Chapter 3

"It's all right."

These three words came out of master's mouth, which immediately made the three of us breathe a sigh of relief.

Then, the master looked at Li Qiang and said, "Qi Yan is pregnant with a resentful baby. The resentful baby has absorbed a lot of her vitality. However, I have curbed all the Yin Qi on her. It will be all right in the next seven days."

"Thank you, old Taoist yuan. I was too impulsive just now. Don't live in your heart."

Master waved his hand and said it was OK. He was about to leave. Li Qiang and Qi Dazhu both looked at the red cloth package on master's right hand and asked, "master yuan, is this difficult or that?"

"Yes."

"Yes, can you let me see? Anyway, he is related to me."

Listening to Li Qiang's words of blood, I subconsciously looked at Qi Dazhu, and Qi Dazhu seemed to deliberately avoid my sight.

Master seemed hesitant. "Really want to see?"

"This has been cleaned up by you. Can't you see it?"

"It's not that I can't see it. I'm just afraid to scare you."

Li Qiang and Qi Dazhu were stunned. People will inevitably meet with some strange things after living for decades, but they are the first time like today. Some of them are naturally curious after settling down the mood of losing their son and grandson.

"Let's see."

"That's good."

I actually wanted to see it, but I was about to lean up. Master glared at me. I quickly and honestly stayed where I was. However, when the master just opened the red cloth mouth, Qi Dazhu and Li Qiang's eyes fell down, their faces suddenly turned blue, and they hurried back as if they saw a ghost.

Qi Dazhu patted his thigh and howled, "Hey, what have you done..."

It may have happened that the pouring rain stopped when the master left the house with the body of the complaining baby. The master called me over and said, "my good apprentice has foresight. Now help me back quickly."

Although it was only half an hour or so, when master entered the house, he seemed to be a different person. He became like an old man. It was very difficult to even take a step forward.

Qi Dazhu knew very well in their hearts that maybe the master was hurt by the complaining baby just now. He said with guilt: "old Taoist yuan, thank you for this today. If it weren't for you, I don't know what trouble would happen. In this way, if you don't dislike it, you and Guo Zhiyuan will go to my house tonight to rest and wait for tomorrow..."

Before he finished, master would interrupt: "no, I have something urgent to deal with."

"Master, do you have anything urgent?"

"Very urgent."

Regardless of Li Qiang and Qi Dazhu's good intentions to stay, master insisted that I help him up the mountain and back to the temple. After nearly two hours of rainstorm, there were some mountain torrents and running water in some places, and the mountain road up the mountain became very muddy and difficult. Maybe I was too careless, or maybe my strength couldn't hold master's mountain at all, causing master to fall three or four times.

I was very shocked. You know, master is as strong as flying on weekdays. Even when he came down the mountain just now, he was as steady as Mount Tai and walked in front of Qi Dazhu and me. Now, every time he falls, master can only breathe unevenly and wait for me to help him up

I've never seen Shifu like this before. I was so anxious that I cried out. "Sorry, master, it's all my fault."

"Silly apprentice, I don't blame you. I'll be there soon. I'll be there soon."

When we were approaching the broken temple, all my strength had been exhausted. I quickly shouted Jiang Yilong. Maybe Jiang Yilong went to bed first when we went down the mountain. When I shouted almost hissing, he opened the temple door and said to us with sleepy eyes: "junior brother, the eldest martial brother didn't just joke with you before. You don't have to quarrel with my dream now."

I cried, "elder martial brother, come and help."

Jiang Yilong heard that my voice was wrong. When he was refreshed, he rushed over and saw that master and I were covered in mud. In addition, master showed weakness and fatigue that he had never seen before. Jiang Yilong was also flustered. "Master, what's the matter, little younger martial brother? What's the matter?"

The master looked tired, but he still had a kind smile on his face and said, "you, what are you yelling about? Give me a hand."

After all, Jiang Yilong is four years older than me. Now he is a 17-year-old boy, and his strength is much stronger than me. He hurriedly carried his master on his back and asked, "master, tell me what happened."

Back in the temple, Jiang Yilong put his master on the bamboo and rattan chair that Jiang Yilong and I made for him. I was about to change his clothes and scrub his body, but he called Jiang Yilong and me to him. "Yilong, Zhiyuan, everything has a definite number. It seems that master can't escape this level after all."

Jiang Yilong looked at me and wanted me to tell him what had happened before, but now I have cried into tears, because I already have a very strong uneasiness in my heart. This feeling is like when I saw my parents under the boulder.

"Well, good apprentice, don't cry. Yilong, don't panic. I had a hunch before that, but I couldn't catch any trace after exhausting my methods. Naturally, I couldn't avoid it. Therefore, it was just Shifu's destiny to happen tonight." while listening to him, I took a basin with clear water and took the lead in cleaning his face, But after wiping off the mud on his face, by the light of the oil lamp, the face in front of him was as white as white paper. "Shifu and you two were also lonely and helpless at the beginning, but in the end, our three teachers and disciples had this fate, and you are also very sensible and good, and Shifu is also very happy. Shifu... Cough..."

Jiang Yilong's mind is still much more mature than me. He hurriedly said, "master, don't say it first. I'll help you find medicine."

The master said, "it's useless. Suddenly, the master was unprepared, so he was hurt by the resentful baby. Moreover, when I had to, I could only use myself to control the souls of the resentful baby. Now even if the great Luo immortal came, the master was not good. Yilong, Zhiyuan, the master is going to leave, and it's up to you in the future..."

"Master..."

"I put some things behind the statue of God, as well as the things pressed under the bed in my room. Take good care of them... In the future, you must be conscious of your practice without the supervision of master..."

Jiang Yilong finally couldn't help crying like me and knelt down in front of master. "Master, we will, we will."

"And Zhiyuan, master knows you, but no one is to blame for this tonight. It's just that master's deadline has come. Don't remember... Hate Qi Dazhu and Li Qiang."

To tell you the truth, how could this evening happen if Qi Dazhu ran up to the mountain temple? Although Qi Yan is my lobby sister, Qi Dazhu's practice has turned me into a lonely family. My blood is full of shit in my heart.

"Zhiyuan!"

"Master, master, I know."

"That's good. After Shifu leaves, you must remember to burn the things wrapped in red cloth with me. Remember..."

As soon as he said this, I suddenly felt an unprecedented hatred in my heart. I stood up and wrapped the red cloth by the door, ready to kick it out with my feet. Although I didn't see what was wrapped in it at that time, I knew very well that the bread here was the body of the complaining baby. If it weren't for him, how could master do this?

"Zhiyuan, in fact, he is also a poor man. There is no need to be so."

"But, master..."

"Don't say anything, then do as I say, and as soon as I leave..."

Seeing us all burying our heads and crying, Shifu was like a reflection. There was a few ruddy Qi on his face. He propped up his body and shouted at us, "have you remembered what I said?"

"Remember, master, we all remember."

His body seemed to have suddenly emptied all his strength and lay down. "By the way, there's another thing. For example, if you have a chance to see a monk named Zhiyuan in the hanging temple in the future, tell him that you are my disciples, and tell him that the road is not for me after all."

"Well, master, we remember."

"You don't have to be sad. Life and death depend on fate. Wealth lies in heaven. I, my good disciple, good disciple..."

Word by word, and before this sentence was finished, master's eyes were completely closed. We could not wake him up no matter how we cried.

Except for Jiang Yilong, master is my only relative in the world, but now he has gone. I don't want to accept the fact, but in fact he has really gone. At this moment, Jiang Yilong's mood is no different from mine. Struggling with the grief of Shifu's departure, we scrubbed Shifu's body and put on a clean Taoist robe. On weekdays, master would put incense candles on the altar on the first and fifteenth days of the first lunar month. We asked him who he was worshipping. He said faintly about the gods, men and ghosts of heaven and earth, and we didn't know what it meant behind it. Therefore, the temple has always been equipped with incense, candles, paper money and so on.

Jiang Yilong and I really want to know about Shifu's past, but whenever we ask about this, Shifu scolds us for being troublesome. Even though we know little about Shifu, we also know that he is a poor Taoist who has lived a poor life all his life. On this premise, we have to pull us to grow up. Therefore, we put Shifu flat on the bamboo and rattan clothes, put a fire basin in front of him, lit all the incense and candles in the temple around him, and burned all the paper money to Shifu.

Before we knew it, it was dawn, and Jiang Yilong and I had already cried dry tears, and our long kneeling legs had already lost consciousness. At this time, Qi Dazhu shouted to master outside the house. But when he entered the temple door, he looked at the mourning hall temporarily erected in the normal temple and the cold body on the bamboo and rattan, The old white stem with bacon in his hand fell directly to the ground.

"Well, how can it be, yuan, old Taoist yuan..."