No Return to the Mountain, No Return to the People Chapter 23 Apprenticeship
In the wooden house, the living room is not spacious, but it leads from the front to the small balcony at the back. The incense table, chairs, and tea that Mu Xi had asked for were all in place.
The apprenticeship is actually very simple, burning the homemade mugwort incense, and Mu Xi sits on the chair next to the incense table. Li Xitong, who is used to serving people every day, is very clever, pulling his sister to the old man, kneeling down and bowing, and knocking three times firmly. Then the brother and sister took turns to offer tea to the master.
It's all rudimentary rituals, not worth mentioning. It's just that the apprentice's heart is extremely sincere.
From surviving in a desperate situation to encountering such a shocking god and man, if Mu Xi didn't say it, Li Xitong might not dare to worship the entrance wall, but he would definitely do some hard work and try to get a little bit of opportunity.
The wizard Mu Sheng couldn't help muttering in his heart. My old man's weekday sacrificial practices, how many amazing scenes, and how much water milling work behind it. Why is the true body of this great god here, accepting an apprentice in the world, but it is so rough and simple.
The following teachings of the teacher's laws and regulations are not enough for outsiders. Mu Sheng and Li Sheng beckoned a group of natives who had come to help, and they went out of the house; they brought all kinds of grains, fresh fruits and bacon, but they left a lot, and the master and apprentice lived for ten days and eight days, and they had no worries about eating.
Mu Xi stood up from the wooden chair with rough craftsmanship, took square steps in front of the two disciples who stood with their heads bowed, and said slowly: "The so-called Taishang, when there is no heaven and earth, condense the void to deduce the beginning of change; The Qianyuan is unified and the heaven and the earth are divided, the yin and yang are born and all things are born, the mountains and rivers are qi, and all things are animist. I am too Shangzong, refining the skin sac furnace to become the Taishang Void, and returning to the acquired aura to become an innate Qi. Therefore, if you can cultivate the Tao, God is in harmony with the innate ......"
Mu Xi was in a constant state of turmoil, thinking about something, and suddenly glanced at the two teenagers in the clouds, and suddenly said with a solemn face: "Do you understand?"
Li Xitong was stunned and at a loss, and hesitated for a few moments before he said, "Master...... All these years, I have been busy serving my master, and my sister and I haven't had time to read and write......"
Mu Xi's head was big for a while, he took two sips of the wine gourd, and said: "Okay, let's just say it, the Taiyi Sect, which now occupies the world, can manage one side of the world." And our Taishang Sect is not only able to manage this side of the world, but also to manage this side of the world and its Lao Tzu. So, do you understand?"
The brother and sister nodded busily and said, "I understand, I understand." β
There is no need to care what this world looks like, in short, it is very majestic.
Mu Xi sighed and said, "It's a pity that Taiyi taught those grandsons, but they weren't convinced, so they called us Demon Sects." It's just a matter of being infuriating. β
For hundreds of years, Lijiazhuang has been almost isolated from the world, and for the Demon Sect, although there are occasionally some stories passed down from old to old, they are not good or bad, and there is no qualitative character. Therefore, the brothers and sisters of the Li family are actually very glad that they can worship such a powerful sect against the sky.
Mu Xi stood quietly on the small balcony outside the back door of the living room. Beneath the balcony is a stream, and when you look out of the canyon, you can see thousands of miles to the place where heaven and earth meet beyond the mountains.
The old man's expression was solemn, and he blended into the heavens and the earth with his body and mind, and carefully sensed the wisps of smoke and iron blood wafting from the air. After a long while, he muttered to himself: "It is worthy of the elite iron cavalry of the Guardian Army, at this moment, he has already arrived at Chiyuan City in Qingping Prefecture, and if he continues like this, in less than three years, if he hasn't searched it, won't he even have to go up and search the mountain of no return that the bird can't fly, and the sky can't see it......
"Master, are we going to live here all the time?"
Once the days returned to peace, in addition to serving the master's diet and daily life, and practicing the various kung fu methods taught by the master, Li Xitong would also ask more questions about the topics he cared about.
"You have to stay, I have to go, I have a lot of things to do. Whenever Mu Xi rested, he drank with a gourd on the side. The turbid wine in the gourd has been changed one after another, and now it is full of bamboo tube wine brewed by the natives.
This bamboo tube wine is much better than the turbid wine he bought for 5 copper coins in the market outside.
"Master, you're gone, what can we do?" Li Xilian felt furious when she thought of Shi Le, who was desperately trying to carry her home.
Mu Xi smiled: "I will stay for a month, and after a month, these natives will have to serve you as their sawu." When the time comes, whether you marry or not, who will dare to make decisions for you. β
Li Xitong hurriedly said: "Master, it's so hard to walk the rivers and lakes. When we are not around, who will help you do the laundry and cooking?"
Li Xitong, who thought he was reasonable, ended up receiving a chestnut on the head.
"Practice hard here, all the Taiyi Sect believers in the world will kill the two of you, just now, you want to exhaust me." Master kills a lot, and it takes effort. β
Thinking of the bloody scene in Lijiazhuang, the brother and sister finally fell silent. After being silent for a long time, Li Xitong couldn't help but ask: "Master, we Li Jiazhuang people, don't offend the heavens and the earth, why do all the Taoist priests in the world want to kill us?"
Mu Xi looked at the distant mountains, took a sip of wine, and said, "Because your ancestors are the mortal enemies of their Heavenly Emperor. You should have the surname Ren, not the surname Li. Hundreds of years ago, your ancestors changed their surname to Li in order to escape the pursuit of Taoists. β
So it turned out that the brother and sister suddenly realized, but they always felt that it was unreasonable. Ancestors are ancestors, we are us, how can the account be counted on the descendants?
"Master, why do you know so much?"
"Because I'm a Master. β
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Later, from Li Sheng's mouth, the brother and sister finally knew that the worldly "Taoist Academy" and the Taoist sect on the mountain were completely different things. The "Taoist Academy" is a place where the wise men of the world give lectures and preach to the world, teaching words, mathematics and science.
Some Taoist monasteries, if the master himself is a cultivator, will also select some students who have the opportunity to lead them to enlightenment and practice, but none of them have anything to do with the sect of the Taiyi sect on the mountain.
The master of Fang Liang Dao Academy, his name is Fang Liang. This master is not only very famous in Jingping Prefecture, but also among the five states of the entire Youyuan Prefecture, he is also a well-ranked preacher.
It is no wonder that as soon as Li Sheng introduced himself, he first labeled himself as a "disciple of Fangliang Dao Academy". It's a pity that he didn't graduate.
The young Shile regularly sent fresh vegetables, fruits and meat every day, and I don't know if it was out of awe of the gods or because he was still dead to his "family". In short, Li Xilian took a lot of effort to avoid him.
After more than ten days, everyone was fine, and Li Xilian slowly relaxed.
On this day, Li Xilian finished practicing and saw that her master was still drinking, but her brother had not yet made up her mind, so she went out of the house alone and went to the dry land by the mountain stream to pick wild leeks, and by the way, she went to the "construction site" near the waterfall to see how her wooden house was being built.
There are many people who are busy working on the construction site, and the natives from the surrounding villages and those who are good at carpentry have come. To build a house for the gods, of course, everyone is very enthusiastic. The frame of the beams and columns of the house has been completed, and all that remains is the upper wall floor and the window lattice roof.
Li Xilian looked at it carefully, smiled and kept greeting the carpenters and helpers who were busy.
There was really nothing to see, so I took the freshly picked wild leeks and returned the same way.
As a result, on the way back, passing through a tree-lined path, I found the boy with braided hair blocked in the middle of the road ahead, and the girl was shocked to break out in a cold sweat.
In this quiet forest, lonely men and widows, no matter how spicy and ruthless a girl is, looking at each other's pair of fiery eyes, can you not be stunned?
"If you do this again, my master will kill you. The girl pretended to be calm and said, "An old fairy like him, you will die if you look at him." β
In a hurry, he didn't think that he couldn't understand what she said, and Shi Le couldn't understand what she was saying at all.
Li Xilian saw that the other party had a desperate look, and there was no change, and she suddenly became confused.
Shi Le screamed, and he had already spread his arms and pounced, and his movements were extremely swift.
If he hugs him, something really will happen. Li Xilian was terrified, and in a hurry, she just pounded her hands indiscriminately, and she didn't care whether she hit or not.
I only felt a heavy snort, with a strong manly smell, rushing towards my face, and I was about to be hugged by him, and Li Xilian's hands were dancing even more wildly and chaotically. I just feel that the fist is heavy, and this will definitely be fighting.
Regardless of whether it was useful or not, Li Xilian's hand unconsciously suddenly exerted force and rushed forward.
I only felt that my hand was light, and the breath that came to my face disappeared in an instant, and only the mountain breeze was left around. The big boy who rushed in was gone.
"What's going on?" Li Xilian was surprised, remembering the messy thrashing she squinted just now, and vaguely felt that there was a figure, which was beaten away by herself and fell down the mountain stream.
She hurriedly ran to the edge of the stream, and looked at the chaotic water under the stone wall. I saw that the braided boy was already lying motionless on a boulder. Fortunately, there are no sharp edges and corners on the stone surface of that boulder.
Rao was like this, and a small pool of blood still overflowed from the back of the boy's head.
Li Xilian looked at the stone wall by the stream, which was more than a zhang high, weighed it slightly, and jumped down, and sure enough, she could stand firmly on the stone.
It seems that this Taishang Sect's kung fu is really amazing.
But she didn't have the heart to appreciate the changes in her cultivation at this time, and hurriedly stretched out her white and tender little hand to probe Shi Le's snort.
Fortunately, the snort is even. It seems that he just fainted.
Facing a body of the opposite sex that was almost completely naked, with only a bunch of leaves around her waist, Li Xilian was in a difficult situation.
She had always been a little scared of the boy who wanted to snatch her home. But I didn't think about killing him, or he would have died long agoβit was just a matter of saying a few kind words to Master.
So now she doesn't dare to ask her brother for help, let alone tell her master. If the elder brother or the master were angry and gave him such a small punishment, the boy would die.
In desperation, Li Xilian suddenly remembered that in Lijiazhuang before, whenever someone suffered from heat stroke or fainted and fell to the ground, the doctor in the clan could wake up by pinching the patient.
She stretched out her delicate thumb and pinched it among Shile's men. The man's warm snort sprayed on her fingers, and it was itchy, and she had to endure it.
After pinching for a long time, Shi Le still lay there as if he were dead, without the slightest movement.
The little girl was so anxious and sweaty that she was very embarrassed, and her feet were soaked in the cool water. She took the water with her hand and washed her sweaty and greasy face, which was suddenly a lot refreshed.
Li Xilian had an idea, yes, I don't know if it is useful to use this cold water. So he kept carrying water with his hands, and poured water on Nashile's body.
The pigtailed boy was drenched and finally woke up in a daze. He turned his head and saw the girl who was pouring water on him, grinning at the anxious girl despite the pain in the back of his head.
Only then did Li Xilian find that Shi Le had woken up, and seeing his shyness and smile, she was even more anxious.
"I don't mean anything to you, I just don't want you to die because of me. Next time like this, I won't save you. She scolded Shi Le twice, turned around and ran.
"I can't do this anymore, tomorrow I will ask my brother to go into the mountains together, find some jute seedlings, and teach the women in the village to learn how to spin and weave, so that everyone can get dressed and meet in and out, so that they don't have to be so embarrassed." β
Li Xilian ran all the way home, thinking like this all the way. In the stream with a huge drop and rocky rocks, the girl ran very fast as if she were walking on the ground.
In the past, in the old man's house, she often helped the women in the family to work for a long time, planting linen spinning, weaving and dyeing cloth.
On the balcony of the wooden house, two men, an old man and a young man, witnessed the whole process of the good drama in the upstream stream. The old man couldn't help but smile and said to the young man next to him: "Look, I said that I don't need you to make a move, just don't use it." Your sister, the progress of cultivation is obviously stronger than you, who is an older brother. β
Li Xitong was quite pleased, listening to Master's words, but he was quite unwilling. It's just that this is the case, and there is no way, so in a fit of anger, I continue to meditate in the house and practice pranayama.
Only this time, he was directly interrupted by the master. Mu Xi glanced at Li Xilian, who was pushing the door into the house. The girl tried to pretend to be calm, but after all, she couldn't hide her heavy breathing and sweat stains.
He said to the two brothers and sisters: "Although your Dao cultivation is still very shallow, it can be said that you have not yet touched the threshold. But it is easy to deal with the native warriors in this savage mountain. β
"It's just that once you go outside, or find that an outsider is present, don't show your cultivation unless you have to. β
Li Xitong was puzzled: "Master, what if someone comes to the door and has to do it?"
Mu Xi glanced at him and said, "Okay, if you really make a move, don't let him say it to others?"
"However, if he doesn't say it, will he be able to trust it?"
Mu Xi made a posture of wiping his neck with his palms and said, "If you kill him, you can trust him." β
"Oh. β
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