I shouted magically, but I still had some doubts in my heart. So I asked Master, but when I read the previous books, when I mentioned Lu Ban, it was attributed to the Mo family, why do you say that Lu Ban Fa is Taoism now? Master smiled and said, "The relationship here is a bit complicated." The hundred schools of thought in the Spring and Autumn Period are actually just different schools of thought, but their roots are similar.

For example, Master said that the two major schools that have created our later generations in China are Taoism, which is Lao Tzu, and Confucianism, which is Confucius. In fact, Confucianism was deeply influenced by Taoist thought. Mohist, on the other hand, has a different stance from Confucianism, but the ultimate goal is the same, one represents the common people and the other represents the bureaucracy. Strictly speaking, Mohist thought was based on Confucianism and was deeply influenced. Between Mozi and Confucius, there is also a key figure of Taoism, called Zhuangzi, so the Mohist school of thought is actually a combination of Taoism and Confucianism, plus its own position, and formed.

I nodded and said, I see, so those spells of the Mo family are actually a kind of Taoism at the root. The master said that it was not all like this, there are many kinds of spells, and even some schools that don't even have a name will have their own powerful spells, but Lu Ban's influence is too great, and when later generations study the second half of the Lu Ban book, they will naturally associate it with the Tao, and there is almost no orthodox Lu Ban law inheritance, because that is to be extinct. Therefore, the current Luban method, no matter which school it is, has been improved for thousands of years, and the improvements in it are strange. Our talisman technique is just an improvement of the Dao method of this sect. Perhaps the same fragment of the same book will be in the hands of someone of another genre, and other crafts will be improved.

I sighed in my heart at the breadth and profundity of metaphysics, as well as the whimsy of the ancients. But then I fell into a deep melancholy. It's as if I'm a person who is extremely hungry and has a plate of food in front of me, but the food is poisonous, and if I eat it, I won't die, but I will die. For someone like me, Master's words today are obviously very tempting.

The master said, I will hand you the book and ruler today, but it is useless for you to take it at present, and the introduction to this set of spells must be passed on orally by master and apprentice. When you think about it in the future and understand the trade-offs, you can ask me again.

For the next two or three days, I kept thinking about it. It's like an opium smoker, as soon as his mind is free, he immediately thinks about it. And I didn't mention it to anyone, especially Meng Dongxue, I couldn't let her know that I was hesitating between her and a book.

On the night before Master left, I mentioned again that I wanted to go with him. To put it mildly, Master also agreed. In view of the fact that the last time I was in the shelter, Master's frustration made him spend more than half a year to go on a tour of the mountains and rivers, and I haven't done anything with Master for a long time, every time I do things independently, although I am full of confidence, I always hope that there can be someone on the side who can give me advice, plus the mountain village is boring, I also took the opportunity to go to the city for a walk, and the leader of the military region I helped before also promised to make it convenient, so I should have no big problem going back to the city at this moment.

Early the next morning, I went out with Master. Before parting, I told Meng Dongxue that I would come back in a few days at most. This time, there was no car pick-up, and the trip was much slower. When I arrived in the city, it was already afternoon, and Master called the hospital at the supply and marketing cooperative, and made an appointment for our master and apprentice to go over at 9 o'clock in the evening.

So at dinner, I asked Master what was going on in the hospital this time, and Master said that he didn't know, but it seemed that the matter had spread throughout the hospital, and it was said everywhere, and it was said that it had scared a lot of people. The other circumstances are not very clear to the master.

So while I was waiting, I took out the book that Master had passed to me, and read it, because this book needed to be led by Master into the door before I could learn it, and without this procedure, I wouldn't be able to understand it for a long time, and naturally it would be harmless to myself. I asked Master, you said that you only studied the first ten pages, why don't you continue to study the next ten pages?

Master said that this book handed down from our sect is divided into eight parts, each of which is broad and profound, and comes from one of Lu Ban's tools. The amulet mentioned before is derived from the "ruler", in addition, there are umbrellas, buckets, plows, kites, shovels, chisels, saws, a total of eight kinds. However, the tools invented by Lu Ban are far more than these, but when these generations were passed down from generation to generation, they found it easier to combine and improve techniques, so they formed some of the current schools.

Master said that in the eastern Sichuan region, for example, there is a spell called "craftsman method", which can catch demons, exorcise evil spirits, and catch ghosts, and their tools are more than charm tokens. That is, the "fight" lettering in our book. Most of the inheritance of the craftsman law is concentrated in the folk, not in the palace, so they are classified into the category of folk law, and even many masters who understand the craftsman law do not know that the master inheritance is from the Luban law. Master emphasized that precisely because the root of the Luban method is closely related to the tools we use in our lives, it is even possible to continue to improve and optimize it. Those who can do this are generally Daoist masters, and most of the Daoist masters who have learned the Luban Law are also alone, so the difficulty of inheritance can be imagined.

Master stretched out his finger and tapped a few times on the page I had opened, saying that if one day, someone learns all the contents of this book, then the people around him will surely die completely.

When Master said this, his expression was cold, this may be the reason why metaphysics has been developing silently and secretly for thousands of years, everything is like the yin and yang in our hands, there is a clear opposite, only when the balance is reached, can it develop, once the balance is lost, the consequences are often not borne by anyone.

At about 8:30 p.m., Master led me towards the hospital. I have not been sick a few times since I was a child, and I usually look at Langzhong when I am sick, although I know that the hospital is a place to save people's lives, but I have walked into the door of the hospital for the first time in more than 20 years. I don't know if it's my delusion, but I always feel that the white exterior wall is very depressing at night, and it is even more cold at night.

Soon Master took me to the friend who asked him to come. This is an orthopedic doctor, about the same age as my master, who is said to have studied medicine in Japan in his early years, and served as a military doctor in the army during the war. After liberation, because of his superb medical skills, he became an expert in this hospital. In those days, hospitals were institutions directly under the state designation, which meant that their salaries were paid directly from the state treasury. Calculated together, it is much more advanced than our people. This doctor's surname is Huang, and in addition to being an expert doctor in the hospital, he is also the person in charge of the second-in-command.

With such a high-level giving us the green light, I think things should be able to be solved. After Dr. Huang brought Master and me into the office, he closed the door. He told us with a smile that he hadn't stayed in the hospital so late for a long time, and today he knew that we were coming, so he deliberately asked the doctor on duty to go home and stay on his own.

In the following time, Dr. Huang told us what happened.

About a month ago, a new group of nurses came to the hospital, most of these nurses were newly trained, and they were all very young, and the hospital was a lifeless place, and these nurses came to liven up the atmosphere a lot. But when young people get together, there are always some strange rumors. Among them, the most ferocious is the haunting of ward 209 in our hospital.

The hospital is haunted, that's not a joke, a place like the hospital originally belongs to an area with a relatively high incidence of death, but most people who die in the hospital, the cause of death is not because of the hospital, if they are not crazy or stupid, in fact, there is no reason to stay in the hospital to make trouble, so as to delay the time of their death.

Dr. Huang said, "Our current location is on the third floor, and this building has a total of four floors. If you count according to the room number, my current office should be room 310, and the ward directly opposite the door is 309. In other words, the rumored haunted ward 209 is right across the street from us downstairs at the moment. Dr. Huang told us that there are two entrances and exits to this building, which are divided into two sides of the building, 310 is one side of the building, and 301 on the other side is now used as a nurse's station and medicine room. This means that if you want to go to the wards on each floor, you have to go either from the direction of the nurse's station or from the doctor's office, and from there, people on the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th floors have to go down the stairs.

Master and I both nodded, because that's how we went up to the third floor. It was an enclosed staircase, and at the corner of each staircase, there was a dark green medical trash can, and each floor had to be turned back twice. There was a light on the top of the stairway, but it was already night when we arrived, but the lights weren't very bright, just to show you the extent to which the road didn't fall. And from the second floor, there is a wooden door at the entrance of each floor. The upper part of the wooden door is frosted glass. In other words, unless you push the door open, you can't see behind the door.

Dr. Huang went on to say that in addition to the haunting of Room 209, there were also nurses and patients who claimed to have seen ghosts on the stairs near the side of Room 209. Master asked, could it be a patient who died in room 209, and then for some reason didn't make it, so he repeatedly appeared in these places? I nodded, too, because I think that should be the best possible as well. If that's the case, it's just a lost ghost, and it's easy to get rid of.

But I didn't expect that the ghosts I encountered this time turned out to be the ghosts I had encountered in the first half of my life, and the intensity could be ranked in the top three.