273. Reincarnation
"Who?" I couldn't figure it out for a while.
"You'll know when we get there, let's go." My sister said.
Afterwards, we walked north through the snow and arrived at the edge of the national border, which is also the northernmost city in China, Mohe.
In the local Arctic Township of Mohe, we asked the local villagers about the location of a small village called Suoluo Village.
"Suo Luo Village? Haven't heard of it. The sleigh driver who was questioned shook his head.
But on the sleigh, a woman with a red scarf wrapped around her head indicated that she knew the location of Nasoro Village.
"From here, continue to walk north for about thirty miles, on the edge of the Tahe River, there is a place called Huangjiazhuang, and Suoluo Village is in the northernmost part of Huangjiazhuang."
"Thank you." My sister threw her hand at the woman.
"What are you going to do in Nasa Luo Village? The villagers there are not very welcoming to outsiders. The woman looked at us.
"We're going to go to our ancestors to ask for divination." My sister said.
"The old ancestor will not help people with divination easily, you have to find something to fill in the old ancestor's gluttonous mouth." The woman said.
"It's ready." My sister said.
The woman nodded, and let the coachman pull the sleigh away.
According to what the woman said, we came to Huangjiazhuang near the Tahe River, and after many inquiries, we finally found the location of Nasuo Luo Village.
The village is a small village with a population of less than 100 people, surrounded by mountains, and the village is full of wooden houses with large chimneys with large peaks, and the smoke from the chimneys floats quietly, looking like an ordinary and peaceful northern village.
When the five of us passed by the entrance of the village, a man of five big and three rough men stopped us.
"Where are you from? What are you doing here? The man asked in a shrill voice.
My eyes widened and I looked at the man carefully, only to see that he was wearing a cotton jacket with flowers on his upper body, leggings and leather boots on his lower body, and his face was heavily smeared, like a Thai ladyboy.
"This ...... This big brother ...... No, eldest sister, we are here to ask our ancestors for divination. I said cautiously.
"The ancestors don't see people casually, and they don't help people with divination easily, where did you come from, or where do you go back." The ladyboy said very politely.
My sister stretched out her right hand to the shemale man, and then pulled up my left hand, palming it against the shemale man.
"The ancestors of your village will definitely like our sister and brother."
The ladyboy man glanced at the palms of the two of us, and only then did he restrain his stinky face a little, and said, "Then I'll take you to the village chief first." ”
Then, the ladyboy led us towards the two-story wooden building in the center of the village.
On the way, we met an old man with white hair, hunched waist, who looked very old, and a little doll of six or seven years old, who looked like his grandson, and the two of them were mending the fence in front of the house.
"Grandpa, hand me the gray knife." The old man said to the child.
"Xiao Chuanzi, just go and move the stones, let me build the wall, don't give it potholes." The boy said.
I opened my mouth wide in astonishment, wondering if I had misheard the convulsions.
How did the identities of this old and young people turn upside down? The old man called the child's grandfather? Children treat old men as grandchildren?
Is this some special custom on the northern border? It's funny, isn't it?
And after the old man and the young man saw the ladyboy man, they all bowed respectfully and said, "Grandma Zhou, where are you going?" ”
"Go and bring these people from other villages to meet the village chief." The shemale man said.
I think it's even more funny, the generations in this village are all messed up, and the gender is all messed up.
At this time, the ladyboy man had already led us into the two-story wooden building.
"Old lady Lin, two people with different lives came from outside the village, and they want to see the ancestor and ask for divination." The shemale man said.
"Well, let them sit down first and have a cup of tea." Said the village chief, who was sitting behind his desk.
And this village chief, who was called Old Lady Lin by a ladyboy man, was actually a young woman, not very good-looking, with a pockmarked face and a bloated figure.
I'm even more curious, what's going on in this Suluo Village?
We sat down one after another, and after my sister communicated with the village chief, he said that he couldn't be the master of this matter, and it still depended on the meaning of the ancestors, and now the ancestors were still sleeping, and when the ancestors woke up, he took us to see the ancestors.
"Among the five of you, there are three Strangers, the Ancestor will definitely be happy to see you, if you are willing to let her live the gluttonous addiction, it is not a problem to ask about divination." The village chief said.
We had to sit and wait for the old ancestor to wake up.
During this time, I felt some discomfort in my throat, so I walked out the door, intending to spit on it, when I happened to see a child sitting cross-legged under the eaves of the porch, playing chess with himself.
"It's boring to play alone, I'll play a game with you." I say.
The boy looked up, winked at me, and said yes.
I sat down in front of him, set out the pieces, and fought with him.
But although this kid is young, his chess skills are perfect, and he has no power to kill me.
"You're so good, is your dad a chess player?" I asked.
"My dad isn't, I am." The kid said.
"What are you kidding, how old are you?" I shook my head.
"When I swept all the major chess players across the country in Shanghai and was awarded the title of 'Seven Provinces Chess King', it was almost your age." The old god of the child said.
I couldn't help but laugh again, what is this kid talking nonsense?
"Don't play it, Zhou has withdrawn." The boy put away the chessboard and the pieces.
I looked at the child's distant back, and muttered ten thousand in my heart.
Someone Zhou?
During the Republic of China, there was indeed a chess master named Zhou Deyu, who was also known as the "Chess King of the Seven Provinces", but Zhou Deyu had already passed away for many years.
Could it be this kid......
In my mind, an electric current instantly stirred!
I seem to have figured out what's going on in this weird village of Soluo!
In Sanskrit, it means "reincarnation"!
At that moment, my sister stepped down the corridor and came to my side.
"Let's go meet an old acquaintance first, I just asked the village chief where he lives."
After that, my sister and I went to a shanty in the far west of the village, found a middle-aged man, and asked him if Chen Sheng lived here.
"Which Chen Sheng? What generations of people? The middle-aged man asked us.
"It seems to be the sixth generation, and I have just been reincarnated in the last two years." My sister said.
"That's him, follow me." The middle-aged man said.
We followed the middle-aged man into a shack, and saw a child who looked to be only three or four years old, sitting on a chaise longue, holding a cigarette in his hand, skillfully swallowing the clouds.
"When you meet your old people in another country, you see your fellow countrymen, Uncle Radish, are you excited?" My sister looked at the child.
The boy turned his head and glanced at me and my sister with a sly glint in his eyes.
"I'm not very excited, because I was stargazing last night, and I figured out that you two were coming." The boy said.
My head is buzzing!
This child, whether it is the tone and expression when he speaks, and the sly eyes, are too familiar to me.
It was Chen Da Radish who hiccuped after passing me the "Four Pillars and Eight Characters Star Life Secret Technique" in Tashan Village!
"Radius...... Uncle Turnip? I looked at the kid in disbelief.
The kid nodded, smiled and said to me, "O sea, have you learned the astrological art I passed on to you?" ”
"I studied very hard, and now I have become a big student." I'm bluffing.
"That's good." Chen Da Radish said.
"So Uncle Turnip...... You are now reincarnated with memories, and the people in this entire village of Suoluo are like this? "I looked at Chen Da Radish.
"Yes, this entire Suluo village is full of people who have reincarnation life, and at least they have experienced the reincarnation of three lives, and they are already tired of the ups and downs of the world, so they live in seclusion here, away from the troubles of the world." Chen Da Radish said.
"What about you...... How many lifetimes have you been through? I asked.
"Counting this life, it has been six generations, and in this Suoluo Village, it can be regarded as a high seniority, and the juniors have to call me a grandfather." Chen Da Radish said.
That's when I realized all the anomalies I had seen in the village before.
The shemale man who dressed as a woman just voted for the wrong gender in this life.
The old man who in turn called the child a grandfather was just because there was no ranking of generations in this village, but the number of reincarnations.
"My thoughts...... It's a bit chaotic now, and I've always thought that Uncle Chen, you were just an ordinary and ordinary country husband. I laughed dryly.
"Although I only learned about this by chance in the years when I left Tashan Village, but if I think about it carefully, I can also find a flaw, how can a country man know the profound and mysterious and abnormal astrological arts? The astral destiny technique has been completely lost since the Ming Dynasty because of Zhu Yuanzhang's order to prohibit it. My sister said.
Chen Da Radish shook his head, saying that this is wrong, the Chen Da Radish who has lived in Tashan Village all his life is indeed just an ordinary and ordinary country husband, that is the rule that people with reincarnation life consciously restrict, live for one life, don't mention the things of the previous life.
"But now, you might want to break that rule." My sister said.
Chen Da Radish extinguished the cigarette butt in his hand and squinted at my sister.
"Since Uncle Chen counted that we were coming, did it count the purpose of our coming? In addition to asking the ancestors of this Suluo Village for divination, we actually have one more thing to ask for. My sister said.
"Forget it, you want to ask me to go out of the mountain to help you, right?" Chen Da Radish said.
My sister bowed slightly.
"It stands to reason that people like us who are tied to the reincarnation of fate have ended the previous life, and in the next life, we will be incognito, and we will no longer be entangled with people who have a causal fate in the previous life, but now the situation is special, if I don't help you, I'm afraid you won't be able to clean up that demon woman." Chen Da Radish sighed.
Then, Chen Da Radish sat up from the recliner.
"Then let's follow you, anyway, the days in this village are really boring."
"You seem to know everything very well." My sister smiled.
"I've lived too long, my days are boring, and from time to time I use some of the techniques I studied in previous lives to see how my relatives and friends in my previous lives are doing, and to see what is new in this world, but I just want to see and don't want to participate more." Chen Da Radish stretched his waist.
"Then why are you going to get involved this time?" My sister asked.
"Because I was not only commissioned by your sisters and brothers, but also by another guy, that guy is three generations higher than me, in this Suluo Village, the same generation as the village chief, second only to the old ancestor, although he is also a guy who doesn't have much ability, but since I want to call him a master, I can't refuse his request." Chen Da Radish said.