Chapter 10 Taixin
"You can officially apprentice tonight" Master looked at the attachment in my eyes and didn't say anything, sometimes, people have obsession, which is also a kind of motivation.
"Ah, isn't it worship?" I remember saying that I would have to apprentice in the future, but I felt that it must be very troublesome, so I was called Master, so it didn't matter if I wanted that step or not.
"Go, bring the candle stone. Then go find your parents and let them go home, and I'll come over in the evening." "I listened to Master's instructions, but I obediently took it out from under the pillow and gave it to him. He took the stone, threw it in his hand, and walked out.
My mind is filled with images of children being killed. The hideous faces of the child and the mother appeared in my mind from time to time, and although I had not seen it, I knew that the situation in reality must have been more terrifying than the terrible scene in my mind. I didn't eat a bite of lunch because of a scrambled egg with tomato on the table, and the tomato reminded me of my mother's torn mouth.
I have no way to calm down, so I can only recite "Song of Righteousness" to cheer myself up, I don't know, every time I recite it, I feel that there is a heavenly spirit in the underworld, so that I will not invade a hundred ghosts. It's an indescribable feeling.
In the evening, Master came to my house with a stranger.
I was dressed in a tunic like my master, but it was white and ironed neatly. The face of the national character, the corners of the eyes are wrinkled, but it gives people a feeling of being in good spirits, with a gray beard of more than ten centimeters, and no knots, at first glance, he is the kind of person who is very self-disciplined. Looks a lot older than the lewd master. As soon as you enter the door, you can't take your eyes off me, I'm not an apple, what are you doing with me!?
My parents quickly stood up and asked, "Xiaokang, master, what is this?" "My junior brother, Zhao Shouqing. Let's prepare, I read the eight characters of Xiaokang, and he wants to apprentice at 11:37 tonight. ”
Before the words fell, the person who was called my senior uncle came over and pinched my face, "Boy, I am your fourth uncle." Your master is a psychopath, otherwise you would worship me as a teacher? The benefits are greatly dropped", and as soon as he spoke, he instantly destroyed the image of his fairy wind bone in my heart. How does it look like a chatter?
Before I could refute it, I found that he stumbled over a dog eating, and there was a big footprint on the sworn tunic of the sworn tug, and then the master's lewd laughter came out, "Little persimmon, what are you talking about?" ”
"Your sister, don't call Lao Tzu a little persimmon, you are still a big eggplant!" Uncle Shi got up suddenly, yelled at Master viciously, and looked anxious to jump to his feet. Naturally, my parents didn't dare to say anything. I thought to myself, why it was persimmon eggplant, I couldn't figure it out, so I picked up the washed cucumber and took a bite and ate it and watched them argue.
But after a while, they got serious and sat me down. "Xiaokang, before apprenticing, I want you to figure out what kind of existence we are, you have figured it out, we are apprenticed at night."
I nodded, I also figured out what I was going to do in the future, could it be that I caught ghosts every day?
"We are orthodox metaphysics, as for what the master is, you will know in the future, and telling you now will only distract you from your growth." Uncle Shi said before Master. My master glanced at my uncle suspiciously, but still turned to me and said, "Xiaokang, what your uncle said makes sense, and then I will tell you what Taoism is."
It turned out that my unknown teacher was very clear about the Tao and the law, unlike the Jianghu sect, which learned everything, so it was miscellaneous but not refined. And we're starting with one subject. Our division is divided into five veins, namely: mountain, medicine, life, phase, and divination.
The medical pulse is a spiritual medicine technique inherited from ancient Chinese medicine, and the master did not explain what it is, but only said that he would know it in the future. And then the lifeline is to derive numerology, here is not the kind of liar on the street who says that you are bad, and there will be a disaster after a while, but the life of people or things or even countries, etc., but for themselves, the deduction consumes their own lives. Xiangmai is to look at feng shui, including indoors, small feng shui in the house, and also big feng shui that changes mountains and rivers, I don't know how it is. Divination is based on the I Ching, divination, and it is also a method that does the least harm to the body.
"Master, didn't you say that there are five veins in total? I sound like a lifeline, are we the lifeline? "After listening to Master's explanation of the four veins, I was a little curious about what mountain ranges.
Master shook his head, "We are mountain ranges, well-off, our purpose is different from their four veins, our mountain range, is to become immortals"
"Become an immortal? Immortal? Really? "I was so shocked that even my parents didn't make a sound.
"The reason why the mountain range is called a mountain is because the mountain is moved, and people in the mountain are immortals! I'm not sure if there are immortals, but our goal is to become immortals. My master nodded firmly at me.
"People who move mountains come from the mountains." I silently recited these two sentences, and remembered what happened recently, that magical stone, the legendary dragon and phoenix, maybe, there are really immortals?
After dinner, Master and Uncle began to prepare in my yard. A table was built with a table, a yellow cloth was laid, and then some strange things were placed, including floating dust, yin and yang rings, peach wood swords, and a portrait of Taishang Laojun. Then I moved out my Taishi chair and put it in the middle. A brazier was placed in front of the Taishi's chair.
The busy time passed quickly, and in a blink of an eye, it was more than 11 o'clock, and the group came to the courtyard.
When the time was almost up, Master muttered, "Master, do you know that I have finally found this person today!" Not only does it have an innate Dao, but it also has an innate dragon vein, and it is also an innate Dao body! I have found the heirs of the mountains and found our hope! ”
Master was in a trance, and I watched Master walk forward, until my knees touched the chair, and he found himself in front of the tall Taishi chair in the center.
He looked back at us and looked at him strangely. He shook his head.
The master took a deep breath, turned around, slapped his hands on the tunic, and sat down slowly and firmly, with his two hands placed on the two handles of the Taishi's chair.
Master sat down, and Uncle Shi said in my ear, yes, today is the time for us to rise, who knows the solemnity in our hearts!?
"The hour is coming, disciple serves tea," Uncle Shi shouted, and then whispered, "Go and pour a cup of tea for your master." ”
I came to the kitchen, thinking that I would return to the master, and then I would talk about you first, poured a cup of homemade tea, and went outside to respectfully serve it to the master.
I looked at the smile on the master's face, took it and drank it all. Suddenly his face was weird. Looking at the way he almost squirted, I couldn't tell how happy I was. Where is this tea? It's clearly a big glass of vinegar, and there's salt! And there's wasabi!
Looking at the master's gentle smile, a trace of chagrin flashed in his eyes, a cup of tea reached his throat, and he couldn't swallow it alive, and after a long time, he saw his Adam's apple "grunt", and finally drowned.
"Next, the apprentice kowtows, kneel three times and knock nine times" Uncle Shi saw that the master drank it, and his face also smiled cheaply.
I've also read a lot of stories, how can there be such an apprenticeship? This is kowtowing? Although I introduced it in the afternoon, why not burn incense and pray? Show the token, and kowtow to the door at the end?
Uncle Shi seemed to see my doubts, so he said, "Our sect doesn't have so many rules, as long as you don't annoy your master, you like to make a fuss!" ”
I bowed respectfully nine times. Finding Master's cheerful smile, I had a clear feeling in my heart that Master seemed to be a different person.
It seems that going through this ritual made him a little ...... and had an epiphany? Or let go of what?
I was still young at the time and didn't understand so many rules, so I shouted directly at Master, "Master, there are so many things, you seem to just care about this ceremony?" ”
The master was stunned, smiled faintly, and said, "Well-off, life is a ritual. ”
I don't understand, but I wrote it down because that's what Master said. At this moment, I feel that Master is probably an inseparable part of my life.
"Xiaokang, if you are asked about your teacher by your peers in the future, you can only answer that you are a teacher."
I nodded and answered. This is the uncle shouting, "Thirty-seven points, the disciple kowtows, and the master gives the name!" ”
When I heard it, there was still a name? I don't want to call it a precept, but on second thought, that's a monk, right? Quickly kowtowed. Listen quietly to what strange name the master has given.
"The patriarch is again, the disciple Wang Shouyi follows the way of heaven, please give me the number of the closed disciple Yu Xiaokang!" Then the master respectfully kowtowed to the portrait of Taishang Laojun and stood up. I saw that his eyes were bloodshot and the corners of his mouth were bloody. I couldn't help but feel nervous. Listen to Master's voice ringing in your ears, and of course, the lightning that streaks across the night sky with Master's voice:
"I give you your name: Taixin! ……”