Chapter 5: Cultivation I
The apprenticeship ends.
A few days later, Balluoqing's subordinates sent a large number of materials needed by the Taoist temple, and when Li Guan saw it, he was as happy as a three-hundred-pound child.
As a young disciple who has just started Taoism, in addition to studying every day, he also follows the senior brothers to practice. Saying that it is practice, in fact, it is to help the senior brothers to work, this boring life makes him feel very distressed, every time he talks about his troubles in front of the senior brothers, the senior brothers always smile and say to him, these are all arranged by the master, don't worry, just take your time.
As soon as he talked about his master, he suddenly became angry, and he had never seen this so-called master since he finished his apprenticeship.
Whenever he proposed to go to the master to theorize, the senior brothers would not stop him, and let him look for the Taoist temple for a day, but he couldn't find even half of the master's hair.
In desperation, he had no choice but to give up.
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Gradually, he began to accept this kind of life, which made him discover a lot of interesting things.
Following the third senior brother to chop wood, carry water, and farm the land, he found that it usually takes three hours to get from the Taoist temple to the bottom of the mountain, but now it only takes two hours to go back and forth.
Following the fourth senior brother to preach outside the mountain to solve his doubts, he learned how to play small tricks to achieve his goals, which made him often tried and tested when he used it on several other senior brothers later.
Listening to the fifth senior brother talk about the world's major events and the meaning of life not only increased his knowledge, but also made him full of curiosity about the outside world.
Every time he steals wine and drinks with the sixth and seventh senior brothers, from the first one to be arrested each time, the two senior brothers can only help him take the blame.
Helping the ninth and tenth senior brothers clean the Taoist temple and cook food, he found a lot of interesting things inside and outside the Taoist temple: the small crickets that can fight in the grass, the magpie nest on the old peach tree at the entrance of the guest hall, the fish and shrimp in the creek three miles outside the Taoist temple, and the broom that has never changed when the door is opened...
Speaking of the old way of watchman, the crossbow man has always had a strange feeling. He was once discovered by Lao Dao when he was secretly playing with Lao Dao's broom, and Lao Dao beat him with that broom to make him cry and call his mother. He told several senior brothers about his experience, but the senior brothers didn't pay much attention to it, only saying that he had nothing to do all day long, either fighting crickets or not knowing where to run crazy, and if he didn't hurry up and wait for the master to come back, he would definitely look good. He knew in his heart that the brothers were just intimidating him, so he didn't think much about it afterwards. But from then on, every time he met the old janitor, he would greet him and affectionately call him the old man. Lao Dao looked at it in his eyes, and he looked like he didn't like it, as if there was no one like him in this Taoist temple. Even so, he never changed his habit of greeting.
After suddenly discovering these interesting things, the crossbowman no longer felt distressed, and he would often sneak out to play alone, sometimes for a whole day, and only the two brothers knew where he was, and each time the two brothers caught him from a tree or a stream.
Such a change, in the eyes of the senior brothers, although they were silent on the surface, they secretly thought of something.