Chapter 1: Bright Candle Asks for Directions

"The family is poor and ugly, one meter sixty-nine, the first Chinese, rural household registration." This is me~ Long Xiaoyang, a poor ** silk

I am neither a person from the rivers and lakes, nor do I do the things of a Taoist, but it only took two years for my name to explode like a spring thunder in these circles, shaking Kyushu.

Who mentioned that I didn't give a thumbs up, for this reason, the people on the road also gave me an alias - "Long Xiaotai" for short, "Long Xiaotai".

This is how the story began two years ago......

It was 2013, when I was 19 years old, just a poor and funny ** silk, in the kitchen of a well-known local restaurant responsible for "playing lotus" (kitchen help, standing between the stove and the cutting board, responsible for pickling and plating, occasionally chopping vegetables or something), for which there were many opportunities to learn cooking skills, but unfortunately I was thin and weak, and I couldn't afford to carry a ten-pound big iron pot.

I remember that at that time, I could only receive a salary of 1,500 yuan a month, which was not much, but I was still able to live in Longyang County, a county with an extremely slow pace of life.

As the saying goes, "people have three shorts, and there are two longs", in addition to the kitchen, I also have another craft, which can be regarded as my sub-profession ~ fortune teller.

This craft came from an old man, a person who suddenly came into my life and was very important to me!

On weekdays, I show people palmistry and test marriage, but this is only limited to colleagues, because with the wisdom of adults, I will not believe that a twenty-year-old person who looks like a stunned person.

Therefore, this craft is at most a matter of asking the kitchen guys to treat them to dinner

But in my opinion, the most shining part of this craft is that it can take advantage of female colleagues when they look at palmistry.

Of course, there is an exception to everything, and there is one person who is very superstitious about my ability.

The reason is simple, because once I said that he had a bloody plague, and the next day when he ate meat, he actually bit his tongue, and he firmly believed that my divination had been confirmed, and from then on......

He is the boss's son ~ "Guo Shuai", a very handsome and handsome handsome pot, idle on weekdays, like to listen to the guys in the kitchen to tell yellow jokes, since the divination happened, he shouted all day long for me to accept him as an apprentice, I think this goods is and the best

For this reason, she and he became what I called "Erbi", because that time it was really me who said it casually

Because I could take a vacation, I spent the whole night in the Internet café and masturbated all night Demacia, and it wasn't until the early hours of the morning that I returned to the dormitory with panda eyes on my head, and was about to sleep with my head covered, when my damn phone rang.

"Hey, who's that?" I said sleepily

The voice of a middle-aged aunt with a strong accent immediately came from the other end of the phone: "Hey, is it Xiaoyang, is it Eun?" Master En's area is in trouble, and he hasn't seen it, so En hurry up and get fat. ”

"Oh, oh, yes!" I also hung up the phone in the local dialect

"Well, this death is ...... than a child" came from the other end of the phone before hanging up, and I didn't care

"The old man is missing? Is it possible? I shook my head, it was as unbelievable as I told someone I had found a girlfriend.

Although I have been under the old man's disciple for less than three years, I really think the old man is very good, because I have witnessed his extraordinary

If it hadn't moved the old man, he wouldn't have been able to accept me and his subordinates, because he wanted to enter the old man's door

Picking up the phone, I decided to give the old man a call anyway

"Sorry, the user you dialed was not answered". A mechanical female voice came from the other end of the phone

"Grass ......" I scolded, frowned slightly, and said to myself: "What's the matter, no one answered the phone, there won't really be an accident."

I remember the last time I talked to the old man was a month ago, and the old man said where he was going? ...... "I can't remember for a while

It stands to reason that the old man will not go out for more than half a month, and the longest time is only nineteen days. Is something really going wrong? No, I'll have to go back and see."

When I got on the bus back to the countryside, there was a very handsome pot around me - Guo Shuai

There was no other reason, when I submitted the leave report, the manager said that it would not be approved, and I simply resigned in a hurry, but the salary deposit was not refunded because I did not resign early and violated the employment contract

Without the deposit, I guess it's not even enough to go out to find the old man, who knows that this scene happened to be seen by Guo Shuai. As a result, under the coercion and temptation of Guo Shuai, I had to compromise and let him follow me, who called someone the son of the boss!

Although Guo Shuai is very handsome, he is a broken mouth, chattering non-stop along the way, and as soon as he got on the bus, he kept babbling: "Brother Long, do you think we are going on an adventure?" ”

"Hmmm"! I didn't bother to pay attention to him and nodded slightly

"Is your master really as good as you say?" Guo Shuai didn't care about my attitude of ignoring the answer, and continued to ask

"Hmm!" I nodded again

"Have you also inherited your master's skills?" Guo Shuai looked a little excited

"Damn, can you stop asking, it's more verbose than Tang Seng......!" I didn't reply to him angrily

"Why don't you just take me as an apprentice! Let's master and apprentice fight together in the sword world, ride horses and whips! Guo Shuai looked at the void with a yearning face

I was convinced, and directly covered my head with my hat, too lazy to pay attention to the two comparisons

"As long as you promise to accept me as an apprentice, I will cover the expenses for the two of us to go out in the future, and I will ensure that we will eat the best food, live in the best hotel, and have a foot massage sister to wash our feet!" Guo Shuai is obviously not a person who gives up easily

"Really?" I sat up with a "brush", my eyes were bright, and even my sleepiness was much lighter, obviously, I was moved by Guo Shuai's "sincerity......

"Of course it's true, I, Guo Shuai, am talking"

"Interesting." I patted him on the shoulder

"Yes, we are good brothers." Guo Shuai looked very angry

The premise is that you teach me everything within a week

I didn't want to talk to him at the time

At ten o'clock in the afternoon, I finally returned to the two-story building where the old man lived, and the lock was slightly rusty on the door.

When he entered the house, it was already covered with dust, and it was clear that the old man had not been back for a long time

There was a note on the table that said, "Ailao Mountain, return in half a month"

"Ailao Mountain, what do you mean?" Guo Shuai wondered

I frowned, my face full of worry: "The old man left it, saying that he was going to Ailao Mountain and would come back in half a month."

"Didn't he go out for a month after the master stayed? Guo Shuai said

"Maybe something happened."

I rolled my eyes, paid attention to it, turned my head to Guo Shuai and said: "Good apprentice, haven't you always wanted to have a long experience, today I will open the altar to speak, but there are a few things that you need to do."

Guo Shuai's eyes lit up when he heard this, and Bang Bang, who slapped his chest, said: "Brother Long, you have something to say."

"Well done!". I smiled secretly in my heart and said: "You go to buy two taels of yellow paper, there is a sale at Wang Lao's house next door, and in addition, go and get me the big white rooster of Widow Liu's house in the west of the village."

"It's as simple as that?" Guo Shuai was puzzled

"Yes, it's that simple!" I smiled righteously

"Order". Guo Shuai made a warrant and went to do something

Looking at Guo Shuai's back, I smiled and said to myself: "Widow Liu's white rooster is very precious, not only is it not half a stray hair, but it is aggressive by nature, but it is a good chicken, she refuses to sell it for any amount of money, Guo Shuai, this guy is afraid that he will bleed!" Tsk, it's good to have a local tyrant apprentice."

I myself was not idle, and rode the battery bike to the northern slope, which was once a farm, but then it was completely abandoned, and the area was huge, mostly covered with conifers

I came here for a simple purpose, and that was to take the "fox fairy order", a shrub that grows in places where foxes often hang out, and this shrub is only found in places where foxes live

The old man said that there was once a fox here who had "asked him to be sealed", (when the fox fairy attained the Tao, he needed someone to enlighten it, and they would stop a person, waving his hands and asking at the same time: Am I like a human?) If the person being asked says something like, or that you can attain the Tao, even if you succeed, if not, it will become a failure, and the hundred-year Dao will be lost) So the old man has a good relationship with this fox fairy

"Hu Daxian is not strange, take two leaves and ask for directions!" I took off the two leaves and went back the way I came

After about half an hour, Guo Shuai was late, holding the yellow paper in his left hand and the snow-white rooster without half a stray hair in his right hand.

"How did you go that long?" I asked angrily

"It's been a long time, I don't feel it long," Guo Shuai said with his head down

I swept the white over, curious in my heart, and asked again: "How much did it cost, Widow Liu's chicken is not good!" ”

"This!" Guo Shuai suddenly became a little embarrassed when he heard this

"Huh?" I easily discovered Guo Shuai's unnaturalness

"How much did it cost?" To say not to be curious is that it is fake? Widow Liu's house is just such a white rooster, is Widow Liu sitting on the ground and starting the price?

"No, I didn't spend money...... Guo Shuai's face flushed slightly

Guo Shuai's expression suddenly reminded me a lot, I was a little shocked by my conjecture, and then asked in disbelief: "You didn't spend money, you won't be ......?" ”

"Actually, Widow Liu is not bad, and she is very young...... She said she wanted and let me go with her, so ...... It didn't cost anything. Guo Shuai couldn't hide it anymore, so he simply confessed directly

I froze in place, my mouth open in an O-shape.

"I'm !!! …… I obeyed you" I feel that my outlook on life has been subverted in an instant again

"Nima, being handsome is good, the key is to be a rich second generation!" I muttered to myself while bleeding the white

At the same time, I instructed Guo Shuai to close all the doors and windows, and pull down the curtains, and the room immediately became dark

"Brother Long, what are we going to do?" Guo Shuai asked

"Bright candle asks for directions!" I replied

"Bright candles?" Aren't you waiting for the night? Guo Shuai was very curious about these novel foods

"Who told you to wait until the night, don't talk if you don't understand." I am very worried about Guo Shuai falling into Widow Liu, "I said in my heart, but Widow Liu is a little beautiful"

Asking for directions is actually very simple, I have seen the old man get it a few times, so he is not unfamiliar at all

I first pressed eight sheets of yellow paper into a fan shape, burned them in each of the four corners of the house, east, west, north and south, and poured wine at the same time, and spat out words of forgiveness

Then, I put the incense burner on the offering table, opened the drawer, lit the picture of the old man with a lighter, let the ashes fall into the incense burner, took three sandalwood sticks, lit them, spread them out into the word "mountain" on the left and right, and then bowed to the incense burner three times, reciting words in my mouth

"The ten directions of heaven and earth, all belong to the year, the sun is too yin, according to my front, east and west, north and south, the gods are in power, the avenue Kuigang, Ke Bu Ji is fierce, help me ......" This is the Taoist mantra, mysterious and mysterious

After doing this, I put a candle on the incense burner, took out the four copper coins prepared in advance, dipped them in chicken blood, placed them in the four corners of the incense burner, and finally poured all the chicken blood into the incense burner along the candle.

After doing all this, I recited a few more mantras at the offering table, then stepped aside and sat down on the floor with Guo Shuai

All that's left is waiting

There were only a few red dots of sandalwood burning in the dark room, and the atmosphere was a little eerie

"Brother Long, is it over? , weird," Guo Shuai was a little excited and a little nervous

"This is the bright candle asking for directions, specially used to measure good fortune and bad luck, I want to see if the old man is safe!" I whispered

"How?" Guo Shuai asked

"If the light is on for a while, it proves that the old man is fine, if the light is not on, it means that the old man is not there"

"So wicked, is it reliable?" Guo Shuai was covered with goosebumps by what I said

"A Hundred Trials and Results"

"What if the lights don't come on for a while?"

"Crow's mouth, shut up for me," I gave Guo Shuai a slap, and Guo Shuai said with a sigh in my heart, the most taboo when asking for directions is this kind of crow's mouth, and if I am an outsider, I will directly break the sole of my shoe

Guo Shuai quickly shut up, and the room suddenly fell silent, and the two of us were in different moods

One minute...... Two minutes......

Seeing the time slowly passing, I couldn't help but feel a little anxious in my heart, when the old man was bright, it was a matter of tens of seconds! Why is it that it's been a few minutes now, and there is no response?

Guo Shuai couldn't hold it back, and couldn't help but pull my sleeve

And at this moment, I felt something, and pressed Guo Shuai's arm and signaled him not to move

At this moment, there is a change in the house......

"Pop ......"

There was a slight noise on the table, as if something had touched the copper coin, a slight sound, but it was very clear in the dark room

This slight voice was in Guo Shuai's ears, but it was no less than a thunderclap, which made him tense all over, and I could feel him constantly shrinking his neck and shivering. If I hadn't pressed him hard, I don't know if this thing would have gone crazy

I can hear his heartbeat, like a drum, I guess~ his whole body is stiff

"Poof"...... There was a slight sound, and a faint blue flame suddenly appeared out of thin air on the offering table

"Here it is".

I was also nervous, and I couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat in my palms, and the key was to see this step, and I secretly swallowed my saliva.

The incense burner began to shake, and some of the cinnabar inside spilled outward

Guo Shuai pinched my arm, his nails wanted to pierce my skin, and cold sweat ran down his forehead......

The dark blue flame moved slowly, gradually reaching the top of the candle, and under the nervous gaze of Guo Shuai and me, the candle was lit