The next morning, the sky was drizzling.

In the house at the entrance of Lijia Village, Zhou Qing carried some prepared food and put it on the wooden table in the hall.

"You doll is young, but you know a lot of things. Wu Laodao took a pair of chopsticks handed over by Zhou Qing, picked up a chopstick dish and sent it to his mouth.

Zhou Qing replied when he heard this, "Daoist Wu, don't be polite, if it weren't for you last night, I would have been the food in the belly of the fierce ghost at this moment." ”

The old Taoist smiled and ate by himself, and Zhou Qing on the side glanced at the old Taoist priest, picked up the chopsticks and ate breakfast.

After finishing the meal, Wu Laodao wiped his mouth, walked to the door to take a look at the rain curtain outside the house, pondered for a while, turned around and returned to the house and sat down.

"Doll, you are still young, it is not a long-term solution to stay in this deserted village alone, I don't know what your plans are in the future?"

"This ......" Zhou Qing paused, shook his head with a wry smile, and did not respond to the old Taoist.

"Lao Dao, I have traveled all over the world for most of my life, and I am close to the year of death, and I have no heirs in my ability, if you want, how about leaving with me?"

Hearing this sudden remark, Zhou Qing's heart fluctuated, although he knew the old Taoist's ability, but he never thought about being a Taoist.

"You don't need to think about it, Lao Tao just thinks that he has a lot of fate with you, if you don't want to, just do it. Seeing that Zhou Qing didn't respond, Wu Laodao added with a smile.

The words came into his ears, and Zhou Qing thought to himself in his heart, with his current situation, if he could follow this old way, it would be a clear way.

"Do you mean that you are willing to take me as an apprentice?" Although he heard the meaning of the old saying, Zhou Qing still asked uncertainly.

Wu Laodao nodded, which can be regarded as acquiescence.

"If you don't give up, I am willing to worship you as a teacher and follow you into the Tao. ”

"Good~"

Approaching noon, the sky outside the house was open, and Wu Laodao led Zhou Qing out of Lijia Village.

......

There is a Jinling County under the jurisdiction of Yi'an Prefecture, about seventy or eighty miles north of the county seat, there is a small town called Dongguo Town.

Although the town is not large, it has been extremely prestigious in Jinling County in recent years.

Just because there is a Qingcheng Mountain next to Dongguo Town, there is a Sumeru Temple on the mountain, and there are many miracles in the temple, so it spreads quickly in the county.

It is rumored that there is a forty-year couple, married for more than 20 years, but still have no children, and then went to Sumeru Temple, a year later the couple was happy to have a dragon and phoenix baby.

It is also said that there is a poor man, who learns to be rich in five cars and repeatedly fails, and then burns incense in Sumeru Temple after a pillar, tries to pass the top three, and is hand-picked as a flower in the Golden Palace in front of the palace.

There are all kinds of things, such as the loss of a certain farming cow and the evil spirit of a certain family, as long as it is a trip to Sumeru Temple, it can be solved.

The miracles in the temple have spread one by one, attracting countless believers to come, but in the temple there is a rule that the petition is not more than ten months a month.

On the seventh day of each month, the door of the Sumeru Temple will be opened, and 500 believers will be brought in to sign it.

Then the abbot of the temple took the lottery according to the rules of the box, and drew ten sticks from the wooden box to correspond to the ten sticks divided.

When it was over, 10 of the vows remained, and the rest were asked to leave the monastery.

Because the petition in the temple separates the rich and the poor, it is all done by the will of heaven, so the believers attracted on the seventh day of the first month of each month are not as many as the sand of the Ganges, but they are also hundreds or thousands.

......

As the sun sets, on the official road leading to Dongguo Town in Jinling County, two figures walk one after the other.

"Master, I really can't walk anymore, let's take a break on the side of the road. ”

The person who spoke was Zhou Qing, and in a flash, it had been a month since he left Lijia Village with Wu Laodao.

During this month, he and his master stayed in a small town for three days, but they were constantly on the road, and if there was no farmhouse to stay overnight at night, he would lie directly in the mountains and fields to make a bed for the sky.

On the way, he learned from his master that the old Taoist's name was Wu Lichen, who was a wandering cultivator, and met an old Taoist when he was a child, that is, Zhou Qing's ancestor, the Taoist name Tianyizi.

Ten years after Wu Lichen entered the Tao, Tianyizi passed away, and he began to travel all over the world until now.

As for the sect of mentorship, Wu Laodao only said: "The Tao inherits Tianyi, and if you want to divide it, it is called Tianyi." ”

Day by day, the only one in heaven and earth, the name of this cow coaxing made Zhou Qing feel along, when he was in Lijia Village, he had tried Wu Laodao's ability, and after this month of getting along, he found that his cheap master had great powers.

For example, during this month's rush, he did not see his master enter the water and food, and he traveled from morning to night, and he would not even breathe for the air.

Speaking of hurrying, in fact, part of the time, Zhou Qing was carried by Wu Laodao, and in the eyes of others, he looked like a grandfather and grandson.

Wu Laodao, who was walking in front, heard the words of the little apprentice, smiled, and then carried Zhou Qing on his back and continued to drive the road.

"Master, the friend you are looking for in Jinling County lives on this mountain, right?"

"Hmm~" Wu Laodao nodded, "I remember that friend seems to have raised some chickens, and when he goes up the mountain, let him slaughter a chicken to satisfy your hunger." ”

After listening to Wu Laodao's words, Zhou Qing's heart warmed, in the past month, the old Taoist priest has taken great care of himself, and he treated himself like his deceased parents in his previous life.

"How can the disciple be so spoiled by the master, when the disciple becomes an adult, he will definitely repay the master. Zhou Qing's heart was full of feelings.

"Your master once said that there is a master and apprentice, and a creation, and I will treat you as your master and ancestor treated me back then. Wu Laodao paused, and then said, "When your master and ancestor met me, I was also the same size as you, and the situation was not much different from you. ”

Although the mountain road was rugged and dark, Wu Laodao's figure was extremely brisk, and he walked with Zhou Qing on his back for less than half an hour before coming to the top of the mountain.

On the top of the mountain, there is a small stream formed by a spring, and in the middle there is a small bridge made of long stones, and behind the bridge is a bamboo forest.

On the top of this secluded mountain, a gust of mountain wind blew, and the sound of swishing was heard in the forest.

There is a path in the bamboo forest, and when you walk through it, you can see a wooden building on stilts, and a dim light is shining through one of the rooms in the building.

"Yunlin Daoyou can be there?" put Zhou Qing down from his back, Wu Laodao shouted at the stilted building.

Soon, the door of the wooden house with the lights on opened, and out of it came a young man in his twenties.

The young man was on a wooden crutch, and on one leg was a few slender branches, which were obviously broken to the bone.

"You~ Are you Wu Lichen Wu's senior?" The young man who walked out of the house looked at the master and apprentice in the moonlight and looked at the two of them carefully, and then asked uncertainly.

"It's the old way, you are Zhang Shan. Wu Laodao nodded in response.

When the young man heard this, he came down a staircase in front of the stilted building on crutches, and limped to the master and apprentice, "The junior is Zhang Shan, senior Wu is sitting in the house." ”

The young man named Zhang Shan eagerly greeted the master and apprentice into the house.