Ancient Zhiwei Story No. 282 (Li Changzai, out of the Taiping Guangji Immortal Scroll)

Hu Gong was a Taoist real person, and he did not know what his mortal name was. All the summoning charms and summoning ghosts and gods in the world today, the Jade House Charms for curing diseases, total more than twenty volumes, are from the hands of Hu Gong, so they are collectively called "Hu Gong Charms". At that time, there was a person in Runan, Henan Province, called Fei Changfang, and suddenly saw Hu Gong coming to the street from afar to sell medicine. People don't know Hu Gong, he sells medicines without bargaining, and no matter what disease he takes, he can be cured. After the pot man sold the medicine, he always instructed the person who bought the medicine to spit out something after convincing the medicine, which day the illness would be better, and every time he said it was fulfilled. He could earn tens of thousands of dollars a day selling medicines, and then he gave the money to those who were hungry and poor on the street, leaving only thirty or fifty dollars. He often hung an empty pot on the roof, and after the sun went down, he jumped into the pot. No one noticed this, only Fei Changfang saw it upstairs, which made it clear that Hu Gong was not a mortal. Fei Changfang cleaned the house of the pot man every day and provided the pot man with something to eat, and the pot man did not resign. After a long time, Fei Changfang still insisted on sweeping the floor to provide food as usual, and did not dare to ask for anything from the pot. Hu Gong saw that Fei Changfang was very religious, and once said to him, "Come to me when there is no one at night." Fei Changfang came to the pot house at night, and the pot man said to him, "When you see me jumping into the pot, you jump like me." Fei Changfang jumped according to his words, and sure enough, he was already in the pot unconsciously. After entering, I found that it was not a pot, but a world of gods. I only saw the pavilions standing next to the road, and I also saw the hugong belt watching dozens of retinues. Hu Gong said to Fei Changfang, "I am a god, and when I was in the Celestial Realm, I was relegated to the human world because I was not diligent enough in handling official affairs. I saw that you had a Root to teach, so I let you approach Me. Fei Changfang immediately left his seat and prostrated his head and said, "My mortal mortal fetus is very ignorant and has accumulated many sins, but thanks to your mercy and care, it is like splitting a coffin to send immortal qi to a dead corpse, so that the bones of the decaying corpse can be brought back to life." I was only afraid that I was stupid and stubborn, and I couldn't serve the Great Immortal. If the Great Immortal continues to guide the enlightenment, it is really a great blessing for me to encounter once in a lifetime! Hu Gong said, "I think you are a very good person, but you must not divulge the heavenly opportunity." Later, Hu Gong went upstairs to see Fei Changfang and said to him, "I have some wine here, let's have a few drinks." "The wine of the pot is installed in a wine altar downstairs, and Fei Changfang let people go downstairs to get it, but dozens of people can't lift the jar, so they have to tell the pot gong that the pot gong went downstairs and carried the wine jar upstairs with one finger." Two people drinking each other, the wine vessel is only the size of a fist, but it is not enough to drink until dark. Hu Gong told Fei Changfang, "I will soon return to the Immortal Realm, are you willing to go with me?" Fei Changfang said, "Can you still use it?" But I want my family not to find out that I have run away, is there any way to do it? The pot man said, "It's very simple. He gave Fei Changfang a green bamboo stick and warned him: "After you return home with this bamboo stick, you tell your family that you are sick, and then put the bamboo stick on your bed and quietly come to me." Fei Changfang did what Hu Gong said, and after leaving home, the people in Jingli saw that Fei Changfang had died in bed. In fact, the corpse on the bed was the bamboo stick of the pot gong, and the family buried Fei Changfang after crying bitterly. Fei Changfang followed Hu Gong, in a trance, he did not know where he was, Hu Gong deliberately put him in a group of tigers, the tiger opened its teeth and claws to eat him, he was not afraid. The next day, Hu Gong locked fei changfang in a stone cave, hung a large stone several inches wide with a straw rope above his head, and let several snakes bite the grass rope, and the rope looked like it was about to break, and the Fei changfang below was still calm. When The Poton came to the cave and saw this, he reassured him, "You can be taught the Tao." Later, the pot man let Fei Changfang eat, and there were maggots more than an inch long in the, which were smelly and dirty, and Fei Changfang could be difficult this time. Hu Gong sent him back and said to him, "It seems that you still can't get the Immortal Dao." I'll let you local people live for hundreds of years. He said to him, "If you have this charm, you can drive away the ghosts and gods, and the messengers of the gods of the day for a long time can also heal and dispel disasters." Fei Changfang was worried that he would not be able to get home, and the hugong gave him a bamboo stick and said that he could ride it to his home. Fei Changfang rode on a bamboo stick, and suddenly woke up like a big dream, and saw that he was already at home. The family thought he was a ghost, so he told the story in detail, and the family went to the cemetery to open the coffin and look at it, and it was only a bamboo stick inside, which made him believe his words. The bamboo stick that Fei Changfang rode back was thrown on the grass beach, and it turned out to be a green dragon. Fei Changfang said that it was only a day's time from leaving home to returning, and it had been a year since the family had counted. Fei Changfang took the ghost with a spell to cure the disease, and there was no cure for it. Sometimes he sat talking with the patient, and suddenly he started shouting loudly, and the guest asked strangely what was going on, and he said that he had just scolded the ghost. At that time, there was a monster in Runan, who had to come to the county several times a year, and when he came, he took an entourage on horseback, changed into the appearance of Taishou, entered the Taishou Mansion and beat the drum, and then walked around inside and outside the mansion, and then left, Taishou was very annoying and could not do anything. Just as Fei Changfang entered the Taishou Mansion, the ghost also came to the front of the mansion. Taishou ran into the mansion and left only Fei Changfang in the hall. When the ghost knew about it, he didn't dare to enter the house, so Fei Changfang shouted, "Arrest that ghost for me." The ghost was so frightened that he quickly got out of the car and lay down in front of the hall, constantly prostrating his head and begging, promising to change. Fei Changfang scolded, "You damn old ghost, who didn't honestly stay in Yin Cao, dared to offend the official palace with his entourage, should you die?" Not ready to show up? The ghost immediately transformed into a large turtle, with a body the size of a wheel and a head that was more than a foot long. Fei Changfang made it into a human form again, handed the ghost a bamboo charm, and ordered him to send the charm to Ge Pijun, and the ghost prostrated his head in tears. Fei Changfang sent people to watch from behind, but the bamboo charm was under the grass beach, and the ghost wrapped his neck around the tree and died. Fei Changfang later came to Donghae County, which has been in a drought for three years. Fei Changfang said to the people who were asking for rain: "The East Sea God King came to rape Ge Pijun's wife, and I detained him, because I did not check his confession, and I was too busy to deal with it, which caused a long drought here, and now I immediately let him go and let him rain immediately." Then it rained heavily. Fei Changfang has a magic trick that can shrink the earth into a small piece, and the scene of thousands of miles away is in front of you, and when you let go, you will return to its original state.

(3) Li Changzai is a member of the Shu County. He studied Taoism at a young age and served him for generations. Counting his age, he was four or five hundred years old. But never see the old, always like a person in his forties and fifties. He often treated people, and the serious illness was cured in three days, and the light illness was cured in one day. He had two sons and a daughter, both of whom had married, and he ran away from home. When he left, he took his disciples Zeng and Kong's two sons, both seventeen or eighteen years old. The Zeng and Kong families did not know where Li Changzai was going, so they sent the two children to Li Changzai. Li Chang handed over two green bamboo sticks to the two children and overtook them with bamboo sticks, so that they could go back to their own homes first. Put the green bamboo stick on your bed, and then quietly come back, don't tell the family. The two children returned home with bamboo sticks as instructed. The family saw that the child had not left, and later found himself dead in his bed. The two families were very sad to bury the child. More than a hundred days later, Li Changzai's disciples met Li Changzai in Pi County and walked with the two dead children, and the two children and Chang Zai's disciples cried and talked for a long time, and each carried a letter to the family. The Kong and Zeng families opened the coffin and saw that there was only a green bamboo stick inside, which made them know that their son was not dead. Thirty years later, Li Chang lived in the Lung Mountains and married another wife. His ex-wife's son went out to find Li Changzai. Ten days before his son came, he said to his wife, "My son is coming to me, and I have to go out and hide." When he comes, give him this golden cake. When the son arrived, he asked the stepmother where his father had gone, and the stepmother gave him the golden cake. The son said: "My father left me and ran away for decades. I missed him day and night, and when I heard that he was here, I traveled thousands of miles to visit him, not to ask him for money. So I stayed. After a month, before Li Changzai returned, his son lied to his harem and said, "If my father does not come back, I will go back." After the son went out and hid in the grass, Li Chang said to his wife when he came back: "My son lied to you, he did not leave, he will come back." When he came back, you told him that you were an adult and didn't need me to raise and take care of you, and that I was concentrating on practicing Taoism and would never see him again. Li Chang went after confessing to his wife. After a while, the son did return again, and his wife relayed Li Changzai's words to him. The son knew that he would never see his father again, so he cried and left. More than seventy years later, Li Changzai ran away from home again. His disciples saw him living under Hushou Mountain and married him again. The local father and son have seen him for generations and always do not grow old. So call him Li Changzai.