Mr. Chang came back in the afternoon, his medicine basket full of medicine.

Mr. Chang said: "Although these medicines are not very precious, they are not of the same grade as the dried herbs in pharmacies, and they are best used to soak in baths and activate the meridians." ”

Xiao Wu drove to the market outside the mountain to buy things, Mr. Chang sorted the medicinal materials and put them away, there were several medicinal materials to take out and soak in a large pot first, and put dried pine wood below to cook over low heat.

Then he took me down the hill and asked me to run two laps around the Qingliangguan first.

This big noon around the cool watch run, with my current physique to run three or five miles to get tired of lying down, but I know that Mr. Chang is for my good, and I always have to exercise before taking a medicated bath, so that the pores sweat, and the body surface is smoother.

Qingliang view of Zhou Mountain at least seven or eight miles away, a lap down I have been unbearable, there is no strength to run the second lap, although it is living in the mountains since childhood, but these years of reading basically not much exercise, poor physical fitness.

Mr. Chang shook his head from the mountain, and just as Xiao Wu and Dou Ding returned from the market, Mr. Chang asked me to go up.

I was so tired that I couldn't move on the stone steps, and Mr. Xiaodouding said to Mr. Chang: "Master, you are partial, and you also said that you confiscated Brother Yang Hao as an apprentice, and the ability has already begun to be taught." ”

Mr. Chang said: "If you want to learn, just follow Yang Hao to take a medicinal bath from today on." ”

"I'm not, I think my brother was almost tortured to death by you." Peewee said.

Mr. Chang said angrily: "What nonsense, go to the backyard and add some fire to boil medicinal soup, and you will have to use it later." ”

"Okay." Douding put the things in his hand behind the door of the Taoist temple and ran to the backyard in a hurry.

Mr. Chang looked at Xiao Wu and asked, "Have you bought the ginseng?" ”

Xiao Wu handed a beautifully packaged box in his hand to Mr. Chang, who looked at the price on the box and frowned and said, "So expensive? ”

Xiao Wu said: "I have seen all the ginseng in the Chinese medicine store, either the year is not enough, or it is artificially planted, this is a mountain ginseng, the year is also quite sufficient, it is a little more expensive, and it is not a loss to Haozi." ”

Mr. Chang said: "It's not a question of whether he loses or not, it's that his physical fitness is too poor, after all, he has passed the age of entering the Dao Gate, even the worse the door will not accept him, you give him such a good medicine, his body and bones can't stand it." ”

"Just use less." Xiao Wu said.

Mr. Chang glanced at me and said, "The amount of exercise is still not enough, the stone steps up and down the mountain frog jump back and forth ten times, you count the little five, you can't do it less than once." ”

"What?" I was taken aback by Mr. Chang's words.

Although I understand the principle that a strict master is a high apprentice, I just ran around Qingliangguan Zhou Mountain, and I haven't slowed down yet, and I can't do it next and next time, let alone ten times.

"Let's get started." After Mr. Chang finished speaking indifferently, he returned to the Taoist temple.

Xiao Wu smiled and said, "Let's jump." ”

I pointed to the stone steps and asked, "Can you jump back and forth ten times?" ”

Xiao Wu asked rhetorically: "Do you want to listen to the truth or lie?" ”

I said, "Nonsense. ”

Xiao Wu said: "When my master first asked me to jump, I couldn't, but then I can, not necessarily now, because I don't need to jump, and when you practice your own qi, you will know how easy it is to jump this step, but before you practice your own qi, refining the body is a necessary stage, otherwise the physical body will not be able to withstand the circulation of Dao Qi at all, and Qi is the foundation of Dao Men people performing Dao techniques." ”

"How long will it take me to develop my first breath?" I asked.

Xiao Wu said: "If there is a newcomer disciple in another sect who asks this sentence, there is a chance that he will not receive a good face, or he will not hear the truth, some people will be three or five years, and some people will be more than ten years, it is too shocking to say it, and they all start to exercise their bodies and practice qi from the age of three or five, and the oldest one must be before the age of twenty, and the body is still plastic." ”

I was indeed a little discouraged when I heard Xiao Wu's words, Taoist cultivation can not be promoted one day, those fairy-like characters are ten years of hard work to achieve some achievements, ordinary people like me have just entered the Taoist, even if there is a famous teacher to guide them, they will definitely not be fat.

"But you are the son of Yang Sanqian and the Holy Maiden of Yaochi, it stands to reason that your physique should not be too bad, and you have such a scary thing sealed in your body, maybe you can be like those wizards in the legend, and become angry in one day, if this is the case, I really want to call you dad, I really practiced for three years." Okay, jump quickly, Chang Lao will be angry for a while, and you will be able to jump a few laps. ”

I had to take a deep breath, put my hands behind my back, jump down the stone steps of the mountain, rest for a while, and jump up again, and so on, and so on, and so on, and I was tired and my mouth was dry.

Xiao Wu sat in front of the Taoist temple and gloated, handed over a bottle of water, I reached out and was just about to take it, the water in his hand suddenly left his hand and flew into Mr. Chang's hand.

Mr. Chang said with a straight face: "Have you finished the dance?" ”

Xiao Wu said: "Three laps." ”

Mr. Chang said: "Keep jumping, I thought about the difficulty of teaching, but I didn't expect it to be so bad, jumping three times in an hour, alas." ”

My face was ugly, and I didn't understand why Mr. Chang suddenly became so harsh, Xiao Wu saw that my face was unhappy, and said, "Jump, don't talk yet." ”

I had to endure my breath and continue to jump, every step I felt like I couldn't hold on, but Mr. Chang and Xiao Wu were standing at the door watching, I gritted my teeth and insisted, and finally jumped until I was so numb that I lost consciousness and collapsed to the ground unable to move.

"Chang Lao, I think forget it, it's good to be able to hold on to this." Xiao Wu said.

Mr. Chang shook his head, he looked at me and said, "You still haven't jumped a lap for me, remember to find time to make up for it yourself." ”

After Mr. Chang finished speaking, he went back to the room.

At this time, the moon had come out, and I sat on the stone steps, my stomach churning.

Xiao Wu said: "I know that you suddenly feel that Chang Lao seems to have changed as a person, but the master is a master, different from his parents, and different from the teacher, he is the identity of a preacher. There has never been a master who preached without relatives or disciples, and Chang Lao has never done it, and I have never heard of it. ”

"Is there any difference?" I asked.

Xiao Wu said: "Daomen world, strength is respected, if you want to gain a foothold in Daomen, you rely on your own ability, this ability is to pass on to your own master, especially the guide who helps you open acupuncture points, this is particularly important, Chang Lao will spend his Taoist true qi to help you induce qi, teach you how to practice your own qi." ”

"Can't you teach me too?" I said.

Xiao Wu said: "It's very troublesome to accept apprentices, I don't have the spare time to teach you, besides, my master is just an apprentice like me, or I bring him tea, wash his feet and warm the quilt and beg him to teach me." Learning skills is hard, but once you become a Taoist and learn the true skills, you are equivalent to a god in the world, you have the ability to control the life and death of others, just like you killed a son in Ancheng, I and Chang Lao can still get you out unharmed. Before the master allows the apprentice to really get started, the investigation of the heart is also extremely important, Chang Lao said that your heart is biased towards darkness before inspecting you, saying that you don't like to listen, if it weren't for Brother Yang's face, plus I pleaded in it, Chang Lao came into contact with you again when he went to Futuling, and knew your person, and any other Taoist would not lead you into the Taoist gate when accepting apprentices. ”

"Am I that bad?" I asked.

Xiao Wu said: "It's not a matter of the same, this is the rule, give the ability to become a master to a stranger, without a three-to-five year investigation, no one dares to teach each other, and the child is very young and easy to teach, and the adult is mature, even if he is accepted into the Daomen, don't want to touch the core of the Daomen, Chang Lao has a lot of apprentices before, and the apprentice who has taught him over the years seems to be just one, right?" ”

Xiao Wu's words made me suddenly think of something.

I used to eat in a small restaurant, and the fish cooked in that restaurant was particularly delicious, and customers kept coming and going, just for this dish, and other restaurants wanted to imitate it but just couldn't make the taste of this restaurant. Later, the boss said that he learned this dish for five years before he learned, and every year during the five years, he gave his master holiday greetings and gifts, and his master had a group of apprentices, and only a few people finally learned this dish. If you can learn the practice of this dish, you can go to the restaurant to be a chef with a minimum monthly income of more than 10,000 yuan, which is a person's survival craft in society. If you are not close to each other, calling the master will not make the family eat an extra piece of meat.

For example, now the streets are full of car repair shops, these car repair shops recruit students all year round, and the monthly salary is about 1,000 yuan, some people think they are smart, and learning to repair a car is not a matter of three or five days, but these people often learn for two or three years and do not learn to be ignorant. First, I felt that my master had not taught anything useful, and I handed over the wrench for half a year just by drilling under the car, and secondly, I couldn't get a few dollars for dirty and tiring work, so I ran out of patience and quit. But there are always people who have learned the real skills in the past two or three years of training, and after leaving the master, they can afford to take a big deal and earn millions a year.

As long as you are not your father, no one should teach others for no reason.

This is especially true in the Daomen world, some people have excellent qualifications, but their temperament is very poor, and they dare to lose their temper with the master because of their high qualifications.

The people of the Taoist Gate, nine times out of ten, some people have stunts but do not meet their favorite apprentices, they would rather lose their stunts than leave them to others, because the master accepts apprentices, the most afraid is the betrayal of the apprentices, and they teach each other wholeheartedly, and in the end they end up with a bleak evening.