Chapter 12: Apprenticeship

After returning home from school, I went directly to Uncle Yi's house. At this time, Uncle Yi was drinking a bottle of Erguotou at home, and when he saw me coming, he beckoned me in, and when I wanted to say what I meant, Uncle Yi suddenly stopped me, got up and walked into the kitchen.

When I came out, I took a chopstick, and after I got to my side, I picked up the lid of the bottle of Erguotou, poured a little wine from the wine bottle and poured a little wine into the cap, and after the chopsticks dipped a little, I said let me taste it, I had always seen other people drink it before, but I had never tasted it, so I licked the chopsticks curiously, and a spicy taste immediately penetrated on my tongue.

So a look of disgust appeared on my face, and Uncle Yi smiled when he saw my expression and said, "How about it, try it!" This is the taste of the second pot head. I looked at Uncle Yi suspiciously, I didn't know why he wanted to try the taste of Erguotou with me, and what else he wanted to do when he said this.

Uncle Yi smiled after seeing my puzzled expression, then stretched out a hand to rub it on my head, and said, "Xiao Jiu, I know you came back to me to learn the Tao from me, right, otherwise you wouldn't have come to me!" Although I was surprised that Uncle Yi's judgment was accurate, I still said in reverse: "Uncle Yi, how do you know that I didn't come to you for something else?" ”

Uncle Yi pointed at me and said with a smile: "Xiao Jiu, you kid just like to hide these, if you have other things, how can you have a look of longing on your face, and you are not eager when I let you taste wine, so you must have come to me to learn the Tao, you figured it out!" ”

Since Uncle Yi has said it so thoroughly, I have no choice but to admit it. Uncle Yi looked at me with a smile on his face and said, "It is also fate that you can learn the Tao, and sooner or later there will be a day." I see that although you have a little trick, you are still kind-hearted, so I let you taste the taste of Erguotou! ”

I don't understand what Uncle Yi said, what does my kindness have to do with the taste of the second pot of intestines! If you think about it, you still haven't found a dime in the relationship.

Uncle Yi put away the smile on his face and said to me: "In this society, although learning the Tao is to protect the common people, but just like these two pots, you can't put on a serious banquet, you can only taste it in private, after all, now Taoism is classified as superstition, so you must be cautious to show your Taoism." ”

"In addition, there is this world, and human nature is far more filthy than ghost nature, and these people are very well disguised, just like this second pot head, if there is no bottle, you will know that it is two pot heads and not white water? When you want to try it, you will find that it is a mouthful of spicy, and that feeling will be unbearable, so you must also learn to distinguish it. ”

After that, Uncle Yi also told me some things about this, and I listened carefully, and I understood that this was also part of the Tao.

Uncle Yi suddenly stopped talking, stared at me with a smile and asked, "You didn't want to learn the Tao from me before, but now you want to learn the Tao from me, tell me what you encountered!" So I told the things I encountered in school and the two legends that Chubby told.

After listening to what I said, Uncle Yi looked solemn: "I didn't expect that there would be such a thing in your school, the female ghost you said must be resentful, since it has found you, then something big must happen in your school, if this female ghost becomes the climate, it is estimated that there will be no life in your school." ”

When I heard Uncle Yi say this, I immediately felt a burst of surprise, I didn't expect that female ghost to lead to such serious consequences. At this time, Uncle Yi said again: "But this female ghost was injured by the charm I gave you, and it is estimated that she will have to cultivate for a while, but I have to solve another matter now, and I can't go to your school to clean her up in person, so this matter will be handed over to you." ”

Looking at Uncle Yi's expectant eyes, I nodded, but then I felt too much pressure, and the lives of all the people in our school were in my hands, but I didn't know anything now, and I still relied on the charm that Uncle Yi gave me to get out.

Just as I was thinking about it, Uncle Yi stood up and asked me to follow him to the back hall. I threw those thoughts at that, and followed Uncle Yi to the back hall, only to see an offering table in the middle of the back hall, and three statues of gods were enshrined on the offering table.

Uncle Yi asked me to kneel in front of the offering table, then walked to the offering table, lit the incense candle on the offering table, picked up the tribute incense on the side, lit it and turned it in my hand, took it and respectfully bowed to the three gods three times, and then inserted the three incense sticks into the incense burner.

Retreating to the side, he bowed respectfully to the three gods and said: "The patriarch of the Sanqing is above, the disciple Yi Hengjin sincerely worships, Chaqiu is kind in the mountain, and has a dignified character, so I want to accept Qiu as a disciple in the mountain, teach him to learn the Tao, promote the righteous law of heaven and earth, maintain the peace of the world, eliminate demons and subdue demons, and maintain the right path in the world." ”

After saying that, Uncle Yi asked me to kowtow three times to the three gods, so I immediately complied. After that, Uncle Yi asked me to pick up the incense at this time, and after lighting it, I bowed to the Sanqing Patriarch, and after I did it, Uncle Yi said happily: "Xiao Jiu, now you are my apprentice, this apprenticeship ceremony is indeed too simple, but it is still passable, I will teach you the things of Taoism." ”

First of all, Uncle Yi introduced me to the three statues, and these three statues are Sanqing. The three Qings, namely Yuqing, Shangqing, and Taiqing, are the highest in the Taoist heavenly realm, and the lord of Yuqing is the Yuan Shi Tianzun, the lord of Shangqing is Lingbao Tianzun, and the lord of Taiqing is Taishang Laojun. These three Qing gods are the great gods of Taoism, the beginning of the creation of the world, so they are known as the ancestors of the three Qing Daoists, and they must be respected.

After introducing the three statues, Uncle Yi told me about the situation of learning the Tao. In fact, people who learn the Tao are not so mysterious, there are many qi gathered in nature, these qi contain the essence of all things in the world, ordinary people do not know the way, there is no place to hold these qi, and the person who learns the Tao is to gather these qi in the body, perceive the mystery of the world.

In fact, to put it bluntly, people are compared to a bottle, which is full of things, and there is a stopper to plug it, ordinary people don't know how to open the stopper and remove the contents inside, but people who learn the Tao know how to open the stopper, and then remove some of the things inside, to absorb the breath that gathers between heaven and earth.

After Uncle Yi finished speaking, he said: "I will just let you understand the difference between people who learn the Tao, the main thing I want to teach you is the method of charms, if you want to subdue demons and eliminate demons, you must rely on these charms, and to learn charms, you must learn how to draw these charms and the corresponding spells, as for the power of the charms, it depends on your cultivation." ”