Chapter 7: On the Ship of Thieves
I looked at the fat man, and he pretended to be mysterious as I told him, but the cloth bag he was carrying in his hands made him look a little funny.
I smiled and replied:
Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable.
The middle-aged man lowered his head in respect, and then placed a triangular sign on his thumb and forefinger.
I carefully observed his movements, comparing my heart with the Dingmen handprint that Shi Chongming had taught me.
The middle-aged man finished his handprint and looked at me.
I took out Shi Chongming's letter from my body and handed it over.
The fat man watched from the sidelines and asked me with the look in his eyes.
In fact, these are all details, just some handprint cuts and code words of various sects. Wuliang Tianzun is just a slang phrase that was passed down by word of mouth among Taoist priests who used to be mixed with the people, and in Dingmen, this sentence only represents Shi Chongming's generation (no word generation).
I nodded to the fat man to reassure him.
After the middle-aged man took the letter, he just glanced at the envelope, and immediately turned sideways and let us in.
I waved my head and motioned for the fat man to follow.
This is a half-open courtyard, with three rooms due north, and there is a hut on each side of the east and west sides around the courtyard, without plants, and the spatial layout is clear at a glance.
The middle-aged man walked a few steps and led us into the main hall in the middle of the north.
I have been practicing Taoism with Shi Chongming for nine years, although I have not practiced it, but I still understand some basic general knowledge of Taoism, and this courtyard is an obvious "Eight Houses Feng Shui" layout.
What is Eight House Feng Shui?
In fact, Hachiya is the oldest feng shui school, but it is used a lot by the folk but the overall system has been lost, so it is now collectively referred to as feng shui.
Sitting north and facing south, this courtyard is a typical kan house, and the main hall of the kan house usually uses quiet, calm or heavy colors.
I glanced at the main hall, and it was full of modern furniture, all colors.....
I couldn't help muttering in my heart, this Dingmen is also the first of the three roads, and the people who hold the bull's ears in the world's Daomen, how can they build a house and make it look like four things?
Isn't this feng shui theory derived from the Taoist Gate?
Don't......
Thinking of this, I hurriedly winked at the fat man to warn, probably meaning that if we ran away when the situation was not good, we might have entered a fake organization......
The middle-aged man motioned for us to wait a moment, and then went into the side room.
The fat man and I exchanged winks with trepidation.
The fat man looked at me carefully for a while, but he really didn't understand what I meant, and said in a daze:
"Brother, your eyes are twitching? Come on, I have eye drops in my bag, drop a drop, drop a drop......"
I scolded my mother in my heart, this product is still a two hundred and five, I handed him a look before, and he seemed to understand, it turned out to be a product who didn't know how to pretend to understand.
The strange thing is that this kid still has eye drops on him......
I was so angry that I raised my hand and tried to give the fat man a blow on his head, but the fat man cowered and avoided me.
After two minutes, a bald old man walked out.
The bald head wears an old-fashioned tunic with no buttons in the middle breast, and his chest is exposed, but he is not so particular about this hot day.
I glanced at the face of the head, with a wide nose and thick eyebrows, a wide mouth and big ears, a typical amiable person.
The bald head was the same as me, and I looked at the fat man again, and immediately grinned, and said with a smile as I walked:
"Two of you have been waiting for a long time, you have been waiting for a long time, my surname is He, I am the foreign affairs elder of Dingmen, I am fortunate to meet you!"
I'm a little speechless, what age is this, and all these nonsense... But I didn't interrupt him, because the old trafficker told me... Be respectful.
I stood up, motioned for the fat man to stand up too, stepped forward, hugged my hand, and said:
"Hello Elder He, I was sent by Elder Shi, my surname is Chen, this..."
I pointed to the fat man and said.
"This is Elder Shi's nephew, surnamed Shi. ”
The bald elder looked at us with a grin, listened to my introduction to the fat man, and stepped forward to say a few words to the fat man with kind eyes.
Elder He sat us down, ordered tea, and then asked me:
"I heard that Elder Shi went to Dayong from Chenzhou, I don't know if it's okay now?"
I thought about what Elder He meant, it should be that there was no detailed grasp of Shi Chongming's whereabouts within the Dingmen, so I asked.
I was about to stand up and answer, but Elder He waved his hand to stop me, and continued:
"Little brother, I have heard about your affairs, since I am a person who is trusted by Elder Shi, I can't be too polite, I am just an elder of foreign affairs in Dingmen, dealing with mundane chores, and you don't have to be polite in terms of position, little brother. ”
I nodded and replied:
"Elder He is polite, people... Because of Elder Shi's old illness, the matter of finding disciples in the southwest has been put on hold for the time being.
Yes, Elder Shi is now in Dayong, and because he is old and tired, he wants to take a break. ”
These words were all instructed by Shi Chongming, so it doesn't hurt to say them.
Elder Ho explained:
"My Dingmen cultivation is mainly based on refining qi and building pills, and I don't care much about worldly chores, since Elder Shi has a hidden disease, it is best to do so.
The eight elders in the door, scattered in China in eight parts, are really hard work and high merit for me to collect talents and materials, unlike people in the world such as me, who have a head of firewood, rice, oil and salt, and are confused......"
I smiled, this Elder He said it in a very good way before, and in the end, a big vernacular came out, and it seemed that his temperament was quite straightforward.
Elder He smiled when he saw me, and also smiled:
"The little brother should have heard of the people in my Dingmen, and he doesn't care much about ordinary trivial matters in the door, and he has no interest in Taoism, disputes in the rivers and lakes, or showing off.
There are more than a dozen bad old men like me in the whole country, and they are called guarding all parts of the country, but in fact, they are soliciting vulgar wealth for daily use. ”
Dingmen's unrestrained, leisurely and comfortable I have been taught, just say that Shi Chongming's goods, two days of fishing, three days of lazy sleep, except for eating, teaching me the Tao, the rest of the time is rest, I haven't seen him practice, practice or anything.
I'm not surprised, if a cultivator is too concerned about things like fame and fortune, then the Dao is naturally nonsense.
Elder He talked for a while, and finally got to the point:
"Seeing what I've said for a long time, it's actually all idle talk, let's get down to business. ”
It turned out that this time the matter was confessed by Qingmen.
Qing and Xuanmen as the general existence of Dingmen, except for the differences in exercises, only Qingmen to eliminate monsters and demons as their own responsibility, common in the folk world.
Qingmen practiced the thunder method, and its lightning guidance technique was better than that of the Taishan Shi family. Legend has it that Zhang Daoling Zhang Tianshi practiced the Qingmen Lei Method in his early years, entered the hall, and later realized that he created the Daomen sect and passed it on to future generations.
Qingmen does not take fame and fortune as a fetter, acts above board, and thunder is clear.
This time, a pharmaceutical factory commissioned the Qingmen, but because the whereabouts of the Qingmen people are uncertain, and the number of contemporary people is small, the people are too busy, so I want to ask the disciples of Dingmen to help.
Elder He briefly introduced the situation of this pharmaceutical factory, and then took out a notebook and handed it to me.
I'm a little surprised, what is this step?
Elder Ho explained:
"You can call from the phone number in the notebook, and the person in charge of the pharmaceutical factory will receive you and tell you what's going on there. ”
I'm blinded......
After talking about it for a long time, this old man doesn't even know what's going on? Isn't this a joke?
How is this different from what I imagined? The more I thought about it, the more wrong it became.
No matter what, you have to help the people who handle the matter to collect information, right?
Just get a phone call and contact it yourself, it looks like child's play.
Old man He looked at me with a confused expression, and said:
"This is the consistent style of Dingmen, because the minds of the people in the Daomen are all on the cultivation of the Dao.....
Yunyun ......
"Didn't Elder Shi tell you beforehand?" Old Man He said with concern.
I...... I can't laugh or cry, I know you Dingmen Niu X, but you don't have to be so hanging...
Anyway, this is also a crooked way of evil demons that ordinary people can't fear!
What else can I say?
I can only vaguely tell Old Man He that Elder Shi said it, but I forgot ......
Coming out of the Dingmen contact point, I could feel my face stretched.
This can be seen from the fat man following me silently.
What's going on, this group of old men don't have a basis for doing things, so they are stunned, and lick their faces and say: This is the consistent style...
Alas, I got on the thief ship, and it seems that the old man traffickers have cheated me again......
The fat man saw my displeasure and followed me with a sullen head.
The address is on the outskirts of the provincial capital, an industrial concentration area, quite far from here.
I asked the fat man to stop a taxi, and the master actually asked for fifty yuan......
There is no way, we can't fly again, we can only be slaughtered.
Speaking of flying, in fact, the Dao Sect can be cultivated to the innate realm and can glide against the wind for a distance, and I have refined qi into the body, and I can't fly because the body is not true qi, which makes me depressed for a long time.
I asked what the fat man was.
He patted his chest and held his head high:
"I'm still one foot away from entering the innate realm. The younger generation is also second to none in the entire Daomen, and my talent is not boastful. ”
I laughed secretly, this fat man must not be shocked to drop his jaw if he wants to know my realm.
It's just a pity that I have a body of evil qi that is comparable to refining qi into the body realm, but I still can't practice Dao Sect supernatural powers.
......
Half an hour later, we were standing at the door of a pharmaceutical factory.
I took out the address, compared it and confirmed that it was correct, and then I wanted to find a place to make a call.
Before he could lift his foot, the fat man handed over a black object.
I wondered:
"What's that?"
The fat man laughed and said:
"It's a call, it's a call. ”
I stared at the black brick-like thing in my hand, a little dazed.
I have seen phone calls, and the old traffickers sometimes need to contact Dingmen, so they often go to Lao Zhao's house next door to borrow a phone to contact.
But all the telephones I've seen are on the table, and they're connected by a telephone line.
The fat man handed over something that had neither a line nor a button to press a phone number.
So I thought he was making fun of me, so I got angry and said:
"Brother, I've seen the phone, don't be the "evil god's blood" that your sister saved for you in this broken box!"
The fat man pointed to the thing in my hand and said:
"It's a phone call, when I came, my third uncle went to the provincial capital to buy me a drop...... And also... What is the "blood of the evil god" ???"
I ignored him, took the black brick and walked to the duty room at the gate of the factory.
The pharmaceutical factory sits at the foot of a small hill, surrounded by stone walls that are built high, and only this duty room has a door.
It was noon, and an old man was napping against the wall in the duty room.
I knocked on the table and shouted:
"Master, master!"
After screaming three or four times, the old man slowly woke up, looked at us, and closed his eyes again.
I was about to speak, but I heard the old man say:
"Which one are you looking for?"
I handed the old man a slip of paper with the address of the pharmaceutical factory and the name and phone number of the contact person.
The old man opened his eyes again and swept them.
Then he said, "Go in."
The fat man was anxious and shouted:
"Hey, what am I going to do in there, what am I going to be beating, what am I going to ?...... to be punched?"
In a hurry, this fat man spoke a little incoherently.
I was a little speechless at the two people in front of me, so I had to take out a box of cigarettes from my pocket and hand one to Lao Er.
Only then did he speak:
"Master, I'm ...... We're looking for this guy, do you think he's working here?"
The old man squinted and lit a cigarette, and said while intoxicated:
"Go up to the office and look for it, go in and go straight, the first floor of the first building is the office. ”
I thanked him and led the fat man into the pharmaceutical factory.
The fat man followed me scolding, and I laughed and said:
"Little stone, we are now in the field, we must be polite in everything, even if we are doing things for others, but people will pay, even if we have the ability to respect people. ”
The fat man was deflated, but he didn't take a few steps before stopping.
I said, "What's wrong?"
"Brother, there's something weird in that building!"
The fat man looked left and right, stared at a bungalow in the distance, and then pointed to the house.
I asked: How do you know?
The fat man wondered: Didn't Uncle Jiu tell me?
...
It turns out that the Taishan Shi family uses the lightning method to refine the body, and the thunder power contained in the body is extremely pure, and it is also extremely sensitive to the perception of evil things and ghosts.
As the leader of the younger generation, the fat man's body is extremely pure, so his sensitivity to the evil things around him is also extremely strong.
I told the fat man to be careful, and to contact the person in charge of the pharmaceutical company first to find out what was going on.
In fact, ancient Chinese Taoism also paid attention to the "cause and effect" relationship.
There must be some reason for the occurrence of some things, and the past life bears fruit in the present life, which is the experience summed up by many generations of ancient Chinese people.
When we people in the Dao Sect face this kind of thing, we will pay special attention to it, and we will not take action easily, and a mistake may cause something "hurtful to nature and reason".
Entering the office building of the pharmaceutical factory, the office door on the first floor was completely open.
I looked at the fat man and walked in.
A middle-aged woman in the office received us, asked us why, and then walked out, probably to inform the person in charge to go.
I told the fat man not to talk nonsense for a while, and wait until he figured out what was going on.
The fat man nodded.
Actually, I'm quite confused, after all, it's the first time I've dealt with this kind of thing alone.
It was only two minutes before a girl in a white T-shirt walked in.
I'm a little strange, could it be that this white and pure girl is the person in charge of the pharmaceutical factory?
Just as we were about to stand up, the girl approached us, and without speaking, stared at me and the fat man.
I'm even more curious, could it be that this eldest sister just now is not the person in charge, but the person in the security department? But the people in the security department are too ......
The middle-aged woman walked in, pointed to the girl, and said:
"Two, this is the daughter of our factory director, named Lu Tian. Our factory director will come down soon, please wait. ”
I nodded at the middle-aged woman, indicating that I understood.
The fat man looked a little embarrassed under the girl's gaze, so he plucked up his courage and said:
"Hello, my name is Shi Shuangquan, and I live in Daiyue District, Tai'an City, Shandong Province...... What is your surname?"
I was drinking tea when I couldn't help but squirt out.
This fat man is not simple, he dared to come forward so boldly to talk to him when they met for the first time.
But this line is really ...... It's not level!!
...
People just finished the introduction, and you still ask people for your surname?
I pushed the fat man down, and he looked away a little shyly.
At that moment, I actually noticed that the fat man was blushing......