Chapter 1: Marriage and Childbirth
At the end of the Song Dynasty, the world was in turmoil, the heroes rose together, the killing was even in the sky, the people were panicked, the Jin people invaded, the Liao State rebelled, the Mengyuan iron cavalry walked all over the Yellow River, the mountains and rivers were broken, the wind and rain were shaky, the way of heaven had been lost, the people of dawn were panicked all day long, killing all over the place, the bones were facing the sky, the sorrow was all over the wilderness, and the people and gods were angry.
Zhao Tianming, a wealthy businessman in Nanyang County, has been a businessman for generations, has a lot of savings, and is a local tyrant on the rich side of Nanyang County.
The Zhao family lives in Nanyang, and it has been nine generations in Tianming's generation, with many children and grandchildren, many sons and many blessings, but in Zhao Tianming's generation, the Zhao family has a problem, and there are no children under their knees over 50 years old.
It is said that there are three unfilial pieties, and no queen is great, although the gold and silver are thousands, and the rich party is rich, it is difficult to find a son who can scatter thousands of gold, so he is worried about it, and he does not eat tea and dinner all day.
Zhao's wife Li Tianying is the youngest daughter of Li Shouxin, the squire of the military department of the Great Song Dynasty, and is married to Zhao Tianming of Nanyang County.
For this reason, the Zhao family husband and wife devote themselves to cultivating, sincerely worship the Buddha, everywhere the Yellow River goes up and down the north and south of the river, they will go to the famous mountains and ancient temples to worship the Buddha and ask for children, time is like an arrow, and 5 years have passed, and the knees are still empty.
Until one day, Zhao's wife Li Tianying met a wandering Taoist priest in the bazaar, and the Taoist priest divined a hexagram for her.
After divining the hexagram, the Taoist priest had a solemn expression, shook his head and nodded, and said with a long sigh: "Madam, your fate is not childless, just because your family is greedy for money all their lives and has responded to the catastrophe of heaven, so they have been unable to give birth to a child for a long time.
This Taoist priest is named Tieguan Daoren, who is the master of Liu Bowen, the founder of the Ming Dynasty.
The lady was very happy after hearing the words of the Taoist priest, and hurriedly ran home and told Zhao Tianming the good news.
Zhao Tianming was overjoyed, and hurriedly told his wife, take me to invite this Taoist priest, I want to talk to him in detail, this is the only hope we have received so far, we must not be wasted, otherwise I will not be the ancestors of the Zhao family in the spirit of the sky.
Zhao Tianming hurriedly changed his clothes, and walked out of the lobby with his wife, ready to invite this Tieguan Daoist.
When he went out, he was surprised that the unknown prophet of the Iron Crown Dao had already arrived in front of the lobby of his house.
I saw this iron-crowned Taoist man, with white hair, thick eyebrows and big eyes, his eyes were full of depth, and his age could not be estimated, and he was embroidered with round Taiji diagrams on a blue-gray Taoist robe, and two black and white fish, wandering there quietly.
The couple hurriedly stepped forward to salute, but they didn't know that the immortal master was in the cold house, and they didn't go far to greet them, and they still looked at the immortal master Duoduo Haihan where they were rude.
Tieguan Taoist said: "I have lived in Kunlun Mountain for a long time, leisurely cruising around the sky, now I see the purple gas rising in the air, the vast road of heaven is coming, the mountains are full of white bones, who can save the world, the demon king was born to help the right way, and the chivalrous battle to save the dawn", it doesn't matter, there is a fate to meet thousands of miles away, it is difficult to meet on the other side, and it must be a fate to meet Mrs. in the bazaar today.
"The immortal master is really boundless, my husband and wife are ready to invite sincerely, bow three times and knock nine times to solve the doubts in their hearts, and hope that the master will guide the maze, Zhao Tianming said honestly.
The Taoist said: "Zhao Yuanwai, don't worry, don't worry, the poor Dao knows the intentions of the outside, and it is the one who came to solve this matter for the outside."
When the husband and wife heard this, they were overjoyed, and said happily, the master please, the master please, very politely let the Tieguan Daoist to the lobby, hurriedly called the house slave, and made a cup of good Longjing tea.
The immortal master asked for tea, Zhao Tianming reverently took the tea from the hand of the house slave Li Zhong, held it with both hands, and respectfully sent it to the Tieguan Daoist.
Tieguandaoren's eyes closed slightly, first sniffed the fragrance of tea with his nose, then tasted a few sips with his mouth, and gently put the teacup on the table, strangely what was placed on the table was no longer a teacup, but a wooden box in the shape of a teacup.
Good tea, good tea, I drink this cup of tea will prolong my life for 3,000 years, fate is fate, good tea is good tea, Tieguan Dao people read ...... over and over again.
The Zhao couple was very surprised, how could an ordinary cup of tea at home prolong the life of 3,000 years, according to this, my husband and wife are drinking this kind of tea every day, wouldn't it be able to prolong the life of tens of millions of years?
Zhao Tianming secretly thought in his heart, isn't this person crazy? Is it another false Taoist? Am I being deceived again?
Thinking of this, Zhao Tianming secretly glanced at his wife standing next to him, and then at the Tieguan Daoist sitting in the lobby, giving his wife a puzzled look.
Their husband and wife have formed a rare tacit understanding for many years, Li Tianying understood what her husband meant, glared at her husband fiercely, and secretly thought in her heart, you still dare to doubt this immortal master today, no wonder we will have no children, all this is all due to your lack of pious heart, it is simply an elm pimple, no matter how you educate, you can't educate.
After a long time, the iron pipe man suddenly spoke: "Children and grandchildren are given by the destiny of heaven, and now your husband and wife have no children under their knees, just because they have not made a good relationship and damaged the way of heaven."
From now on, the two of you help the poor, make good connections, save the people of Li in the upside down, you must have your own blessings, and when the merits are completed on the 7749th day, the two of you go to the Kunlun Mountain Wuji Dragon and Phoenix Palace, sincerely bow, and you will get a noble son.
After the birth of your son, remember to remember that you must not contact outsiders within three years, and you must not go out of the courtyard for half a step, otherwise disaster will come, and the divine power will not be saved, and the divine power will not be saved, remember, remember.
When the husband and wife were about to ask what the reason was, the Iron Crown Daoist had long since disappeared, leaving only the wooden box in the shape of a teacup on the table.
The couple was very surprised, and gently opened the wooden box, and there were sixteen big characters written on a yellowed piece of paper in the box: "The demon king was born, the world is invincible, Kuang supports justice, and saves the common people."
Zhao Tianming looked at these sixteen strange big characters, and was very puzzled in his heart, who is this demon king? What does it have to do with me? The couple couldn't figure out how to think about it, the two of them looked at the wooden box in a daze, and after a long time, Li Tianying said: "Since it was left by the Taoist, there is a reason to keep him, it's not something that we mortals can know, let's put it away first."
Zhao Tianming nodded, didn't say a word, waved his hand and motioned for his wife to put away the box, turned around and walked out of the room.
After the Taoist priest left, the sky descended a vision, the scorching sun for several months, the sky without the slightest cloud, the earth dried up the clay ten thousand rolls, the river dried up, the grass seedlings withered, the grain within a radius of dozens of miles was not harvested, when the green and yellow were not connected, the villagers were hungry, they ate all the things they could eat, they were helpless to fill the hunger with the bark, they were hungry for a while, the white bones were like mountains, the pain and wailing were all over the mountains, the sky shed tears for it, the earth was sad for it, it was really shocking, miserable.
Zhao Tianming and his wife from Nanyang County changed their scathing and mean faces in the past, opened a warehouse to release grain, gathered all the grain at home, and asked the family to divide 50 carriages to load them and distribute grain to the nearby townships.
The villagers who got the food knelt on the ground, bowed three times and bowed nine times, thanking Zhao Tianming for saving his life, and Zhao Tianming and his wife became a living bodhisattva admired by everyone in the township for a while.
Zhao Tianming and his wife are also very happy in their hearts, their good deeds have touched so many villagers, maybe the gods in the sky will also be moved, they will give us a healthy child, Zhao Tianming thought secretly.
Time passed day by day, and in the blink of an eye, the good karma of seven seven and forty-nine days also ended, and it is also strange to say, on the day of the end of the good karma, it rained heavily in the sky, and the villagers ran around, cheering in the rain, and their whole bodies were wet but they could not feel a trace of cold, because they were looking forward to this rain, they had been looking forward to it for a long time, this rain was a life-saving rain for them, and it was the only hope in their despair.
Zhao Tianming and his wife discussed, now the good fate of 7749 days has ended, the couple went bankrupt to save countless dawn people, and became the living Bodhisattva in the township, and now my husband and wife according to the instructions of the Taoist, tomorrow rushed to Kunlun Mountain Wuji Dragon and Phoenix Palace to ask for a child, God will definitely pity our pious heart, give us a child, I want to end this matter in the hearts of my husband and wife.