My Taoist Career

"Sanbaer, in our lineage, the master is the closest person. My master, your master is an undisciplined person. I don't know how his orthodoxy came from and who he passed it on to, but he said The pulse is opened by him. So, he is the ancestor of our line." While speaking, old man Jiang slowly opened the scroll in his hand, and hung it under the Sanqingxiang.

"Third baby, your master did not like to be worshiped by others in his life, but as a disciple, as a disciple and grandson, he must do his best. My master is the person I respect the most. You are my disciple. You must Respect him doubly, this is the portrait of your master, come here to serve you with three prostrations and nine kowtows." Old man Jiang's voice was full of emotion, but also a little trembling.

I was also moved when I heard the words, holding three lit incense sticks, I knelt down with a 'plop', and at the same time, for the first time, my eyes fell on the portrait of the master.

The ancestor in the portrait is a middle-aged and elderly person with a very ordinary appearance. He is about 50 to [-] years old. His hair is simply pulled up in a bun, but it looks messy at first glance. It is probably for the sake of uniform style of the whole body. The master in the painting Zu is also really dressed... well, casually.

An ordinary gray short robe, loosely tied with a black cloth belt, with several crooked patches on it, and a pair of ordinary cloth shoes with exposed toes.

And the master in this painting is also very lazy, with his hands in his sleeves, he is actually squatting. There is no background in this painting, only the master is alone, but it looks like he is squatting at the base of the wall An old farmer basking in the sun.

I don't know who painted this painting, but it is really vivid. Although the appearance of the master in the painting is ordinary, but the laziness and indifference shown in the expression, there is a convincing clarity and harmony in the eyes. It's all drawn out.

It gives people the feeling that the existence of the master is like a contradictory body. On the surface, he is a downcast and lazy person, but there is a unique rhyme in his bones.

I was young at that time, and I didn't understand the rhyme of a person at all. I just felt that this master was unusual from the bottom of my heart, but I didn't know what was unusual.

"Why don't you hurry up?" Old man Jiang stared.

Hearing this, I hurriedly held up the incense stick respectfully, and actually bowed three times and kowtowed nine times. This time, I was more devout than facing the Sanqingxiang. After all, the Sanqingxiang made me feel too high and unattainable. But facing the portrait of this master, I feel that he is really in front of me, and he is really extraordinary.

After worshiping the master, I lit the incense in the censer. I looked at the old man Jiang and didn't know what to do next. Jiang old man stood still in front of him.

The old man Jiang ignored me, just stood up by himself, stared at the portrait of the master for a long time, then carefully rolled up the portrait, and then said to me: "This portrait was drawn by me, and it is the only one This portrait of your master, my master, was painted after he agreed. It's a pity that my level was limited at that time, and the charm of your master's charm was not enough, at least not restrained enough. Compared with real people, it is too far away."

After finishing speaking, the old man Jiang sighed. Seeing that he missed my master so much, I couldn't help asking: "Master, where is my master now?"

Old man Jiang turned his head to look at me. It was the first time I saw the expression in his eyes. Old man Jiang was also a little confused.

This is so new, my master will confuse him?But I don't want to, the next moment the old man Jiang became 'fierce' and said to me: "Do you think the apprenticeship ceremony is over? I haven't had master's tea yet. You go to boil water and make tea. I'll wait to drink it." Your master's tea, I am not satisfied with the tea I want to make, so you can wait to make tea all night."

Don't bring those who bully children like that! !

In the end, I lit a fire for the first time in my life, carried water for the first time, and boiled water for the first time... It took me an hour, and I still handed old man Jiang a cup of Master's tea with a respectful mood.

The life on the mountain is hard. Although old man Jiang's small bamboo building has a beautiful view, for a child, it's just like that after living for a long time.

Three months have passed in a blink of an eye, and another winter is coming...

In the winter in Sichuan, it’s not that cold, it’s just that the coolness that infiltrates the bones makes people uncomfortable, and the mountains are cooler, which means that my life is more bitter.

"Everything is self-sufficient." This is the first sentence old man Jiang said to me after I started apprenticeship.

It is because of this sentence that here, I have to take care of all my life, including washing and cooking. The damn thing is, I am self-sufficient, but old man Jiang takes it for granted. With this sentence, Leave all chores to me.

"Anyway, if you cook alone, you also cook, and when you wash one's clothes, you also do laundry. Let's go together."

"Master, aren't you self-sufficient?"

"Fart, apprentices are self-sufficient, I am your master, this is your filial piety!"

In this way, I am an eight-year-old child (he is already eight years old at this time), and it is very "miserable" to take on chores for two people.

What's even more pitiful is that I couldn't cook well at the beginning, and I couldn't wash my clothes well. Mr. Jiang didn't allow my family members who often go up the mountain to help.He ate it anyway.Dirty clothes are not clean, put them on!Old man Jiang didn't care much about it, he was dirty anyway.

So, I have to go to school, do my homework, do chores, and complete the tasks assigned to me by old man Jiang. He said that this is the first step to learn his skills.

And him?Every day is always so leisurely, except for some "homework" that he has to do every day, which is cooking tea and looking at the scenery, and "educating the three children" with takeaways.Occasionally, he would carry some miscellaneous rice noodles up the mountain, and occasionally, he would go get some game.

This is our day on the mountain.

The days after winter are sad, mainly because of the water used for cooking and washing, and in this winter, the water in the pool is so cold that I don't even want to touch it.

The days of going up the mountain are hard. Relatively speaking, going to school every day has become the easiest thing. I used to be bored in class, and I could fall asleep on the table. After finishing the "task" he gave me in the morning, I was as energetic as a monkey, my mind was still very clear, and it was easy to listen to the class, and I didn't even feel bad about the difficult texts on weekdays.

Nonsense, of course the text is not good, can it compare with that obscure "Tao Te Ching"?

I will always remember that after having Master’s tea, old man Jiang took out a tattered book from his “secret room” and threw it to me: “This "Tao Te Ching" is a book for people in my generation to cultivate their minds. "Holy scripture", from today onwards, you recite it every day, copy it once, start reading it now, and ask me about the words you don't know."

Poor me, I only have a 'diploma' in the first grade of elementary school!

So, why is going to school not an easy task?The way to and from school is even more like heaven for me.

"Third baby, what are you doing so quickly?" Su Rou was running behind me panting, poor boy, like me, one year older, I have grown taller, he has grown taller and taller Fat.

I really didn't feel how fast I was walking, so I said: "I didn't walk too fast. If I could, I would just stand here and never go. The problem is that I have to do my homework at night, and I have to copy those things." "Tao Te Ching", I have to punch something before going to bed, I am miserable, if I hurry up, I won't get enough sleep at night."

"What kind of boxing? Can you teach me?" The crispy meat is very "martial arts master".

"Let my master teach it, I haven't learned it all yet." I was depressed when I mentioned that boxing, what kind of Wuqinxi, I haven't even learned "one bird", and I was ridiculed by the old man Jiang; "I said you Like a monkey, I teach you the shape of an ape first, but in the end you can’t even learn the shape of an ape well, so I guess you can only learn the shape of a monkey.”

It really pissed me off, how can it be as vicious as a master's mouth?!

"Forget it, I'm not going to find Mr. Jiang, what if I want to learn boxing, what if he asks me to copy the Tao Te Ching 100 times, forget it, forget it." Su Rou said while shaking his fat body .

I looked at him contemptuously, just like this, if you are not allowed to copy the "Tao Te Ching", I am afraid that you will cry for your father and mother if you can't practice for an hour.

I walked back full of thoughts, sighing secretly about my miserable life. At this time, Surou had nothing to say: "Sanbaer, who do you want to fight with recently? I see you are holding each other all day long." A fist?"

I rolled my eyes, raised my fist and shook it in front of the crispy meat, and said: "I see clearly, I should hold it for a while, loosen it, and then hold it harder! There are special things, such as holding a few breaths or something, My master said this is called 'grip', and it improves one's spirit."

This is also helpless. I was not used to it at first, but now it’s fine. Under Jiang’s "Chunchun teaching", I have become used to it. I hold it once and loosen it in class, and I hang down at any time when walking. Holding it at the waist, I said that my classmates dare not approach me anymore, and Liu Chunyan even hid when they saw me. For a long time, they thought I was going to fight.

"Oh, Mr. Jiang is very capable. I don't understand his tricks. I will go up the mountain to play with you this Sunday. You want to pick me up. It would be great if Mr. Jiang could get another wild rabbit to eat." As soon as he talked about the game old man Jiang made, he was so greedy that his saliva almost stopped drooling.

This is the hateful thing about old man Jiang. I couldn’t cook well at the beginning, it’s inevitable that it’s unpalatable. I thank God when it’s cooked. He ate it with me, but I couldn’t help him go to the pool to touch a fish after eating. Go to the woods to make a small stove for the whole game, and don't give it to me, saying that I can learn this skill from him.

But when my family members come, or when the crispy meat comes, they will treat the whole game, so that I can get a bargain and eat it.

Speaking of which, the old man Jiang's cooking skills are superb, and it is very delicious, but why does he ask me to cook? !