Chapter 265: Last Disciple

The evolution of species is cruel and profound. Humans have struggled for millions of years, and what they rely on to stand out is a smart brain. It is really difficult for people to forget. Memory is almost an instinct for survival.

How can people deprive themselves of their roots?

The so-called forgetting is ultimately just letting go.

I used to be obsessed with dreams, and I was deeply affectionate. I walked all the way and was confused all the way. In the end, I realized that where I was was the paradise.

In the small courtyard, there was already wine and meat on a stone table, and Lao Bai's saliva was almost gathered into a river.

I glanced at the master next to me and thought, this is probably my paradise, what else is there to be unhappy about?

The master said that there has been no reunion in this temple for a long time, so we will have a reunion dinner today and have a few drinks.

Once the wine and meat were served, the word "drink" became empty words.

In the blink of an eye, several people staggered.

After three rounds of wine and five dishes, the master suddenly put down his chopsticks, looked at me deeply, and whispered: "Jingzhe, starting today, you will help the master close the door every night!"

My drunkenness disappeared without a trace.

Not only me, but everyone at the table sat up straight as if their hair was blown up.

It is no small matter for a disciple to close the door for the master in Taoism!

"Have you really decided?"

Qingzhu said: "Don't forget, he is the ceremonial officer!"

"There is no ceremonial officer here."

My master emphasized: "Yes, only my closed disciple, Wei Jingzhe!"

Although Brother Yaozi and the others were upset, they couldn't say much about this matter. The only one who could interrupt was Qingzhu.

Qingzhu thought about it and suddenly laughed: "Zhang Daoxuan, you are really ruthless. Are you afraid that I will open my mouth? But, he is really an excellent child."

"I don't like excellent people. Jingzhe may not be the best in terms of talent, but he is also a little smart. I once said that he was cowardly, but I was wrong. He is still brave, tenacious and fearless. This is the most valuable quality. For a teacher, it is enough to have such a disciple. He can inherit my mantle. I can't tolerate more."

My master said lightly: "In fact, without the Tianmeng, I have had this idea in my heart. Wei Jingzhe is the only disciple of Zhang Daoxuan in this life. It's a pity that I have it in my heart. If I don't say it out, others won't know it, so it's better to let others know it."

I gradually understood that Qingzhu wanted to force someone to come to my master for training. My master probably guessed her purpose, so he came up with a more ruthless move and made me a closed disciple directly to reject the Tianmeng.

The Taoist closing down is no joke. If you let this disciple close down today, you can find another person to close down tomorrow. If you really let a disciple close down, it means that he will never accept any disciples in this life, which is not much different from the emperor's words of no joke!!

Just when I was at a loss, my master's eyes suddenly fell on me: "Jingzhe, have you remembered?"

What else can I say? In this kind of occasion, if I refuse, I will be kicked out according to the rules!!

So, I could only bite the bullet and nod.

"Then I can't say much."

Qingzhu stood up: "They will probably come tonight, you can arrange the rest, I have provided everything that should be provided, take care!"

After that, she left just like that, really free and easy, and refused to say a word.

The atmosphere at the dinner table, which was originally quite warm, suddenly cooled down.

Brother Yaozi glanced at us and asked first: "The people from the Tianmeng this time..."

"Acquaintances."

My master sighed: "You will know when you see them. I didn't expect that he actually found them. It seems that... this world is really going to be in chaos. The Tianmeng threw them here, and there is a deep meaning. Anyway, we are all in the disaster area, so we are not afraid of this. If we can get along, we can get along. If we can't get along, we don't have to care!"

Without giving us time to think about it, my master's eyes suddenly fell on Lao Bai and said lightly: "The road of raising Gu is extremely difficult. I don't know much, but it shouldn't be a problem to guide you. If you encounter any problems in the future, you can ask me."

Lao Bai is such a smart master, how could he not know that my master officially accepted him? It's a kind of closeness! He was about to laugh out loud when he opened his mouth, but seeing that we were all thinking about our own things, he held it back and hid his joy by burying his head in eating rice. It was probably too difficult to hold back. He coughed after every two mouthfuls, and his cheeks were rounded. Rice was sprayed out of his nostrils. He was still unaware, and he secretly looked at us while shoveling the rice with big snot into his mouth. It was so disgusting.

My master shook his head and got up and left.

I pulled Lao Bai, but he didn't react at all. He was still laughing foolishly, so I thought that this grandson must be crazy, so I got up and left. I only heard "Puff Puff" behind me, and I guessed that he was still spitting rice.

An afternoon passed in the blink of an eye.

At dusk, a few of us moved our small stools to the gate of the mountain, staring at the narrow path up the mountain, wanting to see who the "acquaintance" sent by the Tianmeng was!

It's nothing, the words my master said are really meaningful. He refused to explain more, so we couldn't help thinking more, and thinking more made us curious, so we could only wait here.

However, these two people are so arrogant.

We waited eagerly from dusk to sunset, and then waited until the moon was on the treetops, but we never waited.

My body has not been very good recently, and I am skinny and have not recovered yet. After waiting for a long time, I couldn't help but feel sleepy. I leaned against the wall and squinted slightly. Just when I was about to fall asleep, I suddenly heard a loud "clang". Lao Bai kicked over the stool under his butt.

"Fuck, it turned out to be this old bastard?"

Lao Bai shouted: "Where is my knife? Bring me the knife, I must chop him to death today, and I can't live with him under the same roof for a day!!"

I woke up, rubbed my eyes and looked towards the mountain road, and then... I was also confused.

"Fuck, why is it him?"

I saw an old man walking hunched over on the mountain road, wearing a worn-out thick cotton jacket, very sloppy, like a homeless person sleeping under the overpass. After walking a few steps, he stopped and walked towards the mountain gate. Although he was far away, his white eyes without pupils were really eye-catching. If it weren't for the white air that would come out of his mouth and nose when he breathed, people who didn't know would think it was a ghost who wanted to take his life!

Who else could it be except the ferryman who looks like this?

Not only did Lao Bai want to jump up and down, but even I had a dark face. This old man is definitely not a good person. Living under the same roof with such a person, you don't know when you will get into trouble.

"Xiao Weizi, you have a good relationship with Qingzhu and can talk to her, can you go and talk to her?"

Lao Bai said: "Just say we want to return the goods. We can't live like this anymore. We can't find anyone else to help, but you have to use this old onion. Isn't this deliberately insulting us?"

"Something is wrong..."

Brother Yaozi suddenly said: "Who is the girl next to this old guy? Look, he has been following this girl, and he looks like an old servant!!"

This made my heart jump, and I couldn't help but think of the last time this old man was in trouble, and before leaving, he finally told me the truth.

He said that he was just an old servant and the ferryman had disappeared long ago. However, a notebook mentioned a gossip about the ferryman, and it was suspected that there was a descendant left in the world. He traveled around the world just to find this descendant to take over the responsibility...

Thinking about what my master said, I immediately slapped my thigh: "Damn it, this girl is the descendant of the previous generation of ferryman, and this old man really found her. Qingzhu just wanted my master to accept this girl as a disciple. It's just one thing, too many lice don't itch, too many debts don't weigh you down, protecting one is protecting, protecting two is still protecting!! Damn it, I fucked up the Tianmeng, did they really treat our Zhenwu Temple as a shelter for the poor? It's not enough to have a hated ceremonial officer like me, and they threw in a descendant of the ferryman. This grandson is much more hated than me. How many unclean things have been suppressed, and now the Water Prince has released them all at once. Is Qingzhu afraid that our small temple can't be demolished?"

After I said this, several people's eyes finally fell on the girl.

In fact, this is really a pretty girl, with a neat short hair, looking very shy, giving people a very weak feeling, very thin, even in the crowd, her appearance is outstanding, but there is an old gun next to her, so dazzling that her presence is very low.

In the blink of an eye, the old man led the girl to approach.

"Hi, long time no see!"

The old man was in high spirits, as if he was very familiar with us, and he bowed to Lao Bai in a decent manner: "Brother, I haven't seen you for a few months, you are so beautiful, this Zhenwu Temple is really a good place to raise people, much better than you lying on the roadside like a dead dog back then."

The old man talked about everything, and he was very rude, and he came up to expose the shortcomings.

Lao Bai had a dark face, and when he heard this, he was even more furious. Without saying a word, he slapped a mouthful of thick phlegm directly on the old man's face with a "ha".

The old man didn't care at all. He wiped it with his sleeve and came up to pull my hand: "Brother Wei, you owe me a big favor, but you saved me last time, so let's write it off. We must work together in the future. Look at you, have you been losing weight recently? Tsk, but you're losing weight a bit too much, you're just skin and bones. I saw from a distance that I thought you were a starving ghost standing in front of the mountain gate. I almost asked for magic weapons."

I gritted my teeth and said, "Don't talk if you can't talk!"

Even the little girl next to him was stunned by the shameless look of the old man. She stared at the old man in disbelief for a long time, her face slightly red, probably because she was embarrassed, and couldn't help pulling the old man's sleeve, meaning that you should have a little shame.

But the old man didn't care. He greeted everyone one by one. He was offended to death by saying a word. It was rare for him to be so speechless.

"Why bother?"

Brother Yaozi suddenly sighed, "As a ferryman, when did you become so shameless? We are all sensible people, there is no need to pretend to be confused. We don't welcome you here, you can go away, we will have an explanation to the Tianmeng, it's boring to make such jokes."

The old man said with a fake smile, "What ferryman? I am just an old servant, no need to say more, no need to tell me my surname is Li, you can just call me Master Li."

Lao Bai couldn't bear it anymore, and spit another sticky phlegm on the face of old man Li, but this time old man Li was prepared, he turned his head and dodged immediately.

Then, he pulled the little girl next to him forward and said, "Let me introduce you to the real ferryman. His name is Wushuang, the unparalleled one in the world."

After a pause, he pointed at me and said, "Wushuang, this is the Wei Jingzhe I told you about, the unlucky kid who was chased by the Yinchai and made a mess..."

The little girl pushed the old man Li away, glanced at me, lowered her head slightly, and her face flushed: "Brother Jingzhe, please take care of me in the future."

Eh? A boy? !

I couldn't help but take a closer look at the one in front of me, and finally sighed in my heart, it's really a boy, but isn't he too beautiful? His facial features are so delicate that I thought he was a tomboy at first, but he turned out to be a real boy, and he is so shy, he doesn't look like a fighter at all!

My master once told me that the real ferryman has explosive strength and is the most capable of fighting among all the mysterious sects. He can defeat the ghost king Yin Shuai. Otherwise, how can he dare to claim to be the ferryman of Yin and Yang?

Unfortunately, the more we know about his identity, the more we dare not let him in! !

I was just thinking about how to stop this with one sentence and go back to Qingzhu to talk about it. As a result, my master's voice came from the yard at this time.

"Jingzhe, let them in. No matter how miserable they are now, they are still old servants who once followed the ferryman. Why do you have to do this?"

It can be heard that my master actually felt compassion.

Only now did I understand that Old Man Li pretended to be crazy and stupid for the master inside! !

At this moment, my master has spoken, and we can't say anything more. We gritted our teeth and watched Old Man Li walk in with Wushuang and went directly into my master's room.

In the room, my master was standing with his hands behind his back, looking at a map on the wall. On the map, a line was drawn with a red pen. One point was on the coast of Shandong, another point was interspersed in Liaoning, and finally extended into the high seas. My master drew a big circle there.

I understood at a glance that this line was the sailing route that Guo Xun took to enter China. That circle... should be the real location of Penglai Island! !

He didn't go out all afternoon. It turned out that he was studying this.

Even when Old Man Li came in, he didn't turn around and said, "Jingzhe, go pick a guest room for them to stay in, and then come back here."

"Mr. Zhang!!"

Old Man Li suddenly raised his voice, changed his previous crazy and stupid look, trembling all over, and said loudly: "Can't you give this kid a chance?"

My master didn't respond.

Old man Li said again: "Do you really want me to kneel down for you?"

"You go and rest, stay here, I have already nodded."

My master sighed softly: "As for accepting disciples, I don't like the ferryman's lack of position. Besides, I have a Jingzhe to inherit my mantle, which is enough for this life!"

Old man Li trembled more and more, and lowered his head slightly. Wushuang's eyes were also slightly red, and his eyes were out of focus. He looked at this and that, twisting the corners of his clothes with both hands.

To be honest, this old man Li is really mean, not a good bird, and I don't care about him much, but the look of this Wushuang... It's as if something poked my heart.

I think, probably after I was made up by a ghost, when I was in a state of panic, I was probably no different from him!

Desperate and fearful, and unable to resist, I looked around, just hoping that someone could help me a little...

So, I gently pulled him. This was my master's decision. I couldn't say much, so I asked him softly if he was hungry.

Wushuang was startled, and immediately turned his head, wiped the corner of his eyes with his sleeve, and nodded heavily.

"Life in the mountains is hard, and there is nothing delicious. I'll go and heat you something to eat."

I sighed softly and pulled him out of the house.

Seeing this, Old Man Li stopped pestering me and had to follow me out.

I led them into the kitchen. There was still some hot rice in the pot. It should be Zhang Xinya's left for me. I was afraid that I was weak and could not get enough nutrition. I served the rice to the old and the young, and then watched them squat on the ground, breathing out the cold air and eating.

I retreated silently. Before leaving, I saw Old Man Li raised his head and said thank you to me with his mouth.

When I returned to my master's room, they had been studying the map for a long time.

The master asked me if I had settled down.

I nodded.

The master sighed and said, "He is indeed a good candidate, but unfortunately, I cannot teach him. The master does not want to accept any apprentices in this life. You should not reject him and get in touch with him more. Ferrymen do not know right from wrong. If this goes on, I am worried that this child will go astray."

We looked at each other, not quite understanding what my master said, but seeing that he was serious, we immediately nodded and agreed.

My master then looked back at the map and tapped the circle with his fingers: "I have checked many ancient books and basically confirmed that the legendary Penglai Island should be in this area. I am afraid that it has sunk into the sea like many relics, and it is very far away from us. If we want to find it, we must find someone who is very familiar with the sea route, and... he must be in our line of work, otherwise, if we encounter any emergency, I am worried that something will go wrong."

It is easy to find someone who is familiar with the sea route.

However, it is difficult to find someone who is familiar with the sea route and is in our line of work. Basically, all possibilities are killed with one blow, leaving only one choice.

But... this choice is too difficult!

Brother Yaozi and I looked at each other, and almost at the same time, we looked at Lao Bai and said in unison: "Hai Gang!!"