"I didn't go to get the ranking to enter the China Taoist Association, as the saying goes, the emphasis is on participation, first, I want to open my eyes, after all, I have only joined the Maoshan faction for a short time, and I don't know about the various Taoist sects in China, so I really want to go and see, I don't want to be a frog at the bottom of the well and only see the sky as big as a palm. Second, I also want to exercise myself when I go to the competition this time, and there is a good saying that "people will not make progress if they do not experience setbacks", I said to Mr. Zhang with a serious face.

"If you can think so, I support you to participate in that selection competition, I can see that you are self-motivated, as the saying goes, sincerity is the golden stone, as long as you work hard, sooner or later you will reach a peak" Teacher Zhang encouraged me.

"Thank you, Mr. Zhang, for your encouragement, I'm really sorry to disturb your rest today, Mr. Zhang," I got up from the bed and said to Mr. Zhang with a guilty face.

"It's okay, you and I are both from the same faction, and I should help you," Teacher Zhang also stood up and said to me with a smile.

"Teacher Zhang, it's not too early, I won't disturb your study, I'll go back first" I said goodbye to Teacher Zhang.

"Okay, then I won't keep you either, since you want to participate in the selection competition, you must improve your Taoist true qi in a short period of time, and if you participate in the competition with the Taoist true qi you have in your body now, people will be knocked down in less than a round" Teacher Zhang reminded me, and my master also told me what he said.

"I know Teacher Zhang, thank you for the reminder, goodbye" I said this and walked out of Teacher Zhang's dormitory.

When I returned to the dormitory, the third brother was the same as usual, You Zhipei and Zeng Lu were sitting in front of the computer and playing games with relish, while Huang Tao was looking at the stock market with a serious face.

"Fourth, stop playing, come and learn to draw talismans," I sat at my desk and shouted to You Zhipei.

"Second brother, I'll learn from you again when I have time, I'm busy playing games" You Zhipei said this to me and ignored me and continued to play, I was also drunk with him.

"Whatever you want," I said, ran to the bathroom, took a shower, and then lay on my bed and read the Tao Te Ching.

It's been almost four months since I was under the master's Maoshan Gate, and during this time, I have learned to draw talismans and use charms, as for the Taoist I Ching Bagua, Taoist magic array, and Feng Shui magic, I don't understand it at all, and I don't know if I will take these tests in that selection competition.

You Zhipei is not interested in Maoshan Taoism at all, from Wednesday to Saturday I asked him every day in front of him to let him learn to draw talismans, and he only used one excuse to excuse me, that is, "I want to play games with the third brother, and when I have time to learn again, you are busy with your second brother", and I didn't say anything, if Uncle He asked me if I taught You Zhipei to draw talismans, I told Uncle He truthfully that it was not that I didn't teach him, it was that he didn't learn from me, and Uncle He of the province complained about me.

In the blink of an eye, it was another Sunday, I got up from bed early, washed up, then walked out of school, got on the bus, and rushed to Hutong 88.

Last night I asked You Zhipei if he would go to his master's place today, You Zhipei, this kid refused to go to Uncle He with me on the grounds of stomach ache, I have no way to do this, people have their own freedom, I can't drag him by his arm to Hongshan Hall and hand him over to Uncle He, Uncle He's choice to take him as an apprentice was the biggest mistake.

"Senior nephew, what about that kid from You Zhipei?" As soon as I walked into the mouth of Hutong 88, I saw Uncle He standing at the door of Hongshan Hall and asked me, this Uncle He was waiting at the door in the morning to greet his apprentice, and when he saw me walking into Hutong No. 88 alone, Uncle He was disappointed.

"You Zhipei has something to do at home, he didn't come with me" I squeezed out a smile and said to Uncle He, if I told Uncle He that You Zhipei pretended to have a stomachache, he would be very sad.

"Ang" Uncle He turned around and walked towards Hongshantang with a disappointed face after hearing my words, looking at Uncle He like this, I didn't feel a good feeling in my heart, so I took out the phone and called You Zhipei.

"Second brother, you have something to say, I'm sleeping" You Zhipei answered my phone, and then said to me impatiently.

"You Zhipei, you get up now, your master," I said to You Zhipei angrily on the phone.

"Second brother, I have a stomachache, don't let me go, wait until I go next week," You Zhipei said to me lazily on the phone.

"Fourth, your master endured the cold wind and waited for you at the gate of Hongshan Hall in the morning, do you know how disappointed he was when he learned that you were not coming, a broken game is so important to you! If you don't come today, don't call me second brother from now on, and I don't have you as a brother" After I said this, I hung up the phone and walked to the hall, You Zhipei gave me several calls back, but I didn't answer.

"You have a bitter and hateful face early in the morning, who provoked you," the master asked me as I had just walked into the hall.

"It's okay, I'm being by a stupid boy," I said unceremoniously to Master as I sat down on the sofa, and then I picked up the tea that Master had made and drank a cup of it.

"If I'm not mistaken, that stupid boy who is angry with you must be He Laosi's newly recruited apprentice," Master looked at me and said with a smile.

"Master, you're too godly, you can figure it out," I raised my head and looked at Master in surprise.

"It's not that I'm too godly, it's the sound of you and He Laosi talking outside, I heard it, this He Laosi is really asking for hardship, and he doesn't take it if he chooses an apprentice without looking at his character first, this is a big taboo for accepting apprentices" The master took a sip of tea and said to me lightly.

"Master, in fact, my brother's character is okay, it's just a little playful" I said good things for You Zhipei in front of Master, after all, You Zhipei is my good brother, and I don't want You Zhipei to have a bad influence on my master.

"Alright, let's not talk about that, you go upstairs and take down my robe and leather suitcase, and come with me," Master commanded me as he got up from the couch.

"Master, you're back to work," I asked Master as I got up from the couch and walked upstairs.

"Took a little job," Master nodded back to me.

"Oh," I said, and went upstairs to take down Master's robe and his old-fashioned suitcase.

"Master, if I go to the selection competition, can you lend me this robe of yours," I said, pointing to the yellow satin robe in my hand.

"Don't even think about this, this is the treasure left to me by your ancestor, I would rather lend you money than lend you this robe, you kid don't beat my robe's idea" After the master said this, he snatched the robe in my hand.

"Master, you're so stingy, I can't break it," I said to Master with a straight face.

"Don't say it's useless, I just won't borrow it," Master said with his head shaking like a rattle.

"If you don't borrow it, who is rare" I said this completely to find a step for myself.

"Don't grind around there, come with me," Master pushed open the door and walked out, and I followed him closely with his old-fashioned suitcase.

Master rode an electric car, and the back seat drove me to the outskirts of DD City, it was a bit too bad to sit on this electric car on this cold day, I wore less clothes when I came to Master, and I was frozen into a ball shivering and lying behind Master.

"Master, can't you just take a taxi? It's too cold this day," I shouted to Master as I hid behind Master.

"Young man, you told me a few days ago that you want to grow up, how can you grow up if you don't experience the rain," Master said to me happily, and what Master said made me completely speechless.

After riding an electric car for half an hour, Master rushed to a town on the northern outskirts of DD City, which is the largest town in DD City and one of the top 100 towns in China, where my second uncle's family lives.

"Hey, I've come to town, where the hell do you live," Master asked the owner who hired us on the phone.

"We live in Group 6 of Shiqiao Village, you can ask the people around you, and they will tell you," a middle-aged man on the phone said to Master in a deep voice.

"Okay, I see," the master said and hung up the phone impatiently.

"Shiqiao Village Group 6, Shiqiao Village Group 6 ......" Master muttered with squinted eyes.

"Master, don't get entangled, I know where the sixth group of Shiqiao Village is, I'll show you the way," I said to Master.

"How do you know where the sixth group of Shiqiao Village is?" Master turned around and asked me.

"My second uncle's family lives in Group 7 of Shiqiao Village, and when I was a child, I often went to my second uncle's house with my grandmother, and Group 6 of Shiqiao Village was next to Group 7, so I knew," I explained to Master.

"Okay, then you show me the way, where do you say we're going now?" Master asked me.

"Keep moving forward, there is an intersection about five hundred meters ahead, you turn right," I said to Master, pointing to the road ahead.

"If you kid are going to point to the wrong land, I will scold you for being a bloody squirt today, let's go" After the master said this, he rode forward on an electric car.

The No. 6 group of Shiqiao Village was less than 15 minutes away from the town, and after a while, I came to the No. 6 group of Shiqiao Village with Master, and the master stood on the side of the road in the No. 6 group of Shiqiao Village and called the family who picked him up and asked them to pick him up, and after a while, a middle-aged woman in her fifties limped from the village group to me and Master.

"It seems that this old lady should have come to pick us up," the master said this, and rode an electric car to the middle-aged woman.

"May I ask if you are the head of Jiang Dao?" The middle-aged woman, with a lame leg, walked up to us and asked.

"I'm Jiang Daochang," the master replied, nodding to the middle-aged woman.

"Come with me, my house is not far ahead," said the middle-aged woman with a sad face, and after saying this to the master, she led us to the inside of the village group.

After walking for about two minutes, we came to the home of this middle-aged woman, the conditions of this middle-aged woman's home should be good, their family lives in five large tile houses, and there is a brand-new car parked in the yard, their yard is particularly large, the length and width have reached 15 meters, and the yard has more than 20 pigs, more than 30 local chickens, more than 10 geese, and such a family in the countryside is a well-off family.

When we were led into the room by this middle-aged woman, I saw a young man with dark hair and blue circles under his eyes lying on a kang with a large thick quilt and a hanging bottle.

"Cold, cold, Mom and Dad, I'm cold," the young man said to the middle-aged man and middle-aged woman in the room with his eyes closed and trembling all over.

"My son," the middle-aged woman cried as she looked at the young man lying on the kang and sat on the ground.

"Master, this person looks like he's hit a ghost," I said, turning my head to Master.

"That's right, his forehead is black, his eyes are blue, and the two yang fires on his shoulders are all extinguished, which is a symptom of hitting a ghost" Master nodded to me and said, looking at this young man, I remembered me at the beginning of September, but I was not as heavy as this young man at the beginning, if Master hadn't taken me as an apprentice at that time, I would have gone down to be my grandmother's companion, and I will never forget Master's kindness to me. This young man was lying on the kang in a coma, the two yang fires on his shoulders had been extinguished, and the yang fire on his head was about to be extinguished.