Chapter 4: The Tomb of the Grand Commander
Grandpa lit a dry cigarette and chatted with Shen Baifeng while smoking, but most of the chats were about trivial matters, such as which family's chickens were lost recently, and which family's ground was turned over at night. Just when I was bored and almost fell asleep, Shen Baifeng mentioned: "Does the old gentleman know that there is a lonely grave here?"
I came all the way to find the grave, and I was puzzled, and I was making up all kinds of possibilities in my mind.
Grandpa also looked puzzled, and spat out a cigarette: "There is a cemetery in the east of the village, but there are many graves over there, I don't know which one is looking for?"
Shen Baifeng frowned: "What I want to find is the tomb of the Great Commander." ”
"I don't know what the chief is doing looking for the tomb of the Great Commander?"
Shen Baifeng smiled, and did not shy away from it, and said that it was the tomb of a heroic martyr in modern times, and the leader was originally a Taoist priest who cultivated in the mountains, but later a group of robbers entered the village, burned, killed and looted, and the Taoist chief couldn't see the villagers suffering from this catastrophe, so he resolutely went down the mountain to lead the strong men to resist, fought away a wave, and kept the village.
However, they were outnumbered, and the robbers were numerous, and in the end, the Taoist chief died at the hands of the robbers, and the village was also burned down, and after a month, the robber county sent troops to exterminate them, and the survivors hiding in the ravine dared to come out.
They found a man in a Taoist robe among the bones everywhere, but they did not find his head, most of which were cut off by robbers in anger. The villagers worked together to repair the tomb of the Taoist, and the villagers called him the Great Commander during his lifetime, so this tomb is also called the "Great Commander's Tomb".
I listened to it with relish, but my grandfather frowned, and after a while, my grandfather said: "Dao Chief, you only know one thing, you don't know the other, for the tomb of Commander Li, there are still afterwords." ”
There were also some young and strong people among those villagers, and they later went to the Taoist temple where the Taoist chief was cultivating, and buried all the calligraphy and paintings, almost everything in it, with the Taoist master. Therefore, the tomb of the Great Commander is also called Jubaofu.
Forty years ago, some young men discussed going to the tomb of the Grand Commander to see what treasures there were, and they dug up the grave, and under the grave was a house built of stone and wooden beams. The body of the Taoist leader was there, with a bunch of things.
When they came out, one of them saw the broken skeleton of the Taoist and sat up cross-legged, and then those who came home with the things died madly and madly, and within two years they were all dead, and only one man was left alive. Grandpa wiped his eyes again and wiped a few tears.
Shen Baifeng didn't have any change in his expression, he only said, "The person who is alive is the old gentleman, right?" Seeing his grandfather nodding, Shen Baifeng continued to ask where those calligraphy and paintings had gone.
Grandpa said that after those people died, those people's families thought that they had angered the commander, so they had bad retribution, and they didn't dare to pay it back, so they quietly burned those things at night.
And Grandpa felt that the reason why he was still alive might be because he didn't take the contents of it. First, grandpa was illiterate and had no appreciation for painting, and secondly, those young people said that grandpa was the one who contributed the least and was unwilling to give him points, so grandpa lived to this day by mistake.
I heard this, almost dragged my jaw to the ground, grandpa used to tell me that pimples are a matter of conscience, and they will be punished by God, but now when I hear that such an upright grandfather has done this before, there are traces of my father's run away from home.
"So you dug up your benefactor's grave?" Shen Baifeng's expression changed slightly, and he said again, "No wonder God wants your Liu family to cut off your children and grandchildren." If it weren't for Li Ghost Knife, I don't know where your grandson's little life would have been explained. Shen Baifeng said, and glanced at me meaningfully.
When it comes to the child, my grandfather's face is full of pain, my father and mother have been miscarrying before they left, and my father felt that he had suffered retribution, and then left with his mother, otherwise there would be no me later.
Grandpa said that during the last miscarriage of my mother, he thought about it every day, but then he still thought about doing a good deed every day and atoning for his sins.
"Don't mention the past, sir, take me there. ”
Grandpa took Shen Baifeng to a mountain pass, because I was also very curious, so I followed.
The area around the tomb was very desolate, with piles of rubble and no signs of life. I sighed, thinking to myself: Just bury my benefactor in such a broken place, children can see that the feng shui here is poor.
Shen Baifeng sighed and said, "What a good feng shui, to cause this." ”
"Yes, it used to be a good place for green mountains and green water, but since that incident, the feng shui here has been completely broken and has become like this. ”
Shen Baifeng didn't speak, probably because they had dug the wrong place when they were digging the grave, which gave the feng shui a bad time.
Shen Baifeng walked to the grave and kowtowed three times. Grandpa was a little uneasy.
Shen Baifeng seemed to see what his grandfather was thinking, and said that this Great Commander was the old of Shen Baifeng's grandfather, and before Shen Baifeng's grandfather died a few years ago, he passed on all his life's learning to him, and asked him to find the things lost in the Great Commander's tomb.
I couldn't help but ask, "Is it the kind of flying away from the world?"
Shen Baifeng smiled, didn't nod, didn't shake his head, which made me feel that he was even more mysterious.
"Does the old gentleman know about a book called "Jieyang Lu" that was taken away back then?"
Grandpa thought for a while, shook his head and said he didn't know, and asked what kind of book this "Jieyang Lu" was, Shen Baifeng explained that this long name is Li Jieyang, and "Jieyang Lu" is written on it about his ups and downs and what he has seen and heard for decades. Asked what the book was for, Shen Baifeng didn't speak, still his trademark smile.
Looking at Shen Baifeng's unfathomable appearance, my heart also itched, and I asked, "Master can study the Dao method to subdue demons?"
"It's a good way, it's a very good way. The mystery of the Dao is not in subduing demons and eliminating demons, everyone has their own opinions on the Dao Fa, and the opinions are different, and the way of cultivating the Dao is naturally different, and ......" Shen Baifeng turned his head to look at me, "You are not my apprentice, you can't call me master." ”
Then I'll apprentice! In the future, I can be like Shen Baifeng and be so domineering wherever I go!
"You can't marry a daughter-in-law in the Tao!"
Shen Baifeng's words directly shattered my thoughts, and suddenly I felt a lot of melancholy and fell into a dilemma, but Shen Baifeng on the side laughed, I realized that I was tricked, and slapped him hard with a small slap, but Shen Baifeng's expression seemed to be tickling him. Grandpa too, smiling so much that his face was wrinkled.
It was getting late, and we hurried home, because there was something that had not been checked, Shen Baifeng temporarily lived in our house, and my grandfather was also very happy, and kept asking me about my future fate along the way, Shen Baifeng came one by one, but when it came to marrying a daughter-in-law, he squinted and smiled at me, which made me feel at a loss.