I listened to the old man's story, and I didn't believe it all, but I just doubted it.

Because of what happened last night, although I knew that there was something unclean on the side of the big camphor tree, but what the old man said happened decades ago, even if there was a female ghost living there in the big camphor tree at that time, it had been removed by the Taoist priest in Tsing Yi. And the old man himself said that there has been no haunting in Zhang'an Village since the founding of the People's Republic of China, so the thing I encountered last night has nothing to do with the story told by the old man, right?

Maybe that thing last night was summoned by my spiritualism, and it has nothing to do with what happened decades ago.

I thought so in my heart, but deep down I was a little hesitant - is it really irrelevant?

After listening to the old man's ghost story, I looked back at the big camphor tree at the head of the village, then thanked the old man and walked out of Zhang'an Village.

Out of Zhang'an Village, standing on a three-way crossing, the cold wind was blowing, and I was a little dazed for a while. What's next? It was a ghost last night, that's for sure. I suspect that Mimi's poisoning was influenced by the ghost last night, but what about the evidence? Listening to the old man tell me a ghost story from a long time ago, what does that do to find out the truth?

I walked aimlessly along the road, and it took me a long time to figure out if I was too weak to even deal with a ghost. In the past, I was able to turn danger into victory many times because of the help of the charm left by my grandmother, but now without the charm, I am like a tiger without minions, and even saving my life has become a problem.

With that in mind, I knew what I was going to do next.

Hurry up and hurry, and finally arrived at Kucang Mountain before sunset. At dusk, the mountains were dyed with a golden glow from the setting sun, but I didn't have the heart to appreciate it, I just wanted to get to the valley where my aunt was before it was completely dark.

In the mountains after dark, there is another dangerous world, although due to the presence of my aunt, there is nothing unclean in the mountains, but in the jungle at night, there are fierce beasts.

I've been to my aunt's valley twice, so this time I was familiar with the road, and although I didn't have a little white to guide me, I still got to the valley without any problems.

The moment I stepped into the cabin, the last rays of the afterglow between heaven and earth sank into the western mountains, and it was completely dark. The oil lamp in the cabin was yellow, and my aunt stood at the dining table, looking at me with a smile: "Child, let's eat first." ”

I was stunned, there were two pairs of dishes and chopsticks on the table, and the vegetables on the table were still steaming, and my aunt seemed to know in advance that I would come. However, my aunt was very powerful, and I didn't say anything more, and sat down at the table.

Huahua 'meowed' and lazily lay on the table, which was kind of a hello to me.

I was so hungry that I didn't be polite to my aunt and ate heavily. It wasn't until I finished eating that I told my aunt what I meant. I told my aunt about Mimi, and I also told me about the ghost I met in the camphor tree last night, and my aunt listened quietly without any special expression, until I told the ghost story that the old man told me, and when it came to the Taoist priest in Tsing Yi, my aunt reacted and said: "It's the old immortal!" ”

I was stunned and asked tentatively, "Auntie, do you know that Taoist priest?" ”

The Taoist priest in Tsing Yi was a figure from decades ago, and it is impossible for ordinary people to know him, but it is not impossible for my aunt to know the Taoist priest in Tsing Yi at such an old age.

It's just that I only said that it was a Taoist priest in Tsing Yi, and I didn't describe his appearance (in fact, I don't know), so my aunt can recognize it?

The aunt showed a look of disdain on her face and said, "That stinky old immortal, after so many years, I can still imagine the stench coming from his body." Who else in this world has the power to bring Deadwood back to life? The Taoist priest who is so competitive, but so strong and stinky, I know such a one! ”

The aunt had a strange look on her face, a little admiration, but more of a disdain. Something that could be called vitality reappeared on her otherwise aged, emaciated face. My aunt is very old, and the only way to show vitality on her face is to think of when she was young, right?

Listening to my aunt's tone, I seem to know a lot about the Taoist priest in Tsing Yi, could it be that they dealt with each other many years ago? The aunt didn't explain too much, and after scolding the Taoist priest in Tsing Yi, she fell silent, looking at her expression, as if she was remembering something.

"Auntie, who is that Taoist priest in Tsing Yi? Is he still alive now? ”

I have this question because my aunt has been shouting at the Taoist priest in Tsing Yi before, 'old and immortal'. A person nicknamed 'Old Immortal' is usually not dead... If the Taoist priest in Tsing Yi was still alive, he would be at least more than 100 years old now.

"I don't know if the 'old immortal' Taoist priest is dead or not, but I haven't heard from him for many years, so I guess it's dead." The aunt replied, deep furrows on her wrinkled face.

I asked, "Auntie, who is that Taoist priest in Tsing Yi, and are you familiar with him?" ”

The aunt's eyes fell on the outside of the house, and she said with a calm expression: "That Taoist priest in Tsing Yi is the master of Taiyiguan, and he had a grudge with our Huangmen many years ago, so I only knew him." That's a very arrogant and smelly person, and he is cautious, in short, he is an old immortal fellow! ”

"Auntie, what is the view of Taiyiguan? Is it famous? "Taiyiguan's name seems to be very good, and that Taoist priest in Tsing Yi also sounds like a very cow, so I am a little curious.

"Taiyiguan," my aunt said, "It was very famous a long time ago, in the land of China, Taiyiguan is as famous as our Yellow Gate, and is called the North View and the South Gate, do you say it is famous?" ”

I don't know the glorious history of Huangmen, because my grandmother has never told me, but looking at my aunt's proud and conceited look at this time, it seems that she is ten years younger all of a sudden, and I think to myself that many years ago, Huangmen should have been very good.

"Auntie, why don't you seem to have heard of Taiyiguan's name now?" In fact, there is one more sentence that I haven't said - why hasn't the Yellow Gate been completed like this now? After my grandmother died, my aunt was the only one left, and I didn't even have a façade like a Taoist temple - I was afraid that my aunt would be sad, so I didn't ask.

The aunt showed a vicissitudes of life and said softly: "Taiyiguan has been in decline for a long time, since the Cultural Revolution defeated all the cows, ghosts, snakes and gods, Taiyiguan was defeated and then declined."

There was no schadenfreude in the aunt's tone, only endless sighs.

Although my aunt didn't say it explicitly, I can also guess that since Taiyiguan was destroyed in the Cultural Revolution, the Yellow Gate, which is as famous as Taiyiguan, naturally can't escape the fate of history.

Although I don't know much about the history of the Yellow Gate, and I don't have any sense of honor or anything like the mission of the master, but at this time, seeing my aunt a little lonely, I couldn't help but feel a little sad in my heart, and after thinking about it, I decided to divert my aunt's attention: "Auntie, tell me about that Tsing Yi Taoist?" ”

"What is there to talk about that old immortal thing, it's all bad luck to talk about it!" My aunt rejected my question without thinking about it.

I was silent in my heart, thinking to myself that the Taoist priest in Tsing Yi seemed to have offended my aunt, otherwise she would not have this attitude.

My aunt doesn't talk about the Taoist priest in Tsing Yi, so I won't ask anymore, anyway, it was decades ago, and it doesn't have much to do with me. And in my heart, there is a more important doubt, and I want my aunt to help me answer: "Auntie, I have one thing that has been bothering me for a long time."

"What?" The aunt said absentmindedly.

"It's related to spiritualism, I summoned spirits according to the spiritualism in the book "Thirty-six Secret Methods of the Yellow Gate", but it was not the ghost of the dead that was summoned, but something else!" Then I went through the process of my two conjuring spirits in detail.

"Spiritualism has only a small chance of success, but what happened to you is strange." After the aunt said this, she was silent for a while, then shook her head and smiled and said: "Child, as the old saying goes, it is better to have no book than to have a book, there are several very simple spells in that book "Thirty-six Secret Methods of the Yellow Gate", because it is simple, the predecessors who wrote this book only wrote simple steps when writing the spell casting process, and there is spiritualism among them. Because spiritualism is a spell that everyone who cultivates the Dao Fa must learn. But I didn't expect that you hadn't learned spiritualism, and cast spells according to the book, of course there would be problems! ”

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