fictionpage Chapter 278: Obsession
Chapter 278: Obsession
Taoist Master Chunyang waved Jiang Daoxuan's hand away, and said displeasedly: "Didn't you see that Master is talking about things with your uncle?"
Xu Qing looked at Jiang Daoxuan, then at Taoist Priest Chunyang, this man is so realistic!
Taoist Master Chunyang looked at Xu Qing and said: "I think a fellow daoist is a person who has a deep relationship with my Taoist sect. How about accepting disciples as a teacher for a poor Taoist? Master, he has passed away for many years and has no lay disciples. Brothers also follow their predecessors one by one, if Master, the old man, knows that he has another disciple in this world, he must be very happy."
Speaking of this, Taoist Priest Chunyang's eyes turned moist.
Xu Qing asked: "Master Taoist, when will the secret book be passed down?"
Chunyang Daoist: "fellow daoist, when will you donate money so that the poor Taoist can beautify the Taoist temple?"
The dialogue between the two is more straightforward:
"When will the secret book be given?"
"When will the money be given?"
"Pay with one hand and deliver with one hand..."
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Xu Qing thought for a while and asked, "I don't know where the elder's gate is?"
Chunyang Daochang said: "There is a Chunyang Taoist Temple on Zhongshan Mountain, which is a hundred miles away from the capital, and there is the Taoist temple of the poor. It's just that the mountain is high and the road is far away. It is not easy to go down the mountain to buy pill refining. "
Xu Qing thought about it in his heart, and then asked again: "Has the Taoist priest ever thought about moving the Taoist temple to this Yong'an County? Many industries of the National Chamber of Commerce are here, and the Taoist priest wants to buy pills for refining in the future. It is also more convenient.”
"This..." Taoist Master Chunyang fell silent, and said after a long time: "Although the poor Taoist has long thought of relocating the Taoist temple, it is just that Zhongshan is the place of the poor Taoist sect's orthodox lineage. There is blame."
When Xu Qing heard this, he didn't force much. In Dachu, he still believed in the idea of returning the fallen leaves to their roots, and would not easily move away from the place of birth and inheritance.
In the end Xu Qing murmured: "Why don't I pay for the Taoist priest's pill refining in the future?"
Taoist Master Chunyang: "The fellow daoist thinks where is the best place to move this Taoist Temple of Chunyang?"
Jiang Daoxuan and Xiao Ye who were behind them stroked their foreheads with their hands, and they knew it would be like this...
How can a good Taoist master with profound Taoism be so greedy for money? Aren't they all monks?
Xu Qing led the crowd to the foot of an unknown hill in the industrial zone of Anding County. A gurgling spring flows down the hill, forming a pool at the foot of the hill. Get water for the production of Life.
At the foot of the mountain, there are obvious signs of trimming in a large circled open space. It was originally planned to build two new workshops here, but now it seems that they have new uses.
Xu Qing looked at Taoist Priest Chunyang and said, "What does Taoist Priest think of this place?"
Taoist Master Chunyang looked at this place and couldn't help but said: "The mountains are beautiful, the blessed land is cavernous, and there are many pedestrians coming and going. In the future, there will be constant incense. If it can be built here, it will be perfect."
Above Zhongshan, the mountains are high and the roads are steep, and there are few people inhabited. When the mountains are covered by heavy snow in winter, it is basically equivalent to being isolated from the world. Otherwise, he would not have to rely on the money from buying fireworks to maintain the pill refining needs.
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Xiao Ye touched Jiang Daoxuan: "Aren't you all monks in your Taoism? All monks have this kind of virtue? Shouldn't you all treat money like dung?"
Jiang Daoxuan stood a little further away from Xiao Ye: "Money can be exchanged for food, but can dung be?"
Xiao Ye glanced at him: "So as long as the money is enough, can apprentices become juniors?"
Jiang Daoxuan sighed and said, "What do you know? The Daoist ancestor of my lineage accidentally passed away because of the explosion of the pill furnace when he was pill refining, and the next few generations inherited the master's last wish and devoted all he had to pill refining. Seeking transcendence and ascension, becoming an immortal, and living forever in the world."
"In my Master's generation, this master's last wish has already become the common wish of many ancestors in my Taoist sect. Pill refining costs a lot. The original 10,000 taels of Master took all the expenses except daily food and clothing. I came to pill refining in the hope that one day I can refine the real immortal medicine, so as to comfort the spirits of many seniors in heaven."
"Master is not greedy for money, Master just wants to realize the common wishes of many ancestors in his own hands."
"But now the entire Chunyang Taoist temple has only the Master left besides me, a lay disciple. The Master doesn't want the inheritance of the Taoist temple to be broken in his hands, so he is so eager to accept the inheritance of disciples."
"The same is true when the Master accepted me. As long as my Taoism can prosper, does it matter whether it is a master or an apprentice? When the succession of the master's sect is a problem, no matter how much taboo it is, it is no taboo."
Xiao Ye sighed: "But Brother Xu told me a long time ago that the immortal medicine cannot be obtained. You and your Master have failed so many times, so you still haven't found the answer?"
Jiang Daoxuan shook his head: "Perhaps the Master just doesn't want to believe that the wishes of many seniors are wrong from the very beginning, and it is precisely because of this obsession that they persist day after day and year after year. "
Xiao Ye was surprised: "So, you already knew that this wish was wrong?"
Jiang Daoxuan said: "I noticed it after repeated failures with Master pill refining, but I didn't dare to say it because of Master's persistence, and I didn't dare to have any doubts about the idea that the entire Taoist ancestors firmly believed in." Suspect."
"By the way, you just said that brother Xu already knew that there is no elixir of longevity and told you, so why did he ask me about the formula for pill refining? And why did he pay for pill refining out of his own pocket?"
Jiang Daoxuan always thought that Xu Qing was also interested in the way of longevity and immortality, but today it seems that he didn't think so. He knew from the beginning that the elixir could not be obtained.
But since you know the answer, why do you have to pay out of your own pocket to support Master pill refining without hesitation?
Could it be that brother Xu has been with Xiao Ye for a long time and has become stupid?
Xiao Ye said: "Brother Xu must have his reasons for doing this."
Jiang Daoxuan frowned and said: "Wasting money for nothing on the wrong dream, is this the truth of Brother Xu?"
Xiao Ye shook his head and said: "No, as long as I have known Brother Xu, he has never been in a loss-making business. Since he dares to invest money in this way, it must be profitable. Since Brother Xu dares to invest, there must be profit. Get your money back."
But Jiang Daoxuan immediately vetoed it: "How can pill refining get back the money? Doing so will only swallow the money in your hand like a bottomless pit!"
Xiao Ye glanced at him and said, "When Brother Xu first started working on the newspaper, I thought the same way."