My master is the coffin

Chapter 13 The Man in the Coffin

This was obviously heard by the corpse.He didn't take it seriously, but asked instead: "Is this how you treat your savior and mentor?"

My mind was full of the tragic situation of old man Hao struggling on the hospital bed, and I couldn't help asking: "In the hospital, old man Hao, is it you?"

I also know that this is incoherent, because at this time my mood is agitated, and I no longer have complete language organization ability.

The corpse stood up from the ground and walked towards me step by step. I'm sure he understood what I said.The abbot and I were both trembling with fright, but neither of us ran away.I guess he didn't even have the guts to run away.

The corpse stood in front of me, looked at me for a while, then put his mouth to my ear, and said softly: "I am your master, and you are my apprentice. A teacher for a day, a father for life, now I Let me tell you, your master is a good man with a clear conscience. What you see and hear is not the truth, but what I tell you is the truth.”

Boldly, I asked in a low voice, "What is the truth?"

The corpse looked at me and said, "The truth is, there are some things you don't need to know. You just need to trust me unconditionally."

At night, it was quiet, and the two ever-burning lamps were beeping and burning in the darkness.There is not enough incense in the Dasheng Temple, and even the lamp oil is inferior, and sparks keep popping up.

The abbot and I were pressed on the futon by the dead body, and he sat cross-legged across from us.Put on a frank look, and said to us: "If you want to ask anything, just ask."

I thought about it, and couldn't help asking the ultimate three questions of life: "Who are you? Where are you from, and where are you going?"

The corpse didn't even think about it, and replied casually: "My name is Zhang Yuan, but you can't call me that name. You should call me Master. I can't tell you where I came from. You will know where I am going later." Because from now on, you will follow behind me, inseparable."

I looked at him and was momentarily overwhelmed by this confidence.

Finally, the abbot couldn't stand it anymore, and said in a crying voice, "What's going on? This coffin, this body... Isn't Xu You's master a coffin? Why is it you again? Are you dead or alive? ..."

Zhang Yuan looked at the abbot, and suddenly asked, "Who are you with a crooked neck?"

The abbot was taken aback for a moment, and said, "Do you know my cousin's nickname?"

Zhang Yuan snorted: "It turned out to be the nephew with a crooked neck. I know your cousin. Speaking of which, he is my savior."

Then, Zhang Yuan told us what happened.

According to him, when he was young, he worshiped a foreigner as his teacher and learned Taoism.Finally something.Originally life was safe and sound, married a wife, had a daughter, and the family was peaceful, well-fed and well-clothed.

But one day, Zhang Yuan's daughter mysteriously disappeared, and then his wife died.

At the beginning, Zhang Yuan thought it was all an accident.However, in the next few days, he found that the house he lived in was getting more and more cloudy, and every night, he would hear the sound of ghosts crying and howling wolves.

Fortunately, Zhang Yuan was proficient in Taoism, so he was not afraid at all, and rushed out with the mahogany sword.However, after going out, it was discovered that all of this was a trap.

There were more than a dozen wild ghosts lying in ambush outside, only Zhang Yuan came out, and rushed up to fight him.

Although the opponent has a large number of people, but Zhang Yuan has profound Taoism after all, so he will not be in danger for a while.However, at this critical juncture, a masked man jumped down from the tree and injured him in one fell swoop.

After Zhang Yuan was lying on the ground, his attacker took advantage of the darkness to kill him.Zhang Yuan had no strength to fight back at all, and he was already dying.However, just at this time, an old monk passed by not far away, chanting scriptures silently while walking.

When the masked man saw someone coming, he ran away quickly.

The masked man left, but the little ghosts who besieged him refused to leave, and they all planned to take advantage of Zhang Yuan's weakness and get on him.

Zhang Yuan knew that with his many years of practice, his body already had some foundation in Taoism.Once controlled by evil spirits, the consequences are unpredictable.Anyway, he wouldn't live long at this time, so he used his mahogany sword and stabbed it into his heart.

The mahogany sword nailed to the heart is equivalent to locking the body, making it difficult for any soul to enter.And Zhang Yuan's own soul was also forced out.

Those evil ghosts still linger around Zhang Yuan's corpse. For ghosts without bodies, the body of a cultivator can be regarded as a treasure.

And Zhang Yuan's soul followed the old monk to the Dasheng Temple in a daze.

The old monk tilted his neck, walked all the way, and also recited the scriptures all the way.He is the abbot's cousin, nicknamed "Crooked Neck".

That night, after Crooked Neck returned to the temple, he sat in the hall and continued to chant sutras.

Zhang Yuan's soul has no physical body to attach to, and is slowly dissipating. In desperation, he took advantage of the dark air at night to blow out the ever-burning lamp in the temple, and then appeared.

Crooked Neck was taken aback, but after all, he had been a monk for many years, so he didn't scare him away.

Zhang Yuan told Weibo about his current situation in detail, and then begged Weibo to save him.

Crooked neck is different from the abbot, he is a real monk.The monk was compassionate, so he quickly bought a coffin from the nearest coffin shop according to Zhang Yuan's instructions.Then, in the middle of the night, a hole was dug and buried under the hall.

According to Zhang Yuan's idea.As long as his soul is put in a coffin, buried in the ground, nourished by the underground yin energy, coupled with the maintenance of Taoism during his lifetime, his soul should not be scattered.After all, the Dasheng Temple enshrines the Immortal Buddha, and the previous evil spirits did not dare to come in to trouble him.If you keep the green hills, you are not afraid of running out of firewood, and everything can be discussed in the long run.

Zhang Yuan's soul stayed in the coffin for an unknown number of years. Later, by virtue of Taoism, he forcibly attached his soul to the coffin, making the black lacquered coffin his substitute.And his soul began to tentatively come to the world, looking for his body.

Only then did I realize that the Great Sage Temple had changed owners.The evil spirits and masked men from back then have long since disappeared.As for my body, I don't know who buried it underground, and was seduced and harmed by a group of little ghosts with the help of the yin energy in my body.

In this way, Zhang Yuan came up with the idea of ​​digging out the corpse and trying to find a way to come back to life.Moreover, until now, he still doesn't know who harmed him back then and why.

After hearing Zhang Yuan's words, I vaguely understood what was going on: "According to this, the corpse under the ghost market is your body, and the coffin contains your soul. It means that I will help, and then put you Saved?"

Zhang Yuan nodded: "You can also say that. I originally planned to let the little Taoist priest help me, but I didn't expect to meet you by mistake. This is probably the fate mentioned by the Buddhists. It is destined in the dark that you want to be me apprentice."

There are a thousand and ten thousand reluctances in my mind.No matter what I say, I also graduated from university. Although I am selling insurance now, I have a bright future after all.What is it like to be an apprentice with this living dead?

So I suggested: "The skinny Taoist has always wanted to worship you as a teacher, or else we will change, you accept him as an apprentice, and let me go."

Zhang Yuan sneered: "You still want to have a future? Xu You, you have eaten the grieving ghost's meal, do you know what it means?"

I was a little uneasy by his gaze, and asked cautiously: "What does it mean?"

Zhang Yuanrao looked at me with interest: "Ghosts and ghosts, you can't get enough of your resentment. When you add it to a stranger, it is bad luck. If you eat their ghost food, you will have bad luck for the rest of your life. You can't accomplish anything. It's useless."

These words were like a basin of cold water pouring down from head to toe, extinguishing the positive flames in my heart at once, I still asked unwillingly: "Really?"

Zhang Yuan nodded solemnly: "Follow me, you will be safe, and you will not have to worry about food and clothing. Besides, since you have become a teacher, you are a member of this school, and you cannot change it for the rest of your life."

I was a little disheartened, but I refused to believe it, and said tentatively, "What if I don't want to be your apprentice?"

Zhang Yuan looked at me: "I don't force others in this life, and I won't stop you if you don't want to be my apprentice. But I want to warn you, you won't live for three days."

I gasped: "Threat me? Are you going to kill me?"

Zhang Yuan shook his head: "I don't need to kill you, this is fate. You will die in various accidents, floods, fires, no one knows. If you are willing to follow me for a while, you will understand that what I said is definitely not alarmist."

I didn't speak, and my heart wavered.

Seeing my hesitation, Zhang Yuan waved his hand and said, "In this way, you will be my apprentice for a few months symbolically, and you will leave when I fully recover and take revenge. Confess. Maybe he will let you go as soon as he is happy."

I nodded: "That's fine, try it." But I was muttering in my heart: "Can I get in or not? Why do I feel that this is a pyramid scheme?"

I had a conversation with Zhang Yuan, and the fear in my heart gradually subsided.For a moment, I forgot in a trance that he was once a dead body.I also forgot that he used to capture other people's souls in the hospital, because he spoke too much like a normal person.

The abbot, who had been sitting next to me, finally couldn't help asking: "According to this, are you alive? After being buried in the ground for so many years, you are still alive?"

Zhang Yuan smiled slightly: "This is the subtlety of Taoism. The mahogany sword is stuck in the chest, which is a bit like qigong. It looks dead, but in fact, it has been waiting for a chance to come back to life."

The abbot and I half-understood what we heard, but we were a little relieved: "It's fine if it's Taoism, and it's fine if it's not the dead."

At this time, Zhang Yuan looked at the two of us: "You two, are you finished asking? Go and find me some clothes. Xu You, you deserve it as an apprentice, so you let the master be so naked?"

(End of this chapter)