Part-Time Taoist Priest

In June, Fuyang City is hotter than usual, with no rain for many days, and the breeze carries heat.

Just then, a student rushed out of the No. [-] teaching building of Quedong College located in the suburbs of Yuyang City. He was wearing a black and red sweater and jeans, with handsome features and fair complexion. Smile, it is very easy to feel good.

After running to the flower bed in front of the building, someone leaned out from the window on the second floor and shouted at the student: "Xie Lingya, why did you slip away, next time I have to treat everyone to dinner!"

The student named Xie Lingya turned around and said, "I have something to do at home, Mr. Fang, next time I will treat everyone to Mala Tang!"

Teacher Fang saw Xie Lingya run away, and turned around with a smile on his face.

Today is the day for the students majoring in financial management of Quedong College to defend their graduation thesis. In the whole major, Xie Lingya is the first to go. It seems that he has something to say hello to the teacher.

Although Teacher Fang didn't bring Xie Lingya's thesis with him, he also taught him. He just came from the classroom next door, and asked casually with a little interest: "It seems that I haven't heard where Xie Lingya went for an internship. His thesis How is it written?"

Their habit is to combine the internship with the graduation thesis, and let the students choose the content related to the internship unit as the topic during the internship.While not mandatory, most students will.

Xie Lingya's instructor showed a strange expression when he heard the words, turned out the internship report, pushed it in front of Teacher Fang, and said: "The paper is well written, the internship unit..."

Teacher Fang curiously stretched out his head to look at the official seal of the unit on the head cover, and it was immediately messed up: "Baoyang Temple, Fuyang City, Queshan Province, Huaxia? What the hell are you going to practice in the Taoist temple? That's okay?"

After a rough look, the topic of the thesis is indeed related to the concept of holding the sun, and it is unique among the various topics chosen by the students.

The instructor scratched his head and said, "I thought so too at the beginning. I wondered if there was an official seal in the Taoist Temple, but it is indeed serious, with everything available, and can also provide jobs. There is a student internship unit in the next door department just outside the school gate The supermarkets are all right, but the Taoist temple can’t do it. And I asked, it seems that his uncle belongs to the Taoist temple.”

Teacher Fang didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "This Xie Lingya... definitely doesn't want to work, so he just finds a relative's unit to stay. Didn't he fail the postgraduate entrance examination and is ready to fight again?"

"I think so." There were students waiting beside them, and the two of them didn't talk much, so the topic ended.

Fuyang Central Hospital

Xie Lingya pushed open the door of the ward carefully, and what came into view was a gray-haired, haggard little old man on the bed. He gasped at that moment, and rushed to the bed in a few steps, "Uncle?"

This little old man is Xie Lingya's uncle Wang Yuji. He became a Taoist priest at the age of 14. Now he is the owner and only member of Baoyang Temple. He has led himself for more than ten years.

A few months ago, Xie Lingya asked Wang Yuji for help to get an internship badge. Unexpectedly, Wang Yuji seemed to be several decades older when they met again. Xie Lingya was horrified, "What's wrong with you?"

After Wang Yuji saw Xie Lingya, he showed a reassuring expression, and bent down to touch something with great effort.Xie Lingya hurriedly helped him carry it, and found a wooden box under the bed, picked it up and looked familiar.If he remembers correctly, it should contain a wooden sword that Wang Yuji hardly leaves. It is an antique magic weapon handed down from their Taoist temple, the Three Jewels Sword.

"Xiao Ya, uncle's time is coming." Wang Yuji's first sentence frightened Xie Lingya even more. He didn't have much strength to speak, and he followed Xie Lingya's instructions to listen to him.

"You hold the Three Jeweled Swords. I have made a will a long time ago. When I go, Baoyang Temple will be transferred to your name. You are successful in your studies now. There is nothing to worry about. I only care about one thing. If you have time to accept an apprentice and inherit the orthodoxy, you can help me find an apprentice in your spare time in the future... I guess it will be difficult." Wang Yuji laughed at himself, "In the first half of my life, I was arrogant and arrogant, but in the second half of my life, I left early. I have let down my master, and I don’t even have an apprentice, so I hope I won’t die with regret.”

Xie Lingya's mother left early, and when his father was busy when he was young, he often lived with his uncle, and his relationship was very good. Seeing his uncle's appearance, tears fell down: "Uncle, don't scare me, what are you going to do? You said that Miserable, if you are short of an apprentice, accept me, I will kowtow to you right now, didn’t you say that I am a fairy?”

Wang Yuji was funny and sad, and smiled and cursed: "You bastard, you still want to be a fairy, your bones are probably growing wrong. I accepted you as an apprentice, my master will not do anything to me, Your mother is going to strangle me down there."

Xie Lingya has known since elementary school that his uncle's occupation is different from the science the teacher taught, and it belongs to the part that "Approaching Science" cannot forcefully explain.But when he mentioned the date of his death to his uncle, who came to predict things like a god, he was terrified.

Xie Lingya forced a smile, and asked, "Uncle, what's the result of the doctor's examination? I'll call my dad. Let's transfer to another hospital. My dad seems to know a doctor from the first hospital."

Wang Yuji shook his head, "I'm at the end of my lifespan, we just need to hurry up and say a few more words."

Xie Lingya couldn't believe it and said: "But, why did it suddenly... the last time I saw you, you were fine."

"I went to deal with some things, but I didn't have enough morality, that's all." Wang Yuji said softly, suddenly regained some energy, and still had the strength to pat Xie Lingya on the shoulder, "Hold the sword well, my unmasked apprentice will If you are lucky enough to join me, you can pass it on to him, those notebooks are in the old place, you know."

"Xiaoya, do you still remember that when you were a freshman in high school, you got confused, jumped over the wall with your classmates in the middle of the night, stole my three precious swords and went to his house to drive away evil spirits. I actually regretted it a little at that time, and said no to your parents. I will accept you as my apprentice, Star Bone is really as talented as in the legend. I have not taught you at all, not at all, you can use the Three Jewels Sword just by peeking a few times."

"But I don't know why, but then you suddenly changed your gender and started studying hard. Your grades improved immediately and you were admitted to university. It's not bad. Your mother said before that the child should read more books."

"When I was young, I also started by peeking at my master's work, but we were not as good as you at that time..."

……

When Wang Yuji talked about the past, he became more energetic, his face even showed a little rosiness, which made Xie Lingya's face paler and paler.

The flashback appeared in Xie Lingya's mind. He reached out and rang the nurse's bell, then got up and said, "Uncle, I'll call the doctor. Don't worry, I'll go to work in your Taoist temple later. We'll accept dozens of apprentices for him. ..."

However, Wang Yuji held Xie Lingya's hand tightly, and the burst of strength at this moment made him unable to escape, "Xiaoya, tell him that what the three treasures cultivate is not the sword, but the heart."

This "he" can only refer to Wang Yuji's apprentice who is still unknown.

Xie Lingya burst into tears, and replied: "I will!"

The overall architectural style of Jingui Pedestrian Street in Fuyang City is very unified. From the street to the end of the street, no matter it is a clothing store, a handicraft store or a restaurant, the exterior walls are all gray and blue, the signboards are reddish brown, and the corners are sharp. Heartfelt antique style.

Next to Jingui Pedestrian Street is Liming Square. Where the two meet, there is a moderately large frontage, which is in the same style as the pedestrian street. There are three large characters on the signboard of the same style: Baoyang Temple.

In fact, if you stand a little farther and look carefully, you will find that except for the antique exterior walls, the faintly exposed roof of the building inside is very old-fashioned. A lot, but not the slightest interest in it.

For several months, the gate of Baoyang Temple was closed, until now, Xie Lingya and his father unlocked the door together.They had just completed Wang Yuji's funeral, according to Wang Yuji's wishes before his death, it was very simple.

The inside of Baoyang Temple is much bigger than it looks from the outside, mainly because there is a place at the entrance rented out to others, and a small newsagent shop was changed, so the front looks much narrower, but in fact it is more than 15 meters wide. And it can be wider inside.

Different from the ancient and modern outer gate, the inside of Baoyang Temple has a sense of history. The ground is paved with bluestone slabs and bricks. Once you enter, you will feel like you have escaped into another world.

Now, the property owner of this place is Xie Lingya.I haven't been here for a long time, and I'm looking around.

Father Xie put away Xie Lingya's luggage, and there was only Xie Lingya's luggage. He works in the county town, and he came over on leave and had to go back to work. He asked, "Have you decided?"

Xie Lingya glanced at his father and said, "Dad, don't worry, I will definitely not become a monk, and I still want to take the postgraduate entrance examination. I will live here so that I can help my uncle fulfill his wish."

Father Xie twitched the corner of his mouth twice, inevitably a little guilty, "...I'm just afraid that it will be difficult for you. Your uncle's incense is deserted here, so it's hard to recruit people."

Xie Lingya said: "That's true. Now when recruiting monks and Taoists, the price is clearly marked as a percentage of the basic salary. I will work hard."

……

After seeing Father Xie away, Xie Lingya tidied up Wang Yuji's room, and put the Three Jewels Sword in his own room.As soon as he saw it, Xie Lingya thought of his uncle's words and felt very sad.

Xie Lingya also sorted out the notes mentioned by Wang Yuji. These are left over from several generations of Wang Yuji's master's school. In the future, Wang Yuji's apprentices who have never met will rely on these to learn.

Before Wang Yuji died, he also said that Xie Lingya could watch it—or else he wouldn't be able to help Wang Yuji find an apprentice if he didn't watch it.

There are a lot of notes, and so many predecessors have learned a lot. Fortunately, Wang Yu sorted out and marked it when transcribing the collection.

Xie Lingya casually flipped to a certain chapter on Physiognomy, the first sentence was: "Those who have the bones in their chests are called star bones."

Thanks to this familiarity, Xie Lingya was slightly lost in thought.

The last time I heard the word "Yangu" was when Xie Lingya Gao Yi committed suicide, Wang Yuji accidentally said it, letting Xie Lingya know that he had a Yangu in his chest.

What is Yan Gu?

Those with the bones in the chest are called star bones.Yan bone, also known as star bone.Let's put it this way, in the theory of Taoism, those who have grown this star bone are those whose names have been included in the fairy book and who have a fairy fate!

It may be too illusory to say so, but hundreds of thousands of years ago, anyone who has grown into a star bone is recorded as a master who founded a sect in the Taoist sect and led the whole sect to fly.

Wang Yuji was also very emotional at the time, he said: "My master told me that there are people in the world who practice the Tao all their lives and are trapped outside the door;

"The more you get started, the more you pay attention to talent. Xiao Ya has such a talent, no wonder he is self-taught!"

"What do you know, he can't even read a word of English!" Father Xie scolded and slapped the back of Xie Lingya's head, who was complacent after listening to Wang Yuji's words.

Naturally, this is a new era, and it is better to go to college than to practice Taoism.

After Xie Lingya had been floating like a fairy for a while, when something happened, he threw himself into the sea of ​​learning, and never peeked at his uncle's superstitious activities.

Xie Lingya's grades used to be terribly bad, but the prodigal son didn't change his money back. He studied hard for a year and got admitted to the local secondary school.

Moreover, Xie Lingya has also learned how to taste. After entering university, he is immersed in the ocean of knowledge, unable to extricate himself for a long time, let alone thinking about star bone and Taoism.

……

Xie Lingya came back to his senses, feeling a little bit embarrassed, he pinched his note and said to himself: Uncle, don't worry, it may be rare in the world to have such a powerful root like me, but I will definitely help you recruit a temple master who is as close as possible to you!

Wang Yuji's disciples, as his heirs, must be temple masters, which does not conflict with Xie Lingya's identity as the property owner.And Xie Lingya thought that if the other party was really reliable, then he would transfer the ownership over.

But what my father said was right, Baoyang Temple is deserted, so it is probably more difficult to recruit people.

Xie Lingya read the accounts, and the income and expenses of Baoyang Temple are very simple. In the past, my uncle occasionally had some other income, and the fixed income was only the rent of the newspaper kiosk.

Many places in the temple need to be repaired, but they have been put on hold because of limited funds.

Xie Lingya put away the official seal of the Taoist temple, thinking that there is no way to broaden the source of income...