It was the first time I had cut down a tree, and I didn't know any skills, so I cut it down with an axe, and it took me a long time to cut it down, and when the trunk fell, it almost hit me.

When I first finished cutting down the tree, I thought it would be the hardest of all the processes of making a coffin, but I soon realized that this was a big mistake.

After cutting down the tree, I had to cut the logs into planks, and Master didn't have any professional equipment for cutting planks at home, only two saws and a green steel sword. When I was cutting the plates, Master didn't care about me, just stood aside and watched silently, leaving me alone to toss around.

It took me hours to cut the log into a pitted board.

After that, Master taught me how to handle the board, how to calculate the width and depth of the grooves, and how to use a green steel sword to carve a coffin pattern on the lid.

Each process was much more difficult than the previous one, and throughout the night, I was immersed in Master's earnest teachings and all kinds of dislike and scolding, until in the middle of the night, Master let me go home.

Before leaving, Master leaned against the edge of the door and said, "This year, you must learn how to make coffins, and tomorrow I will teach you how to make paper and cook." ”

Listening to Master's words, my tears were about to fall.

When I returned to my uncle's house, my uncle and Liang Houzai had already slept, and the food on the table was still a little warm, so I simply ate something, leaned back on the sofa and fell asleep.

Tossing until the middle of the night really tires people.

When Liang Houzai woke up the next morning, he found me sleeping on the sofa, and when he woke me up, my arms were still sore for a while.

Liang Houzai saw that I kept rubbing my arms, so he asked me, "What's wrong with you?" It seems that Grandpa Chai tossed you a lot last night. ”

I nodded helplessly: "Alas, I cut trees and planks again, and my two arms are almost useless." ”

Liang Houzai smiled, went to the kitchen to warm milk for me, and then he ran out alone for morning exercises.

Not only do my arms hurt now, but my back and waist are also tingling, and I definitely can't participate in the morning exercise, so I can only drink milk while thinking about how to deal with my master tonight.

With my master's temperament, he will definitely toss me tonight. Alas, it hurts to think about it.

On this day, I didn't do a good job in class, I was all troubled by the pain in my body, not only restless, but also sleepy. When I came home from school in the evening, I thought about going home for dinner first, and then going to my master's place when I was done, but I didn't expect that just after crossing Yong'an Road, I saw Master standing at the entrance of the village waiting for me from a distance.

My master is a very honest person, he said yesterday that he would teach me papermaking and cooking, and tonight he did.

Before teaching me to make paper, Master had already beaten the wood I used last night into wood pulp, saying that there was a wood pulp machine in Chen Daochang's Taoist Temple, and the wood pulp was made by him, and Master also built a pool in the courtyard, saying that it was for pulp, and pulp is one of the 72 processes in soil papermaking.

Papermaking, like coffin making, is a complex and cumbersome craft, and a dozen of paper to make the same takes more than two months, just the slurry takes a month.

Master said that when he was young, he didn't have any hobbies, but when he was fine, he liked to make rune paper, and until now, Jisoulzhuang has saved thousands of rune paper uselessly. I may not be able to use up those rune papers for the rest of my life, but no matter what, the craft still has to be passed on, from generation to generation.

That night, Master taught me how to make paper and how to cook at the same time.

Since I have loved to eat since I was a child, when Master taught me cooking, I suddenly came to enthusiasm, but since I was a child, I have only been hot and have never fried vegetables, the hot oil in the pot is definitely a very scary thing, especially when the oil is hot, the moment I put the ingredients into the pot, with the "snort" explosion, I feel that the oil in the pot will fly out, and quickly hide away.

For the next few days, I tossed and turned between coffin making, paper making, and cooking, until one morning, near October, Master suddenly told us to pack our bags, saying that he was going to take us back to Sichuan, and also told us both not to forget to call Liu Shangang.

In the afternoon, it was Brother Feng who sent us to the train station, and as soon as I entered the sleeper car, I fell asleep on the bunk, and I didn't wake up a few times in between, until the train entered the CD station, and Master woke me up.

The person who picked up the station was still my Senior Brother Zhuang, but this time it was not only Senior Brother Zhuang who came to pick us up, but also Uncle Zhao.

When Uncle Zhao saw us leaving the station from afar, he shouted at my master, "Did Liu Shangang's kid bring it to me?" ”

Master nodded towards Uncle Zhao, but I wondered in my heart, how did my Uncle Zhao remember that Liu Shangang was here, was it because the last time he was in the Northeast, Liu Shangang talked to him, and he always held a grudge?

But when Master Zhao saw Liu Shangang, a particularly exaggerated smile bloomed on his face, and his eyes were shining, as if a wolf had seen meat.

When I was about to walk to the front of the car, Liang Houzai came up to me and whispered to me: "Seeing that you Uncle Zhao is like this, you don't want to accept Liu Shangang as an apprentice, right?" ”

My Uncle Zhao's hearing is very good, don't look at the noisy environment, but Uncle Zhao still heard Liang Houzai's words, and then he yelled at Liang Houzai: "Accept him as an apprentice, he must also have that qualification and that life!" Look at this kid, he's stupid and obscene, and I'll take this thing as an apprentice unless I'm blind. ”

Liu Shangang knew that I was talking about him, so he was not happy immediately: "You want to accept me, I still can't look down on you, dead old man, you look like a dead man." ”

Zhao Shibo was so angry that he blew his beard and glared, and Liu Shangang also glared at Zhao Shibo, with an expression of "I don't accept you to beat me".

Unexpectedly, Uncle Zhao glared at Liu Shangang for a while, and actually smiled: "Stinky boy, I can't cure you, someone can cure you!" ”

After speaking, Zhao Shibo got into the car.

Senior Brother Zhuang started the car, left the crowded train station, and walked onto the highway.

On this day, we did not settle in the provincial capital, Senior Brother Zhuang drove directly to Shunan, after several years of development, the local road is much better than in the past, but the mountain road leading to Jisoulzhuang is still rugged and difficult.

After a long night of bumps, we finally returned to the door of the Soul Village.

It's been a long time since I've been back, but when I see the egg-yellow door, I can still feel a different kind of warmth, and that kindness flowing in my blood.

When he came to the gatehouse, the master turned around and said to Uncle Zhao, "Senior brother, you can take Houzai and Fat Dun to walk around the village." ”

Uncle Zhao nodded first, and then asked my master, "Who is Fat Dun?" ”

Master pointed at Liu Shangang and pulled me away, and I heard Uncle Zhao's shouting behind me: "You are so thin and thin, are you still fat?" ”

To my surprise, Liu Shangang didn't choke back, but just said sullenly: "I had a lot of meat when I was a child." ”

Hearing him say this, I tried to remember what he was like as a child, but unfortunately I failed.

The courtyard of the Soul Village is still covered with a layer of noon that is not thick or light, and under the influence of this layer of fog, the Soul Village will always be the same as it is at dusk.

I breathed in the slightly humid air, and I felt like all my internal organs had been opened.

Master led me all the way to an old well in the corner of Zhuangzi, and Master pointed to the well and said, "Go down." ”

I glanced into the well, and there was a black hole inside, and I couldn't see the bottom at a glance.

I wanted to ask Master how to get down, but Master kicked me on my back, and I immediately fell into the well.

But after the fall, I didn't fall as fast as I imagined, I felt as if I had become a soft feather, slowly falling with the gentle breeze in the shaft.

After I went down the well, Master also jumped in, the well was very deep and dark, and after a moment of falling, I couldn't see Master, but I could smell the thick smell of smoke on his body, which was about a meter or two in the direction of me.

I don't know how long the descent lasted until an aqua blue light appeared in front of my eyes and my feet landed on the ground.

Master walked up to me, and I couldn't see him, but I could feel him coming.

When Master struck a match to light the smoke pot, and then the flickering fire, I actually noticed that the skin on Master's face became very smooth, I mean, the wrinkles on Master's face disappeared, and he seemed to become another person, a young man in his twenties, but I knew that it was my Master.

After lighting the cigarette, Master shook out the match and said to me, "That's the spiritual spring." ”

Even the master's voice when he spoke was different from the original, although it was still the same full of energy, but it was not as hoarse as usual.

I couldn't hold back the surprise in my heart and asked Master, "Master, what are you doing...... How did you get younger? ”

I heard the master say, "People are affected by the spiritual spring, and their body functions will return to the best state, how are you now, you don't feel tired after a bumpy journey, right?" ”

I tried to move my legs and feet, and sure enough, the slight low back pain caused by the long time in the car was gone.

Master smiled, and then silently swallowed the clouds.

I looked towards the blue light in the distance, and when my vision was intertwined with the light, the light seemed to be suddenly elongated, and I could not see its source or its end, and in this dark environment, it was like a long thin sand that ran through the poles of the night sky.

And I noticed that the light was still flowing at an extremely slow pace.

This is the spiritual spring, the spiritual spring in the mouth of the fairy.

At this time, Xian'er also got out of my shoulder, she stood beside me, bowed respectfully three times towards the Lingquan, and then straightened up and said to me, "To be honest, it is also the first time I have seen the Lingquan, it is so beautiful. ”

The master also said on the side: "This spring has nourished the Soul Village for 2,000 years, and the spiritual charm has long been much worse than before, and it is estimated that it will dry up in another five hundred years." Okay, let's stop being sentimental here, let's go, go to the cabinet. ”

The cabinet in Master's mouth is also the cabinet in the two cabinets inside and outside the library cabinet.