Chapter 10 - Ten Years
With the flick of my fingers, more than nine years have passed, and I have found that as long as I am close to Master, the black qi between my eyebrows will resonate with the black mist on Master's body. The black qi between my eyebrows has flare-ups several times in the past nine years, and each time I am not motivated to learn the Dao, and I am punished by the master, or when I hear about some injustices, my head hurts.
Taoism does not say longevity, because people who cultivate the Tao are all pursuing an eternal life, and cultivating themselves around the topic of eternal life, so it is a big taboo to ask the Taoist priest about lifespan, and after the master is in better health, he told me a lot of taboos, including not being able to ask his age and so on.
But I also vaguely feel that the master is already sixty or seventy years old this year, and although his demeanor is still the same as it was back then, he has no choice but to have silver threads between his temples.
In the past ten years, I have not seen how the black qi on Master's body attacks, but I have found that every time the black qi between my eyebrows attacks, Master will sweat profusely, perhaps, this is also a resonance?
In the past ten years, I have learned a lot of things, Qimen Dunjia, Bazi, face, palmistry, hexagrams, exorcism, and even the identification of antiques, I have dabbled in it, and I have learned a lot of ways to do things.
I don't know how my father is doing now, but I have been a close disciple of Master for the past ten years, and there are very few opportunities to go out, and Master said that a cultivator should sharpen his mind and exercise the six roots, and beginners are more important, so all emotions must be cut off.
Gradually, I have put the things that happened in the secret path when Master accepted me as a disciple at the bottom of my heart, and I basically don't think about it anymore.
Seeing that it was almost ten years, Master had been worried all the time in this year, and when I was in retreat and meditating, I used to be lazy to peek at Master's cultivation, and I found that he was choking up, as if he was crying, and Master was a very strong person in my eyes, and he would not shed tears. Nine years ago, Master only had red circles in his eyes, and he didn't shed a single tear.
This year, a lot of things happened, Master acted very abnormally, in the past, he would punish me for anything I did wrong, but this year, Master will not do it, and the eyes looking at me are getting more and more wrong. I vaguely felt something, or I ignored something.
Slowly, I also fell into contemplation, digging into the things in my heart, and the past flashed through my mind as quickly as a movie。。。。。 Back to the day of the apprenticeship.
Oh my God, it's been ten years, it's almost time for Master to say, Master won't be...
A few months later, the ten-year period had expired.
"Qin Sheng, come here." Master's face was dull, I knew what was going to happen, I didn't want to, but I also stubbornly passed.
"Qin Sheng, twenty years ago, you and I met here for the first time, and the first time I saw you, we were still an infant baby, and now we have grown into a young man, standing up half a head taller than the master, not bad, not bad."
As Master said this, a smile forced out of his wrinkled face, as if he didn't want to make the atmosphere feel like life and death.
"Boy, you're not young now, it's time to go out into the outside world, do you remember what your teacher said to you ten years ago?"
I lowered my head and mumbled like a child at fault.
"There is no feast in the world that will not be dispersed, your road is still long, Master, I do this, and I also have my own difficulties."
"Master! Am I doing something wrong? I'll change! Master, if I do something wrong, tell me directly, I will change it, I beg you, don't drive me away. At this moment, the grievances in my heart broke out at this moment, and I knelt on the ground with a "plop".
"Alas!" The master shook his head and turned around, "Qin Sheng, Master has a hard time doing this!" The friendship between you and me, master and apprentice, that's it! Master's last sentence was very heavy, but I could clearly hear the trembling of Master's voice. After so many years, the parents who gave birth to me, and the master who taught me, so far in my life, I have obeyed my father's simplicity and master's openness. But at the thought of leaving Master now, I immediately wept bitterly, like a child who had accumulated countless grievances, crying out at this moment.
"Don't force me to drive you away!" Master still hasn't turned his head, I'm not stupid, Master doesn't look at me head-on, because he is afraid of shaking his decision, perhaps, Master is also full of tears now.
An hour, two hours...
I knelt on the ground and didn't speak, and Master was standing there with his back to me.
"Okay, Qin Sheng, you can follow me into the house."
Finally, Master broke the silence that had been silent for two hours, and it seemed that he had calmed down.
"Ahh Good! Master, have you changed your mind? Hehe, I just said that Master wouldn't want me. I jumped up happily and touched my head.
"Come in with me!"
Master led me into the room where I was a disciple and led me around.
The statue of the ancestor has been repaired by the master, and the traces of the glue have also been polished by the master, which shows how much the master respects this grandfather.
"Come on, look at this." As he spoke, the master pressed the eyes of the "dragon pillar" supporting the top of the dark passage, and a small dark grid was revealed.
After following Master for ten years, I didn't even know that there was a mechanism here, and I always thought that this secret path was the biggest secret.
Master took out a turquoise ring, this ring is made of natural jadeite, it is already very green and very beautiful, there is a bead on the ring, just like the wrench of the head in the TV series, I looked at it, oh my God! It's Imperial Green!
"Imperial Green!"
"Boy, after so many years, I haven't taught it in vain."
"Boy, then you're taking a closer look at this wrench, what's the difference?"
I took this wrench with both hands, carefully looked at this priceless treasure, only to see that this wrench carving is delicate, the appearance is very round, take a closer look to find that the ring is actually carved two dragons, the carving is meticulous, natural, at first glance it is very smooth, there is no carving at all. There is actually a dragon in the Imperial Green Bead!
The imperial green part is a bead, this pillar is about the size of a little thumb cover, and there is a living dragon in it! If this is hand-carved, then I absolutely don't believe it, this is clearly the lines inside! It's hard to find such an imperial green, but there's a dragon in it! It's even harder to find! I'm afraid that if this thing is sold, the seller will be able to rival the country. The premise is, can anyone afford it?
"This wrench, called Erlong Playing Pearl, was rewarded by Qin Shi Huang to the ancestor back then."
To tell the truth, for so many years, I have heard the master mention a lot of things about "Master Zu", what Penglai Immortal Island, what elixir, although I am the master's apprentice, but I also feel that this Xu Fu is a liar, it is clearly to fool Qin Shi Huang, I don't know, why when I hear this name, I feel a trace of disgust, I am afraid that the master will be angry, so I have never talked about my opinion of the master Zu, because the master is a very respectful person.
"The emerald on this wrench, was dug out by Qin Shi Huang on the dragon eye of the dragon vein, it was a very large piece back then, and found out a few of the best looking, and the world's skilled craftsmen carved it, and a small piece was carved by a craftsman named Xuhui, and it was cut by the nine clans, and the whole family was beheaded all over the house."
I listened intently.
"How many years have this absorbed dragon qi on the dragon vein, and I have already had spirituality, and if I go out to wander in the future, I may be able to save your life."
As soon as Master said this, my curiosity about this "Two Dragons Playing with Pearls" wrench was completely wiped out, and Master still wanted to drive me away, and I shed tears for the second time and cried bitterly, because Master said that in front of Master Zu, you must not make loud noises.
I now know that Master is going to drive me away, and I have changed from unwillingness, reluctance, and nostalgia to compromise. Maybe I can see Master again in the future, it's not a parting of life and death, so I feel better to comfort myself like this.
"Big and small, break your teeth and swallow it in your stomach! If you make a mistake, Master is used to you, and when you go out, no one is used to you! ”
Alas.....