Daoist Abandoned Wisdom

Tao Xinian woke up from the dream, he just wanted to take a nap, but he overslept.He looked out of the window, and there was a dim yellow color in the snow, and it was already dusk.

Abo was sleeping soundly on his lap, he stretched his legs, Abo wiped his mouth, rubbed his mung bean eyes, and asked, "What time is it?"

"Go cook! Get something delicious."

Abo stood up sullenly, and said, "You know how to instruct me. Let me tell you, that great monk is weird, don't save the bad guys, the accumulation of good deeds will not lead to evil..."

"Bad guy..." Tao Xinian rubbed his chin, "It shouldn't be a bad guy, it's true that it's a bit weird."

Abo went to work in the kitchen, while Tao Xinian held an umbrella, and as usual, walked out of the Taoist temple, stood at the intersection of the downhill, and looked at Jiankang City in the distance.

Now living on Qinglong Mountain, it is not easy to enter the city, far away from the former prosperous days in the world of mortals, and occasionally feel missed.

At this moment, Xiu Yuan walked towards him steadily with a shovel in hand. The wind blew his cloak, like a traveler returning from a snowy night.

Tao Xinian smiled at him: "Are you back?"

Xiu Yuan nodded, put the shovel back to its original place, and looked towards Tao Xinian's gaze, which was Jiankang City, which was more prosperous than Luoyang.He stood side by side with him, facing the snowstorm in the evening.

"Don't you ask me where I went?"

Tao Xinian said indifferently: "If you want me to know, you will naturally tell. If you don't want to tell, I won't ask. But... just because I don't ask, doesn't mean I don't know."

"The Taoist priest is a sensible person. I will deal with the corpse at the foot of the mountain, so as not to cause trouble."

Tao Xinian raised his eyebrows, and was about to listen to the play, but Xiu Yuan stopped there.Seeing that the shovel was gone, Tao Xinian naturally knew that Xiu Yuan was going to clean up the corpses, but he couldn't guess the grievances between the man in black and the man in plain clothes.If you don't talk about repairing the edge, you definitely don't want to talk about it, or you can't even talk about it.Then it can only be forgotten.

Ah, so boring.

After the meal, Tao Xinian urged Xiu Yuan to drink a bowl of decoction, hooked his fingers to Abo, and said, "Abo, go get the medicine box." Then he turned to Xiuyuan, "I'll help you change the medicine."

Abo came staggeringly carrying a bulky medicine box with his two thin arms, and placed it heavily in front of Tao Xinian.With a blank expression on his face, Xiu Yuan reached out and untied his belt.Tao Xinian untied the tightly bound bandages one by one, and the knife wound on Xiu Yuan's back with deep bone visible was closed.

Tao Xinian poked lightly with his hand and asked, "Does it hurt?"

"A little."

"Okay so fast."

Abo said sadly at the side: "Use my leaves, it will get better soon..."

Xiuyuan looked back at Abo in surprise, guessed something, and said: "Thank you two, otherwise my wound would not be healed in more than a month."

"Hmph, hum... It's not just Yueyu, if I didn't save you, you would have frozen into a stick in the ice and snow... Ouch, the dead demon! You stroked my leaves again!"

Tao Xinian grinningly stroked a small handful of leaves, crushed them together with other medicines for promoting muscle growth and stopping bleeding, and applied them on Xiuyuan's wound.

Xiu Yuan asked: "Is it wrong to pick the leaves of little brother Abo?"

"Not right! Of course it's not right! It's really not right!" Abo jumped.

Tao Xinian comforted Abo, and said, "Go to the top of the mountain to fetch some snow, and I'll make tea for you."

After hearing this, Abo immediately forgot the previous unhappiness, grinned, and rushed out the door with the jar in his arms.

After Abo left, Tao Xinian said to Xiu Yuan, "Don't worry, you are recovering very quickly, and you won't need Abo's leaves tomorrow, rest assured."

Abo soon returned with a jar full of fresh snow, hurriedly dragged out a tea set from the cabinet, put it on the low table, moved the small stove over, and looked at Tao Xinian expectantly.

Tao Xinian washed his hands with clean water, broke off a small piece from the tea cake, sandwiched it between bamboo sticks and put it over the stove to roast. broken.

Abo brought a small casserole for frying tea, poured new snow into the pot, put it on the fire to melt, and when the snow water boiled, put jujube, cinnamon, tangerine peel, mint, dried chrysanthemum, and wolfberry in sequence.Half a quarter of an hour later, Tao Xinian divided the finely divided tea leaves into three tea bowls, poured them into boiling soup, and the aroma of tea leaves floated in the room instantly.

Abo sniffed his teacup intoxicatedly, the tea leaves are good for his diligence.In addition, he really likes to watch Tao Xinian make tea, his slender and white fingers finish the process of making tea in a leisurely manner, which makes his teeth itchy, and he really wants to rush up and take a bite.

After a while, Tao Xinian used a flat bamboo spoon to skim off some froth on the tea bowl, and a dish of Eight Treasures Tea was completed.

He made a gesture of "please". Abo picked up the tea bowl and sniffed it. He wanted to stick his tongue in and lick it, but he was afraid of the heat, so he held back.Xiu Yuan also picked up the tea bowl, silently watching the tea leaves and petals floating above the tea bowl, and quietly waiting for the tea to cool slightly.

Tao Xinian asked: "Xiuyuan, does the northern monk drink tea?"

Xiu Yuan shook his head and said, "Tea is very precious in the north."

"It's also very expensive in the south. A piece of tea cake costs a few hundred dollars. The tea cake used by the Taoist priest is Sichuan tea. A large piece of tea cake costs a tael of silver..." Abo felt ignorant about cultivating the edge, and murmured Talk on and on.

"What's the price of tea in the north?" Tao Xinian asked enthusiastically.

"A piece of high-quality Sichuan tea cake like this is about three or four taels of silver. Tea is scarce, and there is often a price but no market."

"Sure enough, gold is expensive." He only buys this kind of tea once a year, and if he runs out of it, he will buy cheaper Chaling tea instead.With his current situation of sitting and eating, if this tea is sold for three taels of silver, he will absolutely not be able to buy it.

"The Taoist priest...is he a son of a wealthy family?"

Thinking of the past, Tao Xinian smiled awkwardly, and said, "It used to be, but the family has long since fallen. People who practice Taoism, how can they say that they are rich or not? Wealth is just a floating cloud..."

Of course not!It's nice to have money to buy more expensive tea cakes.Tao Xinian thought to himself.

Xiu Yuan heard that Tao Xinian didn't want to talk about family matters, so he stopped talking.

Tao Xinian asked Xiu Yuan about the situation in the north again, and Xiu Yuan answered them one by one. Tao Xinian stretched himself, saw that A Bai was dozing off, and thought it was time to sleep, so he asked A Bai to help him Repair the edge and make a stove.

"I'm not cold, I don't need a stove." Xiu Yuan simply said goodbye, got up and went to the next door.Abo was so happy that he got into the jar and couldn't get out.

Tao Xinian fetched water to wash his face and soak his feet, the more he soaked, the more awake he felt, probably because he drank too much tea.Really shouldn't be drinking at night.

By the way, this year's marriage is not counted yet.Although every time it is counted as the fate of the lone star of Tiansha, there is no love at all.

Tao Xinian dazedly stretched out his fingers to count his horoscope for a while, then suddenly stopped, feeling a little puzzled.

Red Luan star...moved?

He looked at his hands in disbelief, and almost overturned the foot basin in agitation.

He did the calculation again, and it was correct.

Could it be that his calculations are not accurate at all?

He sighed, and suddenly, a pair of peach blossom eyes lit up.

Maybe it's true!

The next day, Xiu Yuan still woke up very early. When Tao Xinian got up, he had already cleaned the Taoist temple up and down, and even the blood-stained carpet in Tao Xinian's room was removed by him for washing. up.Tao Xinian had no idea when Xiu Yuan came in.

Walking into the Yuanshi Hall, Tao Xinian looked over his head, the beams were clean, the big spider and the cobwebs had been cleaned away.The corner of his mouth twitched, he was looking forward to the spider becoming sperm soon.If it's a good goblin, you can be his follower just like Abo. If it's a bad goblin, of course you can step on it to death and absorb the spirit. It's not a loss anyway.

ah!It's been a while, so you can't tell Xiu Yuan that he needs this spider, can you?He must have been trampled to death by Xiu Yuan long ago...

Eh, no, how can a Buddhist practice kill?Hey, maybe Xiuyuan drove it away.

Tao Xinian walked around inside and out, only to feel that the whole Taoist temple had a new look.

Qinglong Taoist Temple has only been built for six years, and it is still very new. When the master is there, at least once during the Chinese New Year, it needs to be cleaned.Since the master left, it has never been cleaned carefully.He was suddenly a little complacent, he had saved a cultivator and came back, he had accumulated good deeds and gained so many benefits at the same time.Good people are indeed rewarded with good rewards, the ancients never deceived me!

He lit incense in the Yuanshi Hall, exchanged new tributes, and knelt down to pray devoutly.

"Yuanshi Tianzun is above, bless the disciple to find a good match, if it is successful, he must be diligent in enshrining..."

After chanting for a while, Tao Xinian stood up, straightened the hem of his clothes, and decided to see what Xiu Yuan was doing.Turning around, Abo was sitting by the door with his feet up, as if he had been sitting for a long time, Mung Bean's eyes were rolling, and his mouth was wide: "Why are you asking for marriage again?" There is something wrong.

Tao Xinian cleared his throat, and asked back, "Can't you?"

"Are you counting yourself married again?"

Tao Xinian smiled mysteriously, stopped talking, and asked, "Where is Xiu Yuan, what is he doing?"

Abo yelled anxiously: "Couldn't you be...ready to get along with that wild bald donkey? Nasty!"

Tao Xinian hurriedly covered Abo's mouth, and said, "Hush! Keep your voice down, what nonsense are you talking about? I've only known him for a few days, you little monster, why are you so evil..."

"Well...then you...then what kind of marriage are you looking for..." Abo broke Tao Xinian's fingers and whispered intermittently.

"Hey, it's rare that I have a red luan's star movement. I think... maybe my fate has changed after all these years of cultivation." Tao Xinian was a little shy.

"Bah! How can fate be so easy to change? Don't harm the girl again. If you marry another one, you will be killed by you again... This is harming people."

Tao Xinian's bright eyes rolled away, suddenly a little frustrated.He didn't have any relationship with his three wives who died of anger before they got married, he just felt a little guilty.If he really finds a girl he likes and is killed by him, he will be heartbroken.

He turned around, planted three more incense sticks, knelt on the futon, and prayed: "Yuanshi Tianzun is above, this disciple is willing to do his best for three hundred times, please bless this disciple to cultivate the earth immortal as soon as possible..."

Abo shook his legs aside, as if he was finally satisfied.

"Where is Xiu Yuan? I just turned around and didn't see him."

Abo snorted and said, "Feed the chickens in the backyard, work hard."

Knowing where to cultivate the edge, Tao Xinian turned back to the room, sat cross-legged on the futon, breathed out, and began to practice.

Abo jumped up and down in the open space of the courtyard, made a snowman out of the snowdrifts swept up by repairing the edges, smashed the snowman up and down, and stomped on it a few times.

Xiu Yuan did all his work, it was so boring.

The author has something to say: Tea was relatively rare during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and few people had the habit of drinking tea.Except for the children of the nobles in the south who like to drink tea and talk about it, the rest of the tea-drinking group belongs to the monks, because drinking tea can clear the mind and think about philosophical issues, haha.

It is said that the Chinese people’s habit of drinking tea began to become popular in my country during the Tianbao period of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, and most of them are in a hodgepodge state, similar to Babao tea, where many things are put in besides tea leaves.

Tao Xinian's way of cooking tea is recorded in "Guang Ya": "Pluck tea in the Jingba to make cakes. Ye Lao, the cakes are made of rice paste. If you want to cook tea, you first burn it to make the color red, and pound it into powder. , put it in a porcelain vessel, pour it with soup, and sprinkle it with green onion, ginger, and orange."

That's right, I read that right, there are green onions and ginger in the tea, the taste is too strong...