My dad lit a cigarette, as if to comfort my mother and seemed to be comforting himself: "Leave at the age of 15, it's a lot, 15 years old is a lot, the male baby should be **, I was 13 years old when I helped others to work (work), and it didn't mean anything for the male baby to stay in front of his parents, you see that the eldest son of the old lady He in the next village has a big future, I heard that he is a big official in the city, and the eldest son of the family didn't leave home early to study?" I don't have time to come back often now. () I think you have to go, Sanwa'er, you will obediently be an apprentice to Master Jiang. ”

Want to live in this village with your son until you are 15 years old? In the future, I just can't always serve my parents, my mother felt a little comforted when she heard these words, and she agreed with my father's point of view, although she didn't understand what a Taoist priest could have a great future, but Master Jiang was a capable person.

"Yes, since Master Jiang said so, I will be relieved, you know, the child is small, just leave me, my heart is really more painful than cutting meat. Sanwa'er, Master Jiang will be your master in the future, even if you don't listen to your parents, you have to listen to your master's words and learn your skills well. My mom also gently comforted me.

Anyway, to put it simply, I was an apprentice to Old Man Jiang was a matter of ironclad nails, and it can be said that the Red Army soldiers also had heroic shortness of breath, so I pretended to sigh deeply, which was a tacit acquiescence, for the parting after the age of 15, because it was too far away, I didn't feel anything.

"baby." My dad couldn't help but beat me when he saw my old look, but anyway, the thorn in his heart that had been nailed to his and my mother's hearts was finally pulled out.

"The matter of the three babies worshipping under our vein will be talked about in a few days, and it is indispensable to choose an auspicious day. At the moment, we still have to solve the matter of the second sister first, tomorrow the third baby will go to the countryside with me, since I have visited the teacher, I also have to see a long time, but I still have one thing to do. Old man Jiang said simply.

Hearing that I was going to do things with Old Man Jiang tomorrow, my mother was very frightened, but she didn't dare to disturb Old Man Jiang's business, and under Old Man Jiang's repeated orders, she brought some things for Old Man Jiang.

Old man Jiang was busy in the yard with these things, as for me as his apprentice, I had to watch, I used to dare to sleep so late, my father had to beat me to death, but today with the master covering, my parents had to let me go.

Gradually, I could see what Old Man Jiang was going to do, he was making a lantern!

I have to admit that Old Man Jiang's hands are very skillful, and a lantern is very delicately made, but the style is a little special, it is the kind of long white lantern, which feels like it is hung in front of the coffin.

After making the lantern, the old man Jiang looked at it carefully, and then he was satisfied with picking up the cinnabar pen and writing and drawing on the lantern, I couldn't help but be curious, so I asked: "Master, what are you doing with a lantern?" Playing for me? ”

"You're going to play this? Since you like the Soul Lamp, take it. Old man Jiang smiled, and was about to stuff the lantern in my hand, I retreated again and again, the soul-attracting lamp, when I heard it, it was not a good thing, I was crazy to play this.

"Master, what the hell is this for?" I couldn't help but be curious after maintaining a proper safe distance.

"This is for your second sister to attract souls, your second sister has lost one soul and four souls, and lost it for some days, you don't need a soul-attracting lamp, I'm afraid you won't be able to bring it back, and you've been in the wilderness for a long time, and your soul is afraid that it will be weak, and there is a soul-attracting lamp in front to guide the way, and your second sister's soul will be much easier on the way back." Old man Jiang explained to me while carefully drawing with cinnabar on the soul-attracting lamp, and the things he drew were simply ghost talismans in my eyes, and I couldn't figure out what they were at all.

"You want to ask me what I painted, didn't you?" Old man Jiang turned his head to me and asked, as if it was a pleasure for him that I had a desire to learn.

Seeing that the old man Jiang asked me, I nodded busily, I was actually very curious, why writing and painting some things will give those things a magical effect.

"The light that ghosts see is different from the light we see, it doesn't mean that people can see it when they carry a lantern with light, but I am drawing a kind of transformation rune, in order to transform the yang fire into the yin fire that the ghost can see. In addition to these runes, some lamp oils also have this effect, but you can't get them out of your house. "Old man Jiang explained in detail, and I felt more and more that Old Man Jiang's skills were too mysterious.

After painting the lantern, Old Man Jiang kicked me in the ass and said, "Go to bed, and go to work in the countryside with me tomorrow." ”

I don't have the anger of the old man Jiang at all, I went to sleep very happily, and I will go to the countryside with him tomorrow, which means that I don't have to go to school tomorrow, after laughing three times, I suddenly felt that being the apprentice of the old man Jiang is also a good thing.

I woke up early the next morning, and children are always inexplicably curious about the unknown, and their fear is much less.

That's why I was haunted by a hundred ghosts that day, and I was only weak and didn't lose my soul, because I was still young, and I had no fear of anything except some very special things.

If there is no fear, the mind is fixed, and the aura is positive, and those lonely souls and wild ghosts can't do anything about me for a while.

The situation of the second sister is different, she is very afraid of the female ghost, so she was squeezed out of her soul, and she is fighting hard by will, so there is a certain reason why she will lose her soul when she is frightened, this is the fear in her heart that will make her soul uncertain, and it is okay to simply understand that she wants to escape.

Without further ado, I got up with excitement, but found that Old Man Jiang had been in the yard for a long time, and he was practicing his fists and feet at this time.

After fighting for a while, the old man Jiang opened his eyes and saw me at the same time, he was not surprised, he wiped his sweat casually and said, "I just played Tai Chi, is it beautiful?" ”

"Well, it's just looking like it's soft and powerless."

"Hehe, Tai Chi pays attention to both rigidity and softness, and a pause between the fists and feet is a university question, poor in his life, whether he can play Tai Chi once is unknown, what do you little baby know?" Old man Jiang is not annoyed, what do you care about with a child who doesn't understand anything?

After breakfast, the old man Jiang took me to set off, and when I met curious people in the village, the old man Jiang always replied that I was already his godson, and as for the reason, they asked them to ask my parents.

After all, I want to stay here until I am 15 years old, and it will not work without a name, but the old man Jiang didn't bother to think of a reason at all, and pushed all the words to my innocent parents and let them satisfy the curiosity of the people in the village.

In the mountain village in October, the morning is often shrouded in thick fog, and when I walked to the countryside with the old man Jiang, the thick fog had completely dissipated, and the old man Jiang, who was walking on the country road, paying attention to the fields and the big girls who occasionally walked by, finally looked at me for the first time.

He said quite seriously: "Sanwa'er, I know that the ghost is here because of you, but I don't know the detailed process, now you have to take me to the place where you first crashed, and then, you must tell me word for word what happened that night." ”

Seeing that Old Man Jiang was so serious, how dare I slack off, and hurriedly told Old Man Jiang what happened that night, including the dreams I had.

After listening to what I said, Old Man Jiang was very surprised and snorted a few times in a row, and then dragged me over, ripped off my collar, and looked at the back of my head carefully.

In fact, I always knew that there was a birthmark on the back of my head, blood-red, like an eye, but as I grew up, this birthmark has become lighter and faer, and now I am afraid that there is only a circle of shadows, right?

"*** baby, I actually opened my eyes in a daze, this spiritual sense is rare." Speaking of this, Old Man Jiang couldn't help but sigh.

I looked at Old Man Jiang in a daze, but this time, Old Man Jiang didn't seem to want to explain to me, but directly asked me to take it and went straight to the cemetery.

With my vague memory, I took the old man Jiang to find the place where I crashed that night, but it was too late that day, and I walked casually, so I searched for a while before I found it.

When I saw the familiar bamboo forest and the cemetery not far from the bamboo forest again, I felt a chill in my heart even though it was broad daylight.

"Sanwa'er, you can listen well, you are now in your heart or when this is an ordinary scenery, look at it normally. Or you can be sad and compassionate, and sincerely pity the desolation after death from the heart, or you can memorize the texts you have learned and concentrate on memorizing them. You just can't show a trace of cowardice, even if it's a landslide and the ground cracks, you should just wait. Old man Jiang looked at me cowering, and couldn't help but tell me very seriously.

But at this time, I was extremely sensitive, and I couldn't help but grab the corner of Old Man Jiang's clothes, and shouted very sincerely for the first time: "Master, is there any danger?" You're going to tell me that? ”

"What's in danger? I'm telling you this to remind you that under no circumstances, you can't be easily cowardly, and you must keep your own little clarity, understand? After the old man Jiang finished explaining my sentence, he took my hand and walked straight towards the bamboo forest.

I didn't really see it that night because it was too late, but when I looked at it today, I found that the bamboo forest I entered that day was a gentle slope, and the cemetery was under the gentle slope, and at the other end of the cemetery was also a bamboo forest, and then behind it was a steep small cliff, and only the front had a road that could lead directly to this cemetery.

There were no fields around the cemetery, and I was at the edge of the bamboo grove that day, right near the road leading to the cemetery, and it was on that road that my dad and they found me, if I had walked through the bamboo grove.

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but have cold sweat on my forehead, but when I thought of Old Man Jiang's intimidation, I quickly diverted my attention and desperately memorized the text.