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Chapter 001, A child drifting into the rivers and lakes, the old man speaks on the eight gate

"The fantasy secretly consumes kidney essence!" Mei Xi lay on the bed, remembering what the teacher said in class.

He just had a very pleasant and cool dream. He couldn't help but admire his imagination that he was so rich. All these messy dreams were created. The dream was like this.

Mei Xi was wearing a golden Taoist robe, with purple air and green light flowing all over her body, high hairpins were scattered and blouses were scattered, and her feet stood on colorful auspicious clouds on her feet. Now there is an endless mysterious world, with thousands of golden lights in Hongmeng, and thousands of chaotic mists sprayed. Mei Xi’s divine light opened and closed, and the endless view of the world.

I saw Bodhisattvas, Arhats, Vajras, Galan, Mingmu, Flying Sky, and the glazed glass; the emperors, heavenly officials, stars, gods, fairy children, jade girls, and Danji Treasure Platforms; there were also various psychic auspicious beasts, the Taoist demon kings, strange and strange, and the Qishu Yao flowers. There were also unknown totem gods from all sides, either round light on their heads, shining on the sun, or colorful feathers in the sky, and all kinds of strange things were hard to count.

However, this world of immortals, the world of the Lotus Sutra is like smoke scattering, and the Sumeru Peak is in absent. Seeing the Ruizhu Palace is in short supply, the piping murderous aura has not yet dissipated. Countless gods, Buddhas, and immortals are staring in one direction with awe, Mei Xi and the immortals and demons behind him who hold magic weapons.

Hearing a cry, a golden-haired giant ape came and fell not far away with his alleys. The big red cassock on its body was already ragged and there were traces of smoke. The monkey hair behind its head was also burnt. He held a golden hoop and iron rod and pointed at Mei Xi and said, "My Man Mei, you have provoked this catastrophe of heaven, and the cause and effect of the heavenly beings. The Jade Emperor, the Great Heavenly Lord Xuanqiong Gao, has been knocked down from the mortal world. What else do you want?"

Mei Xi smiled slightly: "We who have attained enlightenment have transcended life and death, and have not fought for war. Now the overall situation has been decided, and it is just a matter of consultation between the heavens and the Mei leader's alliance has made a decision."

At this time, there was another long roar. A golden armored god in the distance was transformed into a thousand feet, with his eyebrows and eyes wide open and majestic. However, his golden armor was broken, and the three-pointed two-blade soldiers in his hand were also half missing. He asked loudly: "Minister Mei, how do you ask the heavens to discuss? Now, you can't climb to the Lingxiao Palace. Please do not cause another catastrophe to harm the heavens."

Mei Xi laughed: "Down with a Jade Emperor, and I will become a Jade Emperor? Isn't this equivalent to hitting myself? This is simply destroying my Taoist practice! I want me to say, no matter what Tao you practice, what teaching you rely on, no matter how many levels of heaven are there in each family, this boundless mysterious way is called the fairy world, the Pure Land, or the Kingdom of Heaven, I only set one as 'Heaven'... I demolished the Lingxiao Palace, set up the Tiantai, and put the heaven on it, and I want to seal the sky!"

At this time, the sound of the Buddhist roar rose and appeared, and a graceful and dignified woman came to her. The woman had a graceful face, but she was an unwashed Bodhisattva. She was covered with brocade and necklaces, her clothes were messy, barefoot and her arms were exposed, and the bottle of pure dew in her hand was broken, and the willow branches in the bottle were burned and half of the willow branches were burned. She looked a little embarrassed but she could not see any abnormality at all. She asked slowly, "Master Mei, what kind of heaven do you want to set? What is the seal of heaven?"

Mei Xi laughed and said, "It's not that I set the heavenly corpse, but that the heavenly corpse is the heavenly corpse, the so-called sealing the heavenly corpse is to draw the boundary... Guan Zizai, you receive the most incense on earth, first of all, you have to tell you... Qingdi, what do you say?"

A man in silver silk and feathered clothes walked out from behind Meixi, stood side by side with him, and said loudly: "Don't imitate the heart of heaven for one's own heart; do not defraud others of the faith of others and confuse all living beings; do not show saints in the world and call themselves God. These three are the heavenly lines we have planned." As soon as this statement came out, there was an uproar. Meixi's tongue burst into thunder and spread a thousand miles, and she said: "Be calm and quiet!"

"Silent and quiet? Everyone in the dormitory is sleeping well, but you are smiling and talking in your sleep! I got up to go to the bathroom, which scared you!" Mei Xi was shocked from her forehead, and the voice of the fourth child in the dormitory came from her ears. He suddenly woke up and found that he was lying on the bed. It turned out that he had a dream.

It was past four o'clock in the morning. Before dawn, it was quiet and the window was dark, but Mei Xi couldn't sleep anymore. Why did he have such a dream? Did he read too many fantasy novels on that second-hand broken computer last night? Or did he remember the fact that the great master wanted to teach himself magic?

Meixi's great-grandfather, Mei Taigong, is a stranger in the world. He once said that if Meixi is 20 years old, if she can pass the investigation, she will teach him real magic. At this time, Meixi realized that today is November 14, 2008, his 20th birthday in the Gregorian calendar.

Meixi, male, born in 1988, 1.79 meters tall and weighs 72 kilograms. He is a second-year undergraduate student in the major of Traditional Chinese Medicine at Beijing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine.

His eyebrows were slightly thick, his eyes were not big, his eyes were a little deep, his nose was straight, and when he pursed his lips, the lines at the corners of his lips were a little tight, handsome and a sense of vicissitudes that were not commensurate with his age. But when he smiled, he had an inexplicable affinity, which made people involuntarily feel trust. Such a smile was his signature to eat since he was a child. To explain, he was not a soft-eating person, but a man who traveled around the world. Speaking of Mei Xi, he actually grew up eating a hundred families.

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Meixi grew up in a village called Meijiayuan on the south bank of the Yellow River. It is surrounded by rolling hills on three sides. In front of the village, there is a Meigong River winding northward into the Yellow River. There are two sources of Meigong River, which originate from the mountainous area south of Meijiayuan. One east and one west is called Chuxi and Zuxi respectively.

These two streams flow around Meijiayuan and converge to the north of the village to form the Meigong River. Meijiayuan is surrounded by continuous hills and Meigong River. The thousand-year-old war in the Central Plains has not magically not affected this place. It is almost a legendary paradise. The residents of Meijiayuan do not stick to this poor mountain and thin water. From their ancestors to the present, the residents of this farm are almost all artists who travel around the world.

The oldest, oldest and most prestigious one in the Mei family, is Mei Taigong. He lives in a forest of black plums on a small high slope outside the village. His unique courtyard is very quiet. Some people say that Mei Taigong is already 120 years old, while Mei Taigong once told Mei Xi himself that he was born in the fourth year of the Republic of China and was 93 years old in 2008, which is not as exaggerated as the legend.

Why did Taigong tell Meixi these? The most mysterious old man in the Mei family knows almost all the secrets of Meixi, because Meixi grew up next to Meitu. Why did Meixi live with Taigong? Where are his parents? Alas, the child has no mother, so it's a long story-

In 1988, there was a big flood in the area, and the Meigong River flooded. One night, Mei Taigong heard the cry of a baby in his sleep. He sat up from the bed and listened carefully. He found that the sound came from the entrance of the village to the north. He couldn't help but be shocked.

Why is Taigong surprised? In fact, Lao Hai (a person who is proficient in martial arts) knows that hearing babies cry outdoors at night may not be a good thing, especially when it is located in the countryside. There are often three possibilities for this situation: the first is that some people abandon babies, but generally parents abandon babies often choose to be discovered in a crowded place, so that people can find it in time. It is rare to abandon living babies in the wilderness. The second is that it is a sensation. Mei Taigong is not a firm materialist, and it is normal for him to believe in ghosts and gods. According to the explanation of "scientific" by some people, this is an hallucination in a specific environment, and it is dangerous to walk into the wilderness when you are unconscious.

The third possibility is to encounter the underworld. For example, some gangsters now play recordings of babies crying outside the window, trick people out of the house to check at night, take the opportunity to beat sticks and rob the house, etc. People living alone should be careful when encountering this situation. These underworld methods are mostly learned from the old society's martial arts.

The baby's crying always made Mei Taigong uneasy, but he did not go directly to the riverside, but came to the village to knock on the door and woke up several families. He asked a few strong men to go to the Meigong River with flashlights. The flooding Meigong River was rolling, and everyone picked up a baby boy by the river.

The baby is white and fat, and his whole body is naked and not wearing any clothes. His age is just about a hundred days old. It is likely that the situation was washed down by a mountain torrent and washed up to the shore in the shallows. Strangely, the child has no scars on his body, and the only item on his body is an ornament hanging around his neck.

The ornament looks like a green leaf with a vein-like texture on the surface, about an inch in size, but much thicker than ordinary leaves. A yellow string is attached to the leaf pendant and hung around the baby's neck, which looks like a small jade pendant often worn by modern people. What's strange is that the feeling of holding this thing in your hand is neither gold nor jade. If you look closely, you will find that there is no perforation between the yellow string and the green leaf, but it is connected into a whole, just like a leaf growing on the circular thin vine. Even if Mei Taigong is knowledgeable, he cannot recognize the texture. This baby is Meixi, and this strange little pendant has been worn close to his body since he was a child. It is the only relics left to him by his unknown parents.

When Mr. Mei held the child in his arms, someone around him said a line similar to Stephen Chow's movie: "This child has a clear bones, a clear eyes, and a full atmosphere. He is so strange and must be an extraordinary person."

Mei Taigong said: "No matter who he is, he is still a life. I will take him in and wait for his family to come to find him. Perhaps it was a flood that rushed down. You can go to the police station tomorrow and say it."

After the flood receded, no one came to look for him. The villagers speculated that the child appeared on the river beach and was not injured. He probably was washed down with his elders and relatives. His relatives struggled to protect the child in the flood. Finally, they tried their best to push the child to the shallows at the confluence of the Meigong River, and were washed away by the flood. This is really a sad and sympathetic story, reminding people of the legendary life experience of Yue Wu Mugong. This speculation is true or false, and it is still a reasonable explanation. The child stayed in the Mei family, adopted by Mei Taigong, and settled in the local township government and police station.

The day before the child settled, Mei Taigong recruited all the people who went to the river beach that night to hold a family meeting. Taigong said to everyone: "This child survived the disaster and came to our Mei family. It is his life and the fate of all of us. In the future, all the families here will raise him to adulthood. He lives with me, and according to the age of your children, his surname is Mei."

Then everyone discussed naming the child. Since it came from the stream, the uncle's opinion was Meizuxi. The second uncle's opinion should be named Meichuxi, which sounded like "no hope". Later, Taigong made a decision and removed the word in the middle. Anyway, no one knew which stream the child rushed down, so he simply named Meixi. It sounded like the nickname of an Argentine star, but after school, the students often laughed and said "no chance", which was probably what Mei Taigong didn't expect back then.

Mei Xi grew up in the Mei family, eating thousands of families and wearing hundreds of clothes. At night, he lived in Mei Taigong's unique courtyard. He also met a group of kind-hearted people. Mei Taigong also sent him to school. The child was very smart. He had been studying in elementary school and middle school, and was admitted to a university in Beijing. In history, this was the first college student from the Mei family.

In China in the 21st century, going to college is not too difficult. Why did Mei Jiayuan not become the first college student until 2007? It is not that the locals are reluctant to spend money to send their children to school, nor that the local children are not smart enough, but that the children here have been used to being in the middle of the world since childhood. They are not willing to sit in the classroom honestly, nor are they willing to take those headache-provoking exams. Parents do not care much about these, which is completely different from the atmosphere in modern cities.

Meixi was adopted by Mei Taigong, and many people in the Mei family were his "relatives". So what are the people who have taken care of him since childhood?—

Meixi's uncle is named Mei Zhenggan. He is a master of Taoism. He is the one who said Meixi was a brilliant bone in the river. In his early years, he set up fortune tellers in the world and spread to famous scenic spots across the country. Later, he became a professional Taoist priest in a tourist area near Meijiayuan, with the name Zhenggan Taoist Master. When he first joined the Taoist temple, Zhenggan Taoist Master had an office desk with incense table in a corner of the hall. His catchphrase was "Please stay with the donor!"

Once a tourist stays, he will be disgusted with the mystery of heaven and earth within three minutes. Taoist Master Zhenggan will give this person with a destiny a yellow silk cinnabar talisman, telling the person who is destined to go home and what kind of place to burn it outside the building on a certain auspicious day, so that it can be effective in eliminating disasters and relieving disasters. The talisman is given for free, and then the Taoist Master will open a golden booklet with red edges. He wants the person who is destined to follow a piece of incense and oil. He promises to personally burn the lamp in front of the Sanqing Patriarch for this person with a destiny to pray for blessings. The booklet says a row of names and amounts of people, and the minimum amount of the lamp with a minimum amount is also RMB 288.

Are you embarrassed to give less in this situation? There are so many people watching next to you! The donor who stays at the foot wants to regret it, I am afraid it will happen after signing the name and going home. So I would like to remind you a little bit, if you visit a temple or a Taoist temple in the scenic area, and see a monk with a solemn appearance of immortality or a solemn appearance, he waved to you with a kind smile: "Donor, please stay!" If you are not very rich in your pocket, it is best not to stay respectfully.

The Taoist Master Zhenggan has a very distinctive skeleton and excellent appearance. In addition, he had a superb business ability in the Taoist temple in his early years, so he worked very well in the Taoist temple. Later, he became the master of the Taoist temple. The eldest uncle Mei Zhenggan is a Taoist priest, but the uncle's son is not. His son is the current village committee director of the Meijiayuan.

Meixi's second uncle is named Mei Shenshou, and he has various titles of expert and scholar. In his early years, he was a doctor in the martial arts world, focusing on Zhu Youke, and he had a good time to treat bruises and injuries. He also sold homemade Dali Pills and secret recipes and medicinal wine. Later, when he was old, he returned to his hometown and lived in a nearby county with his son who was engaged in medicinal materials business. He often served as a special guest on radio programs as an expert and scholar. Occasionally, he pretended to be middle-aged and elderly patients with various chronic diseases, called the radio and television stations, and praised the magical efficacy of a certain product in the program, etc.

Meixi's third uncle is Mei Zhengxin, who is a folk artist. The third uncle's family is Ding Xingwang, and is a folk art troupe, an acrobatic troupe and a circus. Meixi and his third uncle's family are closest. When he was taken back to the Mei family, his third aunt had just given birth to a child and fed him a few months of milk. When Meixi was a child, she followed the third uncle's performance troupe to many nearby venues, mainly helping with some theater work, and also learned a performing art - playing monkeys.

Children in modern cities probably have never seen the traditional monkey-showing. Monkey-showing people beat small gongs and sing operas. Big monkeys and little monkeys are wearing flowery clothes and holding various special small masks in their hands. They make somersaults with the monkey-showing people's lyrics and shouts. After entering the new century, the team of the third uncle's family no longer plays monkeys, and performs folk art on folk stages across the country.

In the old society, I had to have a solid foundation in playing tricks. Mei Xi practiced martial arts with her third uncle when she was a child. Although it was a farmhand style, the effect of strengthening the body was also good. He also learned a unique skill - hitting the monkey whip. It is said that it is difficult to learn this set of juggling whip methods completely, and Uncle San's son has not learned it all.

The cousin of the Sigu family is named You Zuming, an archaeologist. The Sigu married into a neighboring village not far away and gave birth to a cousin. The cousin set up a small kiln factory, which produced not bricks, but craft ceramics with high technical content. They used various means to make the old and also brought the signatures of various dynasties. Their family was not responsible for sales, and there were always various antique dealers coming to buy them.

The fourth aunt's family is relatively wealthy in the local area. Although she married into a village, the Mei clan's fine tradition is still there. The children have to support themselves when they become adults. The cousin's son You Chengji went to Beijing last year and once did an electronic product business in Zhongguancun. He often glanced at the pedestrians on the street with his pure eyes and took the opportunity to go up and ask: "Sir, do you want a life film?" Some time ago, because of the strict management of the Olympics, the business was not easy to do, so he wandered to the Panjiayuan Antique Market to watch the stalls for others, which can be regarded as accumulating professional knowledge to inherit the family's career.

Meixi's fifth uncle is Mei Zhengjin, a geographer. Wuxi is a famous Feng Shui master. In the past, he didn't do well. He once went south to work in several decoration companies, but in recent years he has developed. Within a radius of 100 miles, whether it is building a yin house or laying the foundation for a building of a yang house, opening a company, decorating a commercial building, etc., he will be asked to see the number of Feng Shui and the placement of objects. Wuxi gradually became famous. Before going to Meixi to go to college, Wuxi went to Hong Kong to conduct an "academic exchange" activity. After returning, he no longer went out to see Feng Shui in person. All these businesses were handed over to his son.

Meixi's sixth uncle is Mei Zhengqi, who is a master of Qigong. He was once a glorious in the 1980s and held many training classes and study classes across the country. He was one of the first ones who became rich. Later, this kind of business was not easy to do, so he changed his career and worked with the second uncle and his son in the city to do health care business.

Meixi's seventh aunt and seventh aunt are both cross-professional postdoctoral supervisors. They award various certificates to all parts of the country, including undergraduate, master, doctoral, and even postdoctoral colleges and universities. Moreover, the types of certificates include not only diplomas and professional titles, as long as you order through channels, you can provide a birth certificate to a death certificate, with fair prices and complete varieties, which will allow you to be satisfied.

These people are the relatives of Meixi. In addition to doing "business", they also farm in the Meijiayuan. However, the land is densely populated and narrow, although the scenery is good, it is poor and thin, so they still travel around the world most of the time. It is these people who help each other to pull Meixi up. Meixi has been diligent since childhood. Once they have time or have a holiday, they don’t go to cram schools to do exercises, but follow these relatives to go out to do business, get started or occasionally do some tutoring, and have learned a lot of craftsmanship.

What kind of child will he grow up in this environment? It reminds people of the Jiang Xiaoyu, who was cultivated in Gu Long's novel "The Twins of the Peerless", who was cultivated in the evil people's valley. Although Mei Xi is young and is still old, he is definitely capable of selling people calmly, and the seller can still smile and count money for him. However, Mei Xi has never done such a thing before. A capable person does not have to do bad things. Just like most masters with unique skills are not murderers, Mei Xi asked himself whether he wanted to be a good person.

He was raised as an "absent baby" of unknown origin and was raised to adulthood. He not only had enough food and clothing, but also had to be admitted to university. In Meixi's eyes, the villagers are all good people. But Meixi is not a fool. After growing up, he has experienced a lot of things and knows what his relatives are doing - the good people in this village are also a typical liar outside!

This idea was hidden in his heart for a long time, but it was difficult to say it openly, which once made him very confused. Mei Taigong was a mature man, and of course he saw what Mei Xi was thinking and took the initiative to open up his words to him. This is why Mei Xi realized that the villagers' business and business were all in particular, and they could be called the eight gates of the rivers and lakes. In ancient times, these eight gates of the rivers and lakes were not all the methods of traveling to the rivers and lakes to cheat money today, and each had its own profound and profound real skills.

It was a summer vacation after Meixi graduated from junior high school. I had just learned all the monkey whip taught by Uncle San. In two days, I would go to the city to go to high school. That afternoon, I helped the grandfather cut firewood and pick up water to clean up the yard. The grandfather greeted: "Meixi, stop busy, go to the river to scoop a large bowl of river sand for me."

Mei Xi asked strangely: "What does the great master want sand?"

Mei Taigong smiled mysteriously: "Get a plate of wine and food, and let you have a drink with the great master. Don't ask, go to the river to scoop sand."
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