Chapter 3: The Orphan Stone
Anyone who has nine tricks can cultivate immortals.
There are five immortals between heaven and earth: heavenly immortals, gods, earth immortals, human immortals, and ghost immortals.
The immortals, wandering the eight wildernesses, scattered and ethereal, do not ask about the world, transcendent and holy, not for the law, not for the mud, in the heaven and earth have great merit, in the present and ancient times have a great line, to hate the heavenly Taoist Sanqing and the Buddha of the West Heaven as respect, is the supreme true immortal.
The immortals are mortals who cultivate and refine the form, forget the form, understand the avenue, self-transform the fetal immortals, soar into the sky, and ascend to the immortal urn. With the Emperor of Heaven as the honor, he lives in the heavenly realm, is in charge of the gods and Buddhas in the sky, and has jurisdiction over three islands, ten continents, thirty-six caves of heaven, seventy-two blessed lands, and hundreds of millions of living beings in the world, and is extremely honorable.
The earth immortals, is to mortal cultivation and refining form, Jindan jade liquid, Qimen Dunjia, Taoism, although not understanding the avenue, stop at the law of small success, but can live forever, do not enter the reincarnation, hidden in the famous mountains and rivers, do not touch fame and fortune, do not admire the world, do not die in the world, to the ancestor of the earth immortal Fuxi as respect, hidden in the royal house, ethereal and scattered.
The immortals are mortals who cultivate the Tao and refine the form, glimpse the avenue, get a law in the way, get a technique in the law, have faith and hard will, and will not move for the rest of their lives, and they can also control the crane and the dragon, serve the ghosts and gods, have more peace and less disease, avoid disasters and eliminate difficulties, and help people in the world.
The ghost immortal is the ghost of the way to absorb the aura of heaven and earth, the essence of the sun and the moon, refining the form and gathering the gods, not falling into reincarnation, escaping from the evil mountain and poisonous water, but the ghost of the way of the thing has repeatedly used ghost magic to endanger the fairy world, mutilating the living soul, so there are ghosts and immortals Xudu Emperor, set up nine prisons in the Xudu Mountain, imprisoned countless ghost demon kings who committed bloody crimes, and he has nine secluded underworlds and ten halls of Yama, and the land of the city god of each division, and the ghost general Shen Yu Lei has countless Yin soldiers, which is the mainstay of the human fairy world to resist the ghost road, and it is also the sect of ghosts and immortals.
Anhui, Taipingfu, Xintang County.
The old Taoist Liu Guquan carried a bald broom, carried a rag bag, and followed by an old dog with leprosy skin, and traveled from Longhu Mountain in Jiangxi Province to Maoshan in Jurong County, Yingtianfu (Nanjing).
Liu Laodao was in shabby clothes, looked depressed, said that the beggar is not a beggar, the Taoist priest is not a Taoist, although the eyebrows are extraordinary, and the abdomen has its own self-cultivation, but the future is uncertain, it is really difficult to describe the taste in Liu Laodao's heart at this moment, I am afraid that it will not be any better.
This goes, it seems that there is a future of thousands of miles, but the wind and rain are urgent, the smoke and water are vast, and it makes people feel sad, how can it be a bitter word.
Let's go, even if it's just a leper old dog with you.
Let's go, even if there is no one ahead of you who will stop for you.
On this day, when I walked to the territory of Xintang County, my legs were tired and thirsty, and I saw a tea stall on the side of the road from a distance, supporting a pergola, and placing a few tables and chairs.
"Shopkeeper, do you have any tea?" Liu Laodao sat down and said hello, the owner of the shop was a white-haired old man, who was squatting by the stove and napping at the moment, and he didn't notice that someone walked in, and he got up when he heard the call.
"Hey, it's a Taoist master, what kind of tea does the Taoist master want to drink? ”
Liu Laodao smiled bitterly, laughing at the shop's slippery mouth: This old dog leper can also be used as a mount?
"Where is the old man who is a master, just make a pot of tea, shopkeeper, why is your business so deserted at noon this day?"
"Okay, the tea will be ready soon. The owner of the shop greeted while picking up the kettle on the stove to make tea, and said: "Dao Ye is a guest from afar, you don't know, our boundary is Xintang County, under the management of the Taiping Mansion, today this business is not good, because the county government can have a big event, and the people nearby have gone to see the excitement." ”
"Oh, what's the big deal?" Liu Laodao drank tea, took a broken crockpot with the shopkeeper, filled it with water and gave it to the leper to lick and drink, and the old dog drank it to his heart's content.
"Hey, let's put it this way, we have a wealthy businessman surnamed Lu in Xintang County, named Lu Yunlin, whose ancestors sold silk and medicinal materials for generations, and they are all famous in this Taiping Mansion.
"Acting in this way is not a sign of long-term wealth, but not enough virtue. Liu Laodao said slowly, brushing his long beard.
"This can be regarded as making Dao Ye, you are right, no, last summer, something happened to the Lu family, something happened!"
"How?"
"This Lu family, passed on to Lu Yunlin's generation, is two brothers, he has a younger brother named Lu Yunfeng, who died of tuberculosis for two years, leaving a daughter-in-law to be widowed at home, this daughter-in-law's surname is Wang, and she has not given birth to a boy and a half girl after marrying into the Lu family for a few years, I didn't expect this widow to have the idea of splitting the family, to divide the property of the Lu family equally, not to mention that the business of the Lu family is taken care of by the eldest brother Lu Yunlin, even if the family is separated, Lu Yunlin's son has just turned one year old, so it can't be divided equally, right? Lu Yunlin naturally refused, but as a result, he couldn't talk about it, so he quarreled, Lu Yunlin originally hired a middleman, and planned to divide one-third of the family property to this widow, but he didn't expect it!"
After this half an hour, there were still no customers patronizing, the owner simply sat down under Liu Laodao, Liu Laodao listened with his eyebrows, he had seen a lot of such things, "I guess I went to the county government to complain, right?"
"It's much more serious than the complaint! This Wang doesn't know how to hook up with a dog Taoist, oh no, Daoist, look at my mouth, I didn't scold you, it must be a fake Taoist." The shopkeeper knew that he was speechless, so he slapped himself in the mouth and looked at Liu Laodao embarrassedly.
Liu Laodao took a sip of tea and said lightly: "It's okay, cultivators, don't care about these, you say." ”
"She hooked up with a fake Taoist priest Zhou Qifeng, and the demon Dao didn't know how to cast a spell, so she framed and framed Lu Yunlin of being a White Lotus cult with the intention of rebelling! The governor Xiong Yi didn't care about it, and seized the Lu family, confiscated all the property, Lu Yunlin was sentenced to death, and the autumn queen "clicked" with a knife! The family was exiled to the Northwest Frontier! The widow was exempted!" The shopkeeper made a terrifying gesture of beheading.
"Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable, sins and sins. ”
"The Lu family is over like this, the matter is not over, when the Lu family had an accident last summer, there was an envoy to the Ministry of Labor Zhao Luxiang, who happened to be this Xintang people, I heard about it when I returned home to the province, and after returning to the north of Zhili, I wrote to impeach Xiong for harsh law enforcement and tyrannical villagers, alas, I didn't expect it, I didn't expect it!"
Liu Laodao drank a pot of tea, and didn't say anything about adding it, and the shopkeeper talked about the interest, and forgot about the business, and continued: " Lord Zhao is dedicated to the people, but who knows that Xiong has a deep foundation in the court, colluded with the eunuch Wang Jing, and took a bite back, and accused Zhao Luxiang of colluding with the White Lotus Sect, and the inside should be outside the alliance, with bad intentions, the emperor actually wrote an edict to dismiss Zhao Luxiang and escort him back to his hometown for interrogation, today, it is the day when the Xintang County Ya interrogated Zhao Luxiang Zhao, and the people of Xintang County have gone to the county Ya, if it wasn't for the sake of supporting the family, I would have gone too!"
After the shopkeeper finished speaking, he shook his head and sighed and went back to the stove to clean up, Liu Laodao didn't say a word, put the tea money on the table, got up and left.
"Master Dao, you go well, if you go to the county office, just go along the avenue. ”
Liu Laodao was depressed in his heart, thinking that people's hearts are not ancient nowadays, evil thoughts are repeated, resentment grows, and ghosts are flourishing, and demons are causing chaos, how can it not be caused by people's own evil?
A dog, walked for a long time, entered the county seat, Liu Laodao really walked towards the county office, before he arrived, he met a group of angry people halfway, scolding in his mouth, what kind of world, Lord Zhao will also be beheaded, and even his family will be exiled to Liangzhou Wei in the northwest!
Seeing this situation, Liu Laodao already knew it in his heart, stopped his steps, and read in his mouth: "Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable, the world is no longer askable." “
Liu Laodao sighed in his heart, turned his head and was about to go out of the city, when suddenly an old woman who looked like a wet nurse hurriedly ran behind her, passed by Liu Laodao, turned around and looked at Liu Laodao a few times, the old woman was sweaty, anxious, and full of hesitation.
The old woman was holding a child in her arms, tiger head, and was sleeping, she thought for a few seconds, and finally made up her mind, stepped forward and grabbed Liu Laodao's arm, and whispered: "Dao Chief, take a step to speak." ”
Liu Laodao and the old woman came to a secluded corner by the road, and as soon as they stood still, the old woman knelt down with a "plop" in her arms, and said: "Master, you are merciful, save the suffering, help me, save the child!"
Liu Laodao was taken aback, held the old woman's arm, and said, "Old donor, why is this so, but I have something to say!"
The old woman's nose was sore, she shed tears, and cried in a low voice: "I really have no choice, master, I see that your face is a kind person, I tell you the truth, I am Huang Fen, the nurse of Zhao Luxiang Zhao's family, this child is the youngest son of Zhao, now, the Zhao family has suffered this unexplained disaster, the adults want to be beheaded after the autumn, and the wives and grandmothers are going to be exiled to Liangzhou Wei, Gansu, thanks to me sneaking out in advance, if this child is exiled, how can there be a way to live? If the sky does not end the bloodline of Lord Zhao, we will recognize him and return to the sect in the future!"
Liu Laodao understands that this is a matter of life and death, if the East Window incident happens, according to the law of the Ming Dynasty, this old life will be taken in, but he glanced at the leprosy old dog squatting next to the road, his heart was hot, and he responded: "God has the virtue of a good life, Huang Shizhu, you can rest assured, the child is old and decayed, if someone from the Zhao family comes to find it in the future, you can go to Maoshan in Jurong County, Yingtianfu to find the old decay, the old decay is surnamed Liu, and the cheap name is Guquan!"
The nurse Huang Fen stood up and handed over the child to Liu Laodao, her heart was difficult to give up, she looked at the sleeping pink face a few times, and finally went with tears in her eyes.
Liu Laodao just held the child like this, and a leprosy old dog, standing in the corner, after a while, a team of officers and soldiers guarding a team of women, people passing by, the nurse Huang Fen was among them, there was a burst of scolding of officers and soldiers, men, women and children, people crying, frightening, unbearable to hear, the voice gradually distant, gradually disappeared.
The wind is still there.
Oh no, I forgot to ask the child's name, Liu Laodao secretly complained to himself, he only then looked at the child carefully, and found that the child was born with a strange face, quite a bone, and there were three hair spins on the top of the head, three spins on the top of the head, one in ten thousand.
He was shocked, he had a premonition, his hand reached into the swaddling clothes, and sure enough, he felt a mole on the child's back, and the stars were on his back.
There are three spins on the top of the head, and the stars are on the back, so strange that it is difficult to produce one out of tens of millions of people.
He pulled out his hand and rolled out a black stone from the child's swaddling clothes, the size of a quail egg, warm in color, not a vulgar thing, but an obsidian that followed Rahu's mortality, which could lead down the Nine Heavens Xuanlei and come out in distress to protect the Star King.
Although Liu Laodao didn't recognize this thing, he knew that it must be an ordinary stone, and grinned.
The ancestors of the past dynasties, there are successors to the Shangqing faction in Maoshan Mountain!
Child, in the name of stone, you can call it stone.
In the evening, in Xintang County, passers-by came and went to see a ragged clothes, carrying a bald broom on his shoulders, holding a baby in his arms, followed by an old dog of Laipi, in the vast twilight, hurried out of the city, in the crowd, the back of a person and a dog is so abrupt, so lonely, but the back is no longer rickety, and the shoulders are becoming more and more wide.