Chapter 16: The Beginning of a Legend
When Yan Ning saw Fang Shitian sitting in the courtyard, he suddenly sobered up a lot: "I'm back." Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info”
"I'm not late, that's good," Fang Shitian beckoned to Yan Ning, "Come here." ”
Yan Ning walked to Fang Shitian's side, glanced at the two spiritual seats, and his voice suddenly became a little low: "Isn't this my parents' spiritual position?"
Fang Shitian nodded: "You don't know why you've been worshipping me for the past eighteen years, right?"
"My dad never told me. Yan Ning stared at the two spirit statues and shook his head.
"Sit down, I'll tell you," Fang Shitian stood up and gave up his place to Yan Ning.
He stretched out his hand, lit three sticks of incense, and bowed to the two statues. The green smoke was particularly fragile in the faint light, and it dissipated with a gentle breeze.
Fang Shitian took out the ancient books of Wumen from Yan Ning's schoolbag and said, "Maybe you haven't heard of Wumen, but you definitely know Maoshan. ”
Yan Ning said: "It is often filmed in movies that Maoshan is a famous ghost catcher. ”
"The structure of Maoshan is not as simple as it is said in the movie, and in its heyday, Maoshan had Taoist temples all over the country, but now it has declined. As for the reason for the decline, you don't know it now. ”
Fang Shitian cleared his throat: "Our Maoshan is roughly divided into five branches, namely the Ghost Doctor Wu Sect, the Heavenly Dao Yitang, the Feng Shui Gongliang, the Xiang Spiritual Sect, and the Divination Palace. Needless to say, the master of Wumen, the main Taoist method of Yitang, and the good of Feng Shui, the face of the Ling Sect Master and the people in the upper hall are famous for their hexagrams. Yan Ning, guess which of these five branches was once the leader?"
Yan Ning said without hesitation: "Wu Gate." ”
"Why do you think so, shouldn't it be the Heavenly Dao Righteous Hall?" Fang Shitian stared at Yan Ning and said.
"No," Yan Ning shook his head, "Although the ability of the Heavenly Dao Righteous Hall's human essence channel technique talisman may be the first of the five branches, but people always have birth, old age, sickness and death, and no matter how powerful the Maoshan people are, they also need the doctors of the Wu Sect as their backing." Therefore, Wumen is the real head of the five halls. ”
After hearing this, Fang Shitian laughed three times: "Count you as a kid! Our Maoshan Wumen is the head of the five halls!"
"Then why has it become a single lineage now?" Yan Ning asked puzzled.
"One line, it's a rule I set," Fang Shitian's expression suddenly fell a lot lonely, "I once had a junior brother, his name was Ye Nianchun. ”
Yan Ning smashed his mouth: "Ye Nianchun, that quack doctor is your junior brother? When I was a child, my father often took me to his hospital to make trouble......
Fang Shitian smiled helplessly: "Nianchun, he is a mediocrity, but he is not a quack. He and I were both orphans, and I was brought up by my master to learn medicine in the mountain gate since I was a child. Speaking of talent, Nian Chun may be a cut above me, but he is quite scheming, and he cares too much about things outside his body, so the master decided that he could not become the heir of Wumen's ghost arts. ”
Yan Ning interjected: "So Master Zu passed on the Wumen ghost technique to you, but not to Ye Nianchun?"
"Yes," Fang Shitian said, "Nian Chun was out of breath for a while, so he went down the mountain to travel, and he was gone for ten years. Your ancestor was born soon, and soon he drove to the west, Maoshan was lonely, and I was left alone in Wumen, so I gave up the mountain gate and went down the mountain to find Nianchun. ”
"Back then, Master Zu felt that Nianchun could not inherit the way of Wumen, but I believed that he had this ability. ”
"It's just that not long after I went down the mountain, I was killed by a traitor, and finally died in a foreign land, but fortunately, I met a kind person and buried me......"
"Later, my soul wandered in front of the grave and met your parents by chance. At that time, your mother had a difficult birth, and your life was hanging by a thread, and your father begged me to save the lives of your mother and son. And you, who are born rebellious, are destined to fight with the Six Dao for the rest of your life...... This is also the reason why Black Impermanence wants to arrest you, Ye Nianchun also counted your identity back then, so he didn't help your mother. I wanted to borrow your birth to lure Nian Chun to my grave, and then pass on his Wumen ghost arts, but I didn't expect him to come, and the first thing he did was to burn my body and destroy my grave. ”
"It wasn't until this time that I knew that although Wumen's medical skills were the best in the world, some diseases and some hearts were incurable. This is also the reason why the Wumen generation is single. ”
Fang Shitian touched his beard, and there was a trace of sadness in his empty eyes.
Yan Ning didn't expect that there would be such a grudge and hatred between Fang Shitian and Ye Nianchun, if Ye Nianchun thought of a little of the same affection, and saw Fang Shitian's soul, he would not end up in ruin and depressed.
Yan Ning didn't know what it was to be born against the bones, and he didn't want to fight with the Six Dao, he only cared about one thing: Fang Shitian saved his life.
"When I was a child, I heard my father say that my life was saved by a miracle doctor, but I didn't expect it to be you!"
Fang Shitian sighed: "It's a pity that I couldn't save your mother. ”
Yan Ning was silent for a moment, and suddenly straightened, got up and knelt in front of Fang Shitian, and said respectfully:
"Master is above, the apprentice has offended a lot before, and I ask Master to forgive. ”
Before Fang Shitian accepted Yan Ning as an apprentice, it was just Fang Shitian's wishful thinking, but Yan Ning's heart was not in Wumen. But now Yan Ning knew that his life was given by Fang Shitian, even if Fang Shitian saved himself to see Ye Nianchun back then, but it was a fact that he saved his life, Yan Ning thanked Fang Shitian from the bottom of his heart.
Fang Shitian smiled with relief: "Get up, I said, we don't have too many rules in Wumen." ”
"A teacher for one day, a father for life, from today on, I will treat you as a father. Yan Ning said solemnly.
"Don't treat me like a father, or I'll die. Fang Shitian shook his head with a wry smile and helped Yan Ning up.
Yan Ning was puzzled and said, "Why?"
"Remember, in this world, no one can ask you to call him father, if there is, this day and this earth. ”
"That's why my dad won't let me call him father?
"Your life is precious, that's why Fan Wuxu will come to the door in person. That's why I asked my father to bring you incense to me every year, and in fact I protected you for eighteen years. ”
Yan Ning bowed to Fang Shitian movingly: "Will Fan Wusu come to me again in the future?
"There are some things that you will understand slowly in the future,"
Fang Shitian handed Yan Ning three pillars of incense: "Now, put a pillar of incense on your parents, from tomorrow, you will learn Wumen ghost art here with me, and I will leave on my own in a year, and what to do when the time comes is all up to your own preferences." ”
After hearing this, Yan Ning took the incense and bowed earnestly to his parents' spiritual seat. He looked up at the moon in the sky, round but empty.
Just like Yan Ning's heart now, an inexplicable sense of confusion occupied his heart.
Why does my life matter?
Will Fan Wusu still come to me?
What will life be like in the future?
He also didn't know that a legendary story began today.