I thought I was the first to get up, but I didn't expect that when I came back from the steamed bun shop, Brother Yinshan had already finished his morning class.

I met Brother Yinshan, who smiled at me while wiping his sweat, and then turned his head and entered the ancestral hall.

I also smiled and greeted Brother Yinshan, but my head always replayed the scene when I turned off the steam and saw the clouds fall.

I don't think I'll ever forget this scene for the rest of my life, it's like it's engraved in my mind, the wind won't blow away, and the sea won't be smoothed.

Memories are a very strange thing, obviously it is something that I have experienced myself, but it is a third vision, as if someone is standing aside with a video camera to take the whole thing.

I took a deep breath, tried to get rid of the image in my head, and when I was almost done, I started today's morning class.

A complete set of Tai Chi and Baduanjin beats down, with breathing, not only made my back wet, but also gathered my spirit together, and the whole person felt clear after the fight.

This is an experience that I have never had in Tai Chi and Baduanjin after practicing it for more than ten years!

I wiped my sweat, and suddenly I felt someone behind me, and I turned my head to look, and it turned out to be a crazy old man.

I don't know how long the crazy old man came, but when I turned my head to see him, he was sitting on a stone against the wall, one foot on the ground, the other on the stone support, holding the left hand of the cigarette pipe.

"Well, it's powerful now." The crazy old man said after taking a puff of yellow cigarette.

I leaned over and sat down on the rock, like the mad old man.

The crazy old man brought me a plate from the side and said, "Eat." ”

I turned out to be on the plate, and when I looked inside, there were four steamed buns on the plate, and a few pieces of tofu, and the tofu was wrapped in green vegetables, and I didn't know what it was.

I picked up a steamed bun, and before I put it in my mouth, I could smell a rich milky smell.

I was stunned, and suddenly remembered the smell of milk wafting into the ancestral hall this morning, and the steamed buns that Shen Luo put into the steamer, is this it?

I took a bite, and suddenly the fresh smell of steamed buns and the smell of milk that I don't know how came from exploded in my mouth. The aroma was so fragrant that I couldn't help but eat it in a big gulp.

The crazy old man was on the side, his mouth on the cigarette tube curled up, and he said with a smile: "Fragrant, right?" ”

I nodded as I ate, stuffed my mouth with steamed buns, and said, "Master, how did you make this?" ”

The crazy old man looked amused and continued: "Only Shen Luo has such ingenuity, thinking of kneading flour and milk into a dough, and this steamed bun has a milky flavor......

While the crazy old man was still talking, I finished eating a steamed bun in two or three bites, and I was still chewing in my mouth, so I picked up the second steamed bun with my hand.

It's so delicious!

When the crazy old man saw me like this, he handed over a bottle of water and said, "You eat slowly, no one will rob you." Eat some vegetable tofu, which was brought by Shen Luo from Miao Village, which is a good thing to cool off the heat! ”

Vegetable tofu? It's something new to me.

I carefully picked up a piece and put it in my mouth, without any effort to chew, the tofu has a delicate texture and melts in my mouth. The combination of the natural aroma of green vegetables and the delicate tofu makes the taste unique!

I squinted my eyes when I ate, and just as I put the tofu in my mouth, the crazy old man explained next to me: "This dish of tofu is an authentic Miao family dish." The most important thing in this dish is the thickened sour soup, but unfortunately, the conditions are limited. However, the tofu cubes made by Shen Luo were also chilled at the mouth of the well, how ingenious this is! ”

As he spoke, the crazy old man couldn't help but reach out, snatched a piece of vegetable tofu and threw it into his mouth, and looked satisfied and saw that I was tightly protecting the plate in my hand.

"Master, when you came to me, didn't you just come to bring me food?" I finished my plate like a storm, for fear that the crazy old man would snatch it again.

"Don't you have a stomach full of questions you want to ask?" The crazy old man took two puffs of his cigarette and glanced at me with slanted eyes.

I was suddenly excited, scratched my head embarrassedly, and said, "Didn't you let me ask?" ”

The crazy old man didn't respond to me anymore, and continued: "What you want to ask is how the worm is different from the ancient records, and the cause of the disease, and what happened to the Taoist priest who was locked up, right?" ”

I nodded.

The crazy old man sighed and said, "I'll answer your third question first." The Taoist priest died, died in the detention center. The onset of the disease was half an hour earlier than the village chief. ”

Even though I had already guessed that it was the result, I couldn't help but froze for a few seconds after the crazy old man said it.

Before I could speak, the mad old man continued, "I'll answer your first question again. You have read all the ancient books and classics in my box, and you should know that the worms in the three corpses and nine insects are just parasites of the human body, how can they cause hundreds of people to die almost at the same time? ”

I nodded sheepishly.

"Bugs are indeed worms, but they have been watered by people with secret methods, and the most direct manifestation is their strange color." The crazy old man said.

"What kind of secret method is it?"

I've always been curious about secret methods, spells, and the like.

"As for what secret method...... I don't know very well, it seems that there are long-lost secret methods of our Taoists, and there are also some things of the Miao people......"

When he said this, the crazy old man frowned and fell into deep thought.

And I can't interrupt him. I had to sit on the stone and slowly digest the information that the crazy old man had just said.

After about three or four minutes, the crazy old man's brows locked hard, then he took a sharp puff of cigarette and said, "Yunlan, they arrived here a day earlier than us. Yesterday, Shen Luo and Scarlet Yan went to check the location of those bugs, but fortunately, the department's isolation formation also allowed them to stay here, otherwise we would have to work hard. ”

Isolation formation? Is there such a formation in the world?

You must know that insects are not such ethereal things as souls and aura, they have substances!

And since I entered the village, even if it was me, such a powerful spiritual sense and soul power had not clearly perceived the blood qi or any other breath.

What's more, a physical thing like a bug can be isolated by a formation, which shows how powerful the isolation effect of this formation is!

These thoughts only appeared in my mind for a moment, and I squinted my eyes and thought: The foundation of this department is not inferior to that of any Taoist ancestral court!

While I was thinking, the crazy old man continued: "After luring those bugs out later, we must go to your Jiang Shibo, and they will have a way to remove the worm eggs from us." ”

"Master, how did those insects get into the human body?" I asked, puzzled.

"Breathe."

Breathe? I looked at the crazy old man with a puzzled expression, not understanding what he meant.

"Worms were originally just parasites of the human body, and their eggs were generally attached to vegetable leaves, which were invisible to the human eye. The worms here have been irrigated by secret methods, and they have abilities that ordinary worms do not have. Their eggs attach to the air several meters above their body and enter the body through breathing. After inhaling the eggs, about four hours or so, the eggs will hatch into worms in the human body, drink the blood and psychic, and it will not take long to pierce the heart and spleen of the person, and finally break out of the body. ”

After listening to the crazy old man's story, I immediately shuddered, and unconsciously felt if I was abnormal.

"Don't worry, we don't have any eggs in our bodies now, because the initial isolation of the department has worked!"

After the crazy old man saw my appearance, he also knew my worries, and continued: "Zhengyi, wait a minute, we will lure out all the worms for Yunlan and them. Only with vigorous blood can they be lured out, and then Yunlan and the others can ...... Contain these bugs. ”

The mad old man paused visibly when he said "subdue", and it was clear that he was searching for a more appropriate word in his head.

In the story told by the mad old man, the terrible thing about those worms is that they enter the human body silently, and people don't know it.

Now, according to the crazy old man, we're going to attract the bugs that don't know where to hide.

The thought of inhaling a bunch of tiny eggs without knowing it made me feel a chill in my stomach.

"Scared?" The crazy old man asked lightly.

"Who's afraid? You're not afraid of this old man, what am I afraid of? I suppressed the discomfort in my stomach and said.

"It's normal to be afraid, I believe in you Uncle Jiang, I believe in Brother Zhengren, and I believe in ...... All of them! ”

The mad old man jumped down from the stone, smoking a cigarette pipe, and walked towards the ancestral hall.

I looked at the slightly gloomy back of the crazy old man, and the words he had left, and I couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

Yes. Trust!

If you want to say that you are not afraid, it is false, and saying that you are not afraid in front of the crazy old man is just me when I was a teenager, and I was just reckless for the sake of face.

The crazy old man must have known, because my shiver and the look of wanting to vomit were seen in my eyes. But he didn't say anything to comfort me, he just told me to believe.

In fact, the older I get, the more I understand the weakness of my character, which is that I can't fully trust the people around me.

It's not distrust, not distrust!

But after experiencing some things, I would rather carry everything than not, or even believe that the people around me, can withstand the pressure and oppression brought by these things, and even have the ability to solve things.

This was something I couldn't understand at the age of eighteen or nineteen, and I didn't figure it out until I went through something later.

It's just that at this time, the crazy old man told me to believe.

Then I'll believe it!

All of a sudden, my mind flashed to everyone on this mission.

The crazy old man, Uncle Jiang, Aunt Lan, Zhu Qinshou, the three Taoist priests, Brother Yinshan, Brother Zhengren, Yun Shenluo, Yun Scarlet Yan, and me.

I suddenly felt like someone had set up a game, and each of us was placed in this layout to complete our own mission.

The person who laid out this layout is the one who led the team this time - the crazy old man!

Inexplicably, I remembered the battle with Qiqi, and everyone has their own mission to complete.

On that occasion, someone whispered in my ear, "Zhengyi, your master...... He's a great guy! ”