Chapter 2 Apprenticeship
I don't know how long I walked, but I came to a hut, and on the bed inside, I saw myself lying down.
I followed the method taught to me by my uncle, silently recited the purification mantra seven times, leaned on my body, and suddenly felt that my chest was stuffy, my eyes were full of gold stars, and my mouth was like it was on fire, and my whole body was weak.
After lying in bed for two hours, I felt that I had regained a little strength, and then I struggled to get up and drink water, and after drinking a few large bowls of water, I saw the food on the table, and I devoured the food! After eating, I felt a little tired and went back to bed and fell into a deep sleep.
When I woke up, I saw Uncle Yi standing next to me, and I quickly got up to thank Uncle Yi.
Uncle Yi waved his hand and told me that the two creditors around me have not left yet, and it is up to me to resolve this grievance. At the same time, the first uncle said to me that the two creditors on me also have great backgrounds, the woman is called the killer, and the shadow is called the evil ghost, both of whom were harmed by my ancestors.
Now, I can only follow my uncle to cultivate the Tao, so that the grievances between me and these two creditors can be resolved as soon as possible. When I first went to the Ghost Gate, it was because of them.
The reason why Uncle Yi asked me to come back first was to stay and negotiate with them. It's a pity that they didn't talk about it later, and Uncle Yi led them back, and after a vicious fight, they were trapped by a lock ghost array. When I get home from my cultivation in the future, I will resolve this grievance by myself.
I asked Uncle Yi what is the use of locking the ghost array?
The first uncle told me: "Lock the ghost array. Commonly known as 'Thunder Pool', it is a method used to imprison evil spirits. According to Zhou Yi's theory, the sun belongs to the yang, the night belongs to the yin, the evil ghost can only be active at night, the ancients divided the entire night sky into twenty-eight star areas when stargazing, called the 'twenty-eight nights', each of which contains a number of stars, and the 'thunder pool' of the cloth is to spread twenty-eight copper coins around the evil ghosts, artificially delineating a false 'twenty-eight nights', the copper coins belong to the yang, will give the evil ghosts the illusion of entering the 'sun real fire' more than the 'thunder pool'. ”
This formation does no harm to the evil ghosts, and can only play a role in imprisoning, and the time of imprisonment depends on the strength of the evil ghosts and the level of their IQ. As long as I practice diligently, I can use this formation in the future.
After eating at noon, Uncle Yi began to teach and confer duties on my own robe on the bed.
First of all, the first uncle asked me to kneel in front of the Sanqing patriarch, connect me with the offering table with a red cloth, press one end on the offering table, and tie the other end around my waist. Then Uncle Yi took a bowl of water, burned a yellow talisman and put it in the water, and began to chant around me, as for what he was chanting, I didn't hear it clearly.
After drinking thirty-three sips, the first uncle took a token and hit me a few times, and then stood in front of me, picked up a piece of white paper from the offering table, and read it aloud to me: "I respectfully invite the patriarch Sanqing, the Zhongtian Arctic Ziwei Emperor, the Antarctic Immortal Jade Halal King, the Gouchen Shanggong Emperor, and the Chengtian Emperor to imitate the Earth Emperor." ”
"Under the Heavenly Master, the Qingwei heir. Disciple Shouyi received an apprentice today, commonly known as Yang Jian, this son will be my Qingwei Sect in the future, give him the legal name Yuanhua, give the Dharma position Qingwei Yi Wei Xianqing, serve in the Arctic Exorcism Institute, in the future, Yuanhua must not kill innocents indiscriminately, and must do more good deeds to live up to my reputation as Qingwei Daomen. The disciple kept a piece of please. ”
After reading it, the first uncle burned the paper and told me: "You will call me the first uncle in the future, you are the second disciple of my Qingwei sect, you have a senior brother, he went down the mountain last year to practice, the name of the Dharma is rounded, from today on, you will follow me to learn the Tao, you must not be lazy, you need to practice diligently, so as to resolve the injustices on your body as soon as possible." ”
Since the afternoon, Uncle Yi asked me to memorize the Tao Te Ching, the Taishang Induction Chapter, the Eight Great Divine Mantras, and the Taishang Sanguan Treasure Sutra, saying that I should memorize a little every day and check at seven o'clock every night, and if I am lazy, I will be punished for not eating on the second day.
The next morning, Uncle Yi called me over and told me that from today onwards, I would meditate every morning, memorize books at noon, practice talismans in the afternoon, and in the evening Uncle Yi would tell me some knowledge about ghosts. Every night at 7 o'clock in the evening, I checked my homework for the day, and if I couldn't do it, I would be punished.
In fact, I am also very curious, why so many people in the world, Uncle Yi chose me as an apprentice?
When Uncle Yi heard my question, he laughed: "First, you and I are destined; Second, I checked your eight characters, which are suitable for cultivation; Third, if I don't teach you the Tao, you will die at the hands of those two beasts sooner or later. ”
I really couldn't understand the words of the first uncle, and the first uncle saw my suspicion and sighed: "Actually, those are not any reasons, the main reason is that my Dao sect is weak, I don't want to break the inheritance after me, and it is not easy to explain to the master in the future." At the same time, I saw that your eight characters were indeed suitable for cultivation, so I became a disciple. ”
It turns out that this is the case, Uncle Yi is my life-saving benefactor, and I should be his apprentice, but I always feel that being a Taoist priest will not be so simple.
It's just that I didn't see it at the time, and when Master said that the Dao Sect was weak, his eyes were suddenly full of silence.
"Alright, dog thing, go get the endorsement! Don't try to be lazy with me! I'm telling you, if you can't recite the Eight Great Divine Mantras today, you won't eat dinner! Seeing that I was in a daze, Uncle Yi's face changed, and he shouted at me, and at the same time pulled the broom next to him and was about to hit me.
Seeing that the situation was not good, I hurriedly agreed and quickly ran out of my uncle's room.
In this way, I began my two-year life as a mountain man, during which Master had told me that the person who did our job was not called a Taoist priest, but Duangong.
Two years later, Master called me to me and told me that now that I had almost learned the basics, it was time to go down the mountain, and in the future, I would walk around the world more, help others more, and resolve my grievances as soon as possible. Then he sent me down the mountain.
I went down the mountain to the bus station to buy a ticket home, when I got off the bus, I felt that I had not seen my hometown for hundreds of years, I rushed to the door of the house, I happened to meet my father who came home from work, in an instant, I and my father both cried, my father touched my head and said stinky boy, finally willing to come back, come, at night and Dad talk about your experience in the past two years.
That night, my father and I sat down to eat together, and I told my father about what I had experienced in the past two years, and my father was full of emotion: "Son, you must remember your master, he is the life-saving benefactor of our family, and I will go to see your master during the New Year's holidays in the future, he lives alone in the mountains and no one talks to him. ”
I said I know, and my dad said you should go back to school, I took you two years off, and now it's about to take the high school entrance examination, go back and review it, don't have any pressure, we will study if we can't take the exam, and if we can't take the exam, we will find other ways. Hearing my father's words, and then looking at my father's somewhat gray hair, my nose was sore, and I was about to cry again.
After returning to school, life returned to peace, and the days passed.
In a blink of an eye, the entrance examination came, as expected, because I had been memorizing scriptures and writing symbols for two years. I didn't get into a high school, and then my dad and I combined, instead of teaching a high school to go to high school, I should go to a secondary vocational school and learn a technology.
After two months of squatting at home, school has finally started! But when I came to the gate of this school, I began to wonder if I had chosen to study for a secondary career correctly.
Shabby, I can't find any other words to describe this school than shabby. On the wall at the school gate, I don't know who wrote "guns, X medicine, please call 18XXXXXXXXX" and "Student sister XX, please contact 18XXXXXXXXX", I know that this is the school, I don't know, I think this is a scene in a Hong Kong movie!
Standing at the gate of the school is a group of yellow-haired teenagers, and a group of rainbow-haired girls, both of them are playing there with cigarettes in their mouths, and there is a broken sign next to it that reads "New Student Greeting Place".
To be honest, I wanted to turn around and go home. However, after thinking about it, this is also my own choice, and it is better to have a diploma than not to have a diploma.
So I stepped forward and asked, "Hello, where can I register for new students?" ”
When I had said this, I saw a group of people looking at me with a smile in their eyes, full of mockery, as if the hungry wolf had seen a lamb delivered to the door.
A yellow-haired boy turned his head to look at me, "You're new here?" We can sign you up, but you'll have to ask a few brothers to smoke a cigarette and drink a sip of water, right? ”
Hearing this, I sighed in my heart,! I met someone who collects protection money.
So I also smiled and said I understand the rules, how much does it cost?
Seeing that the yellow hair stretched out a finger and shook it at me, my heart was happy, it seems that the gangsters in this school are still very qualified, not bad, not bad, and promising.
"It's easy to say, isn't it just ten yuan, the younger brother will give you twenty dollars, so that you can drink more water, you have worked hard."
"Ten pieces? , are you sick? Lao Tzu said a hundred, didn't you take medicine? Ten yuan is not enough for Lao Tzu to take a taxi, less nonsense, sharp, bring it. ”
When I said ten dollars, the crowd laughed, and the yellow fur became even more annoyed and yelled at me.
As soon as I touched my pocket, the living expenses for this month were only 800, and I had to use 100 before I entered the school, so I couldn't live this month!
So I refused his request and wanted to turn away. But at this time, the group of yellow hairs suddenly surrounded me in the middle: "Boy! Do you want to leave without giving money? You see if you're gone, I'll tell you clearly, if you don't give money today, you don't want to go to this school anymore. ”
As he spoke, the yellow hair who asked me for money reached out and gave me a slap.
This slap is a loud one! At that time, I felt that my face was spicy, and I was so angry in my heart, I was a young man again, and I didn't care about thirty-seven twenty-one, so I did it with them.
As a result, as expected, I was by a group of people on the first day of school, and I ended up handing over the money to them.
When the yellow hair saw that I gave the money, he smiled and said to me: "Boy, that's right, take it out early, you won't be beaten, right?" My name is Zhang Chong, you remember for me, if I know that you went to school to complain or something, don't blame me for being unkind. ”
After saying that, a group of yellow hairs turned around and left the school gate, leaving only me with a blue nose and swollen face, and the tattered wooden sign that said where the new students were greeted.