After cleaning up the altar, I couldn't sleep all night when I went back to bed. My routine has been fixed to the same as that of cultivation.

After a night of dry eyes, I ushered in the next day. Early in the morning, I came to the temple of the godfather. When the godfather saw me, he was still a little puzzled and said, "Haven't you practiced the water method, normally speaking, shouldn't you sleep to make up for the lack of sleep these days?" ”

I explained, "I can't sleep, I don't have much energy, but I can't sleep until I take a nap." ”

After hearing this, the godfather touched his beard and pondered for a while, looking at his expression, why did it seem that this was very serious? I saw that the godfather opened his mouth and said: "You don't want to take a nap today, adjust your schedule and rest well, otherwise you won't be able to practice the next step." ”

"Huh?!" I was very puzzled, what does cultivation have to do with sleeping.

The godfather said slowly: "Because cultivation is also closely related to the body, Chairman Mao once said: The body is the capital of the revolution. The body is also the capital of cultivation, and the secret of the five dragons that I will teach you is to nourish the five internal organs and reach the realm of sufficient essence and energy. And if you stay up late and don't sleep, it will damage the liver and gallbladder qi, so no matter how much sleep time is enough, you still have dark circles under your eyes and lack of energy. The body will gradually collapse.; You can't even live a healthy life, and you still talk about how to walk incense, right? ”

I thought for a while and said, "Then I practice the Five Dragons Secret and fill the liver and gallbladder two qi, isn't it?" ”

The godmaster looked at me like a fool and said: "The secret of cultivating the five dragons must pay attention to the corresponding four-in-one, otherwise it will not be able to practice, it is better to say that most of the basic skills of the magic must correspond to the four-in-one." ”

I was puzzled and asked, "What is Sihe?" ”

The godfather explained: "To put it simply, eat well, sleep well, dress when it's cold, and escape the heat when it's hot." ”

I muttered, "Isn't that what my mom tells me every day?" I thought it was something magical. ”

"You can't say that, ear." Gan Ye sat on the edge of the bed, waved his hand, and asked me to sit down beside him: "There are some truths that people know, but they won't do it, just like everyone knows that you have to eat and sleep well, and it's not that many people can't do it." So don't think this is a simple matter, be obedient and adjust your work and rest, okay? ”

I didn't want to stay up late, but I just kept asking questions. It seems that the godmaster misunderstood? Since this is the case, I quickly agreed.

After that, I chatted with the godfather for a while, and said why he didn't teach me something else, but the godfather just smiled after hearing it, and said that he was not in a hurry for a while, I still lay a good foundation and recuperate my body, and when the time comes, he will naturally teach me, making it look unfathomable.

After a few more days like this, I gradually adjusted my routine and rest, because I didn't have to continue to practice for a long time, which caused my time to free up a lot, and I felt that I had become very idle, as if I was a social idler, huh?! It's like I'm a vagrant myself.

If I look at the calendar, if I'm still in school at this time, it's almost the start of summer vacation.

At first, I was a little nervous, wondering if my mother would bring my brother back to my hometown to see me, but the truth is that I have been here for more than a season after a third of the summer vacation. I didn't even get a call? I'm afraid I'm not abandoned in Hubei.

Every time I think about this, I can't help but panic a little, but when I think about it, my cousin can't raise me for nothing. If my family didn't send money to come over, they would definitely throw me back in less than half a year, so I felt relieved again.

In this way, it came to the beginning of August, because it was too idle, I started to grow vegetables and feed the chickens again. After adjusting my schedule, the dark circles under my eyes seem to have disappeared. But my dead fish-eyed eyes seemed to be as irreversible as myopia. The way people look at me still thinks I'm a salty fish - I don't think it's hard for me to die, and I haven't encountered anything terrible at all. When it comes to cultivation, I simply memorize a lot of books, and the only ability to increase significantly is housework. I sat on a wicker chair and looked at the vegetable patch, talking to myself that I was fine.

"Huh! You're here! Hurry up, your dad called. The phone bill is very expensive, hurry up and get over. My cousin shouted as he poked his head out of the house and looked at me in the garden

My parents can afford to have a son like me? I thought so, but I jumped out like a rabbit to answer the phone.

His father's voice came from the other side of the phone: "Ah Yu, let's get used to it." I've heard from your aunt that you're doing a great job of cooking now. ”

"It's okay, I used to cook, but Dad, you don't know if you're away from home for a long time." I echoed my father's words

"Actually, there are some things at home that I can't go to see you or pick you up in the past two years." There was something strange in my father's tone

When I heard my father's words, my heart became nervous, and I had all kinds of bad thoughts about the bankruptcy of my family, the accident of my mother or my brother, and so on

The law came out.

My father exhaled, as if he was ready to announce something big, and I also held my breath, ready to listen to my father—————— only to hear my father say, "Your mother is pregnant." ”

"Huh?" I wondered if I had misheard and asked

"Well, your mom is pregnant." Father continued to affirm once

"Oh, a few months?" I asked indifferently

My father's tone was a little shy: "It's been two months. ”

I calculated, I've been here for more than three months, and I've been pregnant for two months, okay, I thought I was coming here, how worried they would be, it turned out that I was a light bulb? Or do you think that my eldest son has become a rotten boy, leaving only my younger brother who is not at ease, and has another guarantee?

I couldn't help but say gloomily: "Do you think I've become a bad boy, so I gave birth to a new one?" ”

The father on the other end of the phone made a startled voice, probably not expecting me to say that, so he explained, "No, absolutely not." It's just that I haven't been with your mother for too long, and if you're not careful... By the way, I recently changed jobs, and I asked the company to transfer me from the ship to the back office, and although the salary was a little less, it still didn't make much of a difference. ”

I asked with some concern: "The salary is less, and you have violated the family planning law again, are you sure that the fine will not affect the family?" ”

The father smiled heartily: "This is not something you have to consider, it is the same for violating it once or twice, I can still afford the fine, listen to your aunt, you are now worshipping others as teachers, and you are engaging in superstition." ”

I was a little nervous and said, "What's wrong?" ”

Father laughed twice: "You can learn, hurry up and practice, come back here to make a lot of money, and I will persuade your mother." (Author's note: The reason why the male protagonist's father said this: During the eighties and nineties, a large number of Taoist halls appeared in Guangdong, which was quite profitable.) At the end of the 90s, the museum began to close one after another due to the pressure of competition, and it was almost completely extinguished when the pseudoscience trend was cracked down on after 00 years)

I looked around, and my aunt and uncle also went upstairs to avoid it so that I could talk to my father properly, and I lowered my voice to the extent that they couldn't hear and said, "Otherwise, reduce the cost of giving me the phone, anyway, I do all the housework here, even if it is less, it won't bully me." ”

After hearing this, the father laughed, and then said: "You kid don't have to worry about this, take care of your own affairs, take care of yourself alone, I will hang up first, the phone bill is quite expensive." After saying that, he hung up without waiting for me to reply.

Hang up the phone, I still have to take in the amount of information and calm down for a while. When I got home, I had a younger brother/sister. Just as I was thinking, my cousin flashed behind me like a ghost and said, "How is it? What did your father say? ”

I said in disgust: "Don't talk behind people's backs, it will scare people." My dad just told me about changing jobs and me having a brother. ”

After hearing this, my cousin nodded and said, "It seems that you know everything, but do you know that it has been half an hour since you scheduled to go to the old man's house." ”

When I heard this, I looked up at the clock, and hurriedly ran to the godfather.

All the way to the door of the godfather's house, just walked in and suddenly came from the ear "Ah——! I was so frightened that I jumped up and made a marmot-like cry, and my whole little heart was beating non-stop, and I turned my head to see that it was the godmaster hiding next to the door, and I not only asked: "Godmaster, are you three years old?" Why do you want to do such a thing. ”

The godfather patted me on the back with a smile and said, "It's nothing, I'm sorry." ”

"That...?" When I heard the prestige, I found that there was a person in the temple who I had never seen, about twenty years old, and his expression was a little restless, obviously because of the scene just now, and he looked a little embarrassed.

The initiator of the godfather said disappreciatively: "Come on, let me introduce you, this is Zhang Fan, we all call him the nickname Erhei, you can also call Erhei, you are all about the same generation." ”

Then he introduced me to the other side, and said, "This is my grandson, the newly recognized godgrandson." Hit the south to come to the drop, take the risk of speaking a drop of grace, speak Mandarin. (This is my grandson, the newly recognized godgrandson, who came here from the south, and does not speak your dialect, but speaks Mandarin to him)"

After hearing this, Erhei nodded to the godfather and shouted to me, "Brother Erzi... Oh, Brother Yu. ”

I hurriedly denied it and said, "I'm only fourteen years old this year, and you must be older than me, Brother Erhei." ”

Erhei said with a smile: "Brother Yu, you are the grandson of Lao Xi (an honorific title for a very old person), and I should also call my brother." ”

I thought for a while and said, "It's not good for older people to call you brother, otherwise we just call each other directly." ”

After hearing this, Erhei nodded, took out a pack of big chicken brand cigarettes, paused and probably felt inappropriate, and then took out Hongtashan and asked, "Do you smoke it?" ”

I shook my head and refused, Erhei nodded, took Hongtashan back, picked up the big chicken and lit one, took two sips, and turned out a piece of betel nut and handed it to me.

I had never seen betel nut at that time, so I asked, "Is this a dried olive?" ”

Erhei smoked a cigarette and said with a cloud of smoke: "This is a betel nut, it tastes sweet when chewed, just spit it out after chewing." ”

After I listened to it, I stuffed this black thing into my mouth, chewed it twice, felt a little chest tightness and dizziness, and wanted to spit it out and was embarrassed to be in front of Erhei, so I had to reluctantly continue to chew.

The godfather interjected on the side at this time: "It's great that the two of you can get along so quickly." ”

Where did your old man see that I had a good relationship with Erhei, I was so embarrassed that I couldn't do it.

Erhei responded to the words of the godfather: "Well, old man, my ears are very compatible with me!" So it's OK to go? ”

Where do you see that I am compatible with you? What else are you going to do?

After hearing this, the godmaster looked at the clock and said, "Is it too late for three o'clock?" ”

Erhei said: "Take my motorcycle, you should be able to catch the car at five o'clock." ”

The godmaster nodded, and then pulled me who was confused and said, "Er Hei and I are waiting for you, let's go together." ”

"Uh-oh." I agreed directly, I estimated that it was probably a supernatural event, and I was eager to try, but the godmaster claimed that he only took on big events, and he opened for half a year.

In this way, I squeezed into a small motorcycle with my godfather and Erhei and set off.