278 Not Ruthless Enough
Saying goodbye to the mustache, I was finally able to make the journey home.
A small vase and two snuff bottles and mustaches finally accepted me at the "friendly price" and gave me 50,000 yuan. So, I took more than 170,000 cash on me and drove back to Nanting alone.
I have money and a car, but no one accompanies me all the way home to save my family, I can't find the feeling of returning home at the beginning, but I feel alone.
At this time, it is not yet the Spring Festival, whether it is Han Jie, who is far away, or Ou Dong, Huang Lijun, fried ghosts, and Li Dan, who have settled in other places, it is impossible to be in Nanting. Come to think of it, I haven't been in touch with them for a long time.
But on second thought, what if you contact them?
Now that I have made up my mind to wander in the underworld, I will only come back this time to see my parents and Master, and I will soon go back to the underworld. What do you do to make more people worry about me for no reason?
A person's loneliness can be borne by one person!
However, he can hide from his friends and buddies, but he can't hide from his parents. Before I came back, I was very worried about my parents' reaction, after all, I hadn't heard from me for a whole year, how could I not worry them?
As a result, as soon as I got home, I was really beaten up by my mother!
She cried profusely, pounded my shoulders with her fists, and pinched me. My dad didn't bother to beat me, and since I graduated from high school, he couldn't beat me anymore, so he kept his head down and didn't speak, just smoking.
When I first entered the Yin City, I really couldn't find a better excuse, so I just told them that I was going to travel to a remote place to relax, and that that place probably didn't even have a phone line, so they didn't have to worry.
But they thought that I was just unhappy because I broke up with Han Jie at that time, and wanted to go out and find a place to spread wild, and when it was over, I would come back and live a good life. I didn't expect that I had really been gone for a year, and I didn't get a call back!
"Woooooooooooo I'm just such a son as you! What if you want to have three long and two short? Woooooo Are you going to make us two worry about death! The old mother complained with a handful of snot and tears.
I coaxed her for a long time before I finally coaxed her to stop crying. I told her that I wasn't exactly a vagrant now, but that I had participated in a secret project to cook for prospecting and mining experts, so I had to run around and drill into the mountains and forests.
Well, I admit that this lie is really full of loopholes, and it just turned the ghost who mined the yin yuan in the underground yin vein into an expert in prospecting and mining! But I can't find a better reason, maybe I should have followed Wei Dahu's example, and said to run a boat!
"When you are young, you went to participate in this kind of scientific expedition and stayed in the poor mountains all day long, but how can you find a girlfriend?" As soon as I finished worrying about my personal safety, my mother immediately worried about this again.
I couldn't laugh or cry, so I had to continue to prevaricate: "I don't have that mind yet." In recent years, it will be like this, so let's take a look around first, and if you can meet a good girl on the trip, I will bring it back to you! ”
In order to make my parents believe in me, and also to leave them with enough pension, I simply handed over 100,000 yuan to my mother at one time, saying that it would help me save it first.
"Where did you get all this money?" Mom asked suspiciously. To say that it is impossible to pay such a high salary as a chef in the scientific expedition team?
"Most of the money I saved when I was working in the provincial capital to buy a house." I continued to lie, "However, if you need this money, you can use it when you need it, and if you don't need it, you can keep it for me to get married later!" ”
At the end of the day, I assured them, "Also, I will try my best to make a phone call every month to report my safety!" ”
After sleeping at home for one night and spending a day with my parents, I couldn't wait to go to Paiwei Village to find Master.
Speaking of which, my master not only taught me Yin Gong and ghost hunting, but also my life mentor. Every time I encountered setbacks and blows, it was he who solved my confusion and allowed me to regain my self-confidence. The last time I came back to him, it was because I had lost my purpose in life. And this time, I'm still hoping to find some answers from him.
Another year passed, but the master still seemed to be the same, and he stayed in his yard before he arrived in the ghost market, drawing talismans and practicing calligraphy. I called him before I came, and he also knew that I had gone to Yincheng, so he was not as emotional as my parents, as if I was still going to school in the provincial capital, but I only came back to see him once in a while.
"How's the days in the Netherworld? Compared to what you imagined, was it fun? He squinted at me, looking at me with a half-smile.
I couldn't laugh, so I had to report truthfully: "I felt fresh for a while at the beginning, and then I got a little bored." Otherwise, I wouldn't have come back from vacation early! ”
"I told you at the beginning, the underworld is not as interesting as you imagined, and you still don't believe it!" Master continued to despise me, "I am not ashamed to say that I am going to the underworld, you first figure out how many catties and taels you have!" ”
"Alright, Master! Don't tease me anymore, do you? I smiled bitterly, "Although I didn't mix well in Yin City in the first year, I still had some gains!" ”
"What's the catch?"
"Anyway, I have the money to pay you back, don't I?"
I took out the 50,000 yuan I had prepared and handed it to Master, saying, "This is the old tuition fee borrowed from you back then. Don't calculate it carefully, pay you back the whole number, 50,000! ”
The master didn't answer, shook his head and said, "I'm a bad old man, I can't eat much or wear much, and I don't have any disasters or diseases, so I don't spend money at all, and I won't have anywhere to spend if you give it back to me!" ”
"It's not okay to always owe it! It's not like I'm out of money now, and I can't spend all the money I earn! I continued to insist and forced the money into his hand, "Besides, you said before that I was going to keep it for my marriage, and now I can't use it for the time being, so I'd better return it to you first!" ”
Master couldn't do anything about me, so he had to put the money away. But he still shook his head and was not satisfied: "Didn't you make some money?" It's not a big deal! ”
"One more thing, you're sure to be impressed with me!" I'm not convinced, and I'm ready to make a big move.
"What's the matter?" Master continued to maintain a very skeptical expression.
"Xiao Jiuhe was killed by me!"
I was triumphant. The mustache was frightened by this "big news" before, and it is impossible for the master to be indifferent to this, right?
"Oh, finally killed?" Master nodded, as if he was satisfied.
"Finally?" I was confused by his attitude, and emphasized again: "Xiao Jiuhe! ”
"I remember this man! Your master's memory isn't that bad! "He still looks like an old god.
"Do you think it's normal for me to be able to kill Xiao Jiuhe?" I pretended to fail, so I had to ask unwillingly.
Master smiled and asked me, "Counting up, this is the first time you have fought with him?" ”
"The third time. There was another time in the middle that he slipped away in advance, and he didn't take a photo! ”
"In these three encounters, how do you feel about his strength? Is it getting stronger, or is it getting weaker? ”
"The more ...... It's getting weaker and weaker...... "I seem to understand what he means."
"That's right!" Master smiled, "If it's the first time you meet him in Nanting, don't say it's you, even if it's me, he feels very difficult!" Because at that time, he was a Yin cultivator with the fourth level of cultivation, and he raised a few big ghosts under his command. Very difficult to deal with! ”
"But that time I destroyed his most powerful skull, and it devastated him. According to my estimates, at that time, even if he didn't directly fall to a recultivation, he had at least fallen by one order! ”
"And what about the second time?"
"You mentioned it to me the second time. He was even killed by you and He Liping, and you smashed his waist again. The old injury has not healed, and new injuries have been added, I estimate that he will definitely have to fall at least two more levels of cultivation! ”
"That means ......"
"That means that when you fight him again this time, he will at most be just a third-level mid-level cultivator like you, maybe even lower!" The master didn't give me a chance to interject, and continued to analyze: "And he doesn't know any martial arts himself, he just relies on the ghost he raises. The two big ghosts he used to raise are gone, and the rest of his hands is not very powerful! ”
When Master analyzed it like this, I had to be convinced. It's no wonder that when I went directly to Xiao Jiuhe's shop that night, I only encountered the resistance of one beast ghost. He didn't even dare to confront me head-on, and when he saw that the beast and ghost had been destroyed by me again, he quickly ran away, and even gave up the treasures in the store!
Alas, what I thought was a very awesome thing turned out to be a matter of course when I got to Master! I can only barely satisfy him!
"Even so, he's a tough opponent! Besides, your apprentice is not familiar with my life in Yin City, so it is great to be able to fight back and kill him! I muttered.
"Okay." Master finally compromised and praised me very perfunctorily: "You did a good job. ”
“......”
"Actually, what I'm most satisfied with is your attitude!" When he saw that I was depressed, he smiled again.
"What attitude?"
"When you said that you were going to go to the underworld, what I was worried about was not your cultivation and cooking skills, people who are worse than you can still mix up there. My biggest concern is that you're not ruthless enough! ”
"Ruthless?"
I was taken aback. I've been following Master for so many years, and He never said anything like that. Although he also cultivates Yin Gong, I feel that his character is very "Buddhist", and he has always been very soft on people and ghosts, even if it is a evil ghost, he can not kill it, let alone a human. Why, today he seems to be a different person?