The fire is coming in July, and the weather is hot and dry. Although it is already past four o'clock in the afternoon, the temperature still has not dropped.

During this time, the antique market was deserted, and the vendors seemed listless, and they were casually supporting customers in groups of three or three in front of the street stalls.

I glanced at it and found that most of the people wandering here were middle-aged and elderly people, and young people like me were extremely rare.

After using my spiritual sense to sense, I completely gave up the idea of ​​looking for antiques in the stall.

The stalls outside are almost all fakes, and occasionally there are a few real ones, but the spiritual energy contained in them is extremely thin, which is not worth my efforts at all.

Let’s go to the store to take a look. Thinking of this, I stepped into an antique store.

The shop owner is watching "XX Princess". This braided drama has been very popular recently and can be called a magic drama. Some time ago, Qinghe TV station held a full-day broadcast, but my mother didn't even care about the meal.

I originally thought that only middle-aged women were interested in such a magical drama, but I didn't know that the masters also watched it with relish. Seeing me in, this man only clicked a little, and he was too lazy to say anything.

I was even more straightforward and directly released my spiritual sense and searched it out and left.

As soon as I stepped down the steps, I was blocked by a middle-aged woman with a slightly fat figure and honest face: "Young man, you are here to buy things in the antique market. I have a picture of "Along the River During the Qingming Festival". Do you want it?"

"What..." I almost staggered, "Auntie, where did you get it?" Even without using spiritual sense to explore, I knew that the picture in her hand was a fake, and it seemed that the original was collected in the Palace Museum.

"This is discovered on the beams of the house when my family demolished the old house. It was passed down by the older generation. Now our family does not have a cultural person, so it is useless to keep it. In addition, life difficulties, I plan to sell it. It seems that you are a cultural person... not expensive, how about 18? You have to be sincere and have to be cheaper."

"Auntie, you should keep this picture." I sighed in my heart when I saw this aunt off.

Taishi Gong said it well: "The world is prosperous and prosperous, all comes for profit; the world is in a state of poverty, all comes for profit."

Money is paramount in modern society, and even such seemingly loyal aunts have learned to deceive people.

Well... it seems that practitioners also pay attention to wealth and law. If they have no money, they are not even comfortable in practicing Taoism.

I continued to wander around and went to several antique shops, but I was quite disappointed. There were not many antiques here, but the spiritual energy contained in it was very rare and it could not arouse the interest of the Golden Dragon Scissors.

There were a few that shocked it, but unfortunately I gave up after using my spiritual sense. The breath came from the inside of the store and was not placed in the store at all. Obviously, those were the treasures of other people's shops. If they were not familiar, the owner would definitely not take it out rashly.

I went around the antique market, but I didn’t absorb much spiritual energy, but I met seven or eight people who took the initiative to chat with me. I was either selling my ancestors’ Tang Sancai, or I found gold ingots while farming at home, and the stories were more exciting than the other.

I am very depressed. These scammers are too blind to the eyes, so why do you only seek frauds from students?

After looking up and down, I found the reason. When I came to the provincial capital, I was in a hurry and dressed more maturely. In addition, my head looked like a student no matter how I looked... Speaking of which, after practicing Taoism, I kept getting taller. I was only sixteen or seventeen years old, and I was nearly 1.8 meters tall.

No, there are also monks... so coincidental?

I really didn't expect that I would just come to the cultural relics market to take a look and would actually meet a monk again.

I quietly turned my head, and the two people in front of me were completely unexpected: strange, foreign monks!

Two blonde foreigners, one man and one woman, walked out of the antique shop next to them. The tall and fair-faced man didn't know what Taoism he had practiced. He had a faint blood-like aura in his body, and even a trace of blood-red sticks to his eyes.

"Cultural Relics, Cultural Relics!!" Seeing foreigners appear, the people who set up stalls immediately became active and went forward to sell them.

“no,no…”

Two foreigners waved their hands repeatedly, and the woman said in stiff Chinese: "No, no!"

Seeing that the other party refused resolutely, the people around him left disappointed. One of the vendors cursed in a low tone: "Damn it, even foreigners are not easy to deceive these days."

As soon as the vendor finished speaking, the two foreigners couldn't help but frowned.

Their movements were very light, and the vendors who left were not paying attention at all, but I could see them quite clearly.

The man seemed to want to make some gesture, but was pulled by his companion next to him. Then the woman whispered in English, "Bill, it's important to do serious things."

What serious things can two foreigners do when they come here? It seems that they are not practicing Chinese Taoism? I was extremely curious and followed quietly.

Unfortunately, they didn't give me a chance at all. After leaving the antique market, they stopped a rental car and left.

I was determined to catch up with me by car, but I thought about it and let it go. Isn’t it a foreign monk? It’s not illegal, so what can I do if I catch up with me?

It’s not too early now, so let’s go back. If it’s too late, the godfather and the others should be anxious.

I saw a newsstand on the roadside not far away, so I walked over and bought a provincial capital map, and then took a bus home according to the bus route map above.

After dinner, my godfather planned to take me out to the night market, but I refused to let it go because I was too tired. I really wanted to go out for a walk, so it would be great if I just left my body directly, and even saved the fares.

Practice...sleep.

The next morning, I refused to give my godfather a suggestion to take me out for fun again. Even if he stuffed money into my hand, he refused to drop it. There was still a lot left for the 200 that I gave yesterday.

I took the map alone and wandered around the street aimlessly. Finally, I found an incense shop and bought some yellow paper and cinnabar to take it back.

At noon, cousin Hu Daming arrived at the provincial capital.

As soon as he came, my life immediately became colorful. As soon as my godfather and mother left home in the afternoon, my cousin took me to surf the Internet.

When I meet such a person, refusal is useless. After he was forced to pull him down, I had to follow him.

"There is an Internet cafe there, let's go and have a look." As soon as I left the community, my cousin cheered.

Sweat... I've been walking around four or five times in the past two days, but I didn't find that there was an Internet cafe here.

The environment inside is the same as I thought, with the smell of smoke, sweat, and feet odor, which almost makes people breathless.

But my cousin seemed very excited and paid for two machines.

When I was in school at No. 1 Middle School in the county, the school also had a computer room. However, it was just a decoration and was not allowed to play with students. Therefore, I am really a novices for computers.

After my cousin briefly introduced me, he brought his headphones and started his online game life with swords and shadows.

I practiced two-finger Zen on the keyboard... Soon I discovered that the Internet is a good thing.

It seems that practicing Taoism must keep pace with the times. It is now the 21st century. A practitioner who cannot access the Internet is not a qualified practitioner!

There are all kinds of Taoist books on the Internet, and some people even published their experiences on the forum.

What about fasting? Practicing Tai Chi xx skills, I opened the posts I was interested in and found that most of the articles were written based on imagination.

For example, fasting means that you can become an immortal by not eating grains and absorbing natural energy by meditation. Taoist practice is about energy and spirit. If you do not eat grains, it is indeed feasible to replenish the energy alone, but that is for practitioners who have entered a certain state of cultivation. If beginners practice according to this practice, they will only starve to death.

Well, I'm a very obvious example. Although I'm now at the peak of Lan Sanzhu, I'm still hungry if I don't eat for a meal.

"The Differences between Discussion on the Tao, Law and Art", author Yu Junzi, this article is interesting, I read it carefully at the computer screen.

In the article, Tao, law and art are divided into different ways. Tao is the spirit, which is the realm of cultivation; Dharma is the body, which is the way to verify practice; art is the use, which is the means.

I deeply agree that since the practice of Taoism, whether it is various talismans, palm thunder, green-skin gourd magic tools, etc., they are all auxiliary products of these practices, only counting the end of the fur. Seeking the Tao... is the fundamental.

Time is so fast, a week passed in a blink of an eye.

This week I spent the day with my cousin in the Internet cafe and continued to practice at night.

"Xiaohao, can you do your godfather a favor?" During dinner, the godfather stuttered and said.

"Dad, just give me instructions if you have anything to do." I asked back with some surprise. I had just come to the provincial capital for a few days and was not familiar with the place, so what can I help?

"That's right. I have a business partner. His family has been haunted recently. I want to ask someone to find a monk or Taoist priest who knows anything. My godfather doesn't know anyone. He is worried, but he meets you. I want you to go and see..."

"No problem" I agreed immediately. I was sleepy after a break this week, and I happened to find an opportunity to learn more.

***

Alas, this chapter is very difficult to write. I originally thought I could finish it before two o'clock, but who knew I had written it and deleted it. I saw the time, it was four o'clock in the morning.

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