When Yao Jiao was fourteen years old, he became more and more fascinated by the "way of immortality". And it is often very rewarding, and often brings back some "gems" and the like, as well as "strange wood" and "elixir". This made Yao Ziqiang, who is a descendant of scholars, very angry, and often threw away all these things. Yao Jiao often doesn't talk much, but sometimes he yells twice with Yao Ziqiang, but he is speechless by Yao Ziqiang a few times. Later, slowly Yao Jiao also hated this home.

A few months later, Yao Jiao seemed to be well-behaved all of a sudden, didn't do anything, didn't go out early and returned late, and often helped the Zhao family do things, Yao Ziqiang's family was very strange, thinking that Yao Jiao was degenerate. As everyone knows, Yao Jiao planned to take some silver and run away from home, and go to the real mountains and dense forests to find people from outside the world who really understand the "way of immortality" to learn the way of immortality. In Yao Jiao's mind, this family has nothing to be nostalgic for him, his father is very disgusted with him, and his brother is like a stranger to him, only his mother is very good to him, but in this family without a mother's status, he feels that he doesn't want to stay for a moment. He thought that Zhu Zai had been practicing spells for more than two years, and he must be very powerful, but he was like this, so he wanted to go out to find a real master outside the world to learn the "way of immortality".

It was about noon one day in mid-autumn, Yao Ziqiang searched for Yao Jiao and couldn't find it, and in the evening, Yao Jian found a letter left by Yao Jiao in the study, and then found that a lot of silver taels were missing. The family opened the letter:

Father: Seeing the book Gong'an, the son of a sinner has gone far away, and he has gone far to find reason. Wait for him to be glorious and return to his hometown. The sinner has a disrespectful will, and he is ashamed, and he does not apologize, so please be lenient. The sin is Yao Jiao supreme.

When Yao Ziqiang saw this book, he immediately became angry, tore the letter into pieces again and again, and shouted: "I don't have this rebel, and I am not allowed to say that Yao Jiao is my son in the future." When Zhao and Yao Jian saw Yao Ziqiang's situation, they were already silent, and they dared to persuade there.

Then the townspeople suddenly disappeared Yao Jiao, who went out early and returned late, and asked Yao Ziqiang, every time he was asked, Yao Ziqiang's heart was extremely angry, and he suddenly said loudly: "He is dead." "The people in the town were washed away, and they all accused Yao Ziqiang, what kind of person, only such a son can raise such a son. When Yao Ziqiang heard such words, he was angry and became more and more depressed, but there was no way, until three years later, Yao Jian obtained the position of secretary of the Nanzhou Prefecture, and the people in the town no longer dared to talk about it. Yao Ziqiang was also comforted a lot in his heart. followed Yao Jian to live in Nanzhou City.

After Yao Jiao left Zhangxian Town, when he walked out of the east of the town, he looked back at Zhangxian Town and sighed very much, he had lived here for more than ten years, and he only had one good playmate, Zhu Zai, but he was taken away by Sitongmen. It's so lonely, he feels. But from now on, I don't have to be angry with my family and the people in the town anymore. I'm going out for a walk, Yao Jiao shouted silently in his heart.

Suddenly Yao Jiao discovered this problem, to be honest, he had never been far away from Zhang Xianzhen alone, and he was only taken to Zhaozhuang, ten miles away, to see his grandfather when he was very young, but he had no impression. I heard Zhu Zai say that Nanzhou is a big city, and you can walk to Nanzhou as long as you walk along the official road in the east of the town. Guandao, by the way, by the way, there is also that big stone, go and see it. When Ruan Bu and the others picked up the black boulder, there was nothing, the official road was still the official road, the big pit was gone, and the black boulder was gone. Yao Jiao suddenly felt that God was playing tricks on him, but he couldn't see the big stone if he wanted to. Time flies, find a place to live as soon as possible. Looking at this place where there is no village in front and no store in the back, Yao Jiao suddenly thought of the good at home, but he was instantly replaced by his father's fierce face, turned into a kind of motivation, and continued to move forward.

In the next five days, Yao Jiao hurried during the day, found a place to lie on the side of the road at night, fell asleep, and continued to travel the next day, hungry to eat the dry food he brought with him, thirsty to drink water. On the fifth day, he finally came to the gate of Nanzhou. Fortunately, Yao Jiao used to often enter the mountains and temples and accumulated some strength, otherwise it would be difficult to go to Nanzhou. I saw that Yao Jiao's clothes were in tatters, and his body was covered with soil and grass stalks, but he was just carrying a burden, otherwise he would be like a beggar.

When a majestic city stood in front of Yao Jiao, Yao Jiao felt very satisfied, after all, he had gained again, and at the same time, he had won another victory in the fight against that family. Look at this city wall, high desire, the city wall is engraved with two words "Nanzhou", a city gate below is wide open, welcoming the merchants and mountain people who come and go from the south to the north, only to see the people at the city gate coming and going, going in and out, bustling, very lively.

Entering the city, Yao Jiao, who was hungry and thirsty, immediately went to an inn, spent a few silver to eat a full meal, changed into a set of clean clothes, and packed up his clothes. lived in the inn, so he begged the shopkeeper to take him in, just eat and live, and he could do things. The shopkeeper saw that Yao Jiao was not small and his face was honest, so he took it and asked Yao Jiao to serve tea and serve it as a little second.

Yao Jiao also started with peace of mind, he thought to himself, Zhang Xianzhen also has an inn, and the news of the inn is the most well-informed, he wants to know some information about the way of immortality or the world's masters, so as to follow the map.

On this day, Yao Jiao served tea to a table of guests, and heard one of the literati say: "I heard that in three days, the master will give a lecture at the 'Dahuiluo Temple', which is a rare event in Nanzhou for many years, and you must listen to it." "The people around me who drank tea and ate began to talk about the anecdotes of the master, and most of these anecdotes were about the master saving people's lives. Yao Jiao listened to it and felt that Master Yi was a good person and worth listening to. So I asked the shopkeeper for a leave of absence, and prepared to listen to the opening lecture of this master in three days.

Three days later, Dahuiluo Temple. Dahuiluo Temple is in the south of Nanzhou City, the incense is extremely vigorous, and today is the famous intention of the master to open the altar lecture, Nanzhou and the nearby whether it is a dignitary or a commoner in the mountains and fields all come to join in the excitement. In front of the main hall of the Great Huiluo Temple, a large open space is placed, and a three-foot-sized altar is placed, and three feet away from the altar, it is full of people. At this time, I heard a young monk shouting: "I intend to open the altar!" I saw a withered, very tall monk wearing an ordinary yellow robe to the altar, picked up the wooden pestle in front of the altar, gently knocked on the big bowl, a burst of Buddha sound spread in all directions, the monk to the observer to the listener to sit on the altar, began the lecture: "...... The year is what it should be, there is no age difference, there is nothing, there is no ......"

Most people understand the mysteries there, as if they were listening to a book from heaven, but they must pretend to understand, otherwise they will not understand such an elegant thing with their status, and their faces will be disgraced. Yao Jiao, who was mixed in the crowd, had read some Buddhist scriptures, but he seemed to understand what the master was saying. But he didn't fully understand, Yao Zheng lowered his head and thought about what he meant to say.

At this moment, another voice came: "Nothing is in the senses, there is intentional enlightenment, there is no intention in the non-existence, there is in the intention." The voice spread far away, and seemed to cover all the people who were listening, and all the people who were listening to the lecture looked in unison towards the place where the voice had been made, and saw a beggar-like man with a wooden stick looking at the master in the distance.

The master showed joy on his face, and said loudly: "Your guests are coming, and you are not welcome?"

The rest of the monks immediately hurried over and welcomed the beggar-like person, who said, "I am duckweed, why do you want to keep me?"

The master said: "Duckweed also has a stub, why not stay and talk about wine?"

At this time, I heard a lot of discussions from the people around me, and it was too much to be a monk who did not abide by the precepts and drank and talked happily.

The beggar-like man: "Heaven and earth are free, unrestrained, unrestrained, no bonds, it is better to leave." Then the beggar-like man turned into a streamer of light and disappeared without a trace.

Then everyone continued to talk about it, and they said that this beggar was a master of the world, and they didn't know that this beggar was a monster. The master was stunned for a long time and stopped talking. Suddenly, he stood up and left, and the monk next to him hurriedly said, "It is intended to end the opening of the altar." "Everyone didn't seem to accept the intention of the master's move, which is too individual.

Subsequently, everyone talked about it, and gradually left the Great Huiluo Temple in twos and threes. Only Yao Jiao was very shocked, this is the real life of a master outside the world, come if you want, go if you want, the way of the world, let me be free, it seems that this master is also a master outside the world, I must worship the master as a teacher. So he stayed in the Great Huiluo Temple to wait for the intention to come, who knew that the master left the Great Huiluo Temple directly after leaving the pulpit, Yao Jiao waited for half a month and did not wait to meet with the intention. Fortunately, the incense of Dahuiluo Temple is very prosperous, and I can't eat and live, but Yao Jiao has to be reduced to a beggar again.

Half a month later, Yao Jiao thought that this would not work, it was estimated that he had nothing to do with Master Yizai, so he would leave and go back to Nanzhou to find an inn and live again.

When Yao Jiao was on his way back to Nanzhou, he saw Master Yi sitting cross-legged on the side of the avenue, his face was still so withered, wearing a robe, and when he saw Yao Jiao coming, he said to him: "The donor is waiting for half a month in the temple, is he waiting for the old man?"

Yao Jiao saw that the master was like this, so he hurriedly said hello and said, "Yes, I want to worship the master and learn the way of immortality." ”

The master stood up, turned around and walked away, and said: "Donor, what about immortality? Immediately, the master disappeared into Yao Jiao's eyes step by step.

Yao Jiao's heart fluctuated a little, he had been out for more than half a year and nearly a year, and he always thought of his mother and home. But if you want to leave a message by yourself, you must be "auspicious and honorable", and you will "return to your hometown again". But now that nothing has been done, I will go back, and the arrogant Yao Jiao, who is going to be laughed at, will stay and continue to return to the Nanzhou Inn. found a reason to coax the innkeeper, the shopkeeper thought about it, and took Yao Jiao in to do some chores.

In the following year, Yao Jiao gave himself the age of fifteen, but the most important thing was that he brought less and less silver taels, and the shopkeeper treated him more and more badly, and beat him when he was in a bad mood, he didn't know what to do. I want to go back, but where to put my face, but life here is getting more and more difficult if I don't go back.

Yao Jiao, who is already fifteen years old, feels that he is getting closer and closer to a dead end, and it is not good to move forward and not to go back. Every time I dream of immortality, I always feel that it is too far away, when will I meet a master outside the world. He himself doesn't know, but in general, he is quite fated with the world's masters, first met Ruan Bu's three brothers, and then met Master Yizai, although he has never had the opportunity to learn the way of immortality, but thinking about it can be regarded as an achievement, the most important thing is that he has also spoken to these worldly masters, think about those peers in Zhang Xianzhen, who has this insight. Thinking about it like this, Yao Jiao became confident.

But the next thing happened that made Yao Jiao have to go home. After closing that day, the shopkeeper rested early, Yao Jiao tossed and turned and couldn't sleep, at this time he heard a sound downstairs, and was about to go down to see, just walked out of the door, but fainted weakly at the door, and saw a stranger with a wooden stick to hit his head in a daze. When he woke up, he found that he was tied to the pillar of the inn, his whole body was sore, the inn was closed, the shopkeeper was holding a leather whip, and asked viciously: "You say, where is the silver that our family lost?" Yao Jiao looked confused, did not know what the shopkeeper said, and tied him up, and asked: "I don't know, the owner, why did you tie me? What happened?" The shopkeeper snorted and said, "You don't know, you coax the child?" My family lost one hundred taels of silver, you originally had three taels, but now it has thirteen taels, you didn't steal it, who did it?" Yao Jiao was speechless, just said: "I didn't steal it, I didn't steal it." But he was whipped by the shopkeeper and beaten half to death. Later, Yao Jiao figured it out by himself, it should have been stolen by the stranger, but he planted himself and explained to the shopkeeper that the shopkeeper was willing to believe it. The shopkeeper was not at ease with Yao Jiao, knowing that people like Yao Jiao must be homeless and unemployed, and he couldn't take out a hundred taels of silver on his body, so he had to take Yao Jiao's thirteen taels of silver first, and drove Yao Jiao out of the inn.

After Yao Jiao was kicked out of the inn, he didn't know where to go, he really wanted to go to Sitongmen to find Zhu Zai, but Nanzhou is thousands of miles away from Gongyuezhou, he is penniless now, where can he go, his heart surrendered to his father's disgusted face, there is no way, so he has to go back to Zhang Xianzhen.

This man is unlucky when he is unlucky. Yao Jiao wanted to go back to Zhangxian Town, so he had to be a beggar, but he was bitten on the calf by a vicious dog, and it became a problem to walk, and the weather warmed up again, and the leg injury could not be treated, and it began to suppurate. From Nanzhou to Zhangxian Town Baili Road, Yao Jiao walked for 20 days, there was almost nothing to eat along the way, Yao Jiao ate leaves to satisfy hunger, and later found some fruit to eat, and finally returned to the east of Zhangxian Town, but fainted because of hunger and fell to the ground on his back, just a peer came over, saw that it was Yao Jiao, and said to Zhao with a smile: "Your precious son is basking in the sun in the east of the town." ”

Zhao hurriedly came to the village and saw Yao Jiao's unkempt face, his clothes were tattered, his whole body exuded a foul smell, and mosquitoes flew around in the purulent areas of his calves. Zhao begged someone to carry Yao Jiao home while shedding tears, washed it three times with boiling water, and then asked a doctor to treat his lower legs, Yao Jiao woke up and said that he was hungry, Zhao cooked, Yao Jiao ate the usual meal for a day, and he was a little hungry. Burps after a meal.

Yao Ziqiang was meeting friends outside, and when he heard Yao Jiao coming back, he was about to pull out his legs to take a look, but when he heard the messenger talk about Yao Jiao's situation, he couldn't help but feel unhappy for a while, and then looked at Yao Jian who was studying, and the disgust for Yao Jiao slowly rose again, especially the letter, which flashed in front of him again, thinking that this time his son who was not angry would definitely become Zhang Xianzhen's laughing stock again, when would he Yao Ziqiang raise his head, hey!

After a while, Yao Jiao came to see his father and was about to speak, but he hiccuped, only to see his father's disgust between his eyebrows. After settling down for a few words and leaving, Yao Jiao felt empty for a while.

A few days later, Yao Ziqiang suddenly announced that he was going to hold a family meeting, and Yao Ziqiang, Yao Jian, and Yao Jiao went to participate together. The family meeting is held in the ancestral hall of the Yao family, and it is generally held only when a major event occurs. Now the patriarch is Yao Jiao's uncle Yao Zixiao, and on this day, the weather is not very good, the haze is overcast, and the thunder is roaring.

The lights in the ancestral hall of the Yao family are bright, and the patriarch Yao Zixiao first leads the men of each family to worship their ancestors, and according to the regulations, the women of the Yao family are not allowed to enter the ancestral hall. Then the incense was put on in turn, and when it was Yao Jiao's turn, Yao Zixiao smiled and said, "Xiao Jiao won't be there today, wait a while, ah." Yao Jiao stood woodenly, vaguely feeling in his heart that something big was going to happen, and it was about himself.

After the men of each family finished serving the incense, Yao Zixiao said loudly: "Let's discuss the matter." Everyone began to talk about it, and began to talk about some matters in the clan, and finally Yao Zixiao said: "Yao Ziqiang will raise the matter below." Yao Ziqiang stood up and said bitterly: "My son Yao Jiao, self-controlled, debauched, I am stupid, poor discipline, resulting in this son is loose and free, not familiar with literature and science, all day long intoxicated with the side door, several times to disgrace the family, I propose that the family cancel this sub-family record, drive out of the clan, I will no longer recognize this son." ”

At this time, as if an explosive had been lit in the ancestral hall, it suddenly exploded, and the discussion was boiling. Yao Jiao suddenly felt that nothing existed, his body was soft, he seemed to be empty, his body, mind and soul were separated from him, and he was watching these people dance things. Yao Zixiao waved his hand, everyone calmed down, Yao Zixiao said: "Xiaojiao is a good child, hey, it's a pity that he is obsessed, he refuses to repent and reform, he is always good at making claims, and he can't deal with it if he doesn't deal with it." What do you think?"

Then the parents of each family stood up and said their thoughts, and basically agreed with half of the disagreeers, but in the end it was decided to cancel the Yao Jiao clan and drive them out of the clan. This means that Yao Jiao has no roots, is no longer a member of the Yao family, and must support himself.

Yao Jiao didn't know how to go back, but staggered back with Yao Jian's steps. Seeing that Yao Jiao was about to fall, Yao Jian couldn't help but want to help, but he was shocked by Yao Ziqiang's eyes, so he had to give up and let Yao Jiao go back.

Three days later, Yao Jiao said goodbye to his mother Zhao, although Zhao was very angry after hearing this, and even had a quarrel with Yao Ziqiang, but he was powerless to return to the sky, and there was no way to change the facts, so he had to give Yao Jiao a little of his own silver and let Yao Jiao make a living by himself. Yao Ziqiang was very sure in his heart, and felt that what he did was very correct, otherwise he would be made by Yao Jiao, and it would be difficult to sleep and eat. Since the ancestral hall incident, Yao Ziqiang has never seen Yao Jiao again. Yao Jiao himself knew that he had no home after that, only to wander, thinking about this, Yao Jiao couldn't help but have a sour nose.

"Mother, you can go back, I'm fine. Isn't Yao Jian preparing to find a position in Nanzhou with the help of his clan? When Yao Jian becomes an official, you will have a good life in the future. I'm gone, Mother. ”

Zhao, who left tears in his eyes, sighed endlessly.

Since then, sixteen-year-old Yao Jiao has embarked on the road of wandering.