But it was said that in Wuxian Mountain, the sky had already darkened, and a little girl jumped out of the cave, it was Ruan Shuipei.

Ruan Shuipei took the painted statue of the door god and Zhong Kui to find Duanmu Kang, but there was no trace of Duanmu Kang, and only the lanterns that had been pasted on the ground were left. Ruan Shuipei picked up the lantern and played with it carefully, and then continued to look for Duanmu Kang.

In the end, I found Yasu Duanmu, who was doing glaive in the kitchen!

Ruan Shuipei smiled and showed the portrait to Duanmu Kang, Duanmu Kang said: "The painting is really decent." ”

Ruan Shuipei asked, "Why are the characters on these portraits so ugly?"

Duanmu Kang smiled: "You don't know this! It's really because it's ugly that you can exorcise ghosts and ward off evil spirits!"

Ruan Shuipei stuck out his tongue and made a grimace, saying, "This can also drive away ghosts and evil spirits, right?"

Duanmu Kang laughed, and then said: "Draw your appearance at this time and hang it at the head of the bed, you will definitely be able to drive away ghosts and evil spirits!" and said: "Don't mess around, go and call grandpa to the Five Immortal Cave to prepare for dinner, and then serve it over." ”

Ruan Shuipei jumped with a "hmm" and walked away with a smile.

After a short time, Ruan Shuipei helped to pick up the food, and when the two walked into the Five Immortals Cave with the food, Huang Sheng was already sitting next to Shi Zhuo waiting, and there were a few "firecrackers" on the stone table. The two of them set the meal out one by one.

Huang Sheng rubbed his hands and laughed, and said, "It's really like a New Year!" After saying that, I saw Ruan Shuipei suddenly turn his head and run out of the cave.

Huang Sheng said: "It's time to eat, where are you going?"

Ruan Shuipei replied: "Grandpa, I'll come as soon as I go, soon." Huang Shang stroked his beard, shook his head and smiled.

After a short time, Ruan Shuipei returned to the Five Immortals Cave and said proudly: "Grandpa, look, there are still these!"

Huang Sheng saw that it was a lantern and Zhong Kui was like a door god, and at that moment, he asked softly, "These are all made by the two of you?"

Ruan Shuipei nodded and replied, "Yes, the lanterns were made by Brother Duanmu, and I made these portraits." With that, he sat down with a smile.

Duanmu Kang said: "After eating, grandpa will write a peach talisman, and it will be almost complete." ”

Huang Shang said: "In that case, grandpa will go write a peach talisman and come back now, and you two will eat first." "With that, it's easy to get up and leave.

Ruan Shuipei held Huang Shang's arm and didn't let him get up, and said, "Grandpa, the pen, ink, paper, and inkstone are all ready, and they are all under this stone table!" Seeing that, Ruan Shuipei squatted down and took it out, and continued: "The paper on our mountain is not big, I used the pine oil left over from the firecracker paper tube to stick it together, and it must have dried up at this time." With that, stretch out the paper.

Duanmu Kang pushed the food aside to make room. Ruan Shuipei spread the paper on the table and grinded it. Huang Xiang pondered for a long time, but because he had not spent Chinese New Year's Eve for ten years, he couldn't think of new verses for a while.

Seeing this, Ruan Shuipei said, "Grandpa, can I go to the cave with Brother Duanmu to light a 'firecracker' to play first?" Huang Sheng said "um", and then admonished: "You guys be careful!" The two nodded in agreement.

Ruan Shuipei picked up a firecracker, Duanmu Kang picked up a piece of charcoal in the brazier, and walked out of the cave.

There was a "bang", sparks flew everywhere, and then the sound of the two laughing and playing. Huang Shang slowly wrote, "The firecrackers remove the old year, and the peach charm changes the new year in the mountain." Ruan Shuipei went into the cave again to get "firecrackers", and Huang Sheng said: "Don't play yet, ask your brother to come in for dinner." Ruan Shuipei shouted loudly, Duanmu Kang heard the sound and entered the cave.

Huang Sheng said with a smile: "A girl's family, you should be quiet, shout so loudly, who will marry you in the future?" Ruan Shuipei's cheeks were slightly red, she naturally knew that a woman was going to marry when she grew up, glanced at Duanmu Kang, and then looked at Huang Shang, and said: "Shui Pei is not married, and has been accompanying grandpa in the mountains." ”

Huang Shang smiled and said, "Yes, yes! My granddaughter will naturally not worry about getting married!" and said, "You two should sit down and eat!"

Ruan Shuipei looked at the peach talisman, read it out, and praised: "Grandpa writes so well!"

Huang Shang said: "This is not made up by grandpa himself, just two sentences are rewritten!"

Ruan Shuipei continued to ask, "Grandpa rewrote whose poems?"

Duanmu Kang preemptively said: "I know this!" Huang Sheng was a little surprised, put the food in his mouth, chewed and swallowed slowly, and said, "Akang, you read it and listen to it." ”

Duanmu Kang said: "In the sound of firecrackers, the spring breeze sends warmth into Tusu; Ruan Shuipei was also surprised, these few lines of poetry, grandpa never told her.

Huang Shang heard it and said, "It's these poems." And he said, "Ah Kang, where did you hear it? Do you know who wrote this poem?"

Duanmu Kang said: "My mother took me to open an inn in Bianjing for a while, and once after drinking with the appearance of a scholar, I mentioned poems on the wall, and these are the few sentences! ”

Ruan Shuipei interjected: "Presumably, this poem was made by that scholar!" Duanmu Kang nodded and said, "I think the same way." ”

Huang Sheng shook his head and said with a smile: "It must not be." ”

Ruan Shuipei and Duanmu Kang said in unison: "Who is that?"

Huang Shang put down the bamboo chopsticks in his hand and said, "The person who wrote this poem has been dead for many years. His name is Wang Anshi, the word Jiefu, the number is in the middle of the mountain, and he once worshiped the post of prime minister. ”

Ruan Shuipei sighed: "That's a big official above 10,000 people under one person." ”

Huang Shang said: "Yes, that person really has some real talents! I also admire him very much." It's just that he advocates a new deal, and I naturally can't agree with it!" He added: "Yuan Fengnian, grandpa, I got the first place in the Jinshi examination, and I also did an official position, he was engaged in the New Deal, so I naturally refused to have too much contact with him, but I can't offend him." Sure enough, three years later, the New Deal failed, and another year later, he died of depression. ”

Duanmu Kang said: "Jinshi first, isn't that the champion!"

Ruan Shuipei smiled "poof", almost squirting out of his mouth, and said vaguely: "Brother Duanmu, why are you like a lump of wood, isn't that Jinshidi the champion?"

Duanmu Kang touched his head and said with a smile: "It may be that poisonous gas attacked the heart, and I didn't react for a while." Ruan Shuipei made a gesture of disbelieving.

Ruan Shuipei continued to ask: "Grandpa, what about later!"

Huang Sheng sighed and said, "Later, grandpa continued to be an official, and then later, he came to Wuxian Mountain. "The speech was a bit perfunctory.

Ruan Shuipei knew that his grandfather didn't want to say it, so he didn't ask at the moment. After eating a few bites of food, he shouted Duanmu Kang to go out and paste peach charms. Huang Sheng hurriedly stopped and said, "Let's play later!" Shui Pei, you sit down first, and grandpa is busy combing your true anger. ”

Ruan Shuipei closed her eyes and sat cross-legged, Huang Sheng put her hands on her back, silently reciting the mantra, only to see Ruan Shuipei's cheeks rosy, as if hot, Duanmu Kang was still eating.

After a long time, Huang Shang withdrew his arms and pressed his knees lightly with his palms, breathing a long sigh of relief. Ruan Shuipei had already opened his eyes and said, "Grandpa, in fact, you don't have to spend your true qi like this every night, I feel that my illness has been cured." ”

Huang Shang said: "Okay, grandpa is free to separate, and it will be considered healed when the poisonous gas completely disappears in your body, and there is no trace of residue!" turned his head and said: "Ah Kang, from tomorrow, you also have to practice internal strength, you have received that Hongshan palm, the situation is different from Shui Pei, grandpa can't help you sort out the true qi, you have to rely on yourself to slowly dissolve the poisonous gas." ”

Duanmu Kang said "yes", Ruan Shuipei got up and picked up the peach talisman, and said, "Brother Duanmu, you take a few firecrackers, let's go play!" Duanmu Kang said, took the firecrackers and ran out.

Huang Sheng continued to eat in the cave, listening to the joyful laughter of the two children, and involuntarily remembered the past of his childhood, which had become a white-haired old man over the years, and sighed that life was too short, and how good it would be if he could live for a few more decades. But he himself knew that it was impossible, he had a few years to live, from the emperors and generals to the ordinary people, who didn't want to live him for another five hundred years. Xin said: "Humanity is 'old and afraid of death', it is true!" After thinking for a while, he got up and cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks, and also walked out of the hole.

Huang Sheng saw that the two were still playing, and said, "You two go back to the house to sleep!" Ruan Shuipei said: "Grandpa, I haven't played enough! Huang Shang said: "Children of ordinary people, keep the New Year without sleeping, you are different, your Brother Akang will have to rest tomorrow, and you have to rest well to have a good spirit." ”

Duanmu Kang touched his head and said, "Grandpa, I'm in good spirits! Sister Shui Pei and I lit these firecrackers and then went to rest, is it okay?"

Huang Shang said, "Okay, tomorrow morning, you will come to Lingyin Cave early to find grandpa." The two nodded in agreement and continued to play.

Although the children love to play, but their energy is also limited, it will not be long before the two of them go back to the house to sleep.

In the early morning of the next day, the two got up early as usual, and after patrolling the mountains with their livestock, they went to Lingyin Cave together, and Huang Shang had been waiting for a long time. After greeting him, Ruan Shuipei said, "Grandpa, what are you doing when you let the two of you come here early in the morning?"

Huang Shang said with a smile: "You forgot, I forgot that my grandfather said that Brother Akang should start practicing internal strength today!"

Ruan Shuipei also smiled and said, "Naturally, I won't forget this." ”

Huang Shang said: "The first day of the new year is a good start. He said, "Shui Pei, you will recite the first part of the mantra that your grandfather taught you to Brother Akang." ”

Ruan Shuipei recited the first article behind his hands, learning from his grandfather Huang Shang's usual reading:

"Qi sheng dantian, and then see it in the ruler house, and then there is a return to the light in the heart of heaven. But when he felt that the qi around him was long, he sat cross-legged and placed his arms in the Qiangong Palace. Pure thinking is flying, and the essence travels, like the ephemeral nature of mayflies, or the illusion of bubbles. It seems that there is no reality, moving like a galloping horse, taking Jinhua into gas, if there is a way to do nothing, gradually reaching infinitely. Quiet as a turtle's breath, meditation and inner observation of quiet, no desire and no thought, the spirit gallops through the nine skies, endless, and the expression is pleasant. Such as drunken bath, all over the body Yang and, Jinhua vomited, and then all the cheeks were quiet, and it seems that Haoyue was born in Zhongtian, the heart and body are open, and Jinhua is put. ”

Huang Shang asked, "Ah Kang, have you written it down?"

Duanmu Kang shook his head and said, "Ah Kang is stupid, he only remembers that 'pure thinking is flying, and the essence travels, like the ephemerality of mayflies, or the illusion of bubbles'. But the 'ruler house' that says inside

Tianxin'' Qiangong and so on, Ah Kang didn't understand what it was at all!" and said: "Grandpa, these words are really boring to memorize, can you teach me some actual combat moves to fight the enemy, then it's fun!"

Huang Shangdao touched Duanmu Kang's head and said: "Grandpa will get some moves in actual combat against the enemy, but if you don't have a deep internal strength as a foundation, even if you learn the best moves, it will be useless, and you will be defeated by the enemy." Brushing his long beard, he continued: "As the saying goes, 'if the foundation is not strong, the earth will shake the mountains', after you have achieved a certain amount of internal strength, you will also exert great power in your hands in ordinary moves." ”

Duanmu Kang seemed to understand, but he knew that since his grandfather said this, he must have his reasoning, so he nodded.

Huang Sheng continued: "Your sister Shuipei will write it all down after listening to it once. However, it is good to remember these few sentences. Shui Pei had read many books before memorizing these mantras, so it was not difficult to memorize them, and you didn't understand what the mantras said at all, and you naturally couldn't remember them all by rote. ”

Huang Sheng explained these mantras to Duanmu Kangyi one by one, and compared them with his skills. During this period, Ruan Shuipei had already written the first mantra he had just memorized on a piece of paper, handed it to Duanmu Kang, and then said: "Brother Duanmu, I wrote the mantra on it, and if you don't know the words, you can ask me." ”

Duanmu Kang was a little moved and said, "Thank you, sister." ”

Huang Shang smiled and said, "At first, I was worried that the two of you would be noisy together! And he said, "You two should practice together!"

Ruan Shuipei said: "Grandpa, I'm already proficient, so I don't need it, right?"

Huang Sheng pretended to be angry and said: "It's not enough to be proficient, you have to practice more, then you can grow." Besides, you will, but you haven't practiced yet. ”

Ruan Shuipei immediately understood, knowing that he was asking Brother Duanmu to practice, so he made a show at the moment and said, "Brother Akang, you follow my example and practice together." Huang Shang said: "You practice! Grandpa went out for a walk." Huang Shang walked away, and Ruan Shuipei taught Duanmu Kang to practice the first internal strength mantra like his grandfather knew about it.