"Sanwa'er, our lineage, the master is the closest person, my master, your ancestor is a scattered person, how did his Taoist lineage come about, and I don't know who it inherited, but he said that our lineage was opened by him. So, he is the ancestor of our lineage. While speaking, Old Man Jiang slowly opened the scroll in his hand and hung it under Sanqingxiang.

"Sanwa'er, your master and ancestor don't like to be bowed down by people in his life, but as a disciple, as a disciple and a disciple, his heart must be fulfilled, my master is the person I respect the most, you are my disciple, you must respect him more, this is the portrait of your master, come and wait for the big gift of three bows and nine knocks." Old man Jiang's voice was full of emotion, and he was also a little trembling.

I was also moved by the words, and I knelt down with a 'poof' with three lit incense sticks, and at the same time, for the first time, my eyes fell on the portrait of my ancestor.

The ancestor in the portrait is a very ordinary middle-aged and elderly person, that is, forty or fifty years old, with simple hair in a bun, but it looks messy, it is estimated that it is for the unity of the whole body, and the ancestor in the painting is really dressed well, very casual.

An ordinary gray robe, loosely tied with a black cloth belt, with several crooked patches on it, and a pair of ordinary cloth shoes, with their toes exposed.

And the ancestor in this painting, the movement is also very lazy, his hands are in his sleeves, he is squatting, this painting has no background, the ancestor is alone, but it looks like an old farmer who is squatting at the root of the wall and basking in the sun.

I don't know who painted this painting, but it's really too expressive, although the appearance of the ancestor in the painting is ordinary, but the laziness and indifference revealed in the demeanor, but there is a convincing clarity and thoroughness in the eyes.

It feels like the existence of the ancestor is like a contradiction, on the surface it is a down-and-out and lazy person, and there is a unique rhyme in his bones.

I was young at that time, and I didn't understand the rhyme of a person at all, but I felt from the bottom of my heart that this master was not ordinary, but I didn't know where it was ordinary.

"Why don't you say goodbye?" Old man Jiang's eyes widened.

Hearing this, I hurriedly respectfully held the incense, and really came to a three bows and nine knocks, this time than to the three Qingxiang is more pious, after all, the three Qingxiang give me the feeling is too unattainable, but in the face of the portrait of this ancestor, but I feel that he is really in front of me, he is really not ordinary.

After worshipping the master, I put incense in the incense burner, looked at the old man Jiang, and didn't know what to do next, but at the serious moment of apprenticeship, I was still not skinny, and honestly stood in front of the old man Jiang.

Old man Jiang ignored me, just stood up by himself, stared at the statue of the master for a long time, and then carefully rolled up the portrait, and then said to me: "This portrait was painted by me, and it is also the only portrait of your ancestor, my master, I painted it after he agreed." It's a pity that the level was limited at that time, and the lack of painting your ancestor's charm was at least not restrained enough, and it was too far from the real person. ”

After speaking, Old Man Jiang sighed, seeing that he missed my ancestor so much, I couldn't help but ask: "Master, where is my master now?" ”

Old man Jiang turned his head to look at me, the look in his eyes was the first time I saw it, and Old Man Jiang was also a little confused.

This is fresh, my master and he will be confused? I didn't want to, the next moment the old man Jiang became 'fierce' and drank to me: "Do you think the initiation ceremony is over?" Lao Tzu hasn't drunk Master's tea yet, you go to boil water to make tea, I'm waiting to drink your Master's tea, I'm not satisfied with the tea you want to make, you just wait to make tea all night. ”

I don't bring such a bully to a child!!

In the end, it took me an hour to light a fire for the first time in my life, carry water for the first time, and boil water for the first time, and I still handed a cup of master tea to Old Man Jiang with a respectful mood.

The days on the mountain are bitter, although the scenery of the bamboo building in this small bamboo building of the old man Jiang is elegant, but for a child, it is just like that after living for a long time.

Three months have passed in the blink of an eye, and another winter has arrived

In the winter in Sichuan, it is not how cold it is, but a chill that invades the bones makes people uncomfortable, and the mountains are even colder, which means that my days are more bitter.

"Self-sufficiency in everything." This was the first sentence that Old Man Jiang mentioned to me after I started my apprenticeship.

It is because of this sentence that here, I have to take care of all my life, including laundry and cooking, but the bad thing is that I am self-sufficient, but the old man Jiang takes it for granted, and with this sentence, he throws all the chores to me.

"Anyway, you cook a person's meal, and wash a person's clothes too, so let's be together."

"Master, aren't you self-sufficient?"

"Fart, apprentices are self-sufficient, I am your master, this is your filial piety!"

In this way, I, an eight-year-old child (who had turned eight years old at this time), had a very 'miserable' task of taking on the chores of two people.

What's even more pitiful is that I couldn't cook rice at the beginning, and I couldn't wash my clothes well, and the old man Jiang didn't allow my family to help me who often went up the mountain. He eats it anyway. Clothes that aren't clean aren't clean, wear them! Old man Jiang didn't care about this, he was dirty anyway.

So, I had to go to school again, I had to do homework, I had to do chores, and I had to complete the tasks assigned to me by Old Man Jiang, he said, this is the first step to learn his skills.

And what about him? Every day is always so leisurely, except for some 'homework' that he has to do every day, which is to cook tea and watch the scenery, and take out 'educating the three children'. Occasionally, he would carry some rice and flour up the mountain, and occasionally he would go to get some game.

These were our days in the mountains.

The days after the winter are sad, mainly because cooking and washing need water, and in this winter, the water in the pool is so cold that I don't even want to touch it.

The days on the mountain are hard, relatively speaking, going to school every day has become the easiest thing, I used to be bored in class, I can fall asleep on the table, now it's good, I don't know what the old man Jiang did, anyway, every morning after completing the 'task' he gave, I am like a monkey, my brain is still very clear, and it is easy to listen to the class, and I don't even feel like the texts that are difficult to memorize on weekdays.

Nonsense, of course, the text is not good, can it be compared with the obscure "Tao Te Ching"?

I will always remember that after serving Master's tea, Old Man Jiang took out a tattered book from his 'secret room' and threw it to me: "This "Tao Te Ching" is the 'holy book' of my generation's spiritual cultivation, from today onwards, you recite it every day, copy it again, start reading it now, and ask me if you don't know the words." ”

Pity me for my 'diploma' in the first grade of primary school!

So, isn't going to school easy? The way to and from school was heaven for me.

"Sanwa'er, what are you going to do quickly?" The crispy meat ran behind me panting, poor boy, like me, a year older, I grew taller, he grew taller and fatter.

I really didn't think I was walking fast, so I said: "I didn't go fast, if I could, I would like to stand here and not leave, the problem is that I have to do homework at night, and I have to copy the Tao Te Ching, and I have to punch before going to bed, I am miserable, or I can't sleep at night if I am in a hurry." ”

"What kind of punch? You taught me, right? "The crispy meat is very quite a 'martial arts master'.

"Let my master teach me, I haven't learned it all." I was depressed when I mentioned that boxing, what a five-bird play, I didn't even learn 'a bird' now, and I was ridiculed by the old man Jiang; "I said that you are like a monkey, teach you the ape shape first, but you can't even learn the ape form well, it is estimated that you can only learn a monkey form." ”

I'm really angry, how can I be so vicious as a master?!

"Forget it, I won't go to Jiang Ye, in case I want to learn boxing, what should he do if he asks me to copy the Tao Te Ching 100 times, forget it, forget it." Crispy said with a body of fat shaking.

I glanced at him with disdain, just like that, I won't let you copy the Tao Te Ching, I'm afraid you won't be able to practice for an hour and cry for your father and mother.

I walked back with a lot of worries, secretly sighing that my life was miserable, and then the crispy meat had nothing to say: "Sanwa'er, which one have you been looking for to fight recently, right?" Why do I see you clenching your fists all day long? ”

I rolled my eyes, raised my fist in front of the crispy meat, and said, "See clearly, it's a matter of holding it for a while, loosening it, and then shaking it with more force!" There are particulars, such as holding a few breaths or something, my master said that this is called 'gripping', which is to improve people's spirit. ”

This is also helpless, I was not used to it at first, but now it's okay, under the 'Chunchun teaching' of the old man Jiang, I have become accustomed to it, I hold it loosely in class, and I hold it at my waist at any time when I walk, I said that my classmates dare not approach me, Liu Chunyan even hid when she saw me, and they thought I was going to fight for a long time.

"Oh, Jiang Ye is very capable, I don't understand his set, I will go up the mountain to play with you this Sunday, you have to pick me up, if only Jiang Ye could get another hare to eat." As soon as the crispy meat talked about the game that the old man Jiang made, he was greedy, and his saliva almost didn't flow down.

This is the hateful thing about the old man Jiang, I didn't cook well at the beginning, it was inevitable that it was unpalatable, I thanked God for being able to cook, he ate with me, but I couldn't stand people going to the waterhole to touch a fish after eating, and went to the forest to open a small stove for the whole game, and didn't give it to me, saying that I could learn this skill from him.

But when my family comes, or when the crispy meat comes, they will entertain me with the whole game, so that I can get cheap and eat.

Speaking of which, Old Man Jiang's cooking skills are amazing, very delicious, but why does he want me to cook?!