"I don't know when a white-bearded Taoist priest appeared behind him, holding a fly whisk and a Taoist spirit. He looked like he was walking down a painting. He softly shouted a Taoist number and saluted: "Immeasurable life and blessings, you are so good.
, it’s so good.”
Onlookers crowded the entrance of the brothel. How did the Taoist priest get in? Everyone onlookers felt strange and unconsciously took a few steps back to clear a space." When Zhu Jinze said this, the car suddenly swerved.
As he turned, he grinned and said, "Be careful, you drove too fast and I was thrown out of the car."
"Okay, but the mountain road is rugged, so continue telling your story." Jin Huabin answered and then asked: "What happened later, did the villagers not kneel down and worship?"
"No, Botan Township is at the hub of water and land, with Tianmu Mountain next to it. Since Ge Xianweng practiced in this mountain in the Jin Dynasty, there are many water, caves and Taoist priests in the mountain. It has become common for Taoist villagers to come here from the mountain to purchase daily necessities.
It is not uncommon for people to be as celestial as this old man." He pointed to the mountain in front of him and said, "We will arrive at Tianyan Village in half an hour."
"What did the white-haired Taoist priest do?" Jin Huabin brought the topic back to the original topic.
"The old Taoist smiled and said: "It's rare to have a good heart and water to the east. It's rare. I want to accept your three children as disciples and ask them to learn Taoism from me. How about that?"
Wang Wen and three other people had visions when they were born, and they were all obtained from the Sanqing Temple after Wang Qingbo and his wife had not had children for many years. It is known that the three of them may have some connection with Taoism, but once they became Taoist priests, their incense was cut off.
After hesitating again and again, he knelt down and begged: "There are three ways to be unfilial, and the worst is not having children. Our couple will have to take care of them until they die. I hope the Taoist priest will forgive me."
When Wang Wen saw this Taoist priest, he had a head like a peach and slender ears. He felt an indescribable feeling of intimacy. He felt that he had seen it before somewhere, but he couldn't remember it, so he stared at it for a while and then knelt down.
Kowtow.
"Chi'er, Chi'er, after the matter is done, we will meet again in the future." The Taoist priest said cheerfully: "Today, I will give you three small gifts for the three of you." After saying that, he waved the dust from his sleeves and
Three items fell out, a book, a picture, and a lamp.
Wang Wen, Xiaomi, and Xiaozhu bowed their thanks and accepted it. The Taoist happily walked through the crowd without knowing why, step by step, unhurriedly. A few meddlesome people saw that he was coming here strangely, and followed him.
, but no matter how hurriedly I walked, I couldn't keep up. After passing the corner of the street, the white-bearded Taoist priest disappeared, and several cranes were heard in the sky."
Hearing the sound of cranes crowing, one of the people thought of the other party's special peach-shaped head, which is how it is painted on New Year pictures. He suddenly remembered and said: "Is this Taoist priest transformed into a longevity star?" He knelt down and kowtowed.
Wang Wen and his two younger sisters, Xiaomi and Xiaozhu, were very happy to see the gifts. After returning home, after nightfall, Wang Wen opened the book and read it. It was a picture album with several kinds of plants painted on each page.
The winding characters describe the names and aromas of the plants. It turns out that these plants are spices, and some of them Wang Wen once picked in Yong'an and added them to the wine. As a result, the aroma of the wine was greatly enhanced. The characters were completely different.
No one recognizes the appearance of the characters written in the past. Could it be that this is a heavenly book? The picture is made of unknown leather, with dots and straight lines marked on it. Wang Wen looked at it and didn’t know why.
When Xiaomi and Xiaozhu saw each other, they shouted excitedly: "This is the Big Dipper, this is Sirius, this is..."
Wang Wen was confused. Although they had liked to look up at the stars since they were young, no one in their family knew about the stars at such a young age, and no one had ever seen star charts. It was said that they could only be found in the palace. They were
How did you recognize them? Also, what did they mean when they gave them these items?
"How do you know the stars on the picture?" Wang Wen asked curiously.
"The old man in the village told us when we were enjoying the cool weather in the summer. It's exactly the same as what's on the star map." The two sisters pointed to the stars in the sky and said to their brother who hadn't seen them for several months: "Look, in the sky,
The stars are exactly the same as those in the picture."
Wang Wen looked up and saw that the sky was filled with stars. His eyes were dazzled and he couldn't see any correspondence. But he knew that his sisters and he had visions when they were born. This picture must have a profound meaning.
So, I touched their heads and stopped talking."
Just as I was listening fascinated, the car turned a corner, and a small village with seven or eight houses appeared on the mountainside. Tianyan Village arrived. The two of them carried some rice, oil, meat and other gifts and arrived at Old Man Li's house. It was winter.
Han, Old Man Li is a lonely old man who is chopping firewood in front of his house. Following him is a child from a neighbor in the village. This child is a mentally retarded orphan and no one wants to adopt him. Old Man Li sees him as pitiful and often gives him some food.
, so the two of them are often together.
Zhu Jinze shouted loudly in his ear: "Uncle Li, let's come here to interview you and listen to you tell the story of Wang Wenzeng collecting medicine in this village, okay?" The old man was a little hard of hearing, and it took him a long time to hear his words clearly.
I hurriedly took out a book of calligraphy paintings from an unknown era from the house and started talking.
Old Man Li pointed to the painting above and said: "My ancestors were medicine farmers. This was passed down from my grandfather's grandfather. It is said that Immortal Wang Wen used to collect herbs and make wine behind my mountain. My great-grandfather helped because he didn't know how to make wine."
He knew medicine, so he drew the shape of the medicine for my great-grandfather."
Jin Huabin recognized the plant in the painting as Tiepi Fengdou, a medicinal material that grows on rocks and is known as an elixir. It has a good effect on reducing diabetes and blood sugar levels. The other painting is Polygonatum japonicus, also known as Immortal Surplus Liang, which is also blindly used.
Good medicine. But judging from the condition of the paper, it is definitely not from the Song Dynasty.
"The story of my great-grandfather accompanying Immortal Wang Wen to collect herbs is lost in history." Old Man Li lit up his cigarette, tapped the sole of his shoe several times, and began his narration.
Perhaps it was because no one had talked to him for a long time, and Old Man Li couldn't stop talking. (Due to the order of the article, the content of the interview will be written in a later chapter.) After talking for nearly two hours, the sky began to change.
Hei said in an apologetic tone: "It's not easy for two guests to get here from the city. You can stay and have dinner before leaving. I'll do it now."
In the evening, they made an appointment to have dinner with colleagues from the Hengxi Cultural Station. The two of them quickly declined his offer and drove back to Hengxi.
The cultural station has a low income, so it adopts a more economical form of entertaining guests. It is placed in the canteen, and everyone brings food to cook for themselves. The food is served, and it is seven or eight basins of pork, beef, mutton, fish and other meats, all of which are slow-cooked in a large pot.
When it comes out, the color is not good, but it is really delicious.