Chapter 7
Early spring mornings are always so cold, and I huddle under the covers, enjoying the little residual warmth I had accumulated last night.
As soon as the second sister went to school, Liu Laodao entered the door.
Liu Laodao is wearing very neat today, the robe seems to be new, the gray robe has obvious overlapping marks, and the feet are no longer the worn-out cloth shoes worn yesterday, black shoes and white socks, not contaminated with a trace of dust.
The bun on his head is still tied high, but the bun is covered with cyan tulle, his right hand sweeps the dust, and his left hand caresses the long hair, not to mention, there is really a bit of fairy wind bones???
Liu Laodao strode into my house, and my father hurriedly beckoned him to take a seat, and he also knew why he came, and after a while of greetings, he went straight to the point.
Liu Laodao said that he didn't pay much attention to accepting apprentices, just do a bow and give a Taoist name. Dad asked if it was just that simple, Li Laodao didn't answer, just said that I had to take this child away, Dad's face was instantly gloomy, didn't he say last night that it was okay to cultivate at home, why did it change again today?
Liu Laodao said, don't take it now, come and take me away in a few years.
Dad asked, how many years later?
Liu Laodao said that I will come to pick him up in five years.
Dad thought to himself that this old way is 53 this year, and he will be almost sixty in five years, and it is not known when he is not alive, so it is better to agree to him first, and then make plans in five years.
I wanted to eat fruit candy, so I asked my father for a bunch of steel hammers and ran to the shop.
On the way back, I inadvertently looked up at the sky, and there were several people flying in the sky!
I really saw it, one of them I had seen, it was the flat-headed boy who saved me yesterday, and when I looked closely, it seemed that there was still me among the people flying in the sky, and I couldn't tell if it was me, it seemed to be, and it didn't seem to be.
As soon as I got home, my father asked me to kowtow to Liu Laodao and call Master, and I did so when I was young.
The moment I called out "Master", I clearly saw the tears in Liu Laodao's eyes. I saw that he said a few "yes" in a row, told me to get up, and wanted to give me a name.
Liu Laodao said that according to the sect inheritance of the word generation, I belong to the "law" word generation, let me call it Fa Lu in the future.
I said, Master, this is too ugly, what is your name?
Liu Laodao saw me call him master, smiled from ear to ear, hugged me to him, and said excitedly: "Since you call me master, just listen to my arrangement, you are my seventh apprentice, and I will have the opportunity to take you back to see your six unpromising senior brothers in the future, which one is as aura as you?
The master said that he was taught by the Quanzhen Dragon Gate, and the Taoist name was Liuyunzi.
I asked him in a milky voice what is the Tao number, he said that the name was given by the master, and the Tao number was given to himself, I said that I can also have a Tao number, and he said that since you have entered my Dao Gate, you can take a Tao number, which can be used when walking the rivers and lakes in the future.
I asked Master, what are the rivers and lakes?
He said, you'll know when you grow up.
Master said that he was leaving, and wanted to teach me some simple Taoist terms and introductory mental formulas, and I excitedly followed him to learn them.
After a day and a half of study, he said that I was gifted and intelligent, and that I learned faster than all six senior brothers. In fact, he didn't know that when I was more than three years old, I had no memory, and I forgot it in the afternoon when I couldn't prepare for it.
When I knotted my sword and recited the incantation, there was a hot sting pain in my back, and I didn't dare to say it, so I could only pretend to follow the master to pinch those tedious and complicated fingers.
Master still lives in a ruined temple at the edge of the village, and has never spent the night at my house, but he comes to my house to eat three meals a day.
I have never been to a ruined temple, and the master said that in a place like a ruined temple, there are no gods, and there are all evil ghosts.
In the middle of the night, I woke up with urine, and was about to go out to pee, but I saw a figure outside the window, and the shadow was crooked in the bright moonlight, as if it was a person standing there.
I climbed to the window and looked out against the glass, and the man appeared on the other side of the glass in an instant, and he really came to me face to face.
There were dark red blood stains on the side of the sunken eye sockets, only the white eyes were covered with bloodshots, and the long tongue completely blocked the lower lip, compared to the miserable white face, the color of the lips was so bright, it was the hanged ghost!
She seemed to be smiling at me, laughing so horribly, it seemed to sound a sharp laugh in my ears again, I screamed in fright, I didn't dare to move, and the mattress under my ass was hot and wet again, and I urinated again.
Dad heard the noise, turned on the light, quickly came over and hugged me, and asked me what was wrong, I was already too scared to speak, and looked out the window and saw nothing.
Dad asked if I was sleepy, and then I saw that I was urinating, Dad picked up my little mattress and threw it on the ground, I heard the sound of "pop" on the ground, Dad carried me to his room, coaxed me to sleep like a whisper, patted me lightly with his hand, kissed me, turned off the light, and I heard a slight snoring from Dad before I fell asleep.
I peeked out the window again, and the hanged man's face was there again, and this time she was waving at me, and I was so frightened that I shrank my head under the covers, and my ears were filled with her horrible laughter.
After a while, I covered my ears and slowly fell asleep.
Early in the morning, Lu Youcai got up early to finish washing, but the second sister didn't get up for a long time, and her father called her several times, but she responded vaguely, touched her forehead, and it was hot.
The third ghost daughter-in-law came to deliver meat, and when she saw this, she lifted the quilt of the second sister, and a smell of urine came out.
"Why are you still urinating on the kang when you're so old?" said the three ghost daughters-in-law in surprise.
The second sister seemed to have a fever, lying on the kang with a red face and a delirium.
When Master came, he seemed to be still wondering what something good to greet him in the morning, so he went straight to the kitchen as soon as he entered.
"Dao Chief, Cuihua seems to have a fever, I'm going to go to the health center to ask the doctor to come over, breakfast is in the pot, you can deal with it yourself, and I'll invite you to eat and drink at noon." Dad saw Master, exchanged a few pleasantries, and pushed his bicycle to go out.
"Brother Ye, don't be busy yet, let's go and take a look. The master picked up a bun from the pot, took a bite, and hurried to the second sister's room.
The second sister was still lying on the kang at this time, her lips were burning dry, and she hummed softly with her eyes closed.
Seeing this, the master raised the second sister's hand, gently took the pulse, looked shocked, looked up and asked his father, "I still don't know what Cuihua's birthday is?"
Dad hurriedly told him when he heard this, and he didn't dare to slack off.
"Oh, Cuihua's birthday is rare, the eight characters are too light and too hard, and it is easy to see the filthy things that ordinary people can't see. But the old man can try to solve it. "Master stroked his goatee, unfathomable.
I asked the master if the second sister was okay, and the master said, it's okay, but I'm scared.
As he spoke, the master took out a pile of yellow rune paper, a black brush and a box of things from the cloth bag he was carrying, and opened the lid, which was black and red, and the master said that it was ink and cinnabar, and then took out a piece of wood from the bag, and the wood seemed to have words engraved on it.
Master said, "Fortunately, I took a shower this morning, otherwise I would have to find a place to bathe."
I asked the master where he washed it, and he said, "You Longmiao Reservoir, it's a pity that there are too many water ghosts there, otherwise I really want to soak it for an hour."
Master picked up the incense burner at home, lit the three pillars of incense, folded his hands and bowed three times before unfolding the rune paper, the brush lightly dipped in ink, and said something quickly in his mouth with every movement.
The master clipped the index finger and middle finger of his left hand together and pointed to the rune paper, closed his eyes and recited the incantation, the voice was so hazy that it was difficult to hear.
Suddenly, the master pinched the trick with his left hand, and clicked three points on the rune paper with a pen in his right hand.
I saw the master chanting mantras while drawing, sometimes blowing into the talismans, and his left hand also changed different fingers.
At this moment, I suddenly saw a golden light flying into the rune paper from the sky, and at the same time, the gossip on Master's chest was rapidly turning clockwise, also emitting golden light.
After drawing the talisman, the master turned the pen upside down, skillfully pointed the tip of the pen upward, looked at the tip of the pen and tapped the drawn talisman three times, each time he struck, he could see that the golden light became more and more intense.
Master picked up the piece of wood and dipped it in the cinnabar, and printed it vigorously on the talisman, and at that moment, I saw several thunderbolts appear on the golden spirit rune, and I was dumbfounded.
The master picked up the talisman and closed his eyes around the burning incense three times, and after a moment, he folded the talisman into a triangle with a smile, tied it with a red thread, handed it to his father, and told him that this was a talisman, so that Cuihua could wear it on his body at all times, and he could not take it off unless he took a bath.
Dad said, then what should Cuihua do now, do you want to send it to the health center again, but the master said no, it is estimated that there is nothing wrong.
Lu Youcai said that he went to find two pills for the second sister, and walked out as he spoke.
Dad also went out to gather breakfast, and the whole room was only Master and me, and the sleepy second sister.
"Fulu, your second sister's eyes are usually so dark, does she often see ghosts? Did she tell you? For example, about her eyes?" Master squinted and suddenly asked me.
"What eyes? She didn't say anything, where did she go to hell? I saw ghosts pretty much!" I didn't even think about it, so I told Master about what I saw last night, and he didn't seem surprised when he heard it, but nodded frequently.
At this time, the second sister woke up and looked at Master and me with sleepy eyes.
Seeing that there was no one else in the room except me, Master walked straight to the second sister, and was just about to reach out to touch the second sister, when suddenly a wave of righteousness hit him above his head, and I saw a figure that seemed to have appeared next to the second sister somewhere, it was the flat-headed boy!
If it weren't for the red sandals he was wearing, I wouldn't remember who he was.
At this time, I saw him looking at the master angrily, and the master was startled, and hurriedly knelt down and bowed, calling himself "Shangxian", calling himself "junior", and he didn't dare to raise his head.
I wonder what kind of immortal this is, which actually makes Master so frightened.
The flat-headed boy looked at the second sister distressedly, and the second sister seemed to be able to see him, frowning slightly, with a puzzled look in his eyes.
At this time, the flat-headed boy blew on the second sister, and then stroked her eyebrows upwards with his hand to the top of her head.
I didn't know what he was doing to the second sister, but as soon as I was about to ask, he ran at me, ripped off my pants, and then laughed, I was so frightened that I hurriedly ran back, and he laughed even more.
When I turned around to look at him again, I saw him looking at the master with hostility, and the master did not dare to get up, so he naturally did not know the warning in the eyes of the flat-headed boy.
It wasn't until the flat-headed boy disappeared that the master came to his senses and sat down on the ground.
The second sister fell asleep again, and when she woke up, she didn't burn anymore, and she was playing games with me lively.
After the second sister woke up, the master always peeked at the second sister intentionally or unintentionally, and I seemed to hear the master saying in his mouth that it was impossible, impossible.