Chapter 11: Apprenticeship
After the wolf boy wrote a letter to his family, he kept wondering if this sister Chixia could deliver the letter on time, how did she get the bird to send the letter, could she teach the bird to read and write, and while worried and curious, he urged Yoko to inquire.
The next day, Yangzi went to find Chixia to inquire if the letter had been delivered, and Chixia said that it had been delivered, and saw an old man with gray hair and a long beard who had picked up the letter.
"Is there a jujube tree with a crooked neck in front of your house?" Chixia asked Yoko.
"Well, this one, it seems to be," Yoko said with a sigh, "It's been a few days away from home, so I don't remember it very well." ”
"Who are you that gray-haired, bearded old man?"
"Well, it's my dad, no, it's my grandpa. Yoko replied hesitantly, and then hurried away.
Looking at the back of Yoko leaving, Chixia shook her head in confusion.
Yoko took the time to go and give the wolf cub a reply to the situation. When the wolf boy heard what he said, he was relieved and said, "That's my family, and the one with a long beard is my father." ”
"It's so clearly described, like seeing it with your own eyes, could it be that the birds told her?" asked Yoko with some confusion.
"Yes, maybe she'll turn into a bird and fly away on her own. Yoko smiled.
The wolf boy took out a book and said, "It's been a long time since you've come to listen to my lectures, so come, make up for you." After saying that, he went to open the wood door, and a piece of sunlight shone in.
At that moment, the two of them sat in the woodhouse and began to study.
"Actually, there are a few things in this book that I haven't figured out, so it would be nice if I could ask the master. "It's not appropriate for you to ask, right?"
"Yes, it would be nice if the master could accept you and me as disciples, so that I don't have to learn secretly in this shabby house. ”
While the two were concentrating on their homework, a bird quietly flew in, landed on the wooden door, and looked into the house.
In the days that followed, when the wolf cub was reading and studying, he would often find a bird flying around the front of the house, or perched on the wood gate, or on the surrounding trees. This bird is good-looking, with a red beak, purple feathers and green feet, and a long and long cry. The wolf cub gradually fell in love with the bird, and sometimes it didn't come for a day, and Jing still missed it a little.
After several months, the weather gradually warmed up, and the ice and snow began to melt, and it was already "a slight spring breeze blowing, Mo Dao warmed up, and the cold dew was in early spring".
On this day, when the wolf boy was working with Yoko to study the magic gate, the wolf boy suddenly pricked up his ears and listened for a while: "A fierce beast is coming this way through the woods!"
Yoko was shocked when she heard this, and hurriedly ran out of the firewood house to visit the woods. Sure enough, I saw a horse rushing out of the woods. If you look closely, what kind of horse is it, it is clearly a tiger with a person running to the Taoist temple.
This person's face is like Fu powder, his lips are like dansha, he wears a green gauze scarf on his head, a pair of flowing belts on the back of his head, he is wearing a jade yin and yang robe, a pair of cloud shoes on his feet, and a double silk queen mother knot under his waist.
Yangzi couldn't help but be shocked: "It's Master Lingmei who is back!" and hurriedly rushed back to the Taoist temple to report. The wolf boy here hurriedly avoided it.
Master Lingmei came to the front of the view, and Master Hongji and Xuan Qingzhen had already led all the disciples to the door to greet them. When the disciples saw the master riding the tiger coming, he was majestic and majestic, and the tiger under the seat was fierce and mad, and they were dumbfounded, looking at each other, and they didn't dare to make a sound. When the mage saw everyone, he turned over from the tiger and descended, and with a wave of the Buddha's dust, the tiger turned around and went straight to the mountains and forests, and disappeared after a while.
Chixia stepped forward to worship the master, and then carried the master into the hall surrounded by everyone, sat down in turn, and after a while of greeting with everyone, the master said: "The poor road travels the world, picks flowers and builds hats, folds weeds to pave the grass, sucks sweet springs and rinses teeth, chews pines and cypresses to prolong the age, so as to avoid the cage and hide, and detachs the vulgar net to cultivate the truth." ”
"However, the day before yesterday, I met a cyclamen, sat and talked about the mysteries, and talked about the past and the present. Sigh the rise and fall of the previous dynasty, and worry about the suffering of the common people in the world. They all think that immortal cultivators should expound the Tao and promote the orthodox religion of the Taishang, so as to benefit the world, remove the demonic atmosphere of the world, and save all sentient beings. The master sighed, "However, the poor monks are old, so they can only pass on what they have learned to future generations, teach the world with macroorthodoxy, and save the people from fire and water." ”
The master asked Hongji and Xuanqing: "The two masters have many virtuous disciples, can you recommend a few high-ranking disciples who are skilled in learning and are extremely intelligent, and come from the poor Tao to teach the scriptures in person?"
Xuan Qingzhen replied: "The two of us have long had this intention, carefully preaching, and cultivating with great heart, just to select good talents, to be able to enter the eyes of the master, and accept them as disciples." ”
"That's right, we will set up an altar tomorrow to assess, carefully select good talents, worship under the master, and learn from the teacher. Master Hongji took over and said.
When the disciples heard that they were expected to be accepted as disciples by Master Lingmei, they were both happy and worried, and they were happy to have such an opportunity to learn from Master Lingmei and make steady progress. What worries me is that I am worried that I am not good at learning and cannot be selected. At the moment, everyone has something on their minds, and they go back to prepare.
After the next day's assessment, Master Hongji discussed with Xuan Qingzhen for a long time, and finally decided to recommend two disciples, Zuo Dian and Ye Chengshi, to the master. He led the two of them to the top of the temple to meet the mage.
Master Lingmei saw the two of them, one with clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, and the other with upright facial features, majestic and upright. Nodded in satisfaction at the moment.
When the two saw the master's approval, they immediately stepped forward to worship: "Respect the teacher, and be worshiped by the disciple three times!" After the ceremony, they saw the Chixia Fairy next to them and worshiped as a senior sister.
Master Lingmei smiled and asked Hongji and Xuanqing, "Are these two apprentices the only one?"
The two of them replied, "The two of us carefully screened and only found these two, and the rest are only shallow in their knowledge and do not fall into the eyes of the mage. ”
The mage laughed and said, "The two of you and one of the senior disciples are hiding in the firewood house, and they refuse to recommend it to me." He turned to Chixia and said, "Spread Zhenyangzi and let him bring people to see him." Chixia took the order to go out.
Master Hongji and Xuan Qing Zhenren looked at each other, and they didn't know why. I thought to myself, what other high-level disciples I don't know?
After a while, Chixia led Yangzi and the wolf boy into the hall. It turned out that yesterday evening, Chixia had called Yangzi to the mage to ask him, and Yangzi had no choice but to explain everything that had happened. Chixia also told Master Lingmei about what she had observed for many days.
The Spirit Eyebrow mage summoned the wolf boy to the front and asked him a few questions about the number of magic and the magic of the strange door. The wolf boy answered one by one, and it didn't leak. Master Hongji and Xuan Qingzhen were dumbfounded when they listened, just because the wolf boy replied that it was the two of them who really passed on the secret technique, not only to the essence, but also to play incisively, and there was a great tendency to surpass and rise.
Master Lingmei was overjoyed at the moment, and told everyone the reason, and then let the wolf boy worship the teacher, and then worship the two senior brothers and sisters. also asked Master Hongji and Xuan Qingzhen to accept Zhenyangzi as a disciple and cultivate a good life. Everyone rejoiced, and they didn't show it.