Why Wasn't He My Disciple?

"Ah." Qiu Sheng lowered his head in disappointment.

"Humans and ghosts can't be together. The two of you being together will only harm you, do you understand?" Uncle Nine earnestly tried to persuade Qiu Sheng.

With such a fascinating drama unfolding, Lin Yu naturally wouldn't miss it. He silently ate melon seeds on the sidelines and offered no opinion on how Uncle Nine should deal with the female ghost.

In any case, if the female ghost dared to keep bothering Qiu Sheng, his master would deal with her. He only had to make sure Qiu Sheng didn't lose his virginity.

In fact, Uncle Nine generally wouldn't wipe out ghosts like Dong Xiaoyu, who had no baleful Qi on her and had done little evil. He was already very lenient.

This time, she had even come after his disciple, yet he still let her go after Qiu Sheng pleaded for her. It was easy to imagine how softhearted Uncle Nine was.

Unfortunately, Qiu Sheng still didn't appreciate it. Being a master was hard too. Lin Yu decided it was better to behave himself and be an invisible little junior brother.

"Hey, junior brother, do you think that female ghost is pretty?" Wen Cai had also figured out what was going on and was watching the show beside Lin Yu.

"Senior brother, do you want to see her? It's easy. Just open that gourd and you'll see her right away."

Lin Yu felt they really were family. Just like Qiu Sheng, Wen Cai wasn't worried about whether there was any danger and asked whether she was pretty instead.

"Forget it, forget it." Wen Cai waved his hand. He didn't dare.

"All right. When the gates of the underworld open wide on the fifteenth of the seventh month, I'll send her down to reincarnate." Ignoring any further pleas from Qiu Sheng, Uncle Nine took the gourd and put it in the room where he kept the ghosts he had captured.

At that moment, a bell rang repeatedly outside the house.

"Jingle, jingle~ jingle, jingle~"

"The dead are passing through, the living make way!"

Four Eyes' familiar voice also carried into the mortuary.

As soon as Lin Yu heard it, he ran to open the door.

"Martial uncle, you're here!" Lin Yu opened the door, looked at Four Eyes outside, and called out with a smile.

"Xiao Yu, where's your master?" Four Eyes herded the corpses into the mortuary and looked around.

"Oh, none of you have gone to bed tonight? Were you waiting for me?" Seeing everyone in the courtyard, he greeted them jokingly.

"Junior brother, how come you got back so quickly this time?" Seeing Four Eyes, Uncle Nine felt less depressed.

"Ah, don't even mention it. Several of my customers from the last batch were damaged, so my client docked my pay."

Four Eyes got angry whenever he brought it up. If it hadn't been for those two troublemakers, his precious money wouldn't have been docked.

"Senior brother, why do you look so bedraggled?" Only when Four Eyes came closer did he notice that Qiu Sheng and Uncle Nine both had dust all over their faces.

As soon as Uncle Nine returned, he had been thinking about how to deal with Dong Xiaoyu and hadn't had time to wash up. Lin Yu, on the other hand, had gone to wash himself clean as soon as he got back.

"Wasn't it because I was catching a ghost?" Uncle Nine stammered out a vague answer.

How had Four Eyes managed to show up right when something so embarrassing happened?

"What exactly happened?" Seeing that Uncle Nine wouldn't say, Four Eyes looked at the others present.

"Hahaha~" After learning everything that had happened, Four Eyes stood in the courtyard with his hands on his hips and roared with laughter.

"Junior brother, will martial uncle be all right? He's been laughing for a while now." Wen Cai watched Four Eyes pause for a bit and then laugh again. Unsure, he asked in a whisper.

"He's fine. Martial uncle's having an attack. He'll be better after he laughs a little longer." After Lin Yu finished speaking, Uncle Nine came out, freshly washed and scowling.

Why didn't Four Eyes come for the good things, but show up so quickly for the bad?

He'd have to ask tomorrow if there were any houses in the neighboring village, and move first thing in the morning.

"Scram! Haven't you laughed enough? Laugh again and you can get out with your customers." Uncle Nine kicked Four Eyes and threatened him with a cold face.

He had already been in a bad mood, and now he felt even worse.

"Senior brother, you really struck it rich taking this disciple, hahaha!" Four Eyes was no longer so angry with Qiu Sheng.

"You two, get to bed! What are you still standing around outside for?"

Uncle Nine saw that Qiu Sheng still hadn't given up and was standing outside the door, while even that curious baby Wen Cai was watching.

"Oh, yes." Qiu Sheng went to bed with Wen Cai, dejected. It was too late today, so Qiu Sheng wouldn't be going home.

Qiu Sheng followed Wen Cai back to their room, looking back three times with every step.

"Ah." Uncle Nine sighed wearily at having these two disciples.

"Senior brother, I'll go get some rest too, hahahaha!" Four Eyes laughed as he went into the room to rest.

"Good night, Master." Seeing that everyone had left, Lin Yu returned to his room too.

"Come, drink." The next day, because this trip wasn't to deliver customers, Four Eyes had a rare chance to share a few drinks with Uncle Nine.

"Junior brother, I have to thank you for passing a technique on to Xiao Yu." Uncle Nine raised his cup and drained it.

"What are you thanking me for? As the saying goes, the master leads you through the door, but cultivation is up to the individual. Xiao Yu has the talent for it too. Speaking of which, which grandmaster did Xiao Yu invite?" Four Eyes felt that Uncle Nine's thanks put a distance between them.

"Him? I think it was the Perfected Lord of Pure Source and Wondrous Way."

At the mention of this, Uncle Nine's face lit up. Xiao Yu was the first person in Maoshan's history to do it.

"Pfft~ what?!" Four Eyes sprayed out the wine in his mouth and asked in disbelief.

Looking at Uncle Nine's calm and casual expression, Four Eyes suddenly found the wine in his mouth terribly astringent.

He had cultivated so painstakingly for so many years before he could barely manage to invite a god, and even then, the grandmaster had looked down on him and called him barely acceptable.

Now he was suddenly being told that his martial nephew had invited a true god in less than a week.

Four Eyes felt that all these years, he had lived like a dog.

"Aiya~" The thought that Xiao Yu wasn't his disciple made Four Eyes uncomfortable all over.

"Drink!" Four Eyes took all his frustration out on the wine.

"Come, Xiao Yu, tell your martial uncle what you can do." Seeing that he had finally found his chance, Uncle Nine intended to get even for last night.

"I can draw pretty much all the talismans, and occasionally I can draw a blue talisman. My cultivation is also almost at the Daoist..."

Lin Yu rattled off everything he could do, but played it all down. He was afraid that if he made it sound too impressive, his master wouldn't be able to take it either.

"No talking while eating or sleeping. Finish eating first." The more Four Eyes heard, the more his heart ached. Why wasn't this disciple his?

An eight-year-old at the Daoist Realm! Where else could you find one? How had his senior brother stumbled into such dogshit luck?

"Junior brother, don't be envious. Talent is something everyone is born with; you can't force it. Speaking of which, how's Jia Le doing now?" Uncle Nine wasn't about to let this chance go. If he was going to show off, he was going to show off for all he was worth.

Four Eyes kept his head down and shovelled food into his mouth, paying Uncle Nine no attention.

As for Wen Cai and Qiu Sheng, neither dared to speak. They pretended to be invisible, trying hard to keep themselves on the sidelines for fear of suddenly being brought up.

"Hey, senior brother, how have Wen Cai and Qiu Sheng been lately?" Four Eyes saw that Uncle Nine wasn't going to stop, and caught sight of the two as they were trying to slip away.

So he asked. He refused to believe that, after being good-for-nothings for so many years, those two weren't still getting into trouble every day.

"Those two? Better not to mention them." Uncle Nine fell silent at the mention of them.

With his fill of food and drink, Uncle Nine felt refreshed. He had thoroughly enjoyed this meal.

Although Wen Cai and Qiu Sheng were a pair of shit-stirring sticks, Lin Yu had brought him face too.