Ghosts go the same way

In the end, the old man took Xiao Jiu and stopped in front of the only double gate they saw along the way.

But these two doors...are red-painted and gold-buttoned doors, that is, the doors of the main entrance of tall mansions on ordinary TVs, especially the door gods with hideous faces on the doors, and Spring Festival couplets on both sides: Seven Stars Shining out of Heshanlang, a sword flew to Haiyuqing.Such doors should appear outdoors, not indoors, or underground.With the antique corridors on both sides, it cannot be described with the word "weird" alone.

However, Xiao Jiu didn't think the existence of this door was weird, but just looked at the couplets and found it weird.

"This is a couplet from the Golden Palace of Fengming Mountain in Kunming. It looked good when I was traveling, so I cut half of it and pasted the second half here."

"Master, then we are considered Taoists?"

"We have also read the scriptures, cultivating inner family skills, paying attention to entering the world and subduing demons. However, it is not correct to say that it is a Taoist school, because we don't pay attention to the set of inaction and governance. If we really want to say which one it is..." The old man paused for a moment, then looked at Xiao Jiu, "We are cultivators."

Xiao Jiu was suddenly embarrassed.

The old man smiled: "Don't make such an expression, I'm not fooling you. There have been legends about immortals in China throughout the ages. Of course there are no such things that move mountains and seas, but some are true, and that's us. People of the road school."

Xiao Jiuyi thought, it is indeed true, although there is no supernatural power to wave a hand to make mountains fall apart, but in the eyes of the ancients, the people in their circle are either demons or ghosts or immortals descended to earth.Coupled with rumors and deliberate exaggeration, it probably turned some facts into illusory legends.

"Master, there are us... cultivators." It's a bit of a mouthful to say that, and it feels like it's a thousand miles away from the reality. "Is there such a thing as demon cultivators?"

"There are also, but they are just some little devils, at most they rely on the flesh and blood of animals to cultivate, and play a little crooked devil. Now it is impossible to become stronger through that way, so the more people who do that There are fewer and fewer, and now there are almost none. After all, the supervision from above is getting stricter, eating human flesh and soul, and eating more and more. Doing so is really looking for death."

Xiao Jiu snorted and nodded, he was actually just curious.And the old man's answer solved his curiosity and made him understand that people in this circle seem to be detached, but since they rely on the reality of society to survive, they still can't jump out of the box in the end.

That's good, otherwise, if there is really a world that is separated from everyone, and treats mortals as ants, killing people without blinking an eye and without taking any responsibility, then Xiao Jiu will feel too uncomfortable—after all He was also a member of the ants not long ago, and he was confused when he got the power.

After finishing the gossip, the old man opened the door, and the scene inside really shocked Xiao Jiu.

Behind the gate is a space similar to the main hall of a Buddhist temple, but the one enshrined in the middle is not a fairy Buddha, but an old man wearing a gray-blue gown of Tang or Song Dynasty and carrying a big bamboo basket on his back. His expression looks very similar to that of Mr. Huang. imagine.There is a tablet in front of the statue, and there are only five words on the tablet: the tablet of Kuiquan.

On the left and right of the statue, there are more tablets, densely packed, and people with intensive phobia may feel uncomfortable.

"This is our first generation of founders." The old man pointed to the portrait and said, then took out three incense sticks from the incense case, lit them and turned to look at Xiao Jiu and said, "We don't have too many rules in apprenticeship. Just pay homage to the patriarch, and then go to the side in a while, I will register for you, and you will be fine if you offer me a cup of tea. Now you watch how I do obeisance, you are on the futon behind, and you will do whatever you want after a while manage."

"En." Xiao Jiu nodded honestly.

Seeing that the old man took the incense, he stood behind the futon at the front, bowed first, then knelt down, and held the incense respectfully in front of his forehead when he kowtowed. Nine continued.

Xiao Jiu frowned, not because he didn't want to, but because he had never done obeisance like this before, and he was a little worried that he wouldn't be able to fall to the ground after a while.

"Master, didn't you kneel three times and knock nine times?"

"It's not necessary, it's good to be respectful, that's just a tossing." The old man waved his hand, Xiao Jiu agreed, and started to bow as the old man did just now.Sure enough, when he knelt down to worship, he tilted a bit, it seemed that he stretched his muscles too tight.However, although the posture of kowtowing was a bit ugly, it was finally completed smoothly.

Inserting the incense into the censer, Xiao Jiu breathed a sigh of relief.

"Okay, come here." Came out of the gate again, walked back the same way, this time near the door on the first floor, the old man opened a door and went in.

——The corridors in this place are so quaint, but there are still places full of modernity, such as the ordinary...office.

However, this is an office with very few people, with four desks and four computers, but there is only one middle-aged man who is slightly fat and wearing glasses.At first, he didn't realize that the old man came in, and his eyes were still fixed on the computer. From the reflection of his glasses, Xiao Jiu felt that he was probably playing online games, typing something...

"Cough!" A man in black who came in after Xiao Jiu and the old man coughed.

The middle-aged man raised his head subconsciously, and the result was a burst of "cracking!" When Xiao Jiu and the old man approached, he grabbed a handful of computer cables in his hand, and the keyboard and mouse fell to the ground, and the screen was black. , It seems that he was scared enough.

"Ancestor... Master Patriarch!" The middle-aged man was originally a kind of chubby, but now his forehead is covered with sweat, shiny and oily.

"It's okay." The old man smiled, "I just accepted a little apprentice, and I'm here to register with you."

Xiao Jiu and the middle-aged man said "Huh?" at the same time.

The middle-aged man probably heard that the old man would accept apprentices for the first time. Xiao Jiu didn't expect the old man to register in such a place. He thought it was signing on an old list or something.But thinking about it, the sect he entered seems to have been passed down for a long time. Even if there was a roster of apprentices at the beginning, it is already full by now.

After that, both of them reacted very quickly. The middle-aged man said: "Master Patriarch, wait a moment, my computer malfunctioned just now, restart it." While restarting the computer quickly, he pulled out the computer. Several of the connecting wires were reconnected.Then Xiao Jiu watched him click on a shortcut to "Insider Information" and enter the password to enter the interface.The first page is something like a family tree, and the name at the top is the old man.

Click on the old man, and click on another branch to join.Then he began to respectfully ask Xiao Jiu about various information ranging from simple name and age, to ID card number, whether he is married or not, which is extremely similar to checking household registration.It took more than a quarter of an hour to ask and answer like this, during which the old man kept drinking tea by the side.

Obviously Xiao Jiu looked at the old man smiling amiably, but the sweat on the middle-aged man's face kept flowing from the beginning to the end.

But Xiao Jiu felt a little strange. Logically speaking, after so many days, the sect (or company?) here should have known about his existence long ago, right?The old man came here with such great fanfare just now, it doesn't make sense that the person in charge of the registration is still playing games, and he doesn't even know about it?

But maybe?Xiao Jiu shook his head in his heart, warning himself not to be too pretentious, he was only here to learn as the old man's apprentice.Now it seems that suddenly a big company is on the sidelines, which is completely accidental.If there is any entanglement over money, then it is nothing to look for.

He came to be the old man's apprentice, but he didn't really come out to work.

After finishing the registration here, the middle-aged man hurriedly stood up: "I'm going to get some things for the uncle." Then he ran away.

"Wait here first, and you will follow me directly to my house in a while. I will let you meet your two senior brothers and one senior sister at night, so that you can get to know each other well before you go back to your own home."

"Understood, Master." Xiao Jiu said respectfully.

After waiting for about 20 minutes, the middle-aged man came over with a box about twice the size of a shoe box in his hands.Xiao Jiuyi still has some weight, and I don't know where he found it.As soon as the box was opened, there was a badge on the top, and next to the badge was a box of business cards. Next to the business card was an iPhone that hadn't been unpacked?Or just put a few pens in the case of the iPhone?As for the bottom one is... a laptop?

"Companies above a certain level will be equipped with communication tools and computers."

"..." Even though he said that, Xiao Jiu still didn't feel very good that such a precious thing came for nothing all of a sudden.

However, the old man nodded without saying anything, and yelled: "Apprentice, let's go." He put his hands behind his back and walked out.

In fact, not long after getting out of the car, Xiao Jiu got into the car again. It seems that the cup of tea was not toasted here, but after arriving at the old man's house.

Not long after the car came out, it turned a corner and went straight to the high speed.

"Master, is your home in the suburbs?"

"Yes, the city is too noisy, and I'm not used to living in it. When I'm old, I'll be disturbed by someone outside, and then I can't sleep." The old man nodded, and then sighed, "However, you can live in this way." It's too far away from me." While speaking, the old man squinted at Xiao Jiu.

The meaning to be expressed here couldn't be more clear. Half of the good and understanding children should say that they want to live with their elders.

But Xiao Jiu is obviously not a good boy in the general sense: "Master, you can rest assured that I will get up early every day and will not be late."

Old man: "..."