Daoist, stay safe

The Taoist temple is located in the old city, quite far away from her home and the place where she used to work. After the subway and the viaduct are built, this distance is nothing. It is remote and remote, and can basically be summed up by the word "countryside".With the discovery of the city, the location of the Taoist temple has become a village in the city, surrounded by self-built houses. Her family’s Taoist temple is actually self-built. The real estate certificate says it is a residence, and the land is a homestead.

Zhang Xiyan thought, if demolition, she is a proper second-generation demolition, but many of the landed households here are not short of money, and there are too many self-built buildings, which cannot be demolished.

The place where every inch of land is very expensive is actually an old urban village. There are no serious driveways, and the roadsides are all parked indiscriminately. Cars have to squeeze through the gaps, and they are often jammed.The Taoist temple in her house has a small river ditch in front of her house. When she was a child, the environment was okay, the river was clear, the water and plants were green, and there were many people washing vegetables and rice. Now, if it doesn’t rain for several days in summer, it will float from time to time. Smells like sewage.

It was after three o'clock in the afternoon when they arrived at the Taoist temple, and they opened the door with the key given by her grandfather.The spring flowers of Yutang in the courtyard are in full bloom. The pink petals are scattered on the stone slabs, reflecting the new green trees on the branches. It is full of spring, and against the newly repaired Taoist temple, it is quite a quiet scene, but the premise is that there is no The sound of scolding and crying of the child next door, and the sound of honking the horn outside the courtyard urging the taxi to get out of the way.

Zhang Changshou entered the Taoist temple with Zhang Xiyan's two suitcases in one hand and the other, and went straight to the rest area in the backyard.

When Zhang Xiyan entered the room, she found that the room was different. All the old-fashioned Chinese-style furniture had been replaced with modern Chinese-style furniture.The bed and cabinets in the bedroom have been changed, and a dresser and full-length mirror have been added, and all her usual things have been moved here from home.Her parents tidied up the room they wanted her to live in neatly and properly, but they moved all her belongings here from home, which made Zhang Xiyan wonder whether she should be moved or sad for a while.

Zhang Changshou put down his suitcase and said to Zhang Xiyan: "Guanzhu Zhang, from now on he will be the master of the house."

Zhang Xiyan: "..." She didn't want to talk to her father.

Obviously, Zhang Changshou and his wife didn't intend to chat with her too much and left in a hurry.

Zhang Xiyan seriously suspected that the two of them were afraid that she would cling to them and wanted to follow them home.She is 27, not seven.

After living in the mountains for three years, the ghost-like third aunt was always by her side, and she suddenly returned to the Taoist temple where there was no one... only her alone, and she was not used to it.

She put her luggage away, seeing that it was still early, went to the business hall to apply for broadband and changed her mobile phone package, and then went to a nearby tea restaurant for dinner.

While waiting for the food to be served, she picked up the mobile phone that had just recovered the internet, logged into the chat software and mailbox, and saw a pile of unread emails, half of which were spam emails and half of them were Liu Yu's emails.

At that time, she was very angry that Liu Yu stripped her vest, which disrupted her life plan, blocked Liu Yu, and then went to the mountains, without the Internet, and lost contact with Liu Yu.She didn't expect Liu Yu to send her so many emails with a trumpet.

Most of Liu Yu's emails are asking where she is, or which Taoist temples she went to find her, or saying that she is stingy, ass, blunt, a fool who has money but does not make money, and threatens her, "Zhang Shi Three, don't let me find you!"

"Zhang Lu, let me tell you, a monk can't run away from the temple if he can run away!"

The last email was two and a half years ago, and it was written "Zhang Shisan, the scenery in Miao Village is very good, and the sunset is beautiful." Attached is a photo.

The photo is in the mountains, when the autumn grass is withered and yellow, when the sun sets, the sky is dyed red by the sunset.The angle was taken on the mountainside facing the forest and the sky. In addition to the sunset and clouds on the top of the mountain, there is also an ancient altar built with stones in the grass.There was a totem pole standing on the altar, and the gloomy and dark totem pole glowed with a dim red light in the setting sun, giving off a somewhat ominous look.Because the relief on the totem pole is not clear when taken from a long distance, it becomes blurred after zooming in on the picture, but when zoomed out, it feels mysterious and weird.However, there is too little information, so I can't see why. I only know that it is probably something about the sacrificial culture of a certain ethnic minority.Liu Yu said that it was a Miao Village, so it should be related to the witch culture. It is possible that Chi You, the ancestor of the Miao nationality, is now a common sacrifice to Lord You in the Yunnan-Guizhou-Sichuan area, or it may be some mountain gods or miscellaneous ghosts.

Every place has its own worship gods, Zhang Xiyan didn't pay much attention to this, and when she saw the waiter serving the food, she put down her phone to eat.

At night, she was lying on the bed, drowsily about to fall asleep, when she suddenly remembered that Liu Yu had taken a photo and never sent her an email, and she woke up with a start.Then she thought again, if something happened to Liu Yu, Liu Shi would ask her father for help, and she would hear some rumors.Besides, she didn't have a deep friendship with Liu Yu, and Liu Yu took off her vest and changed the course of her life. She even blocked Liu Yu.

Thinking about this, Zhang Xiyan put the matter behind her and fell asleep peacefully.

There is no terrible third aunt sleeping together, no chicken crowing, no one wakes her up at three or four in the morning to take a medicinal bath, she sleeps until dawn, washes up, puts on casual clothes, goes out for a run, goes around After eating breakfast at the breakfast shop, I went back to the Taoist temple and put on a fairy-like robe to pretend to be an outsider, then turned on my laptop and wrote my resume.

Her grandfather's Taoist temple is too small to take the tourist route, and there are almost no pilgrims. Occasionally, there are a few pilgrims who are her father's clients who take the curve to save the country to get close.If she wanted to be a pilgrim business, she could really starve the mice to death.She wants to take the road of eliminating disasters and solving difficulties. To be honest, there is no soil for those strange things to breed in big cities. Doctors, it is feudal superstition to seek Taoist priests for sickness.Most of those who are still looking for Taoist priests are doing business for fortune.

She decided to continue looking for a job in finance and become a Taoist priest in her spare time.

It would be easy for her to go back to her former company. The chairman and the general manager can go through the back door, but the one who gets in is probably not finance, but the master of the town house.Therefore, I can only change companies, but I can change companies. To be honest, I have been away from society for three years, and I don’t have any outstanding performance experience. The job prospects are worrying. I can only slowly start from the bottom. I haven't even got a team leader, and there is no gap.

As the master of the temple, she is in the Taoist temple, so it is not easy to close the door to thank the guests, and the two doors are wide open.

In addition to the statues and altars, there is also a book case covered with yellow satin in the main hall of the front yard where Sanqing and Patriarch are worshipped. Her grandfather used it for fortune-telling or drawing symbols.Zhang Xiyan uses it as a computer desk, and if neighbors or guests come over, he can see it when he looks up.

Liu Lei, who was dressed in a suit and leather shoes, stepped into the Taoist temple, and saw a fairy-like female priest sitting at the table on the left side of the main hall, sliding the mouse on the elegant laptop computer, very busy.Such a good-looking female Taoist priest is rare, and such a fashionable female Taoist priest is even rarer. However, Liu Lei knows that Zhang Xiyan is a Taoist priest who has not become a monk halfway. The master who hangs the lock on the Taoist gate and runs away without a trace, and the junior sister who can honestly guard the Internet in the main hall are simply not too good.

He went to the main hall, lit three incense sticks first, paid homage to Sanqing and the patriarch, took out a thick red envelope from his suit pocket and put it in the merit box, then went to close the laptop and looked up at him. Zhang Xiyan called, "Junior Sister."

Liu Lei, Liu Yu's elder brother, has never been away from him since he was a child. Since he was cured by her father of "yellow hair madness", he has been working as a free coolie and handyman in her father's incense shop, learning some simple things from her father. She has no formal apprenticeship, but she gets along with her father much more than she does as a daughter.

When he stepped into the main hall, Zhang Xiyan could smell the strange fragrance from his body. It was like a very special mixed type of Chinese herbal medicine fragrance. come out.She glanced at Liu Lei, then at the merit box, and asked, "So rich?"

Liu Lei smiled very sincerely, and said solemnly: "I am so polite, I hope the patriarch will bless you a lot."

Zhang Xiyan pointed to the chair in front of her, asked Liu Lei to sit down, and said, "Give me your wrist."

Liu Lei smiled, sat down, raised his right sleeve, exposed his wrist, handed it to Zhang Xiyan, and asked, "Have you learned how to feel the pulse and see a doctor?" His junior sister is a true scholar, a profound and difficult ancient book, read it a few times You can memorize it all over again, and learn Taoism with a little bit.In the past, because he was afraid of ghosts, hardships and tiredness, he refused to be a Taoist priest, and his master often tore out his hair and coaxed her to recite the book. His junior sister made Master fulfill his wish.

Zhang Xiyan said helplessly, "You can't become a Taoist priest if you don't become a panacea." Her finger rested on Liu Lei's pulse, which was steady and strong, without any abnormality, and Liu Lei's complexion was also normal, and there was nothing wrong with it.However, her medical skills are limited to memorizing a few Chinese medicine books, which is an unlicensed practice with no practical experience.She got up and said, "Wait a minute." She went to the backyard again, found the incense left by her grandfather in the cabinet under the antique shelf, lit it and handed it to Liu Lei.

Liu Lei looked at the big cigar handed over by his junior sister, waved his hand, and said, "Thank you, junior sister, I don't smoke cigars." He was curious, and asked, "Where did you find the cigar? Master's?"

Zhang Xiyan: "..." Your eyes are lame, cigars are filled with tobacco, but this one is filled with Chinese herbal medicines.With a cold face, she said, "Take a breath."

Liu Lei took a deep look at Zhang Xiyan, took it resignedly, and sucked it forcefully, then spit out the Gu Yin Xiang with a choking mouthful, tears and snot flying all over his nose.He went straight to the well with lightning speed, picked up a bucket of water, buried his head in the bucket, washed his ears, eyes, and nose desperately, and poured water into the bucket.

Zhang Xiyan said very speechlessly: "This is incense, not cigarettes. I let you smoke, not cigarettes."

Liu Lei was buried in the bucket and submerged for more than ten seconds before lifting his drenched head from the bucket.He wiped the water and tears from his face, very suspicious that the innocent junior sister who worked with Xiao Yu for half a year had turned bad.

Zhang Xiyan held the incense and circled around Liu Lei's head and head for a long time, but still didn't see anything unusual, so he extinguished the incense in bewilderment, and asked, "Have you been to any strange places recently or seen anything strange?" What kind of weird person?"

Liu Lei really wanted to ask, "Do you count?" Full of desire to survive, he held this sentence firmly in his stomach.The three women who can't offend the most in the world, the first is his mother, the second is Liu Yu, and the third is this.Moreover, his junior sister has always been strict and will not aim at nothing.He asked puzzledly: "What's the matter? Why do you ask?"

Zhang Xiyan said: "You have a smell on your body, I suspect there is something on it."

A thought flashed through Liu Lei's mind quickly, his hairs stood on end, and he asked, "What is it?"

Zhang Xiyan said: "I'm not sure, it's just a smell, but it doesn't come out. I suggest you go to the hospital for a physical examination, check your blood and parasitic infections, and check for poisoning."

Liu Lei: "..." He really wanted to ask, are you serious?He knew it was serious.As a younger sister, he has no sense of humor and doesn't like to make jokes.But what did he say when he went to the hospital, doctor, my sister-in-law said that there was something weird on my body and asked me to come for a physical examination?Xiao Yu was diagnosed with split personality, and no cure has been found so far. If he does this again, his parents will cry to death.

He nodded and answered, "Okay." He left immediately, left the Taoist temple and went straight to his master's house, looking for his master, Master Zhang Changshou.