Aspirations

Chapter 106 Ye Zhenren

"What, Lu Zhiyue is really the county magistrate?" Although Cao Shujun had never met Lu Zhiyue, he did not like Lu Zhiyue at all because Lu Zhiyue and Lian Ruohan had a finger-to-finger engagement. , He widened his eyes, "When it comes to reading, he is afraid that he is not as good as me, and he still wants to be the county master? Xia Langjun is also unfortunate to have such a master as him. No, what did the lady say? Lu Zhiyue and Ye Muping are inseparable? Hahahaha..."

Lian Ruohan was stunned by Cao Shujun's sudden outburst of laughter, and was taken aback for a moment before asking, "What are you laughing at?"

"Ye Muping and I are inseparable friends. He and Ye Muping can only be said to know each other. Knowing and friendship are two different things, okay?" Cao Shujun smiled disapprovingly, "Why did Mrs. Lian mention Ye Muping?" ?”

Lian Ruohan was full of surprises: "How could Mr. Cao Lang and Ye Muping be inseparable?"

"What do you mean, I can't sit down with Ye Muping and talk about Taoism? When I was obsessed with Taoism, I was with Ye Muping almost every day. You don't know, the reason why I devoted myself to learning Taoism was all because of Ye Muping "The more Cao Shujuan talked, the more excited he became, almost dancing, "It's a long story, and I was also impressed by Ye Muping's Taoism back then, so I followed him to learn Taoism."

"So, he is your master?" Lian Ruohan was full of joy. He thought that Lu Zhiyue would need to come forward to make friends with Ye Muping, but he didn't expect Cao Shujun to know Ye Muping, not to mention that he had a deeper friendship than Lu Zhiyue. , it was really a surprise.

"It's not really a master..." Cao Shujun was slightly twitchy, and he smiled, "Both a teacher and a friend."

"Don't brag about yourself. When you saw Ye Muping back then, you were astonished as a celestial being. You immediately became a teacher. Who knows that Ye Muping didn't accept you as an apprentice." Cao Shuli covered her mouth and smiled, and there was a half-joking and seven-point funny smile in her smile, " You just followed behind Ye Muping shamelessly, yelling happily at each master. Later, Daoist Ye was really afraid of you, so he reluctantly agreed to accept you. But first, he didn’t teach you Taoism, and second, he didn’t accept you as an apprentice. Talk to you about mysteries."

"It's nonsense, what kind of person am I, would I ask someone to take me in as a disciple? Are you kidding me? It's not that Daoist Ye refuses to take me in as a disciple. I'm afraid that one day I will become a fairy and go to the immortal class, and he will be embarrassed if he still stays in the world, haha." Cao Shujun blinked and jumped, "Many Taoist priests said that I have Immortal bone, if one cultivates Taoism, one will become an immortal."

"Okay, okay, stop bragging about yourself, and tell me what happened after you met Daoist Ye, so that Mrs. Lian can judge whether Daoist Ye is helpful to her important affairs." Cao Shuli is smart and knows that Lian Ruochang When Han asked about Ye Muping, there must be a big event to fall on Ye Muping.

"After I met Daoist Ye, I did learn a lot of Taoist knowledge from him, and also practiced inner alchemy foundation building. You must ask, what is inner alchemy foundation building? Well, since you don't understand, I will tell you You are refining essence to transform qi, refining qi to transform gods, refining gods to return emptiness, and refining emptiness to join the Tao. Of course, if you want to build a foundation, you must first get through the second channel of Ren and Du. You should know where the second channel of Ren and Du is, right? I don’t know about this, I’ve convinced you, okay, I’ll teach you again, Taoism talks about Ren and Du’s two veins, and Chinese medicine also talks about..."

Lian Ruohan nodded. There are many sayings in Taoist health preservation that are similar to Chinese medicine, and she has also read some related books.

Seeing the unprecedented expressions of even Ruohan and Cao Shuli, Cao Shujun was even more proud, and said even more excitedly: "The Ren meridian is on the chest, and it can control the yin meridian of any body, so it is called the sea of ​​yin meridians. Governor The pulse is in the back, and it can govern the Yang meridian of the whole body, so it is called the sea of ​​Yang veins. After Ren Du's two channels are opened, he combines the innate essence and the acquired essence to condense into Qi, which is called medicine, which is the essence of refining , is also the first pass. Then enter the stage of the great cycle of practicing Qi and transforming the spirit, which is called the middle pass. Finally, enter the stage of great concentration, and the training of the gods after reaching the upper pass is still empty, and enter the Tao body."

"The "Taiping Jing" believes that the limit of human life span is 120 years old. If there is no inner alchemy to build the foundation, you will not be able to live forever. If you condense the essence, qi, and spirit, and the Tao body is completed, you can live the same life as the world and the sun. The moon shines together." Cao Shujun wanted to continue talking, but seeing Cao Shuli's expression of impatience, and Lian Ruohan's half-smile expression made him even more confused, so he stopped in time, "Okay, okay , let’s not talk about it, you don’t understand it, just talk about Daoist Ye. When Daoist Ye first came to the capital, he was not well-known. After being beaten out, it was I who helped him pay off the debt to prevent him from being interrupted by the innkeeper."

Even Ruohan has heard a little about Ye Muping's life, but he doesn't know much. He only knows that he became a novice monk in his early years. He was expelled from the monastery because he violated the drinking commandment because of stealing alcohol. Later, he met a Taoist priest in the streets. A Taoist priest asked him about his ambitions. He said that he would be a marquis and worship his prime minister. The Taoist said, "You are born a marquis, and you die to build a temple. It is not expensive. You confer a false name on a marquis, and the temple food is inseparable from ghosts. I wish to be a god, and the world is free and easy." , He worshiped a Taoist priest as his teacher and entered the Taoist school.But she didn't know what happened after becoming a Taoist priest.

"In the beginning, I only thought of Daoist Ye as a down-and-out Taoist priest, a gangster who cheated on food and drink, but unexpectedly he is a master with unique skills." Cao Shujun recalled the situation when he first met Ye Muping, There was some aftertaste in his expression, he squinted his eyes and chuckled, "I remember one day Daoist Ye asked me to accompany him to Xishan, and said he would teach me spells. It’s good to go to relax. Unexpectedly, when I arrived at an inaccessible place in Xishan, there was a sudden thunder and meteorites, and then heavy rain fell from the sky. I panicked and hurried to the pavilion in the mountain, lest I would be drowned. When I arrived Tingzi looked back, Daoist Ye was still walking slowly into the rain, and he didn't quicken his pace at all. I hurriedly told him to take shelter in the pavilion, but he said, the body of the Tao is not wet, I didn't understand what it meant, wait for him When I finally got to the pavilion, I was stunned, Daoist Ye didn't even get a drop of rain on his body!"

"Oh? Is it really so magical? Are you sure you read it right?" Lian Ruohan was taken aback, walking in the rain without getting wet, it can be seen that Ye Muping has the truth.

"What I saw with my own eyes, can it be fake?" Cao Shujun rolled his eyes, "Could it be that in the eyes of Mrs. Lian, I'm a fool? Hmph."

Lian Ruohan smiled: "Cao Langjun is smart and clever, how can he be a fool? It's just that sometimes people who are too smart are often smart and are mistaken by their cleverness."

"No, no, I can see clearly that Ye Daochang is not wet at all. Don't worry, more amazing things are yet to come." Cao Shujun giggled and continued, "After sitting down, Seeing the torrential rain all around, the sky was dark and the sky was dark, I said that I didn't know when the rain would stop. If it rained for a day and a night, wouldn't I have to spend the night in the mountains? Ye Daochang looked up at the sky, smiled calmly, and wanted the rain to stop It's also simple, just talk to the Dragon King who is spreading the rain, and the Dragon King will stop the rain."

"Of course I didn't believe it when I heard it. Although he didn't get half wet in the rain just now, I still thought he was talking nonsense, so I provoked him and said that if he stopped the rain immediately, I would worship him as my teacher. He laughed, How difficult is this? After finishing speaking, he pointed to the sky with one hand and muttered something, and after a while he shouted, "The Dragon King of Xingyu, the Immortal is here, order you to stop the rain immediately, and there must be no mistake." Cao Shujun recalled the situation at that time, still fascinated Unhappy, with a look of envy on his face, "I waited for a while, let alone the rain stopped, and it didn't seem to weaken at all, so I laughed. The Taoist priest has great powers, can call wind and rain, touch stones into gold, shrink the earth into inches, and his spells are powerful..."

Cao Shuli had never heard of Cao Shujun having such an experience before, she was fascinated by it, and she also heard the irony in Cao Shujun's words, and smiled: "If you change your yin and yang problem, you will We can reach halfway to Mr. Xia Lang."

Cao Shujun directly responded to Cao Shuli's contemptuous look: "I don't want to say half of what I said, suddenly a dazzling flash of light seemed to shine in front of my eyes, and then a thunder exploded in my ears, and then the heavy rain stopped as soon as it said it, without any ambiguity What's even more strange is that after the rain stopped, the dark clouds were still hovering above the head, as if they were waiting for Daoist Ye's order. I was stunned on the spot, and after a while I said, "Daoist, has the rain stopped, should we go down the mountain?"

Lian Ruohan said thoughtfully: "Does Daoist Ye really have the ability to call the wind and rain? It's strange. The rumors about him are true and false, and there are many inconsistencies. But since you have seen it with your own eyes, Daoist Ye There must be some supernatural powers."

"It's not supposed to be, it's absolutely true." Cao Shujun said so thirsty, took a sip of tea, wiped his mouth and said, "Ye Daochang laughed, the Dragon King makes rain, how many inches and when it falls is determined by the Emperor of Heaven." Definitely. If the Dragon King does not do well, he will be punished by the Emperor of Heaven, ranging from whipping to the stage of killing the dragon. Back then, Wei Zheng killed the dragon because it rained a few inches more from the Dragon King. You must also obey the Emperor of Heaven. Today’s rain will continue to fall for another half an hour. He pointed to the sky again and said loudly, “The Dragon King of Rain, you can continue to rain. As soon as he finished speaking, the heavy rain poured down again. It took half an hour for the rain to clear up."

"Then you worship Daoist Ye as your teacher?" Although Lian Ruohan was amazed by Ye Muping's magical spells, she was not too curious. At that time, the wind and rain were dark and the rooster was crowing. A wandering Taoist happened to pass by. He only took one look at her and concluded that her life was bad and her life was destined to be lonely.When she was ten years old, another monk passed by and asserted that she must have an adventure in her life and then she must meet a noble person in order to die auspiciously.

"Would you be a fool if you don't ask for a teacher after seeing such a fairy?" Cao Shujun no longer held back at this time, and generously admitted his admiration for Ye Muping at that time, "I asked Daoist Ye repeatedly to accept me as an apprentice, but Daoist Ye refused again and again. Later, when I chased him anxiously, he reluctantly agreed to let me follow him, but he was not a master and apprentice, and he did not teach me Taoism. He only talked with me about mysteries. I also thought that I would become familiar with him to a certain extent in the future At that time, he would definitely teach me Taoism. You have to be patient to learn it slowly, so I agreed. I never thought that for a long time after that, Daoist Ye never showed his supernatural powers again, but in the capital, A lot of weird things happened..."

Strange things happened everywhere in the capital, before the emperor fell ill. Although Lian Ruohan was not in the capital at that time, she had heard a little about a series of strange things in the capital. She nodded and said, "There are many strange things in the capital, starting with the death star."

"Yes, in the third year of Yuanxuan, the stars fell from the sky, and the sound was like thunder. It rang for three days and three nights without stopping. There was also black energy in the palace, sometimes turning into a shape, sometimes like a donkey, sometimes It is also like a tortoise, shrouded in a layer of black air, which cannot be hurt by weapons. Wherever it goes, the black air fills the air and smells fishy. Later, it entered and left the homes of the common people, preying on the children of the common people, and disappeared after two years of trouble. Not seen. Another daughter of the bartender Zhu’s in the east of the city suddenly grew a beard six or seven inches long. Like evil, obsessed with it for a long time, he stretched out his index finger and middle finger and said, "Emperor Taizong, Emperor Taizong, let me spread the word that it is important to quickly change the law."

"The police took him to Shangjing prison. When he woke up, he didn't know what happened before, and he was wronged. The jailers in Shangjing didn't care about him and executed him secretly. Afterwards, Jingshi, Hedong, Shaanxi, Lanzhou and other places , One after another, the mountains were shaken, the granaries were either destroyed by the earthquake, or they were submerged underground, and all kinds of natural and man-made disasters came and went." Cao Shujun shook his head and sighed, with a sad face, "It's strange to say, it's a good year, Why did everything change suddenly? The emperor ordered people to pray to heaven, but it had no effect. Daoist Ye told me privately that all the signs are early warnings from heaven. If you don't know how to adapt, not only the emperor will be seriously ill, but Daxia will also be in danger of subjugation."

"Since Daoist Ye is a man among gods, his words must be good words." Cao Shuli always believed in the interaction between heaven and man, and there must be grievances among the people if there is a change in the sky.

Lian Ruohan only believed a thing or two, and smiled lightly: "Those who confuse people with gossips often use disasters from heaven to scare them."

"Ms. Lian doesn't believe that Daoist Ye is a fairy?" Although Cao Shujuan admired Lian Ruohan, he admired Ye Muping even more, and his tone was a little bit angry.

Lian Ruohan smiled lightly, waved his hands and said, "Immortals should not enjoy the blessings in heaven, why come to the world to enjoy the glory and wealth of the world? I dare not guess whether Daoist Ye is one of the gods, but I don't understand whether the blessings of heaven are Isn't it the glory and wealth of the world? It's like a person who has obtained fame and became a high-ranking official, why should he abandon his official position and go back home to farm?"

Cao Shujun was speechless for a while, thought for a while and then smiled: "Since he is a god, he must be very different from others. Even ordinary people like me can't guess the meaning behind what gods do."

"And then?" Lian Ruohan didn't want to argue with Cao Shujun, but asked, "I don't know how Ye Daochang changed from a market deity to a queen deity?"

"It's a long story, but it's simple to say. Daoist Ye met Taoist priest Zhao Changzhi in Shangjing. The two hit it off right away, and they never met each other. Zhao Changzhi is not only a Taoist priest, but also the emperor's closest painter. He painted the classic fairy tales of Taoism for the emperor, which was deeply loved by the emperor. One day, Zhao Changzhi presented another painting to the emperor. In the painting, a person, floating like a fairy, stands on a pine tree on the top of the mountain, with fluttering clothes, and wants to ride the wind He left. This man's face was modest, with the intention of being out of the world. The emperor was overwhelmed when he saw it, and asked who the god in the painting was. Zhao Changzhi replied that it was Ye Muping, the Taoist priest he met in the capital. The emperor was overjoyed and called Ye Muping urgently See you."

"Ye Daochang faced the saint for the first time. The emperor asked, what kind of Taoism is there? Ye Daochang replied, the minister knows the heavenly palace, the middle world, and the underworld. The emperor asked again, what is the situation in the sky, and he replied, there is something in the sky. Jiuxiao Palace, and Shenxiao Palace is the highest. King Yuqing of Shenxiao Palace, the eldest son of the Emperor of Heaven, rules the south, and is named Changsheng Dadijun. Yes, Xing Wang." When Cao Shujun said this, he suddenly thought of something, and showed a slightly puzzled look, "Hey, strange thing, why did Daoist Ye only say that Xing Wang is a god who came down to earth, and not the other princes? Could it be that he has some secret connection with Xing Wang? But I haven't heard that he has a good relationship with Xing Wang, and even though he was favored by the emperor later, he only cared for the emperor's sake, and never said anything good for Xing Wang again."

"It's enough to just say that the Star King is the Morning Star Emperor descending to earth." Lian Ruohan didn't know that Ye Muping had said such good words for the Star King, so he snorted softly, "Hmph, Daoist Ye really has good eyesight and good immortal skills. To be able to see early on that Star King can hold great power."

At that time, although Xingwang was in charge of the official department, he hadn't joined forces with Hou Pingpan to control the government. Of course, it was also because the emperor was not ill and no longer took care of the government.

"Ms. Lian has a lot of prejudice against Daoist Ye. Could it be that there is something wrong with Daoist Ye?" Cao Shujuan wondered why Lian Ruohan was so dissatisfied with Ye Muping. Unfortunately, she has a lot of fate and is destined to live a lonely life, but now she not only has a huge fortune under her name, but also has countless suitors around her. It can be seen that what the Taoist priest said is completely nonsense.If Lian Ruohan believed the Taoist priest's words and gave up on himself, maybe now it is really bad luck and fate.

"I don't know Daoist Ye, and I have no quarrel with him. It's just that I don't like the pretense of some Taoist priests." Lian Ruohan didn't want to say anything, and waved his hand, "Go on, I won't interrupt you That's it."

"Okay, okay, let me continue." Cao Shujun smiled, didn't think too much, and didn't notice the expression of Cao Shuli's slightly raised eyebrows, and continued, "The emperor was overjoyed when he heard it, and left Ye Muping behind. After entering the palace, he was given the title Mr. Tongling Dazhen, named Ye Zhenren, and gave him a gold medal that he could enter and leave the palace at any time, and built a Tongzhen Palace for him to live in. From then on, Ye Zhenren became the emperor's queen god. Together with Mr. Jin Jia, he will become the emperor's left and right protectors."

(End of this chapter)