Onmyoji's Secret

Chapter 21 The Apprentice
When we got back to the village, the whole Tsing Yi village exploded.

At the very beginning, when Yang Kun dragged Zhao Laowu and Xu Wenze who had fallen into a coma back to the Zhao family compound, the villagers started to riot, and everyone saw with their own eyes that Wuwei led them to the back mountain to catch the demon, but Now Daoist Wuwei is nowhere to be seen. Instead, Yang Kun, who was in tears, dragged back Zhao Laowu and Zhao Laowu, who had talisman paper on their foreheads. The ghosts, come to seek revenge on them.

Until our group came back with the seriously injured grandfather and the unconscious Daoist Wuwei, all the people in the village who received the news rushed over and surrounded my house tightly.They looked at the wounds on my grandfather and Wuwei Zhenren in horror, and a wave of panic spread in the village.

Later, it was my dad who stood up and drove out the surrounding villagers. He said that the monster on the mountain had been subdued by the Taoist girl, so everyone should not panic.Although the villagers were temporarily appeased, I saw that they looked at the girl with suspicion when they left.

When almost everyone in the village was persuaded to leave, my grandfather called me to the bed, and he had something to say to me.

I knew what grandpa wanted to say to me, and I couldn't help but feel a little panicked, because what I saw after entering the Yixiantian trail was really unimaginable, and I didn't get what the ancestors of the Chen family wanted me to get. I don't know how to tell my grandpa about all this.

Grandpa was lying on his side on his old wooden bed, and his wound had already been treated with medicine and some simple bandages.I saw that his face was a little pale, which was a sign of excessive blood loss.

"My dear grandson, tell grandpa, have you got what's in there? Is my Chen family's 300-year plan successful!" Although grandpa's face is not good-looking, his eyes are shining brightly.

I looked at my grandpa full of anticipation, bit my lip, and told my grandpa everything I saw in that weird foreign fortress and that old castle, even the bizarre thing I did in front of the bronze statue. I also spoke out exactly what I had dreamed about.

I watched my grandpa's face change with my narration, white for a while, red for a while, until finally I finished everything, and grandpa's expression finally returned to calm, his face was like water in a basin, without any fluctuations.

I thought that grandpa would be furious after hearing my words, or his face would be full of sadness, but I never thought that grandpa would look at me quietly like this, with no emotion on his face.

I was a little scared, I lowered my head and touched the corner of my clothes.

After a while, I heard my grandfather whispering: "Tsing Yi, Bai Shi..."

I looked up at Grandpa, wanting to say something, but couldn't.Grandpa glanced at me and said, "Okay, that's all for now. I'll take care of things in the future. Go and call your dad in. I have something to tell him."

I nodded silently, turned around and left. The moment I turned around, I vaguely saw that Grandpa's old face looked a little ferocious at this moment, and his eyes were full of fierceness.

I came out and told my dad about the matter, he nodded and walked to grandpa's room.I saw something in my dad's hand, an oddly shaped bronze mask.

No matter what, the matter finally came to an end, and when I returned home, I felt much happier. After all, I still have lingering fears when I think about what I experienced in the ancient city.

"Xuanzi, hurry up and change your pants. Look, your pants are all wet." My mother took out a pair of pants and yelled at me.

I was instantly embarrassed. I saw the Taoist robed girl standing quietly at the door shaking unnaturally. A smile appeared on her handsome face. She smiled so sweetly that she was stunned for a moment.

"You son of a bitch, you're only a little older, and you've learned to look at other women." My mother grabbed me, ignoring my embarrassing face, and forcibly pulled me into the room.

But to my surprise, as soon as I entered the room, my mother hugged me and wept bitterly. She cried out while crying: "Xuanzi, damn you, stay away from your grandpa in the future. Your brother is dead, mom doesn't want you to have the same accident as him!"

I froze for a moment, my brother?An elder brother who never appeared in my memory, but judging from what my father and mother said repeatedly, his death seemed a little strange.

I reached out to wipe away the tears on my mother's face, and said, "Mom, tell me, what's going on with my brother?"

My mother was stunned for a moment when she heard what I said, and then she cried and said: "You were just born that year, and my mother wanted to take you with me, so she couldn't take your brother away. Your brother was taken to the city by your grandfather." Afterwards, your grandfather came back and said that Longwazi fell into the Qingyi River and drowned. We hired many people to salvage Longwazi, but in the end we couldn’t find the bones of Longwazi. Your father suspected that this matter had something to do with your grandfather. The expression at that time was really weird, it didn't look like someone whose grandson died..."

At the end of my mother's speech, she started crying again.But I feel that this matter seems to be not that simple, and the secrets hidden by my Chen family seem to be more than what my grandfather said, but what is the truth of all these things, I, a ten-year-old doll, can't figure it out.

In the evening, the Taoist girl rescued the unconscious Zhao Laowu and Xu Wenze, and the tearful little fat man Yang Kun and Xu Wenze who had just woken up drove the seriously injured Wuwei to the county hospital.And the daughter of the Zhao family suddenly woke up somehow. Hearing what others said, she sat on the ground with her head in her arms and wept bitterly.

The matter seemed to subside gradually, until around eight o'clock in the evening, a dusty old man entered the yard of my house.

The old man was not tall, he was wearing a long blue cloth gown, his hair was a little gray, and there was a kind smile on his wrinkled face. He looked like an old man next door, and he immediately liked him at first sight.

"Old man, which one are you looking for?" I was sitting in the yard eating melon seeds with my legs crossed, when I saw the old man enter my yard, I quickly got up and asked him.

When the old man heard me ask him, he took a careful look at me, his eyes suddenly brightened, and there was a look of excitement in them, a bit like the way the real Wuwei looked at me at the gate of Zhao's house, but The old man in front of him seemed more peaceful.

"Little friend, you are Chen Zixuan, I'm looking for your father." The old man looked at me and said with a smile, his face was indescribably kind.

At this moment, a petite figure suddenly appeared at the door of my house. It was the cold girl in Taoist robes in the daytime. She walked towards me with a smile on her face.

I was suddenly overjoyed, thinking she was smiling at me, for some reason, I seemed to have a special sense of intimacy with this woman.

But to my disappointment, the Taoist robed girl ignored me, walked past me, came to the old man, and called out crisply: "Master, you are here."

The old man chuckled and said, "Yue Ting, how's the matter?"

Yue Ting?

I remembered that my dad called her "Mu Daochang" on the back mountain. Is this girl's name Mu Yueting?

Mu Yueting nodded and said, "Master, there really is a gnome on that mountain, and it can speak, not animal language, but the real human language!"

"Oh?"

The old man was startled, but calmed down quickly, and said with a smile: "It may be because of its good fortune. There are too many hidden secrets in this world, and many things are beyond our human imagination."

Mu Yueting said: "Master, is the matter settled? That ghost..."

When I saw the old man's face became serious instantly, he shook his head at Mu Yueting and said, "There is something wrong with that ghost! I chased him to Dujiangyan, but I didn't expect him to escape into Jiangxin. There seems to be something under Dujiangyan, I dare not move it, I will check some ancient books to see if there is any record about Dujiangyan."

The old man paused for a moment, and then said: "Moreover, there seems to be a zombie outbreak in Chengdu recently, and I suspect it has something to do with it. It's not peaceful these days."

Mu Yueting was taken aback when she heard the old man's words, and asked, "Zombies? There seem to be very few zombies in Sichuan, could it be..."

"It's rare to say that that ghost dared to appear in Mount Qingcheng. It's not an easy matter! Forget it, let's talk about it when we go back. We'd better settle this kid's matter now." The old man looked down at me and smiled.

"Jiang Daochang! You are here, come in and sit down!" At this moment, my dad suddenly came out of the room. He was overjoyed and walked towards the old man rubbing his hands together.

When the old man saw my dad coming, he smiled and said, "Han Tao, this is your doll. It looks very cute."

When my dad heard the old man's compliment, he looked happy, and said to me quickly: "Gua Wazi, what are you doing still in a daze, call someone, call Daoist Jiang quickly."

I glanced at the old man and Mu Yueting at the side, and said in a consoling manner, "Hello, Taoist."

The old man smiled and nodded, looking at me with softer eyes, he said to my father: "You are not simple! You have great luck, if you enter my Taoist sect, in the future, tsk tsk..."

My dad's expression changed suddenly after hearing what Daoist Jiang said. He leaned forward and whispered to Daoist Jiang, "Daoist, this time I came to you for this purpose. My old man seems to have done something to my baby." What hands and feet, I'm afraid, I only have this doll now, and I don't want anything to happen to him!"

Jiang Daochang nodded silently, and said to my dad: "The matter of your Chen family is indeed not simple. The bronze mask you showed me last time is like... um, it is an extremely important and rare Generally speaking, it is impossible for your Chen family to have things in your family's hands. Moreover, this doll in your family must have been tampered with, and it is impossible for ordinary people to have such a situation."

My dad's face became a little ugly after hearing Daoist Jiang's words, and he said, "That Taoist priest, my baby..."

But before my dad finished speaking, Daoist Jiang interrupted him. He waved his hand and said, "It's not busy, let me meet your old man from the Chen family first."

My dad nodded and led Daochang Jiang into the house.I watched him bring Jiang Daochang into my grandfather's house, I followed behind and wanted to sneak in to have a look, but my dad found out, he glared at me and said: "Go out, my lord is talking about things, you ass What are the dolls doing here!"

I was kicked out in disgrace, and sat on the stool in the main room sullenly.

I saw the Taoist robed girl Mu Yueting sitting on the side with her eyes closed and meditating, her delicate face looked a little dreamy under the light.

"Sister." I called out boldly, and I don't know why I would speak at this time.

Mu Yueting opened her eyes and glanced at me, her clear eyes were like autumn water, she said softly, "Is there something wrong?"

I was taken aback, opened my mouth and didn't know what to say, and suddenly my face flushed with embarrassment.

Mu Yueting smiled, closed her eyes, and ignored me, her slender eyelashes cast a beautiful arc on her eyelids.

At this moment, the door of my grandfather's room opened suddenly, and I saw my grandfather and Jiang Daochang walking in front, and my father followed behind them with his head down.

Grandpa gave me a complicated look, then turned to Daoist Jiang and said solemnly, "I hope you don't lie to me!"

Daoist Jiang showed a smile on his kind face, and said to his grandfather, "Don't worry."

At this time, my dad came over, pulled me and said, "Xuanzi, I have discussed with your grandfather, you will be Daoist Jiang's apprentice from now on!"

apprentice?

Does my dad mean that I should worship the old man in front of me as my teacher?
Jiang Daochang bent down, looked into my eyes and said, "Little baby, you will be my apprentice for Jiang Chengdao from now on!"

(End of this chapter)