As these images kept flashing through my mind, the touch on my palms became colder and colder.

I leaned down and tried to pick up the tanuki, but I threw my hands upstairs twice, but I couldn't help it, so I could only lie on the ground and snuggle it up.

I think it might be a little warmer, and if it gets a little warmer, it might be a little happier.

When I left Loess Slope with Master, I was also very sad, but I was not as sad as it was, and it must have missed its own children.

Then it turned to look at me and said in a very gentle voice, "Take good care of this kindness." ”

No hoarseness, no resentment, just that faint tenderness.

But when I followed the sound and looked at it, I found that it was gone, and where it was lying on its stomach, there was only a fluttering piece of rune paper and a cluster of pale blue fireflies rising from the dead grass.

The fireflies slowly floated into the air, and when the mountain wind rose, they turned into a river of fireflies and floated to the distant sky.

The wind was very cold, so I wrapped my clothes and sat up slowly, watching the fireflies fade away.

The master looked in the same direction and said softly, "Your master said that all the grievances in this world are difficult to be influenced by exhortation, and all they need is understanding and feelings. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to understand the meaning of this sentence in the past. ”

I asked Master, "Where did it go?" ”

"The place where it goes is called the afterlife."

"Where is the next life?"

"In the next life, it will be a new life, a new hope. It is when you transcend it that it can have future lives, and this is a great merit. ”

I couldn't understand Master's words.

Master walked over, first helped me up, and then put away the spirit talisman on the ground: "Let's go, let's go home." ”

On the way down the mountain, Master said to me, "It's a good thing that you are born with insight into people's hearts, but you have compassion. But you have to remember that blind compassion can sometimes cross others and yourself, but sometimes it can also harm others and yourself, and if you want to save sentient beings, you must have both compassion and thunder. ”

I nodded vigorously, firmly remembering Master's words.

I asked Master, Lao Zhang Tou was obviously a good person before, why did he become a bad person later?

Master said that people always change, and what can make people change from good to bad is called greed, and what makes people change from bad to good is called good.

I asked Master, is it true that a good person must not be greedy?

Master said, not necessarily.

I asked Master again, "Is that greedy person necessarily not kind?"

Master said that he had already answered this question to me.

When I got home, it was already dark, Master boiled hot water, dipped a towel in water, and warmed my hands and feet.

In my hazy sleep, I heard the sound of Master walking back and forth in the room, and once I opened my eyes and saw Master sitting at the table, writing and drawing on paper with a brush.

I don't know if these things really happened or if they just happened in my dreams.

I don't know how long I slept before I was completely woken up by a loud noise, and when I opened my eyes, I saw that it was already bright outside the window, and Master was carrying a large roll of white cloth into the room.

"The meal is ready, and I will eat it myself."

Master said to me without raising his head while placing the cloth roll on the table next to the bed.

I rubbed my eyes, got up from the bed, and heard Qiao Sanye shouting in the yard again, mixed with the footsteps of other people.

"What is Third Master Qiao doing in the yard?" I asked Master.

Master picked up the brush on the table: "He wants to convert that cellar in the courtyard into a cold cellar." ”

Seeing that the brush in Master's hand was exactly the same as the one last night, I realized that I was not dreaming last night.

I leaned to the window, and saw that Qiao Sanye was asking people to dig up the land at the base of the wall, and in the hole they dug up, there was indeed a sealed iron door, which made me wonder: "How does Qiao Sanye know that there is a door under the ground?" ”

"The demonic aura in the cellar is very strong, it must be where the tanuki used to live, and the last time he asked people to clean the yard, he blocked that door. Now that the tanuki spirit has been exceeded, and my light array has melted away the demonic energy inside, the cellar can be reactivated. Okay, don't talk yet, I'm going to paint the skin. ”

Painted skin?

By the way, Master said before, that is also one of the nine great arts of our Xiaolongtan.

At this time, the master remembered something again, and suddenly straightened up and said to me: "Qiao Laosan is good to you, you have to remember his kindness." ”

The master spoke, and I also took this opportunity to quickly ask, "Is Third Master Qiao a kind person?" ”

"It should be regarded as a person, he is compassionate and compassionate, but he is a little ruthless."

"Is he greedy?"

"He, his greed is greater than anyone else's, but he can not forget his original intention and know how to restrain himself."

"That ......"

At this time, the master had already picked up the brush again and put his mind on the cloth scroll, so I closed my mouth and lay down at the table to watch what he was doing.

Qiao Sanye's shout suddenly sounded in the courtyard: "Don't go to the window, come back!" ”

I glanced out of the window, and I saw a tall and spacious man walking towards the window, as if he was coming to get something, and when Qiao Sanye yelled at him, the man shrank his head and retreated.

By the time I looked back at the table, Master had already unfolded the scroll and started painting on it.

That's when I saw that it wasn't a roll of cloth at all, and it had a faint glow on it, like some kind of animal skin, but I wasn't sure because there were still a lot of wood lines on it.

The master sprinkled cinnabar ink, and soon sketched a human face on it, followed by the torso, limbs, and hair.

To be honest, Master's drawings are not very realistic, and he can only make out a rough outline, but even so, I can still know that what he is drawing now is the young man we met last night.

It's weird.

After the painting was finished, the master took out a large pre-drawn talisman from the drawer with great speed.

This talisman was as big as the one I had seen in the loess slope clay kiln, and Master pinched the two corners of the talisman with both hands and shook it three times before spreading it on the "white cloth" flatly.

I stared at the talisman and the "white cloth" that overlapped on the table, and I didn't see anything strange until Master reached out and grabbed it in the air above the talisman, and I saw a faint figure floating up from the talisman paper.

After the shadow left the rune paper, it became more and more concrete, and I looked at it closely, and found that it finally changed into the appearance of the young man, but the figure of the person in front of me was much fuller than that of the young man, and his face was more ruddy.