Frightened by this sudden surprise, Cha Wenbin thought to himself that he might not have encountered some ghost shoulder, but it was clear that it was a human voice again. Turning around slowly, a hunchbacked old man in a shabby military uniform was putting his hand on his shoulder, making a look at Cha Wenbin, and the two slowly pushed to the back of the shed.

A kerosene lamp was lit, the curtains were made of discarded sheets, a spittoon basin, a small bed made of wooden planks on the construction site, a radio that was "creaking", and the rest were a few clothes hanging by the bed and a large flashlight at the head of the bed.

"The power is off, so I can only use this," the old man brought over the kerosene lamp and made a cup of tea, using a teacup made of discarded canned fruit. Seeing that Cha Wenbin was a little hesitant, the old man said: "Don't worry, it's not the tap water you use," he pointed to a water tank at the head of the bed and said, "I will go outside to fetch water every few days, the water here is unbearable." ”

Took a sip, it was very bitter, the tea leaves in it were dense, Cha Wenbin looked at it curiously, he had been on this construction site for a few days, but he had never found that there were still people living here.

"Where are you, why haven't I seen you?"

"I've seen you," said the old man, fiddling with the radio, which was still the "squeak" for a while, and after trying for a while without success, he simply turned it off, and said, "It's like this every time, as long as those things come, this thing won't work." You've been here for a few days, and I've been observing, and with the boss with you, of course, you don't need me to come out. I've been here for more than half a year, so they probably forgot about me. ”

"Forgot?" Cha Wenbin said: "You mean Zhu Zihao and they don't know that you are here?" ”

"Do you know what?" The old man said: "When you are old, it would be good to find a place to shelter from the wind and rain, Shenzhen is not better than the north, which is inseparable from a money word, and a place like my age is still unwilling to ask, and it is better to stay here than to sleep in the bridge hole." During the day, I went out to pick up some rags and piled them up in the next room, and when I earned two coffins, the money plus a travel fee would be enough. ”

"Listen to the accent like Shandong?"

"Penglai people," said the old man, "young man, if it's okay, don't come to this place at night, some things are out of sight, don't bother people, and people won't come to bother you." ”

"I know," Cha Wenbin said, "I won't tell them that you are here, even if they do, it's fine, I'll tell them when I go back, you live here in peace, and one of the bosses is my friend." ”

"You," the old man sighed and said, "The heart is still kind, I'm talking about those things outside, this is someone's land, how can you do it if you occupy someone's land and want to demolish someone's house." I slept the same everywhere I slept, old man, in the splendid palace, in the pickled and filthy pigsty, and it didn't matter for a long time. ”

Listening to this, isn't this old man still a person with a story? But Cha Wenbin didn't want to listen to the story now, and finally found out that something couldn't be missed like this, so he put down the teacup and said to the old man: "Uncle, I was entrusted by a friend to come to see this land, no matter what, I have to give an explanation to my friend, the dead can't make the life of the living unable to continue, since he is dead, he should go to the place where he should go, otherwise the world is not chaotic?" ”

"Are you really insisting on going?" The old man got up and said, "That's it, I'll go with you." So saying, he took up the kerosene lamp, and his back was very arched, and he walked crookedly. Cha Wenbin thought that he had been here for so long, and since he was going there, there was no need for him to stop him, so the old and the young slowly walked towards the white shadow of the construction site.

Cha Wenbin looked at the compass in his hand from time to time, and the old man seemed to be walking in his yard, and when the two walked to about twenty meters away from those shadows, Cha Wenbin squatted down. This distance is easy to find, Cha Wenbin pulled the corner of the old man's clothes, he hoped that the latter could be as hidden as himself, after all, now there is only one Heavenly Master Great Seal on his body except for this compass, and he can't get any ghosts with these two things.

Unexpectedly, the old man turned around and smiled at him: "There are no ghosts in your heart, there are naturally no ghosts in your eyes, if you have ghosts in your heart, there are ghosts everywhere." Since ancient times, ghosts have been afraid of people for seven points, and people are afraid of ghosts for three points, so what's so scary if you don't recruit it and provoke it? ”

Cha Wenbin couldn't believe that these words came from the mouth of an old man scavenging waste, he got up slowly, followed the kerosene lamp of the former and walked forward, the closer he got to those shadows, the more blurred it became, and when he walked only three or four meters away, there was nothing in front of him.

He was just about to say something, but the old man had already walked back with the kerosene lamp, and Cha Wenbin followed quickly, and when the two of them left the place for some distance, the shadows began to appear again, and they were still dancing there, as if they had never disappeared.

"How so?" In the yin and yang world that Cha Wenbin came into contact with, it was the first time this kind of situation had happened.

"The Tao often does nothing and does nothing, does nothing, has no self, has no desire, is subordinate, pure and void, and is natural. Young man, you are very talented, but you have a lot of killing habits in the Maoshan faction, but everything that sees yin and yang is hostile, in fact, they are not harmless, and the dead Taoist priest just wants to take his life before he will end up like that. Actually, if you don't provoke the poisonous snake in the grass, let go of your hostility, how can it easily open its fangs against you? ”

A few words, let Cha Wenbin be enlightened, today he actually met a master, the old man walked to the shed by himself, Cha Wenbin hurriedly followed all the way.

"The old-timers, the younger generations are ashamed of themselves, and they can't see the fame here, but this land has been bought by my friend to build a real estate, and since it is a matter for the living, the dead can't be delayed, is there any way to get the best of both worlds?"

"Hehe, after all, I still fell into the cliché." The old man walked around the house and moved a seat to Cha Wenbin and said: "The old man doesn't dare to say much, he is already a person with half a foot in the coffin, and the rights and wrongs in this should be grasped by you insiders, and I don't understand this land, I only know the singular number in the middle of the month, and if the weather is fine on a good night, those things will come out." At first, I thought it was an evil spirit, and I wanted to ask these things to leave, but I tried to communicate with them when some small means didn't work. Unexpectedly, these things are not in the same world as me, it neither comes to see me nor pays attention to me, even if you pass through it, it is not taken seriously, only it can't be moved.

I think they may be the masters here, we are all latecomers, what you said makes sense, since the dead should not be mixed in the world of the living, I think this needs to be reminded by someone. ”

"This isn't me, is it?" Cha Wenbin laughed at himself: "You said it, you can't have murderous intentions and you can't talk to him, isn't this the moon in the mirror, you can't see it?" ”

"But most of those who stay in this earthly world have unfulfilled wishes, or hatred or longing or reluctance, otherwise no one can escape the six realms of reincarnation. This kind of thing pays attention to the word fate, you and I meet is also fate, and you meet them is also fate, to simplify this matter. ”

"At the beginning of all things, the road is simple, and the evolution is complex." Cha Wenbin made a gesture and said: "Thank you for the guidance of the seniors, the younger generations have benefited a lot." ”

Before leaving, Cha Wenbin thought about it or turned back, he asked: "Forgive the juniors for being rude, dare to ask the seniors if they are masters from Penglai Pavilion?" ”

Penglai, a mythical location, gave birth to the legend of the Eight Immortals and the Divine Pen Maleonn. Chinese traditional culture Buddhism and Taoism, on the Shandong Peninsula, Confucianism and Taoism prevail. Penglai Immortal Pavilion, Eight Immortals, Quanzhen Sect, Penglai plays a pivotal role in Taoism. The origin of the place name, the legend of the three immortal mountains "Penglai, Yingzhou, abbot", about the three sacred mountains were first seen in the "Historical Records 61 Zen Book", the book is described in the sea fairy mountain.

Immortals, most of whom are made by human cultivators, often do not have special positions. Speaking of which, I remembered that Jiang Ziya did not make himself a god in the list of gods, because Jiang Ziya contributed a lot, and Yuan Shi Tianzun authorized Jiang Ziya not to be a god, because once a god is consecrated, he will be restricted by secular eunuchs, and Taoist culture advocates meditation and immortal travel, so he would rather be a wandering Taoist than be in the immortal class, which is actually Yuan Shi Tianzun's love for Jiang Ziya.

In today's Penglai, more people know the story of the Eight Immortals, and the famous Penglai Pavilion is one of the dojos.

The Penglai faction of Taoism belongs to the Quanzhen tribe, and according to legend, the patriarch of the founding school is Lu Dongbin! The disciples of this school not only inherited the transcendent and free and easy of the Quanzhen lineage, but also had their own independent character, for example, most of their disciples traveled between mountains and rivers, and they paid more attention to having no desires and no desires. Immortals, those are not eating the fireworks of the world, looking at this old man is quite a bit of that meaning, but Penglai Taoist people often appear more in people's mouths, and there are very few Penglai Taoist priests who are really destined to travel, because they often do not reveal their identity.

"The eyesight is good," the old man said: "Yes or no, they are all ordinary people, and Penglai Taoism is just stained with the light of the ancestors." ”

"If that's the case, then why don't I help you go back." Cha Wenbin heard that he wanted to save money to buy a ticket......

"Go back? Penglai. The old man laughed and said, "Go back to the Taoist temple and perform every day for those tourists?" It's just a waste of Penglai's reputation, facing the ancestor's tablet, the mental calculation is indeed the income of the Taoist temple, people's hearts are uncertain, where is the Taoist heart. No, no, I haven't thought about going back since I came out, but there is still a brother alive in my hometown, and the old man has hands and feet to ask for your donation. ”