Chapter 26: Apprenticeship
The little man was the first to stand up, he glared at me and scolded, "Who are you?" Don't know to knock on the door before entering? "When I saw this, I realized that the two of them were not fighting, but were pointing in the direction of the gate and were about to explain. The little man didn't give me a chance to open his mouth, and he was about to kick me out with a straight face, and I wanted to explain what I was here for. But the long sword in the little man's hand shook in front of me, and I knew that it had been opened by looking at the edge of the sword. I didn't dare to speak anymore at the moment, and when I turned around and was about to leave, a loud voice suddenly came from not far away: "You two are lazy again, aren't you?" Tonight, meditate for two hours, and copy the Tiangang mantra a hundred times. When this voice came out, the faces of the little man and the flat head froze. At the moment, he couldn't take care of me as an outsider, so he trotted back and came to the owner of the voice just now.
When I turned around, I saw an old man with white hair and a red face listening to the little man's report with his hands behind his back. The old man is 1.6 meters tall, and he looks the same age as Lao Mo, but the old man is well maintained. Except for his hair and beard, which showed his age, there were no other signs of old age. At this time, the little man's whisper was finished, and the old man looked me up and down, and said, "Little doll, this is my house, if there is nothing to do, let's leave quickly." I glanced at the little man with some unconvinced attitude.
I smiled at the old man, took out the jade pendant from my backpack, and shook it in my hand to show my intention. When the old man saw the jade pendant in my hand, his eyes couldn't help but flash a fine light, and he looked like he wanted to say something. It's just that at this time, I was talking about Lao Mo asking me to come to apprenticeship, and the old man swallowed back the words that came to his mouth. After I made my words clear, the old man touched his snow-white beard and said to himself: "Back then, I made a bet with Mo Dao to see who asked for whom first, and if anyone lost, he had to call the other party's father." At the end, the old man burst out laughing. It turns out that it is not only us young people who are good at this tune, but we all think about being someone's father when we dare to love back in the past.
The old man laughed for a while, and then he realized that there were still a few of us juniors present, and he held back his laughter at the moment, beckoned to me, and let me have something to say in the room. At this time, the little man and the flat head looked at me and there was no hostility. When I walked up to the little man, he patted me on the shoulder very politely and said with a hint of apology, "I'm sorry, I was impulsive just now." Seeing the flat head and the little man cowering in front of the old man, they didn't need to ask to know that it was a master-apprentice relationship. No matter how you say it in the future, it's also a senior brother, and it's not good to make too much trouble, so I took the initiative to laugh back and said, "It's okay, it's all a misunderstanding." When I said the end, I had already taken out a pack of cigarettes from my body and was about to smoke them to my two senior brothers. Unexpectedly, when the little man saw me take out a cigarette, he subconsciously looked up at the old man who walked in front. Seeing that the old man didn't notice us, he hurriedly stuffed the cigarette in my hand back into my pocket, and then whispered: "You will die if you smoke in front of the master......
"What kind of meeting are you having in the back, do you need me to join in and give you advice?" "It's okay, master, Xiao Er and I are greeting the new junior brother." After the little man finished dealing with the old man, he took me and followed the old man towards the main house, and then I realized that this place was not simple. It is an old-fashioned courtyard house in the capital, and there is a Taiji-shaped pool in the center of the courtyard, in which there are a few goldfish scattered around, and there are two pavilions not far from the pool. It's just a few streets away from the capital's city centre, and it's a bargain in the capital. The courtyard where I am now has to be nine figures to take it down, but I didn't expect that my master is still a hidden tyrant......
Just as I sighed, the few of us had already entered the house. Most of the decoration style and furniture in the house are made of elm wood, and the old-fashioned courtyard houses outside all reveal the smell of the old capital. After the old man entered the house, he sat down directly on the main seat, and I wanted to find a chair to sit on, but I was not embarrassed to sit down when I saw the little man and the flat head standing. Just when I was standing a little embarrassed and didn't know what to say, the old man glanced at me and said with a smile: "Little doll, what are you still doing in a daze, hurry up and give me a bowing ceremony, let's keep everything simple." Hurry up, I can't wait for Mo Dao's new name for me. ”
The old man's words made me stunned for a moment, how is this different from the movie, shouldn't there be some kind of apprenticeship test? It wasn't until he got to the second half of the sentence that I realized what was going on. While the old man finished speaking, Pingtou had already brought a cup of tea to me very appropriately. I kowtowed respectfully to the old man three times, then took the teacup handed to me by Pingtou, brought it to the old man, and said, "Master, you drink tea."
The old man didn't have the joking look just now at this time, he took my teacup with a solemn face, took a sip and said, "From this moment on, you ...... What is your name? After I reported the name with a dark face, the old man continued: "Wu Xiuran is already the seventy-sixth generation disciple of my Shenxiao Sect, and from now on, he must not use the Dao method to seek money and kill people, and he must not ......" After saying a lot of the rules of the Shenxiao Sect, the old man led me to another room.
I saw that there were three statues of gods enshrined in this room, and I don't know which three gods they were. The old man brought me to the statue in the middle, made me kowtow to the god three times, and then put a stick of incense on me. Then the old man asked me for my birthday, wrote and drew on a piece of yellow paper for a while, and after I finished writing, I took out the ink and asked me to stamp my fingerprints on the yellow paper. At last the old man himself knelt before the idol and muttered quietly, but his voice was very small. Even when I was standing beside him, I only occasionally heard a few words from Master Zu or something.
When the old man had finished speaking, he kowtowed to the idol, and the yellow paper with handwriting on it only shook in his hand, and then a flash of fire flashed, and then it spontaneously combusted. When the yellow paper began to burn, the old man's face was serious, and his eyes stared directly at the yellow paper that had not yet been burned, as if he was afraid that something would happen.