Chapter 20: The Apprenticeship Ceremony
Everything seemed to fall into place, and just as I was almost about to get lost in the passion, the iron egg outside the window suddenly barked violently.
The cry of the iron egg made me a little more conscious, I looked at Yu Man in front of me, who was still seducing me with his eyes closed, and was about to stop yelling, Yu Man's lips were pasted, and she said vaguely: "Don't pay attention, you want me, it's almost me..."
I was completely bewildered by her again, and just as I was about to take the next step, there was a sudden loud bang from the wooden door, which was more penetrating than the cry of the iron egg, and I was instantly pulled back to reality, and Yu Man disappeared.
I sat up quickly, feeling weak again, I don't know what would have happened if I had her, but I knew that nothing good would have happened.
I looked at my phone, the time was up, I picked up the gifts and the red envelope that I had prepared, walked out of the door, and as soon as I went out, I saw the little black dog named Tie Dan standing by the stone table, staring at me motionless, it was just slightly stunned, and roared at me frantically again.
"Tiedan, thank you for your help, I will give you more bones to eat in the future." I'm about to apprentice, and I'm in a very good mood, and as for what happened just now, I decided to keep it in my heart forever and say nothing about it.
Strange to say, after I said this to the Iron Egg, it actually stopped screaming, and was even about to wagging its tail towards me. Why is this dog so human? This wizard is powerful, and the dogs he raises are so sensible.
I ignored Tie Dan, but walked directly to the door of the wizard's room, knocked lightly, and said, "Wizard, wizard, the time is up." ”
The light in the wizard's room was not on, but the light in Mrs. Huang's room turned on, and Mrs. Huang opened the door from the inside and said to me with a smile: "He is in the ancestral hall, you can just go over directly." ”
I nodded, took out the gift prepared for Mrs. Huang, handed it to Mrs. Huang and said, "Mrs. Huang, a little bit of heart, please smile." ”
Aunt Huang still smiled at the gift I handed her, and took it without politeness: "Xiao Liu, thank you for your kindness, go quickly, don't let your master wait in a hurry." ”
What Aunt Huang said don't let your master wait for me to be in a hurry I was a little distracted, I hummed, turned around and ran towards the ancestral hall.
The door of the ancestral hall is double-opened, and there is a faint candlelight inside. I still knocked on the door, but there was no response inside, and I didn't dare to push the door in, so I waited for a while and continued to knock twice, but there was still no response inside.
I thought to myself that the wizard was not asleep inside, and just as I was about to knock it for the third time, the wizard's voice came out of it in time: "Come in." ”
I reached out and pushed the door open, and the environment inside was a little oppressive.
Facing the door is a large tribute platform, on which are placed three large tablets in a triangular shape, and there is an incense burner in front of the tablet, and three incense sticks are inserted in it. In front of the incense burner were all kinds of offerings, such as raw meat, glutinous rice cakes, sweets, tofu cubes, and a white porcelain bowl. Two large red candles are lit on either side of the tablet. Those two big red candles were the only light source in this ancestral hall, and even so, they illuminated the inside of the house.
Master Wu sat on a Taishi chair on the left side of the Gongtai, with his right hand on his right knee, and his left hand on the support of the Taishi chair, looking at me with a very serious expression.
I walked up to the wizard, put down the things in my hand, and presented the apprenticeship card and the big red envelope to the wizard with both hands, I don't know if the red envelope was a bit redundant, but it was indeed a piece of my heart.
Master Wu took the apprenticeship post, opened it and looked at it, then nodded and said to me, "Kneel down in front of Master Zu." ”
The ancestor he said should be the three tablets on the tribute platform, I nodded, there happened to be a straw futon in front of me, I walked to the futon and knelt down respectfully. While I was hesitating whether to kowtow, the wizard got up from his chair, walked to the left corner, and took out a rooster with its legs tied and walked up to me.
The rooster was alive, but it didn't resist anything. The wizard master grabbed the chicken with both hands, turned around and bowed respectfully to Gongtai three times, and then said loudly: Disciple Wu Guang decided to accept Liu Dagger as an apprentice today, hoping that the ancestor master will be fulfilled.
The rooster in the wizard's hand suddenly clucked.
The Wizard Master bowed deeply again, and then said, "Thank you, Master Patriarch, for making it happen." Then he turned to me and said, "Knock your head three times." ”
I hurriedly crawled my upper body and knocked three times in a row, the first one didn't grasp the strength well, and I was a little dizzy. But the first one was so loud, and the second and third couldn't be weak, because I heard that the rule of kowtowing should be louder and louder every time to appear sincere, so when the three heads were snorted, my forehead hurt incomparably.
After snorting, the rooster in the wizard's hand clucked again. The wizard master bowed deeply to Gongtai and said, "Thank you for the affirmation of Master and Ancestor, the disciple must teach his karma well and solve his doubts, be responsible for him, and definitely not dishonor the master." ”
It turned out that the clucking sound of the rooster was an affirmation given by the ancestors, and my heart suddenly blossomed, and I thought that I must be kind to this rooster in the future.
After the wizard finished speaking, he put his index and middle fingers together, and drew something in the air on the head of the chicken that I couldn't read, and said something in his mouth. After reading, he untied the red rope from the rooster's leg and slowly placed it on the ground.
The rooster on the ground, as if the chicken blood was big, clucked and ran out of the ancestral hall, my eyes followed the rooster out of the door, only to find the iron egg lying in the doorway, his head resting on the door frame, his eyes staring at us intently.
After the master finished putting the chicken, he grabbed a little ash from the incense burner, sprinkled it in the white porcelain bowl, and then took the bowl and drank it, and after drinking half of it, he handed me the bowl with half a bowl of water in it. There's incense ash in it, but not much.
I didn't say a word, I picked up the bowl and drank all the water inside, this bowl of water is no different from ordinary water, but I added some incense ash to make me feel a little weird, but the wizard master drank it, and I naturally won't dislike it.
After drinking, the wizard pointed to the paper man in front of the tribute platform and said, you put the bowl in the hand of the paper man, if it is stable, it can prove that we have the fate of master and apprentice, if you can't let it go, then you have to go down the mountain tomorrow morning.
I looked at it, and the paper figure was an ordinary paper figure, less than twenty centimeters tall in total. The whole body is red, without any support, so it is attached to the front of the tribute, and you can't see it if you don't look carefully.
Although this paper man is humanoid, with hands and feet, but to hold up the bowl is simply a fantasy, according to common sense, if this paper man is strong enough, and the hands can be glued together, you can form a circle, put the bowl on the circle may also be able to hold up the bowl, but the paper is very thin, there is no difference between Qilai and ordinary paper, and it is estimated that it is also glued to the side of the tribute, such a situation is impossible to hold up a porcelain bowl.
Seeing that I was a little hesitant, the wizard said, go ahead and try it.
I nodded, stood up, and walked over to the tribute with the bowl. I touched the red paper figure with my hand, and sure enough, it was a very ordinary paper, very light, as if it would fall off at the slightest touch.
Even if I have big doubts in my heart, I will try. It shouldn't be an impossible task for the wizard to ask me to do something like this. I put the bowl on the paper man's chest, naively thinking that the paper man would reach out and hug it, but in fact the paper man did not move, and there was no reaction.
The wizard said, "Follow me, and the Xuan paper will enter the spirit. Bestow divine power ......."
"Mysterious paper into the spirit, give divine power....." After I recited a spell that was not very long, the wizard told me to blow three breaths on the paper figure, and after I did so, the wizard said, "Try it now." ”
I nodded, holding the bowl with my left hand against the paper man's fierce mouth, hooking the paper man's hand with my right hand and slowly sticking it to the bowl, what surprised me was that this ordinary piece of paper actually emitted a stream of heat after I finished reciting the incantation, and even a little hot to my hands.
I bent both hands of the red paper figure over the bowl, and the paper man's hands seemed to be holding the bowl as if they were really holding it, and it didn't hang down. After seeing this scene, I was shocked, what kind of spell is this, it is so magical.
I slowly let go of the bowl, praying in my heart that such a heavy bowl would not tear the paper figure apart. The result did not disappoint me, the thin paper figure that seemed to be glued to the tribute platform, actually forced a porcelain bowl to be held up, and there was no shaking in the slightest.
I watched in horror at the incredible scene, then turned to look at the wizard again. The wizard didn't seem to be surprised, but nodded slightly, then returned to the Taishi chair and sat down, and said, "Okay, you can bow to me." ”
I hurriedly walked up to the wizard master, knelt down as soon as my legs were bent, and followed what was said on TV: "Master is above, please bow to the disciples." ”
The wizard master snorted, stretched out his palm and gently patted the heavenly spirit cover on the top of my head three times, and then said: "From today on, you Liu Dagger is my disciple of Wu Guang, I teach you all the things, you can only use it to do good, not to do evil, and you can't take the initiative to ask for anything to learn, I will teach you what should be taught, and you don't ask if you don't teach you." ”
I nodded and said, "Disciple understands. ”
The wizard breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Okay, you get up, the ceremony is over, go back to sleep." In the future, no matter whether it is windy or rainy, you must get up every day when the rooster crows to do morning classes. After saying that, the wizard master walked outside, and this time he took the gift I brought and the red envelope.
I got up and looked at the sorcerer who had already walked out of the ancestral hall, and then looked at the three tablets on the tribute platform, and after a hurried bow, I also walked out of the ancestral hall and closed the door.
Iron Dan stood up after I left the ancestral hall, wagged his tail happily at me, and rubbed his head on my knees, looking very intimate. I returned to my room in a happy mood, I had just experienced a very special apprenticeship ceremony, after this ceremony, even if I officially became the apprentice of the wizard, thinking that I could learn those magical Taoist spells with the wizard tomorrow morning, my heart was very happy.
That night, I slept soundly, and I didn't have that nightmare. I thought to myself that Master Wu didn't give me a yin dispelling, why didn't I get rid of that nightmare? Is it because of the ancestral hall? If this is the case, will Yu Man sense it and then attack Yuanyuan who is still in the rental house?