God-level Golden Hand

Chapter 664 I don't understand

After leaving the Taoist temple, Xu Jingxing said goodbye to his master Zhu Jinliang, and drove straight to the handicraft shop.

When he arrived at the handicraft shop, he saw Xuanyang Taoist wandering around the shop like a curious customer, but as soon as he entered the door, the Taoist turned around quickly and locked his eyes eagerly on his hand, to be precise , locked the box in his hand, "Calligraphy and painting?"

"Brother Xuanyang has such a keen intuition," he flattered with a smile.

Taoist Xuanyang felt a little embarrassed instead, coughed and said, "I guessed it too, mainly because your box looks like calligraphy and painting." After explaining, he hurriedly asked: "Is it ancient calligraphy and painting?"

"That's right, ancient calligraphy and painting, from the Yuan Dynasty."

"Fuck, is it real or not?" Taoist Xuanyang was taken aback, "You won't be deceived, right? No matter what level the calligraphy and painting of the Yuan Dynasty are, it is not easy to preserve them. As long as the author is a little famous, That's a lot of value."

What Taoist Xuanyang said is true. Calligraphy and paintings are different from ceramics, gold, silver and jade antiques. It is very difficult to preserve them. Even if they can avoid the invasion of water, fire, insects and ants, the air temperature and long time are enough to destroy them, because The vast majority of calligraphy and paintings are made of paper, and the preservation of paper is very difficult, especially in the era of relatively backward scientific concepts, people's preservation of calligraphy and painting is limited to waterproofing fire insects and ants.

The Yuan Dynasty is also 400 years away, and 400 years is enough to destroy most of the paper existence, and what can be preserved is very precious, not to mention calligraphy and painting works of art.

Knowing this, it is not difficult to understand Taoist Xuanyang's surprise.

Seeing Taoist Xuanyang's astonished expression, he felt very proud, he laughed and said: "I dare not say anything else, I have never been afraid of anyone in terms of authenticating calligraphy and painting, and people who can deceive me in this respect are also worthy of me." Not born yet."

Taoist Xuanyang didn't know his details, so he was directly overwhelmed by his confident expression. He was stunned for a moment, then rubbed his hands and asked, "Whose painting? Is it the work of a famous artist? There were many famous artists in the Yuan Dynasty." .”

"Hey, do you do the math?" He didn't answer directly, but said half-seriously and half-jokingly.

"If I wanted to have that ability, I would have been enshrined in a large house long ago. How could I still be here to play with someone like Hu Dacheng?" Xuanyang Taoist snorted with a depressed face.

"Hahaha, Brother Xuanyang, is it really okay for you to expose yourself like this?" He laughed, and then lowered his voice and said mysteriously: "However, I met a real expert today, that person has the true foresight can."

"What kind of prophetic method?" Xuanyang Taoist looked at him suspiciously and asked, obviously not believing in this thing at all.

That’s right, Taoist Xuanyang is just an old fritter who fools people. He also knows a little bit of metaphysics. He knows what metaphysics is. Naturally, he will not believe in prophets, just like a real doctor will not believe in a cure for all diseases. said the same.

Of course Xu Jingxing was also aware of this point, but he just wanted to tease Taoist Xuanyang, and at the same time use this method to test the opinion of Taoist Xuanyang, an expert, on people like Gao Zhenyang.So he recounted what he saw and heard at Gao Zhenyang's place from the perspective of a spectator, and then pretended to be serious and asked: "Do you think that person is a liar?"

Taoist Xuanyang rubbed his chin and pondered for a moment, then shook his head, "I'm sure you won't be a liar, but you should be an old quack, that's right, what you said is full of hooks, if you weren't followed by your master, you would have been locked up a long time ago." , although there may not be any malicious intentions in taking people, but if you are really tricked and he asks you to apprentice, you may not be able to refuse." Speaking of this, he laughed, "Speaking of it, brother, you are really a learned man. How about I reserve a seat for you in the Taiqing Palace?"

"...Don't be joking, do you think I look like someone who can become a monk?" He gave Taoist Xuanyang a dark look.

Taoist Xuanyang laughed half-truthfully and said: "The world is like chess, no one can know where his future will be, and my brother, your aptitude is so good, it would be a waste not to learn Taoism."

He snorted, but asked curiously: "Why do you say that I am a good material for learning Taoism? Is it possible that being a Taoist priest still depends on aptitude and spiritual root like in fantasy novels? How did you appraise me? Qualified?"

"Hehe, of course you don't look at aptitude to become a monk, but you have to be a person with extraordinary aptitude if you want to be successful in learning Taoism." Effort, concentration, and eagerness to learn are the main factors for a teacher to judge a student's aptitude, while the aptitude for learning the Tao pays more attention to the foundation and character, my brother has no foundation, and the heart is also very suitable for acupoints."

He scratched his head, "I know my foundation. I have good physical fitness and sufficient energy, but I'm afraid it's not suitable in terms of xinxing, right? You Taoist priests pay attention to the Taoist law and are naturally quiet and inactive, but I don't think it's quiet enough, and , hehe, I'm not afraid of your jokes, there are a lot of girls around me, let me such a playful guy follow you to learn, don't you think the style of painting is a bit weird?"

"Hahahaha," his words made Taoist Priest Xuanyang laugh out loud, "brother, your understanding of Taoism is a little shallow. Who said that priests must be ruthless people who do not eat the fireworks of the world? On the contrary, those who have achieved Taoism Most of my seniors are lively and straightforward people, and many of them have families, wives and concubines, and a lot of children and grandchildren, do you know why?"

"why?"

"Because when we talk about practice, what we cultivate is not some magic spell, but the heart, the true self, our cognition and understanding of the true self, the connection between the true self and everything in the world, and the origin and destination of the true self," Taoist Xuanyang replied solemnly.

He stared at Taoist Xuanyang for a second and then replied solemnly: "Brother Xuanyang, I...don't understand all of what you said."

Taoist Xuanyang twitched the corner of his mouth twice, and shrugged helplessly: "I don't understand, this is what my master told me, but it doesn't matter, it's just training my xinxing, I can cultivate a heart in this life. The heart of a child is very satisfied.”

"...don't understand," he continued to shrug.

"That's why I want you to follow me to learn the Tao. Your aptitude is so good. It's really a waste not to learn the Tao, especially your xinxing is very suitable. You are so young, you know the world and you don't know the world. More than the vast majority of practitioners, if they are ordinary learners, especially young learners, they have to be scrambled in the world of mortals first, but the vast majority of learners At this stage, people lose themselves in the world of mortals."

(End of this chapter)