I'm going to live with Master Baofeng Cliff.

I told my grandmother: "Xiaoya was sent to Shenzhen City by the store for training, and it will take a long time to come back.

"I am now worshipping Yu Guanyin as a teacher to learn Taoist medicine, Baofeng Cliff is only a dozen miles away from this, and I will come back to see you when I have time."

Grandma reluctantly took my hand: "Tianyang, grandma's home will be your home in the future, you can come back at any time, grandma is waiting for you at home."

"Yu Guanyin and his wife are both good people, capable people, study hard, and there is nothing wrong with good people.

"You have to write to her and tell her that Grandma Kar misses her."

I kept 200 yuan with my grandmother, but my grandmother refused to ask for it, saying that she had money, so I still stayed.

I want to go to the "Drunken Place" to buy the altar immortal drunken immortal for the master, and I also have to go to the store to buy a piece of fabric for the master.

In ancient times, apprentices would give "Shu Xiu", that is, ten dried bacon, which was a gift to meet the teacher, and it was also a great gift.

I can't leave empty-handed, that's disrespectful to the master, and it's also disrespectful to knowledge.

There was a cloth shop in the town, and I didn't understand it, so I picked the most expensive silk and bought it.

I told the salesperson that she was about the same height as her, and that she would buy a jacket and a pair of pants.

For the top, she helped me pick out a royal blue dark flower silk, and the pants were autumn corduroy.

Five-foot silk, five-foot floral lining, three-foot corduroy, a total of 110 yuan.

The master's five catties of drunken immortals, the proprietress knows me, and the discount is exactly sixty.

There were more things, plus my backpack, I called a taxi and went to Baofeng Village.

When I got out of the car, I climbed under the ancient camphor tree with my things and bag, and I was already sweating.

The autumn is high and cool, the golden wind is coming, and the sweat is suddenly harvested, and the mood is also extraordinarily joyful.

Dabao and Erbao both greeted me, and when the master saw me coming, she also greeted me happily: "Coming?" Sit down and drink tea, it's very tiring to climb the mountain at first glance. few

I asked, "What about my master?" ”

"He was invited to see the grave mountain, and he won't be back until late." Shi Niang said.

I put down my luggage first, drank a cup of herbal tea, opened the cloth bag, and showed her the fabric I bought for my wife.

"I won't buy it either, I don't know if you like it or not? I'll make you a jacket and pants. I said.

Shi Niang opened the fabric, took it on her body and compared it, she was very happy, and said angrily: "You don't have any money, how can you spend money indiscriminately?"

"Master, I will also give you the remaining five hundred from the last time I sold the camera, even if it is my living expenses.

"I don't have tuition for the time being, and I'll pay it later." As I spoke, I took out five hundred yuan from my body and handed it to my wife.

The teacher said angrily: "You kid, come here as an apprentice, that's our fate, and do you want tuition and living expenses?"

"You don't eat and drink for nothing, and we don't lack anything for you to eat and drink.

"You put it away, and it is serious to take it home to honor your parents in the future, and we will receive it if you have this intention."

I couldn't push it any longer, so I put it away.

In the morning, I followed my sister to wash the herbs, help slice them, and dry them.

After a half-hour lunch break, I read in the study, and the days were slow and leisurely.

When the sun went down, I put away the yellow essence in the dustpan, and hung it on the wall.

My wife was preparing our dinner.

After dinner, I was still reading in the study, and my wife was sewing a quilt for me in the room.

I think of my mother, there is also such a scene, the thread in the mother's hand, the wanderer's shirt, the dense sewing before leaving, I am afraid that I will return late.

When the master came back, it was almost nine o'clock, and with a sense of wine, he was very happy to see me and said, "Coming?" ”

The master told him: I bought him five catties of drunken immortals, and I also bought myself silk clothes, and she didn't accept five hundred yuan.

The master said proudly: "Well, not bad! What do you think? I have a good eye, right? The character of the apprentice I chose will not be bad! ”

The master asked me what books I was reading? I say it's the Tao Te Ching.

The master sat down, made tea, and said to me solemnly:

"From now on, you must forget what you have learned, and completely forget what you have read.

I was amazed and asked, "Why?" ”

The master said, "Because most of what you have learned is wrong!" Don't forget, you will have many doubts. For example, this Tao Te Ching is a commentary or translation of the Han Dynasty.

"There's a lot of stuff that's been tampered with, a lot of things that rulers need, and too much that they've thought was contrary to the rule."

I said, "That's why Qin Shi Huang burned books and pit Confucianism."

The master said: "Fortunately, Qin died soon after, and those books are still in people's minds, so they can be re-recorded from memory, otherwise after one or two hundred years, our culture will be cut off."

"You see, some of the words are simply contrary and unrecognizable!

"For example, the opening chapter: Tao is Tao, very Tao. The name is famous, and the name is not very famous.

"The true original text is: the Tao can be constant, very constant; The name can be a constant name, a very permanent name.

Wang Bi, the annotator of the Han Dynasty, in order to avoid the name of Emperor Liu Heng of the Han Dynasty, forcibly removed the word Heng.

It becomes such a specious sentence, and the meaning is very different.

The original intention was to say:

Although the Tao can be spoken, the Tao is not eternal, but evolving and changing.

Although the Tao can be described, it is not a constant description, but an ever-changing one.

"For another example, I have three treasures: one is kindness, the second is thrift, and the third is not daring to be the first in the world.

"What does it mean not to be the first in the world? Then you have to fall behind the world? It doesn't make sense grammatically.

It should be concluded like this: I have three treasures, one is kindness, the second is thrift, and the third is no. Dare to be the first in the world. ”

The master's words really made me deafening! I always thought that I didn't dare to be the first in the world, it was the inaction of Taoism, the humility of the ancients, and the control of the latter.

The master said, "This sentence is actually wrong! The real text goes like this: I have the Four Jewels, keep them. One kindness and two thrift, three stability and four folds;

"Later generations translate steadiness into not daring to be the first in the world, isn't it ridiculous and generous?

"The stable is also stable, stable and fixed, stable as Mount Tai.

"The heavy ones are thick, thick and heavy, thick as the earth.

"Isn't it the opposite of not daring to be the first in the world?"

The master's words made me stunned, and I have always been proud that I can read the Tao Te Ching by heart, thinking that I can have a good relationship with the ancients.

Who knew that the master said that this was all wrong! It's like running all the way and thinking you're almost there, and then someone tells you you're running in the opposite direction.

How frustrated are you? What kind of discouragement?

Seeing that I was in a daze, the master pulled out a book from the shelf.

The cover is Juanxiu's small Kai: "Kunlun Immortal Book Tao Te Ching".

The master said in a serious tone: "From tonight, when will you be able to memorize this Tao Te Ching?" You can dictate it and you start eating, otherwise you'll be hungry. ”

I looked at the master in amazement, wasn't it a joke?

It's the 5,000-word Tao Te Ching, and I still can't memorize it.

I've never read this immortal book, and you can still write it down silently if you ask me to memorize it?

I may not be able to memorize it for three or five days, or even ten days and half a month, don't you have the intention of not letting me eat?

The master laughed plophatically: "Don't scare the apprentice, you let him carry it as soon as he came?" Can't recite it, and you're not allowed to eat? ”

The master glared and said, "Do you remember how the master treated me back then?" I couldn't memorize this book for three days, not only did I skip meals, but I also had to play the board.

"It's already polite if I don't beat him, what's wrong with starving him for a few meals?"

The master stood up angrily, and it seemed that he was serious.

Just now, he was praising me with a spring breeze on his face, but in a blink of an eye, he became a fierce and vicious gentleman.

It's really a dog's face, and it changes when it is said.

The master turned around and threw me three copper coins when he went out, and I recognized them as the copper coins of his divination, and said fiercely:

"Not only do you have to endorse them, but you also have to take a closer look at these three copper coins. Tell me tomorrow morning about the differences between these three copper coins. ”

With that, he walked out.

When the master saw that the master had gone out, she walked up to me and whispered: "Don't look at him fiercely, you read it first, read it a few times and then copy it, copying it once is better than reading it a few times, and you will remember it after copying it once or twice."

I looked at the beautiful words and asked, "Is this copied by the master?"

The master smiled: "This is what I copied, and I don't know the words that your master copied."

She pulled out a book from the shelf, and when I opened it, I saw that it was all tadpole-like seal books, and sure enough, I didn't know a word.