Chapter 5: Preliminary Actions (4)
"What is in this gourd?" Zhao Shanchu asked, looking at the gourd in front of him and in front of Zhou Luxue.
"We made our own grape juice with some honey in the big gourd, and the small gourd is honey." Zhao Zhenzhong replied. Li Shiqing's face was strange when he heard it.
Zhao Shanchu picked up the gourd and opened it and smelled it. He asked with a strange face: "Is it grape juice?"
"It's indeed grape juice, just a little honey." Zhao Zhenzhong answered honestly, "We know that Taiqing Palace has precepts, so we dare not use things that do not conform to the precepts to make the two elders embarrassed. This grape juice is to clean the mountain grapes, mash them into juice, and add some honey to it."
Zhou Luxue also picked up the gourd in front of him, opened it and sniffed it carefully, and then looked strange.
Li Shiqing, who was on the side, looked at the expressions of the two elders, forced her smile, coughed, and said, "I have something to do in the past ten days. When I came back, I saw these children packing up a lot of wild game and sea food. I said it was Mid-Autumn Festival and I would give them some gifts to express my gratitude to the two elders. However, due to the precepts of Taiqing Palace, meat and fish cannot be eaten, so these children made this unique grape juice, which is also a matter of heart."
After listening to Li Shiqing's explanation, Zhao Shanchu asked, "Have you tried this kind of juice?"
"Of course I have to taste my apprentice's skills." Li Shiqing paused and whispered in a low voice: "Actually, if you go to the current residences of our master and apprentice, there will be other delicacies and seas to taste." After that, he not only recalled the deliciousness of "dragon and phoenix show auspiciousness".
After hearing this, Zhou Luxue smiled and said, "I'm old and my legs are inconvenient, so it's impossible to go there frequently. It should be fine if I go there a few times occasionally."
Zhao Shanchu also understood that Li Shiqing was referring to, and now he remembered that wine is not just made from grain, but also fruit wine. The big gourd in front of him should not be grape juice, but grape fruit wine. However, judging from Zhao Zhenzhong's appearance, what he said was made of grape juice and honey.
"Is this really grape juice?" Zhao Shanchu asked again with a strange look.
"It's indeed grape juice with honey added." Zhao Zhenzhong also affirmed.
"Okay, Elder Zhou and I have accepted your feelings." Zhao Shanchu said with a smile on his face: "I will go with Uncle Zhou to see what your place is now when you have time."
"We welcome it." Zhao Zhenzhong laughed.
After lunch in Taiqing Palace, several people walked back with pastries, daily applications from the two elders, and several Taoist books.
After the few people left, Zhao Shanchu asked Zhou Luxue in the house: "Uncle Master, are we too concerned about these children?"
Zhou Luxue looked at Zhao Shanchu and did not answer him directly, but said, "It has been fifty years since I arrived in Taiqing Palace during the Tongzhi period. I have been devoted to Taoism over the years. Although I dare not say that I speculate on the secrets of heaven, I can still see some mysteries. You have also studied some Taoist skills. How do you see the faces of those children?"
"It's not easy to say for the specific details, but it should be considered a dragon and a phoenix among people." Zhao Shanchu hesitated.
"Haha, the dragon and phoenix among people... Do you know why Li Shiqing lingers around Taiqing Palace for nearly a month and never leaves?"
Zhao Shanchu shook his head.
"Li Shiqing and I were brothers before entering the Taoist sect. We are now from the same lineage as the Taoist Quanzhen lineage, so he is not bad to me, my uncle. At that time, he came to me and said that we would stay here for a month if we were destined to be in Taiqing Palace."
"I asked him what happened. He said it was the last order of his master who went to the immortal last year and showed me a note. There were only sixteen words on it, "The sea is turbulent, the secrets of heaven change; the purple air comes from the east, and Taiqing is destined to be." His master, I can't say anything else, but for decades, his attainments are much better than me."
"After seeing the book, I asked him, since Taiqing is destined, isn't that saying that the destined person will belong to the Taiqing Palace? He said that the master has a destiny, but he knows how to follow it, but he will not fight with Taiqing, and only chooses by the destined person."
"A month is about to pass, and I haven't waited for anyone with a destiny. I also thought my senior brother had a wrong calculation. But who knew that on the last day he was about to leave, he met the three children outside the Taiqing Palace. Then, the three children chose to leave the palace and lived as his disciples."
When Zhao Shanchu heard this, he was a little stunned, feeling as if he was listening to a legendary story.
"You said those three children are the same as the dragon and phoenix among people. The three of them are not bad. The three are demeanor and calm. The big one is gifted in martial arts, has amazing qualifications, values friendship and is proficient in flexibility, and is the leader among the three. Their appearance is indescribable; the girl is dignified and kind, and has a noble appearance; the little one is smart and clever, and has a deep blessing."
"I am now 86. I have felt something before, but I have calculated it several times, but it is basically not bad. In the future, foreign tribes will invade the land of China, with wars and wars everywhere, and blood everywhere... Even my Taiqing Palace will suffer a great disaster in the future. However, after these children arrived, I calculated that there was a glimmer of life in the Taiqing Palace. Taking care of these children, not only because of the incense and friendship of Tai Chi, but also because of the incense and friendship of Taiqing Palace, but also because of the incense and friendship of Taiqing Palace. Even if the calculation is wrong, we can do good deeds and accumulate virtues, and we will not lose anything. This time, Li Shiqing said that he left for more than ten days to find his descendants in the secular world and mobilize his descendants to come with him. Let the children in the family study and live with his new disciples, so as to seek a glimmer of life in the future catastrophe, and at the same time, enjoy the joy of family."
"This old Taoist Li has become a mortal heart when he is old." Zhao Shanchu smiled and shook his head and commented.
"What is ordinary mind? What is Taoist mind? The Taoist scriptures also say that Tao follows nature? As long as you can break through confusion, not addiction, not paranoid, not wind and demons, be careful in my heart, and calmly observe the world, that is rare." Zhou Luxue also shook his head and said.
"I understand, uncle." Zhao Shanchu said, "I will try my best to help those children in the future."
Not to mention Zhou Luxue, Zhao Shanchu's plan to roam the clouds and mountains here, let's talk about Zhao Zhenzhong and his party.
After returning from Taiqing Palace, Zhao Zhenzhong and others returned to a tense and orderly life state. Zhao Zhenzhong was still busy practicing martial arts, digging holes, collecting and other things every day. However, now a dart content has been added to practice martial arts. When collecting up the mountain, Li Shiqing often followed him to guide him to be familiar with various herbs, as well as how to collect and prepare them.
Zhao Zhenzhong was impressed by his master's profound martial arts and traditional Chinese medicine knowledge. When Li Shiqing saw his apprentice's rapid progress in martial arts and saw the traps set up by Zhao Zhenzhong on the mountain, he couldn't help but admire him even more ingenious and simple concepts.
With the help of Li Shiqing, who is relatively familiar with the nearby situation, Zhao Zhenzhong's exploration of mountains and forests has gone deeper. The traps and mechanisms have also deepened. The harvested pheasants, hares and other prey, wild fruits such as walnuts and ginkgo, as well as a variety of Chinese herbs such as Polygonatum, yam, scutellaria baicalensis, and Codonopsis pilosula.
Zhou Tian has become familiar with various knowledge about the origin, characteristics, medicinal properties, collection, preparation and other related knowledge of Chinese herbal medicines every day. Zhou Hao helps Zhou Tian handle some chores after completing daily exercises.
A few days passed quickly and the Mid-Autumn Festival was here.
On this day, except for morning and evening exercises, several people stopped everything at hand and focused on making various foods.
Zhao Zhenzhong cooked and prepared dishes such as stewed mushrooms, spicy rabbit meat, braised badger meat, braised yellow croaker, stir-fried wild vegetables, stir-fried yam, steamed crabs, cold sea stings, sea rice dragon beard, oyster tofu soup and other dishes. Zhou Tian was busy making a few bowls of stretched noodles.
In the evening, there was only one new dish, which was Zhao Zhenzhong's busy afternoon "Dragon and Phoenix Showing Good Luck" while Zhou Tian took out the prepared dumplings with oyster meat filling and homemade date mooncakes.
On this day, Lao Dao's appetite was wide open and he was smiling. With his homemade mountain wine, he could be said to be full of wine. Zhou Hao was not willing to be outdone, and his belly was round and he still refused to give up the "mountain grape juice."
"I can't tell that you young couple are really perfect in cooking skills and complement each other." He was so old that he ate happily, stroked his beard and made a joke about Zhao Zhenzhong and Zhou Tian.
Zhao Zhenzhong suffocated and coughed a few times, "Eat, eat."
Zhou Tian's face was flushed, she spat lightly, and muttered: "I'm not respectful to you!"
"That's right, don't look at whose sister it is, whose brother-in-law Lao Zhao." Zhou Hao blushed with a hint of humility and boasted proudly.
Zhou Tian scolded Zhou Hao: "Don't talk nonsense! Eat your meal!"
The old Taoist laughed and said, "Brother Zhou, I'll find you a little wife for a few days?"
"Master, do you have this ability?" Zhou Hao drank a little high, neither big nor small.
"If I say yes, it's certainly OK!" The old man said, "In a few days, I have a few grandchildren and my granddaughter is coming. I tell you, I have a little granddaughter about the same age as you, but she looks very beautiful."
"Master, is it your granddaughter? Then if your granddaughter is my wife, then what should I call you master? Or grandpa? Or grandpa?" Zhou Hao not only got drunk, but also started to get up on his question marks.
After hearing Zhou Hao's question, the old Taoist began to get entangled and pulled his beard and began to think: "Yes, are you calling me master or grandpa? Or master grandpa?"
Zhou Tian, who was having a meal, almost couldn't help but squirt when the two old and young were having fun after drinking. Zhao Zhenzhong couldn't help laughing.
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