Chapter 24: Uncle and Nephew Recognize Each Other
"And what about my pear pendant?"
"He didn't give it to me." Mamotoko was a little embarrassed.
Zhao Chuan stomped his feet and regretted his death, he didn't expect this true yuan to be so unreliable.
"Don't worry, little good man, the things are here!" There was a voice from behind.
The voice was a little familiar, and as soon as Zhao Chuan turned around, he saw that the middle-aged Taoist in the cave last night was walking from not far away.
In front of the mountain gate is a large square, and this middle-aged Taoist man came out of nowhere.
"Is this person from your Taoist temple?" Taking advantage of the fact that the person did not approach, Zhao Chuan hurriedly whispered to the Zhen Yuanzi in front of him.
Mahonko shook her head slightly.
The middle-aged Taoist approached Zhao Chuan, took out the pear wood pendant and asked with a smile, "Is this it?" ”
"How are you?" Zhao Chuan was a little surprised.
"Why can't it be me?" The middle-aged Taoist smiled.
"Why is this in your hands?"
"Why isn't it in my hands?" The middle-aged Taoist was still smiling.
Zhao Chuan became more and more puzzled.
"Daoist Xuan Jing has something to do and will go out temporarily, and he will come back to see you in two days, and now he entrusts me with this thing for temporary safekeeping, you can come back in two days!"
After the middle-aged Taoist finished speaking, he turned around and left, and went down the mountain without looking back, leaving only Zhao Chuan and Zhen Yuanzi standing in front of the mountain gate in confusion.
Zhao Chuan had to go back to the inn, but the shopkeeper told him that the master had let the official take him away, so he went to Nanfeng County that night and did not rescue anyone.
That's what happened two days ago.
Zhao Chuan came back from Nanfeng County, stayed in the inn for two days, and on the third day, Zhao Chuan went to Lingyin Mountain Qingfeng Temple as promised.
This time, he finally met the third uncle Zhao Kai as he wished, and now he is Xuanjing, a Taoist priest of Qingfeng Temple.
Zhao Chuan didn't understand why the juniors of this Taoist temple called him Silly Uncle, but he didn't understand until he saw someone.
Zhen Yuanzi led the way, he took Zhao Chuan, turned around in the huge Qingfeng Temple, and turned around for a long time before stopping in front of a small cave, saying that it was inside.
Zhen Yuanzi said that you can't just enter here, you go in, I'll wait outside.
The scope of this Qingfeng view is very large, including several hills, but there are countless good houses, why does the third uncle live in a small cave? If it's not stupid, you just want to create your own magic skills with grandpa and need a special customized environment.
Zhao Chuan thought like this and entered the cave, it was dark and damp inside, if he didn't have night vision, it would be really difficult to walk in.
After walking dozens of steps, I saw a candlelight, and I saw two people sitting at a table, talking.
One is the middle-aged Taoist priest I have seen, and the other is a bald head, looking like a monk from a distance.
Seeing Zhao Chuan come in, the middle-aged Taoist priest pointed at the man with his chin and said This is the person you are looking for, say, what is the matter with you?
Zhao Chuan was stunned when he heard this, this bald guy had a bitter face, a long donkey face, a sloppy beard, and his appearance did not look like the Zhao family at all. The appearance of the uncle and the second grandfather of the Zhao family are similar, and this third uncle must also be similar.
"Isn't that right? This person isn't the Xuanjing Dao Master, right? Zhao Chuan looked at the middle-aged Taoist priest and asked.
"That's right, he's the Xuanjing Dao Master!" The middle-aged Taoist priest said.
"His surname is Zhao?" Zhao Chuan asked again.
"Surname Zhao?" The middle-aged Taoist priest nodded again.
"His name is Zhao Kai?"
"Yes!"
"Northerners?"
"Yes!"
Zhao Chuan became more and more suspicious, "Where is my pear wood pendant?" He asked.
"Here." The middle-aged Taoist took out the pendant.
Zhao Chuan snatched it, turned around and left.
Just a few steps, the middle-aged Taoist laughed a few times, and called Zhao Chuan again, "Turn around again and see who this is?" ”
Zhao Chuan turned around curiously, only to see the bald donkey-faced monk rubbing his face with his hands, the face slowly became shorter, returned to its original state, and his hair also rose out, vaguely having the face of the Zhao family.
"This is the disguise technique, a side technique of Taoism!" The middle-aged Taoist said again, "This is Xuan Jing Dao Chang testing you." ”
"Okay, now tell me who you are, right?" The middle-aged Taoist said with a smile.
"No, I'll look at his back." Zhao Chuan said. Since it can be disguised, it can also be disguised as the third uncle, Zhao Chuan has more eyes.
When the two people heard this, they looked at each other and smiled, and then according to Zhao Chuan's words, the man turned his back and lifted his clothes for Zhao Chuan to see.
Zhao Chuan stepped forward, raised his hand and pulled his clothes to his left shoulder, and sure enough, there was a purple willow leaf birthmark.
"Third uncle! I am my nephew Zhao Chuan, and my father is Zhao Yishan. Zhao Chuan knelt down and kowtowed.
"Get up, I knew it a few days ago." Third Uncle Zhao Kai said lightly, "Now tell me in detail what happened at home, as well as all the situations that happened before you came here." ”
It took Zhao Chuan two hours to finish speaking, and the third uncle Zhao Kai was silent for a long time after hearing this, and his face was gloomy and ugly.
However, the middle-aged Taoist priest had a happy face, and said to Zhao Kai This kid has taken great pains to investigate him in the past few days, but I didn't expect it to be your own nephew! No one knows any background in this kid, but he has a little martial arts cultivation, and he doesn't know where he learned it.
Zhao Kai's voice was cold, and he said Do you like it?
The middle-aged Taoist priest said Well, this kid is good.
Zhao Kai said then you can stay as an apprentice.
The middle-aged Taoist priest said you don't keep it?
Zhao Kai said that this is my own nephew, I can't teach him, and besides, what I learn is to preach the scriptures and enlighten the Tao, and to talk about literature and martial arts in the prosperous times, it is useless for him to learn this! Master brought me here to learn this, and I have regretted it for many years, and I can't harm my nephew anymore......
The middle-aged Taoist priest said that your reason is not sufficient, the real reason is that your Quanzhen Sect is to become a monk, you can't get married, and you have to keep the precepts, do you want your Zhao family to be the queen......
Zhao Kai said that you old miscellaneous hair, since you know that you are still hypocritical and don't accept my nephew, you are teaching Taoism so powerful, don't accept one of my nephews.
"Okay, I'll take your nephew as an apprentice, but I can't now, I still have something to do in the north right away, and I have to come back next month to officially accept him, I'm originally a traveling Taoist."
"Whatever you want! It's just that this nephew can't stay with me, and this Qingfeng Guan is not safe, and I have something to do, so I have to ......leave tomorrow," Zhao Kai said.
The middle-aged Taoist priest said to Zhao Chuan, you go back first, and when I finish my work, I will go to you to collect apprentices.
However, the third uncle waved his hand to stop it, and beckoned Zhao Chuan to come over and kowtow to the middle-aged Taoist: "Chuan'er, come here, kowtow to him first to recognize the teacher, his Taoist name is Xiaoyaozi." ”
The middle-aged Taoist, that is, the third uncle said Xiaoyaozi waved his hand again and again, saying that I would come back next month to officially accept him, and the third uncle said that if you don't want to accept it, just kowtow first, what is the old hypocrisy?
Zhao Chuan kowtowed, and the third uncle waved his hand again to let him go back first.
When they met, apart from recognizing each other, the third uncle didn't say anything to himself. Zhao Chuan was a little disappointed, he thought that the third uncle would cry emotionally, it seemed that he was thinking too much.
But that's not right, when he left, the third uncle Zhao Kai, that is, the Xuanjing Taoist of this Qingfeng Temple, still said to him: "The other party is deep-rooted, it is extremely difficult to shake, don't rush to do that revenge!" ”
When Zhao Chuan came out of the cave, he didn't expect Zhen Yuanzi to be waiting there. At this time, it was already past the afternoon, and he came early in the morning, and it took two hours to tell the story in the cave, and he was hungry at this time.
Zhen Yuanzi was carefully inspecting Zhao Chuan's face, but Zhao Chuan's expression when he came in and out of the cave was almost the same, and he couldn't see joy, anger, sorrow, and joy.
Zhen Yuanzi politely sent Zhao Chuan to the mountain gate, Zhao Chuan couldn't understand why this Zhen Yuanzi was so polite to himself.
Back at the inn, Zhao Chuan was very disappointed, he thought that this trip to meet his uncle and nephew would be a pleasure in the world, but he didn't expect it to be boring, not only did the third uncle not give him support, but he couldn't even let him stay in Qingfengguan.
This made Zhao Chuan realize that the relationship between people and people was originally enhanced in getting along, and the third uncle left the Zhao family since he was a child, so it is expected that he has no feelings for the Zhao family at all.
Zhao Chuan couldn't understand how the third uncle could be like this, but he finally introduced himself as Xiaoyaozi as his master, but this master didn't seem to be very reliable.
Zhao Chuan thought about how ridiculous he was, and now he has three martial arts masters, one is a grandfather, one is a ghost master Xiaotian, and one is Xiaoyaozi. The three masters were more perfunctory than the other, and this last one was more like a listed one, and he only gave himself a name and left.
Anyway, you have to rely on yourself for everything. Fortunately, I have skills and can work hard to protect myself, so it's not a big deal.
Let's just assume that I haven't seen the third uncle! Zhao Chuan lay on the bed in the inn, relieved when he thought about it.
What's next? The grandfather of Yaliguan in Nanfeng County was still saved, and he saved it himself, and he had to solve the matter by himself.
Zhao Chuan stayed in the inn for another two days, but he still didn't come up with a good solution. In the past two days, no one came to him, neither did the official come, nor did the master Xiaoyaozi, who had kowtowed.
However, even if the official messenger came and wanted to ask Zhao Chuan to contribute to the Hou Ye, Zhao Chuan would not agree, he had already had opposition to the official family in his bones.
The third uncle and the master both knew about the imprisonment of the grandfather, because Zhao Chuan had told them in the Qingfeng Temple, but they didn't say a word about it, and it seemed that they didn't want to help at all.
Boredom, Zhao Chuan had to sit cross-legged and practice, but after practicing, he still failed to break through the water layer and advance to the fire layer, and it was determined that he had entered the bottleneck.
Then let's just practice the medical skills taught by the ghost master.
This set of medical skills of the ghost master Xiaotian, "Acupuncture", "Decoction Medicine", "Dan Pill", "Tuina Massage" and "Medical Essentials and Miscellaneous" are a total of five parts, except for "Dan Pill", there is no study, because the Danding sent by Xiaotian cannot be taken out in the Qiankun bag, so I have not read "Practicing Medical Techniques and Miscellaneous".
Then let's learn "Practicing Medicine and Miscellaneous" now.
Zhao Chuan called up "Practicing Medicine and Miscellaneous" from his mind, and he couldn't help but be startled.
There is everything in this "Essentials of Practicing Medicine and Miscellaneous", which is simply a hodgepodge. Including the treatment of many strange and incurable diseases, what to ask the gods to cure ghosts and ghosts possessed by ghosts, animal injuries and diseases, geldings and pigs, the use of poison to poison the antidote, the secret art in the room and so on.
Zhao Chuan was a little dizzy, this ghost master Xiao Tianchuan's medical skills, did he want to be a human Langzhong, or a veterinarian? Do you want to save people or learn to harm people?
Besides, it's just a matter of being a langzhong or a veterinarian, people walk in the world, curing diseases and saving people or treating mules and horses is also a fair and honest industry, but even exorcism and soul summoning souls and comforting the gods have been done, isn't this robbing the jobs of Taoist monks?
However, Zhao Chuan was very interested in these, and it took him two hours to learn them well.
Some people are like this, serious things are slow and laborious, and those who are biased will learn quickly and well.
Why is Zhao Chuan in a hurry to learn so fast? Because he thought of a way to save people......