Early the next morning, as soon as they finished practicing, the brothers quickly opened the door of Yibing's room. Unexpectedly, the door was only half opened when a meat ball jumped out from inside, and then rolled around in the yard east and west. It wanted to climb up the house for a while, and dug a hole under the corner of the wall for a while. The senior fellow apprentices were dazzled and felt dizzy. So, the two simply sat on the steps and watched with their cheeks in their hands.
It was like this for seven days in a row. For the first three days, the brothers sat and commented, but for the next four days, they didn't even bother to look at it. Anyway, as soon as breakfast was served, the cake immediately stopped, and then rolled to the dining table like a fly. .
"Bang bang!" As usual, two big slaps in the face, and then the meal was served.
Halfway through the meal, the brothers noticed that the cake was a little different from usual. He was extremely lost, completely hopeless, and even the speed of eating was slowed down by several beats.
"One piece of cake, what's wrong?"
"I want to go home..."
"You..." The hand that the senior brother raised was immediately grabbed by the junior brother: "We didn't stop you!"
"...This place is too evil...I..." Yibing pouted and said nothing.
"Why are you in a hurry? It's not too late to go home after practicing Taoism!"
"I... my family didn't even know I came out. They must be very anxious!" Yibing suddenly grabbed the junior brother's hand: "Can you let me go back first and say no?"
The brothers looked at each other, then shook their heads at Yibing. This guy can run so fast. Once he is released, it will be easier than catching a rabbit!
"A piece of cake. To be honest, our brothers also feel a little sorry for you, but there is nothing we can do! Master doesn't know how to draw... Ahem... I don't know why, but I suddenly want to collect four more Apprentices, and they had to gather the number of people within a month. It wasn’t until seven days ago that we brothers found three of them with great effort. When we were worrying about how to communicate in the middle of the night, we happened to see you... I mistakenly thought that you were a disciple. Wild child, so..." The senior brother swallowed hard as he remembered the pain of carrying a loaf of bread that night.
"Actually, this is fate, don't you think so?" The junior brother tugged at Yipian's little face, and when he saw Yipian ignored him, he could only cough twice in embarrassment: "Ahem... let's do this, You write a letter to your family and I will send it back to you, so your family will feel relieved!"
"Really?!" Yibing immediately raised his head.
"..." Senior brother glanced at his junior brother, turned around and nodded: "Really! But you have to be at ease to practice Taoism with my master!"
"How many days will it take to practice Taoism?"
"How many days? Three to five years at best, seven or eight years for someone like you!" Senior Brother said while cursing himself inwardly: "We have such a fat man, I don't know how Master will punish us!"
"What?! Then I won't cultivate it! I want..." Yibing immediately became anxious, and his whole fat face was trembling.
"Senior brother, with our perseverance like Yibing'er, it won't take long, right?" Junior brother quickly covered Yibing's mouth.
"...Yes, yes, that's right! Look how many holes you dug all morning!" The senior brother was stunned at first, and then quickly changed his mind and agreed. He looked at the holes all over the yard and felt indescribably disgusted. He couldn't use the land to level the ground. In the end, the two brothers had to do it.
"I didn't even dig it out..." Yibing muttered unwillingly.
"After you finish cultivating the Tao, you can use the Earth Escape Technique to get out!"
"real?"
"Hey, you still don't believe it! Come on, let me teach you..." The junior brother stood up and was about to make gestures, but he immediately changed his mind: "Ahem... Let's let the senior brother perform the air separation technique on you!" I’ll bring you the pot lid from the kitchen!”
The senior brother glared at his junior brother fiercely and thought to himself: "Can this fool teach the art of earth escape now?!". He turned his head and looked at Yibing with a smile, then reached out and grabbed it in the direction of the kitchen. Immediately, Yibing and his junior brother screamed in shock!
"Hey, that's awesome! Oops..." The proud senior brother turned his head and turned pale. He grabbed the lid of some kind of pot somewhere in his hand. It was obviously a boiling hot pot!
"Hahahaha..." Yibing was so happy that his whole body was trembling.
"I accidentally grabbed the wrong one..." Senior Brother said viciously, and quickly stretched his red right hand into the water tank next to him, and then a wisp of green smoke rose from the water.
"This will make it easier to catch rabbits in the future!" Junior Brother almost laughed out loud!
After the senior brother paid the price of one hand, Yibing finally expressed that he would seriously consider practicing Taoism. The senior brother was in pain and happy, while the junior brother was very excited. I don’t know why he liked this little fat man very much.
"Can this trick really catch rabbits from the ground?" Yibing, who was writing a letter home, couldn't help but ask his senior brother.
"Yes, yes, I didn't see it..." The senior brother was so angry that his nose was almost crooked, and he thought to himself: "My hands are almost cooked and I still don't believe it!"
"Yibier, I didn't expect you could write!" Junior brother originally planned to do it for me.
"Well, Mr. Liu from the private school taught us..." Thinking of those classmates, Yipian's eyes turned red again.
"Hey, by the way, what do you want to eat for lunch?" The senior brother quickly changed the subject.
"Eat meat!"
"No, this is the Immortal Mansion of the Divine Mountain, how can you eat meat! The flowers and plants here are all sacred objects, and they must not be meaty at all!" The senior brother subconsciously looked at his injured hand.
"That...that rabbit leg..."
"Shut up! Those are vegetarian rabbit legs, made of tofu!" The senior brother went up and slapped him.
"Wow...it was originally..." The cake didn't look like tofu no matter how much I tried to eat it.
"Don't cry... don't cry... As long as you obey, senior brother will go out and buy delicious food for you, okay?" Junior Brother quickly coaxed a piece of cake and glanced at Senior Brother, thinking: "Su Tu" Legs? You still stole them!"
After writing the letter, the senior brother reviewed it first before putting it in an envelope and giving it to the junior brother. Yibing really didn't write anything, he just said that he was caught by the immortal because he was catching rabbits, and he insisted on accepting him as his disciple, so he practiced Taoism in the immortal mountain, and he would go home as soon as he finished practicing. Remember not to let others eat the food under your bed. Sweet potatoes and more.
"I'll see him off..." Seeing the junior brother carrying his baggage and heading towards the door, Yibing quickly followed him, but was caught back by the senior brother.
"No, just stay still!" Senior brother thought to himself: "This kid is fat and looks silly, but I didn't expect that he is actually quite a thief!"
"Brother, what is our master's name?" Yibing, who sat back at the table, asked curiously. He already recognized his master but still didn't know what his name was.
"Brother? Who is your eldest brother?" Senior brother glared at Yibing.
"What's that called? You didn't tell me!"
"...My name is Hongkun, my junior brother is called Hongpeng, and my master is respectfully called Meng Hong..." The senior brother suddenly stopped: "Let's call him Taoist Meng Hong!"
Before dawn the next day, there was a "bang bang" knock on the door outside the window. Hongkun couldn't help but have a confused look on his face. This door is a sacred object. Mortals can't get in. Immortals don't need to knock. Who is the person outside this door? When he opened the door, he saw that it was Hongpeng. He was leaning on a crutch. He was covered in blood and even one of his shoes was missing.
"Junior brother?"
"Brother!"
"you you..."
"..." Hongpeng's lips moved and he cried "Wow".
"Junior brother, don't cry, don't cry, tell me quickly what's going on?"
"Yesterday, didn't I go to Mujiazhuang to deliver a letter?" Hongpeng said while sobbing: "As we agreed, we could just slip the letter through the crack of the door in the middle of the night. Who would have known... Who would have known... .”
"..." Hongkun was so anxious that he stretched his neck as long as a chicken's neck.
"I didn't know that he actually dug a trap in his yard! "Cangdang" made me fall into it. It was full of fucking branches. Fortunately, I was good at it, otherwise...otherwise, I would have just injured one. My legs are broken!" Hongpeng couldn't help but feel proud as he spoke, his chin lifted up.
"How come you are also a half-immortal, what about magic?" Hongkun glanced at Hongpeng, and Hongpeng quickly lowered his head again: "Yes, I immediately cast the spell, jumped into the air and jumped out of the cave entrance, but unexpectedly... A pot of dog blood was poured over my head, and then the spell stopped working..."
"No wonder you were knocking on the door just now, the fairy spirit in you is gone!"
"But luckily I didn't fall back into the hole! A stick hit me on the leg in mid-air, and my shoes fell off. Then I rolled to the ground and was immediately caught in a fishing net."
"This... what kind of place is this Mujiazhuang? It's just..."
"Then they were dragged into the house, and they said I was a burglar who stole the child! I explained for a long time, and it wasn't until I took out the letter that they finally believed me."
"Then let you go?"
"No way! They slapped me and said I was kidnapping a child!" Hongpeng's expression was so unbearable that people couldn't bear to look at it.
"Tell them that the master is a great immortal in the upper world. To be able to accept his son as a disciple is because of the blessings of his family for several generations!"
"I told you, they say there are too many fake gods nowadays. Even if they are, their Mujiazhuang is not afraid of gods and ghosts!"
"Hey! No matter what you say, it won't work!" Hongkun was so angry that he clenched his fists: "What happened next?"
"Later, I got anxious and said, 'You have to rely on my master to learn how to catch rabbits from a distance, otherwise we wouldn't have accepted such a fat apprentice!'" Hongpeng made a point. It's the same as going back to the scene.
"and after?"
"I believed him immediately and even served me tea!" At this point, Hongpeng's mood also relaxed: "His family said that the child is not sensible, and they hope that we will take care of him. Didn't he bring a lot of food?" of!"
"Oh..." Hongkun looked at the contents of Hongpeng's bag and couldn't help but swallowed: "Then you can't dig traps everywhere and beat people!"
"Speaking of which... I really blame both of us..." Hongpeng lowered his head and muttered.
"...Hey...let's not talk about this!" Hongkun also felt guilty and thought to himself: "Thankfully I didn't go! It's really a bit of a kidnapping of children."
"At first we couldn't find a piece of cake in the village, and we thought it had been eaten by a wolf, so the whole village went out to search for it for three days!"
"If he was eaten by a wolf?! Then the wolf would have to be strangled to death!" Hongkun couldn't believe his ears.
"Later, some people said that it was a burglar who stole the children, and some said that it was an old goblin who caught the children, so every household started to dig traps and prepare bloody traps!"
"Alas! It's all my fault that our master is so crazy that he made us both do such immoral things!"
"Well, this is a letter from Yibing's family!" Hongpeng said and handed over a letter.
Hongkun opened the letter without saying a word. The content of the letter is roughly as follows: Since a piece of cake was lost, the family was heartbroken, and all the people in the village went out to search for it. It was not until Hongpeng sent a letter from home that the family finally let go. I was very happy to hear that he worshiped immortals and practiced Taoism, and hoped that he would work hard to practice. But it turned out that he was not that good at it, so he hurried home to study and said that the sweet potato under the bed was rotten, so don't think about it!
"Junior brother! I have an idea. You see, his family members think he is not a monastic. Should we make another plan?"
"What's the plan?"
"If master never comes, should we take this opportunity to find another disciple to come back?"
"Still looking for it?" Hongpeng couldn't help but be stunned.
"Yes! You see, this little fat guy really has a hard time explaining himself. Not to mention that it's a bit difficult to tossing and turning. If he practices the flying technique, his weight may be a bit heavy. Even if he masters it, everyone will say it. The Bone Immortal Wind is fluttering in the clouds, but there is a big meat ball floating in the air at our house. Where can I put Master's face? "
