Although that expression was fleeting, I could see it clearly.

I've been following Master for more than a year, and I've been involved in a lot of Dharma rituals, big and small, but I've never dealt with ghost things. But I don't doubt Master's skill in dealing with ghost things, after all, it was because he dealt with the ghost things in my uncle's teahouse that I worshipped him as a teacher. I'm very vague about the concept of ghosts. When I was a child, I listened to the play on the edge of the stage with Di Baotian, and I once watched a piece of "Feng Sanniang", because I was young at the time, I couldn't feel the little-known feelings in this play, but I had a strong interest in the beautiful and moving fox girl. However, at that time, demons and monsters were almost the same concept to me, so whether it was a white bone spirit or a painted skin girl, they were all equated with ghosts by me.

In fact, after studying under Master, I also learned that ghosts are ghosts, and demons are demons, one becomes after death, and the other is cultivated alive. In other words, as much as I was afraid, I didn't know what I was afraid of. Master's words filled me with apprehension and anticipation.

So I listened to Master's words and went back to see my uncle, as well as the second uncle and Di Baotian, the second uncle fell his leg when setting up a stall and was hospitalized, and Di Baotian was taking care of him in the hospital. He told me that he was going to join the army, and that my childhood best friend, who had almost the same childhood as me, took two completely different paths because of their different choices.

Before parting, the second uncle said to me, Mang Wazi, don't leave for so long without a message, and it's not far away, come back to see your uncle when you have time, and look at me, I'll wrap candy heart dumplings for you to eat when you come. I smiled, said goodbye to my second uncle, and sent me out of the hospital, and at the gate of the hospital, he hugged me tightly and said to me, write to me when I get to the army, if I don't reply, he will beat me to death after I leave the army.

When I returned to Master's house, I heard a burst of Sichuan opera singing from a distance, and I knew that it was the sound coming from Master's radio. So I crept to the door of the house, and then secretly looked into the room, and found the master walking alone on the stage as if he were a character in the play, deeply self-absorbed.

In an instant, I was prankstered, so I suddenly jumped in the door and shouted, "Hahaha!" It turns out that you secretly sang while I wasn't there! This sudden fright caught Master off guard, he hurriedly turned off the radio, and then straightened the sleeves that had just been put down because of singing, blushed, and then smiled and scolded me in annoyance, "Little rabbit, don't you let you play for a few more days?" How did you come back in one day! I... Let me tell you, I am learning from our national quintessence! Do you know the quintessence of the country!

I really thought it was funny to see Master's hard mouth, so I went straight into the house to drink water, and then asked Master, everything is done on my side, didn't you say that you would take me to another place? When are we leaving? Master said, since you are all back, then tomorrow, you can pack your things tonight, and we will go to the car early tomorrow morning.

Early the next morning, Master took me straight to the station. At that time, the traffic situation was relatively backward, and I changed trains twice halfway, and walked for almost an hour, and I was all delayed on the road for most of the day. Master said that the place we are going to is called "Pengxi County", which is a subordinate area of Mianyang, and the level of all aspects is relatively backward, and he himself has been here once more than ten years ago, and he has never been here again.

However, Master told me that there is a Guangde Temple in this place, which is said to be the hometown of Guanyin Bodhisattva. Guanyin Bodhisattva in Taoism, called "Cihang Taoist", is one of the twelve golden immortals under the throne of the Yuan Shi Tianzun.

So if we still have time after this trip, then we should still go to the shrine. I nodded and said okay, after all, it can be regarded as a long trip, and if I have the opportunity, I will naturally have to travel to the great rivers and mountains of the motherland. Master smiled and said, "You stinky boy, you vomit like a dog just like this, if you really go far, I'm afraid you will vomit out your intestines before you reach your destination."

After saying that, the master laughed, and I couldn't refute it, because I didn't go out much, so naturally I didn't take the car or boat much, and I couldn't control the motion sickness, but seeing him making fun of me so unscrupulously, I secretly decided that if I still got motion sickness on the way back, I would vomit on his clean-looking robe.

Master's luggage and I are each in a big bag, but my bag is still stuffed with Master's things. It doesn't look like much, but it's really heavy. The master said that because the other party's letter mentioned the strange things encountered in the village, but did not specify what it was, the master could not prescribe the right medicine, so he could only bring everything he should bring with him, just in case of emergency.

On the way here, Master briefly told me the contents of the letter, which probably said that there was a small village in the mountains near the county seat, and the village had always been peaceful, but since the end of last year, there have been incidents of livestock deaths. Some people who went in and out of the mountains, if they walked at night, heard strange voices on the mountain, and even several villagers saw a crying black-robed woman floating in the woods. As the number of witnesses grew, everyone in the village began to worry. There are rumors that there were leopards on this mountain before, and a foreigner passed by and let the leopard bite to death, and the bones were gone, but before the end of last year, there was a construction team here to renovate and build a primary school, and when the foundation was blown up, the leopard in the mountain was scared away, and the female ghost was afraid of the leopard, and now the leopard is gone, and it will start to make trouble unscrupulously.

Master also tried to ask me on the way, if I were him, how would I start to find out about this matter. I thought about it and told him that I should ask the locals first, and if I could find witnesses, I would ask a few more people, and it would be a bit of an eyebrow to get together.

I have no experience, in fact, these are all nonsense that I take for granted, but I have been praised by the master, he said that what you said is only the first step, the second step is to walk around the places where these people say they see ghosts, and if necessary, send soldiers and horses out to investigate, and finally find the root cause, see what kind of ghost is the nature, and find a proper way to deal with it. After all this is done, we have to observe for a while, and if there is no problem, this matter will be over.

Sounds really exciting. Master said again, this time you follow me, I don't expect you to help anything, but don't make trouble for me, I don't know how dangerous it is this time, you remember, your eyes are going to be in trouble, and when you see something wrong, you will run immediately.

Hey, I said you stinky old man, you just said frustrating things before this even started, why do you think I'm going to run away in fear, maybe you're going to run faster than me when you're old! Of course, I didn't dare to say these words, otherwise I would have to take a few brains.

When he arrived in the village, it was already a little dark, and the master found his friend according to the address of the sender on the letter, this is an old man who looks almost seventy years old, he is an elder in the village, and the master said that this old gentleman's surname is Liu, and he had a period of time with the army when the Red Army crossed the river, and he had a sympathetic friendship with a certain chief. After liberation, he returned to his hometown and helped reform education in the local area. The central primary school in the village was built at the suggestion of Mr. Liu, which was funded by the state.

Mr. Liu was very enthusiastic, knowing that Master and I had not eaten yet, so he hurriedly asked his children Zhang Luo to cook noodles for the two of us to eat. After eating, Master took me to sit down by the fire in the middle of the room, and asked the old gentleman to tell me the details of what had happened. I whispered to him, I'm sure I'm going to listen carefully, but it doesn't seem to be of much use, and you won't let me do it anyway, why do I remember so clearly. Master kicked me and then lowered his voice and said to me, "You stinky boy, if I can't remember, you can remind me more!"

Mr. Liu said, our small mountain village and the county town has a distance of mountain roads, but the village is poor, the conditions are also poor, so we need to bring a lot of things from the county to the village, often there are villagers over the mountains into the county to buy, walked for decades, never encountered any trouble, but since last year has often appeared, at first I heard them talk, I also think it is too ridiculous, this barren mountains and mountains, will it be seen some beast mistaken for a ghost.

Mr. Liu said that after the incident occurred frequently at the end of last year, he called on a group of village elders to go to the haunted places in broad daylight to take a look. When everyone tried to find the corpse of what it was, the moment they got into the woods, thousands of crows on the treetops flew away with strange screams. Mr. Liu said, you must know that in our village, although we can catch some game in the mountains from time to time, we have never seen crows for so many years. The strangest thing was that as soon as the crow flew away, the woods immediately became foggy, and that day seven or eight of us were surrounded in the fog, and although we didn't see anything strange, we heard some strange sounds. The voice was like a man with a broken tongue, who was talking something seriously, but he couldn't understand what he was saying, and the voice was really ringing in his ears.

Mr. Liu said, everyone was frightened, they ran towards the entrance of the woods, I am old, my legs and feet are not good, it was others who helped me out of the woods, but after we came out, we found that there was one less person, everyone did not dare to get into it again, can only stand on the edge of the woods and shout the name of the person loudly, after shouting a few times, I heard a scream from the woods, this scream is the person who failed to come out in the woods.

I squinted at Master, who seemed to frown a little, and I knew that this matter was very important, and although I was full of curiosity, it was better not to ask casually. Master asked Mr. Liu, "What happened to the last person who entered the mountain?" Did you get rescued? Mr. Liu frowned and said, Hi! What to save, the kid ran out in a panic and was unscathed. We asked him why he was screaming so loudly, but he said that he didn't scream, but heard us screaming outside in the fog, and he ran out in a hurry.

Master said, "Then this thing is unusual, in other words, after you encounter a thick fog, you are scattered into two groups of people, and each of you thinks that the other is in danger, is that what you mean?"

Mr. Liu nodded and said, this matter is strange in this place, everyone was scared, but all of them were safe and sound, this is unreasonable! When I heard this, I felt a little amused, as if the old gentleman was desperate for something. Master asked again, then you said that the livestock in the village died continuously, what is the relationship between these two things? Mr. Liu said that this is just our speculation, because there is no way to explain this matter, and then in the following days, the cattle in the village died and lost, and everyone had different opinions, thinking that these two things were related.

These animals were all killed or lost at night, among them was a large buffalo, the next day we found it not far from another entrance to the grove, it was not dead at that time, but the intestines had been pulled out, and there were many wounds on the body that were scratched by sharp things, so the villagers speculated whether it was done by the black-robed female ghost, and then some people said that there was a leopard in the mountain, and this buffalo was injured by a leopard. In the end, an old man in our village came out and said that there had been a storm of leopards in the past, and then after the construction team entered the mountain, the leopards were gone, so the female ghost came out.

The master said to Mr. Liu, "Then you wrote that this female ghost was dragged into the woods by a leopard and bitten to death before her death, is this really what happened?" Mr. Liu said, no one knows this, but everyone is passing it on, one by one, the more bizarre it is, and then we can't tell it, we can only tell you what we hear, you are an expert in this area, so please come and check.

I thought to myself, after working on it for a long time, the content of the letter may not be completely accurate, so why do you say so much, just check it from the beginning. So I couldn't hold back and interjected and asked, Grandpa Liu, do you mean that whether you bumped into a ghost or the livestock started to die, it all happened after the construction team of the Central Primary School came? After asking this, I quickly shut my mouth and secretly aimed at the master.

Master didn't blame me for interfering, but watched as Mr. Liu waited for his answer, as if if if I didn't ask, he would ask too. Mr. Liu said without hesitation, yes, that's it, as soon as the construction team came, strange things followed.

But the construction team was in the other direction of the col, and they didn't even go in and out of the mountain through the haunted grove, but they used explosives when driving piles, so the village said that the explosives scared the leopards away, and then the female ghost came out again.

The master thought for a while and said, Mr. Liu, these things do not seem to have a direct connection at present, let me and my apprentice think about it, now is not too early, tomorrow I will take the apprentice to visit the village to see, the sooner this matter is revealed, the sooner you can rest assured, I will live up to the mission of Mr.

After chatting for a while, I was still stuck on many questions from before, so the master said, rest first, and talk about it tomorrow.