Chapter 32: The Yin Rune Sutra
"Uncle Shi, you said that the immortal Dao legend is about to be finished?" Liu Shenwei was stunned and asked with some surprise.
At this time, there were two patients in the medical hall, and they were both shocked when they heard this: "Daoist Xuanqing, you are an immortal who has passed on the Tao, and you are really going to finish speaking?"
"Yes, Daoist Xuanqing, why is it so soon?"
Zhang Xuanqing smiled at the three of them: "Shenwei, Uncle Liu, Aunt Wang, you don't have to be surprised, the immortal of the poor Dao has been preaching for more than two months, how can you continue to talk about it every day." ”
After more than two months of life, Zhang Xuanqing also met a lot of people in Huayuan County, just like Uncle Liu and Aunt Wang in front of him, they are all neighbors, and they run to this Jishitang with a little backache and leg pain.
Uncle Liu said with regret on his face: "Speaking of which, Xiao Lao'er has never heard the Taoist lecture with his own ears, and he has always heard people repeat it." There are also some handbooks written by the sons and brothers from memory, and some people buy them and preach them in other places, but the content is much inferior to what the Taoist chief said himself. Originally, Xiao Lao'er still thought that if he had time, he must go to the drunken incense building to listen to the Taoist chief talk to himself, but he didn't expect the Taoist chief to finish speaking. ”
"Yes, Dao Chief. Aunt Wang also said: "The drunken incense building has become more and more difficult to enter since the head of the road, and even if you have money, you can't buy a seat." The old body, like Brother Liu, has never heard the Taoist chief speak in person, but when he went to other teahouses, he heard other gentlemen talk about it, but it was a big difference. I wonder if I'll talk about the next one after I've finished talking about this book?"
In the past two months, a new profession has emerged in Huayuan County, that is, a storyteller, who usually listens to the stories told by Zhang Xuanqing and goes to other places to retell them. Or spend money to buy scholars, let them listen to stories, write books and sell them. But in any case, people's memory is limited, which is definitely different from what Zhang Xuanqing originally said.
Zhang Xuanqing laughed when he heard this: "But I want to disappoint Aunt Wang, this immortal Dao is finished, but the poor Dao has to rest for a while." ”
As he became more and more famous in Huayuan County, more and more people came to seek the Tao, although there was no trouble yet, some troubles were inevitable, so Zhang Xuanqing no longer planned to tell the story.
People are afraid of being famous, pigs are afraid of being strong, big trees will inevitably attract wind, and trouble will inevitably follow when they are famous.
Although he hasn't had any major trouble coming to the door now, it is also because of the discussion he had with Master Ci'en two months ago that he has deterred a lot of ulterior motives. But if he doesn't know how to converge anymore, maybe someone will step on him as a stepping stone one day.
Originally, Zhang Xuanqing also planned to continue to talk about the Dan Sutra after finishing the book, so that the famous Taoist priests could help him distinguish the authenticity of each Dan Sutra, but those Taoist priests really disappointed him.
I don't know if it's because he's too famous, or if those famous Taoist priests are all ordinary people. In short, when discussing the Tao with those Taoist priests, those Taoist priests treat everything he tells him as classics, even if he occasionally has questions, he can answer them casually, and it is better to discuss the Tao with Sun Simiao alone.
At the beginning, Zhang Xuanqing still had the idea of "learning from the old and learning the new", but now that so much time has passed, everything that should be warm is warm, and everything that should be known is known, and the remaining Taoist priests are of little help to him, and he is too lazy to talk to those Taoist priests anymore.
After talking casually with Uncle Liu and Aunt Wang for a while, and sending the two away, Zhang Xuanqing said hello to Liu Shenwei and asked Liu Shenwei to take care of his family in the hospital now, and he went to Zuixiang Building.
Came to Zuixianglou, at this time Zuixianglou was full of friends, there were merchants, Confucian scholars, and sons, but more of them were Taoist priests wearing Taoist robes, accounting for almost half of the number of people in Zuixianglou.
As Zhang Xuanqing walked into the door, the people who were noisy before suddenly fell silent, and then they got up one after another and greeted Zhang Xuanqing: "Daochang Zhang is here?"
"Xuan Qing Zhenren, take a seat quickly. ”
"Daoist Ziyang, I don't know what I'm going to talk about today?"
"Daoist Mitoyo, there are still some doubts about the small path you preached yesterday, I wonder if I can ask you for advice?"
There are all kinds of names.
Zhang Xuanqing nodded with a smile at everyone, walked to his "special seat", responded with a smile, and waited for him to sit on the seat, at the end of the wine cup, the scene became quiet again.
Over the past two months, everyone has developed a habit. Before Zhang Xuanqing lectured, he didn't talk nonsense at all, and he started talking directly. Only when he finishes speaking, will he talk to everyone about two idle sentences and say a piece of Danjing.
Sure enough, as soon as Zhang Xuanqing sat down, he picked up the startling wood and patted it, followed by a set poem: "Storytelling, singing, and persuading people, the three avenues go to the center." Good and evil will be rewarded in the end, and the right way in the world is the vicissitudes of life. After a moment's pause, he said, "The last book talked about ......."
In the last book, I talked about the ninety-eighth chapter of Journey to the West: The ape is familiar with the horse and the tame is out of the shell, and the success is full of truth. Let's talk about it today, that is, after the ninety-nine counts, the three or three lines are full of ways to return to the roots, and then go back to the eastern land, the five saints come true, and the journey to the west is over.
Because of this time and space, Xuanzang has not yet traveled west, and it is the Tang Dynasty, and Li Shimin has not yet become an emperor. When Zhang Xuanqing talked about Journey to the West, he didn't talk about Xuanzang, he only talked about a certain monk, he didn't talk about Li Shimin, he only talked about a certain generation of emperors. However, Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie, and Sha Monk spoke really and sincerely, as if they really existed.
It is precisely because some plots need to be deleted and modified that Zhang Xuanqing was able to finish the "bound edition" of the two novels of Romance of the Gods and Journey to the West in more than two months.
At this time, people already knew that the "West Niu Hezhou" mentioned by Zhang Xuanqing before was the Western Buddha land, and they felt more and more unfathomable about Zhang Xuanqing's identity and origin.
Soon, Zhang Xuanqing finished the last chapter of Journey to the West, and before he could take a breath, someone asked aloud: "Daoist Xuanqing, then the two Venerables Ah Ao and Jia Ye asked Wukong's master and apprentice for personnel, what is there to say about this?"
"That's it, not to mention how shameless Ah Tai and Jia Ye are, the Taoist chief has obtained the Taoist teaching, which is clearly about the secret method of cultivation, and I also ask the Taoist to solve our doubts!"
Journey to the West has the title of the book of practice, which hides a lot of key points of cultivation, which have been excavated by Taoists one by one at this time, and with Zhang Xuanqing's Danjing, everyone feels unfathomable, otherwise there would not be so many Taoists who like to listen to books.
Zhang Xuanqing smiled bitterly, pressed his hands, and said loudly: "Let's be quiet first, be quiet." Today is the last time Poor Dao will tell a story, and everyone has so many questions, I am afraid that I will be exempted from preaching later. Anyway, if there is anything you want to ask, please ask one by one, I am afraid that in the future, I will have to retreat for a period of time, and I will not be able to see you!"
"What?" everyone was shocked.
"Why doesn't the Taoist stop lecturing?"
"Didn't someone upset you?"
Zhang Xuanqing shook his head and smiled: "You don't have to think about it, and you don't have to persuade it. Poor Dao has made up his mind, and he was originally talking about the story here, but it was just a whim, and then everyone strongly asked for it, so he said it until now. Now that the book has been finished, the rest of the story is not clear, so naturally it is impossible to talk about it. In short, today's farewell, where should everyone go back, don't stay here because of poverty. ”
"This ......" everyone began to dissuade them, but Zhang Xuanqing had already made up his mind not to engage in wind and rain anymore, at least this wave of things continued, he didn't want to be in the limelight in front of others, and everyone had no choice but to obey.
"Since the Taoist chief is tired and wants to rest for a while, it is naturally difficult for me to dissuade him. I only hope that in the future, the Taoist will not forget us, and if there is any secret history of immortals and magic tricks, I will also tell you about it. "It was a young man who spoke, unlike a famous Taoist, he was just interested in the story told by Zhang Xuanqing.
Zhang Xuanqing nodded happily: "It's easy to say, it's easy to say." "But I didn't really take it to heart at all.
Everyone, you said a word, and I was polite to Zhang Xuanqing for half an hour, and suddenly someone said: "Xuanqing Dao Chief, Xiaodao Jia Daowen, is not from this county." Today, the Taoist will go back to retreat, and the trail will also return to his hometown, so I don't know when I will be able to listen to the teachings of the Taoist again. Therefore, Xiaodao is bold, and I want to ask the Taoist chief to give me one or two scriptures, go home to study, and hope for the grace of the Taoist!"
As soon as these words came out, the tavern was suddenly quiet, and the needle could be heard, everyone looked at me, I looked at you, some looked excited, some looked annoyed, and seemed to blame themselves for not thinking of it. In the end, everyone looked at Zhang Xuanqing with anticipation, seeing what they meant, I was afraid that as long as Zhang Xuanqing agreed, they would also ask for one or two.
Zhang Xuanqing thought about it, his heart moved slightly, and he said with a smile: "Okay, if you don't talk about the Dan Sutra today, I will leave a "Yin Fu Sutra" for everyone." This book has a total of more than 300 words, the first 100 words of speech, the middle 100 words of speech, and the last 100 words of speech; there is the way of the gods holding one, there is the law of enriching the country and the people, and there is the art of strong soldiers to defeat. They are all scheming from the inside, and they are all in harmony with personnel outside, and they are not people of the Tao, so they cannot be heard. Therefore, people can use it to get it, sages can use it to get their methods, and righteous people can use it to get their skills. Today, I hope you can study hard and leave a book in vain. After speaking, let Xiao Er bring pen and ink.
"Yin Fu Jing" is also known as "Yellow Emperor Yin Fu Jing", according to legend, it was made by the Yellow Emperor, until the first year of Tang Xuanzong, it was obtained by a Taoist priest of Li Zhen and passed on to the world. However, according to the research of later generations, this book was forged by later generations in the name of the Yellow Emperor, and Zhu Xi said: "The Yin Fu Jing has 300 words, and Li Zhen got it in the stone room...... Or it is said that this book is what the person did and obtained from the stone room. "It is very likely that the Yin Fu Sutra was written by Li Qian, but it was circulated in the world under the name of the Yellow Emperor.
However, no matter what, Zhang Xuanqing is nothing to take out now, not to mention that Li Xuan has not been born yet, even if this Yin Fu Sutra is really made by the Yellow Emperor, Li Xuan can get it, but he Zhang Xuanqing can't?
He didn't say that he wrote the Yin Runic Sutra!
And this "Yin Fu Jing", in Taoism, can be said to be only a little lower than the Tao Te Ching. There are 300 words of yin and 3,000 words of morality. Legend has it that the subtlety of the Yin Fu Sutra is not enough to be a mystery in the Eight Scenes of the Yellow Court; the most important thing in the Yin Fu Sutra is not enough to be a text; the ingenuity of the Yin Fu Sutra is not enough to be a surprise to Sun Wu Hanbai. It can be said that the Yin Fu Sutra is both a Taoist book and a military book, and it is really a strange text through the ages.
Zhang Xuanqing did not write on paper, but on the wall of the tavern, and after writing, he quietly left while everyone was watching.