"The control of Zhongyue Temple involves the affairs of the Taoist sect. Although Taoism is divided into three sects, Fulu, Tianshi Tao, Shangqing, and Lingbao sects are superior to each other. No one can say who can be the leader of the Taoist sect.
Yes, it all depends on the preference of the emperor. So who is the leader of the three mountains depends on how the supreme leader in Tokyo chooses. The same goes for Buddhism and Taoism!"
Xuanchengzi climbed up the stairs step by step, picking up fallen leaves and branches on the steps and throwing them aside. Ye An asked imitatively: "So Zhongyue Temple is the leader of Taoism."
Where? Whoever is in charge of Zhongyue Temple is the number one in Taoism?"
Xuan Chengzi looked back at Ye An, his eyes full of helplessness: "I'm afraid you will suffer from such a straightforward temper in the future. Even though you say so, you can't say it out loud. Just like last night, knowing that the Queen Mother presides over the affairs, you can't
He is the most noble person in the world, but he knows it well in his heart, but when he says it out loud, he is inferior and makes people laugh!"
Ye An nodded: "Disciple understands, now only master and I are here..."
Xuanchengzi waved his finger and pointed to the mountain gate. Ye An looked at him and saw a big man standing on it. He looked at Xuanchengzi with a simple and honest face, and at the same time looked at himself curiously.
"This is your second senior brother Jingwu. Your senior brother Jingzhen is an errand in the Tokyo City Rites and Shrine Department..."
"Master, Senior Brother came back two days ago after you came down from the mountain!"
Xuan Chengzi frowned slightly and said, "He's back? Isn't he teaching the "Five Old Treasure Sutra" to the Queen Mother? Why are you back on the mountain?"
Jingwu said nonchalantly: "I don't know, but my senior brother has been waiting for you during this period. He sends his disciples to wait at the mountain gate every day! Who is this young man? Didn't the master go down the mountain to Wang's house to cause karma?"
Xuanchengzi sighed: "Your senior brother has a calm temper. It is normal that you can't find out anything in front of him. He must have something important to do when he rushes back to Songshan. This is your senior brother, his common name is Ye An, his Taoist name is Jingshen
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Quiet?!
The corner of Ye An's mouth twitched. This was a Taoist slogan. He had just arrived in the Song Dynasty a few days ago and had not yet enjoyed a happy life. How could he cleanse himself?!
Xuan Chengzi completely ignored Ye An's protest. How dare he refuse the Taoist title given by his master? I don't know what "dare not refuse the title given by the elders" means?
"Jing Shen... Already have a Taoist title? Master, the disciples and senior brothers have not participated in the apprenticeship ceremony yet!"
It was obvious that there were countless Taoist titles that had not gone through the ceremony of apprenticeship. Ye An breathed a sigh of relief and looked at Xuan Chengzi with eyes full of evil...
For some reason, the old man always wants to see himself making a fool of himself, which is really not good.
Jingwu on the side is like a curious baby. Although he is tall and thick, he always has an innocence in him that is rare for adults.
After Lao Tao's explanation, we found out that Jingwu had been taken in by Lao Tao since he was a child. He had been living on the mountain and rarely went down the mountain. He didn't know as much about the things in the world as the animals on the mountain.
Xuan Chengzi was walking on the side and saw Ye An who kept patting Jingwu on the shoulder and said: "Although your second senior brother is strong and strong, in this mountain forest, tigers, wolves, jackals are not afraid of anything, but you are not experienced enough in the world.
Scare him, if he is insulted, I will definitely not spare you as a teacher!"
Ye An glared at Xuan Chengzi dissatisfiedly: "Have you always thought that I am a bad person?"
The old Taoist shook his head: "That's not the case. I just feel that you are not an ordinary person. From what you said before, I know that you are unscrupulous in order to achieve your goals, but you still have benevolence in your heart. Jingwu has more benevolence in his heart than you, but it is too much."
He is kinder, but did you know that he fought with all the brothers for three to five days over a group of chickens like this, and in the end no one could take away from him the chickens that he had raised since childhood?"
Ye An stopped talking. Jingwu may be the most innocent person. He takes the kindness in his heart as his moral standard, so the old man is worried that he will hurt him, but when did he become a villain in the eyes of the old man?
Is there anything wrong with being cautious and wary when I first came to this unknown world? When Ye An expressed his doubts, the old man looked at Ye An in surprise, and then nodded.
"That's right. I noticed from the beginning that you were too cautious. At that time, I was a little surprised. How could a teenage boy be so alert, cunning and unscrupulous? Now I know that it is not your fault.
The problem is that where you are, there are too few good thoughts there!"
Ye An was stunned for a moment and stopped talking after a while. Xuan Chengzi was a little surprised by Ye An's silence. He would usually speak back at this time.
Jingwu shouted carelessly from the front: "Brother, the master is back, and he brought a little junior brother with him!"
Xuan Chengzi glanced at Ye An and saw helplessness and sadness in his eyes. Why did these two emotions appear in the eyes of a young man? Could it be that what he just said touched his pain?
Young people shouldn't have such eyes. This reminded Xuan Chengzi of the look in his master's eyes when he heard that Taizu had released his military power over a glass of wine. It was exactly the same.
In fact, Xuan Chengzi's words made Ye An suddenly understand why he was so wary, even constantly testing and doubting him, because he was too vigilant and arrogant. A teenager should not have these things.
I use the inertial thinking of later generations to deal with problems, and see this era as complex as that era.
In that era, people were instilled with the concept that strangers were "bad people" from an early age, and they had to always be wary of unfamiliar people and environments.
The distance between people has been stretched very far... maybe there is only one step away or a wall, but the thick and cold iron door blocks everything.
People of that era were warned from an early age by their parents, elders, teachers, etc., "Don't talk to strangers, don't eat food from strangers, and don't trust strangers."
The most often heard saying is that "people's hearts are separated from each other". I don't know when people would rather trust a dog than a human being of the same kind.
It cannot be denied that the world is not without good people.
But Ye An once heard his professor say sadly, "When the world needs to publicize the deeds of good people, it also proves that what the world lacks is good people."
Ye An silently followed Xuan Chengzi, whispering to himself when no one was paying attention: "It's not that I'm a bastard, but that the world has made people unscrupulous, and the trust between people has become completely useless.
live."
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In the eyes of the ancients, everything in later generations is a world with collapsed credit, a world without morality and etiquette!
But that world created me, leaving a very deep imprint on me, even deep in my bones. On the imprint, there are two small characters "little people" that are so small that I can't even see them.
Therefore, Ye An himself felt that his unquestionable vigilance and precautions were extremely shameful in the eyes of Xuan Chengzi. He did not hesitate to take risks with his own body, just to test whether he had compassion and kindness as a human being in his heart.