There was an abandoned temple in the mountains outside the pass.
One day, an old Taoist came and accepted a Taoist boy as his apprentice at the foot of the mountain.
He also raised money to build an ancestral hall.
The area in front of the mountain gate is densely covered with mountains and strange trees and grasses.
You can often see two children playing outside the mountain gate.
Every time the old man met, he would give the two children some cakes and fruits.
Over time, they gradually became familiar with each other.
But the two children never dared to enter the palace gate.
Several years passed in this way, and everything was peaceful until one day the old Taoist brought back a few fresh peaches from the mountain and placed them on the incense table in the palace.
After a day's journey, he was tired and sleepy, so he sat in the palace and held the table.
Case fell into a deep sleep.
At this time, a child was looking in through the crack of the door.
He couldn't help but sneak into the hall to steal some food.
Unexpectedly, the old man suddenly gave a loud shout, jumped up, reached out and grabbed the child, and clamped it hard under his arm.
He rushed down to the incense cabinet in the back hall, hurriedly stripped the child naked, washed him with water, threw him alive into a large pot, covered it with a wooden lid, and weighed it with a big stone.
The old Taoist called his apprentice, the young Taoist priest, and ordered him to add wood to the stove and make a fire.
He must not cut off the fire, nor open the pot to look at the contents.
Then the old Taoist ran to bathe, change clothes, and worship the gods.
The little Taoist priest thought that a monk should be based on doing good deeds.
How could he be so cruel and want to eat human flesh?
He was afraid that the master was practicing some evil method.
When he heard the child struggling and crying in the pot, he became more and more intolerable.
He wanted to open the lid of the pot and let him go, but he was worried that the master would have to operate on him if he couldn't eat human flesh.
As the fire grew stronger and stronger, the pot gradually became silent, and it seemed that the child had been boiled to death.
The little Taoist priest was worried that the water in the pot had dried up, so he slightly opened the lid of the pot and was about to take a look inside.
Suddenly, he heard a "bang" and the child got out and disappeared.
The old Taoist priest just happened to come back with a medicine jar in his arms.
When he saw the situation, he hurriedly chased his disciple out of the door.
However, he could not find any trace.
He could only sigh with tears: "Stupid disciple, you have ruined my life.
I have lived here in the mountains for several years.
Just for this thousand-year-old ginseng, if you take it with medicine If you eat it, you will live forever.
It seems that I am not blessed enough and there is no hope of becoming an immortal.
However, I still have the soup in the pot and the child's clothes.
If I make the elixir and eat it, I can live longer.
I'm not sick."
After saying that, the master and the disciple hurried back to the temple.
But when they came back to look for the clothes, they found that they had lost their place, and that all the water in the pot had been drank by a bald wild dog.
The old Taoist priest was so disappointed that he fell ill and died in depression.
The wild dog had black hair all over its body, which was extremely fine and glossy.
It entered the mountain and never returned.
The little Taoist priest was the only one left on the mountain, guarding the empty Patriarch's Hall.
Later, he became too poor and had nothing to do, so he was forced to become a bandit
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