Chapter 166 Return In the following days, the temple was very lively. In addition to the craftsmen who came to repair the Taoist temple, the county magistrate also visited every day, and people from the city came to visit one after another. The greatest contribution was the magic trick performed by Senior Brother Seven on the street. The vast majority of people heard from the magic show that a true Taoist who could perform magic had come to the city and was practicing in the Yangxin Temple. Even the county magistrate respectfully called him "the real person". That's why they came here because of his reputation. Someone comes to seek medical treatment for a suspected illness. Someone's family member was possessed by evil spirits and came to ask for help to exorcise the evil spirits. There are also people who accidentally encounter demons and ghosts and come to ask the Taoist for help. Many Taoists responded. This was not only to earn some money for his future travel, but also to get more publicity for his sixth senior brother to offset the bad reputation of Yangxin Temple. Lin Jue was short of money at that time, so he had to behave unusually diligently. He competed with his junior sister for work, and rushed to do any job that involved exorcising evil spirits, exorcising demons, and catching ghosts. Finally, he saved up a few taels of silver.
In addition, whenever he had time, he would ask Senior Brother Seven for advice on how to obtain objects from a distance, so much so that Senior Brother Seven would even take time out to look for prostitutes. The rest of the time, he would cook in the temple and teach Senior Brother Six some basic skills. As time went by, the originally dilapidated Yangxin Temple gradually changed and became brand new, with everything missing. No matter how long you stay, you will eventually have to leave. So it was time to say goodbye again. "You Taoist priests, you need to go to Biluo County in the northwest direction. There is an official road and post stations and teahouses along the way. You can ask for directions here. However, I have never heard of Shimen Mountain mentioned by the Taoist priests. You must ask in detail in Biluo County." The county magistrate said to them, "I heard that there are many strange things going on here." "Thank you for your trouble, magistrate." "It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter." The magistrate smiled and waved his hand. "Thank you brothers for helping me settle down. This is the money left over from the temple. Now that I have settled down here, I am not in a hurry to use the money. Instead, you brothers can use it on the road." The Sixth Brother took out all the money left over from the renovation of the temple, handed it to the Second Brother, and instructed: "Don't be too hard on the road. Traveling is hard work. If you are tired or encounter wind and rain, go find a hotel. Don't always ask me to cook for you. If you come across a tea stall or restaurant, let me take a rest." The second brother didn’t say anything, nor did he refuse. He just took it and put it away. "Sixth Brother." Lin Jue walked over again, holding a very heavy envelope in his hand: "I have something for you, Senior Brother. I hope you can open it after we leave." "What?" The Sixth Senior Brother asked subconsciously at first, and then realized that since the Junior Brother asked him to open it after he left, he naturally didn't want to ask more questions, so he accepted it and said, "Okay." "Senior brother, take care." "Take care, Junior Brother." "Take care, brothers and sisters." Many Taoists saluted each other, and even the fox followed their example, standing up and putting its front paws together. After the salute, he turned and left.
The third senior brother really bought a cart and let the horse he got from the bandits pull it. Things that were difficult to carry, such as the second senior brother's alchemy furnace and the seventh senior brother's puppet, were placed on it. Some bags that people didn't want to carry were also placed on it. It became much easier for everyone to walk. The wheels rumbled along the street. But in this way, eight people became seven. Everyone couldn't help but look back frequently. Sixth Senior Brother and the magistrate were also standing at the gate of the Taoist temple, watching them go. I couldn't help feeling regretful again. The mountains and rivers are so long these days that even ordinary people have difficulty delivering letters. After this separation, I don’t know how many years it will take before we meet again. This way of seeing each other off and saying goodbye one by one may be gentle and romantic, but it also breaks a big parting sorrow into many small parts, breeding more emotions in the slowness. Of course, it still has many benefits. The little junior sister was still walking with Lin Jue, and she also looked back frequently until she could no longer see Sixth Senior Brother and the Taoist temple. But before long, her eyes sparkled with deep curiosity, and she quietly asked Lin Jue: "Brother, what's in the letter you left for Brother Six?" "Can't say." "Why?" "The time has not come yet." "Do other brothers have it?" "Have." "Do I have one?" "Have." "What is it?" "..." Lin Jue stopped talking. The junior sister immediately shut her mouth and looked serious. It was true that she was very curious about this, but she was also very smart and able to control her own thoughts. Otherwise, she would have died of curiosity during these years in the mountains. The letter naturally contained nothing but a spell. There is only one spell. The time is too short. Even though Lin Jue had started preparing long in advance, it was still not enough to write down each spell and copy it seven or eight times, so it was impossible to give a copy to each senior brother. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Each of the brothers has different personalities, preferences and talents. Not every spell may be to their liking or easy to learn, so you just need to choose the ones that suit them.
Besides, the rest of their lives are not short, and if they have extra energy, they can exchange and learn from each other. What Lin Jue understood was that after the uncle masters came down the mountain, they became proficient in their skills and had more time. If they were willing and it was convenient for them to communicate, they would often become each other's teachers. Slowly we left Qiuru County. The one walking in the front was the third brother who was leading a horse, pulling a cart loaded with a lot of luggage. Behind them was a group of Taoists, who were carrying some luggage and two gray donkeys. It looked like they were moving. The official road ahead was deeply rutted. The third senior brother asked for directions and then walked along the official road. As they walked, the second senior brother fell to the end again, walking together with Lin Jue and the younger junior sister. He also asked, but he was not asking about the envelope: "Junior brother, how much money did you earn from running around exorcising evil spirits and catching ghosts these days?" "Six taels and four cents." “Not much.” "There aren't so many ghosts and monsters in the city." Lin Jue asked in confusion, "What's wrong?" "Nothing, just down the mountain for a few days. I cooked for you all the time on the way. It was very tiring. When we met a village market, I went to buy the ingredients." The second brother's expression and tone were as calm as ever, just like when he was teaching him to make pills in the alchemy room. He just took out some small change and handed it to Lin Jue: "Brother, I sold a Xuangui Pill, a Menghuai Pill, and a few Liuniu Pills a few days ago for some money. You can keep them first and use them when you need them." Lin Jue knew that Xuangui Dan was used to cure deafness, Menghuai Dan could be taken to ward off evil spirits and was very useful in these days, and Liuniu Dan could remove blood stasis and reduce swelling and was also very effective, but they were not as good as Shenxing Dan, Huxin Dan and Juling Dan, and therefore were often sold or given away. But he was very confused—— The third senior brother did not put the money he got from Monkey Mountain into his own pocket. Instead, when he saw that the bamboo basket of the younger junior sister was empty, he threw it into the younger junior sister's bamboo basket. Since then, Lin Jue always took money from this purse when buying food. After that, the money that the seventh brother earned from performing magic was placed in the Taoist temple for the sixth brother to use. Later, together with the money that the sixth brother earned from fortune-telling, it was unknown how much there was in total, and how much was used. Anyway, all the unused money was given to the second brother. The second brother also put it in the bamboo basket of the younger sister and let the donkey carry it. It was very convenient to use, and he didn't need to give himself any money for shopping. Only the money that people earned from practicing medicine, exorcising evil spirits, and catching ghosts in the past few days is their own share. Why did the second brother give himself money? And he even specifically stated that he was selling the pills himself? But when Lin Jue turned around and looked at his second senior brother, he saw his calm eyes and was stunned for a moment, then he immediately knew what was going on. The second senior brother is learning alchemy. Moreover, his attainments in alchemy were very high. Speaking of attainments in alchemy, without mentioning his level of cultivation, he might be as good as his master. At that time, the first time everyone heard about the silver-eating ghost, it was from him. How could he not guess where the Lingyuan Pill came from? Without waiting for Lin Jue to say anything, the second senior brother just smiled and walked to the front. "Senior brother..." The little sister was naive and thought that the second brother was giving her money to buy groceries, so she also took out two coins of silver, a pitifully small piece, and handed it to him, saying, "I'll use mine to buy food for you, too, and we'll have a meal on the way." Lin Jue just looked at the back of his second senior brother. …… In the Yangxin Temple, the Taoist walked back alone. This Taoist temple is really not big, with only two monasteries and two guest halls, both of which are very small. When the eight brothers lived here, it was naturally very crowded. But after the brothers left and sent the magistrate away, he was left alone walking in the Taoist temple, and it seemed empty. "Ugh……" Sixth Senior Brother couldn't help feeling a little lonely.
Thinking that the rest of his life might be like this for most of the time, he would be alone, and that the time when he was accompanied by many fellow disciples on Fuqiu Peak would never come back, he felt confused again. I don’t know how to spend the rest of my long life. I don’t even know what to do right now. Fortunately, there was an envelope from my junior fellow apprentice. Sixth Senior Brother frowned, picked up the envelope, sat cross-legged in the main hall, and opened it. First there was a piece of letter paper. The sixth brother picked it up and read it. He seemed to recognize the voice of the younger brother: "Brother, by the time you see this letter, we will have parted ways. In the next few decades of your life, you may be much lonelier than you were on Fuqiu Peak. I wonder how you will spend your time? "Brother, you have taught me the method of writing with a planchette carefully. I am very grateful. It just so happens that you also have a magic skill, which I think is very suitable for your personality and the method of writing with a planchette that you are majoring in. I have put it in the letter. "If you like it, you can practice it to kill time. If you don't like it, just burn it. If you want to practice something else after learning this, you can wait until I am settled down and send a letter to you. After you receive the address, you can write back to me, or ask other brothers for an exchange." Sixth Brother looked down. In addition to this piece of letter paper, there was also a thick book in the envelope. It was obvious that the paper was cut by himself and strung together with needle and thread, so it was not cut neatly and the strung was a bit messy. But these are all signs of careful effort. Take a look at it—— "Send a dream." The words below are all handwritten, detailed and thoughtful. Sixth Senior Brother was stunned for a moment, then he was filled with emotion. …… Fuqiu Viewpoint on Fuqiu Peak. The eldest senior brother was also cleaning up the rooms for them one by one. Every time he arrived at someone's room, he couldn't help but sigh for a long time when he looked at the bookshelves, desks and furnishings that symbolized the different personalities and preferences of the many junior brothers, as if the junior brothers were still living in there yesterday. His fellow junior brothers and sisters often left things for him. Until I arrived at Lin Jue's room. When he opened the door, he saw that the room was smaller than those of other senior brothers. There was a bookshelf and a desk in it, both of which were made for him by his sixth junior brother. The desk was covered with ink and was almost black. One can imagine the scene of his junior fellow student writing at his desk here. There must have been many ink spots that accidentally soaked through the paper or dripped on it countless times and over a period of time to create such a large ink stain. "Ok?" The eldest brother couldn't help but feel confused. My impression is that my junior brother is not someone who likes writing or painting. Confused, he looked around and saw a wooden box on the bed.
I went over and opened it to take a look—— There was still a piece of letter paper inside, and in addition to this piece of letter paper, there were also seven or eight hand-cut and bound booklets, each of which contained a spell that was not found in the temple. This box alone is worth hundreds of years of painstaking collection by successive masters of Fuqiu Temple. "This……" The eldest brother couldn't help but be stunned. I don't know how my junior brother got so many spells, but I also don't know how many nights he spent and how long he spent writing here to write so many books and leave them behind. …… Lin Jue brought the donkey and followed his fellow brothers as they wandered along the mountain roads, slowly arriving at Biluo County. This place is already quite remote. And Shimen Mountain is even harder to find. (End of this chapter)