My Taoist Career

My dad lit a cigarette, as if he was consoling my mother or himself: "Let's leave when you are 15 years old. 15 years old is not a lot. Boys should be independent. When I was 13 years old, I would leave." I just help other people with the road (work), and besides, it’s not interesting for a boy to stay in front of his parents. You see, the eldest son of the old man He in the next village has a great future. Didn't my son leave home to study early? I don't have time to come back often now. I think it's okay, Sanbaer, just obediently become Master Jiang's apprentice."

Want to live in this village with your son until the age of 15?In the future, it’s just that I can’t always serve my parents. My mother felt a little comforted after hearing these words. She agrees with my father’s point of view. Although she doesn’t understand how a Taoist priest can have a great future, Master Jiang is capable. People are not fake.

"Well, since Master Jiang said this, I can rest assured. You know, the child will leave me when he is young. My heart really hurts more than cutting flesh. Sanwaer, in the future, Master Jiang It's your master, even if you don't listen to your parents, you still have to listen to your master and learn your skills well." My mother also comforted me softly.

Anyway, to say it all, being an apprentice to old man Jiang is a matter of iron nails. It can be said that Red Army soldiers also have to be heroic. , because it is too far away, I don't feel anything.

"Bitch." My dad couldn't help hitting me when he saw me pretending to be old-fashioned, but no matter what, the thorn in his heart and my mother's heart was finally pulled out.

"The matter of Sanwa'er joining our lineage will be discussed in a few days. It is indispensable to choose an auspicious day. Right now, we still need to solve the second sister's matter first. Tomorrow Sanwa'er will go to the countryside with me. Since After being a teacher, I have to learn a lot, but I still have one thing to do now." Old man Jiang said simply.

My mother was terrified when she heard that I was going to work with old man Jiang tomorrow, but she didn't dare to disturb old man Jiang's business. Under the repeated orders of old man Jiang, she brought some things for old man Jiang .

Old man Jiang was busy with these things in the yard. As for me, as his apprentice, I had to watch him. In the past, if I dared to go to bed so late, my father would beat me to death, but today I was surrounded by my master. , my parents had to let me go.

Gradually, I could see what old man Jiang was going to do, he was making a lantern!

I have to admit that the old man Jiang has quite dexterous hands. A lantern is very delicately made, but the style is a bit special. It is the kind of long white lantern, which seems to be the kind that is hung in front of the coffin.

After making the lantern, old man Jiang looked it over carefully, and then satisfactorily picked up the cinnabar pen to write and draw on the lantern. I couldn't help being curious, so I asked: "Old...Master , why are you making a lantern? Is it for me to play with?"

"You want to play with this? Since you like soul-inducing lamps, then take them." Old man Jiang chuckled, and was about to put the lantern in my hand. , I'm crazy to play this.

"Master, what is this for?" After keeping a proper safe distance, I still couldn't help being curious.

"This is for your second sister to attract the soul. Your second sister has lost her soul and four souls, and she has lost it for a few days. I don't need the soul lamp. I'm afraid I won't be able to attract it back, and I have stayed in the wilderness for a long time. I'm afraid it's weak, with a soul-guiding lamp leading the way ahead, your second sister's living soul will be much easier on the way back." Jiang old man explained to me, while carefully drawing with cinnabar on the soul-guiding lamp, And the things he drew are simply ghostly symbols in my eyes, and I can't figure out what they are at all.

"Would you like to ask me if what I painted is?" Jiang old man turned his head and asked me, as if it was a very happy thing for him that I had a desire to learn from him.

Seeing the old man Jiang ask me, I nodded hurriedly. I was actually very curious, why writing and drawing some things endowed them with magical effects.

"The light seen by ghosts is different from that of us humans. It doesn't mean that ghosts can see people holding a bright lantern. What I drew here is a transformation rune, which is to transform the sun fire into the energy of ghosts. I saw Yinhuo. Besides these runes, some lamp oil also has this function, but your family can’t get it out.” Old man Jiang explained in detail, and I felt more and more that old man Jiang’s ability was too mysterious .

After drawing the lantern, old man Jiang kicked my ass and said, "Go to bed soon, and go to work in the countryside with me tomorrow."

I was not angry with old man Jiang at all, and went to bed very happily. I will go to the countryside with him tomorrow, which means that I don’t have to go to school tomorrow. Also a nice thing.

I got up early the next morning. Children are always inexplicably curious about unknown things, and their fears are much less.

This is why I was haunted by a hundred ghosts that day, but I was only weak and did not lose my soul. It was because I was still young, and except for some very special things, I had no fear of anything.

If there is no fear, the mind is calm and the aura is upright, those lonely and wild ghosts will have nothing to do with me for a while.

The situation of the second sister is different. She is very afraid of the female ghost, so she was squeezed out of her soul, and she is fighting with her will. Therefore, there is a certain reason for her soul to lose her soul when she is frightened. The fear of fear will make the soul unstable, and it is also possible to simply understand it as wanting to escape.

Gossip less, I got up excitedly, only to find that old man Jiang was in the yard a long time ago, and he was practicing boxing at this moment. I was practicing in the yard, and my mind couldn't help being attracted.

After playing for a while, the old man Jiang opened his eyes and saw me at the same time. He was not surprised, wiped off his sweat and said, "I just did Tai Chi, is it pretty?"

"Well, it just looks limp and weak."

"Hehe, Tai Chi pays attention to the combination of rigidity and softness, and the pause between fists and feet is even more learned. It is impossible to know whether you can do Tai Chi well once in your whole life. What do you know?" Jiang old man I'm not annoyed, what are you fussing about with a kid who doesn't know anything?

After breakfast, old man Jiang took me to set off. When I met curious people in the village, old man Jiang always answered that I was already his godson. As for the reason, he asked them to ask my parents.

After all, I want to stay here until I'm 15 years old. It's impossible not to set up a name, but the old man Jiang didn't even bother to think of a reason, so he pushed all the words to my innocent parents and let them satisfy the needs of the villagers. curiosity.

The mountain village in October is often shrouded in dense fog in the morning, but when old man Jiang and I walked to the field, the dense fog had completely dispersed. Old man Jiang, who was a big girl who walked by occasionally, finally looked at me for the first time.

He said quite seriously: "Sanbaer, I know that the ghost came because of you, but I don't know the detailed process. Now you want to take me to the place where you first bumped into the ghost, and then you must make sure that night happened." Tell me everything about it.”

Seeing that old man Jiang was so serious, I dared not be negligent, and hurriedly told old man Jiang everything that happened that night, including the dream I had.

After listening to my story, the old man Jiang gave a few surprises, then pulled me over, pulled off my collar, and carefully looked at the back of my head.

In fact, I have always known that I have a birthmark on the back of my head, which is blood red and looks like an eye, but as I grow up, this birthmark has gradually faded, and now I am afraid there is only a circle of shadows left. ?

"*** baby, you actually opened your eyes in a daze. This kind of spiritual perception is rare." Speaking of this, old man Jiang couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

I looked at old man Jiang very confusedly, but this time, old man Jiang didn't seem to want to explain to me, but let me take it with me, and went straight to the cemetery.

Relying on my vague memory, I took old man Jiang around to find the place where the accident happened that night, but it was too late that day, and I was walking around casually, so I searched for a while before I found it. up.

After seeing the familiar bamboo forest and the cemetery not far from the bamboo forest again, even though it was broad daylight, my heart felt cold.

"Sanbaer, listen up. In your heart now, you may regard this as an ordinary scene, and treat it normally. Or you may be pitiful and sympathetic, and sincerely sympathize with the desolation after death, or you may memorize the text you have learned and concentrate on it." Back. Just don’t show a little timidity, even if the land falls and the ground cracks, you just take it easy.” Seeing my timid look, Jiang old man couldn’t help telling me very seriously.

But at this time, I was extremely sensitive, and I couldn't help but grabbed the corner of old man Jiang's clothes, and for the first time, I shouted very sincerely: "Master, is there any danger? You want to tell me like this?"

"What's the danger? I'm telling you this to remind you that under no circumstances should you be easily timid, and you must keep your sanity, understand?" Old man Jiang explained to me, then He took my hand and walked straight towards the bamboo forest.

Because it was too late that night, I didn't see it clearly. When I looked at it today, I realized that the bamboo forest I entered that day was a gentle slope, and the cemetery was under the gentle slope, and there was also a bamboo forest on the other side of the cemetery. In the back is a steep small cliff, and there is only a road in the front that can lead directly to this cemetery.

There are no fields around the cemetery. I was on the edge of the bamboo forest that day, just next to the road leading to the cemetery. My dad and the others found me on that road. If I walked through the bamboo forest.

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but covered my forehead with cold sweat, but when I thought of the old man Jiang's impatience, I quickly diverted my attention and memorized the text desperately. Under the full concentration, I gradually calmed down down.