Chapter 69 The Extremes of Things Must Be Opposed

Zhang Sanye once stole the ancient mound of the Western Zhou Dynasty, from which he found out the Zhou Tian hexagram that had been lost for thousands of years, so he used the sixteen-character ancient hexagram as a guide, and wrote the art of feng shui yin and yang into it, and wrote a book of "Sixteen Characters Yin and Yang Feng Shui Secret Technique", in which "yin and yang, feng shui" each accounted for half, the yin and yang chapter is the number of calculations, the principle of creation, and the feng shui chapter is the way of Qingwu to find the dragon and feng shui, only this half of the volume, it covers the "dragon hunting" and "dividing the gold and fixing the hole" of the gold school captain, and the Chinese dynasties and generations of funeral customs in Dacheng, can be described as " Exhaustively study the principles of heaven and earth, and become a family of its own".

In front of the four disciples, Zhang Sanye ripped off half of the "Sixteen Characters Yin and Yang Feng Shui Secret Technique", leaving only half a volume of Feng Shui Secret Technique, and incinerated half of the Yin and Yang Secret Technique into ashes in the brazier. From now on, there will be no more ancient hexagrams of Zhou Tian in the world?

Zhang Sanye said with a smile: "Farming in the dry land, running boats on the waterway, and no fruit growing on people's heads, this is all the way of heaven and heaven, and the rise and fall of the world has always been a certain number, but who can peek into the mystery?" It can only be said that there may be immortals, anyway, it is not what we people in the world should know, although this heavenly opportunity is deep and subtle, but staying in the world will inevitably cause a lot of trouble, only burning the sacrifice genius is right. Immediately passed the remaining half of the remnant book to Sun Guofu, the yin and yang eye, and instructed: "Touching the feng shui secret technique of the golden school captain, there is no way, and the three major dragon veins in the north and south have been explored. ”

Yin and Yang Eyes Sun Guofu hurriedly thanked Shien, tearfully accepted the remaining book, and left the Shimen to travel away. In the end, Zhang Sanye said to the remaining "dust, gold abacus, iron grinding head" three people, it seems that touching the gold ancient talisman will fall on the three of you, today is not an auspicious day, and when you wait for the child, you have worshiped the ancestor master, and then wear the talisman to grant gold.

That night, Zhang Sanye took his three apprentices to the back hall, asked them to kneel in front of the statue of the ancestor Cao Gong, kowtowed, put on incense, and passed a gold talisman to each of them.

Later, it was necessary to pass on the rules, instruments, stories, etc., Zhang Sanye first asked the three of Jin Abacus, can you know why there is a reverse fight in the world since ancient times?

The three brothers of the golden abacus master are also long-term involved in the rivers and lakes, have a wide range of knowledge, and know a lot about "all walks of life and all walks of life".

There are three religions and nine streams under the world, the three religions are "interpretation, Taoism, and Confucianism", and the nine streams refer to nine classes, which are divided into the upper nine streams, the middle nine streams, and the lower nine streams, and there are many kinds of livelihoods in the three religions and nine streams, and there are more than 360 lines in total.

The so-called "upper nine streams" are first-class Buddhist masters, second-rate immortals, third-rate emperors and fourth-rate officials, fifth-rate outsiders, sixth-rate merchants, seventh-rate pawnshops and eighth-rate craftsmen, and ninth-rate farmers who grow crops, all of which are serious livelihoods; The craftsmen in the middle and ninth streams are relatively concentrated, and when they are counted in the lower nine streams, they are actors and prostitutes.

In the hundreds of industries derived from these three religions and nine streams, there was no such thing as "inverted bucket", inverted bucket belongs to the outer eight lines, and there are "golden points, beggars, ringing horses, thieves stealing, inverted buckets, walking mountains, leading fires, and collecting water", collectively known as "five elements and three families", in fact, in detail, there are several lines here that can be regarded as "thieves", but in the outer eight lines, they are counted separately, such as ringing horses are bright thieves, so they cannot be compared with thieves such as thieves.

As for the "inverted bucket", it accounts for the word "soil" in the five elements, and it stands to reason that it is also a "theft", which is no different from "ringing horses and snitches", and it is a move of robbing tombs and touching gold. Speaking from a high place, the inverted bucket is regarded as robbing the rich and helping the poor; To put it low, it is also to make a fortune from the dead, and to do things that damage yin morality, one high and one low, and the judgment is like mud.

Touching the gold captain is naturally not comparable to scattered thieves, what he does, has always been to steal the treasures of the ancient tombs to help the poor, worthy of the "thief also has a way" four words, in the world has always had a good reputation, only because since ancient times there are many poor, few rich, the rich are too rich, the poor are too poor, so there are a few ways in the outer eight lines of "stealing", specializing in "doing the way for heaven".

Zhang Sanye shook his head after hearing this, you say that the "inverted bucket" line should be "the way for heaven", but you misinterpret the meaning of "the way of heaven", and the gold inverted bucket is not like this, people in the world are rich and poor, rich or poor, this is mostly fate, where can you use the horse thieves to do the way for heaven? This is just an excuse for them to kill the rich and rob the rich.

The inverted bucket is a grave robbery and grave digging business, why do some people do this for a living? Just because the previous dynasties advocated thick burials, any mountain tomb and ancient tomb, from the date of construction, will consume endless blood and sweat of the people, not only the countless treasures accompanying the burial, but also to kill and bury alive, even the craftsmen who built the tomb can not escape the disaster of extinction.

It is necessary to know that the way of heaven is tolerant, and God has the virtue of a good life, and the owner of the tomb is the founder of the Ming Dynasty or a capable minister who governs the world during his lifetime, as long as he uses too much luxury in the underworld after death, he will inevitably lose great virtue; Moreover, most of the tomb sites are selected in the treasure land of feng shui, and the dragon veins created by heaven and earth are already owned, and they will also be jealous of ghosts and gods, and the way of heaven has always been bless this generation.

No matter how deep the mountains and mounds are buried, they will also suffer from the disaster of the inverted bucket as soon as possible, and this is exactly where the principles of heaven are true, so touching the gold and fighting is not just a simple matter of stealing ancient tombs and robbing the rich and helping the poor, but also the reason for the rise and fall of the avenue.

It's like our Qing Dynasty, when Kangxi Qianlong ruled the world, the country was rich and the people were rich, what a prosperous era, but now it is really internal and external troubles, full of holes, and it looks like it is about to end.

Moreover, from the world's various industries that eat by handicraft, it cannot be simply divided into three hundred and sixty lines, "three hundred and six" is a general number, including three teachings and nine streams and eight outer lines, and even according to the most traditional saying in the mountain scripture "Thirty-six famous mountains, seventy-two mountains", these divisions of all walks of life, there are many differences in various places, so the sentence "seventy-two lines, touching gold is king" may not be accurate, can not be proud of this.

In Zhang Sanye's hometown, since ancient times, there has been a saying that "there are nine men and eighteen craftsmen in the world, don't do inverted fighting in your life". That is to say that there are many kinds of livelihoods in the world, all of which are better than those who rob tombs upside down, and the eighteen craftsmen follow their order, and the song recipe is: "Gold, silver, copper, iron, tin, rock and wood carved tile paint, umbrella dyeing and peeling, shaving the head and playing the flower crystal." "There are rules among craftsmen, craftsmen eat at the same table, according to the eighteen craftsmen in order of seating, no trespassing. When the work is carried out in the employer's house, when the project enters a certain stage or serves a specific person, all ceremonies are held and hymns are sung, and the employer is to give the profit. For example, the tailor "opens the scissors", the rockmason "steps on the bridge", and the shaver gives the bridegroom a haircut or shaves the fetal hair for the baby, all have rituals and sing praises. Carpenters and masons have many rituals in the process of building houses, and there are many opportunities and types of praise songs, such as the song of starting the house, the song of the beam, the song of opening the beam, and the song of the completion of the new house.

In old China, both Lao and Jiang referred to craftsmen with specialized skills, and craftsmen held their own skills and made a living independently. There are few people who open shops and set up shops, and most of them are mobile operators or helpers. They are "busy farming, and farming is idle to earn money." Go to the countryside to visit households, commonly known as "doing work", the owner in addition to food and drink, pay wages, so there is a "heavenly dry hunger does not die craftsman" said. Specific living conditions have formed the custom of "art is not passed on lightly". The conditions for art transmission are harsh, and it is very difficult to learn art. If there is a unique skill, it can only be passed on from family to family, not to people with foreign surnames. Some family traditions stipulate that men are not passed on to women, which is called "door division". To learn the arts, you must first seek a teacher, that is, ask relatives and friends to agree with them, and only after obtaining consent can you recognize the teacher. When recognizing the teacher, the parents of the artists will set up a banquet, invite the master to the home, be accompanied by the middleman, negotiate the conditions of learning art, and then go to the master's house to apprentice: pay a big gift to the tablet of the industry master, then worship the master, and finally worship the master's mother. A teacher for a day, a father for life, a master and apprentice are like father and son, and the children of the master are called brothers and sisters. After three years of teaching, the master generally only cares about food and clothing, and does not pay wages. Ginseng is more popular in some handicraft trades. The so-called teacher participation means that after the apprenticeship expires, he will work outside with the master for one year, and the part of the salary will be left, and the rest will be left to the master to express the grace of the teachings. There are also people who have a little bit of craftsmanship and then go to learn from the teacher, who is called a teacher. In the handicraft industry, there are annual rituals. Luban Temple and Zhang Fei Temple in various places are all places of gathering and worship. Each industry has its own masters, the bricklayer respects Luban, the sewing worker respects Xuanyuan, the gold, silver, copper, iron and tin respect Taishang Laojun, and the slaughtering industry takes Zhang Fei as the ancestor.

These ancient traditional handicrafts still exist in the countryside, and they are not simpler than touching the gold craftsmanship, so there are people outside the people, there is a sky outside the sky, a mountain is always higher than a mountain, and we must not take it lightly, otherwise if we are not careful, we will have to smash the license card of our "touch the gold captain".

The three brothers of the Golden Abacus Master all know that the master Zhang Sanye is a pedantic celestial, has a full mind, has no skills, is not proficient, knows everything, and is good at divination and deduction, and said to them these words, it seems to have a deep meaning, and they have not been able to comprehend all of them for a while, so they have to kneel on the ground and listen to the teachings.

Zhang Sanye talked about the origin of the gold school captain, and finally talked about various rules and regulations, he said that the gold school captain has never been divided between master and apprentice, I passed on to you the dragon trick and the art of dividing gold and setting the hole, this is the master and apprentice, but wearing the gold talisman to go to the ancient tomb to fight, then it can not be regarded as a master and apprentice and a brother, but can only be regarded as a "companion" who binds his life together, that is, an accomplice. The three of you brothers will go out to fight in the future, first, you must not break the rules of conduct, second, you must not be greedy for fame and fortune, and you must not insult the name of touching gold, and third, you must take care of each other, and discuss any major and minor affairs.

The reason why he is so instructed is because Zhang Sanye knows his disciples very well, they have their own strengths and weaknesses, they have been washing the marrow since childhood, they are good at light body skills, they can fly the eaves and walk the wall, and the means of touching gold are even stronger, but he is compassionate, his hands are not hard, he is a little inflexible, and he can't act immediately, which is a big taboo in the tomb robbery industry.

The iron grinding head is also a skill, bold, not afraid of ghosts and gods, he is an expert in killing people and goods, but he is too gangster, his temper is on fire, and he is more sloppy, which is a disaster.

And the golden abacus is proficient in the five elements of Yili, is a master of tomb robbery, and knows all kinds of strange things in the world, although he is clever and clever, meticulous and cautious, but it is a pity that this person is not good, like the dust and iron grinding head on the body of the kung fu, are not halfway monks can practice, want to learn to "turn the head high", must be from the age of three in the hot medicine pot bath, and hard skills must be practiced from the age of six at the latest, the gold abacus was born in the businessman's family, since childhood, pampered, no hard work.

Therefore, Zhang Sanye asked the three of them to be companions, learn from each other's strengths, and be sure not to act alone, and then pass down the "whirlwind shovel, black donkey hooves, gold steel umbrella" and other utensils, so that the three apprentices remember the six words "together is life, and division is death".

After explaining these things, Jin Abacus and the other three can be regarded as veritable "touching the gold captain", and in the future, the three of them will go out to fight together, and the next morning Jin Abacus got up early in the morning, did not bring the other two brothers, and came alone to ask the master for peace.

It turned out that Jin Abacus had always been very curious, why the master destroyed half of the "Sixteen Characters Yin and Yang Secret Technique", and only passed the remnants of the book to Sun Guofu, the yin and yang eyes, and wanted to ask clearly before going out of the mountain, because this matter was definitely not as simple as Zhang Sanye said at the time.

Zhang Sanye was drinking tea, and when he heard Jin Abacus ask about this section, he didn't answer immediately, but asked how Jin Abacus looked at it?

Jin Abacus said half-jokingly, Master, your temper, the disciple knows too well, and he has always liked handsome celebrities and reckless heroes, and his least favorite is those fake Taoist gentlemen who are sour and vinegar, presumably because the fake Taoism of Yin and Yang Eyes is not to be treated by the master, so he only gave him half a broken book, and let him go home and guard the broken book all day long, and he couldn't think of the mystery in the other half of the book if he wanted to break his head.

Zhang Sanye is open-minded by nature, and his relationship with Jin Abacus is extraordinary, so he has nothing to hide from him, so he bluntly said: "In fact, as a teacher, I am also a Taoist heart, but I never want to preach Taoism." But to be honest, your junior brother Sun Guofu with yin and yang eyes is indeed not suitable to be a captain of touching gold, "Sixteen Characters Yin and Yang Secret Technique" is my life's work, half of it was destroyed that day, and only half of the broken book was left for him, so I don't want our craftsmanship to touch gold to be extinct. ”

It turns out that the truth in it, Zhang Sanye has said it before, and now he has explained in detail that the root of the secret art of touching gold lies in "Yi", and the way of life and change is "Yi", so in "Yi", only words are born, not words, so how can it be "born"?

The so-called "life", one refers to survival, the other refers to prosperity, Zhang Sanye once in the ancient tomb of the Western Zhou Dynasty, a glimpse of the ancient hexagram of Zhou Tian, found that the number of mysteries is endless, plus he has had many adventures in his life, learned a lot of skills in his body, so he wrote this "Sixteen Characters Yin and Yang Feng Shui Secret Technique", the world's "Yin and Yang Clearing, Feng Shui Situation" The principle has been exhausted, that is, the art of touching gold originated in the Later Han Dynasty has reached an unprecedented peak when it is passed on to Zhang Sanye's generation.

But the law of development of things between heaven and earth is up and down, there are ups and downs, there are ups and downs, Zhang Sanye is familiar with the ancient hexagrams, and naturally understands this truth, which is like the sun to the middle of the sky, illuminating all things, but after noon, the sunlight will become more and more dim, and gradually fall into the West Mountain; On the fifteenth day of the lunar calendar, the full moon is empty, but then it will turn from profit to loss.

The principle of creation and change in the way of heaven is, to put it simply, "the extremes of things must be opposed", and when things develop to a certain stage, they will go to the other extreme, so how can we control the decline? There is only "holding on to the defects", which is why Zhang Sanye destroyed half of the volume of "Sixteen Characters Yin and Yang Feng Shui Secret Technique".

Although the secret art of touching gold originated in the Later Han Dynasty, in fact, it was a prototype in the Zhou Dynasty, and gradually improved by the school captains of the past dynasties for thousands of years, and gradually integrated the "Tianxing Feng Shui, Zen Feng Shui, Eight House Mirrors, Jiangxi Situation Sect Feng Shui ......", and produced a collection of all the feng shui masterpieces in one of the "dragon hunting" and "dividing gold and setting the acupoints".

When the "Sixteen Characters Yin Yang Feng Shui Secret Technique" was born, it covered a wider range, and even the root of the origin of the Feng Shui secret art - the ancient hexagram of Zhou Tian has it, and the exhaustive study of all things in heaven and earth can be called the unfathomable art of ghosts and gods, and there is no room for evolution.

If there is no ancient tomb in the world, then the gold captain will naturally not exist, this generation will dig up the ancient tombs and steal the emptily, in the future, will not only cut off the incense, and then there will be no inheritance of the gold line?

Therefore, Zhang Sanye destroyed half of the Yin and Yang Techniques, and only left the incomplete half of the "Sixteen Characters Yin and Yang Feng Shui Secret Technique" to future generations, so that the future captain of the gold school can still have room for revitalization and progress, so as not to change from life to restraint, be jealous of creation, and cut off the name of "touching gold".

Zhang Sanlianzi knew that tomb robbery was a fateful act, and it was inappropriate to pass on the remnants of the "Sixteen Characters Yin and Yang Feng Shui Secret Technique" to Jin Abacus and others, so he deliberately left it to Sun Guofu, the yin and yang eye, so that he could pass on the feng shui secret technique of touching Jin Xiaowei to future generations, and maybe there would be a period of revival in the future.

Jin Abacus listened to it and was convinced, and secretly praised Zhang Sanye for seeing through the world and physics, and on the same day, he said goodbye to the master and went out of the mountain, and started to make a living by touching the gold and fighting the dust.