Chapter 3: Superstition or Science
After a while, the old lady of the Zhang family came back, and brought a person, it was their village chief, who was here to be a guarantor, don't look at her thin body, but her pace was very fast, and she came to the hall from the door in a few steps, and the village chief was left far behind. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
She held a pen and paper in her hand and a newly bought ink, and said as she walked: "I have kept you waiting for a long time, I have long thought that you are coming, but I didn't expect to buy these things, alas! When I'm older, my brain is not enough, and my thinking is too simple. ”
Mom and Dad quickly stood up, and the old lady motioned for them to sit down, and after a while, the old lady wrote a large note, and read it out in public, which probably meant that I was temporarily placed in her foster care, during which my freedom was not restricted, and my parents could come to see me at any time, and she was fully responsible for any mistakes, and she was responsible for all the expenses of my daily life and study, and accepted me as a godgrandson.
In the end, the old lady did not forget to write the date, signed her name, and pressed a handprint, and then handed it to the village chief, and also signed and pressed the handprint.
My parents began to become embarrassed, and my father asked awkwardly, "But how can my child cause you trouble here for no reason?" ”
The old lady waved her hand and said loudly: "People like us believe in fate the most, everything is fate!" Dadu, you take Xiaoyi to the village entrance store to buy some delicious food. With that, the old lady handed the little fat man five yuan.
The fat man took me to the commissary at the entrance of the village, bought two popsicles, and used the rest of the money to buy a pack of cigarettes.
Watching the fat man take a hard puff with a cigarette in his mouth, and then his face was filled with a happy expression, I was stunned, it turned out that mentally handicapped children also like to smoke.
"Pump! You're welcome! "The fat man didn't forget to urge me.
I nodded, looked at the fat man who had completely changed his appearance, and asked, "Aren't you mentally retarded?" ”
The fat man gave me a blank look and said, "I just don't have a good brain, grandma said that when I was still in my mother's womb, I went to an unclean place and was contaminated with evil spirits, so I am like this." ”
"What is it?" I asked, confused.
The fat man took a puff of cigarette and thought for a long time before he said: "In the mountains east of the village, there is a mass grave. ”
I thought to myself, the fat man must have a bad brain, otherwise how could he drill into a mass grave with a big belly? I didn't ask any more questions, and the two of them smoked half a pack in a few moments.
When we went back, the adults had already left the hall and came to the gate of the courtyard, and I vaguely heard the voice of the old lady in the courtyard: "Xiaoyi is the destiny of heaven, and there will be great people in the future. ”
Then there was another greeting, followed my parents out, they were no longer sad, but looked very happy, my father came to me, said to me: "In the future, listen to my mother-in-law, your mother and I will often come to see you, and you will go back to see when you are homesick." ”
Looking at their distant backs, I didn't feel too sad, maybe because of their young age.
"Alright, Xiaoyi, come with me." The old lady whispered.
The fat man and I followed her to a side room in the backyard, and I had heard that the house was full of yellow paper charms, paper tie people, and all kinds of eerie things.
But this room is different, there is no clutter in it, it is very clean, a simple table of eight immortals, and there is an old portrait on the table, which is an old man with fairy wind and bones.
There is a strange painting on the wall on both sides, the things on the painting are very strange, not landscape figures, but some small dots arranged horizontally and vertically, there are circles, a little dot, at first glance, the mind is dizzy, the dots on it seem to be moving slowly, the more you concentrate on looking, the faster the dots move.
"Are you interested in this picture? What do you see? At this time, the mother-in-law suddenly asked.
I don't know why, when I looked at this painting again, it seemed that the stars were twinkling in front of me, and suddenly I was in a trance, and I saw the green trees again, and in the blink of an eye, the sky was full of snow, and the grass and trees withered, and the cycle continued.
The mother-in-law nodded and sighed, "It's worthy of a psychic eye!" It's a blessing in disguise. ”
At the time, I didn't understand what she meant, so I looked at her stupidly, waiting for her to follow.
After a while, the mother-in-law continued: "The art of exorcism is too hurtful, looking at yin and yang, and breaking the blessing and misfortune psychic eye far surpasses me, and now I will teach you some methods that are easy to reason with." ”
I thought about it, and then I was too young, and I said, "But the teacher said that these things are all lies." ”
The mother-in-law was not angry, but laughed and said: "Mother-in-law is different from those liars, mother-in-law knows everything that has a scientific basis, but there are some things that science can't explain now, but our ancestors have passed down these things." ”
I nodded as if I didn't understand, and then my mother-in-law told me many things that I hadn't heard in class, although I didn't understand it at the time, but I remembered it in my heart.
For example, traditional Chinese medicine pays attention to the balance of yin and yang, dredging the meridians, and often seems to be mixed with drugs that are unrelated to the disease, but it can balance yin and yang and cure the disease.
What are meridians? No one has ever seen it, but Chinese medicine can dredge it through acupuncture, medicine and other methods, which is also scientifically inexplicable.
What is this "qi" that is said to nourish qi in traditional Chinese medicine? Science still can't explain it.
Practice has proved that the traditional Chinese medicine handed down by our ancestors, no matter from which aspect, has left behind Western medicine, which has only developed for hundreds of years.
In other words, Chinese medicine is a paranormal phenomenon in some ways.
For example, the two paintings on this wall, the river map and the Luo book, which contain mathematical logic, and there are yin and yang, King Fuxi actually figured out a line from the river map, this line runs through the change of stars, the alternation of seasons, the law of the rise and fall of plants and trees, and he deduced the yin and yang gossip according to the river map, and modern computers, isn't it also the principle of mathematical operation?
Mr. Weng Wenbo's "Periodic Table of the Rise and Fall of Nations" is to deduce the rise and fall of a dynasty through the operation of numbers, and it is relatively accurate, is this also superstition?
That day, my mother-in-law told me a lot, from ancient times to the present, from domestic to foreign, from yin and yang to mathematical operations, so that there are some things that I still haven't fully understood, but fortunately I have memorized them by rote.
Since then, every day after school, I have followed my mother-in-law to study the Book of Changes, deduce gossip, and be geographically good, but I have neglected the art of yin and yang, and the fat man is always lying on his stomach and falling asleep.
In addition to this, I also had the task of quietly telling my mother-in-law every time the faint green smoke gushed out of the fat man's back again, and she would put on a pair of special light gauze gloves soaked in herbs and grab the green smoke directly.