When Xingshu left Liu's house, he still thought about the last words Liu Wencheng had said. He said that the reason why this tunzi was named Guanyintun is because many, many years ago, it should be during the reign of the Qing Dynasty, this tunzi had a sick and many people died. Later, a mysterious woman in white appeared and told everyone that they were sick because they had drunk unclean water, and then asked the villagers to dig a huge well from the east side of the village.

The water in this well cured everyone's sickness, and everyone was grateful to the woman in white, but the woman told them solemnly that the water in the well should not be more than a thousand a day, and that they should not be greedy, otherwise they would incur the punishment of the gods.

The villagers agreed, but later some people found out that the well water seemed to be a cure, so some people secretly took the water and sold it, and after one person made money, more and more people joined the ranks of selling water, and eventually attracted bandits, who killed the villagers and occupied the wells. The woman sacrificed herself to save the villagers, willing to commit herself to the bandits, but the villagers were indifferent and only cared about their own lives, and these actions eventually made the gods angry and wanted to punish the villagers with heavenly fires and droughts.

At the last moment, the woman sacrificed her life in exchange for the forgiveness of the gods, and turned her body into a rock as bright as a mirror, and stood beside the well.

From then on, every villager who went to the well to fetch water, standing at the mouth of the well, would not only see the rock that the woman in white had turned into, but also clearly see themselves reflected in the mirror.

After Liu Wencheng finished telling the story, he said: "The name of Tunzi was not called this back then, but later after many people who broke into the eastern part of the country came, they heard this story, and they all said that it was Guanyin who saved Tunzi, so the name of Tunzi was changed to Guanyintun." Sometimes, I think, this is probably the will of God, and Dr. Guan must be a real immortal, but she sacrificed herself, but she did not get our repentance and atonement. When Mr. Yan and Mr. Tian came to inquire about the Tianyan Sect, I knew that it was time to come, this day would come sooner or later, I didn't have long to live, and I shouldn't hide my past sins anymore. I know that this is not atonement at all, we did not accept the punishment we deserved, but please tell Zhigang that if he wants revenge, he will come to me, don't target the descendants of other people back then, they are innocent, they don't know anything, they only know that everyone is very good to Zhigang and hates him very much, this hatred should not continue anymore. ”

Liu Wencheng's words kept flashing back in his mind, and he remembered every word so clearly.

Standing at the well at the east end of the village, he really saw the rocks, but instead of being as bright as a mirror as the legend says, the rocks were very blurry, and the well had been dry for decades, and not a drop of water had ever come out. The rest of the people in the tunzi tried to dig wells, but they didn't dig up water, and if the township government hadn't tried to divert water and open a canal, I'm afraid this tunzi would have ceased to exist a long time ago.

Xingshu squatted in front of the rock, looking at the messy words carved by the young people on it, and when he looked closely, he found three big characters at the bottom of the rock - Heaven and Earth Mirror.

When looking at those three words, the torture technique couldn't help but think of the bronze mirror in the Heaven and Earth Mansion, and said to himself: "Heaven and Earth Mirror, Ming Heaven and Earth." ”

However, he never understood what "Ming Tiandi" meant, nor did he know who carved those three characters, nor could he find out when this well and that rock appeared, because no one in the tunzi knew about it for a long time, just as no one in the entire tunzi now except for Liu Wencheng, who was dying, did not know the truth about the cult tragedy back then.

On the way back to Harbin that day, none of the three people in the car spoke, and Yan Gang and Tian Lianfeng did not ask what happened in the Heaven and Earth Mansion, but before arriving in Harbin, Xingshu and Yan Gang used all their connections to spread a wide net to find Liu Zhigang, who was missing.

But no one could have imagined that they would learn about Liu Zhigang the day after they returned to Harbin, when he had jumped from a six-story building.

But Liu Zhigang did not die, when he jumped down, there happened to be a family downstairs moving, he fell into the sofa above the truck, popped up and smashed on the snowdrift next to him, and then was sent to the hospital, although he was rescued, but still fell into a severe coma.

When he heard the news, Xingshu was sitting in his pawnshop recording everything about what he experienced in the Heaven and Earth Mansion, and when he heard the news, he immediately rushed to the fourth hospital of the medical university where Liu Zhigang lived with Yan Gang and Tian Lianfeng, and at the same time Yan Gang also found a friend from the police station in the jurisdiction of Liu Zhigang's suicide community, and after their investigation, Yan Gang committed suicide, without any traces of his homicide, and he lived on the fifth floor of the community before jumping off the building, which was a rented house.

"Did you leave a suicide note or something?" Torture asked.

The policeman shook his head: "No, but judging from the house he rented, he should have thought about committing suicide, because the house was deliberately cleaned and cleaned up, and everything was neatly stacked, and before he died, he also changed into clean clothes, and put the rent for the next quarter in an envelope, just on the coffee table, and there was a shoe box next to it, and there were 50,000 yuan in the box, and there were two notes in it, one of which was written with the landlord's name, and the words 'sorry for your trouble' were written below, and the other note said, 'I'm sorry.'" ,I'm sorry for the trouble',We preliminarily verified the font,It was indeed written by Liu Zhigang,And in the school where he taught,There are also teachers who said that he took a month off,When he asked for leave, he also said to the school leader that he might not come back,But everyone didn't take it seriously,Because Liu Zhigang likes to joke very much on weekdays,But we didn't find out the reason for his suicide。 ”

After the police asked, they paused, and it seemed that there were some things they wanted to say, and it seemed that it was inconvenient to say them.

Seeing this, Yan Gang immediately said: "Lao Zeng, we have been brothers for many years, and we are all our own people here. ”

The police nodded and said: "The reason why we haven't closed the case and are still investigating is because when we investigated his house, that is, the home in the staff building arranged by the school, we found that one of his cabinets had traces of moving, and after we moved the cabinet, we found that the three words 'the beginning of man' were written on the wall, and they were densely written, so we think this matter is not so simple, if you have any clues, you must provide them to the police." ”

Xingshu looked at the ground in a daze, and Yan Gang immediately said: "Old Zeng, if we have clues, I will tell you as soon as possible, thank you for your help." ”

The policeman surnamed Zeng nodded, glanced at the torture technique, Yan Gang immediately touched the torture technique, the torture technique came back to his senses, and immediately said, "Thank you, hard work." ”

The police nodded goodbye to the three of them and left.

When the police walked away, Tian Lianfeng immediately said: "What do you mean at the beginning of a person?" ”

"You haven't read the Three Character Classic?" Yan Gang looked at the care ward, "At the beginning of a person, his nature is good. ”

Tian Lianfeng patted his head, and then he reacted.

At this time, the torture technique said lightly: "The Three Character Sutra is written like that. However, I don't think Liu Zhigang understands it that way, don't forget, he studied at a university in the Soviet Union, where he believes in Orthodox Christianity, and in Orthodox Christianity, one of the three major branches of Christianity, it is believed that people are born with sin, only God is not guilty, but people can atone for their sins through repentance, so I think what he wants to write is - at the beginning of man, nature is evil. ”

Tian Lianfeng was about to say something, but Yan Gang dragged Tian Lianfeng away and let the torture technique be quiet alone.

Half a month later, Liu Zhigang woke up, but after waking up, Liu Zhigang may be the cause of the brain impact, and he has become an abnormal person, in other words, he has a mental problem, except for eating, drinking, and Lazar, the rest of the time is there chanting the words "the beginning of man".

After being identified by relevant professional psychiatrists, Liu Zhigang is a cerebral organic mental disorder, that is, caused by factors such as brain trauma or cerebral hemorrhage, but it is not known whether he had related diseases before.

Because Liu Zhigang had no relatives, and his adoptive father happened to die on the first day he came to his senses, Xingshu and Yan Gang found the leaders of his school and finally got him to the Zhenyang City Mental Hospital, which is where Xingshu grew up.

Standing at the window of Xing Guodong's office, Xing Shu looked at Liu Zhigang, who was being supported by the nurse and walking around the clearing that had just been cleared of snow, and told Xing Guodong everything.

After hearing this, Xing Guodong was so surprised that he couldn't close his mouth for a long time, and he didn't know what to say at all.

Xingshu turned his head and said: "Dad, Liu Zhigang still has a lot of savings, according to the standards of the hospital, it is almost enough for him to die, right?" ”

Xing Guodong nodded and sighed: "There are many of them, and his school has also stated that if it is not enough, the school will give out some of it, but there is no need for it, his savings are enough, this person seems to have never spent money, and there is so much money." ”

Xingshu shook his head: "He has spent it, don't forget, his rank, salary and benefits are a lot, and part of the money is spent in the tunzi." ”

"Huh?" Xing Guodong was surprised.

Xingshu said: "Yan Gang inquired later, he helped many children in Tunzi to study in college or something, and two of them studied at the university where he taught. So, I think this matter is over, and I don't want to say it again, or tell the police, there is no point, the people who are directly connected to the matter are dead or crazy, if those children know that the teacher they respect is such a person...... Alright, it's time for me to go to Master. ”

When the torture technique left, Xing Guodong's mind was full of pictures of the scene of the cult tragedy back then, although he had imagined it according to the torture technique, but even in a heated room with an indoor temperature of 28 degrees Celsius, Xing Guodong felt a chill in his back.

When the torture technique went to Zheng Cangqiong's room, he didn't find anyone, and when he came out and passed through the corridor, he unexpectedly found Zheng Cangqiong standing at the window of the corridor, looking down.

Before the torture technique stepped forward, before he could speak, Zheng Cangqiong spoke first: "Tian Lianfeng told me everything, you don't have to repeat it again." ”

The torture technique said "um", in fact, he didn't want to repeat it, every time he recalled it, his heart would be uncomfortable once.

"Torture, you say, why did he commit suicide?" Zheng Cangqiong asked, "Is it because he found out that he failed and Tunzi was not flooded, or is it because he thought Tunzi was flooded and thought that he was too guilty?" ”

Xingshu looked down for a long time before replying: "Master, I really don't know, but now that I think about it, in fact, when he was under the Heaven and Earth Mansion, his mental condition was already unstable, I think, maybe he has suffered from a serious mental illness very early, very depressed, no one to tell, can't solve it, carrying it alone, if it were me, I might not be able to become that kind of person." ”

"What kind of person?" Zheng Cangqiong turned his head and asked.

Torture looked down: "Crazy." ”

Zheng Cangqiong deliberately glanced around: "Don't forget, you grew up in the madman's house, you were born with a madman, and maybe you were born a madman, but you don't know it, but fortunately, people who are crazy themselves will not worry about becoming crazy again." ”

Xingshu looked at Zheng Cangqiong, Zheng Cangqiong slowly swallowed and walked back to the house, but said a strange thing: "I'm sorry, there is something I hid from you, I already knew about Ma Fei." ”

"What?" Xingshu stopped for a moment, watching Zheng Cangqiong slowly walk back to his room, he waited for a long time before chasing in, and asked again, "Master, what did you just say?" ”

Zheng Cangqiong was already making tea, and he freed up a hand to point to the chair next to him.

Xingshu stepped forward and sat down, watching Zheng Cangqiong brewing tea there very slowly, in the eyes of Xingshu, all the movements of Zheng Cangqiong now have been slowed down by time, he can almost hear his own heartbeat, could it be said that this matter really has something to do with the master?

After a long time, Zheng Cangqiong poured the tea, pointed to the sea of tea and said, "Drink tea." ”

The torture technique was not picked up, and he was about to ask again, Zheng Cangqiong raised his eyes to look at him, and there was a deterrent in his eyes, so that the torture technique had to pick up the teacup and drink it slowly and patiently.

Zheng Cangqiong poured it again, drank it again, and after repeating it twice, Zheng Cangqiong put down the cup and said: "This transaction is the first real business you did after you left the school, we are in this business, and the business is not for money, because it is easy for the merchant to make money, and it will flow out after putting down 1.8 million yuan, you should be very clear about this, you have been mixed for many years, you should be clear, even if you miss an eye and receive an object at a high price and go bankrupt, turn around overnight, You can also make a comeback with the name of your torture technique, so our industry relies on reputation, how does reputation come about? Relying on strength, how does strength come from? By wisdom! How does wisdom come from? By experience! And where does the experience come from? By failure. ”

Xingshu nodded: "Master, I know, I failed this time. ”

"Does it matter if you win or lose?" Zheng Cangqiong asked, "The chaser is not seeking to win or lose, the so-called failure is completely commonplace for the chaser, when I was young, I used to chase from the northernmost to the westernmost part of China for a legendary object, and in the end it was empty, but it doesn't matter, I learned a lot of things along the way, the rules of other places, the principles of life, not to mention the folk customs, so, that time I did not fail, on the contrary, I earned." Are you a failure this time? Even if it is, it has nothing to do with you, because Maffei came to me before asking you for help, and I agreed to her request. ”

Xingshu immediately stood up, angry, but couldn't say a word for a long time.

Zheng Cangqiong didn't say anything, just pointed to the chair under his ass again.

Torture Shu sat down helplessly, Zheng Cangqiong said again: "In the three eastern provinces, in addition to me, there are two great courts, each sitting in one province, according to the rules of those Taoist people, Ma Fei came to Heilongjiang, the first thing was to worship the dock, although even if she didn't look for me, it didn't matter, but she knew what it meant to respect the teacher." And she told me about the game she was going to set up, and asked me if I agreed. I knew then that this woman was smart, and she was definitely the kind of person you had never met in all these years. In this game, she will not put anyone's life at real risk. ”

Xingshu bowed his head and said: "But you still helped her, you helped her by concealing the truth, and when you let that branch follow me, it was already calculated, that branch's temper and character, when it reaches a certain stage, I will definitely let her get out, at this time, Ma Fei can pretend to be that branch and continue the following things." ”

"That's right!" Zheng Cangqiong immediately replied, "But at that time, I made a bet, I told Ma Fei that as long as she showed up, you would immediately point out her identity and know that she was not that branch, and Ma Fei didn't believe it at that time." ”

A thought popped into his mind, but he didn't say it right away, because he knew that Zheng Cangqiong still had something to say.

After Zheng Cangqiong drank a cup of tea, he said: "Since the day you walked alone, I have hardly cared about you, let alone left this madhouse, I hope you can find your own way, remember our agreement?" ”

Xingshu nodded: "Unless there are special circumstances or emergencies, or under the premise of being forced to helpless, you can't tell others that I am your apprentice." ”

Zheng Cangqiong said: "That's right, you have complied with this point better over the years, because once you go out to do things under my banner, it will be much smoother, and it will not be good for you, but this business is like this, even if you don't say it, people will know that who really knows how to do it doesn't know that you are my apprentice?" So, everyone sells you a little face, and gradually, your path will go too smoothly, in order to add obstacles to you and make you progress rapidly, I agreed to Maffei's approach. ”

Xingshu nodded: "Thank you, Master." ”

Zheng Cangqiong smiled: "You say thank you on your lips, but you want to ask in your heart, Master, have you always wanted to find Qimen, and want to take this opportunity to dig out the secrets of Qimen?" ”

The torture technique was silent, and he didn't raise his eyes to look at Zheng Cangqiong.

Zheng Cangqiong got up, looked out the window and said: "If I say I don't want to find Qimen, I don't believe it myself, as a cargo chaser, there is no one who doesn't want to find Qimen, but I'm already old, so old that I can't go anymore, maybe there is only one chance left to chase strange goods in this life, but this opportunity should not be to find Qimen, after all, I am not sure, no one, if I can't find it, it is a pity, and I can't close my eyes after death." ”

Xingshu knew that Zheng Cangqiong had already expressed his attitude, and he couldn't ask any more questions, so he said, "Master, I want to know who Ma Fei is?" All I know is that she's a thief, and since she can come to you, you must know something, right? ”

Zheng Cangqiong shook his head: "I don't know much about Ma Fei, that was the first time I saw her, I found someone to investigate, and this person's background is all fake." ”

"Fake?" The torture technique was very surprised.