That night, my master came to our house and talked to my dad for a long time. Early the next morning, Master called Senior Brother Feng, and Senior Brother Feng seemed to have been prepared, and led people to seize the small casino that afternoon, but only a small part of the money that my father threw into it was recovered.

Senior Brother Feng later said that in cases like this involving usury, even if it is finally verified that those who opened the gambling game are fraud gangs, it is still difficult to get the money back. After all, my dad took the initiative to borrow money from others and wrote an IOU, and what is even more incomprehensible is that when the affairs of the scammers were exposed, none of those who had been cheated out of their wealth by them dared to come forward to testify.

We don't have any certificates, but the crooks have IOUs in their hands, and they bite and hold on, and no one can do anything.

On the contrary, my dad was detained for many days for his gambling involvement.

And when my Senior Brother Feng interrogated those liars, he always felt that these people were very wrong, and with his nearly ten years of experience in handling cases, he had a hunch that several of these people might have killed people.

For this matter, it also alarmed my Senior Brother Zhuang, and with the relationship of Senior Brother Feng, Senior Brother Zhuang found an opportunity to see the faces of those people, and also got their birthdays, and calculated a hexagram for them, saying that these people were indeed holding human lives in their hands, and the location of the crime should be in the southwest direction.

Later, Senior Brother Feng found a body at an abandoned construction site in the southwest of the county, and sure enough, a murder case was revealed. The perpetrators are these gamblers and lenders, each of whom has blood on their hands, and the man who died at the old construction site is also a gambler who can't pay the money.

I also heard from Senior Brother Feng afterwards that this group of people was wandering around the country to commit crimes, and some unsolved cases in many places were also related to them. At that time, there were no surveillance cameras everywhere, and the anti-reconnaissance ability of this group of people was very strong, so that it was extremely difficult to arrest. If it weren't for the fact that my master had been collecting evidence for several months in a row, even if someone was caught, it would have been very troublesome to interrogate.

But even if those people die, they will bite the stolen money, and our family's money will not be returned after all.

Looking back on this experience now, my mother is still afraid for a while, she could never have imagined that those gangsters who often come to our house to ask for money are actually a group of outlaws who kill people without blinking.

And I'm also glad, fortunately, I still have Master by my side, Senior Brother Feng and Senior Brother Zhuang, otherwise I really know what to do when I encounter such a thing.

Anyway, this financial turmoil has passed. After the summer of '99, my dad left his original unit and went to work as an accountant in a small coal yard, and I was officially promoted to junior high school, and Liang Houzai and Liu Shangang were also assigned to the same class as me.

This year happens to be the fourth year of my apprenticeship.

I only remember that when Liang Houzai and I came home from school, we saw my master standing alone in the courtyard, smoking a dry cigarette, smoking a cigarette and sighing from time to time.

Looking at my master's appearance, it seems that he has encountered something very troublesome.

Normally, at this time, I don't take the initiative to talk to Master, because he hates people disturbing him when he thinks about things.

When I walked past Master, Xian'er suddenly showed her head and asked my Master, "What's wrong with you, Chai Ye?" ”

The master was stunned for a moment, looked at Xian'er, then spat out a long puff of smoke, and then turned to me, "This year is the fourth year of your apprenticeship, and it stands to reason that it is time to take you into the industry." ”

I have heard Master say before that in our lineage, three years of learning art and four years of entering the industry. But entering the industry does not mean the end of the academic career, on the contrary, when the people who keep the main door enter the industry, most of them are still not proficient in learning art, and the reason why they enter the industry so early is just to be able to have more practical experience while learning art.

After all, in our profession, there are always all kinds of dangers. Master also once said that in the midst of danger, the only thing that can really save lives is courage, experience, judgment and luck.

To be honest, in the past four years of studying art with my master, I have been able to barely enter the realm of Sicun, and I also want to verify in my heart how powerful the Tiangang Lock and Walking Gang with mental power can be.

But when it came to entering the industry, my master was worried, so I heard him continue: "According to the rules of our lineage, it should have been your master who brought you into the industry, but he hasn't heard from him all these years, and I don't know if he will come back on the day you enter the industry." ”

After saying this, my master faced the direction of the courtyard gate again, and smoked a cigarette. At that time, my master's eyes were fixed on the door, as if he was waiting for someone.

I have always felt that in my master's heart, my uncle Zhao Zongdian seems to have a lot of weight.

When I went to bed at night, I couldn't help but ask Xian'er: "Xian'er, have you seen my uncle?" ”

Xian'er was about to fall asleep in a daze, but when she heard me speak, she also became energetic: "Of course I've seen it, Zhao Zongdian, this person is very strange." ”

I asked her again, "Is he on good terms with my master?" ”

Xian'er thought for a moment before responding, "I can't say it either." Zhao Zongdian is a very strange person, almost no one in the Soul Village wants to deal with him, and the only person who can talk to him is probably Chai Ye. I remember that in the early years, Chai Ye often came with him, and then Chai Ye went out on a long trip, and Zhao Zongdian left Jisoul Village not long after he came back, I remember that he had a fight with Chai Ye before he left, and I don't know what it was. ”

"Xian'er, how do you know so many things? My master didn't even talk to me about my uncle. ”

Xian'er smiled and said, "Actually, I also spent some time in the Soul Village in my early years. When I was fighting with your master, your master was still young, and he didn't take it seriously, he destroyed my yang body, and probably didn't want to go, so he raised my three souls in the soul village. I stayed in the Soul Village for thirty years before I re-cultivated the Seven Spirits, and I know a little bit about what happened in the Soul Village in those years. ”

I was thinking, in this way, Xian'er and my master have a grudge.

Xian'er was a blue-eyed fox in her early years, and she practiced a breathtaking evil technique, of course, mind reading, and she is now my companion soul, what I think in my heart, she can easily know.

I heard Xian'er say, "What kind of hatred and resentment." When I was just destroyed by your master, I did resent him. But I have been raised in the Soul Village for so many years, and I have been nurtured by the spiritual spring every day, and many resentments in my heart have long been let go. In fact, when I first met you in Wangzhuang, it was originally because I was going to return the yang, so I went to say goodbye to your master first, but I didn't expect to meet you in big trouble halfway. But I think it's good to be like this now, and I'll talk to you from time to time, and it's not boring. ”

It turns out that I was able to meet Xian'er because of my master's blessing.

After that, I asked Xian'er, "I've always thought it was strange before, you are obviously a spirit, why can I still meet you?" ”

Xian'er started to get impatient again, and every time I asked too much, she would get impatient. I heard her say very unhappily: "Didn't I tell you just now, I have been raising my soul in the Soul Village for thirty years." Didn't your master tell you that the spiritual spring in the Soul Village can be used to heal wounds. But it can not only heal wounds, but also stabilize the three souls and seven spirits, so that the spirit can give birth to entities to a certain extent. Speaking of which, you Soul Village really has a lot of good things. ”

I want to ask Xian'er again, she was planning to return her yang at the time, what did she want to do to pay it back, could it be that she also fell in love with someone's yang body.

But Xian'er urged me impatiently: "I'm sleepy, you should go to bed quickly, you have to get up early tomorrow and exercise in the morning." ”

In fact, I also want to ask why she saved me in the first place, but she still hid it and didn't let me tell my master. Could it be that the matter of her returning yang is also what my master meant, she is afraid that my master will blame her if he knows that she has not returned yang?

When I thought this, I felt Xian'er's soul suddenly tremble, and I knew that I had guessed correctly. Every time she was recognized by me, she was like this, but in the next few days, she would be angry again, and she would ignore me when I spoke.

Master only said that it was time for me to enter the industry, but he didn't specify when I would enter the industry.

For a period of time after that, I was thinking about this in my heart, but seeing that almost a month had passed, there was still no movement on my master's side.

Since junior high school, my weekends have been reduced from two days to one and a half days. I had a half-day class on Saturday morning, and when I came home from school at noon, I rode my bicycle with Liang Houzai, and Liu Shangang and I were accompanied, and the three of us walked together.

A few days ago, I just conducted a mock exam, and the results issued today, Liang Houzai and I got good results because of my master's homework. Only Liu Shangang, because the invigilation was stricter this time, we didn't dare to hand him a cheat sheet, this time he did a mess, and he was almost at the bottom of the class, and when he got home, it was indispensable to be scolded by his father.

Liang Houzai still didn't talk much, and along the way, only Liu Shangang chattered to me non-stop.

At first, we were still playing and laughing, but as we got closer and closer to home, Liu Shangang began to get nervous, so I heard him ask me in a very serious tone: "Hey, did you run away from home when you were a child, no, what is it like to run away from home, tell me." ”

As soon as I heard what he was doing, I looked at him and said, "You don't want to run away from home, do you?" ”

Liu Shangang stared at a pair of small eyes and asked me in surprise: "Damn, how do you know?" ”

"Don't make a fuss, it's not the first day I've known you." As I spoke, Liang Houzai laughed right behind me.

Liu Shangang sighed: "Alas, how did you two learn, why do I think it's so difficult to learn now?" ”