Chapter 4: The Three-Year Covenant
I had something to ask my grandfather, but I didn't know where to ask for a while, so I held back for a long time before I said, "Master, what about the female ghost last night?"
"No, I left her to you. My grandfather said: "That female ghost is not very deep, but it is very slippery, and if you are not careful, you can let her run, if you don't hurt her, I really may not be able to catch her." She is now nailed by me, and she can't run, and in the future, you will go up the mountain to beat her, and when you beat her to death, you will be out of the school. ”
I made my grandfather scared enough, and stammered, "Master, what are you doing? Why do you still let me fight ghosts?"
"I'm a ghost fighter!" Dead ghosts and living ghosts fight together!" My grandfather lit a cigarette, touched the knife on the table, and said, "Our old Wu family has been people who have made a living by killing demons and driving away evil spirits for generations. This has to start with this knife!"
"Our Wu family was originally a family of Jiangmen, but later we were cut off by that knife. This knife is hidden on the girder of our house, and the scabbard is hung horizontally on the beam with two red ropes, and the blade is downward, facing the ground. I was afraid that when you saw the knife, I blocked it with a board, but I didn't expect it to be wow! ”
My grandfather told me:
Before my family hung a sword, my ancestors had a general soldier and a commander, all of whom were first- and second-class members of the imperial court. Later, an old man in a blue cloth coat came to my house and hung the knife on the beam of my house. That old man hung a knife in my house, but no one knew who he was?
Say he is a knife man on credit? A knife man only sells kitchen knives and scissors on credit, and never leaves a knife to kill. The knife on the beam of my house is a murderer. Moreover, the credit knife people did not look for famous families, but the Wu family was a member of the imperial court at that time.
Even if the master of the Dao Sect is used to playing the world, he will not take off his Taoist robe, but that person is only wearing a blue cloth coat. That dress is somewhat similar to Mr. Yin and Yang.
He said he was Mr. Yin and Yang, and he did not do what Mr. Yin and Yang should do. Mr. Yin and Yang broke Yin and Yang with an iron mouth, but he never involved the cause and effect of the employer, and Mr. Yin and Yang did not dare to do the thing of hanging a knife on the beam.
A person who can't speak, who can't tell the truth, hangs a knife in your house. Normal people would definitely not agree, who knows what he is going to do? But the ancestor of the Wu family at that time agreed, and specially set up a family rule, and the descendants of the Wu family are not allowed to touch the knife.
That person hung up the knife, my family's luck plummeted, and in just two years, the family business was lost, and even the clansmen were about to run out. Only the head of the family is left, guarding the old mansion and guarding the knife. Just when our old Wu family was so poor that they couldn't even eat dumplings during the New Year, that old man came again and passed on to my family the ability to hang a knife to suppress evil spirits. Since then, our old Wu family has lived by helping people kill ghosts and exorcise evil spirits.
That old man is the ancestor of our Wu family.
The mountain dragon is the name of my grandfather who broke through the two generations, at that time, the soldiers were in chaos, there was no ruthlessness, and it was unstable. If you don't have a beard, you can't kill your life. My old lady, grandfather, and my grandfather were all dragons for three generations, and it was not until after liberation that my grandfather started to sharpen knives again.
My grandfather stopped when he said this: "I said this, did you hear anything?"
I thought for a long time: "Master, is our family cheated by the ancestor master?
My grandfather nodded and said, "The first time I heard about the Wu family's ancestor, it was the same as you thought. When the ancestor hung the sword, he had a secret conversation with the ancestor of the Wu family for a few days, why the Wu family hung the knife, why they didn't become officials and warlocks, only the two of them knew. But the ancestor didn't leave a word, and the ancestor died in the second year of the hanging knife. No one knows what happened to the Wu family at that time. ”
My grandfather patted the knife again: "However, Master Zu left a sentence, when this knife falls, whoever holds it will be the destined person to take the knife." Maybe you can uncover the secret of the Wu family being forced into the rivers and lakes back then. ”
I whispered, "What if I don't take the knife?" I really don't want to take the knife, who wants to deal with dead people all day?
Besides, that knife is too scary, the scimitar made of black iron, at first glance, it is a murderous thing, and if you don't move there, it makes people feel that the knife has a murderous aura, especially the nine round holes on the blade like eyes, from a distance, it looks like there are nine eyes staring at you, which makes people feel cold from the heart.
My grandfather said solemnly: "The Wu family has not received the knife before the age of thirty, and the consequence is only a dead end. Back then, I didn't let him take the knife because I felt sorry for your father, but he ...... Needless to say, it's fate. No one can escape their lives. I originally wanted you to take over the knife a few years later, but since this knife has chosen you, you can follow me tomorrow to learn your skills!"
My grandfather told me: The things handed down by my grandfather include talismans, spells, laws, feng shui, physiognomy, and lottery, but they are not passed on. Martial arts, knife technique is our old Wu family's own things, the old Wu family generations of military generals, after hundreds of years and more than ten generations of talents, the "lifeless nine knives" can not only kill ghosts but also kill. I haven't learned all of these things, and if you do, you're the most powerful dragon.
Perhaps, I was born to be a warlock material, no matter how difficult it is, I will learn it as soon as I learn it. The book is a mess, and it will be used as a negative textbook in school. I was also depressed about this, but my father told me: how much a person can do is not necessarily how good your knowledge is, but it must depend on how high your knowledge is. People with high knowledge can only achieve great things with high vision. People who only stare at one acre and three points of land can have food and clothing, but they can never be dominant.
At that time, I didn't understand what my grandfather meant, but after I stepped into the rivers and lakes, I realized that he was really right.
I learned the skills from my father for ten years, and I also fought with the female ghost on the mountain for ten years, and in the first five years, I failed to kill her, and in the last five years, I began to want to kill her. However, the fight between us has never stopped, I have always felt that she is a fox, too good at deceiving people, if it wasn't for my father holding her severed hand, I would have died in her hands. In a sense, I didn't learn as much from my grandfather as I did from her. It is not an exaggeration to say that I have two masters in my life.
When I was 20 years old, my father called me to me and said, "You can become a teacher, I can't teach anymore." After you leave the school, go to the city to find a person named Chen Shaoyuan, his father and I are brothers, my business has always been taken care of by his father, you go to him, he can arrange the rest for you.
After my father finished speaking, he pushed a red cloth package in front of me: "Before you leave the school, go and kill that female ghost with a sacrificial knife." Don't be soft, this is the rule of the Wu family, if you don't kill her sacrificial knife, you will have to hit the catastrophe. For your own sake, you have to do it too. Go for it!"
"After you go out, don't come back for three years, and don't contact me. Three years later, when you come back at this time, you can't come back a moment earlier, you can't come back a moment later. You know what?"
I suddenly looked up at my grandfather: my grandfather can't be anything, right?