Chapter 2 Prostration and Worship
"Three-element Qi Refining Method, I've said it a few times, what other method do you have?" Old Dao slapped the little Taoist on the head again.
"Yes, yes, the Three-Element Qi Refining Method. I remembered this time, so when did you pass it on to me, Master?"
"Let's wait for the old way to pick a good day. ”
"What day do you choose? I think it's better to choose a day than to hit the day, just today. Anyway, your old man is also full of food and drink, taking advantage of the good weather, lukewarm, and your old and current spirit is still full, just today. ”
Yunshan Lao Dao pondered for a moment, nodded and said, "It's okay, just today, it's not a big deal anyway." ”
Yunshan Lao Dao took a nap and got up, asked the little Taoist priest to set up the incense candles in the main hall, cleaned up himself, put on the new Taoist robe that had not been worn for decades, and also put on a gold silk Taoist crown on his head, and even put on a pair of brand-new gold silk buttoned cloud shoes on his feet, plus three long hairs under his chin, the overall look has a trace of fairy wind bones.
Put the melons and fruits, light the candles on the god case, and then light three sandalwoods, Yunshan Lao Dao knelt down on his knees in front of the statue, first bowed three times, and said: "The ancestor is on the top, the disciple worships on the top of Yunshan, and today's disciples accept apprentices, and recruit new ones for Shangqing Mountain, open branches and leaves, please take a look at the eyes of the ancestor and give blessings and luck to the disciples of Yunshan." ”
The old Taoist of Yunshan knelt three times and kowtowed, and then waved his hand at the little Taoist priest standing behind him, and said, "Come here, kowtow to the ancestor and incense." ”
The little Taoist priest knelt down three times and knocked nine times according to his words, inserted sandalwood into the incense burner, turned his head to look at Yunshan Lao Dao: "Master, this is the end?"
"What's the end? You haven't apprenticed yet!"
"Aren't you my master, and who else do I worship?"
"When have you ever bowed to the teacher? Have you kowtowed? Have you ever given a salute to the teacher? I used to let you scream nonsense, but now you are playing seriously, can it be the same? Hurry up and roll over and kowtow to me for tea. Yunshan Lao Dao sat on the chair next to the god case and waved his hand to the little Taoist.
The little Taoist priest scratched his head, walked to Yunshan Old Dao and knelt down, and asked, "Master, how many heads do you kowtow?"
"Nine. ”
The little Taoist priest stopped talking, kowtowed nine times in a row, and then looked directly at the old Taoist of Yunshan.
Yunshan Lao Dao coughed lightly and said: "It's been a year and three months since I brought you back, this, this, Master, I'm a little lazy, and I haven't asked you what your surname is, where you come from, and today is also an official apprenticeship, so you tell Master, what is your name and where are you from?"
The little Taoist priest lowered his head and thought for a while, looked at Yunshan Old Dao and said, "Master, do you want to listen to the truth or lie?"
Yunshan Lao Dao raised his leg and gently kicked the little Taoist priest's shoulder, and scolded with a smile: "You little bastard, of course you listen to the truth, am I still letting you lie to me?"
The little Taoist priest smiled and said, "Then I'll tell the truth, don't be scared of your old man." Your old man has already guessed that I am reborn, you guessed correctly, the disciple is indeed reborn, but the disciple was not in this world in his previous life, but on the earth, a planet in our world. ”
"Earth?planet?" Yunshan Old Dao interrupted the little Taoist: "What earth?"
"It's a planet in the universe, and our planet is called Earth. ”
"The universe, is your planet in the universe, do you know where the earth is?"
The little Taoist priest rolled his eyes: "Master, I woke up and I am here, how do I know where the earth is?
Yunshan Lao Dao sneered and said, "You say, you say, Master, I just listen." ”
The little Taoist priest said, "Then I'll continue, don't intervene anymore." ”
Yunshan Lao Dao glared: "Say yours, where is so much nonsense!"
"Well, I continued. My apprentice was called Zhang Zhezhi in my previous life, and he was the leader of the Tiger Roaring Hall in San Francisco in Fuqing Gang, and there were three or four thousand brothers under him, and there were two ways in black and white in the entire San Francisco, which one dared not give me face? At that time, your apprentice and I were surrounded by countless luxury cars, surrounded by beautiful women, bright lights, and singing every night. ”
As he spoke, Zhang Zhe stood up unconsciously, waved his arms, and his voice became more and more impassioned: "I joined the Fuqing Gang at the age of fourteen, starting from the little brother who parked, and all the way to carry the handle, which was also fought by the sea of blood in the sword mountain." I remember that when I first cut people, I was only fifteen years old, and I slashed with three ghost guys with big shoulders and round waists, and Lao Tzu chased them with a machete, and I was stunned to cut two and cut one away. Lao Tzu's first scar was left on that time, on the back, the biggest one, don't believe it, you see. ”
Zhang Zhezhi pulled up his clothes with his backhand, exposing his back to Yunshan Lao Dao. Yunshan Lao Dao kicked him into a somersault and scolded: "What do you see? You have been reborn, where are the scars?"
"Yes, I've died once, how can I have any scars!" Zhang Zhe smiled wryly, hurriedly put down his clothes, and continued: "But seriously, I was really a handle in my last life, so I don't need to lie to you." ”
Yunshan Lao Dao said with a smile: "I don't know what you said about carrying the handle, even if you lie to me, I don't know whether it's true or not, and don't say this, you bring a cup of tea, give tea to the master, and our apprenticeship will be completed." ”
Zhang Philosopher hurriedly poured a cup of tea, knelt down in front of Yunshan Lao Dao, raised the teacup above his head with both hands, and said respectfully: "Master, please drink tea." He is still very familiar with this apprenticeship process, which is no different from him worshipping the master in the hall.
Yunshan Lao Dao took the tea, took a sip, put it on the god case, stroked his beard and said: "Since you worship in Shangqing Mountain, Master I should also give you a Taoist name, according to the rules of the sect, to your generation, it should be the Haizi generation, I think you are called Haiming, the moon rises on the sea, well, what a good artistic conception, not bad." ”
"Thank you Master for your name. Zhang Zhezhi kowtowed to Yunshan Lao Dao.
Yun Shan Lao Dao smiled: "Okay, you get up." ”
Zhang Zhezhi stood up, flicked the ash on his knees, and asked Yun Shan Lao Dao with a smile: "Master, I have also finished worshipping the master, don't you have any gifts for my disciple?"
Yunshan Lao Dao patted his head and said suddenly: "Yes, how did I forget this link, hehe, I'm ashamed, I'm ashamed, it's the first time I accepted disciples, and I forgot this rule for a while." ”
Zhang Zhe listened to Yunshan Lao Dao's self-talk, and was secretly happy in his heart: "I don't know what kind of apprenticeship the old Taoist can give, it is best to be the kind of treasure that can fly under my feet or something, I have never tried what it is like to fly in the sky." I was thinking about it in my heart, but I heard Yunshan Lao Tao say: "You can go down the mountain and weigh three catties of meat for Master and me in a while, and then bring five catties of wine, which will be regarded as your apprenticeship." ”
Zhang Zhe was stunned for a moment: "Master, are you mistaken, didn't you give me a gift?
Yunshan Lao Dao shouted: "Nonsense, how can there be a disciple to apprentice, the master wants to give a gift to the disciple?
"That's the rule we have there!"
"Where are you guys? Are you embarrassed to say, where are you now? This is Nanfeng County of the Eastern Qin Kingdom of the Nanyun Continent, do you know? It's not where you are. When you get to the land of the old way, you have to follow the rules of the old way. Why? You don't want to be my disciple anymore, do you?"
Zhang Zhe looked at the thunderous Yunshan Old Dao, and said timidly: "Okay, whatever you say is what you say." But, Master, I don't have any money, so what will I use to buy wine and meat for your old man?"
Yunshan Lao Dao sneered and said: "Boy, you don't play tricks with me, in the past year or so, every time you are asked to buy wine and meat, have you not missed a penny? Why is the wine you bought for me so bland? Do you think I don't know what's going on? How much water do you say you poured into the wine? Don't talk nonsense, hurry up and buy me wine and meat to pay respect, tell you, if you mix water into the wine this time, see how I clean you up, and you will be dealt with according to the door rules!"
Zhang Philosophy shrank his head and said, "Master, what if you follow the rules of the door?"
Yunshan Lao Dao smiled gloomily: "Bullying the teacher, whip ninety." ”
"Okay, disciple, I'm going to buy wine and meat to honor Master. ”
Zhang Zhezhi is also helpless to worship such a master, who let himself cross over here? For more than a year, he has a very good understanding of the character of Yunshan Lao Dao, that is, a scoundrel-style lazy old man, if he can not move, he will not move, if he can sit, he will not stand, if he can lie down, he will not sit, as long as he has something to eat, he will never think about whether he will be hungry tomorrow. From the body of Yunshan Lao Dao, he saw what it was to have wine in the present dynasty, drunk in the present dynasty, and free and easy to exchange without wine in the Ming Dynasty.
It is not very far from the Taoist temple to the town, and with the footsteps of Zhang Philosophy, you can walk back and forth in two hours. Carrying the wine gourd, he wandered all the way to the town, and he was still wondering how much wine he could buy with the copper in his pocket, and how much he could have left. The habit has been formed, and every time the money is handed over, I feel itchy if I don't leave two.
From the hundreds of millions of net worth in the previous life, the life was extravagant, and the destitute to the current precarious, ragged clothes, this gap is still difficult to accept for a while, even if he has been in this world for more than a year, he still often returns to the original world in his dreams, reminiscing about the life of that life, and even often dreams of his parents who hate him but not steel. Although he has changed from thirty-six years old to seven or eight years old, he is young, but the arbitrariness of leading thousands of people is no longer there, and this kind of gain and loss cannot be measured.
He knew that this world was full of magic, and countless scenes that could only appear in fantasy before existed in this world. He had seen the old road of Yunshan come out of his fingers and light the firewood, and he had also seen the old road of Yunshan float up more than ten feet out of thin air to pick wild fruits on the cliff. He believed that this was not the so-called magic of the original world, and that it was all true, and for this he bit his hand countless times, all of which finally proved that he was not in a dream.