I heard my master say in my ear: "This bamboo forest is the guardian forest of our Soul Village, and some of the arrangements in it are arranged according to Qimen Dunjia, and the exit is in Shengmen. When you follow me in, you must keep in mind the road I have traveled and remember the location of the birth gate. ”

When Master said this, I didn't pay much attention to it, thinking that Master would lead me in the future anyway, and it didn't matter if I remembered it or not.

After a while, Uncle Xia turned around and waved to us, and then entered the bamboo forest.

It's strange to say, I obviously watched Uncle Xia enter the bamboo forest, but in the blink of an eye, I couldn't see him.

Not only Uncle Xia, but also Uncle Zhao and the other two uncles.

Senior Brother Zhuang and Senior Brother Feng were guarding the entrance, and they didn't seem to plan to go in.

It wasn't until Master took me into the bamboo forest that I couldn't help but ask Master, "Senior Brother Zhuang, aren't they coming?" ”

"They're going to have to contact other people." As he spoke, my master turned his head, pointed behind me, and said, "After entering the bamboo forest, if you want to find the right way, you must first find the seven mountains...... Don't get distracted! Look back! ”

I was still thinking in my heart just now why Master Xia and the others suddenly disappeared, and when my master yelled at me like this, I came back to my senses and hurriedly followed the direction of his finger to look.

Through the gap in the bamboo forest, I saw a lonely mountain far away from us, because it was far away, I couldn't see the details clearly, but I felt that the top of the mountain was very narrow, like a sharp blade, standing there far away.

I heard my master say to me, "When you enter the bamboo forest, every ten steps you take, you have to look back, and if such a mountain is directly behind you, you have taken the right step." ”

After that, Master led me on, and the route he walked out was very complicated, sometimes he walked straight, sometimes he walked in a curve, and sometimes I even felt that my Master was taking me back. I can't remember such a complicated route.

While walking, my master also explained to me from time to time, which direction is the closed door, which direction is the wounded door, which direction is the Du door, and also told me the formation technique of the maze in the bamboo forest, I didn't understand a word.

Every time I walked, Master would ask me to look back, and each time, I could see a sharp mountain peak through the gap.

But I couldn't help but wonder in my heart, the bamboo forest is so dense, how does my master know where there are gaps, and where can I see those peaks?

When I was about to reach the position of Shengmen, my master said to me: "You will also learn the lesson of Qimen Dunjia in the future, but this inheritance is only rough in our vein." You, Senior Uncle Zhao and Senior Brother Feng, are the masters of the Qimen Array. ”

As Master spoke, he had already led me out of the bamboo forest, and this time in front of my eyes, it was an ancient building.

In the past, I had only seen those ancient houses on TV. But those houses and palaces on TV are not the same as those in front of me.

Most of the buildings here are black tiles and egg-yellow walls, and on the walls, you can clearly see the skeleton of the building made of thick square wood.

These buildings are a little less refined than the ancient buildings on TV, but they give people a sense of grandeur.

I heard Master say to me, "This is the Soul Village." From the Han Dynasty to the present, there have been 2,000 years. Over the years, after the maintenance and repair of our Soul Village's people from generation to generation, the Soul Village has what it is today. There is a way, after a while, you will enter the family tree, from now on, this piece of land is your root! ”

When my master said this, there seemed to be a lot of emotion in his words, and although I don't know what Master was thinking at the moment, I could feel that the Soul Village seemed to have an extraordinary meaning for Master.

The significance of this is far more than just a sect and inheritance.

After Master led me into the gate of the Soul Village, the midday sun dimmed without warning, and there was a faint fog around me. But when I looked back at the outside of the Soul Village, I found that the outside was different from the inside, and it was a very clear sky.

I asked my master, "Why is it so dark in Zhuangzi?" ”

Master responded to my words with a smile: "In the underground of the Soul Village, there is a spiritual spring, and the spiritual rhyme in it is thick, and this layer of mist stirred up blocks part of the sunlight. But at night, these spiritual rhymes absorb the essence of the moonlight, and will make the Soul Village brighter than the outside. So, here, it doesn't make a difference whether it's day or night. ”

I looked around at the scenery in the Soul Village, although it was noon outside, but here, it was like early morning and sunset, and the wide buildings were shrouded in mist, giving people a very ethereal feeling.

Master took me all the way to a big house in the center of Zhuangzi, where Master Xia and Uncle Xia had already arrived and were waiting for us.

After we entered the house, Uncle Xia asked me to sit down and wait, while he, my master and Uncle Zhao went to ask for the genealogy.

In the Soul Village, everyone has a lot of respect for the things left by their ancestors, and when my master and they came out of the next room, Uncle Liu and Uncle Ke were also respectful.

I have to mention here my Uncle Ke, he is indeed blind, but I always feel as if he can see everything, he doesn't even need to be helped to walk, and every time he talks to others, he is always facing the direction of the interlocutor.

When my master came out of the cubicle, he still had a very large scroll in his arms, and he placed it on the table in the middle of the room, beckoned to me, and let me pass.

Xia Shibo and Zhao Shibo respectively grabbed the two ends of the scroll and unfolded the scroll lightly.

Then I realized that the scroll was made of cloth, and I couldn't tell what kind of cloth it was, but it looked like a very strong canvas, but it was much more delicate than the canvas, and there was a faint soft glow on it.

This is the genealogy of the master of Jisoulzhuang, the name of the first ancestor is written at the top of the scroll in a small seal, and the back is divided into three columns according to the generations of people.

There are many names on the two columns belonging to Tunmeng and Yuxian, and the number of names becomes more and more as the division genealogy looks downward.

Only we keep this line, when the first ancestor first built this line, there were still a lot of people, more than Tunmeng and Yuxian combined, but with the inheritance from generation to generation, there are fewer and fewer people, and the door of Tunmeng and Yuxian, the name is also annotated with the family, wife, but in our line, next to each person's name is bare, it seems that from the beginning of the construction of the pulse, the people of this line are all widowers.

As the two masters opened the scroll completely, I finally saw my master's name, and for the first time I knew the name of my master, because there are rules in the door, after the death of the ancestor fifteen years later, the descendants can no longer mention the name, so as for what my master's name is, I really can't say more.

My master's name is very close to my fellow disciple Zhao Zongdian, and I found that there is a vertical line drawn under Zhao Zongdian's name, and below the vertical line is written "Apprentice: Zhang Youjun".

It turns out that my uncle also has an apprentice named Zhang Youjun, why have you never heard my master say it?

I pointed to Zhang Youjun's name and looked up at my master, but before I could speak, my master sighed: "He has passed away." ”

After saying this, the expression on Master's face suddenly became very lost, and I didn't dare to ask any more.

After that, Master picked up the brush and drew a vertical line under his own name, writing: "Disciple: Zuo Youdao", and after a slight pause, he drew a parenthesis after my name and wrote another unfamiliar name: Luo Fei.

I glanced at the scroll again, and confirmed that the names of my fellow ancestors were indeed bare, how could it be that I was the only one, and such a name had been added to the back of it?

I was puzzled, so I asked my master, "Who is Luo Fei?" ”

My master smiled at me and said, "You kid is blessed, this is your marriage, hehe." However, marriage is marriage, and whether you can achieve positive results depends on your creation. ”

At that time, I didn't quite understand the meaning of the word marriage, but I just thought that Luo Fei's relationship with me in the future would probably be that of a junior sister, and from the word "Fei", I also knew that this person should be a woman.

I asked my master again what it meant to attain positive results, but my master ignored me.

After that, the two masters put away the family tree of the master, and I was taken by the master and put a stick of incense on the family tree.

When the incense was halfway burned, my master said that the family tree had been completed and that he would take me back to the hotel.

When the master mentioned the matter of joining the teacher's family tree, he had a solemn expression on his face, so I always thought that the genealogy of the teacher should be the same as the time when I apprenticed, which should be a very complicated and grand matter.

I didn't expect it to end so soon.

And this time, only Master took me away, and when Uncle Xia sent us to the border of the Bamboo Forest, he specially instructed my Master to come back early and not delay the business.

My master didn't respond, so he led me and walked into the bamboo forest.

When I was walking in the bamboo forest, my master said to me, "The disciples of our Jisoul Village are usually all over the country, and everyone has their own one-third of an acre of land, which needs to be properly managed. But you have to come back once every ten years, you Xia Shibo and their lineage, every time at this time, you have to calculate the fortune of the Soul Village in the next ten years, if there is nothing big in the next ten years, you are still relatively idle. But if you calculate that there will be a big change, it will be you who will come out for the Soul Village. ”

When Master spoke, he kept looking at me intently, with a serious face.

I pretended to nod at Master, but I didn't know why Master was telling me this.

Even if something really happens to the Soul Village, it should be my master's action. No matter how bad it is, it should be Senior Brother Zhuang and Senior Brother Feng. I've heard Master say before that my Senior Brother Zhuang and Senior Brother Feng are both people with great abilities, although at that time I didn't know what Senior Brother Zhuang and Senior Brother Feng's abilities were.