Old Fogey Goes Down The Mountain

In fact, Kuang Zhiming is also very uncertain. He has been a Taoist priest for more than ten years, and together with his parents and grandparents, this is the first time he has encountered such a wonderful fellow.

It seems that since he met Taicangzong, his outlook on life has always been refreshed.

Wei Xi received Kuang Zhiming's answer, but immediately felt that the certificate in his hand was very useful.

There is a reason for his cautious attitude. From the time he came down the mountain to the establishment of the Taicang Sect, he gradually learned that the world beyond the mountain is really much more difficult than he originally imagined.Before and after, there are rules everywhere. To start a company, you must pay taxes, apply for a business license, and provide employees with five social insurances and one housing fund.Tuanjieyi said that these procedures are the experience that ordinary people must feel when starting from scratch. Who made Taicangzong have no backer?

Backstage wow...

After learning about it, Wei Xi seriously thought about what it was, only to find out later that it was official support.

It's like the old rations of wild boar spirits, but now it's just a "national protected animal" and they can't eat it casually, and they have to be fined if they are caught casually.

Compared with my own sect, it is very difficult to even join a Taoist association because of insufficient certificates.

A penny is hard for a hero. At first, Wei Xi thought it would be easy to revive the sect. Now, looking at the number of followers in his own family and comparing it with the temples of other priests present, he has realized the reality. He wants to be famous all over the world. And I have to go.

So he carefully closed the certificate and stuffed it to the second apprentice: "Put it away quickly, don't lose it."

The second apprentice, who was still staring at Mingchai vigilantly just now, had a very complicated expression because of the sudden expression of God, and silently spread out the certificate for a while before gathering it in his hand.

The other priests in the house have already fallen into the same predicament as Kuang Zhiming - what is the situation now.

Then I heard the voice of the conversation continue to come from over there.

Tuanjieyi asked his junior in shock: "Junior, is our master an official now?!"

Shuo Zong: "...um."

Tuanjieyi: "I'll go, or the director, is the officer quite big? Is there a staff?"

Shuo Zong really didn't know how to explain it, so Mingcha interjected: "There must be an establishment, and it belongs to our local city god commissioner. This is a formal procedure."

Unity Yi seized the key point: "Is there a salary?"

Mingchai said: "There must be wow, it will be distributed in place."

"Wow!" Tuanjieyi hurriedly asked, "How much is a month?"

Mingchai: "If our Tisi is a senior leader, the monthly basic salary is about 80 yuan..."

Tuanjieyi's eyes widened in shock from this number, and Mingcha added the second half of the sentence: "...Mingbao."

Unity righteousness: "……………"

Tuanjieyi let out a calm oh, and the 80 ghost notes are useful.

****

Ming Chai is also obviously dissatisfied with the salary standard, and he has a lot of emotion when he mentions this topic: "In the past few years, the Ming money in the Yangjian has been printed bigger and bigger, and inflation has been severe, but the salary standard in the yamen system has not changed for more than ten years. , what can this little money do for him?"

Department-level cadres are like this, and it is even more difficult for grassroots employees like him. Therefore, most of the little seducers who are in charge of the soul seduction in the City God's Land Department are like him and will find ways to make some extra money.This time, Taoist Priest Yu of the Immortal Palace invited him to revive his soul, which is a kind of extra money. The money he burnt does not go to the public account, it is his gray income, and other colleagues also have their own ways to make money. The good ones can also earn a lot of money, but those paths are somewhat unclean, so they are out of his reach.

He thought so, and was a little curious for a while: "Director Wei, how did your sect provide jobs for more than 700 ghosts, and how did you get the salary?"

Wei Xi truthfully told a number, and Mingchai suddenly showed an envious expression: "Yangjian is indeed in the era of market economy. It is better to be an individual than to enter the system."

I heard the priests present here: "..."

Tuanjieyi joked: "Our company has been recruiting for a long time, and Master Mingcha is also interested in coming?"

He was talking about it for fun, but after listening to it, Mingchai was really ready to move. After hesitating for a while, he sighed: "Recently, there have been several major accidents in Yangjian. Let’s take a few colleagues to have a look. It’s definitely unrealistic to resign. The competition for the National Examination is no less difficult than yours, and you’ve worked very hard to get to your current position. no."

The topic of government-business collusion is simply full of corruption.

The priests who listened to the whole process were all bad.

****

The body of the little girl who came back to life on the bed suddenly bounced and let out a sound like a cat meowing. Only then did Priest Yu of the Immortal Palace come back to his senses and stepped forward to check.

The little girl was ignorant, obviously unable to digest her vague experiences these days, staring at the group of strangers in Taoist robes in the ward with fear on her face.Daoist Yu was already prepared, and stuck a talisman on her forehead, and after confirming that she had fallen asleep, he led everyone out of the room.

However, his condition was not much better than that of the little girl who had just woken up, and his expression looked blank under the shock brought by Wei Xi.

It's a pity that he was out of his mind, but the culprit, Taicangzong, didn't realize the harm he caused at all. The only second disciple who had some common sense didn't try to appease them, and kept the certificate that Wei Xi took seriously.

However, the scene of a group of specially dressed Taoist priests appearing in the hospital is still very eye-catching. Many family members, patients and even medical staff in the corridor cast their eyes on it.

Wei Xi was in normal state amidst all the attention. Seeing that Mingchai seemed to want to leave after he came out, he suddenly remembered something and stopped him: "Wait a minute."

Ming Chai was quite polite to him, and immediately stopped: "Director Wei, what's wrong?"

Wei Xi took out a piece of paper, wrote down Wei Dedao's birth date and name, handed it over and asked, "When you were working below, did you see the owner of this character?"

Kuang Zhiming on the side asked: "Is Taoist Chief Wei also looking for a soul?"

Wei Xi nodded: "He disappeared for a long time, I don't know where he went."

Kuang Zhiming asked: "It also disappeared in the capital recently? Is it a lost soul? Maybe we can also help to find it back."

Wei Xi shook his head: "He has reached the end of his life and died in Fengyang. He must have been reincarnated. I just want to see how he is doing now."

This situation is obviously different from what Daoist Yu encountered. Kuang Zhiming immediately felt that it was not easy to handle: "Fengyang is thousands of kilometers away from the capital, and it died of natural causes. The local city god and land secretary may..."

Before he finished speaking, he saw Mingchai took the fluffy paper without any pressure: "It's okay, it's okay, Yincao Division has learned from the advanced experience of Yangjian over the years, and advocated open and transparent information sharing among local city gods, and Just finished the census of ghosts, just check a ghost."

Kuang Zhiming: "..."

After saying that, Ming Chai raised his hand to conjure up a book, and started to read it according to the horoscope, but he let out a surprise when he flipped through it: "Director Wei, there is no record of the horoscope you checked, is it wrong? .”

Wei Xi fell silent, and the other party's answer was within his expectation.

The second apprentice on the side took two steps closer and stood beside him silently. Wei Xi recovered without explaining anything. After taking back the paper and thinking for a while, he wrote another string of eight characters: "Then What about this? He also died in Fengyang."

This is the horoscope of the little unlucky guy who was saved by him. Wei Xi himself was forced into his body, but he didn't know what happened to him after being saved.

Mingchai finally found the information this time, looked at the page and said, "Huh? It's our local household registration in the capital, right? It shows that he was handed over to our local yamen by the Fengyang City God after his death, and he is queuing up to reincarnate. He died very It's late, I guess there's a lot to wait for, but I just submitted the application for the regional and provincial examinations of the City God's Division recently, and I'm pretty motivated. Huh? Why does his application background show that he failed the application? His academic qualifications are quite good, let me see why..."

After a long while, he let out a long sigh: "The cause of death was suicide. It is probably because this one is stuck. Now that there are more requirements for the provincial examination, it is very difficult for candidates who commit suicide to pass the primary selection. The chance of applying for the examination is very slim. How can Wei Wei?" Director, do you know him?"

Wei Xi hummed.

After the Mingchai got the answer, he immediately showed a smiling face: "That's it, then I'll go back and mention it to the yamen, and see if I can make an exception and give him a chance to apply for the exam. This person's education is very good, it's a pity to pass it down." .”

Anyway, it's just an opportunity to apply for the exam. The provincial exam for the City God's Division is so difficult, and if your personal ability is too poor, you will be rejected sooner or later.

Wei Xi nodded indifferently, this body was not what he wanted to come in at all, he didn't feel any karmic debt between himself and the little hapless guy, but now that the little hapless guy's family members have become his disciples of the Taicang sect, There's nothing wrong with helping out.

One person and one ghost were talking, and some of the people who were paying attention to the group of Taoists here finally couldn't hold back.

Wei Xi heard a cold snort, looked up, and saw a middle-aged man in a hospital gown sitting on the bed in the ward with the wide open door ahead.

The four eyes met, the man's expression became more and more disgusted, and his brows were deeply frowned: "Crazy! Pretending to be a ghost!"

After thinking about it for a while, Wei Xi also realized what the other party meant. Ordinary people who didn't open their yin and yang eyes couldn't see the ghost talking with him, so what they saw was probably the picture of him talking to himself, plus There are so many Taoist priests around him...

Kuang Zhiming at the side saw Wei Xi staring at the patient who was cursing for no reason, remembered his violent temper, and hurried forward to persuade him: "Daoist Wei, don't take it personally, you will get used to our business sooner or later, those who don't believe it Will never believe..."

Before he finished speaking, he suddenly heard Mingcha next to Weixi yell, raised the list in his hand, compared it to the middle-aged man who spoke, took out the chain and said, "So it's here, what a coincidence!"

Kuang Zhiming: "..."

Everyone: "..."

A moment later, the ward was in chaos, with medical staff coming and going.

Outside the ward door—

Kuang Zhiming: "..."

Everyone: "..."

The soul of the middle-aged patient locked in the chains of the underworld: "..."

Wei Xi thought for a while, thinking it was a business deal, and asked, "Do you want to invite our Taicang sect to do something?"

The soul of the middle-aged patient met his gaze dully, and after a while he said weakly, "... sorry for your trouble."

****

This middle-aged man had a sudden cerebral infarction caused by years of alcoholism. As usual, he was in a trance that was unacceptable for a while, and then he was taken away by the ghost amidst the cries of his family members in tears.

Before leaving, Mingchai said that he would visit Taicangzong when he was free. After Wei Xi said goodbye to him, he took his new certificate and started looking for a shop that could make god statues with his two apprentices.

It was the first time that a believer asked to invite the young minister to go home to worship. It was related to the Taicang sect. Wei Xi had a strict attitude. He chose several shops before choosing one. After entering the shop, the boss came up to him and asked, "What do you need?" ah?"

Wei Xi: "Order a few god sculptures."

The boss understood as soon as he heard it. In recent years, many small Taoist temples have made custom-made statues of gods and Buddhas outside, and then brought them back to their own temples to consecrate them before using them. Which god is it? Sanqing? Wang Chongyang? Quanzhen Seven Sons? Zhenwu Emperor? We have been in this business for many years, and you can do everything you want."

Tuanjieyi went forward and looked through the brochure given by the boss, but he didn't find his own enshrinement from the beginning to the end: "Boss, why didn't you see the illustration of Dao Tianzun?"

Boss: "...to gain the Tao of Heavenly Venerable?"

He immediately rummaged through his memory and thought hard, but after thinking for a long time, he didn't think of such a deity. Facing Tuanyiyi's expression of "I'm going to you, you don't even know this", he couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed.

Wei Xi looked around at the finished statues, but he didn't have the slightest intention to explain. In the end, Shuo Zong couldn't bear it anymore and said: "Don't use illustrations, just customize according to our requirements."

The boss wiped his sweat with amnesty and agreed again and again. He has opened the shop for so many years, and it's not like he hasn't encountered customers with similar requirements. Just do it.

So he quickly took out the paper and pen: "Then please tell me the appearance and movement of the statue you want, and I will draw it according to your request."

Wei Xi was slightly taken aback when he heard his request: "Appearance? Movement?"

The boss said: "If you order a new statue, it must be different from our existing old statues. It doesn't need to be too many. You can just describe the special parts of the appearance. How high is the nose? How high are the eyebrows? Lips What shape? What clothes are you wearing?"

Wei Xi stared at the pen and paper in his hand, stunned for a while, then glanced at a group of clear and different faces around him, and suddenly said: "Lu Que, get married, we will come back another day."

Tuanjieyi was imagining with great interest the majesty of his own Tianzun, and when he heard that he was about to leave suddenly, he was immediately dumbfounded.

Shuo Zong ignored his bewilderment, frowned and followed quickly, catching up with the fast-paced Wei Xi: "What's wrong with you?"

Wei Xi looked at the busy road outside the store and remained silent.

*****

So at night Shuo Zong found him in the courtyard of Wei's house as usual.

The vegetation in the yard has grown very lushly, and Wei Xi sat cross-legged in the bushes enough to submerge him, looking up at the moon expressionlessly.

He exudes a kind of emptiness with nothing to do, as if no one disturbs him, he can sit like this forever without moving.

Shuo Zong frowned at his performance, walked forward, and sat beside him just like last time.

When Wei Xi heard the footsteps, he turned his head. The stars in the sky were reflected in his pupils, and he met the black and white eyes of the second apprentice overlooking him.

No one spoke, the night air was icy cold, and the surrounding sight was blocked by the tall vegetation, as if there were only the two of them left in the world.

Ever since he was in the enchantment, Wei Xi often sat outside the house and looked at the sky. He didn't know what to see in the sky, but when he had nothing to do, there seemed to be no better pastime besides looking at the sky.

This seems to be an instinct, so Wei Xi sometimes thinks that maybe he also lived like this in the past when he couldn't recall his memory.

He never thought it was a big deal, but now that the second apprentice was sitting beside him, he suddenly felt uncomfortable.

The second apprentice didn't speak, and remained calm as usual.

When Wei Xi grabbed a piece of grass and chewed it in his mouth, he frowned and turned his head, raised his hand to pull the grass out of his mouth and threw it away.

Wei Xi was used to being controlled, and he didn't resist. After a while, he lowered his eyes and said, "...I seem to have forgotten your master."

His tone was calm, and he couldn't hear much emotion: "I don't remember how high his nose is or how high his eyebrows are. He is blind and can't see anything. After he dies, I will take him The one carried into the grave, with his eyes closed, was covered with soil by my own hands, and that’s all I remember about him.”

The second apprentice raised his hands and brushed his hair quietly.

Wei Xi frowned and looked at him: "Today in the hospital, the family of the soul who was taken away by the ghosts cried very sadly. But Queer, I didn't shed a single tear when your master died. Why would I cry a little?" Not sad?"

The second apprentice whispered: "You are sad."

Wei Xi thought for a while, and answered with certainty: "I haven't."

The second apprentice sighed slowly, leaned his upper body over, and pressed his forehead against his, with an incomprehensible emotion flashing in his eyes: "Wei Xi."

Wei Xi: "Huh?"

The corner of his mouth became hot, and he was touched lightly. The second apprentice looked at him calmly: "You have."

Have it?

Wei Xi was silent for a while, not wanting to think about this question, so he put his arms around the back of his neck, trying to put his lips against him.

But the apprentice dodged back, pressed his nose and asked him, "Are you hungry again?"

Hungry?Wei Xi was taken aback by the question, and then realized that he was trying to absorb the yang energy of his apprentice again, which made him a little puzzled.During dinner, he emptied Wei's table under Wei Tianyi's black face as usual, and ate a lot of snacks and fruits after the meal. Although he would feel a little hungry all year round no matter how much he ate, but the hunger didn't seem to be strong right now. To the point of inhaling yang energy.

So why did he want to inhale Yang Qi just now?It seems to be so natural to want to smoke.

Wei Xi couldn't figure it out, but it seemed that it was really not good to suck the yang energy of his apprentice when he was not very hungry.

After all, he was his apprentice, Wei Xi struggled for a while, but shook his head honestly: "It's okay."

The apprentice seemed to be taken aback when he got the answer.

Wei Xi looked at him and thought to forget it, he wasn't too hungry anyway, so if the apprentice didn't want to, then he wouldn't smoke.

However, just as he was about to leave, the back of his head was suddenly covered. The apprentice avoided his lips and covered him again with hot temperature.

The scorching hot breath came down, and he couldn't help but let out a soft snort.

The wonderful mood that had trapped him for an entire afternoon suddenly disappeared. He hesitated for less than two seconds before he instinctively fell into his appetite.

The moon was bright and the stars were sparse, and there was no sound around, but they kissed quietly, and the very faint sound of water between their lips and teeth echoed in their ears.

Maybe he was too involved in eating, and when the two finally separated, Wei Xi licked his lips and realized that he had sat on his apprentice unknowingly.

Something seemed to be stuck on his leg, he shook subconsciously, before he could figure it out, he was suddenly pinched by his apprentice and forced to stand up: "Okay, go back and rest."

"..." Wei Xi looked hesitantly at the apprentice who seemed to be going through the ordeal he had experienced, "...Queer, don't you feel bad?"

There seemed to be veins twitching in the forehead of the expressionless apprentice: "No."

Wei Xi ate and drank enough, and followed closely: "Master will help you."

Shuo Zong: "...No, hurry back."

Seeing that he was so stubborn, Wei Xi became more and more worried. He thought that the apprentice was unwilling to help himself, so he made a suggestion: "If you don't want the master to come, you can also call your senior brother."

Shuo Zong: "...???"

After Wei Xi finished speaking, he saw his apprentice's face turned dark for some reason, and he was startled, and found that he was also inexplicably unhappy.

But the apprentice seemed to really not want to be helped at all, and refused so thoroughly.

Seeing the apprentice opened the door on his own, he actually felt a little uncomfortable, so he pulled his pants and said, "Okay, then go to bed early."

As a result, as soon as he pulled his trousers, the apprentice's movement of closing the door suddenly stopped, and his eyes fell on him sharply: "...where are you going!"

Although the body was a little uncomfortable, the feeling was not as strong as last time, and the apprentice could bear it, so Wei Xi planned to bear it too.But before going back to his room to go to bed, he still planned to find the big apprentice and ask the big apprentice to find something to hang the certificate received from Mingcha today with the company's business license.

Wei Xi then replied very naturally: "I'll go find your senior brother."

apprentice:"…………"

After Wei Xi answered, he took steps to leave.

Unexpectedly, as soon as the leg was raised, the arm was grabbed.

Wei Xi was inexplicably dragged into the room by his apprentice: "????"

Why is my second apprentice always so fickle?

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Shuo Zong: "Unity is dead!!!"

Tuanjieyi: "Suddenly being cue????"