Taoist master wants to ascend

Dayun 1452, Zhelong Mansion, Gaoliu County.

squeak~

Glancing at the messy Datong Shop behind him, Li Yuan pushed the door open and went out without waiting for the last one to leave the room.

The fog in the early morning of late autumn has not completely dispersed, but wisps of smoke are already rising in Gaoliu County, and some faint voices can be heard.

What came into view was a small courtyard, with six or seven boys about the same size as him, dressed in sackcloth, busy about their own business.

Wash, chop wood, fetch water, light a fire, make rice...

"call!"

Tightening his thin gray linen clothes, Li Yuan took a deep breath and joined in the shouts of several apprentices.

A day as an apprentice in the 'Forging Shop' begins with chopping wood and fetching water.

"It's only one month and three days, how can you survive twelve years? This is too difficult... It was not easy to learn something in my previous life, but it is even harder in this life!"

Li Yuan couldn't help but sigh in his heart as his hands and feet were busy.

In his previous life, he only spent two or three years learning from his wild Taoist master how to build mountains and erect graves, conduct Buddhist rituals, and assist in difficult births.

It actually takes twelve years to become an apprentice in this weapon forging shop!

Three years of doing odd jobs, two years of helping, and seven years of service!

Li Yuan cursed in his heart and did not dare to be slow in his hands. He could only sigh that he had 'awakened' too late. As soon as he woke up, he had 'sold himself' to the 'Forging Shop'.

He was not assigned to the front yard because he was too thin...

"boom!"

Suddenly, there was a muffled sound from the kitchen.

The fat man holding a big spoon kicked a gray-clothed apprentice to the ground, and his face shook:

"You son of a bitch, I've had to endure a lot of hardships to learn how to cook with a spoon, and you dare to steal it?!"

"Sun Zhangshao, I was wrong. I don't dare to do it anymore, I don't dare to do it anymore..."

The apprentice held his head and wailed, but he did not dare to escape and endured the beating.

All the apprentices in the small courtyard were silent. Li Yuan lowered his head and looked dull.

If an apprentice makes a mistake, the masters are naturally free to beat and scold them at will. This is written in the 'Deed of Sale'.

"Apprentice, apprentice, slave for three years", these words are not just words.

Fatty Sun was half a master. He was in charge of their dozen or so apprentices and the food and drink of the 100 or so people in the blacksmith shop. He had a bad temper and it was common for him to beat and scold his apprentices.

When he first came here a month ago, Li Yuan almost got his head knocked open by that rice spoon...

"Be quick with your hands and feet. The masters in the front yard are getting up soon. If you delay their meal, you won't be kicked a few times!"

Fatty Sun weighed the spoon and cursed.

The apprentices did not dare to raise their heads, but their hands and feet became faster and faster.

It wasn't until the fat man returned to the kitchen that the beaten apprentice got up without saying a word. Even though his whole body was in severe pain, he didn't dare to delay his work.

Li Yuan looked numb.

The blacksmith shop is one of the largest blacksmith shops in Gaoliu County, with a staff of one hundred and eighty guards, masters, helpers, and apprentices.

Apprentices, naturally, have the lowest status. They are paid less and eat less, and are often beaten and scolded. If they want to be treated better, they must at least become a helper or even a master.

"Twelve years..."

When the four-wheeled sun rose among the sea of ​​clouds, the food was finally ready, and the busy apprentices also had smiles on their faces.

Except for meal time, the apprentices really don't have much free time all day long.

Chopping firewood, carrying water, preparing charcoal, carrying various iron ingots, wiping weapons, cleaning...

But even so, there is no shortage of people coming to the blacksmith shop every time it recruits apprentices.

There is no other reason. The treatment at the blacksmith shop is the best among all the apprentices recruited in Gaoliu County.

Not only does he earn thirty copper coins a month, but the food is also much better than that of a medicinal herb shop or a carpenter's shop.

Blacksmithing is a very hard job, and you can't do it if you don't have enough money.

Of course, apprentices don't have this kind of treatment. They can only see some work every seven days. With this, an apprentice is very satisfied.

In the neighboring houses, you can only see a little bit of meat on the first and fifteenth day of the lunar month. What’s more, you can’t see any oil or water all year round...

At three o'clock in the morning, when the tinkling sound of iron could be faintly heard in the front yard, a group of apprentices had just had breakfast and had a moment to rest.

"It takes three years to become a helper..."

The apprentices were squatting in twos and threes in the corner. Li Yuan was squatting in a corner with his rice bowl in his hand, holding the steamed bun in his arms, feeling a little sour in his heart.

In his previous life, although he was a wild Taoist priest who was neither registered nor registered as a Taoist, he still had a lot of money to make when he followed his master in the countryside. Even at the worst time, he was not so miserable.

At this moment, he couldn't help but miss his previous life.

Beer, drinks, small barbecue, air-conditioning, TV, sofa, mobile phone... Even my own master who never forgets to be incorporated into Taoism before he dies.

"Why did I travel through time?! Can I still go back?!"

After swallowing the rice soup, Li Yuan raised his head and looked at the four red suns in the sky, and almost shed tears.

Why did you travel through time?

In the past month or so, Li Yuan has thought about this problem more than once, recalling his memories before time travel over and over again.

As an unofficial Taoist priest, after his master left, he could hardly make money from weddings and funerals in the countryside. He had no choice but to change his career and opened a small supermarket in his hometown county. Although he had no money, he was quiet.

"That day I was sitting on the sofa playing with my phone, and then...wait a minute, the enshrinement ceremony!"

As if lightning broke through the fog, Li Yuan shuddered and almost spilled half the bowl of rice soup on the ground!

"Yes, the enshrinement ceremony!"

Suppressing the throbbing in his heart, Li Yuan squatted back again, without attracting the attention of others, but his thoughts could not be suppressed.

In his previous life, his master, who was still unable to be compiled until his death, left him half a Taoist book.

He had read that book a few times, but he was not very interested in it. He also didn't take it seriously at all, as his master had always dreamed of "receiving a nun and becoming an immortal".

Until the day before the time travel, he somehow remembered the ritual recorded in the book.

then……

"Is it because of the ceremony?"

After pouring half the steamed bun and half the bowl of rice soup into his stomach, Li Yuan was still thinking in his heart.

He didn't think that the enshrinement ceremony could lead to him traveling through time, but other than this, he really couldn't think of any other possibility.

"Shou, the sky accepts..."

Li Yuan murmured in his heart.

Naturally, he is no stranger to receiving punishment.

Taoists believe that talismans are formed naturally by heaven and earth, copied by gods and passed down to the world.

Taoist priests can only control the talisman after receiving the talisman, becoming a Taoist priest, and possessing incredible Taoist magical powers such as summoning ghosts and gods, calming the five directions, subduing demons, curing diseases, and eliminating disasters.

"The old man has been thinking about 'becoming an immortal by receiving a nun' all his life. Is it true?"

Li Yuan murmured in his heart.

He didn't originally believe in the old man's obsession. How old was he, but he still believed in the idea of ​​being a monk.

In his previous life, he also recognized several Taoists who had been tortured, but none of them had any Taoist magical powers.

In particular, what is recorded in the half volume of Taoist books is not the orthodox receiving ceremony for people.

You must know that the orthodox ceremony of receiving the urn not only involves the conferring of the urn, but also includes sutras and precepts, and the transmission of the urn. There must also be an overseer of the urn altar, a deliverer, a recommender, etc.

And the so-called 'God's teaching' in the book is really simple, even crude...

But now...

"I've traveled through time, what else is impossible? Although but... but what if?"

Li Yuan's mind wandered.

Reason told him that this was unlikely, but he still had luck in his heart.

What if?

"What if I, no, Taoist master, I really have the chance to become an immortal?"

The more he thought about it, the more uncontrollable the throbbing in Li Yuan's heart became. If he hadn't known that the time was wrong, he would have wanted to hold the ceremony right away.

What the hell apprentice, helper, master, shopkeeper?

Master Tao is going home!

The Taoist Master is going to become an immortal!