Chapter Sixty-Seven: The Final Return—The Account Book
Some people said that Mr. Hu had a false reputation and deceived Ma Liuhe of a note of money, but pointed out a "murderous hole" for others, and as a result, dozens of lives of his family were ruined.
But more people don't see it that way, two stone tablets have been excavated from the grave of the "ghost hat", and the inscription engraved on them is so alarming? Carefully imagine the words of "burying this auspicious, living here, the righteous are auspicious, and the righteous are unjust", you can understand that it is not Mr. Jin Dianhu who pointed to the wrong hole, but Ma Liuhe has lost his conscience, and he has been fighting openly and secretly over the years, and he has resold fake medicinal materials, and he doesn't know how many lives have been killed in his hands, within a radius of hundreds of miles, who doesn't hate him? It can be seen that deceptive things cannot be done, God wants to accept him this door, it is really the sky has eyes, the eyes of God are like electricity, and the retribution is not happy.
Mr. Hu inquired deeper, and people really hated Ma Liuhe's family, this person was like those ordinary rich people in the Chinese countryside, who saw the money and let the money be blinded, and his appetite became bigger and bigger, the tide rose, and he felt that the amount of money he made was not enough, which really fulfilled the old saying: "The human heart is not enough to swallow the elephant." In order to make a fortune and make money, he deceived his relatives, invaded the township, harbored thieves, and specialized in doing some false deeds without wind and waves, without roof beams, and stirred up the place without grass and restlessness, which can be said to provoke the anger of the heavens and the resentment, and most of the people applauded and celebrated the tragedy of their home destruction, and said that this is "the evil people are afraid of the sky, and the good people are not afraid of the sky; Good and evil will be rewarded in the end, and it is only a matter of time before it is too late."
And the remnants of the monument dug out of the ancestral tomb of Ma Liuhe are also really proven. According to an old monk in the local temple, many years ago there was indeed a place name of "Ghost Hat Mountain", this open land under the mountain, was the location of the City God Temple, to catch the Halloween to burn paper money for the dead, just at this mountain pass, the stone tablet buried under the temple is to warn future generations - "the yin land is not as good as the heart". No matter how good the feng shui dragon vein is, it is not as good as accumulating virtue and doing good deeds at home.
Later, the temple was destroyed by fire. Hundreds of years have passed, the old site has long ceased to exist, and the remnants of the monument buried in the soil still exist, and because of the matter of Ma Liuhe's family, it has resurfaced, so that the world knows "the depth of heaven's will and the ingenuity of heaven".
From then on, Mr. Hu no longer dared to claim that he was proficient in Feng Shui geography, and he finally knew what his master meant. Why is it said that "heaven is silent"? Just because God can't speak, but the induction of heaven and earth often lies in the human heart, whether it is to build a tomb and build a house, it should be based on the accumulation of virtue, as the so-called "heart is the master of qi, qi is the symbol of virtue", heaven and earth may not have a heart for people, and people's mind and virtue are often inducted with heaven and earth.
I told the old shopkeeper Li about it. It is to let him understand the science of "Feng Shui", which refers to "the corresponding principle of heaven and man, the way of creation and change", not that it is so simple to find a grave to bury bones, and should not be overly superstitious, how many emperors have been buried in the dragon vein after their deaths throughout the ages. But it still can't stop the historical trend of changing dynasties.
Shopkeeper Li nodded and said: "The lamp is not clear, the words are not clear, the window paper is not pierced for a lifetime, I heard you say it today, it is indeed the truth......" He suddenly remembered something, called his sister into the house, and ordered a few words, as if asking her to get something.
My sister rummaged through the boxes and cabinets in the room for a long time, and finally found an ebony box with no lock. Two ropes were worn and tied tightly. The buckles were sealed with fire paint, and they were stamped on them. It seemed to contain a lot of stuff inside.
The fat man and I were quite curious, and thought that the old shopkeeper Li was going to play with us about the "treasure of Zhenshan", so I asked him that the box was filled with a "hidden weapon" of Qimen?
The old shopkeeper said, "What is the stuff here?" I don't know, or even read it, but you probably know a thing or two. ”
I was even more curious: "You don't know your things, and we can't see things from afar, how can we guess through them?" Speaking of this, my heart moved, and I hurriedly asked: "Could it be that you are touching Captain Jin's thing?" ”
The old shopkeeper said: "That's right, I saw that you can recognize the golden steel umbrella, and I know that it must be the same as the customers who came to my store to order this umbrella, because the golden steel umbrella is not an ordinary instrument, only those who touch the gold bucket are used." When the merchant came to my shop to make a gold steel umbrella, and stored this box on the cabinet, he said that he would take it away when he took the umbrella, but this person disappeared for decades, and now I have buried the loess to my neck, but I have never seen him for the second time. ”
Speaking of this past, the old shopkeeper inevitably sighed for a long time, unable to stop the "sun and moon shuttle, things change stars", now the "honeycomb mountain" has already moved from Hebei to Sichuan, after so many years, how many things around him are gone, but this ebony box has always been well preserved, because when he promised people, he had to take good care of others.
The old shopkeeper Li felt that he was old, and he was afraid that he would no longer be able to keep the things here, so he handed over the "ebony box" to us, after all, it was also the "Captain Touching Gold", which seemed to fall into the hands of irrelevant outsiders after his death, and he didn't know what was inside.
After learning of Duo Ling's death, my mood was relatively low, seeing that the wooden box style was ancient, it was estimated that it must contain some valuables, and the wine at that time poured up, so I was not in a hurry to open it to watch, and drank until late at night to get drunk and rest, the next morning we thanked the shopkeeper Li, and left for the return trip, this time it was divided into two ways, Shirley Yang and his sister took Hunan, picked up Chen Blind, and then went to Beijing to meet together.
There was nothing to say along the way, the fat man and I were the first to return to Beijing, Uncle Ming and Da Jinya and others had been waiting for a long time, Uncle Ming kept asking us to go to the place to fight? Have you ever made a fortune? I didn't confide in half a word, but just asked the fat man and the big golden tooth to dig up a lot of materials that he had studied and sorted out for many years according to the location described in Sun Jiuye's letter, but there were no cultural relics and antiques, so I had to wrap the things back in frustration.
I put the few things I got on the table this time, closed the door with the fat man and the big golden tooth, and discussed how to deal with it. The ancient hexagram information he left behind is all true, just to solve the Zhou Tian hexagram, and he still needs the assistance of a great expert like Zhang Yingchuan, which is not something that can achieve results in one or two years, and it is inseparable from the "Bronze Ancient Mirror of Guiru".
I used to be very interested in the "Sixteen-Character Zhou Tian Lao Hexagram", but I have experienced many things in the past, which makes me faintly feel that the Tianji Hexagram is very confusing. Back then, Zhang Sanye would not have destroyed half of the "Sixteen Characters Yin Yang Feng Shui Secret Technique", which is likely to have a lot to do with it. In addition, I found that Zhang Yingchuan was willing to be indifferent, and he didn't seem to pay much attention to "Zhou Tianquan Hexagram".
Zhang Yingchuan is proficient in "science", pushing the way of heaven and understanding personnel, his vision is very far, and he can see many truths that ordinary people can't see, if I complete the "Sixteen Characters Yin and Yang Feng Shui Secret Technique", it may not be a good thing. What's more, it takes a lot of brains to do water grinding work, how can I sit still in dry meditation with my temperament?
After thinking about it, I finally decided to transfer the information of Sun Jiuye's research on the number of ancient hexagrams to Zhang Yingchuan, and the "Ancient Mirror of Returning to the Ruins" and "Bronze Dragon Fu" are of great significance. My comrade-in-arms Ding Sitian is inextricably linked with the "Bronze Dragon Fu", these things should not fall into anyone's hands, and it is still the most appropriate to return them to Professor Chen for disposal.
The fat man picked up the "ebony box" given by Shopkeeper Li and asked me: "Lao Hu, what should we do with this thing?" When they all arrived in Beijing, they should always open it and take a look, the weight of this box is not clear, and it is shaking and there is a loud noise inside. Is there a big head of Yuan? ”
I always think that the "ebony box" is someone else's thing, and I can't use it as an excuse to take it as my own because others don't come back to take it, but I'm more curious about the seniors who are also touching the gold in the hands of the seniors, there are only three real "touching gold talismans" in this world remaining, I and the fat man, Shirley Yang each have one, two of which were passed down by the elder of the Wukuji Temple back then, and the other was found by the fat man in the ancient tomb behind the fishbone temple.
From this point of view, the guests who ordered the golden steel umbrella land in the "Honeycomb Mountain" that year. It is likely to be a senior who died in the spider cave in Longling. If that were the case, he would never have been able to get his stuff back.
The last mountain movers, the partridge whistle. In order to find the remains of the "Heishui City Tongtian Great Buddha Temple" buried under the yellow sand, he worshiped Elder Chen of Wukuji Temple as a teacher, and wanted to learn the technique of finding the dragon and dividing the gold and fixing the acupoint, but he did not expect that Elder Chen died on the way, and did not have time to teach him the "dragon hunting trick", when Elder Chen was dying, he left a last word to instruct the partridge whistle to let him go to the banks of the Yellow River to find another "Touching the Golden School Captain".
Although Elder Chenchen did not explain his relationship with this person, he must have partnered with a friend who met at the beginning and had an extraordinary friendship, otherwise he would not have mentioned this person to Partridge Whistle at the last moment, but unfortunately Elder Chen didn't know that the "Golden Abacus" had already died in the Longling Grotto, and the Golden Abacus acted secretly, if we hadn't come out of the ghost mound of the Western Zhou Dynasty and accidentally drilled into the deeper spider cave, I'm afraid no one would know." The "Golden Abacus" will be buried in it.
I had thought of this before, but I didn't dare to confirm it, because I hadn't seen the abacus made of pure gold in the ghost mound and spider cave, and the golden thing must be particularly conspicuous, and there are important things that are carried by the "golden abacus", of course, they will not leave easily, so speculate, in addition to the previous generation of the owners of the three ancient talismans, there is a fourth captain in the world who touches gold?
Thinking of this, I can't hold it anymore, I plan to take a look at it first, and then say, in the future, someone will really come to the door to claim it, and the original thing will not be returned to him, only a few glances and will not hurt him, and now I started to cut the cow tendon rope buckle that has been sealed for many years, and as soon as I opened the lid of the box, I saw that the golden light was dazzling.
It turns out that this "ebony box" is very much like the money box of the old trading merchants to collect money, there is a broken abacus in it, the frame is cast in gold, engraved with many small symbols that represent the "heavenly stem and earth branch", the style is simple and exquisite, I don't know how many years it has been passed on.
I thought to myself that this will never be wrong again, sure enough, I met with Elder Chen's "Golden Abacus", it seems that we are also fated with this person, and then look at the rest of the things in the box, it is nothing more than writing an account book, which records the income and expenditure details of buying and selling, but under a closer look, I found that there is a lot of information recorded in the account book, I turned two pages, and it seems that there are relevant deeds describing the "Sixteen Characters Yin Yang Feng Shui Secret Technique".
Although I plan to take care of the underworld for Duo Ling in the United States this time, I want to never stop fighting and touch the gold, and live a quiet life after getting married, but my various experiences over the years are almost all related to the "Sixteen Characters Yin Yang Feng Shui Secret Technique", but everyone I know, including Zhang Yingchuan, the descendant of Zhang Sanye, can't tell that there is only half a fragment of this feng shui book, even if it gives some reasons, it is unconvincing. I was more anxious to know the details, so I handed over the contents of the "ebony box" to the fat man to clean up, and then picked up the account book under the lamp and flipped through the pages.
After reading it word for word, I finally solved the question that had been buried in my heart for many years, and thought about my experience with the fat man and others over the years, and I had to admire Zhang Sanlianzi's foresight and wisdom in the "Sixteen Characters Yin Yang Feng Shui Secret Technique", and it is not everyone who can retreat on the cusp of the storm.
After burying Duo Ling, I washed my hands in the golden basin with Shirley Yang and the fat man, and since then I have picked up the "touch the gold talisman", and sold the green head we fished back in the "coral spiral" as the capital, and Chen Blind, Uncle Ming, Da Jinya, Gu Chai and others have partnered overseas to do some business, and never asked about the "inverted fight" again.
When I catch up with the leisure and quiet, I will look at the things handed down by the predecessors of "touching gold", one is the half-volume fragment of "Sixteen Characters Yin Yang Feng Shui Secret Technique", and then there is the "touching gold charm" that I and the fat man and Shirley Yang once wore, I don't know if there is also a "fate" in these "antiquities", but their "rise and fall number" over the years was completely expected by Zhang Sanlian, the master of the gold abacus, a long time ago.
Finale
(The whole book The deeds of Hu Bayi and other contemporary captains who touched gold ended here, what exactly is recorded in the account book of the golden abacus?) What is the real reason why "The Secret Art of Yin and Yang Feng Shui" has become a broken book? Please see the Gaiden, the whole story consists of three chapters)
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