Chapter 11: Apprenticeship

It's easy to apprentice, and when I talk to Village Chief Chen, Village Chief Chen is also happy, and he gets a table of dishes, and pours two taels of soju to count it as an apprenticeship banquet. But it's not easy to learn things, it's completely different from what my grandfather wanted to draw talismans and meditate at the beginning, the first thing is to train the body.

Grandpa was a scholar, so he didn't go to the ground much, but great-uncle was not used to him. After becoming a master, the next day, he personally tied two ten-pound sandbags and hung them on his two legs.

Originally, Village Chief Chen took care of him and only let him teach the children. But after apprenticeship, he rushed to the cemetery every once in a while to practice his courage, and he had to go to the team to arrange farm work for his great-uncle.

In a month, the young men from this city lost eight pounds.

Farm work and teaching, at the end of the day, I don't have to rest when I get home. Uncle Zeng arranged the morning and evening classes, smoked a cigarette, and waited for him to come back from the field.

One is the golden light mantra that must be memorized in the morning, and the other is the "Staying Land Stargazing Method" with all kinds of messy illustrations. If you doze off with your back, you will be hit on the back of your head with a smoke pot in the cold.

Grandpa studied for a few months only felt that he had suffered the sins of several lifetimes, and the sharpness and curiosity at the beginning were completely polished, and when he complained to Uncle Zeng, Uncle Zeng said very seriously: "Learn the Tao, either don't touch it, or learn it well!" This kind of thing can't be sloppy, let alone vague, sloppy is to lose the name of the grandfather, vague to lose your own life. ”

In the words of Uncle Zeng, once you step into this path, even if you don't look for something, things will come to someone.

In fact, as Uncle Zeng said, in the third month when his grandfather began to formally learn the Tao, Uncle Zeng began to teach him some mental techniques.

It was also at that time, after the incident of the snake spirit, the yellow coat, which had not been seen for more than half a year, came to grandpa's dream again.

Grandpa worked during the day with a twenty-pound sandbag, and at night he had to recite spells and memorize books, and as soon as his head touched the pillow, he fell asleep in the dark.

But this day's dream was extraordinarily lucid, and the grandfather himself could feel it, and in the dream he sat up, and there was a table of food outside, and the yellow coat sat at the table and beckoned him over.

Grandpa also knew that he was dreaming, but his body was out of control, and it was not until he sat down at the table and picked up the wine glass that he felt that he had regained some mobility.

"Dazhu, yes, I can already control my ghost. The yellow coat was draped in pigtails, and the eyes were very slender, "Your uncle is right, you are indeed that piece of material." ”

Grandpa looked at the dazzling array of food on the table, big pig's trotters, yellow croaker, roast chicken, roast duck, and other foods that he had never heard of were full of food on the table, and he was so hungry that worms came straight to his mouth.

But since he can control his body, he naturally has something to say: "Don't call it so close, you are a great immortal, and I am a mortal." We don't know each other that well, my uncle asked me to recognize you as my godfather, but I didn't agree!"

Grandpa was so angry, mainly because of what happened to Shuxin before.

The yellow jacket was not angry when he heard this, and while asking his grandfather to eat more, he said: "I also know that you are not convinced, but have you thought about it? Is the long worm easy to deal with, even if it is a few days, you and those people in Baisha Village can keep it?"

The yellow coat continued, "But your uncle is different, he has the way and the ability. He doesn't want to get involved in that cause and effect, and I know it, but in these ten villages and eight townships, your uncle is the only one who has the ability, if he doesn't make a move, who will?"

Grandpa was stunned by his words, as if this yellow jacket also had its own difficulties.

"But you shouldn't change your mind until the end of the day. Grandpa said.

Huang Matsu smiled: "I can only force him out when the matter is coming, and if I don't force him out, will you worship him as a master? ”

"Thank you?" Grandpa was even more stunned.

The yellow coat said: "The secret of heaven cannot be revealed, you will know tomorrow." This glass of wine, you drink it is good for you. ”

Huang Jacket's words made Grandpa misty, and he wanted to believe him, a little uneasy. If you don't believe him, it doesn't seem to hurt you for a reason, and after thinking about it, grandpa still drank that glass of wine.

After a glass of wine, I only felt that my stomach was warm and my head was still a little dizzy. As soon as I thought about why the wine was so strong, I rolled my eyes and fell asleep.

When he opened his eyes again, he got up from the bed and saw several people beside the bed, Village Chief Chen, his son Chen Qing, the old doctor in the next village, and even Fu Lijuan, who had not been seen for many days.

"What's wrong with me?" Grandpa sat up with his still somewhat drowsy head, and Fu Lijuan, who was close, helped him, I don't know if it was an illusion, Fu Lijuan's fingers were as cold as ice cubes.

"Dazhu, you've slept for a day and a night. I can't wake up when I scream, my uncle didn't have a problem, so I went to the next village and invited the old doctor to come and show you. Village Chief Chen said, "Comrade Xiaofu happened to be there, and I heard that you were sick, so I came here together." ”

One day and one night?

Grandpa was startled when he heard this, no wonder he felt that his whole body was stiff everywhere! In his dream, he drank wine with the yellow coat for a while, and in reality it had been a day and a night.

Seeing that Grandpa woke up, the others dispersed. Grandpa thanked the old doctor, and then chatted with Fu Lijuan, who came over on purpose, and they hadn't seen each other much since the snake spirit.

When asked, Fu Lijuan said that she was about to go back to the city. Country life has lost its appeal to the little city girl, and she mentions that she has a sweetheart and wants to bring it back to her parents.

Grandpa felt a little bitter in his heart, but he didn't care about it on his face.

Fu Lijuan and the old doctor went back to the village together, and when the grandfather went to the kitchen to find two steamed buns to eat, Chen Qing, the youngest son of the village chief, cautiously walked over and said, "Brother Dazhu, there is a strange person next to that beautiful sister." ”

"What a strange man, that's an old doctor from a neighboring village, surnamed Ma. Grandpa said vaguely as he ate the bun.

Chen Qing shook his head vigorously and said, "No, I know Doctor Ma." There is another person next to the beautiful sister, and half of her face is rotten. ”

"Poof!"

Chen Qing's words made his grandfather's half-chewed steamed bun spray directly out, and he hurriedly asked, "Aren't you dazzling?" Aqing, you can't talk nonsense. ”

Chen Qing is only seven years old, frail and sickly since childhood, but a sincere child. After repeatedly reassuring that he was not lying, Grandpa did not doubt him anymore.

Uncle Zeng once said that the child's eyes are clean, and Ah Qing's body is weak and yin, so he may not be able to see anything unclean.

Grandpa thought about it before and after, and hurried to find Uncle Zeng. Uncle Zeng fed grass to the big yellow cow fairly, and when he saw him coming, he smiled and said, "Have you talked to your godfather?"

"I drank a glass of wine, fainted for a day and a night, damn it..."Grandpa took a breath, and he didn't wonder how Uncle Zeng knew, so he quickly repeated Chen Qing's words to Uncle Zeng.

When Uncle Zeng heard this, his expression became a little more serious and said: "Ah Qing, this kid I know, his life is three yin and one yang, a typical rush to life. People with this kind of personality have some outstanding features, before your kid came, I thought about waiting for him to be older and accept him as an apprentice. Since he said that he saw something, he should have seen it. ”

"Uncle, what could that be? Follow Fu Lijuan. Grandpa asked hurriedly.

Uncle Zeng took a puff of dry tobacco and said, "I haven't seen it again, where do you know where to go?" But why are you so concerned about her, and you look down on others?"

"Uncle, I'm serious with you!"

", it's serious. You are a lone seedling of the Lao Lin family, why is your business not serious?" Uncle Zeng said, stretched the smoke pot under the eyes of the scalper, and was smoked by the smoke, the big scalper screamed twice, and was stunned to smoke a few tears.

Uncle Zeng quickly took out a small vial (the thumb-sized kind), filled it with cow tears, and handed it to Grandpa.

"Take it, and if you're worried, take a look. Uncle Zeng took a puff of cigarette and explained, "Don't act rashly regardless of what you see." ”