Chapter 21: The Ancestral Hall

The next morning, when the rooster crowed, I got up, and the wizard said that I should get up early to do the morning class, but I didn't know what to do, but fortunately, the wizard's door was also open, and the light was on, and the iron egg was lying on the gatehouse of the ancestral hall, and when it saw me, it quickly stood up and wagged its tail frantically, and seemed to be very happy, but it just couldn't come.

I walked through the courtyard to the wizard's door, and saw the wizard standing at a desk looking at something. I knocked on the door and whispered to the wizard.

He didn't look back and ignored me. I didn't dare to disturb him anymore, so I turned my head and walked into the courtyard and sat on the stone bench, breathing in the fresh mountain air, which was a little cool, but very comfortable. It's been a long time since I've gotten up so early, and the morning air is so invigorating.

After a while, Master Wu still didn't come out, but Aunt Huang did, and I quickly stood up and greeted her: "Aunt Huang, good morning." ”

Aunt Huang still had a kind smile on her face, she walked up to me, then turned her head to look at the wizard in the room, and asked suspiciously, "What?" Didn't go well with the apprenticeship ceremony? ”

I said a little strangely, "No, it's going well, and the wizard told me to get up for morning class." ”

Aunt Huang smiled, shook her head and said, "Then you still call me Aunt Huang?" ”

I suddenly realized and quickly said, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Master!" ”

"Well, that's right, we will be a family in the future, don't be so restrained, you master, your temper is a little weird, but you are a good person. If you can worship him as a teacher, it can be regarded as a kind of chance, and you must study the Tao well in the future. Shi Niang bent over the faucet not far from the stone table and took most of the bucket of water.

I said thank you as I walked over and lifted the half bucket of water.

Shi Niang smiled and said, "Thank you, help me mention the kitchen." ”

It's the first time I've entered the kitchen, like a village kitchen, with a tiled earthen stove, a wood-shelf dining cabinet, and an unpainted table of eight immortals. There is also a large plastic bucket in which the water has bottomed out.

"Pour it in, I'll boil some hot water." Shi Niang said as she began to light a fire in front of the earthen stove.

I poured the bucket of water into the bucket and asked, "Master, why don't you use gas?" It's much more convenient. ”

Shi Niang smiled and said: "Although the gas is convenient, but others are not willing to send it so far, and it is inconvenient for me and your master to go outside to fight the gas when we are old, and it is a pity not to use this firewood all over the mountains and fields to burn." ”

I groaned and walked out of the kitchen to continue to fetch water and pour it into the big plastic bucket. I wondered why I pressed a faucet in the kitchen, which I did when I was a child. But what age is it now, and it is much more convenient to press a tap into the kitchen. I thought that I would buy some water pipes and faucets when I had time, and bring a faucet into the kitchen, so that I would not have to carry water into it like this bucket after bucket in the future.

As I filled the plastic bucket with more than half of the water, the wizard came out of the room, holding a wooden sword about a foot long in his right hand and a few white talismans in his left hand.

He looked at me who was receiving water and said, "Don't get that yet, come with me to the ancestral hall." ”

I turned off the faucet and walked towards the ancestral hall. Iron Egg's tail wagged even more happily when it saw the wizard, but it still didn't walk towards the wizard. Instead, he stood still and did not move. This made me wonder how strange it was, seeing that his master did not pounce on him to welcome him, but stood still in place.

"Okay, Tiedan, it's hard work, let's go play." As he spoke, the wizard pushed open the door to the ancestral hall.

After listening to the wizard's words, I was even more puzzled, could it be that this iron egg is guarding the ancestral hall?

As soon as the doubts came to my mind, Tie Dan told me with its actual actions that it was really guarding the ancestral hall, because as soon as the wizard finished speaking, Tie Dan left the place where it had been standing with two snorts, and ran towards the kitchen with a swaying body.

It wasn't until the iron egg entered the kitchen that I turned around and walked into the ancestral hall, the wizard stood in front of the tribute platform and lit incense, after I walked over, the wizard handed three of the incense sticks to me and said: "Every morning in the Taoist temple in the future, after getting up and washing, I will come to the ancestor for the first time." You are now the youngest generation, and this matter will be left to you in the future. ”

"Yes, Master." I respectfully took the incense, bowed deeply three times by the altar in the same way as the Master, and then inserted the incense into the incense burner with both hands.

At a glance, I was a little shocked that the red paper figure was still holding the bowl and sticking it to the top of the tribute platform. It's been one night, and it hasn't fallen, which makes it hard for me to believe that this paper figure is really just a piece of paper.

As soon as I was about to ask a question, the wizard said, "Go and turn on the light and close the door." ”

Close the door, turn on the light, and I returned to the Gongtai. The wizard said, "You stand aside and watch, don't make a sound." ”

I stood by and looked at the wizard strangely, not knowing what he was going to do.

The wizard first drew a few hand spells on the porcelain bowl that was touched by the paper man, then picked up the white rune paper he had just brought in on the tribute platform and threw it on the ground on the right side of the tribute platform, and then carefully grabbed a little incense ash from the incense burner and threw it towards the paper man. The moment the wizard finished scattering the ashes, he reached out and picked up the wooden sword on the tribute platform.

When the incense ash first came into contact with the paper man and the porcelain bowl, the paper man's hands let go of the porcelain bowl he had been holding as if they had suddenly been relieved of their strength.

There was a screeching sound, and the porcelain bowl fell to the concrete floor and fell apart. At the moment when the porcelain bowl was just broken, the wizard shook the wooden sword in his hand violently, and the wooden sword brought a cry and directly cut off the slightly drooping head of the paper man.

Watching the head of the paper man slowly fall to the ground, I couldn't help but admire the skill of the wizard's wooden sword, because although the head of the paper man was not tightly attached to the altar, the distance from the altar was less than a centimeter, but the sword of the wizard master could cut off the head of the paper man without touching the tribute.

I thought that the wizard was showing me this, but before I had time to applaud, I saw that the place on the right side of the Gongtai that had just been thrown by the wizard had thrown a few white talismans slowly appeared strange.

There was a gust of wind in that position, which drove the rune paper slightly, and then began to slowly condense a transparent human body-shaped thing, and in just a few seconds, the human-shaped thing went from opaque to translucent, and slowly condensed into an entity. An entity that makes my heart surge.

The entity sat on the ground with its legs outstretched, its back to me and its side to the wizard. His hand was slightly raised and placed on the side of his face, looking very panicked. It's really a ghost in broad daylight!!!

The ghost came out and slowly turned its head, and when I saw its appearance clearly, I couldn't help but say in shock: "! ”

Because that ghost is Yu Man! It's not the terrifying Yu Man, it's just like the normal Yu Man, although the face is not white, but the facial features are still very exquisite, and the figure is no different from Yu Man. Its panicked appearance even makes people feel a little pitiful. It didn't look at the wizard and then at me, and its gaze didn't linger too much, but turned its head to look at the environment of the ancestral hall.

She looked around, but there was no emotion in her eyes, and she didn't seem to take me and the wizard seriously. This makes me very unhappy, this ghost has hurt me so badly, it has not apologized at all, and even ignores me.

I used to be afraid of him, but now I'm not afraid of it, because the wizard is right next to me. My teeth itched with hatred, but the wizard wouldn't let me speak, and I couldn't help but say a foul word just now, and the wizard had already glared at me. If I say it again, I guess it will make him very unhappy.

I clenched my fists in my hands, my eyes fixed on the ghost named Yu Man, and the wizard turned his head to look at me, and unhurriedly took out a small wooden card from his pocket.

He drew several hand spells on the wooden card, walked in front of Yu Man in two steps, took out a yellow talisman from his pocket and gently patted it on Yu Man, who was still looking around.

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