"Apprentice?"

This is something Su Jiulin never thought about.

Su Jiulin stood up, thought about it and took a few steps forward, turned around and said, "I'm sorry Huang Daochang, I can't be your apprentice." ”

"You can be a lay disciple, your third master is a lay disciple, or you can worship my second senior brother or senior brother as a teacher, the senior brother is the master, and the second senior brother is in charge..."

Before Huang Mu finished speaking, Su Jiulin knelt directly on the ground.

"I have a reason why I can't talk about it, and I can't worship you as a teacher. The life-saving grace of the two Taoist leaders cannot be repaid by the younger generations! As he spoke, Su Jiulin was about to start kowtowing.

Su Jiulin knew that it was the Dao Elder who saved him and gave him food, clothing and shelter, and he not only had no money to compensate but also refused to be their apprentice, he felt indebted to Shangqingguan, but he couldn't give anything in return now, and he was blaming himself very much at the moment.

Huang Mu and the others didn't know why, so they immediately stepped forward and pulled Su Jiulin up, but when they saw Su Jiulin, there were tears in their eyes.

"Don't worry, don't worry, don't apprentice, don't worry... Don't cry..."

Gu Chang was the first to react and said, "As for my fourth junior brother, it doesn't mean that you have to worship us as a teacher, he just said it casually. Isn't it, junior brother? ”

"yes, I'll just say it casually." Huang Mu also knew that he was in too much of a hurry just now.

Seeing that Su Jiulin still didn't speak, Gu Chang continued: "When I find your Uncle Nan, don't forget to make up for your food and accommodation in Shangqingguan!" ”

"Thank you, two Dao Masters." Su Jiulin wiped his tears vigorously with his sleeve, "I will definitely make up for it!" ”

Subsequently, Gu Chang went back and arranged for his disciples to go to Shiyang Town to find Su Mingnan, while Huang Mu stayed in the room and told Su Jiulin about the history of Shangqingguan.

What is the ancestor of Taoism, Lao Tzu, the founding patriarch of Qingcheng Mountain, Zhang Daoling, the "Tao Te Ching", which is known as the king of all classics, and the unpredictable "Liuhe Xuanjianzhang" and so on, all of which were told to Su Jiulin.

And highlighted their supreme martial arts "elephant invisible" several times. However, he also told Su Jiulin that this exercise has no mantra moves, and it is derived from the "Tao Te Ching". In the more than 1,300 years since the founding of the religion, only 17 people have realized it. Especially in the past three hundred years, only Huang Mu's master Wu Chongzi has come to enlightenment.

Su Jiulin listened very seriously, Su Jiulin, who had nothing to play since he was a child, liked to listen to his grandfather and second master tell stories. After the two old men passed away, his uncle Nan would often listen to some stories outside and come back to him.

Huang Mu actually didn't give up, Wu Chongzi praised him for his good qualifications, but this young man was "congenital", he thought that his qualifications were better than his, and he didn't plan to give up just like that. Telling Su Jiulin about this is also in the hope that he will become interested and change his mind before leaving.

Jin You and Chu Shifan, who had finished their homework, came back and were very happy to see Su Jiulin wake up, so they wanted to pull him around to play. After all, Huang Mu is a brother and a brother, and he is usually very bored.

Huang Mu used Su Jiulin's injury as an excuse to only allow the two apprentices to take Su Jiulin to play tomorrow. And it is only allowed to play in the upper Qingguan area of the front mountain.

At the end, I didn't forget to reprimand: "If you don't take your homework and martial arts seriously every day, you only know how to play!" Hurry up and practice martial arts! "It's like a generation of grandmasters.

Hearing this, Jin You rolled his eyes.

Watching the two of them practicing martial arts in the courtyard, every move and style was tiger and tiger, and Su Jiulin was also fascinated.

In fact, these are also Huang Mu's calculations, he asked the two apprentices to take Su Jiulin with him when they had morning classes tomorrow, just to let Su Jiulin feel the Taoist culture and thoughts, so that he could have a good impression of this culture as much as possible and stay.

Moreover, although the content of the morning class is the basic idea of their mission, it is also the basic method for the introduction of Shangqingguan martial arts, and Huang Mu also hopes that this can arouse Su Jiulin's interest.

Huang Mu thought, regardless of whether the innate Gang Qi in Su Jiulin's body was before or after poisoning, after all, it was, since he had such qualifications and comprehension to breed the Innate Gang Qi, then maybe he would have a further comprehension after reading the Taoist Sutra.

In the evening, Gu Chang came again. The disciples sent to Shiyang Town reported that they had been looking there for a long time but did not find Su Jiulin and his Uncle Nan.

"Don't worry, your Uncle Nan must be hiding." Chu Shifan is an optimist, and he can't see the sad faces of others.

"What do you think, he doesn't know my senior brothers, and suddenly he saw that these people were looking for him, and he didn't think they were enemies and then hid."

After saying this, Su Jiulin also felt as if this was the case, and finally agreed to stay and recuperate from his injuries before going to his Uncle Nan.

After breakfast the next day, after Su Jiulin helped Huang Mu's two apprentices clean up, he went to Shangqingguan in front of Qingcheng Mountain with the two of them.

Huang Mu went to the utility room again.

Today's morning class is still Li Chaoyang, and the morning class is "Qingjing Sutra".

Before coming, Jin You also said that the "Qingjing Sutra" and the "Tao Te Ching" are not only the foundation of their internal strength, but also their missionary thoughts, which can be used by pilgrims to meditate, observe and listen together. He also said that the Tao Te Ching was the main purpose of their mission.

Chu Shifan also deliberately emphasized many times that their morning class was done in the Sanqing Palace, and when they were doing the morning class, Su Jiulin couldn't make a noise to disturb them. After arriving at the Sanqing Palace, Su Jiulin found a futon to sit on in the back.

Gu Chang and Li Chaoyang were not like Huang Mu who only accepted two apprentices, they had more apprentices, but not much. Shangqingguan's reputation in the outside world is indeed very small, and out of the Qingcheng Mountain boundary, no one may know that there is a Shangqingguan in Qingcheng Mountain.

Now there are only more than 30 disciples who do morning classes, most of them are orphans who have been adopted since childhood, and some of them are sent to the mountain because their families cannot support them.

Before entering the Sanqing Palace, Su Jiulin was attracted by the three statues on the platform, and now after sitting down, he found that there were six statues of gods on the left and right sides, and he was very curious.

"Lao Jun said: The avenue is invisible, and the world of fertility is born; The avenue is ruthless, running the sun and the moon; The avenue is nameless, and all things are nourished for a long time; I don't know its name, but the strong name is ......"

The morning class has begun, and Su Jiulin, who listened to the morning class for the first time, was attracted from the beginning.

"The avenue is invisible, and the world is born; The avenue is ruthless, running the sun and the moon..."

"What is this? Is this the 'Tao' that Daoist Huang Mu said yesterday, the origin of all things? Wuji gives birth to the extreme, from nothing to something..."Su Jiulin was already a little surprised.

Su Hehai teaches reading and calligraphy, and teaches "benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom, and faith", which belongs to Confucianism, and what Su Jiulin has heard now is an idea that he has never thought of in the past ten years!

"How can you still have such thoughts?!" The more Su Jiulin listened, the more shocked he became.

"The Husband: There is clarity and turbidity, movement and stillness; The sky is clear and turbid, the sky is moving and the earth is quiet; Men are clear and women are turbid, men are moving and women are quiet; Reduce the cost to the end, and give birth to all things. The clear, the source of turbidity, the moving, the base of stillness; People can always be quiet, and heaven and earth will return. ”

……

After finishing the morning class, Su Jiulin was still thinking about what the "Tao" referred to by Taoists. It wasn't until Chu Shifan came to call him that he realized that the morning class had been completed.

And today, it was Jin You's turn to do the cleaning and daily affairs of Shangqingguan and the other disciples, and Su Jiulin had to follow Chu Shifan to play alone.

Although Su Jiulin, who is also twelve years old, is much more mature than Chu Shifan, he is still only twelve years old anyway. After entering the Qingguan, there were all things he had never seen, and he was very curious, and he wanted to ask for a long time. Now he is pestering Chu Shifan to ask who these statues of the Sanqing Hall are.

"Na, the ones on these two sides are called the Twelve Golden Immortals, and they are the twelve disciples under the Yuan Shi Tianzun Throne. What are the Taiyi real people, Fuxian real people......" Chu Shifan pointed to the twelve gods on the left and right, and then pointed to the middle and continued, "These three are Yuqing Yuan Shi Tianzun, Shangqing Lingbao Tianzun and Taiqing Daode Tianzun, and the Sanqing of the Sanqing Hall refers to them." ”

"Na, let me tell you in addition, there is a saying called 'nothing to do but go to the Three Treasures Palace', Buddhism says that the Three Treasures refer to the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Sangha, and our Taoism, the Three Treasures Hall is the Three Qing Palace." Chu Shifan began to tell the story again, of course, this was also told to him by other senior brothers.

Su Jiulin listened very seriously, just like listening to a story, he was also very serious when he heard about it.

After Chu Shifan finished speaking, he took Su Jiulin to a temple next to him, pointed to the two statues and asked, "This is the Wenwu Palace, do you know who these two statues are?" ”

Su Jiulin didn't know, and shook his head.

"Na, this bearded one is a martial saint, Guan Yu." Chu Shifan pointed to one of the idols and said.

"And then this one here, the one who holds the book, is Wen Sheng, Confucius."

"Confucius?" Hearing that it was Confucius, Su Jiulin came to the spirit, and immediately walked up to him and looked at it carefully.

"Don't look at it, Confucius is the same age as our Taoist ancestor Lao Tzu, more than a thousand years away from us, can you still know each other?" Chu Shifan didn't know why Su Jiulin was so interested in Confucius.

Su Jiulin is because his grandfather is a Confucian, if he insists on classifying Su Jiulin, Su Hehai has taught him for a few years, and he is more or less half a Confucian. Seeing Sage Kong, of course, he couldn't help but be a little excited.

"Oh, that's not right!" Su Jiulin suddenly thought of a question, and turned his head to look at Chu Shifan, "Why does the Taoist temple worship Confucius, the ancestor of Confucianism?" Isn't it the Temple of Literature that enshrines Confucius? ”

"This question," seeing Su Jiulin ask himself, Chu Shifan also replied calmly, "The master said that when Lao Tzu, the ancestor of our Taoism, was appointed as the keeper of the Tibetan room of the Zhou Dynasty, Confucius once entered the Zhou Dynasty to greet Lao Tzu, and then the two sages said that 'Confucianism and Taoism are inseparable', and Patriarch Zhang Daoling sculpted the statue of Confucius when he preached. ”

"Confucianism and Taoism are inseparable"?

Su Jiulin was very puzzled, obviously two completely different thoughts, why the two saints would say the words "Confucianism and Taoism are inseparable".

Chu Shifan continued to take Su Jiulin to wander around in Shangqing Temple, and further on, it was the Tao Te Ching Hall.

"Brother Chu, can I go to the Tao Te Ching Hall to see the Tao Te Ching?" Su Jiulin saw the Tao Te Ching Hall in front of him and knew that there was a "Tao Te Ching" in it, and suddenly wanted to see how this book was.

"Of course you can, the Tao Te Ching Hall is open to the public, and the Tao Te Ching is engraved on the wall for pilgrims to study and enlighten." Chu Shifan walked forward with Su Jiulin.

"In addition, I would like to remind you that the Tao Te Ching is the foundation of our mission, and that's it, and it's not as fun as anywhere else. I was curious at first, but after a few days, I got bored..."

But Su Jiulin felt that it should not be so simple, otherwise how could Huang Mu say that the Tao Te Ching is known as the king of all classics.

The two pushed open the door, but saw Li Chaoyang sitting on the futon in the lobby meditating, and the three Nanmu walls were carved with scriptures.

"Second Uncle." Chu Shifan saw Li Chaoyang sitting in the hall meditating, and hurriedly bowed.

"Hmm." Li Chaoyang didn't look back, he was still meditating with his eyes closed.

"Brother Su, let's come back later..."Chu Shifan whispered to Su Jiulin, and wanted to pull him out. This second master is much stricter than his master, and he is more fierce than the master, and no disciple is not afraid.

Su Jiulin looked at the scriptures, but he didn't hear Chu Shifan's words at all, and he had already walked in. Then he sat cross-legged on the futon behind Li Chaoyang and looked at the scriptures on the wall.

Chu Shifan saw Su Jiulin sitting over, and hurriedly stepped forward to sit next to Su Jiulin, for fear that Su Jiulin would accidentally make Li Chaoyang unhappy.

And Su Jiulin looked at the scriptures engraved on the wall as if he was fascinated.

"If you are not virtuous, you will not fight the people; Inexpensive and rare goods, so that the people will not be thieves; If you don't see what you want, you won't be in chaos. It is the rule of a saint, who is humble in his heart, solid in his belly, weak in his will, strong in his bones, and constantly makes the people ignorant and desireless. If the husband knows whether he knows or not, he will only do it, and he will be cured......"

"Is this the way to govern the country and live?" Su Jiulin looked at the scriptures and muttered to himself.

This scared Chu Shifan a lot, and he thought: "If you read the scriptures, you can read the scriptures, what to say." But he didn't dare to interrupt Su Jiulin.

"Confucianism and Taoism are inseparable... Is that the final thought result of the two..."Su Jiulin was still immersed in it, still slowly observing the scriptures on the wall.

However, the following verses became more and more incomprehensible to him.

"If Dacheng is missing, its use is not harmful. If the big profit is rushing, its use is endless. If you are straight, if you are clumsy, if you are clumsy, if you are arguing. Silence is better than restlessness, cold is better than heat. Tranquility is the right ...... for the world"

Just when Su Jiulin looked puzzled, he suddenly saw a passage that made his meridians tremble:

"There is a mixture of things, and they are born from nature. Lonely, independent and unchanging, circumferential and not dying, can be the mother of heaven and earth. I don't know its name, the strong word says: Tao, and the name of the strong is said: big. The big is gone, the past is far away, and the far is reversed. Therefore, the road is big, the sky is big, the earth is big, and the people are big. There are four major domains, and people live in one of them. Man is the law of the earth, the earth is the law of the sky, the heaven is the law, and the Tao is the law of nature......"

"Be generous; Late bloomer; Loud voice; Elephants are invisible; Dao Hidden Nameless ......"

"The four major domains, Dao, Heaven, Earth, and Man! Man is the law of the earth, the earth is the law of the sky, the heaven is the law of the Tao, the Tao is the law of nature... Elephants are invisible! Su Jiulin was thinking about it, but his blood suddenly surged, and his body was already a little red.

Li Chaoyang, who was sitting in the front, slowly opened his eyes, and then closed them again.

looked at Su Jiulin again, but he returned to his previous appearance, as if nothing had happened. And Chu Shifan, who was sitting next to him, didn't notice anything.

"What happened to me?" Su Jiulin suddenly realized that he had a moment just now that seemed unusual.

In such a blur, Su Jiulin read the scriptures for a whole morning, until it was time for lunch, and Jin You looked everywhere before he found the two of them here.

Jin You saluted Li Chaoyang, and then whispered to Su Jiulin and the others that it was lunch time and they were going back to make lunch. After speaking, he was going to pull Su Jiulin away.

"Daochang Zhang, it's time for lunch." Su Jiulin kindly said this to Li Chaoyang, but Jin You and Chu Shifan were so frightened that they didn't dare to raise their heads. When meditating, you should not be disturbed by others.

"Okay." Li Chaoyang still closed his eyes and didn't look back.

On the way back, Chu Shifan kept complaining and asked Su Jiulin to come and play with him, but he put aside the morning and sat down, and didn't go anywhere else. Su Jiulin frequently admits his mistakes.