Lord Di didn't understand why Liu Cheng was suddenly in such a hurry, but he also knew that it was something that was right, and said busily, "I'll notify you right now, but when I came over, they seemed to have already started to deal with the stone, and I don't know if it's too late." ”

"Stop talking nonsense, hurry up." Liu Cheng said to the land master.

The first time I saw him so anxious, I didn't see him have this tone and expression before being surrounded by the shadows, I knew that this was not a trivial matter, maybe the stone was the same as the stone back then, it was a dragon egg, if I dealt with the stone, I was afraid that it would make the old dragon angry again, and then it would snow heavily, and I don't know how many people would freeze to death.

The land lord quickly retreated, and after he left, I stepped forward and asked, "What happened to the stone?" ”

Liu Cheng didn't answer my words, but looked at Huang Yunqiu next to him, "Did that old man say how to deal with this matter?" ”

Huang Yunqiu shook his head and said no.

Liu Cheng then pulled his grandfather aside and said a few words, during which his grandfather's face was uncertain, but he only nodded again and again, and only after everything was said did Liu Cheng say to me, "Go and clean up, we will go out for a long time in a while." ”

Grandpa also nodded to me and said, "Go ahead, follow Master Liu to learn your skills and learn to be a man in the future, and your future will be limitless, but don't be like us, relying on the mountains and water, and this life will pass like this." ”

I didn't have any concept of leaving home at that time, but I liked the encouragement of my father and mother to go out in the early years, and I always felt that it was chic enough, and now Liu Cheng told me that I was going to go on a long trip, and my grandfather agreed, so I was naturally very happy, and I was busy packing up my usual clothes.

When I was tinkering with my own things in the house, my father was already safe because he was pardoned by Huang Yunqiu, and he woke up at this time, and came into my room to help me clean up, and when I cleaned up, he also said, "I heard your grandfather say just now, you have to learn good when you go out this time, don't learn bad, you and we will not be all the way in the future." ”

I hesitated, and although I understood their words, I couldn't understand them together, like I wouldn't come back when I went out this time.

Without waiting for me to ask, my father helped me fold my clothes and said, "Do you know what I saw under the old locust tree in my dream that day?" ”

It was after my father came back from the dead, he said that he saw the cow and the wolf, the cow was me and my father himself, and the wolf should be the person in the mountain temple, and the old locust tree was standing under the old locust tree at that time Liu Cheng, he wanted to explain it to us before, but Liu Cheng glared at him at a glance, thinking that he had really forgotten about it, but now he remembered it again, so I hurriedly asked, "What do you see?" ”

"Dragon, an old dragon, there is a small dragon next to the old dragon, at that time I just thought I was dreaming, but now I think about it is not like that at all, the old dragon is your master, and the little dragon is you." Dad said.

I blinked, a little puzzled, my father saw me as a calf before, how did I become a dragon after entering the mountain temple and then coming out? At that time, there were quite a few people standing under the old locust tree, and he thought that he might have seen it wrong, so he muttered, "Is there really a dragon in this world?" ”

Looking at the cow and the wolf, I can understand, after all, these two things are real, but the dragon is too ethereal, I have only heard people tell the legend of the dragon, but no one has ever said that the dragon has ever been seen, it is just someone else's imagination.

Dad didn't believe in ghosts and gods before, and he didn't start believing until he met the land lord that time, and it wasn't long before he could understand whether there were dragons, so he could only shake his head and say he didn't know.

In the afternoon of the same day, we packed up our things, Liu Cheng took me, Chen Yingying, and Huang Yunqiu out of the village, and before leaving, Liu Cheng asked his grandfather to bury Chen Yingying's coffin, and his grandfather nodded and agreed.

When we left the village, the people in the village came out to send each other, not to send us, but to send Liu Cheng, they just saw that Liu Cheng was going to take me out to wander, they couldn't stamper Liu Cheng, so they came to scold me, only said that I followed Liu Cheng, and I would become a god and an immortal in the future.

I responded one by one, and when I arrived at the entrance of the village, I bowed to these villagers according to Liu Cheng's instructions and said, "Please also ask all uncles, aunts, grandparents, and grandparents to take care of my father and my grandfather more in the future." ”

They said yes in unison.

Until I left the village, my grandfather called out to me, walked quickly to me, took out a pack of handkerchiefs from his pocket and handed it to me and said, "Grandpa hasn't been busy with anything serious all these years, so he doesn't have any savings, this money was originally prepared for you, thinking that you will go to the city to go to school as a tuition fee in the future, and now you follow Master Liu, this money is not needed, you take it with you, and you can save an emergency if you are down." ”

I took the handkerchief, opened it and looked at it, and inside was a small stack of money that was too old to be old, which was already a huge amount of money in my eyes at that time, and I gladly accepted it and said thank you to my grandfather.

Grandpa waved his hand with teary eyes, "Go ahead, come back more often in the future if you have time." ”

I hummed, under the eyes of my father, grandfather and the people in the village, I was curious about where to go, I walked over the mountains and mountains for nearly half a day, and when I arrived at a ridge, Liu Cheng saw that I couldn't walk anymore, so he said to rest.

So they found a gravel place on the ridge to sit down and rest, Huang Yunqiu and Chen Yingying stood on the ridge with umbrellas and looked down.

I know this place, in front of me is the village of Wang Duangong's family, called Santou Village, only because it is located in the middle of the gathering of three mountains, so it has this name, I have been here a long time ago, but I have long forgotten it, when I sat down to rest, I had to ask Liu Chengdao, "Master, where are we going?" ”

Liu Cheng raised his hand and pointed down at the depths of the forest on one of the other two mountains in front of him, and said, "In 1966, a Taoist temple under the banner of Zhengyi was torn down there, and we lived there for a while. ”

"Aren't you going far away?" I was surprised.

When my father and mother went back to the village to tell me how the outside world was busy, how the lights were bright, and those high-rise buildings, I was full of curiosity, and when I first heard them talk about it, I just thought that there could be a place in the world where the lights were not turned off.

I thought that Liu Cheng would take me into the city, but I didn't expect that I didn't even go out of this township, and I still had to live in this mountain.

Seeing my disappointed look, Liu Cheng reached out and knocked me, "The more exciting the place, the more dangerous it is, you will be able to see it sooner or later, what is the hurry." ”

I covered my head in pain, and Huang Yunqiu and Chen Yingying watched and laughed beside me.

After a short rest, we heard the sound of jingling bells on the path behind us, and a dark-skinned old man walked towards us, this old man was shirtless, carrying a basket of stones on his shoulder, and a sweat towel that had been torn by sweat and salt around his neck, with a piece of clothing on his shoulder, a bent flat pole in one hand, and a palm-sized knife in the other hand, roared the heavens and the earth, roared two ghosts and frightened, the road was repaired one zhang, and the small road was repaired eight feet......"

We were all drawn to him, and he saw us, smiled, and continued to sing towards us.

I said, "The burden on his shoulders looks so heavy." ”

"Guess what he does?" Liu Cheng smiled and asked me, then looked at Huang Yunqiu and Chen Yingying, "You can guess too." ”

I shook my head and didn't know, Chen Yingying also shook my head, Huang Yunqiu thought about it and said, "He sings like a song that opens the way for mourners in the yang world, and he should be engaged in the funeral industry." ”

Liu Cheng hummed, "What else?" ”

Huang Yunqiu also shook her head, "Do you see that?" ”

Liu Chengdao, "You're right, it's the funeral industry, but most of the funeral industry goes out day and night, only the day haunts the coffin, carves the tombstone, and sends the wreath, because the funeral industry deals with the dead, so no matter what time it is, he will sing the opening song and walk, so as not to be disturbed by the wandering ghosts, he is carrying a stone on his shoulder, and he is holding a carving knife in his hand, which should be carved a tombstone, but we just went out, and we encountered the carving of the monument, it seems that there is still a lot of trouble on this trip." Liu Cheng shouted to the old man, "Old man, rest." ”

The old man saw Liu Cheng, came over with a flat burden, sat down after putting down the flat burden, looked at Liu Cheng's clothes again, saw that he was wearing a Taoist robe, thought about it, took out a knife and knocked on the flat burden, and sang the song again.

We watched silently, not knowing what this man was trying to do.

Liu Cheng smiled when he heard this, took out his money sword and knocked on the ground, and said, "Fu Yi, the heavens and the earth kill the dead souls of the dead, the big and the small evils, the dead souls of the dead, the heavens and the earth, the year, the moon, the sun, the time, if it is not out, the sky thunder and the fog will shatter ......"

The shirtless old man smiled with relief after hearing this, didn't talk much, sat down to smoke, and handed it to Liu Cheng during the period, and Liu Cheng refused with a smile.

After a break of about ten minutes, Liu Cheng said, "We just happened to pass through Santou Village, can I help you choose?" ”

The old man nodded in response, said thank you, and then got up to leave, until he reached the entrance of the village, Liu Cheng put down the burden and handed it to the old man, the old man looked at Liu Cheng and said, "Good people have good rewards, and I will send you the right stone lion in the future." ”

Yoo Seung smiled and led us up another mountain.

I couldn't help but ask, "What were you doing with him before?" ”

Liu Chengdao, "Each line has its own rules, Taoist priests meet to call senior brother, the funeral industry is a ninth-rate profession in ancient times, the living people can not avoid it, think bad luck, if someone asks about the profession, it is naturally not easy to say, just sing the song that belongs to their own industry, people who understand naturally understand, if it is taboo, go away early, if it is not taboo, you can continue to talk about it." ”

"And what are you singing about?" I asked.

Liu Chengdao, "The god who sent the soul in the mourning hall, he saw that I was wearing a Taoist robe, so he believed it. ”

"Then what did he give you a stone lion?"

Liu Cheng said, "The lion in the town house before the grave. ”