Chapter six hundred and eighteenth old man
Zuofu usually likes benevolent and righteous words. The old man laughed at him and said, "You like to talk about ethics and morality. My eight things are very different from yours: one must eat, two must drink, three must pull (referring to stool), four must sprinkle (referring to urination), five must run (resistance to walk), six must move, seven must sleep (resistance to insomnia), and eight must bear (resistance to endure).
Although everyone could not understand it, they nodded and asked to pass on the secret of immortality. He said, "The Tao does not pass on the six ears. If you want to learn it, you need to do it one by one, and you cannot communicate and eliminate thoughts. I will teach you, but I have not learned it yet, and I will teach you this kind of person the least."
Everyone swore that they would not say lightly, and he said that it would be spread again and again, but the old man had not lived for a long time and then left again.
The Zuo family's house was very large, with three acres of land built, and several houses were built, and there were very few relatives. Zuo's father did not work for production, so that there was no food for the family to stay. After eating the remaining food, the food was about to be exhausted again for more than a year.
Relatives and friends often come to persuade each other, saying that you cannot make a living by yourself when you study Taoism. When Zuo’s father was hesitating, the old man came hurriedly again.
He started and said, "I was moved, I got the burden and earned coins."
Everyone was puzzled and asked why. The old man said: "There is a patient living in Jiadao, Hebei. He agreed with me to go to the clinic at the hour of Hai. If you want to make a lot of money to treat terminal illness, you can take a medical box to me and leave."
He handed Zuo Father a medicine bag and ordered Zuo Father to follow him immediately. Zuo Father looked at him and saw that the bag was empty and there was no medicine.
The old man urged, "If you want to bring it up, just take it up, be a follower, no one will not bring up anything?" He immediately went to the carriage. As soon as he walked to the door, he handed it to Zuo's father a jade ring and asked him to hold it in his mouth.
When he arrived at the clinic, he said to the patient's family: "He is a mute apprentice." The patient's whole family worshiped him on the ground.
The old man said: "Kowtow is fake, money is real, what about money?"
The owner immediately gave money and the old man counted them one by one, and a total of 130 coins were put into his bag.
He asked the patient and said he was sleeping inside. He saw that the patient was about fifty years old and was said to have been in bed for a long time, with unkind hands and feet and unable to move.
The old man took out a gourd from his arms, poured out three pills, and the room was filled with strange fragrance. He looked back at the patient and said, "This one is a thousand gold, please swallow it quickly."
The patient opened his mouth and swallowed the medicine. He helped him sit down, moved his feet, patted his chest and back, stroked his neck and said, "Get up."
Even when the patient got out of bed, helped him walk, walked around the bed for more than ten times, and sat on the edge of the bed, nothing happened.
The patient's family was overjoyed and all sighed and said, "A true immortal, a true living immortal."
The old man asked everyone to come out and taught them the technique of guidance. He also told them not to welcome him with a vehicle, and that he should come naturally when he comes.
The family obeyed the orders. After returning, they vomited the jade rings and Zuo's father felt confused. The old man said, "What's wrong with getting people's money and eliminating disasters for others!"
Zuo Father asked how to ask for money and property when he saved the world and saved people! The old man looked around and said it, which made Zuo Father very unhappy.
The old man said: "To give up money to show the patient's close pursuit of survival. How can he believe and take action with his care? Try to think carefully about it, and those who enter by mistake will have to go out and learn the Tao will be the same."
Zuo's father had realized something, but he never understood the subtlety of his Taoism in his life, and he always felt sorry for him.
The old man lives in Zuo's house. He rises before sunrise and must go out and walk until night before going home.
He either put three eggs in goat milk or ate white porridge and side dishes, and he was also sweet and never ate. He took vegetables from the garden, crushed several corn, and opened them with water, several mushrooms, and a few slices of vegetable heart. He cooked them to make delicious lambs. The eaters praised them and never waste them.
One day, the old man entered the door and saw a spider web hanging from the door. Zuo’s father wanted to remove it. He stopped him and said, “Destination will not hinder me, I will not hinder it. Even insects and ants cannot harm their lives.”
One day, the old man went out for several days but did not return. When he returned, his clothes were covered in dust and dirt, and his body was covered in red spots, pus and blood, and he looked like a beggar.
He went inside and sat cross-legged for about half a quarter of an hour, shining his clothes and washing his feet, his skin was as white as a baby. He saw the abscess that he saw not long ago and his appearance was completely refreshed. This is the magical power of "the mind can transform things" achieved by practicing alchemy.
Another day, the old man sat and sang it. Zuo Yi hurriedly asked about the meaning of the song. He said, "I heard that others sing like this, so I sang it, and I couldn't understand what it meant."
The old man often tells stories and speaks funny words, and often advises people: "It's rare to be confused." He also says: "It's in the clouds and mist, but he still stays in the shop when he wakes up."
Zuo Yasuji's mother suffered from vomiting and had not been cured for many years. The old man immediately ordered his mother to make a thousand-layer cloth shoes. The shoes were made, and the shoes counted the layers of the sole, and said to her: "You are calm. Look at this sole and the other sole, there are not more layers or more layers."
He also bought a new cloth robe and burned all the old robe and shoes.
Zuo's mother did not realize her hard work, nor did she realize when her illness would be cured. Zuo Ya was the youngest at home, and the old man was particularly fond of her and was willing to sleep with her in the same room.
Zuoya slept in the small bed on the side of the door. The old man used two square tables of red sandalwood to make the bed. At night, he sat cross-legged on the bed, but he did not see him lying. Zuoya also imitated it. The old man scolded and said, "You are angry when you sit down, let's see how you do it?" Zuoya was not allowed to meditate.
Sometimes, the old man taught Zuo Ya. Zuo Ya wanted to take the bamboo slips and engrave them, but he stopped him and said, "Remember it in your heart, and do not carry it."
There were many daughters in the town who were forced to be prostitutes but had no money to redeem themselves. The old man was very happy after hearing this and immediately urged Zuo's father to go and take the name of a prostitute and go to handle the matter.
The Zuofu said, "Would you like to be a granddaughter or a great-granddaughter?"
He said, "No, let's just give me a prostitute."
It happened that a female guest came in and heard about this and called her to the sky! The old man said that the word "tian" is good, so he took the name of "left one day, leave one day, and said, "It's right to keep me for one day."
He went to the prostitute again, used all the shell coins he held, and redeemed more than 20 prostitutes to get them out.
Zuo's father disagreed, so the old man ignored it, but asked the prostitutes' names and addresses and left, and did not return all night.
Zuo's father was anxious and difficult to settle down.
At dawn the next day, someone came to pick up his daughter, saying, "At sunset yesterday, an old man in a green cloth robe said that his daughter was in the mansion and he wanted to pick it up quickly, hold a piece of paper, and engrave it on the left handwriting for one day."
Zuo's father ordered someone to take a closer look. It turned out that he was the biological father of a certain girl. He met and was filled with joy and joy. He kowtowed and thanked him.
Before afternoon, the elders, one or two hundred miles away, came one after another, saying that they were told by the old man to hold bamboo slips engraved by themselves at sunset yesterday.
Zuo Fu was amazed and said, "This is a strange man's behavior, which is very natural to measure." Little did he know that this was a phased achievement of the alchemy - the fractal shadow-scattering magic power after the Yang Shen achieved it.
Some people claim to be a disciple of Zuo Xianren, and their surname is Yun, so they ask to see the old immortal.
Zuo's father told him that he had not returned from home the previous month. The man asked him very carefully and looked at the immortal's residence and waited for a long time before leaving.
The old man quietly returned on this night and hurriedly packed his luggage, saying that he could not stay here for a long time. Because people came during the day, they asked for 500 coins to borrow money, but they had refused, for fear that they would change. If they had the opportunity to meet each other in the future, they would carry their bags and leave overnight.
The next day, people said that the old immortal lived somewhere, how to cheat money and sex, and all kinds of illegal things.
Later, he was alarmed by the government office, and some officers and soldiers came to Zuo Ya's house to investigate. Zuo's father told him the truth and went to check the female families in the office, and all of them confirmed that they were true. Only then did he believe that someone was suspected of attacking him, and the matter was settled, and the old man would not come again from then on.
The next year, Zuo's father had many houses outside the city and had been occupied by others. He planned to ask the official for help, hoping to take back a little, because he was old friends with the other party.
Zuo's father usually stayed at the villa. When he walked to the main entrance, he saw a beggar lying horizontally. When he walked to his side, he suddenly turned over and sat up to recognize him. He turned out to be an old man.
The people in the door were shocked and didn't see anyone at first. The two of them were overjoyed and went to their residence together.
The ancestors and grandsons of the Zuo clan served the old man for five generations, but he did not live in the gatehouse and claimed to be the one who guarded the gate.
The old man asked Zuo's father to eat, and maggots were squirming in the dishes. He sighed and said, "You have always been hygienic. How can you eat it? Go to the wine store outside to eat it? How?"
Zuo's father was about to invite him, so he led to the wine shop and went straight into the elegant room. The waiter was very respectful and wanted to order food. He asked, "Do you guys still order food?" The old man said, "Yes!"
The meal was served soon, and the old man only ate a plate of "Baiwukai" (sea cucumber) and told Zuo's father to come back tomorrow and have something to discuss.
After dinner, Zuo's father had to pay the bill, and the waiter said, "The old immortal is here to meet guests, and he has already paid the bill."
The next morning, Zuo's father went to meet as promised. The old man was holding a bag with several shell coins in it, probably no less than two hundred. He was going to gamble. From morning to night, he waved it all.
Someone came to ask, and he just said, "I won, I won." After he was over, he happily returned the carriage.
Yun Wu saw that Zuo Ya's house was empty and happy that it was quiet, so he moved to live in the front hall. He was also a disciple of the old man. After talking about it, he realized that when the old man had not come to Zuo Ya's house, he had originally lived in the Yun family.
At that time, he lived in the Yun family compound. Yun Wu no longer talked about martial arts and instead became obsessed with divination.
One day, the old man said, "I went out in the morning and saw an ancient bamboo slip somewhere in the East City Gate." Yun Wu heard this and was anxious to look at each other. The old man said, "You can take a walk tomorrow morning."
Early the next morning, the two went out together, gradually walking and walking slowly, walking in the secluded alley, crossing the street to the East City Gate. The old man was in front of him, but he saw his clothes fluttering, and his walking was like the wind.
Yun Wuben is good at light skills, and he runs wildly to chase after him, but he is unable to catch up with him even if he is just one arrow.
When I arrived at a gate beside the city, I shouted, "Gu Jian is here, please play with it carefully, I have lost my companion."
When Yun Wu walked closer, he saw that it was not an ancient simplified Chinese at all. He realized that it was an old man who joked and just wanted to try his best.
He talked about the old man many stories, and whenever he talked about his unexpected behavior, he seemed to feel a little regretful and disappointed! (To be continued)
Chapter completed!