Chapter 9: Night Talk in the Tiankeng (2)
Although the turtle is long-lived, there is still a time. The snake rode the fog and eventually turned into ashes. After liberation, the Liu family could not withstand the general trend of the world, and fell into mud under the wheel of history. The ancestral craft was intermittently passed on to Liu Dongxi's grandfather, and only feng shui was left, and Liu Dongxi's father was timid, and he was not interested in the ancestral craft at all, let alone go to the ground, so he had to watch the stars every day. Liu Dongxi's grandfather was just this child, seeing that this ancestral craft was about to be lost, and it was too late to have another child, so he pinned the hope of continuing the family heirloom on his grandson.
As soon as Liu Dongxi was born, his grandfather saw that the child lacked wood and gold in the five elements, so he named him Liu Dongxi according to the principle of making up for what was lacking. Since he was a child, he has boiled medicine and soup for his grandson, and learned a good jiu-jitsu. When Liu Dongxi was seven years old, he took him to the ground, but it was a pity that Liu Dongxi was only seven years old and he trekked through the mountains and wandered among the ancient tombs. When I grew up, although I didn't know much about feng shui theory, after many years of hearing and seeking, I also had a good look.
Mrs. Liu is a traditional craftsman, every time he goes to the ground, he has to do enough of the rules handed down by his ancestors before he does it, and when he takes things, he pays attention to the gold hidden in the ground, and only takes three points, and he is not allowed to take more than one look at the things he does not take away. At the beginning, Liu was young and listened to his grandfather. Slowly grew up, gradually had his own opinions, and slowly looked down on Mrs. Liu's set.
Although the Liu family is a family of tomb robbers, they still use mineral exploration as a guise on the surface. The rule handed down from the ancestors is to do good deeds and worship ghosts and gods, so as to offset the yin virtue damaged by tomb robbing. So the family reputation is very good, and it seems that it really does not damage Yin Virtue. When Liu Dongxi was 15 years old, the uncles and uncles who went to the ground together were sick, and Mrs. Liu had always been in good health, but he suddenly fell ill and died. The patriarch of the family was taken over by Liu Dongxi's father, and the underground affairs were handed over to Liu Dongxi.
At this time, Liu Dongxi is the age of the dragon and tiger, skillful, and lively, although he is extremely filial to his father, and he still has a sense of reverence for his ancestors, but after all, he is a cynical character, and he always secretly sells valuable small objects from the underground. Old Man Liu is a person who doesn't care about things, and Liu is not too much, just turn a blind eye.
The days passed like this, and Old Man Liu's body gradually became worse than usual. Although Liu Dongxi is good at being a hippie smile, he has also become the leader of the Liu family, and he has run rampant all over the world with several brothers from the sidelines, from Lingnan to the Northeast, from Qilu to Xinjiang. Exactly: stargazing and asking the mountain, taking treasure and exploring the secret, often walking in the treasure mountain; Evidence of secret fighting, drinking and singing, and making friends with the world's heroes.
At this time, when the meat was roasted, Liu stopped talking and picked a large piece for me. I was already hungry, and I didn't feel it when I was immersed in Liu Dongxi's narration just now, but when I saw the food, my index finger suddenly moved, and I took it and gnawed it.
Not to mention that Liu's craftsmanship is really good, although the barbecue is not seasoned, but the entrance is smooth and slightly burnt, with a unique flavor, and I ate most of it in a blink of an eye.
"What kind of meat is this?" I saw that Liu was absent-minded, and I ate for a while, and suddenly I was a little uneasy.
"Oh? This one! Liu Dongxi came back to his senses, "This thing is called Dangkang in our family, and it is a kind of little wild boar." ”
"Dangkang? Never heard of your dialect? I pressed on.
"Well, it's handed down from home."
I was amazed! You see that the family has a long history, and it has been passed down from the family, how stinky it is?
I didn't continue to ask, but added a fire, and the surroundings were already completely dark, and the starry sky was slowly turning like a giant wheel, and unknown constellations quietly slipped across the sky.
When Liu Dongxi was 30 years old, something happened.
One night, Mr. Liu sat in the courtyard all night. In the early morning, he summoned the whole clan to come over, and said that he watched the sky at night, calculated that his life was near, and he had about five years to live, and asked his family to prepare early, so as not to panic when he got it. After the clansmen knew about it, they had their own hearts, those who were happy and those who were worried, and they did not express it for the time being.
At this time, Liu Dongxi was in Liaoning, and after receiving the news, he drove back overnight, and as soon as he got home, he knelt in front of Mr. Liu and cried, and the person who heard it changed color. For the next few days, he accompanied the old man, never sleeping, never leaving. Those who knew this sighed, don't look at Liu Shixi's usual words and actions are not a thing, but people absolutely don't say anything about Dad's filial piety.
Liu Dongxi has been sleepless for the past few days, not just to see the old man more. He has his own plans, he wants to save the old man.
Liu is a tomb robber, one doesn't know medical skills, and the other won't change his life, Old Man Liu's life has been set, how can he get it back?
This is going to talk about Liu Ranqing, the ancestor of Liu Dongxi. Liu Ranqing is talented and well-informed. Although he was frivolous when he was young, he was middle-aged and enlightened, and he knew more about the way things in this world came and went, and he was reasonable. The family is well organized and prosperous. When he was more than forty years old, he found a strange Tang Dynasty tomb in Taihang Mountain, it was not uncommon for the Tang Tomb to open the mountain and build it, and it was strange that this mountain seemed to be completely hollowed out, and the second down was connected with several tombs of the former dynasty. A cadre of people each means to go down to the bottom is already a very ancient tomb, no artificial carving, full of natural ghostly workmanship, I don't know which dynasty and which generation, only a jade tree as a coffin, fresh green and lovely, not like ordinary products. There is another one, which is not gold or stone, and I don't know what material it is made of. I don't see the lintel on the top, I don't see the threshold on the bottom, all of them are buried in the mountains, look at the size of the door nails, and I am afraid that there are dozens of zhang high. A group of people expected that there would be something else behind the door, but there was no way to open the door. Fortunately, there was one person, who was the best at using gunpowder, so he blew up a hole in the door with an earthen cannon, and there seemed to be a lot of space behind the door. Others persuaded that the Tao was abnormal here, and there must be danger. Liu Ranqing did not believe in evil, went in alone, turned around for a day and a night, and said that he entered the cave and landed five zhang, and the area inside was extremely wide, and there were tomb masters who made evil ghosts haunt and kill. Liu Ranqing grabbed the magic weapon of the tomb owner with a steel knife in his hand, killed countless evil ghosts, and saved one person back. Everyone was shocked, and hurriedly carried the rescued guy to evacuate, but the guy suddenly went crazy and bit people halfway, and had no choice but to kill him.
After returning home, Liu Ranqing closed the door for several months, studying the magic weapons snatched from the tomb, and was puzzled. Suddenly, one day, I don't know where to move by mistake, the magic weapon is launched, only to see the light full of the house, the strange fragrance is fragrant, there is a fairy mountain in the hall, the divine beast jumps, the god and the man fly, it makes people fascinated.
Liu Ranqing deserves to be a masterpiece in the world, after a short period of distraction, he immediately regained his senses, found a pen and paper and quickly recorded this scene from beginning to end, the magic weapon operated for an hour and then came to an abrupt end, and no matter how much he tried there, there was no reaction.
When I heard this, I felt a little unbelievable, so I asked, "Is there really a god who can't be a god?" ”
"I guess there is! Ancestors can't deceive people. ”
"What kind of magic weapon have you seen?"
"I haven't seen it, it is said that it was taken away by the ancestors."
I scoffed, knowing that such a story is so old, it is inevitable that there must be something strange in it. One is that the ancients did not understand scientific knowledge, and what they did not understand was entrusted to the theory of gods and ghosts. And this Liu Ranqing is not a good thing, maybe he killed his companion below, and he didn't know what benefits, but he used such an ethereal thing to hide people's eyes. Even so, I still feel like there's a bit of hair on my back.
There was a cry of wild beasts in the mountains, and the surroundings became cold, Liu Dongxi added another handful of firewood, and picked the fire with a firewood, and beside the flames that rose in vain, the two of us were like ghosts.