Chapter 1 The First Eighteen Years of My Life
Liu Peng, a bad street name, I'm sorry, my name is Liu Peng. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 InfoAccording to my master, the night he named me he saw two moons, and the combination of the two moons was "Peng". Unfortunately, I've never seen anything like it. It wasn't until later that I learned that he had only seen two moons that night when he was drunk and drunk. I almost vomited blood and died after I found out what happened!
I was born in 1972 and am a native of Daoyang, Hunan.
Daoyang, a prefecture-level city in Hunan Province, is not only ranked last in the country in terms of economy, but also the bottom in underdeveloped provinces like Hunan. But there are people in Daoyang, there are many people! There are also many people who run rampant in the underworld. When I was eighteen years old, Daoyang was known as the "magic city" of southern China. It's not that we're a demon here, it's that the security here is too bad. At that time, there was a gang called the "Tiaogen Gang", and this gang was terrible. Whoever offends them will have the best luck and will be picked off their hamstrings. And my life story starts from the era when the Roots Gang is the most calling, and it gradually becomes exciting.
That year, 1990, I was 18 years old. This year, my eighteen-year-old life ushered in a turning point. Let's not talk about any twists, look at the officer, I guess you will feel strange when you see the words "blow, blow, blow, blow". What do you mean by blowing, blowing, beating? I'll have to talk about this slowly, in detail.
For as long as I can remember, I've found myself to be a lonely person. There are no parents, no siblings, just a half-old man who asks me to call him master. Until I was ten years old, I didn't usually see this half-old man, except occasionally. So how do I live my life? I remember when I was a child, I "wandered" in the three villages of Liu's courtyard, Ningjia Village, and Shangkan Village, and whoever had leftover food would give me food, and whoever had children who grew up and couldn't wear clothes would throw old clothes for me to wear. Hey! Although my life is hard, but it is quite hard, the life of eating 100 family meals in the first ten years was survived by me, and occasionally one or two illnesses were cured without taking medicine, which I feel very strange when I think back later.
When I was seven or eight years old, I began to envy the children who had parents, so I asked the elders in the courtyard of the Liu family who were willing to give me food and give me ragged clothes to wear: "Why do they have parents and parents, but I don't?" When the elders heard this, they all shook their heads and refused to tell each other. It wasn't until I was 10 years old that a group of people came to the village and pulled a long bar with a few words written on it that I didn't recognize. On that day, the village was bustling with activity, and an elder surnamed Yin in the courtyard of the Liu family told me, "Liu Peng, your boy's good days are coming!" ”
Day? What do you mean by a good day? Days are days, is there a good or bad thing? Teacher Liu, "Liu Dongshan", who has been beaten and scolded by our stinky children in the village for a few years, looked at the horizontal strip and said with tears in his eyes: "It's been ten years, and Comrade Liu Kunpeng is finally going to be rehabilitated!" ”
"Liu Kunpeng"? I've never heard the name before, but it always feels familiar. So, I asked the elder surnamed Yin who Liu Kunpeng was. The elder surnamed Yin was stumbling, looking like he wanted to speak and stopped. At this time, it has been more than ten days since the group of people pulled the banner, and my life has not changed at all, still as usual, eating the Liu family's food in the morning, drinking the Ning family's water in the afternoon, and living in the Yin family's cowshed at night. Where is there a good or bad thing? Finally, one day, I overheard the conversation between our Liu family patriarch and the militia captain.
The militia captain said, "Patriarch, do you really decide to do this? ”
The patriarch of the Liu family said, "Well, yes. Liu Qing is very smart, if he is put in the county primary school to study at this time, he will definitely be admitted to a good university in the future. Now that the college entrance examination has resumed, those who are admitted to university are very promising! ”
The militia captain said with difficulty: "But, but this opportunity is Liu Peng's, now that Kunpeng has finally been rehabilitated, his family should be treated preferentially!" Patriarch, you have to think clearly, Liu Peng is Kunpeng's ......"
I only heard the head of the Liu family cough heavily outside the window and said, "Shut up!" If you don't say this, I won't say it, who knows? Kunpeng has been dead for so many years, and a lot of his information is blurred, aren't Liu Qing and Kunpeng's bloodlines also very close? Sending it to the county is just the best of both worlds! Besides, look at Liu Peng's kid, he lives in eating and sleeping every day, who knows what kind of melon brain he is! Can I read the ground into the book? The above is just such an indicator for the families of the people who died in unjust, false and wrongful cases, do you want to waste it on this little cub who eats and drinks all day long? ……”
I can't remember the rest of it when I write this, maybe I didn't want to remember it at the time! After all, I couldn't figure out the things of adults as a child at the time. But I was really sad to hear what the patriarch said about me. The words "melon brain" and "little cub who eats and drinks" came back to my mind again and again, lingering.
At that time, I didn't quite understand what these two adults meant, anyway, not long after, the most coaxing child in our village, Liu Qing, we would be difficult to see, of course, we could see it once in a while during the New Year. And after Liu Qing came back from the Chinese New Year, he called the patriarch "patriarch grandpa", instead of calling grandpa as usual. The name of his father (that is, the youngest son of the head of the Liu family) has also been changed, and the name is "Uncle Shanzi". At that time, I felt a real headache, is this still the former brother of Liu Qing? He doesn't recognize his own father and grandfather! And what makes me feel even more strange is that when the people in the village see Liu Qing, they all change their names to "Liu Jingyong", and it is no longer Liu Qing! That year, I was simply confused!
The troubles of childhood are actually easily forgotten, especially those like Liu Qing (maybe Liu Jingyong!). This kind of person who is fading away from my life. I struggled for a while, and then I stopped struggling. Because not long after he went out, my days of eating 100 family meals were coming to an end, and I was extremely happy, so many of my worries were naturally forgotten. But since then, the uncle surnamed Yin in the village has a long sigh every time he sees me, with a strange color in his eyes, and every time he celebrates the New Year, he also pulls me to their house to eat delicious food, and treats me well. And Uncle Liu Dongshan, who had been beaten and scolded by us stinky children before, gradually became so sick that he couldn't move, and it was difficult to speak, but he never died.
How did I, a ten-year-old child, get rid of the life of eating a hundred family meals? All this, I have to mention my master. Before I was ten years old, the master was a mysterious and hateful figure in my eyes, and I rarely saw him every year, and even when I saw him, I had a straight face, and then I picked up the bamboo strip and took off my pants, and spanked me hard, and every time I was beaten by him, I cried.
After Liu Qing faded out of our lives, one afternoon, the patriarch of the Liu family called me to me and said, "Liu Peng, now that you have grown up, you can't always eat and drink in the future, you have to rely on your own ability to make a living." "Ability? What am I capable of? I thought about it for a long time before I could think about it, when the patriarch snapped his fingers, and a person walked in outside the door, and I was startled the moment I saw that person. I'll go, who is this man not my mysterious and eccentric master? Seeing him, I timidly called the master, and at this time he actually responded to me very happily, how could he have the same straight face as before. At this time, the patriarch of the Liu family spoke: "Seeing that the friendship between the two of you is very deep, I am relieved. Liu Peng, from now on, you will follow your master, Liu Banxian, to learn art, and you will be able to make a living when you grow up in the future, if you work harder, it will not be a problem to please a beautiful mother-in-law! ”
At that time, I didn't have the slightest concept of begging my mother-in-law, so the seemingly encouraging words of the head of the Liu family made me not have the slightest psychological fluctuation. And what made me feel speechless was that the patriarch actually called my master "Liu Banxian". I don't know the details of my master, but I know very well that my master is a half-blind man, and his left eye seems to have been sewn up with a needle and thread, and he has never been opened, so everyone affectionately calls him "Liu Half-Blind" behind his back. In my mind, what is the title of "half-immortal", isn't it too wasteful to put it on my master?
Speechless is speechless, but I don't have the right to choose, so I can only obediently follow this Liu Banxian, a blind man, to learn art. Not to mention that in a place like Daoyang in our country, the patriarch with a surname is half the sky for ordinary clansmen, just look at me, a lonely and helpless child, do I have the ability to make decisions for myself? So without any suspense, I began to learn art from this half-blind man.
It was also with Liu Semi-Blind that I learned why he was so mysterious and why he occasionally beat people with a wild temper. In the seventies and eighties, the mortality rate in Daoyang was high, and it was normal for people to die every three or five times in ten miles and eight townships, and what Liu was half-blind did was this business: to be a Taoist priest in charge of the dead man's family. What is a competent Taoist priest? In Yangkou County, Daoyang, whenever someone dies in the house, seven or eight Taoist priests must be invited to enter the door to blow and beat, and one of them is responsible for the overall responsibility, including presiding over the crying spirit, presiding over the burning of the house, presiding over the burial or something. So Liu was almost too busy to touch the ground in those years, and it was normal that I didn't see him before. However, it stands to reason that Liu Ban Blind, as a Taoist priest in charge, should be paid very well, and after working for all these years, he must have earned a lot of money. But why did he come back every time he was dressed in tatters, and he had to hide in the simple thatched house that the Liu family patriarch had prepared for him? Is he stingy? Certainly not so. It turns out that in the 80s, a popular poker gambling method called "betting" in this small place of Daoyang, this "betting" is not the same as the one on TV, but the rules are simple, and it is difficult to make thousands, so these rough men in the countryside like to play, and Liu is no exception. This Liu is half blind and I don't know if the skills are too poor, or the luck is too back, almost every gamble is bound to lose, and most of the money earned by working hard for six or seven days as a supervisor Taoist priest is spent on this. So it's no wonder that he gets angry every time he comes back, and he wants to whip me with bamboo slices, so he also wants to find someone to vent.
Since the patriarch of the Liu family wants me to learn art, it must also let me go out with Liu to do this business. I'm definitely not afraid of doing business in a dead man's house, after all, when I was a child, I slept in a dilapidated land temple when I had nowhere to sleep, and I don't know how many horror scenes I experienced at night, so I was bold enough. But no matter how bold I am, I am also afraid of one thing, that is, I am afraid that Liu Ban is blind and beats me. At first, I trembled and followed Liu Semi-Blind to do business, for fear that he would beat me when he was angry, but later I found out, hey, this Liu Semi-Blind Gentleman's temper has improved a lot, and occasionally even if he loses a big bet, he will not beat me...... But after all, it's also occasional, and most of the time he will beat me if he loses the bet. So I get beaten three or four times a year. When I grew older, when I was fifteen years old, and I had practiced with all my strength, it was not easy for Liu to be half blind and want to beat me, and it was from this time that my life really began to be enriched. At the same time, I also learned a lot. For example, I know some commonly used words, playing suona, playing drums, drawing rune paper or something. I don't know if the rune paper I draw can suppress any demons and monsters, but I'm very happy to draw, after all, I seem to have a talent for drawing!
Well, if there are no accidents in life, my life should be so plain and bland, to be a non-mainstream socialist new rural Taoist priest in the remote countryside of Daoyang City, to spend my life, and then to marry a big-footed ugly wife, give birth to one or two children, and be happy in peace and stability! But all this, when I was eighteen years old, began to take a turn.