The man met a Taoist priest and gave him an immortal medicine and went down the mountain for two hundred years
During the Han and Wei dynasties, there was a rich kid named Lu Gong who was obsessed with pills and dreamed of immortality. So, he took a servant and a maid ring and embarked on a journey of medicinal herbs in Taihang Mountain.
In the process of collecting medicinal herbs, three middle-aged Taoist priests suddenly appeared in the valley. One of the Taoist priests saw Lu Gong and asked with a smile: "You seem to be a person who pursues immortality, otherwise why did you go to great lengths and come to this high mountain alone?" ”
Lu Gong replied with a smile: "Dao Chief, you are right, I do admire the immortal way of immortality, but I haven't found the true secret yet, so I came here to collect herbs, hoping to have some benefits for my body." ”
The three of them smiled slightly, and each reported their names: Lu Wenqi, Sun Wenyang, and Wang Wenshang, all of whom were immortals of Taiqing Taihe Mansion. They said that they would occasionally go down to the earth to collect medicines and refine them into golden pills to give to those who were destined to help them become immortals.
Lu Wenqi said to Lu Gong: "You and I have the same surname, this is fate. If you are willing to follow me to collect medicine and alchemy, I will reveal the true recipe for immortality. ”
When Lu Gong heard the teachings of the three immortals, he was overjoyed and devoutly worshipped as his teacher. He was grateful, saying that he was deeply honored to be able to meet these three immortals, but he was also deeply skeptical of his abilities, worried that he would not be able to comprehend the teachings of the immortals.
But the immortal Lu Wenqi generously accepted him as a ** and took him to an immortal mountain. Two days later, Lu Wenqi gave Lu Gong a fairy recipe for immortality and suggested that he go back to his hometown to have a look.
Lu Gong agreed, and just as he was about to leave, the immortals reminded him that although he had only been here for two days, two hundred years had passed in the human world.
Lu Gong returned home with doubts, only to find that his house was empty and dilapidated, and he could not find even a shadow of a descendant. At this time, he met an old man named Zhao Fu, who was the great-great-grandson of Lu Gong's neighbor's family.
Lu Gong asked Zhao Fu curiously, "Do you know where my family is?" Zhao Fu looked at Lu Gong carefully, and then replied, "You are from **?" Why ask this question?
I do know a few things about my family, though. ”
Lu Gong immediately expressed his willingness to listen to Zhao Fu's story. Zhao Fu explained to him that when he was a child, he heard his grandfather say that there was a person named Lu Gong in the village who took his slaves and maids to Taihang Mountain to collect medicine, and he has not been heard from since.
People thought that their master and servant were eaten by the beasts of the mountains, and more than 200 years have passed. Lu Gong has a great-great-grandson named Lu Xizhi, who is now a Taoist priest in a Taoist temple more than ten miles east of the city, he is very famous, and is deeply respected by the people, so it should not be difficult to find him.
After hearing this, Lu Gong expressed his gratitude to Zhao Fu, and came to the door of his great-grandson Lu Xi's house and knocked on the door. When the servants of Lü Xi's family saw that Lü Gong was a stranger, they asked him who he was, where he came from, and what he was doing.
Lu Gong replied heroically: "This is my home, I am your master's ancestor Lu Gong, who once left with the immortals, and now returns to the world, but it has been two hundred years apart. ”
The servant did not dare to be negligent in the slightest, and immediately reported the matter to Lu Xi. Lu Xi was so pleasantly surprised when he heard the news that he didn't even bother to put on his shoes, he rushed outside barefoot and knelt to greet Lu Gong, saying: "The ancestor of the immortals has returned home, I feel both joy and excitement, and this happiness and excitement make me unbearable. ”
Lü Gong taught the immortal recipe of immortality at the great-grandson's house and settled here. He shared this secret recipe with Lu Xi, who was already eighty years old, and after taking it, Lu Xi's teeth fell and reborn, his white hair turned black, his muscles and bones were strong, smooth and moisturized, just like a thirty-year-old young man.
When Lü Xi was two hundred years old, he lived in seclusion in Taihang Mountain and taught this immortal recipe to future generations. As a result, Lü Xi's descendants live a long life and no longer suffer from old age.