Chapter Fifty-Three: The Bandits

At that time, we didn't have a very clear concept of money, we only knew that money was good, we could buy sugar and cigarettes, but we couldn't have too much money, and when we had too much, we would be greedy for pleasure, spiritually degenerate, ideologically rotten, and life would be rotten, and it would be easy to embark on the road of bourgeois liberalization, but at that time we had already had a not-so-obvious idea in our hearts that we would make more money in the future, money is evil, but money is useful.

Finally with the money to buy tickets, we got on the train to Beijing with complicated feelings, all the way to Nanjing, at this time the money has already been spent, the fat man borrowed me twenty yuan from his aunt's house, put me on the train, he agreed with me on the platform, when I go back next year, I will meet directly in the Ganggang camp, the next year in the mountains to have more sets of foxes and yellow skins, and then go to the grassland to visit Ding Sitian, discuss the major events about participating in the world revolution.

The train has been slowly moving, I leaned out of the window to shake hands with the fat man to say goodbye, I didn't think that this farewell is more than ten years, many things have happened in the past ten years, I returned to Fujian after joining the army by mistake, the army needs iron discipline, but not as good as the young people at ease, plus the first few years with the army in the Kunlun Mountains to carry out secret missions, simply unable to communicate with the outside world.

When I was transferred to the Lanzhou Military Region with the troops, I learned that Ding Sitian was no longer alive, and in the winter when I left the grassland with the fat man, a cruel "white disaster" occurred centered on the Baiyan Cave, and many animals froze to death.

In a blink of an eye, fifteen years have passed, these tragic past I and the fat man do not want to recall, and dare not think about it, until we are going to the United States, pack up the accompanying items, open the old photo album casually, see this old photo, those old things, once the dust covered on it is wiped off, it still seems so real, so vivid, reminiscing about the past, it is inevitable to sigh and sigh, I looked at it, and suddenly found that there was a blurred back in the distant view of the photo, looking at the rickety figure, it seems to be the old sheepskin, For some reason, as soon as I saw his hazy figure in the photo, I immediately felt uneasy, how could I never have noticed this detail before.

For so many years, I have always been haunted by the strange things that happened after the death of the old sheepskin, as well as the bronze dragon talisman that was thrown on the grassland by Ding Sitian, these questions have been entangled in the bottom of my heart, but when I think of these past things, I will feel sad, plus these years of exhaustion, it is difficult to have leisure to look back on the past, today I saw the figure of the old sheepskin in this old photo, I can't help but think of the past things he told, some of the details are very worthy of scrutiny.

When the old sheepskin was young, he was a craftsman who fought backwards, and he followed a thief surnamed Chen, and later this person went south to Yunnan to make a big deal, but he encountered an accident in Yunnan, and his whereabouts have been unknown, will this person be the blind Chen I met in Shaanxi? The blind fortune teller Chen who went to Yunnan to rob the tomb? Now that I think about it carefully, many characteristics are all consistent, but although I know that Chen Blind once followed the disciples of Jieling to Yunnan Worm Valley to find the "Tomb of the Sacrifice King", but he never told me that he had been a thief, but it is understandable to think about it, after all, Chen Blind has broken a pair of tricks, and he wants to fight again in this life, since he is now using fortune-telling to cheat and cheat, he naturally wants to call himself the reincarnation of Chen Lu's ancestor, how can he admit that he has been the great leader of tomb robbers before.

Thinking of this, I immediately closed the photo album, got up and went out, the old sheepskin in the "Hundred Eyes Cave" mentioned to me many old things, most of them are difficult to verify, but Chen Blind came from the old society, he may know some such as the yellow skin, the ghost yamen, the bronze dragon talisman of the story, the most important thing is to ask him, what is the reason why the old sheepskin was struck by thunder and fire after his death, so as to solve the mystery that has plagued me for so many years.

As far as I know, Taoranting Park in Beijing is the place where Chen Blind is a place of daily activities, but his whereabouts are erratic, and he has not dared to "show" his face in the park recently.

Just in time for Chen Blind to give a female comrade "touch" the bones of the order, the woman is in her thirties, fat and white is very rich, and I don't know what difficulties I encountered, so I want to find a master to give guidance, the blind man first "touched" her face and bones, pinched a few handfuls between her forehead, eyes and nose, and recited words in her mouth: "How similar is the appearance of the person, why do you need to be rich and noble, the blind person has his own immortal finger, and 'touch' the end of the five mountains in the bones." ”

The woman's face was pinched by this skinny, skinny old man, and she was so annoyed: "Can't you make it light?" How are these hands like iron pliers? ”

The blind man said: "The old man is an immortal finger, he can penetrate the flesh and bones, and he can pinch those ordinary people who have never found half a pain, only the immortal star monarch knows how powerful it is, it seems that the lady must be a person with a background, but I don't know what this fairy girl wants to ask?" If you talk about heavenly opportunities, you will not owe credit if you ask ten yuan. ”

At this time, I heard Chen Blind call her a fairy girl, and I firmly believed that she was not an ordinary family "woman" girl, and she did have some backgrounds, so I couldn't help but be impressed by Chen Blind, although the old man was blind, but he was really like a god, so he talked about the reason.

Although I was anxious to talk to Chen's blind man, but it was not good to disturb his business, so I had to wait by the side, and after listening for a long time, I realized that this woman's husband was a businessman who used the relationship to buy approvals, and there was a cash cow at home, and she naturally had no worries about food and clothing, but she and her husband had a strange dream recently, dreaming that a black dog gnawed her toes, and often broke out in a cold sweat from the dream, and the two had the same nightmare at the same time, not only could not sleep well, physically and mentally exhausted, but more importantly, the foot was bitten by the black dog in the dream, and gradually began to have sores. Ulceration and stink, everywhere to seek medical advice "medicine" has not improved, I heard that there is a blind Chen Tuan ancestor near Tao Ran Pavilion, specially rushed to ask the ancestor to point out the "maze" Jin, one is to ask why this strange dream is born, and the other is to ask the soles of the feet sores can be treated.

Chen Blind asked the woman's husband about the figure and posture again, and after listening, his expression was calm, as if he was confident, shaking his head and pinching his fingers: "Sure enough, as the old man expected, the fairy Gu is the reincarnation of the golden-winged carp in the Tianchi Yaotai, the venerable man is thin and thin, he was the canary in front of the Jade Emperor, and they are all spiritual officials in the immortal class. will dream that there is a black dog gnawing on the feet, and God is fortunate to let the old man know, otherwise the catastrophe is not far away. ”

When the fat woman heard that she and her husband were two animals in their previous lives? This is too unpleasant, not only do I wonder if it is a blind man who makes up nonsense.

Blind Chen hurriedly explained, the old man Chrysostom and Yuyan, the way is heavenly, how can there be any nonsense? Blind eyes and clear hearts, see the form that the world does not see, and the way that the world does not know, what is the form and what is the way? The avenue is invisible, the fertility world, the avenue is ruthless, the sun and the moon run, the avenue is nameless, long nourishing all things, I don't know its name, the way of the strong name, the ancients said "the Tao is wordless Buddha is empty", the language of the world has not been able to accurately describe what is the avenue, in short, everything in the world belongs to the avenue, whether it is a person or a bird, it is the shape of a fixed number in the avenue, there is no difference between high and low, and can not distinguish the noble and low with beauty and ugliness. How expensive is this life? Hey...... It's incredibly expensive.

This is called the number of birds and beasts, and some people have changed from birds and beasts in their previous lives, which can be brought out in appearance, this is the fate of creation, their own blessings, and what is there to be ashamed of? There is a key to "touching" the bone and "touching" the skin of the people, slender but to the birds, obese people to the beast view, like the bird is not too thin, like the beast to fat is the most important, the poultry fat must not fly, if the beast is thin and eat? The blind man was full of words, but he still spoke the truth, and made the woman obedient, and at last she even began to take pride in the fact that she and her husband looked like beasts.

But the blind man turned his words, and denied the woman's wealth in a lifetime, he said, the fate of the boat also, the luck of the wind, "fate" is actually two different things, although it is a rich life, but with half a lifetime of bad luck, just like although it is a giant ship, but there is no wind to help, but only stranded in the shoal, listen to its decay, your husband and wife are all free fairy fate, how can you be tied up by the debt, the black dog in the dream gnaws the foot, will be the main black star head, now it is going to go unlucky, it is really a good life, the family is ruined, the heavy is trapped in the ghost palace, and the catastrophe will not return.

The fat woman was almost frightened by Chen's blind man's words and was paralyzed on the spot, and hurriedly begged the ancestor to save her life, and stuffed a roll of banknotes into Chen's blind man's hand, and the blind man "touched" and "touched" enough money, so she helped to make suggestions unhurriedly, and must move as soon as possible, and there is a tablet in the new house, and the six words "county guard Li Bing is here" are written, why? Li Bing is the Shu county guard who built Dujiangyan when King Qin Zhao was king, and Zhenjun of Erlang Erlang in Shuzhong is the second son of Li Bing, and there is a tablet of Li Jun, and the heavenly dog does not dare to commit it again.

The blind man took a pen and wrote a "medicine" prescription on a piece of broken paper, one finger of pine bark in Longhu Mountain, three peach kernels, two in the south and two in the north, three taels of Baiwei stones, and one tail of Yellow River fish, fried in Dongting Lake, three bowls of water to make a bowl, one bowl a day, after taking it for three days, be sure to be calm, and the sores on the soles of the feet will heal themselves.

The fat woman was stupid when she heard it, what is this "medicine" prescription? There are a few "medicines" that I have never even heard of, and I am afraid that I can't buy them even if I have money, so they are all heavenly panacea "medicines"? How can this be funded?

The blind man said that it would be okay, the old man sold the "medicine" on behalf of the woman, and asked the fat woman for some money, found a broken bowl and lit a fire to burn the "medicine" prescription, and the ashes fell into the bowl and handed it to the fat woman, and told her to divide it into three parts and take it with water, remember, remember.

I listened to it secretly funny, and finally when the blind man Chen had cheated enough money and sent the woman away, he said that he wanted to find a place to talk and ask about something, so he took his blind cane and led him to the pavilion in Taoranting Park.

At the beginning, I thought that Chen Blind Man was talking about the river, but I heard that he let the fat woman move the family, it is indeed a reason, in the "Sixteen Characters Yin Yang Feng Shui Secret Technique" of the word "ghost" in a volume, it is described that there is a black dog and black cat under the bed to gnaw on the feet, this house is fierce, not suitable for people, if you dig a few feet of ground, you may dig out a section of black carbon, it is the previous house after someone hanged, its dead into the ground for the end of the knot, or there is an ancient mound and old grave under the home, the fat woman's family may live in a murderous house, moving away from the place of right and wrong, it is the best choice.

Chen Blind was full of pride, and said with a smile: "I don't know what old man there is under her family, but the fat girl's family must have done too much speculative things, no less bribery, bribery, corruption and deficits, and reselling the approval of the court This is inevitable, and there must be a lot of bad things to do, as the saying goes, there are sores on the top of the head, and the soles of the feet are thick, that is bad to the home, this kind of person must inevitably be frightened, day and night, will be suspicious of dark ghosts, the most easy to listen to and believe, the old man is not blind can also count this hexagram, "touch" She knows that she is a stingy and unfilial beast, her family is full of unkind and ill-gotten wealth, it doesn't hurt to take it, I think when the crowd gathers to unload the mountain, if it hits such a rich and unkind person, the old man would have cut it clean one by one, and sent her two thieves and men to the yin to be used......"

I heard Chen Blind talk about the incident of robbing tombs in Jieling and gathering people for profit, so I took the opportunity to ask him if he had been a thief before, but did he know the old sheepskin and the sheep and the two Shaanxi people who could sing the Qin dialect?

The blind man was stunned when he heard this, the Lishi of the Tomb Raider is the same as the "touch" Jin Captain and the same name as the mountain movers, after the Han Dynasty Red Mei Army uprising was suppressed and encircled and failed, there were some remnants of the tribe grass for the Kou, scattered all over the place, still do some of the deeds of killing officials and rebelling, when the Red Eyebrow Army turned over the Han Tomb, its remnants also retained these traditions of making a fortune and profit, once the ancient tomb was found, it was a large-scale robbery and excavation, before the Song Dynasty, the Demolition Ridge was reversed, and they all retained the method of smearing cinnabar or pig blood on the eyebrows when they acted. After robbing the tomb, it was washed off with "medicine" water, and this habit of dyeing red eyebrows to ward off evil spirits was gradually abolished in order to make the action more secretive.

The generation of unloading the mountain, there are leaders as thieves in all dynasties, "Kui" is the leader, people are troubled and can not be leaderless, everything is decided by the thieves, the prestige of the thieves is extremely high, there is the power of life and death and seizure, not only can be used to "circle the hole" of the technique of "digging the grave", but also the grass on the green forest road, can be regarded as a character who calls for wind and rain, Chen Blind did do a thief in the Republic of China, but those old things if you don't mention the truth and forget.