Strive for Science

"What's wrong with passers-by? The most powerful master in martial arts novels is still an unknown sweeping monk." Shen Chang'an coughed dryly, interrupting the quarrel between the master and the apprentice, "According to the relevant state regulations, others without the master's permission, You can't break into the owner's private space. In addition, we respect religious beliefs, but preaching is prohibited in public places. If you have any problems with the two priests, you can discuss them slowly in private."

You can fight with the door closed, just don't drag him into the water.

"Young man, I see that you are very talented. Are you interested in studying Taoism with me?" The old man quickly changed his words, changing the theory of religion into theory, "Taoism is also a part of philosophy. We can discuss philosophy of life and the meaning of life together." .”

Shen Changan: "Thank you, I may not have the talent to be a philosopher."

The old man didn't seem to want to let go of his plan to discuss the philosophy of life with Shen Changan, and he still persuaded him: "Come here, I can offer a high salary..."

"You can pull it down, your ruined Taoist temple, there are not many pilgrims all year round, and it is barely maintained thanks to the support of the association." The yellow robed Taoist glanced at the car parked by the roadside, "I think you should go back early ,An extra hour will cost you an extra car rental fee.”

"Yeah, when you rented a car to pick up business, didn't you almost get into a fight because of the one-hour rental fee?" The old man was a little embarrassed when the traitor exposed his predicament, and retorted, "If you didn't Because of the help of those useless brothers and sisters in your mouth, you have been beaten by the car rental driver to the point of crying."

General Manager Wang stared blankly at this scene. He just wanted to call the police and arrest the troublemaker Taoist priest. Why did the old Taoist priest take Mr. Shen as his apprentice?He turned his head and looked at Mr. Shen, who was bewildered, obviously confused by this sudden change.

"Mr. Shen?" Manager Wang walked to Shen Changan, "There are people coming and going outside, why don't we go in and talk about it?"

Hearing the word "go in", the yellow-robed Taoist priest's eyes lit up, and he stared at Shen Changan with burning eyes, as if Shen Changan disagreed, so he pressed his head to agree.

Pretending not to see the eyes of the yellow-robed Taoist priest, Shen Changan nodded: "Okay."

Manager Wang heaved a sigh of relief, the police car and the police were standing at the gate, in case someone with malicious intentions took a photo, saying that someone from their company committed a crime, and the trouble would affect the entire company.

A group of people entered the reception room, and the yellow-robed Taoist took the opportunity to take out the compass hidden in his sleeve, but the pointer on the compass did not move at all, his face became more and more ugly, and he didn't even hear the police asked him to put the compass away.

How could this be?

There is no ghost in this building, very clean.

"Impossible, this is impossible..." The yellow-robed Taoist shook the compass in his hand, "This must be broken."

Walking into the reception room, the old man glanced at the yellow-robed Taoist who was still fiddling with the compass: "I thought you would make a lot of progress after running outside for so many years, but I didn't expect it to be nothing more than that. You made a fuss in front of this company." After so long, didn’t you realize that there is no ghost energy here?”

The Taoist in yellow robe was stunned, he looked up at the old man: "Did you see it already?"

But why did the elder tell him with certainty that there was an evil ghost here, as long as he took this evil ghost into custody, he would get countless merits?

In the past few years, the old man has given him countless advices, and he has never made a single mistake. Why did he make such an obvious mistake this time?

"In the past few years, your reputation outside has grown, but your skill has not grown. I don't know what happened to you, and I don't want to care about you. I think it's too much for me to persuade you because of the teacher-student relationship in the past. Paranoid people will not end well in the end."

"You are not paranoid. When you see poor ghosts, you will burn paper money for them." The Taoist man in yellow robe was already a little unstable. , have you lived a life of great wealth?"

"That's all." The old man sighed, "You and I have nothing to say. Go on your own way in the future. I hope that the next time I hear from you, it will not be bad news."

The reception room fell silent, and Shen Changan sat in the corner, extracting some information from the conversation between the master and apprentice.The aptitude of this yellow-robed Taoist should not be considered particularly good, otherwise his master would not have said such things.

But in this yellow-robed Taoist, he saw the arrogance of a practitioner to ordinary people.Perhaps in his eyes, ordinary people are not worthy of him to take a closer look, and even practitioners who are not as capable as him are the objects of his contempt.

Such a person, perhaps after a period of low self-esteem, will become extraordinarily proud after making a fortune.

"Two priests, it seems that what happened today was all a misunderstanding." Shen Changan showed a harmless smile, "The rumors about this company being haunted have already been found out. It's just that the computer system was implanted Trojan horse. After patching up the system loopholes, all the ghosts have been reported, and the priest may have believed the rumors on the Internet because of hearing those rumors."

"Currently some self-media who have no bottom line like to report things with embellishments to attract the public's attention and discussion." Shen Changan glanced at Manager Wang who was sitting next to him, "Mr. There are ghosts at the door, which will have a great impact on the company's reputation. The person in charge of the company can sue you and demand financial compensation from you."

The Taoist priest in yellow looked at Shen Chang'an out of the corner of his eye, but didn't speak.

"However, as a practitioner, the Taoist priest swears that there are ghosts here because of some rumors on the Internet?" Shen Changan shook his head and sighed, "Although you may have good intentions, the rumors about ghosts on the Internet There are too many, if you believe everyone, will you..."

Shen Chang'an didn't finish his words, but the Taoist priest in yellow felt that he was calling himself a fool.

"Are you laughing at me?" The anger in the yellow-robed Taoist priest's heart was like a small flame meeting oil, igniting, "You think I'm one of those fools who don't have a brain?!"

Manager Wang nodded silently beside him, looking not only stupid, but also a little nervous.

"You know what, I have..."

Shen Changjian pretended not to care about the answer, but the other party swallowed the words in the middle of what he said.He was a little disappointed in his heart, it seemed that there was someone else behind this Taoist priest, and this person also knew that Chen Yuan's soul had been lingering in this company and never left.

If he hadn't come to this company a few days ago, only Zhang Gu would have come to collect the ghosts. In the end, Chen Yuan was taken away by Zhang Gu, or did his resentment suddenly explode, turning into a ghost and hurting Zhang Gu?

"This priest, when did you start making trouble?" Shen Chang'an asked Manager Wang in a low voice.

"It's annoying to say it. In the early morning of the night when you helped us find out the loophole, he told the company's guard that something was wrong. After the guard drove him away, he came here every day to make trouble." Speaking of this, Manager Wang Fortunately, Mr. Shen found out the company's problems that day, otherwise he might really believe the Taoist's words.

He came the night he and Zhang Gu took Chen Yuan, that houseboy ghost, away?

Is it a coincidence or a good timing?

"That night was the time when the evil spirits awakened, and you delayed me from catching them..."

"Mr. Taoist, please be sober, there is no ghost in this company." Manager Wang couldn't bear it anymore, and retorted, "You have lied so much that you even believe it yourself?"

The Taoist in yellow robe wanted to scold the other party for his ignorance, but thinking that there was no ghost in this company, his complexion turned pale and pale, and he said after a while, "Maybe the ghost ran away early when he saw someone was going to arrest him."

He himself was a little guilty when he said this. If a dead ghost wants to become a ghost that endangers one side, he must pay attention to the right time, place and people.

If that ghost leaves the company, the possibility of becoming a ghost will be greatly reduced.But who took that ghost away?

He didn't believe that the senior would lie to him, so something must have happened.

"Did other masters come to your company in the past few days?" He looked at Manager Wang, still unwilling to give up.

"No, no." Manager Wang was so annoyed by him, he stood up and said to the two policemen, "Comrade policeman, I still have some work to do, and there will be staff here to deal with it."

"Okay." The two policemen also felt a little sympathetic to the manager of the company. In addition, this branch company was brought in by attracting investment and provided jobs for some local people, so they didn't want to make things too difficult for the other party.

Seeing Manager Wang leave, the Taoist priest in yellow robe suddenly stopped making trouble. He turned his head to look at Shen Changan: "Could it be you?"

"Yes, it's me." Shen Changan nodded, and continued when the yellow-robed Taoist priest was about to change his face, "Didn't I tell you just now that I found out the system problems of this company?"

"That's not what I'm talking about." The yellow-robed Taoist suddenly remembered that although his master is useless, he would never deliberately say that a passer-by has good aptitude in order to hurt him, "Did you take that ghost away?"

"Master Dao, don't make such a joke." Facing the scrutinizing gazes of the two policemen, Shen Chang'an was shocked, "What kind of ghost is this? What age is this? Where in the world do ghosts come from?"

Seeing Shen Changan's helpless expression, the two policemen had no choice but to say, "This is a staff member of the civilian service department." The usual work of their department is to break the feudal superstition and promote science for the people, so how could it be involved with ghosts and gods.

In the end, the yellow-robed Taoist priest was taken away by the police. Because of his bad attitude, he refused to admit his mistake. He was detained for seven days and fined 1500 yuan. He was also published in the local newspaper.

A rumor quickly spread in the local area, saying that there are fake Taoist priests defrauding money. Taking out a piece of talisman paper for people to smell will make people lose their minds and give all valuables on their bodies to the fake Taoist priests.

This rumor spreads quickly, especially among middle-aged and elderly people.True Taoist priests were overwhelmed by this rumor, Taoist priests with online platform accounts stepped up one after another, and gave netizens science knowledge such as "how to expose fake Taoist priests" and "what should we do when encountering fake Taoist priests", which can be regarded as for the recent The rumors broke my heart.

Shen Chang'an didn't care much about these things on the Internet. After he went back, he discussed it with Uncle Zhang and Yan Yin.These two are people in the metaphysics circle. It must be much easier to check the past life of the Taoist in yellow robe than him.

"Sigh." Uncle Zhang glanced at the homeboy ghost sitting on the sofa, slurping his food, and couldn't imagine what it would be like for him to become a ghost.

Sensing that Uncle Zhang was looking at him, the otaku ghost raised his head and smiled at him.

Uncle Zhang: "..."

"Let's make an analogy. For example, the person behind the Taoist priest calculated that Chen Yuan might become a ghost, so he asked the Taoist priest to catch ghosts. But has he ever thought that maybe the Taoist priest is not Chen Yuan's opponent at all, but instead It may become Chen Yuan's nourishment." Zhang Gu thought for a while, "No matter how I think about it, I think that person has bad intentions."

"Maybe he wanted that Taoist priest to be nourishment." Shen Changan frowned, "I always feel that the person behind it actually wants Chen Yuan to become a ghost."

"What good does Chen Yuan become for him if he turns into a fierce ghost?" Uncle Zhang said, "You can't eat or drink, and you can't use it as a slave ghost. Ghosts with special horoscopes like Chen Yuan, if they become fierce ghosts, they will only cause trouble. Infinity, if the ghosts of the underworld are too late to take care of them, I don’t know how many people in the metaphysics world will have to be damaged to subdue him.”

"However, in the book of life and death, his lifespan is not over. If he really turns into a ghost..." It is definitely impossible for the errand to find out in time.Thinking of this, Zhang Gu's face became extremely ugly, the mind behind this is so vicious.

"Doing this kind of thing that harms others and harms oneself not only harms Yin and virtue, but also bears the cause and effect. What is that person trying to do?"

"Normal people can never guess what a madman is thinking." Shen Changan turned his head to look at Yan Yin who had been silent all this time, "Master, what's your opinion?"

"The humble monk was just thinking that if the benefactor Shen hadn't brought back the soul of the benefactor Chen Yuan that day, that person's plan might have succeeded." Yan Yin looked at Shen Chang'an with eager eyes, "The benefactor Shen is really helping the world." The fate of saving people, really..."

"I don't think about it, thank you." Shen Changan resolutely refused. The barbecue is so delicious, the food stalls are so lively, and the hot pot is so delicious. It is impossible to become a monk, even if he is killed.

"That's all." Yan Yin felt a little regretful, "Then I'll ask you next time."

Shen Chang'an: "Master, even if you ask me countless times, I will not change my mind. Don't you always say that the monks should have the six senses clean and not be attached to everything? You are acting like this."

"Yes." Hearing Shen Chang'an's words, Yan Yin said confidently, "So I have practiced for so many years, but I still haven't become a Buddha. Maybe after you convert to Buddhism, Benefactor Shen, I will be able to become a Buddha through epiphany."

Shen Changan: "..."

Well, he still chooses to keep his mouth shut.

"I don't know if Lord Chenghuang has found out what happened." Shen Chang'an counted the days, three or four days have passed, and Lord City God has neither cast a dream on him nor manifested a divine body in front of him, could it be I can't find out the truth, so I'm sorry to see him.

Hearing the word "City God", both Yan Yin and Uncle Zhang had subtle expressions, and Uncle Zhang couldn't help but say, "Xiao Shen, since you don't want to practice Buddhism, why don't you consider cultivating Taoism? We don't have so many rules in Taoism." , If it’s not possible, you can still be a registered disciple, eat what you should eat, drink what you should drink, and learn Taoism, isn’t it killing two birds with one stone?”

"I usually like to eat stewed beef." Shen Changan politely refused.

"Wine and meat have passed through the intestines, and the Tao remains in my heart." Uncle Zhang coughed dryly, "Just don't eat it in front of me."

"Amitabha." Yan Yin was amazed, he didn't expect Zhang Daoyou to draw Benefactor Shen into the circle of metaphysics, the bottom line was so low that there was no bottom line.Fortunately, Shen Changan was able to invite God, only the three of them knew, if it spread to the metaphysics circle, there would probably be a big drama outside Shen Changan's gate where thousands of people wrote blood letters asking for cultivation.

"Uncle Zhang..." Shen Changan smiled awkwardly, and finally chose to tell the truth, "Sorry, I am not very interested in Fushui. What's more, for me, ghosts are not very different from people. Learning or not doesn't seem to make much difference."

Uncle Zhang fell silent strangely, and after a long time he said: "Yeah, I forgot, you can catch plague ghosts with bare hands, so what kind of Taoism do you need to learn?"

"What plague ghost?" Shen Changan was a little puzzled when he heard this, "When did I catch the plague ghost?"

"Did you catch a gangster on Halloween night?"

"That's right." Shen Changan still had some impressions of that person, after all, it's not common for people to make themselves so disgusting.

"That... is the plague ghost." Uncle Zhang watched Shen Changan's eyes widen slowly, showing an unbelievable look, and said slowly, "In order to catch this plague ghost, we sent many practitioners, but they were still caught by him." escaped."

"So, you mean..." The man who was beaten by him a few times was a plague ghost that the entire cultivation world couldn't catch?

Although Uncle Zhang and Yan Yin didn't really want to admit it, they still nodded silently.

"No wonder I just caught a gangster. The higher-ups not only gave me a special award, but also let the whole department receive the bonus." Shen Changan suddenly realized, "I said why I didn't give any more rewards when I caught a thief or a gangster later. I got a bonus, so there is still this one out."

Thinking about the situation that day, he couldn't believe that the man who seemed to be mentally abnormal was a plague ghost, because he was really...too weak.

"Could it be that we are too yang in the world, so I was caught so easily?" In order to save the face of the bigwigs in the metaphysics world, Shen Changan found a reason for them, "After all, we are all fighting now." After getting the vaccine, the vaccine is his nemesis, so he will be weak as soon as he comes to the world."

"impossible……"

Uncle Zhang's words were interrupted by the ringtone of Shen Chang'an's cell phone.

"Brother Liu?"

"Now?" Shen Changan glanced at Uncle Zhang and the others, "Okay, wait for me for 10 minutes."

After hanging up the phone, Shen Changan took some bags of snacks and a few bottles of Coke for the otaku ghost, and smiled apologetically at Uncle Zhang: "I'm sorry, my friend invited me to have supper, I'll go first."

Uncle Zhang thought of Shen Changan, a mysterious and generous friend, and nodded silently.

When Shen Changan ran downstairs, he saw Liu Mao parked the car outside the community, stretched out his hand to open the door and sat in: "Brother Liu, why did Dao Nian suddenly want to eat barbecue?"

"Just now, sir, I remembered that you like to eat barbecue, and you were worried that the things outside were unhygienic, so you asked Lao Zhao to set up a barbecue grill, and prepared the meat skewers, waiting for you to go over and eat." Liu Mao waited for Shen Changan to fasten his seat belt. , started to start the car, "Old Zhao, among other things, his cooking skills must be top-notch."

Unknowingly, the topic changed from whether to go to Dao Nian's house for supper, and soon developed into what to eat tonight.When passing by a fruit shop, Shen Changan found that there was a seller of fried chestnuts in front of the shop, so he got out of the car and bought two.

"Mr. Shen, what are you buying this for?"

"Dao Nian likes to eat this."

Liu Mao was stunned, how could the husband have something he likes?But when he saw in the rearview mirror that Shen Changan took off his coat and wrapped the fried chestnuts to prevent them from cooling too quickly, he fell silent again.

Maybe what my husband likes is not the fried chestnuts, but the intention of taking off his coat and covering the chestnuts in order to ensure the taste of the fried chestnuts.

When the car stopped at the intersection and waited for the traffic lights, Shen Changan saw an old lady slowly crossing the sidewalk. This old lady looked familiar.

Shen Changan glanced at the traffic light with only two or three seconds left, sighed, pulled down the car door and walked down.

Walking to the old man's side, Shen Chang'an bent down and said, "Mother-in-law, why are you alone again this time?"

The old woman looked at him carefully for a long time, and said in an old voice: "Are you the young man who carried me across the street last time?"

"You still know me?" Shen Changan picked up the old woman on his back, and walked quickly to the side of the street, "It's cold at night in winter and the road is dark, you should try to go out as little as possible."

The old lady lay on his back, smiled and said, "No, I have to go out today."

"Then the next time you want to go out and cross the street, try to find a time when there are many people." Walking through the zebra crossing, Shen Changan put down the old lady, "Grandma, be careful on the road, I'm going back to the car."

"Wait." The old lady suddenly grabbed Shen Changan's hand, "Young man, you are so kind, your kindness should be rewarded."

"I am a staff member of the civilian service department, and it is my duty to serve the people." Shen Changan smiled, turned around and was about to rush back.

"Remember, don't trust others casually." The old lady stood there watching his leaving back, her voice hoarse, "Be careful, don't let..."

"Don't let what?" When Shen Changan looked back, the old lady was looking at him with a smile, as if she hadn't said anything.

"Mr. Shen." Liu Mao, who didn't know when he got out of the car, waved to Shen Chang'an, "It's cold outside, you're not wearing a coat, get in the car quickly."

"Come right away." Shen Changan waved to the old woman, turned around and ran quickly towards Liu Mao.

Liu Mao turned around and met the eyes of the old woman. Liu Mao nodded slightly at her. The old woman took a step back, watching Shen Changan get into the car with complicated eyes, and then slowly disappeared into the night.

She turned slowly to face the zebra crossing, stumbling across the street as she waited for the next car to pass.

One car after another drove past her, and some car owners yelled at her, telling her not to affect the traffic when she was old.

No one stopped for her, helped her or carried her through this sparsely populated street.

"Mr. Shen, do you know that old lady?" Liu Mao asked.

"I don't know. When I came back from Dao Nian's house last time, I also met this old lady crossing the street. There were a lot of cars that day. Some drivers were in a hurry and kept honking their horns. I was afraid that she would fall, so I got out of the car." Carry her on her back."

"Aren't you afraid that she will touch Ci'er?"

"There is a camera, not to mention that I am so poor, what can I do?" Shen Changan smiled, "I just want peace of mind."

The author has something to say: Changan's friendly reminder: I am the leading actor with a special physique.But everyone should be safe first, don't be touched.