After this incident, the master seemed to be reluctant to teach me, but often advised me to go home and stop being a Taoist priest.

Half a month later, my mother asked me to go home to live, at that time our county was a poor county in the mountainous area, and the county put forward a slogan: if you want to be rich, you should have fewer children and build more roads. The biggest reason for poverty in mountainous areas is that the transportation is underdeveloped, and the railway station will be built in the future, and the towns and villages had better repair the roads first, otherwise even if the train comes, it will not be able to stimulate the economy of the towns and villages.

At that time, there was only one winding mountain road leading to the county seat in our town, and it took more than two hours to go there, and once it rained, the mountain road collapsed and the road was broken, so the county allocated funds for the town to build another road. At that time, unlike now, there were construction teams everywhere, and we mainly relied on manual excavation to build roads, so the town government encouraged each family to contribute at least two laborers to help repair the roads and distribute money according to work.

Only my father and uncle were at home, my uncle was working in the south, and my cousin and my own brother were also in school, so my father and uncle were arranged to build roads. I couldn't live without a man at home, so my grandmother asked my mother to call me back to live. I studied Taoism in Taoist Bay during the day and returned to Song Bay in the evening.

One day, someone came to the master's hometown, saying that it was haunted, and the master took me there.

The master is not a natural Taoist priest, his hometown is on the other side of the town, when he was a child, because there was no one in the family, so he was sent to us by the people in the family to cultivate, in other words, to eat with a mouthful of food, not to be starved to death.

I walked through the town with the master, on the mountain not far from the town, there was a Taoist temple, at this time the master told me, in fact, we and this Taoist temple are from the same line, this Taoist temple used to be moved from Taoist Bay, I asked if it was the Taishi Uncle them, the master nodded, but did not say anything more.

Chenwan is also a village halfway up the mountain, the master had a famine when he was a child, and his relatives basically starved to death, but many people in the village still knew the master, so this time he was haunted, so he came to the master.

The haunted is the Chen Sheng family who lives next to him, his daughter is called Chen Ting, 20 years old this year, she started working outside after graduating from junior high school, and she only came back during the Chinese New Year in previous years, but this year it was not New Year's Day, and she came back.

The key is that this girl has a very docile personality, but when she comes back this time, she doesn't know what evil she encounters, and she often loses her temper. Chen Sheng also has a young son, only six or seven years old, just in elementary school, these days he always says that he sees someone in his sister's room, but he searches every corner of the house and doesn't see anything. It's just that sometimes in the middle of the night, Chen Ting can often be heard crying, and the family asks her why she is crying, but she doesn't speak.

The old man always said that children are easy to see dirty things, it is estimated that this time Chen Ting came back, it may be that he encountered dirty things, as the saying goes, don't do bad things, don't be afraid of ghosts knocking on the door, so in the countryside, haunting is an ugly thing, so Chen Sheng did not go to the nearest Taoist temple, but chose to find the master, after all, it is the family, reliable.

We arrived at noon, had dinner at Chen Sheng's house, and the master looked around in front of the house and said that he couldn't see a big problem. Now you can only use burning paper to introduce it.

So the master asked Chen Sheng to call Chen Ting to the hall, and Chen Ting came out of the back room, and when she saw me and the master, it was like seeing a ghost, and she was so frightened that she hid back.

At that time, the Chen family's aunt was washing dishes in the kitchen, and Chen Sheng couldn't pull it out when he went to the house alone, so he called out to me: "Little Taoist, come and help." ”

I ran in, it was just a girl's boudoir, with posters of male stars on the walls, Chen Ting hid in the corner, Chen Sheng stood next to her and dragged hard, she just didn't go out.

When Chen Sheng saw me, he hurriedly shouted: "Little Taoist, take a hand, you get behind her, push her, and I'll pull in front." ”

So I ran to the corner, ready to push her, but I didn't want Chen Ting to break free of Chen Sheng's hand, and slapped me twice, and then shrank in the corner and cried.

I was a little stunned by this sudden two slaps, Chen Sheng saw that his daughter was not struggling, but fortunately he picked her up directly and carried her to the hall, I covered my face and walked out after me.

The master was burning paper and saw it and asked what was going on.

Chen Sheng said: "My daughter went crazy and slapped the little Taoist twice. ”

The master did not answer, but motioned to Chen Sheng to put Chen Ting on the chair in front of the burning paper, and then asked Chen Sheng to find a copper coin, printed it on Chen Ting's head, and then wrapped the copper coin in the burning paper and threw it into the fire to burn together.

When it was about to be burned, the master took a sip of wine and sprayed it on the burning paper, and the burning paper wrapped in money slowly extinguished, and the master used tongs to clip out the burning paper, opened the burning paper, and returned the copper coin to Chen Sheng. I saw that in the middle of the burned paper, in addition to the copper coin print, there was also a child's hand-scratched mark, which looked no more than the size of a baby, the master looked at it and asked, "Have any babies died in your neighborhood recently?" ”

Chen Sheng shook his head, Chen Ting sat on the chair, and whimpered even more when he heard it.

It seems that there is indeed something strange, and the master asked Chen Sheng: "Have you seen your daughter recently?" ”

Chen Sheng said: "She cried every night, and she didn't cry out about pain and discomfort, I only suspected that she encountered dirty things, and I didn't think that she would have any diseases." ”

As I was talking, I saw blood oozing from the corner of Chen Ting's mouth, and I pulled the corner of the master's clothes and motioned him to look. Chen Sheng also noticed me, turned his head to look at her daughter, and asked, "What's wrong with your mouth?" ”

Chen Ting didn't speak, jumped off the chair, ran into the kitchen, and Chen Sheng chased after him.

I was a little confused and asked the master, "Is she evil?" ”

The master shook his head and said, "There is indeed a little ghost in this house, and it is estimated that it is also related to this girl, but this little ghost does not seem to be here to harm people." If you see the money, he will arrest it, if it is an evil ghost, I am afraid that if you don't burn the money, you will want to blow the burning paper away and burn the house. ”

I asked, "What then?" ”

The master sighed, sat down, and said, "If it's really an evil ghost, at night, I will directly wipe my eyes with willow leaves and kill him, but this little ghost doesn't know what the origin is, and it's not good to directly harm him." ”

I still feel hot on my face, I think it's me, no matter what your origin, I will directly destroy you, die and not survive, and cause me to suffer two big mouths, it is estimated that this Chen Ting is not a good bird, otherwise how could he get into this dirty thing. The master looked at the red handprints on my cheeks, if he had been shushing in the past, he would have asked for warmth, but now he just looked at it and didn't speak again.

I found myself a stool and sat down next to it.

After a while, Chen Sheng came out of the kitchen and said to the master: "I'm sorry, uncle, I told you, don't spread it, after all, it's a shameful thing." ”

The master looked at me and nodded.

Chen Sheng recounted: It turned out that Chen Ting was pregnant with someone else's child outside, so she ran back to her hometown. Chen Ting wanted to kill the child, but she was a little reluctant.

Chen Sheng asked Chen Ting who the man was, if he couldn't go to the city to find that person at home, even if he didn't want the bride price, he could marry him.

After all, in the countryside, if you have a big belly, it is difficult to get married. But Chen Ting kept crying, but she didn't want to say who the man was, and she couldn't want this child to be stable.

The master nodded and said, "It may be that Chen Ting thought about this in the middle of the night, and knew that the man might not admit it, and the child was estimated to be unable to be saved, so it attracted the dissatisfaction of this reincarnated child." ”

The master asked Chen Sheng what he was going to do.

Chen Sheng said: "First of all, take her to a clinic and beat the child secretly." This child is stable and can't stay, it's hard to explain if she stays, and it's difficult for her to remarry. ”

The master nodded and said, "I don't want to participate in your family's affairs, I also know that the child is born, it is very troublesome, I just want you to persuade Chen Ting recently, see who the man is, maybe the man will marry Chen Ting, if this road can be taken, the child can be born and saved." ”

Chen Sheng thought about it and said: "Uncle, I think I will do this first, after all, the abortion is not good for the girl's health, I often hear that some people can no longer conceive after the abortion." But what about this little ghost? He estimated that he would hear about the fetus again, and the stability would still be troublesome, and we adults were fine, but my son was scared every day. ”

The master said: "Your son, you first let your daughter-in-law take your daughter-in-law to live at your grandmother's house for a period of time, and I asked my apprentice to accompany Chen Ting during the day, first, to help her relax, and secondly, if there is something, he can understand a little, and if he can't do it, he can come and tell me." ”

I don't want to, I was slapped twice just now, and now let me stay, not looking for a beating.

The master said, "I'm the master, you have to listen to me, go to me tomorrow to find some books, read here, cultivate your mind, don't always think about subduing demons and eliminating demons." ”

At that time, I thought that the master probably disliked me a little, so he broke me away and let me die to become a Taoist priest.

But I didn't want to, the next day when I took the book, I found Uncle Taishi's codex notes by the way, and there, the door to the evil in my heart was opened, and from then on, I discovered another world of Taoism.