73. My Disciple From Ancient Times to Modern Times (2)

Author has something to say: This chapter contains descriptions of ghosts. Scared little angels can read it during the day.

"Don't make a fuss."

Duan Qingen gently took off the beard on his face and put it aside, then took off the hood on his head.

When he washed his face again, he raised his head under Duan Xu's shocked gaze, and his face was much younger than before.

Duan Xu was so scared that he almost cried.

In his little head, he thought that it was a ghost, and then he thought that maybe the master had practiced some powerful magic, and he was dizzy.

But he was still strong and called out carefully: "Master, Master, is it you?"

"It's me."

Duan Qingen wiped his face and picked up a towel beside him to wipe the water off his face.

Duan Xu saw that his voice was still the same as before, and he breathed a sigh of relief. He carefully and cautiously walked around the table, picked up a wooden stick on the ground, and vigilantly poked the fake leather removed from the table.

Poke it, and the body trembled.

Seeing that the fake skin didn't move, he didn't relax yet, just slowly moved and blocked Duan Qingen.

Duan Xu: "Master! Is this an evil demon?"

"Should we get rid of it, Master?"

Duan Qingen: "Yeah... okay."

Duan Xu's body suddenly became more tense, staring at these things, trying to kill them with his sharp eyes.

Then, he watched Duan Qingen, who was blocked behind him, casually gathered the things on the table and threw them into the trash can.

Duan Xu, who had thrown away garbage this morning and knew that this was a trash can: "?"

He didn't quite understand, but soon, the silly boy who believed that "my master is an immortal" found an explanation for himself: "Master, have you used immortal water to get rid of these evil spirits just now?"

"That's called makeup remover."

Duan Qingen directly pulled his apprentice, who was as stiff as a stone, to sit down: "Before, for some reason, I didn't show my true face to others, do you understand?"

Duan Xu suddenly realized: "It turned out to be a disguise."

"Master, you are so amazing that you can disguise yourself so well."

He originally believed everything Duan Qingen said, and after accepting this reason, his face was full of longing again.

"Master, can I learn the disguise in the future?"

"Yes, but I am not very proficient in this aspect, you have to learn it by yourself, you know?"

Duan Xu looked confused: "Self-study?"

"But the disciple doesn't know anything."

"Come, I'll show you."

Duan Qingen took out his mobile phone from his pocket, fortunately, there was a signal.

After swiping a few times, he searched on a certain video website and found a makeup video with the highest number of hits, and put it in front of Duan Xu for him to watch.

Duan Xu sat obediently and watched with a confused look on his face.

He had seen this fairy thing called a mobile phone yesterday, as if everyone in this fairyland could have one, even Aunt Zhang, whose home was said to have evil spirits by her master, had one. At this moment, he was not so shocked that a villain could come out of it.

Then, while watching the yellow-skinned, squinting-eyed, spotted-faced, and thin-mouthed girl in the video quickly transform herself into a European and American queen, the expression on the child's face changed from confusion to thoughtfulness to shock and finally ended in a blank.

Nowadays, videos are accelerated for people to watch, so that some people who can't squeeze out time can quickly entertain themselves. A video only takes four minutes.

But these short four minutes seemed to reorganize Duan Xu's worldview.

Duan Qingen saw his face full of "Who am I, where am I, why am I sitting here" expression, patted the child's shoulder: "Have you finished reading?"

Duan Xu immediately seemed to have grabbed a life-saving straw, his face full of panic: "Master, this disguise is too terrible. If everyone does this, wouldn't everyone be unable to distinguish the real from the fake."

Duan Qingen calmly comforted the frightened disciple: "Not everyone can do it, and it requires other things to cooperate."

Duan Xu: "What is it?"

"Filters, beauty, and photoshop."

Duan Xu, who had never heard of a word, was confused.

Although he didn't understand, he subconsciously felt that this was a very powerful thing, so he continued to sigh: "Even if it requires other things to cooperate, it is also very powerful, but Master, why does this lady want to disguise herself as a Hu person?"

In his cognition, Hu people are all of low status. It's okay for Hu people to disguise themselves as Han people, but how can Han people disguise themselves as Hu people?

"European and American makeup looks good, don't you think it looks good?"

Duan Xu hesitated: "It looks good, but doesn't she worry about being bullied?"

Duan Qingen looked like "You must be dreaming": "In a society ruled by law, who dares to bully her? And don't call her a foreigner. She is a foreigner. Look at how many people like her."

"Foreigner?"

Duan Xu was like a three-year-old child learning to speak. He followed Duan Qingen's words. He touched his face in confusion: "Master, are foreigners in the fairy world no longer ridiculed?"

"What are you laughing at? We are all human beings. Now we live in a society ruled by law, but there is no such thing as the three, six, nine, and nine classes."

Duan Qingen touched his chin and looked at Duan Xu: "You look like a mixed-race."

The word mixed-race is too easy to understand. Duan Xu pursed his lips and his mood suddenly dropped; "My father is a Hu person and my mother is a Han Chinese."

"Oh, mixed race, no wonder he looks so good-looking."

Duan Xu was stunned. He raised his head blankly and touched his face: "Master, do I look good? Don't you think I look a little different from ordinary people and look scary?"

Because of this appearance, Duan Xu has not been popular in the escort agency since he was a child. People say that Hu people are of low origin, but his father is a Hu man, so naturally he himself is also low.

Even though he worked the hardest and endured the most hardships when he was learning martial arts, his martial arts progress was much faster than other children of the same age. Everyone else could become a gangster, but he was the only one who has always been a slave.

Because of his unusual appearance, Duan Xu has always felt inferior. He usually lowers his head to cover up whenever he can, but even so, when he walks outside, he is still not accepted by others.

Duan Qingen was the first person in his memory who was kind to him, willing to give him a bed to sleep on and share food with him.

Duan Qingen saw the child's red eyes and didn't know what he was thinking of. He also had some guesses in his heart. He simply said directly: "Mixed-race people are very popular. If your kid is in school, there will definitely be a lot of girls chasing him."

"Okay, let's tidy up. Someone will come to see us later."

Duan Xu immediately forgot about his previous sentimentality and widened his dark eyes: "Master, did you calculate this?!"

"Oh, no."

Duan Qingen told him very patiently: "We told him that we were Feng Shui masters when we first moved here. This village is so small, maybe everyone in the village knows about it now. Just now you poured chicken blood into that family's house. They I will definitely be scared when I see chicken blood when I get home. If I get scared, won’t I want to find someone to solve it? We are Feng Shui masters, and this family will definitely come to us.”

Duan Xu, who originally thought Duan Qing'en was going to say, "Yes, I figured it out, is so awesome," was confused again.

He stammered: "Then, is this just your guess?"

"no."

Duan Qingen spoke righteously: "How can this be called guessing? This is inference and probability. Do you know, disciple? Human behavior and things to be done can all be calculated based on probability."

Duan Xu: "Probability?"

"Well, you are still young, so it is normal for you not to understand. When you go to school, the teacher will teach you."

Duan Xu understood this sentence, and the young man's dark eyes shone even brighter: "Master, do you want to send me to school? Can I also go to school?"

"Of course, children as old as you have to study."

"Come, silly disciple, come here."

Duan Qingen waved his hand and saw Duan Xu coming over obediently like a puppy summoned by its owner. He whispered in his ear: "I have inquired about it. The son of the family named Zhang works at the police station."

Duan Xu also whispered: "Master, what is the police station?"

"It's the police. If you think about it, you can just understand it as the government."

Duan Xu's eyes immediately showed respect: "Is he an official?"

"Don't call me Guan Ye, otherwise people will think you are crazy."

Duan Xu nodded obediently: "Master, if I meet him, what should I call him?"

"Um……"

Duan Qingen thought for a second: "Uncle police, that's what we call him now."

Duan Xu immediately nodded obediently; "I understand, Master."

Duan Qing'en; "Look, you don't know anything about it. You don't have a household registration or an identity card. If you can get in touch with this family, he is from the police station and can help you keep a file and register your identity." |ID|certificate, otherwise you don’t have anything and the school won’t accept it.”

Although he couldn't understand most of the words, Duan Xu still understood the last sentence, and his nose was so moved: "Master, you are so kind to me."

"I know I'm good to you. After you go to school, you should study hard, get into a good university, and then become a CEO and earn money to support me. Do you understand?"

"I understand, Master."

Duan Xu nodded obediently: "I will do whatever Master tells me to do."

Although he doesn't understand what this Western medicine Europe is, he will definitely be obedient and work hard in this direction.

As the master and apprentice were talking, the almost non-existent wooden door outside was pushed open, and a woman in her forties carefully poked her head in with a look of panic on her face.

"that……"

As soon as she came in, she saw Duan Qing'en, who was much younger than expected, a little handsome, and looked more like a high-level intellectual than a Feng Shui master. She asked hesitantly: "Are you the master of this child?" A Feng Shui master?"

"It's me."

Duan Qingen stood up and said, "Sister, are you looking for me?"

"Yes, um, Master, there's something strange going on in my family recently, and I just wanted to ask if you could help us take a look."

"Okay, I just happen to be free. Seeing that I am destined to you, I won't charge you." Duan Qing'en stood up neatly, "Duan Xu, follow me."

"Hey Master!"

Duan Xu immediately followed behind.

This woman just came to try it out, and originally wanted to talk about the price, but in the blink of an eye, the master and the apprentice were already standing in front of him.

Duan Qingen said with a natural expression: "Sister, let's go."

woman:"……"

She didn't know why, but she always felt something was wrong.

But I thought that I wouldn’t charge any money anyway, and it would be free of charge if I didn’t see it.

So ten minutes later, the three of them stood in the Zhang family's house.

"Ever since the heavy rainstorm last month, something has been wrong in my house. My old man has nightmares every night when he sleeps. He said he dreamed of a woman standing at the window crying at him. Although I didn't have nightmares, I have had chest pains in the past few days. I always have a dull pain and my cervical spine is uncomfortable.”

Speaking of this, there was fear in her tone; "It was probably the day before yesterday. I was sleeping and was woken up by my old man. He said he saw a woman sitting on my chest and his hands were squeezing my neck... "

"As a result, today, as soon as I got home, I saw blood on the wall. Master, please help me find out if there is anything wrong with my family. My old man hasn't had a good night's sleep in a long time. If this continues, The body must collapse."

Duan Qingen walked around the room, "Which room are you sleeping in?"

"Inside, come, I will take you there."

The middle-aged woman led the two of them into the master bedroom.

Houses in the countryside are generally larger than those in the city. Although the master bedroom they are currently in looks poorly decorated, it is still quite large. Duan Qingen walked around the house and went directly to the equally large window. superior.

The window is facing the bed. If someone lies on it, from this angle, they can see a peach tree planted outside.

In the eyes of others, this peach tree is growing very well, and its leaves are slowly swinging with the wind.

But in Duan Qingen's eyes, what he saw was an entire tree wrapped in black energy.

He pointed directly at the tree:

“When was this tree here?”

"It's been here a long time ago. I don't know exactly how early. I only know that this house was built by my father-in-law. I remember that the tree was here when I first got married. It seems that I saw this peach tree at that time. It doesn’t bear fruit, but it can bloom beautiful peach blossoms. My mother-in-law likes peach blossoms, so she placed this tree in the yard.”

The middle-aged woman was extremely nervous: "Master, is there something wrong with this peach tree?"

"But we have lived here for such a long time, and nothing has ever happened."

Duan Qingen opened the window and smelled the smell in the air; "Is there anything related to this peach tree recently?"

"It's related to the peach tree..."

The middle-aged woman thought hard for a long time and finally came up with it: "Yes! Yes! He is my son. He came back to see us before. At the table, he mentioned that he likes to eat peaches. Unfortunately, the peach tree at home does not bear fruit. My wife thought "But the peach tree didn't bear fruit. It was because there was not enough fertilizer. I used chemical fertilizer when my father-in-law was here, but it just didn't bear fruit. Then I thought of a trick."

Duan Qingen: "Have you used natural and pollution-free fertilizer?"

"Yes, yes."

The middle-aged woman nodded repeatedly: "Master, you are so smart. The toilet in my house is far away. I usually use a bucket to go to the toilet at night. I thought, since the fertilizers sold on the market are not good, I might as well just use these, so I use them every day. When emptying the urine bucket, dig a hole under the tree and pour it directly into it.”

"But after I poured it out for a few days, my son said that this would not work and it would be better to use chemical fertilizers. Then I stopped doing it."

After finishing speaking, she became extremely nervous and asked: "Master, is it really because of this? Is this tree evil? Is there any way to resolve it?"

"I understand, please calm down for a moment."

Duan Qingen made an OK gesture, "Sister, look at this. It will get dark soon. Why don't you and your wife go live in other houses tonight? My apprentice and I will stay here tonight to see the situation. Look. How about it?"

"Okay, okay!!"

The middle-aged woman nodded quickly: "I'll trouble you, Master. Do you want something to eat? I'll help you."

“It’s not too much trouble to eat.”

Duan Qingen touched his hungry belly and said with a righteous expression: "My apprentice is still growing at a young age, just get some meat."

"Hey, let me kill a chicken for you."

The middle-aged woman went to catch chickens.

Duan Xu didn't dare to speak until she went out. He carefully looked at the peach tree in the yard: "Master, is there something wrong with this peach tree?"

"There's nothing wrong with the peach trees themselves."

Duan Qingen took out a pack of spicy strips from his pocket and ate them bite by bite: "We'll find out later tonight."

***

That night, Duan Qingen and Duan Xu slept in the master bedroom.

Duan Xu felt nervous. Although he was very sleepy, he never fell asleep. However, Duan Qingen slept soundly.

At twelve o'clock, the clock outside rang.

Then, a whimpering woman cried.

Duan Xu opened his eyes drowsily, and the next second his body stiffened with fright.

In front of the window facing the bed, there was a woman in red standing.

She has long flowing hair, a pale complexion, and the sharp and long nails exposed on her lowered hands, a typical image of a fierce ghost.

At this moment, he was crying quietly.

Duan Xu was so frightened that his heart almost jumped out of his chest. He quickly went to pat Duan Qing'en who was sleeping next to him: "Master, Master!"

Duan Qingen smacked his lips: "Don't make any noise, I want to sleep."

"Master, there is, there is a ghost!"

"Hmm...I know." Duan Qing'en searched around his body with his eyes closed, took out a talisman and photographed it on Duan Xu: "Go and ask why she is crying. I will sleep for a while."

After saying that, he turned around and went back to sleep.

Duan Xu: "..."

The child was almost crying.

But looking back at the sleeping master and the talisman on his body, he still climbed out of bed cautiously and walked cautiously towards the window.

"Well, this little... lady, my master asked me to ask you, why are you crying?"

"Woooooooooo..."

The female ghost sobbed a few times and bowed to Duan Xu weakly: "My wife, Yueniang, I have met the young master."

Duan Xu; "...you, are you really a ghost?"

The female ghost whimpered again, "Although I am a ghost, I have never harmed anyone. Please have mercy on me, sir, and don't hurt me."

Duan Xu cautiously looked back at the sleeping master, then turned around boldly: "Well, Sister Ghost, you said you don't hurt anyone, but why does the aunt who lives here say you came to strangle her neck in the middle of the night? "

"I didn't want to, but I cried to them for a month, but they ignored me. When I got angry, I wanted to make some noise and let them pay attention to me."

Yueniang continued to cry: "I am also knowledgeable and reasonable. If they hadn't gone too far, I wouldn't have done anything."

Seeing the female ghost sister crying with blood and tears in her eyes, Duan Xu swallowed with his legs softened: "Why did they go too far?"

"Young Master, look at me. Although I am not as beautiful as I am, I am definitely not inferior to Diao Chan. I have learned poetry, lyrics, and songs since I was a child. Not to mention how good I am, I must be knowledgeable and sensible. Back then My father took pity that I died young before I got married, so he buried me here and planted my favorite peach tree, hoping that I would still look good even if I was underground. As time went by, I became attached to this peach tree. The appearance of the tree is getting more and more beautiful, sir, look at it..."

Duan Xu looked at the female ghost in front of him with blood-red eyes and a pale face, with no facial features visible at all: "Uh... she is more beautiful."

"Ugh... But this family is so unreasonable that they buried their filth under the tree. I have to suffer such shame and humiliation because I look like this. I have to be with filth day and night. Naturally, I can't stand it, so I come here every night. I went to his master to cry and beg, but they pretended to be deaf and dumb. Master, I had no choice but to scare this lady. I really didn’t do anything serious, I just wanted to let them know that I was here. Please Please, spare me, I have been buried under this tree for a long time, and I have never harmed anyone..."

Duan Xu had never felt being begged by a female ghost.

He softened his legs and said, "Well, it's up to my master to decide whether to spare you or not."

After saying that, he turned around and called; "Master, Master!"

Duan Qingen, who was sleeping, yawned and made an OK gesture; "I will tell the family tomorrow to get rid of those artificial fertilizers."

Yueniang burst into tears of joy again, and quickly saluted: "Thank you, sir. Thank you, sir. Then I won't disturb your sleep."

Duan Xu stood by the window and watched helplessly as this female ghost sister who was very confident in her appearance floated to the edge of the tree, then carefully squeezed in and disappeared.

Duan Xu: "..."

It turns out that ghosts are just like people, and they also know that they love beauty and cleanliness.

He turned to look at Duan Qingen who was yawning: "Master, what are we going to tell this family tomorrow?"

Are you saying that female ghosts are not happy to come out and cause trouble because you buried poop at other people's feet?

Or is this female ghost particularly fond of beauty? Please don’t do anything to Taoshu that damages her beautiful image?

"You'll find out tomorrow."

Duan Qingen buried himself under the quilt: "Okay, go to sleep. A child as old as you won't grow taller if he doesn't go to bed early and get up early."

****

Zhang Wei is 24 years old and has been working at the police station for two years.

He took leave today to go home because his parents called him last night and said that a master came to the house to help with Feng Shui.

Zhang Wei asked for leave and came back without thinking.

Whatever you look at in Feng Shui, they are all feudal superstitions, liars, and people who cheat money.

As for the parents saying that this master doesn’t want money? It doesn’t cost money to look at Feng Shui, but it’s better to change Feng Shui. He works at the police station himself and has seen countless scammers. How can he still not understand this trick?

This kind of scammer relies on the old man's superstition and lack of knowledge of science to cheat money unscrupulously.

The more Zhang Wei thought about it, the angrier he became, and he hurried back home.

The door was open, but he didn't say anything and walked in angrily.

As soon as I entered, I heard a slow voice speaking slowly:

"Actually, it's very simple. Because you buried the artificial fertilizer under the peach tree before, and the peach tree was facing the window of your master bedroom. When you fell asleep at night, the smell drifted in through the window. , why can’t you smell it during the day? Because during the day, various smells are more concentrated. As for people, the sense of smell is actually more accurate at night. However, you are sleeping at this time, so the sense of smell senses discomfort and is directly reflected to the brain. I started to dream and felt uncomfortable all over.”

"Cervical spine pain and chest tightness are very simple. Sister, look at you, you work at sunrise and rest at sunset every day. You are not too young. It is strange that you can feel comfortable working like this every day. In addition, your wife has always been I told you about the dream, and you felt that it was because of those dreams that you felt uncomfortable."

"There is also blood on the ground. I looked at it and it seems that a weasel came in with a chicken in its mouth to eat. The blood was spattered on the wall. You can ask if anyone in the village has lost a chicken."

You can definitely find out, after all, the chicken is in his belly.

"Are you okay? It's okay. Just get the artificial fertilizer out from under the peach tree, don't bury anything weird under it in the future, and just close the blinds on the master bedroom window."

Zhang Wei's steps slowly stopped.

The angry expression on his face fell and turned into hesitation.

When he walked in, he saw a fair-skinned, gentle man in his thirties smiling and waving his hands:

"We agreed not to pay, so we can't break our promise, right?"

"There's really no ghost, just believe me, what era is this, don't get into feudal superstition."

After pushing back the money given by Zhang Wei's mother, he said righteously:

"There are no ghosts in this world, only science!"