Chapter 3: Encountering the True Taoist
"Master, I beat my senior brother to death!" Li Xiao sobered up and immediately knelt down for the master, this cannibalism is a taboo in martial arts.
"Xiaoqing, such a person is not our fellow disciple, take away the money and gun on him, let's go out of the backyard. Li Xiaoqing took the gun and went out through the back door, and not long after they went out, they heard a sound of smashing in the Taoist temple.
"Master, I didn't bring out the three clay statues. ”
"Forget it, they may not be able to find it, I don't see any way to that thing, you can look for it when you have time. The old man was dying at this time, and he was a little unfavorable to speak.
"Go straight to the back mountain. ”
Li Xiaoqing was holding the bones of Old Man Liu in front of his body, and carrying his master behind him, walking slowly, cleaning up the blood dripping on the ground as he walked, but he was also cautious.
"Master, Uncle Liu passed on his kung fu to me, I didn't practice it. ”
"Xiaoqing, if you have time to practice this iron cloth shirt, I can teach you almost enough, if you meet a master in the future, don't have any opinions, don't I also learn this line of qi kung fu from others?" The old man's face began to become ruddy, he himself knew that this was a return to the light, and hurriedly gave Xiaoqing a few words.
"Master, Uncle Liu's external strength and body protection have not been carried off. ”
"The bullet bites something on the body, no matter how strong the external strength is, it has to be bitten out of a hole, Lao Liu's gun was broken by his apprentice, if he holds back that breath, he can't hit his heart, but his heart is not stable, and the anger is gone. "When you train a disciple for more than ten years and point a gun at you, who can stabilize your heart.
"In the future, I have time to go to Qingcheng Mountain, I got the qigong method there, and I also went to Wudang Mountain, I have a friend there, if you have no place to go, you can go to the master, the master in the south has a few friends, as for this place, it was delegated, and it was criticized, and you went to see it in the future, saying that you are an apprentice, and those people also have to give me three points of thin noodles. The old man buckled the single hole in his waist and dug out a bullet.
"Master, stop talking, take a break. The old man kept vomiting blood in his mouth when he spoke, which made Li Xiaoqing feel distressed.
"Later, if I die, you must take out the guns on me and your uncle, if you go to the Netherworld, my old brothers will have to laugh at me and Lao Liu when they see the guns on my body. ”
"It's the master. Li Xiaoqing took the master to the cave in the back mountain, took a bowl of water for the master, and handed it to the master, who looked at him, but did not answer. Li Xiaoqing was stunned at that time, and knelt on the ground, and the three heads were full of blood.
According to the master's instructions, Li Xiaoqing took out the bullets from the bodies of the master and Master Liu, and then cleaned up the bodies of the two elders before putting them in the coffin. Li Xiaoqing guarded the old man for three days, and on the third day, he buried the old man according to custom, and went up the mountain to hunt some game, boiled it in a large pot, and enshrined it in front of the grave of the second elder, and then guarded it for seven days.
After he finished waiting for the first seven, he wanted to see if the master's soul had returned, but because he was tired, he quickly entered the realm of sitting and forgetting with his eyes closed: what is sitting and forgetting? Although the master is a Taoist priest, he is a monk halfway, he didn't teach him any Taoist classics and spells, and he doesn't know what is going on with him, anyway, he didn't eat or drink for the past seven days, just begged the master to come back to see him, he was very nervous, and then he became more and more slack, and finally settled down. The internal qi also gathered unconsciously.
The first thing he felt when he woke up was thirst, his eyelids were closed for too long, and when he opened them, his eyelids were torn and painful, and he drank a few sips of mountain spring water, and Li Xiaoqing ran down the mountain. At this time, the Taoist temple had been burned to the ground, and if he couldn't see the gray beams and sawdust scattered on the ground, Li Xiaoqing really doubted that he had made a mistake.
He turned out the three boxes containing the clay statues, opened them and saw that the clay statues were still there, but they were full of cracks due to the high temperature, Li Xiaoqing gently picked up one of them, but the clay statues in his hands fell off a few pieces of mud. Li Xiaoqing thought that he couldn't keep his master, and even the treasure left by his master couldn't keep his tears.
It wasn't until he was hungry that Li Xiaoqing stopped and went to the ground behind the Taoist temple to dig some sweet potatoes and roast them. "Huh?" He looked at the clay statue in his hand, only to find that there was a thumb-sized red jade in this clay statue, Li Xiaoqing found that if he didn't smash this clay statue, this thing couldn't be taken out, but he thought that this clay statue had been burned out anyway, so it was better to take it out and take a look.
This red jade was hot in his hand for a while, Li Xiaoqing only heard a bang, and a smell of hot meat came out of his hand, and then opened his palm, only to see that the red jade was gone, and the palm of his hand was burned with a small hole. Li Xiaoqing smashed open the other two, there was still red jade in them, Li Xiaoqing held one in one hand, and the same situation happened as before.
However, Li Xiaoqing's mind showed a complete set of Taoist "three recipes", one of which is the practice of qigong taught by the master, which is divided into three chapters, the Taishang chapter, the original chapter, and the Lingbao chapter, and what he learned before was the first few sentences of the Taishang chapter.
Master Li Xiaoqing doesn't know Taoist techniques, and he doesn't understand Taoist classics, he became a Taoist priest just to hide from the world, so although Li Xiaoqing said that he could see and half understand this classic cultivation method, he didn't dare to practice, for fear of going mad. After eating a few bites of sweet potatoes, Li Xiaoqing wore this broken robe, carried the eight treasure bags and went down the mountain.
At this time, the city was crowded with people, and they didn't know what they were doing, and a large number of people shouted that the proletarian revolution would be carried out to the end! The people in power who took the capitalist road in the party were full of red epaulettes and red banners all over the streets, and Li Xiuqing was now hungry and thirsty and wanted to avoid the crowds and go to the train station. But something unfortunate happened! The group of people caught up with Li Xiaoqing, shouting in their mouths to defeat all the ghosts, snakes, and gods, and holding Li Xiaoqing's Taoist robe in their hands.
At that time, Li Xiaoqing was only thirteen years old, and he was not tall, and those Red Guards saw that Li Xiaoqing was resisting fiercely, so they rushed up.
"Don't fight, don't fight, this kid is not a Taoist priest, he has a bad brain, brute force, this dress was given to him by me when I saw him pitiful, you get up, I let him take it off." An old Taoist priest wearing a hat and a big sign in front of him said to the group of Red Guards.
"Okay, you Hui Lao Dao, this is really a small temple and a big god, Chi Qian Wang Baduo, you are really a lot of cheap apprentices! How many people have you had these days? Don't think that you are not afraid of death if you have the reactionary leaders of the military region above you to protect you. A young man in a green military uniform scolded.
"Yes, what the comrade said is that I saw this kid as pitiful at the beginning, and put a dress on him, he is not a cow ghost and snake god, and his grandfather is also a poor man and a serious proletariat. The old Taoist priest stopped the Red Guards who were about to go up to arrest Li Xiaoqing and explained to them.
As he spoke, he put his ear on Li Xiaoqing and said, "Which Taoist temple are you? When did you dare to wear this out, and you don't want to live?"
"What are you talking about, you old fox, what kind of conspiracy are you!"
"How dare you, how dare you, I let him take off his clothes, this kid is pitiful, everyone give him a dress to wear. Li Xiaoqing knew that this old Taoist priest was helping him, so he took off his broken Taoist robe and put on the green military uniform given to him by the group of people.
"Well, comrades, we have rescued another young comrade who was persecuted by feudal superstition. The man roared, and everyone was very excited, and escorted a large group of people to the stage in front of them. Li Xiaoqing saw clearly that there were so many people who were tied up, including Taoist priests, monks, singers, storytellers, and students.
This platform is set up on the edge of Taiping Lake, this place is conspicuous and is not afraid that no one will come, these people are scolding and beating, and people wearing high hats are kneeling and listening, the sun in August is roasting people, Li Xiaoqing is caught in the crowd, and he is also sweating profusely.
"Ah, someone jumped into the lake!"
"Yes? It seems that he came to the stage a few days ago, and that person seems to have been teaching yesterday. ”
"The more knowledge, the more reactionary it is, and it's better to die!" someone scolded him, and naturally someone followed.
"Little Ancestor, why are you going?" The old Taoist priest saw that Li Xiaoqing was about to jump into the lake to save people, and grabbed him.
"The man is going to drown. ”
"That's a gangster, a reactionary academic authority, if you want to save him, you have to be criticized with him, and besides, that old man is almost old, and he used to be beautiful, and now it is better for him to be alive than dead. The old Taoist priest said close to Li Xiaoqing's ear. When the Red Guards saw someone jumping into the lake, they all walked over to see it, and the old and the young sat on the platform and muttered.
"The man who jumped into the lake in '59 was more famous than this, and he wrote a lot of books, and no one saved him, what did you show when you went up?" the old man asked him.
"Boy, which sect do you learn from?"
"I used to practice with my master at the small Taoist temple on the side of Jinshan, and I went down the mountain when my master passed away. ”
"Well, no wonder you're so reckless. The old man spoke.
"Senior, your accent doesn't look like a northerner. ”
"Don't call me senior, if you call me senior, I'm going to go to jail, just call me comrade, I'm from Jiangsu, I can't stay in my hometown in Jiangsu, I want to find the old chief, let him find me a stable place to live." ”
"Former ...... Old comrade, you guys are also making trouble over there. This Li Xiaoqing shouted this awkwardly.
"That's not it, I originally went to Shanghai to join Chief Chen, I helped him in the Maoshan anti-Japanese base back then, and now I am the mayor of Shanghai, but he is not stable, and he is not lightly ill. I came to Yanjing to find Chief of General Staff Su, who arrived in November and turned out that the Chief of General Staff was not doing well. As he spoke, the old man clutched his stomach and took out four or five peanut-like pills from his arms. "Eat, this thing is hungry. ”
"Alas, last year, there were people on the street every day shouting something to bring down this, and those who hit that had nothing to do with us ordinary people when they were all big officials before. Li Xiaoqing remembered that since last year, it has become more and more noisy, the more fun it is, and the more people are involved.
In the evening, the gang had enough tossing and dragged them back, and this Li Xiaoqing was also brought back because he was a red general.
"Comrade, you're here from out of town, those people shouldn't know you're a Taoist priest. ”
"I was betrayed, and the Liu San who is parading with us on the street today is my nephew, and he reported it to me. ”
"Don't you hate him?"
"Don't hate, he can't help it, if he doesn't find out a few cows, ghosts, snakes, and gods, he will suffer more crimes. "The old man ate the sweet potato leaves soaked in salty and salty water.
"I don't think you look like a Taoist priest, but like a martial artist. ”
"Well, my master is a monk halfway, and he doesn't know how to draw talismans to exorcise ghosts. ”
"Do you want to learn?"
"Yes. ”
"Then you will come with me to the cowshed for a while, and I will teach you something, so that you will not be like a cart puller when you walk in a Taoist robe. ”
In the middle of the night, the two secretly hid in the cowshed, and the old Taoist priest turned out a broken book "Taishang Cave Xuanling Treasure Ascension Xuan Disaster Elimination and Life Protection Sutra" and a "Sutra of Saving People" without a cover. "Let me tell you, these two scriptures are hidden by me, you can hide them again after reading them, and after a while, I will take you to meet an old friend of mine, these things can be used. ”
"Hmm. Li Xiaoqing agreed, and began to endorse. Anyway, he has nowhere to go, so he can follow this old way to learn the Tao, maybe he can understand the three mantras in his head.