Chapter 122: Borrowing
The old master can't sleep every night, not because of something on his mind, but because of the old habits that he has developed for decades for a long time, unlike ordinary people, he is a night walker.
Needless to say, you can guess seven or eight points, he is a tomb robber, and he is not an ordinary tomb robber, he is called a fairy on the rivers and lakes, and he is a faction of his own.
That's right, the old master is also the apprentice of the bone reclamation Taoist, and is the most talented and important one, but unfortunately the luck is not good, in the process of the last tomb robbery, he accidentally contracted the corpse poison, although the final cure, but during the family recuperation, the corpse poison was passed on to his only son, but his son died because of this. Coincidentally, his son is the same age as Xiao Zhang, he was also born on the second day of the second month of February, and he is eighteen years old, so when she saw Xiao Zhang for the first time, she thought it was his son who was still young, and gave Xiao Zhang the red rope with the golden Maitreya hanging on it, which was a relic that his son had been hanging on his wrist before his death.
Having said that, after the death of his son, his wife was heartbroken and blamed him for doing so many things that damaged yin virtue before he was punished by heaven and ruined his son's life, so he began to take responsibility for what he had done.
The old master had no choice but to complain to the people of Kengu Dao and beg for a golden basin to wash his hands.
Kengu Dao verbally agreed, but in his heart, he thought in his heart, after all, he had followed the sect for many years, and suddenly wanted to break away from the sect, how could he let him go so easily.
The heart is sinister, and the sinister person will think that the heart of all people is sinister.
The Wandering Immortals faction regarded themselves as high-minded, and they had many grievances in the rivers and lakes, and the master knew it, but he didn't think that it would be his own people who betrayed him.
The old master took his wife incognito. Within half a month, he learned that there was a news from the Green Forest Road, saying that he was hiding the secret treasure of immortality stolen from the thousand-year-old demon corpse tomb, which in turn attracted the covetousness and pursuit of countless tomb robbers.
He knew very well who released the news, because the people who knew the secrets of the thousand-year-old demon corpse tomb were no one else except his master, the Bone Reclamation Daoist, and it was obvious that someone was afraid of the secret leakage in the sect and put false news to achieve the purpose of killing people with a knife.
He is used to seeing things like this, and he is tired of hearing them, and he doesn't want to get to the bottom of it anymore to investigate the responsibility.
That's it. The master had to leave the country. Stop-and-go, living a life of eating and sleeping in the open, his wife was overwhelmed by fatigue, and the loss of a child. In the end, he died of depression. He was the only one left. Hide like a rat crossing the street. Under the pressure of hunger and cold, he stole the food of the temple until he met Xiao Zhang.
Xiao Zhang Ben had no name, and was only called a boy by the monks in the temple. The old master cared for his son, and more and more showed his love for Xiao Zhang, and the relationship between his son and friend warmed up, so he simply followed his surname Zhang, named Xiao Dog, and taught Xiao Zhang to read and write, in the eyes of outsiders, it is almost a father-son relationship.
Zhang Xiaopu, an ordinary and ordinary name, let the master experience the joy of family again.
Time passed quickly, and after the liberation, local policy changed dramatically, and the temple had to be moved out and converted into a history museum. At the end of the construction period, the curator of the museum saw that he was working hard and literate, so he continued to stay, he worked as a helper in the kitchen, a janitor, and even a file organizer, and now he is a full-fledged librarian.
On the other hand, the master left the temple in advance after learning the news that the temple needed to be rebuilt, first, for fear that outsiders would enter to see through his identity, after all, in the temple, no one would ask whose past, and after the founding of the People's Republic of China, there was a formal law enforcement department, his identity was a tomb robber, sooner or later he was recognized, and secondly, he didn't want to be a monk for a lifetime, and he just fell into a monk just to survive, so he went down the mountain to find a livelihood again.
Unlike Xiao Zhang, the master has done a lot of work in the society, every once in a while, he changes places, with his experience in dealing with people, but no one can see the flaws, ask himself to see the world is cold, but he hides things in his heart, thinking that the living are too complicated, and only the dead do not have any risk, so he finally found a job in the hospital to take care of the morgue.
The old master and Xiao Zhang get together once a year on the second day of the second month of February, but unfortunately today's second day of the second month of February has not yet arrived, and they learned the news of the death of the old master from the mouth of Officer Xu, so Xiao Zhang is in pain.
And Zhang Gouzi, who has dealt with dead people for half his life, would never have thought that his life was planted in the hands of dead people at the last moment, and he was destined to not escape this catastrophe.
Xiao Zhang didn't say much about how sad he was, and after Officer Xu found out about the origin of the master, he immediately returned to the police station to report the results of the investigation.
Director Mao repeatedly looked through the master's letter, and was still thinking about what he wrote, and after Officer Xu's report, he affirmed his assertion even more.
Because Officer Xu was sent by Director Mao to investigate the details of the master at the first time, he didn't know the content of the letter, and after reading it carefully, he knew that Director Mao was in a hurry to send the mission.
According to the letter, not long after Lu Gang's death, the Reclamation Daoist found the old man in the hospital, and although it had been more than ten years since the master and apprentice last met, the old man immediately recognized the old man in front of him. It's not that they don't get together, the two talked for a long time, and they tacitly understood the grievances of the year, but it was also a coincidence that the Daoist found the master this time, and his main purpose was for Lu Gang.
It is a risk to enter the hospital by risking one's life, but for the sake of his son, he has to do it.
Hades wants you to die on the third watch, and will not keep you until the fifth watch. When it comes to resurrection, it is difficult for the gods to help, but the Bone Reclamation Dao people have a way to prolong the life of the dead.
Performing Taoism will inevitably cause movement, even in the morgue, it is inevitable to be disturbed by outsiders, and the Daoist could have taken Lu Gang's body out of the morgue to do it again, but coincidentally let him meet the old master, so he saved trouble.
The old master didn't want to do illegal things for him anymore, but when he saw him risking his life for his son, he remembered his son who died early, and with years of master-apprentice love, he reluctantly agreed to him.
The Taoist technique performed by the Daoist people is also recorded in the "Thirty-six Techniques of Taoism", called "borrowing the body", which is to regather the three souls and seven spirits of the deceased who have not completely dispersed within seven days, gather one soul to increase life for three years, and one soul to increase life for one year, and then put the gathered soul into the body of another living person, borrow the body to return the soul, and reincarnate as a human being.
The soul can be gathered, but the body will inevitably decay after death, so its own body cannot be used, so the people of the Bone Reclamation Dao put Lu Gang's soul into Wu Santong's body, and Wu Santong became a weasel. (To be continued......)