"What about my pear wood pendant?"
"He didn't give it to me." Zhen Yuanzi was a little embarrassed.
Zhao Chuan stamped his feet and regretted it to death. He didn't expect that this True Yuanzi would be so unreliable.
"Don't worry, little good man, I have the stuff here!" A voice came from behind.
The voice sounded familiar. Zhao Chuan turned around and saw the middle-aged Taoist from the cave last night walking towards him not far away.
In front of the mountain gate was a large square, and this middle-aged Taoist man appeared out of nowhere.
"Is this person from your Taoist temple?" Zhao Chuan hurriedly asked Zhen Yuanzi in front of him in a low voice before the person came closer.
Zhen Yuanzi shook his head slightly.
The middle-aged Taoist approached Zhao Chuan, took out the pear wood pendant and asked with a smile, "Is it this?"
"Why is it you?" Zhao Chuan was a little surprised.
"Why can't it be me?" The middle-aged Taoist smiled.
"Why do you have this thing in your hand?"
"Why isn't the thing in my hand?" The middle-aged Taoist still smiled broadly.
Zhao Chuan became more and more puzzled.
"Taoist Master Xuan Jing is temporarily out of town for something. He will come back to see you in two days. Now he has entrusted me with this thing for safekeeping. Come back in two days!"
After speaking, the middle-aged Taoist turned around and left, walking down the mountain without looking back. Only Zhao Chuan and Zhen Yuanzi were left standing in front of the mountain gate in confusion.
Zhao Chuan had no choice but to return to the inn, but the waiter told him that the three men had been taken away by officials, so he went to the Nanfeng County government office that night but failed to rescue anyone.
This is what happened two days ago.
Zhao Chuan came back from Nanfeng County Government and stayed at the inn for two more days. On the third day, Zhao Chuan went to Qingfeng Temple in Lingyin Mountain as scheduled.
This time he finally got his wish and met his third uncle Zhao Kai, now the Taoist priest Xuan Jing of Qingfeng Temple.
Zhao Chuan didn't understand why the juniors in this Taoist temple called him Uncle Silly Master, but he didn't understand until he met the person.
Zhen Yuanzi led the way. He took Zhao Chuan around in the huge Qingfeng Temple. After walking around for a long time, he stopped in front of a small cave and said that it was inside.
Zhen Yuanzi said you can't just enter here, you go in, I'll wait outside.
Qingfeng Temple covers a large area, including several hills, but there are countless good houses. Why does the third uncle want to live in a small cave? If you are not stupid and want to create your own magical skills with your great grandfather, you will need a special customized environment.
With this thought in mind, Zhao Chuan entered the cave. It was dark and damp inside. If he hadn't had night vision, it would have been difficult to walk in.
After walking dozens of steps, I saw candlelight and two people sitting at a table, talking.
One was the middle-aged Taoist priest I had seen before, and the other was a bald man who looked like a monk from a distance.
Seeing Zhao Chuan come in, the middle-aged Taoist priest pointed at the man with his chin and said, "This is the person you are looking for. Tell me, what do you want?"
Zhao Chuan was stunned when he heard this. This bald guy had a grimace, a donkey face, and a sloppy beard. He didn't look like the Zhao family at all. The eldest and second uncles of the Zhao family all have similar faces, so the third child must also be similar.
"Isn't it right? Isn't this Taoist Master Xuan Jing?" Zhao Chuan looked at the middle-aged Taoist priest and asked.
"Yes, he is Taoist Master Xuan Jing!" said the middle-aged Taoist priest.
"His common surname is Zhao?" Zhao Chuan asked again.
"Surnamed Zhao?" The middle-aged Taoist priest nodded again.
"His name is Zhao Kai?"
"right!"
"Northerners?"
"yes!"
Zhao Chuan became more and more suspicious, "Where is my pear wood pendant?" he asked.
"Here." The middle-aged Taoist took out the middle pendant.
Zhao Chuan grabbed it, turned around and left.
After taking a few steps, the middle-aged Taoist laughed loudly and called Zhao Chuan again, "Turn around again and see who this is?"
Zhao Chuan turned around out of curiosity and saw the bald donkey-faced monk rubbing his face with his hands. The face gradually shortened and returned to its original shape. His hair also grew out, and he vaguely resembled the Zhao family members.
"This is the art of disguise, a side trick of Taoism!" The middle-aged Taoist chuckled again, "This is Taoist Master Xuanjing trying to test you."
"Okay, can you tell me who you are now?" the middle-aged Taoist said with a smile.
"No, I'll also look at his back." Zhao Chuan said. Since he could disguise himself, he could also disguise himself as his third uncle. Zhao Chuan was overly conceited.
When the two men heard this, they looked at each other and smiled, and then they followed Zhao Chuan's words. The man turned his back and lifted up his clothes for Zhao Chuan to see.
Zhao Chuan came forward and raised his hand to pull his clothes to his left shoulder. Sure enough, there was a purple willow leaf birthmark.
"Third uncle! I am my nephew Zhao Chuan, and my father is Zhao Yishan." Zhao Chuan knelt down and kowtowed.
"Get up, I knew this a few days ago." Third Uncle Zhao Kai said lightly, "Now tell me in detail what happened at home, and everything that happened before you came here. Condition."
It took Zhao Chuan two full hours to finish everything. After hearing this, his third uncle Zhao Kai remained silent for a long time, his face gloomy and ugly.
However, the middle-aged Taoist priest had a happy face and said to Zhao Kai that this kid has taken great pains to investigate him these days, but I didn't expect that he is really your nephew! No one knows anything about this kid's background. He just has some martial arts skills, and no one knows where he learned them. Could it be that his great grandfather taught him martial arts?
Zhao Kai said in a cold voice, "Do you like it?"
The middle-aged Taoist priest said yes, this kid is good.
Zhao Kai said then you can stay and become an apprentice.
The middle-aged Taoist priest said you don't want to keep it?
Zhao Kai said that this is my nephew and I can't teach him. Besides, what I learned is to teach scriptures and enlightenment. I taught about literature in prosperous times and martial arts in troubled times. It's useless for him to learn this! Master brought me here to learn this, and I have regretted it for many years. I can't harm my nephew again...
The middle-aged Taoist priest said that your reason is not sufficient. The real reason is that your Quanzhen sect requires you to become a monk, you cannot get married, and you must observe the precepts. You don’t want your Zhao family to have no descendants...
Zhao Kai said, you old bastard, why don't you accept my nephew if you know you are pretentious? The Taoism you teach Zhengyi is so powerful, you should accept my nephew.
"Okay then, I will accept your nephew as my apprentice, but I can't do it now. I have some things to do in the North Country right away. I have to come back next month to formally accept him. I am a wandering Taoist priest."
"Whatever you want! It's just that my nephew can't stay here. Qingfeng Temple is not safe, and I have something to do and I have to leave tomorrow..." Zhao Kai said.
The middle-aged Taoist priest said to Zhao Chuan that you should go back first, and when I finish my work, I will come to you to recruit a disciple.
However, the third uncle waved his hand to stop him and asked Zhao Chuan to come over and kowtow to the middle-aged Taoist: "Chuan'er, come here and kowtow to him first to recognize him as master. His Taoist name is Xiaoyaozi."
The middle-aged Taoist, who was also called Xiaoyaozi by the third uncle, waved his hands repeatedly and said that he would not be formally accepted until I came back next month. The third uncle said that if he didn’t want to be accepted, it would be fine. At first he would just kowtow. Why are you so pretentious?
Zhao Chuan kowtowed, and then his third uncle waved his hand to let him go back first.
When they met, the third uncle said nothing to himself except that they recognized each other. Zhao Chuan was a little disappointed. He originally thought that his third uncle would burst into tears, but it seemed that he was overthinking it.
But that's not right. Before leaving, his third uncle Zhao Kai, Taoist priest Xuan Jing of Qingfeng Temple, said something to him: "The other party is deeply entrenched and extremely difficult to shake. Don't be in a hurry to take revenge." !”
When Zhao Chuan came out of the cave, he didn't expect that Zhen Yuanzi was still waiting there. It was already past afternoon. He came early in the morning and spent two hours talking in the cave. He was already hungry.
Zhen Yuanzi was carefully observing Zhao Chuan's face, but Zhao Chuan's expression when he came in and when he came out of the cave was almost the same, and he couldn't tell whether he was happy, angry, sad or happy.
Zhen Yuanzi politely sent Zhao Chuan to the mountain gate again. Zhao Chuan couldn't understand why Zhen Yuanzi was so polite to him.
Back at the inn, Zhao Chuan was very disappointed. He thought that this meeting between his uncle and nephew would be a joy in the world, but he didn't expect it to be boring. Not only did his third uncle not give him support, he couldn't even let him stay at the Qingfeng Temple.
This made Zhao Chuan realize that the relationship between people is enhanced by getting along with each other. The third uncle has left the Zhao family since he was a child. It is expected that he has no feelings for the Zhao family at all.
Zhao Chuan couldn't understand how his third uncle could be like this, but at least he introduced himself as Xiaoyaozi as his master, but this master seemed unreliable.
Zhao Chuan thought about how ridiculous he felt. Now he had three martial arts masters, one was Grandpa, the other was Ghost Master Xiaotian, and the other was Xiaoyaozi. Each of the three masters was more perfunctory than the last, and the last one was more like a hangout. He only gave himself a title and left.
No matter what, you have to rely on yourself for everything. Fortunately, I have skills and can take care of myself, so it's not a big deal.
Just pretend you’ve never met your third uncle! Zhao Chuan lay on the bed in the inn, thinking about it and felt relieved.
What to do next? The three men at Yaliguan in Nanfeng County were still saved, and they did it themselves. They had to solve the problems they had taken on by themselves.
Zhao Chuan stayed in the inn for another two days, but still couldn't come up with a good idea. No one came to see him in the past two days, neither official officials nor the master Xiaoyaozi who kowtowed too much came.
But even if the official came and wanted to ask Zhao Chuan to help the Marquis, Zhao Chuan would not agree. He was already hostile to the official family in his heart.
Both the third uncle and the master knew that the three men were in jail because Zhao Chuan told them about it in Qingfeng Temple, but they didn't mention a word about it. It seemed that they didn't want to help at all.
Bored, Zhao Chuan had no choice but to sit cross-legged and practice, but after practicing again and again, he still could not break through the water layer and advance to the fire layer, and he was definitely at a bottleneck.
Then just practice the medical skills taught by the ghost master.
Ghost Master Xiaotian's set of medical skills consists of five parts: "Acupuncture", "Decoctions", "Elixir Pills", "Tuina Massage" and "Essential Medical Skills and Miscellaneous Matters". There is no way to learn except "Elixir Pills" because Xiaotian The alchemy cauldron that was given was placed in the Qiankun bag and could not be taken out, so I left "Essential Medical Skills and Miscellaneous Matters" unread.
Then learn "Essential Medical Skills and Miscellaneous Matters" now.
Zhao Chuan called up "Essential Medical Skills and Miscellaneous Matters" from his mind, and couldn't help but be shocked when he saw it.
This "Essentials of Medical Practice and Miscellaneous Matters" has everything in it, it's a hodgepodge. It includes the treatment of many strange and difficult diseases, asking gods to cure ghost possession, animal injuries, capons and pigs, using poison to detoxify, secret techniques in the house, etc.
Zhao Chuan was a little dizzy. With the medical skills passed down by the ghost master Xiao Tian, did he want to become a human doctor or a veterinarian? Should we save people or learn to harm them?
Besides, being a doctor or a veterinarian is just that. When people walk in the world, curing diseases and rescuing people, or treating mules and horses can be regarded as an honest profession. But if you even do it to exorcise ghosts, summon souls, and comfort gods, this is not to rob other Taoist monks. Job?
However, Zhao Chuan was very interested in these and learned them thoroughly in two hours.
Some people are like this. They learn serious things slowly and laboriously, but learn sideways things quickly and well.
Why is Zhao Chuan so anxious to learn so quickly? Because he thought of a way to save people...
