Chapter 8: Ma Zhenren
Captain Li of course can see, Zhang Guozhong is not Li Daming on the Qing Dynasty scholar's rival, but then again, back and forth invited so many gentlemen, no one has a way, but only Zhang Guozhong analyzed the original cause of the matter.
Back home, Captain Li kept comforting the sad face of Zhang Guozhong, "line, the law slowly think, you are so worried, is not a thing, anyway, the Li family two girls have been looking at you, a few years ago, the playground river commune once fought an old road, and now also work in the production team, surnamed Ma, you might as well go to look for him, that year, so that the village to plant willows is him. "
Hearing the captain mentioned Li Erma, Zhang Guozhong would have liked to die on the spot to show his innocence, but when the captain mentioned the neighboring village's Ma Lao Dao, Zhang Guozhong came to energy, since ancient Maoshan out of the Taoist, the villagers to guide the planting of willow Ma Lao Dao, may be the savior may also say it!
The next day, Captain Li's second son took Zhang Guozhong to the neighboring village of Playground River. It turns out that the playground river is the dividing line between Li village and this village.
* in the fight, the village village to engage in, there are landlords to fight of course the best, no landlords on the fight rich peasants, no rich peasants on the fight second-rate, really even the second-rate are not, on the sale of life jacket to pull out of the fight, anyway, there has to be a fight, in this social climate, two miles away from the village of the playground River Tongtian Guan Ma Taoism naturally became the main target of the fight, the feudal superstition of the big tumor, ah, one day, say less than three fights, with the work is almost the same.
When Zhang Guozhong saw Ma Taoist, originally imagined that the immortal style of the image of a wise man completely disintegrated. This Ma Taoist, beard stayed messy, with the field of artemisia not much difference, hair more messy than the beard, has been rolled felt, face black with charcoal, wearing may have been more than ten years have not been washed Maine crotch pants, waist inserted in a broken tobacco pot, is sitting in the field to drink water.
"Elder Taoist Ma..." called out awkwardly as Zhang Guozhong stepped forward.
Old Taoist Ma turned back with an alert glance, sizing up this young man with a clear brow, dressed as a youth, "I'm sorry to the people, I'm sorry to the Party, I'm guilty."
Ma Laodao continued to drink his water, constantly wiping his face with his sleeve that basically doubled as a linoleum, and said coldly.
Captain Li's second son, who was obviously quite familiar with Ma Lao Dao, came up to him and muttered a few words to Ma Lao Dao, similar to a secret agent's joint. Ma Laodao's face immediately changed from cold to elated, coming up to Zhang Guozhong, looking up and down, smiling out of the folds of his face.
"You saw the corpses on the river side of the playground?"
"En, but my disciple doesn't know how to crack it, so I've come to ask the Taoist Master."
"How about you become my disciple?" Daoist Master Ma didn't even hear what he just said.
Zhang Guozhong's heart broke again.
The people in this place are really weird, first there was a Li village headman who hardened himself to verify the falsehood of the Maoshan Tuji as a god dancer, followed by involving himself with Li Erma, and then a Taoist priest dressed not much stronger than a barker came up to recognize himself as a disciple, alas, the ghosts in the countryside are no more weird than this gang of unimaginable people.
"Taoist priest, I just..."
"Alright, you don't say anymore, Er Gui, you tell your father, just say that this person has worshipped me as a teacher, and ask him to prepare a table of good wine." Said Ma Taoist master gasped a breath of air, surprisingly humming a little song to light up the tobacco pouch. Captain Li's second son, Li Ergui, also seemed to be quite happy to hear, a smoke ran away, leaving Zhang Guozhong to dry in the room. (Captain Li read a few months of private school, is considered the village of culture, his three sons are called "Li Fu Gui, Li Er Gui, Li San Gui")
Looking for the playground river commune to ask Ma Laodao, immediately became the focus of the recent work of the captain Li. Ma Laodao was the most qualified person for criticism in Caochanghe Village, so if he was let go, who would he fight later? And the town task force has just left, this feudal superstitious cow ghosts and snakes to release, the future task force to come back how to explain? The Playground River Commune was determined not to release him.
To the matter of the people, Captain Li really spent cattle, according to the generation, Captain Li is the playground river village production brigade of Captain Liu's cousin, but the two usually have nothing to do, in order to get the horse over the real people, Captain Li put the eight pole can not hit the cousin of the old man are raised out, and finally take the human face with a smile, with a livestock (at that time the production team did not have a few head of livestock in the rural areas to planting-based, livestock than people worth money) Together with 30 dollars to Ma Zhenren changed over, the captain of the heartbroken Li almost jumped into a well to kill themselves.
When the master, Ma Laodao simply happy on the sky, listening to the captain after drinking a catty of white wine, adding fuel to the description of how Zhang Guozhong bravely fight bumpers, how witty analysis of the playground on the river side of the corpses after, simply love their own disciples. In this era of campaigns everywhere and smashing everything ideologically, being able to receive such a gifted disciple was also considered a Daoist child whose fragrance should not be extinguished.
After paying homage to his disciple in a confused manner, Zhang Guozhong learned that Taoist Master Ma was already 102 years old, but in Zhang Guozhong's opinion, he was only in his 60s at most, and he was still able to work on the ground, so how could he possibly be a centenarian? Zhang Guozhong was always skeptical about Taoist Master Ma's claim about his age. Of course, the first thing Zhang Guozhong did was to show Taoist Master Ma the "Maoshan Atlas", but he didn't expect Taoist Master Ma to jokingly say "Child's play... child's play...".
Originally, this Ma Taoist is the descendants of the Taoist master Ma Danyang during the Jin Tianhui years, although Ma Danyang master is only "Quanzhen" of the head teacher, but the Ma Taoist in front of me, no, I should say Ma Zhenren, but proficient in the Cebu Tu, Mai, the House of the Pavilion, Quanzhen, Maoshan, etc., each school of Taoism, the essence of the hand of Zhang Guozhong, this "Maoshan Atlas," in the In Taoist Master Ma's opinion, it is only a vernacular book from the end of the Qing Dynasty, which only illustrates the methods of recognizing and solving some simple phenomena, but does not provide any explanation of the "heart technique" of the Maoshan technique.
The "heart technique" is the essence of Maoshan magic, that is, to stimulate some instincts that have been degraded in the human body, and use them to cure monsters and drive away evil spirits. Knowing how to draw talismans and put together materials is simply too elementary for the profound Maoshan arts, some small ghosts and monsters may be cured, but for such powerful things on Li Daming, there is no way at all.
In fact, Li Village, Li Daming's business, Ma Zhenren also heard, but at this time * has begun, even the Taoist temple has been burned by a fire, they are also a clay Bodhisattva, which also has the ability to care about others? Li village and playground river village is just a few miles apart, but playground river commune production team captain Liu is a thirty-odd head of the rash, not afraid of the world, and the next village of Li captain of the whole opposite, but also the Ma Zhenren unlucky to fall into the hands of him, if it is the village of Li, early to let the captain of Li when the grandfather for up.
Ma Zhenren led Zhang Guozhong to a clearing not far from the Tongtian view, dug out the original Ma Zhenren hide the "Thirty-six methods of interpretation of the whole truth" and a look than the "Maoshan Tuji" is much older than the "Maoshan Art Zhi", there are a few medical books and a compass, which is Ma Zhenren counted their own catastrophe will come, beforehand, hidden treasures of the watchman. Among them, the "Thirty-six Methods of Quanzhen Tongxue" is completely in Zhang Guozhong seems to be like acrobatics like strange posture, and that the ancient "Maoshan Art Journal" describes, is some Zhang Guozhong in the "Maoshan Tuzhi" unheard of thousands of times more bizarre strange doctrine.
At the end of the Yuan and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, wars were raging, corpses were everywhere, thousands of grievances and ghosts were crying, and it was this special historical background that created the prosperity of the Taoist art of Maoshan, and this book, "Maoshan Artistic Record", is a handwritten copy of the Ming Yongle Years, which has been well preserved to this day, and is the treasure of Ma Zhenren's family heirloom.
