Chapter 19: The Ancestral Hall

After Master left, I lay on the bed in a daze for a long time, wondering what all this had to do with me, a fifteen-year-old child, and I always felt that there was a pair of invisible hands pushing me behind my invisible back. ‘

Before and after his thoughts, he reasoned back and forth, but he couldn't understand anything, and before he knew it, the rooster crowing in the distance came in, and then three bells that shook the valley rang.

I knew that it was time to get up and read in the morning, my stomach was a little growling, and I didn't bother to pay attention to it, got up and dressed, took the Tao Te Ching and walked out.

When I came to the Qingxin Palace, I saw that several senior brothers had already sat down, and this group of people went to bed late and got up early every day, and they were never sleepy, and they were one step ahead of me no matter what they did.

I didn't bother to ask, said hello to each other, walked to my place and sat down, and started my uneventful day.

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The days that followed were uneventful, the only difference was that Master had taken extra care of me since the events of that night, and his smile towards us became more and more sunny.

Last time, the second senior brother smashed his delicate gilt incandescent teapot, and the old man just smiled and told the senior brother that he was buying an ordinary one.

Hehehe, this old man is really going to rejuvenate.

I also read "The Secret Art of Luotu" thoroughly according to the agreement with my master, and I always felt that the second brother in my dream gave me a fairy potion, and my memory had a qualitative leap after that incident.

Don't forget it, at least read it three or two times and you can recite it fluently.

Today, I cleaned up in the Pure Heart Hall as usual, holding a broom in my hand and unhurriedly starting the last course of the day. Master often said, "The earth does not hurt the lives of ants", I have always remembered in my heart, he is a kind person, a Taoist, a celebrity in the world,

"Hah! Tyre! Syllable! "It's too late, that's fast, I threw the broom in my hand, and my hands turned into palms and slapped horizontally in the air! A small mosquito was killed by me! Looking at its corpse, completely ignoring the blood on its hands, hehe laughed.

"Hey, hey, little sample, tell you to suck me last night, see if I don't want your mosquito life!"

In the place of pride, Master walked in, I quickly picked up the broom that had fallen to the ground, and wiped the blood on my hands on my pants indiscriminately.

I saw his old man striding towards me, the clouds in his hands swept back and forth, and his kind face turned into a rakshasa ghost when he came to me!

I quickly stood upright, "Horn! "Bang!

As I expected, the cloud swept crashed on my head without any accident.

"Shaft! How many times have I told you that you are not allowed to kill, the reincarnation of heaven, can you guarantee that you will not be a mosquito in your next life? ”

I pursed my lips casually, and even whispered, "Cut, isn't it just a mosquito?" ”

Unexpectedly, the old man seemed to be addicted, "Horn! "It's another blow to the head, this time I really don't dare to speak, this old man's hand is not light or heavy, it is estimated that he will be swollen with two large pus pockets tomorrow morning,

After thinking about it, forget it, I can't beat it, I don't dare to scold, I just admit my mistake, "Master, I was wrong..."

The old man walked to the front of the portrait of Lao Tzu and lit three sticks of incense, then turned back to me and said, "Don't believe it, karma in the world, it doesn't matter if you kill a mosquito today, you may die because of a mosquito tomorrow!"

Doing more good may not be rewarded, but doing more evil will definitely lead to evil rewards. ”

How dare I speak, standing there aggrieved, the old man may know that he has started a little heavier, and his tone is soothing, after all, I am his youngest apprentice.

"That's it, pay attention in the future, you come with me first." After saying that, the old man shook the clouds, turned around and walked out, and I hurriedly took two steps forward and followed him.

Out of the Qingxin Palace, go to the east and start to go up the mountain, I came for a long time, this piece basically knows me, along the stone steps of the clouds, little by little up the old man walked very slowly, every step is very heavy, I want to surpass him several times but dare not.

After a while, I came to the Four Beasts Platform, I thought the old man was going to my residence, I began to turn around and walk to the right, but the old man pulled me,

"Just follow me, what are you going to do?"

I groaned and continued to follow him, he was finally old, and he was sweating a little after hundreds of steps.

I followed him, the afterglow of the setting sun hit his side face, and suddenly found that this old man should have been a beautiful man when he was young, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, a tall nose bridge, tsk, but unfortunately, time has passed, and Fanghua is not there.

We continued to walk upward, according to the rules of the door, the highest place that the disciples can go to is the Tongtian Gate, as for what else is behind the Tongtian Gate, we don't know.

The master didn't let him ask, but just said that where was the forbidden land, and if you went up without permission, you would be punished heavily. I saw that the old man had no intention of stopping when he arrived at the Tongtian Gate, and I was secretly a little excited in my heart, maybe among the senior brothers, I was the first to cross the Tongtian Gate.

The gate of heaven is very high, and it is impossible to calculate how many zhang it is, but I know that even the ethereal clouds have been trampled under my feet, and we have been up the mountain for more than two hours.

I felt my ankles ache and my legs and stomach felt like they were swelling on the stones, but the old man was still walking steadily on every stone staircase before he reached his destination.

I don't know how long it took, but it suddenly became clear that there were no stone steps except for the glittering meadow. I think it's the top, the old man stood in front of him, took a deep breath, and said to me.

"Xiao Lin, have you ever come up?"

I quickly shook my head, my head shook like a rattle, I have to say that I haven't been here, this old man asked knowingly.

When he saw me shaking his head, he smiled and did not speak, and it was getting late, and the half-toothed moon hung high in the sky, not as bright and bright as usual, but shrouded in a cloud of black clouds, emitting a faint gray luster,

The Master took out a candle from his sleeve and lit it with two clicks of flint and steel. Keep walking.

The further I went, the narrower the road became, and I could have been next to the old man, but now I could only be behind the old man.

Walking and walking, there was a Taoist temple not far away, which was actually similar to a palace.

The flat and round treasure dome has three small pillars on it, and there is a stone monkey on the top of the pillar. Due to the distance, it was not clear to see.

This Taoist temple is very high, it is estimated that in addition to the Sanqing Palace, the entire cloud view belongs to its highest, until standing in front of the temple door, I saw the words on the plaque clearly, "Ancestral Hall!" ”

It turned out that this was a place to worship the ancestors of the past generations of Yunzhongguan, no wonder it became a forbidden place.

The master held a candle in one hand and pushed open the heavy door of the temple with the other, and I could see it clearly behind me.

But I believe that Master will never harm me, and he followed closely behind him, thinking that the hall was pitch black, but I didn't expect it to be quite bright.

One foot across the temple door, greeted by a huge portrait of Zhang Daoling, there are three tablets in front of the portrait, there is an incense case in front of the tablet, and four candles are inserted on it to make a permanent lamp.

In addition, there are four embodiments of requiem incense quietly inserted in the incense burner, and the portrait was not seen clearly at first glance, but it was clear when I got closer. I couldn't help but spoof it in my heart,、

This Daoling is ugly enough, and it is estimated that it is not better than the Dragon King.

But he saw that the man was wearing a golden crown of letters, and his forehead of different length and width was painted red, and the cheekbones that matched his forehead were narrow.

The two sword eyebrows extended long diagonally upward, and the eyes were large and focused, but the pupils were red.

His lips were long, flattened, grinning downward, as if something was piercing him under his ass, grinning in pain.

A long, thick black beard covers his neck and chin. Wearing a red Xia Feng robe, holding a cloud sweep on his fingers... I wanted to watch for a while, but was interrupted by Master.

"What are you looking at?"

I don't dare to say that because he's ugly, he looks at it twice, isn't it okay to find a smoke? changed his rhetoric, "Master, is this the ancestor I sent to open the mountain, Zhang Tianshi?" ”

"Not bad."

I nodded with a look of surprise, and the old man continued, "Follow me." ”

The low and solemn voice startled me, and I didn't dare to look at the "Dragon King" anymore, so I hurriedly followed.

Walking through the altar and towards the back hall, the Master was still holding the candle that was about to burn to the end, walking alone in front, and I followed behind, looking left and right at the temple that I had never been to.

Suddenly!! I found a man standing in the depths of the corner!! The man was wearing a big red robe wedding dress, and he didn't know how long he hadn't changed it, and there were many holes in it.

The appearance of the cloak covered his face, he was not tall, his nails were as long as a red-topped candle, and he stood there silently. I screamed in fright!

"Ahh

Even the master, who was so full of water, was startled by my sudden and huge howl! With a shake of his hand, the candle hung on the ground, and he turned around and shouted angrily.

"What are you calling nonsense!"

I pointed to the man in the corner and stammered, "That. That. That has one. Person. "I thought Master would look in the direction I was pointing, but unexpectedly, this end knocked me directly!

"Horn!"

"Shhh That's the cleaning of the ancestral hall, can you stop screaming next time! ”

My head hurts, sweat soaks my clothes, think about it, can I be blamed for this? In the middle of the night, I was brought to a place like the mourning hall, and there was only one fire, and a woman in a red wedding dress appeared on the side as I walked.

After a few words of anger in my heart, I continued to follow the master forward, and I asked.

"Master, why is the person cleaning the ancestral hall wearing red clothes, and... And she hasn't been out for a long time, and the appearance of her cloak is estimated to be frightened when Zhang Tianshi sees it. ”

Master knew that I was open-mouthed, but he didn't get angry and replied.

"Alas, she was a poor man, and I heard from my master that when the woman was young, the world was in chaos, and her husband was taken captive by a strong man on the night of his wedding, and then he lost the battle in front of him, and his husband died in battle, and in the end he could not even leave his bones.

The woman was alone, dressed in her wedding dress, and went to the place where her husband had died in battle, and wept for three days, and blinded her eyes, and then an army passed by, and saw a blind little lady lying on the side of the road crying, and she was taken back to the barracks.

You think, how could the woman end well when she was captured and marched into the barracks, alas, as expected, she was bullied by hundreds of soldiers for several days, and finally General Zhang Lu broke into the city, rescued her, and sent him to the clouds to watch her pitiful.

My master is a kind-hearted person, and he took him in, and wanted her to do something she could do in the temple, but I didn't expect this woman to say

'Shall the surviving be unguarded, and the walking dead shall be blinded, and shall have their true faces unrevealed, and shall defile the holiness of your contemplation.'"

My master was very touched at that time, so he persuaded her to come to the ancestral hall to live, and this time it was nearly 60 years, alas. ”

I was furious when I heard that at the end! Is there any humanity left for those who insulted him? A good man died on the battlefield, that is the highest value embodiment of a soldier, for the country and the people, although he will not hesitate to die.

But the wife is innocent! A group of well-trained men actually dealt a black hand to a weak woman who was powerless. Is this called the army? It's a bunch of beasts! It's right to be defeated by General Zhang! If such an army sits in the world, where will the people still have their lives?

The old man who walked in front of me did not know the activity of my heart, I clenched my fists, followed him angrily, and came to a back hall with all twists and turns,

The back hall is very large, but there are only two wooden couches on the ground, and they are opposite, and the wall behind the wooden couch is not dedicated to Zhang Tianshi, but a ghost that has never been seen before!

The ghost had six arms and three faces! Taking advantage of the faint light of the fire, I saw that there were countless eyes on his forehead! Indescribably weird and scary.

It was the first time I had seen such a hideous and ugly idol, and the old man sat down on his knees with his back to the idol, and said a word to me.

"Come and sit down."

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