My years as a fortune teller

Seeing Master Uncle Xuanhe holding the things he took out from the alchemy furnace, he and Uncle Master buried their heads to look carefully.There was a burst of resentment in my heart, why didn't you call me after everything was taken out?Besides, my hand is still stuck inside, how can I get it out?

Thinking of this, I shouted helplessly: "Uncle Master, you are showing mercy, and your grandson is still stuck here. Do you always feel sorry for me first?" Dab it lightly on your face.

Uncle Xuanhe came to my side, looked at me with a frown, and said, "Aside from pretending to cry, what else have you learned? Look at your own face, it's about the same size as a coal ball now." Take out the teacher's Jiang Xinjing from inside.

I looked at Jiang Xinjing, and my face was blackened, and I looked at my hands, which were also pitch black.I laughed out loud, and said to Uncle Xuanhe: "Uncle, find a way, help me take out my hand, so I can wash my face with water."

Uncle Xuanhe glared at me, then grabbed my collar and yanked hard, I couldn't help but ran forward a few steps, looked back at Uncle Xuanhe and said, "Uncle, at any rate, I also broke one. Can you be gentle with me?"

"Damn!" Uncle Xuanhe spat at me and said, "Which claw of yours is broken, take it up and show it to me? You bastard didn't even look carefully, so he said he broke his hand." Let's start.

Wow, it turns out my hand is still there!It made me a false alarm, thinking that this hand was about to leave me.Thinking of this, I turned my arms around twice, nothing happened at all, then spread my five fingers, squeezed them into fists and spread them out again.

Uncle Xuanhe looked at me like this, grabbed my ear and said, "You kid, you're never finished? Go wash your face with a bottle of mineral water, and come over here quickly when you're done." Then he let go of my ear, and turned to the teacher. Uncle went over there.

I glared at Uncle Xuanhe, then hurriedly picked up mineral water to wash my face.After washing, he walked in front of Master Uncle. He looked at me and smiled, then pointed to a stone slab and said to me: "This is what was taken out of the alchemy furnace."

"Ah?" I was taken aback. I risked my hand to get this stone slab?Thinking of this, I opened my mouth wide, and gently stroked it with both hands, but there was nothing on the bare surface, not even a single word appeared.

I hurriedly picked up the slate, isn't this just an ordinary slate?I can't see any change, and there is no temperature at all.I was completely dumbfounded. Could it be that the old man set up such a big trap just for an ordinary stone slab?

No, there must be something, we should not find it.By the way, the calligraphy and painting on the wall just appeared after being drenched in water. Could it be that this stone slab is also there?Thinking of this, I immediately picked up a bottle of mineral water and poured it on the slate, but the miracle did not happen, and nothing was displayed on the slate or the slate.

I couldn't figure it out, and slowly put the slate on the ground.Master Uncle looked at me and said, "Why aren't you angry? According to common sense, most people would jump up and throw the stone slab on the ground. Then they would step on it a few times and swear a few ugly words. Maybe they would go over and kick it over." Alchemy furnace!"

I scratched my head, looked at Master Uncle and said: "Master Uncle, I am also a person who has practiced for many years. Although I am not as high as yours, I understand one thing. I will get what the old senior gave me. Besides, I entered here three times, the first time I got the jade dragon hairpin and the elixir, and the second time I got the mirror; this time I came to know the old senior Cangsong, who is Daoist Luo Zongyu , a master hermit of Xuanjiao. Knowing all this, I am already very content."

Master Uncle tilted his head, looked at me and said, "If you really lost your hand just now, and now you see it is a stone slab, don't you feel sad?" This question hit the point.

I thought about it, and said to my uncle, "It's a lie that my uncle is not sad, I would even curse in my heart. But what can it do, it only shows that I have no fate with the old man. Besides, I also said earlier However, even scrap copper and rotten iron, I will take them back, maybe one day you will realize the Dao in it. At that time, I will not be the only one who will benefit.”

Master Uncle looked at Master Xuanhe, then at me, and said, "I can see through what you are thinking, and it is exactly what you said. I want to congratulate you son, you have successfully passed the checkpoint set by Master Cangsong gone."

"Ah!" I was taken aback again, I didn't expect my uncle to say that.But I still don't understand, what does this slate mean?How did I pass the checkpoint set by Master Cangsong?

When I was thinking about this, I saw my uncle holding the stone slab and walked to the wall just now, and then touched it with both hands and pressed it. The stone slabs are inlaid to the place where the cave has collapsed.

The size is actually moderate, and the thickness is just right.The moment the stone slab was inlaid in, words appeared on the wall immediately. It was a wall full of words, but I didn't know any of them.

Uncle Master turned to me and said, "At the beginning, the paintings and characters we saw were actually riddles for us. Only by connecting the first character of each line with the third character of every other line can we really see Knowing what he meant, I didn't understand the old Daoist at first, but I didn't really understand Master Cangsong's intentions until I saw what he said later."

As soon as I heard it, I immediately asked: "What is the intention of Master Uncle? Can you explain it briefly? And what does the word on it mean? Although I can see the words on it, it knows me. Don't know it."

Uncle Master smiled and said: "It's actually very simple, just two words - willing, you think about it, if you don't give up this arm, how can you get this stone slab? Similarly, if we don't give up the glory and wealth , how to get the Dao of cultivation. The meaning of life is between giving up and gaining, if you don’t give up, you will never get it.”

Uncle Xuanhe nodded, and said to Uncle Master: "Uncle Master is right, in fact, from the day a person is born, we began to give up helplessly, and to obtain such and such things helplessly; Like a big tree, in the growth process of its life, it is inevitable that the branches and leaves will fall to the ground, and insects and birds will inevitably peck; but if you don’t give up these branches and leaves, you can’t grow more lushly; if you don’t give up being pecked by birds, you will be There is no way to grow healthily. Without the bright sunshine, we can appreciate the stars in the sky; without the green of summer, we can get the harvest of golden autumn.”

Master Uncle clapped his hands twice, and said approvingly: "Not bad, not bad, understanding is good. Our whole life is wandering between willingness and gain, just like a monkey breaking a bag of corn, wanting to take corn and watermelon. It wants peaches, but it can't get anything in the end! If it wants to get one thing, it must give up the other two; this is the true meaning of life, and it is also the greatest knowledge in this world."

I nodded, looked at Master Uncle and Master Xuanhe and said: "I understand. In fact, Daoist Cangsong just wants to see if people with predestined relationship can understand this meaning. If your greed is too big, and If you want to get the elixir on the table, but also want to get the contents of the elixir furnace; and you are not willing to give up a hand, not only will you not get anything in the end, you may even stay in this elixir room with your own life."

Master Uncle nodded, and said to me: "Not only that, if you get the slate and fail to understand the meaning on it, if you lose your temper, you will also lose the chance to leave this alchemy room. So the tricks set by the real person are chained. , not only need the chosen person to understand the true meaning of giving up, but also have a peaceful mind. You have done both, so you are the person chosen by the real person."

I was taken aback again, am I really the chosen one?So next, what kind of task will be entrusted to me?I looked at my uncle in surprise, and then at the writing on the wall...