Runzi's father answered: "Layue, you misunderstood Mr. Chang, he is telling the truth. I still remember that there were zombies in the village that year, your ear injury was not because of my gunshots, but because your own physique is different from ordinary people, I didn't know at first, but later confirmed from Dr. Tang that there is no problem with your hearing, but you can't hear it for a long time, so there must be something wrong with this, of course, psychological factors are not ruled out. Coincidentally, something strange happened to our river pond, that is, the black coffin found in the morning, which once again proved my idea......"

Father Runzi said halfway, and Chang Butong took over: "To prove whether the old man's words are correct or not, I have to talk about this coffin." Ordinary people use nanmu or catalpa wood for burial, but this coffin is made of peach wood, and it is lightning strike peachwood, the reason why this material is used is related to the corpse in the coffin. ”

Speaking of which, I remembered that Chiang Kai was using a gossip mirror and us to shoot the "third brother" with a peach wood projectile, and that peach wood was the best weapon for evil creatures, so I asked, "Could it be that the zombies inside the coffin?" ”

"It's not accurate, it's a zombie, it's right, but it's one of the corpses, and the black pillar you see is the corpse needle. According to the old man in the original Hongmen, the corpse of the same kind appeared once a hundred years ago, and was dug up by several earth walkers, that is, tomb robbers. For a little money, not only did he open the coffin, but he also pulled out the mortem needle, and tens of thousands of people died in the drought caused by the corpses. In the last years of the Qing Dynasty, officials and thieves colluded, and countless people made it difficult to make money and died, and no one expected that the incident would be so widely implicated, tens of thousands of people died, and finally the epidemic was hastily explained to the outside world. "Chang Bu's pupils sink like water, and he shakes his head.

"Then what happened to the corpse?" I asked.

"It is said that he was subdued by a Taoist priest surnamed Jiang, and he left a hand-me-down book, which included the spell of how to subdue the corpse." Chang Butong replied.

"The surname Jiang ...... Taoist...... Don't...... It's ......," I muttered under my breath.

"What, what did you just say?" Hitomi was surprised by my reaction.

"No, nothing, so what does this have to do with me?" I don't want him to know about the relationship between Jiang Youdao and Jiang Jiezheng, or even about my access to the "Thirty-six Techniques of Taoism".

I secretly glanced at Runzi's father, he seemed to have nothing to do with himself, I was surprised that he knew the reason, but pretended not to know anything, and did not know what medicine was sold in the gourd.

"Of course it has a relationship, from the first time the old man saw you, I saw that your body was missing a soul, people have three souls and seven spirits, do you know, remember that you were pressed by a zombie the year before last, it didn't attack you at that time, because it felt that your soul was not all thought to be a living person, so once you get close to something with yin energy, there will be problems on your body, ordinary people seem to be your physique sensitive, if the old man is not wrong, you are prone to encounter evil things after the age of eighteen!" Chang Butong smiled and looked at Runzi's father.

"Huh!" I was speechless, the old man had told me the cause of my illness in a logical way, and it seemed difficult to refuse him.

I asked him again, "What's the matter with the real yàn, what do you mean by my teachings?" ”

"Haha, you kid has a lot of problems." Chang Butong took out the small piece of wood again and held it in his hand.

I subconsciously stepped back, and he said: "There are eight pieces of wood like this in the world, the emperor's piece is called gentian, the queen's piece is called Fengxia, the civil official's piece is called Jingtang, the military general's piece is called Huwei, the monk's nun's piece is called the precept, the Taoist one's piece is called Zhentan, the drugstore's one is called Pressing, and the opera artist's piece is called Ruyi." ”

I was not interested in his introduction, but I could see that the wood had a lot of provenance.

Chang Butong said: "Many years ago, the old man met a Taoist chief by chance, and he gave it to the old man, but unfortunately this town altar wood is only half a piece, and the power is much smaller, and the old man should only be used to test people's abilities." You can't be regarded as having special abilities, but it's the same, as long as you are willing to agree to be the old man's apprentice, the old man can use your innate ability to give you the maximum of your ability, and the old man doesn't want to end up bringing it into the coffin. ”

To be honest, I don't have the right to choose at all, and I have no reason to refuse, who doesn't want to have the ability to be a big hero.

Father Runzi poured a cup of tea at some point, put it in front of me, and motioned for me to hurry up and apprentice, after this village, there will be no such shop.

I always felt that this matter was too rash, and it was inevitable that I would have to run around with him, and my four sisters were all married, and only my elderly parents were left in the family, and there was no one to help in the future, so I couldn't bear it, so I made an excuse and said, "I ...... I need to talk to my mom and dad. ”

"You don't have to worry about this, I'll say it for you, Runzi is not blessed by you, don't shirk it anymore. Layue, come, let's give Mr. Chang tea first......" As he spoke, Daddy Runzi handed the teacup to me.

Chang Butong was not in a hurry, so he asked me to put down the teacup and said with a stern face: "What you said is not unreasonable, I will send you home, and the old man will talk to your parents in person." ”

Leaving the cafeteria, we passed by the pond, and I also saw the man in white that Runko said, holding a strange instrument in his hand, which emitted white smoke, and it looked like he was smoking from a distance.

"What are these two men in white doing?" I asked Chang Butong.

He squinted his eyes and said with a smile: "They were sent by the army, and they sprayed the medicine prepared by Jin Ling, which was used to extinguish the epidemic." ”

I didn't understand and asked, "Didn't you make up the epidemic to bluff people?" ”

"Half true and half false. After the old man's investigation, the location of the river pond is just in the turbidity of the place, although the corpse is removed, but if the remaining turbidity is not properly handled, it will definitely be affected in the future, what to raise and die, what to plant and what to rot, in order to completely solve it, can only be dealt with in this way, but this land boundary wants to break ground in three or two years. They also moved away all the people who lived in the area, so you shouldn't be able to see a single person passing by when you come! ”

I nodded yes, and he told me that if my parents agreed to let me be his apprentice, they wouldn't have to worry about their lives in the future, which made me look forward to it.

As soon as I entered the house, I heard my parents tossing in the room, and my mother looked down from upstairs and shouted to my father in the room, "Layue is back, have you found anything?" ”

Then there was the sound of rummaging through the cabinets.

Coming downstairs, my mother walked in front, and my father followed behind with a package, and when I saw Runzi's father and Chang Butong, I was not surprised, but politely asked them to sit down.