Chapter 87: The Pigeon Whistle (B)
That Lin Heier is the Yellow Lotus Our Lady who everyone in the Boxers chanted, and she founded the red lantern that was later rumored to be miraculous. www.biquge.info In the eyes of the great ancestors, Lin Heier is no different from the magic stick, they all use the bait to see a doctor to save people and give immortal medicine, and then some use false magic to confuse the public.
Great-ancestor went to Xianghe once, watched Lin Heier's Dharma performance, what fan flying, stepping on the river, red lights and flames, and the idea of molten iron are all some tricks in the rivers and lakes, nonsense. But there was indeed one spell among them, but the great ancestor was puzzled and recorded it.
It was at the entrance of a small village in Xianghe. Someone flew a large kite more than three feet and lowered it to a height of more than 100 zhang above the ground. Lin Heier was singing and dancing on the altar. After a while, the kite string suddenly broke off, and the kite swayed twice, and then fell headlong.
Then three more people flew three big kites at the same time, also at a height of 100 zhang, Lin Heier tossed again, this time the three kite strings were cut off by an invisible knife, and the kites fell separately. The surrounding people were extremely amazed, and a large number of people knelt on the ground one after another, saying "Our Lady of Salvation".
Lin Hei'er called this spell the Shadowless Sword, which could take a person's head from a hundred miles away, and no one could detect it. Great-grandfather carefully inspected the kite string, and there was nothing unusual, it really looked like it had been cut off by some sharp weapon. But the kite that fell, the great-grandfather also picked it up and looked at it, the skeleton of the bamboo weaving was broken in many places, and the skin was also broken, as if it had been torn by something, but he really couldn't figure out what was going on in the sky.
But if it is said that it is Lin Heier's spell, the great ancestor really doesn't believe it, "If there is this technique, why did Yang Fan break through the Dagu mouth in half a day and capture the Holy Mother?" This story is not much written and ink, obviously not valued by the great ancestor, and it is a strange anecdote, but it is like opening a skylight for me, and I see the light in the chaos.
The next day, I went to find Jiao Er, and I didn't rush to Baiwang Mountain to squat, but took him to the Liuli Factory. Since the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, Liulichang has been the distribution center of antiques and cultural toys in Beijing. At first, the business of the store was very shady, and it was specially to help the Beijing officials deal with the filial piety offerings below.
Because the things are good and the price is negotiable, a virtuous circle of selling here, sending there, sending and selling, selling and giving away has been formed, and the store has made enough money to make the difference. In today's terms, it's called money laundering. But the glaze factory has prospered rapidly.
After the reform and opening up, foreign friends also came to visit, and the municipal government invited some well-known craftsmen to the glaze factory to sell some folk handicrafts, show traditional crafts, and satisfy the curiosity of foreign friends. What I took Jiao Er to find was Guo Erye, who was known as the "Zheng Guo" in the capital, and that was a person who was a sticky painter.
Guo Erye's shop is in Liulichang, and further ahead is the once famous Bada Hutong. Guo Erye is always at the entrance of the store, drinking tea while tying a kite, and when he is free, he has to tease the wren brother in the birdcage behind him, and Guo Erye is familiar with him, and the greetings are "Yo, second master, and look at the alley here?"
This Guo Erye's kite is not only beautiful, but also sturdy enough, and he is the one who can fly the highest kite in Beijing. Guo Erye is my father's friend, I was more casual in him, introduced Jiao Er to Guo Erye, sat beside him, and told him the story of his great-grandfather watching the Yellow Lotus Virgin's shadowless sword break the kite string, and asked him if he had encountered a similar situation when flying a kite.
Guo Erye tilted his head and thought for a long time without speaking, motionless, which made me think that he was asleep. After a while, I raised my head and told me that it is common for kites to break the line, the previous kites used cotton thread, and the linen thread was used to pay attention to the point, but it was not strong, the kite went up to the high altitude, it seemed to be stable, the actual wind was very strong, and when the kite was heavy and took a ride, it was not strange that it was broken, but this happened by chance, and it was absolutely impossible to artificially control the time of the broken line, or the three lines were broken together.
Originally, Guo Erye thought that the Holy Mother of Yellow Lotus might have people tie coarse incense to the keel and burn it to a certain position to burn the kite string, but my great-grandfather saw that the kite string was not disconnected from the top, and Guo Er Ye couldn't think of the mystery for a while.
But then, Guo Erye told me a story, which made me very interested. Guo Erye has been flying kites for more than 50 years and has encountered two or three bizarre disconnections. Guo Erye's kite uses the best sheep intestines, which are very strong. It was no problem for the skeleton to fly two or three thousand meters high, but the two broken wires occurred when they were just four or five hundred meters away.
There is a legend in the circle of kite connoisseurs that when the kite flies smoothly to a certain height, sometimes people will see that there is no trace of clouds in the sky, and the shadow of the kite will be reflected, as if there is an invisible and transparent mirror above the kite, blocking the way of the kite to rise.
Soon after the mirror in the clouds appeared, the kite would roll violently, and the string would be tightened, as if it had encountered a strong wind, and the string would not be strong, and it would break after a few turns. But on two occasions, Guo Erye's sheep intestine was not broken, and he seemed to see the kite crashing into the mirror in the clouds and disappearing. The sky was calm and clear, if it weren't for the tightly broken rope in his hand, Guo Er Ye really felt that there was no kite at all.
But soon, the gut of the sheep also broke, and the kite suddenly appeared from the empty sky and fell. And the kite that was picked up was the same as the one that the great-grandfather saw, and it seemed to have been torn by the strong wind.
Guo Erye felt that the situation he encountered was very similar to the story recorded by his great-grandfather, but if this was the case, Our Lady of Yellow Lotus must have known the location of the cloud mirror in advance, although the red light was claimed to be a branch of Maoshan to the outside world, but was it really human power to control the appearance of the cloud mirror?
Coming out of Guo Erye's shop, I still have a lot of gains, the story says, at least I borrowed a king-size goldfish kite, and the rest is to go to Baiwang Mountain with Jiao Er to find out.
Early the next morning, Jiao Er and I set off on a pedal car and arrived at Baiwang Mountain at ten o'clock. When I climbed to the top of the mountain, I found that there was a large stone platform with no trees, which was just used for kite flying. Jiao Er also has a half-understanding of what I have done in the past two days. I slowly explained to him as I put it down.
In my opinion, what Guo Erye said about the mirror in the cloud should be the same thing as what the great ancestor saw, if Jiao Er's pigeon collided with the mirror in the cloud during the flight, it is estimated that the situation is similar to that of the kite. Then, there is a mirror in the clouds on Baiwang Mountain, and there is a reasonable explanation for the disappearance of the pigeon.
But flying a kite for a day is really a personal task for me. Guo Erye's reel weighs a few pounds, and he has to constantly consider the wind direction and wind speed to maintain the flying altitude and attitude of the kite, and after a while, he will be sweating. Fortunately, Jiao Er was very interested in flying kites, so I handed it over to him after a while, and I lay down in the grass next to me, looking at the clear and cloudless blue sky and was stunned.
What I wonder the most is what this cloud mirror is? If it is an optical reflection phenomenon, it is impossible to engulf kites and birds, and Jiao Er's description of the old man under the mountain is actually able to perceive the existence of the cloud mirror, for example, birds do not hover on the top of the mountain in summer, and the small animals move up to the top of the mountain, must be to avoid the attack of the falcon. However, the conditioned reflex behavior of this animal must not have been formed in a short period of time, and it seems that the cloud mirror on Baiwang Mountain existed very early.
Another thing that puzzles me is that the danger avoidance of birds is more from the threat of other natural predators. Even if the structure of the birds' eyes is different from that of humans, how did they find it? Birds who are not familiar with this place must not be able to find it, otherwise Jiao Er's pigeon will not be lost, if it is not sight, is it the sense of smell?
It is unlikely that the mirror in the cloud is not an optical reflection phenomenon, but a place where time and space are distorted like Xuanmen, after all, this area of western Beijing is the focus of the Beijing garrison, and many military compounds and military facilities are around, and the radar station of the troops is not far north of the mountain. And the western suburbs airport was a military airport at that time, and there were many fighter planes taking off and landing every day, and this Baiwang Mountain was also one of the routes, if there was really such an abnormal area of time and space on the mountain, how could the troops not know?
The sun soon turned westward, and nothing was found on this day. But to my surprise, it was like this for three days in a row, and it was the first time I felt that time passed so slowly, but fortunately, Jiao Er was addicted to playing kites, and I could have been lying in the grass and basking in the sun. In the afternoon of that day, Jiao Er dragged the line, looked at the kite in the sky, and muttered to himself, "Master Chang, you said that we are flying a kite here, waiting for that cloud mirror, is it the same as fishing, there must be some bait, right?" Jiao Er's unintentional question, let me be a spirit, bait? I patted my head and said in my heart, why didn't I think of this possibility?
I hurriedly shouted to Jiao Er to collect the kite, and without explanation, I took a small shovel from his tricycle and dug it up in a place with shade and a relatively wet ground. Jiao Er collected the kite, only found a change cone, and planed it together beside me, and asked me as he went: "Dig earthworms, are you really going fishing?" "Try it, if it's useful, at least prove where your pigeons went." ”
I tied a dozen earthworms to the skeleton of the kite with a thread, and asked Jiao Er to get some pigeon droppings and feathers from the pigeon cage, and some water, and smeared them on the skin of the kite.
"Okay, Jiao Er, let it out and try it again, only walk the 500-meter line. Jiao Er nodded, took the kite from my hand, and slowly launched it into the sky. The two of us just watched silently in the sunshine. As the sun was about to sink into the mountains to the west, and the last rays of afterglow cast overhead, I suddenly felt something in the air reflecting the colorful light, and I couldn't distinguish it in the halo. I called out to Jiao Er, and he seemed to see the abnormality as well, and quickly put away the kite string while running in the direction of due west.
(Umemura supplements, the question of whether Lin Heier was executed by the Eight-Nation Alliance is an open case.) When the Japanese occupied Dagu, some people claimed to have seen Our Lady of the Yellow Lotus descend to earth and purify all sentient beings. Gentlemen, it is not easy for a good book to survive at the starting point, everyone has time to go to Mr. Jiangshan's "Gate Valve Merry" to take a turn, thank you. (To be continued.) )