Skyline Gossamer (Selected Works of Cao Wenxuan)
There is a family named Li in the village The Amber Dropper Bottles owner is honest and kind He likes to make friends and is willing to do good deeds all his life This day there was a poor Taoist priest skinny as a firewood dressed in rags covered with dust with disheveled hair who seemed to have drifted here from thousands of miles away When the master of the Li family saw the Taoist priest the Taoist priest was sitting very tired under the big locust tree in front of the village The master of the Li family stepped forward and asked softly “Where is the Taoist priest going” The Taoist replied “When you get to a place it’s a place” “If you don’t mind my humble abode” said the master of the Li family “I’d like to invite the Taoist priest to be my guest” The Taoist said “How can you bother” The master of the Li family said “Although my family is not very rich I can always have simple food for three meals a day” If the Taoist priest is not in the mood one day and wants to look for another scene I will never ask him to stay The Taoist priest got up brushed the dust lightly and went all the way to the village with the master of the Li family They seemed to have known each other for a hundred years The Taoist priest had no intention of going elsewhere and lived in the Li family for more than a year The master of the Li family however had no complaints just as he had treated them well when he first met them In his spare time he often accompanied Daotuzhuang to walk inside and outside the village or went to the fields to watch farmers mowing wheat or went to the river to watch the sails in the distance At night the master of the Li family was afraid that the Taoist priest would be lonely so he often came to talk to him until the Taoist priest was tired On this day the spring scenery is melting the green wheat grows on the four fields the willow branches the orioles fly around and the white sails flash in the river leaving songs all the way The master of the Frosted Glass Cosmetic Jars Wholesale Li family wanted to accompany the Taoist priest to the edge of the field so that the Taoist priest could watch the windmill rotate leisurely and the clear water moisten the field so as to provide a scenery for the plain life of the Taoist But when the Taoist priest came to the front of the village he put his hands behind his back and stopped He looked down a road in front of the village his eyes deep and unfathomable The wind blew from the fields bringing the fragrance of cauliflower and lifting the Taoist priest’s robe making it flutter like clouds in the sky The Taoist priest did not look at the master of the Li family but just gazed ahead both as if he were the master of the Li family and as if he were saying to himself “Do you know this is a good place”
Master Li replied “I don’t know” The Taoist priest slowly raised his bony hand pointed to the road ahead and then pointed to several rivers outside the village “Can’t you see that it looks like a turtle” The master of the Li family followed the Taoist priest’s finger to look and then exclaimed from his heart “Oh why haven’t I seen it for so many years” “It’s a spirit turtle” said Dao Tu “What about the turtle” “Blessed land” “What about the blessed land” “You look back at your house” “A house is still a house” “Look where it stands” “Standing in the middle of Chuang Tzu” No on the back of a turtle It carries your family “What about carrying your family on your back” The Taoist priest Hui Hui smiled like a brilliant spring The two of them not to mention the spirit turtle still went to the edge of the field to watch the water on the windmill and listen to the noise of the water In the evening under the oil lamp the Taoist priest put his hand on the teacup peacefully The hot air in the cup curled up from his hands “The tortoise will walk” he said to the master of the Li family Tomorrow Uv Gel Nail Polish Bottle you go and get a chain and wrap it around the white fruit tree in front of the door The tortoise can’t walk The tortoise is locked The next day the master of the Li family did not do what the Taoist said Why don’t you lock it Asked the Taoist priest Since the tortoise is a living thing if it wants to go let it go “It’s better to keep it” The master of the Li family turned around and looked around “I can’t keep it” The Taoist sighed At dusk the Taoist priest beckoned to the Li family to come over and said “Please fetch an iron chain” The family brought the chains “Just wrap the chain around the white fruit tree” said the Taoist The family obeys The Taoist priest was dizzy and his heels went blind When the master of the Li family saw this he repeatedly said “Why do you bother to come” Why did you bother to come Desire to untie the chain “It’s too late” said the Taoist Looking up at the sky there is no trace of sadness and regret on his face but the corners of his mouth are rippling with a smile just like the calm autumn water bra tape measure A few years later the three sons of the Li family all became officials and an ordinary family showed a prosperous population However in the autumn of that year when the shadow of wild geese flew south the master of the Li family returned by crane Before he left he looked at the Taoist priest out of the corner of his eye Then he looked at his sons and said “I have gone He is your father”
