First of all, the sleeping action is to keep the whole person lying on the side, with the top of the head facing the east.
Because the east is the direction where the sun comes out, and it is also where the vitality of all things in the world lies!
One arm was slightly bent, resting on his head.
The other hand is gently pressed on the navel, which connects the Dantian.
Then, straighten the leg opposite to the arm used to rest your head - that is, if you bend your right arm, straighten your left leg, and if you bend your left arm, straighten your right leg.
Correspondingly, the other leg was curled up and retracted.
This set is the specific actions of the entire "sleeping skill".
It looks a bit like a baby. On the surface it feels fragile and innocent.
At the same time, we must also cooperate with the breathing method.
You need to take a deep breath and keep inhaling until you can no longer breathe. Then exhale slowly until all the air in your chest is expelled. Then keep repeating the process of inhaling and exhaling...
The heart is to remain pure and peaceful.
In short, if I sum it up in eight words: it looks like a baby and its heart is like a child.
Lao Cao explained it to me in detail, then demonstrated the movements again, and then asked me to lie on the bed and try it myself.
Unexpectedly, I followed the method he said and almost fell asleep in a second or two! Lost consciousness.
When I woke up, it was almost dawn.
The rising sun is rising, spreading sunshine into the house.
Looking at the old broken clock hanging on the wall, it happened to be 6:15 in the morning. In other words, I slept for about forty-five minutes.
But I felt refreshed and the fatigue from a few hours ago was gone.
"This sleeping technique is indeed magical! Lao Cao was willing to teach me this kind of technique. I wonder what good thing the master gave him?"
I was secretly curious.
Although Lao Cao and I get along very happily, and our personalities and temperaments are quite similar, and we tend to become friends every year. But I don’t believe that with just two or three days of friendship, he can teach me this kind of skill of keeping things under control!
It must be something that Master gave him, enough to make Lao Cao treat me wholeheartedly.
Thinking of this, I miss Master again...
Although I had only been studying in the town for two days, it felt like I hadn't seen her for a long time.
After leaving the room, I passed by the room where the paper people and horses were placed. I smiled and said hello to the paper man who helped me clean my room yesterday, and then went downstairs.
Seeing that Lao Cao is still sleeping in the room, it seems that the Duan family has been troubled a lot about the female corpse. I went to the bun shop not far away and bought some big meat buns.
I went back and put a few in the coffin shop for breakfast when he woke up. I took two in my hand and ate while walking towards school.
When we arrived at the bridge in the west of the town, there were gradually more students on the road. The gathering of twos and threes is full of the youthful vitality of young people.
I don’t know why, but I seem to be so premature that when I see my peers, I think they are children.
This strange feeling also makes me like school life more - it makes me feel more like a normal teenager.
But I can no longer see my master in school. I really can’t have my cake and eat it too...
Just when I was lamenting that it was difficult to have both in life, I saw Wang Dachun coming from the south with a few bastard followers, talking and laughing.
Oh, it’s really a narrow road for enemies.
I saw that there were classmates around me, so I deliberately said hello loudly: "Brother Chun, I went to the rooftop of the teaching building last night after self-study. But after waiting for a long time, you didn't come. I was afraid that I would turn into a dog, no. Are you going upstairs? Do you want to bark a few times?"
Hahaha!
Some classmates around me who knew that he and I had a conflict yesterday couldn't help laughing.
This caused other students who didn't know what was going on to look over.
Wang Dachun, who was originally in a good mood, turned green.
"What are you looking at! If you look again, I'll beat you up."
He said something harsh to the classmates who were looking here, and then glared at me, seemingly lacking confidence: "You know, I had diarrhea and went to the campus hospital. The doctor prescribed medicine for me and asked Zeng Jin to take me home. ”
Hahaha.
I sneered again and again: "There are a lot of excuses. It's okay, anyway, to a playboy like you, what I say is just like farting."
After saying that, he didn't bother to pay attention to him and continued to move forward.
"Ah no, why are you like this? Listen to me, this is not the case..."
Wang Dachun was so anxious that he scratched his head and paced back and forth next to me. I just thought he was buzzing like a fly.
When I got to school, I started studying in the morning.
All the students in the class, led by the teacher, read the English phonetic symbols aloud. The sound of reading was loud and full of energy facing the rising sun.
It was the age of junior high school, and it was also the late 1990s when the entire society was eager to welcome a new era...
…
For the next week, I studied during the day and went back to learn coffin making and the distinction between various weird coffins with Lao Cao at night. Basically, it was all theoretical knowledge, but I never encountered anyone carrying a coffin.
After all, in peaceful times, deaths are not that frequent.
In 1999, junior high schools no longer had to attend evening self-study on Fridays, and school ended early at 3 p.m.
My heart has already flown back to Wujiacun.
I went to the coffin shop and said hello to Lao Cao, then went home with my schoolbag on my back.
When I saw the familiar courtyard gate of my house, it was not yet time for dinner.
"Mom, Dad, I'm back!"
"Hey, Yao'er is back."
My mother poked her head out of the kitchen, holding a spatula in her hand. I smiled and said that I had a good meal tonight. I steamed my favorite Shao Bai - that is, braised pork with bean sprouts, which is called Shao Bai in Sichuan and Chongqing.
My dad was listening to the radio in the main room, so he stood up and hugged me hard: "Have you studied seriously?"
"Of course, I will give you the first grade in the monthly exam next month."
I threw my schoolbag to him with a smile, then turned around and ran out.
Where to go?
Of course I went to find my master!
My mother shouted from behind: "You little kid, you have to deliver dinner to Fairy Auntie later. Come along when I'm done."
"Oh, I'm going to go first. When the food is ready, I'll come back to get it."
I vaguely heard my mother complaining from behind, such as "having a master and forgetting my mother", but I didn't worry about it. She must have been joking anyway.
I ran along the path in the village to my master's house, and the door was open.
"Come in, Ah Chong."
Master's clear and sweet voice came from the room, as if he knew in advance that I was coming at this time.
I walked in and said with a smile.
"Master, do you want to be my apprentice?"
"I've only been studying in the town for a week, and now I've become glib? What will happen if I go to a big city in the future?"
Master frowned slightly, pretending to be unhappy.
But she is so beautiful and looks about eighteen or nineteen years old that she has no intimidation to me - unless she is really angry.
"Oh, I know. I don't dare."
I nodded like a chicken pecking at rice.
She was so angry and funny that she asked me to sit down next to her and test whether I had carefully read the two Feng Shui books "The House Sutra" and "The Burial Sutra" this week.
I also asked about some other metaphysical knowledge, and I answered them all fluently.
Then, I described in detail the situation at school and what Lao Cao and Daniu encountered when they went to Duan’s house to carry the coffin...
The master sighed helplessly: "You, you, these horoscopes and horoscopes make it easy to encounter strange and unlucky things."
I scratched my head and thought that it was something I was born with, but there was nothing wrong with it!
"By the way, Master, I want to ask you something. Just now, I also said... I used a spell to tease Wang Dachun. Is that right? Also, when I used Lao Cao's sacred paper fire knife to kill the female corpse, I was deliberately slow. For two seconds. I..."
The more I spoke, the softer my voice became. I was very worried that Master would scold me.
After all, Lao Cao actually complained a little about this matter and felt that what I did was not quite right.
But in this world, except for my parents and master, who can control me? I don't care either!
Ha ha!
Unexpectedly, Master laughed and laughed so hard that he was very happy. The big bright eyes were narrowed, like crescent moons, very beautiful.
I, the monk Zhang Er, am confused and simply baffled.
"Master, what's wrong? I asked her if she did the right thing, but why does she seem so happy?"
She laughed for a while, then stared at me and said seriously.
"Let me ask you, when you did these two things, did you feel comfortable?"
I was stunned, but I still lowered my head and answered honestly.
"Comfortable, quite comfortable."
"Then you deliberately pretended to slip and beheaded the female corpse for two seconds, but for what dirty gain?"
"Of course not! There is no benefit. I just want justice. I just think that in a situation like Miss Duan, the punishment given to the evildoer by Yang Zhan may be too light."
"In that case, why are you wrong! Not only are you right, you have done the right thing. Hahaha, descendants of my lineage have no taboos in doing anything and do whatever they want. Just ask your heart and seek understanding. Why should you care about what others think? Ah Chong, you did a great job. My teacher likes it very much."
I raised my head suddenly and looked at Master in surprise!
I never expected that this would be the answer.
I originally thought that Master would be like Lao Cao, tactfully telling me not to "cross the line" like this in the future. Or give me a scolding...
After all, at this time, the fantasy genre in Hong Kong movies is very popular!
I have also watched some zombie movies, ghost movies, and the like. Most of them say that people in Taoism should cultivate their moral character and be tolerant to others. Don't worry about other people's sins, be kind.
And there are also some folk rumors that the methods used by people in Xuanmen cannot always be used on ordinary people, otherwise they will cause some backlash and so on.
Lao Cao probably had the same idea, so he gave me some advice out of kindness.
But what Master seems to be saying is, revenge when there is hatred, and revenge when there is hatred! It doesn’t matter what others think, as long as you think it’s right and just, then just do it!
She looked at me and spoke word by word.
"Ah Chong, do you still remember what I said when you first became a disciple?"
I thought for a while and replied: "Master said that in our lineage, we follow whatever we want and follow the natural way. We don't care much about things that are rigid and pedantic."
As I talked, I seemed to understand something...
That's right!
The master nodded: "I also said that my lineage is not very popular in the Xuanmen world. Do you understand now? The evil way naturally thinks that we are people of the right way. But those who claim to be the right way, but They feel that our methods are cruel and harsh, and we must retaliate, and our actions are too self-centered."
ah?
I looked aggrieved: "Master, what you mean is that we are the type that grandma doesn't love and uncle doesn't love? Many Taoist schools don't like us?"
She laughed: "So you regret it? Are you scared?"
"Afraid? As long as I follow the master, I will brave the swords, mountains, fire, seas, and the underworld! As for people in the world not liking me, I don't like them yet."
I puffed up my chest and patted it hard.
Master smiled again, looking at me with eyes full of appreciation and satisfaction.
She probably thinks she has a very good apprentice, right?
Well, yes, I am so narcissistic and shameless...
But another question came to my mind, so I asked: "Master, what if I become a bad person in the future? What if a bad person strengthens his heart and thinks that he has done nothing wrong, and thinks that he has to do bad things to be able to think clearly? What if I become a bad person in the future? What should we do? If we are loyal to our own hearts, how can we know whether our hearts are good or bad?"
