Chapter 49: Three years of apprenticeship, four years of career
That night, my master came to our house and chatted with my dad for a long time. The next morning, the master called Senior Brother Feng. Senior Brother Feng seemed to be ready, so he took someone to seal the small casino that afternoon, but only a small part of the money thrown in my dad recovered.
Senior Brother Feng later said that even if the cases involving usury were finally verified that even if the people who started gambling were a fraud gang, it was still difficult to get back the money. After all, my father took the initiative to borrow money from others and wrote down an IOU. What is even more incomprehensible is that when the scammers were exposed, none of the people who had cheated all their family wealth dared to come out to testify.
We have no certificate, but the scammers hold the IOU in their hands. They are stubborn and they can't let anyone go.
On the contrary, my dad was detained for many days because he participated in gambling.
When I was interrogating the scammers, my senior brother Feng always felt that something was wrong with these people. With his nearly ten years of experience in handling cases, he had a premonition that among these people, several of them might have killed people.
For this, I was also alarmed by Senior Brother Zhuang. Taking advantage of Senior Brother Feng, Senior Brother Zhuang found an opportunity to see the faces of those people and also got their birth dates and horoscopes. For them, they said that these people were indeed holding lives in their hands and the crime scene should be in the southwest direction.
Later, Senior Brother Feng found a body at an abandoned construction site in the southwest of the county town, and indeed a murder case was found. The perpetrators were the people who started gambling and lending. Each of them had blood in their hands, and the man who died at the old construction site was also a gambler who could not pay back the money.
I also heard from Senior Brother Feng that this group of people committed crimes all over the country, and some unsolved cases stranded in many places were related to them. At that time, there were no surveillance cameras everywhere, and the anti-reconnaissance ability of this group of people was so strong that it was extremely difficult to arrest. If it weren't for my master collecting evidence for several months, even if he caught someone, it would be very troublesome to be tried.
But even though those people died, they kept biting the stolen money and never took back the money from our family.
Now when I recall this experience, my mother was still scared. She never thought that those gangsters who often came to our house to ask for money were actually a group of desperate people who killed people without blinking.
And I am also glad that fortunately I have a master around me, including Senior Brother Feng and Brother Zhuang and others. Otherwise, if I encounter such a thing, I really know what to do.
Anyway, this financial crisis has passed. After the summer vacation in 1999, my father resigned from his original unit and worked as an accountant at a small coal yard. I was officially promoted to junior high school. Liang Houzai and Liu Shangang were all assigned to the same class as me.
This year was exactly the fourth year that I had joined the Master.
It was probably one day when autumn just came to the beginning. I forgot the specific day. I only remember that when Liang Houzai and I came home from school, I saw my master standing alone in the yard, smoking a dry cigarette in a cowardly manner, and sighing from time to time.
Judging from my master's appearance, it seems that I have encountered something very troublesome.
Generally, at this time, I will not take the initiative to talk to my master. When he thinks about things, he hates others to disturb him.
When I walked past my master, Xian'er suddenly showed her head and asked my master: "What's wrong with you, Mr. Chai?"
The master was stunned for a moment, looked at Xian'er, then vomited a long sip of smoke, and then said to me: "This year is your fourth year of becoming a disciple. Logically speaking, it is time to take you into the industry."
I heard from my master before that in our lineage, we have three years of learning skills and four years of entering the industry. But entering the industry does not mean the end of our career. On the contrary, when people at the Shouzhengmen enter the industry, most of them still have not learned their skills well. The reason why they entered the industry so early is just to be able to learn more practical experience while learning skills.
After all, in our industry, there are often various dangers. Master once said that in danger, the only thing that can really save lives is courage, experience, judgment and luck. Entering the industry early is to train courage, and more to accumulate experience.
To be honest, after learning skills from Master in the past four years, I have been able to barely enter the realm of thought and subsistence. I also want to verify how powerful the Tiangang Lock and Zugang with the power of thought can be.
But when it comes to entering the industry, my master was worried and heard him continue, "According to the rules of our lineage, your master should have taken you into the industry, but he has not heard from him over the years, and he doesn't know if he will come back on the day you enter the industry."
After saying this, my master looked towards the gate of the courtyard again and smoked. At that time, my master kept staring at the door, as if he was waiting for someone.
I have always felt that in my master's heart, my master Zhao Zongdian seems to occupy a great influence.
When I was sleeping at night, I couldn't help but ask Xian'er: "Xian'er, have you ever seen my uncle?"
Xian'er was about to fall asleep in a daze, but when she heard me talking, she became energetic: "Of course I've seen it, Zhao Zongdian, this person is very strange."
I asked her again: "Is he a good relationship with my master?"
Xian'er thought about it and responded, "I can't say it either. Zhao Zongdian is a strange person. Almost no one in the Soul Village is willing to deal with him. The only person who can talk to him is probably Mr. Chai. I remember that Mr. Chai often came with him in his early years. Later, Mr. Chai went out to a long door, and Zhao Zongdian left the Soul Village not long after he came back. I remember that before he left, he had a fight with Mr. Chai. I don't know what the specific reason was."
"Xian'er, how do you know so many things? My master has never even said about my uncle."
Xian'er smiled and said, "Actually, I was staying in the Soul Warehouse for a while in my early years. When I was fighting with your master, your master was still young and he didn't do anything serious. He ruined my yang body and probably wasn't ashamed of it, so he kept my three souls in the Soul Warehouse. I stayed in the Soul Warehouse for thirty years before I raised the seven souls again. I know a little about what happened in the Soul Warehouse in those years."
I was thinking, in this way, Xian'er and my master have a grudge.
Xian'er was a blue-eyed fox in her early years. She practiced a magic trick that attracted people's hearts. Of course, it's no problem to read the mind. Moreover, she is now my companion soul. She can easily know what I think in her heart.
I heard Xian'er say, "What kind of resentment? When your master destroyed his yang body, I really blamed him. But I have been raising him for so many years in Jihunzhuang and have been influenced by Lingquan every day. Many resentments in my heart have long been let go. Actually, when I first saw you in Wangzhuang, I originally wanted to return the yang to say goodbye to your master because I was going to return the yang, but I didn't expect to encounter such a big trouble as you halfway. But I think it's good now. I'll chat with you from time to time, and life is not boring."
It turns out that I was able to meet Xian'er, but I still entrusted my master with the blessings.
Then I asked Xian'er: "I always thought it was strange before. You are obviously a spiritual body, so why can I still touch you?"
Xian'er began to become impatient again. Every time I asked too much, she would become impatient. She said unhappily: "Didn't you just tell you that I have been raising souls in the Soul Village for thirty years. Didn't your master tell you that the spiritual spring in the Soul Village can be used to heal wounds. But it can not only heal wounds, but also stabilize the three souls and seven spirits, so that the spiritual essence can produce entities to a certain extent. Speaking of which, there are really many good things in your Soul Village."
I wanted to ask Xian'er again, she planned to return the yang at that time, and she wanted to repay it. Could it be that she also fell in love with someone's yang body?
But Xian'er urged me impatiently: "I'm sleepy, you should go to bed quickly, you have to get up early tomorrow to practice."
Actually, I also want to ask why she saved me and kept it hidden and refused to let me tell my master. Is it because she was the intention of her reincarnation? She was afraid that my master would blame her if she knew that she had not reincarnated her?
When I was thinking this in my heart, I felt Xian'er's soul tremble suddenly, and I knew I was right. Every time I saw through her, she was like this, but in the next few days, she would be angry again, and she ignored me when I said something.
Master just said before that it was time for me to enter the industry, but he didn't specify which day I would enter the industry.
For the days after that, I kept thinking about this matter, but almost a month passed, and there was still no movement on my master.
After junior high school, my weekend holidays were reduced from two days to one and a half days. I had half a day of class on Saturday morning, and when I came home from school at noon, I rode my bicycle with Liang Houzai, and Liu Shangang and I accompanied me, and the three of them walked together.
A few days ago, we just conducted a mock exam. The results we gave today were good because Liang Houzai and I were working on our homework. However, Liu Shangang, because this time the invigilator was strict, we did not dare to hand him a cheat sheet. This time he did a lot of exams and was almost at the bottom of the class. When we got home, it was inevitable that his father would scold him again.
Liang Houzai still didn't talk much. Along the way, only Liu Shangang talked to me endlessly.
At the beginning, we were still having fun, talking and laughing, but as we got closer to home, Liu Shangang became nervous, and he heard him ask me in a very serious tone: "Hey, have you run away from home when you were a child? Isn't it? What does it feel like to run away from home? Let's talk about it."
As soon as I heard his tone, I knew what he was going to do. I glanced at him and said, "You don't want to run away from home, are you?"
Liu Shangang stared at his small eyes and asked me in surprise: "Damn, how did you know?"
"Stop making trouble, it's not the first day I've known you." Liang Houzai was smiling behind me as I spoke.
Chapter completed!