The transaction was successfully completed. When Master and I returned to the guest house exhausted, it was already 4 o'clock in the morning.
I dug out some food that I had planned to eat on the road, then bought two bottles of Erguotou and a bag of peanuts from the all-night shop in the guest house, and then knocked on Master's door.
As expected, the master was not asleep. When he saw the thing twisting in my hand, his eyes lit up and he quickly let me in.
I opened the oil paper bag and found some braised beef inside. I planned to put it in the steamed buns to eat on the way, but I wasn’t too hungry on the way so I didn’t eat it. Then I poured the peanuts on the table and opened Erguotou. Master and I were alone. One bottle.
The master twisted a piece of beef and threw it into his mouth, chewed it a few times, took a sip of wine, sighed with contentment, and then said, "Why are you coming to me if you don't want to sleep?"
"I vomited all over the road, aren't you hungry? Besides, it's already 4 o'clock, and I have to go back to Beijing at 7 o'clock tomorrow, so I might as well not sleep."
"Okay, you have a lot of questions to ask, right?" Master has already seen through my mind.
I nodded and said, "Well, master, tell me about that old man. I don't know why. I feel uncomfortable entering his house. I feel uncomfortable seeing him. I feel uncomfortable seeing that girl. Also, he It's so dark. The ordinary yellow talisman paper costs 100 yuan, the blue one costs 500, and the purple one actually costs 00. After the talisman is completed, I will give him a quarter, and the silver talisman also requires spiritual jade. Go and change, I just feel too dark.”
The master peeled off a peanut, squinted his eyes and said: "Black? Not black anymore. There are not many people in this world who can make good talismans that can carry and preserve their power. Besides, you are a charlatan." How many? People don’t even know that talisman paper has special requirements. Those scammers just get a piece of yellow paper and draw the talisman on it. How many people do you think will actually buy talisman paper? The production of some talisman paper requires a lot of effort. , or even support for many years, so don’t talk nonsense if you don’t know.”
"But Master, that man doesn't look like a good person. I just don't feel comfortable." I took a sip of wine and said to Master with some excitement. After all, I am young at heart and will always consciously judge based on my own emotional tendencies. one person.
"A good person? He is indeed not considered a good person, but in some places, he can be regarded as a very good person. In the future, you will also have to contact him. If he is no longer in this world, you will find it very troublesome. Now There are not many Master Fu left, there is one in Tianjin, he is like a treasure." Master kept eating and drinking with his hands and feet. After saying a few words, he removed half of the big package of beef. I also drank half the bottle of wine.
"Since we are going to be in contact with him in the future, master, tell me about him, ah? Also, master, why did you buy so many talismans? Do you want to draw silver talismans?" I chuckled. This was what I originally planned to ask.
"Him? Don't look down on him. If he doesn't have a special reason, the talisman he draws is no worse than mine. He is also from Shanzimai!" the master said lightly.
When I heard this, I was shocked. That old man was actually from Shanzimai
"You're surprised, aren't you? Do you know why he is like that? Do you know why you feel uncomfortable when you see his daughter? Because he used the art of borrowing life to forcibly keep her daughter. Her daughter has actually lost her life. You Seeing her daughter is like seeing a dead person still alive, do you feel comfortable in your heart?" The master was really calm when he said this. Maybe he already knew it, so he didn't think it was anything.
The art of borrowing life! My head buzzed, this was too heaven-defying, but the art of changing one's fate against the heavens was a little simpler.
The art of changing one's life against the will of heaven is to create something out of nothing to give to a person, while the art of borrowing one's life is to borrow another person's life.
On the surface, the art of borrowing one's life is more powerful than the art of changing one's life. After all, the art of changing one's life can only extend one's life. But in fact, the art of changing one's life is more powerful, at least in this world. It won't have any side effects, and it can change your life. That is to say, in addition to longevity, there are also blessings and various lives.
The technique of borrowing life is just to borrow the longevity of others, but it can't hide your own death energy, and the range of activities will be restricted. Once you leave a certain range, people will age rapidly, and if you are a sick person, even if If you borrow your life, the disease will still torture you, and even to exaggerate, if the borrowed life reaches a critical point, the flesh on your body will still rot.
You can’t borrow your life for more than forty years!
But changing your life is different. Once you change your longevity, you can immediately live without illness or pain, and live like a normal person.
But no matter which one, for me, it is a technique that is completely untouchable. I absolutely cannot do it. I only know briefly that in one of the life-borrowing techniques, blood is the essence of itself. As long as the essence and blood can be extracted, , you can implement the borrowing of life.
I got this from reading the classics. I can't quite understand the details. This must be taught by my master. Unfortunately, at my current level, it is impossible for my master to teach me.
Seeing my look, Master smiled calmly and said: "He loves his daughter very much. Do you think he is very old? He is only 50 years old. His daughter should have gone when she was 7 years old, but now He has lived to be 24 years old, and he lent his life to his daughter. He did this business in exchange for some resources for self-cultivation, so that his body could be as strong as possible and he could lend more life to his daughter."
Is this fatherly love? I thought about it carefully, if it were me, I would die at the age of 7, and my father happened to know the art of borrowing life... I didn't dare to think about it anymore.
Maybe this person is harsh to others and seems to be very concerned about every dollar, but he is indeed a good person and a truly good father to his daughter.
As if I wasn't shocked enough, the master continued: "He originally had the opportunity to be in the same department as me. He would have a better life, but he refused because of his daughter and started a business in this Yin market. , because people who come to the Yin market are all knowledgeable people. When the Yin market opens every two months, his business will naturally not be bad. The Yin market is a very risky behavior, and the evil ghosts will bite back. Maybe to a certain extent, I will also hide. However, it is necessary to get one or two life-saving items from him. What he has learned is different from mine. I focus more on magic, while he focuses more on raising and training various weapons. Even if they are from the same lineage, they are actually as different as each other. The difference is as vast as the heavens and the earth."
"Master, but you always say it's natural. If his daughter is going, why force her to stay?" Isn't this price too high? And does his daughter really want to live like this
"A sentence of Taoism is natural, how easy it is to say it? A sentence can break through all kinds of things in the world, but only one can clear the original heart. The meaning is also very simple. Don't you understand that it is difficult to cultivate the mind, it is difficult to abandon it, it is difficult to abandon the original intention, it is difficult to Is it pure? Some people should not abandon money and power, and some should not abandon all the emotional turmoil in the world. But an original heart has experienced the world of mortals and cannot be broken, so how can it be pure? " Master said this.
I looked at Master in a daze, and Master raised his eyebrows at me and said, "Don't think it's too easy, I can't do it either. It's very simple. You are the difficulty that I can't abandon. In this world, there are always fetters. Originally, I wanted to be aloof, but if I didn't blend in with all living beings, how could I train my mind in the world of mortals if I didn't blend in with all living beings? But once I blended in with the world of mortals, I realized that I was already entangled in cause and effect, but I always closed my eyes and couldn't give up. The difficulty of the road happened to be... It’s about the things you think are normal, even sweet.”
I took a sip of wine and realized that I might not be able to achieve the so-called perfection of Taoism without training my mind in the world of mortals, just like I would never leave my family, my friends, and my master behind!
But I wanted to be more relaxed, so I said casually: "Sweet things? Like love?"
"Love? Chengyi, don't look down on it. This is the level that makes you really sad." The master sighed and took another sip of wine.
A sad moment? I don't think so. I don't think I will have much nostalgia for anyone. It's not that I haven't had a girlfriend until now, but I really can't say it's something that I can't let go of. I think Master is exaggerating.
I changed the topic and asked Master: "Master, you haven't said why you bought these talismans?"
Yes, apart from the yellow talisman paper, Master bought 5 blue talisman papers, 3 purple talisman papers, and one silver talisman paper.
I think this is wholesale
Master and I have been together for so many years, but I have never seen him use the blue and purple talisman a few times. As for the silver talisman, I used it once when sealing the Tomb of Hungry Ghosts, and it was accidentally broken by Guo Er and the others.
In fact, I really don’t believe in the efficacy of the silver charm. Of course, I was stupid at the time!
"The blue and purple talismans are for this trip to Sichuan. This matter is not that simple." The master said lightly.
"What about the silver one?"
"Oh, I want to draw a peace charm for you, Master Li."
'Pfft' I spit out the wine after a sip of wine. Such a low-level talisman as the Peace Talisman should be drawn on silver talisman paper. You know, the cinnabar used to draw the talisman also contains ruby powder!