It was not easy to meet Zhen Zhen in the foggy mountain forest, and the fog gradually dissipated, but then it seemed that a ghost hit the wall, and it was not until noon that he could not reach the top of the mountain. Even more unfortunately, we were also surrounded by a group of things that were suspected to be dryads. When there was nothing else I could do, I had to resort to the last strategy in "Thirty-six Strategies" - go ahead!
Pulling Zhen Zhen, or being pulled by Zhen Zhen to run wildly in the rugged mountains and forests, the small stones like a torrential rain followed, and my back was probably smashed into a large area of bruises. Moreover, those terrifying tree spirits kept making a shrill cry of "squeak", which made me feel flustered, I almost touched the tree several times, but fortunately, Zhen Zhen responded quickly and pulled me, otherwise I might Divided by tree spirits.
However, poverty is not necessarily the end, and there is life in desperation! After being chased by this group of dryads for more than half an hour, I saw a bright light ahead, and it was obvious that we had reached the edge of the forest. Zhen Zhen seems to have noticed this too and ran faster than before. My stamina is far inferior to hers, and I have run a long rough road just now, and now I can barely run, and now I am almost dragged by her. I figured if I were a little lighter, she'd probably be dragging a burlap sack and sending me flying in the air. In fact, she really wanted to do this, she just ran wild, I was pulled and touched the tree three times before I walked out of this damn forest.
Although I was bruised all over, I managed to save my life anyway. After rushing out of the forest, those strange tree spirits stopped chasing after me. I was relieved and took a serious look at where we were. It turns out that we came to the top of the mountain by accident. There is a very simple temple not far away. I think this is the destination of our trip - Qinglian Temple.
The moment I saw this broken Taoist temple, the joy in my heart was indescribable. It was almost the same as when I bought the welfare lottery for two years in a row and won ten dollars for the first time. Zhen Zhen was also very excited and cheered loudly: "I found it, I finally found it!" and made a gesture to run over.
I quickly grabbed her and put my index finger in front of my lips: "Shh... This is a place for people to meditate. You will make people unhappy if you make a fuss like this."
She answered me with a slight breath, and then called out again: "Why did you do this? Didn't you just bandage it for you? Why is there blood all over your face now!"
"You're too embarrassed to ask, did you just pull me up into the tree." I think I'm still alive, and it's the longevity that cares for me. Because we have nothing on our body, it is really not easy to clean up the blood on our faces. Although it feels a little rude, we still plan to go to the Taoist temple first.
Along a rudimentary stone staircase that was slightly artificially trimmed, and through a torii whose writings had been erased by wind and rain, we came to a small square. There are stone slabs on the ground, and a large incense burner with a height of half a person in the center. There is a bit of refined elegance in the simplicity. Behind the square is a simple Taoist temple. There is a wooden plaque on the Taoist temple gate, with three cinnabar characters in vigorous and powerful handwriting on it - Qinglian Temple.
There is a middle-aged man in a plain but neat shirt and trousers sweeping the floor in the small square. I think he should be a Taoist priest here! So I wanted to ask Zhen Zhen to ask him, but Zhen Zhen grabbed me and whispered in my ear: "Is he a Taoist priest? Why doesn't he wear a Taoist robe?"
I answered her angrily: "I've never seen you wearing a skirt, but I never doubted that you're not a girl." She glared at me fiercely and stepped forward with me.
As soon as the Taoist priest saw us, he hurriedly stepped forward to help me, and asked with concern, "Did you run into trouble on the way up the mountain?"
"We met a group of tree spirits and a flying robe..." I told the middle-aged Taoist priest one by one the strange things we encountered in the mountains with a wry smile. It's not a dryad ghost, it's just a bunch of naughty troublemakers. I'll take you to deal with the wound first, and I'll help you get your wallet back later, anyway, I'm going to find those guys to get my robe back." He said Let us take us to the back of the Taoist temple.
There are several very simple bungalows behind the Taoist temple. He took us into one of them. The inside is also very simple. There is only a bed, a stool, a desk and a small wooden box. The bed has neatly arranged pillows and duvets. , there were several wire-bound books and an oil lamp on the desk, but nothing else. He asked me to sit down first, then went to the well outside the door and filled a bucket of water to help me wash the blood on my face, and then took out some herbs from the wooden box and asked Zhen Zhen to bandage the wound for me . After Zhen Zhen helped me bandage, he told me his Taoist name was Wang Ghen and asked why we went up the mountain.
"We're here to find someone." Zhen Zhen spoke one step ahead of me.
Wang Hen smiled and said to us: "You guys want to see my master for a photo-op, then you're not here at the right time. The master is only on the first and fifteenth day of the first year to see the photo for the visiting good believers. It's a pity that you came a day late. It's already sixteen today, so unless you have a relationship with him, you'll be gone this time for nothing."
"No..." Just as Zhen Zhen was about to speak, I pulled her and motioned her to stop rushing, and then said to Wanghen, "Are there many people looking for your master to see pictures?"
"Well, it should be said that there are many people who want to look for a master to see pictures, but there are not many people who can come here in person. I think you should be able to understand how difficult it is to walk up the mountain!" Wanghen is always smiling. expression.
"There seems to be no scientific basis for this kind of thing, do you also look at it? Why don't you see what work I do." Zhen Zhen's tone was slightly provocative.
"I only know some fur, I can't compare to the master, but if you are interested, I can give it a try." Wangheng put away his smile, looked at Zhen Zhen's face seriously, and said after a while: "Although you are She is a girl, but her eyebrows are fine and dense, and if she has a knife, she must have an injustice. She should be engaged in martial arts..." He pointed to Zhen Zhen's forehead, just above the eyebrows, "Your official palace is full and with Royal air, if I'm not mistaken, your job should be a police officer."
Zhen Zhen was stunned for a moment, then she smiled and said, "You really got me wrong, I am indeed a policeman."
Wangheng smiled again: "It's not false, it's justified. In fact, physiognomy is not as mysterious as the world thinks, it's just because there are too many charlatans in the world under the banner of physiognomy, so that people in the world are wrong. The physiognomy is only misunderstood. If we use science to explain physiognomy, then physiognomy can be regarded as a kind of statistics, because physiognomy is classified according to the facial features of various people, and palm physiognomy is the same. Of course, as A kind of statistics, neither face nor palm can be 100% accurate, but it cannot deny their scientific nature. For example, gambling, before the advent of "Probability Theory", gambling has always been considered to be determined by luck. Win or lose. But now people know that under certain rules, there will be people who only win but not lose, so people who open casinos only worry about no one coming to gamble, not about losing money.
"Real physiognomy is a very profound knowledge, and it is impossible to get any results simply by relying on one or two so-called physiognomy books. This is somewhat similar to medicine. If a doctor wants to diagnose a disease accurately, he must have Rich clinical experience is the premise. The same is true for physicists. Without rich experience and good observation eyes, it is impossible to become a good physicist.”
There is some truth in the words of forgetting hate. Philosophy is indeed a broad and profound knowledge, but unfortunately it is labeled as superstition by the world because of some charlatans. Today's young people would rather believe in astrology with extremely low accuracy than believe in more scientific physiognomy. However, this is almost a foregone conclusion, and rehabilitating Xiang Xue is not something we can do overnight, nor can we do it.
After discussing the topic of physiognomy with Wanghen, I thought it was time to get to the point, so I wanted to ask him if there was a person named Xue Chufan in the Taoist temple. However, just as I was about to speak, there were a few "squeaks" outside the door that made my pores stand up. As soon as I heard it, I knew it was from the dryads just now. Could they be chasing after them? here, right
Wanghen seemed to see something wrong with my face, so he said to me with a smile: "Don't be afraid, they are just naughty ghosts, they won't make fun of you when I'm here. I'll take you out now." He said He helped me up and took us out the door.
Although he kept saying that those guys would not hurt us again, I was still a little uneasy, but of course, after I saw what the so-called "tree spirits" looked like, I almost didn't cry: "Wow! Gunma Liu is finishing us!"
(“Ma Liu” in Cantonese means monkey in Mandarin, and “Ma Liu Jing” or “Ma Liu King” means Monkey King, the great sage of the heavens, and is usually used to describe mischievous children.)
In the open space outside the door, there are more than twenty monkeys squatting or sitting, or chasing and playing, and one of them is wearing an ill-fitting robe, holding my wallet and screaming at Wanghang, as if to We are protesting. It turns out that the tree spirits and flying robes we met in the morning were these "horse spirits"! No wonder when I saw the robe, I always thought it was hanging by a rope as thick as two fingers. Now I think that the rope should be the tail of the monkey.
Wanghen said to the monkey wearing the Taoist robe, "Okay, enough of the fun. If you want to eat fruit, return it first, otherwise I will be angry!"
The monkey got out of his robe in two or three strokes and threw his wallet at us. Zhen Zhen picked up her wallet and returned it to me. It was a good thing to find a wallet that was lost and found, but I couldn't laugh at all, because there were several tooth marks on the wallet, and none of the money in it was intact. It was all bitten into pieces and then stuffed back. At this moment, I really feel like crying without tears.
Forgetting to let us wait for a while, he went inside the Taoist temple, and after a while, he brought out some wrinkled fruits and threw them to the naughty monkeys to eat. The monkeys scrambled to the ground to grab the fruit, and immediately started eating on the spot, eating all the fruit in a while like a riot of hungry people. After they finished eating the fruit, they squeaked to Wangheng a few times, not knowing whether to thank him or protest to him, and then scurried back to the forest.
I asked Wanghen if he would often give these monkeys fruits to eat, and he said with a smile: "Well, these fruits are used to worship the three gods. It's wrinkled and no one wants to eat it, but it feels wasteful to throw it away, so we eat it for these naughty ghosts. We were kind-hearted, but these naughty ghosts want to make more money when they get cheap, and they are about to change their offerings every time. From time to time, they will come to steal our clothes and other things, and then use them to exchange fruits with us." After saying that, he walked over to pick up the Taoist robe and patted the dust off the Taoist robe.
"These monkeys are really smart, they are about to become elites!" Zhen Zhen still seemed to have lingering fears about what happened in the mountains.
"Chengjing can't say it, just be naughty." Wanghen folded the robe and held it with both hands, still with a smiling face on his face.
Although the tree spirits and flying robes I met this morning were all caused by monkeys, there is one thing I still can't figure out, which is why we got lost in the mountains and forests. At that time, we were clearly going up the mountain. Although Wulian Mountain is relatively large, it is not enough to reach the top of the mountain at noon! I expressed my doubts to Wanghen, and he asked me with a smile, "Do you know why the Qinglian Temple was built here?"
After thinking for a while, I replied: "Most of the people who are truly aspiring to practice like to be quiet and don't want to be disturbed by the outside world. I think this is probably the reason why Qinglian Temple is built here!"
"Well, the founder of this temple, Xuanhe Zhenren, built the Qinglian Temple here for the sake of tranquility, but do you know why it is so peaceful here?" A forest."
"Is it because this mountain forest is difficult to walk?" Zhen Zhen asked in confusion.
Wanghen smiled and said, "This is not an ordinary mountain forest. The trees in the forest are planted according to the orientation of the Five Elements and Eight Diagrams."
"You're not very reliable!" I cast a skeptical look at him, "Let's not say whether the Five Elements and Gossip are really so magical, it is absolutely impossible to plant an entire mountain forest with manpower."
I thought that my doubts would make Wang Ghen speechless, but he still replied with a smile: "Of course it is impossible for people to plant all the trees in the forest, and this place is not bare. But on the basis of the original, and then It is not difficult to plant trees in the right place. In fact, the five elements are not as mysterious and mysterious as the world thinks. Take this mountain forest as an example, when the master just used the theory of feng shui and planted it in the right place. Certain trees make the forest ecology get a better balance and make this mountain forest more lush. While changing the ecology, the humidity in the mountain forest increases, and there will be fog in the morning. Coupled with the naughty group It is very difficult for outsiders to go up the mountain. And the best thing is, because the trees planted by the master are arranged in a gossip aspect, the mountain forest has become a natural mystery, and it is even more difficult to go up the mountain.”
"Is the Five Elements Gossip really so magical?" I still don't believe it, although I only learned the mystery in the morning, people are such strange creatures.
He explained with a smile: "I didn't say it just now, the five elements are not as mysterious and mysterious as the world thinks. In fact, to put it bluntly, I just put some thought into the position where the trees are planted, so that many places look similar. It is easy for people to get lost. Moreover, the terrain difference and other factors are used to make people confused, thinking that they are going up the mountain, but in fact they are going down the mountain. But if the person who goes up the mountain is not confused by the external scenery and rushes to the top of the mountain in one breath, then he will soon be able to reach the top of the mountain."
After listening to his explanation, I suddenly felt a sense of relief. It turned out that the reason why we lost our way in the mountains and forests was because we were too concerned about the surrounding scenery. Whenever we saw similar scenery, we thought that this place had just passed by. Confused. Although the Five Elements Theory sounds illusory, after his explanation, I feel that it is quite realistic in practical application.
After solving all the doubts in my heart, it was time to do the right thing, so I asked Wang Ghen if there was a person named Xue Chufan in the Qinglian Temple. He was stunned for a moment when he heard the words. The smile that had been hanging on his face was put away for a while, but he recovered quickly and said with a slight smile: "My common name is Xue Chufan."