The old man returned to the crowd with such a sentence.

It was from 11 p.m. to 1 a.m., because there were still a few hours left, and the villagers chatted about themselves, and the grandfather and grandfather sat on the side and smoked a cigarette, and I returned to Liu Cheng.

I have seen Liu Cheng's ability with my own eyes, and I have no doubts about his ability, and Liu Cheng didn't care about what we said next to him, so he directly asked me to go into the house with him, and when he entered the house, he said to me, "Go and pour a cup of tea." ”

I thought Liu Cheng was thirsty, so I immediately went to a cup of tea and handed it to him, but he shook his head and didn't answer, I was a little puzzled, "Don't you drink it?" ”

Liu Cheng looked at me with a serious face and said, "The person who harmed your father is outside, since he wants your family to cut off his children and grandchildren, he will definitely attack you tonight." And although you call me Master verbally, but you don't formally apprentice, we are not in the same lineage, I can't save you without cause and effect, while there is still time, you officially apprentice. ”

I was faintly excited when I heard it, if I worship Liu Cheng as a master, wouldn't he have to teach me those skills? If I learn what he does, I can be like him, and when the time comes, when the imps come to catch me, I can slap them.

But I didn't know much about the apprenticeship process, so I asked, "So what am I going to do?" ”

Liu Cheng said, "Time is pressing, let's keep everything simple." Liu Cheng said and took out a piece of yellow table paper from his body, there were some words written on the paper, I read it carefully, Liu Cheng waited for me to finish reading and then said, "There are four steps in total, first, oath; second, tea ceremony; third, kowtow; Fourth, the apprenticeship. ”

I thought it through, nodded and said, "I see." ”

Liu Chengya nodded, walked to the shrine of my house, straightened his clothes and said, "Let's start." ”

I then read according to the content of the yellow sheet he gave me, "My life is thin, and I am fortunate to meet my teacher, so that I can enter the Daomen, and in the future, I will do good deeds and accumulate virtues, but the master is the first to look forward, if you do evil, you will be killed by thunder and thunder, and you can only die by holding the Tao, not destroying the Tao." ”

After I finished speaking, I glanced at Liu Cheng again, and Liu Cheng just nodded lightly after hearing this, "Today's time is urgent, so I won't give the name of the law first, let's make tea." ”

I immediately walked up to Liu Cheng with the tea, respectfully handed the tea to him, and said, "Master drink tea." ”

Liu Cheng took the teacup, I immediately knelt down and bowed three times and bowed nine times, called Master, and then froze after calling Master, looking at Liu Cheng and smiling awkwardly, "I didn't prepare to bow to the Master." ”

Liu Cheng smiled, "The yin and yang money that I burned at the beginning is considered an apprenticeship." After drinking the tea, he put the teacup aside, then faced the shrine and pointed to some obscure words, and then turned around after reading, stretched out his hand and touched my head, "From now on, you will be my Liu Cheng's apprentice, whether the mountain god or the land wants to bully you, you must get my consent." ”

Liu Cheng's words warmed my heart, in addition to my grandfather, he was the second person who said that he wanted to protect me well, I couldn't help but be a little moved, I was fed up with the fingers of the people in the village over the years, my nose was sore, and I almost cried, so I could only hold back my tears and bow my head and hum.

Liu Cheng said again, "Now I'm not cold, right?" ”

I glanced at Liu Cheng's hand, which used to feel cold when I touched him a little, but now his hand was on my head, but I didn't feel the slightest coldness, and said happily, "It's not cold." ”

The apprenticeship process was simpler than I thought, and after the apprenticeship was completed, Liu Cheng told me again, "You go and prepare a bowl of kerosene, a white cloth, and three hemp ropes." ”

These things were easy to find at home, so I immediately went into the house to find them for him, and when I finished looking for them, Liu Cheng had already gone out, so I followed them, and the people in the village came to look around Liu Cheng again.

Liu inherited these things I had prepared and began to tie them up in front of everyone, but no one in the village understood them, and they all asked Liu Cheng, "Master Liu, what are you going to do?" ”

Liu Cheng said, "Kong Ming lantern, Kong Ming lantern is also called the guiding light, when the time comes to light the guiding lamp into the air, Sun Qing's father's soul can look at the guiding light to find the way home, but the guiding lamp is also called the soul lantern, maybe then follow this lamp is not only Sun Qing and his father, you don't have to be afraid, with me, those wandering ghosts dare not mess around." ”

The people in the village panicked when they heard this, and some people retreated on the spot, but their hearts to watch the excitement suppressed their fear, and most of them chose to continue to stay here to watch the excitement.

After Liu Cheng asked his grandfather about his father's birthday, and took out a brush, dipped in cinnabar and wrote his father's birthday on the guide lamp, and after the guide lamp was tied, Liu Cheng found a twine dozens of meters long and tied it to the bottom of Kong Ming, and the other end of the hemp rope was tied to his father's hand.

After the guiding lamp was tied, Liu Cheng took out the rune paper he had drawn earlier from his body and handed it to me, and said to me, "You go and distribute these rune papers to the people in the village, one for each person." ”

I nodded yes, took the talisman paper and distributed it to the people in the village, including my mother and grandfather, but when I got to the grandfather, the grandfather waved his hand, "Master Liu has already given me one before, so I don't need it." ”

The grandfather's talisman paper has been lost, whether to give it or not, it depends on Liu Cheng's meaning, so he looked back at Liu Cheng, Liu Cheng said, "Since you have it, you don't need to send it." ”

Liu Cheng also knew that the grandfather's talisman paper was lost, but at this time, he didn't send it to him according to the grandfather's wishes, I don't know what medicine he sold in the gourd, but he still did it according to Liu Cheng's wishes.

After I finished distributing, Liu Cheng said, "There is a fire on the top of people's heads and shoulders, called the top three flowers, as long as there are these three fires, demons and monsters can't enter the body, this rune paper can make people's top three flowers burn more vigorously, even if there are wandering spirits and wild ghosts coming with the rune paper, they don't dare to approach you, but you have to remember, no matter who you hear calling you for a while, don't look back, let alone pad your heels, once you tiptoe to your heels, those wandering ghosts will take the opportunity to stuff their toes under your feet, isolating the earth's qi, The three fires in your body will gradually be extinguished, and then they will control your body, which is called the ghost body. ”

Hearing the danger, the people in the village all nodded and said yes, and some people who were not at ease said, "Master Liu, you called us here, but you must not harm us." ”

Liu Cheng smiled, "I will definitely take care of you, don't worry." ”

The people in the village were skeptical, and after that, Liu Cheng explained some precautions, and the villagers listened carefully.

In a blink of an eye, it was eleven o'clock, Liu Cheng took the villagers to the old locust tree where his father hanged himself, and suddenly quieted down, and the villagers didn't speak, and my heart was pounding.

However, Liu Cheng did not start immediately, but first raised his hand and read a long string of things in his mouth, and it was almost ten minutes after reading, and he finally lit the kerosene in the bucket of the guide lamp.

Liu Cheng pinched his middle finger and began to read, "Wandering souls, where to keep the three souls descending early, the seven spirits coming, the temples and villages in the wilderness by the river, the palace prison, the graves and mountains, the false alarm is weird, the lost true soul, today please the mountain god, the general of the five roads, the land of the party, the house stove Jun, I enter the errand, deliberately collect, collect the soul possession, help the spirit, the door of heaven opens, the door of the earth opens, the boy of thousands of miles sends the soul, I am in a hurry like the law." ”

After Liu Cheng finished reading these things, there was no sound in the whole village, and the people in the village didn't dare to move, but their eyes were rolling from side to side, wanting to see what was going on around them.

About three minutes passed, the dogs in several nearby villages suddenly ran around and barked like crazy, and the chickens that had been resting also began to crow, and it was not an exaggeration to say that the chickens were flying and the dogs were jumping, and there was a salsa sound in the woods around the village, and the wind was blowing, and the people in the village shivered, but they all remembered Liu Cheng's instructions and did not dare to move.

Not long after, a humanoid black figure slowly paced from all directions, their eyes looking at the spirit lamp in the sky.

I was dumbfounded and frightened, and subconsciously moved closer to Liu Cheng, some of whom were wearing shabby tunics, some were wearing long gowns, some were shrouds, some were wearing braids, and some women were wrapped around their feet.

The people in the village were afraid to move, and Liu Cheng looked at me and said, "Follow me." ”

I immediately followed Liu Cheng towards the periphery of the old locust tree, and when I got to the outside of the village, Liu Cheng's eyes changed suddenly, and then turned into wolf-like eyes, which made people feel chills, those wandering ghosts were originally walking towards this side, but when they saw Liu Cheng's eyes, they immediately stopped.

Liu Cheng glanced at these wandering ghosts, and finally put his eyes in a corner, I followed his eyes, and found my father there, Liu Cheng pointed at my father, and said in an unquestionable voice, "You come here, and the rest of you will get out immediately." ”

Dad hesitated and walked towards me and Yoo Cheng in a trance, but the rest of the wandering ghosts set their eyes on my father's corpse, as if they had seen an immortal treasure, their eyes full of greed.

There was even one who rushed up directly and quickly, straight at my father's corpse, but as soon as he arrived next to Liu Cheng, Liu Cheng reached out and grabbed him directly, Nuoda was directly lifted up by him, and then said coldly, "The corpse is not yours, you don't have to rob it." ”

"You care about me, whichever grabs it first will be whichever one wins." The wild ghost who was brought up by Liu Cheng replied, he was afraid that he just regarded Liu Cheng as an ordinary ghost.

As soon as he said this, Liu Cheng suddenly carried him and threw him outside, slamming into a tree next to him, and let out a cry of pain.

Liu Cheng said in a deep voice, "Is there anyone else who wants to rob the corpse?!" ”

Those wandering ghosts who had the intention to rush up saw this scene, and immediately stopped and didn't dare to move forward, only my father slowly walked to the old locust tree, staring at the corpse on the old locust tree, I guess he didn't understand why he was hanging from the tree.

And at this moment, on the path into the village, there was a group of humanoid black shadows running towards us quickly, before they arrived, among these wandering ghosts, another familiar voice sounded, "You are so bold, dare to gather these wandering ghosts and wild ghosts to make trouble, when the local land temple does not exist?" ”

I followed the sound and saw the land lord, who pushed aside the crowd and walked over, staring at Liu Cheng with anger on his face.

Liu Cheng also looked at the land lord, and then pointed to the corpse on the tree and said, "Because Sun Qing's father beat you with a stick, so you announced his personal vendetta and killed him, is this what your land temple should do?" ”

The land lord also looked at the corpse hanging on the tree, there was a slight difference, and then frowned, "His life is not over, and the land temple has not sent anyone to hook his soul." ”

Liu Cheng listened with a smile on the corner of his mouth, "Since it wasn't made by the Land Temple, it was made by the Mountain Temple." ”

The land lord was originally here to be held accountable, but when he heard Liu Cheng talk about the mountain temple, he was quite puzzled, he just came here, he didn't know what had happened here before, and said, "The mountain god system was canceled decades ago, and now the mountain temple has no right to hook the soul, where did the mountain temple come from?" ”

Liu Cheng smiled and said, "It's just right that you came, there is still a mountain god seal in this village that has not been returned, you can mobilize the people of your land temple to find it, you can find the best, and you can also avoid people with improper intentions from harming people with the power of the mountain god." ”

When Liu Cheng said this, he looked back at the people in the village, and I also looked back, and the rest of the village was only scared, only my grandfather's face changed.

I chuckled in my heart, remembering the box in my grandfather's pocket, and the red dyed on the bottom of the box was not the color of the ink. was about to reach out and pull Liu Cheng, but he still fell short, so he could only mutter, "The seal of the mountain god may be in my grandfather's place, don't let the land lord find it." ”