Chapter 15 The Masters of the World
Why the old man laughed and didn't mention it for the time being. At this time, I carefully lit up the old man. In appearance, he doesn't look like a hundred years old at all, he is in his seventies, although there are wrinkles on his face, they are not very deep, and his mouth is full of teeth, which should be dentures. The movements are not the kind of faltering looks I imagined, nor are they like the dragon clock with long beards and long eyebrows in movies and television. No wonder the third uncle is so attached to the old man. It turns out that the old man has a similar personality to the third uncle, and he is also a bold person. The two have endless things to say when they meet......
The nanny brought a tea bowl and poured tea and water. We also sat down, and there were a few chairs next to the stone table, which showed that people often came to see the old man. After a while, the nanny brought some fruit and said, "Everyone taste it, this is all ...... in their own yard." ...... "It seems that these are all colleagues of the third uncle back then, and some of them even picked up the third uncle, asked each other about the situation at home, and mentioned the past, everyone kept talking about it, and laughed from time to time. A leader-like person picked up his mobile phone, said a few words, and then said to everyone, everyone don't leave today, I have notified the high food department of the factory canteen, prepare a table, I have long wanted to invite Uncle Xuan and this group of buddies back then, I haven't found a chance, and I just have a drink today...... Then he looked at the three of us, and then said, "The factory is not far away, out of the courtyard, on the opposite side." After that, he said to the old man: "Uncle Xuan, the factory you built back then, let's visit ...... today."
It turned out that this person was the current director of a factory founded by Uncle Xuan back then. After that, led by the factory director, Lin Feng and I went up to help Grandpa Xuan, and the old man waved his hand to stop it, and followed with a cane on the faucet. After going around the factory for a while, the old man sighed with emotion. After that, I came to the side of the canteen and listed the "High Dining Department", which seemed to be the place where the factory entertained guests. There is no need to write in detail below, after the old man finished eating, the two girls sent it back, and the third uncle continued to drink, and a group of people talked about the past while drinking, crying and laughing for a while, and the trouble was not dispersed until more than 10 o'clock. We were also arranged in the factory guest house. The next morning, I washed up in the guest house, which also had a cafeteria, and had breakfast. The four of us visited the Chen Mansion again, and the old man knew that we were coming, so he was already waiting in the pavilion, and there was an extra wooden box on the stone table at this time. Stepping into the topic, the third uncle said: "Uncle Xuan, these three children are ......" Before the third uncle finished speaking, the old man took over the topic: "I know what they are coming for!" I knew it when you told me the child's name yesterday! This is providence, I have been waiting for you for many years! "We were all stunned. The old man smiled and said, "Sit down and listen to me slowly!" ”
The old man took a sip of tea and said, "Do you know the 'Jiashen Change'? The third uncle was stunned at that time, squeaked up, and I said weakly: "Is it Li Zicheng who entered Beijing?" The old man laughed and said, "The future is terrible, but the children can be taught!" So the old man began to tell the story......
It is said that at the beginning of the reign of Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, he invited too many people. The master gave him two clever plans, one was to let him build a stable behind the palace, raise a good horse, set up a groom to take care of it, and feed and walk the horses every day. If the horse is old, change it to another one and continue to raise it. Emperor Chongzhen began to raise horses according to the instructions of the masters, but later felt that it was useless, and when the horses were old, they withdrew, and did not continue! When the city of Jiashennian was broken, Emperor Chongzhen hanged the coal mountain, if he hadn't given up raising horses at that time, then he would have been able to escape on horseback at that time. This second plan is a trick to tell him to open in a critical moment. Later, Li Zicheng's army pressed forward step by step, the official army was defeated and retreated, Emperor Chongzhen opened the bag, it turned out that there was a note in the bag, on which the words "break the thief's dragon vein" were written, so he immediately gave a secret decree to Wang Qiaonian, the governor of Shaanxi......
One day in the fifteenth year of Ming Chongzhen, Li Zicheng's hometown, Mizhi County, Shaanxi Province, received a case from the county commander Bian Dashou that a farmer selling garlic sued the government officials of the government for robbing him of garlic. This was an ordinary case, but the farmer kept kowtowing during his kneeling process, and climbed to Bian Dashou and patted him on the foot. Bian Dashou felt that there was another article in this, and brought the garlic seller into the back hall, retreated left and right, and the garlic seller took off his hat, took out the secret decree from it, and said: "I am a secret envoy of the inner court, and the stakes are very high, and I am afraid that the news will leak, so I have to act like this!" Bian Dashou looked at the secret decree, which was to ask him to dig up the ancestral grave of the thief and cut off his dragon vein. nodded, and then continued to ascend, asked his subordinates to compensate the garlic seller for the loss, and sent him away.
After the secret envoy left, Bian Dashou was "sticky to the pancreas", where to find the ancestral grave of the thief? Where is the dragon vein? When he was restless and restless, his confidant Jia Huan, seeing that the adult was like this, quietly asked: "I don't know what the adult is worried about when he is so anxious?" Bian Dashou told him about the secret decree, and said: "This is a secret decree, you can't make a big show, how can you find it!" And doing this is also a lack of morality, the risk is extremely high, now the Ming Dynasty is not safe, once this matter is known by Li Zicheng, I can be full of suffering! ”
Jia Huan said: "The adults have found the right person when they look for me, I know!" When Bian Dashou heard it, he really wanted to eat hail on ice! So I asked him how he knew. Jia Huan said: "There is a catcher named Zhang Zixiang in our yamen, in fact, he is not surnamed Zhang, surnamed Li, called Li Zixiang, is the biological brother of the thief Li Zicheng, he has secretly worshipped with more than 20 people, and I am one of the worshippers when the thieves attack!" If you want to find out the location of his ancestral grave, you can bow to him, and then slowly figure out a way later. So, Bian Dashou called Li Zixiang and asked, "Your surname is Li, why did you change your surname to Zhang?" Li Zixiang was about to defend himself, but Jia Huan came out and said, "Brother Li doesn't have to hide it, I have told the truth to the adults!" Li Zixiang hurriedly knelt down and begged for mercy, and Bian Dashou stepped forward to help him up and said, "Don't be afraid!" I also see that the court is precarious, and I want to find a way out and make friends with you. Li Zixiang was overjoyed and immediately bowed to Bian Dashou. Subsequently, Bian Dashou and Li Zixiang were superiors and subordinates, and they were sworn brothers.
What Zhang Zixiang didn't expect at all was that Bian Dashou had only one purpose in doing this, that is, to gradually find out the specific location of Li Zicheng's ancestral grave. Bian Dashou also secretly sent someone to investigate, and learned that Li Zicheng's grandfather's name was Li Hai, his father's name was Li Shouzhong, and after his death, a fellow villager named Li Cheng participated in the burial.
So Bian Dashou made up his mind on Zhang Zixiang, drank and had fun with Zhang Zixiang every day, took advantage of Zhang Zixiang's drunkenness, chatted about the art of feng shui, and praised the ancestral tomb of the Li family must have been selected in an excellent place, Zhang Zixiang was very proud, so he said the location of the ancestral tomb, Bian Dashou also invited him to go with him in the name of hunting, and went to Sanfengzi Mountain to secretly confirm the specific location of the ancestral tomb of the Li family.
Soon got the news that Li Zicheng's troops were about to invade Tongguan, Bian Dashou gave Zhang Zixiang 7,000 taels of silver, and asked him to go to King Chuang, help him pull the relationship, and also sent his 20 sworn worshippers to go together to take Zhang Zixiang away, Bian Dashou was not at ease, and sent Jia Huan to secretly follow and confirm that he had left, so he took 30 archers and 60 villagers, and invited Li Cheng as a guide to travel 130 miles in a day and night to reach Sanfengzi Mountain. It happened that there was heavy snowfall at that time, more than two feet deep, and the mountain road was steep and slippery, so it was impossible to ride a horse. Bian Dashou led everyone to dismount and walk five or six miles, the bird road is rugged, there are no traces of people for a long time, open the road and climb up, and finally arrive at the cemetery of Li Zicheng's ancestors, here is surrounded by mountains on all sides, the spirit is magnificent, the forest is full of trees, no less than 1,000 trees, 23 large and small tombs. According to Li Cheng, a total of three holes were found when he was buried, two were buried, one was used as a tomb, because it was dim, and the black bowl was lit with a black bowl, and then the black bowl was buried in the tomb, so it was found that there was a black bowl.
After digging up five or six seats, no black bowl was found, at this time it was late, everyone stayed in the cemetery for one night, and the next day finally locked the tomb of Li Hai through the black bowl, and Li Shouzhong's tomb was also found, there was an elm tree on the top, the branches and leaves were strange, cut it with an axe, the tree was broken and the tomb was opened, and there was a white snake coiled in the coffin, which was one foot two inches long. When the tomb was opened, he jumped up two zhang high and fell back into the tomb, Bian Dashou carefully observed, and saw that the snake's head horn had become a dragon, and his eyes had not yet been cleaned, and his body had not changed. After the white snake left the cave, I saw black hair growing more than seven inches on Li Shouzhong's body! Bian Dashou ordered that all the graves of those with hairy bones should be cut down and excavated, and they would be burned by fire, which was not the end, but also cut down more than 1,300 big trees in the nearby mountains and forests to cut off their mountain ranges. Go back and write a Tang newspaper: The reverse tomb has been broken, the king's anger has been vented, and the thief should be self-defeating! Together with the wooden box, it was reported to Wang Qiaonian. On the same day, Li Zicheng's army was defeated in Henan and blinded by a stray arrow.
I don't want to, it won't be completely broken like this! The correct way to do this is to hold the dragon slaying sword, recite the dragon slaying formula, and break the dragon, that is, the snake, in two! Of course, this person who can break the dragon vein must also be a real dragon! But others didn't understand, and they only took the little dragon away, which couldn't completely solve the problem, so Chongzhen was forced to death by Li Zicheng later. Let the Qing court benefit! They don't understand, but someone does! The Qing Dynasty believed in shamanism, and the shamans of the Qing court understood this!
After that, the Ming army was defeated and retreated, and the country was not protected, and some people in Mizhi County were worried that they would be affected by Bian Dashou and retaliated by Li Zicheng, so some people conspired to capture Bian Dashou and sacrifice it to Li Zicheng for self-protection......