It was probably in 05, the summer vacation of the sophomore year of high school. One afternoon, when I was meditating on a stone on the top of the mountain, Master suddenly came to me and told me that there were a few guests and asked me to go with him to see them.

At that time, I was very strange, usually the master has a lot of guests, but he never called me, but today he suddenly ran from the temple to the top of the mountain to call me, which made me a little scared, I wondered if I had done something wrong, and the master found a martial arts master to sanction me. But it shouldn't be, he didn't beat me up at that time.

Follow the master back to the temple. Then Master said you go take a shower and change into clean clothes. I was a little confused. Is it a blind date? But I'm still very immature, except for Xiaofang, I'm not interested in anyone else! I looked at Master with a puzzled expression, but Master didn't mean to explain it to me. I could only obediently go to the shower and change my clothes, and after everything was done, the master also told me not to talk nonsense when the time came。。。。。。 I thought in trepidation, I won't force a marriage with another sect, but it's not his turn to call the shots, this is my life's event. I felt more and more uneasy, but I didn't dare to say more.

I followed Master down the hill and came to the vicinity of an adobe house, which was a very large square brick. In the past, there were many kinds of wooden doors and windows in the countryside, and black tiles were on them. The door was closed, and the only window was covered with pine branches

The pine branch must have been freshly cut down, or blue.

After entering the door, I saw that the room was pitch black, and there was only one table of eight immortals. There was only a small electric lamp of about five watts on the table, and there was a person sitting in the upper and lower positions of the table, and there was a chaise longue behind it, and there was a person lying on the chaise longue, and the one lying on it was dressed in pitch black, only the mille-feuille bottom on his feet was a little white, and even his face was covered with a black cloth, and there was no lamp on the ground under his feet.

Originally, the light was not very bright, so the kerosene lamp was particularly eye-catching, and it was placed one centimeter between the feet of the man in black on the chaise longue, looking at his posture, it seemed that he was resting, and he was asleep, motionless, but his posture was a little stiff.

One of the two people sitting at the table was older, bald, and chubby. There was also a very young man, probably no more than three years older than me, and all three were men. I was a little relieved when I saw that there was no one else in the room, at least it wasn't a blind date. After Master entered the door, the two people on the other side of the Eight Immortals Table stood up, the older man hurriedly left his seat and came over to hug my master, and the little brother who was sitting in the lower seat also bowed to my master, and I quickly asked them to say goodbye.

Master told me that this is Master Zhang, a native of Huaihua. That was Master Zhang's apprentice. The little brother gave another salute and said to me, my surname is Zhou, I quickly followed his example and gave a salute and said Hello Brother Zhang, my surname is Liu. Master Zhang looked at me with a smile and said that the young man is very energetic! I smiled sheepishly. I didn't dare to say much, but I was a little curious, why didn't the person on the recliner get up to greet us, could it be that he was too tired and fell asleep? But in broad daylight。。。。。。

Master Zhang exchanged a few more words with Master, and then beckoned everyone to sit down. Master was older than Master Zhang, so he sat on the top seat, and Master Zhang sat on the left hand side of the master. And I was the youngest, and I was supposed to sit down, but Brother Zhou was close to that position, so he sat up without saying a word and leaned to the left, it seemed that there was an empty seat for me to sit, but I think there was a vacant seat Why should two people squeeze on a stool. So after saying thank you, I sat down directly on the stool to the right of the master, and the person on the chaise longue was also on the right, and the bench in the chaise longue was less than half a meter away.

As I sat down, Master Zhang looked at me. said to the master, sure enough, you are not small, how long have you been receiving it? Master said that it had been two or three years. It's not bold to say. But it's not small, and it sounded a little strange to me at the time. I do this position, what does it have to do with whether I am bold or not. But at that time, I was quite proud, after all, I was praised, although I couldn't understand what they said, but I still said a little happily, where.

When I looked at Brother Zhou triumphantly, he also stared at me and smiled, the smile seemed to be still holding back, a constipated expression, so I felt more and more strange. Strange is strange, but I still didn't ask anything. Because before I went out, Master told me to talk less nonsense, and although I didn't know what it meant to talk nonsense, the only way to do it was not to talk nonsense.

Seeing that I didn't speak, Master opened his mouth and asked Master Zhang what was going on this time and why he ran so far. And you don't have to walk the dead now, why did you suddenly do this business again? When I heard the word walking corpse, I instantly felt a little understood, maybe it was a mental effect, and I suddenly felt a little numb in my back, and I also knew what they said about the reason why I was bold, it turned out that half a meter behind me, the person lying on the recliner was a dead man。。。。。。 And he is also black-clothed and black-faced.

At that time, although I had seen the spirit god and the deceased in the coffin, it was the first time I had seen the dead person outside the coffin, and it was infected by Uncle Ying's zombie film. I'm really worried that the corpse in the back will suddenly change corpse. I'm the closest, and I'll be the first one to strangle. Come to think of it. I scrambled to my feet, my hands under the table. I was so nervous that the moment I stood up, my hand hit directly under the table, and I wanted to scream in pain.

At this time, Brother Zhou, who was still immature, finally laughed out loud. Master Zhang also looked at me with a smile, only Master stared at me with a serious face, as if I had embarrassed him. I knew what Master meant, so I calmed down and thought about it, at least I shouldn't be ashamed. I smiled awkwardly, said I'm sorry, and sat down squirming, as if I wasn't afraid. Then he glanced back at the boss on the recliner behind him, and the kerosene lamp flickered. The shadows of the boss's two feet reflected on the wall flickered, and it felt as if his feet were moving all the time.

See this scenario. I was a little impulsive to run, but to prove that I really had some guts, I forced myself to fix myself and lay on the table, as if I wanted to listen to them. In fact, they couldn't see my long legs shivering with fear under the table.

Master and Master Zhang were also happy to see this situation, and then Master Zhang said: "The boss this time is an acquaintance, and he is also in our industry, and he is a generation higher than me.

Hearing this, I am not calm again, I know that after the death of the seniors in our industry, if the spirit is also very powerful, if the evil spirit wants to do evil, it is not impossible to make me an idiot every minute.

Thinking of this relationship, I quickly left that position in a low-key manner, went around to Master Zhang's side opposite, shamelessly squeezed Brother Zhou to the stool, and sat on the same stool with him between him and his master. Then squeezed out a smile, and looked like he wanted to listen carefully. Brother Zhou also smiled, and then directly gave up the position to me, he indifferently walked to my original position and sat down, and immediately I thought he was so cool. After thanking him gratefully, he began to listen carefully to the conversation between Master and Master Zhang.

Master Zhang said: This boss is also a corpse chaser, even if he has been doing this business for many years. But now there is basically no one in society who needs to walk with their feet. So it's basically a dead craft. But he loved his profession very much during his lifetime, and he also felt that it was the best way to return to his roots.

He thinks that after people die in a foreign land, if they can return to their roots step by step. It is a great respect for the hometown. It is also the best explanation for yourself. It can be regarded as a perfect end to the decades he has been working in, so that he can die without regrets.

After Master Zhang said this, we all fell silent.

Yes, how many people can live a lifetime and be able to work hard for a profession for decades, and after death, how many people can draw an end to this profession? And this kind of profession still gives the most and gets the least. will also be misunderstood and looked down upon by people, they step by step to fulfill the leaves of others back to their roots, how many layers of bottom have been worn out, how much sweat has been left, and how much normal sleep has been delayed?

Thinking about it again, Master and I, I wonder if we will still have the courage to leave this world with peace of mind when we really need others to do rituals to surpass our own souls?

has been a god stick in the eyes of others all his life, can he really dare to justify his profession when he leaves, and dare to face the spirits and things that we have personally sent away?

From this point of view, I admire the old-timer lying on the recliner who dared to love his profession with his life, dared to defend his profession with his soul, and dared to feel his profession with his body

And I, apart from daring to do what I feel is righteous under the suspicious eyes and slanderous language of others, do I really dare to defend my profession in the moments of a lifetime? Obviously I don't have the courage to do that。。。。。

Master was obviously also deeply touched, and was silent for a while, not saying anything, just looking at the senior lying on the recliner, and then asked Master Zhang if the senior had already overdone?

Master Zhang said: No, so I took a detour to find you. This is also the meaning of the old-timers, he said that he wanted to find a more virtuous and respected soul sending master to send him on the road, obviously among the soul sending masters that Master Zhang knew, the master was the number one in the row.

Master hurriedly stood up, bowed to the seniors on the recliner and said, "It's a great honor for the seniors to look up to us Taoist priests, you can rest assured, we will send you on your way in the most meaningful way."

I quickly stood up as well and bowed three times to my senior lying on the chaise longue. Then I said to the master, I will go back to the temple to get something, and the master nodded and said, "You go, remember to take more paper money and tribute, and we will do a good supernatural ritual for the seniors."

I turned around and went out the door, running back to the temple as fast as I could. He took the master's bag, and then put all the paper money, paper clothes and shoes in his room into his pocket, and asked the old man in the temple for some glutinous rice and incense candles. In the end, he hurried down the mountain and rushed to the adobe house.

It was already dark, and when I entered, they had removed the table in the middle and replaced it with a door panel on top of two benches. A white cloth was laid on the door panel, a mattress was laid on the white cloth, and two red candles were lit on the table of the Eight Immortals. The light in the room is dim, and the light of the fire jumping with the red candles, coupled with the furnishings in the room, and the remains of the old-timers next to it, seem particularly terrifying in the eyes of ordinary people, but in the eyes of the four of us, this is a very serious scene, even sacred...

Oh. No, it's not four people, it's five people. At this moment, the old man was also staying in the same room with us, and I couldn't help but feel guilty for my gaffe just now, and I only hoped that my gaffe would not defile this cleansing ritual from the depths of my heart.

Master said to Master Zhang, "Let's call the old-timers to come out first and send him off together, is this possible?"

Master Zhang said: The seniors also mean this, and the seniors also want to see for themselves what it is like to be a walking corpse.

Master said, "Okay, let's avoid those taboos today, and we'll show each other what we're capable of." Let the seniors know and know us。。。。。。

After the master finished speaking, his face was full of pride. Begin to rise up, practice, shout soul.

Just as the master was about to start shouting the soul, Master Zhang suddenly stopped the master, and everyone present was stunned, including Brother Zhou. Master Zhang is also a temperamental, and he said: Big brother, since you said that you avoided those taboos for this senior, let everyone see the real skills. So I guess you're a few years older than me, so let me do this kind of thing first.

When Master Zhang said this, I immediately understood. It turns out that this kind of thing that leaks the ability of the bank is originally a taboo in the sect

But what Master and Master Zhang did made me instantly understand how much respect they had for the old-timers lying on the recliner in front of them, and in order to work together to do a Dharma service for him, since they could not scruple about the rules.

Sometimes I think about it, the so-called rules are not impossible to break. So when I first wrote the article, it was this incident that gave me great courage. Although some Taoist friends questioned me and even threatened me with words, I didn't think there was anything wrong, I only told the story and didn't reveal too many details, so that everyone could understand some things, is there any cause and effect?

If there is, I'm willing to bear it, really!

When Master Zhang saw Master Zhang say that, he also began to argue with Master Zhang, for that promise, for who would come first to commit this opportunity, in order to give an explanation to the old-timers on the recliner, the two masters actually quarreled over this matter, and I couldn't help but look at me and Brother Zhou at a loss, I really wanted to say: Either you guess the boxing! But after thinking about it, I held back, after all, I think it's a little inappropriate to say this at this time.

In the end, it was Brother Zhou who said: Or let's ask the old-timers what they mean?

Master and Master Zhang immediately agreed, and then they lit three sticks of incense in front of the old man's recliner, burned some paper money, and took out a pair of hexagrams. I began to ask the old-timers what they meant.

Hexagram, I believe many people have seen it, is a tool made of animal horns for divination and asking God. The saying "hexagram" is found in East China, Central China, South China, West China, and North China, and the source is very ancient. It refers to the divination method of throwing a device to obtain a hexagram.

The two sides agreed that the yin hexagram will shout the soul first, and the yang hexagram will raise the corpse first, as for the divine hexagram, it should not appear, because the spirit of the predecessor is also in the house, and he will naturally control the hexagram in whatever way he wants to do it.

Sure enough, the first hexagram went down, and it was the yin hexagram. The master smiled as he wished and said, "Brother, don't shirk now." Master Zhang also nodded and said, then everything will be according to the meaning of the seniors.

The master returned to the table of the Eight Immortals and began to do the soul ritual. It's not the first time I've seen Master shouting souls, but this time his expression is very serious and his gestures are very powerful. Even the usual mantra has become a mantra, as if I am afraid that others will not hear it, and I know that Master's action has a deep meaning. Because he knew that Master Zhang's technique and spell should not have much to do with it, he showed the specific details first, he didn't want to take advantage of it.

In fact, to be honest, if you can see the secret techniques of other sects, you don't want to learn them. But it's also a very big temptation, just like when I see a delicious and authentic snack, I can't take a step. When Master shouted soul, I didn't look at Master, nor did I stare at the seniors on the recliner, but shamelessly looked at Master Zhang's master and apprentice. Because although Master Zhang and his apprentice were facing the master, their eyes were closed. The admiration for their master and apprentice has added another layer in my heart, which may be called brightness.

A few minutes later, Master called out the soul of the old-timer.

It was an old man dressed plainly, with gray hair. He is probably over eighty years old, and the dress of the body on the recliner is not the same, maybe it was Master Zhang who burned it for the seniors behind them, or the clothes of the seniors before their deaths. A gray undershirt, a pair of black trousers, and a pair of worn-out liberation shoes, not tall, but also strong.

Strangely, he did not appear opposite the master as usual, but when he appeared, he was crouching next to his body

I couldn't help but refresh my perception a little more.

First of all, I had never seen such a real spirit god, and he didn't even have a pale face. Secondly, I have never seen such a clear spirit in clothing, as clear as if there was an extra person in the room for no reason. Although I saw very few spirits at that time, this is the first time I have seen this form.

It wasn't until Master respectfully shouted that Senior pulled me back from my thoughts. At the same time, Master Zhang's master and apprentice also opened their eyes, and Master Zhang also called out to the seniors, and then Brother Zhou and I bowed to the seniors and his bodies squatting on the ground. The old-timer lowered his head and said, thank you. Then he stood up.

As the old man stood up, I could see his facial features clearly, his skin was dark and not white. He looked at the four of us with a smile on his face. Then he said: Thank you so much, but I have a heart, I have been in the industry for decades, and finally I can end up like this, and I have no regrets in this life.

Master and Master Zhang immediately said that it was our honor. Brother Zhou and I didn't speak, because it was not our two juniors' turn to speak on this occasion. The old-timer looked at me and Brother Zhou, and then said, I really envy you, there are successors, but my old bones live longer than my own apprentices, and in the end, I actually got a white-haired person to send a black-haired person, and after speaking, I was all sad.

After hearing this, Master and Master Zhang were thoughtful, and then beckoned the seniors to sit down at the Eight Immortals table, as if they were going to talk at night with candles, when the three elders sat down at the Eight Immortals table. I know that at this time, I must not be disturbed by others, I said: The three seniors talked slowly, and I went out to watch. Then Master Zhang also said, Zhou X, you can go with you.

We didn't even close the door until we closed it, and I couldn't suppress my curiosity at all, because at that time, when I was young, I had never seen such an incredible thing except when Master took me out to work.

I was able to sit and chat with the shouting spirit, but I think it was probably because of my profession.

I found a brick outside the house and sat down, and Brother Zhou also found a stone next to me to make it. After sitting down, I hadn't started to speak. Brother Zhou opened his mouth and said, are you common to this kind of thing? The first time I saw it. It's kind of weird.

I said I wasn't very common, and I was a little confused.

He said that your master is amazing.

I said that you are also amazing, and I still envy you.

After slapping each other like this for a while, and in just a few minutes, Master Zhang opened the door and said, "You two come in."

I knew that they should have finished talking, and the time was much shorter than expected, so I hurriedly got up and went out of the house, and saw that they had all stood up and gathered around the body of the old-timer, and the black gauze on the face of the old-timer's body had been lifted. The pale face and purple lips seem to remind us that this old-timer is really deceased.

Master Zhang said with a serious expression, I'm going to raise the corpse.

Brother Zhou also hurried over to work and took out some props, and I won't reveal what they are here. I looked at Master, meaning, do we need to close our eyes Master smiled and nodded. I hurriedly walked over to the Master, and although I was also curious, I closed my eyes without hesitation, and although I closed my eyes, I could still hear some movements. There were some spells, some iron hammers, some bottles and cans clashing, no bells in zombie movies, no whirring mahogany swords cutting through the air, everything seemed so commonplace.

A few minutes later, I heard Master Zhang roar. :Rise!

Master patted me with his hand, and I slowly opened my eyes. This look shocked me again. The body of the old-timer who was lying on the ground actually stood up!!!! Although there was no expression, he did stand up, and his hands naturally drooped, and he was a little too straight. His knees were slightly bent and he stood with the spirits of the old-timers, and the corpses seemed a little shorter than the spirits

Looking at an expressionless corpse, standing with a smiling spirit with the same appearance, the spirit still smiled and stared at the corpse, nodding incessantly, the scene was very weird. However, although the atmosphere of the scene was serious, it also seemed very harmonious because of the smiles of the old-timers.

I even felt that the picture was too beautiful to look closely, and Master Zhang began to control the body with gestures and spells, and walked up.

It was stiff and slow. But it's really walking, I can't help but be a little stunned when I see this, if I didn't know that it was Master Zhang who was collecting the corpse, I really believed that I saw the corpse.

The body of the old-timer circled around the Eight Immortals Table three times, and then stood still in the right corner of the door, his spirit body followed behind him, seemingly a little reluctant, and seemed a little relieved. After the body stood still, the spirit of the old timer said to the master, please start, xx. Give me a ride.

Master nodded. Begin to send the soul. Master Zhang, Master Zhang, and Brother Zhou looked at the spirits of the old-timers who were slowly becoming blurred all the time, and we were all a little sentimental, because we knew that sooner or later we would have such a day. I don't know if we will be able to face it calmly when that day comes.

As the spirits of the old-timers slowly disappeared, the master's soul-sending ritual gradually came to an end. What remains in my heart is the kind and smiling face of the old-timers, which is deeply engraved in my heart. I believe that they are the same.

At the end, I saw Master Zhang's expression very sad, and I could clearly see a few tears in the jumping candlelight.

He cried, a corpse chaser master, who wept happily when he saw the soul of his predecessors gone, wondering if he was lamenting life or revering their profession.

After the ritual was done, Brother Zhou and I packed up our things. Master and Master Zhang were talking on the side of the corpse of the old-timers, and as for what they said, I didn't pay attention to it, and I didn't have the mind. My mind is full of the smiling faces of the old-timers that are fading away.

They had to travel at night, so Master didn't stay long. After they left, Master and I also went to the temple. On the way, I thoughtlessly asked Master: After a hundred years, can we still leave with a smile?

Master stopped, looked at me, and said with a smile on his face: If you have a clear conscience for the rest of your life, everyone will leave with a smile.

I nodded thoughtfully, and secretly told myself in my heart that no matter what I do in the future, I must first ask my conscience, if nothing else, just to be able to leave with a smile a hundred years later!