Time is a vast river that passes slowly. It devours our sorrows, but also our laughter, and will eventually push us mercilessly across the river. Let it go up and down.

With the flick of a finger, it's the beginning of another year. Hu Zhouzhou and Pan Zi happily posted couplets and lively and cute tiger baby paper-cuts. I was bored lying on the rooftop, watching strangers go about their lives. At that time, I had no idea that 2011 would leave a huge scar in my life.

A blue taxi stopped at the entrance of the Heavenly Dao Hall. A figure I knew all too well stepped out of the car.

I jumped up from the wicker chair, ran downstairs to the man, and said, "Mom, why are you here?" "I caught a glimpse of a thin uncle about my mother's age leaning over to help my mother with her luggage.

"Who is this?" I don't remember this person among my mom's friends.

My mom laughed and said, "Don't you recognize him?" He is a dumb uncle who helps clean the Tiandao Hall in Zhanjiang. ”

Really? Why don't I remember that there was such a number one person in the Heavenly Dao Hall before? But I was young at the time, so it wasn't surprising that I wasn't impressed.

Hu Zhouzhou came over and said, "Oh, it's Panzi's character!" Hello Master, Hello Master! Hello Uncle Dumb! ”

I glared at him: "What do you mean by Master, Mom?" It sounds like an insult. ”

My mother smiled and said, "It's okay, it's the same whatever you call it." That's what this kid calls in his heart. ”

Panzi covered his mouth and snickered on the side. I said, "Mom, don't make a fuss, there is no such thing as cunning in this world." ”

Pan Zi took the luggage from Uncle Dumb, I asked Hu Zhouzhou to make tea and prepare food, and welcomed my mother and Uncle Dumb in.

My mother said, "After your second uncle closed the Tiandao Hall, the dumb uncle didn't have a job. He can only receive a few hundred yuan of social security every month, and his life is tight. I saw that you also opened a Tiandao Hall in Modu, so I wanted to bring him over and ask if you could keep him. ”

I said, "Mom, what can be wrong with you opening your mouth?" It's just one more person and more pairs of chopsticks. The heavy work of cleaning is done by Panzi. Uncle Dumb will help pour tea for the guests who come to the door. Is it appropriate to give 1,000 and 5 a month? ”

The dumb uncle nodded again and again, and smiled, revealing a mouthful of yellow teeth like corn kernels.

He seemed to remember something, his eyes lit up, and he hurriedly walked to the side to rummage through his luggage. My mother said, "By the way, it turns out that before your second uncle came to Beishi to look for us, he handed over some of the books and materials of the Tiandao Hall to Uncle Dumb for safekeeping. When those relatives helped to clean up the second uncle's relics, they only sent us the things left in the hall. Now the dumb uncle has brought the second uncle's part of the relics with him. You see if it works. ”

Uncle Dumb pulled out a small stack of old books and notes and handed them to me.

One of these books is called "Bugang Stepping Bucket". I flipped through it, and the preface gave a brief introduction to Bugang Tadou - Bugang Tadou is a commonly used ritual element in the composition of Taoist Zhaijiao rituals, and it is a spell to worship the stars and summon the gods during the Jiao Festival. Gang, originally refers to the handle of the Big Dipper. Bugang stepping bucket is also known as stepping gang stepping discipline, stepping gang crawling bucket, stepping gang stepping discipline, flying gang stepping discipline, stepping gang stepping bucket and so on. Bugang stepping bucket was first seen in the records of the Warring States princes, and its pace is also called Yu Bu.

Gangshan is composed of four spirits (green dragon, white tiger, vermilion bird, Xuanwu), twenty-eight houses and nine palace gossip, symbolizing the nine-fold sky, wearing cloud shoes with high-skill feet, following the Taoist song on the ganglist, meditating on the nine days, according to the direction of the stars and the nine palace gossip, stepping on it, you can gallop through the nine heavens, start to play the sky.

The book records more than ten kinds of footwork such as the Seven Star Yu Footwork, the Big Dipper Seven Star Footwork, and the Three Baogang (Dao Baogang, Jing Baogang, and Shi Baogang) footwork.

I looked at the diagram and simulated it in my head, and it seemed to be the strange footwork of the man in black and the crow under the earth of X.

There is also a book called "Heavenly Dao Jade Formula", which contains several complex fingers used in conjunction with the Heavenly Dao Seal. Two of them were used by the men in black. If this means that these tips are unique to my Heavenly Dao Sect, then how did the man in black learn them? Could it be that he is also a member of my Heavenly Dao Sect? Seeing that he should be older than the second uncle, could it be that Gao Tianfang, who opened the Tiandao Hall in Zhanjiang back then, had other apprentices?

The content of those notebooks is very miscellaneous, mainly the experience of catching ghosts and monsters, which is a perfect supplement to the "Heavenly Dao Atlas".

But ...... "Why did the second uncle never mention such important information?" "I don't understand," What's more, the handwriting of these notes is not at all the same as the handwriting of the second uncle's diary. This isn't the second uncle's thing, right? ”

A trace of panic passed over my mother's face, and she instinctively glanced at the dumb uncle.

The dumb uncle calmly gestured at my mother for a while. My mother said, "Oh, that's right. These notes belong to your dad. ”

My head was buzzing. Mom said: "After all, your father used to be the head of the Heavenly Dao Sect, and the notes are his experience over the years, which should be of some help to you." ”