Chapter 8 Accepting Disciples? Apprentice?

"Hahaha!" Liu Hou first raised his head and laughed a few times, and then strode forward. This is a routine summarized from countless martial arts novels, historical novels, and film and television works. After appearing, he laughed three times, pretending to be profound, pretending to be a master, so that people don't know why, and they will enter the gang unconsciously.

Zuo Ci's master and apprentice saw a little boy suddenly appear, holding a bamboo pole, looking up and laughing, for a while was really frightened by Liu Hou, where was the uncertainty of where he was surprised, only to see Liu Hou first climb up the stone bench in the middle of the pavilion, and then climb up the stone table from the stool, so that his height exceeded Zuo Ci's height. Then he spoke condescendingly:

"Haha, you're a good old god, and you have some ability, but you can see it. Yes, I am the Son of Heaven. In the past, the three evil beasts of the Golden Horn, the Silver Horn, and the Bronze Horn descended to the earth without permission, incarnated as the three brothers of Zhang Jiao, and harmed the world, causing countless deaths and injuries in the world. Who knows that the world is still in turmoil, lasting for 20 years, the world has become a hell, and the land god said that in the mortal world, 'there is no rooster crow for thousands of miles, and the white bones are exposed in the wild'. The Emperor of Heaven was furious, so he sent me down to the earth, and ordered me to reorganize the rivers and mountains, so that all the people of the world could live a stable life. ”

Zuo Ci's master and apprentice were stunned for a moment, their heads had not yet turned around, and they were speechless for a while. Seeing this, Liu Hou decided to add a fierce medicine: "Bold Zuoci, are you guilty?" "First intimidate, and then woo, this so-called eloquent man is also a habitual method.

Coming out of the mouth of a child under the age of 3 does not seem to be explained by common sense. Zuo Ci obviously hadn't reacted from this unbelievable thing, and asked loudly: "Poor, what is the crime of being poor?" ”

"Hmph, you dare not admit it, you leaked the secret of heaven without authorization, it can be known that it is a capital crime. First, if revealing my identity will affect the implementation of my mission, the unification of the world, and the well-being of all people, you will die. Moreover, you also leaked the heavenly opportunity that the world is about to be divided into three, it is really a crime on top of a crime, a crime is added to a crime, and the crime is added to a second, don't you still know the sin? Liu Hou pretended to shout, but he smiled in his heart, see that I don't fool you to death.

Zuo Ci pounced and knelt down and bowed his head: "The immortal spares his life, the immortal spares his life!" The little Taoist boy Ge Xuan saw the master kneel down, and he also knelt down.

Taoists do have a saying that if you leak heaven, you will be punished. And Zuo Ci was blind in one eye because of an accident during the alchemy of the year, and it just so happened that before that alchemy, he had just calculated that the world was about to be in chaos, and then the Yellow Turban Rebellion happened.

Originally, Zuo Ci didn't think about it, otherwise he wouldn't dare to play any arithmetic in the future. But at this time, after Liu Hou said this, he thought about it again, and the two confirmed it, and his heart suddenly opened up, so it turned out that last time it was because he leaked the secret of heaven and was punished by God that he was blind in one eye. With such a thing, he couldn't help but believe it.

So from the beginning of Liu Hou's words to be suspicious of the letter to now completely convinced, so he bowed his head. Otherwise, those gods like to say some ambiguous things, and the rest of you have to associate and make up for it yourself, and in your long life journey, all kinds of things happen, there are always some things that can be confirmed with the phenomena he said. Of course, there are many things that can be corroborated to the contrary, but we tend to automatically ignore those opposites.

“bingo！” The beauty in Liu Hou's heart. "Haha, it's done. Feudal superstition is really useful, especially the ignorant ancients, this is really a weapon to deceive people's hearts. However, as a ruler in the future, you still have to be on guard, and the peasant uprisings of all dynasties have the shadow of religion. ”

Liu Hou waited for Zuo Ci to knock his head for three times before he said slowly: "Okay, I see that you have a strange bone and a little bit of wisdom." I also happen to lack a little Taoist boy, so I will accept you as a nominal disciple, are you willing to follow me and contribute to the benefit of the world? ”

"Pull this tiger skin for the benefit of the common people in the world to make a big banner, I see how you refuse." Liu Hou thought fiercely.

Zuo Ci was stunned for a moment, finally came to his senses, and hurriedly kowtowed: "I am willing, I am willing, the disciple will knock to see the master." ”

"Well, get up!" Liu Hou pretended to be posturing, supported his right hand, and motioned for Zuo Ci to get up. After all, it is also very awkward for an old man in his 50s to kowtow to himself.

"You have to remember that you don't tell anyone about today's events, especially these days, and you must not leak them to the fourth person. Otherwise, you won't be able to protect yourself as a teacher. Liu Hou accentuated the words "Tianji".

"The disciple understands, the disciple understands." Zuo Ci hurriedly said that he would not commit any more crimes, and slowly stood up.

"Well, I heard that you have a bit of talent for alchemy, and I'll teach you a little bit of chemistry another day." He wanted to spread the word about papermaking, soap making, and other chemicals. After all, in the name of "Zuo Xianweng", one of the three immortals (three great gods) in the late Han Dynasty, alchemy is even more unique, and it should be more reasonable to get some chemical products in the name of alchemy results.

"Dare to ask the master, what is chemical knowledge."

"Oh, that's, that's it, it's the science of material change, it's some superficial knowledge of alchemy." It took Liu Hou a long time to think of this answer.

"Uh-huh." Zuo Ci's eyebrows danced and were pleasantly surprised. If it weren't for the master's face, it would probably be so happy. It's no wonder that he was originally the ancestor of alchemy in history, and it can be seen that his interest and attainments in alchemy are very deep.

"Dare to ask the master, I am refining the elixir of immortality recently, eating it can prolong life and immortality, and its pill recipe is sulfur, red mercury ......" Zuo Ci is worthy of being a good student, and immediately seized the opportunity to ask for the knowledge of alchemy.

Liu Hou has one head and two big, where can he refine the pill, but he is just casually talking nonsense and fooling Zuo Ci. Who knew that this Zuo Ci really began to ask for alchemy knowledge.

No, we have to find a way to stop him from thinking about it. Liu Hou's eyes rolled and he thought about it.

"Ignorance!" Liu Hou shouted, "You must know that life and death are determined by heaven, if you are not virtuous enough, even if you are given an elixir that can live forever, heaven will also punish you." The Thunder Mother roams the heavens, and if you find that you do not possess the virtues that match immortality, a single thunderbolt will split your soul to pieces. If you don't cultivate yourself and cultivate virtue, but instead pin your hopes on alchemy, you really put the cart before the horse. ”

When Zuo Ci heard this, he was shocked, as if he heard the thunder above his head.

"Although I know that there are several pills that can be immortal, some of the ingredients are not mortal at all. So you should rest this heart, and don't waste your time and energy on the elixir of life. ”

After thinking about it, Liu Hou said again: "However, you can try refining the medicine that prolongs life." Using the medicine that exists in the mortal world, refining some medicines for health care, curing diseases and prolonging life, prolonging the life of mortals by 3 or 5 years, God will not be so lenient. Moreover, this is also a matter of accumulating virtue in the first place. ”

Liu Hou doesn't want to say anything about it, who knows if he really has a prescription for health care and treatment, if he does, it's better to let him take it out, after all, the traditional medicine of the motherland is broad and profound, and many prescriptions are inadvertently concocted by some doctors, Taoist priests and even ordinary people. This is a patented technology, what is the most valuable in the 2nd century? Technology.

"That, that, didn't the master just say that he wanted to teach me some alchemy skins......" Zuo Ci asked with a sigh of relief.

"What I want to teach you is the science of material intertransformation, most of which are used to improve people's lives and make people's lives better. Liu Hou hated that iron could not become steel, and said through gritted teeth.

"The disciple understands, the disciple understands, the master is really benevolent and virtuous. Everything is about improving people's lives, and the disciples admire it. ”

"Well, it's good if you understand, do more things that can increase merit in the future, don't think about those who don't have it, as long as the merit arrives, it will naturally come to you to become an immortal."

"Yes, yes, today I am fortunate to have the master enlightened, so that the little apprentice will not go astray."

Hearing Zuo Ci say this, Liu Hou couldn't help but feel moved in his heart. In the early days of Taoism, great importance was attached to alchemy, and at the beginning, heavy metals such as lead and mercury were used to refine pills, forming the so-called Wai Dan school. Later, he gradually realized that these heavy metals are toxic to the human body, and not only can they not become immortals, but they cause great harm to the body, and later gradually formed the Neidan faction. The Neidan sect advocates using the human body or dantian as the furnace to practice and form the inner dan inside the human body, which is actually the so-called qigong and channeling.

After two thousand years of historical testing, it has been proved that the Waidan School is indeed misguided, at least, no one has really been able to refine the elixir of immortality. Of course, those wild histories recorded, such and such an immortal made alchemy in such and such a mountain, and finally the dan became a feather and left, which is a wild history after all, and cannot be verified. On the contrary, there are several emperors who died because of serving Dan in history. Just imagine, even the emperor who is rich from all over the world can't get the real elixir, so who else can get it?

And Zuo Ci in front of Liu Hou, the Taoism of the Danding School in the Eastern Han Dynasty was passed down from him. Ge Hong, a famous alchemist and pharmacist in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, is the grandson of his apprentice Ge Xuan. One can imagine his place in the history of alchemy.

What Liu Hou thought was that since this refining elixir was a harmful thing, why not find a way to influence Zuo Ci's thoughts and guide him to the correct path of scientific development. Influencing Zuo Ci is equivalent to influencing the development history of alchemy in China for more than 1,000 years from the source.

As everyone knows, Liu Hou's instantaneous decision has created an ancestor in the chemical world for future generations. Zuo Ci became a great chemist in the Three Kingdoms period, and made countless contributions to the development of chemistry in his life, just as Lu Ban became the ancestor of carpenters, Zuo Ci will also be respected by future generations as the originator of chemistry.

"Well, you're right, you've gone astray." Liu Hou continued to flicker, "You use more lead and mercury in alchemy, right?" ”

"Yes, yes, master, you are so good, this can be calculated." Zuo Ci also thought that Liu Hou could pinch and calculate, and even his own secret recipe could be calculated, but he didn't know that the people on the earth in the future would know it.

"I'll tell you the truth, lead and mercury are highly toxic to the mortal body, not only can you not become an immortal, but it is harmful to the body, and if you take too much, you will die."

"But master, if the lead and mercury are refined properly, their toxicity can be removed and the ...... can be retained."

"It's just that they become compounds, and the toxicity is temporarily hidden, and after taking it, lead and mercury will still accumulate in the body and cannot be excreted, and eventually they will die of poison." Liu Hou interrupted him.

"What is a compound?" Zuo Ci asked reluctantly.

"This, you will naturally know after learning chemistry knowledge in the future, all in all, heavy metals such as lead and mercury are not something that ordinary fetal bodies can bear, you must remember this, as for chemical knowledge, I will teach you slowly in the future."

"Yes, yes, the disciple remembers the master's teachings." Zuo Ci nodded like a chicken pecking rice.

The ancients were good at this, and they were convinced of the master's words, and Liu Hou was secretly proud.

"Oh, by the way, you can find a reason to stay first." Liu Hou thought for a while and said, "That's it, you go and tell my cheap dad that you see that I have a strange backbone, I am talented, and I will become a great weapon in the future, and you want to take me as an apprentice." ”