I stood up, raised my glass and saluted, "Thank you for changing your name, if you don't give up, I am willing to be the apprentice of the Taoist." Please teach me. ”

Hu Daochang was silent, and said for a long time: "It's not easy to be my apprentice!" You have to endure loneliness and endure what others can't bear. ”

"I am willing, I can endure hardship, and I can endure loneliness." I say.

"Okay, I'll drink this glass of wine first, but I didn't officially accept you as an apprentice.

"First of all, you need to endure three years of loneliness, and after passing three levels, I can officially accept you as an apprentice."

"Which three levels?" I asked.

Hu Daochang stretched out three fingers: "This first level is quiet, endure loneliness, sink your mind, not be impetuous, and look down on fame and fortune." Got it? ”

I nodded, "I can do that."

He bent down a finger: "This second level is sex, this color refers to women, not greedy for beauty, not good for adultery; The second refers to looking for pleasure, not greedy for pleasure, and indulging in material desires;

"The third refers to wealth, you can manage money, but you are not obsessed with money, not for wealth, wealth is like a rope, wealth is like a prison cell, understand?"

I still nodded.

He bent down another finger: "This third level is broken." Not because of the old-fashioned, not sticking to the ancient, dare to break and dare to stand, dare to act, in order to carry forward. Got it? ”

I was a little hesitant, I didn't know if I could do it. I can do it without sticking to the ancients, but breaking the old and creating the new will be carried forward, that is where the ability lies, and I still nodded:

"Well, I asked the master what I should do in the past three years?"

Hu Daochang said solemnly: "You want to hibern!" Hibernation, understand? Lie dormant in the ground like a knower, dive into the abyss like a dragon. “

I know that the longest cushion is 17 years.

The ungrown cicada lives underground for about four years before it comes to the surface, and then sings in the sun for only five weeks.

Four years of hard labor in the dark, a month of pleasure in the sun, this is the life of a cicada.

Hu Daochang said: "I know, once it breaks through the soil and climbs on the branches, don't look at his small body, but it can make a deafening cry."

"From morning to night, you can't stop screaming, do you think about how much energy is stored in that body? Even if you are a master who has practiced for many years, you can't do it. ”

Dormant! Yes, I'm going to hibernate, I'm going to build up my energy in the cushion.

"Listen to your accent, you're not a local, are you here for a tourist?" Hu Daochang asked.

"I am a native of Shuzhou, western Anhui, and I temporarily live in a relative's house, and I am recuperating here to avoid disaster." I say.

So I briefly talked about how I was expelled from school a year ago, how I went out to work and was deceived, how I was beaten and disabled, and how I came here to avoid disaster and recuperate.

Hu Daochang nodded: "The old lady and the old man of the Chen family are both good people, and their sons and daughters are also very good.

"Originally, the family of goodness should have Yu Qing. Why did his family die in three or five years, and why did he die? ”

I shook my head, I really don't know about this.

Hu Daochang stroked his beard: "The mountain manager Ding is in charge of the house, and the ancestral tomb of Old Man Chen's family has been damaged by feng shui."

"When the Chencun Reservoir was impounded, the government asked the people to move their graves, and Mr. Chen was a veteran and a state cadre.

"I don't believe in feng shui, I didn't move the grave, and as a result, the ancestral grave was submerged under water, it's a pity."

I was surprised: "It turns out that the ancestral tomb is really about the life and death of children and grandchildren?"

Hu Daochang nodded: "Mrs. Chen is lonely, and it is okay for you to live in her house."

"But if you want to be my apprentice, you have to eat and live with me and cultivate, can you do it?"

Now that I have a master and a home, I am happy, and I replied, "Yes, master."

"Okay, you can go to the waterfall of Baofeng Cliff to find me early tomorrow morning." Hu Daochang said.

"Where is Baofeng Cliff?" I asked.

"Under the mouth." Daochang Hu said unhappily.

Also, if you don't understand, just ask! I see that the wine jar has bottomed out! Ask the master, "Do you want to go back to the altar?"

Master Hu shook his head and smiled: "Okay, our two catties of drunken immortals have already been eaten, and we are happy:

Life must be happy, don't make the gold bottle empty to the moon.

You will have to drink 300 cups and sell eternal sorrow with you!

You go back, I'm going to sleep for a while, and I'm going to meet the immortals. ”

With that, he walked down the pavilion and staggered to the Taibai Stone to lie down.

Today is really odd and even, I actually recognized a master.

Early the next morning, I called a motorcycle and took me to Baofeng Village.

There are more than two miles of mountain road from Baofeng Village to Baofeng Cliff, I climbed up in one breath, and I heard the sound of flowing water from afar.

When I turned a mountain mouth, I saw a waterfall, and the master stood on the edge of the waterfall and beckoned to me.

"You come with me." The master said.

We rounded the waterfall, climbed up the mountainside, and walked another half mile to the foot of a towering ancient tree.

This ancient camphor tree is afraid to be thousands of years old. The canopy of the tree covers the sky and the sun, and it is difficult for the four people to close the trunk.

Under the trees, there is a courtyard surrounded by a bamboo fence and a row of emblem-style tile houses.

From a distance, it doesn't look like a Taoist temple, and it doesn't look much different from the houses of the villagers at the bottom of the mountain.

There are five main rooms, two transepts at each end, a kitchen at the east end and a toilet and chicken coop at the west end.

The two dogs, one yellow and one black, were sleeping in the yard, and they didn't bark when they saw us coming, but just wagged their tails.

The yard stall is drying six large round bamboo dustpans, drying what medicinal herbs.

Walking into the courtyard, Fang saw the difference from the villagers' houses: there was a pillar corridor in front of the house, there was no wall in the front, only a wooden wall with windows, and the gray-black doors of the two middle rooms were closed.

There was no plaque on the door, but there was a couplet on either side of the door.

Shanglian: One life is two, two is three, and three is everything

Downlink: Earth Law Heaven, Heaven Law Dao, Tao Law Nature

This couplet has a Taoist flavor.

The master did not lead me into the gate, but into the side room.

This wing room is both a study and a bedroom. Like the study room, it is because there is a bookcase desk, a paperweight, a brush, an inkstone, and a tea table for drinking tea.

There are teapots and teacups on the tea table, like a bedroom but no bed, but there are three meditating futons.

The master asked me to sit down at the tea table, and I looked around curiously.

He first lit a piece of paper with a lighter, put it in a small red clay charcoal stove, and then took out a few pieces of charcoal from a clay urn, put it in the small charcoal stove, and sat on a brass kettle filled with spring water.

I picked up a pu fan and fanned it gently, and after a while, the charcoal fire crackled brightly.

The pale blue flame licked the bottom of the pot and jumped with the wind of the fan.

The master grabbed a handful of tea leaves and put them into a purple clay pot, the tea leaves are very thick, like wild mountain tea, unlike the small orchid in his hometown, one leaf and one bud, or two flags and one gun, and the thin strips are even.

After a while, the water boiled, and it was bubbling with white steam. The master picked up the kettle high, and a line of hot water rushed into the purple clay pot, and a fragrance wafted out.

I didn't see the master washing the tea, and after a while, I poured it directly into the tea cup, and the tea soup was tender and green.

Take a sip and the taste will be rich and sweet.

After drinking two cups of tea, the master said, "You will live here in the future, and your master and I will live in two rooms in the east." We drink good tea, you wash your hands, and we will incense the grandfather later. ”

"Master, what kind of sect are we?" I asked.

The master smiled and asked, "What sects do you know?"

I said: "There are Wudang, Emei, Qingcheng Mountain, Kongtong Mountain, Longhu Mountain, Maoshan Mountain, Laoshan Mountain, ......."

To be honest, I don't know, but I've read Jin Yong's martial arts novels and know about these schools.

The master laughed: "What a mess! Let's wash our hands, let's go and see the Patriarch. ”

The master picked up the teacup and washed my hands with tea.

Opening a door in the room, we came to the main hall in the middle, and the master opened the door from the inside, and the sunlight was just right, and the light poured in.

Above the main hall there is an incense table, in front of which is an offering table, and on the wall above are three portrait paintings.

The master lit three sticks of incense and handed it to me: "You can put on the incense, just kowtow three times respectfully, we don't have so many rules in the hidden religion."

I kowtowed three times as the master said, and the master struck out, and the sound was melodious......