"You change the clothes in this bag first" Jiang Lao threw the blue cloth bag in his hand to the top of the black mixed yuan hat, and then there was a cyan robe, this robe was not as tall as the one Jiang Lao was wearing, and this cyan robe was still a long time, and there were patches on the cuffs. I looked at the cyan robe in my hand and hesitated for a moment, then put it on my body, and then I put the hybrid hat on my head again, I looked in the mirror and looked at my outfit and felt a little nondescript.

"Before apprenticing, I want to introduce you to the three Taoist ancestors on this portrait, the first one wearing a yellow robe is our Taoist ancestor Taiqing Daode Tianzun, the Taoist ancestor in the middle is called Yuqing Yuan Shi Tianzun, and the last ancestor in a red robe is called Shangqing Lingbao Tianzun" Jiang Lao pointed to the three people on the wall and introduced me one by one, and I didn't remember it at all, just knowing that the three of them were called Tianzun.

"You must remember that our sect is called the Maoshan Sect, and my name is Jiang Jie," Jiang Lao continued to say to me.

"I remember Jiang Lao," I replied, nodding.

"After the apprenticeship ceremony is over, you will change your name to me and call me master" Jiang Lao said to me again, I found that this Jiang Lao is really ink.

"I see, Mr. Jiang," I nodded again.

"Okay, then let's start now" After Jiang Lao said this to me, he took out three sticks of incense and lit them and handed them to me.

"Liu Shou, born on the third day of August 1997 in the lunar calendar, is now worshiping under the Maoshan sect of Jiang Jie, the first three treasures, and the merits and blessings are boundless. The master introduces the door, and the practice is in the individual. Tianzun said that the scriptures are taught, and he is guided by the floating life, and he is diligent in his studies and does nothing, and he realizes the truth in his own ......" Jiang Lao took a piece of yellow paper in his hand and read it loudly to the portrait on the wall, and I stood aside and listened in a daze, not knowing what he was talking about there.

"Okay, insert the three sticks of incense in your hand into the incense burner in front of you, and kneel on the ground and kowtow to the three ancestors," Jiang Lao put away the yellow paper in his hand and instructed me.

"Got it," I said, inserting the three sticks of incense in my hand into the censer on the offering table, then knelt on the ground, kowtowed three times to the portrait on the wall, and got up.

"Pour me three cups of tea, and then hand them to me respectfully with both hands," Jiang Lao instructed me, pointing to the tea that had been brewed on the table.

"Well," I nodded, poured the tea in the teapot into the three cups, and then handed the three cups of tea to Jiang Lao one by one.

Jiang Lao took the first cup of tea and didn't drink it, but put the cup of tea on the tea table, and then I handed him another cup of tea, he only took a sip and put it aside, and finally I handed him the third cup of tea.

"You kneel" Jiang Lao sat on the chair and said to me, hearing the three words of you kneeling made me hesitate a little, I didn't know whether to kneel or not.

"Didn't you hear me when I told you to kneel?" Jiang Lao's face was a little ugly when he said this.

"Poof", I knelt in front of Jiang Lao, Jiang Lao looked at me without speaking, his expression of knowledge was slightly helpless, he dipped the tea in the third cup of teacup with his hand and threw it on my body.

Before the layman converts to Taoism, he should give three cups of tea to the master, the first cup of tea is not drinkable, and the master takes it and puts it on the table, calling it "thinking tea", which means thinking and considering; In the second cup of tea, the master took a sip of the tea, which means "tea", that is, agreeing to accept the apprentice; After the third cup of tea is received, the middle finger and big finger of the master are dipped in tea and placed on the believer, which is called "letter tea", which means that he believes in Taoism from now on.

"Okay, kowtow to me three times and call me again, even if the ceremony is completed," Jiang Lao frowned and said to me, this Jiang Lao was also a little reluctant to accept me as an apprentice.

I first kowtowed three times to Jiang Lao, and then shouted "master" loudly to Jiang Lao.

"Liu Shou, you have to remember, from today onwards you will be a disciple of our Maoshan faction, you must remember the three rules I told you yesterday, and I will teach you the rest of the rules slowly" Jiang Lao instructed me again.

"I know Jiang Lao, your words have been remembered in my heart," I nodded to Jiang Lao and said.

"What did you just call me," Jiang Lao asked me as he glared at his small eyes.

"I'm sorry, I'm used to calling you Jiang Lao, I should call you Master" I quickly changed my words and said.

"That's not bad, today I will take you as a disciple and give you two gifts, the first one is our Taoist book, you must read it by heart and memorize all the contents of this book" After the master said this, he opened the drawer of his desk and took out a copy of the Tao Te Ching and handed it to me.

I took the "Tao Te Ching" and flipped through it, "The Tao is the Tao, the very Tao." The name is famous, and the name is not very famous. The beginning of the nameless world; The mother of all things. Therefore, there is often no desire to observe the wonder; There is often a desire to observe it. These two have the same name and different names, the same name is Xuan, Xuanzhi Xuan, the door of all wonders........" I can't understand the classical Chinese written on it at all.

"The second gift I gave you is very important to you, this is called the three-legged Yang Gathering Bird, as the name suggests, this bird is used to gather yang energy, this is passed down by my master's master's master, and this is only passed on to my own disciples, you can only wear this three-legged sunbird now to replenish the yang energy lost in your body" The master handed me the thing called the three-legged Yang Gathering Bird in his hand, I reached out and took the three-legged Yang Gathering Bird and looked at it, this three-legged Yang Gathering Bird is made of bronze, This three-legged yang bird is the size of a fist, and the weight is not light, its body is engraved with oracle bones, when I hold this three-legged yang bird, I feel my body is wrapped in a warm current, my cold body began to slowly warm up, and the cyan face slowly transformed into pale.

"Do I want to wear this bronze bird every day?" I looked at the fist-sized three-legged yang bird in my hand and asked the master.

"If you want to die and don't want to live, you don't need to wear it, if you want to live and don't want to die, then you have to wear it every day," Master said to me with a serious face, and after listening to his words, I didn't say anything more.

"Master, this ceremony is also completed, can I go, I still ask for leave to come here today, there are still classes in school today, I have to go back to class" I took off the cyan robe on my body and said to Master, wearing this cyan robe made me feel uncomfortable.

"Yes, you can give me your phone number, and I'll call you if anything happens to me," Master said to me as he took off his yellow robe.

"Well, then I'll write to you," I picked up a ballpoint pen on the table, wrote my phone number on a piece of yellow paper, and handed it to Master.

"Don't lose that three-legged yang bird, this is something that has been passed down for more than ten generations, you must wear it every day," Master said to me with a cautious face.

"I know, Master, don't worry, I won't lose it, I'll wear it every day," I nodded in response, and then I put the three-legged sunbird in my hand into the pocket of my jacket.

"Master, then I'll go first, I'll come to see you another day" I walked out of the hall after saying this, it was already more than nine o'clock in the morning, the shop in the No. 88 alley returned to calm, and walked to the head of the longevity shop, I turned around curiously and glanced at the inside of the store, looking at the neatly placed coffins I couldn't help but shudder, these coffins looked a little crazy.

Out of Hutong 88, I reached out and stopped five or six taxis without stopping, those taxis were full of people, so I slowly walked to the nearest bus stop, I just walked not far, I felt as if there was a person behind me following me, when I turned around, I saw the man in gray who I saw in Hutong No. 88 before, the moment I saw him, I was terrified, I turned my head and strode forward.

The man in gray who followed me was about forty years old, Xia Wanting's face was pale, and the face of this man in gray was dark green, his eyes were pure black like Xia Wanting's eyes, looking at the evil smile on his face made me feel my scalp tingle, and I also had goosebumps on my body.

I walked forward, while looking back from time to time, I saw that the man in gray has been following me, the two of us have been keeping a distance of five meters, if it is better to follow me, I can choose to call the police, but the one who followed me is a ghost, I originally wanted to go back to find the master for help, but the way back is only behind me, I now regret that I didn't ask the master for the phone just now.

As soon as I walked to the bus stop, there was a No. 2 bus parked in front of me, and I jumped on the No. 2 bus without even thinking about it, this No. 2 bus was only heading for the commercial street, not going to our school at all, and the moment the door closed, my nervous heart began to become relaxed, because I saw that the man in gray did not follow me on the bus.

Just when I wanted to walk to the empty seat behind the bus, I saw the man in gray sitting in the last row of seats and smiling at me, I instantly broke out in a cold sweat, I looked at the man in gray legs trembling a little, at this time the man in gray got up and walked towards me, just when he was about to walk in front of me, the second bus stopped, I turned around and jumped out of the front door of the bus, desperately running forward.

"Are you blind? Is this the door to get off the bus? Such a big person has no quality at all, how did your parents and your teacher educate you" There was a scolding from behind me, and I didn't care about who scolded me at this time, because only running away is the best policy.