It was getting late, and the clanging of irons in the blacksmith shop carried into the distance along the evening breeze. Gongsun Shanqing was obviously very satisfied with Zhou Changsheng's answer, and then began to ramble, but he didn't talk about learning boxing at all, time flew by, the old man looked at the window that had been darkened, and asked Zhou Changsheng to go home earlier, and instructed that the matter of apprenticeship could not be known to the second person, as for the reason, the old man said that you will understand it in the future.

When the sun retracts its last bit of light, night comes.

Zhou Changsheng left the blacksmith shop, still thinking about the old man's words, "You can't tell outsiders, this old man is also stingy, don't you only know a little bit of three-legged cat kung fu to lie to me, right? No wonder he didn't talk about the apprenticeship at all." Are you afraid of being exposed? Then didn't I worship a fake master? But that kung fu with a dagger is really beautiful, and the masters of the martial arts hall have never seen anyone with such a hand. On weekdays, the old man doesn't have so many words, he ignores everyone, how did he change his sex today, he talked a lot about it, all trivial things, nothing useful, it's dark this day, and he was released, it's really a problem!"

Zhou Changsheng was thinking about things in his heart, and hurried home quickly. The city of Coldwind is still bustling with activity, and the night, for most, is the end of the day, but for some it is the beginning of a new day. The noise of restaurants and brothels echoed in the night sky, and the rich were still partying all night without sleeping, while the poor could only tighten the thin quilts wrapped around their bodies just to be warmer.

At this time, the street was empty, and Zhou Changsheng was walking briskly on the street, and the sound of crackling footsteps echoed in the alley. From time to time, the wild cats that pop out and the old eagles that fly away can always scare Zhou Changsheng. From the blacksmith shop in the west of the city to the Wutong Inn in the east of the city, you have to pass through several small alleys in between. It's not much during the day, but at night, the alleys are pitch black, but it's a little eerie. It is human instinct to be afraid of the dark, let alone Zhou Changsheng, who is only a teenager.

Usually, Zhou Changsheng has also walked a lot of night roads, and among his peers, he is relatively bold. Sometimes, I play wild with my friends, and I don't go home in the dark. In the mass grave outside the city, he dared to go in and out three times alone, and this thing was something that the strongest two oxen did not dare to do.

But today, why do I always feel that this duck intestine alley is much darker and longer than usual, why can't I get to the end?

Zhou Changsheng, who was already a little scared, became more and more frightened the more he thought about it, there was no one in the alley of the black hole, and even the Wei family's shop, which rarely turned off the lights, turned off the lights early today.

The surroundings were extremely quiet, and it was also extremely dark, and the more Zhou Changsheng walked, the more furious his heart became, for fear that some demons and monsters would suddenly come out and eat himself in one bite, and he wouldn't even spit out his bones. Isn't that what the old man tells his stories, and it is easiest for a child to walk alone at night to attract cowards, and secretly follow behind the child, and if he finds anyone who is timid and afraid, he will swallow him in his stomach, not to mention the bones, and his clothes will not vomit.

Zhou Changsheng walked while cheering himself up, cowards are all timid to eat, he is not small, who dares to enter the mass grave in the middle of the night, I have been in! Although I was so scared that I peed my pants, but the others didn't even touch the threshold of peeing my pants!

As he walked, vague figures began to appear all around, with unclear cloaks and inaudible whispers.

"Intestines,...... Best tasty, slippery ......"

"Brain Flower...... Fragrant...... Tender ......"

"Thighs...... Meaty ......"

"Heart...... Delicious...... Chewy ......"

"Heart...... Dipping in hot sauce...... Taste ......"

Zhou Changsheng was bluffed into white sweat, his fists clenched and clenched, and he thought, "Did I encounter a ghost hitting the wall, or did I enter a ghost den! These are all man-eating ghosts!"

Walking to the corner of the alley, a white shadow pounced towards Zhou Changsheng, saying that it was too late, it was fast, although Zhou Changsheng was about to be scared to pee, but he didn't know where the courage came from, and he punched it, but nothing hit, only a few pigeon cooing and wings fluttering.

It turned out to be a pigeon, Zhou Changsheng let out a deep sigh.

Around the corner, out of the alley, the sky suddenly brightened a lot, and the faint ghosts around disappeared. Zhou Changsheng touched his chest that was pounding, and said secretly in his heart, "The coward really picks the cowardly!" looked around again, especially behind him, and didn't see anything, so he pretended not to be afraid of anything and walked in the direction of home.

When Zhou Changsheng walked away, Gongsun Shanqing leaned out of the duck intestine alley, touched his beard and said, "Well, the courage is not bad, compared to peers, it can be regarded as a middle-class asset." But what is commendable is that punch, although it is immature, it is a young tiger, although it is small, it has already shown its grandeur!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Gongsun Shanqing took out a gray-blue gourd, pinched it with his hand, and said something in his mouth, and a wisp of gray mist that was almost invisible to the naked eye floated out of the duck intestine alley and burrowed into the gourd. After that, Gongsun Shanqing made a few leaps and disappeared into the night, how could he look like an old dragon clock.

This way, it seems that millions of years have passed, Zhou Changsheng finally arrived home, and when he opened the door, he found that an old Taoist was eating and drinking at the table in the front hall, while his father and mother were accompanying him. I saw that this old Taoist long beard and hair were all white, his face was like a baby, he was wearing a Wuyue true crown on his head, he was wearing a shabby Taoist robe, a silk silk was tied around his waist, a purple-red wine gourd was hung on one side, a jade pendant was tied on the other side, a pair of old hemp shoes were worn on his feet, and a copper handle was dusted on the table. If you see this old Taoist in any place, you have to shout an old immortal, not to say that he is an immortal, at least a real person who has attained the Tao of the fairy wind and bones. It's just that the old Taoist on the other side is really unbearable to look at. Holding a chicken leg in one hand, holding a wine glass in the other, and stepping on the bench with one foot, he was eating happily, wiping his mouth with his sleeve from time to time.

Zhou Changsheng's father and mother saw that Changsheng was back, and hurriedly beckoned him over. The old Taoist didn't seem to notice that Zhou Changsheng was coming in, he just blindly ate Haisai, and he didn't know how long he was hungry, and he was reincarnated as a starving ghost.

When Zhou Changsheng came to the table, the old Taoist said vaguely: "This is your son who has been weak since he was a child, but still wants to learn boxing?" After speaking, he stared at Zhou Changsheng from the beginning to the end, during which he did not forget to take a sip of meat, drank a glass of wine, and looked at the time when there was half a burnt incense, and then said: "The body bones are weaker, but the spirit is very good, the brows are not stretched from time to time, and the eyes are uncertain, it seems that you kid has an opinion on the Taoist master." You and I have first met, how can you be so hostile to me?"

Zhou Changsheng said directly: "Monks should abide by the precepts, do not drink alcohol, do not eat meat, do not be greedy for money, do not lie, do not commit adultery, do not steal, and do not kill. When I first saw you, you still broke two commandments by drinking wine and eating meat. I don't know why my father and mother would entertain you with such sumptuous food and drink, but as far as I know, monks have never brought gold or silver or other vulgar things, and you know that this meal will cost me more than half a year's income. If you pay the money, you will break the precept of not being greedy for money. If you don't pay, you haven't broken your vows, but the fact is that you don't have compassion for others. If you deceive this table of food with clever words, you have broken the precept of not lying. The three of the seven precepts have been broken, how can you tell me not to be hostile to you?"

The old Taoist elder stroked his beard and laughed: "The kid is a little smart, if my disciples and grandchildren who don't make it see you, they will be ashamed and have no face to see people! Boy, do you know why you should abide by these seven laws as a Taoist priest?"

Zhou Changsheng said: "If a Taoist monk is a monk, he should follow the precepts, otherwise what is the use of becoming a monk?

The old Taoist chief said, "That's right, it's not right. I just don't know why. Tao begets one, one begets two, two begets three, and three begets all things. Yes, the Tao is all things, all things are the way, if you seek the Tao with one heart, how to become a monk, what if you do not become a monk, how to keep the precepts, what if you do not keep the precepts, I only seek the Tao with one heart. ”

Zhou Changsheng said: "What if you are a big liar? What if they are all big liars?"

The old Taoist said: "How do you know that I am a liar, and how do you know that I am not intent on asking." ”

Zhou Changsheng said: "How do you know that I don't know that you are a liar." ”

The old man said: "How do you know that I don't know that you don't know that I am a liar." ”

Zhou Chang was angry and said: "You are quibbling, you are unreasonable." ”

The old Taoist chief said: "If I drink alcohol and eat meat, but I ask with all my heart, if you don't drink alcohol and eat meat, but you can't ask with all your heart, who is right and who is wrong? I know that your family is not rich but not poor, how can my remuneration be more than a thousand gold, but not gold and silver and vulgar things, how can it not be worth a table of wine and food? Besides, why do I tell the truth in vain? But you, who only look at the surface and are conceited and clever, turned out to be an elm head. I read a lot of books, but I didn't know that I had eaten them all in my stomach and pulled them out. ”

Zhou Changsheng was so ashamed that his face was flushed but he didn't know what to say, plus the fright he had just received, as well as the secrets and fears and grievances hidden in his heart, he didn't know how for a while, but he actually howled and cried directly.

At this time, the old Taoist chief looked embarrassed and said to Zhou Youcai and his wife: "I'm sorry, I was so angry that I forgot that your son was just a ten-year-old child, and he didn't enter my door, how could I reprimand him like this, it's too late to regret, it's too late to regret." ”

Zhou Youcai said: "If the Taoist can keep his promise, this little reprimand is nothing, even if it is beaten and scolded." ”

The old Taoist said: "Daoist, I will do what I say, but I also have to see if the little layman is willing." After speaking, he said to Zhou Changsheng: "I heard your parents say that you are born with a weak body and want to learn boxing, it just so happens that I have a set of boxing methods here that can not only make up for your congenital weak body regret but also satisfy your desire to practice boxing, so your parents set up a banquet to entertain me out of gratitude, not what I asked." If there is cause and effect, the cause is to be attributed to you. ”

After hearing this, Zhou Changsheng was full of shame but didn't cry, and said to the old Taoist: "Senior, the kid knows that he is wrong, the kid shouldn't speculate without asking the reason, and he shouldn't talk nonsense without respect, and the kid is at the disposal of the senior." ”

The old Taoist said: "Knowing mistakes can be corrected, and kindness is great." Besides, I have my mistakes, but I just hope you will remember today's lesson. Originally, I just wanted to teach you boxing, the grace of today's meal, but seeing that you are quick to think and can draw inferences, and can also know your mistakes, admit your mistakes and correct your mistakes, which is not easy, but let the old Tao have the idea of accepting apprentices, boy, are you willing to worship the old way as a teacher?"

Zhou Changsheng was a little embarrassed: "If you don't want to, you can't." ”

The old Taoist said: "Why? You already have a master? And your master has a different view of the door, so he doesn't let you worship others as a teacher?"

Zhou Changsheng said: "No"

The old Taoist said, "Why is that?"

Zhou Changsheng said: "I have promised another senior to worship him as a teacher, that senior has a great kindness to me, I can't be untrustworthy." Although I am not a disciple of that senior now, I don't know if that senior has a different view of the mountain gate. ”

The old Taoist stroked his beard and smiled: "The kid is really temperamental, the more I look at you, the more pleasing I am, but I don't want to be strong, it's a pity, it's a pity." Providence, providence, providence is unpredictable. Fate, fate, fate and no fate. ”

The old Taoist couldn't stop sighing, and at this time Shui Niang said: "Dao Chief, is it that if you don't worship you as a teacher, you can't teach him boxing?"

The old Taoist's eyes lit up, and he said to himself: "Don't apprentice, don't apprentice, alas, the old Taoist is in the same place." is also seeking the Tao, so why stick to the position of master and apprentice. If you don't seek the Tao, even if you have the status of master and apprentice?

With a wave of his sleeves, the entire inn fell silent, and time seemed to stand still at this time. And the old Taoist and Zhou Changsheng appeared in front of a Taoist temple. Here, Zhou Changsheng seems to have experienced thousands of worlds without leaving the slightest memory, what he saw, heard, smelled, and forgot everything in an instant. It's like a dreamer who dreams again and again in a dream, and so on, and when he wakes up, he forgets all about the dream and only thinks that he has slept on it. But who knows, if you are still in a dream, you haven't woken up yet.

The old Taoist said solemnly to Zhou Changsheng: "This view is called Taoist Temple, and this door is called the door of all wonders. The Taoist ancestor once observed the Tao here, so it was called the Taoist Temple. The Taoist ancestor has achieved success, and tells the truth of all the wonders in front of this door, so it is called the door of all wonders. After the ancestor rode away on the green ox, leaving 5,000 words to talk about the Tao, the beginning of this door, so this door is also called the door. Later generations recorded 5,000 words into a book, called "On the Dao", also known as "The Tao Sutra". It's just that you don't have any cultivation now, and you see everything in the fog and see flowers, and it's all vain, and you can't see it or hear it. If you succeed in cultivating in the future, you and I will naturally have a day to see each other again. The avenue cannot be passed on lightly, Dafa does not pass on the six ears, although you and I do not have the name of master and apprentice, but we have the reality of master and apprentice. Remember, God knows, you know, I know. The wonder of the "Tao Sutra" is indescribable, it can only be understood, not spoken. Now that I have passed on all my understandings to you, how much you can comprehend in the future depends on your own understanding. If you and I meet again in the future, you will naturally have the opportunity to enter the door of all wonders, enter the Taoist view, and observe the real "Tao Jing". Remember, my name is the three crazy real people, acting unrestrained and unrestrained to things is a madness, unscrupulous words can't help but say that it is a second madness, asking questions are not afraid of life and death, and the morning news is that the night can die for the three madness. I only hope that you will be as innocent as you are today in the future, know that you can change your mistakes, have good thoughts, and think more about things. Cultivating the Tao cultivates one's own way, and does not pretend to be too much about external objects. This jade pendant is what I have carried with me for many years, and put it in your place, remember to put it close to you so as not to lose it, and I will return it when I see you in the future. ”

After speaking, Yang Tiange said: "My life also has an end, and knowledge has no end, and there is no end to it, and there is no end to it." After singing, he raised his hand and pushed Zhou Changsheng.

Zhou Changsheng stumbled and almost fell, and found that he had tripped over the threshold when he entered the door. Looking up, where is the old Taoist who has any fairy wind bones, even the wine and food on the table are gone. Zhou Changsheng was full of doubts, so he found his father and mother and asked him one by one if he had ever seen an old Taoist with white hair, and he said that he had not seen it. Zhou Changsheng stood in the living room a little dazed, and there were vague memories in his mind, but they were not very clear. The only thing that can be determined is that there was indeed a Three Crazy Dao Masters who taught him a set of boxing techniques, but the Dao Leader did not mention the name of the boxing method, and only temporarily replaced it with an unknown boxing method. Zhou Changsheng touched the jade pendant hidden close to him, and remembered that he had been stabbed to death with a dagger in the garbage mountain, but he was inexplicably resurrected. There have been too many strange things happening recently, and Zhou Changsheng can't help but think, what is real and what is false?

After dinner, Zhou Changsheng, who returned to the room, just wanted to get a good night's sleep, hoping that when he woke up tomorrow, it was all just a dream.

In the middle of the night, Coldwind City is like a giant beast, crawling at the foot of the mountain. The night was very quiet, and from time to time there were bursts of barking dogs and quacking birds in the distance......