As soon as he entered the house with his front feet, my mother shouted at him again: "There is money on the TV cabinet, you have eaten melons, go out and buy some beer and come back." ”

Liang Houzai has been in our family for so many years, and my mother has always treated him as her own son, and when she should hurt him, she hurts him like me, but when she tells him, it is the same as when she told me.

I heard Liang Houzai say "eh" in the room again.

When Grandpa Li left, Master instructed me to treat Liang Houzai like my relatives, and now Liang Houzai has already become my real relative.

It's not just me who thinks so, even my parents and my uncle, who doesn't treat him as a close relative?

At this time, my mother picked up an iron stick again, slapped it lightly on my thigh, and urged me: "Still stunned here, hurry up, call your master to come to our house for dinner." ”

I smiled and ran out of the house and went straight to my master's house.

When I came to the door of Master's house, the red iron door was closed as usual, and Master knocked on the door many times but did not answer.

It's not the first time I've encountered this situation, and sometimes Master is so engrossed in things that I often can't hear the sound outside, so I climbed the door and entered the courtyard of Master's house, just like in the past.

Although the courtyard door was closed, there was a gap in the door of Master's house, and I didn't say hello, so I pushed the door and went in.

When I entered the door, I saw the lights on in the hut on the north side, and from time to time Master's voice came from inside, as if he was reading something.

I ran to the north room and saw my master sitting at a desk with a pair of reading glasses on the bridge of his nose, reading a letter in front of the lamp. On the desk, there was also a black-and-white photograph, and I was so far away that I couldn't read the contents of the photograph.

In the last few years, Master's eyesight has become worse and worse, and even with that pair of glasses, it is difficult for him to read the words on the letter.

I grabbed the door frame and shouted to my master from afar, "Master, my mother asked you to come to the house for dinner." ”

Master seemed to be taken aback by my voice, so he quickly put away the letter in his hand, took off his glasses again, turned his head and asked me, "When did you come, why didn't you knock when you came in?" ”

"I knocked, Master, you didn't hear me." As I spoke, I leaned over to my desk.

That's when I saw what was in the photo. The photo looked like it was fresh, and it wasn't black and white, but because the light was so dim that it was hard to distinguish the colors on it, it looked like it was black and white at first glance. In the center of the whole photograph is a brownish-yellow human skull, and there is something similar to moss attached to the skull, but the normal moss should be between new green and dark green, but the moss on the skull is dark blue.

I pointed to the picture and asked my Master, "What is this?" ”

The master took the photo under the lamp, looked at it carefully for a while, and said in a somewhat uncertain tone: "This skull may come from the remains of a corpse keeper, but ...... It's not easy to say. ”

The skull of a corpse keeper? In the book "Examination of the Walking Dead" that Master gave me, it was mentioned that because the corpse keeper is accompanied by evil corpses all the year round, the body is eroded by the corpse qi all the year round, causing the yin qi to enter the bones, and many corpse keepers will undergo some abnormal changes after death, especially the bones, which often show different colors.

But what kind of color is such a different color, it is not mentioned in the "Examination of the Walking Dead".

At this time, Master had already put away the photos and asked me again, "How many days will you have this holiday?" ”

I replied dryly: "The school said it was two days, but in fact it was only one and a half days, and classes would be normal in the afternoon the day after tomorrow." ”

The reason why I said this was to tell my master that the time for this vacation was very short, for fear that he would take the opportunity of me and Liang Houzai's vacation to let the two of us practice like crazy.

After all, the vacation time is short, if we practice like the summer vacation, Liang Houzai and I will definitely be tired and half dead, and the school will start in the afternoon the day after tomorrow, and the two of us will definitely not be able to slow down, and we don't need to take this lesson.

Hearing me say this, Master frowned: "Just leave it for a day and a half?" Alas, it seems that you have to ask Youxue to ask you for a leave, and the day after tomorrow morning, you will go to the Northeast with me. ”

As soon as Master said that he was going to go far away, I immediately became interested and asked Master, "What are you doing in the Northeast?" ”

As he put the glasses in the glasses case, Master said to me, "One of our old customers has had an accident and must go over and see what is going on." ”

Hearing Master say this, I couldn't help but mutter, "Old patron? ”

"Yes, it's the old customer." Holding on to the edge of the desk, Master stood up with some difficulty, and explained to me, "In our lineage, we not only have to run a door-to-door business, but also do some business to collect money and eliminate disasters for others when we are walking around. The old Huang family in the Northeast has often had such business dealings with us since the Ming Dynasty, isn't it an old customer? Alas, if something happens to their family, it will be a catastrophe, and it will be very troublesome! ”

Although the master said this, the expression on his face was a little inexplicably excited, which was very confusing.

After a while, the master continued: "This time, the old Huang family not only invited us, but also Li Daochang of Qingfeng Temple and Chengyun Great Monk of Zen Buddhism have already gone to the Northeast before us, and your Senior Brother Bao has also gone, this time, you may be able to see Fat Dun." ”

When I heard that I could meet Liu Shangang, I was excited at first, but after the excitement passed, my mood became very complicated.

Since Liu Shangang followed Senior Brother Bao away, it has been a few years, and there has been no news at all. He didn't even come back for the New Year's holiday. All these years have passed, and it is certainly not true to say that I don't miss Liu Shangang, but he has not even written me a letter in the past few years, and I have some complaints in my heart.

Not only me, but even Liu Shanang's parents regretted letting Liu Shangang follow Senior Brother Bao away, and there was no news for a few years, I don't know if I was dead or alive.

Every time my master has to explain to Liu Shangang's mother for a long time, Liu Shangang's parents have always retained some respect for my master, otherwise, Liu Shangang's fucking temperament will not be able to turn our family upside down.

But then again, in fact, Liu Shangang's mother also knows that the proposal to let Liu Shangang follow Senior Brother Bao back then was put forward by my master, and it has nothing to do with our family at all. So I always feel that she is making such a fuss in our house, and she is also making trouble for my master.

But whose parents don't care for their children, whose children have disappeared for several years and have not heard from them, and their parents are not in a hurry? So none of us blamed her for what Liu Shangang's mother did, but we just hoped that Liu Shangang could send a letter to his family and us to tell us whether he was safe now.

Even Senior Brother Bao has not been heard from for several years, although my master and Senior Brother Feng know where he is and what he is doing, some of the things that Senior Brother Bao has done over the years seem to be quite confidential, so that Master and Senior Brother Feng have been tight-lipped about his whereabouts.

Anyway, if I can really see Liu Shangang this time, I will definitely clean him up, this guy is too unreasonable!

The Master stood where he was, stretched his back, moved his hands and feet a little more, and then walked slowly and leisurely towards the outside of the room.

In the past, although Master seemed to be old, he was always vigorous and resolute in his actions, and his gestures were full of vigor. But in the last year, I have felt that Master has aged a lot all of a sudden, and sometimes he wakes up in the morning with a stiff body, and it takes a lot of effort to get out of bed.

Fortunately, as long as the master moves his hands and feet, his movements will soon become agile, and there is not much difference from the past.

I feel that Master may have injured some vitality when he was in the Dragon King's Tomb, and he should be fine after a few years.

As I was thinking about these things, Master had already quickened his pace, walked out of the courtyard gate like a gust of wind, and when he was about to go out, he did not forget to tell me, "Lock the door." ”

When I locked the door of Master's house, I heard that Master had already greeted my uncle in the courtyard of our house.

The first thing my uncle said when he saw my master was, "Uncle Chai, when are you going to move?" ”

My master directly avoided this question and asked my uncle, "Do you like the little daughter-in-law you introduced to you last time?" ”

I heard my uncle sigh: "Alas, people dislike me for being a cripple, and they feel ashamed to follow me out, and they refuse to be good to me." I just think that I am destined to be a widower in my life, and in the future, I will have to count on Yangyang to provide for me. I'm going to make more money now, keep it for him, don't mind that he thinks I'm poor and doesn't want to see me. ”

Hearing what the uncle said, the master smiled: "Just your little money, it seems that my apprentice is rare." ”

Uncle also refuted my master with a smile: "This one apprentice is called, if it weren't for me, could you accept Yangyang as an apprentice, then it's really not necessarily." ”

After that, my parents and my parents, as well as Wang Qiang, who came with my uncle, also teased me word by word, my parents talked about what happened in the years when I didn't enter the school, and Wang Qiang didn't open the pot and talked about the allusion to me stealing watermelon.

The small courtyard of our house, which is the size of a palm, has also become lively at this time.

Listening to the sound in the courtyard, I felt as if I had returned to my childhood, when my master was still an old chai head, and my name was still Zuo Kang.

I'm not a person who particularly likes to reminisce about the past, but every time I think of the people and things of the past, I always have an indescribable warmth in my heart.

That night, Master drank a lot of wine. In fact, when the first few glasses of beer were in his stomach, the master was already a little drunk, but Wang Qiang was the kind of person who was both good and drunk, this night, my master was on the bar with Wang Qiang, two people you come and I go back and forth for more than a dozen rounds, my master has long been unable to resist, but he still holds on.

Later, Wang Qiang probably saw that my master was dying, so he pretended that he couldn't drink anymore when he drank too much, and now he could make my master happy, and began to talk nonsense, and inadvertently told me about following him into the tomb of the Dragon King.