Chapter 101: The Old Man in a Shroud

It was about ten o'clock in the evening that I returned to the school dormitory. The three-eyed yin monkey was stuffed into my backpack by me, but it was quite honest. When I entered the dormitory, the pumpkin was already asleep, and the snoring sound was so loud that it seemed like the bed board was about to collapse.

When I pushed the door open, he sat up from the bed and startled me. Seeing that it was me, Pumpkin rubbed her eyes and said hello to me. I told him to sleep first, but he was probably too sleepy, and he quickly fell asleep when he collapsed on the bed.

The main gate of the dormitory lights has been turned off, so I can only turn on the flashlight. I put the three-eyed yin monkey out of the backpack and threw it a few biscuits, and I was so tired that I fell down on the bed, without taking off my clothes, and fell asleep directly.

Because my phone set the time, my phone's alarm went off at five o'clock in the morning. After getting up, I hurriedly washed my face, and I began to operate the Tiangang Determination to absorb the Tiangang Qi in the air.

However, for me now, the qi of Tiangang can only run for a small week in my body. However, Rao is like this, under the nourishment of Tiangang's qi, his body quickly reached its best state.

I didn't rush to absorb the qi of Tiangang, but took out the yellow booklet and began to trace it against the "life lines" on it.

Drawing a "life pattern" is still not the same as drawing a yellow symbol.

Drawing talismans is a very serious matter, not the same as child's play, to put incense on the case, incense, please God, in advance to cleanse the body, and clean hands, clean mouth, clean pen, paper and ink inkstone, after praying, take the pen and wave, spray on the water, and then pray, and then bow, send God, all indispensable.

Of course, this is for beginners. For Taoist priests with mana, drawing talismans is much simpler.

As for the "life pattern", it seems that the pattern is similar to the rune pattern, but in fact it is very different.

The drawn "life pattern" must not only have charm, but also cooperate with the spell, and even must achieve a state of meditation, heart and hand unity, and have a strong perception of the lines.

Oh yes!

I drew the "life lines" all morning, but they all ended in failure, wasting a lot of paper. There were paper balls thrown on the ground, which made me feel very bad.

I have no choice but to stop for the time being!

When the pumpkin woke up, he saw the waste paper balls all over the ground and was surprised: "Brother Qin, what are you doing here?" What's the garbage all over the place? ”

I pouted and said what I needed to do.

When Pumpkin saw that I was listless, he said that I had not rested well, and dragged me out of the dormitory. The two of us went to the university cafeteria for breakfast. After eating, I packed a meal, took it back to the dormitory, fed it to the three-eyed yin monkey, and then went to the classroom.

I didn't have a serious class for a few days, and I found that I fell behind a lot in my class.

However, fortunately, none of the teachers who taught the class bothered me. So I was very helpless, so I spent 500 yuan and found a top student to help me make up for the class.

Classes are held in the morning and make-up classes are held in the afternoon.

Make-up classes continue until six o'clock in the evening. Originally, we had evening self-study at the university, but I didn't grasp it strictly, so I secretly returned to the dormitory and started to draw the "life pattern" again.

Just like in the morning, the drawn life pattern is still a mess.

During this period, I called my second senior brother Jiang Tianzhou and asked him about drawing life patterns. He also can't draw "life patterns", but he still has no problem drawing most of the common runes.

Not to mention, I really got a little bit out of him.

It turned out that the yellow booklet that my master gave me had a mantra on it, and as long as one learned the mantra of purifying the heart, one would be able to calm down. And the Pure Heart Mantra is just a Taoist mantra, and it is not difficult for me to learn now.

It took me a few hours to learn the Mind Purifying Mantra. Then wait until the lights go out in the dorm room and I start sleeping. The next morning, I got up at five o'clock and continued to draw the "life pattern". However, it is not okay to just meditate, and many other aspects must be done.

Therefore, the "life lines" I drew ended in failure.

Just like yesterday, it's still paper balls of garbage all over the floor. Thanks to the pumpkins who got up early to help me clean up.

And so on and so forth.

During the day, classes and make-up classes are made, and at night study, research, and draw life patterns.

After more than ten days, my course has basically kept up. As for the drawing of the life pattern, there has also been a little bit of progress. At the very least, now I can achieve meditation, my heart and hand are the same, and I can also draw the life pattern well with the spell.

But there are still two things I haven't done, and that is the sense of texture, and the verve.

When I drew the "life pattern", although the form was present, the charm was too far behind. There is also induction, although my sense of the texture is not bad, but every time I draw the "life pattern" to the critical time, it will always be interrupted.

It made me very nervous.

After all, the time of a month is getting shorter and shorter. If I can't draw the "life pattern", then I haven't let down the hopes of other little girls. The Han family may not necessarily blame me, after all, blood cancer is an incurable disease, but I have passed this hurdle in my heart.

So, I try to fill the time as much as possible.

I just hope that I can draw the "life pattern" as soon as possible.

Soon, the time came to the 25th of this month.

My second senior brother didn't forget to take me to the ghost market. On the evening of the 25th, I had just finished making up my class and had dinner with pumpkins in the cafeteria, when he called me and told me that the ghost market was open tonight, and he would come and pick me up later.

The ghost market is generally open on the evening of the 25th, and there is a six-hour period from the "戌 hour" to the "sub hour" in the evening.

And when my second senior brother Jiang Tianzhou told me the address of the ghost market, I was still surprised.

The ghost market in Lujiang City is not far from our university town, in a village called "Baitiao Village" in the southwest.

I didn't tell Pumpkin about my visit to the ghost market, but when Pumpkin was in the green bamboo forest before, he heard me and Jiang Tianzhou chatting, and he already knew about the ghost market. And his memory is not bad at all, knowing that the ghost market is open on the 25th.

I also know that I am busy with the poisoning of him!

So he dragged and pleaded with me in every possible way, saying that the pumpkin would let me take him with me. But to enter the ghost market, you need a "pass", which is the wooden sign.

Earlier, my master Ma Hongji asked my second brother to help me get a wooden plaque, but the pumpkin didn't.

When I was standing at the intersection and was about to refuse the pumpkin, my second senior brother Jiang Tianzhou's car stopped in front of us.

Seeing that it was Jiang Tianzhou's car, and seeing that I didn't agree, Pumpkin leaned in front of the car window and talked to Jiang Tianzhou, still wanting to go to the ghost market with a dead face.

Being begged by the pumpkin in every way, my second senior brother Jiang Tianzhou, who was a little embarrassed, looked at me with a helpless face.

Eventually, the two of us nodded yes and let the pumpkin follow. However, it has been said in advance that it is okay to go to the ghost market, but the pumpkin cannot enter the ghost market, so he can only stay in the car.

I don't know what Pumpkin thinks, but I agreed.

"Pumpkin, or you might as well not go. If you stay in the car, you won't be able to enter the ghost market, so you might as well stay in the dormitory and help me take care of the iron eggs. I continued to persuade.

But the pumpkin's head shook like a rattle: "Don't, Brother Qin, you promised me just now." ”

Oh yes! There's really nothing you can do with him.

"Since the little pumpkin brother wants to go over and take a look, then take him with you, with the senior brother here, the little pumpkin brother will be fine...... And it's not too early, we need to pass it as soon as possible. ”

My second brother didn't know if he was helping Pumpkin talk, or if he did it on purpose.

So I pouted, I nodded, and I agreed.

Pumpkin is an ordinary person, he has no mana, and he is not a Taoist disciple, so I am naturally not afraid that he will cause us trouble, but I am afraid that the ghost market will not be safe, and he will have something else, which is not what I want to see.

But now that I've agreed, and Pumpkin's attitude is still very resolute, it's hard for me to refuse again.

With that, Pumpkin and I got into my second brother's broken car.

The car is on the road.

On the way, my second senior brother Jiang Tianzhou asked me how I was doing with drawing "life patterns" these days. I had a bitter face, and I told all the things about the failure to draw the life pattern. He didn't have much research on the drawing of the life pattern, and after comforting and encouraging me a few words, he didn't say anything more.

Baitiao Village is a model of a new countryside, and it is no longer as dilapidated as it used to be.

The road leading to Baitiao Village has been built with the help of the government, and street lights have been installed in the village. From afar, it looks brightly lit. The houses are also red brick and white tin houses, and many of them have water heaters installed on them.

However, although the countryside is changing little by little, it is still not enough to make a living by farming alone. And whether it is rural or urban, the level of consumption is also increasing day by day.

So, in order to make a little more money, more farmers will go to the cities to work.

When we arrived at Baitiao Village, it was already more than eight o'clock in the evening, and there was a sound of dogs barking in the village. But I didn't see many people on the road.

Many people have lights on, and through the clear windows, you can see the TV set on and the scattered elderly and children in the house.

However, my second brother's car did not stop at Baitiao Village, but drove directly through Baitiao Village and went to a reservoir one mile away from Baitiao Village.

The reservoir was surrounded by weeds and trees, and the water in the reservoir was "rattling". The moonlight is not very bright, and looking at the water in the reservoir, it seems to be very muddy.

However, in front of a forest not far from the reservoir, there are a lot of parked vehicles.

I don't know if those vehicles are private cars, or fake cars, or scrapped vehicles at all, in short, they are not very good cars.

Next to those cars, my second senior brother Jiang Tianzhou stopped the car and said to the pumpkin: "You stay in the car first, me and Senior Brother Yuyang will go to the ghost market now, I don't plan to set up a stall in the ghost market this time, just take Senior Brother Yuyang over to see if I can buy silver ring grass." ”

Pumpkin understood what my second senior brother meant, and replied: "Daoist Jiang, don't worry, I will stay in the car and will not walk around." ”

"Hmm!"

Nodding, my second senior brother greeted me: "Let's go, let's get out of the car." ”

After that, we got out of the car.

Unexpectedly, not long after we got out of the car, the door of a van next to us was also pushed open. Then an old man dressed in blue, with age spots on his face and strings around his neck and wrists, walked down.

The old man didn't know what to think, and the clothes he wore on his body were like "pretending to be old clothes (shrouds)", and they were embroidered with bright gold patterns, which were the patterns of "five bats holding longevity".

"You're here?"

The old man said hello to Jiang Tianzhou, and his voice was neither salty nor light.

My second senior brother Jiang Tianzhou smiled and replied, "Just came!" ”

It seems that they know each other, but the way they greet each other is really a bit special.

(To be continued)