Although the second grandfather has studied, he always believes that there are ghosts and gods in this world, so while conveying his pedantic concepts to us, he will also tell us some folk anecdotes.

Ghosts like to put their feet under the feet of the living, and he has talked about it.

The sudden appearance of these three people behind me frightened my father and me, and we immediately rushed behind the young Taoist priest.

Dad stared at the three people and said tremblingly, "We really walked through a cemetery, what can we do?!" ”

The young Taoist priest sighed lightly, staring at the three ghosts, just now the young Taoist priest carried me down the pestle, stepped on the three ghosts, the ghosts were angry, and they couldn't stand the grievances, at this time they glared at the young Taoist priest viciously, and they grinned with great momentum to pounce.

The young Taoist priest laughed and said, "What? Still not leaving? ”

One of the yin spirits couldn't hold it back, and rushed directly at the young Taoist priest, but he scolded angrily at this moment: "Get out." ”

This reprimand made my father and I tremble violently, but the three yin spirits were really stunned, looked at each other a few times, and then stared at the young Taoist priest in horror, and fled in a hurry.

Dad's eyes lit up, although he didn't find the old Taoist here, but judging from what the young Taoist priest did just now, it was obvious that this was a life-saving straw, and he immediately stepped forward and said to him with an eager face: "Little master, please save our family, no matter what you want, I will try my best to make it up for you." ”

The young Taoist priest glanced at me and my father a few times, and then looked at the baby in my father's arms, and looked at it for a while before saying: "Good and evil are rewarded, I can see that you have done a lot of bad things, no matter what trouble you have, I shouldn't have taken care of this matter, but these two children are innocent." ”

When he said so, he agreed.

Dad was grateful to Dade, and he himself didn't like to kneel down to this young Taoist priest, so he said to me: "Xiao Wazi, kneel down and thank the little master for saving his life." ”

At that time, I did whatever my family asked me to do, and I didn't have the honor and disgrace of kneeling down to heaven and kneeling to my parents, so I knelt in front of the young Taoist priest.

The young Taoist priest grinned, pulled me up and said, "Men must have backbone, I don't deserve to let you kneel." ”

After staying at the Taoist temple, he followed us all the way back to the village.

On the way, he told us that no one believes in Taoist gods in recent years, there are no pilgrims in the Taoist temple, and gradually it can't be maintained, the old Taoist priests in the past have passed away, and the young Taoist priests have also come out of the Taoist temple to make another way to make a living, and he has no place to go so he has been staying in the Taoist temple, just taking advantage of this opportunity to come out and relax.

His name is Jiang Li, so I can call him Brother Jiang Li, but my father disagrees, because this Taoist priest is very capable, and I am not qualified to be a peer with him.

We told Jiang Li everything that happened on the way.

Walking all the way back to the village, not long after we entered the village, the news that my father had invited a Taoist priest spread far and wide, and the buttocks of the house were not yet hot, and the villagers in the nearby villages were no longer staying in Zhang Duangong's mourning hall, and they came to my house to join in the fun.

In the eyes of the villagers, the Taoist priest who is afraid of demons and monsters is tantamount to the existence of a living immortal, and they all want to come to see this living immortal.

However, when they saw Jiang Li himself, the villagers muttered.

My grandfather directly pulled me and my father to the side and asked in a low voice, "Why are you young, have you been deceived?" ”

Dad explained to Grandpa for a while before continuing to communicate with Jiang Li.

The villagers also had the same questions as their grandfather, and the villagers who had good things directly raised the problem in front of Jiang Li for Jiang Li to solve, and they asked Jiang Li: "Zhang Duangong, Master Jiang, is there anything you can do to solve it?" There is also the matter of Xiao Wazi's family, which is so noisy, and the people in the village are not at ease. ”

At first, he said that he would help me solve it, but Jiang Li shook his head directly: "I can't solve this matter." ”

My father and I were stunned, and my father asked eagerly: "Master Jiang, don't make fun of us, we won't trouble Master Jiang in vain, how much do you want, I can give it to you when the time comes, you must help solve this matter, we really can't help it." ”

Jiang Li said: "We do things based on fate, but also about cause and effect. We can meet, fate is enough, but cause and effect are insufficient, I don't know you to help you do things, no cause, you can't reap the fruit, this is the rule. ”

Dad was in trouble and asked Jiang Li: "Then how can we have a cause?" ”

The second grandfather had a strong ability to understand, and interjected next to him: "Just let Xiao Wazi recognize you as a godfather, so there is a reason." ”

Recognizing a godfather is a very common thing in rural areas, and generally children are weak and sick, so they will recognize the dragon prince as a godfather, and then the dragon prince will bless the child, this is the cause and effect that Jiang Li said in his mouth.

Jiang Li blinked and looked at me, and after a few seconds he said: "Taoist priests can't marry, it's not like to have multiple godsons out of thin air, and I can't be much older than him, it's not appropriate for me to be his godfather, so I will be his master, plant this cause, and I will help you deal with things This is the result." ”

In this way, I became Jiang Li's apprentice in a daze.

At that time, I didn't know how difficult it was to become an apprentice of a Taoist priest, Taoism has a rule, only teachers are allowed to find disciples, and disciples are not allowed to find teachers. In other words, if you want to become an apprentice of a Taoist priest, you must be picked by someone, otherwise you will have no chance.

In this way, everyone was happy, and my father hurriedly said, "Xiao Wazi, don't kneel down and kowtow to the master." ”

Jiang Li grabbed me, stared at me and forbade me to kneel, and said, "It's not worth letting you kneel now, you can just call me Master." ”

I cried out in a daze, "Master." ”

Jiang Li nodded in gratitude.

recognized a regular Taoist priest as a master, this is something that the people in the village have been envious of for several lifetimes, and the people present blew up the pot at that time, saying: "The Chen family has come to the bitter end, and the descendants have become the apprentices of the Taoist priests, and they will become immortals in the future." ”

This is off-topic.

Fate and cause and effect were all together, Jiang Li began to deal with the matter, and the group of people rushed to Zhang Duangong's funeral hall, preparing to deal with Zhang Duangong's affairs first and then deal with my grandfather's affairs.

It's just that Jiang Li frowned as soon as he entered the mourning hall, and walked a few steps back and forth in the mourning hall solemnly.

The villagers looked anxious and couldn't help asking, "Master Jiang, who killed Zhang Duangong here?" ”

Jiang Li turned around and said, "There is no need to keep vigil tonight, you all go back to rest, and Chen Xiao and I can just stay here." ”

At this time, the villagers didn't trust Jiang Li so much, and they asked a few times unsurely, and finally left with the mentality of pulling out a mule or a horse.

There are only two people left in this mourning hall, me and Jiang Li.

We didn't stay in the mourning hall, he took me to the side room to rest, and there was nothing else in the mourning hall except for a coffin and some wreaths.

Jiang Li was lying on the outside of the bed, I was on the inside, the first time I slept with a stranger, I must have been a little awkward, I couldn't fall asleep tossing and turning on the bed, and I didn't dare to talk to him.

Jiang Li smiled and said, "If you can't sleep, tell me about the situation when Zhang Duangong died." ”

When I found a topic, I immediately told Jiang Li about the situation at that time.

Jiang Li didn't express any opinions after listening, and it didn't take long for him to stop moving, and he fell asleep directly.

The next morning, the villagers gathered in front of the Zhang Duan Gong Funeral Hall, Jiang Li and I heard the noise before getting up and going out, the villagers saw that Jiang Li had slept in this place last night, and had nothing to do at all, and they were a little dissatisfied, and they were even more suspicious of whether Jiang Li was a liar and sold his reputation to cheat money.

Their tone was not as kind as before, and they asked directly: "Do you know who killed Zhang Duangong?" ”

Jiang Li walked to the side of the coffin, and with a bang, he lifted the lid of the coffin of several hundred catties with one hand, shocking the villagers.

When the coffin was opened, the villagers came up to see it, and they panicked.

Because the coffin was empty, Zhang Duangong's body was no longer there.

Jiang Li said: "Taoism has three kinds of numerology: substitution, change of life, and mandate of heaven, and the mandate of heaven is to carry it by heaven, not to resist, and to go with the flow." To change one's life is to change one's life against the sky and change one's own destiny. And this substitution is to replace one's own life with the life of others. Zhang Duangong did not commit suicide, but was used as a substitute. ”

He added another sentence, he said that the "Hundred Ghost Records" recorded a kind of hanged ghost, hanged ghosts are ghosts that die in vain, and they cannot be reincarnated after death, and they can only be reincarnated after finding a substitute.

Someone wants to replace their own life with Zhang Duangong's life, but now as long as they find out who Zhang Duangong is looking for now, they can know who killed Zhang Duangong, and maybe they can also find the culprit behind this incident.

The villagers immediately changed their opinion of Jiang Li, and these few simple sentences told Zhang Duangong's real cause of death and the direction of how to solve this matter.

No one suspected him of being a liar anymore, and they extended their thumbs to praise Jiang Li and praise him as a living immortal.

That was the first time I felt proud, because I had become Jiang Li's apprentice the day before.

Jiang Li told the people in the village that he would settle the matter, but it would be until the evening.

During the day, he came back to my house and said that he was taking advantage of the time to see my grandfather, and he stood in front of his grandfather's bed and watched him for a while.

Grandma was already in a hurry, and when she saw that Jiang Li didn't speak, she thought that the matter was very serious, so she staggered on the spot and was about to lose her footing, and asked, "Master Jiang, is my old man no good?" ”

Jiang Li said: "It's not that it's not good, but it's very good, better than all of you, and there is no big problem." ”

Jiang Li didn't even touch his grandfather's body to make this remark, his father and grandmother were skeptical, but Jiang Li didn't say anything more, and called me: "Chen Xiao, come out and help me." ”

When he went out, he said to me, "Go find me a white cloth, eight red ropes, a cotton core, and a bowl of kerosene." ”

At that time, there happened to be something written at home, so he immediately went into the house to find these things and gave them to him, Jiang Li then concentrated on fiddling with these things, and it didn't take long to set up a Kong Ming lantern.

He took out a brush from what he was carrying, and drew it on the Kong Ming lantern.

I looked at him curiously and asked him, "Master, what is this painting?" ”

Jiang Li smiled at me and said, "Kong Ming lantern is also called soul lantern, also known as guiding lamp, you can rely on this to find Zhang Duangong at night." This is a guide drawn on it. ”

I shook my head and said, "I don't understand." ”

Jiang Li said: "The imperial decree of the Golden Opinion God will teach you in the future." ”

After a day, at eleven o'clock in the evening, Jiang Li lit the kerosene in the Kong Ming lantern, the Kong Ming lantern gradually rose into the air and gradually went away, Jiang Li immediately went to chase the Kong Ming lantern, my father said to go with him, afraid that he was unfamiliar with life here and got lost.

Jiang Li thought for a while, pointed at me and said, "Chen Xiao can go with me." ”