Since this real hell encounter, my daily practice has become more diligent. Fortunately, when the master brought me here before, he left a lot of books that I couldn't finish reading at home, the so-called one-size-fits-all, most of the spells of the same sect, as long as there is specific theoretical knowledge, and the rest as long as they practice diligently, many of them can master the essentials, unless it is the secret method of the sect that the master often talks about, that is, every sect and even each branch under each sect, there will be more or less some content passed down orally by their own masters and apprentices or fathers and sons, and these contents must be studied by the master, and they are also very difficult to learn.

With my current craft, as long as it is not a particularly difficult incident, most of them can be solved on their own. Especially after experiencing the funeral of Old Man Wang, I subdued three ghosts in a row without preparation, and although Master has always taught me to be humble, I still feel that I am quite awesome.

After the funeral of the old man Wang, the eldest of their family came to me again, telling me that everything was as I expected, everything was very smooth, and I felt that the old man was still very relieved, and I hoped that I could do a small ritual for the family on the night of the first seven, and the ritual on the day of the soul return could not actually be done, which should have been arranged in advance by the Taoist priest at the funeral site, but since the other party requested, I also agreed.

Afterwards, the Wang family came to Aunt Xu's house with eggs and some poultry to thank me, and I ate and drank at Aunt Xu's house for a few months, and now I have given a little reward.

Soon my matter was rumored in the mouths of the villagers, on the whole, everyone said a good thing, and it will not be involved in the "cow ghost snake god", I can feel that although it is in the countryside, but everyone's thinking is at least normal, and no one will report me because of a young ghost catcher in the village.

At the end of the year, Master came to the village again, and when he heard about me, he was stunned at first, and then although he scolded me for knowing how to be a low-key person, he couldn't hide the pride in his eyes. At this moment, I am the person who understands Master best, because if he were to encounter the same thing, he would not hesitate to stand up and help, even if he knew that he might be reported by someone with ulterior motives.

Master said that now there is chaos in the city, and at the earliest time, it was just a matter of arresting and criticizing people, and if it should be sent to labor reform, it should be punished to sweep the streets and sweep the streets, although it is also very chaotic, but compared with now, it is simply a small thing. At the moment, I have left the city and hid in the three villages for three months, during which Master has come once, and the last time he came, he told me that the wind in the city has hardly changed, and he asked me to continue to hide, just like a while ago. However, I guess that the team that captured me at that time now doesn't care about looking for me, a feudal element who escaped, because according to their logic, there are people who can't be caught every day, so why bother staring at me like a little guy.

But this time, Master came to see me and said that now the factories have basically stopped working, and each factory has organized its own armed team, and it fights with other armed teams every day to grab land. Some time ago, it was a rare thing to kill someone on the street, but now, it's not a problem at all.

When Master talked about factories, I immediately had a bad feeling, because almost one-third of the factories in the city were military factories that existed before the liberation, and after the surrender of the Nationalist Army, they were taken over by the People's Liberation Army and continued to produce. If even the factories were involved and started fighting each other for turf, wouldn't it be normal for some guns to flow out? Could it be that Aunt Xu told me a few days ago that the city began to set off fireworks, and I thought it was fireworks, thinking that our village is so far away, how could I hear the sound of fireworks in the city. Master told me, set off fireworks, fart fireworks, those mountains divided by factories, today you beat me, tomorrow I beat him, more and more people die, and the resentment between each other is getting bigger and bigger, the use of guns and artillery is considered a small fight, a few days ago not only a certain factory used mortars, but even tanks were driven on the streets. Those loud noises are the sounds of shells and tanks.

I was really scared when I heard it, on the day of liberation at the end of 1949, I followed the ground to see the People's Liberation Army entering the city, the majestic tank cars drove by, I felt that the ground under my feet was a little trembling, plus the villain book and some revolutionary movies I watched later, I knew the power of tanks, a few shells, enough to destroy a large number of enemies. Master's words made me feel very dangerous. Master said, "So this time, I may stay a little longer, and I'm afraid it's not easy to go back to the city."

But the master patted me on the shoulder and said, but now, the arrest of the common people in the city has eased a lot, after all, those with red tassel guns can't do anything with guns, and those with guns are fighting with themselves, who can take care of our gang of ghosts, snakes, and gods. After the master finished speaking, he laughed self-deprecatingly, but I heard that his tone was very helpless, probably because he felt that he was born at the wrong time, and encountered a chaotic era, and after beating foreigners, he would beat his own people, and after beating his own people, he began to let the people kill each other.

What ridiculous years it was.

The New Year will be celebrated in a few days, and the master said that he came this time to accompany Uncle Zhou and Aunt Xu to celebrate the New Year together.

Since I haven't been back for too long, I can only learn about the changes in the city from the master's mouth, because there are still people I care about in the city, my uncle and second uncle are in the most troublesome area, so I am also worried about their safety. But Master told me that the person who should have run has already run away, and your uncle and the second uncle who sold rice balls are both doing small business, but this kind of private business, in the eyes of that group of people, is a capitalist roader. Your uncle has long since taken refuge in the countryside, and the last time I came to see you, I took a special look and asked the people around me to inquire. As for your second uncle, I really haven't found it, if I have a chance, I'll help you inquire.

In the days of the New Year, many families in the village set off firecrackers and cut window grilles on their windows. Aunt Xu told me that there is a tradition in their village, because there are not many people, so they meet every New Year, each family makes a meat and a vegetable at home, and takes it to the courtyard of the village chief's house to celebrate the New Year together, and the village chief only needs to be responsible for rice and steamed buns. Everyone got together, talking, laughing, and feeling at home, so lively.

Master and I both feel very much looking forward to it, because we have never celebrated the New Year with a group of unfamiliar people like this, and when we were at Master's house in the past, most of the New Year's holidays were just our master and apprentice plus two meat dishes that we didn't eat much on weekdays, and we passed in a daze. The neighbors around us knew that we were Taoist priests, and that they would occasionally bring us eggs, flour, and fruits to give us, and they were doing good deeds. So that day, Master and I added an extra dish and took Aunt Xu and Uncle Zhou to the New Year's dinner.

At the table, Master chatted happily with many villagers, and I drank several glasses of wine under the backdrop of the atmosphere. Between pushing the cup and changing the lamp, I heard the most talked about topic, and it was still the matter of me helping the old man's family earlier, because this matter was the eldest and second eldest of the Wang family who first said it at the banquet, and the two of them also participated, and then many people began to congratulate my master, saying that he was blessed to accept me as a young and capable apprentice, although the master was modest, but I knew that he was already happy like a girl in his heart.

After the meal, many people gathered together to chat, and some of the people who had something to do at home went home early, and the women were helping to clean up the table or mopping the floor, and I stood to the side with interest, because I didn't want to give the women a reason to wash the dishes because of my idleness. But at this time, the village chief came to my side and said to me, Master Situ, come on, I will introduce you to someone.

I'm not familiar with people in this village, because most people already know me before, so why do you have to introduce people to me? Out of curiosity, and the fact that I was also at the village chief's house, I followed. Walking to the side room of the village chief's house, a middle-aged man who looked about the same age as the village chief stood up from his seat, looked at me with a smile on his face, then reached out and took off the hat on his head, saluted me slightly, and then stretched out his hand to shake my hand. I was a little overwhelmed by his sudden enthusiasm, except for a pair of liberation shoes on his feet, from the hat to the pants, all of which were made of dark blue fabric, dressed in a Mao suit, except that the clothes were a little dirty, and it seemed that they had not been washed for a while, and everything else was no different from an ordinary farmer.

But at this time, I noticed that outside the left breast pocket of his clothes, there was a leader's face badge.