Chapter 24: Entering the Sect
After saying this, my master started smoking cigarettes again.
I laughed at the loud voice: "Hehe, what's the fire? I don't know you, isn't it just for your baby apprentice?"
My master sighed and said, "Oh, it's so difficult for me to accept disciples in my life. Senior brother, you know. When I went to the old lady's house that day, I saw that her yang blood refining technique had already taken shape. If I don't hurry up and break it, Yangyang will not survive that night."
"You know how to protect your apprentice," said the loud voice half-seriously and half-jokingly: "But you don't care about my apprentice? Youyi was almost demoted for that matter."
At this time, a gentle voice sounded again: "Okay, for Youyi, this is also a kind of experience. After all, it is the Shouzheng lineage to accept disciples, so it is worth worrying about him. Besides, Old Mrs. Li's affairs are also an opportunity. If it weren't for her, Junior Brother Chai would probably not be able to accept this disciple. The inheritance of Shouzheng lineage would probably be cut off."
A loud voice echoed: "That's the reason. Disaster is the basis of blessings. It is precisely because of Mrs. Li's link, what's the child's name..."
My master answered: "Yangyang."
A loud voice continued: "Yes, Yangyang's heavenly eyes will not be formed so smoothly. This child is not only desperate, but also has a pair of heavenly eyes. What's more, these eyes have become hot now, and this one cannot be asked for! Haha, this child is born to be in this industry! I calculated that you would meet an apprentice who is destined to be together, but I didn't expect that it was such a good one..."
Halfway through the words, the loud voice suddenly stopped saying it.
The gentle voice before became a little solemn: "What? What did you calculate? How did you calculate? Don't you know that the inheritance of our three meridians cannot be communicated with each other?"
"I didn't learn your stuff secretly," a loud voice immediately defended: "I am the Fuxi Bagua I studied myself. This is not considered to be interrelated with you. Besides, the Shouzheng lineage also has small arithmetics, isn't that considered interrelated with Tunmeng?"
The gentle voice replied in anger: "You have been smart since childhood, but you have to have a bottom line for being smart. Don't end up being smarter, but you're just mistaken for being smarter." Then he changed the topic: "By the way, have you thought of Yangyang's new name?"
My master spitted out a mouthful of cigarettes and said, "Since our lineage is to attain enlightenment in the world and Yangyang is also a 'you' generation, so let's call it Zuo Youdao in the future."
"Youdao?" said a loud voice: "This name is good. Why didn't I expect it back then? Hey, Feng Youdao, listen, is it better than Zuo Youdao, Junior Brother Chai, otherwise, you give this name to us Youyi, and your disciple will be called Zuo Youyi in the future..."
A gentle voice immediately interrupted him: "Don't interrupt! Junior Brother Chai, this change of name may not be a trivial matter for Yangyang's family."
"I know," the master responded: "I had already discussed with Yangyang's parents last night, and they agreed."
Only then did I realize that I had to change my name when I entered the master. When I thought about it, my two senior brothers, one was called Zhuang Youxue and the other was called Feng Youyi, and they really had the word "you" in the middle. But since I started school, the teacher called me Zuo Kang, and suddenly changed my name, which was really a little uncomfortable.
But no matter what, the name my master originally named me was Zuo Youdao. However, the name on my household registration book has never been changed. Now my ID card still says "Zuo Kang", but people who are familiar with me call me Zuo Youdao, so sometimes when I look at my ID card, I feel like the person on my ID card is not me at all.
These two names have also caused me a lot of trouble in the future.
At this time, the door of the next house was knocked, and I heard Senior Brother Zhuang say outside: "Master, Uncle Master, it's auspicious time."
After a while, Senior Brother Zhuang pushed open the door of the north room and asked me to go out, while Senior Brother Feng entered the room and took three scrolls to the living room.
After leaving, I found that everyone in the living room stood up. They were not standing for me, but for my master and two other masters.
The man who had a very gentle voice just now was a master of the Tun Meng lineage and a master of Senior Brother Zhuang. I feel that he looks very similar to Senior Brother Zhuang. It is not about his appearance, but his temperament makes people feel friendly from the heart. However, in addition to being friendly, the master also looks very festive. He is very fat, but his limbs have a good proportion and does not have the big belly that fat people generally have. With such a figure, he also wears a red Zhongshan outfit, which looks really festive.
The person with a loud voice is the master of the Yuxian lineage, the master of Senior Brother Feng. Although his voice is loud and loud, he looks out of place with his voice. He is very thin, thinner than my master, and he looks very big last year. He doesn't say that his face is full of pleats, and his white hair is piled up on his head in a mess, and his eyes are half open and he always looks half-dead.
The two masters of the sect and my master are both the "Zong" generation. My master is Chai Zongyuan, Master Tunmeng is named Xia Zongming, and Master Yuxian is named Zhao Zongxin. At this time, the people gathered in the house, except me, Senior Brother Zhuang and Senior Brother Feng, are all senior brothers of the "Zong generation".
I was led by Senior Brother Zhuang and met two masters, and my master took the scroll from Senior Brother Feng and hung it on the north wall in the order of the Heavenly Master, Earth Master, and First Ancestor.
After that, there is a formal apprenticeship ceremony.
At Jihun Village, no matter whether you are the master of the Shuzheng lineage, you must go through three rituals.
The first ritual was to pay homage to the Third Patriarch. Everyone in the room knelt down facing the north wall. The Master took the ritual to recite the ritual. The Master said one, and the rest of us recite one. I can't remember the specific content of the ritual. It probably means that the inheritance of the ritual to the master and the guardian lineage can be passed down from sparks.
Our master of the Shuzheng lineage was recruiting disciples, and the rituals were recited by the head of the Tun Meng lineage, so even my master couldn't remember the extremely long rituals.
After reciting the ceremony, I took it by my master to burn incense to the three ancestors. The master said that the Soul Village passed down to my generation was exactly the 55th generation descendant, so after lighting the three incense sticks, I bowed 55 more heads after bowing three times and nine times to the three ancestors. The first 53 were for the masters before my master, the 54th head was for my master, and the last one was for the immortality of my heart.
I didn't know what the meaning of immortality in my heart meant, anyway, that's what my master said.
After these 55 heads, the first ceremony ended.
The second ritual is to worship tea. Just like before, first respect the third ancestor, then respect my master, then respect Tunmeng and Yuxian’s two masters.
The last ritual is also a unique ritual that is unique to the lineage of upholding the integrity - planting a coffin.
My master first bowed to the Third Ancestor three times, then picked up a small red cloth bag from the table where the incense burner was placed, held high above his head, and shouted: "Please give me a coffin!"
As soon as my master shouted, the people in the room, including my two masters and uncles, stood up immediately. They seemed to have prepared for a long time and left the house in an orderly manner at a very fast speed and went to the yard.
I didn't know whether to stay or follow them out, but only Senior Brother Zhuang waved at me when he closed the door and signaled me to stay.
After everyone left, my master unfolded the red cloth bag, and I realized that the inside was covered with fine needles made of unknown raw materials. Some of these needles were bright red as blood, while others were as dark as charcoal.
My master asked me to take off my shirt and expose my back, then took a wet little cotton ball from the table, walked to my back with a serious look on his face, and wiped it with the cotton ball on my back.
The cotton ball was soaked in the potion in advance, which was an anesthetic. As the master kept wiping on my back, my back soon disappeared.
The master kept the cotton ball aside and said to me, "Roll around and look south."
I was kneeling towards the north wall where the three masters were. When I turned around, I realized that it was not only my back that was unconscious at this moment, but my waist was numb, and I could hardly use any strength.
I became a little worried and asked the master: "Why can't my waist be used to force me?"
My master glanced at me and said seriously: "It's all right later, don't talk!"
Then, I vaguely felt that my master was holding something on my back, because my back was so numb, and the feeling was not very real. But in addition, every time my master pricked me, I could clearly feel a hint of coldness. This feeling was much clearer, and it seemed that it was gradually seeping into my body from the skin on my back, until it suddenly disappeared.
That feeling was like my master planting something in my body.
This process lasted for a long time, and it was not until my master let out a long sigh that I realized it was over.
I asked my master: "Master, what have you done on my back?"
While lit the dry tobacco, the master said, "Plant the coffin. This black water corpse coffin seal is the essence of our guardian lineage. However, although this seal on your body has been planted, it is useless at present. In two years, you will have to follow me to go back to Sichuan to enter the genealogy of the masters and plant the coffin again. At that time, the black water corpse coffin seal on your back will be considered as forming."
The temperature was a little cold. I hurriedly put on my clothes and couldn't help asking: "What is the black water corpse coffin seal?"
Chapter completed!