Listening to Jiao's mother's chatter, the third sister Jiao and the fourth brother Jiao who were standing next to them couldn't help but support their foreheads.

They all opened their mouths to admonish: "Mom, you still don't believe in these superstitious sayings, now they are all in the era of science, and you don't pay attention to this set." ”

"Eh, what you are talking about, Fu Ping is not a superstition," Jiao Mu was not happy, "It pays attention to a spirituality, using its own body to accommodate the thoughts of the gods, to achieve the communication between man and God, and to enable people to peek into the heavens through the dialogue with the gods." ”

Third Sister Jiao snorted and laughed: "Mom, you really dropped your bookbag in a serious way...... It's cute. ”

Jiao's mother was obviously stimulated by the casual attitude of her third daughter.

She said in a hurry: "It is a secret method passed down from generation to generation by your grandfather's family, with this skill, your grandfather's family is highly respected by the locals, if it is really a means of deception, how can so many people choose to believe, who do you think is like you." ”

Third Sister Jiao still didn't believe much in the technique of helping the girl, but she didn't dare to tease the tiger whiskers on the female at this time, so she could only pouted silently.

However, knowing her daughter Mo Ruomu, Jiao's mother noticed the small movements of Jiao Sanjie at a glance.

She raised her chin: "Don't be unconvinced, this technique has been passed down for more than ten generations in your grandfather's family, and it has its own perfect system." For example, the way of helping the beggar, it can be roughly divided into two categories, the civil and military two categories, the civil fu is also called worship, just ask the god quietly, the martial fu is different, the light one has to pierce the body with a three-inch long needle, and the heavy one has to hit the chest with a hammer, and the blood cannot be stopped. ”

Third Sister Jiao finally spoke: "Three-inch long needle, this can't pierce people, right?"

"It's not all of them, most of the time you just need to poke the tip of the needle into the flesh, but I saw it once when I was a child, and the three-inch long needle pierced two inches, and it almost killed someone. Jiao's mother sighed a little.

"Two inches is not short, what's going on?" Jiao's mother's words aroused the curiosity in everyone's hearts.

Jiao Mu's face showed a look of memory.

"At that time, the person who helped the puppet was your late third grandfather, and the employer who asked for the puppet was a captain who touched the gold, the kind that specialized in touching the graves of the dead. ”

He claimed that he always couldn't sleep well at night, and there was always a child's cry in his ears, and he invited a Taoist monk to be a mage for several times, but he couldn't get rid of this situation, and he happened to hear the name of your grandfather's family, so he came to ask God for his will and asked what to do. ”

As soon as he came to the door, the surrounding villages came to see the excitement, and there were many peers. ”

"In order to ensure that nothing goes wrong, your grandfather's family immediately sent Luansheng Lingzi at that time, that is, your third grandfather, to go out. ”

"Your third grandfather was not stunned, and directly chose the location of the helper in a courtyard full of people, so that everyone watched the three-inch long needle pierced into the flesh of his arm. ”

Third Sister Jiao smacked her lips: "Then what?"

"Then?" a smile appeared at the corner of Jiao's mother's mouth, "In the second week after this help, that golden captain came to the door with gifts and gongs and drums, completely confirming your third grandfather's name as the 'first Luansheng', and also completely letting your grandfather's family defeat the rest of his peers." ”

"First Luansheng?" The rest of the Jiao family, who had not spoken, asked one after another.

"The so-called Luan Sheng refers to the person who was put on the body by the gods," Jiao Mu's tone suddenly became a little proud, "You know, Pei En was almost designated by your grandfather as the successor of the next first Luan Sheng, if I hadn't tried my best to stop it, hum." ”

Jiao Peien, who had always listened quietly to his mother Kan Dashan, was a little surprised: "There is such a play?"

"But no, your grandfather said that you were born weak, and that is because of your spiritual strength, and the skill of the elders in the family to rest and support the beggars for generations, so it is easy to get dirty because of this karma. Jiao's mother said this, and couldn't help but blame herself, "In the end, I failed to bear the ...... cause and effect."

"Stop, stop!" Third Sister Jiao, Fourth Brother Jiao and others stopped Jiao Mu Xianglin's nth rereading, "Mom, look at Pei En's face, don't say something that you don't have, let's trust science, we have to trust science!"

When Jiao's mother heard this, she hurriedly looked at her youngest son, and really found that the other party's face was a little unsightly.

"Pei En, don't take it to heart, my mother has been exposed to these things since she was a child, and her temperament has been rooted in these things, but in fact, it doesn't necessarily count," she snorted a few times, and her tone was a little sneering, "Don't worry, this time we will find a way, we will definitely be able to take care of your body, and then you don't need to stay at home every day, you can travel with your classmates." ”

Jiao Peien said that he didn't care, and even said something to appease his family, but he sighed secretly in his heart.

Can you really take care of yourself?

I hope so.

From the time he was born to the present, everyone has been looking for a way for fifteen years, and he has long stopped looking forward to this, and just wants to live each day in peace.

In fact, this trip to Wugong Mountain was completely the idea of Jiao's father and mother, and the ongoing questioning of the Daoist of Wugong Mountain was not the will of his benefactor.

Thinking of this, Jiao Peien had a headache.

He looked at Jiao's mother: "Mom, can we interrupt the matter of going up the mountain to question, I feel that the impact is not good." ”

"What's this!" Jiao Mu shook her head disapprovingly, "I agreed to meet with Longshan Daoist yesterday, this is an opportunity that we spent a lot of incense money to get, he has missed the appointment now, let's go to him and ask, isn't this normal?"

Jiao Peien shook his head: "This is not the same thing, the incense money we gave, one did not go into the pocket of Wugong Mountain, and the other did not go into the pocket of the Longshan Daoist, all of them went into the pocket of the old Taoist who claimed to be able to make Wugong Mountain sell face. ”

"The old fellow...... Well, that old Taoist priest is busy holding a national association meeting, how can he care about us," Jiao Mu was also a little angry when she said this, "I'm actually not afraid of waiting, what I'm afraid of is that he directly put a smoke bomb on me, and he didn't say hello to Longshan Daoist at all." ”

Jiao Peien's face was a little helpless, and just as he wanted to speak, a shadow suddenly shrouded his head.

He turned his head and found that on the mountain road next to him, there was a burly Taoist walking side by side with him.

The Taoist was originally rushing forward without distraction, but as Jiao Mu's voice shouted, he seemed to hear something of interest, and immediately stopped and looked at the Jiao family.

And Jiao's mother was still waiting for her youngest son's refutation, thinking about how to persuade the other party, but suddenly she didn't hear the voice, so she looked sideways and found that her youngest son was looking intently to the side.

She looked at her eyes, her expression was slightly stunned, and then she surged with surprise: "Longshan Dao Chief!"

She came prepared, and before she went to Wugong Mountain, she had already figured out the situation here, including the appearance of the Taoist of Longshan - otherwise she would not have the confidence to go up the mountain to find someone by herself, after all, Wugong Mountain is so big, if you don't know about it, you can't find someone accurately.

Seeing that Jiao's mother did not deny his identity, the head of Longshan Dao immediately smiled, first indicated his identity, and then apologized: "According to the agreement, we should have met yesterday, but Poor Dao delayed the trip because of some things, and now I have only rushed back from other places, please forgive me." ”

At the beginning, Liushan and his entourage, under the suggestion and hint of Chongwei Daoren, Longshan Daoren finally agreed to the invitation of the Daomen research project, and he has been immersed in the work of this project for a period of time.

Originally, the people of Longshan Dao had high expectations for this project.

However, within a day or two, he found that the output results he wanted to obtain from this project were actually the things he had been exploring all these years, such as various pill recipes, Dharma seals, and breathing postures.

Therefore, when he received the invitation of the president of the Taoist Association, he immediately used this as an excuse to apply to the project team for withdrawal, perhaps because the Longshan Taoist people shared all the research notes over the years, and the project team did not make too many difficulties, but directly approved it.

The only obstacle is probably a few old scholars.

However, the people of Longshan Dao did not pay attention.

These old scholars are very young, and they didn't know where they were transferred as soon as they entered the project team, and they didn't come back until recently, so he didn't have a friendship with the other party, and there was no need to take care of the other party's face.

The Jiao family didn't know the tortuous experience of Longshan Daoren over the years, but they were just pleased that the other party was so easy to talk to, and Jiao's mother's face was even more smiling like a brilliant sunflower, and she was familiar with the other party.

Longshan Daoist was actually impatient with these politeness, but he was in front of him, and he couldn't show his face at this time, so he could only say lightly: "I don't know what the purpose of the layman's trip is?" ”

Jiao's mother didn't hide either, and walked towards the mountain behind the Longshan Daoist, while telling the need to find a famous hand to recuperate her body.

Longshan Daoren glanced at Jiao Peien, and found that although the other party's facial features were good, his complexion was not very good-looking, considering that he had missed the appointment, he did not refuse: "This is good, I will personally say to my friends, so that you can enter his gate as soon as possible." ”

Jiao's mother was overjoyed, and hurriedly bowed and thanked.

Longshan Daoist waved his hand to indicate that it didn't have to be like this.

"Well, Dao Master, I have another request, I wonder if you can personally preside over a puja for Pei En?" Jiao Mu received the promise but did not leave immediately, hesitated for a moment, and finally cautiously spoke again.

Longshan Daoist frowned slightly: "Why?"

The third sister Jiao and the others next to them rolled their eyes, and in their really such looks, Jiao's mother unexpectedly told the origin of Jiao Peien and Fu Ping again.

"So you're worried that Fu Ping will have a bad impact?" Longshan Daoren looked at Jiao Peien, who almost became the next Luansheng Lingzi, his eyes showed a lot of interest, so he said after a moment of silence, "Coincidentally, in the near future, our Wugong Mountain will hold a large-scale festival according to the custom, and I will arrange it a little at that time - this is much stronger than the Dharma presided over by individuals." ”

Jiao's mother was a little stunned, she didn't expect things to go so smoothly.

Longshan Daoist didn't explain much about this, after all, he couldn't say that I was quite interested in your son, he looked at the Jiao family: "There are still a few days before the start of the festival, do you plan to go home or live in the mountains during this time?"

"Live in the mountains!" Jiao's mother said without hesitation, "My youngest son is weak, and this time the travel is actually quite reluctant, so it is better to wait until the festival is over before going down the mountain, so as not to run again." ”

"In this case, you can leave one person to accompany this layman up the mountain," Longshan Daoist said this, and it was not surprising that the other party changed their expressions, but he did not back down, "Wugong Mountain has rules, and under normal circumstances, it is not allowed to let outsiders stay in the mountain, one is afraid that people with bad intentions will cause damage to the Dao Palace building, and the other is to ensure that the Qing Xiu in the mountain is not disturbed, and allowing the two to stay overnight is already my bottom line." ”

Everyone in the Jiao family discussed it and finally decided to let Jiao's mother accompany them up the mountain.

"Then there is Chief Lao, thank you for your help. Everyone in the Jiao family bowed slightly in thanks.

"You don't have to thank me, if you want to thank the head of the association, I still have to give his face, otherwise those masters on the mountain can't spare me, in addition, I and Jiao Peien also have a good relationship, which can be regarded as a good fate. Longshan Daoist replied with a smile, and then took Jiao's mother and Jiao Peien up the mountain, and arranged for them to stay in the guest house, and after the two were a little familiar with the environment, he paced away.

Looking at the back of the Taoist leaving, Jiao's mother helped Jiao Peien make the bed, and said with emotion: "What a good person." ”

After making the bed, the two went to the dining hall to eat according to the information given by the people of Longshan Dao, and then walked around the mountain.

By this time, it was almost dark, and the scattered stars in the sky could be faintly seen.

The mother and son of the Jiao family put their hands on the stone fence to enjoy the night view of Wugong Mountain.

"There are only eight stars hanging in the sky, which is too few," Jiao Mu counted the number of stars that could be seen, "It's still sunny during the day, and there are so many trees here, tsk." ”

"It is estimated that because the incense is too strong and there are a lot of tourists coming and going, the air quality is not very good," Jiao Peien replied to the other party, his eyes drifted to a few Taoist children not far away, "Mom, what are they holding in their hands?"

"I guess it's a prop for the festival. ”

"Is that the puja that Longshan Daoist said?"

"Well, it should be, it will be the first day of October in a few days, and it will be the people's year of Taoism. ”

"I can't see it, Mom, you also have research on Taoist festivals, I thought you only cared about Fuping culture. ”

"I don't specifically understand Taoism, the Folk New Year is the Winter Clothes Festival, and it is also one of the Ghost Festivals, and the Fuping family will also hold a grand sacrifice at this time every year, hoping that the ghosts and gods can continue to favor us. ”

"Okay......"

"Alas, to be honest, sometimes I regret not letting you become a Luansheng Lingzi, maybe after becoming a god, you can really talk to the immortals, and then solve the root of your weakness. ”

"Mom, my brother and sister are no more, you are saying this kind of thing again. Jiao Peien smiled helplessly, and he withdrew his attention from the Dao Tong who was carrying the puja props, and turned his head to look sideways at his mother beside him.

He was just about to continue saying something, when suddenly his eyes froze, and his gaze went straight over Jiao Mu to a hill behind him.

In the hills, the forest is sparse.

A path winds its way up from the bottom of the hill, lined with bronze lanterns, each of which is flickering with a red flame that shines brightly under the dark sky.