Chapter 7: Old Age Never Dies
There is a song playing in the loudspeaker in the wind release area, and I heard Miao Shifan introduce that it is called Nanniwan, which is a very old song. The female singer's high-pitched and loud singing voice brings people a sense of prosperity. Miao Shifan sat on the cement platform, dancing to the music, listening very devotedly.
"This song is very good, what is the name of the person who sings it?" Gu Tianyou put down the record of clearing grievances in his hand, turned his head and asked.
Miao Shifan closed his eyes: "Guo Lanying, a very old singer." ”
Gu Tianyou felt that the voice was vibrant, not like it came from the mouth of an old man, so he asked again, "How old?"
Miao Shifan was interrupted from listening to the song, jumped off the platform, the big iron cuffs on his body made a rattling sound, groaned for a while, and said: "Except for the old immortal, there is no one older than her in the entire Qinzhou Prison." ”
"Oh, that's pretty old. This comparison made it easy for Gu Tianyou to imagine that this old lady Guo was indeed very old.
People who can compare their age with the old immortal will naturally not be young people. Speaking of old immortality, it is very famous in Qinzhou Prison. If Gu Tianyou is the youngest prison bully in the history of Qinzhou Prison, then this old gentleman is the oldest.
There are many legends about this old immortal in Qinzhou Prison.
Gu Tianyou had never seen this person, but he had only heard that there was a strange old man in the West Prison District, and it was impossible to determine how many years he had been imprisoned. It is said that he had already come in before the liberation, and no one could tell what the charges were, anyway, it was indefinite. After liberation, the new government granted amnesty to the unjustly detained toiling masses of the old government, and did not release him. It is said that the reason why Qinzhou Prison built a three-zhang high courtyard wall during the Republic of China was to prevent the old man from escaping and stealing his mouth.
In the early 80s of the last century, the rule of law institutions across the country were trying to rehabilitate him, and given his age, the prison had given him a policy to let him out. But the old man refused, and claimed that he had lived ninety-nine years, and that he had spent more than eighty years here, and that for him there was no better place here.
Ninety-nine is a modest saying, the ancients said that a hundred years old is a thief, stealing years. It means that people who are over 100 years old are stealing the age of God to live. Therefore, centenarians don't like to say their real age, and after they are 100 years old, they call themselves ninety-nine.
Because they lived too long, the prisoners in the prison gave them the nickname: Old Immortal.
It is rumored that this old immortal has a unique job and can play tricks. Ancient tricks, mysterious and extraordinary. In the previous 20 years, he often showed his hand during the New Year's holidays, or occasionally when he was in a cheerful mood. The older prison guards who worked here have met more or less a few times. Listening to some veteran prisoners, each of this old man's programs has a name, what painting the ground is a prison, the immortals pick beans, and the performance is completely the same as the old Jianghu people running the dock, talking and acting, easy to come, no one can see through it.
"Do you say this old immortal is already dead?" Gu Tianyou thought about those legends, and always felt a little untrue, he had lived here for so long, if there really was such a person, why had I never seen it?
"Since it is called old immortality, of course it is still alive. ”
When Miao Shifan said this, the corners of his lips twitched slightly, and he seemed to smile, looking a little mysterious.
Gu Tianyou suddenly made a decision to find this old immortal. The most convenient way to find a prisoner in this place is to go to He Weiran, the prison commissar. From Comrade Lao He, Gu Tianyou learned that this famous old prison bully is still serving his sentence, and he is in the room of the West Prison District, because he is too old, he has not left the change number over the years, but he is sure that he is still alive.
In adolescence, once curiosity is aroused, it is difficult to suppress it. Soon, Gu Tianyou collected more information about old immortality.
The crime of old immortality was re-convicted after liberation, hooliganism, a crime with a lot of information.
Regarding the old immortality, in addition to the joke about going out over the wall and stealing his mouth, there is another joke that is widely circulated.
It's about a rebel leader with a lot of evil and a bad background who was imprisoned in the West Prison District in the late '70s, and he came in for a bit of a jerk, and one day in the late '60s, he beat his high school teacher to death with his bare hands and raped his three daughters. And it has been confirmed that he has done more than one such thing in this man's most glorious decade. So he was found out in the movement to put things right and settle the crime.
One morning, the man suddenly disappeared.
No one is alive, no corpse is dead.
On the night of the crime, the iron door was locked from the outside, and the three-and-a-half-pound iron lock was not damaged at all, but a big living person simply disappeared out of thin air.
After investigation, the prison believes that the most likely is that this person was killed in a change cell, and then the murderer was buried. For this reason, the prison guards dug three feet into the ground in the new name, but found nothing.
This incident is extremely terrifying, the news is tightly sealed, and it is still an unsolved case.
However, the other prisoners in the change of name at that time generally believed that the person was killed by the old immortal and then destroyed the body. The basis is that on the night before the man's disappearance, Lao Immortal had calculated a hexagram for the man, asserting that the man would not live that night. The prison guards in charge of the investigation also asked Lao Bu about this matter, but of course they did not get any useful information. Of course, the prison side cannot use the fortune-telling incident as evidence. The case was eventually settled.
The case was so wicked that it was widely circulated in prison. It has been passed around that the old immortal has become an old monster who eats people and does not spit out bones.
The more information he gathered, the more curious Gu Tianyou became about this person. So, finally one day, I couldn't hold it back, ran to the prison house in the West Prison District, and saw this legendary character.
The old prison bully and the little prison bully, looking at each other.
The cloudy old eyes suddenly bloomed with a strange look, but Gu Tianyou's Qingling gaze couldn't hide the disappointment.
This old man, who is rumored to be a god, turns out to be like this. There is no white beard and white hair on the face, there is no mysterious and rumored fairy wind bones, and there is no temple bulge full of red light. It's just a bad old man with yellow muscles and thin skin, not only does he have no hair in his head, but he doesn't even have a beard on his face. The eye sockets are deep, the bridge of the nose is fleshless, and it looks like a skeleton.
Gu Tianyou came with the expectation that the young man in the martial arts novel would meet the master, but what he saw was such a pork rib fairy who seemed to be able to choke at any time in his last years, and his disappointment was beyond words. I turned around and wanted to leave. But he was blocked by a thin hand like a bamboo, and in the next second, this hand shook a little, and Gu Tianyou was surprised to find that there was an extra jade plaque in his hand, on which was carved a beauty relief, ancient and lifelike.
"Isn't it pretty?"
The voice of the old immortal was hoarse, like a broken bellows leaking on all sides. As he spoke, his wrist flipped, and the jade plate disappeared from Gu Tianyou's sight.
"Fun, right?"
The old man's face was almost on the tip of Gu Tianyou's nose, and his tone seemed to be using a trick to lure a child's abductor.
"If you want to learn, kowtow to me three times now. ”
"I don't want to learn. ”
"Let's learn, my craft is endlessly interesting, once I learn it, it will be a lifelong job. ”
"Prison for life?"
"I don't like to go out, otherwise this place can't lock me up, except for the work in my hands, I will have a lot of things, your roots are not bad, it is the most suitable age, if you want to learn I will teach you all." ”
"Aren't there any conditions, like letting me learn to go out and clean up the portal for you later?"
"No, as long as you want to learn, there are no conditions. ”
"Forget it, I don't want to kowtow to you. ”
"It doesn't matter, you can learn without kowtowing. "Lao Immortal decisively relaxed the enrollment conditions.
"Then I'll just make it difficult to learn. Gu Tianyou hesitated for a moment, and then asked, "Is it easy to learn?"
"As long as the kung fu deep iron pestle is sharpened into a needle!" Lao Immortal said a nonsense, then took out an old piece of fabric from under the cover and handed it to Tianyou, saying, "Master led the door to practice in person. ”
"What did you get in the door?"
"This is a hundred opera diagrams, all the techniques and body methods in the Harrier Gate, and the secret recipes of various drugs are on this, you can take it and practice. ”
"Is it appropriate to give me such an important thing the first time we met?"
"If you can find me a second twelve-year-old boy, no matter how many times you have the bones, as long as you don't talk as much, I will pass it on to him at once. ”
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The most thing about prison life is time, Gu Tianyou was bored, so he took this picture of a hundred operas and went back to practice slowly, and if he didn't understand something, he went to the old immortal for advice. is young, has a good foundation, and has the guidance of someone who understands, and he really practices fame after coming and going.
In three months, he learned more than a dozen tricks. In particular, a pair of hands is extremely flexible, and the next two eggs hidden between the fingers are not flawed by ordinary people. The old immortal is also amazed at this, and he is full of praise. Miao Shifan was even more envious, saying that if these hands picked up the scalpel, they could stab the medical community.
In this place where there is no yearning for material life, spiritual life is also lacking to the extreme. With this picture of a hundred plays, Gu Tianyou was able to have a new game to pass the boring time. As mentioned in a certain book, because of boredom, human beings have thought of many games to pass the time, and have created a variety of art categories. is also because of boredom, thirteen-year-old Gu Tianyou has been able to accurately master most of the techniques on the hundred opera maps. The muscles of his hands are so dexterous that he can grab sixteen raw eggs with one hand.
No matter how fun the game is, there are times when I get tired of playing crookedly, and when I have practiced enough, I start to hone my body again.
According to the old immortal, the ancestor of the Harrier Gate is said to be a hero at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and he was nicknamed the Drill Sky Harrier, and his fame shook the rivers and lakes. once entered the palace at night to steal treasures and stole two of Emperor Kangxi's most beloved treasures, the jade mandarin duck bracelet and the Nine Dragons Cup. When Gu Tianyou heard this, he was angry and almost scolded, the old liar was too disrespectful, and made up a story to directly plagiarize Mr. Shan Tianfang. Fortunately, when Long Ye was there, he also listened to the commentary, and Gu Tianyou followed and listened to it less, otherwise he would have been fooled and lame.
Bragging is bragging, there is still some kung fu. For example, this light gong practice sounds quite reliable. Dig a two-foot pit on the ground, jump out of the pit 300 times a day with a load, dig one inch deep a day, add a pound to the weight, and after three months, the pit is one foot deep, and then jump out of the weight flying, this kung fu is done. Gu Tianyou walked through He Weiran's back door, dug a pit in the vegetable garden of the armed police squadron, and according to the requirements on the map, he tied thirty pounds of weight on his body on the first day and began to jump into the pit.
A month later, the depth of the pit had reached 1.6 meters, almost equal to the height of 13-year-old Gu Tianyou. Carrying a weight of sixty pounds, every time I jumped up, I was not embarrassed by my hands and feet. So insisted on for another month, the depth of the pit has reached three meters, in strict accordance with the old immortal said, digging steep and steep, bearing a weight of 90 pounds at the bottom of the pit, not to mention jumping, climbing can not come up, finally determined to be on the old immortal evil dang. Rushing to find someone, he was shocked to hear the bad news.
The old immortal who is old and immortal finally died, and on the day he died, he bragged to people the night before, and after sleeping the next morning, he was hard.
Fu Zhenhai, the head shop of the West Supervision District, relayed his last words to Gu Tianyou: The key to light gong and longitudinal technique is in a light word, believe it or not, the weight on the body insists on tied, the pit insists on jumping, and we will see what the result is when it comes to the right day.
Gu Tianyou suspected that this was the last pit that the old guy dug for himself before he died, if he really wanted to do this, he would be a big fool of Tianzi No. 1. But on the other hand, I was thinking about the legend about the height of the wall and stealing my mouth, and I thought that I had been practicing stupidly for two months anyway, and it would be nothing if I was stupid for another month, what if it was true? After a night of fierce ideological struggle, I finally decided to continue practicing!
Three months later, Gu Tianyou took off his weight of one hundred and twenty pounds, stood at the bottom of the pit four or five meters deep, and looked up expectantly, like a frog at the bottom of the well, and above was freedom. As soon as the weight was gone, I felt relaxed all over my body, as if I was about to fly, and I couldn't help but increase my confidence. So the legs are slightly bent, the qi and blood are poured into the soles of the feet, the qi is lifted to the top door, and the arms are spread like wings, and the last action is conceived according to the plot of the martial arts novel, in order to fly out of the pit The moment of appearance is good-looking, and at the same time is conducive to maintaining balance in the air.
Jumping four feet above the ground is indeed far superior to ordinary people, but it is still a million light-years away from jumping out of the pit. In the end, I still used the old method of planing my hands and feet, and climbed up with a disgraced face. It's not for nothing, because according to the elder brother of the armed police who squatted at the mouth of the pit and watched the excitement, he had every chance to climb over the eight-meter-high wall.
After being a big fool of Tianzi No. 1 for a few months, in addition to being as flexible as an ape, there is also a gain that he has grown a lot. Gu Tianyou was a little relieved by this. However, when Miao Shifan helped analyze the reason, he thought that this was the result of the crazy growth of puberty, and he might be able to grow a little longer without carrying the weight on his back.
Gu Tianyou, who is now thirteen years old, is 1.7 meters tall, has a strong body, does not lose to adults, and has a reputation for being ruthless, and the status of the little prison bully is even more consolidated.