Chapter 3 The sound of rapping in the prayer hall
In the "humming" chanting of all Taoist children, Zhao Ran looked down one by one. At the beginning, he couldn't keep up with the recitation of the Taoist children at all, how to say, rather than calling the voices of the Taoist children "recitation", it is better to say "rap" to be more accurate, but this kind of "rap" ignores the change of rhythm, and rushes away with fast words.
Often Zhao Ran just opened his mouth to read two or three words, and others finished singing a precept, which made him very uncomfortable, the so-called "like a fish in the throat", he was so depressed that he wanted to shout, that is, "Don't vomit, don't be happy!" He peeked at Zhumeng beside him, but saw that Zhumeng's expression was calm, and he was much lighter than him between recitations.
couldn't help poking Zhu Meng's arm, Zhu Meng ignored him, Zhao Ran simply tugged at Zhu Meng's sleeve, Zhu Meng frowned and turned around, Zhao Ran opened his mouth and asked in a low voice: "Senior Brother Zhu, have you recited this precept before?"
Zhu threw him a roll of his eyes: "No, what do you mean?"
"How do you keep up with them when they read so fast?"
Zhu Meng was puzzled and said: "What a simple thing, just follow it." โ
"Why can't I keep up?"
"Just follow along, it's your problem that you can't keep up, why are you asking me? Do you need me to tell you why? That's your stupid. โ
Zhumeng's disdain made Zhao Ran feel deeply puzzled and ashamed, he looked each other up and down, and said in his heart, could this be the legendary "root bone"?
Since he couldn't keep up, Zhao Ran simply stopped following and carefully looked at the "Precepts and Norms" one by one. When he saw half of it, he suddenly heard a drum sound in the hall, but it was Liu Jingzhu who beat the wooden drum to show the end of the first time, and let everyone recite it a second time.
It turns out that this guy didn't sleep, but the "rap" of the Taoist boys is so vague, how can this guy distinguish clearly? Zhao Ran secretly slandered himself, anyway, he absolutely couldn't hear the Taoist boys spitting out words, let alone distinguish the beginning and the end.
After Zhao Ran finished reading the "Precept Norms", he suddenly realized that something was wrong. What is wrong? He actually memorized the whole book clearly, every sentence and every word came to his mind without missing a sentence from beginning to end!
Zhao Ran couldn't help but add a heartbeat, could this be the effect of the change in the fine rope last night? Could it be that he also has the so-called "qualifications"?
In the midst of recitation, Zhao Ran didn't have time to think about it for the time being, but because he memorized the entire "Precepts and Norms", he gradually followed up with the Taoist children. In fact, as long as he adjusts his breathing and recites in this way, the breath between his chest and abdomen will flow extremely smoothly, and he feels very refreshing.
While following the Taoist children humming and chirping, Zhao Ran observed that others had pinched the trick, so he also pretended to imitate Zhumeng beside him, and followed the trick. In fact, he didn't know that the Zhumeng he imitated had a wrong posture, this belonged to the content of the Taoist rituals, and the two of them hadn't had time to learn it yet.
The Taoist formula is a huge and complex system, which is mainly used in the fasting and dipping rituals, chanting mantras, stepping gangs, forming altars, summoning generals, qi forbidging, collecting evil spirits, curing diseases, praying and other links. Daomen believes that the human body and heaven and earth are secretly combined, and specific to the palm of the hand, you can also find the reflection of the stars and celestial phenomena. As stated in the Yin Fu Sutra, "the universe cares about the hand, and all incarnations are born in the body", so each hand represents a special meaning.
Of course, Zhao Ran didn't understand, but it didn't prevent him from pinching his "orchid finger" indiscriminately.
After the Taoist children recited the "Precept Norms" nine times, Liu Jingzhu sounded the gong to signal the end of the morning class, and the Taoist children left their seats one after another and rushed to the dining hall to enjoy breakfast.
Zhao Ran and Zhu Meng were stopped by Liu Jingzhu and explained to them the requirements for studying in the scripture hall. The scriptures are not taught on the spot, because each Taoist child has a different learning process and cannot be taught at the same time.
Some Taoist children are lazy and have not even read through the "Nanhua Sutra" for more than ten years; some Taoist children are more progressive, not only "Tao Te Zhenjing", "Nanhua Zhenjing", "Chongxu Zhide Zhenjing", "Laozi Xisheng Sutra", "Tongxuan Zhenjing", "Yellow Emperor Yin Fu Sutra", "Zhou Yi Shen Tong Deed", "Huangji Sutra", "Taixuan Sutra", "Baopuzi Immortal Sutra", "Taishang Huangting Inner Jing Jade Sutra", "Exterior Jade Sutra" have all been read, and even read a lot of annotations, sparse discussions, compilations, etc., and even "Supreme Huanglu Lent Licheng Yi" Most of these tomes have been flipped through. The learning of the Taoist children is very different, and the professors of the scripture hall cannot explain it at the same time.
Therefore, every morning class is to recite the Precepts nine times and then go to breakfast. In the early years, the Taoist children of Wuji Temple had to study on their own after breakfast, and then after dinner, they would go to the scripture hall to have evening classes and ask the professors of the scripture hall about the doubts and difficulties encountered in reading the scriptures. As for the reading of Taoist classics, it is necessary for Taoist children to use the time in the middle to consciously study.
Later, the time of the evening class was changed to after breakfast, the ostensible reason was that he was sober in the morning, but Zhao Ran did not hesitate to speculate maliciously, thinking that after such a change, in fact, he would have nothing to do after noon, and it would be convenient to do anything.
Liu Jingzhu asked Zhao Ran and Zhu Meng to study hard, and use their spare time to read books in the Tibetan Scripture Building, and strive to catch up with the progress of their homework as soon as possible.
After breakfast, return to the scripture hall and continue the day's homework, that is, "get up for the evening class". In the evening class, Jiang Gaogong came out to show his face, and then Liu Jingzhu and Chen Jingzhu sat in the hall and answered questions on the spot, among which Liu Jingzhu was responsible for answering questions about the precepts of scientific rituals, and Chen Jingzhu was responsible for explaining the subtle words in the scriptures.
The questions of the Taoist children made Zhao Ran confused, and the answers and doubts of Liu Jingzhu and Chen Jingzhu also made him completely incomprehensible, which is normal, he has only read the "Tao Te Ching" and a little "Lao Tzu Xianger Note", "Lao Tzu Xisheng Jing", and other scriptures have not been read, which belongs to the most basic level of learning.
As for Zhumeng, Zhao Ran felt that this guy shook his head and seemed to be listening to it with relish, but in fact he was quite suspicious of pretending to be coercive -- is it so magical to say that "root bones" are so magical? You are a newcomer like Lao Tzu, how can you understand if Lao Tzu can't understand it?
Judging from the table in the evening class, Zhao Ran quickly roughly distinguished the learning level of the Taoist children. Among them, the one named Ma Zhili studied the hardest, probably one out of every three questions was raised by him, and every time he answered his question, Liu Jingzhu and Chen Jingzhu took the longest time to answer.
The worst should be a young fat man and a skinny old man, Zhao Ran doesn't know the names and surnames of the two for the time being, the two of them sit on the futon without saying a word, and they seem to be nodding their heads as if they have a comprehension of the content of the answer, but in fact, they look carefully - Nima is dozing off!
When the evening class was over, Zhao Ran hurried back, ran back to his room first, closed the door curtain, blocked it with a stool, and then unbuckled his trouser belt and took it out again.
The rope was still dim, calm and unmoving, no matter how Zhao Ran tossed, there was no change. Zhao Ran thought about the situation yesterday, unfolded the curl, and came to the rope, but it was still useless. Zhao Ran looked at the entire volume carefully, and it didn't fall word from beginning to end, and it still didn't change.
Zhao Ran was very depressed and speechless, so he had to sew the cord into his belt again.
No need to sweep the toilet, no need to cook, Zhao Ran has a lot of time from today. The so-called return to his hometown, he has a different identity now, so he can't help but want to sรจ one or two.
First of all, I went to the small courtyard where the fireworkers lived in the clean room and the dormitory, and had a round of fart with the second brother Guan, and enjoyed the sycophants of the fireworkers; then I went to the guest hall to meet Yu Mentou, and called him "Senior Brother Yu" a few times very comfortably; and then I went to Song Zhiyuan's dormitory to meet "Senior Brother Song", and let Senior Brother Song clapped a few times on his shoulder and gave him a few words of encouragement.
In the end, he led the old donkey who was fostered in the trough house, went up to the back mountain to look at the mountain scenery of Wuji Mountain, roared loudly at the valley for a while, and then went to the green lawn by the pond where Zhang Laodao lived for half an hour, and then returned to the courtyard with great ambition.
Back in his house, Zhao Ran picked up the pen and began to write the letter, and after finishing writing, he deliberately left the sealed letter on his own bookcase in the hall - this letter is not busy sending it first, disgusting and disgusting Zhumeng!
Thank you Yangzhigang and Spicy Hand Urging Brother for the reward!
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