Chapter 149 The inheritance is broken
"Little brother, can you even guess what I'm going to do?"

Zou Tianshi narrowed his eyes and looked at Zhang Yang, with an interested expression on his face:
"I see that you are a person with great fortune. Have you ever considered embarking on the path of cultivation?"

"Hmm? Practice?"

Zhang Yang turned his head and looked at the old Taoist priest with some confusion:
"Since when did you Taoists imitate monks and persuade others to practice? Don't Taoists only care about their own enlightenment and never care about others?"

"The Tao you cultivate is not pure, right?"

When the young Taoist heard this, he became anxious and quickly explained:

"Don't get me wrong, brother. Uncle Master just wants to receive 5,000 yuan as a gift from you."

"Five thousand dollars? It's really not pure."

If it is pure, it should be 4999. Any price that does not end with 999 seems insincere and like a scam.

"Actually, there is a way that doesn't charge money. I can lead you on the path of cultivation for free."

Zou Tianshi raised his eyebrows at Zhang Yang in a somewhat obscene manner:

"As long as you, the boss, carve a Heavenly Master Seal for me for free."

"I didn't intend to charge any money." Zhang Yang shrugged and said with a smile.

For such a hardcore job as adjusting Feng Shui, the old Taoist only charges people three thousand, and it's obvious that he is not a rich man.

Three thousand yuan, including the labor cost, is only enough for Zhang Yang to carve one word.

For the sake of Grandpa Lu, I'll just charge the Taoist priest for the materials.

When Grandpa Lu behind him heard this, he looked at Zhang Yang's back with light in his eyes.

Zhang Yang, he is so serious, it makes me cry.

When the old Taoist heard Zhang Yang say that he would not charge for the seal engraving and would only charge the cost price of the raw material, the look in his eyes immediately changed.

The white jade seal with a dragon knob instantly lost its appeal to him.

"Do you have any gold-plated jade seal blanks? Bring me one, the kind with nine dragons on the button on the back."

The old Taoist stretched out his hand and gestured. It didn't feel like he was talking about the Heavenly Master's Seal, but rather the Jade Seal.

"This... I have it." Grandpa Lu puffed out his chest proudly and asked enthusiastically:

"Are there eight characters engraved below: Received the mandate from heaven, may you live forever and prosper?"

"Ah?" The old Taoist priest was shocked. "That one you're talking about seems to be the imperial seal of Qin Shi Huang, right? Do you have the imperial seal in your hand?"

The question asked by Zou Tianshi made Zhang Yang almost think that his grandfather had found a soulmate again.

But if you look closely at the expression on the old Taoist's face, he really doesn't seem to understand the joke.

I guess I didn't watch enough Douyin on the mountain, so I didn't see the treasure appraisal video.

"Not only that, he also has the magic whip and the magic mirror!" Zhang Yang said in an exaggerated tone, "Grandpa, how much did you pay for the Mona Lisa you mentioned last time?"

"Uh..." Grandpa touched his nose awkwardly: "I may have made a mistake, you guys continue, leave me alone."

The old Taoist priest finally understood:

It turns out that Professor Lu's imperial seal is a fake! It turns out that my expression was wasted.

There is a feeling of being amused.

He quickly changed the subject: "Boss Zhang, do you have the seal I just mentioned?"

"You can have this."

"The question is, what do you want to do?" Zhang Yang asked with a smile.

The white jade seal with a dragon button is very similar to the "Yangping Zhidu Gong Seal" from the Yuan Dynasty in the museum.

So when the old Taoist priest said that, Zhang Yang probably guessed what he was going to do.

In fact, there are many Tianshi seals in the lineage of Zhang Tianshi with the same inscriptions.

From the Song Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, more than a dozen emperors issued the Heavenly Master Seal to the Heavenly Master of Longhu Mountain at that time, which was considered an official certificate of commanding Taoism in the world.

The Yuan Dynasty white jade seal with a dragon button in the museum is the best among them. So it is definitely not like the jade seal.

Zhang Yang felt that the old Taoist priest might be messing up his job.

"What can it do? It's just for stamping people's stamps."

"You don't really think that a seal can command a hundred gods, protect you from evil, and cure a hundred diseases, do you?"

"It's mainly because some people who know a little bit about Taoism think that if the talisman is not stamped with the Heavenly Master's Seal, it is useless. Otherwise, who would want this thing?"

Master Zou Tianshi said it very bluntly, but Taoists have no taboos, so it's not surprising.

"Hasn't there been such a thing in your temple before?" Zhang Yang asked doubtfully.

"Yes, but I don't have one myself."

"So, it's very inconvenient for me to work outside. Especially when I work for those rich people, they need the Heavenly Master's seal on everything, and sometimes they even have to send it back for stamping."

"Uncle Master, aren't you faking it?"

The young Taoist priest beside him was very shocked and asked:
"Isn't it a lie to use a fake Heavenly Master seal to stamp someone's name?"

"Little nephew, I'm afraid you don't know, so I'm telling you, the one in our temple is also fake."

Zou Tianshi said while laughing:
"In 06, I spent 300 yuan to have it custom-made, but it has been used for a long time and now looks like an antique."

"You were still young before, so I kept it a secret from you and asked you to keep the seal. Now you are 15 years old, it's time for you to grow up."

Boom——

Zhang Yang seemed to hear a muffled thunder coming from above the little Taoist's head.

The young Taoist priest seemed to have been struck by lightning. He stood there blankly, his Taoist faith shaky.

"Master Zou, is it really okay for you to be like this?" Zhang Yang reminded gently.

"Someone has to tell him this sooner or later, who else but me? Besides, it's not a secret, and we're all outsiders, so it's okay to let it out."

The old Taoist priest got a little excited and started telling stories to everyone.

Let’s go back to 75 years ago. The 63rd Heavenly Master of Longhu Mountain ran away like a dog.

Before leaving, he not only took away the gold, silver and treasures, but also brought the Heavenly Master Seal that he often used to the island.

This is also the reason why the outside world believes that the Longhushan inheritance has been broken.

Of course, he didn't take all of them away, because there were so many Heavenly Master seals preserved from various dynasties, but those he left behind are now in museums.

So now on Longhu Mountain, there is actually not a single old Heavenly Master Seal.

"When you go out, you have to give your face yourself. They are all seals anyway, so it's okay for me to use the jade seal, right?" the old Taoist said confidently.

His statement was unanimously agreed by everyone.

Zhang Yang also thought it made sense.

The talisman paper and the imperial edict are both yellow, and it makes sense to stamp them with the same seal.

The only one who disagreed was the young Taoist priest. He still insisted on saving the reputation of his family's Taoist temple and said to Zhang Yang in an almost pleading tone:

"Boss Zhang, please don't give my uncle the jade seal. If someone finds out it's a fake, our reputation will be ruined."

"Hey, nephew." Zou Tianshi interrupted, "Fame is like a floating cloud, it is just an external thing. The most important thing for us is to make money and make ourselves happy."

"You are happy now, but what about my future? You have blocked my way to go down the mountain to make money!"

"That makes sense!" Zhang Yang psychologically stood on the side of the young Taoist priest, but the one who would do the work later would be the old Taoist priest.

While he was struggling, Grandpa Lu came up with a cell phone in his hand.

"Stop arguing and just listen to me."

Grandpa pointed at his phone and showed it to Zhang Yang:

"Let's go with the official version: seven fen thick, two and a half inches long, made of jade, with a golden dragon button."

(End of this chapter)