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杜昇

杜昇

杜昇

杜昇,字可雲,自言京兆杜陵人也。莫測其年壽。不食,常飲酒三斗不醉。顔甚悅澤,若三十許人。裏方巾破幞頭,冬則常着緑布衫。而言談甚高,有文學。人或有换新布衫,必受之,舊者堅不脱,新者出門逢人便與之,常遊城市間,醉行。能沙書,好於水椀及盆中以沙書龍字,浮而左右轉。或叱之飛起,高丈餘,隱隱若雲霧,作小龍形。呼之,復下水中。頃刻之間,得錢甚多,便散與貧人及酒家。如此,到處日日爲之,人皆不厭,無錢與之。人疑以術惑於衆也。冬則卧於雪中三兩日,人以爲僵斃矣。或撥看之,徐起抖擻雪而行,猶醉酣而醒爾,氣出如夏,醉睡醒也。杜孺休,邠國公琮之子,爲蘇州牧,忽聞可雲在城市,極喜,乃延入州拜之,呼爲道翁。賔客寮屬皆訝之。孺休曰:先君出鎮西川日,與此道翁深相善,常來去書齋中。時孺休纔十餘歲,今五十餘,别道翁四十年,而裝飾顔貌,一如常時。遂留之郡齋,咨以道術。可雲曰:但以政化及人,慈愛爲意。況今多事,由在保身,未能脱屣塵世,委家林野,宜遠於兵傷。道術詎可問也?時入郡中,則孺休必以錢帛與之,阻讓不可,出城便散與人。孺休敬之愈甚。可雲或與孺休賔寮聚飲,有唱和者,而可雲出口成章,意思深遠,多神仙㫖趣,人無以繼之。後軍亂,孺休果爲兵傷而斃。可雲人見亦被傷,但有舊布衫一領,作三四段破痕在地。後數日,人多見過松江、浙江,經杭,越衢,信,入江西巿中,醉吟沙書如舊。又一年,人於湖南見之,問蘇州事,歷歷話如目擊。復笑而言曰:吾曾居南嶽,今在人世己乆,即當歸矣。其後更不復見。詳其由,是得隱形解化之道,世人莫可知也。

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