On the third day of the Lunar New Year, burning the door god paper means that the door god and other festival things during the New Year are burned together, indicating that the year has passed and the business is about to begin.

The residents of the town who got up early took the door gods, door notes, lanterns and other festive things to burn in front of their homes, and the Li family was no exception.

"Yunlong, this year I plan to take Ge'er outside to break in. Next to the fire in front of the Li Mansion, Lai Laodao whispered softly to a middle-aged man dressed richly.

"Well, he's eighteen years old this year, and it's time to go out and see the world. Li Yunlong was silent for a while, and then asked, "Lai Lao, when are you going to leave?"

"In order to accept apprentices, I have been in Ningshan County for more than 20 years, and now there are some things that I need to deal with, so I plan to leave with Ge'er today. Lai Laodao took a torn peach talisman and threw it into the fire.

"Then when are you coming back?" Li Yunlong looked at the old Taoist priest in front of him who had known him for ten years, as if ten years had not left the slightest tomb on the latter's old face.

"I don't know. The old Taoist priest shook his head and said with a bitter smile, "Every year on Chinese New Year's Eve, I will try my best to arrange for Ge'er to come back and reunite with you." ”

"What about you, aren't you coming back with Ge'er?" the middle-aged man showed a hint of reluctance on his face.

"Me?" Looking at the fire in front of him, the old Taoist priest paused before saying, "I'll be back, come back with Ge'er." ”

The fire in the fire gradually weakened when there was nothing to burn, and then it was extinguished, and Lai Changsheng also left Meridian Town with his apprentice Li Ge under the reluctant gaze of everyone in the Li Mansion.

The master and apprentice who returned to the foggy mountain sat in the corridor without saying a word, and in a silence, the sun quietly disappeared into the western mountain.

"I'm going to cook, you go and say goodbye to Dabao and Dabai. The old Taoist priest got up and patted his apprentice on the shoulder, turned around and walked into the kitchen.

"Are you really leaving?" Li Ge sighed to himself, and jumped down the hallway towards the Katsura Grove. After living in this laurel forest for ten years, he naturally has feelings for this place, and now that he is suddenly leaving, he will indeed be a little reluctant in his heart.

"Come out Dabao. Outside the laurel forest, a young man in a blue robe shouted at the silent mountain forest, and then a white tiger quietly came out of the mountain forest.

"Let's go to Dabao, let's go find Dabai. The young man reached out and stroked the hair on the white tiger's head, and walked to the side of the mountainside.

Gangneung Province is located in the south, and there is no snow in winter, so although there are withered leaves and yellow grass on the foggy mountains today, it is still roughly the state of spring greenery. The man stepped on the fallen leaves in the middle of the mountain and stopped in front of a large cave on the mountainside.

"It's hibernation now, I don't know if Dabai has woken up? Let's go, Dabao, let's go in and have a look. The young man spoke to the white tiger as if the white tiger in front of him was not an animal, but his friend.

"Huh~" The white tiger roared softly, and the cute big head was slightly small, as if he understood the words of the young man, and followed him into the cave.

The cave was pitch black, and the young man stopped after walking more than ten steps, and he shouted to the cave, "Dabai, are you awake?"

"Hiss~" A small hissing sound sounded, and then in the dark cave, two fist-sized, dim cyan light clusters lit up, and slowly approached the young man. When he was less than two feet away from the young man, a sticky, soft, warm tongue licked his cheek.

"Dabai, Dabao, I came today to tell you something. In the dark cave, Li Ge's eyes were filled with tears, "Master and I are leaving, and I don't know when I will come back, and I will hand over the lost Guilin to you in the future, I hope you can practice diligently on the Misty Mountain and transform as soon as possible." ”

After Li Ge said this, there was a silence in the cave for a while, and then a mournful tiger roar and snake hiss sounded in the cave.

"You can't be lazy in the future, you must practice hard, you know?" said with a weeping voice, and then ran out of the cave in the direction of the Katsura Grove.

"Silly boy, the birth, old age, sickness and death of people in this life, gathering and parting are all destined by God, if there is fate, even if you can't get together in this life, you can meet in the next life, as a cultivator, can't you see through this?" In the corridor, Lai Changsheng patted the apprentice who was squatting on the ground and crying bitterly, and said in a ci voice, "Okay~ Let's go eat." ”

"Master, what are we going to Ying Tianfu for this time?" At the dinner table, the young man wiped away the tears on his face.

"Since ancient times, there have been many demons in Miaodi, and zombies have been raised in Shudi. A year ago, there was a corpse disaster in the Wushan Canyon in the Linglan area of Sichuan and Shu Prefecture, and I want to take you to try it this time. Lai Laodao took a piece of hare meat and put it in the apprentice's bowl.

"Since there is a corpse disaster in Sichuan and Shu Mansion, what are we going to Yingtianfu for?"

"You'll know when you go. The old Taoist priest put down the dishes and chopsticks, sighed, and walked out with his hands behind his back.

"Aren't you eating, Master?" Looking at Master's back, Li Ge asked suspiciously.

"Don't eat, you clean up the dishes and chopsticks after eating and go to bed early, and we'll get up early tomorrow morning and hurry." After the old Taoist priest replied, he walked straight back to his room and closed the door.

"This old fellow, why didn't he even eat when I mentioned Ying Tianfu?" After thinking to himself, Li Ge sat at the table alone and began to eat. After the meal, he put away the dishes and chopsticks, stood outside the door of the old Taoist priest's room and looked at it, and reluctantly went back to his room to sleep.

The next day, before the sun broke, Li Ge got up. He stood in the open space in front of the bamboo building and practiced a set of boxing techniques.

This set of boxing methods is called Bahui boxing, and its function is roughly to strengthen the body. Since following Lai Laodao up the mountain, as long as there is nothing major, Li Ge will get up at this time every day to beat this set of punches.

A set of boxing techniques went to the ground, the eastern sky was white, the young man took a deep breath, ran to the bathroom to wash his face, and was about to go into the kitchen to make breakfast, when Lai Laodao, who walked out of the room, sounded, "Have you packed up your things?"

"After packing up, Master, I'll make breakfast now. ”

"No, let's go down the mountain and eat today. You go into the house and take the line, and we'll go now." ”

"Got it, Master. Although he knew that he was leaving today, hearing Master's words, Li Ge still felt a little lonely in his heart. He walked into the room and carried the packed baggage behind him, and carried the Qiankun he had been carrying for nine years by his side, and then went out and followed the old Taoist priest down the mountain.

As we reached the foot of the mountain, a white snake with the thickness of a stone millstone slowly emerged from the woods, and beside the snake, there was a white tiger the size of a calf.

"Dabao, Dabai, in the future, my lost Guilin will be handed over to you for protection, if one day Ge'er and I come back and there is no place to live, I have to pick your skin. A threatening word, but what Lai Laodao said was extremely gentle, and there was a faint trace of tears in the corners of his eyes on his old face.

A tiger and a snake looked at the master and apprentice quietly, as if petrified, their bodies were motionless, and tears flowed from their eyes.

A short farewell ended, and on the silent mountain path, only a snake and a tiger stared at the figure that had disappeared at the foot of the mountain.