Actually......

It's not that I haven't thought about being lazy, it's just that I'm used to some things day after day, and suddenly I don't do them, and I feel as if my whole body is uncomfortable.

And the crazy old man is not here, I can't make fragrant soup, so I can't soak fragrant soup.

But when I read the scriptures, I still read aloud as usual, using the method of breathing and the method of returning qi from the dantian taught to me by the crazy old man.

It's just that I didn't know at the time that the crazy old man had already begun to teach me the method of reciprocal reciprocation.

That night, the mad old man came back very late.

There is no homework for graduation, and it is already past eight o'clock in the evening after I finish eating, washing the dishes, reading the scriptures, taking a shower, and washing clothes, and the crazy old man has not come back yet.

I was bored in every way, and I played a whole set of Baduanjin and Tai Chi in the courtyard.

even played the drama of "fighting devils", imagining that he was a heroic Red Army soldier with peerless martial arts, and blew up the base camp of devils under the rain of bullets.

Many years later, the drama I had fantasized about was really made into a TV series, and it was also included in the ranks of Lei Ren's anti-Japanese dramas......

Of course, that's for later, and now I'm not presentable at all.

Because I had just changed my clothes, I was covered in dirt when I was rolling left and right in the yard.

But it's normal for a little boy to fantasize that he's a warrior and rub on the ground or something......

Well! Very normal!

I was tired of playing, so I sat on a small bench in the yard to rest, and after a while I fell asleep against the wall.

At about half past eleven, the mad old man returned.

He woke me up and went back to my room, leaving a message: "Come to my room." ”

I opened my sleepy eyes and heard the voice of the crazy old man, and immediately came to my senses, and immediately stood up and followed.

When the mad old man entered the room, he lit an oil lamp and pulled out a suitcase from under the bed.

Curious, I stepped forward, just in time to bump into the crazy old man and blew the suitcase, and the dust on the suitcase flew towards me, causing me to spit several mouthfuls of saliva.

"Silly cub (silly child)!" When the crazy old man saw this, he laughed "haha".

"Ahem, ahem......" I choked on the dust and couldn't speak, so I could only cough and spit vigorously.

"Come and sit down." The crazy old man patted the stool and motioned for me to come over.

As soon as I sat down, the crazy old man looked at me with a "kind" face and did not speak.

I was furious by him, and I had goosebumps on my body, and I couldn't stand it and said, "Crazy old man, just say anything you want!" ”

I saw that the crazy old man quickly withdrew his "kind" face and said, "I also told you before, I am a Taoist priest. I have come to your house to take you as a disciple. Do you know why I should take you as an apprentice? ”

In fact, before my parents left, I overheard their conversation with the crazy old man.

My parents are now very supportive of me and worship the crazy old man as a teacher. Could it be that I really want to be a little Taoist priest in the future?

I shook my head.

The mad old man continued: "I had a feeling in the early years that there would be someone to inherit what I had learned. As for me, although I am the descendant of the mountain character lineage, I am familiar with divination, and this calculation calculates that my apprentice will appear in the vicinity of here. ”

Speaking of this, the crazy old man seemed to remember something, patted his head, and continued: "I forgot, you still don't know the basic knowledge of Taoism. Let me tell you about it first. ”

The crazy old man put the suitcase on the bed, poured himself another cup of tea, and then said slowly: "There are many Taoist factions, and they are roughly divided into two major factions, the Quanzhen Dao and the Zheng. Strictly speaking, my vein belongs to the positive one. Our ancestral courtyard is in Longhu Mountain......"

"Dragon Tiger Mountain! I know! It's not far from us! ”

What the crazy old man said earlier was completely incomprehensible to me with the amount of knowledge I had at the time. I finally heard the crazy old man mention a place name I knew, and I couldn't help but interrupt him and shouted.

"What the hell is your name! It's rude to interrupt someone, you remember it! The mad old man's serious look shook my body.

Seriously, I'm never afraid of a crazy old man beating me, I'm only afraid of his serious appearance.

I nodded resignedly, indicating that I remembered.

The crazy old man continued: "I won't tell you so much detail about the matter, now I will ask you, are you willing to follow me to learn the Tao?" ”

In fact, at that time, I had no concept of learning the Tao, being a Taoist priest, and so on, and I didn't know what a Taoist priest did. But after getting along with the crazy old man over the years, I gradually fell in love with him, and even now I am a little dependent. I can't tell in my heart whether I don't want to be a Taoist priest, or I can't bear to refuse the crazy old man.

The crazy old man saw that I was slow to speak, and he probably understood that I had no concept of the profession of Taoist priest, so he continued: "The Taoist priest of my lineage is different from other people who cultivate in the ancestral court. A Taoist priest like me should be called a cultivator. The purpose of cultivating oneself is to transcend the mundane, jump out of the cycle of birth and death, and become immortals. ”

What? Become an immortal? This crazy old man is kidding me, right?!

When I was a child, in addition to listening to the stories of the Red Army soldiers, I also heard a lot of mythological stories, and I also heard some Journey to the West intermittently. At that time, I scoffed at what the gods said.

But the crazy old man was very serious when he said this, and he didn't seem to be kidding me. I have a faint premonition in my heart: starting tonight, my three views will be completely overturned.

That's right, it was from that night that I entered a world that ordinary people would never touch. And what brought me in was this crazy old man in front of me, who was crazy, sloppy, and robbing children of snacks!

The crazy old man continued: "Another thing to say about whether you become an immortal or not, that is only the goal of our cultivators. In my vein, more attention is paid to attaining the Tao than to becoming an immortal. Attaining a perfect state of mind in the red dust is attaining enlightenment. It's just that the current era is not as good as the era in which the predecessors lived, the resources are becoming more and more scarce, and the cultivators are people who need a lot of precious things to replenish themselves, and this immortal has really become a legend now......

The more the crazy old man said, the more sad his expression became, and I could feel that the crazy old man was revealing his true feelings, and he was really deploring, deploring the glory of my Taoism, and deploring the cruelty of the changing times.

Seeing the crazy old man like this, when I was ten years old at the time, I don't know why I felt a trace of sympathy in my heart, and even had a sense of sympathy for "knowing heroes and valuing heroes".

A scene suddenly popped into my mind, also like today, where a person was talking the same thing across from me, but the picture was blurry, like a thick fog, and I couldn't see the other person's face clearly.

"Master!"

Somehow, I suddenly wanted to say this to the crazy old man, and then I really said it subconsciously.

I saw the crazy old man's originally sad face, his eyes were wide open, looking at me with a shocked look: "Zhengyi? What do you call me? ”

This time I looked at the crazy old man seriously, and I had already made a choice in my heart. In a childish voice, I said to the crazy old man word by word: "Master, please take me as an apprentice!" ”