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When Simingjun was young, he and Tang Yuangui were classmates. Yuangui said that the Family of Sizhengjun had believed in Taoism for generations, and they had to offer incense and candles in the morning and evening, and recite “Gaosang Sutra of Disaster Elimination” and “Laojun Pillow Sutra”, and there were often auspicious and strange sights, such as strange incense and clouds often appearing in the courtyard. His mother conceived and gave birth to Sichun because she dreamed that the sky was filled with immortals more than one zhang high, and a golden yellow light shone on her. The Sizi Jun was born with his eyes open and his mouth open, and his face looked like a smile. Since he was a child, he was intelligent and enlightened, reading poetry and books, and Yuan Cui was no match for him. When he was fifteen or sixteen years old, he suddenly went to nowhere, probably to travel around the world to find a teacher to visit the Tao. I don’t know who his master was, but he got the secret of becoming an immortal and attaining Taoism.

In the second year of Baoying, Yuan Cui became the royal historian and the interviewer of Henan Province. He saw him in ragged clothes and haggard appearance. Tang Yuangui deeply pitied him and talked with him and asked him what he had learned. He said that after we had parted, he was only cultivating his true nature. He invited Yuan Cui to visit his Home and left his attendants waiting in the inn. Sikyong and Yuan Cui went to Sikyong’s house together. He led Yuan Cui to the downtown side of the city to a home with a low and small doorway. There were still one or two attendants following them. Just as the two walked through the door, the outer door closed and the attendants could not enter. The second door was slightly wider. Another door led to a large house with a large court. The Commander asked Yuan Cui to wait outside the door first, he went to prepare a seat first, and came out to meet Yuan Cui only after a long Time. Yuan Cui found that the Lord of the Order was glowing, only about twenty years old, with a crown of clouds and a coat of haze, and 30 to 50 jade girls on his left and right, all of whom were not from this world. Yuan Cui did not know what was going on. The banquet was so beautiful and exotic that even the banquet of The Emperor‘s family could not be compared. After the meal, they began to drink wine. Sitting with his wife, Simeon said, “I can’t let Yuan Cui sit alone.” So he summoned someone to sit beside Yuan Cui. When Yuan Cui looked at him, he saw that it was his wife. So they played Music and drank freely, and after they got drunk, they went their separate ways, but it was too late to talk about their old feelings. When he said goodbye, he gave Yuan Cui a Gold ruler and a jade whip. After walking a few miles out of the door, Yuan Cui sent someone to visit the place where he had gone, but there was no trace of the place. When he returned to the capital, he asked his wife if she had ever encountered anything unusual. His wife said, “One day I was drowsy and trying to sleep when a man in black came and said that the Lord of Fortune had summoned me, so I followed him. When I arrived at the palace of the Lord of Fate, I saw him and you drinking together.” What she saw was no different from what Yuan Cui saw, so it was indeed true.

Ten years later, Yuan Cui was ordered to go on a mission to Jiangling, and when his ship was passing Jiangxi, he stopped at the shore and saw Simingjun on the shore. He was invited into a grass hall and came to the fairyland again, where he was left to drink and dine, with slightly more music guards than before, none of whom was an old friend. When the banquet was over, Simeon presented Tang Yuangui with a drinking vessel. The texture of the drinking vessel is like jade, not jade. He also did not say the name of the drinking vessel. From then on, we never saw each other again, and we didn’t know what kind of things he was in charge of, what kind of Tao he was practicing, and how high his taste was in the immortal world.

One day, a Hu merchant went to Yuan Cui’s residence in Dongdu and said to him, “There is the weather of strange treasures in your mansion, please let me see it.” Yuan Cui showed the things in his house to the Hu merchant, and all of them were not. Then he showed him the drinking vessel given to him by the king. He held the drinking vessel and kowtowed, saying, “This is the emperor’s precious duke of Liuhua! If you put it under the daylight, it will be white; if you put it on the jade plate, it will be red and shining.” Hu Shang and Yuan Cui immediately put the drinking vessel under the daylight to test. Only to see the white gas like clouds, steaming up, and the sky together. Day and night alternately tested, moreover, this is indeed the emperor’s flow of China treasure knight. Hu Shang also said: “This treasure is one of the twenty-four treasures of the town of China in the northwest library of Tai Shang. Twenty-four treasures have descended back to earth in recent years. This drinking vessel is the twenty-second treasure, will not stay on earth for a long time, soon should fly back. The person who gets this treasure will be blessed by it for seven generations. Be sure to respect it!” Later Yuan Cui held it on a jade plate, and when he looked at it at night, the room was full of red light.

(Source: Taiping Guangji)