My master is quite dissatisfied with my recent cultivation progress.

Although I can still go to Master's house every night to practice Yin Gong, all other tasks such as casting spells, drawing talismans, and origami have been left behind. These are things that take time to practice and polish slowly, and most of my time is spent on remedial culture classes.

It's not that my master has any problem with my tutoring, he has never been so strict with me before, and even he himself usually has a hangy style. But during the summer vacation, I promised him that I would start learning Yin Gong, and he had high hopes for it, so he turned into a "strict teacher" who seemed to be ready to teach me everything he had learned in his life. As a result, this arduous "Project Hope" has only been going on for less than three months, and I have been greatly affected by the fact that I have to return to the classroom.

At first, I was a little worried, afraid that Master would be angry with Han Jie. After all, all my recent changes are because of her. Especially the phone call that Han Jie made to my master, even I was scared. In the "negotiations" for my spare time, she was too aggressive, did not save face for my master, and forced him to make huge concessions. I guess Master must be unwilling, for fear that he will not be able to wipe away his face and will be resentful.

But as it turned out later, my fears were unfounded. After slowly observing, I found that Master did not say anything disgusted with Han Jie's approach, and he would not delay when it was time to let me go, and it seemed that he was still very supportive of me to continue my studies. He sometimes had a dark face, but that was purely because my cultivation progress was slow, or my practice movements were wrong, and I couldn't meet his expectations. At this time, he may scold me, and even occasionally reward me with a few "popping chestnuts" to eat, but overall, it is still within the normal value.

Boss Su didn't have much opinion on the fact that I had less time to learn origami. His shroud shop didn't have much to do, and the business was a semi-monopoly anyway, and his family selling shrouds near the county seat would come to him if they needed it. Of course, we are such a small county, and the market demand for such an unpopular market is not great.

After a few months of studying, I am finally going to start learning origami today. Boss Su folded a paper horse for me first. The paper horse was tall and broad-backed, with powerful hooves and lifelike, and could be folded and put in a bag. This kind of origami is complex and requires artistic cells, and it is really not easy for me to learn. Fortunately, Boss Su was not in a hurry, but just followed by good persuasion, explained carefully, and let me learn and practice slowly.

While practicing, I was chatting with Boss Su. He has a very good temper and a more cheerful personality than my master. Among the only few Yin cultivators I know, my master, the old man who watched the grave, and the old Liu of Baihualing are almost all in the same style, usually silent, gloomy face, mysterious behavior, and do not like to contact people. Boss Su is obviously different, if you don't know in advance that he is the owner of a shroud shop, you may think that he is just an ordinary businessman. His shroud shop also occasionally has people coming to hang out, drink tea, chatter or something. It's not like the coffin shop next door, which makes people avoid it.

While chatting, I asked him how he burned this shroud to the ghost, and what was the point?

Boss Su didn't hide it from me, and said with a smile: "It's very simple. When I sell shrouds to ghosts in the ghost market, I first write down his name, birthday, and death date, and when I return to the store, I recite a mantra and then burn it for him. As soon as my side burns out, the ghost who bought my shroud will also change into a body. It's the same thing about burning paper, burning people's paper, horse paper, and houses. ”

I nodded to show that I understood, the routine was really simple, and the key was still in the spell. Then I asked him again, "If it's like the night of Halloween, you burned paper eagles and paper soldiers, how did you get them?" Do you burn it to yourself? ”

Boss Su laughed and said, "You are not too young, how can you talk or be unscrupulous?" I'm not dead, how can I burn myself? ”

I scratched my head and giggled embarrassedly.

Boss Su didn't mind this, and explained to me: "That is not the nature of burning paper for the underworld, but a technique of our Yin cultivation." Just like when I burned a paper eagle on the night of the fifteenth day of July, I had to use the yin power to create a ghost fire to light it, and after it burned out, it was controlled by myself. ”

"So how do you control it?" I asked.

"Of course, there has to be a special method!" Boss Su said proudly, "The paper puppet sect I am in is best at puppetry, which is to manipulate paper puppets like marionettes. However, at the same time, it will also consume its own yin power, and the longer it is controlled, the greater the consumption of yin power. ”

"Can I learn now?"

"Hehehe!" Boss Su pointed at me and laughed at me again, which made my second brother confused, and I didn't understand what he was laughing at?

"You, you!" Boss Su shook his head and said, "Just now I said that you are a child, but now you have become thick-skinned!" Do you think anyone can learn this puppet trick if they want to? Your master is Feng Daozhang, not me! I'm the doorman of the paper puppet gate, and you're a turtle...... What are you sending? ”

"Return to the Mountain!"

"Oh, yes! Return to the mountain! It seems that Boss Su is not very interested in the name of my master, "Have you read martial arts novels?" It says that the exercises of different sects cannot be passed on indiscriminately, and the same is true for our Yin Cultivation sect, you should understand this, right? ”

"Then why did my master ask me to learn origami from you?" In fact, I still don't quite understand these so-called "rules of the rivers and lakes".

"It's no problem to learn origami!" Boss Su spread his hands and said, "This is not an exercise. It's the same when you come to me to learn from me and from a kindergarten aunt! ”

I'm speechless, this analogy is really clear!

"Hehe," Boss Su smiled again, and said, "If you want to learn, it's not completely impossible." First of all, you have to go back and ask your master if he agrees with you. Then, ask me again if I agree to teach you! ”

I heard Boss Su say this, it seems that he is willing to teach me? I asked him with a shy face, "My master won't talk about it yet." Boss Su, how do you agree to teach me? ”

"Well...... this" Boss Su was a little squirming and embarrassed to speak.

"Oh, you say! As long as I can do it, I will definitely say yes! I hurriedly said, I don't care if Boss Su will make any excessive demands. First, I still have a lot of trust in Boss Su's personality; Second, since I saw the power of his paper puppet trick on Halloween night, I have always longed for it to be like him one day!

"This ...... I'm afraid I won't be able to make a request until you get married......" Boss Su hesitated for a while, and suddenly said such a sentence, and then he shook his head and said: "Alas, it's too early to say that, let's talk about it later!" ”

What do you mean? What do you mean to wait until I'm married to make a request? I looked at Boss Su with disdain and thought: Could he be ...... Want to make that request? Hey! I can't imagine that Boss Su, who looks so decent, would have such a dirty idea! Luckily he didn't mention it, and I didn't promise him beforehand!

Just when my perception of Boss Su was greatly reduced, he continued to urge me to continue practicing origami as if it was nothing. My motivation has taken a serious hit.

Boss Su didn't notice it, and thought I was depressed because he refused to teach the puppet technique. He changed his tricks to coax me, took out a talisman dart from his body, and said to me: "I can still teach you some simple control methods, such as this talisman dart, which is the simplest technique." ”

I have also seen him use this kind of talisman dart, as long as it is thrown on the person possessed by the ghost, it can drive the ghost out of the body, and it is indeed a very practical weapon to deal with ghosts. It's much stronger than the glutinous rice grains I used in the ghost market before, and it's not as domineering and unreasonable as black dog blood.

Boss Su dismantled the talisman dart and spread it out into a square of yellow rune paper, on which many runes were drawn. I've been learning from my master for a few months to draw talismans, and I'm able to recognize half of them.

Boss Su said: "These runes are not too difficult, you can take them back and draw them, and when you are familiar with them, you can draw the rune paper first as you usually draw the runes, and then fold them when the ink is dry." ”

He also taught me how to fold a square piece of paper into a hexagonal dart. Because this kind of origami is symmetrical, it is really not difficult to learn. I followed the original creases of the dart, restored it, and then disassembled it again, repeated the practice a few times, and I almost learned it.

Boss Su saw that I quickly mastered it, and began to teach me how to use it again. "Like this, just hold the talisman dart with two fingers, inject yin power, and then throw it out!"

He picked up the talisman dart with his two fingers, aimed it at a broken paper house, and shook his hand. The talisman dart spun and flew out at a rapid pace, hitting the paper house with precision and piercing a hole. Boss Su's action of throwing a dart is simply handsome!

I ran over to pick up the talisman dart, and tried to shake it like him, but I couldn't get it right. I was dejected and said, "It's not difficult to draw talismans, it's not difficult to origami, but it's too difficult to flick a dart!" I've heard someone (Han Jie) say this, Boss Su, you have research on aerodynamics, right? ”

Boss Su sneered: "I have a primary school culture, I haven't heard of what you tell me about air and power!" It's not that profound! You go back and practice poker first, and you will practice more! ”

Will you practice more? I've been hearing this phrase too much lately! Alas, it seems that no matter what industry you do, you can't afford this job without a little effort!