A broken bowl contained rapeseed oil brought from the dog's house, and Cha Wenbin twisted a wick with the cotton wool from Kunbu's rotten cotton jacket before his death. Flames the size of broad beans were burning, and only Xiao Hetu was kneeling in front of the door panel in the mourning hall, sobbing and burning paper money.

The dog master sat on the left with red eyes, Cha Wenbin kept reading the scriptures around the deceased body of this senior, God owed him too much, and death had to make him comfortable on Huangquan Road.

The shoes on Kunbu's feet were also picked up by the dog master when he went home, and this was also the mille-feuille soles that he spent fifty yuan to get the widow in the village to give him, and he was going to wear them when he kicked his feet in the future.

This night, Cha Wenbin almost never stopped, but all the scriptures he knew that could be transcendent had been recited repeatedly, he didn't want all Taoist priests to end up like this, since he didn't have a good life in this life, he could only look forward to the next life.

On the first day of the first lunar month, the heavy snow gradually stopped, and the hazy weather indicated that the year had a bad start. Other people's homes set off festive openers early in the morning, and the three firecrackers of the Tong family ascended to heaven just to comfort the sleeping old man.

Finally, someone found the obituary posted at the gate of Tong's house, and then someone told everyone they saw about it. Within a while, the whole village knew that the old Taoist priest who had been at home for five years had passed away. The village is not big, and the population of the white households is still close to each other, but at noon, no one came to mourn. If you want to say that Tong Kunbu was a person before his death, it is also the word righteousness, and there are more than a dozen of them who have driven away evil spirits for others in his hands, not to mention how many of the rows of new buildings in the village are the feng shui levels he showed.

This person, that's it, once you're down, you don't even bother to hook you, you're poor, and you're a poor ghost when you die. In the afternoon, a few people finally came, carrying baskets with incense, candles, paper money, and a few vegetable bowls. The visitor did not enter the house, but stood in the courtyard, sighed softly, and put down his things, and one of the women shouted into the house: "Master Dog, if you need something to help in the house, remember to come and shout." ”

The dog master didn't say anything, and the people left.

The dog master walked into the yard, kicked over the basket, and scolded: "Hmph, what is it, I was really blind back then, and Kun Bu will save you!" ”

Listening to Master Gou, the woman who spoke just now was the southern daughter-in-law who married here back then, that is, the woman rescued by Tong Kunbu. Now that the life-saving benefactor is dead, he doesn't even enter the door, and the dog can't swallow the breath in his heart.

Cha Wenbin went out to pick up those scattered things, and said to the dog master: "According to the rules, there is no mourning on the first day of the first lunar month, and don't blame others, the living are always more particular than the dead, and no one wants to be unlucky, people can come, and they already have a heart." ”

The dog master spat at the distant back: "Exquisite? Phew! As long as they want to pay attention, I will guard here for three days and three nights to see if I can get lucky! ”

In the afternoon, there were no more than five groups of people who came to Tong's house, and the number of people was less than ten. No one had ever entered the house to see the old Taoist priest for the last time, and some people had not even entered the courtyard gate. The customs of their village are different from other places, if someone in the village has passed away, they have to bring incense, candles, paper money, and cannons to the master's house first, and the more things that the family receives, the bigger the façade of the family. Generally, there is a face in the countryside, living in a village, looking up and not looking down, almost anyone has something to do, other families will go, but this Tong family receives few things.

From time to time, the dog master had to scold that the people in the village were white-eyed wolves, and the three of them didn't close their eyes for a day and a night. Cha Wenbin is okay, but he can't cry in his throat, he hasn't dripped, and the dog is also old, Cha Wenbin is afraid that both of them won't be able to bear it.

After reading the scriptures again, Cha Wenbin said: "Master Dog, take the child to lie down for a while, I can watch it alone, and I will call you if there is something." ”

Master Gou didn't want to go, but when he saw that the child was already shaking back and forth, his knees must have been numb from his knees, and he was distressed, so he picked up the child and walked inside. This little Hetu is really sensible, he pulled his grandfather's feet and refused to leave, and in the end, the two forcibly parted his little hands, and finally in the crying, Hetu fell asleep.

Entering the funeral and building the immortal bridge, all of them were done by Cha Wenbin alone. It is not so much that he is seeing off this old man he doesn't know, but that he is spending time for himself after a few years.

The whole ceremony went very smoothly, except that he was tired and blocked, Cha Wenbin was panicked. Looking at the portrait of Taishang Laojun in the hut, he knelt on the ground, begging the Taoist gods to pity the real Taoist priests in the world, and to let his disciples and grandchildren be a little sheltered, why are they who suffer after all. Since Taoist priests are so miserable, why do the immortals still preach?

By the time the dog master came out with Xiaohetu, Cha Wenbin had already fallen asleep, he fell in front of the portrait of the Sanqing patriarch, and fell asleep deeply, he was too tired.

Until the third day, there were no new guests from the Tong family, although the whole village knew about the Tong family's changes. Some people want to take a look, but there are always people in the family who will remind: It's not past the third year of junior high school, and I want to find a mold for the family! People who want to go have to give up, and in these years, no one can live for themselves.

On the day of the funeral, Cha Wenbin found Tong Kunbu's big seal, which was hidden in the hole in the wall behind the portrait of Lao Jun. He put the seal in Tong Kunbu's coffin along with the portrait, which were the only two funerary items that the family could take out. A Taoist priest who has been full of legends all his life, who was once known as a god operator in ten miles and eight towns, ended his last journey sadly, Tong Kunbu, who has calculated the life of others, has not calculated a hexagram for himself after all, if he calculates that he will be like this, will he still choose to be a Taoist? The answer, perhaps, is only known to him.

Tong Kunbu's grave mountain is also the ancestral mountain of their family, the mountain road is difficult to walk, the snow is very thick, and the mud on the ground is as solid as iron sheets. After Cha Wenbin and the dog master cleared a piece of snow, they had to melt the ice underneath by burning a fire.

No one carried the spirit, Cha Wenbin carried the coffin and walked to the front, the dog master walked backstage and carried it, Xiaohetu was in the front with the evil bell in his hand and scattered paper money, and the whole village had to hide at home and watch, no one came out to ask if they needed help, they just hid in the corner or behind the door and watched. This is the first time Cha Wenbin has lifted the spirit, the Taoist priest does not lift the spirit, the Taoist priest has to be responsible for leading the way, and now this task can only be handed over to Xiaohetu, his immature and hoarse voice shouted with every word that Cha Wenbin taught him: "Rise up the coffin!" "Give way" and "go back to the mountain"......

Tong Kunbu did not have a tombstone, so Cha Wenbin erected a piece of wood in front of him and erected a monument for him in the name of Hetu. After kowtowing to Hetu, Cha Wenbin squatted down and asked the child, "Is it okay to go with your uncle in the future?" ”

The dog master wanted to say something, but he wanted to say something, he knew that if this child followed him, I was afraid that it would not be long before he repeated today's process again, he was already old, and there was not much time left.

Hetu nodded vigorously and said, "Grandpa also asked me to go with you." ”

Cha Wenbin wiped the tears on the child's face and asked, "When did Grandpa say that?" ”

"Grandpa told me after you left, that he was going to a far place, and that he would follow that uncle in the future."

Cha Wenbin hugged the child and knelt in front of Tong Kunbu's tomb respectfully put on a stick of incense and said: "Brother, Taoists always need incense to continue, this child is a piece of material for being a Taoist, I will take him to adulthood, you can go on the road with peace of mind!" After speaking, he gave Tong Kunbu three heavy knocks.

After going down the mountain, Cha Wenbin took Xiaohetu to take a good bath, and after taking a bath, the color of the water in the wooden barrel could be used as ink.

That night, Tong Hetu worshipped Cha Wenbin as his teacher under the witness of the dog master, which was the first apprentice and the last apprentice accepted by Cha Wenbin.

On the second day, Cha Wenbin asked Hetu to leave here, and Master Dog also nodded and agreed. Originally, Cha Wenbin wanted to take the dog master out for a walk, but the dog said that he was old, and his relatives were gone, so he didn't have the idea of going out, so he just watched the sunrise and sunset and lived the last days quietly, just ask Cha Wenbin to teach this child well.

Cha Wenbin asked Hetu to kowtow to the dog master three times, one is to repay the dog master for taking care of Tong Kunbu, and the other is also a farewell to his hometown.

Tong Kunbu didn't do seven, because Cha Wenbin knew that he would not go back, because he had already calculated that his grandson would follow Cha Wenbin, so he would have no worries in this world, and naturally he would not have to return to his soul.

Since then, Cha Wenbin has begun to have an extra child by his side, a child who everyone will feel aura when they see him, his name is Tong Hetu!