Chapter Twenty-Three: The Bird in Captivity

"Ah, bye, apprentice......"

Although I know what the word apprenticeship means, I actually want me to learn Taoism, mainly because I was shocked by this.

When I thought about it, the Taoist priests in those movies are all very powerful, and now that I have such an opportunity, I can also become like them, how can I not be excited? reacted without saying a word, and quickly listened to what my aunt said, and knelt down with his legs puffed, facing the bronze statue of Yuan Shi Tianzun.

"Okay, let's read this again, Xiao Hao."

My aunt gave me a piece of paper and asked me to read it aloud in front of one of the three Qing ancestors of the Daomen: "My name is Zhong Hao, born in 1994, the life of the dragon is Huochong, and I am willing to sincerely escape into my Taoist sect. But eternal unchanged is the core of my door, since I have entered this door, I am willing to use the way to help the common people in this life, and go to the world without regrets. This point will never be forgotten for our generation, and it must be remembered! Therefore, at this moment today, I would like to invite the ancestor Yuan Shi Tianzun to be above, and the disciples will come to pay their respects! ”

After reading this according to the rules, my aunt asked me to kowtow three times to the bronze statue of Yuan Shi Tianzun, saying that this was for me to make a big salute to the ancestor master. When the kowtow was finished, I was asked to light three sticks of incense and insert them into the incense burner. At this point, this whole process of apprenticeship can be regarded as a successful end.

"Remember Xiao Hao, from now on you are the disciple of my Taoist sect, you must always remember it, you just knelt down and said to the ancestor of the oath, remember not to violate the door rules! If one day in the future, if you have great ability and spread your wings to develop your ambitions, even if it is so, then you must not do anything that hurts nature and reason, and do things like stealing chickens and touching dogs. Otherwise......"

My aunt's tone became darker: "If you really have that time, don't blame my aunt for not missing family affection." ”

I can feel that she is not joking, but really serious!

"Don't worry, auntie, I won't do anything lacking in virtue."

Of course, I myself also know that even if I really have any ability in the future, I will never do anything that hurts nature and reason, even if my aunt doesn't say it, I didn't join the Daomen, and I will abide by a bottom line.

"Congratulations, Brother Hao, you have been accepted as an apprentice by my sister."

Concubine Su said jokingly: "It's okay now, Brother Hao in the future, you will also learn the art of Taoism, in case Concubine Concubine is sometimes absent, you can also protect yourself." Of course, if the concubine is in trouble in the future, Brother Hao, you can also protect ......"

Aunt Su coughed a few times as if she was deliberately speaking, and interrupted Concubine Su: "This meal is over, Concubine Concubine, go and clean up the table." ”

"Okay, sister."

Concubine Su hummed, she just turned around but turned her head again, and said to Aunt Su Tiantian: "That...... Sister, this Brother Hao is now your apprentice, it should be the same as when I first came in, and I also want to teach Brother Hao his basic Taoism, right? Well, it's better to let me teach you, sister, you don't have to worry about it......"

"Go and do your thing."

Aunt Su seemed to ignore what Concubine Su said, and her tone sounded a little hard, which made me keenly aware of this, it seemed a little weird, I thought so, Concubine Su also understood, and she didn't stay here anymore, and walked quickly into the kitchen to clean up.

"Although you have worshiped me as a teacher, you don't have to call me master in terms of title, it's better to call me aunt."

Saying that, my aunt walked to the bronze statue of Yuan Shi Tianzun, took out five books from a locked box, and handed them to me: "Like these books, they are all books of my sect's initiation, and the content is relatively simple for beginners. If you don't understand anything, you can come to me at any time, but don't mess around, just learn and ponder, but no, understand? ”

"Well, okay, I got it."

I said yes verbally, but to be honest, when I saw so many books, I felt that my head was big.

Such a big book is so thick, the devil knows how many words you have to read after opening it?

Moreover, the thing I hated most since I was a child was reading books.

Now although this is to join my aunt's Taoism, worship her as a master and learn Taoism, but this initial operation is nothing else, just to let me read books and learn, is this a rhythm that has not succeeded, and is the first to be a stick?

"Hey, don't think there's anything embarrassing, everyone who enters the Dao Gate is like this."

My aunt saw my reluctance and told me that many people want to enter her sect and are not qualified to look down on them if they want to study, and I am very lucky compared to those people.

My aunt also said that only when I master these Dao Sect techniques can I be competent for the work of the Zero Spirit Hall, and go to walk yin and yang to fight against demons and monsters, and ghosts! Therefore, for these Taoist books, my aunt's method is to let me read them with my heart, study them with my heart, and study them with my heart, so that when I achieve these three intentions, everything will become very easy, and it will not be a difficult task.

"I chose it, but I can't regret it."

Aunt Mi sighed with emotion: "Xiao Hao, once you step into this door, you can't turn back." Like what my aunt told you today, they are just some trivial things, this door is so big, broad and profound, not as long as the apprentice comes in, you can say that you know, this is more need to be experienced later, rely on yourself to experience. ”

"In addition, don't worry, my aunt won't forget what I said to you."

My aunt took a deep breath of cigarette and spit out a standard eye circle: "I promised you a high salary, and I will also find you a beautiful daughter-in-law, as long as you do it well, these are not problems." ”

I snorted, I thought my aunt was about to forget about this? I told her last time, this salary is okay, the main thing is to find a daughter-in-law to go back to my parents, both of them are old, and they have long longed for me to be able to start a family, which is the biggest goal in my heart now.

"Alright, you go back to your room and read a book."

My aunt gave me these books, and she went back to her room.

However, when my aunt turned around, I saw her take her mobile phone out, but I don't know what kind of content my aunt saw, and her face changed suddenly.

I didn't care too much about my aunt's private affairs, so I went back to my room with these Taoist books, thinking that with so much content and knowledge, I guess I have to see what year and month I have to see?

"Come on, plunge into the ocean of knowledge and be a cultural person!"

I lay on the bed and smiled bitterly, flipped through these Taoist books, although I listened to what my aunt said, these are still just an introductory knowledge, but I see that the content is really not like an introduction at all, a sentence written on this book, a meaning expressed, let me read it for a long time, in-depth analysis and thoroughness, like a big puzzle to test IQ, and when I was reading at that time, what English physics has to compare.

Of course, this is different from those school books, although the content of these Taoist books is also complicated, but if you can really learn it well, you do have real ability.

It's just that the difficulty is not so easy.

I'm looking at it, it's really boring, sleepiness invaded at once, I was a little excited and excited, but I was defeated by reality so quickly, I thought about sleeping, let's watch it tomorrow.

Just at this juncture, when I was about to sleep to death, I suddenly heard Concubine Su's voice outside, which seemed to be quite loud, which made me wake up from sleep and threw the book in my hand aside, and when I turned over and wanted to continue sleeping, I heard Concubine Su shouting: "Why, why?" ”

This time I heard clearly, it seemed that Concubine Su was questioning something, and listening to her tone was also a little excited, as if she was having a fierce dispute with someone, now I want to sleep completely gone, get up and push the door open, just to see Concubine Su come out of Aunt Su's room, see that she still ran out, lowered her head and covered her mouth with her little hands, and vaguely heard her crying.

"Hey, Su ......"

Before I could see it clearly, Concubine Su ran to her room and slammed the door shut, although I don't know what happened to her, but there must be something wrong with her emotions, otherwise it wouldn't be like this at night.

Originally, I wanted to care, but I wanted to ask what happened to Concubine Su? But after all, it's already so late, thinking about it tomorrow.

But when I was about to close the door and continue to sleep, I happened to see my aunt's room open.

Aunt She also walked out, originally this is nothing very normal, but I found that Aunt Mi looked like this, she should have to go to bed so late, but Aunt Mi actually changed into a set of white cheongsam clothes, and there was another detail on her body that surprised me, that is, my aunt was already dressed so formally, and she didn't wear heavy makeup, and she tied her usually loose wavy hair into a ponytail, although she was still so fat as a big water tank, and her appearance was so flattering, but now my aunt gave me a feeling that was more than usual. It's like a different person, and he is full of a different spirit.

I wondered, what the hell is this aunt doing?

After the aunt left the room, the footsteps of stepping on high heels were more urgent, and she left the Zero Spirit Hall in a hurry.

I thought, she must have something important to do, right?

After all, a rich woman like Aunt Mi has a wide range of social connections outside, which is naturally not something I can guess, so I don't care what my aunt is doing when she goes out, I will go back to my room and continue to sleep with me.

I don't know what the fuss is tonight, I was reading these Taoist books, and I was going to sleep to death, first I saw Concubine Su like that, and then I saw my aunt go out, which made me a little unable to sleep, so I lay on the bed in a daze, although I couldn't sleep in the past, but I didn't go to continue reading, so stunned to watch, this room is such a big space, and my eyes fell on the black coffin.

What I care about most about this black coffin is the yellow cloth that covers the lid.

In the past, every night, when I got up the next day, I would find that the yellow cloth would fall to the ground, and now I can't sleep, and suddenly I want to verify and see, will the yellow cloth tonight also fall off?

In this way, after waiting for more than half an hour, I stared at the black coffin in a bored daze, but there was no special change, and the yellow cloth covering it did not fall off.

I feel like I'm a bit stupid to do that.

Forget it, I didn't want to wait to go to sleep, but at this moment, the black coffin, which was still immovable, suddenly trembled a few times without warning, and the yellow cloth covered it fell off like this!

"it!"

This phenomenon can startle me to stand up from the bed instantly, scared really enough, just a fairly stable state of mind immediately collapsed, you must know that I saw it with my own eyes just now, absolutely no dazzling illusion, is this black coffin is really moving!

No wonder I said that the cloth covered at night always fell off the next day, and it was no coincidence!

Like the vibration of the black coffin just now, it is definitely not blown by the wind, because the coffin itself is loaded, it looks very heavy, and it will never blow without a typhoon, so there is only one other possibility, that is, the source of this vibration, which is inside the coffin.

Obviously, I am the only person in this room, so it can be ruled out that someone else moved the coffin outside, so it can be said that the reason for this shaking is only the latter.

I remember when I first entered the Zero Spirit Hall, my aunt insisted that I live in this room, but she never told me about this black coffin that was hung up by iron chains, was it just an empty coffin, or was it really a corpse?

Now it seems that there may be no need for her aunt to say, I'm afraid I know the answer.

This coffin trembles, if there is no living thing inside, is it possible?