Section 20 A Deadly Stick
Back to the abandoned old house, the miserable moonlight shone on the earth, the tall black shadow, the cold light shining scimitar, at this time is gradually approaching the sleeping twilight Jingchen. At the moment when the knife fell, there was a crisp sound, which woke up the sleeping Twilight Jingchen at once. Twilight Jingchen, who opened his eyes, looked at the cold glittering scimitar in front of his head by the moonlight, and an iron rod the thickness of his arm under the knife. It wasn't until an old voice sounded: "Stinky boy, don't you leave, do you want to die!" He came back to his senses, and immediately rolled out from under the stick to the side. Then came the old man with the iron rod and the man in black with the scimitar. Under the moonlight, sparks burst out from time to time. After a few rounds of fighting, the man in black took the lead in asking: "Stinky old man, who are you, dare to spoil Lao Tzu's good deeds, do you think you have lived too long!" Hearing such words, the old man with the stick was not annoyed, but said with a smile: "Haha, if you want to ask me who the stinky old man is, then I might as well tell you." Without waiting for the old man to continue, the man in black immediately asked: "Then you should talk about it, so that I will not die under my scimitar!" The old man said: "Young man, my tone is so big, I just see the road uneven, jealous and hateful, and I can't rub a grain of sand in my eyes!" "What a stick and two sticks, in my eyes are all broken sticks, I have never heard of it!" "Hehe, I haven't heard of this, then you will definitely be surprised by the next one." The man in black said impatiently: "Hmph, the dying man, still say so many names, is it necessary!" After speaking, he directly attacked the old man. The old man looked at the man in black who was rushing over, smiled, and then said, "There is a need for this, and the other name is "the person who wants your life." Still speaking, the iron rod in his hand flew out, directly from the front chest of the man in black, and out of the back. And the old man, whose figure was also like lightning, instantly moved to the place where the iron rod was, reached out and took the iron rod in his hand, then took out a piece of black cloth, wiped the blood stains on the stick, and then stood in place.
Under the moonlight, in the breeze, in the eyes of Twilight Jingchen, he was like a god, standing in front of his eyes. Twilight Jingchen was stunned, and after a while, the old man didn't see the slightest movement of Twilight Jingchen, maybe he had been standing for a long time, and he suddenly felt a trace of numbness in his calves. Then, he shouted angrily to Twilight Jingchen, "Hey, stinky boy, I just saved you, should you do something or say something, don't lie there like a begging for food, look at what you're wearing." The old man's words brought Twilight back to his senses. He hurriedly got up, walked quickly to the old man, then bent down and bowed, "Thank you for saving your life, Du Jingchen must remember it, and he will repay it in the future." The old man looked at the twilight Jingchen in front of him, and did not kneel, he was unhappy for a while, he deliberately got angry and said: "Why, I saved your life, can't you even come and kneel for me, and bow, do I bow to you less, really!" Hearing this, Twilight Jingchen also understood in his heart, he did not continue to kneel, but straightened his waist, looked at the old man with a pair of eyes and said: "Listen to your meaning, you don't lack bowing, then there should be no shortage of kneeling, then I won't be polite." After speaking, he stood beside the old man and looked around with an indifferent expression. This time, the old man was really angry. He stretched out his finger and gestured a few times over Twilight Jingchen's head and said, "Hey, you good boy, since I was born for so long, no one has dared to do this to me like you." Twilight Jingchen then said: "Then you should be the first one for me, anyway, everyone will have a first time, this time there is more of my first time, then your life will be less regretful, do you say!" The old man was speechless by Twilight Jingchen's words, he looked at Twilight Jingchen helplessly and said, "Okay-ah, boy, you are really bold, but I still appreciate you very much, ask you something, would you like to worship me as a teacher?" Worship you as a teacher, are you very powerful!" The old man was displeased again, he held back his anger and said, "Am I not powerful, who was stunned by me just now!" "Is this, um... , What's the big deal about killing a little thief, if you let me worship you as a teacher based on this alone, if you really don't have any real talent to learn, then I'm not at a loss, no, no. "Then what, are you willing to worship me as a teacher?" "Unless you show me a very powerful mastery and let me know that you can really be my master, then I am willing to worship you as a teacher!" "Hey, I said, do I accept apprentices, or do you accept apprentices, why do you ask so much, if I don't want to show it, what will you do?" "Then I can only thank you for saving my life first, and then, we should part ways!" "You! All right. Hearing this, Du Jingchen said in surprise: "Do you want to show your divine skills, okay, okay!" "Hmph, divine skills, I won't show you anything, if you don't worship me as a teacher, don't think about it." "Then what are you going to do?" "Didn't you say that after thanking me for saving my life, you will part ways, then you can bow to me again, and it can be regarded as thanking me for saving my life, how about it?" As he was about to get up, Twilight suddenly felt a hand on his left shoulder, and then a powerful force pressed down, and he didn't think much about it for a while, and immediately used the inexplicable force in his body to fight against this force. It turned out that the old man exerted force on Twilight Jingchen, and after he exerted his force, he thought that Twilight Jingchen would immediately kneel on the ground, but he didn't expect that Twilight Jingchen would use his own strength to fight against his own strength, but he had no choice but to add one more strength. Although Twilight Jingchen has a mysterious power, but he is young and weak, and this mysterious power has not yet been completely integrated with himself, after the old man added another strength, he suddenly bent his knees and knelt in front of the old man. The old man then laughed twice, stretched out his left hand and pressed it on Twilight Jingchen's head, and applied a slight force downward, once, twice, three times, each time, Twilight Jingchen's head was lightly knocked on the ground. After the three salutes, the old man let go of the hand that was pressed on Du Jingchen's head, and then laughed and said: "Okay, the apprenticeship has been completed, now, you are my veritable apprentice, you will follow me in the future, serve me well, if you serve well, maybe, I will teach you a trick and a half." After saying that, there was another burst of laughter. Du Jingchen was fooled, he was very angry, and yelled at the old man: "You Laipi, how can you accept apprentices like this, I don't agree, hum." After saying that, he turned around and wanted to leave. The old man looked at Du Jingchen, who walked a few steps away, and then stretched out his hand to make a gesture to Du Jingchen, and Du Jingchen magically turned around again, step by step, very awkwardly towards the old man. It's easy to see" that Twilight Jingchen was reluctant to walk towards the old man, his own will forced him to stop, but the invisible force made him have to walk towards the old man, and it was obvious that he was cast a spell by the old man. While walking awkwardly, Twilight Jingchen shouted: "Old man, what kind of demon spell have you cast on me, hurry up and untie it for me!" The old man smiled: "It's easy to unravel, as long as you are honest as my apprentice, I'll untie it for you, how about it?" Twilight Jingchen's little eyes rolled, and then he agreed with a smile: "Okay, okay, I promise you, Master, you dare to untie the apprentice tightly, it's so uncomfortable, if you spoil your beloved apprentice, then you don't have to die of sadness!" As soon as he heard Twilight Jingchen call himself a master, the old man was overjoyed, he immediately smiled and stretched out his hand on Twilight Jingchen's body just to make a gesture, Twilight Jingchen suddenly felt a lot better, Twilight Jingchen rested for a while, after feeling back to the beginning, his face immediately changed, quickly turned around and ran away, and said while running: "Stinky old man, just your two or three times, you still want to trap me, don't think, haha, goodbye!" The old man watched Twilight Jingchen run away again, he didn't interfere again, but shook his head and said to himself regretfully: " Alas, it seems that I am really wrong, he is not destined to be a person in the first place, why should I force it, let him go, I will continue to search!"
At this time, the eastern horizon has begun to light slightly. Twilight Jingchen, who was still running hard, was thinking about what he had done. Gradually, he slowed down until he stood still, thinking that his father had often taught them two brothers in the past, the most important thing to be a man is integrity, people do not stand without trust, a person without sincerity, as if he is a soulless **, is a walking corpse. Although he didn't want to worship that old man as a teacher, he had already kowtowed, although he was forced, and he also called that person Master, although it was to get out. The more he thought about it, the more he felt that what he had done was wrong and that he had violated his father's teachings. Moreover, he saved his own life. Finally, after calming down for a while, he turned and ran back the way he came. As he ran, he thought to himself, "Master, wait for me, you must wait for me to come back."
Twilight Jingchen, who had been running wildly all the way, shouted loudly after returning to the old house, but where was there any figure, after his shouting, all that was left was his own empty echo. It seemed that the master had left here, and the disheartened Twilight Jingchen stood in place with a depressed expression, stunned and in a daze. He didn't know where he was going to go next or where he would be able to find Master. Disappointed, he reached out and slammed his fist on the ground, but what use would it be?