Dad lay on the kang as if he had a fever and looked weak. Lu Youcai was on the side, the second sister was crying, and the atmosphere at home was very depressing.

The second sister said, Dad, let's go to the hospital, don't drag your body down.

Dad raised his arm and waved his hand with great difficulty, signaling not to go to the hospital, he was already weak and unable to speak.

Lu Youcai said that he would find the old Taoist who came yesterday to see if it could work, and the second sister's eyes lit up when she heard this, and she said that she would go to find it, so she ran out.

I wanted to go with the second sister, but the second sister said no, let me play by myself, don't make trouble.

Dad was silent with his mouth open on the kang, and I saw the arhat on his body slowly rise up, and then disappeared.

Lu Youcai got a wet towel and put it on his father's head, and his father fell asleep again.

I heard the noise and cries outside the door, so I ran out and stood at the gate.

I saw a person in the front holding a black and white photo of the deceased, followed by a group of people wearing white hats and white cloths around their waists, and the four people in the center walked slowly in front of them carrying the coffin. But I saw the dead woman sitting on the coffin and waving to me, and the group of mourners behind me seemed to be unable to see her, and still silently followed the procession forward.

The sound of firecrackers rang out in my ears like thunder, and I saw the woman smiling, and I didn't know why I was smiling at her.

I saw her come to my side lightly, pulling my little hand, laughing loudly, the voice was very sharp, I couldn't help but raise my head to look at her, the smile just now had already turned into a terrifying grimace, a protruding tongue, a blue face, eyes were all white, and there were bright red tears in the corners of the eyes.

I tried to ask the funeral procession for help, but I found that the world in front of me was red, the sky was also red, the familiar houses around me were long gone, all I could see was a dilapidation, and the desolate mountain road was walked underfoot, the soil was very soft, and there was not a trace of footprints left where I stepped on.

And the passers-by around me were as pale as paper, with the same smiling faces, two patches of red on their faces, and their eyes as empty as they were painted.

They jumped forward as if they couldn't walk, and I guessed they were ghosts, because they looked more terrifying than Lu Youcai's grimace, and they were more real.

My little hands were pulled and hurt, I wanted to break free but couldn't, I cried loudly but no one paid attention, I could only be dragged forward.

At home, the second sister found a Taoist priest, the old Taoist came to his father and looked down, took out a copper gossip mirror from the cloth bag around his waist, and took out a few yellow talismans, untied the Taoist robe, and there was a peach wood sword hidden in his waist, maybe it had been used for a long time, the hilt of the sword had been slightly blackened and oily, the old Taoist asked everyone to go out, the second sister still couldn't help asking, Uncle Liu, can it be cured? The old Taoist was slightly displeased, and said sharply, you better go and find your brother!

A word woke up the dreamer, and the second sister patronized my father's illness and ignored me.

When I went out to ask, the neighbor said that Xiao Fulu followed the funeral person, and the second sister stomped her foot anxiously after hearing this, and strode towards the tomb outside the village.

I don't know how Lao Dao cured my father, but my father hasn't said anything about treating people since then.

I followed the ghosts all the way on, I was too tired to walk, my eyelids were getting heavier and heavier, and my vision was blurry. The wind here is cold, the bare trees look particularly desolate on the roadside, and unconsciously, there are more and more ghosts around, there are no heads, no hands, crawling, floating, all kinds of things, coming and going, no ghosts stopping, and no ghosts pay attention to me. I looked at the female ghost next to me, and she was still making the same high-pitched laugh as she had just now, and the cycle was repeated.

I miss my father, I miss my eldest sister and second sister, I want Lu Youcai, I want to go home.

The woman's relatives were putting the coffin in the grave dug yesterday, and under the guidance of Mr. Feng Shui, they were laying the soil for the tomb with a spade, and I was giggling in the crowd, and no one paid any attention to me, because most of the people here were paid to help with the funeral, and they saw me from the beginning and mistakenly thought that I was the child of the deceased's relatives.

The second sister ran to the tomb out of breath, and when she saw that I was safe and sound, she carried me home.

After the healing of the old way, Dad was able to move freely at this time, sweeping the fragments of the idol on the ground while praying that the Bodhisattva would not bring disaster to his family.

Lao Dao sat on the side of the kang with Erlang's legs crossed, closed his eyes and smoked a cigarette, completely lacking the fairy wind bones just now, like a second-rate temperament.

After sweeping the floor, Dad paced back and forth at the door, anxiously waiting had already exhausted his patience, and the Ye family could not afford to change any more.

Fortunately, when he saw that I came back with all my beards and tails, his hanging heart was also put down.

When I got home, I was still giggling, and I didn't react to anyone talking to me, I just stood there and laughed and laughed.

Lao Dao opened his eyes and looked at me, opened his mouth and said, "The soul is taken away, and I have become a fool, and my life will be gone in a while."

Lu Youcai saw that his father's energetic appearance now and the state of illness just now were like two people, and he knew that this old way was a bit of a way, so he couldn't believe his words.

Hearing the old Taoist say that my soul was lost and endangered my life, in a panic, my father hurriedly asked how to make me normal, and the second sister was even more anxious to kneel down and beg the Taoist chief to save me.

Lao Dao said, Tao does not save people who have no fate, and after speaking, his eyes moved to his father's face.

Dad knew very well what Lao Dao thought in his heart, and he couldn't think much about it at the moment, so he had to nod and say, as long as he can save my son's life, let him follow the Taoist master and listen to the call willingly, not to mention being an apprentice, even being a slave.

Lao Dao laughed and said, "I will only accept him as an apprentice, and I will not let him be a cow or horse." Moreover, when he was reincarnated in his previous life, I told Mr. Ye that he was destined to have a master-apprentice friendship with me. ”

The second sister wanted to say something, but she never said it, and there was nothing more important in front of me than my life. I could only hold my head silently, tears dripping on my face, tugging at my cuffs and not letting go, for fear that if I didn't pay attention, I would run away.

I thought that my lost soul was still being pulled by the female ghost in this ghost place, and it would be useless for me to cry desperately, I felt that I would soon fall asleep, but I could only grit my teeth, because I was afraid that once I fell asleep, the female ghost would eat me, and then I would not be able to go home.

The world in front of me was getting more and more blurry, and there were more ghosts around me than just now, and I squinted and didn't dare to look at it. The wind suddenly rose, and the sounds they made became more and more terrifying, so that I couldn't tell whether it was crying or wind.

Lao Dao asked the family to prepare a table of wine and food, and his father was weak, so he called the village chief Liu Sangui to help Zhang Luo, and the third uncle was a little unhappy, and muttered in a low voice: "My eldest nephew has not been rescued yet, and he has to eat and drink here, and he still has the face to say that he is a monk." ”

Lao Tao said that family members are also people, and if they are people, they have to eat, and eating two mouthfuls of food from my apprentice's house will make you feel distressed, isn't it all about saving your eldest nephew?

The third uncle was stupid, so he could only listen with a dark face, and Liu Sangui's daughter-in-law was also there, so he hurriedly pushed the third uncle aside and said to the old man softly: "Don't be like the old man of my family, he is also worried about my eldest nephew." ”

Lao Dao smiled and said I have already calculated, my apprentice will be fine this time, and it is fate to suffer this catastrophe, so there is no need to panic.

After hearing this, the third uncle's face softened a lot, and he couldn't help asking, since Xiao Fulu won't have anything, then what are you doing here to eat and drink?

Lao Dao blushed and couldn't think of any good excuses, so he could only say unfathomably that the secret of heaven should not be revealed.

On the other hand, I felt numb, and my feet didn't obey me at all, allowing the female ghost to drag me forward. My mind began to drift away, and I guess maybe my eyes were as blank as these ghosts.

The yin wind became more violent, and the ghosts in front of them all stopped, and then moved back stiffly, I was so small that I couldn't see farther, only to hear the ghosts let out a heart-rending roar, running backwards as if they were running for their lives, and the female ghosts also whined back, and the hand that pulled me was also trembling obviously.

As the ghosts fled, I had enough vision to see what was happening in front of me, only to see a person appear in front of me, and I saw that he was surrounded by golden light, and he seemed warm and sacred in this gloomy environment. When I got closer, I saw that he seemed to be older than me, seven or eight years old, and his lean body was wearing yellow shorts, a white vest, and a pair of pale red sandals. Looking further up, I saw that his little round head had a short flat head, and I couldn't see him clearly, because the child kept his head down.

I looked at it and thought that the flat-headed boy was very familiar, but I couldn't remember where I had seen it, and I didn't know if I had seen it, maybe it was just my delusion.

But in this situation, I waved my little hand at him desperately as if I saw a relative.

The flat-headed boy saw me and his eyes lit up, and he flashed in front of me, my hand was still held by the female ghost, he glared at the female ghost, and the female ghost was still indifferent.

I saw the flat-headed boy smile, with a delicate face, and said to me: "This new ghost has never seen the world, and this posture is probably so frightened that my divine power is afraid to move." ”

I cursed in my heart that you can scare the ghosts to death if you are ugly, but I didn't dare to speak.

The flat-headed boy tapped the female ghost with his fingertips, and the female ghost finally reacted, let go of her hand and hurriedly fled, and suddenly looked at me viciously the moment she floated away, and I was awake at once, but my feet were so tired that I didn't feel it, as if I had grown into the soil.

Seeing me like this, the flat-headed boy sighed, turned around and carried me on his back, as if muttering something, and then walked in the air, extremely fast.

On the way, the flat-headed boy also told me to honor my father and not hate him, I asked him why I hated my father, and the flat-headed boy was silent for a long time and did not speak.

After a while, my consciousness began to blur, and I could feel myself closing my eyes and falling asleep.

Soon, a table of wine and food had been completed, and the second sister couldn't help but tears when she looked at my silly appearance, hugged me and sobbed softly: "Uncle Liu, when will my brother get better?"

Lao Dao didn't answer, but picked up the incense burner that his father used to worship the Bodhisattva, lit the incense and inserted it. Turning around and just about to answer the second sister's question, suddenly a golden light flashed in front of him, Lao Dao didn't dare to slack off, knelt down in front of him, and bowed reverently.

Seeing this, the second sister thought that Lao Dao was praying for God to bless her younger brother, and also knelt down and saluted with Lao Dao.

I saw the old Taoist say respectfully: "The younger generation doesn't know that the immortals are here, they are terrified, and the etiquette is not thorough, I hope you will forgive me." Speaking of this, I saw that the flat-headed boy with me on his back had already sat at the table and began to enjoy the good dishes on the table, and at this moment he was grabbing a roast chicken and stuffing it into his mouth, and he ate it by himself.

The second sister couldn't see me and the flat-headed boy, so she couldn't help but push Lao Dao and asked her brother when he would get better, Lao Dao looked at the flat-headed boy, but saw that the flat-headed boy's eyes always stayed on the second sister, and his eyes were full of care.

The flat-headed boy asked Lao Dao to excuse himself, and Lao Dao stood up, folded his hands and said to the flat-headed boy: "Thank you for the grace of the immortal to save the little apprentice, and the younger generation will definitely take the little apprentice to face the east and bow three times." ”

The flat-headed boy waved his hand and said no, according to the etiquette, I still have to call you "Master", now you worship me, in a few years I will worship you! As soon as he raised his hand, he picked me up from behind and directly turned me into a soul state and sent me into my stupid body.

At this moment, my father and the third uncle walked in from outside, only to see that my body could not withstand the power of the soul to return to its place, and screamed and then suddenly fainted, the situation came unexpectedly, and the whole family panicked.

Lu Youcai thought I was dead, and cried, the second sister threw herself in front of Lao Dao and beat Lao Dao hard, crying while beating, the third uncle asked Lao Dao what was going on, and his father was also displeased, and tears rolled back and forth in his cloudy eyes.

The flat-headed boy stared at my dad, chewing in his mouth as if he was crying.

Lao Dao said, it's okay, he will wake up.

Dad put his hand on my heart and touched it, saying that Fu Lu was still alive, and the people present were relieved.

The flat-headed boy looked at the crowd, obviously reluctant, and walked slowly towards my body, turning around three times in one step before he turned into a ray of light and drilled into my body.

Lao Dao knelt down again: The younger generation sent the immortals.

When I woke up, it was dusk, and it was dark early in early winter, and it was already dark at five o'clock. I felt like I had a dream, and I don't remember much about the content of the dream.

When I opened my eyes, the second sister was guarding me next to me, and when she saw that I was awake, the second sister happily shouted, "My brother is awake!"

The whole family gathered, and my father hugged me and kissed me, saying son, you are finally awake, you are in a hurry to kill your father!

I said, Dad, don't cry, I'm hungry, why is it dark? Lu Youcai heard me say that I was hungry, and hurriedly followed my second sister to hot food.

The whole family was worried about my busy business for a day, and when they saw that I was safe, they were relieved to prepare for dinner. Dad respectfully welcomed Lao Dao to the main seat of the table, and sat in the second seat with the three uncles, and the family was grateful for Lao Dao's life-saving grace to me and Dad, and they toasted him one after another, never mentioning the matter of apprenticeship.

He smiled and picked up the wine glass, pushed the glass to change the lamp, and the few of us juniors only cared about burying our heads in eating, and did not dare to disturb the adults at all.

After three rounds of drinking, the father had already burped, the third uncle also drank a big red face, and the three ghost daughters-in-law were too strong to drink and go home to rest after a few sips.

Lao Dao drank all the remaining wine in the cup, and finally couldn't help but say: "You're full and drunk, it's time to get down to business, right?"

Dad pretended to be drunk, and said vaguely What is the matter, please tell me, you saved my and my son's lives, and the great kindness is beyond repayment, and in the next life, I will be a cow and a horse for the Taoist.

Lao Dao pointed at his father, obviously a little drunk, and said inarticulately, you pretend to be confused with me, I don't want to listen to you Haha, in a word, you promised me in the morning to let your son be my apprentice, do you want to regret it now?

Seeing that this topic couldn't be avoided, Dad could only nod and say, "I'm just this one son, he's still so young, if you take him away, you'll be ripping off the flesh of our Ye family!"

Dad wiped his eyes with the back of his hand and continued: "If he becomes a Taoist priest, he will not be able to marry a wife and have children in the future, let alone hug my grandson when I am old, I am afraid that there will be no one to send him to the end!"

The second sister felt sorry for her father, sighed lightly and said to Lao Dao: "If the Taoist chief has to accept Xiao Fulu as an apprentice, this will be your home in the future, although you live here, we will raise you like our own grandfather." ”

Lao Dao suddenly laughed out loud, out of breath, and after his breath stabilized, he said to his father and second sister: "Your worries are really superfluous, the cultivators are not unkind, the monks are also divided into monks and monks, and the monks have rules and precepts for cultivating the Tao, and they can also marry wives and have children after returning to the layman, and the lay disciples are just taking refuge, and they can have the Tao in their hearts, and they are not bound by the precepts, and they are no different from ordinary people, I think you just let him be a layman instead of a Taoist, right?"

When Dad heard this, he was not only overjoyed, but people didn't know anything about the rules of Buddhism, and always thought that the monks would guard the ancient Buddha of the green lantern like a monk until he died of old age, but he didn't expect that there was a layman.

Listening to Liu Laodao say that I can be like ordinary people, I am busy nodding, and my father can't wait to grin behind his ears, with a spring breeze on his face.

The third uncle also said: "It's a layman, it's a layman! It is a blessing for Xiao Fulu to be able to whip and pedal beside the Taoist, and in the future, this will be the Taoist's own home, and you will live here to teach my eldest nephew to cultivate the Tao, as long as you can keep the child at home, let alone cultivate the Tao, even if you pay for the construction of the railway!" After speaking, he took out a cigarette from the cigarette case and handed it to Lao Dao, Lao Dao waved his hand, with an embarrassed face, and you still don't know what cultivation is!

At night, because I slept during the day, I couldn't sleep at night, I couldn't sleep, I didn't sleep, and my father, who was by my side, didn't dare to sleep, for fear that I would make another mistake.

"Dao Chief, Fu Lu, is it the reincarnation of the fox fairy?" Dad asked.

"Since Mr. Ye knows, why do you still have to ask? But you don't have to worry, I originally said that I would take him away in five years, but this time he was in trouble, I came over in advance, I won't take him away this time, in a few years." Daoist Liu replied.

"Dao Chief, Fu Lu is four years old this year, isn't that, Ye's lifespan is not much?"

"This, not necessarily, the number of lives is changing from time to time, Poor Dao will stay in Longmiao Village for a few more days, and then leave in a few days. Daoist Liu got up and took his cloth bag and disappeared into the night like the wind.

Seeing that our three children were already asleep, Dad sighed and went back to his room to turn off the lights and go to sleep.

I opened my eyes and saw that the second sister lying on the kang was still awake, she didn't know what she was thinking, and her big eyes were blinking in the dark.