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Chapter 47 New life, new beginning

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    "Don't think that the life of a Taoist chanter can be very leisurely. Leisure is okay, but you must keep up with the homework, otherwise your future will be bad.

    ????????????? According to the rules of Wuji Courtyard, which is actually the rule of the entire Daomen Palace Courtyard, there are monthly exams in the Sutra Hall every month and annual exams every year, and the results obtained will be recorded in the file.  If you are classified as the first class, you can go out with high-level practitioners to perform rituals. It is a lucrative job, and you will be successful in the future; if you are classified as the second class, you will not feel any pain or itching, so you can do whatever you have to do; if you are unfortunate enough to be in the third class, you will be paid every month.  The monthly case will be reduced by half, three consecutive third-class cases, and the monthly penalty for the whole year will be forfeited. If the monthly case is three consecutive third-class cases, the penalty will be forfeited, and the case will be expelled and discharged from the hospital!

    Of course, the chance of the last situation happening is extremely small. Unless you are really stupid and have offended the professors in the sutra hall, from high-level gong to sutra masters and quiet masters, etc., otherwise, generally speaking, you will raise your hand at critical moments.  , let you go.

    Although Taoist academies generally rarely dismiss Taoist priests, poor performance will have a considerable impact on their future prospects.  At least when there is a chance to transfer, for example, if there is a vacancy in any of the "Five Masters and Eighteen Heads" stewardship positions, if your record keeping performance is not good, then don't even think about it.

    However, it cannot be generalized. There are also some positions where people with poor performance are selected. For example, Zhao Ran's earliest supervisor, Zhou Yutou, had extremely poor results in the monthly examination and annual examination when he was reciting sutras in the sutra hall.  He was ranked in the third class more than ten times, and half of his annual examination results were below the red line.  When the prison found out that he was really not good at chanting sutras, they simply asked him to take charge of the house. This was definitely a punishment rather than a reward.

    Zhao Ran and Zhu Meng are both new chanting Taoists. They don't have to take the monthly exam for three months, but after this period, they have to take up writing, but the first test paper they answer is B grade¡ª¡ª  This is an exam prepared by the Sutra Hall for Taoist reciters with less than three years of experience. After three years, it will be replaced by the A-level test questions.

    Zhao Ran did not delay his homework. On the first night, he read scriptures in the scripture library until late at night.  It was on this night that he confirmed his change - his memory was excellent!

    After reading the "Tao De Zhen" for two months, Zhao Ran could never recite it in order in the past, but tonight he read it twice and recited it silently without any mistakes!  He was instantly moved to tears. This is a big killer. Once the golden finger is opened, the vast sea of ??Taoist scriptures will no longer be mentioned. Isn¡¯t the monthly exam and the annual exam just like a joke? That is absolutely  It's within reach!

    The next day, as soon as Zhao Ran finished his morning homework, he immediately rushed to the Sutra Library.  He first recited the "Tao Te Ching" silently, and found that his memory had not faded. He immediately calmed down, found "Laozi Xiang'er Commentary" and began to read it again.

    "Xiang'er Commentary" is no more than the "Tao De Zhen", it is an elaboration and development of every sentence in the "Zhen Jing", and the full text is much longer.  There are only two volumes of "The True Scripture", but there are more than ten volumes of "Xiang Er Zhu". Zhao Ran stacked them in front of his chest, and the top volume was almost up to his chin.  It took him seven days to memorize the entire set of "Xiang'er Commentary", and then another three days to compare "Xiang'er Commentary" with the "Tao De Zhen", reciting it silently before and after, and then picked it up again.  From "Laozi's Western Ascension Sutra".

    In the meantime, Zhao Ran also saw Zhu Meng in the Scripture Depository every day, but this guy was far less diligent than Zhao Ran in studying scriptures. He usually made a pot of tea leisurely on the second floor of the Sutra Depository, picked up a few scriptures, and read at will.  When I read the previous book, I spent two hours reading it when I was in a good mood. When I was not in a good mood, I spent less than half an hour in the Sutra Library.

    Every time Zhao Ran saw Zhu Meng leaving early, he secretly laughed in his heart, and at the same time he was angry - I have a golden finger, and I am more diligent than you, so I want to see how you do in the monthly exam.  How on earth are your bones stronger than mine!

    In addition to studying hard, Zhao Ran also looked for channels to understand what "roots" and "qualifications" are. He asked Zhiyuan for advice, but Yu Zhiyuan was not a person with roots, so his explanation  It's also very vague - the speaker doesn't even understand himself, but you want the listener to understand it, is it possible?

    Since Yu Zhiyuan didn't find the answer, he asked Yumo in a letter.

    Yumo¡¯s explanation was quite detailed, but Zhao Ran still found it mysterious.  Yu Mo¡¯s explanation is: the so-called ¡°good bones and bones¡± means that the bones and meridians in the human body are in line with the way of heaven, and ¡°good qualifications¡± means that a person has strong comprehension and can understand everything at a glance.  Taken together, it means that this person is in harmony with the Tao of Heaven, has no stagnation in internal and external communication, and has a strong ability to understand Taoism.

    For example, it is also about learning spells and spells. People with good skills and good qualifications can learn it immediately, while those with poor skills will not be able to learn it no matter how hard they learn it.  Yu Mo's experience is that it feels like everything "falls into place".

    Zhao Ran could understand this explanation, but he couldn't understand it, so he changed his perspective and asked Yu Mo, what are the most prominent symptoms of those cultivators with good foundation and good qualifications during their practice?For example - do you feel that your brain is particularly clear, your memory is very good, your eyesight and ears are particularly strong?

    Yu Mo¡¯s reply said that good memory, strong eyesight and ears are the ¡°results¡± of practicing Taoism, not the ¡°causes¡±, which are the symptoms that appear after practicing Taoism.  Roots and qualifications are the "cause" and the reason why practice can proceed smoothly.  Just like the reason why a peach tree bears peaches is because the tree is a peach tree, if it were a pear tree, the fruit it bears would be pears.  A person with good memory, strong eyesight and ears is a peach or a pear, and a person with strong roots and talents is a peach or pear tree.

    With this explanation, Zhao Ran roughly understood something. It turned out that he still had no qualifications.  But he soon became confused again. He was neither a peach tree nor a pear tree, so how could he bear peaches and pears?  This is unscientific!

    If he didn't understand, he didn't think about it for the time being. Zhao Ran decided to ask him face to face when he had the opportunity in the future. He remembered that Chu Yangcheng looked at him and said that he had bad bones and poor qualifications. This meant that those who practice should  There is a way to visually determine whether a person has a bone. When the time comes, just ask Yumo to help him take a look.

    Because opportunities are hard to come by, Zhao Ran wants to seize them with all his strength.  For a "pseudo backstage" person with a golden finger of memory, Zhao Ran's only choice is to study hard and crazily, hoping to gain a foothold in the Taoist sect with his true ability of "scriptures".

    In the next three months, he spent all the time at his disposal, piled it all into the Sutra Library, and recited five or six important classics and more than ten related annotations in succession.

    Among them, the "Tao De Zhen Jing", "Nan Hua Zhen Jing", "Chongxu Zhide Zhen Jing" and "Tong Xuan Zhen Jing" are particularly important.  These four classics, also known as "Laozi", "Zhuangzi", "Liezi" and "Wenzi", are regarded as the "Four Sons True Classics" by Taoists. They are the most fundamental core works of Taoism and are the basis for all Taoist scholarship and science.  rituals, charms, spells, and even the basis for self-cultivation.

    In the view of "false believer" Zhao Ran, the "Tao De Zhen Jing" is the most mysterious, the "Nan Hua Zhen Jing" is the most literary, the "Chongxu Zhide Zhen Jing" has wonderful meanings, and the "Tong Xuan Zhen Jing" has the most famous sayings and aphorisms.  It is very interesting to read and recite it carefully and calmly.

    What he dislikes the most is the annotations and interpretations of these four scriptures by latecomers. From the perspective of a traveler with pseudo-beliefs, they are mixed with a lot of far-fetched and forced words, and the reading tastes like chewing wax.  But the butt controls the head. Now that Zhao Ran has sat in the seat of the chanting Taoist boy, he must carry these things on his back.

    In three months, he studied and memorized more than 20 works, totaling hundreds of thousands of words. If this skill were placed in the world that Zhao Ran traveled through, it would have been enough to make him famous and prosperous.  You know, this is the most obscure Taoist classic!  Even if he were placed in Wujiyuan, where the Taoist priests had read more scriptures than him, there were definitely only a handful of them who could recite these scriptures and commentaries word for word.

    Among the sutra-reciting Taoist boys Zhao Ran met in the sutra-reciting building, only Ma Zhili had such a foundation. However, Ma Zhili had been in the sutra hall for nearly eight years, and their learning progress was not the same.  Most of the others, especially the fat young Taoist priests and the skinny old Taoist priests that Zhao Ran had noticed in the evening class at the Sutra Hall the first day, had already been left behind by Zhao Ran.

    As for Zhumeng, one night Zhao Ran couldn't help but provoke this guy, and then humiliated him in every way while reciting scriptures. This guy also started to work hard, and the time he went to the Sutra Library to read scriptures doubled every day.

    Zhao Ran has never looked forward to the first monthly exam in his Taoist career as much as he does today. This is the arrogant desire to feel pleasure after having a golden finger. This feeling is really good!

    Thank you to two book friends, yangzhigang and Tinghaizhige, for the tip.  I've been very busy with work recently, so it's hard to update. Please forgive me. I'm really sorry and ashamed!

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