Taoism originated in the Spring and Autumn Period and has been inherited to the present day, with great vitality. The knowledge of Taoism is all-encompassing, not only recording the Taoist system, rules, cultivation methods, and Zhaijiao rituals, but also retaining precious materials of ancient Chinese philosophy, literature, medicine, health preservation, chemistry, music, geography and other disciplines.

In every dynasty and every generation, there are anecdotes about capable people of Taoism, Taoist birthers, such as the way of the Heavenly Master, wearing purple and gold to lobby in the temple; hermit such as Sanfeng Zhenren, abandoning the emperor's life; and helping the world to strategize and win thousands of miles away.

More than a decade has passed since the end of the civil war, but a war without gunpowder is brewing.

In 1966, in the compound of the Xuanwu District Military Region in Yanjing, a teenager in tattered clothes was rummaging through the garbage. He had a stained face, a rake in his hand, and a broken basket behind his back, rummaging through the garbage heap.

He himself knows that in this era, every household is in a recession, and it is not much easier to find food in this garbage heap and go to the street to pick up bark.

He thought about going over and asking for food, and with his appearance of being twelve or thirteen years old, he didn't need to wear makeup, and as long as he took a broken bowl outside the People's Theater, someone would probably give him food; he also thought about going to the homes of rich cadres with those Red Guards to raid the houses, and maybe he could grab one or two food stamps; but his master said that he would not let him do this when he was killed, saying that people should live with shame.

This child's name is Li Xiaoqing, the master is the old Taoist priest of the Purple Mountain Taoist Temple, when the Taoist Temple was not smashed, the old man picked him up under the Sanqing tablet, so he named him Li Xiaoqing.

The garbage heap in this military compound has more oil and water than other places, and the most popular people at that time were these people who could ride bicycles in the courtyard when they went out. Li Xiaoqing was already very happy to pick up a few cabbage gangs today, and when he went home, he just had this little rice and boiled a vegetable porridge. Before leaving, the old man in the canteen of the iron factory not far away gave him some leftovers, and he wrapped the newspaper and put it in the basket.

The dappled sunset seemed to announce the end of the day, but before Li Xiaoqing returned to the Taoist temple, he watched a group of Red Guards with red armbands and quotations from the chairman tie up their master and a few teachers to parade through the streets. A rope as thick as a big finger was tied around the body and circled, from the armpit to the back of the neck, and the person was pinned anywhere. And the master Chen Shouyi, the old man is already in the age of sixtieth, where can he afford this. But Li Xiaoqing has been commonplace in the morning, and the master said that he has a good physique, and these are not in the way of him.

In fact, Li Xiaoqing's senior brother is from the compound, the senior brother is called Chen Tengyue, and now he is the deputy director of the Revolutionary Committee, and he has real power under his hands, Xiaoqing wanted to go to the senior brother to ask for intercession, but the master said that the senior brother was ambitious and did not let him go. The senior brother also came to see the master, but he always said something that he didn't have, and the master was always angry after the senior brother left.

"Master!" Li Xiaoqing walked up to him and wanted to feed the master saliva, and this kind of encounter has been going on for a while. This Red Guard can't be beaten or scolded, so he can only be honestly bullied by them. As soon as Li Xiaoqing passed, he was stopped by a group of young and middle-aged people, who held him back, and then pressed him to the ground and shouted, "This is the disciple of the reactionary academic authority Chen Shouyi, Chen Shouyi is engaged in feudal superstition, everyone look at this poor child, forced to beg by Chen Shouyi, this stinky old man!"

"Write down the sins of this old thing, and I'll give you food, and you won't have to pick up garbage to eat every day. This person was wearing a green military uniform, holding a miscellaneous grain nest in his hand, and stabbed Li Xiaoqing with a stick.

"My master is not guilty!" Li Xiaoqing handed over the big red paper and brush to the man's face.

"Smack!" Li Xiaoqing, who had a fan in his mouth, buzzed in his ears.

"This old thing is Chen Dengke's apprentice, and he also worked as a teacher for the Kuomintang reactionaries, and after the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan, he built a Taoist temple on the Purple Mountain and engaged in feudal superstition, this is not a crime? This is a great crime that endangers the people's government!"

"My master even beat the Japanese back then!"

"Your master told fortunes and treated high-ranking national officials, and also colluded with the landlord Chen Zhaopi (Taijiquan master) in private to engage in family sectarian organizations, don't you admit these sins!"

It is said that Chen Shouyi is a disciple of Taiji Master Chen Dengke, and Chen Zhaopi is the successor of Chen-style Taijiquan, and the two are brothers. Chen Shouyi served as a martial arts instructor for the 29th Army of China that year, and also taught Pan Shuoduan Taijiquan and Neijia Kung Fu. After the Liberation War began, Chen Shouyi did not want to see the civil war fratricidal, so he decided to retire and build a Taoist temple in the Purple Mountain.

When he was young, Chen Lao stabbed a few little devils in the city, so he could only escape into the mountains, and in the mountains he married the bandit leader Jin Lan, and killed the gang of bandits in the turret at the bottom of the mountain, killing more than 30 devils. Later, he fled to the mountains, the old man met a master in Qingcheng Mountain, the master taught him a set of qigong methods, since then Chen Shouyi's kung fu has entered the realm, and he has defeated masters from all over the world one after another, and the people in the rivers and lakes call Chen invincible. Then he joined the group and led this group of bandits to join the national army.

When Chen Shouyi became famous, he went to find this master, who said that he was too angry, and only left him three statues of Sanqing for him to worship and resolve his anger. It's just that he was in the prime of his life at that time, and he was in the best health, and he hadn't played enough, and by the time he woke up, he was already over the age of confusion.

Let's not talk about this matter for the time being, but at this time, Li Xiaoqing was pressed in the crowd and beaten up, and the old man was distressed and shouted: "Don't bully my apprentice!" The old man saw that his family was beaten, this little apprentice is usually obedient and filial, and he was distressed when he let people beat him like this for no reason. The old man was full of energy, his clothes were flying, and the rope on his shoulders was short into several knots. The right hand blocked the bamboo pole, and the left hand picked up Li Xiaoqing.

"What a bold boxer, do you want to learn Xue Xuan? He is really a reactionary!" (Xue Dian was a master of the Xingyi Sect, and because of his belief in heretical hereticism, he was accused of being called a "boxer", and was finally arrested and shot.) This man stretched out his hand to hit Chen Shouyi. But seeing that this person punched Chen Shouyi's chest, Chen Shouyi took a slight sliding step, and then withdrew, and then sent it, this person was pushed out for more than ten meters, rolled onto the road, and began to vomit blood while holding his chest. The old man shook his sleeves, and then slowly said to the people around him, "This is called slippery boxing, which was researched by our ancestors, and I am afraid that it will be extinct in the future." ”

"Master, didn't you say you wouldn't make a move?" Li Xiaoqing knew that the master had not made a move for more than ten years, and the news had been tight recently, and the old man told Li Xiaoqing not to fight back, and to scold him not to fight back. Now that the Red Guards on the front line are injured, this matter is a big deal.

"Master, I'm in a panic, come, the weak collar is strong, the chest is pulled out, the luck is in the middle, and the Yiran Tai Chi is angry. "The old man's Taijiquan is a fusion of the Qigong method left by the master for him, which is different from the Chen-style Taijiquan, it is more violent, and the corners of his clothes are like roaring when he moves, and the sound is extremely loud. Li Xiaoqing immediately followed his luck, and he also knew that the master was going to fight with those people.

As a result, as soon as he made a move, Li Xiaoqing found that the dozen or so young men could not get any benefit from the hands of an old man who painted armor. As soon as the old man stomped his feet, two or three Red Guards were beaten and crawled.

"Apprentice, are you still watching, are you still leaving?" Li Xiaoqing naturally opened his bow left and right with the master after hearing this, and the two of them made a three-foot-wide path. Both the master and apprentice are martial arts practitioners, where can this group of Red Guards catch up.

When the two went up the mountain, the moon was already hanging in the sky, and the master and apprentice were meditating and practicing in the Taoist temple.

"Are you hungry?"

"Hungry. ”

"You go to the beam of the main hall and take down the salted duck eggs and Huadiao wine, and accompany the master to take a sip. ”

"Master, don't you say that the wine is kept for the New Year?" said this, but he still took down the food hanging from the beams of the house.

"Hey, this Huadiao wine is baby, I'll have this bottle, don't give me a shot, there is a pot here, you can make this bacon gas, put some chili peppers." The old man pointed to the bacon hanging in the backyard and said.

Li Xiaoqing made a fire and steamed bacon, but the old man was holding three stone statues and silently shedding tears. I want to spread the protégés of the old man back then, and the heroes of the world don't care about Lao Tzu and call Chen Daxia.

Now that he has been humiliated and beaten by a group of cucumbers and eggs, he can't fight back, if he fights back, he will become anti-people and ******, and he can't even keep his twelve or thirteen-year-old apprentices, he is so aggrieved! These real kung fu have now become dross, in short, if people want to break your inheritance, they have to smash these things alive, and then beat you down and destroy your Taoism. Thinking of this old man's heart, he is not a true Taoist, but he has been hidden for so many years, but he has a Taoist heart to help the world and benefit people.

I don't have a wife, sons and daughters, only two apprentices, I dare to fight hard with those people, but none of those martial arts masters is a drag on the family, a sect of grandmasters, forced to kneel by the Red Guards, if you don't kneel, you will fight, and if you don't kneel, you will get your wife, children and protégés.

I thought that this Japanese devil had been driven out, and the kung fu fire of Great China was going to be carried forward, but before it burned, it was extinguished by a bubble of urine, and the old man couldn't help but shed a few tears after taking a sip of Huadiao wine.

"Master, the meat is steamed, I'll go find some garlic sauce. ”

"Well, don't bother, let's eat with some salt foam. The old man held a handful of large grains of salt, and as soon as he strained it, the coarse salt was kneaded into powder.

"Xiaoqing, I don't have anything for you, those three clay statues have a doorway, I didn't realize it, you are young, I will pass this on to you. ”

"Master, I don't want this thing, your old man will take me away, let's hide in the mountains, no one can find us." Li Xiaoqing knelt in front of the master and said.

The old man's hand holding the stone statue trembled like sifting chaff, Li Xiaoqing held the old man's hand, and the old man stabilized.

"Apprentice, I can't walk anymore, those people are staring at me closely, it's strange that you can't get caught if you walk with me. ”

"Master, how do we know if we don't try?"

The old man ate the fat meat and left the lean meat for Li Xiaoqing. "Eat more, you grow your body, I'm old and can't chew this lean bacon, just eat some fat." The old man gulped down the Huadiao wine, and after a while, his face became ruddy, and his eyebrows were raised.

It was already twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, and the old man closed his eyes and said, "Disciple, you put this statue under the altar and hide it, and I will send this half bottle of wine to your Uncle Jing Su later, he has not been tossed for a while." ”

"Master, you can keep it for a while, Uncle Jingsu's iron cloth shirt doesn't matter if those people punch and kick!"

The old man slapped the table and shouted, "You are a bastard, Liu Jingsu's old thing wants face, this iron cloth shirt is to practice a breath inside, and practice muscles and bones outside, if Jingsu accidentally deflats, it will be over!"

"Okay, then I'll deliver it now. ”

"Don't worry, hide this clay statue first. ”

"Okay. This Li Xiaoqing hid the clay statue under the altar of the main hall, and then went to Liu Jingsu's house with wine.

The old man leaned against the door and muttered, "Yin is in the sixth and tenth months." The hexagram is finally unitary, the hexagram is into the dry, the dragon fights in the wild, and its blood is yellow. ”

"Master, or let's go to southern Yunnan. "Now it is the tenth month of the lunar calendar, it is the time of pine oil in southern Yunnan, southern Yunnan is remote, not as turbulent as other places, Li Xiaoqing thought that the master wanted to go to southern Yunnan.

"Alas, it's fun, by the way, I brought the amber talisman with me, if anything happens in the future, this is also a token of our master, and it has to be passed on. ”

"Master, what are you talking about? Li Xiaoqing took the wine and ran down the mountain, he just wanted to hurry up and come back to accompany the master.