Chapter 11: The First Sight of Death
There has always been a saying in Taoism, but all people with mana, before the mana to a higher level, must have a serious illness, it seems that getting sick is a kind of diligence in Taoism, and even some classics point out that Huang Daxian was not feathered before, but also suffered a serious illness, and only after the illness can be refined into the elixir of immortals, and Liu An, the king of Huainan, was even more successful in alchemy after a serious illness, and the idiom that has been passed down to the present - a person who has the Tao chicken dog ascends to heaven, is written by this person. The above is my personal summary, not in the content of that midnight chat, the purpose of writing is to let readers know some of the requirements for becoming an immortal.
I didn't attain enlightenment, let alone become an immortal, but what happened later should be related to this disease, which was when I was in the first grade of elementary school, and I had a serious illness -- chickenpox. As mentioned above, my primary school teacher is called a faint soul, so I don't like to go to school, often find various reasons to pretend to be sick, pretending to be sick for a long time, teachers and parents can't stand it, resulting in many reasons for pretending to be sick will be seen through by parents at a glance, so this time when I just had chickenpox, I said that I was uncomfortable, my mother looked at me, didn't say a word, sent my dad to send me to school. Ay! Lying children let wolves eat them.
It just so happened that the garbage basket at Mr. Hou's house was broken at that time, and my father worked in a metal structure factory, and when he saw my father sending me to school, the teacher hinted that he asked my father to make a white steel garbage basket for her, and the old man vaguely agreed. Because of the fever, I was in a half-dreaming and half-awake state that day, and Mr. Hou took good care of me that day because of the garbage basket, even if I couldn't answer the questions, he didn't trouble me.
The next day, I got up in the morning and began to have a fever, there were a lot of small blisters on my body, my parents were a little panicked, so I found an older person in the neighborhood to see, and the conclusion after reading it was chickenpox, and my mother had no choice but to ask for leave for me, my homeroom teacher knew that chickenpox would take a long time to recover, for her own selfish interests, she actually made up many reasons such as my recent decline in academic performance, not listening carefully in class, and so on, hoping that I could go to class with illness, to put it bluntly, I was afraid that the things promised to her would not be able to get my hands due to illness. My mother was stunned by the teacher's coaxing and intimidation, and when I got home, I was sent to school to continue my classes, I can still remember that it was autumn, I had chills on my body, it was a kind of cold from the crack in the bones, when I exercised between classes, I asked for leave, the teacher disagreed, I had to do exercises with other students, which is also the main reason why I am now crying in the wind. During this period, the teacher also touched my forehead, and I could see from her eyes that she was also scared, after all, my forehead was hot and hot, and I couldn't take medicine, but she still chose desire between desire and conscience.
In this way, I persevered until the fourth day, when the outbreak of chickenpox on a school-wide scale began, and the principal, the team counselor, and the head of each grade group all began to look for the source, and finally I was found. After the school research and decision, everyone agreed that I must go home, at this time Teacher Hou stood up, counted a lot of my problems, zuihou threw down a sentence, this child is a good seedling in the class, grades have always been the top three in the grade, if the rest due to illness, resulting in a decline in grades, she is not responsible. It's still the same sentence, my old man hasn't given her what she wanted, and now put it back, wouldn't the bamboo basket be empty. I really couldn't stand it, "I came back during the final exam, and if I didn't get the top three, I immediately rolled up and went home, and I stopped reading." "Maybe I'm older and more mature in my thinking, and it's the first time I've stood up and argued with her. When I think back to Mr. Hou's eyes at that time, I am terrified.
So the school sent someone to my mother's unit, the brewery in the city to find my mother (the brewery is less than 500 meters away from our school), and asked my mother to pick me up. I had the feeling that on October 1, 1949 -- I was liberated. During the chickenpox period, you must pay attention to avoid eating raw and cold, sweating more, resting more, and you must not squeeze the blisters, which will leave pits. The funniest thing during this period is that I want to drink soda, but I can't eat raw and cold, so the old man boiled the soda for me and gave it to me to drink......
In about half a month, my illness was basically cured, and the blisters on my body turned into black blood scabs, and then the blood scabs slowly fell off on their own. On the upper side of my left arm, near my armpit, there were three small pits, the finished font, which was the mark of chickenpox that had been inadvertently crushed.
This time, my mother didn't urge me to go to school anymore, I played for a whole semester, it was so cool, which is why I kept emphasizing that I was not a good student since I was a child (but my grades have always been good). During this period, the head teacher made up lessons for the students in the class almost every day, for two reasons, one was to collect make-up fees, and the other was to fight with me. What's even more ruthless is that before the exam, she actually found a secretary general of the Municipal Education Bureau and got the test paper of the final exam of that year from him. We were all arranged to go to the secretary-general's house to make up for the whole fifth and sixth grades, and Mr. Hou was able to get the final exam papers in advance every year.
After the end of the final exam, I still took the third place in the grade when the other party knew the exam questions, and when Mr. Hou was about to give me small shoes to wear, the old man's things were delivered, plus some fruits or something, after all, it was almost the New Year, and this matter passed in a daze.
After I recovered from my illness and went to school, I was in the fifth grade of elementary school, and since then, I can sometimes see some strange sights. There is a female colleague in my mother's unit, nicknamed "Crazy", because she is crazy no matter what she says or does, and the funniest thing is that this person is so big, there are people who know some fortune tellers on weekdays to tell everyone fortunes for free, but they don't give her calculations. She herself wondered, so she spent money to find someone to calculate it for him under the White Tower, but every stall was asked eight characters, and she didn't talk about her life and sent off guests. I now take her eight characters when I have nothing to do, row through the four columns, walk through the six, after reading it, I finally understand that weishenme everyone does not tell her fortunes, and she weishenme is crazy again.
Her son was in the same school as me, but two grades younger than me, and sometimes after school, my son, and a few other children whose parents all worked in the brewery would go to their parents' unit together, sometimes to take a shower, sometimes to wait for their parents to get off work.
Usually it's nothing, but after I recovered from my illness, I saw this child that day, his half-pulled head was flat, bleeding from his seven orifices, and his body was completely covered by blood, I was frightened, I rubbed my eyes, and took a closer look, it was okay, he was still him, I thought I was dazzled, and I didn't take it seriously. After school the next afternoon, I was walking to the school gate, because I had made an appointment with a few children to gather at the gate and go to the parent unit together, but there was a commotion at the door, and then someone shouted "Crush people to death!" "I hurriedly ran out, and saw that the child was half-pulled under the wheels, and there was blood on the ground, and my brain was blank at that time, and the parents in the mother's unit heard that the child had been crushed to death, and they all rushed to run, and the "madman" was lying on the ground crying, and I was pulled home by my mother. I still remember that the fate of a "madman" is to be poor all his life and die childless!
That night I dreamed of my uncle's dead brother, I remember that I zuihou saw my brother once, his face was pale, and he spat out of his mouth, but the image stayed for a short time, that is, for a moment, there was no real look this time, I didn't take it seriously at the time, I thought it was my brother's saliva, until my brother drowned in the swimming pool, and then thought of what happened today, I woke up from the dream. My parents thought I was scared by the accident and kept comforting me, but I knew what was going on.
After a long time of anxiety, nothing like anything like this happened, and my hanging heart finally let go. It wasn't until the parent-teacher conference in the first semester of sixth grade that I saw this situation again. It happened that I was on duty that day, and I left a little late, and the parents entered the classroom one after another, and I found that the parents of the female classmate surnamed Li were different from other parents. Because it was autumn, I didn't wear much, the female classmate's mother was wearing a dress, but in the neck, wrists and other exposed places, there were red traces, very faint, I rubbed my eyes and disappeared, after a while I found a reason to enter the classroom, secretly glanced a few times, and saw red traces again, and this time it was more obvious than the last time, there were a lot of red marks on the exposed parts of the body, and her father's neck had a third of the red traces, but I didn't see blood or other things, I couldn't figure it out at the time, I just didn't think about it. The next day, I intentionally or unintentionally clicked on the female classmate.,Ya is very smug on weekdays.,Anyway, I feel like she's not taking it seriously.,It's going to rain and I'm going to get married.,Let her go.。
Until I graduated from high school, I didn't hear anything happened, and slowly I forgot about it, until I was in college, one day in the group of elementary school classmates, someone said that something big happened to Li Moumou (my female classmate) family, saying that someone outside her mother was found by her father, and her father hacked her mother to death in anger, and split the body, and the body was not complete until Zuihou, and her father also wiped his neck and committed suicide. What made everyone most uncomfortable was the tragic situation that Li Moumou found out as soon as he came back from school, and we couldn't contact her anymore after this incident.
After talking about this, I want to say one more thing: the so-called death appearance, which is the appearance of a person when he dies, belongs to a kind of supernatural power in Taoism, and "Great Sage, receive supernatural powers." "It's the same, but there are congenital and acquired, if someone around the official ignites you, please be careful (at least die a better death).
In a flash, I graduated from elementary school, said goodbye to the small bean bag, and went directly to the big schoolbag, I was ready to go to junior high school, which is exactly "spring is not a day to read, summer is just sleeping, there are mosquitoes in autumn and snow in winter, pack up the schoolbag for the New Year." ”
to be continued