Chapter 0018 Kui
"There are some things that you don't understand." Old Man Zhao shook his head and said, "All in all, you can't blame others for your grandfather's death, he took the wrong path to get to this step."
"What do you mean by that?" Li Mo couldn't help but get excited.
"Do you want to know?" Old Man Zhao asked him.
Li Mo nodded.
"I won't tell you!" Old Man Zhao suddenly burst out laughing, and the expression he spoke looked very much like his dead grandfather.
"Well, if you don't tell me, I won't ask." Li Moyi pretended not to care and turned to another topic: "Why didn't I hear my grandfather talk about you?"
"If he hadn't even told you about him as a Cleanser, would he have told you about him?" Old man Zhao said here, with a vicissitudes in his eyes: "It's really unfortunate, this craft of your family will definitely be broken in your generation, ah, young man, what do you rely on to make money to support your family now?"
"Collecting rent, you really can't open the pot, go out to do some part-time work, help others do promotion or something." Li Mo scratched his head, his expression was a little embarrassed: "Anyway, it's no problem to eat by yourself."
"Why are you so useless little bean!" Old man Zhao scolded inexplicably: "This money is enough to eat fart, don't you marry a daughter-in-law?!"
The old man's tone of voice was not very good, but Li Moyi felt that he was good to himself.
"I'll get a job later." Li Moyi said with a wry smile. I haven't decided what job I'm looking for yet. ”
"Your lazy temper is the same as your grandfather and father. If you can go out and work hard, you're going to have a ghost!" When Old Man Zhao said this, he had a kind of hatred for iron but not steel: "At the beginning, your grandfather also made up his mind, his mother's, if he doesn't pass on the eating craft to you, is this something that his own grandfather can do?"
The old man's eyes lit up as he spoke.
"Xiao Li, let me show you a clear path?" Old man Zhao is like a child trafficker. His eyes were so similar that he narrowed his smile with a smile: "This is the way to get rich."
"I'll say okay first, old man, I don't kill people, I don't set fires, I don't cheat, cheat and steal, as long as it's these things, don't come to me, I'm not the material for this business." Li Mo replied and stared at the old man carefully: "You don't want to do that, do you?"
"Fuck his mother's shit!" Old Man Zhao shouted, "Am I that kind of person?!"
"I don't dare to say no, you look like this, it's a bit like a liar."
Old Man Zhao found out that he was the same as his grandfather, he had a sharper tongue than his grandfather, and there was no generation gap in communication, so Old Man Zhao couldn't help but joke with him.
"You little bunny!" Old man Zhao glared at him fiercely and said, "What I want to tell you is getting down to business!"
Li Moyi looked at the old man from head to toe and asked tentatively, "How about we continue to discuss that?"
When Old Man Zhao heard these words, he almost twitched in anger, and groped with his hands for a while, and when he saw that there were no weapons around him, he was ready to go up and beat him with his bare hands.
"Don't be angry, don't be angry, don't be angry, I'm messing around with you!" Li Moyi quickly suggested.
"Well, you can't follow the same old path as your grandfather." Old Man Zhao sighed and said, "You don't plan to live like this, do you?"
Li Moyi's expression stiffened, and he didn't joke with him. After being silent for a while, he shook his head and said with a wry smile, "I don't know."
After saying that, he gritted his teeth with a complicated expression.
"I don't know what my life is like. While my grandfather was still alive, I was still motivated to go out and work part-time. At least I can buy two good cigarettes to give him. Li Mo looked at the cold stone, and lowered his voice. But my grandfather passed away, and I don't know what I'm going to do in my life. ”
Old Man Zhao didn't speak, just looked at him.
"When my grandfather was alive, he talked to me a lot and advised me on how to spend the rest of my life." Li Mo grinned, a little mocking. "At the time I thought I would definitely be able to move on with my life, but now? I'll admit I'm lazy, but I also want to..."
Old Man Zhao stood up suddenly, walked to Li Moyi's side, sat down slowly, and patted him on the shoulder. "In fact, your temper is exactly the same as your grandfather's. He encountered such confusion, but he eventually overcame it and lived a more comfortable life than anyone else. ”
"Really?" Li Mo smiled noncommittally and lightly.
"Yes, because he had the courage to take a step forward. You don't have the courage to stay where you are. Old man Zhao said, "You lack practice."
Li Moyi did not deny it.
"What's the matter with the dirt on you? Look at the smell. It seems to have been removed. Old man Zhao said.
Li Moyi didn't think too much about it at the time, he raised his head slightly and told the story of the past few days.
Old Man Zhao listened and nodded with a complicated expression, as if he was thinking about something.
"That little blind man's apprentices are so powerful, it's really blue." Old Man Zhao sighed after listening to what had happened in the past few days. "This kind of fox demon is not something that ordinary Mr. Cleansing can solve. This happened hundreds of years ago. There were a lot of deaths at that time. ”
"Do you know that blind boss?" Li Moyi asked.
"Knowledge, and not general awareness." Old Man Zhao smiled and said bitterly: "The story between me and him is very long, that story, it is really a man who will be silent when he listens to it, and a woman who will cry when he listens to it."
"You usually go to Weibo, right?" Li Moyi couldn't help but laugh.
"You little bunny!" Old Man Zhao's eyes widened: "What has your grandfather been doing all these years?" Didn't you go out to pick up business?"
"He didn't even tell me that he was a cleansing spirit, can he go out to take over business?" Li Mo smiled bitterly: "My grandfather's life is so leisurely, if he doesn't watch TV, he plays cards with others, and from time to time he goes out for a walk and tells those old men and old ladies a book."
"Your grandfather loved to listen to stories when he was young, and he liked to tell books when he was old. This is also normal. Old Man Zhao sighed and said, "Do you want to hear your grandfather's original story?"
Li Moyi hesitated for a moment, then nodded hurriedly.
Old Man Zhao smiled and nodded, his eyes showing sadness. "Your grandfather's business is inseparable from storytelling."
In ancient times, when foxes and demons were rampant, strange things appeared one after another, and hundreds of folk schools gradually evolved from this.
And now, only two genres are still active. It's on the verge of disappearing.
"Your grandfather's work is unique in our land." When Zhao Laozi said this, he pinched the cigarette in his hand, lit another one, and smoked slowly.
"What is his profession?" Li Moyi asked.
"Wash the Lingkui." Old Man Zhao's eyes were a little complicated. Looking at Li Moyi, it was like looking at his own relatives.
According to the old man Zhao, "Kui" is a kind of praise for people, in ancient times, the folk to all walks of life were called "Wen Kui" and "Wu Kui", the school of the soul cleaner is divided into three titles, the top is called "Lingkui", and then it is "Mr. Lingling", and then it is "Lingren".
The school of baptism originally originated hundreds of years ago as the school of Liaozhai.
Therefore, those who worship this door, the ancestors who worship are Pu Songling, Mr. Liaozhai.
A hundred years ago, during the period when the fox demon was raging, the disciples of the Liaozhai faction naturally evolved into two factions because of their different cultivation skills.
On one side is the so-called Soul Raider faction, which pays attention to using all its strength to completely eliminate demons.
On the other hand, the "soul washing" school focuses on helping the evildoer cleanse his soul and drive away resentment.
Some of the teachings of the Liao Zhai sect are used to help the wicked expel the resentment in their bodies, so that they can be purified and turned into an ordinary creature, which can help them to be reborn.
The title of Soul Baptist is derived from the word "Soul Baptist" in Liao Zhaixue.
Because the art of soul washing evolved from the Liaozhai school, so hundreds of years ago, the soul cleansing people were also called "demon slaying people".
It can be a hundred years ago, basically no one claims to be a demon subduer, listening to the old man Zhao, it seems that that the generation of soul cleansers is a little contradictory to a few old people of the robbery faction, and a few years later, the two factions have been completely separated since then.
The contradiction between them may have to do with the biggest difference between the soul cleansers and the soul robbers.
The Soul Cleanser attaches great importance to life, that is to say, respects every living being, including evil demons, and it is precisely because of this that the "Soul Cleansing" faction has a long history and has been derived from the profession of the Soul Cleanser.
And the spirit robber values life to a degree, if the demon dies without repentance and cannot be reborn, he must be entangled with the yang person, and then the spirit robber may use some tools and use all his power to completely eliminate the demon and evil, so that it will never see the light of day.
At this time, Old Man Zhao smiled and said, "I remembered that your grandfather's house had a book called "The Book of Yin and Netherworld". There are a few sentences like this. ”
"There is a grudge in the heart, and there is a calamity for man."
"If people hinder (cu), the hatred cannot be washed, the grudge deepens, and the spirit cannot be solved."
"The use of magic to rob spirits, destroy demons and eliminate evils, and the injustices will not be dispersed and will survive for a long time. The baptism of the soul allows it to be evil, or leads it to seek and make it new. ”
After speaking, Old Man Zhao asked Li Moyi: "Do you understand?"
"Nope." Li Moyi looked at the old man stupidly: "I don't understand classical Chinese, what evil and what guidance?"
"In short, disgruntled people will hurt others nine times out of ten, so in the human world, they are like a time bomb in the crowd." Old Man Zhao sighed and said, "If they die and become demons, only the Spirit Cleanser can really solve it."
The Soul Raiders use Taoism to subdue demons. If the evil enmity does not dissipate, it can only be suppressed or stifled.
"I guess I understand." Li Mo nodded.
This is the biggest difference between the Soul Raiding Sect and the Soul Cleansing Sect, Old Man Zhao said with a wry smile: "The creed of the Soul Cleansing Sect is that you can never harm any demon and evil. Even if the demon harms someone, you can only wash their souls. Indestructible. ”
"Isn't this a good thing, the bitter sea is endless." Li Mo scratched his head.
"Shit! What if you encounter an unrepentant demon?" Old Man Zhao's eyes widened, as if he was angry, and said, "Li Lingyun is as stupid as those old masters!" If you can't wash your soul, you will wash your hands in a golden basin and never do this business again, isn't this fun?! Da Luo Jinxian still has monkeys that can't be cured!"
"You're saying my grandfather's golden basin has something to do with the business he takes?" Li Moyi felt very confused.
"Not exactly." Old Man Zhao seemed to be a little speechless, and stammered: "Anyway, your grandfather's reason is very complicated, you don't need to know it now, and when the time comes, you will naturally know."
Li Moyi shrugged his shoulders and didn't ask.