Chapter 10: The Scheme
That night, I took out some dirt from under the threshold, got some water, turned into mud, and lay on the bed to cover my eyes a little bit, but the feeling of this mud on my eyes was really unpleasant.
Not to mention, this thing is really useful, tonight is exceptionally quiet, groggy and sleepy until the next day, and go to morning class with the master, this time I have heard a lot, I can barely keep up with the point, and the process of the morning is finally over.
The master said: "Today is the Five Pure Day, each doing his own thing, each in his place, Zen Lin followed the senior brother to the mountain to chop wood and carry water. ”
The so-called "Five Pure Days" are to thoroughly clean the Taoist temple on this day, including wiping the statues and other cleaning work, even in today's more developed world, it also continues the most traditional chopping wood and carrying water.
Except for the acquaintances on duty, the rest of the people were all busy, and I followed a few senior brothers up the mountain.
The senior brothers practice both inside and outside on weekdays, in addition to chanting the scriptures, the muscles and bones are also superior to ordinary people, I can't wait to fly, but I can't catch up with others, not to mention that I wear shoes instead, the brothers walk in front, and I am like a disabled person in the back.
The longer I got from Yorah, the more tired I was. After thinking about it, I won't pick it up, you can go, go on like this, and you won't need to chop wood to tire me half to death.
Thinking of this, I walked slowly and leisurely, and the senior brothers disappeared, and it was at this time that I found that I seemed to be lost, and my attempt to return the same way also failed.
It seems that I am going back and forth, I see an old man not far away, there is a stall in front of the old man, I think about it, when I came just now, I didn't see him, although I muttered in my heart, but I was not too afraid, after all, this is the only living person I can see now.
So I walked over with courage, pinched a meridian decision, and asked, "Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable, hello, uncle, why do you go out of this place?" ”
The uncle was kind and kind, and said with a smile: "It's a little Taoist, what are you doing here?" ”
I was confused when the uncle asked, what am I doing here, what does it have to do with you, but now I have a request for someone, so I told him.
After listening to this, the uncle didn't say anything else, smiled and took out a bowl from the side, took an iron kettle and poured some water for me, and said, "The mountain road is far away, drink some." ”
I looked at the bowl that was more buried than me, hesitated for a moment, and said, "Thank you, uncle, I'm not thirsty, I'm in a hurry to go out." ”
The old man saw my thoughts, and he was not angry, and said, "If you don't drink, don't drink, then I'll ask you a question, and after you finish answering, I'll tell you how to go." ”
This old man has a lot of things to do, there is no way, I hurriedly said: "You ask, you can ask anything." ”
The old man took off his straw hat, his face turned blue, his voice was a little hoarse, and he said word by word: "Look at me, do I look like a human or a god?" ”
After saying that, he stared at me deadly.
Such an old man suddenly appeared in the deep mountains and old forests and asked these things mysteriously, so that everyone is afraid, let alone me, a person with a shadow. I swallowed my saliva and stumbled, "You ......"
"Like a god!"
The old man was amused and said, "Oh? Am I really like God? ”
The old man's moodiness made it even more frightening, and I nodded like garlic and said, "Like, very similar." ”
When the old man saw that I was so determined, he smiled even more happily, and said, "If you learn to be rich and have five cars, you will not be a little red." ”
The old Taoist priest looked at me with satisfaction and continued: "Okay, little Taoist, what do you say I look like, then I am what I am, listen to me, this place is not easy to go out, follow the direction I pointed to, close your eyes." ”
As he spoke, the old man stretched out his hand and pointed the way.
The old man told me how to go now, but I couldn't believe it, I could clearly see the mottled scales on the old man's hand showing the way!
The old man stared at me and said, "What are you hesitating about?" ”
I don't know if it's a psychological effect, but I feel that the old man's tone is a little gloomy, as if if I reject him, he will kill me in the next second.
I hurriedly said, "No, no, I'm uncomfortable with my feet, thank you, uncle." ”
After saying that, I started running as soon as I slipped through the smoke, and now I just want to get out of the old man's sight, and I ran for a long time, and I didn't go out.
I want to be a dead horse as a live horse doctor, so didn't the old man say to close his eyes and leave? Then close your eyes and gamble.
Walking with my eyes closed, I stumbled, and after a while, I suddenly heard a man's voice, saying something indistinct, I couldn't hear what was being said, but I was sure that this voice was very familiar, and I had definitely heard it.
The man's voice became clearer and clearer, and I finally heard the three words, "Little bolt", and when I heard these three words, I was hit in place like an electric shock.
The little bolt is the nickname my grandfather gave me, and I was stunned in place, and my grandfather said a word, a word that completely broke the defense line in my heart.
Grandpa coughed and said, "Little plug, bring it to Grandpa's cigarette box." ”
Now, I didn't care about the old man's words, I immediately opened my eyes, and saw my grandfather calling me not far away, I was standing in the hall at home, my grandfather was standing in the yard, next to a few chickens walking leisurely cooing, I ran to my grandfather, and my grandfather also smiled at me.
Grandpa said softly: "This child, why is it so buried, grandpa will wash it." ”
Saying that, grandpa's hands were stained with some water, and gently sprinkled on my neck, and I only felt a cold back at the moment, and then, grandpa's expression seemed to be changing, becoming a little strange, and a little hideous, and finally I found that this face was clearly the fox-faced old lady I had seen in my dream!
I wanted to run, but my legs and feet were no longer obedient, and the old lady smiled strangely and said, "Do you think that finding a Taoist priest can protect you?" Didn't you fall into my hands? ”
I trembled like chaff, unable to speak, held back for a long time, and said, "You, what are you going to do!" ”
The old lady laughed when she heard this, and then I thought to myself, I wanted to laugh too, what did I want to do, I wanted my life.
Sure enough, the old lady smiled hesitantly: "The cause and effect in the world, no one can say clearly, it stands to reason that this matter has nothing to do with you." ”
I thank you, and I know that this matter has little to do with me, and the next sentence directly makes me fall into an ice cave.
"Who made your family die? Hey, hey, you deserve to be unlucky, die! ”
At this time, there was a thunderstorm in the sky without warning, and the thunder was wrapped in purple lightning, churning in the clouds like a wild dragon, and the thunder blew me numb.
At this moment, I listened to the sound of rustling in my ears, and it seemed that something was coming at a very fast speed.
Suddenly, a rolling thunderbolt exploded directly beside me, scorching the earth in all directions, and I was blown unconscious by the thunder.
When I woke up, I had already returned to the Taoist temple, and I was covered in dirt with several small cuts on my body, and the master was sitting on a futon and meditating.
I struggled to sit up, feeling a hot pain in my body, not fatal, but in my heart, the master saw that I woke up, strode towards me, helped me up from the bed, looked at the back of my neck, and sighed softly.
I also heard the master's helplessness in this sigh.
I leaned back on the bed and asked softly, "Master, I met that old fox lady in the mountains." ”
The master nodded lightly and said, "I know everything, I guessed that they would haunt you forever, but I didn't expect it to be in this way." ”
The master frowned and said: "Although the Huang family's magic is not a forbidden technique, it is extremely rare in the world, they can actually use the magic to deal with you, it is really unexpected, and it is not only you who are dealing with it, the senior brothers who went with you are all on the way, this matter is not simply your business, I Sanqing has no grievances with it, and I actually treat my disciples as monkeys, there is no royal law!" ”
The master was a little angry, and slapped his palm directly on the table, causing the air in the room to hum.
I hurriedly asked, "Master, what are my senior brothers?" ”
The master paused for a moment and said, "They don't have anything to do, they just giggle for a while when they come back." ”
Then, the master began to tell me the whole process.
The brothers had already returned, and the master asked them, where is the silence?
The brothers said that Zen was still here just now, and the master began to look for me, but as a result, he found that there was no me at all, only a wooden shelf lying on the ground, and the master knew that something was wrong, and he couldn't sense me with the "zha" character he gave me before, so he began to take people to search the mountain.
After the master finished speaking, he pointed to his arms and said, "You are only you and him who brought it back." ”