Universiade 1452, Yulong Mansion, Gaoliu County.

Squeak~

Glancing at the messy Chase behind him, Li Yuan pushed the door and walked out, not waiting for the last one to leave the room.

The fog in the early morning of late autumn has not yet completely dispersed, and wisps of cooking smoke have risen in Gaoliu County, and some human voices can be heard faintly.

What caught his eye was a small courtyard, six or seven young men the size of him, dressed in sackcloth, and busy themselves.

washing, chopping wood, fetching water, making fires, making meals......

"Whew!"

Tightening the thin gray linen clothes, Li Yuan took a deep breath and joined in the shouts of several apprentices.

A day as an apprentice at the 'Forge Shop' begins with chopping wood and fetching water.

"It's only been a month and three days, how can you survive for 12 years? It's also too hard...... It wasn't easy to learn something in the previous life, but it's even harder in this life! ”

Busy with his hands and feet, Li Yuan couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

In his previous life, he only used two or three years to learn from his own wild master to build mountains and build tombs, transcend the rituals, and help children in difficult childbirth.

It takes 12 years before and after the apprenticeship of this forging shop!

Three years of miscellaneous work, two years of help, seven years of service!

Li Yuan was slandered in his heart, and he didn't dare to slow down half a minute, so he had to sigh that he had 'woken up' late, and as soon as he woke up, he had already 'sold himself' to the 'forging shop'.

I was too thin to be assigned to the front yard......

"Bang!"

Suddenly, there was a muffled noise in the kitchen.

The fat man with a big spoon kicked a gray-clothed apprentice to the ground, and his face shook horizontally:

"The little cub raised by the son of a bitch, I don't know how much hardship I have suffered to learn this skill of cooking with my hands turned on the spoon, and you dare to learn secretly?!"

"Sun Zhanglao, I was wrong, I don't dare anymore, don't dare......"

The apprentice held his head and wailed, but he did not dare to dodge, and was beaten severely.

The apprentices in the small courtyard were silent, and Li Yuan lowered his head and looked blank.

When the apprentice makes a mistake, the masters can naturally beat and scold at will, which is written in the 'deed of sale'.

"Apprentice, apprentice, three-year slave", this is not just a talk.

The fat man Sun is also half a master, in charge of more than a dozen of their apprentices, and also in charge of the food and drink of the hundred and ten people in the forging shop, with a bad temper, and it is naturally common to beat and scold the apprentices.

When he first came here a month ago, Li Yuan was almost knocked out of the head by the rice spoon......

"The hands and feet are numb, the masters in the front yard are about to get up, and they are delayed eating, but it is not a matter of taking a few kicks!"

The fat man shook the spoon and scolded.

The apprentices didn't dare to raise their heads, but their hands and feet were getting faster and faster.

It wasn't until the fat man went back to the kitchen that the beaten apprentice got up without saying a word, and even though he was in severe pain, he didn't dare to delay his work.

Li Yuan's expression was blank.

The blacksmith shop is one of the largest blacksmith shops in Gaoliu County, with one hundred and eighty guards, masters, helpers, and apprentices.

Apprentices, naturally, are the lowest status, not to mention the lack of wages and food, and they are often beaten and scolded, if they want to be treated better, they must at least become helpers, or even masters.

"Twelve years, ......"

When the four great suns rose in the sea of clouds, the meal was finally ready, and there were some smiles on the faces of the busy apprentices.

Aside from meal time, the apprentices don't have much time to spare.

Chopping wood, carrying water, preparing charcoal, carrying all kinds of iron ingots, wiping weapons, and cleaning......

But even so, there is no shortage of people coming to the forging shop every time they recruit apprentices.

For no other reason, the treatment of the forging shop is the best among the families who recruit apprentices in Gaoliu County.

Not only does he have a monthly salary of 30 copper plates, but the food is also much better than that of a dry medicine shop or a carpenter's shop.

Striking iron is very hard work, and you can't do it without goods in your stomach.

Of course, apprentices don't have this treatment, and they can only see some oil and water every seven days, and that's it, an apprentice is already very satisfied.

There are a few other houses, but only on the first and fifteenth days of the new year can you see a little meat, and even more, you can't see any oil and water all year round......

When the sun was three poles, the sound of 'clanging' iron could be faintly heard in the front yard, and the apprentices had just eaten breakfast and had a moment to rest.

"It takes three years to become a helper......"

The apprentices squatted in the corner of the wall in twos and threes, and Li Yuan squatted in a corner with a rice bowl, holding the nest head with his two sour arms, and his heart couldn't help but be a little sour.

In his previous life, although he was a wild Taoist priest who was not included in the compilation and did not enter the Taoist family, he also had a lot of oil and water to fish out of the countryside with his master, even in the worst time, he was not so miserable.

At this moment, he couldn't help but miss his previous life.

Beer, drinks, small barbecue, air conditioning, TV, sofa, mobile phone...... Even his own master, who was dying and never forgot to be included in the Taoist register.

"Why did you cross over?! Can I go back?! ”

Swallowing the nest head with the rice soup, Li Yuan looked up at the big and three small in the sky, and the four rounds of red sun, and almost burst into tears.

How did you cross over?

In the past month or so, Li Yuan has thought about this question more than once, recalling his memories before crossing over and over again.

As a wild Taoist priest who is not included in the compilation, after his master left, he couldn't even get the weddings and funerals in the countryside, so he had to change his career and opened a small supermarket in his hometown county.

"That day I was sitting on the couch playing on my phone and ...... Wait, the Receiving Ceremony! ”

It was as if lightning had pierced the fog, Li Yuan trembled, and almost spilled half a bowl of rice soup on the ground!

"Yes, the Receiving Ceremony!"

Suppressing the throbbing in his heart, Li Yuan squatted back again, not attracting the attention of others, but his mind was irrepressibly divergent.

In his previous life, his master, who had not been able to make it into the compilation until his death, had left him half a book of Taoism.

He had read that book a few times, but he was not very interested, and he didn't think much of the 'being blessed into an immortal' that his master had never forgotten during his lifetime.

Until the day before the crossing, he somehow remembered the ritual recorded in the book.

And then ......

"Is it because of the ritual?"

Pouring half of the nest head and half a bowl of rice soup into his stomach, Li Yuan was still muttering in his heart.

He didn't think that the ritual could cause him to cross, but he really couldn't think of any other possibility than that.

"Receive the Basket, the Heavens Receive the Curse......"

Li Yuan muttered in his heart.

He is naturally no stranger to it.

Taoists believe that the talisman is a natural combination of heaven and earth, copied by the gods, and passed on to the world.

And the Taoist priest can only control the talisman after receiving the talisman, the name ascends to the heavens, and has the Taoist priesthood, so as to have the incredible Taoist magic powers such as summoning ghosts and gods, calming the five directions, subduing demons and suppressing demons, and curing diseases and disasters.

"Is it true that the old man has never forgotten to 'become an immortal' all his life?"

Li Yuan muttered in his heart.

The old man's obsession, he originally didn't believe it, what year has passed, and he still believes in the set of Zheng Dengxian.

In his previous life, he also knew several Taoist people who had received the gong, and he didn't see anyone with any Taoist powers.

In particular, the half of the Taoist book is not recorded in the orthodox ordination of people.

You must know that the orthodox ritual of receiving the altar not only requires the conferral of the ordination, but also includes the scriptures, the precepts, and the transmission of the degree, and there must also be the altar supervisor, the transmission master, the baoju master, and so on.

And the so-called 'Heavenly Confession' in that book is really simple, and it can even be said to be simple......

Can ...... now

"I've crossed it all, what else is impossible? Although but ...... But what if? ”

Li Yuan's mind diverged.

Reason told him that this was unlikely, but there was still luck in his heart.

What if?

"What if I, no, Dao Ye, do I really have the opportunity to be immortalized?"

The more he thought about it, the more his heart throbbed, if he didn't know that the time was wrong, he couldn't wait to hold the ceremony immediately.

What hell apprentices, helpers, masters, shopkeepers?

Dao Ye wants to go home!

Dao Ye wants to become an immortal!