My Taoist Career

My mother didn't stop me either. After all, chickens and snakes were provided by others, so I have to show enough sincerity to get some rice field eels.

On this day, my dad didn't come back until midnight, covered in mud, and he really got a few rice field eels.

My mother felt sorry for my dad, and hurriedly fetched hot water to wash it for my dad, but my dad was still complaining: "It's summer, and by this time, I'm going to get a few catties of eel! Let Master Jiang eat it to his heart's content!"

"Okay, okay, I have to get up early tomorrow, so don't get excited there." My mother scolded, and she didn't know why my dad was so excited.

How does she understand the pressure a man bears? These days, my dad has been treating me with hope, but he is suffering in his heart, like a heavy stone. This time, when Old Jiang appeared, Let my dad have a pleasure of being released from stress.

Everything is ready for tomorrow.

The next day, around 11:[-] noon, Mr. Jiang arrived as scheduled.

He still looked unkempt, giving people the impression of being so undisciplined. He walked into my house with his hands behind his back and looked familiar to me. He was greeted by my enthusiastic parents and a large table of dishes. There are my two sisters who are looking at the table and swallowing.

After Mr. Jiang entered the house, he didn’t look at the dishes on the table. Instead, he walked around the various rooms of my house. It seemed like he was idle like visiting. My parents dared not be negligent, and followed closely behind him. .

After walking around, old man Jiang shook his head, and said inexplicably, "It's quite ordinary, not very rich."

My parents almost fell down after listening to it. What does this old man Jiang mean?Could it be that you came to visit my house?

The old man Jiang didn't explain much, how could he explain to my parents at that time that there was nothing wrong with the layout of my family?Just put a pretense and let it go.

"Let's go, eat." After reading this, Old Man Jiang went straight to the dinner table.

He honestly and unceremoniously sat down at the head, and when he looked at the dishes on the table, he couldn't help swallowing two mouthfuls of saliva.

In the middle is the stewed snake with pheasant, adding snow-white and crispy winter bamboo shoots, the soup is just right, and the rising aroma is so strong that even the gods can't help but smell it.

There are also several large porcelain bowls next to it, one is oily old bacon, the other is twice-cooked pork, and the other is stir-fried rice eel. There is also a bowl next to it, which is hot and spicy. Watercress fish.

This is an authentic Sichuan farm dish. The way the farm makes it is as fresh as possible. Looking at those spicy dishes, just the red vitex twigs and the green onion are enough to make people's index fingers twitch.

In order to prevent the old man Jiang from getting bored, my mother specially mixed a shredded radish and made a plate of kimchi.

My dad didn't talk too much, and presented the best rice wine, which was exchanged from the best rice wine maker in the village.

Old man Jiang, you’re welcome. After my dad poured him the wine, he grabbed the chopsticks and started to eat. Before he could completely swallow the dish, he took another sip of the wine. It was a mess, but it was also spicy You have to stick your tongue out.

My dad saw some clues, and asked directly: "Isn't Master Jiang from Sichuan?" If you want to be from Sichuan, the degree of spiciness is hot, but it's not enough to stick your tongue out.

Old man Jiang didn't answer, but was still busy eating.

My dad smiled awkwardly, and didn't continue to ask questions. The old man Jiang usually avoided the questions he didn't want to answer, and my dad knew this.

But at the dinner table, no matter what my parents tried to say, old man Jiang would not answer, he just ate and drank.

Nearly an hour later, the old man Jiang was finally full. He put down his chopsticks and cup, and wiped his mouth with his sleeve. This time, without waiting for my parents to say anything, he said directly: "Hold your son Come and let me see."

Fairy, real fairy, my parents were very pleasantly surprised. Without further ado, my mother took the two sisters out, and my father went to hug me directly.

But in fact, where is it as magical as my parents thought?A few years later, my master told me that his fortune-telling skills were far inferior to that of a person. It was a real coincidence to meet my dad on the mountain, and his little physiognomy skills, although not his Although he is good at housekeeping, he can still tell at a glance that my dad must have something to ask for.

As for eating, my master carefully looked at the faces of my parents, and he knew that something was wrong with the children, and my two sisters were at the dinner table. My master looked carefully and there was no problem, so the only problem was out on me.

There are only a few families in the village. My master hangs around here all year round. I still know who gave birth to a child. Besides, when I turned around the room just now, I saw me on the big bed.

That's all.

But fate is like this. My master predicted where he would have the predestined relationship as an apprentice. In addition to some special and historical reasons, he came to this area specially and stayed for several years without deliberately looking for it. Taoism pays attention to nature. If it is really his apprentice, he will also bump into each other, and some of them will not be able to escape.

In less than a minute, my dad hugged me to the old man Jiang. He looked at me carefully, frowned slightly, and gave a slight snort.

Before my master could speak, my dad was anxious, turned me around quickly, pointed to the birthmark on the back of my head and said, "Master Jiang, do you think there is something wrong with this?"

After finishing speaking, my dad added another sentence mysteriously: "I heard that this is the mark of being stared at by that thing."

My father's words seemed to bring Old Man Jiang back to his senses, and he shouted: "Nonsense, tell me the child's birthday!"

"Yes, yes..." My dad hurriedly said my birthday.

The old man Jiang stood up, walked with his back on his back, and started to walk back and forth, chanting words that my dad couldn't understand: "67 years, Tianheshui... Rizhi... at this time, tsk... what a coincidence ?”

At the end of the talk, old man Jiang even talked about a Beijing movie, which shows the depth of his fascination.

"No, no...that's just a superficial opinion..." In the end, old man Jiang asked my dad to bring me over again. He carefully looked at my face, paying special attention to the eyebrows and the bridge of the nose.

In the end, he was worried, grabbed my hand and looked at it, and finally touched my little arm and calf carefully.

After all this work, he couldn't move his eyes away, stared at me carefully for a while, and then said to my father seriously: "Is this child a real boy, or a boy! He is destined to have no parental relationship. Can you bear it?"

"What do you mean, that my son is going to die?" My dad didn't know what fate was, and when he heard that he didn't have much parental relationship, he panicked.

"No, with me here, he won't...I'll explain some things to you later. Now I want to ask you a question, and you can answer me after thinking about it carefully." Old man Jiang said seriously.

"What's the problem, just ask Master Jiang." My dad was relieved when he heard that I would not die with him, and returned to the old man Jiang's question.

"It was exactly twelve o'clock when your son was born?"

"This? How should this be counted?" My dad didn't understand. How can this be counted as a birth?The whole body comes out and so on... It's a bit unspeakable to be specific.

"When the fetus falls to the ground, the whole body is separated from the mother's womb." My master was very serious and began to speak in a polite manner.

"Master Jiang, I really don't know about this. I'm not sure if it's on the whole. Is this important?" My dad asked cautiously.

Old man Jiang had expected the same, waved his hands, ignored my father, and walked back and forth in the room with his hands behind his back.

The so-called calculation of something does not necessarily require divination, just like solving a math problem, sometimes you can solve the problem with the necessary conditions, that is to say, not every problem will use mathematical formulas.

My situation has given old man Jiang sufficient and satisfactory conditions. After pondering for a while, he said: "I figured it out. Your son was born on time. The problem is that he was born as a boy, and It's because of the reason for being born on time."

"12 o'clock at noon? Master Jiang, that's the brightest time of the day, why would you be entangled in that thing?" My father's thinking is simple. He thinks that according to the folk saying, this is definitely the sunniest time. How could you mess with those things.

Old man Jiang didn't say a word, went out, picked up a branch at random in the yard, and started to draw. It happened that my mother also coaxed my two sisters to play. I just saw this scene.

My father and my mother thought that old man Jiang would draw some profound formation, but old man Jiang drew it three times and two times, and it turned out to be a Tai Chi diagram.

"Master Jiang, what is this?" My dad asked.

"Noon is the brightest time? Who told you that noon is the most cloudy time! The sunniest time happens to be the darkest time before dawn, when the rooster crows for the first time." Jiang old man Said calmly.

"Why?" My mother couldn't figure it out, and noon was the most cloudy time.

"You don't understand the specifics. Let me briefly explain it. Look at this picture, these two yin and yang fish..." Old man Jiang pointed to the place where the yin and yang fishes meet in the Taiji diagram, and said, the place where the yin and yang fish meet. It is precisely the two sharpest points.

"What I want to tell you is not about yin and yang intercourse, but the principle that prosperity must decline. When anything reaches its extreme, it will go in another direction. Yin-yang fish also contains this meaning, 12 o'clock It is an extreme, that is, when the sun suddenly turns cloudy in the daytime, do you think it is cloudy or not? There is not even a process, and it just turns like this. People who step on this turning point are tantamount to stepping on the most yin time." Old man Jiang explained as plainly as possible, what he said was simply amazing, at least my parents had never heard of it.

Old man Jiang didn't force them to believe, he threw the branch and clapped his hands and said: "Who said ghosts are only haunted at night, it's as easy as noon, especially at that time period is the only time they can be active during the day, they We were human beings during our lifetime, so of course we like a little bit of daylight.”

What old man Jiang said made my parents feel chilly, and my mother also remembered that she was easily fascinated when she took a nap at noon. It turned out to be such a reason.