Chapter 50: Raising the Bar
Jing Zhiguo listened to Jing Jifu's account of the shocking incident that happened on Jingjiagou Street not long ago, and the dusty past in his heart came to his heart.
Could it be that this appearance in the horse incident is really the beard back then? Judging from the whole performance of the person who kicked down the startled horse described by Jing Jifu, there is indeed some resemblance, and the man also said that he is from Cigou.
Isn't that the place where the beard tied him and Jing Zhiyi back then! Jing Zhiguo thought, if this person is really the beard he was back then, this thing will be strange!
He asked, "How old is that man?" ”
"It looks like he's about forty years old." The beard that kicked down the flower wheel and drove the horse back then looked like he was in his twenties in the dark night, not to mention, judging from the age, it was really close!
Jing Zhiguo just didn't understand, if that person was really the beard of the year, after so many years, why did he still send it to the door by himself?
Jing Zhiguo knew that there was such a strange phenomenon, that is, the person who committed the crime did not know what kind of psychology it was, and then he wanted to go to the place where he committed the crime to see what it was like.
But more than 20 years have passed since the kidnapping of the ticket, could it be that the kid is also going to come back to see what the place where he once committed the crime is?
It's not going to be idle, it's not going to be here! Jing Zhiguo thought that those bearded people back then would not have known that the ticket they tied was this Jingjiagou person.
If that person is really the beard who tied the ticket, it should have come for a purpose. Jing Zhiguo was a little puzzled, this is not that time, now the Japanese occupy the three eastern provinces, then the Japanese governance of the three eastern provinces is extremely cruel, in such a situation, what does he want to do with the beard?
On that day, what appeared on Jingjiagou Street was really one of the beards who tied Jing Zhiguo and Jing Zhiyi's tickets back then, and the bandit was called the little doctor.
At the end of the 19th century, our country was plagued by many calamities, coveted by the Western powers for a long time, a large influx of foreign missionaries, demagoguery, and lawlessness, and the indignation of all sectors of society, which finally gave rise to the anti-imperialist patriotic movement, which was the famous Boxer Rebellion in history.
The Boxer Rebellion is said to have evolved from the Boxer Rebellion, which began in Shandong and spread throughout the country at its peak.
The little doctor's parents are both from Shandong, and they are young, and they have long been boxers. At the beginning, the two didn't know each other, they practiced boxing together all day long, and they didn't know what kind of chance they could, and the two got acquainted with each other, and the little doctor's mother was pregnant and gave birth to the little doctor.
By the time the Boxer Rebellion happened, the little doctor was already six or seven years old. After the Boxer Rebellion, the little doctor's father worked hard in the Boxer Rebellion, and the little doctor's mother worked hard in the red light of the Boxers.
For women, fighting a war is a chore, and it is the same in the hometown, one left and one right, and this trip and that trip are like that, but if they go to a distant place, they will not work, and the children will not be taken care of.
The red light caretaker said, "You, don't follow it anymore." When the little doctor's mother saw that she couldn't keep up with the speed of the march and battle with a child, she agreed and withdrew from the red light.
The little doctor's father's surname is Bai, and the little doctor's mother named the little doctor Baiguo. This name, I think it is also like the name used by the military advisor Wu in Liangshan Boli, homophonic but with its counter-meaning, ginkgo is the meaning of fruit, fruit, and result, which is probably a good wish, and it seems to say that the little doctor is the result of her father's marriage with the little doctor, and there is also the meaning of hoping that her own children can have a result in doing something in the future.
The little doctor's father died in a battle. It is said that in order to defend against foreign coalition forces, the Boxers and the Qing army fought together, and that was probably around 1900.
Attacking the Tianjin Concession, the Qing army let the Boxers be the vanguard, after the break, the battle started, the Qing army had no morality, and shot at the Boxers behind them, those Boxers were shot by the guns of the foreigners in front, and the guns of the Qing army in the back, and the father of the little doctor fell in a pool of blood in that battle, and never got up again.
It was not long after that that the Boxers were completely defeated. As soon as the Boxers were defeated, the Qing Dynasty began to purge the remnants.
The little doctor's mother couldn't stay at home when she saw it, everyone knew that she was a member of the Boxers, and she was afraid that her family would be affected, so she had to flee with the seven-year-old little doctor.
On this day, the little doctor's mother was begging along the street with the little doctor in Jining, Shandong, and happened to meet a bald monk, who was merciful and gave some of his own fate to the little doctor's mother.
It's also fate, the little doctor's mother felt her heart light up when she saw the bald monk. This Jining is already on the edge of the Shandong boundary, bordering Henan.
The little doctor's mother thought that there was no hope in this life, and if the child had a place, he would be able to close his eyes even if he died.
The mother and son were hungry and sleeping, and it is needless to say how many tribulations they had endured, and finally came to the boundary of Songshan Mountain, and arrived at the Shaolin Temple, a famous temple under Shaolin Mountain.
Shaolin Temple is compassionate, seeing that the mother and son have no human appearance, who will they take in if they don't take them in?
Probably the little doctor's mother saw that her child had been settled, and she was relieved, and on the fourth day of Shaolin Temple, she left the little doctor and passed away.
Before dying, I told the little doctor that you must remember your father's name, your father's name is Bai Yong. The little doctor first followed the monks in the temple to learn to clean the courtyard and carry water and chop wood, and after about a year, he was favored by the head of the warrior monk and followed a group of warrior monks to practice martial arts.
The little doctor is also given by God, with a thin body, hard bones, and a calm mind, which may also be related to his background, quick response, and excellent understanding.
After six or seven years, the Chinese martial arts, Shaolin martial arts, that is roughly the outline, and it is getting better day by day.
In my spare time, I also learn literacy with those who are literate among the senior brothers. When he was fifteen years old, he was ordered to follow a senior brother out to do things for the temple, just above the Dengfeng market, because he avoided the honor guard of the Qin cha from a capital city, and the senior brother was separated, and he did not wait to find the senior brother, but he encountered a gangster who was robbing on the street, and the robbed hawker did not obey, and fought desperately, and the gangster committed murder on the street, and beat the hawker to half death and still did not stop, and the people on the street were angry and did not dare to come forward.
Under the grievances of the little doctor, he forgot that he was a monk, and he forgot that the ancestral training of not killing was probably related to his young age, although he was taken in by the Shaolin Temple, but he was not ordained, and he rushed forward with a brisk step, and knocked the villain to the ground with only one punch.
The little doctor since he practiced martial arts in Shaolin Temple, the first time he used martial arts to beat people, and usually with the senior brothers together to cut and practice different, plus there is injustice in the heart, the start is a little unscathed, see the villain fell to the ground, thought he was cheating, stretched out his hand to try, really out of breath.
The onlookers saw that the villain was beaten down, and they all gathered around and praised him, and then they saw that the villain who fell to the ground was out of breath, and scattered in a hurry, only hating his short legs.
As soon as the little doctor sees that he is in trouble, run for his life! Began a career as an outlaw. The little doctor did not flee south, but north, and soon arrived in Beijing.
Beijing is big, good to live, plus a good kung fu, young, sparing no effort, going to the east and west, working part-time, doing some odd jobs, people see him as a child, but also take special care, inadvertently, two or three years have passed.
It's not a way to keep going like this, so you have to keep some care for yourself, and you have the opportunity to think about it again. It so happened that one day, he was stumbling around on the street, and saw a few people working there in front of a shroud shop, so he hurriedly stepped forward to see if there was any work he could do.
When a decent man saw him come forward, he looked at him, and when he opened his mouth to inquire if there was any work, the man said, "There is work, I don't know if you want to do it!"
What's the job? Good job! What's the job? Raise the bar! In addition to sewing shrouds, pasting paper people and paper horses, the shroud shop also undertakes ceremonies such as funerals and funerals.
The man said that the lifting of the bar is the work of carrying the coffin of the dead at the funeral. This work of lifting the bar is done by the young people in the deceased's family or relatives and friends, and generally do not find outsiders, unless there are not enough young people in the family, relatives and friends.
Because no one can always die, generally speaking, the work of lifting the bar pays more well, so that person is said to be a good job.
But the work of lifting the bar is also a tiring job. At that time, people were more superstitious, thinking that people were the same as living when they died, and the glory and wealth enjoyed in the world were also enjoyed when they arrived in the underworld, so the horseback riding and sedan chair you enjoyed in the world had to be brought to the underworld, which was called Yin Fu, so there was a burial in ancient times.
In ancient times, it was really terrible to engage in the martyrdom of anyone, but at that time, the people who were martyred were all dignitaries.
Ordinary people do not engage in human martyrdom, but they still have to engage in some individual burials, and engage in some kind of martyrdom. To what extent this funeral has gotten, it has to be based on the situation of the deceased's family, what accessories and daily necessities of the deceased during his lifetime, etc., if you can't get the real one, you will come to fake, like pasting some paper people and paper horses.
When you were alive, you were an official, and when you died, you couldn't sit in a sedan chair, so you were like a sedan chair, put it in a coffin, and it was carried by many people, eight people, sixteen people, and of course, many more people, it depends on what you did during your lifetime.
These arrangements are logical, those who were big officials during their lifetime have money, and those who have money can buy good coffins, and the good coffins will sink, and the coffins will sink to find some people to lift, and in order to show the status of the deceased before his death, and also to show the solemnity and grandeur, the solemn components here should be larger, deliberately find some thick wooden poles under the coffin, and tie them with hemp rope. The work of lifting the bar must be done by young people.
There is another reason why the dead man has a heavy yin energy, and the young aphrodisiac is strong and can withstand it, and the yang energy of the older people is not too strong, and it cannot be resisted, so I don't see anyone who asks the old man and a woman to do the work of lifting the bar.
It's one thing to be unbearable, and it's unlucky, especially for women. This whole funeral is a troublesome matter, and there are a lot of people who play funeral music, who beat the spirit flag, who breaks the clay pot, and who is equivalent to the commander-in-chief of the current activities, etc., who gives orders, and when everything is ready, he shouts - the spirit - the person.
As the saying goes, if a person is unlucky, he will stuff his teeth when he drinks cold water, but the little doctor did not expect that he would encounter bad luck again on this day.