Chapter 123: Apprenticeship, Inheritance
I pointed to myself, "I'm a teacher?"
He saw my boss's reluctance, and hurriedly waved his hand, "Don't worry, let me finish speaking, you will be my disciple after worshipping the master, and you can participate in the Xuandu Conference held by the Daomen." ”
"Don't you have an apprentice, why do you have to ask me to apprentice?"
The old man sighed, "It's also my fault, I'm usually too arrogant, I accepted a total of three apprentices, and one died, and now the requirement to participate in this conference must be three disciples, where can I find a talented and intelligent person for a while, even if I find it, I can't teach it in two months!"
"Isn't it okay not to participate? This kind of conference, when you hear it, is the kind of fame and reputation, so it's better not to participate. ”
The old man smiled bitterly, "It's okay to say whatever you want, but I'm a sect here, this conference is a grand event for the Daomen in thirty years, if you don't participate, then other Daomen will think that you are a side door and left Dao, then this sect can't get the recognition of your peers, do you think you can still persevere?"
"There are three people even the master and the apprentice, what is the point of persisting in this kind of sect? In my opinion, ......
His face turned cold and he stood up, "Do you still want to save that friend of yours?"
I pondered it carefully, "Okay! You won, I worship you as a teacher, but you can speak, verbally master and apprentice, when others ask me, I also admit that I am your apprentice, and you don't have to think about anything else." ”
"No, you must also know my spells, otherwise they won't believe it, if you want, I'll set up a disciple wine for you now. ”
I thought about it for a long time, "Okay, but I said in advance, it's okay to apprentice, don't kowtow." ”
The old man was stunned, "How can you be considered an apprentice if you don't kowtow......?"
"Yes, yes, yes, whether you accept it or not, as if I am in a hurry to beg you, you will, I don't believe that others won't, and I will look for those old Taoists in Wudang Mountain for a while, and I won't believe it." ”
The old man had a smug look on his face, "Don't say it, they really don't know." ”
"They don't, they always know someone who will, right? They owe me a big favor, and when I bring it up, I don't believe they don't agree. ”
The old man and I bargained for a long time like a deal, and finally we didn't have to kowtow.
"Any other requests? I'll call someone if it's gone. ”
"What's it called?"
"For the apprenticeship ceremony, there must be other sects as witnesses, so that when you go to other places in the future, as soon as you sign up, people will know that you are a member of the same sect, and it will not be too difficult for you. ”
"One more thing, what's your name? You can't just call Master as soon as you come up, right?"
The old man's face was full of black lines, "You don't know what my name is, my name is Shuhai, but after the apprenticeship is over, you have to call me Master, not Daimyo." ”
The ceremony was held in a small meeting hall on the second floor, and on the wall at the front of the hall hung a picture of a white-haired old man in a Taoist robe, holding floating dust in one hand and pinching a beard that was not long in the other. In front of the portrait is an offering table, on which are placed three plates of fruits, incense burners, and treasure candles.
"This is our ancestor, Lingfa Dao Venerable, our sect is called Xianxia Sect, and our cultivation is Tai Chi Qiankun Dao, and our main business is to hunt ghosts. ”
"So you have a side hustle, what else are you doing?"
"Occasionally, I will help people do some Dharma things, and I will teach you the heart mantra later. ”
While we were chatting, the waiter led three or four old men up, all in suits and leather shoes, with red faces, not like cultivators, but like excellent private entrepreneurs.
Shuhai greeted him, "You old guys, you're coming very quickly! I just called, and you came." ”
One of the thinnest old men held his hand, "Coincidentally, when you called me, I had just gotten off the train and came by taxi when I heard the letter." ”
"Congratulations, congratulations! Where did you find such an apprentice?"
The one who spoke was the fattest one in it, with a face full of flesh and gray hair, which made people uncomfortable to look at.
Shuhai clasped his hands into fists and looked at me, "Tianyu, why don't you say hello to a few Dao Masters?"
Because there are words first, no matter how unpleasant it is, I have to walk up to a few people with a smile on my face, "Hello Dao elders, my name is Zhang Tianyu, I have just entered the Daomen, and I ask you to give me more advice to the juniors." ”
"This little guy is very polite! Let's get started!"
He waved his hand, "Because I'm afraid that you won't be able to come for a while, my little apprentice still has important things to do, so I have already finished the apprenticeship ceremony, and I invite you to come today to be a witness." ”
Several old men looked at each other, and the oldest one just now took out a small mirror from his jacket pocket, "I left in a hurry this time and didn't prepare, this mirror is a treasure I got from my adventures when I was a teenager, and I have been with me for more than 30 years, and I will give it to my nephew today as a meeting gift." ”
"I haven't thanked Ma Dao Chief. ”
I took the mirror, "Thank you, Chief Ma." ”
The old men also took out the prepared greeting gifts, which seemed to be a custom, just like giving money for marriage.
After sending those old men, I officially became Shuhai's apprentice.
I was playing with these gifts, and when Jukai came back, I reached out to take them, but I quickly stopped, "What are you doing? This is a gift they gave me." ”
"This is a formality, when they invited me to the apprenticeship meeting, I didn't give a lot of gifts, and I can't go to the recycling point today?"
"Since you can get so many treasures by accepting apprentices, then they must be accepting apprentices everywhere, right?"
"You just came in this line, you don't understand, the disciples who enter the room are not accepted casually, and the disciples who close the door can't be accepted casually. As soon as people come up, they can see if you are a person in the Daomen, if you find an ordinary person as an apprentice on the street, others will turn around and leave, and they will laugh at you. ”
"It means that ordinary people can't enter the Tao?"
"Yes, but it's not a disciple of the personal lineage, and you are not qualified to learn the secret books of the Supreme Heart Law and various spells of this sect, and you can say that you are a disciple of this sect to the outside world, but people who have really entered the Tao do not buy this kind of disciple. ”
"No wonder Xiao Jie released the big demon king and no one bothered him. ”
Shuhai Khan immediately came down and wanted to come over to cover my mouth, but he still didn't move, "Little ancestor, don't talk nonsense, this matter is rotten in the stomach, do you know how hard it took to scrape the teacher to suppress this matter?"
I took out all the greeting gifts just now, "I like this pocket more, you can put away the rest!"
"You really have an eye, the things in this are the most precious in this bag. ”
I remember that this bag was given by the fat man I didn't like very much, "I look at the embroidery on this bag and I'm going to give it to my girlfriend, what kind of treasure can it be?"
Shuhai patted his head, "This Qiankun bag can hold more than ten tons of things, it is still as big as it is now, and it is not tired to hold it, and it can not only hold things, but people can also collect it, and monsters can also collect it." ”
"Such a powerful baby, how can he give it to me?"
"That guy has a big business, which may be a treasure for us, for him, it's the same thing as buying something on the street and giving him a plastic bag. ”
"Good guy, I just said that it was a baby, and if you describe it like this, it will be a tattered. ”
Shuhai was a little unhappy, "Don't get old to you, yours, you have to call Master." ”
"Okay, Master, do you have any other orders? Tell me what to prepare first, my friend's affairs are more anxious. ”
"What's the use of being anxious?
"Male. ”
"If you are a man, you can only find someone who is the same as him, but it must be a woman to hold his soul. You should go back and ask him about the Bazi first! After asking clearly, go to the hospital and look for those who are dying, and then call me to inform them. ”
I walked out of the teahouse, walked out of the pedestrian street and immediately took a taxi to my home.
When I entered the door, a cat and a dog were watching TV, and the dog was telling the cat about the plot on TV.
"You two are so idle, Jiawang, I have something to look for you. ”
Saying that, I sat down on the sofa, and Jia Wang jumped next to me, "Now I ask you, are you willing to be a human being?"
The dog's eyes lit up instantly, "Do you have a way?"
"There are ways, but can you accept the fact that you will become a woman in the future?"
"As long as you can be a person again, let alone a woman, you can become a eunuch. ”
"There is another thing, after becoming a person, I want you to be the general manager of the chestnut company, do you agree?"
"I just have a job as a person, that's too agreeable. ”
I asked Jiawang's birthday, picked up the phone and called Zuolun.
"Hello, I'm Zhang Tianyu, I have something to trouble you. It's not that exaggerated this time, you can help me check if there are any women with the second birthday of the tenth lunar month, the kind that just died. I don't do anything, it's a bit of a big deal. ”
After the call, I got up and went to the refrigerator to see if there was anything to eat, it was empty, and there was little cat food and ham.
"I'll go to the supermarket and buy you something to eat. ”
As soon as I opened the door, Xiaoyu suddenly appeared, threw herself into my arms, kissed me passionately, and said while kissing, "Tianyu, did you miss me?"
"You dead girl, you said you were going back, and the phone couldn't get through, do you know how anxious I am?" I picked her up, closed the door, and opened the door on the other side, which had been inhabited for a long time, and it was quite gray.
Xiaoyu put her arms around my neck, "It's not like I'm coming to you as soon as I'm free." ”
"You're not going to leave this time, are you?"
Xiaoyu nodded, "If you don't leave, I will stay by your side for a lifetime, so you can't get rid of it." ”
I gently lowered her to the bed, "Can you tell me what you've been busy with these past few days?"
She hugged my face and apologized, "I went on a top-secret mission and can't let anyone know, including you. However, after this mission, I also took early retirement from the special office, and now I receive a pension every month, and I don't have to do anything. ”
"Listen to your tone, your task is not small, it won't be to assassinate some important person, right?"
Xiaoyu looked at me in surprise, "Do you guess?
"It can't be, is it?"
Xiao Yu's face returned to normal, "It's not an assassination that lied to you, but I can't tell you, so don't ask." ”
It's rare to be so happy today, I took Xiaoyu out to eat, Xiaoyu is a lot thinner than before, and there is a shocking scar on the left shoulder, and I don't dare to ask how it was left.
After dinner, Zuo Lun called, "The funeral home gave me a message that there were three suitable candidates, one died in a car accident at the age of eighteen, one died of cerebral congestion at the age of eighty, and one was thirty-two years old and had gas poisoning. ”
"Okay, I see, I'll treat you to dinner another day. ”
"Don't change the day, I'm right behind you, that's it!"
As soon as I turned around, it was a revolver!
"You're not going to keep stalking me, are you?"
"How can I have that idle time, I can't deal with the aftermath of such a big incident yesterday! I didn't sleep all night, I was just about to sleep, I was woken up by a phone call from you, you still can't compensate me, please let me eat something good?" After speaking, he looked at Xiaoyu, "Isn't this Yubing! I haven't seen you for a long time, what have you been busy with lately?"