Late at night, Zhang Bi, Lin Lin and You were sitting under the grape trellis in the courtyard chatting.
"Is Chinese Valentine's Day coming soon?" Lin Linyou felt the cool breeze of the summer night and remembered two poems: silver candles painted the screen in the cold autumn light, and small fans fluttered against the flowing fireflies. The sky is as cold as water at night, and I lie down to watch Altair and Vega.
"What are you doing? You want to give your Rong'er five hundred and twenty taels of silver as a red envelope?" Zhang Ben teased.
"Five hundred and twenty coins, okay?"
"Okay! Here's another bunch of flowers."
"Do Ming girls also love flowers?"
"As you say, which girl doesn't love flowers? You are ready to give out red envelopes!"
"Damn it!" Lin Linyou thought of Yue Rong's pitiful appearance when the fat man roughly pulled his hair, and thought of his little sister Lin Longli Hua Daiyu who was as weak as a kitten. He felt distressed and angry! I couldn't help but burst out.
In the past few days, the two girls couldn't sleep without them guarding the courtyard.
"Why are you cursing people all of a sudden?" Zhang Ben said.
Lin Linyou didn't say anything. He took off his clothes and touched the scars on his body. Hey, it's pretty cool!
"Take good care of yourself and eat more tortoise!" Zhang Bi turned his head and looked at the stars in the sky.
"I almost vomited."
"You have to eat it!" Zhang Bi said, "Eat the tortoise to nourish the tortoise... Do you know that one of the methods of longevity is food supplements, refining elixirs, taking the outer elixir to make you fly in the day, and drinking talisman water. Eat Ganoderma lucidum, mountain ginseng and other medicinal materials that absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth."
"Can you really live forever?" Lin Linyou became interested after hearing this.
"Of course! Isn't Zhenren Zhang the best example?" Zhang Bi said, "Everyone in the world wants to live forever. The emperor has tried so hard to find him. Why not for immortality?"
Lin Linyou lowered his voice: "Isn't this a reason to look for his eldest nephew?"
"Oh, really? Do you have any clues?" Zhang Ben lowered his voice and pretended to be serious.
"It is said in later generations that he was a monk in Putian."
Zhang Bi: "Holy crap! You provided very important clues, I will make you the crown prince!"
"I've written this down in the Book of Impermanence!" Lin Linyou took out the Book of Impermanence from his arms, and after a long while, he took out a book of spring opera pictures.
Zhang Bi was inspired and moved the topic to longevity: "Taoist Fangzhongshu, which collects yin and replenishes yang, is also a method of longevity, even for men, because men are also divided into yin and yang."
Upon hearing this, Lin Linyou subconsciously covered the clothes he had just torn apart tightly.
"Why are you so nervous?"
"You have bad eyesight!"
"Be good, let me see your wound."
"Get lost!" Lin Linyou pushed Zhang Bi's stretched face away and said thoughtfully: "No wonder Ji Gang and the others have raised so many prostitutes, is this also for..."
"It's possible!" Zhang Ben said, "There's also Zhu Youxi. He uses his race's brain to make elixirs, maybe for the sake of immortality!"
"How perverted!"
"Human! Now that we have climbed to the top, we have money, power, women, and everything we should have. When we get bored, we just want to cultivate immortality and live forever. If we want to climb up again, it's just... We can only cultivate immortality and go to heaven." Zhang Ben said, "Only by seeking immortality can we retain everything in this world!"
"So, big brother, you cultivate immortality, through which channels do you cultivate immortality, and for what purpose?"
Zhang Bi was startled: "Where did I cultivate immortality?"
"You have been in Ming Dynasty for so many years and you are still young forever. How dare you say that you have not cultivated?" Lin Linyou's sharp eyes had already seen through everything.
Seeing that he couldn't hide it, Zhang Ben smiled and said: "I practice by doing nothing... As for the method, I have already taught it to you!"
"Has it been taught to me a long time ago?" Lin Linyou thought for a moment, "Breathing and breathing?"
"Exactly!" Zhang Bi said, "Life is only between one breath and one breath; longevity is also the method of breathing in and out!"
"Awesome-" Lin Linyou let out a long sigh, his eyes twinkling like stars in the sky.
Zhang Bi lowered his voice and said mysteriously: "However, I mainly breathe and exhale, supplemented by collecting yin and replenishing yang."
Harvesting yin and replenishing yang is by no means an orthodox Taoist method. It must be done by crooked ways to cater to the upper class gentry with the help of the right way.
However, Zhang Bi actually believed it?
When Emperor Taizu established the Ming Empire, he vigorously rectified the traditions of monks and Taoists. In the sixth year of Hongwu's reign, it was decreed that all civilian women under the age of forty were not allowed to become nuns or nuns. In the twentieth year, it was decreed that ordinary people over the age of twenty were not allowed to enter temples and become monks. In the twenty-fourth year, the decree was issued again. , if someone follows the teachings of yoga, calls himself a "good friend", and uses the name of Zhenren Zhang to make private talismans, he will be punished with a serious crime! In the twenty-seventh year, an order was issued that if anyone among the monks and Taoists had wives and concubines privately, everyone was allowed to expel them. If you protect Rong Yin, you will be punished together. Monks who claim to be White Lotus, Lingbao, Huoju and other monks do not follow the ancestral customs and make rash remarks, and they will also be punished with serious crimes.
In the tenth year of Yongle, that is, the year when Zhang Bilin and Linyou discussed immortality, Zhu Di issued an edict that if monks did not abide by the precepts, participated in folk fasting and chanted sutras, and cared about the reward, or practiced without sincerity, drank alcohol, ate meat, and wandered and debauched , and even falsely claim to be a Taoist, and men and women are indistinguishable, corrupting the family tradition, and will be killed without mercy!
Kill without mercy! This one is great! Lin Linyou became excited unconsciously.
Under such strict government orders, the monks at this time were generally able to abide by the pure family tradition.
But why did Zhang Bi believe it? Is it true that as a member of Qianhu, he can be considered an upper class person?
Or is it because the prince is kind and he has communicated with the prince?
Although Lin Linyou didn't know it, Zhang Bi and the prince, two fat men, had met and had a conversation about the method of immortality.
The prince's kindness does not mean that he has no shortcomings. No one is perfect. Perhaps, the prince's kindness is his biggest shortcoming.
Since the mid-Ming Dynasty, monks and Taoists did not adhere to their ancestral customs and did not practice peacefully in temples. They envied the city or the prosperous life in the secular world and wandered around. As a result, wandering monks and Taoists can be seen everywhere in cities.
By the end of the Ming Dynasty, monks and Taoists not only had wives, but also did not abstain from lust and often visited brothels in religious houses. They were called "hungry ghosts in lust" or "devils in flowers". Monks are known as "bald heads" and Taoist priests are known as "whore heads".
During Lin Linyou's time, Taoism returned to its original nature and practiced with peace of mind. As for Buddhism, that's incredible... and yoga is even more popular!
While they were chatting, Yue Buqun yawned and walked out of Yue Rong and Lin Long's room.
"Are they asleep?" Lin Linyou asked.
"Not yet!" Yue Buqun said, "But when I came out to close the door, I saw them taking off their clothes. They should be ready to sleep!"
Depend on! You kid is really ignorant. Although you have no tools, you are still a man. How can they take off their clothes and go to bed in front of them?
"Brother-in-law, I'm going back to rest. Your magic machine gun..."
"Don't you want to sleep here?"
"I have to return the magic machine gun!"
"Aren't you afraid of being robbed in the middle of the night?" Lin Linyou said, "I'll go with you!"
Touching the divine machine gun in his hand, Lin Linyou began to think deeply.
"What are you thinking about?" Zhang Bi asked, "Don't think that I don't know what you are thinking about."
"Now that you know, you still ask?"
"You want revenge, right?"
"I just want to try to see if Li Chun's iron cloth shirt can block this shot!"
Yue Buqun cried again: "Brother-in-law, I also said that you really care about me and are afraid that I will be robbed! It turns out that you are the strong thief!"
Lin Linyou forcibly left behind a magic machine gun: "Brother-in-law, I will study it and return it immediately after the study is completed!"
"Father-in-law, how should I explain it?"
"If there is one missing gun, it should not be discovered." Lin Linyou said, "Besides, we are not going to sea now. What's more, my father-in-law is already missing one gun. It shouldn't be a problem if one is missing one more?"
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