Chapter 24: The Ancient Cleanse (The fifth shift on the weekend, for the honest boss Yu Peijia!)
I've never seen people who believe in Buddhism kill people at will, and I've never heard of drug lords who believe in Buddhism, do they think they don't have to go to hell after death?
Although I don't understand the Buddha, I know the truth of good and evil cause and effect, and only by forming good karma can there be good results, maybe this is just a kind of psychological sustenance for them.
Faith is a very magical thing, ethereal and no one can say it clearly, and it is impossible for people to understand the true meaning of it in any way, just like an ambiguous two words that are as unpredictable!
No matter what kind of faith there is in the world, it will all advertise the world after death! In the same way, no one knows what will happen to people after death, and no one can say clearly!
In a narrow sense, faith is also a kind of maneuvering technique, using people's fear of death and the unknown world, so that people can have a spiritual sustenance while they are alive......
"Kang, I'll take Hitomi to Grandma to purify himself in a while, so that he can receive the most sincere blessings!"
Tang said casually, and Kang immediately nodded in understanding, and I immediately stood up and nodded in thanks.
I don't know what a purification is, but I know that Don's purpose is to either woo me over or scare me!
Everyone here has an almost pathological awe of him, to put it bluntly, he is afraid, he can do it to this extent today, how can he easily let go of me, a 'bad way' old man?
Leaving the side building, Kang took me into the jeep, Pala took two cars of people around, and three or two jeeps left the compound.
I don't know where this grandma is, but I don't think it's easy to get me out of here!
It seems that the surrounding Para and two carloads of people are protecting, but in fact, do they still need protection on their territory? To put it bluntly, they are afraid that I will run away!
After leaving the compound, I looked at the world for the first time beyond the barbed wire fence and the fence, where the road was not a road at all, with weeds growing in the middle and only two rut marks.
If you look around, you can't see any buildings, and the mountains are full of green plants, which is completely in the middle of a barren mountain!
I took out a cigarette and handed it to Kang, and after lighting the cigarette, the relationship between us was the most relaxed, and I had a very strong question in my heart!
"Where is this?"
"The Golden Triangle. ”
As soon as I heard this, I suddenly gasped secretly, originally I was in Mengla on the border, but I never dreamed that I would be brought here!
I looked around closely, but I couldn't see a single poppy, I didn't know if it was obscured by sugar cane or if it wasn't really grown......
I distinctly remember the time after I was loaded into the pig cart, and the point when I had strayed into the poppy field, which should have been an hour's drive from Mongla.
No one knows how far the car can go in an hour, and I don't know where it is heading, but there really isn't a single poppy in sight!
Jeeps weave through mountainous forests and even cross a small river, where there are no roads, but they are very familiar!
I looked at all the scenery along the way, but no matter how I looked, I couldn't tell where it was, it was completely like a world isolated from the world!
I think the drug lord would have chosen a place that was absolutely safe to set up camp, and it was understandable that there were no poppies around, maybe it was hidden and I couldn't see it......
The jeep drove for nearly an hour to a village, which looked very backward and very simple, and there were only fifty or sixty households at a glance.
But here I saw poppies in the sugar cane fields, each of which was covered with a plastic bag as a camouflage, and it was really hard to see if I didn't look closely!
There are countless farmlands around, and although I don't know what the crop is, I know it must not be drugs!
Soon the jeep stopped at the entrance of the village, and there was only a narrow passage between the bamboo buildings, and the car could not drive into it at all, and there were dense trees everywhere to block it.
"Follow me, Grandma is here. Kang waved his hand, and Para had a lot of things taken off the jeep.
Among them, there are tea, pastries and an air-dried beef leg, which looks like it should be a gift, but I didn't expect the drug lord to find someone to do things and also 'give gifts'!
Walk through the small village to the last bamboo building, which looks bigger than the others, and at the same time comes out of a deep pit, surrounded by lush towering trees that look ancient!
Kang knocked on the door alone and shouted something in Burmese that I didn't understand, because he was asking if he was at home.
Soon the door was opened, and an old lady with silver hair with steamed buns walked out.
This old lady has a rickety figure full of wrinkles and dark spots, a hooked nose and inverted triangular eyes, and she looks as fierce as she wants!
Kang bowed with one hand on his chest and said hello, and everyone present made the same movement, and I followed suit.
The old lady's gaze suddenly fell on me, and her cloudy and pale eyes looked very scary, and I swallowed secretly.
To be honest, I've seen so many people, and I've seen so many people with evil faces, but I've never seen such a fierce old lady!
"Hitomi, Grandma, please come over!" Kang turned and beckoned at me, and I immediately walked over quickly.
She was short in front of her, and I had to bow as much as I could to be as tall as she was, and she reached out and touched my head, and then the room said a set of things that I didn't understand.
I turned my head to look at Kang blankly, hoping that he would translate it for me.
"Grandma asked you, where is the genuine card?"
"What is the real deal? I don't understand. I replied blankly, and Kang immediately spoke to Grandma in Burmese.
I listened patiently, I knew that it was okay not to believe but not to be disrespectful, and also after I experienced some unbelievable things, I believe that there are many things in this world that science cannot explain!
I was once immobilized by the Buddha and the old monster with a paper figure, the three grandmothers of the cat's eye rubbed their eyes with incense ash to open their eyes, and the burning paper man who struggled to climb out of the coffin...... Everything seems to be still vivid!
"Grandma said that you used to have a Thai card, and you still have the breath of that card, it should still be a yin and yang card!"
Kang's calm relay, I listened to it confused...... Wait!
Mao Bai once gave me his yin and yang cat cards, I didn't know what it meant at the time, and then the second uncle desperately wanted to send the cat cards back, can this old lady really see it?
For a moment I felt a slight tingling in my scalp, but I still said it in 1510 and as much detail as possible.
Kang immediately relayed the words to Grandma, and after listening to this, she nodded and turned her head to signal that I could enter the door.
"Grandma said that you have a headache, and it was the genuine card that brought it to you! She said that she could help you get rid of it!"
Kang said calmly, but this time I was shocked again! I couldn't even say a word!
I did have a headache, but I just thought it was caused by overwork, after all, I was only in my early twenties, and my body was at its peak......
For a while, I was in awe of my grandmother, and at the same time I was in awe of the unknown, because no one knew about these things, and I never said it!
Grandma said a thing that I couldn't understand a word, but Kang could help me relay the meaning.
"Take off your clothes and lie there!"
I nodded, took off my clothes and lay on the motherboard bed, with only a pair of bottoms on my body, watching my grandma tinkering in a pile of bottles and cans, and my heart was inexplicably nervous!
In my impression, only eunuchs will 'purify' before entering the palace, I don't know what the purification here represents, but I am inexplicably panicked in my heart!
In the blink of an eye, Grandma poured some water into a small bottle, and then took a branch and sprinkled it on me, still muttering in her mouth.
The cold water had a strange smell, like an herb but I couldn't tell, but my body looked at everything tensely.
This kind of cleansing is very similar to the kind I have seen on TV, but I don't know exactly what it does.
"Turn over and get down!" Kang reminded, and I immediately did so.
Lying on the bamboo bed felt very hard, the cold water swayed all over my body, I felt a little dizzy and weak in a daze, and a sense of tiredness welled up in my heart.
The murmuring in my ears continued, but I couldn't understand anything, and my eyelids became heavier and heavier, as if I had been tired from several days and nights......
Vaguely I saw Grandma lighting a candle, she picked up a knife and put it on the candle repeatedly......
I wanted to ask but couldn't find my mouth, I wanted to speak but couldn't, my eyes were blurry and I fell into darkness, and I saw a child howling at me silently!