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Chapter 143 Chapter 140 Three: Misunderstanding

Like the vast majority of Dayong people, the word "Taoism" is simply too high in Liu Jian's heart.

What is a scripture? It is a method passed down by Taoist masters to save the world. Before reading it, you have to burn incense and take a bath. Can you question these words?
But the bad thing is that what the fellow in the west said is indeed reasonable.

The night before, Liu Jian didn't dare to think about Li Chan's words. She tossed and turned in bed in the middle of the night, but those deviant words echoed endlessly in her heart.After all, he couldn't hold back, got up and read the scriptures by candle, trying to eliminate those redundant parts word by word.

Every time a step of the ceremony was deleted, and the name of the ancestor was discarded, Liu Jian was frightened, as if he felt that he was deceiving the master and destroying the ancestor.There was a chill down his back, and cold sweat broke out on his forehead when he came back.I really feel that the originally obscure and difficult to understand meanings are actually a little more straightforward.

For Liu Jian, it is certainly not a task that can be completed in ten and a half months to distinguish and find out every redundancy in the scriptures.However, I just tried it out and changed my attitude towards reading the scriptures, from kneeling to reading standing up, and there was a noticeable change in my experience when reading the scriptures.

It worked.As soon as this idea popped up, Liu Jian suppressed it nervously.

If those words and sentences are regarded as superfluous, wouldn't it deny the way of inheriting scriptures?This is simply going heresy, and it must be because the reading is not thorough enough to understand the deep meaning.

But this method of reading scriptures really makes people reluctant to give up.

Liu Jianfang struggled like this for two days and two nights, reading a piece of "Ming Treasure Sutra Upper Part", which made him dizzy and confused.

In the early morning of the third day, Luming Academy's morning class ended, Liu Jian put away the scriptures, and was about to leave when the lecturer stopped her.

There are eight lecturers in Luming Academy. The lecturer who called Liu Jian was surnamed Cui and named Hanzhen. He was in his 40s and was a student of the Chongxuan Department. He failed to get into the Qianyuan Academy, so he returned to Luming Academy and lectured to his successor students.

Liu Jian has always admired this lecturer Cui, because although Cui Hanzhang is rigid and serious, he is not so snobbish compared to other lecturers, and he also cares about poor students.But at the moment, being called to stop by Cui Hanzhang, Liu Jian couldn't help but feel uneasy. Although this Cui lecturer had a cold face and a kind heart, when he reprimanded the students, he was very strict, without any scruples about affection.

Liu Jian asked nervously, "Why did you call me, sir?"

Cui Hanzhen sized Liu Jian up and said, "A few days ago when you practiced Lingfei Fist, you had some problems. Are you better now?"

Liu Jian said: "Thank you for your concern, sir. The students have already solved the problem of practicing."

Cui Hanzhen was so surprised that his eyebrows trembled, "It seems that you have a good comprehension in the method of exhaling and expelling qi. I saw that you were absent-minded and looked very bad these days, so I thought it was something wrong with your practice. A few days ago, Zhang Yanfu gave a lecture. You didn't seem to come to the lecture either. What trouble did you encounter?"

Liu Jian has been bothered by the first half of the "Ming Treasure Classic" for a few days, not to mention that his studies have improved, even the foundation laid in the past has been shaken by suspicions that arise from time to time.Now Cui Hanzhen took the initiative to ask, and Liu Jian seemed to have found a savior, and said, "It's because I was a little confused while reading."

Cui Hanzhen said: "Tell me."

Liu Jian thought for a while, put down the "Ming Bao Jing" and said: "A few days ago, when students read the scriptures, they felt that the meaning of the scriptures was obscure and difficult to understand. They also felt that if some words and sentences in the scriptures were deleted, the meaning of the scriptures would become more clear... "

It was Liu Jian who mustered up the courage to say the last sentence, and as soon as he finished speaking, he observed Cui Hanzhen's face anxiously.

Cui Hanzhen frowned, "Oh, what to delete?"

Liu Jian was a little confused, opened the "Ming Treasure Scripture", pointed to a sentence, "Take this sentence as an example..."

Before he finished speaking, Cui Hanzhen scolded: "Confused!"

Liu Jian shook her hand, secretly thinking that something was wrong.

Cui Hanzhen stood up and said sternly: "How arrogant are you, how dare you think about deleting and revising the scriptures? You are so stupid, so stupid! That's right! You need to extract the essence when reading, this is what I taught you. But this "Ming Treasure Sutra" is a scripture left by Daoist Gao Gong. Its subtle words and righteousness, every word is worth pondering over and over again! Although I don't have supernatural powers, I have read the scriptures for more than [-] years. Even so, every time I read the scriptures, I still look up at the mountains , be cautious. Since you want to delete and revise the scriptures, dare I ask you whether you have achieved great success in Taoism, or have you cultivated supernatural powers?"

Liu Jian's complexion was pale, and he couldn't help but want to tell, he didn't mean to be disrespectful at all.But after thinking about it, it would be too disrespectful if he confessed to the neighbor in the west courtyard and caused trouble to come to the east.He bowed his head without saying a word, and endured it silently.

Cui Hanzhen finished cursing, snorted coldly, sat back on the chair, his anger disappeared, and said earnestly: "Everyone wants to take a shortcut, it's true, there are indeed shortcuts in the world, but your method is to find another way, it is a way to enter the world. If you are heretical, you must not have such thoughts in the future, otherwise there will be endless troubles, endless troubles!"

Liu Jian lowered her head and said, "Mr. taught me the lesson."

"Go and eat!" Cui Hanzhen waved his hand, "Don't think about it in the future!"

Liu Jian agreed, said goodbye and left.

Cui Hanzhen looked at Liu Jian's leaving back, then looked at the "Ming Treasure Sutra" in his hand, shaking his head.

The next moment, Cui Hanzhen felt that something was wrong.He has been teaching at Luming Academy for six years, and he knows every student well, but he is almost there.This Liu Jian has a stable and honest temperament, and is even a little dull in many cases. How could such a student have such an aggressive mind?
"Wait." Cui Hanzhen stopped Liu Jian again.

Liu Jian stopped and turned around, and said cautiously: "What else can you teach me, sir?"

Cui Hanzhen sized Liu Jian up and asked, "Why do you suddenly have the idea of ​​deleting scriptures?"

Liu Jian was taken aback, although he didn't want to name "Li Dan", he didn't have time to make up a reason.

Seeing Liu Jian's expression, Cui Hanzhen asked again, "Did someone teach you?"

Liu Jian quickly denied: "It's just that when the school was studying the day before yesterday, there was a strong storm, and the students suddenly had other thoughts?"

Cui Hanzhen slapped the table hard, and said sharply: "I want to bring you back to the right way, but you still want to lie to the teacher!"

Liu Jian was so frightened that her body trembled, her lips twitched twice, but she knew that no matter what she said, she couldn't fool Cui Hanzhen.

Cui Hanzhen asked: "Who taught you?"

Liu Jian sighed inwardly, and said in a low voice: "It's Li Dan...he just moved into Qingxin West Courtyard not long ago."

"Li Dan?"

Liu Jian was afraid that Cui Hanzhen might have a misunderstanding, so she hurriedly said: "A few days ago, I went wrong while practicing Lingfei Fist. It was because of his few words that he taught me to unblock my energy channels."

"Really?" Cui Hanzhen raised his eyebrows, Nian Xu frowned, pondered for a while, and waved to Liu Jian, "Okay, let's go."

Liu Jian felt apprehensive, so she resigned and left. When she went out, she looked back, afraid that Cui Hanzhen would call him back again, but luckily she didn't.

As soon as Liu Jian left, Cui Hanzhen silently recited Li Dan's name twice, frowning.In this Luming Academy, there are often foreign bachelors living temporarily, and occasionally some people will give advice to the students in the academy, but what Li Dan taught Liu Jian is deviant.

After leaving the lecture hall, Cui Hanzhen found a direct student from the academy.Zhixue was in charge of all the affairs of the academy, as well as the people who came and went. When Li Chan went to Luming Mountain, he was brought by Zhixue to live in Qingxin West College.

When Cui Hanzhen was eating in the Zhaitang, he asked Zhixue about Li Dan, and he learned that he was just a young man with a weak crown, and he was from Qingling in Lizhou.He thought about it for a while, and in recent years, he hadn't heard of any outstanding younger generation in Qingling, so he decided in his heart that Li Dan was indeed a student who was ignorant but good at being a teacher.

(End of this chapter)