Chapter 6 Chapter 5 Mystery and Mystery

It was not easy to meet Zhen Zhen in the misty mountain forest, and the mist gradually dissipated, but then it seemed that a ghost hit the wall, and he couldn't reach the top of the mountain until noon.What's more unfortunate is that we were still surrounded by a group of things that looked like dryads. When there was nothing I could do, I had to resort to the last trick in "Thirty-six Strategies"-walking is the best! Pulling Zhenzhen, or being dragged by Zhenzhen, I ran wildly in the rugged mountain forest, followed by small stones like a rainstorm, and I am afraid that my back has been smashed with a lot of bruises.What's more, those scary dryads kept making sharp "squeaky" sounds, which made me feel very flustered. I almost touched the tree several times. Fortunately, Zhenzhen reacted quickly and gave me a hand, otherwise I might die Dismembered by a dryad.

However, a poor end is not necessarily an end, and life can be saved even in a desperate situation!After being chased by these dryads for more than half an hour, I saw a bright light ahead, obviously we had already reached the edge of the forest.Zhen Zhen seemed to have noticed this too, and ran faster than before.My physical strength is far inferior to hers, and I have run a long section of the rugged road just now, and now I can hardly run anymore, and now I am almost being dragged by her.I think if I were lighter, she would probably let me float in mid-air like dragging a sack.But in fact, she really wanted to do this, and just ran wildly, I was dragged and touched a tree three times before I walked out of this damn mountain forest.

Although I was covered in bruises, I managed to save my life no matter what.After rushing out of the forest, those weird dryads didn't come after me again, so I breathed a sigh of relief and looked carefully at where we were.It turned out that we ran to the top of the mountain by mistake. There is a very simple temple not far away. I think this is the destination of our trip - Qinglian Temple. The moment I saw this ruined Taoist temple, the joy in my heart was indescribable, just like when I bought welfare lottery tickets for two consecutive years and won ten yuan for the first time.Zhenzhen was also very excited, cheering loudly: "I found it, finally found it!" and made a gesture to run over.

I hurriedly grabbed her and put my index finger in front of my lips: "Shh... this is a place for people to meditate. You will make people unhappy if you make such a big noise." She responded to me a little out of breath, and then yelled again: "Why did you do this, didn't you bandage it for you just now? How come your face is covered in blood again!" "You still have the nerve to ask, didn't you just dragged me into a tree just now?" I think I'm still alive, it's because Changshengtian cares for me.Because we didn't have anything on us, it was really not easy to clean the blood on our faces. Although we felt a little rude, we still planned to go to the Taoist temple first.

Along a crude stone staircase that has been slightly artificially trimmed, and through an archway whose handwriting has been obliterated by wind and rain, we came to a small square.Stone slabs are laid on the ground here, and a large incense burner half a person's height is placed in the center, which is a bit refined and elegant in its simplicity.Behind the square is a simple Taoist temple. There is a wooden plaque on the door of the Taoist temple, on which are written three vigorous and powerful cinnabar characters - Qinglian Temple. In the small square, there is a middle-aged man in an old but neat shirt and trousers sweeping the floor. I think he should be a Taoist here!So I wanted to go up to Zhenzhen to ask him, but Zhenzhen held me back and whispered in my ear: "Is he a Taoist priest? Why isn't he wearing a Taoist robe?"

I answered her angrily: "I have never seen you wearing a skirt, but I never doubted that you are not a girl." After she gave me a fierce look, she walked forward with me. As soon as the Taoist priest sweeping the floor saw us, he quickly stepped forward to help me, and asked with concern, "Did you run into trouble on the way up the mountain?" "We met a group of tree spirits and a robe that can fly..." I told the middle-aged Taoist priest all the strange things we encountered in the mountains with a wry smile. It’s not a tree spirit ghost, it’s just a group of mischievous troublemakers. I’ll take you to deal with the wound first, and I’ll help you get your wallet back later, anyway, I’m going to ask those guys to get back my Taoist robe.” He said After all, we took us to the back of the Taoist temple.

There are several very simple bungalows behind the Taoist temple. He took us into one of them. The inside is also very simple. There is only a bed, a stool, a desk and a small wooden box. There are neatly arranged pillows and quilts on the bed. , there are a few bound books and an oil lamp on the desk, but nothing else.He asked me to sit down first, then fetched a bucket of water from the well outside the door, came in to help me wash the blood on my face, and then took out some things that should be herbs from the wooden box and asked Zhenzhen to bandage my wound .After Zhenzhen finished bandaging me, he told me that his Taoist name is Wanghen, and asked why we went up the mountain.

"We are here to find someone." Zhen Zhen spoke before me. Wang Hen smiled and said to us: "You want to see my master for reading. Then you come at a bad time. The master will only look for visiting believers on the first and fifteenth day of the lunar new year. It's a pity that you came a day late. It's already sixteen today, so unless you have a destiny with him, or your trip is in vain." "No..." Zhenzhen was about to speak, so I gave her a tug, signaling her not to rush to explain why she came, and then said to Wanghen: "Are there many people looking for your master to look at?"

"Well, it should be said that there are many people who want to see the master, but not many people can come here in person, I think you should be able to appreciate how difficult the road up the mountain is!" Wanghen always smiled expression. "There doesn't seem to be any scientific basis for such things. Do you know how to read physiognomy? Why don't you take a look at what I do?" Zhen Zhen's tone was slightly provocative. "I only know a little superficially, and I can't compare with the master, but if you are interested, I can give it a try." Wanghen put away his smile, looked at Zhenzhen's face seriously, and said after a while: "Although you She is a girl, but her eyebrows are fine and close, and if she is like a knife, she must have a heart to fight against injustice. She should be engaged in military service..." He pointed to Zhenzhen's forehead, just above the center of her eyebrows, "Your official salary palace is full and full of You have a royal air, if I'm not wrong, your job should be the police."

Zhen Zhen was taken aback for a moment, then smiled and said, "You are really mistaken, I am indeed a policeman." Wanghen showed a smiling expression again: "It's not that I'm right, but it's based. Physiognomy is actually not as mysterious as the world thinks, it's just because there are too many charlatans in the world bluffing and deceiving under the banner of physiognomy, so that the world is right. Physiognomy is just a misunderstanding. If you want to use science to explain physiognomy, then physiognomy can be regarded as a kind of statistics, because physiognomy is classified according to the facial characteristics of various people, and palmistry is the same. Of course as A kind of statistics, face and palm reading are impossible to be 100% accurate, but their scientific nature cannot be denied. For example, gambling, before the appearance of "Probability Theory", gambling has been considered to be determined entirely by luck. Win or lose. But now everyone knows that under certain rules, there will be people who can only win but not lose, so those who open a casino will only worry about no one coming to gamble, and will not worry about losing money."

"Real physiognomy is a very profound knowledge. It is impossible to get any results by relying on only one or two so-called physiognomy books. This is somewhat similar to medicine. If a doctor wants to diagnose a disease accurately, he must have Rich clinical experience is the premise. The same is true for fortune tellers, without rich experience and good observation eyes, it is impossible to become a good fortune teller.” Wanghen's words do have some truth. Physiognomy is indeed a broad and profound knowledge, but it is a pity that some charlatans have been labeled superstitious by the world.Today's young people would rather believe in astrology with a very low accuracy rate than in more scientific physiognomy.However, this is almost a foregone conclusion. It is not a matter of one day or one night to rehabilitate physiognomy, and it is not something we can do. After discussing the topic of physiognomy with Wanghen, I thought it was time to get down to business, so I wanted to ask him if there was a person named Xue Chufan in the Taoist temple.However, just as I was about to speak, there were a few "squeaks" outside the door that made my pores stand up. I knew it was from the dryads just now, and they probably came after them. here? Wanghen seemed to see something wrong with my face, so he smiled and said to me: "Don't be afraid, they are just mischievous ghosts. With me around, they won't play tricks on you anymore. I'll take you out to have a look now." He finished. He helped me up and led us to the door. Although he said repeatedly that those guys would not hurt us again, I was still a little uneasy, but of course I almost didn't cry after I saw what the so-called "dry spirits" looked like: "Wow! So it's this A group of monkeys will clean us up!" ("Monkey" in Cantonese means monkey in Mandarin, while "Ma Liu Jing" or "Monkey King" means Monkey King, the Monkey King, and is usually used to describe mischievous children.) In the open space outside the door, there are about twenty monkeys squatting, sitting, chasing and playing, and one of them is wearing an ill-fitting priestly robe, holding my wallet and screaming at Wanghen, as if to We demonstrate the same.It turns out that the dryads and flying robes we met in the morning are these "monkey spirits"!No wonder when I saw the robe, I always felt that it was hung by a rope two fingers thick. Now I think that rope should be the monkey's tail. Wanghen said to the monkey in Taoist robe: "Okay, enough fun, if you want to eat fruit, return it first, or I will get angry!" The monkey got out of the Taoist robe three or two times, and threw the wallet towards us.Zhenzhen picked up the wallet and returned it to me.It would be a good thing to get the wallet back after losing it, but I couldn't laugh at all, because there were a few tooth marks on the wallet, and none of the money in it was complete, they were all torn into pieces and stuffed back.At this moment, I really feel like crying without tears. Wanghen asked us to wait for a while, he walked into the Taoist temple, and after a while, he brought out some fruits with wrinkled skins, and threw them to the group of naughty monkeys to eat.The monkeys scrambled forward to grab the fruit, and immediately ate it on the spot, eating up the fruit in a short time like a hungry people rioting.After they finished eating the fruit, Chong Wanghen squeaked a few times, not knowing whether to thank him or demonstrate to him, and then returned to the forest in a hurry. I asked Wanghen if he would often give fruit to these monkeys, and he said with a smile: "Well, these fruits are used to worship the Sanqing gods. We will change the offerings every time on the first and fifteenth day of the new year. It’s wrinkled and no one wants to eat it, but it’s a waste to throw it away, so I gave it to these mischievous ghosts. Originally, we had good intentions, but these mischievous ghosts wanted to make more money after getting cheap, and they were about to change offerings every time Sometimes, they will come to steal our clothes and other things, and then exchange them with us for fruit." After that, he walked over to pick up the Taoist robe, and patted the dust off the Taoist robe. "This group of monkeys are really smart, they are almost mature!" Zhen Zhen seemed to still have lingering fears about what happened in the forest. "Cheng Jing can't be called fine, just be naughty." Wang Hen folded the Taoist robe, held it in both hands, and still had a smiling face on his face. Although the dryads and flying robes I encountered this morning were caused by monkeys, there is still one thing I haven't been able to figure out, which is why we got lost in the mountains and forests.At that time, we were obviously going up the mountain. Although Wulian Mountain was relatively large, we didn’t reach the top of the mountain until noon!I expressed my doubts to Wanghen, and he asked me with a smile: "Do you know why the Qinglian Temple was built here?" After thinking for a while, I replied: "Most people who are truly aspiring to practice like to be quiet and don't want to be disturbed by the outside world. I think this is probably the reason why the Qinglian Temple was built here!" "Well, Xuanhe Zhenren, the founder of this temple, built the Qinglian temple here for the sake of tranquility, but do you know why it is so quiet here?" He asked himself and answered, pointing to the mountain forest on the mountainside, "the reason is that A forest." "Is it because this mountain forest is difficult to walk?" Zhen Zhen asked puzzled. Wanghen smiled and said: "This is not an ordinary forest, the forests in the forest are planted according to the five elements and eight trigrams." "You are not very reliable!" I cast a skeptical look at him, "Let's not talk about whether the five elements and eight trigrams are really so magical, it is absolutely impossible to plant the entire forest with human power." I thought my question would be to make Wanghen speechless, but he still replied with a smile: "It is impossible for humans to plant all the trees in the mountain forest, and this place is not bare in the first place. But on the basis of the original, and then It’s not difficult to plant trees in the right place. In fact, the magic of the five elements is not as mysterious as the world thinks. Take this mountain forest as an example. At that time, the master only used the theory of Fengshui to plant trees in the right place. Specific trees make the ecology of the forest better balanced and make the forest more lush. While changing the ecology, the humidity in the forest increases, and there will be fog in the morning. Coupled with the group of mischievous It is very difficult for outsiders to go up the mountain. And the most wonderful thing is, because the trees planted by the master are arranged in the eight trigrams, making the mountain forest a natural delusion, it is even more difficult to go up the mountain." "Is the five elements and eight trigrams really so magical?" I still don't believe it, although I only learned the mystery in the morning, people are such strange creatures. He smiled and explained: "Didn't I just say that the magic of the five elements is not as mysterious as the world thinks. In fact, to put it bluntly, I just paid some attention to the positions where the trees are planted, so that many places look similar. It's the first time I went up the mountain. It is easy for people to get lost. Moreover, using factors such as the difference in terrain, people can't tell the direction, thinking that they are going up the mountain, but in fact they are going down the mountain. But if the people who go up the mountain don't be confused by the external scenery and rush to the top of the mountain in one breath, they will be able to reach the top of the mountain very quickly." After listening to his explanation, I suddenly had a feeling of enlightenment. It turned out that the reason why we got lost in the mountains and forests was because we cared too much about the surrounding scenery. confused.Although the theory of the five elements sounds illusory, after his explanation, I feel that it is quite practical in practical application. After solving all the doubts in my mind, it was time to get down to business, so I asked Wanghen if there was a person named Xue Chufan in Qinglian Temple.He was taken aback when he heard the words, and put away the smile that had been hanging on his face for a while, but soon recovered, and said with a slight smile, "My common name is Xue Chufan."