Seeing Wu Zhiyuan coughing, Zhang Zefang hurriedly took out the paper flag inserted in his mouth, turned around and said, "Sister-in-law, you can light the lamp." ”

The Wu couple were surprised and delighted, Wu Zhiyuan had been in a coma for the past seven days, and the couple did not hear Wu Zhiyuan's voice, even if it was a painful moan. Now that I heard his cough, my mind was all on Wu Zhiyuan, and I didn't hear Zhang Zefang's words at all.

Zhang Zefang shook his head, walked to the table and lit the kerosene lamp.

At this time, Wu Zhiyuan had woken up leisurely, and Wu Chengxi and his wife hurriedly stepped forward to help their son.

"Zhiyuan, you've finally woken up." Wu cried with joy, kept wiping his tears, suddenly turned around, "poof", and knelt down towards Zhang Zefang.

"Dao Chief, you are really the lifesaver of our family." Wu's gratitude to Zhang Zefang is naturally revealed, but the implication of the word "whole family" is also obvious, if Wu Zhiyuan dies, she and her husband will have no meaning in living in this world.

"Sister-in-law, hurry up, Zhang Zefang really can't stand it!" Zhang Zefang hurriedly stepped forward to pick up the Wu family, and Wu Chengxi said to Wu Zhiyuan: "Zhiyuan, it was this Taoist who saved your life, thank you quickly." ”

"Xie Lu, thank you." Wu Zhiyuan's tone was weak, his face was pale, his hands were on his chest, and he was weak, as if he still had a lot to say.

Zhang Zefang hurriedly stepped forward to appease Wu Zhiyuan, and said to Wu Chengxi and his wife: "Big brother and sister-in-law, although Zhiyuan has returned to his soul, there is still the last step to fully recover, I want to recite a requiem mantra for him and teach him the method of returning to qi." ”

Wu Chengxi and his wife didn't dare to speak, and hurriedly walked out of the door, Zhang Zefang turned around and said: "In the past three days, according to what Yu Yisu said, Zhiyuan has been fed nine ripe glutinous rice porridge. Wu repeatedly agreed and closed the door.

Three days passed in a blink of an eye, and when Wu Chengxi and his wife saw Wu Zhiyuan again, he and Zhang Zefang were sitting cross-legged on the clay kang, their eyes closed, their chests slowly rising and falling, and their faces were more ruddy than before.

"Zhiyuan, it's okay." Zhang Zefang opened his eyes and saw that Wu Zhiyuan was still breathing and breathing, and said with a smile, "It seems that you have mastered the mental method of collecting the sun and the essence of the moon, as long as you take a little longer, you can use it freely." ”

Wu Chengxi and his wife were overjoyed when they heard this, they didn't expect that Wu Zhiyuan could be reborn in three days, just like a different person.

Wu Zhiyuan slowly opened his eyes, said "um", and said suspiciously: "I just feel that when I am standing, I inhale a lot of qi into my body, but I exhale very little qi, and when I sit, I inhale very little qi into my body, but I exhale a lot of qi." ”

"Your comprehension is very high, which means that you have mastered the method of this skill, I think I practiced for more than half a year before I had this feeling." Zhang Zefang smiled slightly, "This is the normal reaction of a beginner cultivator. It is divided into two parts: the daytime standing posture is the harvesting exercise, and the sitting posture is the pharyngeal exercise at night. When you practice the practice of collecting exercises, you collect the essence of the spiritual energy of all things in heaven and earth into your body and store it in your throat, so you will feel that you have more qi inhaled into your body and less qi you exhale. When you perform pharyngeal exercises, the aura stored in the throat is incorporated into the dantian, and at the same time, the turbid qi in the dantian is expelled from the body, so you feel that there is less qi inhaled into the body and more qi exhaled. Don't worry, practice this ** often in the future, and soon this feeling of suffocation will disappear. ”

"Xie Lu, Master Xie's guidance." Wu Zhiyuan exhaled a mouthful of turbid gas in the dantian.

"Don't call me master, I didn't promise." Zhang Zefang had a satisfied smile on his face, Wu Zhiyuan's performance in the past three days had already revealed that he was a wizard who practiced the Tao, although Zhang Zefang intended to include him in his disciples, but this kind of thing still had to be approved by his parents.

"Zhiyuan can worship the Taoist as a teacher, it is his great blessing, Taoist you can accept him as an apprentice." Wu Chengxi stood aside and looked at Wu Zhiyuan happily. He saw with his own eyes Zhang Zefang's superb magic of returning to ghosts, Wu Zhiyuan worshipped him as a teacher, how could there be any reason to disagree?

"I'm very willing to accept Zhiyuan as an apprentice, and I believe that my master will also be very satisfied with Zhiyuan, but it's just ......" Zhang Zefang coughed lightly, and stopped talking.

"If the Taoist chief has any requirements, just say it." Wu Chengxi didn't understand Zhang Zefang's unspeakable secrets, and only thought that Zhang Zefang had other requirements and was embarrassed to say it to his face.

"Presumably you already know the Dao, I am a disciple of Maoshan." Zhang Zefang has a straight face, he has always been proud of his identity as a "disciple of Maoshan", no matter when and where, he never shies away from being a Taoist priest of Maoshan. In fact, since the end of the Qing Dynasty, the national fortune is not good, the people's livelihood is unstable, the folk ghosts are rampant, and the evil is in power, many warlocks, magic sticks, and witches have come into being, under the banner of the Maoshan faction, swaggering and cheating, and blackmailing money, and the reputation of the Maoshan faction has long been muddy. However, Zhang Zefang's implication at this time did not refer to the notoriety of the Maoshan faction.

"I know, what's wrong with the Maoshan faction? Without the Maoshan faction, Zhiyuan's life would have been gone long ago. Wu Chengxi stomped his feet, and his tone was extremely firm.

"To tell you the truth, there are three major rules and precepts of my Maoshan faction, which are colorless, ragged, and poor. Colorless means that you can't get close to women, which means that if you become a disciple of Maoshan, you will inevitably be extinct; Ragged clothes are not neatly dressed, and there must be holes in the clothes; To be poor is not to hoard wealth, not to keep overnight money. Anyone who enters my Maoshan Gate must first abide by these three rules. Zhang Zefang said as he observed the expressions of Wu Chengxi and his wife.

I saw that Wu Chengxi and his wife were silent, no longer as emotionally high as before, and supported Wu Zhiyuan to enter Maoshan Gate. The idea of this peasant couple is completely understandable, Wu Zhiyuan is their only son and the only heir to the Wu family's incense. It didn't matter if they were in rags or poor, and the "colorless" precepts of the Maoshan faction became the only obstacle for them to agree to Wu Zhiyuan's apprenticeship.

"I still want to join the Maoshan faction and worship Zhang Daochang as a teacher!" Wu Zhiyuan saw that his parents bowed their heads and were silent, and took the lead in breaking the silence and expressing his wishes.

"Dao Chief, you take a rest first, and we'll have dinner right away." Wu Chengxi ignored Wu Zhiyuan's words and greeted Zhang Zefang with a smile.

Zhang Zefang is a reasonable person, and the expressions of Wu Chengxi and his wife in front of him have already made the best answer, which is also what he expected from the beginning, so he was not surprised, and hurriedly smiled: "No, Brother Wu, I still have urgent matters, so I won't bother." After saying that, he got up and got off the kang.

Wu Chengxi and his wife hurriedly grabbed him, saying that they would have dinner before leaving, but Zhang Zefang was resolute, and Wu Chengxi and his wife saw that they couldn't be stubborn, so they had to obey his wishes. Wu took out a bag of dry food from the kitchen and stuffed it into Zhang Zefang's hand.

Zhang Zefang remembered that when he left here a few days ago, the Wu family also stuffed him with such a bag of dry food, and his heart was suddenly greatly moved, and he hugged his fist to Wu Chengxi and his wife, and said: "Big brother and sister-in-law, there will be a period later!" If you have anything in the future, you can come to me in Maoshan, Jiangsu. ”

"Zhiyuan, remember to practice the essence of the sun and the moon that I taught you every day." Zhang Zefang did not forget to tell Wu Zhiyuan, in fact, in his heart, Wu Zhiyuan is indeed a rare talent for learning Taoism and learning the law.