The story of Zhuge Liang's visit to his teacher

When Zhuge Liang was 8 or 9 years old, he could not speak and his family was poor, so his father let him herd sheep in the nearby mountains.

There is a Taoist temple on this hill, and there lives an old Taoist man with white hair. Every day, the old Taoist walked out of the gate to wander around, and when he saw Zhuge Liang, he would play with him and ask him different questions. Zhuge Liang always happily answered each one with hand gestures.

When the old Taoist saw that Zhuge Liang was clever and lovely, he treated him and soon cured him of his inability to speak.

Zhuge Liang can speak. Very happy, ran to the Taoist temple to say thanks to the old Taoist. The old Taoist said: "Go home to your parents say, I want to take you as a disciple, teach you to memorize and read, learn astronomy and geography, Yin and Yang eight diagrams military methods." Your parents agree, come to school every day, do not miss a day!"

From then on, Zhuge Liang will worship the old Taoist teacher, rain or shine, the sun is good shadow, every day up the mountain to seek advice. He is smart, studious, dedicated, read a book without forgetting, listen to the lecture once and remember. The old people grew more fond of him.

Seven or eight years passed.

Moreover, in the middle of this mountainside, there is an "nunnery", and Zhuge Liang passes by this nunnery every day when he goes up and down the mountain. One day, he came down from the mountain, and suddenly there was a strong wind and it rained everywhere. Zhuge Liang was busy taking shelter in the nunnery. A woman he had never seen before welcomed him into the house. I saw this woman grow thin eyebrows big eyes, oil tender silk white, enchanting fairy, like a fairy. He could not help thinking: There is such a beautiful woman in the nunnery! Before leaving, the woman sent Zhuge Liang out the door and said with a smile: "Today we have known each other, going up and down the hill and coming to rest and drink tea when we are thirsty and tired."

After this, every time Zhuge Liang came to the nunnery, the woman not only warmly received him, but also warmly retained the cooked food. After dinner, they either talked or played chess for fun. Compared with the Taoist temple, this is really another world. Zhuge Liang was swept off his feet by the woman's sweet words!

Zhuge Liang's thought went astray and he grew tired of learning. He came out of the nunnery with a smile and went into the temple to worry, it was really "happy to go out and enter the door and worry, smiling at the door." Master said that he went in this ear and came out that ear, but it could not be imprinted on his brain; It's written in a book. I don't know what it says when I read it again, but I still can't remember it when I read it again.

Seeing the problem, the old Taoist called Zhuge Liang to him, sighed and said, "It is easier to destroy a tree than to plant one." I've wasted all these years!"

Zhuge Liang heard the meaning of Master's words, bowed his head and said, "Master! Will not disappoint your painstaking!"

"But now I do not believe it." The wise man looked at Zhuge Liang and said, "I see that you are a clever boy, and I want to teach you to become talented, so that I can cure your dumb disease and accept you as an apprentice." A few years ago, you were smart and diligent, Master, I took pains to teach you not to feel bitter; Now you have changed from diligence to laziness, though clever is in vain! Can I believe it when you say that you don't let me down?"

"Master! Every good sleep I get these days makes my mind faint." Zhuge Liang was afraid to tell the truth, and was reprimanded by the master and told a lie.

The old Taoist said: "The wind does not come, the tree does not move; The boat is not rocking, the water is not muddy." With that, he pointed to a tree wrapped by kudzu in the courtyard to let Zhuge Liang see: "You see why the tree does not die, does not live, does not grow?"

"The kudzu is too tight!"

"Yes! The tree grows on the mountain, there are many stones and little soil, so it is bitter enough. But it roots down, branches up, not afraid of heat, not afraid of cold, always the longer the month. But if the kudzu is tightly entangled, it will not grow, which is called "trees fear the entanglement of soft vines"!"

A little wisdom is wise. Zhuge Liang could not hide it from Master and asked, "Master! You know all about it?"

The old Taoist said: "Near the water to know the fish, near the mountain to know the birds." By your face, by your actions, can you not know what is going on in your heart?" After a pause, the old Taoist solemnly said, "To tell you the truth, the woman you love is not a human being, she was originally a crane in the palace of Heaven, but because of her greedy mouth, she stole the peach of the Queen Mother and was thrown down to the palace of Heaven to suffer." Came to the world, it turned into a beauty, no knowledge, no work, only know pleasure. You only look at its beauty, do not know that it is only sleeping and eating. You fall in love with her, eat, drink and have fun, but you will achieve nothing in your life! If she doesn't do what she wants, she'll hurt you."

Hearing this, Zhuge Liang hurriedly asked, "Master! Can it be true?"

The old Taoist said: "If you don't believe it, let it go, and don't go on this door again!"

"Master! I believe it. Never to speak to her again!"

"That's not enough. You must burn her skin so that your doubts will be dispelled and you will never miss her."

"How to burn her painted skin, and asked Master for advice."

"The crane has a habit of showing its true form every night at midnight and flying up to the Tianhe River to take a bath. Then you went into her house and burned the clothes she was wearing. She stole the clothes from Heaven, and once they were burned, they could not be turned into beautiful women."

Zhuge Liang promised to do as his master told him. Before leaving, the old Taoist handed Zhuge Liang a dragon head crutches and said, "When the crane finds a fire in the nunnery, it will immediately fly down from the Tianhe River and see that you have burned her clothes, and it will not be content with you." If it hurts you, use this stick to hit, remember!"

That evening Zhuge Liang went quietly to the nunnery and opened the door. As expected, he found only clothes on the bed and no one there. She set the dress on fire.

The crane was bathing in the sky river, suddenly felt a flutter in his heart, he quickly looked down, found the fire in the nunnery, "whoosh" flew down. Seeing that Zhuge Liang was burning her clothes, she rushed over and pecked Zhuge Liang's eyes. Zhuge Liang, quick with his eyes, picked up his crutches and knocked the crane to the ground. He reached for it and caught it by the tail. The crane struggled to free itself, flapping its wings and flying away again. As a result, the feathers on the crane's tail were scratched off by Zhuge Liang.

The cranes with bald tails are different from the cranes in the Heavenly Palace. He also know disgrace, no longer go to the sky river to bathe, also dare not mix into the palace of heaven to steal can be turned into beautiful clothes, then forever stay in the world, mixed into the crane group.

Zhuge Liang took this crane feather to see Master. The old Taoist said: "Remember this lesson! If you want to learn skills, do a career, this pornographic thing must not be infatuated!" Zhuge Liang did not forget this lesson and kept the feathers on the crane's tail as a warning.

After this, Zhuge Liang worked even harder. Everything Master said and everything written in books, he learned and memorized, and became his own. Another year later, it was the day that Zhuge Liang burned the beauty to melt the skin, the old Taoist man smiled and said to Zhuge Liang: "Apprentice, you have been with me for nine years." You've read everything you need to read. You've heard everything I've got to teach. As the saying goes, when the master leads the door, the practice is in the individual. You're eighteen years old. It's time to go out and do something big!"

As soon as Zhuge Liang heard Master saying that he was "full of teachers", he quickly pleaded, "Master, the more I learn, the more I feel that my knowledge is shallow, and I want to learn more skills from you!"

"Real skills can only be obtained in hard work, and books are learned, so it is useful to see the changes in heaven and earth, turn at any time, and react to changes!" For example, the lesson that you go to the crane, no longer be infatuated with pornography, this is a direct lesson; By extension, everything in the world should not be confused by its appearance, but should be carefully engaged in, and understand its essence. That's my parting order! I'm leaving today."

"Master, where are you going?" Zhuge Liang was surprised and asked, "Where can I visit you later?"

"The four seas travel, there is no direction."

Immediately, Zhuge Liang burst into tears and said: "Master must go, please accept the disciples to worship, in order to thank the cultivation of great grace!"

Zhuge Liang bowed his head in worship, but looked up and saw no sign of Master.

When the old Taoist left, he left Zhuge Liang one thing, which was the eight trigrams that he often wore later.

Zhuge Liang missed Master, put master's eight trigram clothes on his body, only when Master is always at his side.

Zhuge Liang did not forget the teacher's teachings, and became the parting charge, deliberately made a fan of the feathers with him, held it in his hand, and warned himself to be careful.