Chapter 4 Animism
Old man Ji's angry appearance made Cheng Zhaozhao's nose itch.
"Grandpa Ji, I once told you that my father lives in Dongling, and he told me about immortal cultivators. β
"What cultivators don't cultivate, that's all legendary. β
"But your travelogue is clearly writtenβ"
"It's all made up, these travelogues, how much do you want, how much can the storyteller in the village write for you!"
"My father used to be an immortal cultivator. I remember when I was very young, my dad used to fly with me. Cheng Zhaozhao told her secret, which she had never mentioned to anyone since she and her father were separated.
"It was all when you were a child, you must have misremembered......"
"Although I don't know why you have to deny it Grandpa Ji, I still hope you can tell me, where can I find the immortal inducer recorded in your book?"
"You, you want to cultivate immortals?" Old man Ji's eyes widened.
Cheng Zhaozhao nodded: "If cultivating immortals can allow me to find my father, if becoming an immortal cultivator can allow me to protect the person I want to protect, then I want to cultivate immortals, I want to become an immortal cultivator." β
There were no grandiose words, no touching heart, she just said the words that had been hidden in her heart.
Old man Ji turned sideways and stopped looking at her, and drooped his shoulders.
Cheng Zhaozhao took the bamboo stick holder, took out all the sticks and said: "After my body recovered, you said that I would only be allowed to go out of Daping Village by drawing the lottery, and I have not drawn it for more than a year, not because I am unlucky, but because I have never been on the lottery." β
"You said I was your granddaughter-in-law, but I didn't want the people in the town to think that I was helpless and easy to bully. β
"You have to go to the stall every once in a while, and all the money you get buys meat, but it's because the doctor said that I need more tonic for my weakness. I know all of this. β
"Old man, although I have always called you old man, I have long regarded you as my dear grandfather in my heart. Grandpa Ji, life here is stable and leisurely, like a harbor sheltering me, such days make people nostalgic, but I know that I will not go on like this forever, I want to find my father, to find the surviving Shao clan people in the snowy mountains, I want to go to the outside world, the wider world to see......"
Old man Ji suddenly turned around and snorted: "You just said that you were going to find your father, now you said to go outside to have a look, and you just want to leave here." β
"Uh...... There is no conflict between the two. Cheng Zhaozhao nodded.
"If you want to go, you can go, I can still stop you as an old man?" what are you doing with these embarrassing words......" Old man Ji picked up his chopsticks again and ate the food in a big gulp: "Don't let people eat yet......"
Cheng Zhaozhao: ......
Chisato seemed to roll her eyes as well.
What kind of temperament does Old Man Ji have, Cheng Zhaozhao has known her all these years, and since he said so, he will not stop her from leaving.
Full of wine and food, Old Man Ji let out a sigh of comfort and said, "Since you are leaving, let's go tomorrow." β
Cheng Zhaozhao was surprised, this is said that the wind is the rain, but it is not like the style of Old Man Ji.
"I just met Xiao Er in the wine shop outside. He said that two immortal cultivators had come to town, and you should go and see it tomorrow. Whether it can be achieved or not depends on your own creation. β
"Really?" Cheng Zhaozhao was surprised and delighted.
"When did the old man lie to you?" Old man Ji snorted and walked out of the house.
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The white of the fish belly in the east is quietly revealed, as before.
At the entrance of Daping Village, under the hundred-year-old pear tree, there were people waiting early.
The shopkeeper looked nervous, pacing back and forth, since he saw those two immortals yesterday, he told everyone he could, and his excitement was indescribable. I was so excited that I couldn't sleep all night, and today I just came here with the shopkeeper just after dawn.
The shopkeeper of the liquor store was a middle-aged man in his forties, with a round body, who would lean against the pear tree with sleepy eyes.
He, like everyone else in the village, felt that Xiao Er was talking crazy, and he didn't bother with it. But this kid is like a madman pestering him.
Time passed, and the sky was bright.
"Are you trying to get revenge?"
The shopkeeper yawned, and his patience was extreme: "I told you clearly, it is also a helpless move to dismiss you, and when the business improves, I still have to let you come......"
"No, no, listen to me, shopkeeper, yesterday, right here, I really saw the immortals. Xiao Er hurriedly explained.
"What about the immortals?"
The one who asked was a young woodcutter who was passing by: "I heard from the neighbors that you met a fairy, so you came over to get a fairy spirit." However, I didn't smell the fairy qi, but I thought you were bullish. β
"Haha, this is a cowhide blowing up......"
A few more people came over one after another, all of them listened to Xiao Er's words yesterday, and their curiosity drove them to come and take a look.
"You guys, wait a little longer......" Xiao Er was also anxious and impatient when he listened to all kinds of ridicule, why didn't this immortal come?
God forbid, come alike!
As if the heavens heard his prayer, a colorful glow fell from the sky, and he saw an immortal bone style of the old way appearing in it, and there was a young man with clear eyebrows behind him.
Where have the people in the village seen such mysteries, they were all stunned.
"Huang Xianshi!" Xiao Er, who was the first to react, immediately knelt down.
The shopkeeper and others didn't expect that what Xiao Er said was true, and they also knelt down with him at the moment and learned to call the immortal master of Xiao Ershan.
The call was far away, and the people who rushed to hear the news joined in one after another, all of them excited.
Huang Lao Dao saw that the time was ripe, and said: "I am a person from the barren mountains of Dongling, passing through this place, seeing that you are simple by nature and diligent in creating things, so I will create them." β
Hearing this, Xiao Er couldn't help but think of the hexagram that Old Man Ji calculated for him, and couldn't help but blush, and said hurriedly: "Immortal Master, I don't know what kind of creation?"
"My master will come one by one, so you don't have to worry. The little disciple tilted his neck slightly.
Immortals are immortals, even if it is just a young boy who says it, they will never dare to slack off.
"Yes, yes. Xiao Er was busy talking.
"You can know that all things in this heaven and earth have spirits, and the spirits take root, if there is a spiritual root, it is related to the fairy road, and the fate is immortal......" Huang Laodao gushed endlessly about the mysteries of heaven and earth, but when he saw that a group of people under him were confused, he secretly said to the cow playing the piano, lost interest in preaching, and said directly: "Now give you an hour of time, so that the children from the village to fifteen to five years old can gather here." β
Fortunately, the little disciple explained again, and the people in the village understood that this was recruiting immortal disciples, which caused an uproar and dispersed to spread the news.
Immortals entered Daping Village, and this kind of news was the first time in Daping Village, so the village was boiling.
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The breeze blew through the treetops, and copper coins collided with each other, making a pleasant jingle like wind chimes, of course, this was just the pleasant sound that Old Man Ji thought.
With these 'jingle bells' sounds, Cheng Zhaozhao and Old Man Ji were eating breakfast leisurely when they heard a rapid beating of gongs and drums outside the courtyard.
Then the alley was full of heads and ears, and they were all discussing the matter of the immortal master coming to collect apprentices.