"The surname Lai, after doing the Dharma today, Lao Tzu will break off his friendship with you, an old dog, and he will never get along with each other. ”

"If you don't come and go, you won't come and go, Lao Tzu is rare?"

Early in the morning, in the quarrel between Lai Changsheng and Mao Yuanshan, Li Ge opened his eyes very reluctantly, because he was having a sweet dream, in which there were butterfly dances, bath buckets, and his misty eyes.

"I'm annoyed, I'm annoyed~ It's not stable to do a morning class. Qingxu put away the wooden fish, sat on the side and watched the play.

"Breakfast is ready, Lai Lao, you and the two seniors go to eat. In the midst of the noise, Li Yunlong pushed the door and walked in.

"Okay~" Lai Laodao responded, stopped arguing with Mao Laodao, and then said, "Yunlong, you go and help us prepare a few buckets of water, we are going to take a bath and do a ritual." ”

"Are there any ghosts?" asked Li Yunlong as he hurriedly walked into the house.

"There's no ghost, it's just that Li Ge's life is a bit strange now, so I found these two old guys this time and helped him do a magic service. ”

"Okay, then you go to eat first, and I'll prepare the bath soup. ”

After the meal, the three old men freshened up and changed into neat clothes. Qingxu was wearing a yellow robe, while Lai Changsheng and Mao Yuanshan were each wearing a yellow robe.

"Master, do you want to help me change my life against the sky?" Li Ge saw three neatly dressed old men with a fairy spirit, walked up to Lai Laodao's side and asked curiously.

"Change a hammer, your life will not be met for a thousand years, and others will not be able to ask for it. Lai Laodao raised his hand and knocked on the young man's head violently, and then said, "Changing one's life against the sky is a betrayal of the sky, and it is rumored that Li Shimin, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, was not afraid of the ninety-five life, and later Xu Maogong found a person with ninety-five lives in order to help him ascend the throne, and exchanged the lives of the two with the power of 1,800 warlocks, and finally the curse came, and all 1,800 warlocks disappeared. ”

"Since it's not a change of life, what is it going to do?"

"We're going to do a ritual to help you hide your life, your life is peculiar, and it's easy to summon demons and monsters, so we have to hide your life. Lai Laodao's face suddenly revealed a trace of kindness, touched his disciple's head and said, "Take a bath, and put on the clothes with charms on the bed when you are done." ”

"Yes, Master. Li Ge didn't ask much when he heard this, nodded obediently, and then got into the bath.

Towards noon, a ritual was completed. After that, Qingxu and Mao Yuanshan cleaned up their business, didn't even eat lunch, and left under the farewell of Lai Laodao and Li Ge.

"If you have time in the future, take Li Ge to Tsing Yi Town to see me. ”

"I will, you two old guys should take care, don't apprentice go before I get it. ”

"Amitabha!" Qingxu recited a Buddha name, and said with a hint of reluctance, "Go back, Lai, educate your apprentice well, if you travel to Qiantang in the future, don't forget to come to me to catch up." ”

Lai Laodao nodded silently, with a sense of loneliness on his face.

At the time of parting, Mao Yuanshan, who turned around and walked a few steps, suddenly turned around, raised his leg and kicked Lai Laodao, then ran forward a few steps quickly, walked to Qingxu's side and laughed without replying, "Lai Laogou, this is the revenge of last night's kick." ”

Looking at the back that was gradually moving away, the old man Lai smiled slightly with his hands behind his back, and a trace of undetectable tears flashed in his eyes.

"Master, won't you catch up and take revenge?" Seeing Old Man Lai's performance, Li Ge asked jokingly.

"Report a hammer, your master, am I the kind of person who cares?" Lai Laodao raised his hand and flicked it Li Ge's head, letting out a hearty laugh.

"Old thing, being bullied by others and taking it out on me. Li Ge cursed in his heart, smiled wryly and shook his head.

"Let's go, let's go back to your house and clean up, and you can go back to the Foggy Mountain with me today." The old Taoist priest looked at the backs of the two old men who had been blurred in the distance, and took the apprentice's hand and walked towards Meridian Town.

The moon is cloudy and sunny, and people are gathered and separated.

"Lai Lao, will it be difficult for us to see Ge'er in the future. In the living room of the Li Mansion in the afternoon, Li Yunlong looked at his wife who was crying bitterly with his son on the side, with a sad face.

"No, we will live in the Wushan Mountain, before Li Ge is eighteen years old, I will teach him to read, read and practice Taoism, and he will not leave, if you husband and wife are free, you can go up to the mountain to live for a while, anyway, I have a big place there. Old man Lai took a sip of tea and said lightly.

"Don't cry, lady, you see Lai Lao said so, why are you still crying? Anyway, Ningshan County is not far away. Li Yunlong comforted softly.

"Yes, mother, don't cry, I'm just following Master to learn the Tao, and when you have time, you and Dad will go up the mountain to see me." Li Ge obediently comforted, and from his words, he could not feel the words of an eight-year-old child at all.

"You grow up, your mother won't cry, you have to study hard with Lai Lao in the future, don't be naughty, you know?" Ding Qiaoqiao heard his son's comfort, a reluctant smile appeared on his face, and he immediately reached out and caressed the latter's little cheek.

"Knowing Mother, I will listen to Master. Li Ge nodded, looked at the husband and wife standing in front of him, and then knelt on the ground and said, "Father, mother, Ge'er is gone, you have to take care." ”

"Get up, I can see you so sensible, my father has no regrets in his life. Li Yunlong helped his son up, and tears flowed from his eyes.

"Alright, let's go. Lai Laodao walked to Li Ge with his burden on his back, took his hand, took out a wooden card and said with a smile, "Yunlong, Qiaoqiao, Li Ge I took it away, if you want him to come to the foggy mountain in the future, you take this wooden card, after going up the mountain, shout a few times my name, the white snake you have seen before will appear, you take out this card, it will lead you into the battle." ”

"Okay Lai, I know. Li Yunlong took the wooden sign, looked at it carefully, and carefully put it away, "I'll go and prepare a carriage to send you and Ge'er back to Jiwu Mountain." ”

"Don't bother, we'll just walk back. Old man Lai shook his head, took Li Ge's little hand and walked outside the Li Mansion.

Out of Meridian Town, walking on the spacious post road, Li Ge felt a trace of reluctance in his heart, although he had been here for more than a month, but the Li family and his wife took care of him meticulously, in his heart, he had regarded the ordinary couple as his real parents.

When it was dark, the old Taoist priest took Li Ge to the foot of the Foggy Mountain, under the reflection of the moonlight, Li Ge looked at the misty mountain, shook the old man's hand and asked, "Master, this is the Foggy Mountain, right?"

"Yes, this is the Foggy Mountains, and I've lived here for more than ten years. Let's go, let's go up the mountain. ”

"Master, have you built a house on this mountain? Is it one of those very dilapidated thatched huts?"

"Fart, will Lao Tzu live in a broken grass house for more than ten years? Will Lao Tzu let his apprentice live in a broken grass house?"

"Master, can you stop knocking on my head, it hurts. ”

A conversation between a master and apprentice sounded in the deep mountains shrouded in night, and then disappeared into the silence of the mountain forest.

The Master preaches and teaches virtue, and those who learn from themselves are good and those who are self-refined, and they are also inherited.

(Prologue-End)