Chapter 8: Apprenticeship

"Stinky boy, are you okay? Want to starve to death as a teacher? At this time, Lao Dao lay on the ground and shouted loudly.

I saw Huzi walking towards the house with the food, and replied, "Master, it's okay, it's okay." ”

At the dinner table, Lao Dao looked at Huzi who was gobbling up with a serious face. "You will be fourteen years old in two days, and it will only be four years since you go up the mountain to practice with me. Go down early and get ready. ”

Huzi paused, stopped, raised his head, looked at Lao Dao with rice sticking to the corners of his mouth, and said, "Okay, Master." ”

Lao Dao looked at the tiger who was looking at him, smiled slightly, and nodded. Suddenly, Lao Dao lowered his head, quickly picked up the hare meat on the table with one hand, poured it into his bowl, and devoured it.

Huzi opened his mouth wide in surprise, looked at the master who was eating with his head down, and looked scoundrel, "Hey, Master, you are too cunning, leave me some~~~~~~ Master, I have something to tell you, Master!" ~~~Master.! ~~ I'm still a child, and I'm still growing up! ~~~~~~~~~Master!!!! ~~~" At this time, a meat war was staged on the dinner table

Two days later in the hut. "The ancestor is above, today's disciple Zhenyunzi, hereby implore the ancestor as a witness, the disciple today received a son of the Zhou family in Shita Village, Zhou Xian is my disciple, inherit my mantle, and promote my prestige. Grant the road number Yuanchen. In the middle of the Taoist temple, I saw Lao Dao kneeling in front of the clay statue in the hall with a serious face, holding three incense sticks in his hand. Huzi, who was wearing a Taoist robe, knelt behind the old road, and followed the old road to perform three kneels and nine bows. After the salute, Lao Dao got up and inserted three sticks of incense into the incense burner. Sitting on the chair next to him, he turned his head and shouted to Huzi: "Salute!" ~~~ Knock on the teacher's preaching, teaching, and solving doubts. ~~~~~~~ served apprentice tea. After drinking the apprentice tea offered by Huzi, he looked at Huzi kneeling on the ground in front of him, stroked his beard with his right hand, smiled with satisfaction, and shouted: "Licheng!" ~~~”

"Yuanchen! Remember, do much good in the future. Get up. ”

"Well, Master, that's it???" Originally thought that Lao Dao would talk for a long time, Huzi asked with a puzzled face.

"Done?"

"Isn't there any patriarch's legacy, door rules or something?"

"Yes!"

Huzi was extremely speechless to himself at the moment, eager to knock himself to death, didn't he have nothing to do?

I saw Lao Dao say with a serious face: "You should listen to the rules of this door, that is: everything is under the command of the master." ”…… That's not what you said...... Huzi's head was suddenly full of black lines......

"Then Master, where is my patriarch?"

"Soared."

"I'm asking about the ancestor?"

"Oh, this one, you kid is stupid! Isn't that in the church? You don't know? Lao Dao looked at Huzi with disdain.

The corners of Huzi's mouth twitched a few times, why did he have such a master?

"Boy, have you heard of Wolong? The world only knows that the ancestor is a politician, a military strategist, a calligrapher, an essayist, and an inventor, but he doesn't know that he also has a Taoist identity. I don't want to think about it, how to borrow the east wind at a critical time, how to borrow arrows from the foggy grass boat? ”

Facing the old Taoist who was gushing about the glorious history of the patriarch, Huzi stood aside, secretly thinking: "Okay, then Master, how many generations of disciples have I been?" Has there been any magic weapon of the town sect handed down in this sect? ”

Lao Dao faced a series of problems with Huzi. replied calmly. "Nope."

"Don't you even have a magic weapon to control the town?"

"Nope."

Huzi stood aside with one hand on his forehead, gloomy, what is this, he was speechless. Feelings themselves have entered a three-no sect

Lao Dao looked at Huzi on the side and said: "Cultivators, cumin, what do you care about those foreign objects and false names? I send a person, a hermit in the Xuanmen, each generation is passed down from generation to generation by the master, there is no door and no faction, and I am at ease all my life, and I only seek to be worthy of heaven and earth, and everything is in accordance with my heart. Everything is only about fate. If someone asks about the sect in the future, you just need to remember the sect. ”

He took a sip of the teacup on the side and continued: "Just like at the beginning, why did the patriarch go out of the mountain to help Liu Bei, and why did I accept you as an apprentice, everything is because of fate, cause and effect. Another example is the resentful ghost in the tiger's teeth on your neck, why have you children opened it and released it for so many years? And it's on your body? I happened to meet Lao Dao here and saved you? Everything is caused by the cause and the effect of the cycle. ”

"It's the master, the apprentice strictly follows the master's teachings, by the way, the master, can't the apprentice change the road number?"

"Why change?" Lao Dao asked with a puzzled face. "The teacher has already reported to the ancestor, and you will listen to the heavens, do you think you will change it! No way! ”

"Master, you say, you are an old man, the Taoism is profound, and the skills are profound, the disciples you teach will be poor?" Huzi looked at the old Tao on the side and said. "Master, your old man said that if the disciple becomes famous in the future, he will say to the outside world, 'I am Yuanchenzi, and the teacher is Zhenyunzi.' Master, in the future, people will always call me 'round orange' and 'round orange', what a shame for your old man's face! ”

Lao Dao's face darkened and his face became more and more ugly, and he drank: "Stinky boy, get over here!! I promise not to kill you!! I'll beat you to death an unfilial apprentice, I'll beat you to death a 'round orange' little bastard, and I'll turn you back."

"Oops! ~~~ Master don't want it! ~~~~ Master, I was wrong! ~~~~~Oops! ~~~~~~Master, don't fight! ~~~~~~~~”

After apprenticeship, Huzi began to formally learn Taoism with Lao Dao, and Lao Dao also taught Huzi what he had learned all his life.

Since then, Huzi has lived on this mountain, practicing martial arts with the old Tao every day.

And the day after the apprenticeship, Lao Dao taught the ghost raising technique of this sect to Huzi.

After reciting the incantation according to the instructions of the old Tao, Huzi bit his index finger and dropped a drop of blood on the tiger's tooth, and after being absorbed by the tiger's tooth, he signed a Taoist covenant with the ghost in the tiger's tooth, and was bound by the rules of heaven and earth.

After signing a contract with the bald man, Huzi can see him, talk to him, and even if Huzi doesn't have to open his eyes, with the help of the bald man, he can see the ghosts wandering in this world. Because the story of the bald man before his death deeply touched his heart, he also had special respect for the bald man in the tiger tooth and regarded it as his elder. And in the past nine years of getting along with Huzi, every time he is happy, every time he is lost, every time he is sad, every time he cries the bald man is in his eyes, and even many times he regards the hard-working child in front of him as his own son, and wants to comfort him and protect him.