Artisans in Tunli

Chapter 31

"You are the boss, right? I want to ask you, do you have ink fountains for sale?" The master said impatiently when he heard that he wanted to buy ink fountains. The ink fountains are all made by the carpenter himself. Where can I buy them?

"Master, is the ink fountain used for fighting zombies like in the movie?" The master gave me a blank look and said that I have watched too many movies.I lit a cigarette and continued, the main function of the ink fountain is for decoration and other carpenters to mark lines and measure.

"This Taoist should be Taoist Zhang Muzhen. I am Tao Ming, a disciple of the Shangqing sect. Today, I am here to visit." After hearing what this man said, I was confused. Didn't I come here to buy something? ?
"Hmph, I'm not Zhang Muzhen. Thirteen, see off the guests." I didn't know which episode the master was playing, so I just smiled at Tao Ming and asked him to go out.

The wretched man continued: "I don't know what Daoist Zhang means? But, take a look at this, do you know him?" After speaking, he took out a beautiful jade pendant from his pocket.

This time it's a real jade pendant. The one I used to look like doesn't look like jade. What Jiang Shan said is like a jade pendant, which is more appropriate.

As soon as the master saw the jade pendant, he immediately regained his energy and stared straight at it.Tao Ming handed the jade pendant to me. When he held it in his hand, he felt very cold, and his whole body felt an indescribable refreshing feeling.After taking a closer look, the jade pendant in the shape of a lotus flower is engraved with a gossip, which also contains directions, hexagram positions, 24 mountains and angles.

I was amazed that so many contents were engraved on the jade pendant, which was less than the size of a cigarette case.After sighing, he quickly handed it to the master.

The master looked at it for more than half an hour, and the expression on his face changed from surprise at the beginning, to calm down, and then to a sad expression.Seeing the master's bitterness and hatred, I didn't know what to say, so I thought deeply with him.

"Master Zhang, do you know him?" Tao Ming seemed to have guessed the master's reaction, but he seemed calm and unhurried.

"Let's go upstairs and talk, Thirteen, and lock the door." After speaking, he threw me a bunch of keys, then nodded to Tao Ming, and walked upstairs.

As soon as I went upstairs, the master told me to put incense sticks on the patriarch first, and I don’t pay much respect at school, so don’t go home this time during the holiday, and stay here to help.After he finished speaking, he might feel a little inappropriate, and then said that he asked me to call my father, and if I think about it, I can come and have a look.

You have to listen to the master's words. After offering incense to the patriarch, call the old man.After hanging up the phone, I heard the master and the others talking about something.The master called me over and introduced me.Since they are all like-minded people, I sold the hands-on ceremony I learned from the Internet once.

Seeing that I saluted, Tao Ming naturally returned the salute. He also praised me that there are not many young people who learn Taoism, and there are not many people who know how to salute.The master said on the side, he taught well, and the child did not live up to it.I'm so angry, even though you are being polite, you can't make me lose face like this.

"Thirteen, sit down and listen too." The master didn't look at me, but kept staring at the jade in his hand.

After listening to their chat, I learned about the master’s history that was not written in the travel notes.

From 1951 to 1953, the master was at the age of youth.After traveling to several provinces, I finally plan to settle down in JS province.

Just after the victory of the war, New China was covered with scorched earth, and there were countless casualties.The master wandered around in various cities, helping to heal veterans and some civilians.

However, although the master is a scholar, except for the few books and a Mingwen short knife left by the master, plus the paper-tying work taught by his adoptive parents, he is not very proficient in medical skills.I can only do simple bandaging and the like, and I don't even know the most basic herbs.

During this period, he not only had to treat patients, but also helped them with various field chores. Soon he also fell on the mountain where he was cutting firewood.

When he woke up, he found himself lying in a small thatched hut.

"Are you awake?" A sweet voice reached the master's ears.When he woke up, his mind didn't realize where he was for a while, so he alertly took out the short knife he carried with him.

A delicate-looking woman appeared in front of her eyes. Liu Yue had curved eyebrows and a delicate face. The most prominent thing was her pair of protruding ears.When the master said this, his face was full of smiles.

Looking at her attire, he judged that this woman should be a Taoist nun.The master immediately felt relieved, and then put the dagger back on his waist.

"Dare to ask my aunt, where is this?" the master said weakly, but the Taoist aunt didn't answer, and handed the master a bowl of traditional Chinese medicine.

After thinking about it, the master still took the medicine, and in a short while, a burst of refreshing feeling went all over the master's body.The fatigue disappeared immediately, so I thanked the nun again and again.

"Call me Lianhua. The dagger you just took is engraved with Taoist talismans. I don't know where it came from?" Lianhua said cautiously, why did she say that?Back then, there were spies everywhere, and there was nothing wrong with being careful.

"Oh, don't get me wrong. My teacher is from the righteous school. During the war, I followed my master to save people. After my master died, I stayed in Yinyangtun and was adopted by my adoptive parents. When I became an adult, I left my adoptive parents. When I came to southern Jiangsu and helped the common people, I never thought that I would..." the master sighed.

After listening to the master's words, Lianhua felt relieved.Since I am a fellow, I have no scruples, and I also introduced myself.He said that he was a disciple of the Shangqing sect, and he lived in a small Taoist temple at the foot of Nanmao Mountain. Yesterday he came to the mountain to collect herbs, and when he found the master, he took him to the thatched hut where he usually rests.

The master didn't know much about the Shangqing School at the time, but he didn't know that the Shangqing School, also known as the Maoshan School, was best at exorcising ghosts and evil spirits.

I had a very happy conversation with Lianhua that day, mostly because of the experiences of the other party.The master discovered that Lianhua had experienced so many thrilling things, so he made an agreement with her to exchange his experiences with each other every three days.

In this way, the master stayed there for more than two years, and it was not too late for the two to meet each other.As the saying goes, love grows over time, and they fell in love with each other not long after.When the master said this, his face was full of joy, but his expression changed as he spoke.

After experiencing countless "three-day appointments", one day, the master came to the thatched cottage and found that the lotus was not there.So I hurried to the Taoist temple at the foot of Maoshan to inquire, only to find out that there was a zombie outbreak in the village near Qingshan, and Lianhua and her junior sister went to subdue the demon.

When the master heard about zombies, he felt bad.He had heard about zombies, but had never seen them himself.

Zombies, as the name suggests, are stiff corpses; jumping corpses, moving corpses.Stretch your hands forward and jump with your legs.Zombies are supposed to be soulless people, without IQ, and can only hurt people by virtue of their yang energy.

This is just different from the ghosts I encountered before, ghosts have souls but no souls.People have three souls and seven souls, and none of them will do.

The master thought that Lianhua might be in danger, so he hurriedly asked the specific location of the village, and then hurried over there.

As soon as they arrived at the village, they saw that Lianhua had blocked the movement of the zombies with ink lines, and her junior sister had fainted.But he was also injured by the powerful zombie and vomited blood.

"Why did you come here? This is beyond your ability to deal with, you hurry up!" Lianhua spoke to the master with difficulty.

"You taught me a lot, let me help you too." Lianhua knew that the master was stubborn and couldn't resist him, so she gave the master the copper coin sword on her body, and asked the master to go to make up the knife.

The master grabbed a handful of glutinous rice from Lotus's bag and threw it towards the zombie. The glutinous rice that touched the zombie instantly turned black.It seemed that this zombie had been out for a while, and seeing that he was wearing Japanese military uniforms, I felt even more angry.

He bit his middle finger and smeared his blood on the sword.Following the Beidou Gang footwork taught to him by Lian Hua and using the copper coin sword, he finally got rid of the zombie that was about to grow white hair.Then, he used the fire charm to burn it all away.

Lianhua also saved her life, but her junior sister was not so lucky, and died on the spot.After burning the corpses of the lotus sisters, the master took the lotus into the thatched cottage.

In the thatched hut, a pair of beauties in troubled times licked each other's wounds.

The master heals the lotus flower according to the method of lotus flower every day, but the effect is not obvious.Suddenly one day, Lianhua said that she wanted to marry her master and asked him to go to the county town to buy something.The master was ecstatic and ran to the county seat, but when he came back, he found that the lotus figure had disappeared and only a copper coin sword was left on the bed.This copper coin sword is the one Zhang Feng is holding.

After searching for a long time, there was no news of Lianhua. Finally, the master left Jiangsu with his things in a fit of anger.

After saying this, the master put down his previous dignity and burst into tears.

"This jade pendant was worn by Lian Hua before his death." The master cried and said, I handed him a pack of tissues, he wiped it and continued to ask Tao Ming: "I wonder how you got this jade pendant?"

"Lianhua is my master. Her old man didn't leave you on purpose that day, but was taken away by someone." As soon as Tao Ming said this, the master suddenly asked anxiously what was going on.

"That's what happened that day. You should know about Soul Sect, right?" When I heard the name, I suddenly regained my energy, and the master nodded to show that he knew.

"After the war, the Soul Sect faction has been active in the Central Plains. Its believers are looking for ways to become immortals and attain the Tao. Somehow they ran to Jiangsu. I don't know where to find out the master's trace, so I sent The master was kidnapped into a hidden cave."

When I think of Soul Sect, my mind is full of the young face of the uncle.If the uncle is really involved, not only me, but even the master may not be able to let him go.

"The Soul Sect is not a decent school, and the subordinates are naturally cruel. They forced the master to teach them the Maoshan technique. In desperation, the master said that they would heal her before he would tell them. The disciples of the Soul Sect naturally agreed. After the master recovered, he was able to escape from the cave under the negligence of the believers." When Tao Ming finished speaking, I felt very strange, because he still had that unhurried expression on his face.

"Afterwards, after she returned to Maoshan, master, she has been practicing in seclusion. After the master retreat, she took in a group of disciples, and I am one of them."

"Then did your master tell you where the cave of the Soul Sect is?" I asked anxiously, the master turned his head and gave me a look, saying that children should not interrupt when adults talk.

Tao Ming smiled and continued: "The master didn't say anything, but she just said that the structure in the cave was complicated and the mountain road outside the cave was rugged. She finally escaped but still got lost in the mountains." The master was also curious. Ask her what happened next.

"The master said that when she came out, the mountain was full of fog, and she couldn't tell the sky from the south to the north. I wanted to wait for the night to watch the stars and ask the way, but then I fainted from exhaustion after walking. When I woke up, I found myself in the On a heated kang." After he finished speaking, I couldn't believe it.Is there a heated kang in the south, but what he said next surprised me.

"Master woke up and found that it was a farmer who rescued her. After asking, she found out that she was near Changbai Mountain. She didn't even know how she ran from a green mountain to the edge of a snow-capped mountain." I was stunned. People are different, they can travel thousands of miles away if they are not careful.

The master was shocked when he heard this. It was difficult for him to explain what was going on.But I do have an idea. Maybe the Soul Sect had an insight into the method of the physical body passing through the Yin at that time.From one location to a location thousands of miles away in an instant, maybe it can really be done through the underworld.

In addition to being amazed, I also have scruples about Tao Ming, who claims to be the apprentice of Lotus.Why did the person who disappeared for so long and didn't contact him suddenly appear.

"Actually, I came here to look for you this time because of the meaning of the master. The master said that he was dying and wanted to see you again, so he won't let me come to pick you up." After speaking, he took out two bags from his pocket. A train ticket.I thought to myself, my teacher's wife is poor enough, and I don't even talk about buying a plane ticket or anything like that.

"Hold it well, I'll come pick you up the day after tomorrow." After finishing speaking, he cupped his fists and left.After Tao Ming was sent away, I felt a hundred times unhappy. I thought that if the master trained me well for a month, I would improve a lot.Unexpectedly, as soon as I got home, he was leaving.

"Thirteen, come here." I was still downstairs and locked the door, and when I heard the master call me, I turned and went upstairs.

"I think it won't be that simple when we go this time. This Tao Ming looks bad, so don't go with me." The master is the master, and he has already guessed what I am going to say.

Then he went on to say: "You can help me look after the store, and you can keep the money you earn as wages. Also, you go under my bed and bring the locked black box." The master put the ticket in his wallet and told me.

I hurried to the bedroom, took out the box and handed it to the master.

"What is contained here is a formation derived from Qimen Dunjia. Combined with the paper-tying technique and the use of talismans, it can achieve the purpose of catching ghosts and subduing demons. You should have seen how powerful it is. However, next, You have to rely on yourself to practice. Ahem." As the master spoke, he suddenly coughed.

I quickly handed the master a glass of water, but I didn't pay attention when I first came back. The master's face seemed to be very haggard. I don't know if it was a side effect of recalling the past.

(End of this chapter)