Chapter 1: Farewell
"Master, tomorrow I will go to the county seat to prepare for school, and I won't be able to visit you every day in the future, this is your favorite Huadiao wine, ten years old, and you like to eat called Huazi chicken, today our master and apprentice eat and drink happily. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info "Baiyun Mountain, in front of a tomb, a young man holds a five-pound jar of Huadiao wine in his hand, and in front of him is a chicken called Huazi wrapped in lotus leaves, and two porcelain bowls, while pouring wine into the bowl, he mutters in his mouth.
This young man's name is Ge Dongxu, a villager from Gejiayan Village at the foot of Baiyun Mountain. Buried in the grave is his master Ren Yao.
Ge Dongxu practiced with him from the age of eight until Ren Yao's death at the age of fourteen. Now Ren Yao has passed away for two years, and Ge Dongxu is already a sixteen-year-old boy. Because he was admitted to the county No. 1 middle school, he will leave for the county seat tomorrow, and he came to say goodbye to his master today.
Speaking of Master Ren Yao, although Ge Dongxu practiced with him for six years, he knew very little about his life, and even his name was only known before he looked away. Because since Ge Dongxu knew his master, his master has been a crazy old man who is in good spirits and bad at times.
Ren Yao is not often seen in the village, and more often lives in a small abandoned Taoist temple in the depths of Baiyun Mountain. Occasional visits to the village are mostly insane. The children in the mountain village were naughty, and when they saw that the old man was crazy, they laughed and chased after him with rotten fruit and mud.
Ge Dongxu is careful to be simple and kind, not as naughty as other children, and when he sees his playmates throwing things at the old man for fun, he always has to step forward to protect Ren Yao. In the end, he was thrown into filth.
Occasionally, when Ge Dongxu was thrown into dirt again in order to protect Ren Yao, Ren Yao suddenly sobered up, drank away the children, and then looked at Ge Dongxu for a long time, and suddenly asked: "Are you willing to worship me as a teacher and practice with me?"
Ge Dongxu wanted to shake his head, but when he saw that Ren Yao's hair was gray and his clothes were ragged, he was very pitiful, so he nodded and agreed.
Ren Yao was overjoyed, and immediately took Ge Dongxu to meet his parents, and wanted to officially accept Ge Dongxu as a disciple.
Ge Dongxu's parents naturally refused to let their son worship a crazy old man as his master, although he seemed normal at that time.
I don't know if it was stimulated by Ge Dongxu's parents' refusal, Ren Yao became confused on the spot, and left with a chatter.
It's just that since then, he has always come to visit Ge Dongxu every once in a while.
Ge Dongxu's parents saw that Ren Yao was crazy, and they pestered their son, for fear that he would hurt their son, and after seeing him come to the door a few times, they couldn't help but chase him.
But no matter how they rushed, Ren Yao still had to come, but Ge Dongxu's parents still insisted on driving him away and didn't let him get close to their son.
Until one day, Ge Dongxu suddenly had a high fever that did not go away, and the doctor was helpless, Ge Dongxu's parents were so anxious that they were in tears, and when they were about to send Ge Dongxu to the county to find a doctor, Ren Yao suddenly appeared and hugged Ge Dongxu and ran away.
Ge Dongxu's parents were naturally anxious and chased him behind. It is also strange to say that Ren Yao is obviously a gray-haired old man, but he ran faster than Ge Dongxu's father when he was holding a child, and he went into the mountains and forests in a blink of an eye.
At that time, Ge Dongxu's parents didn't think much about it, seeing that Ge Dongxu was carried into the mountains and forests by the crazy old man and disappeared, they were so anxious that tears flowed out, thinking that their son's high fever would not go away, and he was hugged by such a crazy old man.
But they never expected that when they were in a hurry to look for them and shout their son's name, Ge Dongxu suddenly ran towards them from a small mountain road, not only in good spirits, but also very agile, not at all like when they had a fever before, not to mention agile movements, the whole person was groggy and lightheaded, and he couldn't even stand up.
Since then, Ge Dongxu's parents have made a major decision to allow their son to learn from Ren Yao, an old man who is sometimes crazy and sometimes sober.
It is also strange to say that since Ge Dongxu's parents agreed, Ren Yao suddenly became sober most of the time. It's just that although Ren Yao has become sober most of the time, he basically doesn't remember the past, and he doesn't know what his name is. Later, Ge Dongxu's parents found that Ren Yao had a scar on the back of his head, and guessed that he should have suffered some kind of brain trauma, so they wanted to take Ren Yao to the county hospital to have a look, but Ren Yao was very stubborn and refused to go, and they couldn't help it.
Fortunately, Ren Yao couldn't remember the things in the past, and he was occasionally confused, but he remembered the things of cultivation. He taught Ge Dongxu to draw talismans, taught him to know various herbs, taught him to recognize acupoints and needles, and taught him to breathe luck.
When teaching this, Ren Yao took Ge Dongxu to the broken Taoist temple on the mountain, and Ge Dongxu's parents were not allowed to watch it. Fortunately, after Ge Dongxu practiced with Ren Yao, not only did he never get sick again, but he also seemed to have become extremely smart and clever, learning everything faster than children of the same age, and his strength was much greater than that of his peers. So Ge Dongxu's parents also went with Ren Yao to teach his son, and sometimes they were a little curious, but thinking that Ren Yao should be a strange person in the rivers and lakes, he should have his rules, so he couldn't bear to ask Ge Dongxu what he learned from Ren Yao.
As long as the son is in good health, everything else is secondary.
One summer two years ago, Ren Yao finally couldn't resist the years and returned to the west. When he was dying, perhaps it was to return to the light, and he suddenly remembered some of the past. It's a pity that the time left for him is too short, and Ge Dongxu only understands a small part of it intermittently, and it was then that Ge Dongxu knew his master's name.
Recalling the bits and pieces of the past with his master, Ge Dongxu was in a trance, until the wine filled the porcelain bowl and spilled out, before he woke up, wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, picked up the porcelain bowl filled with Huadiao wine and poured it in front of Ren Yao's grave, and then picked up a bowl of Gu Dong Gu Dong and drank it all.
A blush welled up on the simple face, which still had a hint of childishness, but it quickly faded again.
"Master, after you left, I practiced diligently every day without slacking off. You didn't show off what you taught in front of people, and you didn't do bad things with what you taught. You can rest assured that wherever I go, I will remember your teachings. Saying that, Ge Dongxu poured another bowl of Huadiao for Ren Yao, drank a bowl of it himself, and ate some Huazi chicken.
"By the way, Master has good news for you, I finally broke through to the third level of Qi cultivation during my morning exercise today. You didn't expect me to make such a big progress, thanks to the gossip furnace pendant you left me. There is another Qiankun in it, leaving the lifelong practice experience of Ge Hong, the ancestor of my Danfu faction, and leaving a complete volume of "Baopu Jiudan Xuanjing". It's a pity that this secret was discovered too late, otherwise you might have been inspired by reading this Danjing, and you wouldn't have left in a hurry. Ge Dongxu said and reached out to touch a small peach wood sword pendant hanging around his neck, this peach wood sword pendant looked ordinary, but when Ge Dongxu touched it with his hand, there was a faint blue light flowing on it, exuding a trace of peach wood fragrance.
In fact, there was another antique gossip furnace pendant hanging on it, which was left to him by Ren Yao when he died. In an accident, Ge Dongxu dropped a drop of blood on it, and the gossip furnace actually reacted with his blood, submerged into his body, and disappeared without a trace. However, at the same time, Ge Dongxu's mind inexplicably had a lot of knowledge related to cultivation, the most of which was the knowledge of alchemy and alchemy.
Originally, Ge Dongxu and his master Ren Yao had been practicing for six years, and they had just barely broken through to the second layer of qi training, but since he got the knowledge of cultivation in the bagua furnace pendant and practiced the complete version of the "Baopu Jiudan Xuan Sutra", his cultivation speed was much faster, and he actually broke through to the third layer of qi cultivation in just two years.
While chatting with the master, while eating and drinking, before he knew it, the five-pound jar of wine had bottomed out, and Ge Dongxu, who was only sixteen years old, couldn't see any drunkenness except for a little red on his face.
Seeing that a jar of wine had bottomed out, Ge Dongxu finally stopped chattering, kowtowed respectfully to the master's grave three times, and then got up and walked down a mountain path.
The trail is overgrown with weeds and is apparently a path that is rarely walked in normal times.
At the end of the trail is Gejiayan Village. Gejiayan Village used to be a very poor and closed mountain village, but in recent years, Changxi County has vigorously developed tourism, and people in the city also like to go to the mountains to have summer fun. In recent years, the village has not only opened roads, but also because there are tourists who come to play, the villagers have opened a small store or a farmhouse or farmhouse in their own homes, but they have made money while sitting at home.
In order to attract tourists, the people in the village even made an article on the ancestral hall, saying that Gejiayan Village is a descendant of Ge Hong, a legendary Taoist scholar, alchemist, and medicine scientist in the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
In the past, Ge Dongxu naturally didn't believe it, thinking that it was all nonsense from the old people in the village to attract tourists, but since the gossip furnace pendant disappeared in his body and there were many more things in his mind, he realized that he was really a descendant of Ge Hong, so that blood would react with the gossip furnace pendant handed down by Ge Hong, the ancestor of the Danfu faction.
Ge Dongxu's mother, Xu Suya, is a private teacher in the village's primary school, while his father, Ge Shengming, runs a farmhouse in his own home, working as a chef and a boss himself.
It's the end of August, and it's still a scorching hot day in Jiangnan Province. However, the mountains are cool, and the children are still on summer vacation, so many people in the city like to come to Baiyun Mountain to escape the summer and have fun during this time. There are more tourists, and even the farmhouse business with Ge Shengming is much better.
Thinking that the family business is good these days, and now it is just the time to eat, and his father is in urgent need of help, Ge Dongxu can't help but speed up his pace.
It's just that before he got home, Ge Dongxu saw a lot of people on the periphery of his yard from a distance, pointing inside.
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