Fairy Story: Meeting an Immortal and Forming a Fate
Shi Ran
Wang Kejiao is from Kunshan County, Suzhou Prefecture, and lives in Zhaotun Village on the south bank of Songjiang River. Their occupation is farming and fishing. He is in his thirties and does not know that the true way exists. Every time he caught a big fish, he was very happy. He beat the big fish to death with a mallet, cooked it, dipped it in garlic chive sauce and ate it, and told people that there was nothing more beautiful in the world.
One day, he rowed a fishing boat and walked for several miles on the river singing fishing songs. Suddenly he saw a colorful flower boat in the river. In the boat were seven Taoist priests, all young and jade. They wear crowns and robes of different colors, and are surrounded by more than a dozen attendants. The men wear their hair in two buns, while the women wear their hair in a bun style. There are four people in yellow clothes on the boat.
At this time, a Taoist priest on the boat called Wang Kejiao's name. Wang Kejiao was surprised and unknowingly his boat was close to the Taoist priest's colorful boat. A Taoist priest asked the waiter to lead Wang Ke to the colorful boat. In front of the seven Taoist priests, there were sapphire plates, wine vessels and fruits. They were all bright and shiny. Wang Kejiao didn't know what they were made of. Wang Kejiao stood at the far end of the banquet and saluted each Taoist priest one by one. The seven Taoist priests looked at him carefully. A Taoist priest said: "This man's bones are very good and he should be an immortal. It's just that he was born in the world and had a puncture between his eyebrows due to acupuncture due to illness." Another Taoist priest said: "Give him some wine to drink." The waiter took a jug and poured wine into the cup, but the wine could not be poured out. The waiter told the Taoist priest, and the Taoist priest said: "This wine is fairy wine. He must replace the bones of a mortal to drink this wine." If he can't pour it out, it means he is not destined to drink the fairy wine." Another Taoist priest said, "Give him chestnuts to eat." A Taoist priest took two chestnuts from the banquet and handed them to the waiter, who gave them to him again. Wang Kejiao let him eat. Wang Kejiao saw that the chestnuts were black and red, as smooth as jujubes, more than two inches long, and had skin when chewed. The flesh of the chestnuts was crisp and sweet, unlike human chestnuts. He ate for a long time before finishing two chestnuts. At this time, a Taoist priest said: "Wang Kejiao has already met with us, let him go back." After that, he ordered a man in yellow to take Wang Kejiao ashore. Wang Kejiao couldn't find his fishing boat next to the colorful boat. The man in yellow said, "You don't have to take the fishing boat. You will be there as soon as you close your eyes." Wang Kejiao closed his eyes and immediately felt the sound of Feng Shui and the forest ringing in his ears. The sound of Hao. The man in yellow asked him to open his eyes, and he found himself sitting on a big rock in the grass, surrounded by overlapping peaks and mountains, towering pines and cypresses, and the man in yellow was gone.
There is a gatehouse not far away, and people are coming in and out of the gatehouse. After a while, several firewood collectors and several monks came to Wang Kejiao and asked him who he was, and he told him the details one by one. The people asked him when he left home, and he said it was this morning. Those people asked Wang Kejiao what day it was today, and Wang Kejiao said, "March 3rd." Those people were shocked and said, "Today is the ninth day of September, and it's been more than half a year since the third day of March!" Jiao asked again where this place was, and a monk said: "This is the Waterfall Temple in Tiantai Mountain." Wang Kejiao asked again how far it was from Huating. The monk said: "There are two roads, water and land." More than a thousand miles together." Wang Kejiao was surprised.
The monk invited him to rest in the temple and invited him to eat. Wang Kejiao said that he was not hungry at all and did not like the smell of food. He just wanted to drink water. The monks gathered around him to ask questions. They were very surprised and reported the incident to Tangxing County and Taizhou. Wang Feng, the honest envoy of Yuezhou, always respected Taoism, so he summoned Wang Kejiao. After listening to Wang Ke's conversation, I was very convinced and thought that the transformation of gods was omnipotent and no one could understand it. Wang Kejiao is more than seven feet tall, with an unusual appearance and appearance, and a clear speech. Wang Feng sighed and said: "Wang Kejiao is really a god!" And because Wang Kejiao had the same surname as himself, he respected him even more and asked him to wear Taoist clothes.
Later Wang Feng sent people to Suzhou to investigate and verify Wang Kejiao’s affairs. People said that on the third day of March, Wang Kejiao went fishing in the river in a fishing boat and never came back. His family only found him They thought he had drowned in the river, and his body could not be found anywhere. His wife and children had no choice but to perform a funeral ceremony for him with soul-calling rituals.
After Wang Feng confirmed all this, he reported the matter to the emperor.
The emperor was also greatly surprised.
Later Wang Ke returned to his hometown, told the villagers everything that happened, and led people to the river to see the place where he met the colorful boats and the immortals. Wang Kejiao has not eaten since he ate the chestnuts given by the gods, and every move he makes seems to be aided by the gods. He stopped farming and fishing and took his wife to Siming Mountain.
More than twenty years later, Wang Ke handed over his mountain to sell medicine in Mingzhou and asked others to help sell wine. He gave all the money from selling medicine and wine to the poor. At that time, people said that the medicine Wang Ke sold was given by Hu Gong, and the wine was given by Yuhang's mother. People say that medicine is very effective in curing diseases and drinking wine will make you drunk. In the alleys of Mingzhou, everyone calls it "Wangxianren Medicinal Wine", which is unparalleled in the world. More than thirty years later, Wang Kejiao entered Siming Mountain again and never came out.
The old saying: "One day in the cave, a thousand years have passed in the world" means that when people meet the gods by chance, stay with them for a while, and then return to the human world, more than ten years or even a hundred years have passed. ,millennium. The reason why gods are gods is because they do not live in the dimension where we ordinary people live. Their time is naturally different from the time in this dimension of our ordinary people. Their time passes faster than that of the human world. When Wang Kejiao returned to the world, half a year had passed.
(Source: "Continued Legend of Immortals")