Chapter 34: Old Things
Zhang Nifeng and I hurriedly went out to see when we heard the sound, only to see Brother Gao holding a cotton cloth package in his hand, and seeing him a big man taking small steps, looking cautious and quite funny.
The village party secretary didn't know what to do, and asked him why he took something to toss all morning, but the eldest brother Gao ignored him with a blank look, but turned his head to explain to me and Zhang Nifeng that he was afraid of bumps on the road, and then bumped the grandfather into it, so he simply walked all the way over.
The village party secretary scolded him for being insane, so he went to the kitchen to help his wife clean up the dishes and chopsticks.
I saw that the eldest brother was tired and out of breath, so he asked him to put the porcelain altar first, sit down and rest, and said that it is no wonder that he is in his forties, and he has walked so far with a big porcelain altar, which is indeed very hard.
"If Mr. Liu knew that you were so caring, Jiuquan would definitely be very pleased." I praised Big Brother Gao.
Big Brother Gao didn't seem to care about my praise, sat on the stool and shook his head while saying that if they didn't know how to respect teachers in this business, it would be better to have a dog.
After he finished speaking, he probably felt that he was speaking too straight, and he couldn't help but laugh first.
Zhang Nifeng said on the side: "What Brother Gao said is very true, and our Taoism has also had the saying of 'Tao, Sutra, and Teacher' since ancient times. ”
I asked him what the Three Jewels were, namely the Tao, the Sutra, and the Teacher.
He pulled a stool and asked me to sit next to Big Brother Gao, while he squatted on the ground and began to talk to us.
He explained to us that the Taishang Daojun's form of teaching is the treasure of the teacher, the induction of qi is the treasure of the Tao, and the magic text of the Dharma is the treasure of the scriptures.
The Taoist does not see it, but it is the law of the existence of all things, and the so-called movement of the opposite Tao and the use of the weak Tao. All things in the world are born from being, and some are born from nothing;
The criterion of the scriptures also refers to the scriptures written by the predecessors, and the future generations can read the road and follow them to be good;
Teachers, preaching and teaching to solve doubts, the saints of the three religions all have teachers, the emperors of the ages all have teachers, apprentices are like opening their eyes and reincarnating, disciples are teachers, and they respect their fathers.
The Tao is invisible and educates, through ruthlessness and reason, and the teacher is nameless and guided, this is the "Three Treasures" of Taoism.
I sat on the small bench and felt like a child listening to the teacher in the kindergarten, these truths seem obscure, but in fact, they have always existed in our daily life, but they are gradually abandoned by people's fast-paced life.
Brother Gao clasped his hands in front of his chest, pursed his lips, and stared at the talkative Zhang Nifeng with burning eyes, and he didn't say a word for a long time.
"What's wrong with you, big brother Gao, are you okay?" I saw that he had exposed the blue tendons on his forehead and his eyes like copper rings, for fear that he would have another heart attack.
"Brother Zhang, Brother Nifeng, you said it so well, we are both Qimen people, and the four words of respecting teachers and respecting the Tao have always attached the most importance to it, it really speaks to the heart of the elder brother!" He went up and grabbed Zhang Nifeng's hand and said excitedly.
Zhang Nifeng also seemed to be infected by his impassioned emotions, and said in a solemn tone: "Big Brother Gao, outsiders think that we are all talented and arrogant people, and even more people confuse us with the swaggering and deceitful warlocks, but I don't know that for thousands of years, the ancient training is only valued by my generation!" ”
In today's society, there are many people vying for fame and fortune, and the benevolence and morality advocated by the sages are often forgotten, but in fact, these are the real essence.
The two of them were in high spirits, and according to this situation, if they didn't stop it, I was afraid that they would kowtow to Mr. Liu's ashes on the spot.
I laughed dryly and whispered to the two of them, "That'...... Well, why don't you tell me about saving Mr. Liu? ”
I interrupted them, and they regained their minds and began to get down to business.
Zhang Nifeng sorted out his thoughts and said to me: "Let's first regard Mr. Liu's soul as the state of a normal newly deceased person, and the evil star in your body as the corpse guarding soul in the corpse body, if you find a way to make the cause and effect soul of Mr. Liu's three souls attractive to the evil star in your body, then you can smoothly merge the two, as the so-called 'the stone of the other mountain, can be wrong', the evil star is outside the six realms, once Mr. Liu's causal soul is fused with it, you can take advantage of it to avoid the way of heaven." ”
"Merge with the Evil Star? So what's the difference between this and shattering his three souls and seven spirits? "I don't think it's going to work.
"You stupid, if you break the three souls and seven spirits, what do you need to do, I can do it, but in that case, won't Mr. Liu never be reborn, let's just find a way to detain his corpse guarding soul, and then let the other souls go to reincarnation." He was obviously very disappointed with my ability to understand.
I fully understood what he meant, and nodded my head to show that I understood.
Brother Gao was worried that my body was too weak to withstand the toss, so he insisted on waiting until tomorrow when I recovered my spirits before making plans.
A group of old men are inconvenient, the task of taking care of me naturally fell on the wife of the village party secretary, her surname is Sun, I will call him sister-in-law Li, we had dinner in the evening, sister-in-law Li was afraid that I would be bored, so she accompanied me to lie on the warm kang and chat.
No wonder Brother Gao has never given the village party secretary a good face, and the village party secretary is not anxious with him, it turns out that Sister-in-law Li had a strange illness when she was pregnant, and she vomited whatever she ate.
At first, the village party secretary thought that his daughter-in-law had morning sickness and didn't take it seriously, but then the vomiting was so bad that he even vomited when he drank water, and seeing that his daughter-in-law was getting more and more haggard day by day, the village party secretary had to go to the next village to find the elder brother Gao to help her.
Brother Gao didn't say a word, and immediately went home with the village party secretary, and when he saw Sister-in-law Li's face, his eyebrows were shriveled, and his eyes were staying, which was obviously a sign of hindrance to his descendants.
And the eldest brother Gao also gave a hexagram to the village party secretary, and the hexagram showed that he was a childless and daughterless life, and I am afraid that most of the children in this belly will not be able to be saved.
The village party secretary was stunned when he heard him say this, and hurriedly begged him to think about it, whose baby doesn't hurt, the two of them are looking forward to the stars and the moon and looking forward to such a small thing, how can they say that it is gone.
Although the elder brother Gao has an ugly face, he is the same as Mr. Liu, he is a very soft-hearted person, Mr. Liu was originally from the palace, and the method of protecting the palace and the fetus is indispensable in the teachings.
Big Brother Gao couldn't bear to watch a little life come to an end before it came, so he used the secret method passed down by his ancestors to give Sister-in-law Li a prescription to protect the fetus and dispel misfortune.
It was a good thing that the child in Sister-in-law Li's womb was preserved, but Brother Gao was young and casual at the time, and he felt that what he had learned could save people from fire and water, and he was also quite relieved.
He carried a jar of old wine given to him by the village party secretary and went home happily, but he was dumbfounded as soon as he arrived at the house.
At the gate of his own courtyard, there were more than 20 people who were crowded with a whisper, and when the crowd saw that he was back, they all consciously gave way to it.
Before he entered the yard, he heard his daughter-in-law whining and crying, so he hurried into the back room to see what was going on, and as soon as he entered, he found his daughter-in-law sitting on the kang with her three-year-old son in her arms.
The child's face was already blue, his hair was wet, and his little arms like lotus roots hung straight down beside his body, obviously out of breath, and his tears spurted out, and he jumped on the kang and hugged the child from his daughter-in-law's hand and cried.
The eldest brother was ugly, and which of the young girls in the village was willing to marry him, so the elders in the village introduced him to a deaf and dumb girl from another village.
Brother Gao is honest and honest, knowing that it would be good to have a companion for his appearance, where do you dare to pick and choose, and although this girl can't speak, she has a good temperament, she has a job in her eyes, and she looks like a water spirit, so the two held a banquet and got married.
This girl is also competitive enough, and within a year, she gave birth to a big fat boy to the eldest brother Gao, and the family lived a stable life, not to mention how happy they were.
But on the afternoon of the day when the eldest brother left, the child and his mother were doing some work as a female worker in the house, intending to supplement the family, and the child played alone on the ground.
It is estimated that the child may be thirsty from playing, so he climbed to the water tank in the outhouse to scoop water and drink, but somehow his feet slipped and fell in.
The child's mother couldn't hear it, and she didn't know what was going on in the outhouse, until she finished putting the soles of a shoe, and then she remembered to see what the child was doing, but when she found the child in the water tank, the baby was already swollen with water.
When the eldest brother Master was alive, he once calculated for him, saying that he was not the life of a peerless grandson. After thinking about it, he thought about it and thought of the "five disadvantages and three shortcomings" in the master's mouth, he must have saved the children of the village party secretary against the sky, and when God's retribution came, he took away his baby.
At that time, for this matter, the village party secretary kept the spirit of the child for seven days in the child's spirit shed, and after his daughter came out, he also recognized the eldest brother as a godfather, and the fate of the two families has been tied together since then.
The child's mother couldn't stand the blow, and often secretly shed tears alone, and later divorced the eldest brother, and since then, the eldest brother has never given the village party secretary a good face, and the village party secretary supports his love, and feels that his family owes him, so he let him go.
I listened to Sister-in-law Li tell me this story before I knew why Brother Gao was so angry to the village party secretary, and it was not polite to come here to eat and sleep, no wonder Brother Gao was in his forties and lived alone, I always thought that he didn't ask for a wife, it turned out to be like this.
"Actually, we don't know, Lao Gao has never hated us in his heart, he is better to my daughter than to my own daughter, he is fierce to us, he wants to make us feel better." Sister-in-law Li sighed and said to me, I saw tears in the corners of her eyes, obviously emotional.