"Grandpa, does that mean you and your uncle are also boundary keepers?"
Grandpa was choked by my sudden question and coughed twice. He threw his pipe aside and glared at me.
Seeing my grandfather's expression, I guessed the answer. If he was really a boundary keeper, he would definitely be proud to show off to me.
Sure enough, my grandfather told me that he had also asked his master.
The master told him that although his grandfather and uncle had learned the master's skills and were doing the same thing, they were not recognized by a certain place. Only by being recognized by this place could they be regarded as boundary keepers in the true sense. At most, they were
Second boundary keeper.
I asked my grandpa if it was possible to get national recognition. Grandpa shook his head and said, it's definitely not that simple. The master should be talking about another place.
I secretly thought in my heart that there is no place in our country that is more powerful than the country. It must be that my grandfather and uncle's skills did not meet the requirements of boundary keepers, and I was embarrassed to admit it.
Grandpa seemed to have remembered something when he said this, and stared blankly at the newly lit window.
There was a sound of snoring coming from the room next door. It was Vidyadhara Dharma Master.
I suddenly remembered that Chujiu was not my uncle’s biological grandson. When I woke up drunk in the middle of the night and listened to my grandfather and the others chatting, I found out that Mi Li was not Grandma Jian Shu’s biological granddaughter. Mi Li’s father was Grandma Jian Shu’s adopted son. Master Vidyadhara was single again.
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In the story Chujiu told me, the long-dead corpse chaser Sun Nong had a grandson called Sun Ming. His ability to chase corpses must have been lost.
Is it true that as the master said, practitioners will suffer many catastrophes, and future generations and inheritance...
"oops!"
I was thinking wildly when my grandfather hit me hard on the forehead with his pipe.
"Looking at your expression, I can tell you don't mean anything good."
Grandpa rolled his eyes at me and continued to fill the pipe with tobacco leaves.
I told Grandpa what I had just guessed. I had just lit a match and was about to light my pipe. Grandpa blew out the match and slapped me with a slap in the face.
Fortunately, I reacted quickly and was not beaten. Grandpa said angrily, Master Chi Ming is a monk, how can he find a wife? Grandma Jian Shu is a voodoo girl, and the voodoo girl is the guardian of the Miao village and cannot get married. As for why,
Grandpa just told me that it is related to the Gu King Insect in the body.
As for my uncle, as a Taoist priest, most Taoist priests can get married and start a family. However, my uncle has a carefree personality. His whole life is focused on the village and practice, and he has no plans to start a family. Now that he has heirs, he has no worries.
"Qin Feng, do you remember the letter that grandpa left for Mr. Xu?"
I nodded. When Wan Li showed me the letter, I almost thought I wouldn't see my grandpa in five years. At this juncture, what did grandpa mean when he mentioned this letter?
"According to our plan, when you are over 21 years old, your uncle and I plan to spend five years going out to look for clues about the Phoenix blood."
Grandpa told me that several of them had studied the prescription left by their master, which was somewhat similar to a prescription that had been passed down for hundreds of years in Grandma Jian Shu’s village. It was also a prescription that solved the life problems of cultivators, and they had something in common.
The point is that all medicines require Phoenix blood.
They had made plans for this meeting. They had already passed half their lives, and in the following days they were ready to go all out to find the Phoenix blood.
Grandpa and uncle are looking for clues based on the information they have now. Grandma Jian Shu and Master Chi Ming will continue to search for the successor, and will later join the team looking for Phoenix blood.
Grandpa made predictions for them, and Grandma Jian Shu's descendants will appear soon, so there is no need to look for them. As for the descendants of Master Vidyadhara, Grandpa can only calculate the specific location at the junction of Henan, Shaanxi and Shanxi.
Since I couldn’t figure it out anymore, Master Chomin planned to travel to Sanmenxia after the new year.
"Grandpa, what are you telling me?"
Grandpa stood up and touched my head, staring out the window at the morning light rising over the distant mountains.
"I plan to leave with your uncle after the new year."
Grandpa said that the final result of their research and discussion was that the Phoenix blood was related to the future of several cultivation systems, and they had to continue searching for the inheritance of the next generation.
"So where are you and your uncle going this time? Is there any reliable direction?"
Grandpa shook his head. He couldn't find such a powerful being as his master, let alone him and his uncle. But he and his uncle identified a few most likely places from some notes left by his master. They prepared for the first stop.
Go to Kunlun Mountain.
As for why grandpa and the others are planning to leave a year in advance.
According to the original plan, he and his uncle would introduce Chujiu and I to Mr. Xu this year, and we would take over his and my uncle's tasks within the next five years.
Then there is the matter of making arrangements for Chujiu and I in life. As a result, Chujiu and I have become well-known in Sichuan's business circles, so we definitely don't have to worry about food and clothing.
Grandpa explained a lot of things, even though I was very reluctant to be separated from him. Growing up, the longest time I was separated from him was this semester. But seeing grandpa’s resolute eyes, I knew I had to face it this time
The reality of breaking up with him is that after all, I am already 20 years old and no longer an ignorant child.
There are two things that grandpa explained that I don’t quite understand. The first point is that when Chujiu and I are free, we can spend more time with the grandson of Sun Nong, the exorcist. The other point is that we encounter life-threatening people.
At that time, I remembered to go to Xishan to find my grandpa.
"Grandpa?"
Xishan is a place name in Shanxi, located in a village in the middle of the Luliang Mountains. Xishan is very far away from Lijiacun, and it takes a whole day by bus.
I have only met my grandpa twice, the first time when I was very young and the second time when I was more than ten years old. Both times I went with my mother.
To be honest, I am a little afraid of my grandpa. Because I have never seen my grandpa smile. He talks very little and gives people a cold feeling. When he stares at me, I dare not look directly into his eyes. Even so, I will
Shaking all over unconsciously.
"Bad boy, do you think your uncle and I are powerful together?"
I have thought about it for a long time. Putting aside Taoism, my uncle, who is over fifty years old, can easily conquer thousands of soldiers with just his martial arts skills.
If grandpa and uncle combined their powers and used Feng Shui and Taoism, it would be no problem to easily defeat a small group of special forces.
"If we had a fight with your grandpa, your uncle and I would use all our skills to get within a mile of your grandpa."
"What?"
I jumped off the wooden bed. Grandpa seemed to have guessed my reaction. He smiled evilly and took a puff of his cigarette. He raised his eyebrows and blew a smoke ring at me.
The image of my grandpa appeared in my mind involuntarily. He had bronze skin and a long beard. After my mother made the noodles, my grandpa would sit cross-legged on the kang and make a "snoring" sound while eating the noodles.
Grandpa takes a nap every day, but I have never seen him taking a nap. After lunch, grandpa would pick up the hoe in the yard and go out without saying a word.
It was rare to eat meat when I was a child, but I went to my grandpa’s house with my mother twice, and there was meat for every meal. Every evening, my grandpa came back with a hoe, always carrying a pheasant or hare in his hand.
Now that I think about it, my grandpa was just being informal and smiling, but he was actually very kind to me. I remember the last time I went to my grandpa’s house, it was the summer vacation after I graduated from elementary school, and I was about to go to a junior high school in the town when school started.
When I left my grandpa's house, grandpa took out two White Rabbit toffees from his pocket and stuffed them into my hand. Then he picked up the hoe and went out without looking back.
Looking back now, my mother had a happy smile on her face at that time. She never went to Xishan again.
Now it seems that my mother's personality is more like that of my grandfather, and she is not very good at expressing love. She often carefully cooks a lot of delicious food for me, but she always scolds me when she sees me. She can do nothing but make mischief every day.
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"Grandpa, is grandpa also a Taoist priest? Is it possible that my mother is an expert hermit?"
Faced with my question, grandpa directly smashed the rosary he was playing with. I picked it up with a smile and shamelessly returned it to grandpa.
"Your mother is right, you are the stupidest person in the family."
However, grandpa still answered my question seriously. Grandpa was not a Taoist priest. As for what sect he belonged to, he didn’t know, and he had never seen grandpa take action.
It was Master's arrangement for Grandpa and Grandpa to get married. When Grandpa described the relationship between Master and Grandpa, he said that Master and Grandpa were friends. Master called Grandpa Xiaoyou. It was Master who told Grandpa how capable he was.
of.
As for my mother, my grandfather confirmed that she is an ordinary person. However, my grandfather also told me that my father was also afraid of seeing my grandfather.
"Grandpa, I think Master is not a human being!"
Grandpa's eyes were red and he swung his palm towards me very quickly.
"It's a god!"
"Why do you say that?"
Grandpa's palm was only a punch away from my head. It seemed that my answer slightly dissatisfied him. This slap was a sure one and he couldn't even dodge it.
I expressed the doubts in my heart. There were many loopholes in the story my grandfather told me, as well as the master depicted by Chujiu and Xu Lao.
It seems that Master has always had the same appearance since he appeared. When my grandfather and uncle were together years ago, to the last time Grandpa saw Master, Master has always had the image of an old man.
From what my grandfather told me, my master was almost a person who could travel all over the country at will. He had never worried about life. He was neither a high official nor a rich man. Money seemed to have never been taken seriously by his master.
The most important point is that when the master and grandpa were chatting casually, they made many slips of the tongue.
After listening to my analysis, grandpa lowered his hand above my head, but instead of hitting me, he touched my head.
Grandpa walked to the window, squinted at the sun that had just risen, stretched, looked back at me, and said:
"You are smarter than I thought. In fact, I am not without doubts. There are some things that Mr. Xu will tell you even if I don't tell you."