Daoist, stay safe

Chapter 1

In the early morning of March, there was continuous rain outside the window, and the water dripped along the moss-covered tile edge and fell into the stone tank under the eaves, making a ticking sound, and the pear blossoms in the yard were in full bloom, hanging in clusters The branches are soaked by the spring rain, dripping with drops of water, forming a rain scene with the remaining flowers all over the ground.

Under the eaves outside the window, an old man with beard and eyebrows all white, wearing a dark blue short gown sat on a futon and meditated.There was an incense burner in front of him, burning with green smoke.Behind him is a closed window, the curtains are tightly drawn, and there is the sound of water in the room from time to time. When he hears the sound of someone struggling in the water, the old man will say: "Calm down, concentrate, be quiet." Qi. When the mind is quiet, everything is quiet.”

Inside the room was Zhang Xiyan, who had nothing to say at the moment, and was speechless.

She soaked in the pure Chinese medicine bath water with no quality inspection, no detailed ingredients, and no specific effects. She felt like she was bitten by ants all over her body, from the skin to the bones. She couldn't stand up under the weight of her big hand.

The hand was pale and dry, like a dehydrated chicken paw, wrinkled as if the bone was only covered with a layer of skin.The owner of the hand, with a bun on his head, and a white cross-collar Taoist robe, is meticulously groomed. He looks immortal at first glance, but he can't look at his face.That face is roughly the same as a skull covered with old and pale human skin, like a walking mummy.

This one is Zhang Xiyan's third aunt, that is, her grandfather's third sister, who is the daughter of the old man sitting cross-legged outside the house.

She has always suspected that the third aunt's grandma starred in ghost movies in her true colors, but she has no evidence.

The old house is gloomy, she always feels that there are ghosts, and she is afraid to sleep at night, so her grandfather sent her third aunt to embolden her.

The third aunt's grandma can't hear the sound of breathing when she sleeps at night. No matter how thick the quilt is, her hands and feet are cold. If you touch her breath and veins, she will open her eyes, turn her head, with a skull-like face and cold eyes, and say to you: "Sleep!" Come on, when the cock crows, you have to get up and take a medicinal bath again."

When it came to medicinal baths, Zhang Xiyan could only complain helplessly.

She really believes that outdated things should not be kept in the shelf.

The profession of Taoist, now with various propaganda, sounds very lofty, but in fact, it used to belong to one of the "three religions" in the "three religions and nine streams". , specializing in various difficult and miscellaneous diseases, whenever the doctors in the medical center and pharmacy can't handle it, someone will find a Taoist monk later.It is more gentle to see a doctor and take medicine to overcome the patient's hysteria problem from a psychological point of view. There are often violent lunatics who are regarded as bewitched by the family members and find Taoist priests and masters.what to do?Whether it is evil or disease, people need Taoist priests to treat it.What can the priests do?Raise your fist and hit it, if you can't beat it, you have to be scolded "this Taoist priest can't do spells"!Taoist priests also have another important business - funeral.Taoist priests are required to take care of funerals, open coffins and move graves.The corpses that have been buried for many years have bred many bacteria and poisonous insects. The ancients also liked to embalm the corpses and add various self-made medicines to the corpses and add them to the coffin. The richer the family, the more they like to do these things. If you are willing to pick up the bones of your ancestors by yourself, you are letting the Taoist priests go to the pit.At that time, there were no gloves, anti-virus and anti-bacterial clothing, and they were all picked up with bare hands.

When Taoist priests encountered dead bodies or coffins filled with highly poisonous substances, or died in pits, they had to say: "Ah, the evil spirit is so heavy, this Taoist master is not powerful enough and can't even stop the evil spirit. He died inside... "

There is no place to cry!

After a long illness became a good doctor, the Taoist priests of her family's ancestors figured out a set of prevention and treatment methods, one of which is to first increase autoantibodies - medicated baths to improve physical fitness, or follow the path of fighting poison with poison, coupled with the mentality of curing all diseases, I can't wait for a dose of medicine to soak people into copper skin and iron bones.

Now they are all cremated. In the old days, there were archaeological teams in those coffins and graves, and there were policemen and forensic doctors who died in the wild. The worst thing, even if she really needed to do it, medical antibacterial gloves in the pharmacy can be bought for 100 yuan. Big back.

Zhang Xiyan sincerely thought that there was no need to suffer this crime, but the old man believed that this was a skill passed down from his ancestors, and he had to pass it on as it was passed down to him, and he couldn't lose it.

She couldn't resist, and saw that her ancestors were not dead or disabled after so many years of soaking, so she could only accept it powerlessly, and greeted Liu Yu in her heart for the nth time.

If Liu Yu hadn't stripped her vest without authorization, and borrowed her father Zhang Changshou's name to give her a name in the Taoist profession, she is still working in a 5A office building. Although she is a financial migrant worker, she may not be good Qian Cheng.

She was famous for being stripped of her vest, but she didn't have real talents, and if she was not careful, she would be "bluffing and deceiving".Her family has been in this business for generations, and the reputation of the signboard is the most important thing in the family business. If she dares to bluff and smash her own signboard, the family's ancestral precepts will fall on her head.

She considered the consequences, packed her luggage, dragged the suitcase, and returned to her ancestral home.

The ancestral house of my hometown was built on the hillside, surrounded by mountains and rivers, with excellent scenery. It is a quiet place where Taoists like to build Taoist temples, but they are not Taoist temples, but family-style courtyards.Her family's ancestors were not some prominent dignitaries, and they couldn't build grand temples and gardens. The house construction was only slightly better than that of ordinary mountain folk houses, with blue bricks, white walls and black tiles, and there was not even a second floor.

The old-fashioned houses do not have very good lighting, coupled with the humidity in the mountains, the house is dark and cold all year round.Occasionally come here for a short stay, and you can still enjoy the mountain scenery away from the hustle and bustle, but if you stay for a long time, you will not be able to bear it.Zhangjia Village, not far from the old house, has become an empty village, and the villagers have all moved down the mountain or into the city.

The ancestral house has only the 82-year-old great-grandfather, the [-]-year-old third aunt, and the eldest brother and his wife in the ancestral house. Now she is added.

Others either settled down in the city, practiced in Taoist temples elsewhere, or opened their own businesses. It would be nice to come back once or twice a year.

The two elderly people are getting old, the elder brother doesn't know what kind of stimulation, he is locked in the house all day and doesn't go out and doesn't talk, and the elder sister-in-law takes care of the life of the family.Her cousins ​​and cousins ​​either completely left the Taoist profession, or Yicheng went down the mountain. Only she jumped back to this pit after completely leaving the profession. She officially entered the profession at the age of 24, so she was very popular with the two. Special care for the elderly, the kind of cramming.

In this regard, Zhang Xiyan can only be thankful that she has a good memory. Since she was a child, Mr. Zhang Changshou has always asked her to recite the books and classics at home, so she doesn't need to make up for cultural lessons too much.

Her daily routine is: when the cock crows, she is scared out of bed by the ghostly third aunt, takes a medicinal bath, and first enjoys the sourness of bathing with snakes, insects, centipedes and countless herbs in a spicy pot.Get out of the bath at the crack of dawn and give her a quarter of an hour to wash and change.Clothes should be dressed in Taoist robes with cross collars, moon white robes, and white belts around the waist. Fahui.Afterwards it was breakfast, and then it was time for martial arts practice, with sandbags on the legs and heavy armbands around the waist, starting from the first basic skills, such as horse riding, jumping, and strength training, until noon.There is a two-hour rest at noon, eating and taking a nap, getting up at two o'clock in the afternoon, going to the library to read books for two hours to receive cultural and educational guidance from my grandfather, eating at four o'clock, resting for an hour, and continuing to practice, until evening Meditate and breathe when the sun and the moon are in harmony, until nightfall, and then take a half-hour medicinal bath, and then arrange freely.

I get up at three in the morning every day, no Internet, no TV, no computer, only all kinds of classic books, no entertainment, I can only read books, wash up and go to bed early.Her third aunt said that she can take her out for entertainment, and there are many fun things to do in the mountains at night. She is grateful for your kindness—let a Taoist priest who is afraid of ghosts go to the cemetery at night, ha ha!She was carried home in a daze, and hadn't spoken a word to the third aunt for a month.

She has always been reticent, and Grandma Sangu thought she was quiet and dull.

Zhang Xiyan thought, give her a mobile phone and a network cable, and she can complain about a book from Grandma Sangu!

The restless schedule lasted for three years. Zhang Xiyan grew from 24 to 27 years old. While bidding farewell to her youthful years, she ushered in the final exam.

Her graduation exam was chosen on Qingming Festival, when the scattered elders (examiners) all returned to their hometowns to worship their ancestors.The main examiner was the old lady, and the examiners were her uncles, aunts and cousins.Her family didn't let her pass the exam at all, and they were more ruthless than the other. Fortunately, she also worked hard to end the life of squatting in the mountains as soon as possible, and successfully passed the exam. After that, she can go down the mountain and find her own way out .

In this regard, the family has its own arrangements.

Her grandfather is eighty-three this year, so he doesn't plan to go down the mountain when he returns to his ancestral home this time. He will stay in his hometown for the elderly. He has a Taoist temple to pass on to their father and daughter.

Zhang Changshou said to her, "You have reached the age of eighteen, we have no obligation to take care of you anymore, and refuse you to live at home."

Her grandfather smiled slightly and said: "Then you come to live with me first. When you want to move out, just put a lock on the door. You can deal with the miscellaneous things I left in the Taoist temple. They are valuable, I brought back all the ones I brought out from home, and the rest are gadgets left for you, if you don’t like it, let your second cousin handle it for you, and you can still earn living expenses.”

Zhang Xiyan has no savings, no house, no car, no job, so she can only inherit her grandfather's small Taoist temple.

The Taoist temple is really small, not as big as the courtyard of the ancestral house. There are two entrances in the front and back. The front yard is for the ancestors, and the back yard is the living area. There are three rooms, one of which is made into a kitchen, and the toilet and bathroom are in the yard. A small house of three or four bungalows was built in the corner, with a window the size of a brick. The door was closed and the lights were not turned on. It was so dark that toilet paper could not be found.Fortunately, her father had a client who took advantage of her. When she was working in a financial company, her boss, Chairman Liu Shize, donated money to renovate the Taoist temple for her grandfather. It cost a lot of money, and even the statue of the patriarch was added a golden body. , Home appliances have also been replaced with modern ones, greatly improving living conditions.

After Qingming, she followed Zhang Changshou and his wife down the mountain.

She was dressed in a moon-white cross-neck Taoist robe with a cloud-pattern crane cloak, her long hair was tied up, and a jade hairpin fixed her hair. This kind of dress is suitable for the old house of the ancestral home. After going down the mountain, the turning heads...

Some people who were not very polite picked up their mobile phones and took pictures of her, and some people came up to ask which online shop her clothes were ordered from.

Zhang Xiyan really wanted to tell her that my ghostly third aunt made an improved Taoist robe by hand.Don't look at the third aunt who looks like a ghost now. She was a great beauty when she was young. The two of them have at least [-]% of their looks. Probably the third aunt wanted to make up for her lost beauty. The kind that is flustered, tell her - wear it for daily use, and also wear it after going down the mountain, and warn her, if you don't obey me, be careful that I will find you.

The ghost-like warning effect still makes my back shiver when I think about it.

Between wearing a Taoist robe with fairy air and seeing the third aunt's grandmother when she opened her eyes, she chose the Taoist robe with fairy air.

In front of the traditional Taoist clothes, she chose the improved version of Taoist robes that are full of immortality.

She is a Taoist priest of Huoju, not a Taoist priest who has become a monk, and she doesn't have so many rules and regulations.

She is only 27, not 87, so of course she wants to be beautiful.

Zhang Xiyan put on the Daoist gown upright, and went home behind Zhang Changshou and his wife, who were dressed in casual clothes. She didn't go home either. Arrived at the Taoist temple.