Chapter 16: Encountering Rats and Finding the Way I
The topic of whether Taoist priests can marry should be divided into two categories: the first type is the Zhengyi faction: the Yuan Dynasty used the Heavenly Master Dao to dominate the altars of each Fu Gong faction, and the Shangqing, Lingbao, and Heavenly Master factions were united under the same name, known as the "Three Mountains Fu Gong"
Since then, the famous sects such as Shangqing Lingbao and even the Lushan faction and the Liurenmen and other teachings that take the grassroots route have all been under the control of the Heavenly Master's Mansion.
These Taoist sects are divided into two kinds of Taoist priests, the monk lives in the palace, does not marry, and fasts; Huoju Taoist priests can marry relatives, but they also have to keep precepts and fast, among them, the Heavenly Master Tao does not prohibit the marriage of the disciples, since Zhang Daoling Heavenly Master, the successive generations of Heavenly Masters have inherited the legal system as relatives.
The Maoshan faction has a great relationship with the Heavenly Master Dao, and often walks the rivers and lakes, mainly Huoju Taoist priests, these scattered or traveling or farming, can be married.
The second category is the Quanzhen School: the Quanzhen School and the Hidden Immortal School, which is close to it, forbids the marriage of disciples because of the pure pill method of cultivating alone, and takes the abstinence from sexual immorality as an important criterion for cultivation.
Therefore, the Taoist priests of the Quanzhen Sect are not allowed to marry, while there are a considerable number of Huoju Taoist priests in the Zhengyi Sect.
Tianzheng is also derived from Maoshan, and according to the classification, it belongs to the Zhengyi sect, so this Tianzheng is not allowed to marry people in the door.
Counting up several generations, Cha Wenbin also has many ancestors and grandchildren who have spouses and descendants, and in terms of marriage, Cha Wenbin belongs to a typical traditional Chinese man: single-minded and responsible.
He got married a little earlier than Xia Laoliu, and he still had one thing to deal with before he got married, that is, Miss Yuan, who came to the provincial capital from Shanghai.
At that time, Yuan Xiaobai was not as good as a day, but the age of an upright young girl was about to rejuvenate, and it was not until many years later that scientists discovered similar cases, and called this extremely rare reverse growth phenomenon "growth regression"
Even now, the entire scientific community is still helpless against such cases.
People always create some miracles when they are in a desperate situation, and the people who create miracles are often those inconspicuous little people, who want to stop Yuan Xiaobai's regression at the beginning did think about whether to use the idea of the blind Ah Mao, if Cha Wenbin's accelerated aging can be solved with virgin blood, then what about Xiaobai?
Facing Xiaobai, who is regressing day by day, Cha Wenbin doesn't have much time, but he never dares to take risks with her.
But Taoist knowledge is infinite, Cha Wenbin is convinced that the bell must be tied to the bell, since he is old, and Xiaobai is young, does he deal with Liangyi's statement?
In our ancient culture, there is a so-called "solitary yin does not give birth, and solitary yang does not grow"
and "Without Yang, Yin cannot be born, and without Yin, Yang cannot be transformed"
, which means that any kind of single-level state of yin and yang cannot survive, Taoists believe: male is yang, female is yin; Advancing into yang and retreating into yin, Cha Wenbin wondered if this was exactly the current situation between him and Xiaobai, but he still didn't understand why he and her had such a strange change.
Since Xiaobai's resurrection is the method left by the Jiangxi Taoist priest back then, it can be seen that only he can understand the mystery of this method, but it is a pity that the Li Shenxian who taught him the method has also passed away, and now the only one who knows this method only understands the form and does not understand the meaning behind it.
That night, after Cha Wenbin recovered Concubine Yu, he went to the grave mountain, and Wulipu, which was more than ten miles away from Hong Village, was Cha Wenbin's hometown.
Wulipu is said to be a place of soldiers before the Ming Dynasty, the same in the Tianmu Mountains, the junction of Zhejiang and Anhui provinces, as long as the control of this small mountain col surrounded by mountains on three sides and water on one side, with less than 10,000 troops can control the population of tens of millions of people in two provinces and three counties.
The origin of this place is said to have originated from a post station in ancient times, the shop is the place to sleep, and five miles is the length of its depth, in this col where the length and width are about five miles, there are now scattered more than a dozen households, which is also a few years ago, and then to the present, Wulipu This place is heard that there are less than one or two households left.
There is no shortage of fertile land and water for farming, and the mountains are full of economic forests that can be cut down, and in the northwest of Zhejiang, where there are seven mountains, two rivers and one field, such an environment is easy to form villages, but why has it experienced a deserted scene in just a few decades?
I heard some local old people say: You can't make a fortune in the house, and the feng shui in that place is not good.
"Although Wulipu responds to the famous saying that the right is adjacent to the White Tiger North Ring Mountain, the west road and the east water are connected to the north, and the left has the Qinglong Shuiwan Creek. However, in places where the killing is too heavy, such as the ancient battlefield, the execution ground or the prison left in the past, there are too many people who have died unjustly, and the anger is indulgent, and no matter how good the feng shui is, it will not be able to gather qi. ”
He Tu squinted his eyes and patted me on the shoulder and said, "In the future, when you buy a house, you need to know more about what that place used to do, and it's useless to just look at feng shui." ”
There is an Arhat Mountain in Wulipu, and the locals say that it looks a bit like a sleeping Arhat, but I can't see it anyway, Cha Wenbin lives at the foot of that mountain.
The lower half of this mountain is all small bamboo, up is a chestnut forest, and then up is an open field, the tomb of the Cha family is on that mountain, this place was personally selected by Ma Sufeng Ma Zhenren, some people say that Cha Wenbin was picked up by his master from an old grave on this mountain.
What did he do up the mountain?
He is in a hurry, he has no way, this apprentice is far from the point of perfection, when something happens, it is all up to him to carry it alone, and he wants to talk to the master with half of his understanding, to see if his old man will show a spirit to solve the situation for himself.
Carrying incense, candles, paper money, and tribute to wine, Cha Wenbin was alone with a cat, Luohan Mountain, which had just rained, was not easy to walk, three steps and one slip, two steps and one pit, and there was mud everywhere on his clothes and shoes, but his heart was also blank.
Who would come and consult a dead man?
Cha Wenbin's life is hard, he has no father and mother, the only master left early, he was crazy when he was alive, he really came over alone.
It is said that it is a new grave, but it is also overgrown with weeds, Cha Wenbin has not been here for some days, put the tribute in place, say what he wants to say in his heart, kowtow a few times and go down the mountain.
At the foot of the mountain is the house that was only repaired last year, and when you open it, you can see that it is also full of cobwebs and several layers of fallen leaves.
Closing his clothes, Cha Wenbin half-squinted, and felt uncomfortable in his heart, and slowly fell asleep in a daze.
I don't know how long later, suddenly a muffled thunder exploded, and I saw that half of the sky outside the house was lit up in an instant, and the thunder made his cabin shake back and forth.
Cha Wenbin was also awakened suddenly, and his body was covered with wet sweat.
With the lightning, Cha Wenbin saw a few small things curled up not far from him in the house, and looked at a few mice, especially the one that took the lead, its tail was actually white, and at the moment it was combing the wet hair of the two small ones beside him, and this ugly thing couldn't help but provoke a burst of disgust in his heart.
As soon as he wanted to pick up the incense burner at the head of the bed and smash it over, he thought again: these rats are also poor things, if it weren't for the heavy wind and rain, how would they dare to sacrifice their lives to come to someone's house, so he felt pity in his heart.
Thinking that there was still some dry food in his backpack, he took out one and threw it in half, and said, "Eat, you and I are half of us, but you have made this room a little angry." ”
The rats were not afraid, sniffed the dry food on the ground, took a bold bite, and even sat on the ground and ate it decently.
At this time, Cha Wenbin also heard a crisp ringtone, he got up openly, where did the movement come from in this room, he couldn't find it when he looked around, and suddenly glanced at the two small mice on the ground playing with each other, one of them holding a bell the size of a fingernail in his mouth.
This Cha Wenbin was surprised, it stands to reason that this mouse is most afraid of the sound of the impact of metal objects, and these methods have been used to prevent rodent infestation, but these rats are used as toys.
Maybe he was tired, maybe he was lonely, Cha Wenbin actually said to the mouse: "Brother Mouse, Brother Mouse, what should I do if I am in such a deplorable field, it is better for you to live a chic life and come and go freely." ”
The rats on the ground "squeak"
After a few screams, Cha Wenbin thought that the rat was answering, and said to the rat: "Brother rat, you have to tell those little ones that it is indispensable to guard against people, how do you know that there is no poison in my dry food?" I am the master left early and no one taught me, and I am not good at learning the art to cause today's suffering, and I don't know if the master will bless me to tide over the difficulties. ”
"Squeak Squeak"
The rat spun around twice on the ground, and I don't know if it really understood, the white-tailed mouse bit down the bell from two small places, first lingered on the ground for a while, and then jumped up to Cha Wenbin's bedside, dropped the bell, and turned over.
This is strange, Cha Wenbin also got up, as soon as he touched the bell, he was a little strange, the finger that had lightly touched the bell was put under his nose and sniffed, a faint smell of incense and candles mixed with a faint corpse smell.
He looked at this bell carefully, the workmanship is extremely exquisite, a total of eight sides, there is a pill in the middle of the hollow, and eight characters are faintly engraved on the eight sides, they have one shape and one beautiful demeanor, and they also saw Cha Wenbin a little amazing......