That night, I couldn't sleep tossing and turning, and I just felt like I had never been so excited.

I couldn't have imagined that the old man was really a gentleman in the industry, and he was also a sorcerer, what did I mean when I heard what Old Man Chen said...... Looks like he's not an ordinary sorcerer!

In the industry, he should be quite famous, right?

Thinking of what Old Man Chen said to the old man, I couldn't help but feel a little mixed in my heart.

Since I was a child, the old man has never let me suffer, except for the fact that he was a little serious when he taught me the theory of Chinese medicine, the rest of the time, it can be said that he spoiled me to heaven.

I was only an old man who was teaching me a skill so that I could inherit this pharmacy in the future, or become a barefoot Chinese medicine practitioner like him.

Now that I think about it, the old man is just leaving me a way out.

Even if I don't eat this bowl of Mr. rice from the Shen family, I can still rely on this pharmacy to survive, and even live a more nourishing life than ordinary people.

But is that kind of ordinary life really what I want?

When I thought of this, my sleepiness decreased by three points, and I lay in bed, unable to close my eyes anymore.

Early the next morning.

I washed up hastily, and then I couldn't wait to go downstairs to find the old man.

Unexpectedly, he didn't open a shop today, nor did he go out to play mahjong, but sat at the tea table upright, as if he was waiting for me on purpose.

When they saw me, they waved at me and motioned for me to pass.

When I stepped forward, there was a big wooden box on the table that I had never seen before, and the old man's right hand was on the lid of the box, and he was holding half a cigarette in his left hand, and he looked at me with a complicated expression and asked, "What do you think of being a doctor?" ”

"Yes." I smiled and said, "Anyway, I listen to you, I will do whatever you ask me to do." ”

Hearing this, the old man nodded, took two puffs of cigarette, and asked me again, "Are you afraid of death?" ”

"I'm afraid." I didn't hesitate, and asked directly: "Everyone is afraid of death, master, are you afraid?" ”

Getting this answer, the old man couldn't help laughing, and nodded again and again: "I'm definitely afraid, you cub are so afraid of death, when I leave later, my enemies really come to the door, you still have to be scared to pee your pants?" ”

"That's not all." I shrugged my shoulders: "It's a big deal to fight with them." ”

"Can you spell it?" The old man asked me rhetorically.

I didn't speak, I looked at him silently, and the answer in my eyes was self-evident.

"Come on, Shi'an, I won't talk nonsense with you anymore." The old man coughed twice, and there seemed to be a little more helplessness in his cloudy old eyes: "Lao Chen is right, I should give you a chance, but I don't want to give you this opportunity......"

"Master, you have always spoiled me, and everything comes with me, this is ...... Can you listen to me? I asked cautiously.

The old man smoked a cigarette and looked at me: "You say." ”

"I want to learn from you." I said frankly, my eyes were full of seriousness, and there was no joke: "The skills of the Shen family have been passed down from generation to generation, if you don't want me to learn, let the skills be broken in my generation, then the ancestors and ancestors will definitely disagree, or will you give me a chance to try?" ”

"The Shen family's ability is not passed on to useless people." The old man sighed: "In my generation, there are many children of our Shen family, but I am the only one who is really qualified to learn the ability, and when it comes to your father's generation, he is angry, and he is the only child, and he has also passed the trial......

"Trials?" I was stunned.

"Well, let's take a gamble." The old man smiled: "If you can pass the test according to the rules of the Shen family, then I will let you enter the industry and eat this bowl of dead man's rice, if you can't pass the test......"

"If I can't get through, I'll be in this pharmacy for the rest of my life." I took over the conversation and said.

"Okay, that's it." The old man nodded, and slammed the lid open.

When I first saw this big wooden box, I was still wondering, this box looks like a child, where did the old man get it?

When he opened the lid and I saw what was inside, I was even more puzzled.

"You're going to rob the gold shop?" I asked cautiously.

The old man glared at me and scolded angrily: "This is something that has been passed down from generation to generation by the Shen family!" Rob you immortal board! ”

The wooden box contained eighteen palm-sized golden coffins, which were definitely not made of copper, which could be seen at a glance.

When I saw these golden coffins, I just felt like I was dreaming, which is too exaggerated, right?

If I sell all these eighteen golden coffins, I will definitely not worry about eating and drinking in my life!

"What's engraved on it?" I asked curiously.

These eighteen pairs of golden coffins, each of which has several patterns similar to oracle bone inscriptions engraved on the lid, looks very conspicuous.

Hearing my question, the old man didn't explain much, and said casually: "That's the Sui script, which is specially written for ghosts and gods." ”

(Note: The fourth tone of 泐le, the first sound of Sui sui.) ）

"What do these words mean?" I asked again.

Hearing this, the old man pointed to the coffin on the far left and introduced it to me in turn.

"Tongue pulling, evil scissors, iron trees, evil mirrors, steaming people, copper pillars, knife mountains, cold mountains, oil pots, animal pits, stone presses, mortars, blood seas, vain death, scorching peaks, ghost grinding, sawing bodies, and slamming the ground."

"These words sound familiar, a bit like the eighteen-story ....... in folklore."

Before I could finish speaking, the old man nodded and said, "These eighteen coffins correspond to the eighteen layers of hell." ”

"You take these coffins out...... Are you going to pass it on to me? I looked at him with great interest.

"Shit, you melon baby thinks beautifully!" The old man said angrily: "When Lao Tzu dies, these things will be kept by you, don't think crookedly now!" ”

As he spoke, the old man snuffed out his cigarette butt and looked at me deeply.

"If you're going to get into the business, you've got to use what's in these coffins."

As soon as he finished speaking, the old man stood up and went to the counter to bring a jar shaped like an incense burner.

When he sat back in his chair, he opened the golden coffins one by one.

I saw that the contents of these coffins were all objects like dead wood, and if you looked closely, some of them looked like dried meat.

These "jerky" come in all shapes, big and small.

Some of them obviously looked like human figures, while others were mutilated, with only one section in mind, which looked like a piece of wood.

When I got closer, I saw that these things still had a fishy smell.

"Master, what is this?" I asked curiously.

"Eighteen Fallen Evil Sons."

As he spoke, the old man took out a piece of "jerky" from the coffin, carefully broke off a small piece with his hands, put it into the jar, and then returned to its place and put the large piece of "jerky" back into the coffin and lided it.

This set of actions, the old man repeated a total of seventeen times, except for a coffin on the side, the rest were opened by him.

"Master, don't we use the things in this coffin?" I asked, gesturing to the only unopened golden coffin.

The old man snorted and said without raising his head: "There is nothing in that coffin, it is empty." ”

"Where's the stuff inside?" I asked curiously.

"I've run out of it." The old man said impatiently.

Hearing this, I was slightly stunned, and before I could ask more, the old man waved his hand and urged me to go back to the room and wait, he wanted to put away these coffins first.

Before going upstairs, I asked a few questions, how do you use these jerky? What is the trial of my entry? It's not going to make me eat all of this, is it?

"It's not." The old man said, "Later, I will operate on you, bury these evil people in your flesh, if you scream halfway, or pass out halfway, even if you can't pass the test." ”

I was startled and didn't speak.

"If you can't pass the level, you are not qualified to eat this bowl of rice of the Shen family, this is the rule." The old man looked at me deeply, and his tone was very complicated, as if he wanted me to retreat: "You really think about it?" ”

This apprenticeship....... Isn't it just a matter of kowtowing a few heads....... Why do you still have surgery?

Burying these things in the flesh won't cause wound infection, right?

The old man seemed to know what I was thinking, so he explained: "Each family has its own rules, and the rules of our Shen family are like this, if you regret it, it's still too late." ”

I scratched my head, although I was a little scared, but I knew that the old man would definitely not harm me.

"Try it." I smiled and said, "If you don't try it once, I'm not reconciled." ”