I haven't had a haircut for a few months when I came to the Taoist temple, but when I went back to the mountain today, I cut my hair short and got a flat head that looked much fresher.

In the barbershop, I suddenly realized that my face and round little head were exactly the same as the flat-headed boy who rescued me several times back then!

The only difference was that I wore a winter coat and he wore a summer coat.

When I was depressed and couldn't express my inner distress, I suddenly thought of it, so I rummaged through the suitcase and found the set of shorts and vests I bought in Jinping County and put it on my body, looked at it in the mirror, and smiled bitterly, it's true.

He is dressed the same as me at the moment, Master said that many people become immortals after death, if he also becomes an immortal after death,

In a moment of melancholy, the door of my room was suddenly pushed open, and a figure walked in, which turned out to be Xingmiao.

When she saw my red, swollen eyes and the smell of alcohol all over my body, she immediately understood what was going on. Her eyes were a little distressed, just like the look of my second sister every time I got sick.

"Uncle Seven, why are you drinking?" After saying that, she carried me to the bed, because I was only wearing a vest and shorts, and she was afraid that I would be cold, so she picked up the quilt and surrounded me.

It turned out that the master asked her to help take care of me when he left, she was not in the watch two days ago, and when she came back the day before yesterday, it happened that I was working outside and did not come back, this afternoon she saw the cooked food in the kitchen, and knew that I was back, and she was afraid that the food would be taken away by the old man who guarded the door, so she put it away. Now she came to me to have a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner with me, and it happened that I was alone outside, and she also promised Master to help take care of me.

Tonight my meditation room has a touch of popularity, and it is no longer so cold. On my desk are sliced roast chicken, steaming croquettes, and two plates of vegetarian dumplings, which she said she had wrapped in the afternoon, and she said that if she didn't eat dumplings, it would be called the New Year.

"Uncle Seven, borrow your wine. After Xingmiao finished speaking, she picked up the wine jar in front of me, poured a full bowl of white wine into her bowl, bowed three times in the northeast direction, picked up the bowl and slowly sprinkled it on the ground, I knew that she was remembering her deceased father and blessed son. She wiped her tears, smiled, put a dumpling in a bowl and lowered her head to eat, and kept beckoning me to eat, I picked up the wine jar, poured myself a bowl, thought for a moment, and dried it down.

"Xingmiao, that female ghost is no longer the appearance of a hanged ghost, and she has also changed her appearance, you can't find her, even if you see it, you won't recognize it." I finally couldn't help but say it, only to see her throw down her chopsticks and ask me what I know to hurry up.

My mind suddenly became a little confused, and the strength of the wine came up, and my body began to tremble, and my face became pale.

Xingmiao didn't care if I was drunk at the moment, just shook me blindly, she wanted me to answer her words soberly, she only needed an answer, she was full of hatred, she couldn't wait, she shook me desperately, but I still fell asleep.

I had a dream that I had drifted into a house where there was a man dressed in white, and I thought he was very familiar, and I didn't know where I had seen him.

He seemed to be very weak, and had been vomiting blood, and when he saw me, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he ordered me to go into the body of the man lying on the bed, and I did not know where the bed he was talking about, and really, I did not dare.

The man in white was furious when he saw my cowardice, and I was so frightened that I plunged into a whirlpool cave where he was pointing.

When I opened my eyes, my limbs felt heavy, and I sat up with great difficulty, and my whole body hurt like a knife.

I looked around and saw that I was in a very luxurious room, and I secretly wondered how much better it would have been if it weren't for a dream.

At this moment, the door of the room opened, and in walked a very beautiful short-haired woman, about thirty years old, who saw that I was very confused, and asked, "How old are you?"

I didn't dare to answer, I knew I was dreaming, and I was even more afraid that she was a ghost.

My brother told me that when you dream of ghosts, don't answer, otherwise you will be taken away by ghosts.

The short-haired woman kept asking me, and I said, "I can't answer, or my soul will be snatched away, and I'm dreaming now." ”

I saw her smile and said Aren't you answering, I suddenly want to cry, why am I so stupid.

She asked me if I was hungry, and I said no, but I kept touching my stomach. I asked her warily, "Who are you and where are you?"

She said this is our house, and I am your wife! I froze, and let her take my hand and walk out of the room.

After a long corridor and came to the kitchen, she pointed to the chair at the table and said, "You sit and wait for a while, I will make you food", and then went into the kitchen and chattered.

I sat in a chair, and the wall next to the kitchen was dotted with mirrors, and I looked there, and I saw that I was no longer myself. This body seems to be about thirty years old, slightly chubby, wearing white short sleeves, blue cropped pants with flowers, and very long hair.

After a while, the short-haired woman put two dishes on the table, and then turned back to the kitchen and handed me a bowl of rice.

I looked at the white rice in my hand and was stunned to eat, the short-haired woman asked me: "Erwu, why don't you eat it, how old are you?" I bowed my head and didn't answer, she said you can use your fingers to show it, I made a "eight" gesture, she was surprised: "Why are you only eight years old?" I frowned and said, "Eight and a half years old!" She burst out laughing and said, "Okay, eight and a half years old is eight and a half years old, hurry up and eat it." Don't be afraid, I'm not a ghost, just tell my sister what you want to eat, and my sister will go out and buy it for you. "I didn't feel comfortable tasting the meat on the plate, it was delicious!

Watching me gobble, the short-haired woman said you eat slowly, no one will rob you.

I looked up and saw only the corners of her mouth slightly raised and a smile on her face.

"Uncle Seven, wake up quickly! Ye Fulu, wake up quickly!" A violent shaking and the sound of a wonderful shout woke me up from my dream.

Late at night, I was draped in a quilt and looked at the bright lights outside the window, Xingmiao held a sword in his hand and stared at me angrily, just like I was her enemy, yes, the enemy's friend is the enemy, I concealed the whereabouts of the female ghost, in Xingmiao's opinion, I am defending the female ghost.

"What do you want to do, you want to kill me? You bully me like everyone else!" I blushed and roared with the strength of my wine, and the more I roared, the more I felt wronged, and I actually cried.

Seeing me crying, Xingmiao hugged me, I wiped my nose, and my mouth was a little beaten because of the effect of alcohol: "Xingmiao, Master said that I am a lonely person, Ke parents, Ke sisters, whoever is good to me will not end well, but that female ghost has been protecting me for several years, and I don't want her to die." Looking at my tearful appearance, Xing Miao sighed, she had also heard the master tell her about me, but she was not proficient in divination, and after becoming a monk, she only practiced the art of exorcism of demons and demons in order to take revenge.

I cried on her shoulder, and I saw me and the flat-headed boy in the same outfit, dressed in the same clothes, but with a golden-purple glimmer around him.

"Look stupid, am I handsome?" he suddenly said this, I nodded, and said, "Look stupid." ”

Xing Miao saw me talking to the back, and couldn't help but look back, but couldn't see anything.

She asked me who I was talking to, I said I was sleepy, yawned a few times, she helped me cover the quilt and walked out.

Looking at the flat-headed boy in front of me who was exactly like me, I didn't know what to say, but he opened his mouth first: "Surprised, you don't have to ask me where I come from, you just need to remember that you are me." I nodded as if I didn't understand, rubbed my eyes, and felt a little dizzy, my stomach swelled uncomfortably, and my temples hurt terribly.

"If I were you, why wouldn't I have a glow on my body? By the way, where is that ghost aunt? Let her stop appearing again, Xing Miao will kill her, hey, what are you laughing at?" I saw him glance at me and replied: "Your uncle, I'm not a firefly, I will pass on your spell tonight, and you will glow when you wake up tomorrow, do you believe it, hahaha!" As he spoke, he stretched out his hand and threw something at me, and I immediately felt like I had been stabbed with a knife in my back, and I screamed in pain, and it seemed that thousands of people were chanting in my ears, and the noise made me have a splitting headache, and my eyes were dark, and I fainted.

When I woke up, it was early in the morning, and I felt like I had a long dream, my head was heavy, and my mouth was full of wine. When I remembered to wash, I felt a warm current running through my lower body, and I couldn't help but get excited, could it be that the flat-headed boy really passed me a spell last night? When the warm stream wet my pants, I realized that I was peeing my pants.

However, for the next few days, I could dream of the man in white every day, and he asked me to practice diligently to exorcise demons and demons, and taught me some heart spells and talismans in my dreams, as well as some simple formations, and this time I actually remembered them all.

The Spring Festival has passed in a blink of an eye, in fact, it is also very difficult, and the most sour time in my heart is that there is no rice on the seventh day of the new year, and there is no grain of rice. Although my stomach is used to having a meal every two days or even every three days, once I am hungry, I still can't bear it.

Since the ninth day of the new year, the senior brothers have come back one after another, and on the tenth day of the new year, they have all returned.

Each of them was dressed in shiny new clothes and was clearly fat. I looked at them and couldn't help but feel envious that they could wear new clothes. The fourth brother smiled and brought me a smoked goose, it was the first time I ate goose meat in my life, and I couldn't care much about it when I was hungry, so I devoured it in front of several senior brothers. The fifth senior brother brought back a lot of bacon, two small boxes, which looked delicious.

My winter clothes were all bought last winter, and now I can't wear them anymore, and the senior brother said to me, "Seventh, the eldest brother will take you to buy clothes." I refused, I longed for and feared that kind of lively place, and after a few months in the view, I felt that the prosperity no longer belonged to me.

After all, I was still a child at that time, and in the end I still did not resist the temptation, the elder brother took us to walk in the market, but I was dressed in the most shabby, the coat on my body could not be buttoned, and the shoes were dirty, walking with them, I immediately had an indescribable inferiority complex with strong self-esteem.

Senior brother changed me into brand new clothes from the inside out from top to bottom, and I went to cut my hair by myself a few years ago, my hair was short, and the wind blew on my scalp, but my heart was warm.

I don't know who proposed it that day, but it was better to worship as brothers with different surnames, the order remains the same, and the private title remains the same, and since then, I have six brothers in a daze.

On the day of the farewell, I learned the common names of the six elder brothers: the eldest brother Fa Tong's name is Liu Wentian, who is honest and loves me very much; the second brother Fa Jie's name is Wang Haijie, who is chattering with gods and gods, and he has a tendon; the third brother Fa Yong's name is Sun Yongming, who likes martial arts, Ximen Qing, and all taboo novels, and his dream is to go to the end of the world with a sword and pick all the flowers of the world; the fourth brother Fa Ping's name is Zhang Yanping, who is stupid, loves to smirk, and his heart is not pure; the fifth brother Fa Yang's name is Zhang Yang, who is quite scheming, and the city is very deep, but he loves me the most, and our seven brothers are in charge of the meal every two days, and he always likes to coax me to cook for him; the sixth brother Fa You, who is kind-heartedI always love to follow Master into the room after the Master coughs twice, and the corners of my mouth must be oily after I come out, and I am the fattest one among Master's many disciples;

Time is really fast, it's been almost three years in the blink of an eye, Master still loves to drink so much, he is a cute little old man, his gray hair has darkened a lot in recent years, and there are not many wrinkles on his face, he said that this is the benefit of practicing Taoism.

In the past three years, he has taught me a lot of mental formulas, and after teaching, he will return to the meditation room to stay alone, I am used to it, he loves to hide in the meditation room every day and does not come out, except for the sixth brother, he does not see anyone.

Xingmiao still accompanies me for the Spring Festival every year, and one year she went to the restaurant with me to help, she didn't ask me about the whereabouts of the female ghost again, and I didn't tell her that the female ghost came to see me a few times, but I don't know why the female ghost aunt seems to be scared every time she comes. Once, she trembled and curled up in a ball and hid behind my back, and Master happened to walk past my meditation room, and he looked into my room, and when he saw that there was nothing unusual, he instructed me to practice on time, I guess it must be a female ghost who was afraid of Master's righteousness.

I have received several letters from home, and every time I reply with a few short greetings, I dare not reveal the slightest feeling of missing.

Aunt Lu said that her father fell and injured his waist last year, but now he is better, but he can't sleep when it rains and clouds. Lu Youcai went to high school, and the teacher would let Aunt Lu go to school every once in a while, and when Aunt Lu was in front of him, he actually asked for a gift in the name of criticism, and if he didn't give a gift, he would clean up your child at school, and see what you could do. The second sister is also in junior high school, she loves to study very much, and her grades are among the best in the whole grade.

The family is fine, and I am relieved, and I will send back all the money sent by the family, because I said that I am living well here, I don't spend money on food and housing, and the master will take the money when I go out.

Several elder brothers accompany me to practice every day, and the master instructed them to supervise whether I am serious about practicing the Tao every day, and I am also striving for qi myself, meditating and chanting scriptures and formations, mental methods, talismans, formulas, and other compulsory Taoist practices I have appreciated faster than several senior brothers, and I can basically use them by myself after learning them once, although sometimes there are slight deviations, but fortunately, several brothers are more strict with me, and they will correct me in time when they see my mistakes, so that I can stay away from the devil's path.

The senior brothers all smoke, and the fourth brother said that smoking can help me get hungry, so I tried to smoke it, but the next second I choked like a tearful person, and my throat was like a blockage of bones, and after coughing for a few days, I also joined the smokers' team.

At that time, there was no money to buy cigarette rolls, so I had to buy the kind of tobacco leaves, the kind that cost two yuan and a big bundle, dried and crushed, and rolled into thin paper.

For some reason, the sixth brother can walk around at will in the view, he always steals the heart mantra secret method from the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion for us to practice, and after the practice, he tears off the cigarette and smokes, he smokes the happiest, the fifth brother said, this bastard stole his father's book and lost his hand to him, and the sixth brother grinned but still smoked it.

One evening in the summer, Master passed by my room door with a small bag, and it seemed that he was going out, so I got up and greeted Master, and Master said that he was going out for a while, so he pretended to be unpredictable and incomprehensible and asked me to keep to myself.

I'm not good at expressing myself, it's related to my personality, when Master occasionally lectures, I will fall asleep cross-legged, of course Master won't get used to me, every time I serve with that stinky face. When I was in a daze, I didn't know what he was talking about, and he didn't know which master he had been taught, so he asked my six brothers to help me draw the allusions in the scriptures in the way of villain books.

The third brother was miserable, and he was stunned to draw Lingbao Tianzun into the head of Wu Erlang, and the dust in his hand was replaced with a whistle stick, and the good Sanqing Patriarch was stunned to make him a golden bottle trio: Ximen Qing, Wu Erlang, and Hua Zixu.

I asked Master where he was going, and he said he was going to Dalian, and I thought he was going to my house. At this time, I have become more indifferent, three Spring Festivals have passed, I have less pursuit of material desires, and I miss home more. I was twelve years old.

The master was gone for more than ten days, and it was summer vacation, and the fourth brother said that his family had found him a good doctor, and maybe he could cure his illness, and I really hoped that he would not be cured, because in that case, someone would bring me smoked goose after the Spring Festival. The little psychology always becomes selfish in order to satisfy the tongue.

In August, Master brought back a girl, very thin, very delicate, not very big, I heard that she was only six years old.

Master said that she was our eighth senior sister, and her Taoist name was Fa Ming.

The eighth sister's eyes are very special, very bright, very dark, very deep, and the way she looks at me makes me unforgettable and terrifying.

Her mouth is very greedy, her person is very simple, and her voice is very good. It had a sweet smile and dimples, and many years later, I was told that it was called a pit.

Fa Ming's home is in Jinzhou, only two counties away from my home, I heard her say that the north is very hot, I asked her if it is hotter than here, she said that this side is dead heat, dead heat, our hometown is by the sea, more or less cool.

Time is still passing day by day, and the relationship between our brothers and sisters is getting closer and closer with time.

One day when she was chanting, the eighth sister suddenly said that she didn't like the master anymore, because she could always see some strangers dressed in strange clothes sneaking into the master's room, and the master still didn't admit it.

In fact, I also saw it once, it was one day after nightfall, I was meditating in the courtyard in the shade, and suddenly I caught a glimpse of two people coming out of Master's door, and I disappeared into the night before I could catch up with each other, I ran to tell Master, but Master said that it was okay, those people were Taoist friends from other sects, and they came late at night to learn Taoism.

The eighth sister is gone, we all know in advance, but no one revealed it to the master, and he didn't care too much about the eighth sister's secret departure after he found out.

He was over sixty years old, but he looked younger than when I first saw him as a child.

Once I saw the gossip on his chest gone, and I hadn't seen the golden light on his chest in years.

When I asked him why, he said that my little apprentices have grown so old, and your master and I are old, and we don't have a few years to live.

I was inexplicably sad when I heard it.

I was homesick, and my second sister wrote to ask me why I didn't call home, and I wrote back that I was very good here, and I would go back in a few years after I learned my skills.

Three years and three years, I was no longer that child.

Just after Chinese New Year's Eve this year, early in the morning of the first day of the new year, I was still sleeping in bed, the female ghost aunt woke me up, I was very happy to see her coming, but she hid behind me and shivered like the previous times, I opened the door and looked out, there was no one, closed the door and turned around to see her seemed to be very scared, I rubbed my head, she couldn't speak, I couldn't understand the comparison, I was just about to ask her, but she made a look at me, signaling that there was someone outside my door. I dodged and quickly opened the door, but I saw Xingmiao standing at the door with a sword, and my heart sank, could it be that she was chasing and killing the female ghost aunt?

"Xingmiao, why do you practice swords early in the morning?" I said without words.

"Uncle Seven, didn't you hear any movement outside the room? Just now I saw a person peeking inside outside your house, I didn't catch him, and just about to chase him, you opened the door. So saying, he went into the house.

She said that it was really cold this year, and it was still so cold in the room after the beginning of spring.

I saw that she didn't see the female ghost aunt, so I touched the bridge of my nose and said, "Yes, it's not as cold as this year, Xingmiao, how many years have you been on the mountain?"

"No more, no less, twelve years. Time is so fast, haven't you been here for almost seven years?" Xing Miao said in a very soft voice, sounding very weak.

She told me to take care of myself, she was leaving, she was going back to look for the female ghost, she said she couldn't wait any longer, she couldn't stand the thought of the female ghost who killed her father and brother at large. I asked Xingmiao to stay for a few days if she passed by my house, and she said she would definitely go.

I never told her that in fact, the enemy she had been chasing for more than ten years was in my room, and watching her departing back, I scolded myself in my heart for not being a thing.