Chapter 8: Master
In the end, Aunt Huang warned me with thousands of instructions: God hurts! Don't go to the forbidden land in the back mountain! Don't go! Do you understand? It's going to die! It's really going to die......
I assured her again and again that I would never go there, and she nodded in satisfaction and let go of my hand!
Later, I asked her something about the nunnery behind the monk's temple. But she always shook her head and said she didn't know!
In fact, she didn't say it, I also knew that the monk's temple was the haunted abandoned and ruined temple that Li Wu and I went to when I was a child. And the nunnery ......
Thinking of this, I couldn't help but look at Shilin who was standing aside.
When she saw me coming, she shook her head: My master was also killed a day ago!
This sentence immediately stunned me, and I was silent for a long time!
Before I came, the master was already in the ground! I came here mainly in the hope that Uncle Hai could give me some help and find the murderer, but unfortunately......
Speaking of this, she couldn't help but turn her head away with a gloomy face!
I smiled bitterly and continued: It's a pity that my master has also been killed! Now two people who might have known what it was all about are dead! It seems that we can't find any reason for staying here in the short term, so we might as well leave as soon as possible!
As I spoke, I turned my head to look at the two coffins in the mourning hall, and I couldn't help but feel a pang of heartache, but I still added: I want to cremate their bodies before leaving!
Hearing my words, before Shilin could make a sound, Sister Fang Rou took the lead in exclaiming: No! No way! God, they are your master and best brothers! How cruel are you? I don't agree with this, absolutely not!
I watched her say as she danced with her hands and shook her head! I was gloomy for a while, and I understood her feelings!
At our time, cremation was not yet fully popular, and many people did not know what cremation meant! In their opinion, it is the best choice for people to die in the ground! This is especially true in a small remote mountain village like ours!
But nowadays, cremation is the only option!
Seeing that we were in trouble!
A few people not far away hurriedly ran over and asked what was going on!
I told everyone what I thought, and they all agreed!
After all, these people are either rich people who live in the county town, or they are on business, and they obviously know a lot about the policy of cremation!
But Sister Fang Rou just doesn't agree!
I had no choice but to come up with a killer feature and tell the truth!
I grabbed her shoulders with both hands and said sharply: Sister Fang Rou, calm down and listen to me!
As if she was startled by my loud drink, she stared at me blankly, motionless!
I saw that she was not struggling indiscriminately, so I said softly: Sister Fang Rou, look at the sky outside, it is overcast, and you can't even see the shadow of the sun! Bury the master and Li Wu in this kind of ghost place, they will be corpses in less than two days, do you understand? It's just going to turn into a walking corpse, or even a zombie!
When she heard my words, her face turned pale! His mouth opened, as if he wanted to say something, but in the end nothing came out!
I threw myself into my arms and cried out loud!
The crying is so terrible that those who hear it are sad, and those who see it cry! Even the other women in the house were infected and started crying!
I gently patted her on the back to show comfort!
After a long time, she gradually stopped crying, and turned to look up at the two coffins not far away, and finally fixed her eyes on Li Wu's coffin on the right, and looked at it for a long time!
Finally nodded and agreed to the cremation!
I was relieved to see that she was finally relieved! Immediately, my mood became heavy again.
also looked at the two coffins blankly, and came to the coffin with heavy steps!
Everyone watched my movements silently and didn't speak!
I pushed away the master's coffin vigorously, don't look over, hold back tears, don't want to look at his face, just slowly hugged his cold and stiff body!
He was very heavy, very heavy, and his hands were numb, and every step I took was as heavy as a thousand pounds, as if I couldn't walk, and I felt like I couldn't move!
In this way, they came to the open space outside the room.
A pile of firewood and grass had already been placed there, and when Sister Fang Rou was crying, I asked everyone to prepare it!
I gently placed the master's body on it, and then turned around and went back to the mourning hall to hug Li Wu's body, the same feeling was still so clear! It's still so uncomfortable!
Then I lit the fire myself and gave the two of my relatives a ride.
Looking at the two corpses slowly burning in the raging fire, I couldn't hold back my tears anymore!
......
The bodies of Master and Li Wu have been cremated, and their ashes are kept by me and Sister Fang Rou respectively!
The women are busy cooking in the kitchen, and the men are outside discussing what to do next!
And I sat alone in the back room, with a wooden box in my arms!
Aunt Huang said that they found it when they were cleaning the room, and it was the only item in the house that was locked.
She felt that this must be very important, so she and Sister Fang Rou would take it with her anytime and anywhere!
Apparently she didn't really trust the people out there.
I took a bunch of keys out of my arms, found the smallest of them, and went to unlock it with trembling hands!
In my mind, I recalled what my master said to me when I went out to work: God hurts! You don't know when you'll be back this time, here's a key that you might need later!
At that time, I didn't understand what the master meant. But now I finally understand that he probably expected such a day back then!
Open the wooden box, there are three things inside, a simple jade bracelet, an envelope, and two ancient books!
I was the first to look at the letter, and I saw that four big words were clearly visible on it: Heavenly Injury and Enlightenment!
I opened the envelope and read it silently.
God hurts, when you see this letter, the teacher is already gone, don't be sad, don't be sad! This is fate, I have this fate!
When I picked you up many years ago, I found that you were born with the ability to pass through ghosts and gods, and you have a peerless Dao body, and you are an unborn cultivator!
It's a pity that the more people who rebel against the sky, the more they are not recognized by God!
Finally, when you were ten years old, the fate came! You inadvertently brought back the dowry of the Snow Maiden, and since then the two of you have set a relationship between the two of you!
In desperation, I had no choice but to open the altar and marry you in the dark!
But people and ghosts have different paths, and if you are not recognized by God, you will definitely suffer God's damnation! As a last resort, I have never handed you any Taoism, I just hope that you can live an ordinary life for a few more years!
I know it's just a thirst quenched! But you are my apprentice, and as a master I must shelter you from the wind and rain!
Telling you all this, it's not that I want you to know how great I am! Instead, I want you to know that if you are born against the sky, the way of heaven will inevitably cause you a lot of suffering.
I hope that there will be no days of being a teacher in the future, and you will live a strong life!