Chapter 691: Prosperity Must Decline (Part II)
"Grandpa Wei, you are deeply blessed, and if you get the hurdle that year, you will definitely be able to live a long life. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info" Fang Yi asked with some curiosity: "Grandpa Wei, what is the name of that Taoist priest you saw back then?" My master said that he also stayed in Maoshan for a period of time, and he also fought devils......
"Your master, that age must not be right......
Hearing Fang Yi's words, the old man shook his head and said, "That was about thirty-nine years old, I was not yet thirty years old at the time, and that real person was already seventy or eighty years old, if he lived to this day, wouldn't he be one hundred and thirty or forty years old? impossible, this is absolutely impossible......
"My master also said that he lived during the Kangxi period......"
Fang Yi muttered a little speechlessly, the old Taoist priest sometimes had some divine chatter, either that he was a person from the early Ming Dynasty, or that he had gone through three dynasties and three generations, in short, when Fang Yi heard her words, all the nonsense was automatically filtered out of his ears at that time.
"How can anyone in the world live that long?"
Wei Huaan laughed dumbly when he heard this: "The Taoist priest who called me the breathing and breathing guidance technique seems to be called Shang Zhi, but he is not a Taoist priest in the Maoshan Taoist Temple, but a place of orders elsewhere, speaking of which, he really fought with us as a devil......
Recalling the war years of that year, Wei Huaan showed a sentimental expression on his face, he would have followed Commander Chen to fight guerrillas in Maoshan, and fortunately thanks to those Taoist priests who were familiar with mountain roads to guide the way, otherwise Wei Huaan would not have survived at all.
Wei Hua'an vaguely remembered that the old Taoist priest with the Taoist name Shangzhi looked full of silver threads, but his actions in the mountains were extremely fast, and these young men in their twenties and thirties couldn't keep up, and several times it was Shangzhi Daoist who took them out of the enemy's encirclement.
Although it has been fifty or sixty years, Wei Huaan still can't forget the year he spent on Maoshan Mountain, and after learning breathing and breathing guidance from the old Taoist priest, Wei Huaan's body has not been sick or sick for so many years, and even the injuries he suffered before have never recurred.
After the liberation, Wei Hua'an revisited Maoshan Mountain, and he was also worried about the old Taoist priest, and he had gone to the Taoist temple to look for it, but the host of the Taoist temple told him that Shang Zhi Zhenren had already returned to immortality last year, which made Wei Huaan also embarrassed.
"Shang Zhi Zhenren?" Wei Huaan was immersed in his memories, he didn't see that after he said the old Taoist priest's Dao name, Fang Yi's face suddenly became very strange.
"Yes, the monk's Shang, Mingzhi's Zhi, I heard people call him that. Wei Hua'an heard the name repeatedly shouted out of Fang Yi's mouth, and subconsciously replied, "What's the matter?" Could it be that your master's Dao name is also Shangzhi?"
"What is my master's name called? I really don't know ......."
Fang Yi smiled bitterly when he heard this, and said: "I have been called Master since I was a child, and the people under the mountain call me Master Old Immortal or Old Dao Chief, but I have seen him use the word Shangzhi in some of Master's classics marked with words, and I don't know if Master is called this name?"
The Taoist temple in the mountains came out of Fang Yi and the old Taoist, and there was no third person, so Fang Yi usually called Master, and never thought of asking the name of the Master, even the Master's tombstone was only written on the Master's tomb, and the apprentice Fang Yi stood up these words, now that he thought about it, Fang Yi was really ashamed and embarrassed.
"The Shangzhi Zhenren I know, tall, almost 1.9 meters long, with white hair and white beard, looks like a master of the Tao......"
Wei Huaan remembered the appearance of the old Taoist priest very clearly, because in their era, he was considered a tall person when he grew to 1.8 meters, so the height of the old Taoist priest left a very deep memory on him.
"1.9 meters tall, white hair and white beard ......"
Listening to the old man's description, Fang Yi's face became more and more strange, and he couldn't help but interrupt the old man's words, "Grandpa Wei, does that person have a black mole on his eyebrows?
"A mole on the center of the eyebrow?"
Wei Huaan thought carefully for a while, and nodded violently, "That's right, there is a mole in the center of his eyebrows, but I don't remember the clothes he wore, so where will we have new clothes to wear......?"
Speaking of this, Wei Huaan suddenly reacted, with a shocked look on his face, pointed at Fang Yi with his finger, and said, "Shang Zhizhen...... Real people, no ...... Not with your master, is ...... Is it a person, right?"
"Probably just one person......"
Fang Yi thought for a while, nodded silently, he often heard the master talk about historical things, when talking about the history of the Ming and Qing dynasties and even the Yuan Dynasty, the master was very calm, but only when it came to the Japanese invasion of China, the old Taoist priest was full of righteous indignation, and his anger was overflowing.
And in terms of age, the old Taoist priest and the Shang Zhi real person Wei Huaan said are also about the same, Fang Yi's appearance when he opened his eyes and saw the master, it was almost exactly the same as his appearance when he was feathered and returned to the immortal, as if the old Taoist's face had been frozen by time, there was no difference.
"This ...... How is this possible?"
Hearing Fang Yi's words, Old Man Wei muttered to himself: "Shang Zhi Zhenren will be seventy or eighty years old in his thirties and forties, if he lived to the previous few years, wouldn't he be one hundred and thirty or forty years old?
Old Man Wei suddenly grabbed Fang Yi's arm and asked, "Fang Yi, how did your master pass away, was there anything special about him before he died?"
"No, before the master died, he could still eat two large bowls of rice at a meal, without any special performance......
Fang Yi shook his head and said, "However, three months before Master's death, he knew that his deadline was approaching, and his tomb was all chosen by himself, and after Master died, I put his old man's body in it, and it has been more than three years since then......"
"This ...... This is almost the same scene as when Shangzhi Zhenren died?"
After living for eighty or ninety years, after countless wars and bloody storms, the old man has always been Mount Tai collapsed on the top and his face did not change, but in the short period of time that Fang Yi was talking, he showed a stunned look one after another, obviously shocked to the extreme.
When the liberation of Hou Wei Hua'an returned to Maoshan, he heard the news about Shang Zhi Zhenren, and the old man also said a few months in advance that his deadline was approaching, and arranged his own funeral, Wei Huaan also went to the tombstone of Shang Zhi Zhenren to worship, and told the entourage that this was a Taoist who had resisted the Japanese invasion of China.
But Wei Huaan never thought that after half a century, he actually heard the news that the old Taoist priest was still alive in the world, even if he was determined, at this time, it was suddenly changed, could it be that the old Taoist priest faked his death back then?
"Your master should be Shang Zhi Zhenren, but I didn't expect him to fake his death back then...... Wei Huaan asked Fang Yi in detail about Shang Zhi Zhenren's appearance and living habits, and became more and more sure that Fang Yi's master was the old Taoist priest who had taught him the guiding technique.
"The old man has contributed to the revolution, why did he ...... back then?"
Wei Huaan said to himself, but he paused in the middle of the sentence, because he thought of the man-made disaster, not to mention them in the political center, even those outsiders were also greatly implicated.
Wei Huaan heard that the Maoshan Taoist Temple did not escape the catastrophe, not only the Taoist priests in the Taoist Temple were forced to return to the vulgar, but many famous places of interest that have been passed down for thousands of years have also been destroyed and burned, if the old Taoist priest is still alive, I am afraid it will be difficult to escape the doom.
"Master even did this kind of thing back then?"
A big question mark also popped up in Fang Yi's heart, because the old Taoist priest didn't have any signs at all before he died, he just counted the days, and when he arrived at that day, he was completely out of breath, but when Fang Yi thought about it at the moment, there were many doubts.
Master's specific cultivation, Fang Yi didn't know, but compared to himself, it was definitely only high, not low, the current Fang Yi could hold his breath and fake death for several hours, not to mention the old Taoist, if he also faked death at that time, Fang Yi's cultivation would definitely not be able to see it.
"My Master......"
"Your Master......
Fang Yi and Wei Huaan glanced at each other and blurted out the same sentence, but the two of them closed their mouths halfway through speaking, but the meaning they wanted to express was understood by the other party, that is, the old Taoist priest was very likely to fake his death again.
"I can't verify this thing......"
After a while, Fang Yi smiled bitterly and shook his head, no matter whether the old Taoist priest was really dead or faked, Fang Yi couldn't do anything to dig up the grave to confirm it, in case the master was really dead, that would disturb the ghost of the ancestors, then Fang Yi would be unable to atone for his sins.
"Shang Zhi Zhenren, nine times out of ten it is your master......"
Old Man Wei had been with the old Taoist priest for nearly a year, and after hearing Fang Yi tell him about his master, he already had an answer in his heart, but he couldn't do anything to persuade Fang Yi to open the tomb, this matter was too taboo for the Chinese people.
"Fang Yi, your master is so powerful?" After listening to it for a while, Bai Chuxia finally understood, the master who dared to love Fang Yi had taught his grandfather kung fu, and Fang Yi and his grandfather still had a long relationship.
"Master is a scholar of heaven and man, astronomy, geography and astrology can be used for divination and hexagrams, what I have learned is just some skins......" Fang Yi sighed when he heard this, and the more he could feel the master's unfathomable profundity, and even some seemingly absurd behaviors of the old Taoist priest seemed to be hidden in the way of heaven.
"Yes, your master is a strange man, and he calculated that we would sweep the whole country and seize the world. ”
Fang Yi's words also evoked the memories of Old Man Wei, although he was a materialist, but the old man had nothing to shy away from what he encountered, and he was born in a scholarly family, and his acceptance of Zhou Yi's metaphysics was already very high, and he has always regarded it as a part of traditional culture.
However, the national situation is there, especially some things that happened after the founding of the People's Republic of China, so that the old man Wei hid these words deep in his heart, if he hadn't met the disciple of Shang Zhi Zhenren who faked his death back then, the old man would not have said such a thing.
"You're not bad, you know so many things at a young age, when Mingcheng was so old, you still fought with people in the army all day long......"
With such a relationship between the old man, when Old Man Wei looked at Fang Yi again, it became more and more pleasing to the eye, if Bai Chuxia was his own granddaughter, I am afraid that the old man would directly say that he would get married.
"Grandpa, what does it have to do with me?" Wei Mingcheng, who listened to a big gossip next to him, didn't expect to be taken out as a negative teaching material without saying a word, and his face suddenly became bitter.
"Don't spread a word of what you're saying here today, you know?" Wei Huaan glared at his grandson and accentuated his tone a little, "If I hear any rumors by my grandfather, be careful that I break your legs......"
"Grandpa, it's your son and I ask Laozi, and I promise not to say a word......" Wei Mingcheng stood up and saluted the old man, he knew that his grandfather ate this set the most, and it was not good to swear any kind of gambling curse in front of the old man.
"Grandpa, Fang Yi still has something to tell you...... Bai Chuxia thought of his intentions and immediately led the topic over.
"Oh, what's the matter?"
Old Man Wei looked at Fang Yi when he heard this, after knowing that Fang Yi was brought up by Shang Zhi Zhenren, Old Man Wei no longer regarded Fang Yi as a young man, but was almost in the same position as Shang Zhi Zhenren back then.
"It's about my eldest uncle and second uncle. ”
Bai Chuxia said bluntly: "Fang Yi said that my eldest uncle and second uncle are unlucky, if they are not handled well, I am afraid that it will affect the entire Wei family, we came here today to tell grandpa about you......"
"Fang Yi, can this be taken seriously?"
Hearing his granddaughter's words, Wei Huaan did not show any surprise or panic, he didn't know how many times he had encountered strong winds and waves in his life, and it was difficult for such a thing to affect his heart.
"I've learned some techniques from my master, if I'm not mistaken, it should be the ......"
Fang Yi nodded and said, "Grandpa Wei, you have at least ten years to live, if you want to sail against the current, you can defend your family within ten years, but after ten years, it will be difficult to say, after all, the general trend is like this, and it is not something that can be stopped by manpower......"
Fang Yi knew what kind of person the old man in front of him was, but he didn't say it thoroughly, he believed that the old man would be able to fully understand when he heard what he said, as for such a trade-off, it was the old man's business.
"I ...... Am I completely wrong?" Hearing Fang Yi's words, Old Man Wei fell into deep thought, sometimes frowning and sometimes stretching, Fang Yi didn't speak again, just sat aside and waited quietly.
As for Wei Mingcheng next to him, he didn't even dare to take a breath, he heard it really just now, Fang Yi's words actually involved his eldest uncle and second uncle, those two were characters who stomped their feet in the army and the entire army was going to be shocked, this topic was far from something he could talk about.
"I see!"
After almost twenty minutes, Old Man Wei sighed, shook his head and said: "Willing to give, you have to give up before you can get, but between this trade-off, many people can't see through, I took it too seriously before, but I also saw it wrong, Fang Yi Doll, thanks to your reminder......"
As for the future of the Wei family, Wei Huaan's judgment is really wrong, he believes that no matter the change of regime, the army is always the most important link, and the Wei family only operates in the army and does not involve politics, then there will be no problems.
But Wei Huaan forgot that there would be no pure soldiers at all in these years, and soldiers were not involved in politics, it was just his wishful thinking, so that the prestige and strength of the Wei family in the army were very eye-catching.
As Fang Yi said, when he was alive, even if his two sons were no longer in his position, Wei Huaan could protect the Wei family for a while, but after a hundred years, Old Man Wei knew that the Wei family would definitely encounter trouble.
Hearing Old Man Wei's words, Fang Yi knew that he hadn't fully figured it out, so he couldn't help laughing at the moment and said, "Old man, it's an inevitable trend to flourish and decline, but it'......s not too far off to know if Saiong loses his horse, and it's not too far off."
"No, that's right, why didn't I think of this?" Hearing Fang Yi's words, Wei Huaan's eyes suddenly shot out a ray of fine light, and after a little thought in his heart, he understood, and couldn't help laughing out loud.
Wei Huaan was just a fan of the authorities just now, but he was reminded by Fang Yi, and immediately understood, taking a step back now is not a bad thing, because politics is originally to find a balance in compromise, and today's own concession may be able to make the Wei family go further tomorrow.
"Grandpa, you...... Are you okay?" Seeing that grandpa frowned and laughed for a while, Wei Mingcheng couldn't help but support the old man worriedly, just now the doctor said not to let grandpa be overly excited.
"It's okay, it's okay, grandpa is fine!"
Old Man Wei, who figured out the joints, was really in a good mood at this time, glanced at his youngest grandson, and said with a smile: "You are very lucky, after your eldest uncle and second uncle retire, it won't take a few years for your kid to get up......"
"......What? My second uncle is also going to retreat?" Hearing his grandfather's words, Wei Mingcheng's heart was shocked, Fang Yi's words just now were vague, Wei Mingcheng didn't fully understand, but the old man said it bluntly, Wei Mingcheng heard it clearly.
"Not only is your eldest uncle and second uncle going to retire, but even your eldest brother is going to be in obscurity for a few years......"
Old Man Wei's next sentence scared Wei Mingcheng again, among the third generation of the Wei family, Wei Mingjun will have the strongest momentum, if even Wei Mingjun has to keep a low profile, then the influence of the Wei family in the army will really be greatly weakened.
"You and Jiaxi have been blessed by misfortune......"
Looking at this little grandson whose temperament is very similar to his own, Wei Huaan laughed, he can back down, and he can give up everything he has been running in the army for decades, but in a certain aspect, Wei Huaan also has to make his voice heard, so that people can see his bottom line.
Although Wei Jiaxi's unit is also part of the army, in that field, Wei Huaan's influence is not great, I believe that even if it is a regime change, others will allow him to keep some of the Wei family's fire in that place, and even let Wei Jiaxi go further, so the old man will have the sentence of blessing in disguise.
"Grandpa, I'...... I promise that I won't say a word, and I will tie my mouth with a towel when I sleep!" Seeing that his grandfather was looking at himself again with a cane, Wei Mingcheng knew what the old man wanted to say, so he hurriedly patted his chest and reassured.
Wei Mingcheng's words were not dealing with his grandfather, but really his heart's words, because if every word the old man said just now was spread out, it would cause an uproar, not to mention Wei Mingcheng, even he couldn't afford this consequence.
"Well, it's good to know the severity...... Wei Huaan nodded, and said a little tiredly: "Mingcheng, call your eldest uncle and second uncle and your father, let them come back again, don't say anything on the phone, just let them come back......"
"Yes, grandpa, I'm going to fight. Wei Mingcheng agreed, and took out his mobile phone.
"Don't call with your mobile phone, use the red phone at my bedside to call ......" The old man stopped Wei Mingcheng's actions, and the people who came from that kind of environment know the importance of secrecy.
"Fang Yi, you will be here later. The old man looked at Fang Yi, if it wasn't for Fang Yi's reminder today, he was afraid that it would really make a big mistake, even if it could be remedied at that time, I am afraid that it would be far less effective than planning in advance.
"Grandpa Wei, I'm an outsider, so don't get involved in these things......"
Fang Yi shook his head again and again, the master had left a message, so that Fang Yi could not step into the officialdom, he could remind the old man today that it was already for the sake of Bai Chuxia's face, where would he be willing to deal with those high-ranking and powerful people of the Nawei family again.
"Can people outside the square also marry wives and have children?" the old man made a rare joke with his juniors.
"I'm not a Buddhist cultivator, and Taoists don't have those rules and precepts. Fang Yi replied casually, talking about Buddhism, the old man is probably far from his opponent.
"Okay, I won't force you, let Mingcheng get closer to you in the future. ”
Wei Huaan nodded, he could see from Shang Zhi's fake death that these outsiders really didn't want to be contaminated with these things, the old people back then were like this, and so was Fang Yi.