Chapter 20 Taoist Temple in the Forest

Grandpa skillfully opened the door, and the moment the door opened, I seemed to feel a violent wave of qi coming towards me, but when I glanced at the others, I didn't seem to feel this way.

"Squeak"

The gate of the courtyard was opened, and the courtyard was of the very old architectural style, the floor was paved with green bricks, and in the middle of the courtyard was a large incense burner, on which dust had been deposited, but it was evident that it had just been cleaned.

Grandpa took us into the yard, came to the yard, and introduced a few simple houses, the door was a little damaged, but it looked obvious that it had been repaired, and I heard that there were a few small Taoist priests as a place for daily life at that time.

Bypassing the incense burner, I came to the room facing the incense burner, and the first thing I saw was a pair of 'Dao' characters written in a script that I don't know who it was, and the rest was basically some furniture with an age, and I didn't feel the modern atmosphere at all.

"Are we going to live here?"

Hearing this, Grandpa Ma still maintained a smile on his face, stroked his mustache and said, "This is just the place where we live, and the place to train you is still behind, let's put things here first." ”

I glanced at my grandfather, who nodded.

Then my father put the things we brought in the room, and then began to chop wood and make a fire to cook, after we finished eating, my father didn't say much, found a house to sleep, and everyone was speechless all night.

The next day, my father took one look at me, said "stay safe" as he left, and left without looking back.

From this day on, I trained here for almost a month until the Chinese New Year.

After my father left, Grandpa Ma and Grandpa took out some yellow paper, cinnabar, and brushes from the box, and took me out of the place where I lived, and walked towards the back mountain, I asked my grandfather, "Aren't we coming back?" ”

Grandpa touched my head and said charitably: "We won't come here until we go home, the training place is still in the mountains, there is a place for us to live, don't worry." ”

With that, we packed our bags and walked over the house towards the back hill.

When we came to the back mountain, we walked for about an hour, and then we saw a Taoist temple built on the mountain, and I turned my head and asked my grandfather, "Is this the place where we are going to train?" ”

Grandpa nodded, and said sadly: "This is where I and your Grandpa Ma's other brothers left, there is still one of your Grandpa An who is teaching there, and some of the others have lost contact, hey......."

From Grandpa's words, I seemed to hear a kind of sadness, but this sadness seemed to be particularly powerless, and I didn't know what happened back then, so that Grandpa and their group were separated.

"Grandpa, we're here, isn't there anyone around?" I changed the subject to my grandfather.

"This is in the depths of the mountains, and there were still some villagers here a long time ago, but then it was too inconvenient for people to live here, so gradually no one was here, and the rest were some people who entered the Tao."

Grandpa Ma took over at this time and said, "Hey, after so many years, I don't know what it's like inside." ”

Talking and talking, we came to the foot of the mountain, standing at the foot of the mountain and looking up, this Taoist temple is built across the bridge near the stream, built along the mountain, along the foot of the mountain, halfway up the mountain. The Taoist temple has red walls and green tiles, picks and corners and cornices, and ancient trees cover it, which is very majestic and magnificent.

When we were about to go up the stone steps, there was a Taoist priest wearing a blue Taoist robe, with long black hair tied up with a Taoist hairpin, slightly fat, and holding a broom in his hand. ”

Hearing who this slightly fat man actually used to ask us, this is filming a costume drama, I couldn't help but cover my mouth and laugh, the fat Taoist priest saw me laughing, and then scolded me seriously: "Why is the layman so pretending to laugh? ”

I couldn't help it at this time, and laughed out loud directly, seeing me laughing like this at this time, the fat Taoist priest blushed, picked up the broom and was about to hit me, Grandpa Ma stood behind me and gave me a slap on the back of the head.

"Smack"

I turned my head, glared at Grandpa Ma, and didn't forget to be playful, and asked, "Why are you hitting me?" ”

"Little rabbit cub, the little Taoist priests here basically haven't been to the outside world, they are all abandoned children, they grew up here, and the knowledge they learn is basically ancient Chinese, so it's normal to say such things, you laugh there." Grandpa Ma whispered in my ear.

Hearing this, I couldn't help but be stunned, what, these are orphans, then it seems that my laughter just now is indeed a little wrong, and I thought that I would be here for many days with them, so I quickly stepped forward, bowed to the fat Taoist, and apologized.

Seeing that I was sincere, the fat Taoist priest didn't say anything anymore, waved his hand at me and said, "It's okay, it's okay." ”

At this time, the grandfather stepped forward and made a salute to the Taoist priest who seemed to be his own sect, stepped forward with his right foot, drew a circle on the ground, stomped on his toes, and his right hand seemed to be shaking off the dust. ”

"Okay, please wait a while." After the fat Taoist priest saw his grandfather's set of actions, he knew that he was a member of his own family, so he didn't say anything more, and after returning the salute, he quickly ran towards the mountain.

I saw what force the fat Taoist priest used, and after stomping on the ground, his feet were like the wind, fast and unwanted, I couldn't help but be shocked, because with his physique, it was really a little difficult to run at such a speed.

It seems that my grandfather saw my doubts and said to me: "He is using a charm to add the effect of cultivation, and you will know it when you come into contact with it later." ”

Hearing my grandfather's words, I was shocked, damn it, this is too awesome, you can have such a speed with a charm, then you can fly in the future.

Grandpa seemed to see what was going on in my mind and nodded.

Then Grandpa introduced me to some basic things.

Not long after, a Taoist priest wearing a shabby Taoist robe, full of white hair bound with a Taoist hairpin, holding a dust whisk in his hand, and stepping on a pair of black Taoist shoes, quickly ran in our direction, after running in front of us, I found that he was not panting, but standing in front of us with a steady breath, what surprised me even more was that I couldn't see his age, it stands to reason that my grandfather's junior brother, so the age should be about the same as grandpa, but looking at him seems to be only thirty or forty years old.

After the old Taoist priest who came here saw Grandpa and Grandpa Ma, he immediately made the movements of their master, and greeted with tears in his eyes: "Second Senior Brother, Fifth Senior Brother, you are finally here, I haven't seen you for many years." ”

At this time, Grandpa Ma and Grandpa stepped forward to help the old Taoist, and said with tears in their eyes: "Senior brother, we also miss it very much." ”

Grandpa pulled me at this time, pointed to the old Taoist priest and said, "Say hello to your grandfather." ”

"Hello Grandpa An." I greeted politely.

Grandpa An looked at me and said, "Fifth Senior Brother, is this your grandson?" ”

"Well, yes, this is my grandson, his name is Zhao Ziyang, there are some things I have told you through our way, so I came here, I hope he can save his life......." Grandpa An introduced.

"Fifth Senior Brother, what you said was originally your home, for so many years, the senior brothers have run away from each other, and only the two of us are in one place, at that time because of the master, but now you can still come here at any time, why do you want to say such things." Grandpa An said with relief to his grandfather.

"Hey, don't talk about that, you also know our purpose for coming here, so don't talk about those things, don't be sentimental in front of your grandson's apprentice." Grandpa Ma said with a haha at this time.

"Okay, okay, okay, let's go up the mountain." Grandpa An waved his hand and led us to the mountain.

Along the way, I found that the Taoist temple here is close to the city wall, rising along the mountain, building along the ravine, cliff wall, platform, the central axis from bottom to top, there are mountain gates, Yuxian Bridge, Tongxian Bridge, Qinglong Palace, White Tiger Palace, Heavenly Pavilion and other different pavilions, Grandpa and Grandpa Ma will explain to me everywhere, in the process of their explanation, they seem to recall the growth and life here in the past.

Finally, we came to the highest palace here, here seems to be the punctual point of the whole Taoist temple, it is built on a two-meter-high pedestal, sitting north and facing south, the pavilion is more than ten meters wide, and the depth is more than eight meters. The roof of the hill, the kiss of the Biwa Dragon. There are five beams in the pavilion, using the structural form of the rest of the mountain beam frame and trowel beams, the column is on the large forehead square, the outer square is carved with dragons, mythical beasts, fairy grass, and the inner square is carved with two dragons playing with pearls, the carving is really fine, these are the things that the fat Taoist priest told me later, some of them actually I don't really understand why I want to build like this.

After we came to the main hall, Grandpa and Grandpa Ma lit the prepared incense into the incense burner, and offered incense to the tablets in the main hall in turn.

Grandpa An arranged for the fat Taoist priest to take me around, and in the process of walking around, we introduced ourselves to each other.

It turned out that the fat Taoist priest knew that he was an orphan, and that Grandpa An picked him up when he went to the village to run errands, and since then Grandpa An has taken care of him like a grandson. The fat Taoist priest's surname is Liu, and when Grandpa An picked him up, he was holding a wooden card in his arms, and on the wooden card, his surname was written, as well as his birthday. In the end, Grandpa An named Liu Wei according to his birthday, and took him to practice from then on. Later, in the process of my cultivation, he helped me a lot.

After getting along with Liu Wei for a long time, we also began to get acquainted with each other, because of our age, so we talked to each other very much, because he received these education since he was a child, so sometimes he seems particularly rigid, but he is definitely the kindest one.

Grandpa and Grandpa Ma haven't seen them for a day since they came, and they have been in the main hall and don't know what they're doing, so I relied on Liu Wei to tell me a lot about here.

The next morning, Grandpa and Grandpa Ma came out of the main hall and started my training life.