During the reign of Emperor Wu of Han, there was an official named Cheng Wei in the dynasty, and his official position was Huang Menlang, who was usually responsible for running errands and doing some chores for emperor Wudi in the imperial palace, and belonged to the attendants in front of the emperor.
Cheng Wei had a wife, surnamed Fang, known as Fang. Fang and Cheng Wei are fellow countrymen, cheng Wei is on the orders of his parents, the words of the matchmaker, and the ming media is marrying the wife of the knot hair who has entered the family.
At that time, Emperor Wu of Han was bent on cultivating immortals, longing for immortality, and his courtiers also went up and down, playing the set of alchemy cultivation immortals. Emperor Wu of Han liked to imitate the dress of the immortals, and ordered his courtiers to wear clothes with wide robes and large sleeves, saying that it looked fairy.
Cheng Wei did not have this kind of clothing, because this kind of clothing needs to be made by a special tailor, and the average person does not have this cutting technique. For this reason, Cheng Wei was very worried. After Fang Shi learned of her husband's sorrow, she smiled and said, "How difficult is this, I will make you two sets." ”
Cheng Wei said: "To make this kind of clothes, we don't have so much silk at home, so I'll go out and buy it." Fang said, "Is two silk horses enough?" Then you don't have to buy it. ”
After saying that, she pointed her hand to the ground, and immediately two silk horses appeared, and Cheng Wei was very surprised to see it, and said to his wife: "When did you learn the blindfold method?" Fang Shi just smiled when he heard it, didn't speak, picked up the silk veil, and cut it. A few days later, Cheng Wei put on the new clothes cut by his wife.
Once, Cheng Wei refined gold with mercury according to the method recorded in Liu An, the king of Huainan, and the Taoist secret book "Pillow Hongbao" dedicated to Emperor Wu of Han, and the result was that he refined it for dozens of days, but he still did not succeed. Cheng Wei was very disappointed and complained, "There is no alchemy in the world, and the book of the King of Huainan is full of deceitful lies!" ”
Wife Fang Clan saw her husband angry, and did not speak, she came to the alchemy furnace, saw that there was still a lot of mercury in the alchemy furnace, so she felt a small cloth bag from the sleeve, and then used the spice spoon to dig out some medicinal powder from the cloth bag and sprinkled it on the mercury, and after a while, the mercury inside the alchemy furnace actually turned into yellow chengcheng gold.
Cheng Wei witnessed all this and couldn't help but be shocked, and said to Fang Shi, "It turns out that you are a enlightened immortal, why didn't you tell me earlier that you would alchemy, so that I wasted so much time and energy in vain?" ”
In the face of her almost hysterical husband, Fang Still calmly replied, "Alchemy, like cultivation, requires organic fairy bones to get it, not that I want to teach it to you." You don't have fairy bones, you don't have fortune, and naturally you can't get alchemy. ”
Cheng Wei was already obsessed with money at this time, and where he could listen, he thought that these were just his wife's words. In order to let his wife teach him alchemy, Cheng Wei begged for temptation to his wife day and night, and even sold a house and several fields in the family to buy gorgeous clothes and jewelry, just to please his wife and let her teach him alchemy.
However, Fang Shi still refused to tell her husband the secret of alchemy, or the sentence: "You don't have that kind of life, you can't learn it." Cheng Wei saw that his wife was soft and hard and did not eat, and became angry, and after consulting with a friend, he decided to tie up Fang Shi, beat her with a stick, and force her to tell the secret.
Unexpectedly, Fang's side already knew, and she said to Cheng Wei, "To teach the Dao Fa, we must choose people who are kind and organic. If I meet the right person, even the beggar on the road will not hesitate to pass it on to him; if the wrong person is wrong- You don't want to force me to submit. ”
After saying that, Fang Shi pretended to be crazy, took off all the clothes on his body, and ran outside naked, and smeared mud on his body. A month later, Fang sat cross-legged, and the corpse disintegrated into a fairy.
