Chapter 45: The Patriarch's Courtyard
"Wang Fu, what did you do when you came up to the mountain?"
"Back to the old immortals, the villagers of Qinghe Town, thank the immortals for their life-saving grace in Woniu Mountain, and pooled money to make two plaques, and asked Xiaomin to send them to the immortals. ”
Kong Ming Zhenren glanced behind Wang Fu, and sure enough, there were still a few croppers carrying two plaques, which were also covered with red cloths. Wang Fu turned around and beckoned a few people to lift the red cloth, only to see that the two plaques were inlaid with the words "Liuyang Holy Immortal" and "Helping the World to Subdue Demons".
The four real people in the main hall, you look at me, I look at you, they can't cry or laugh. The people of Qinghe Town don't understand the cultivation realm, and they treat them as gentry in the countryside and the land in the temple, and what kind of plaques do they give. It's just a matter of sending a plaque, these two plaques are inlaid with gold characters on the bottom of the plaque, which is very gaudy, how can there be a trace of immortal bearing, and these two plaques are hung on the lintel, wouldn't it make the fellow Daoists in the cultivation world laugh? Not to mention the tall hat of "Six Yang Holy Immortals, Helping the World and Subduing Demons", the monks of the Qingxu Sect can't afford it.
"It is the duty of my generation of monks to protect the common people, and it should be so, and it is not worthy of such false praise. ”
"Deserved, deserved! The immortal masters raised their hands to save us!" Wang Fu kowtowed to the four real people again and again, and finally turned to He Weiji, who was kneeling aside, and kowtowed, "And this immortal, Xiaomin was caught by a monster, thanks to you sacrificing your life to save you, Xiaomin is difficult to repay a great favor as a cow and a horse!"
"Shopkeeper Wang, please get up quickly!" He Weiji was about to be punished by the door rules now, but Wang Fu kowtowed to himself in front of the whole sect, which made him so embarrassed.
"He Weiji, is this the person you rescued from breaking into the Nine Qu Cave Heaven?"
He Weiji hurriedly kowtowed and said, "Back to the master, yes." ”
"Senior Brother Kongji, although He Weiji disobeyed the head of the sect and acted recklessly, his intention was to save people, and people were also rescued. Thinking of his kindness, why should he be punished so heavily?" Xuan Jing Zhenren persuaded.
Kongji Zhenren didn't buy it, and still reprimanded sharply: "The heart of saving people is good, but you can save one person and put the safety of the whole sect at risk, and in order to save one person, the big disciple of my Qingxu Sect almost died, what is this? The road of cultivation is thousands of miles, and I don't know how many difficulties and obstacles there are on the road, if all the monks of my generation act impulsively and recklessly like you, then what kind of Tao do you cultivate, what kind of immortal do you become?"
"Senior Brother Kongji!" Kong Ming Zhenren shouted, "There are still outsiders watching." ”
Wang Fu and several other people in Qinghe Town were a little at a loss, and they didn't know which words made the immortals unhappy, so they were angry in the hall, so they had to kowtow on the spot like pounding garlic. Seeing this, Kong Ming Zhenren smiled bitterly and said: "Everyone has worked hard to send a plaque to my Qingxu Sect, and Poor Dao has thanked me here." It's just that today is the great ceremony in my door, if there is nothing else, please go down the mountain. Choose wood, send off!"
Long Zemu said goodbye, and took a few people down the mountain. And those two plaques, naturally, will not be hung out, so that the outer disciples will send them to the warehouse.
After arranging all the matters, Kong Ming Zhenren turned back to He Weiji's punishment: "Senior Brother Kongji, in the end, my generation of monks still has to protect the common people and support the righteous path. Senior Brother Xuanyi is willing to sacrifice for the people of Qinghe Town, why is he willing to break into the Great Demon Cave Mansion to save mortals, although it is reckless, but it is not wrong. ”
Seeing that the real people of Kongming carried out all the sacrificed Xuanyi real people, the real people of Kongji were speechless.
"He has merit in saving people, he has merit in handing in rare and exotic grasses, and he has acted in disobedience, although he has not been worthy, but he is thinking of his bare heart, it is better to punish him to clean the patriarch's courtyard and patriarch's tomb every day, and he must not slack off. Senior Brother Kongji, what do you think of this?"
The real person of the sky nodded in acquiescence.
"All things are done, so let the meeting be dismissed. Clear and self-controlled, heaven and earth will last for a long time!"
"Clear and self-controlled, heaven and earth will last for a long time!" all the disciples saluted in unison, signaling the end of the sect conference.
When He Weiji withdrew from the main hall, he glanced at her when he saw Ye Yushi.
He Weiji suddenly realized that he went to the Jiuqu Cave to save people, which was something that everyone knew, but the Wang Fu who was rescued was only recognized by Ye Yushi. Ye Yushi must have gone to Qinghe Town in the past few days when he was in a coma and found Wang Fu. Previously, she and herself had saved Wang Fu's life under the hands of the Broken Soul Son, and when she saw the benefactor who saved the people, she must have responded to her request, not to mention that Ye Yushi's request was nothing, most of them just asked them to go up the mountain to ask for a favor for He Weiji. As for the two plaques sent, they were probably Wang Fu's own idea.
Thinking of this, He Weiji's heart warmed, and he returned a smile to Ye Yushi to thank her, but she had already returned to leave with Kong Ming Zhenren at the moment, and she didn't see it.
received a broom from the precept hall, and He Weiji came all the way to the back mountain.
The back mountain of the entire Liuyang Mountain is lush and lush with vegetation, among which there is a bamboo forest, quiet and deep, and a bluestone path winds through it. 1,800 years ago, the founder of the Qingxu Sect, Yue Chang, left the clouds to travel here, saw that the mountains and rivers here are beautiful and there are no fireworks, so he settled here to meditate, and later opened the sect to preach, so that there is a Qingxu Taoist system continuously.
After the failure of the patriarch of Changli, his clothes and sword weapons were buried in the back mountain, and he rode the wind with a sword before his death, and the loess was three feet after his death, which was embarrassing. Within a radius of three miles around the tomb of the patriarch, the ancestors of the Qingxu dynasties were also buried, which belonged to the forbidden land of the Qingxu Sect.
Although He Weiji was only punished for cleaning the patriarch's courtyard and patriarch's tomb every day, in fact, he couldn't go back to his quiet room, and he had to live in the back mountain all this time. But fortunately, I didn't think about it on the wall, and I was still able to walk freely.
"Boy, the place chosen by the ancestor of your sect is not bad. The ancestor saw that this place was very quiet, and it was indeed suitable for the days of the sideburns meditation couch. ”
He Weiji smiled dumbly. "Old Ancestor, when did you pick up the text too?"
Wu unruly scolded: "Noise! The ancestor can't write, can't he learn a few words from the old master!"
He Weiji ignored him, picked up a broom, and began to sweep the fallen leaves on the road. He Weiji swept and talked to himself while being uninhibited, praising the beautiful scenery here for a while, and for a while he Weiji's cultivation was too low, and for a while he began to inquire about the life and deeds of the patriarch. He Weiji was really tired of listening, so he stopped and said to Wu Buru: "Ancestor, are you finished?"
Wu Buru sighed: "This ghost place, dark and impermeable, Ancestor I can't get out now, and I can't sleep." You kid doesn't chat with the ancestor, the ancestor and I'm really bored!"
"Ancestor, you can stop for a while, wait until I finish sweeping the fallen leaves on this road, go to the patriarch's courtyard, sit down and chat with you again, okay?"
The uninhibited and witty shut up.
Walking along the path through the bamboo forest, there is a small open area in front of you, with a small courtyard and a bamboo house in the courtyard. It is the place where Yue Changli first lived in seclusion and practiced in seclusion, and later generations called it "Patriarch's Courtyard". He Weiji came here for the first time, and at this time, with a bit of a pilgrimage-like mood, he slowly pushed open the courtyard door and walked in. Every step he took, he had to carefully look at the grass and trees around him, for fear of missing something.
However, this is indeed an ordinary courtyard, with no formations, no mechanisms, and no unusual arrangements.
The only thing that stands out is the painting hanging in the bamboo house, one stroke at a time like a breeze and flowing water, Jian Yuan is peaceful and chic and indifferent. There are not many words, only eight, which is "pure and self-controlled, heaven and earth for a long time"
These eight words are often hung on the lips of Qingxu disciples, and the original source is the word of Changli Patriarch, which is also the most spoken sentence taught by Changli Patriarch before his death, which can be described as the most important ancestral teaching of Qingxu Sect. He Weiji, like other disciples, also recited this sentence from time to time, and its surface meaning is not difficult to understand, which is nothing more than saying that the path of cultivation must be clear and indifferent, and it is necessary to cultivate one's self-cultivation and introverted edge, so that the avenue of enlightenment can be realized for a long time.
But with He Weiji's understanding of the life of Master Zu, and his series of behaviors after coming to the Ruogu League, he is really sorry for the words "pure and self-controlled".