Master Maoshan

After a busy day and night, I was finally able to lie down and have a good rest, but before I could lie down comfortably, the master suddenly said: "I can sleep when I am short, but Chu Qi is not allowed to sleep now!"

"Ah?" My heart tightened, and I hurriedly asked: "Master, what's wrong with your old man? Why can't you sleep?"

Looking at the bed right now, I am even closer than Master. If Master has no reason to absolutely convince me, I will have to lie down and sleep this time if I am beaten to death!

The master stretched himself, then lay lazily on the bed, and said casually: "You just started, and your foundation is unstable, so you want to be lazy? In the future, you will have to suffer, meditate for an hour, and then look at the "Shangqingjing" Sleep again!"

After listening to Master's words, I felt a black thread running across my eyes, but I was powerless to refute it. Yes, my foundation is indeed unstable, and I haven't even laid a firm foundation. On the contrary, I just saw Shangguan Jin Shi, his mind power is obviously very strong, and I reckon that he can easily put me down with just a single spell out of concentration mind power now. I have to say that Shangguan Jin's practice is more than twice as high as mine , or even tens of times,

Fortunately, my hard work for so long has not been in vain. During the secret contest just now, I could barely confront him for a moment, but only for a moment. If the master hadn't stopped him in time, I think I would be very embarrassed. Yes, I should Cultivate well, at least not let that Shangguan Jin look down on me, let alone let Master follow me to be humiliated!

After thinking about it for a while, I collected myself and immediately nodded my head heavily: "En!"

Sitting cross-legged, this time the master gave me a fingerprint to help practice, that is, the Tai Chi seal. This fingerprint can make practitioners quickly reach a state of meditation, get rid of distracting thoughts, and can make meditation achieve twice the result with half the effort. The pinching method of this fingerprint It is to hold the four fingers of the right hand in the tiger's mouth of the left hand, and hold the left thumb in the tiger's mouth of the right hand. At the same time, the tip of the thumbs of both hands touches the Laogong point of the other palm, so that the thumbs of both hands form a "Taiji diagram" shape in the tiger's mouth. The big fingers are in the palm of the other hand, which are the two eyes of the Taiji diagram, which are used to connect the yin and yang of the body, and the other four fingers represent the "eight trigrams". tactic".

The master said, if the yang hand protects the yin hand, and the yin hand embraces the yang hand, it is the meaning of "carrying yin and embracing yang" in the Tao Te Ching.

After pinching out the Tai Chi seal with both hands, I quickly entered an ethereal state, only feeling that the yin and yang qi in my body were in the process of regulating breath by themselves. In this way, the feeling of fatigue all over the body disappeared miraculously and quickly. This extremely comfortable feeling made me feel very comfortable. I immediately discarded all distracting thoughts and entered the state of meditation with all my heart. . .

I don't know how long it took before I was awakened by a hot current all over my body. I thought my whole body was on fire. Only after putting away my handprints did I realize that the air current flowing all over my body was a thick air wave. At this moment, all The fatigue and discomfort disappeared without a trace, and I only felt that my mental state was better than ever.

The light on the oil lamp was obviously much darker, and I guessed that my meditation time would not be short, so I got up and picked up the wick, and then saw that Master and Bu Yique had already fallen asleep, I looked at Master gratefully, and grinned. His mouth is stinky, but in his heart he knows how to express his love for me and what I need most.

I found the "Shangqing Jing" from the dharma bag, and I studied it carefully. After many days of study, I gradually had a new understanding of the mysteries in the scriptures. Just as I was preparing to reorganize it with unabated interest Secret mantras and talismans, as well as the 37 sets of Maoshan’s top-level formations mentioned in the book. If possible, I really want to learn all the Taoism now, so that Master will not always worry about me, and even more so that I will not always give Master Disgraceful.

But it was a coincidence and it was not a coincidence. I had just put the "Shangqing Jing" into the dharma bag, and suddenly I was startled by a gong beating on the street outside. It's still going on. Could it be that something major has happened? !

I got out of bed and put on my shoes, and Master woke up immediately and got out of bed and put on clothes, but Bu Yique was "happy in a dream", and the big gong outside didn't wake him up, so I hurriedly asked Master: "Is it true?" Something happened outside again?"

The master shook his head solemnly, and said, "There have been frequent strange things happening here recently, and I don't know what happened this time, let's go out and have a look!"

I nodded, and was about to follow Master out of the room, but immediately thought that Tian Xiaosan's mother was still in a coma, should there be someone to take care of her at home?

Before I had time to think about it, I flew up and kicked Bu Yique's ass——

"What's the matter?! Chu Qi! What..."

The voice suddenly came from Bu Yique's mouth, and then Bu Yique jumped out of the bed with a kick, and yelled in panic, but when he saw me staring at him quietly, he immediately let out a deep breath and shook his head. Drooping said: "Chu Qi, you motherfucker, can't you stop for a while? What's the matter with not sleeping in the middle of the night?!"

I didn't have time to tease Bu Yique with a mournful face, so I casually dropped a sentence: "An accident happened outside again, Master and I went to have a look, but the old man in the house is still in a half-yin and half-yang state, you kid, pay more attention at home! "

Bu Yique sat on the side of the bed, looking as if he was about to snore, he waved his hands casually when he heard the words: "Go, go, I will pay attention."

As soon as I walked out of the room, I turned around suddenly, only to see that Bu Yique had returned to his original position, continuing his dream of spring and autumn, and I was immediately speechless. . .

"Boom dong dong~~~" "Boom dong dong~~~"

The rapid beating of gongs was still ringing, and after we came out, we could barely hear the accompanying old voices with a little anxiety: "Dead, dead! Dead, dead!"

The sound of gongs beating one after another, and the word "death" spread in all directions. In this dark night, people feel a little trembling and uneasy. It turns out that death is a very common thing. No one in the family is born, old, sick, and dying. ?But this is Tongyao Town. Since we came here, we haven’t encountered an ordinary thing. A large group of people are scrambling for a dollar. The crazy two mules, the townspeople who disappeared for no reason, the ghosts parading the streets at midnight, etc., are all illustrating one thing. Even if there is another sesame-sized fart happening here, it will instantly become a big event, not to mention It's dead.

The air at night is a bit cold, it can even be said to be a bit cold, maybe I am too sensitive, so I always feel that there is a trace of coldness in the air that shouldn't exist!

Although the sound of gongs resounded throughout the street, there were very few townspeople on the road. Just imagine, who would dare to run into the street in the middle of the night after being worried and frightened again and again?No, there are a few people who are also dressed for work, needless to say, they are members of the security brigade.

In addition to the people from the security brigade, there were a few townspeople standing far away holding torches. It must be very courageous to have such a few come out, or they must be men with some skills.

Two security guards were bending over to inspect several corpses on the ground at this time, and beside them were five big-brimmed hats holding small iron rods. In particular, with his hands behind his back, and wearing a pair of white gloves, he stared at the corpse on the ground indifferently. I have heard of this, and he should be the legendary captain of the security team.

Master and I walked forward quickly, and immediately two security personnel raised small iron bars and pointed at us: "Our security team leader is handling the case, and the idlers stand back and look at it!"

What I said, we are just idlers waiting. If we hadn’t cared about your troubles here, master and I would have gone to find the treasure of the mountain gate long ago. Master politely nodded to the two of us and motioned for me to stand with him. on the side.

And from the beginning to the end, the short and fat man in white gloves didn't turn his head to look at us.

After a while, the two inspectors stood up, saluted the short fat man with white gloves, and the man on the right said respectfully: "Report to the captain, the three deceased are two men and one woman, one of them is about 40 years old, One was over 30 years old, the female was nearly 40 years old, the cause of death of the three people is unknown, the preliminary judgment is that they were bitten by wild dogs, the time of death is unknown, the preliminary judgment is three days ago, the signs of poisoning are unknown, and the preliminary judgment is that one blow killed them!"

The air at the scene suddenly froze, and the few men who were still whispering behind us were silent, and the master was also staring at the three corpses on the ground, now. . .Now let's see what that little fat man has to say.

The short fat man looked at the three corpses again, immediately raised his hand and rubbed his nose, and said in great astonishment, "What? Killed by a wild dog? Killed it three days ago? No signs of poisoning? Impossible, three days Why did their family members report the case now when they died before?"

The person who reported lowered his head with a look of distress, then raised his head and said, "Because the corpses are all stiff, the preliminary estimate is that the time of death is...between three and seven days."

Humpty Dumpty frowned immediately, then rubbed his nose again, and said, "Look at the entire necks of each of them are black, there is really no sign of poisoning?!"

The two reporters glanced at each other, then nodded in unison and said, "Yes!"

The short fat man pondered for a while, and suddenly said angrily: "His grandma, I asked you to solve the problem, not to cause problems for me! Deputy team, where are the family members of the three deceased now?"

Immediately, a tall and thin young man stepped forward and stepped out of the queue, and said respectfully: "Captain, because I was worried that the family members of the deceased would be too sad and disturb the scene, so I asked my brothers to guard at each house and didn't let them out!"

The Humpty Dumpty rubbed his nose, nodded and said, "The deputy team is thoughtful, and now bring out one of the family members of the deceased. I want to verify the specific cause and time of death!"