The little boy who walked out of the Taoist temple had a bald face and bright eyes, and looked like a beautiful little nun.

When he saw Mr. Chang, he cried out, threw himself into Mr. Chang's arms, and said with a slight grievance: "Master, I thought you wouldn't come back." ”

Mr. Chang laughed and said, "Why did you shave this child into a bald man, this is to change your career to become a monk?" ”

The boy said: "How can there be, it was Zhang Scissors in the village who shaved me, saying that after shaving my head, I came back at night to shine in all directions, and I was not afraid to walk the mountain road." ”

Xiao Wu and I glanced at each other, and we both thought that this child was talking interestingly and funny, and Xiao Tong also noticed us, he looked at us and asked, "This is Xiao Wu brother, is this your new apprentice master?" ”

Mr. Chang said: "His name is Yang Hao, and he is a friend of the teacher. ”

Xiao Tong sighed and said a little shyly, "My name is Douding." ”

"Little Beans." I said hello to him.

Douding waved his hand and said, "No, no, it's Douding, without small characters." ”

We laughed and were amused by the little guy.

Mr. Chang looked at the inner room of the Taoist temple and asked, "Disciple, where are your senior brothers?" ”

When Dou Ding heard Mr. Chang's question, his jaw fluttered, and he almost cried again, he said aggrievedly: "Several senior brothers have run away, and when they left, they moved all the merit boxes, and I didn't let them take them, and they also said that they would tear down the plaque of Qingliangguan, and the copper stove for burning incense wanted to be sold." ”

"Didn't say the master?" Mr. Chang asked.

Dou Ding shook his head and said: "I didn't say it, the first rule of the Daomen, those who deceive the teacher and destroy the ancestors die, and the insulting preacher kills." They didn't dare. ”

Mr. Chang snorted and said: "I still know the rules, but I blame the teacher for not being good, I haven't come back to see you for so long, and I don't even have the most basic living security, so I will leave anyone." ”

Douding said: "The master raised me, and I won't leave." ”

Mr. Chang said: "The little bean ding for the teacher is painful, and the villagers don't dislike it when they eat a hundred family meals, your senior brothers are different, they should also practice a trace of Taoism in recent years, and it shouldn't be a problem to go into the world to mix and eat, I just hope not to cause trouble, they are all orphans, and it is not easy to make a living." ”

Dou Ding snorted, and he said, "Master, wait a minute, I'll go to the meditation room and take out the candle and light it, so that Master Zu will know that Master Zu is back." ”

Mr. Chang asked, "You can just put the candle on the candlestick, why put it away?" ”

Douding said: "Master, you don't know, a few days ago I saw a big mouse gnawing with a candle in his mouth, I chased it for a long time to chase it back, the mouse on our mountain ate candles, I told Zhang Scissors that he still didn't believe it." ”

As he spoke, Dou Ding walked into the darkness, and after a while, two wrist-thick white candles were lit, and he took them out and carefully inserted them on the offering table in front of the statue of Lao Tzu.

Douding said: "Master, the rats on the mountain are scary, a few days ago in the middle of the night actually climbed on my stomach, frightened me, and several senior brothers were not there, and then I called Ergui and Panpan to live for a few days, but their father and mother later did not let them live in the Taoist temple, saying that the mountain was dangerous, I didn't think there was any danger." ”

When Mr. Chang heard Dou Ding say this, there was a trace of distress in his eyes, and he said: "Don't save candles or anything, tomorrow the teacher will take you to buy some things, and you will buy everything you should buy, by the way, has the temple fair been opened?" ”

Dou Ding said: "Master, you forgot, our temple fairs in Qingliang Mountain are held once in spring and summer, the first time is on the 25th day of the second month of the lunar calendar, Lao Tzu's birthday." The second time is the fifteenth day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar, the day when Lao Tzu went up the mountain to enjoy the cool and preached, it had been opened two months ago, and the senior brother had not left at that time, and he said that he would leave after presiding over the temple fair. ”

Mr. Chang nodded and didn't speak again, Douding's eyes narrowed into crescents, and said with a smile: "Master, you don't know, I preached the scriptures at the temple fair, and the people in the nearby villages call me a little fairy, and the little friends in the village are envious." ”

"Isn't that little bean who is a teacher a little adult?" Mr. Chang pinched Pea's face and said.

Douding was embarrassed by the praise, scratched his head and said, "It's an adult, no small words." ”

This is the scene when I first saw Douding, that night he was excited to help us make the bed, busy until the middle of the night before sleeping, before going to bed, he also secretly pointed to Xiao Wu and said to me: "Brother Yang Hao, the little fifth brother is snoring when he sleeps, and he is noisy, if you are noisy by him, pinch him, and make it happy." ”

I made an OK gesture to him, and he grinned and slept soundly.

The room we lived in was the disciple's room of Qingliangguan, and there were more than ten beds in it together, so I slept in the disciple's room with Douding and Xiaowu, and Mr. Chang was supposed to sleep in the disciple's room, but Douding didn't agree, saying that the master should sleep in the master's room, and Mr. Chang couldn't resist Douding, so he slept in the master's room next door to us.

When I was very young, I watched the movie Shaolin Temple, and saw a group of monks with outstanding martial arts sleeping in the disciple's room of the temple, and got up every morning to practice the exercises.

It's just that this cool night is slightly cold and slightly desolate.

Although it is the end of summer, the Cool View is indeed as cool as its name, and most importantly, there are no mosquitoes.

After a Taoist person practices Dao Qi, there will be Qing Qi around his body, and weak mosquitoes can sense the existence of Qing Qi and naturally stay away.

I closed my eyes, not knowing what the future holds.

During the day, although Mr. Chang told me about my biological parents, I understood that they had left me in Futuling out of helplessness, and after more than 20 years of inaction and chaotic ignorance, I suddenly knew so many truths, but I was no longer afraid.

I am also a nostalgic person, I miss my mother, I miss Huzi, I miss Zhou Manman, who gave me an uncertain promise and disappeared in the morning sun, and my heart is slightly astringent.

At dawn the next day, I heard movement outside the window, and through the window I saw Mr. Chang carrying a medicine basket from the wooden stack outside, I whispered to him, and Mr. Chang saw me wake up and thought I had something to say, so he stopped outside the window.

At this time, Xiao Wu and Dou Ding were still asleep, and I quietly got up and walked out of the meditation room.

"Mr. Chang, where are you going so early?"

Mr. Chang said: "Go to Yaowang Mountain to collect medicine for you, the medicine in the view is gone, it is estimated that it will be used for those cubs who have gone down the mountain to exchange money for a living, you had better sleep a little longer, otherwise you will feel good at night." ”

"Why don't I go to Yaowang Mountain with Mr. Chang to have a look, just to pay homage to the former residence of Sun Simiao, the king of medicine." I said.

Mr. Chang said: "You can't go, you can go to Yaowang Mountain for dozens of miles, and it will take half a day to go with your foot strength, and it has become a barren mountain as early as a few decades ago, Sun Simiao's Yaowang Palace was also demolished in the catastrophe, and the books inside were burned and stolen, and the villagers there moved away after the urban and rural reform, so there is nothing to see." ”

After Mr. Chang finished speaking, he ran down the stone steps, walking like flying, and even when he ran down the mountain, he stepped on the lotus leaves and ran through the lotus pond at the entrance of Qingliangguan.

I followed Mr. Chang's advice, went back to make up for sleep, and when I woke up, it was already noon, and in the afternoon I was still sleeping on all fours, and I faintly smelled the aroma of boiled rice.

Walking along the corridor of Qingliangguan to the backyard, I saw Douding lying next to the stove scooping the rice soup in the cauldron with a spoon, and a few vegetable leaves were placed in the rice soup, which was cooked to a thin extent.

When Dou Ding saw me wake up, he said, "Brother Yang Hao, you're awake." ”

I nodded and asked, "You still cook for yourself?" ”

Dou Ding said: "Of course, I was raised by my master since I was a child, and after the master left, a few senior brothers cooked, and then I ate a hundred family meals, but sometimes it was my turn to eat when there was something to eat, so I could only go back to the view and do it myself." There is not much rice in the temple anymore, so I can only cook some rice soup, which I grow myself, but it is fresh. ”

"Then I want to try your craft, when your little fifth brother wakes up, let him drive outside the mountain to buy more food and come back, he has money, we don't have to worry about food in the future."

"Really?" Peewee asked in disbelief.

"Of course it's true."

"Is there any meat?"

"You can eat any meat you want."

"You are not allowed to lie to me."

"I don't lie to you."

Dou Ding laughed, then stretched out his finger and said, "Then let's pull the hook." ”

I was a little surprised, when I was a child, in Mingyue Village, I often saw some children pulling hooks and swearing, and at that time, Huzi would see it with special contempt and say that children only play this kind of trick.

I stretched out my little finger and hooked it with Pea's finger, and we shook our fingers and said, "Hang yourself on the hook, and you won't change it for a hundred years." ”