After leaving Hadesgou, I really had nowhere to go, so I had to return to the Taoist temple where I had lived with Xuan Zhenzi for five years.

Although Xuan Zhenzi is gone, the Taoist temple is still there.

I still repeat boring homework every day, practicing martial arts during the day and meditating and drawing talismans at night.

In the past, I only thought about how to be lazy, but now that Xuan Zhenzi is gone, there is less supervision, and I am more concerned than before.

The four seasons alternate, and another year passed, and I clung to that Taoist temple, looking forward to the day when Gen Zhenzi would finish his own business, and as before, he would come back with a cigarette stick and guide me in my homework.

It's a pity that nothing can go back.

I waited for him for a whole year, and there was no news of Xuan Zhenzi, as if he had completely disappeared from this world.

I had no choice but to go down the mountain and start my own prodigal career.

The years in the mountains are quiet, and I have always been by Xuan Zhenzi's side in the past, and I have never experienced the deceit of this world, nor do I know the complexity and danger of this society.

It wasn't until I had enough of the hardships of life that I realized how difficult it was for a person to settle down in this troubled world.

The first thing to solve is the problem of eating.

In those years, I slept in bridge holes, sledgehammers, twisted steel bars on the construction site, picked up rags, went to the night market to set up stalls, poured second-hand goods, and even did fortune-telling business under the overpass.

Because I didn't have a diploma, I couldn't find a decent job at all, so I had to live at the bottom of the society, crawling everywhere.

Fortunately, I met a lot of friends during my wanderings, and a contractor surnamed Song took a fancy to my block, thinking that I was very efficient in moving bricks, and I was also a down-to-earth person, so he would take me with him no matter which construction site I went to.

I followed him to the north and south, going to Guiyang today, going to Sichuan tomorrow, which construction site has work, I will go to which construction site to do chores, barely mixed up food and clothing.

I didn't have work on the construction site every day, so when I wasn't working, I stayed in a rented room and studied the practice that Gen Mako had taught me.

In the past few years, I have not dared to slack off, and whenever I have time, I have studied those Dao scriptures, and gradually I have cultivated a sense of qi, and I have subtly learned a lot of Dao mantras.

It's just that I haven't been given the opportunity to practice.

In 13 years, I followed the construction team to Chongqing and did carpentry work at a large construction site near Jiangbei Airport Road.

Just in time for the Labor Day holiday, I had nothing to do and took a bus to the feng shui street in the city.

Feng Shui Street is located in Nancheng Market, where there are many antique shops and many stalls in the streets and alleys, most of which are for feng shui and fortune telling.

Usually I run to this place whenever I have the opportunity, buy some ready-made yellow paper, and go back to practice how to draw symbols.

Cultivation is not a simple matter, just take drawing talismans as an example, you have to prepare several materials alone.

The rune paper used to draw the talisman must be a specially made talisman, and it is not just a piece of yellow paper that can be written and drawn.

Secondly, before drawing the talismans, you must also prepare cinnabar, chicken blood and wolf brush and ink, these things alone are very difficult to get, and only when you find a special stall can someone sell them.

I often patronize the business of a feng shui restaurant, the owner of this restaurant is surnamed Long, a merchant who specializes in pouring antiques, in his fifties, with a relatively kind personality, and he gets along with me quite well.

People who do this business understand that the origin of many antiques is not very clean, especially some "Yin vessels" that have just been excavated from the ground, because they have been stored under the grave for a long time, they have absorbed a lot of negative magnetic fields, and if they are handed over to ordinary people, it is easy to cause trouble.

Whenever Boss Long received the genitals, he would find someone to do some "cleaning work", and in the long run, we became partners.

That afternoon, I went to Boss Long's antique shop as usual, and I was going to buy some materials for painting talismans, but not long after entering the door, Boss Long came in a hurry, pulled me directly into the corner, and asked in a low voice,

"Zhou Xuan, let me ask you something, in addition to knowing how to remove evil from the genitals, do you know anything else, such as exorcism and catching ghosts?"

I was stunned for a moment, and asked Boss Long why did he ask me this?

He touched his mustache twice, and blinked with a chicken thief on his face, "This is the case, just now a female customer came to the store, saying that there was something unclean at home, and she has been sleeping hard lately, and she is often haunted by nightmares, and she wants to find someone who has the ability to help with things." ”

Boss Long's words made me can't help but smile, pouting and saying, how can it be so easy to see ghosts in the blue sky and daylight? What's more, Chongqing is a big city with a population of 30 million, in this place where there are so many people that they can trample on dead ghosts, how can there be unjust ghosts?

I have a basis for saying this, in a large city with a permanent population of more than 10 million, the probability of the average person seeing hell is lower than winning the lottery.

Where there are many people, you can gather the sun, and the ghosts are also afraid of the place where the yang is heavy, how can they run to the city center to make trouble?

Boss Long said, "I also think it's mysterious, to be honest, I've been doing this for more than 20 years, and I haven't seen a real ghost look like it, but this time the customer said that she has a nose and eyes, and it doesn't look like he's joking, why don't you go with me to meet her?" ”

I hesitated, but agreed.

Anyway, the construction site has a seven-day vacation, and I have nothing else to do these days.

In this way, I went to the back room with Boss Long, and when I opened the door, there was a young girl sitting in the room, about the same age as me, dressed quite fashionably, with a fair face and a very delicate appearance.

Boss Long walked up to the girl and said, "Zhao Na, I will help you contact the gentleman you are looking for, and you can tell me if you have any trouble." ”

"This is the gentleman you are looking for, why does he look so young?"

Zhao Na raised her head, revealing a delicate melon seed face, willow eyebrows, and big eyes, but her eyes were full of suspicion when she looked at me.

When she looked at me, I looked at the girl's face.

Her facial features are beautiful, but her complexion is a little dark yellow, and the sun angle is smooth and ruddy, indicating that the economic conditions of the family should be good, but the moon angle that echoes from afar has not been formed, and a fine line between the eyebrows hinders the sun and the moon from corresponding, so it can be concluded that the relationship between her parents should not be good, and most of them were born in a divorced family.

Secondly, I also caught a faint bad luck on the root of Zhao Na's nose, covering the atrium, and a wisp of gray gas between the eyebrows extended, covering most of the forehead, it seems that the luck is indeed not good.

These simple physiognomy techniques were all learned from the books left by Gen Zhenzi, and there should be no mistake.

Seeing that I had been looking at myself, Zhao Na was a little embarrassed, looked away and said, "Are you really Mr.?" ”

I smiled and said that I am not a gentleman, but I just happen to know a little bit of this knowledge, seeing that you have a bad complexion, you should not have slept well for a few days, it is not easy for a young girl to live alone, why don't you live with your parents?

Zhao Na's eyes widened and she said in surprise, "How do you know that I live alone?" ”

I pointed to her forehead and said that not only do I know that you live alone, but I also know that your parents had a broken relationship in their early years and have been divorced for many years, and most of your troubles are related to your elders.

She was even more shocked, got up directly from her chair, and said You investigated me?

I smiled and told her not to be nervous,

"I know a little bit of superficial physiognomy, these are all learned from Ziwei Doushu, I'm not sure if it's right, but it's certain that you've been in trouble lately."