The entrance hall is broken, the temple door is hidden, and it seems that the incense is not in its prime. It's just that the cleaning in front of the door is quite clean, and looking inside from the door, it also has a bit of Taoist fantasy.

I was in a state of flux, afraid that if I went in, I would meet the master. It has grown in one place for more than ten years, and no matter how dilapidated it is, it is also a home. Standing at the door, but not daring to step in easily.

Xu Qianxue noticed that my expression was wrong and asked, "Brother Duan, what's wrong with you?"

"Well, it's okay, I just thought of an old man. I said.

I thought about it for a long time, but I decided to go in and have a look. It's always a pleasure to go home.

Entering the temple gate, it was indeed enshrined in the "Sanqing Master", not the Buddha. This Sanqing master is quite the same as what I saw in the secret room in the mountain behind the Mo family, with the appearance of fairy wind and bones, but the temple is more blackened by smoke and fire. The hall is very dark, and it seems that it is not often cleaned, and there are some cobwebs on the head of the Emperor Zhenwu.

When we came to the backyard, I was stunned for a moment, on the right side of the entrance hall was a "ginkgo tree", under which there was a stone table, and next to the table were several stone benches. When I was a child, my master taught me to read and play chess here. Facing the back door of the main hall are three broken earth houses, the roofs of which are broken and tiled, and covered with thatch, presumably because of the leakage of wind and water. On the left side is a big house, which enshrines the gods such as the son Niangniang, the master is here, often fooling some pilgrims to tell fortunes and divination, but also to cheat some incense money.

Behind the entire temple is the lush Jungnam Mountain Range, high mountains and deep valleys. So in winter, there is no shelter on all sides, and the cold wind is biting, which is quite difficult. I had no choice but to close the temple door with my master, go to the mountains to cut down some trees, burn them into charcoal, and light them in the earthen brazier to keep out the cold. Sometimes if you burn too much, you will take it down the mountain to sell, and when you are lucky, some dignitaries usually buy it at once, which is also a good annual income. If this is the case, the master will usually buy me a new set of clothes and prepare them for the New Year.

The wax moon is followed by the New Year.

The master often said that the New Year is the child.

I gradually grew up, and in the cold season, I followed him to Chang'an City below the mountain to sell charcoal, usually in the middle of the night, walking more than 100 miles of mountain roads, and then rushing back at night. I was familiar with that night road, and I usually knew where there were potholes and where I would get lost. It's just that sometimes I hear the sound of a wolf standing on a high place and howling at the moon, and I am very scared, and I always unconsciously get close to the master.

The master said, "Don't be afraid, we have a knife." ”

This sentence has been said for more than ten years. Once, in the winter when I was about twelve years old, I did meet a wolf, which was black, and in the night only its eyes glowed bright yellow, like two lanterns. I was already practicing knives, and I drew my knives at that time.

"Don't be afraid, I have a knife. I shivered, comforting myself.

I thought that the master would also draw a knife, kill it with a loud shout, and cut the wolf into meat filling. Unexpectedly, the master held down my knife, he took out a piece of steamed bread from his arms and threw it over, saying, "You're hungry too, eat quickly." "The wolf ate the steamed buns and left, and then I knew for the first time that the wolves also came to eat steamed buns.

The master said that wolves are all social animals, and there are often more than a dozen of them when they come out. But if a wolf comes out in the winter, it must be hungry. When people are hungry, they have to think about it, wolves are also a life, there is no difference between high and low in this world, and people are not more noble than pigs and dogs.

Of course, I don't seem to understand.

When I went down the mountain, I saw that some people were very pitiful, and the master would also give some food. Seeing those dignitaries coming, the master will also accompany the smiling face, saying: "Your boss is rich and noble, and you look like a rich and immortal!" Of course, there are some unsatisfactory things, once selling charcoal and house peace charms on the street, the master is lying on the ground to draw talismans, but a dog pounces on the master to bite the master, of course it does not hurt the master. But the cartridge was knocked over and the dog's hair was dirty. The mother-in-law who had a dog was reluctant and scolded my master vigorously. The master reasoned with her for a few words, and a few strong men came to grab the master and punched and kicked him.

I couldn't see it, so I pulled out the big knife, and when the gangsters saw that there was a knife, they all ran away. But the charcoal was shattered, and the talisman was not torn into waste paper. That winter, I didn't have any new clothes.

The master said, "Don't use the knife casually, there is not so much hatred." ”

I said, "Then you won't fight back when they beat you?"

The master smiled and said, "I am very good at martial arts, and I am not afraid of being beaten by a few little thieves!" But when I went back at night, I saw that he smeared the medicinal wine on his body, and he grinned in pain.

The next year, I went down the mountain.

Today, in this chaotic era at the end of the Han Dynasty, he has returned to the Quanzhen Sect. Every grass and tree is what I used to be familiar with, although there are some changes, but the pattern has not changed.

I stood in the courtyard and thought like a spring, and the past was vivid. At this time, I heard a violent coughing sound from the room on the left, apparently someone.

I blurted out "Master!" and ran away.

Entering the door of the main hall on the left, an old man was wiping ashes inside, and the ashes in the incense burner had overflowed, but he only wiped the table, as if he had not seen the incense burner at all.

That's not a master.

He was an old man with a white beard, with a bald patch on the top of his head, and the white hair on both sides was spread down to the middle of his neck. He bent his waist, his eyes were already misty, he picked up the cloth in his hand, and moved tremblingly.

I stood at the gate and watched him for a long time, but he still didn't notice me. For some reason, I couldn't stop crying, I wiped my tears and stepped forward. "Dao Chief, do you know a person named Duan Fu?"

The old Taoist priest was obviously startled, put his right hand on his ear, and asked, "Who?"

"Duan Fude!" I shouted in his ear.

The old Taoist priest jumped suddenly and said, "Why are you so loud?"

"You're not deaf?"

"Who said I was deaf?" said the old Taoist priest angrily.

"Well, then you know ......" I wanted to ask again.

"Duan Fude, right?" Lao Dao took over and said, "Of course I know. ”

I suddenly became excited, could it be that the master also used the Big Dipper Seven Star Array to cross over? I grabbed Lao Dao with both hands and asked, "Where is he?"

The old Taoist priest broke free of my hands and said, "I am......! What are you looking for from me?"

I looked this elderly Taoist priest up and down, and no matter how I looked at it, I didn't have the slightest appearance of the master Yushu in the wind.

"Are you really a Fude?" I said, surprised.

"It's the poor road. The old Taoist priest looked at me and said, "Donor, do you want to be rich or noble?"

I was stunned and said, "Ask for both!"

The old Taoist priest said, "Come here." ”

Xu Qianxue and I sat down and wrote the eight characters of birth in the dust of the table. The old Taoist priest bluffed, looked at it for a long time, and then pinched it with his fingers, and then said: "Looking at your appearance and eight characters, you are rich and noble." But fate is unfortunate, and life will inevitably have ups and downs......"

I laughed secretly in my heart: "None of what the old Taoist priest said is true, when he encounters a living person, he naturally has to ask a few questions, and he will naturally say that the house is dangerous and so on, which will inevitably make people lose money and avoid disasters." ”

"What's going on and down?" I asked. Since you're here, you have to cooperate.

The old Taoist priest stroked his beard, looked sad, and said, "Donor, I just pinched my fingers, this hexagram is extremely dangerous. Was...... Although you will succeed, ten thousand people will become graves and dry bones!"

I pretended to be shocked and said, "How is that good, is there a way to crack it?"

"Well," the old Taoist priest calculated for a while, and said, "Of course there is a way...... Just ......"

I smiled in my heart, and sure enough, serious things came.

He took out two taels of silver from his pocket and threw them on the table.

The old Taoist priest's eyes suddenly shone brightly, but instead of looking at the silver, he looked at me. Then he said, "It's just...... You are not of this world, but you must return to that world. ”

I was suddenly startled, and subconsciously "brushed" and pulled out the treasure knife, shouting: "Who are you?"

The old Taoist priest laughed, he no longer had the bald aura just now, his back straightened, and he said lightly: "You are finally here." ”