The old man turned around and said lightly: "Why did the young master of the Li family come?" ”

I was slightly stunned, and then said respectfully: "Come for the words of the old Taoist." Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info"

The old Taoist said: "The poor Daokou does not choose to speak, which angers the eldest young master." If you want to blame, punish it. After speaking, he spread his hands and looked like a fish.

I shook my head and said, "You are a master of the world, and what you say must have a point." It's about the lives of younger generations, so I want to ask to understand. ”

Lao Dao looked at me, and those ancient eyes seemed to want to see through my whole person: "Do you really think so? ”

It was late autumn, and a cool breeze blew a few withered yellow leaves from the branches and fell to the ground, making the earth look desolate and desolate.

I leaned over to pick up a fallen leaf on the ground and sighed, "No matter how tender the green spring leaves are, they will wither in autumn, and no matter how beautiful the moon is, it will be cloudy and sunny, and it will be round and absent." What about human life? Even though he enjoyed prosperity during his lifetime, he still couldn't escape the fate of death after all. What's more, the more you enjoy in life, the more you can't let go of these things, and the moment before death comes, the more fear in your heart becomes. Your words during the banquet are amazing, not vulgar, you must be a master, and I hope you will teach me the way to free me from bad luck. ”

After speaking, he knelt down respectfully towards the old man.

Lao Dao looked at me and did not go to help, but smiled and said: "Birth, old age, sickness and death, growth, living and destruction are the processes that every life will go through. But death does not mean the end, but the beginning of a new life. From the beginning to the end, and from the end to the end. Life and death, the cycle repeats. So you should not be afraid of death, but you should be filled with great joy. ”

I said, "As the saying goes: People die like a lamp goes out. Once the candle flame has been extinguished, even if there is a new candle flame, it is no longer the previous candle flame. ”

The old Tao said: "The practice of liberation from life and death is like drinking water, knowing one's own warmth and coldness." Instead of blindly listening nonsense, it is better to practice the Tao yourself.

Because of my family background, I have been in contact with many masters of Buddhism and Taoism since I was a child, but I have never met a person who can integrate the two schools of Buddhism and Taoism so well. ”

Lao Tao said: "The secret of heaven must not be revealed." But you have a relationship with my Dragon Tiger Mountain Heavenly Master Mansion. A hundred years later, the great decline of our path is the one who has brought back the lost method. ”

I vaguely caught something in my heart, but it was like a mirror and a moon, and I was about to die at the touch of a button, and I said with a confused face: "After a hundred years, I have entered the loess, how can I reproduce the lost Taoism?" ”

The old man laughed: "Idiot! Forgot the previous words? Life and death, the cycle repeats! ”

I said, "The calamity that the chief said ......"

The old Tao said: "In case of death, life is good, and disaster is auspicious; Transported from the southeast, branches and leaves. With that, he drifted away.

I got up and went after him, but there was no sign of him in the woods.

At the beginning of spring in the second year, disaster came.

The court official on whom my father relied lost power and was relegated to Xinjiang, while my father was framed by a rival faction in his court, and all his family property was confiscated. The second elder couldn't bear such a blow, and died of illness not long after.

That year, I was 19 years old and left alone in a refugee village outside Baoding Province. My father's friends and relatives all avoided me, lest my bad luck would get into them.

Fortunately, I also knew some carpentry skills, and the officers and soldiers who raided the house did not like the unpainted wooden furniture in my room, so they left it for me. I sold the furniture, rented a small dilapidated house in the suburbs with the money I earned, and worked as a carpenter ever since.

Thanks to the grandfather's appreciation and food, I have mixed food and clothing in the past three years.

It's a pity that the good times didn't last long, a chaotic army in the south went north, and the officers and troops were defeated and retreated, and I heard that they had come to a place not far from Baoding Mansion. The rich family ran out two years ago, and the people in the city fled to various places for fear of being attacked by the rebels and the rout of the imperial court.

After I had experienced the heat and coldness of the world, I suddenly remembered what the old Taoist said in the forest that day.

Transported from the southeast, branches and leaves......

Is this teaching me to go to the Southeast? But I haven't traveled much alone since I was a child, and now I don't have a coil, how do I get there?

At this moment, I suddenly remembered that a distant relative of the family was farming in Hushan Village in Hangzhou. More than ten years ago, he also went north to visit my family, but his father thought that he was devoted to farming and his ambitions were sparse, and some looked down on him, but he never treated him badly.

Gradually, the two families lost contact.

I heard that after the rebels occupied Jiangsu and Zhejiang, they regarded this land of fish and rice as the largest logistics base, and recruited displaced people from all over the country to enrich the population, but they did not embarrass them.

So I sold all the wooden furniture, and finally came to Hushan Village, which is located in the northeast of Hangzhou Prefecture.

The relative was open-minded by nature, and did not turn me away because of the slightest unpleasantness in those years, but regarded me as a nephew and settled me in the village. I had nothing to repay, so I went to the forest behind Hushan Village and cut a pile of wood and made some furniture that I thought was decent and gave it to the relative.

Unexpectedly, the relative's eyes lit up when he saw these furniture, and not only that, but even the people in the village praised it, saying that Hangzhou had never seen such superb carpentry skills.

I'm not a farmer, but when I heard this, I was moved, why don't I make some furniture and sell it in the city? With savings, it is better to open a store in the city, so as not to drag down relatives who are not wealthy.

Who knows the opposite, although the southern rebels did not exploit the people, but focused on cracking down on the officials, rich businessmen and landlords, originally those rich and powerful people have shrunk their heads to live, no one dares to show their wealth, and the furniture, wood and craftsmanship I made are of high quality, originally not ordinary people can afford to buy, so I stayed in the city for a few days, used up the last bit of entanglement, had to return to the village again.

Hangzhou is known as the reputation of the south of the Yangtze River, and it rains in autumn, but in my eyes, it is a difficult night of bitter wind and rain.

I thought back to the four sentences of the old Taoist chief on my future destiny that day, and the first three of them have all been realized, and only the last sentence of "spreading branches and leaves" has not yet been fulfilled.

Does it mean that after I came to Hangzhou Hushan, there will be a full house of children and grandchildren?

Pity me for being past the age of marriage, but I am alone, I have no long things, and there is not a single family in the village who wants to marry my daughter to me. If you can't start a business, how can you start a business?

It is also due to fate, just when I was sad, I heard that this Tiger Mountain and the Longshan, Heshan and Gaoting Mountains on the side are the burial places of the rich and noble people of the Song and Ming dynasties because of the beautiful mountains and rivers and the good feng shui.

Since Hangzhou became the imperial capital of the Southern Song Dynasty, it has been one of the richest places in the country. When I was in a private school, I heard a teacher talk about the luxury of Hangzhou's tombs and the variety of Ming utensils, why not "borrow" some for a while?

My relative is a kind and simple person, life is already tight, and then I have this mouth, the burden is too heavy, he doesn't say it, but I can't be a doorman, when I pat my head, I decided to take a risk! (To be continued.) )