to kill me.

In fact, I don't have much interest, I just want to marry a daughter-in-law to honor my mother together, and the family will live happily for the rest of my life.

But now Xiaobai is away from me, and my money is also used to build a house, buy furniture and buy a wedding, there is not much left, and the rest of my life is inevitably a life of hard work, and learning the Tao is not a day or two can be achieved overnight, so I simply admit it.

It's just that the snow is cold in winter, and my knees will be numb after a while, Xiao Wu went to his room and brought a blanket for me to kneel, he said: "Zhang Yang, you must be honest and kneel here, you can't avoid punishment privately, otherwise the Taishi Ancestor will be angry again, and a sword qi will slash you, and no one will be able to protect you." ”

"I know, you go back to watch and sleep, I won't run." I said with a shudder.

"No, Master Taizu asked me to look at you, I'm still outside." Xiao Wu said, sitting cross-legged in front of me and closing his eyes and concentrating.

The old bachelor yawned, put his coat on my body, and said, "I can't stand this old bone, you hold on, I'll tell your mother tomorrow, and let him bring you a hot soup." ”

I heard that once the Taoist people meditate and enter the meditation state, they can wander too empty, and the energy consumption of the body will be reduced to a very small level, and even some Buddhist masters can not enter the rice and water for several months, thinking that Xiao Wu should not have reached this realm.

I knelt at the door of the Taoist temple until dawn the next day, blowing the cold wind all night, my body was cold, unconscious, and when the sun shone on Xiao Wu's face, Xiao Wu woke up sleepy-eyed and returned to the Taoist temple without looking back.

At that time, I only thought about insisting on being punished, according to Xiao Wu, during which my mother wanted to send me hot soup and a padded jacket, but was stopped by the old bachelor, saying that Ma Daoist would not let me, this little cold and small punishment could not be supported, and it was okay not to learn the ability.

When I awoke, I was lying in a large vat, and there was a fire burning under the vat, and I was so hot that my face was red, and my body was full of silver needles.

"Awake?" Ma Taoist sat next to the vat, and when he saw me wake up, he pulled out the silver needles from my body one by one.

"Meet the master."

I'm going to salute Ma Daoist in the vat.

"Don't move, don't move." Daoist Ma stopped me, continued to pull out the needle, and asked expressionlessly, "Have you ever hated being a teacher?" ”

I hesitated for a moment and asked rhetorically, "Does the master want to hear the truth or a lie?" ”

"Nature is the truth."

"The truth is, it's false to say that I don't hate you, after all, the master punished me for no reason, but I'm still grateful to the master."

"Oh, what does that mean?"

I said: "On the night I was punished, I listened to Senior Brother and Xiao Wu talk about some things about the Daomen, as well as the past of Taiyinguan, which made the master angry, and it was indeed because I didn't think about it before. Whether it is parents, children or masters and apprentices, the more the elders feel that they can handle the younger generations, the more difficult it is to grasp later. People's patience is great, generally the more people can forbear, the more terrible it is, for the master's master's mastery I can naturally swallow my anger and serve the master for ten or eight years, but this is not out of my own heart. Indeed, it is difficult to figure out this kind of character, it is difficult to see a person's heart without ten or eight years, secular people in order to fight for power and profit, for hundreds of thousands of brothers can turn against each other, once they turn their faces, they forget all the previous friendships, and they want to kill each other, just like my Zhang family's ancestor Zhang Housheng took my grandfather's flesh after he endured it for more than 20 years, and he was as kind to me as a mountain. ”

"You are very sharp-tongued, I only ask you, do you want to learn skills, do you want to recognize me as a master, if you want to quit my door, say it today, I will not have any punishment for you." Ma Daoist said.

"I naturally want to learn some real skills, but also want to recognize you as a master, I still understand the truth of being a teacher for one day and a father for life, not to mention that you saved my life before, and also helped my father to spend his soul, just this, let me Zhang Yang serve you for a lifetime I am also willing, but if the master wants to learn skills in exchange, forgive me for not being able to do it, although the disciple is young, he has not experienced any storms and waves, but he has not been comfortable over the years, and he has often been snubbed and white-eyed, and he has been deceived and played not once or twice, I don't have the ability to be a master, I've been used to others bullying me for a long time, and I just hope that I won't make a few elders, relatives and friends feel cold in my lifetime. ”

After listening to my words, after putting away the silver needle, he didn't know what he was thinking, he got up and walked outside the house, and said, "Put on your clothes and go back to tell your mother that you are safe." ”

I got up from the vat, got dressed, saluted the Taoist priest standing in front of the temple, and then carefully walked down the slope towards the mountain.

When Xiao Wu saw me leaving, he asked: "Taishizu, Zhang Yang is very warm-hearted, he is so good to Sister Xiaobai and me, I heard that no one cared about Zhang Shigeng's uncle and ancestor in the mountains before, and only he will treat his uncle and ancestor as a friend, and his character must be fine." ”

"I didn't say he had a character problem."

"Then why are you still a little upset?"

"He talks too much nonsense."

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In the days that followed, the old bachelor often called me to go to Nanshan in the morning to greet the Taoist priest, but after greeting the old bachelor, he usually stayed to ask questions about the monasticism, and I consciously went down the mountain.

Now that the Chinese New Year is approaching, and it is the time when the price of fish and shrimp rises, I hired a few people to drain my fish pond with a pump and sell all the fat and big fish in the fish pond.

Because Nanshan is a distance from the village, the mountain road is high, the wires are not easy to pass, the master has lived in the mountains for many years and is not used to electricity, and even the stove does not burn in winter.

So I bought a few soft quilts to make his bed, and Xiao Wu's house also added a few more layers of quilts.

At that time, I found out that Xiao Wu didn't know how to cook, and the master was in Bigu most of the time, and once my mother fried the fish in the insulated box and sent it to the mountain when it was already cold, so I dug a pond next to the Taoist temple and raised more than a dozen big fish in it.

On the day of the New Year, I still asked the town's electrician to bring electricity to the Taoist temple, and at night at Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, Xiao Wu and the old bachelor came to my house, but the master did not like the excitement and did not go down the mountain, so after the meal, the old bachelor and Xiao Wu went to the mountain to accompany the master, and I stayed with my mother, and I waited for my mother to fall asleep before I went up the mountain.

There are a few disciple beds connected together in the side room where Xiao Wu lives, I bought a lot of quilts before and laid them out, I slept next to Xiao Wu, preparing to kowtow to the master when I wake up the next day and bow down the mountain.

But when I woke up the next day, I noticed something strange, because I saw qi.

Xiao Wu's body was shrouded in a halo, and even the old bachelor's body had a halo that was difficult to distinguish with the naked eye.

"This should be what Taoist people call Taoist true qi, it is said that after practicing Taoist qi, mosquitoes dare not get close, which can automatically block germs and dust, so that people can stay away from diseases."

I got up and dressed, and walked out of the temple, but the snow continued to fall, but there was no snow on my body.

The more strange it became in my heart, because the first wisp of Dao Qi was actually cultivated without a teacher.