Huang Ling entered the courtyard and saw a jujube tree against the west wall in the courtyard, and suddenly, he felt as if he had seen this tree, but he couldn't remember where it was.

At this time, the woman brought water for the yellow collar to drink, and then beckoned the yellow collar to sit down. While he drank water, he started a family affair with the woman.

The woman asked where the yellow collar came from and who else was in the family, and the yellow collar answered one by one.

Huang Ling asked the woman about the situation of the family, and the woman said: "There are two old people in the family now, and a daughter has been married, and the old man has not come back from working in the fields." ”

After talking for a long time, Huang Lingshui had drunk enough, stood up and wanted to leave, but the woman said, "Young man, don't go, stay and eat, I want to ask you for a favor." ”

Huang Ling asked, "Auntie, what do you want to help?"

The woman said, "I have a log to be brought back, and the old man can't do it alone, and when the old man comes back, you two will carry it back, and I will cook." ”

Huang Ling heard that it was nothing, and the lunch was also settled, so he agreed.

After a while, a man in his fifties walked outside the gate, and the woman said to him, "Old man, a merchant came to ask for water just now, and it just so happens that we have a log to carry, and I will let him stay for dinner, and I will help you carry the wood back." ”

The man glanced at the yellow collar, his eyes were stunned, and he said "uh-huh" twice, and then entered the house.

The woman followed her into the house, and whispered to the man, "Old man, I see that this young man is a little familiar, so I will leave him for you to come back and see." ”

When the man heard this, he also said: "That's it, as soon as I entered the door, I saw that this young man was familiar, could it be ......."

When the woman saw the man say this, her voice trembled: "Our son has a birthmark on his back, why don't you ask him?"

The man nodded, so the two came to the yard again, the man first said a few homely words to Huang Ling, and then asked: "Young man, I look at you very familiarly, do you have a birthmark on your back?"

When Huang Ling heard this, he was stunned for a moment and said, "Uncle, how do you know that I have a birthmark on my back? Because of this birthmark, I was teased by my friends when I was a child." ”

When the old couple heard Huang Ling say this, their expressions suddenly changed, and the man forced himself to calm down and said, "Then can you let me take a look?"

The yellow collar lifted the clothes and let the old couple look at the back, and sure enough, there was a birthmark.

At this time, the woman could no longer suppress the excitement in her heart, and asked in a trembling voice, "Young man, do you remember when you were four years old?"

Seeing this scene, Huang Ling felt confused, and replied: "I don't remember what happened when I was four years old, but I feel a little familiar when I see your jujube tree, but I can't remember where I saw it." ”

When the old couple heard this, they were even more determined in their thoughts, and the man said excitedly: "I can't hide it, I used to have a son who was lost when he was four years old, and there was a birthmark on his back. ”

Then the man said that his son wanted to climb the jujube tree when he was a child, but not only did he not climb it, but he was rubbed off a layer of skin because of his bare stomach. At this time, the scalp of the yellow collar was suddenly pricked by a needle, and he suddenly remembered that he was holding his stomach and crying for a long time because of his belly pain.

When Huang Ling told his own memories, the excited eyes of the old couple came down.

The woman grabbed the hand of the yellow collar and said, "Son, my mother has finally brought you back...... Before she finished speaking, she had already wept bitterly.

It turned out that when Huang Fu was a merchant, he also walked to Yaojiazhuang and saw Xiao Huangling playing on the side of the road, because his daughter-in-law gave birth to three daughters and no sons, so he wanted to deceive Xiao Huangling away.

He saw that there was no one around, so he gave Xiao Huangling a delicious food, and said that if he still wanted to eat, he would go home with him to get it.

So the ignorant little yellow collar followed him out of the village.

As soon as Huang Fu left the village, he let Xiao Huang Ling sit down in the basket at the end of his burden and left Yaojiazhuang quickly.

Because it was summer and the crops were growing tall, when the parents of the little yellow collar looked for their son, they had already disappeared.

Xiao Huangling's original name was Yao Yi, the only son of the Yao family, since he was lost, Yao Yi's mother washed her face with tears all day long, her eyes were almost blind from crying, and later gave birth to a daughter, so she was a little comforted.

Sixteen years have passed, and the flesh and blood are reunited again, and Yao Yi can't get back to this god all of a sudden.

At this time, Yao Yiniang's cry attracted neighbors to come over to see what was going on.

When I asked, I found out that Yao Yi, who was lost back then, had come back, and everyone applauded.

Then everyone scolded the merchant for being vicious and separating flesh and blood, and persuaded Yao Yi not to go back.

Yao Yi himself didn't expect that his father, whom he respected on weekdays, would do such a thing back then, and looked at his dizzy mother who kept crying, and resolutely decided to stay in Yao's house.

Yao Yi's father was ecstatic when he saw his own son returning home, and immediately kept his neighbors to eat, went to buy wine and meat, and came back to invite a few neighbors' sisters-in-law to cook, and made two tables of sumptuous wine and food to celebrate the happy event.

And Yao Yi's mother kept holding her son's hand and talking about Yao Yi's childhood, crying and laughing for a while.

Yao Yi also had mixed feelings in his heart, and he had been accompanying his mother and listening to his mother happily.

There was once a scholar named Zuo Qing, he was smart since he was a child, he was righteous and outspoken, but he had no luck, and he entered the royal city twice to join, but he was not looked down upon.

This year, when it was time to join the company, he raised money, bid farewell to his wife, and embarked on the road to enter the royal city.

On this day, he passed through a town, and because he was in a hurry, he asked the villagers about the shortcut, but he lost his way.

Seeing that it was getting late, there was a mountain forest in front of him, so Zuo Qing cleaned up a place under a big tree, spread the futon, and planned to spend the night here.

Sleeping until midnight, Zuo Qing was woken up by a burst of crying, he got up to take a closer look, through the hazy moonlight, Zuo Qing found that there was a woman in white crying under a big tree not far away.

Zuo Qing has been studying since he was a child, and he is not afraid of ghosts, he walked over and asked: "Girl, three watches in the middle of the night, not resting at home, why are you crying here?"

The woman didn't speak, but bowed to Zuo Qing and said, "Sir, don't blame, I was a lonely ghost who was hanged under this big tree, and I thought that I was killed for no reason, but no one avenged me, so I cried." ”

Although Zuo Qing was bold, he was also taken aback, but he quickly calmed down and asked, "If you have any grievances, you might as well come and see if I can help you." ”

The woman said: "I was originally from Qijiazhuang outside the town, named Qi Ju, I went to the town to catch the market a year ago, but I was molested by Long Ziwen, the son of the official of the city, and took me back to the official office. ”

"I was so ashamed and angry that I hanged myself under this tree. Because I am too resentful, I can't enter the Yin Division, and I can't be reincarnated, so I'm crying here. Mr. stayed here tonight, and I saw that Mr. was upright, so I showed up, hoping that Mr. would help me. ”

Zuo Qingdao: "I am a scholar, how can I help you?"

The woman in white said: "The mountain god here told me that if Mr. goes here, he will be able to join the company, and I only hope that Mr. will come back to investigate the case thoroughly." ”

Zuo Qing still wanted to ask in detail, but the woman said: "If there is a fate, we will meet again in the future." With that, he vanished.

A month later, Zuo Qing went to Wangcheng to join the company, and he really won. At his request, the king appointed him to inspect some towns for unjust, false and wrongful convictions.

The first thing Zuo Qing did when he took office was to go to Qijiazhuang to investigate the case.

He first came to the woods where he had stayed overnight, and sure enough, he found a pile of white bones under the big tree, and then arrested the son of the official grandfather to investigate the case.

Long Ziwen is a soft bone, and he confessed after a few big boards. Zuo Qing put Long Ziwen on death row, and asked the queen to behead him.

Long Ziwen's father, Zongzi, committed murder, was dismissed from his post and investigated, and his property was confiscated.

Zuo Qing collected the bones of the woman in white, sent her to Qijiazhuang, and buried her in the tomb of the Qi family.

He also took out thirty shells from the stolen money seized from Mrs. Longguan to appease Qi Ju's parents.

A year later, Zuo Qingguan was promoted to the third level, and his wife was also pregnant.

His wife became pregnant in October and gave birth to a daughter. The woman's eyebrows and eyes were somewhat similar to the woman in white.

Only then did Zuo Qing understand the meaning of the sentence "If there is fate, we will see each other in the future".

Zuo Qing was an honest and conscientious official, and everyone praised him at the time, and finally became a celebrity around the king.

As the native religion of China, the Tao "inherits the profound culture of the Chinese nation, so when we understand the Tao, we should not only be limited to its unique religious attributes, but should return to the universal meaning of the Tao to understand."

Based on this, the meaning of monasticism becomes broader. "The road is not far away", the avenue is in people's daily most ordinary life, deliberately pursuing outward, but it will be farther and farther away from the road.

Nowadays, many beginners always want to pursue the great realm of attaining enlightenment and becoming immortals, which is actually a cognitive bias of the concept of monasticism.

It is true that Taoism is a religion based on the belief in gods and immortals, whether it is the wealth of monarchs and ministers, or ordinary people, the public's prayer for gods, praying for immortals, and worshipping ancestors are the concrete embodiment of Taoist beliefs.

Daomen attaches great importance to the individual life of people, emphasizing that people can achieve transcendence from human to immortal through a certain way of cultivation. The story of the ancestors of the past generations has set an example for later scholars to cultivate the Tao.

Scholars of the Tao, everyone has the desire to ascend the purple mansion, hoping to realize the mystery of the way of heaven and earth in the hundred years of life.

But without the guidance of the Master, it is easy for a beginner to base the content of the path on the obsessive pursuit of the bizarre world of gods and immortals, and even regard certain supernatural and supernatural spells as the only use of the Great Dao.