My Taoist Career

"Please tell your daughter-in-law to finish the meal. If you want meat or wine, I will leave after eating." Seeing my father staring blankly, Old Man Jiang said something to himself.

"Let's go? Where are you going?" My dad didn't react, and subconsciously asked again: "Where is Master Huijue?"

"He went back a few days ago." Old man Jiang answered directly, but did not answer another question from my dad for the time being.

"Master Jiang is here?" My mother also came out at this time, holding the jacket in her hands, but suddenly seeing Jiang's outfit, she was stunned, and even felt embarrassed to give away the jacket.

Old man Jiang didn't take it seriously, and said, "The jacket is for me?"

"Yeah." My mother was a little taken aback.

"Then bring it here, are you going to give it away?" Facing the surprised attitude of my parents, old man Jiang was much more at ease.

There is no way, the old man Jiang is probably the only one who wants to eat meat and drink in the morning, but my parents will never neglect the old man Jiang. After a lot of work, it was nine or ten o'clock , I made a few dishes for old man Jiang.

The old man Jiang picked up his chopsticks and started to eat. The wine was chugging, and the appearance of eating was even sweet. He didn't care even if my father took my mother away.

In the kitchen, my dad hurriedly said to my mom, "Master Jiang said he was leaving!" At this moment, my dad finally came to his senses. Unknowingly, he regarded old man Jiang as the patron saint of my family. When he heard that he was leaving, my father felt uncertain.

"Huh? Is he angry with us?" My mother lost her mind.

My dad gritted his teeth and pondered for a while, before he said: "It's really pitiful for old man Jiang to be alone. Actually, I've been thinking about it all the time, why don't we adopt our son to him as a godson? It's not impossible to accompany him on the mountain. I don't want Master Jiang to leave, I think it will be all right to provide for him in the future."

"I think it's okay!" My mother agreed with my father's idea, and then she added: "But do you think Master Jiang is that old? I'm afraid it's not our turn to provide for him?"

The two discussed in the kitchen for a while, and when they returned to the main room, old man Jiang was still eating and drinking, and would wipe his mouth with the sleeve of his woolen coat from time to time, which made my mother twitch in her heart. ah?

Hastily took off a cloth handkerchief for him to use as a mouth wipe.

After drinking another glass of wine, the old man Jiang sighed: "I have no other hobbies in my life. I only eat one thing. What are the things that fly in the sky, run on the ground, and swim in the water? Only those who climb on the trees I don’t miss out on delicious food, eating all over the world is my greatest pursuit in this life.”

My dad responded by the side, lamenting that old man Jiang's pursuit is good, while thinking about how to speak to old man Jiang and keep him.

But I didn't want Old Man Jiang to put the cup away by himself, but said: "I'm here to say goodbye to your family, and I have to go. I don't know if I will come back after I leave, and I don't know when I will come back."

As soon as the old man Jiang finished his words, my father got excited, stood up immediately and said, "Master Jiang, are you angry with our family? Don't leave, I have already discussed with the mother-in-law. The third boy will leave tomorrow." The adoptive will be your godson, go up the mountain to accompany you, and learn things from you. If he dares not give you retirement until the end of his life, I won’t break his legs! Don’t go!”

Old man Jiang looked at my parents with moved eyes. He grabbed the wine bottle and wanted to pour himself a drink. My father quickly grabbed it and poured it for old man Jiang. He drank three glasses in a row before old man Jiang stopped. live.

He opened his mouth and said: "The fate between me and your three boys is a master-student fate, not a father-son fate. Fate is here when it comes. Unless you change your fate, you can't avoid it. You can't be a master-student now, but it's time to come." It's just that, maybe it's because of fate, why do you think I'm angry with you?"

My parents responded quickly, thinking that it made sense, just like Widow Zhou met old man Jiang, then took the thread and asked old man Jiang to help her family, and then helped his family. The fate of the field cannot be separated.

"I want to go. Everyone has a responsibility in their lives. It's not a question of whether you want to, but a question of what you have to do. I don't like it but I can't escape it, so I want to go. I Pay attention to letting nature take its course, what will happen to me and the third boy in the future, just follow the fate, whether it is destined to have a share, in this life, it is destined to be a master and apprentice, or it is destined to have no share, and I will be happy for nothing, I will wait."

Old man Jiang's words were too vague. My parents heard it as specious, but they also understood what old man Jiang meant. The two of them couldn't keep him from leaving.

Taoism pays attention to nature, and nature pays attention to conformity, so the word "fate" is of course the most valued by those who practice Taoism. It is not enough to have a relationship, you must have a share in order to put things into practice, otherwise it is nothing but nothingness Just like the fate of many people who pass by in a hurry in their lives, they have intersected, and they can only disappear in the crowd in the end.

Don't sigh helplessly if you see through it.

After Mr. Jiang said this, he didn't mention it anymore, and no matter what my parents said, they didn't respond anymore.

It wasn't until the food and drink were finished that he took out a pen and a small notebook from his pocket.

First of all, what he wrote was a string of phone numbers, which was still a novelty at that time. When my dad started holding it, he didn't understand what this string of numbers was all about.

"This is the phone number." Old man Jiang explained.

My dad immediately remembered the time he went to the office in the village. That time he accompanied the village cadres, just because the village cadres came from above. He led the way and caught my dad.

There, my dad saw a black phone, and that was the only time my dad saw a phone in his life. In his eyes, it was mysterious. He said that the orders from above were basically conveyed through this thing.

"I gave the third boy Tiger Claw, to a certain extent, it was an act against the heavens. After all, the third boy was doomed to have a bad fate in his life. With Tiger Claw, he should have met what he should have suffered. He might not have to bear it. Yes. However, the cycle of heaven, the retribution is not good, and if the retribution is not on him, I am afraid it will affect your family. If in the days to come, if your family encounters any problems that cannot be solved, you can call this number and say Find Jiang Lichun."

At this time, my dad found out that old man Jiang's real name was Jiang Lichun, but he still looked embarrassed: "I don't know how to use the phone, where can I find a phone?"

"You idiot, are you not smart at this time? You bring some good wine and meat to someone for help, are you afraid that you won't be able to use the phone? Others will teach you how to use it! I will teach you all of this?" Jiang old man My son pointed at my dad's nose and scolded, that old ruffian image came out again, my dad who scolded me obediently and dared not answer.

Next, the old man Jiang wrote another name on the paper, handed it to my dad, and said, "When you come to find me, report this name and say that you are this person's father, remember?"

My dad opened the piece of paper and looked at it. He could barely recognize the first character and the second character, but he couldn't. After all, my dad was only at the level of a literacy class.

It's very simple, who can't recognize a word?The one in front is my dad's last name, can he recognize it?

"Master Jiang? Who is this Chen Hanyi? Why am I his father?" My father is also quite stunned sometimes.

"Chen Chengyi! Why can't you be his father? You didn't give birth to the third son of your family? This is the name I named your son. Why do you think you are so stupid?" Old man Jiang was so angry. Rolling his eyes, after some explanation, he slapped the table and picked up his snakeskin bag and walked out.

My parents wanted to stop them but dared not. Just like that, on this late winter morning, I watched old man Jiang drift away, leaving behind a high-ranking figure, and never looked back.

After the old man Jiang left, life in my family returned to calm. Life in the mountain village was always so good, and time passed like this, and it was seven years later in a blink of an eye. .