Chapter 13: Life in the Mountains
Just after eight o'clock in the morning, my parents sent my two sisters to school, and the two were discussing the purchase of goods, when a man in a black robe stood quietly at the door of my house. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 Info Father turned his head and immediately laughed.
"It's the big brother here, come in, come in."
Who knew that the person who came opened his mouth very seriously and corrected:
"I'm not the boss!"
That's right, it's Ghost Er who came, a big man of 1.8 meters, a burly body, a serious face, in short, I heard my father often talk about it later, and I have never seen Ghost Er laugh.
Ghost Er corrected himself, and didn't enter the door, but glanced inside, and saw me sitting on the stairs in a daze, beckoned to me and said:
"Let's go, the master called you over!"
I looked at the second ghost blankly, and then at my father, and saw that my father was a little anxious, and I quickly got up and answered for fear of being beaten.
My father didn't seem to care what I was going to do, but he asked me when I would be back, and then went back to work with my mother.
It was only eight o'clock in the morning, and the streets were still a little deserted, and the atmosphere was a little dreary for a while. Oniji walked in front, and I walked behind. If he doesn't speak, I can't speak.
Just walked along the road, I don't know how long I walked, slowly, I was out of the county, Ghost Er turned to look at me, and said unprecedentedly:
"When you're tired, take a break."
But that's what I said.,After saying that, he walked straight away.,I have some emotions in my heart.,Although I mumbled in my mouth.,But I didn't stop walking.,Instead, I walked faster.,But the strange thing is.,No matter how fast I walked.,Ghost Er is always two meters in front of me.。
It has begun to go up the mountain, and the road is becoming more and more difficult to walk, because of the decay of the temple on the mountain over the years, the road has also been abandoned, and the shrubs on both sides cover almost the entire road, and most places have to drag the dead branches by hand to continue.
When I was halfway up the mountain, Oniji stopped without saying hello, and let me bump into it headlong in unpreparedness.
This bump,I almost cried.,It felt like hitting an iron plate.,Ghost Er looked indifferently at me who was struggling to endure the pain.,And there was no comfort.,Instead, he said a strange thing.。
"Keep up with me and watch my feet!"
I still hummed and looked at his feet? The black robe covers most of my feet, so what can I see? Just when I was in my stomach, something magical happened.
Ghost Er raised his foot, and there was a pit under his feet that was five centimeters long! Although this mountain road is not as hard as the asphalt road, it is also the road that people stepped on before, and this ghost can step out of a pit without any effort, and it is a pit at every step, so that I who followed behind me was dumbfounded.
Every time the ghost takes a step, he leaves a deep footprint under his feet, some to the left, some to the right, and some to walk in circles, so that I who followed behind me was stunned and confused.
Just when Oni Er walked out less than twenty meters away, just when I was still stunned and stayed in place, Oni Er seemed to have finished the last step, and let out a deep breath, and then, I was surprised to find that the scenery in front of me had changed!
The original winding mountain road disappeared, looking back, the back was covered by layers of clouds and mist, and the scene under the mountain could not be seen, and the temple could be seen on the mountain was gone, followed by a small wooden house, the wooden house was brown and yellow, and it looked like it was embedded in the middle of the mountain, it was very obvious, and the mountain road leading to the wooden house from the foot also became a stone road with one step at a time, the scenery on both sides of the stone road was beautiful, all kinds of trees I didn't know were intertwined, only a large peach blossom tree made me exclaim, You know, it's early autumn now, and the peach blossoms are coming! But on this peach tree here, there are obviously lush peach blossoms, and if you smell it carefully, you can smell a faint fragrance of flowers.
When I turned my head to look again, there was a winding stream on the right, the stream was ticking, and I didn't know where it flowed down from the mountain, and down, the stream seemed to flow into a white cloud, making it difficult to see where it was going.
The brown and yellow wooden houses on the mountain are now full of green smoke, and when they smell, there seems to be the smell of meat. I noticed that Kiji's Adam's apple was clearly swallowing, and he even spoke to me much better.
"It's rare for the master to cook in person, let's go, I'm afraid I'll be punished if it's late!"
After speaking, I didn't care about me, I was about to walk ahead in stride, and when I saw that the attitude of the ghost two was much better, I also asked with the snake.
"Uncle Ghost, why did you change here after you took a few steps just now?"
Who knew that my question, the ghost almost fell down, a little embarrassed, and seemed to be a little scared, looked at the wooden house on the mountainside, then coughed, and pretended to scold:
"I'm not your uncle, as for what will happen in the future, I'll talk about it later, if you don't remember the steps I just walked, wait for a while, follow the footprints I left a few more times, this is called Xingdou Step, it is the mountain covering formation arranged by the master! If you want to come here in the future, you have to walk in that place! As for the specifics, you can ask the master again later, let's go now, the master is afraid that he will have to wait in a hurry! ”
Ghost Er really doesn't like to speak, this paragraph is simply torturing him, and after finishing speaking, he pulls his legs and leaves, although I still have a bunch of questions that I haven't figured out, but at the moment I can only hold it in my heart and follow him closely.
The two of us walked all the way up the stone road, and after a short time, we reached the end of the stone road, a willow tree surrounded a wooden house, and there was a stone tablet standing in front of the wooden house, I don't know how many years, the handwriting on the stone tablet was not too clear, and I tried to identify it to see that it was written with the words 'free to live'.
The door of the wooden house was open, but the ghost didn't go in directly, but stood respectfully at the door and shouted 'master', and when he heard a sound inside, he glanced at me and motioned for me to follow in.
After entering the house, the house has almost an unobstructed view, and the wooden house is not large, or even very small. There is only a wooden bed, a wooden table, and a wooden bench, and on the right is a straw curtain that is not easy to see, and on the left is some pots and pans, and a cutting board.
At this moment, there were three vegetables and three small bowls full of rice on the wooden table, and the black-robed man was sitting at the dining table with a smile and looking at me.
"I'm tired, let's sit down and eat."
He was very kind, it was the first real conversation I had with him, and my response was simple, a simple 'oh' word, and I sat down next to him. I can't call out the word master, and I always feel weird to call a stranger master.
In fact, I was not very hungry at the time, I had just eaten a bowl of porridge at home before I came, maybe because I was afraid, or because I was tired all the way, and the bowl was not big, and I saw him move his chopsticks, so I followed and ate.
Three dishes, two are vegetarian dishes, they seem to be wild vegetables, I haven't seen them sold in the vegetable market, in short, I haven't eaten them, my eyes are staring at another dish, which is a steamed fish, not small.
At that time, we didn't eat fish almost once a year, because there were few places to have fish, and because it was expensive! So when I saw the fish, my eyes straightened, and when I saw my eating, the master laughed happily.
"Eat slowly, be careful of the sting! If you want to eat it in the future, we have more on this mountain. ”
Hearing what the master said, I slowed down embarrassedly, and glanced at the master and the ghost with my eyes embarrassedly, but found that they had hardly touched the fish, but just ate the vegetarian dishes, especially the ghost two, almost like a hungry wolf, one person swept the clouds, and wiped out a plate of vegetarian dishes.
After eating, the second ghost didn't know where to go, and only me and the master were left in the room, and the atmosphere immediately became a little awkward. The master stared at me and just smiled, until I was about to blow up before he spoke:
"From today on, you will live here in the future, I asked Ghost Er to tell your parents as well, in the past few years, you will learn some basic things first, and then officially get started when you are fifteen!"
As soon as I heard this, I immediately became anxious, and I didn't care about being afraid, but when the words came to my lips, I didn't know what to say, so I could only use reading as a reason to refute:
"I still have to go to school......"
"Oh, that's not a problem, it's not too late to go back after morning class every day."
I'm inexplicable about this, morning class? Is it early self-study? But in the evening I realized what this morning class was.
After eating, I chatted with the master for a while, and then the ghost led me to familiarize myself with the Xingdou step up the mountain for a while, and then the master threw me a yellowed booklet, I know the two words on the cover, it is written the word Zhenshen, and after opening it, I was dumbfounded, the whole obscure ancient words, the whole book was turned over, and I also knew a few simple words, such as what is the same and so on.
Fortunately, the master is not stupid, and then turn the last few pages of the book, sandwiched a few blank papers, all in pinyin, take a closer look, it turned out to be the master in pinyin to translate it for me.
"Read it first, then memorize it, thirty times a day in the morning and evening, and you can't be lazy!"
Thirty times! I counted three hundred and sixty words, and they were all strange and uncommon words, which was nothing short of abuse, considering that I had only memorized a few texts throughout the semester, and they were all short stories of about 100 words.
So, I spent almost the whole noon and afternoon reading to the sound of reading, and in the evening, after eating, the master finally opened his mouth with great compassion.
"Come and take a bath."
If he was amnestied, he put down the book and followed the master to the back room covered by the straw curtain, only to see that the back room was originally a utility room, and there were many sacks piled up in it, and I didn't know what it contained. There are two rows of wooden shelves against the wall, on which are some thread-bound books, and on the top level are rows of boxes of different sizes and some bottles and cans, and the only vacant place is a half-man-high wooden barrel, in which there is half a barrel of black liquid, I don't know what it is, I sniffed hard, I couldn't smell anything.
"Come in, this is for you to bathe, once a night, it's good for your body."
Oh, I took off the cleaning and jumped into the barrel, it was a little cold, but it seemed to be a little hot, and my forehead was already sweating, which was very uncomfortable, like a high fever in an air-conditioned room, obviously very cool, but I felt hot all over.
"When the incense is gone, get dressed, and come out to me."
Seeing that I had already entered the barrel, the master did not explain any more, and went out without saying a word, and when I looked up, I saw a red dot in the darkness.
When I came out, the master was sitting leisurely on the chair at the door of the wooden house, looking at the starry sky in the distance in a daze, and I didn't dare to make a sound, so I just stood aside. As for the second ghost, I haven't seen him since after noon.
"In the future, remember to recite the trick of calming the gods every day, take a bath at night, and practice some basic exercises before going to bed, today, I will teach you the method of light body and heavy body!"
Unexpectedly, I didn't see the master get up, swing his knife and gun, punch and kick, but sit cross-legged on the spot, his eyes closed, and then his breath was like a gossamer, and then his breath was chaotic, and his right hand kept pinching back and forth. Then, just when I was puzzled, the master stood up and moved his right foot, and the place where the original right foot was standing was sunk down more than ten centimeters, and then, the master's breathing changed, and his body bowed slightly, and the person had already gone to the wooden house, just standing on the edge of the wooden house, half of his foot was still dangling in the air, and the person was firmly parked on the eaves!
When the master sat down again, he told me the mystery.
It turns out that in the field of metaphysics, the existence of human beings is mainly due to blood and qi. The blood is turbid and sinks, and the qi is clear and rises. Qi control is the method of lightening the body, and controlling blood is the method of weighting the body. According to the master's words, if you can perfectly control your own qi and blood, you can do a miracle of traveling thousands of miles a day without getting tired, or lifting 10,000 catties without weight! Regardless of the speed, endurance, and strength of people, there will be a qualitative change!
As for qi control and blood control, one is the assistance of foreign drugs, and the other is the method of cultivating oneself. For example, the Vajra technique of Buddhism belongs to the heavy body method, and the Taoist earth shrinking technique is actually a kind of light body method. Even some people who practice martial arts will practice some qi and blood control methods such as jack pendants or flying on the grass.