When I saw Lao Cao come back, I said to him: "The matter of Lu Sheng you asked about happened in the Tang Dynasty, and it is also related to pillows. The pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info say that in the seventh year of Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, a candidate surnamed Lu entered Beijing to take the exam, and met an old Taoist priest surnamed Lu in Handan Road. Daoist Lu saw that Lu Sheng was quite fatal, so he wanted to enlighten him. But Lu Sheng couldn't give up the temptation of fame and fortune and refused. That Daoist Lu had some immortal methods, so he gave Lu Sheng a cyan porcelain pillow with holes at each end, and told him, give it a try, this pillow can allow you to realize your wishes. ”

Lu Sheng will be suspicious, and he fell asleep with a pillow at night, and then he had a dream, dreaming that he entered Beijing to catch the high school champion, and then the career was smooth sailing, the official is getting bigger and bigger, more than ten years later, the glory and wealth, the wives and concubines are in groups, high-spirited, and more than ten years, out of the cabinet to worship the prime minister, ten thousand people admire, reached the apex of life, but this kind of smoothness made him dizzy, all inches lost, countless enemies, soon the horse lost his front hooves, fell into the dust, soon the family wealth was scattered, the wife was scattered, and a person died alone. ”

Lu Sheng woke up and found himself sleeping on the couch of the hotel, forty years of wind and rain in his dream, the steamed sorghum rice in the store was not yet cooked, Lu Sheng had an epiphany from the abruptness, the so-called gains and losses, honor and disgrace, and life and death, were just a dream, so he put aside the mundane things and followed Lu Daoshi to cultivate immortals and seek the Tao. This story is recorded in the Tang Dynasty book "The Pillow in the Pillow", and now the dream of Huangliang that we are talking about comes from this allusion. ”

After I finished telling this story, Team Cao nodded, "Lao Chang, when you say this, I really think of the allusion to Huangliang's dream, but it just teaches people to forget the mortal dust and devote themselves to the Tao, what does it have to do with Lao Liao?"

After Lu Sheng's story was widely sung, many people saw the mystery in the story, especially the literati and writers, who later invented a kind of police pillow, the most famous of which was Sima Guang, who carved the shape of a pillow from hardwood and slept on it for the rest of his life. The reason is that when he was studying, he slept on the police pillow, and as long as his body moved, his head would slip off the police pillow. This time, everyone didn't seem to figure it out, so they just looked at me and waited for the next step.

"Sima Guang used a police pillow when he was young, it is understandable that diligence and fame are all accumulations. After that, he soared to prominence, became powerful for a while, and became famous all over the world, so why did he insist on using a police pillow? A historian once told me that ancient poets were divided into three major schools: wine, incense, and pillows, that is, drinking to compose poems, burning incense to compose poems, and dreaming to compose poems. This pillow pie, you must use porcelain pillows or pottery pillows, why, people dream of the scene, often wake up and forget it quickly, but if you wake up halfway, the memory will be very clear. The same is true of the police pillow, which is a tool for literati to obtain inspiration in dreams, or a tool for the guidance of their ancestors. But this, after all, is contrary to Confucian principles, and I will not say it if I do it. ”

"In the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, there was a strange man named Chen Huang, he repeatedly studied the story of a dream of Huangliang, and had a new understanding, on the wall of the Lu Weng Temple in the suburbs of Handan County, inscribed a poem, saying: Forty years of public and waiting, although it is a dream is also romantic, I am now downcast Handan Road, want to borrow a pillow from Mr. It happened that Jin Fu, the governor of Anhui, was passing by, saw this poem, and greatly appreciated the talent and spirit of entering the WTO in the poem, so he sent people to search for Chen Huang in many ways, and was willing to be his pillow. After that, Chen Huang entered the Jin Mansion as a curtain, helped Jin Fu complete the major event of governing the Yellow River, and also ushered in his wealth and glory. ”

"These stories, you may not understand why I tell it, I just think, pillow and witch, dream and charm since ancient times, Lao Liao can dream to understand the things behind the cultural relics, the pillow is real, is the carrier, or is an amplifier, the dream is also real, is the cultural relics retained at the time of the information through the Tao pillow transformation, and later, Lao Liao can enter the dream, and the dream of the characters communicate, it is not a dream, is some kind of illusion, is a kind of charm. After a long breath, I stopped, took a sip of tea, and the tea was once again faint and tasteless. I drained the pot of water and replaced the tea leaves. And Liao Huansheng didn't seem to fully understand the key to this large number of stories, frowning and thinking carefully.

"Uncle Chang, the pillow you said is the carrier of witchcraft and psychic, and there are some ancient information attached to the utensils, I can understand, but Lao Liao can communicate and interact with those information later, and the characters in the dream can see him, which can only show that those information are not completely attached to the utensils, but a part of Lao Liao's dream, and Zhuangzi, I can't tell whether I dreamed of a butterfly, or I am just a dream of a butterfly, that is to say, the interactive part is Lao Liao's dream, not real, it is a dream with a dream, is this the charm that Uncle Chang saidZeng Qian asked with wide eyes.

"Xiao Zeng, I don't think it should be my imagination in my dream, on the one hand, I haven't seen the scene and characters before, and the information conveyed to me by the dream is proved to be correct, then the characters in it can't be what I imagined, occasionally I may be right by imagination, but it can't be right every time? It's not a dream within a dream. Lao Chang, is the charm you are talking about?" Liao Huansheng shook his head at Zeng Qian and continued to ask me.

"The ghost of the wood ghost, the wild mouse city fox, the wind howls and the rain howls, and the morning trend is seen in the dark. The ancients believed that the ghost was a ghost in the mountains, forests and rivers, which could transform shapes and confuse people's hearts. But the charm deceives people more often in people's sleep, or when people are seriously ill and their yang energy is very weak. The ancients also believed that the charm can perceive people's thinking, and in sleep, when people are in a state of high relaxation, charm can be transformed into characters or utensils in dreams, confusing people's minds. So, Xiao Zeng, you are half right, but the charm exists objectively, not Lao Liao's imagination. ”

"The ancient shaman, often devoured by the witch, means that the diviner is often trapped in the divination itself, not that he cannot distinguish between the real world and the illusory world, but that he will fall into a philosophical paradox. You can predict the development and change of things, and it is human nature to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, so you can also change the course of things, but if you really change the result, then in retrospect, your prediction at that time was wrong. The seriousness of the problem is not obvious for a single matter, but what kind of result will it be if the intricate cause and effect are intertwined?"

"It's like a computer program where we change a variable in the middle in the hope of getting a good result, only to find that the result conflicts with the program we originally programmed, and then what seems to be a good result actually becomes an endless loop, and eventually the system collapses. Why, some of the world's top scientists, philosophers, and psychologists often go to the path of theology after obtaining great epoch-making research results? In fact, the real wise do not want to use experiments to prove the existence of that paradox, our technology may really be able to change the course of the future and correct the history that has happened, but this day is the beginning of the paradox of the human social system, the beginning of the collapse of mankind. I picked up my cup and stopped thinking about whether what I was thinking about would change in the future?

After listening to my words, Team Cao was the first to react, patted his thigh, and said: "Lao Chang, I think what you said is very right, so why those fortune tellers, can't make the words clear, and if they say too much, they will be punished by God, and the book "Tui Bei Tu" is full of ambiguous poems. So, Lao Liao, your problem is that you have seen too many things with that pillow, talked too much, and cut off the financial routes of many people, originally there was going to be a Bill Gates or something in the literary entertainment circle, and you strangled him in the cradle, and the person who lives in the future knows that things have changed because of you, can he not curse you? If I change me, I have to prick you with a small needle. ”

Team Cao's words amused Liao Huansheng, and said with a smile: "Old Cao, I have to make a good friend of you in the future, the words are not rough, they are all simple truths." ”

Zeng Qian continued to pour tea for us, while complaining about the Cao team: "Lao Cao, everyone was very serious, and they all rose to the philosophical level, as soon as you plugged in, it immediately changed its taste, according to what you mean, what Lao Liao does now will have to be beaten in the future, right?"

Team Cao just wanted to argue, but was stopped by Liao Huansheng. "Xiao Zeng, this is nothing, cause and effect, I am confused by Tao Zhen, it can be regarded as a desire for profit, I want to make a few small money, so I naturally have to pay the price for it, right? Whether there is a charm or not, it is no longer important to me now, and if I understand this layer of cause and effect, I need to make a decision. Liao Huansheng nodded to me gratefully.

(To the extreme, keep quiet; all things are done together, I will observe and recover.) There are many things and things, and each one returns to its roots. In the final analysis, it is said to be quiet, and quiet is said to return to life. Returning to life is said to be normal, and knowing is often said to be clear. I don't know what is usual, and I act in vain. Knowing the constant tolerance, tolerance is the public, the public is the whole, the whole is the sky, the sky is the way, the road is long, and the body is invincible. --Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching) (To be continued.) )