Chapter 2 The Toad in the Sky
This matter finally reached the ears of the young lady from the General's Mansion. The young lady quit and ran to the General's father, yelling at the General to catch Li Ye and give him a good beating.
The general smiled, touched the young lady's head and said: "He didn't name him, so why should he be punished? If you want to deal with him, you should practice quickly. When you have the skills, you can do whatever you want."
The general's name is Shangguan Feihu, and he is already the general of Fengyun City in his early thirties; his wife, Lin Yueru, is also from a family background and is not yet twenty-five. The two of them only have one daughter, Shangguan Wushuang, who is the treasure in their hands and cannot be used to it.
The general wanted his daughter to practice martial arts early in the morning, but the young lady was afraid of hardship and refused to practice. Well, now I finally found a reason for her to practice martial arts.
The little sister's face turned red. She thought over and over again, and finally gritted her teeth and said, "I will practice with daddy, and when I get the skills, I will go and deal with Li Ye!" She clenched her fists like an angry little tiger.
"Okay, okay! Dad will find a good master for you and teach you how to practice seriously." He turned around and started studying ink in front of the case and writing letters.
"Go and send a message to Li Ye of Chunfeng Academy, telling him to wait until he grows up and marry into the general's mansion, and I will beat him eight times a day!" The young lady ordered the maid Chun Hong.
"I'm still thinking about Heavenly Toad, waiting for this princess to beat you like a toad."
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On this day, Li Ye was studying in the academy classroom. Chunhong, the maid of the General's Mansion, ran to Li Ye's school window and said to the dozen or so young students in the classroom: "Li Ye, listen carefully, Princess Wushuang I’ll let you grow up and marry into the general’s palace. If you don’t obey, I’ll beat you eight times a day!”
After speaking, he ran out of the academy without looking back, leaving a group of friends in a daze.
After a long while, the friends who were laughing so hard that their stomachs ached, pointed at Li Ye and said: You are miserable. In the future, you will marry into the general's mansion, and you will have to be punished eight times a day.
Li Ye was so depressed, wasn't it just a joke? It's necessary to be so cruel!
This matter quickly spread throughout the city. Even Li Ye's parents laugh at Li Ye, what should we do? Our Li Ye will marry the princess of the General's Mansion when he grows up.
The wife of the General's Mansion got angry, frowned and said to the General: "Wushuang is a child, and she speaks freely. Now it has been spread all over the city, saying that the princess of the General's Mansion will marry a young scholar from the academy when she grows up."
The general frowned and replied: "These are just the words of a child, can they be taken seriously?"
"What if Wushuang takes it seriously?" Madam smiled.
"Wushuang wants to practice martial arts. She is willing to do so. I have hired a master for her, and he will come to the house in a few days." The general looked up at the sky. Turn around and leave.
After some time, everyone in the city knew that the General's Mansion hired a powerful master from Phoenix Mountain to teach Princess Wushuang how to practice.
The friends in the academy looked at Li Ye sympathetically, expressing their worries about his future. Tang Chao, a classmate and friend, hummed: "Li Ye, who told you to look at her more on the bridge..."
Li Ye kicked Tang Chao, "You are the tragedy, I don't want you!"
The children's stomachs hurt from laughing. With the song "Toad in the Sky", Li Ye became the after-dinner gossip of his friends and the adults and elders in the city, and he could not stop it.
Xiao Li Ye was extremely depressed. After thinking about it, he returned to the backyard and asked his master, "Dad, when will you teach me how to practice?"
The master thought for a while and said, "Dad can't teach you about cultivation. The old monk at the Great Buddha Temple introduced you to a master, Mr. Mo Yu from Zizhuyuan in the east of the city. I will take you to see him in two days."
Li Ye thought to himself: He could finally practice cultivation, and he didn't have to be afraid of the little tiger in the general's mansion.
In the early morning of autumn, Li Ye and his master left the academy, sat in their carriage, and came to see Mo Yu.
After knocking three times, a servant opened the door. After asking about the situation, he invited the two of them in. He said that the gentleman was in front of the hall. The father and son looked at the purple bamboos in the garden, rustling in the wind.
Mo Yu was sitting in front of the hall, preparing to boil water for tea. He looks about fifty, black clothes, black hair, straight waist, kind face, looking at the father and son with a smile.
The father and son greeted Mo Yu and sat down opposite him.
Mr. Mo Yu slowly and nonchalantly added charcoal to boil the water, warmed the pot, washed the cups, and washed the tea. In a moment, the aroma of tea wafted out.
The teacher glanced at Li Ye and said softly: "Why do you want to practice?"
The master also looked at Li Ye.
Li Ye lowered his head, thought for a while, and replied in a low voice: "My heart is in the sky, but I am in the abyss. I want to practice and change myself."
After hearing this, the master was surprised, looked at the master and said, "Did you teach him to say it?"
The Master quickly replied: "No, I have not taught him how to practice."
The gentleman poured tea for the two of them and asked Li Ye to stretch out his hand and take a pulse.
After touching the pulse with two fingers, the gentleman's true energy went straight to the twelve major meridians of Li Ye's body. Within a moment, the gentleman was shocked. He looked at the master and said, "He is born with a pulse connection! The Taoist body is perfect. Why doesn't the master teach his children to practice?"
The master quickly replied: "My cultivation is limited, and I am afraid that I will miss him. I want to find him a good teacher before I can practice seriously."
Mo Yu was silent for a while and said: "I heard the monk from the Great Buddha Temple tell you about your family. This child has a good character. Please follow me in practice from now on."
The Master's face was full of joy and he saluted Master Mo Yu again: "Thank you so much, Master."
"Starting from tomorrow, you can come over in the afternoon and start studying." Mo Yu said to Li Ye: "If you want to practice with me, you must first learn to make tea and then learn to play the piano."
Li Ye served tea to the gentleman, knelt down and kowtowed three times seriously, and the gentleman simply completed the apprenticeship.
The breeze blowing through the bamboo forest in front of the hall is fragrant.
Li Yexin said that he would be happy to have a master who could practice cultivation.
In the morning light, the mist in the bamboo forest rose, and a rainbow appeared in front of the teacher's hall and across the courtyard wall.
The gentleman looked at the rainbow and thought: Let's see how you stir up the wind and clouds and soar into the sky.
After the tea was over, everyone was happy, and the father and son thanked each other and went back.
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After a few days, everyone in the city knew that Li Ye from the Academy was learning piano from Master Mo from the Purple Bamboo Academy.
The young lady from Jiangjun Mansion practices with the master from Fenghuang Mountain, and the young master from the academy learns piano skills from Mr. Mo from Zizhuyuan.
This year, Li Ye was five years old and Shangguan Wushuang was seven years old.
In the words of the Master: From the day he started practicing with his teacher, Li Ye’s hardships in life began.
Li Ye's mother was afraid that Li Ye would suffer hardship while learning the piano, so she called Agui, who was three years older than Li Ye in the yard, to follow her.
In the afternoon of the next day, Li Ye and Agui arrived at Mr. Mo Yu's Zizhu Courtyard early. They entered the courtyard and sat quietly in front of the hall waiting for Mr. Mo Yu.
The master came out of the study, looked at Li Ye, and said with a smile: "Yes, he is sarcastic at a young age, and he even writes poems and allusions. Go and bring the black piano from the study."
Li Ye glanced at his husband, then got up and went to the study to move the piano.
After a while, he came back with a blushing face and said to Mo Yu: "Sir, the piano is too heavy to move."
The teacher looked at Li Ye and said disdainfully: "You can't even move the piano, but you still want to learn it? Aren't you very good at writing poetry?"
Li Ye was speechless, blushed and said nothing.
"Do you want to learn the piano seriously with me?" Mo Yu looked at Li Ye.
"I want to, I really want to." Li Ye clenched his fists.
After hearing Li Ye's answer, Mo Yu took out a black cloth bag from under the tea table and placed it on the table.
"Put on this fifty-pound armor and you are not allowed to take it off at any time except to take a shower. When you can pick up the black piano, I will teach you how to play it."
Li Ye opened the bag, and inside was a thin piece of black armor, which smelled cold when he touched it with his hands. Can be worn next to the body under a robe. Li Ye weighs less than sixty pounds this year.
Agui stepped forward to help Li Ye put on the black armor. Li Ye's face was red and he was covered in sweat.
"Remember, you will have to walk home later, and you will also have to walk to Qinyuan from now on. You are not allowed to take a carriage. Can you do it?" Mo Yu said to Li Ye. "Also, I will re-add weight to your armor every year from now on, ten kilograms every year until you leave the army."
Li Ye's face turned red and he was speechless. He just nodded vigorously.
That afternoon, the teacher began to teach Li Ye how to make tea: "Life is like tea, the world is like tea, and learning Buddhism is just a cup of tea. Study hard, and when you come later, boil water to make tea first."
On this day, Li Ye returned home from Qinyuan and walked for two hours for five miles. He cried while walking. His small body could not bear the weight of this armor and he gritted his teeth.
Agui drove the carriage and followed Li Ye, with a distressed expression on his face as he kept saying, "Master, why don't you get in the carriage and leave tomorrow."
Li Ye shook his head and said nothing.
Finally returned to the academy. After entering the house, I said hello to my parents, but I didn't eat anything, so I fell down and went to sleep.
The next day, Li Ye told his master that he was not allowed to ride in the carriage and had to walk to learn the piano.
It took Li Ye another two hours to walk to Qinyuan. When he arrived at Qinyuan, there was blood on the outside of his robe. The master looked at it and asked Li Ye to take off his clothes. I saw that the close-fitting clothes underneath were somewhat frayed, and some places had begun to bleed.
The master took Li Ye to a wooden barrel in the kitchen and asked Li Ye to take off his clothes. He picked up the naked Li Ye and threw him in. He only heard a howl.
"Sir, it hurts to death!" Li Ye couldn't help crying.
"Be patient, if you want to learn the piano, you have to endure hardship first, you know?" Master Mo Yu used a bamboo stick to slap Li Ye's little hand as he tried to crawl out.
"These medicinal materials are very expensive, you know? You owe it now, and you will have to earn it back slowly in the future, sir!"
Agui covered his mouth and smiled, "Master, please be patient. If you don't endure hardship, how can you do it? Do you really want the little princess of the General's Mansion to beat you eight times a day?"
Hearing this, the gentleman smiled.
This afternoon, Li Ye did not learn the tea ceremony, but just took a medicinal bath in the barrel for two hours. When Li Ye climbed out of the barrel, the barrel was filled with black water and the stench was overwhelming. The gentleman looked disgusted.
"Pour out the water and clean the bucket. You can go back."
Agui helped Li Ye get out of the bucket and touched Li Ye. "Master, you have turned white, whiter than the princess of the General's Mansion, and all the wounds on your body have disappeared."
The husband pretended not to see it and walked away with his head raised.
Li Ye looked at his body. It was really white. He sighed and said, "I have to suffer on the way home. Bring me your clothes."
After getting dressed, the two left the Qinyuan and spent another two hours returning to the academy.
The difference from yesterday was that Li Ye used all his strength to eat dinner today and ate three bowls in one go. Madam feels distressed, what's going on? I didn’t eat anything last night, but I ate three bowls today.
After dinner, Li Ye went back to his room to rest. The master and his wife called Li Gui over. "Agui, what did the young master learn at the piano academy today? Why are you so tired?"
"Back to Madam, Master, I didn't learn anything today. I just went to Master Mo's piano academy and took a medicinal bath for two hours. When I came out, I was even fairer than the princess of the General's Mansion. Didn't you notice, Madam?" Agui smiled. answer.
"If this is the case, I have to go take a look." Madam stood up to see Li Ye.
The master stopped his wife and said not to ask yet, but to talk about it after a while.
That night, Li Ye found that he was much stronger than before, and he didn't need to rest on the way back. He took off his coat and touched the black armor, which was strung together like fish scales. I don’t know where sir got this thing from, it’s so amazing.
The next day, Li Ye and Agui spent an hour and a half walking to Qinyuan. This time there was no blood on their bodies. Master Mo Yu took a look and said: "Yes, it has only been soaked once, and it can withstand the temper of the iron armor. In the next three days, it will be soaked once. Now go boil water and make tea."
Li Ye started to boil water and made the first tea in his life. Hands in honor of Mr. The husband vomited after only one taste.
"What kind of tea is this made with water? Pour it out and start over."
"This is spring water brought from the back mountain. Don't you like to drink spring water, sir?" Li Ye looked at him aggrievedly.
Agui lowered his head and suppressed laughter.
"The water is right, the tea is right, but you are wrong. This is spring tea before the rain. If you use boiling water to make it, you will kill the charm of this spring tea." Mo Yu The master hit Li Ye with a bamboo stick.
Li Ye then started over and started boiling water again.
"Your pot is not even warm, so you just put tea in it. Are you a pig? Do it again!" Another slap from the bamboo stick.
"The water temperature is too low. Bring it to a boil and let it sit for a while before soaking." It had been an hour and the tea had not been drunk yet. Master Mo Yu was a little angry. "There are too few leaves in this tea and it has no flavor. Try it again."
That afternoon, Li Ye spent two hours and finally made a satisfactory tea for his husband. In the words of the teacher, Li Ye has not even started tea ceremony yet. He is like a student who has just entered the Confucius School and knows nothing.
Back to the academy. After the meal, the master and his wife called Agui as usual and asked about the situation. Agui replied with a smile: "My lord, madam, the young master has made more progress today than yesterday. Under the guidance of the teacher, I spent two hours making a cup of tea for him."
The lady nodded and said to the master: "Do you need to learn the tea ceremony first to learn the piano?"
"What do you know? Sir, you are teaching this kid to cultivate his mind before learning the piano. Only when his mind is calm can he be successful." I thought to myself. The ancients said that Yi Yi teaches from a teacher, which makes sense.
From that day on, in Agui's words: Li Ye was either at his husband's Zizhuyuan or on the way to Zizhuyuan.
Rain or shine. Li Ye spent three months training his body and practicing the tea ceremony taught by his husband. Finally, he was able to make a satisfactory tea for him. What made Li Ye most happy was that he could move his husband's black harp. It turned out that The body of the piano is made of black iron and weighs one hundred kilograms. No wonder five-year-old Li Ye can't move it.
In the words of his husband, after three months of taking medicinal baths and practicing in black iron armor, Li Ye's body was finally ready and he could start learning the music.
It was autumn when Li Ye became an apprentice, and it was already winter.
After Li Ye learned the piano technique from Mr. Mo Yu who lived in the west of the city for two months, he composed a tune by himself and played and sang the song "Toad in the Sky".
Toads are flying in the sky
The toad is chasing the ground
If you're worried that I can't fly
i have my butterfly
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