I asked Senior Brother Zhuang, "Aren't there any palm prints on the left soles of the first four people?" ”

"That's right," Senior Brother Zhuang sighed and responded, "To be exact, there are no palm prints on either foot. These people all went to the grave during an operation more than ten years ago, and the soles of their feet were burned by the acid from the tomb, and two people are now unable to walk and are confined to wheelchairs. ”

Speaking of this, Senior Brother Zhuang sank his breath, lowered his voice and said, "The person who led the team that time was Liang Zi. Senior Brother Bao suspects that he is the fifth person among the inner ghosts, but at present, he is only the most suspicious, and there is not enough evidence to show that he is. ”

Hearing him mention Liangzi, my heart suddenly burst out, nodded silently, and did not speak again.

Uncle Xia and Uncle Zhao originally said that they would come tomorrow, but the two of them couldn't wait to fly over that afternoon, since Senior Brother Zhuang was here, it was naturally Senior Brother Zhuang who went to pick them up at the airport.

Before this, we had emptied the furniture in the living room, and Senior Brother Zhuang contacted the second master and asked the second master to help gather twelve old mahogany chairs and an offering table, and the second master also brought a tea set and good tea by the way.

I didn't sleep all night, and I was a little tired after a whole day, and I sat on a chair, originally wanting to rest a little, but I didn't expect to lean back on the chair and fall asleep.

It wasn't until Uncle Zhao shook my shoulders to wake me up that I realized that he and Uncle Xia had been here for more than an hour.

Uncle Xia asked me if I had a good name for the ghost baby, and before I could speak, Uncle Zhao said on the side: "I have thought about it, Yin Zhi Renkun, Yang Zhi Renqian." ”

Xia Shibo nodded: "The name Ren Kun corresponds to the numerology of the ghost baby, which is not bad." There is a way, about the name change, you shouldn't have told the ghost baby his grandfather, right? Changing the name is a big deal, and you can't be hasty, so you better hurry up and talk to someone. ”

Not only did I not tell Lao Yang that the ghost baby was going to change her name when she entered the school, but I didn't even inform Lao Yang of the recruitment ceremony tomorrow.

This kind of thing can't be delayed, so I hurried out of the house and went next door to discuss with Lao Yang.

As soon as Lao Yang saw it, he asked, why are so many people in my house here today, is it going to be a holiday?

I told him that the ghost baby will enter the sect tomorrow, and he is going to prepare today, and when he waits for tomorrow, all the people in the Soul Village will come over, and when he speaks, I have been paying attention to the expression on his face.

To be honest, I really wasn't ready to accept apprentices, but I don't know why, I was worried that Lao Yang would regret it.

Unexpectedly, Lao Yang looked very excited, and said: "This kind of thing, it is better to be sooner rather than later, good, tomorrow will be fine, I will call the head teacher of the ghost baby and ask for a leave." ”

Looking at Lao Yang's appearance, I always felt as if he wanted to quickly stuff the ghost baby into my hand, and I couldn't help but wonder. I remember when Master took me in, my father was always reluctant.

I tentatively asked Lao Yang, aren't you afraid that the ghost baby will follow me in the future, and you will have to be in the wind and rain all day long, and there will be no time to live in peace?

At that time, Lao Yang replied to me, I still remember it very clearly, he said: "The ghost baby's life is hard, his father died early, and his conscienceless mother thinks he is a burden, and she doesn't want him." Now, I can still take care of him, but I'm also getting old, and I'm afraid that after I'm gone, no one will care about him. ”

I understand what Lao Yang meant, he let the ghost baby follow me, in fact, he entrusted the ghost baby to me for the rest of his life.

Master, like a master is like a father, but I don't know how to be such a master at all, Lao Yang's words are like a very heavy burden, I thought that such a weight was difficult for me to bear at that time.

I told Lao Yang that the ghost baby entered the division, and his name was going to be changed, and now we have helped him come up with a new name, called Yang Renkun.

For the name change, Lao Yang also unexpectedly did not have any resistance, he said that the name Yang Xile was originally rustic, the ghost baby entered the school this time, and was laughed at by the classmates, since we gave him a new name, Lao Yang plans to change the name on the household registration book.

Everything went smoothly beyond my expectations.

When I got home, Uncle Xia and Uncle Zhao went through the process of accepting apprentices for me again, as if I was afraid that something would go wrong.

It seems that for the ghost baby to worship the master, the two teachers are more concerned than me.

The next day, when the hour hand of the wall clock reached the eighth square, Senior Brother Zhuang rang a small gong in the living room, and Senior Brother Feng, who had only arrived this morning, stood guard at the door and lured in the uncles and uncles who had gathered outside the door.

Uncle Xia, Uncle Zhao, and I, the three of us stayed in the master bedroom, and Liu Renfei, the eldest disciple of Senior Brother Zhuang, led the ghost baby to the guest room. I can hear the voice of the ghost baby in the house, he is not as nervous and reserved as I was back then, and has been asking Liu Renfei all kinds of questions, what is Shouzheng, what is Tunmeng, what is Yuxian, what is Uncle Zuo doing in the Soul Village, why can't I see him now.

Liu Renfei has been patiently answering for the ghost baby, he told the ghost baby the origin of the soul village, and told the ghost baby that our heavenly master is Lao Tzu, and the earth master is Zhuang Junping, the first ancestor Li Zifu......

Hearing the conversation between Liu Renfei and the ghost baby, I seemed to have returned to many years ago, when Senior Brother Zhuang and Senior Brother Feng told me the bits and pieces of the Soul Village in that slightly gloomy room.

At a quarter past ten, Senior Brother Zhuang knocked on the door of the master bedroom and shouted outside, "The auspicious time has arrived." ”

The two uncles and I just went out, and it didn't take much effort, and Liu Renfei also brought the ghost baby over.

When the ghost baby enters the teacher's door, she has to go through three apprenticeship ceremonies.

The first teacher salutes, worship the three ancestors, everyone faces the three ancestors on the north wall to hang the statue and bow, and with Xia Shibo recited the words. After everyone got up, I brought the ghost baby to the offering table, and asked him to offer three pillars of incense to the three ancestors, and hung the statue of the three ancestors and knelt nine times and bowed nine times, and then kowtowed 56 heads, the first 54 worshiped the ancestors of the past dynasties before me, the 55th kowtowed for me, and the last one was for his own immortality.

When the ghost baby kowtowed to the 54th head, my heart trembled, this head was kowtowed for my master.

If Master had a spirit in the sky, he would also like the ghost baby.

The second ceremony, tea, is the same as when I was back, the ghost baby should first respect the three ancestors, then respect me, and finally respect the two ancestors of Tunmeng and Yuxian.

The last salute is to plant a coffin.

I walked to the common table, first bowed to the three ancestors three times, and then picked up the red cloth bag prepared by Senior Brother Zhuang in advance from the table, raised it above my head, and shouted: "Please coffin!" ”

After I shouted, the uncles and uncles in the living room retreated to the door, and the ghost baby didn't know why, but also wanted to go out, Liang Houzai hurriedly pulled him down.

When I planted the coffin, there were only two people in the house, the master and me, but when the ghost baby entered the master's door, Liang Houzai wanted to stay and help me. I have almost no art skills, and my master asked me to learn in my early years, but I didn't work hard, and the reason why Liang Houzai entered the art class in the first place is for today.

I asked the ghost baby to take off his shirt, and he asked me curiously, "Uncle Zuo, what are you doing here?" ”

"Plant a coffin." I smiled at him, took out the potion-soaked cotton ball from my bag, and said to him, "Turn around, facing south." ”

I didn't expect that the ghost baby would be indistinguishable from east to west, north and south, and asked me which direction is south.

Liang Houzai pointed him in the direction and asked him to turn his face away, while saying to him: "In the future, Uncle Zuo and Uncle Zuo can't call him that, you have to call Master." ”

The ghost baby nodded seriously.

I sat behind the ghost baby and rubbed the anesthetic on him little by little.

Just like me at the beginning, as soon as I felt my back start to go numb, the ghost baby became nervous: "Uncle Zuo, why is my back numb?" ”

"Don't talk." I replied and continued to wipe it for him.

Liang Houzai corrected him on the side: "You have to call Master." ”

The ghost baby let out an "oh", then covered her mouth again, and looked back at me nervously, I broke his face so that he was facing due south.

I estimated the amount of medicine soaked into the skin of the ghost baby, and I felt that it was almost there, so I said to Liang Houzai, "Plant a coffin." ”

Liang Houzai took out two different colors of needles from the cloth bag, and stabbed them on the back of the ghost baby little by little, he was very careful when he put down the needle, and the technique was also very gentle, the ghost baby's back only occasionally oozing a little blood, but I watched from the sidelines, and still felt pain.

Speaking of which, the black water corpse coffin on the ghost baby's back is actually different from the black water corpse coffin on my back, he is a yin branch, and he casts spells by urging yin qi, but the qi field of the black water corpse coffin will dissolve yin qi. So the black water coffin on the ghost baby, to put it bluntly, is just a mark and has no practical use.

It took a long time for Liang Houzai to tattoo the black water corpse coffin on the back of the ghost baby, and when I asked the ghost baby to put on her clothes, the ghost baby asked me again: "Uncle Zuo...... Master, did Uncle Liang mess with me on my back? ”

I lifted the clothes off my back and said, "Tattoo, now you have another one on your back." ”

The ghost baby looked very excited: "I also have this on my back?" ”

I looked at him and said, "Well, you have it on your back now." But keep in mind that the Black Water Coffin can't be exposed, and you don't want to show off to your classmates. Later, in the summer, you can't go shirtless in front of outsiders, and you can't go to a public bathhouse to bathe. ”

The ghost baby let out an "oh", revealing a very disappointed expression.

I smiled and rubbed the ghost baby's hair and asked him, "Did your grandfather tell you about the name change?" ”

The ghost baby nodded very obediently: "I will be called Yang Renkun in the future." ”

"Let's go, let's go to dinner." As I spoke, I pulled the ghost baby out of the house.

I didn't know before, this time the ghost baby entered the teacher's door, my parents and uncle also came, they didn't go to the place where I lived, but went directly to the hotel.

As soon as I entered the door of the hotel, I saw my parents and uncle standing in the hall, just showing smiling faces, ready to say hello, but my mother came up and asked me: "Your hair is too long, when will you get a haircut?" ”

I could only cope: "Cut when you have time." ”

"It's okay to finish eating at noon, you can take care of it." My mom stared at my head and said that.

Seriously, I can't cut my hair at all, I have long hair for a year or two, I'm used to the way I look now, I'm old, and my temperament is like a bandit.

At this time, Senior Brother Zhuang came over and urged us to serve the table, saying that the dishes had already come up.

When eating, I sat in the position of the main escort, to bring wine and rhythm throughout the scene, I was also the first time that the eldest girl got on the sedan chair, Zhao Shibo always disliked me for drinking slowly, but I was not interested in wine, and I was not familiar with the "wine order" in Zhao Shibo's mouth, so he could only urge me once, I would bring it once, and every time the spicy wine entered my throat, I felt that something was wrong.

After eating, the same door from afar was about to leave, and Uncle Xia also said that it was an eventful time, and everyone had their own affairs, and they all squeezed time to come to this side of the Bohai Sea.

They came quickly and left in a hurry, and that afternoon, when I sent Uncle Xia and them on the train, Senior Brother Geng also followed, only Li Renfeng and Xiao Renya stayed.