Chapter 10: Celestial Astrology

When Luo Sanpao finished telling the story, the dog baby and Hu Biaozi were already wrapped in cotton clothes and snuggled together, snoring and falling asleep. The mountain night is silent, the starry sky is full, and the moonlight is like water, casting a silver frost on the earth. Sanpao looked at the two sleeping buddies, smiled with satisfaction, and picked up another handful of dry wood and added it to the fire. At this moment, the earth is the bed, the starry sky is the quilt, although it is a little shabby, but in this deserted mountain, it is very satisfying to have a good brother to accompany him. Luo Sanpao looked at the starry sky and slowly lost his mind. Suddenly, he found that the arrangement of the stars in the sky and the topography of the mountain formed a number of wonderful angles and lines, and a little piece of these lines could form the shape of the stars kicking and fighting.

In the Linglan Secret Book that Luo Sanpao reads, there are many contents related to Tianxing Feng Shui. In the long practice of life, the ancient working people discovered and recorded many laws of nature, such as spring and summer, autumn harvest and winter storage, the length of the day, and the tide of the month; with the way of thinking of the ancient people at that time, it was difficult for them to explain clearly how these natural laws happened in a scientific way, so they liked to mix these laws with the things of ghosts and gods, so the ancient ruling class liked to go on the stage to worship the heavens, and pray to the heavens for wars and valley rains. Later, some people put forward the idea of the unity of heaven and man, believing that everything in the world is related to the law of nature, taking human physiology as an example; there are eight winds in the sky, which are said to be surging and smoky, and hurricane and cold, and people have eight veins, and they are said to be the governor of Ren Chong with yin and yang Weiqiao, and the earth has five sounds, which are the palace and the corner of the micro feather, and the person has five organs, the heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys. There are 12 months in a year, and it is divided into 24 solar terms, and people have 12 meridians, which can evolve into 24 meridians. There are 28 constellations in the sky, and there are 28 acupuncture points in the gallbladder meridian. Heaven and earth have dragon's nests, and the human body has air pockets. The air pockets of the human body run through the body by the meridians and veins, there are strange acupoints, acupoints, knots, etc., the air cavities are smooth and the blood of the human body runs smoothly, the spirit is good, there is no disease and no disaster, the so-called Chinese medicine is not through the pain, and the pain is not through this truth.

And the so-called dragon's lair is linked by the mountains, rivers and sand sea between heaven and earth, also known as the dragon vein, this vein is continuous, no beginning and no end, the dragon's lair gathers the energy between heaven and earth, grows extremely precious medicinal materials, and also belongs to the excellent feng shui treasure land, when the kings of various dynasties founded the country, they will send feng shui masters to explore the mountains and find a dragon den for themselves to be buried, so as to shade their ancestors and grandchildren, and stabilize their own rivers and mountains, but the location of the dragon's den will also change because of the change of the mountains and riversLater, through a long period of exploration and practice, someone finally discovered that the dragon vein can be found through the relationship between the stars and the geography of the mountains and rivers, this method is called the astrological technique or the celestial star feng shui, also known as the dragon hunting trick, but this method is only mastered by a few people, and it is not easy to perform. Later, the times evolved, and Tianxing Feng Shui was gradually used to rob tombs and hunt for treasures, and to explore mountains to find medicine. Some navigators and adventurers used this technique to locate the sea, mark the coordinates, and call it astrology.

The Kuixing kick fight that Luo Sanpao saw belonged to a celestial phase in the Celestial Star Technique, and it was the great phase among all the phases. Since ancient times, Kuixing has been regarded as an immortal who dominates the rise and fall of literature. When the folk craftsmen and painters are modeling, they like to let Kuixing step on the head with one foot, hold the bucket book in one hand, and hold the pen in the other. In the astrological technique, the caster uses the first four stars of the Big Dipper to determine the position of the Kui, and the topography of the mountains and rivers to determine the position of the bucket. And Luo Sanpao just had such luck at this time. The devil's mouth is located in the place of heaven and earth, the upper is the knife mountain, there is a sea of fire below, and the perennial fog is shrouded, so it is difficult to see the uniqueness of the devil's mouth with the usual mountain viewing technique. At this moment, Luo Sanpao is in the belly of the mountain, hanging the Big Dipper on the top, hanging the mountains and rivers below, under the reflection of the bright moonlight, a trance dot bucket shape appeared in the eyes of the three guns. This bucket is placed in the northwest of the devil's mouth, located between the mountain peak and the belly of the mountain, shaped like a wooden bucket, shaped like a sieve, flickering in the moonlight. Although Luo Sanpao had never used the Heavenly Star Feng Shui technique, he knew the power of the Linglan Secret Codex. He secretly wrote down the location of the wooden bucket, and went to explore the mountains to find treasures, and he was like a headless fly, looking around, and now he had a god-given opportunity, just pointing out the direction to the three of them.

There was nothing to say all night, and the next morning, when the sun was just shining through, Luo Sanpao woke Hu Biaozi and the dog baby from their sleep, Hu Biaozi stretched his waist and said half-asleep: "Man, I eat other people's leftover lo mein, you want to go to the master..." "Fatty, wake up, fatty, when you dig up the baby, I'll ask you to go down to the restaurant and eat a bucket. Luo Sanpao slowly woke up the two of them, and told the two brothers about Kuixing's kicking. Hu Biaozi and Gou Wazi were convinced of Luo Sanpao's words, so they ate dry food indiscriminately, and the three of them went to the place where Kuixing was fighting together. I don't know if it was God blessed Luo Sancannon, or if the relationship between these three people was very lucky, the three of them only encountered a wild boar napping once after entering the mountainside, and did not encounter the danger of blind bears, leopards, poisonous snakes, birds of prey and the like. The three of them searched in the old forest for three whole days, and finally at noon on the fourth day, when the dog baby was drinking water by the stream, he found that there was a pitch-black charred thing on the opposite mountain wall, like a branch, which was abruptly inserted from the mountain wall. At first glance, it looks a bit like a lingzhi, but when you look closely, you find that the tail end of the dead branch-like thing resembles a fist, and if you look closely, it looks more like a person's arm. The dog baby hurriedly called the two brothers to come and see. Hu Biaozi took a look, and also felt that the thing looked strange, it might be some kind of precious medicinal material, so he wanted to climb the mountain to get it, but he tried several times without success, the mountain wall is not only steep, and because it is close to the side of the river all the year round, moisturized in the water vapor in the mountain, the mountain wall is unusually slippery, although Hu Biaozi is strong and heavy, climbing but not the essentials, can only watch and worry with the dog baby under the cliff. Luo Sanpao took a deep breath when he saw this situation, went to the dantian, and then performed his own trick of walking the rivers and lakes: swallows and three waters. This technique, also known as light exercises, is to use the power of the dantian, and then with the help of the toes, heels, waist strength, arms, and external objects to help people move quickly in the horizontal and vertical directions, because this technique requires a strong human body explosive force, and the duration is very short, so from the outsider's point of view, it is like a swallow setting off ripples on the water. Luo Sanpao has practiced Tongzi Gong under the guidance of the rivers and lakes since he was a child, and has worked hard especially in light skills. Saw Luo Sanpao walked quickly to the bottom of the mountain rock, sucked from the door of his head to his heels in one breath, and then jumped directly like lightning, jumped on the stones of the mountain wall, and then walked between the mountains and rocks with the help of light skills and flexible skills, jumping, turning, borrowing, dodging, moving, and finally using his legs to master a rattan, hanging upside down on the mountain wall like a scorpion, at this time the black paint like a twig-like object has been completely exposed to Luo Sanpao's eyes, Luo Sanpao's eyes widened, and he looked at it fixedly, only to see that this object was about twelve inches long, as black as charcoal, judging from the shape of the appearance, this is clearly a human handAnd what is particularly strange is that the skin of the human hand does not look completely stiff, and in a trance, it seems that there is a continuous flow of liquid flowing quietly under the skin. But this mountain has been untouched for hundreds of years, how can a person's arm still appear here so completely, and it is interspersed from the mountain wall? Luo Sanpao's eyebrows furrowed unconsciously, not knowing what to do. Hu Biaozi and the dog baby shouted at the bottom of the mountain and asked Luo Sanpao what this thing was, whether it was a treasure worth a lot of money.

Luo Sanpao stared at the withered hands with dry eyes, and didn't know how to reply to the two brothers, it stands to reason that people will be oxidized and decomposed after death, through different methods of preserving corpses, different oxygen and humidity in the geographical environment, the decomposition of corpses will also be different, to form such a dark appearance, unless it was poisoned by mercury before death, or burned alive, but these two situations can not maintain the elasticity of muscles, let alone retain the continuity of blood. Such a strange and inexplicable situation, Luo Sanpao saw it for the first time in his life, and he was undecided at the moment, so he told his doubts to the two brothers. Hu Biaozi and Gou Wazi were also very surprised, thinking that it was not strange that there were dead corpses in the mouth of the devil, but it was the first time that such a strange corpse had been encountered. Hu Biaozi shouted: "Brother, does this dead man have any gold and silver jewelry on his hands, the dead man is not worth much these days, don't delay your efforts." Luo Sanpao heard Hu Biaozi's words, and suddenly a thought flashed in his mind: Since this dead man's arm came out of the mountain wall, then the dead man is buried in the mountain, and last night's Kui Xing kicked and fought pointed to the great wealth here, so is the mountain where we are now located a big tomb where the corpse is buried?"

The so-called "Qionglou Baogai hides the dragon body, and the pure heart shows the real body without a shadow". Luo Sanpao concluded that his position was a large tomb, but he didn't understand why the people in the tomb came out on their own and kept so strangely intact. Although Luo Sanpao often lived in a coffin before, he had never done tomb robbery, and he had no experience in it, but fortunately, it was daylight, the sun was shining, and he was not afraid of any corpses turning into ghosts or anything. Luo Sanpao then told Biao Zi and Gouzi that this mountain is a big tomb, and there must be treasures in it, but this dark human hand is too weird, and it is necessary to find out the situation first, and let Biao Zi throw the axe up. Biaozi and Gouzi were excited when they heard that they had a lot of money, although they had no concept of tomb robbing, but they were willing to try anything that could make a fortune. Luo Sanpao was very jealous of this dead man's hand and wanted to see it clearly.

Luo Sancannon's axe fell and slashed at that arm, thinking that arm would be as hard as iron, but he didn't expect it to be broken as soon as he cut it, and the pitch-black arm was suddenly broken into two sections, and a stream of black juice spurted out of the broken arm, and the broken arm fell directly from the sky to the stream. The black juice slightly touched Luo Sanpao's forehead and clothes, Luo Sanpao immediately felt that his forehead was itchy and numb, with his body's instinct and experience in the rivers and lakes, he suddenly knew that this juice must have a big future, and hurriedly wiped it with his left hand, not wanting the skin to just touch the liquid on his forehead, Sanpao felt that the liquid between his fingers was not a real liquid, but more like an ant cluster of tens of thousands of ants gathered together, constantly moving in his fingertips, looking for a gap in the skin. Luo Sanpao was taken aback. He once slept in an abandoned tile kiln with a Taoist in Yunnan, who had told Luo Sanpao a lot of interesting stories about robbing tombs and moving corpses. Among them is information about corpse turtles and corpse insects. According to the Taoist who moved the corpse, in ancient times, many kings or Taoists in order to ensure that their corpses do not rot and die without stiffness, they will carry out some special treatment for their corpses, some people will use wax, feeding medicine, wrapping the body, and steaming on the three methods, and some people, such as Guanshan Taibao, Shouling Tianguan, Hidden Tomb Tai Sui, etc., will eat a kind of insect eggs before their death, this kind of insect eggs are very sensitive to temperature, light, air and stomach acid, only when the person is completely dead, it will hatch in the sealed case, and after hatching, the host's flesh will be used as nourishment to slowly suck and reproduceThe insect reproduces very quickly and secretes a fluid that overflows from the host's body surface to cover the body, so that the skin is not oxidized and decayed. If the visceral muscles of the host are completely digested and absorbed by the eggs, the bugs will go dormant until the next host arrives. Adult insects mainly enter the host's body by entering the human senses and anus, once entered, they will lay eggs, which can cause death in a short period of time, their mouthparts are not aggressive but have a certain anesthetic effect, and if they are exposed too much, they will lose consciousness. Because these insects tend to find living people as hosts, and usually eat dead people for a living, the rivers and lakes have given this insect the nickname "Dead Eaters".

Luo Sanpao never dreamed that he would encounter such a thing here, so he quickly turned over and jumped into the stream. At this time, the insects that gushed out of the broken hand were already densely packed together and floating on the river, and the black mass floated towards Hu Biaozi and the dog baby on the bank. These things are a long story, but in fact, they only happened in a moment, and Biao Zi and Wazi were still trying to count the fingers of the severed hand, when they saw that Luo Sanpao had jumped from the vine into the stream, and a black ball of flesh on the surface of the water was moving quickly towards him. Hu Biaozi and the dog baby both knew that things had changed, Hu Biaozi hurriedly let the dog baby stay where he was, and he hurriedly ran to the place where Luo Sanpao fell, wanting to bring the third cannon up. It's too late, it's fast, just when Biaozi was just approaching the stream, Luo Sanpao jumped out of the water with a carp jumping over the dragon gate, splashing layers of splashes, and the three cannons were still in mid-air and shouted to Biaozi: "Fast cannon, it's dangerous here, run... As soon as Biaozi saw the three cannons coming out of the water, he knew that this kid was fine, so he hurriedly ran desperately in the opposite direction, and shouted to the baby to run together. Besides, after Na Luo Sanpao was bitten by insects, his forehead and left hand had begun to gradually become a little numb, although the stream just now helped him wash away a lot of insects, but some of them stuck to his clothes. At this moment, Luo Sanpao slapped the insects on his body with his right hand, and hurriedly ran down the mountain. The three of them ran to the place where they had camped before, all of them exhausted and disgraced, and Hu Biaozi's pants were pulled by the branches, revealing half of his big white buttocks.

Luo Sanpao waited for the two of them to pant smoothly, and then slowly told the two brothers about the killing of the dead; Biao Zi shouted that he was fooled, and he was waiting to open the tomb to make a fortune, but he didn't expect that he didn't even know where the tomb door was, so he escaped bare-chested. The dog baby comforted him and said that if he did not die, there would be a blessing, and the black thing like a ball of meat was terrible to look at, and it was so terrible to look at, and there was a feeling that tens of thousands of caterpillars were wriggling in his bed. Luo Sanpao was also apprehensive, and said: "Indeed, I have only heard of this kind of death eater before, but I didn't expect to encounter it in the mouth of the devil today, but this time it is not without gain, everyone." Speaking of this, Luo Sanpao took out an object from his arms, and saw a black candlestick appear in front of everyone. "This is what I found at the bottom of the water when I just jumped into the water, don't look at this is just a candlestick, look at this black color, you know that this is made of gold, this is a golden candlestick!. "I'm rubbing, with your brother, it's so dangerous just now, your brother and I ran bare-ass for a long time, you kid still has the leisure to dig out treasures under the water, it's really awesome." ”

Later, Luo Sanpao and Biaozi Wazi walked back to the residence of the Wazi Army, and then went down the mountain to sell the golden candlestick, and spent the winter fatly. Later, an earthquake struck the mouth of the devil, which caused a mudslide. Luo Sanpao decided to take everyone to a ruined temple at the foot of the mountain to spend his days, and took the surrounding beggar brothers under his command, and became the beggar head of the county; Luo Sanpao recognized the strangeness of this ring at a glance, and quickly found a large basin of white vinegar and a black donkey's hooves, and asked Father Zhao to put his hands and kidneys into the white vinegar, and made the black donkey's hooves into powder, sprinkled them on the ring, and smoked them over the fire. After about half a day's work, a thick black juice flowed out of the ring, and the ring slowly melted away, turning into a pile of dust. Father Zhao was able to go to the ground to beg for food after resting for a month, and regarded Luo Sanpao as a lifesaver. Later, because something happened, Luo Sanpao thought that Daddy Zhao's essence was not bad, and he could be regarded as a material that could be made, so he passed on the food word recipe in the Linglan Secret Book to Daddy Zhao, hoping that he would master the skills of cooking and be a good man from now on.

"So, in short, all in all, then my father gave me the know-how to eat words, so my craft is fundamentally from that secret book, my father said that the secret book is actually an ancient encyclopedia, there is everything in it, you want to use the ancient skills of cooking for the emperor to cook for you to eat, can it not be delicious?. Zhao Lei said proudly while drinking.

In fact, the story told by Lao Lei is half-true and half-false, Luo Sanpao and Daddy Zhao are indeed their own people, but Luo Sanpao's story is indeed mostly made up by Daddy Zhao, as for what reason, it is unknown. If others ask me why I know about Luo Sanpao so clearly, it is because Luo Sanpao is none other than my grandfather. And my name is Luo Jianjun.