Lao Loach's home is located in a new village of old-fashioned workers in Zhabei District, Shencheng, and from my shop, you only need to transfer to two subway lines to go directly to the subway station near his home. The old houses around his community have been demolished due to municipal engineering reconstruction, but their nearly 30-year-old district is just sandwiched between the two project plots and has not been moved.

The old loach's house is in the innermost building of this community, all the way in from the community, you can see that most of the residents here are elderly people, although the popularity is not enough, but it also seems quiet and tidy, and the flower beds are also lush.

I walked to the innermost unit 6, and 307 on the third floor.

The old-fashioned public houses in this neighborhood are only three floors, with about 20 households on each floor, and a long balcony corridor leading to guò, like many elementary school classrooms, with a staircase at each end of the building.

Going up to the third floor, the hallway is the shoe cabinets, garbage cans and other miscellaneous items placed in front of the doors of each house, and looking up is the clothes drying on the balcony of each family, I walked to the middle, while trying to avoid the various pants and bras hanging on the top of my head, although there is not much feng shui exquisite, but it is indeed quite awkward to walk around from under these dripping things.

Approaching the door number, I already heard the chanting sound from the Buddhist chanting machine in the house, and I thought that the mourning hall had been almost decorated.

The door is not closed, and half of the front hall has been filled with various flower baskets, all of which are hung with the couplets of various guests, and I think they are all units where the old loach has worked, and some are the names of my college classmates who are familiar to me, and there are street ones, customer units and the like.

Walked to a large room inside, which has been converted into a mourning hall, TJ and Dahong are chatting with a few old aunts in their fifties, and when they saw me coming, they introduced that these are old neighbors nearby, and they usually take care of each other.

After saying hello, he bowed to the old loach's spiritual position, and then went to another room to see, this was originally the old loach's study, and now the single bed next door has been moved here, and the pillow is covered, and there is a pair of slippers next to the bed, I understand that this is for the old loach to return to the soul for seven nights.

In the afternoon, except for some neighbors and street cadres who came one after another, and the relics of the old loaches I packed were delivered by courier, no one came, maybe it was a weekday.

The three of them had nothing to do in the mourning hall, so they smoked and chatted, and by the way, they also inserted three mint-flavored double happiness cigarettes into the old loach's incense burner. We used to be good brothers who played mahjong in a bar together, but now there is one person, only a photo is left to look at us, and I can't hear his hearty laughter anymore, and I can't help but sigh.

At dinner, Kraft Candy and Qin Youqing also came with the valve core, and they all explained the progress of the completion of the division of labor, and the time for the funeral was scheduled for this weekend, and the guests were all in place.

Since we don't know the specific date of birth of the old loach, I can only count the first six characters of his eight characters according to the date of birth on the ID card, and then calculate the specific time of the first seven according to the six characters, which is next Wednesday night.

The valve core said at this time, contacted the bank and the insurance company in the afternoon, the bank deposit is not much, and there is no money to make up the arrears of the credit card, but when contacting the insurance company, the salesman said that the old loach has been buying life insurance for many years, and the previous beneficiary was written as his grandfather, and then the grandfather died, so the beneficiary was replaced by a charitable foundation, but half a month ago, the name was changed to mine.

But I didn't know, so I asked the valve core insurance company if there was any other explanation, and he spread his hands and said that there was no more information.

Da Hong scratched his head and said: "I think the old loach must think that Zang Daguan is kind and helpful to people, and he has also opened a Buddhist bead shop, and he will also help people tell fortunes and read hexagrams or something. ”

Everyone nodded in agreement, but I vaguely felt that things were not as simple as they imagined, why was it half a month ago?

And not long after the change, he died suddenly, isn't it doubtful? But digging deeper, I couldn't find any clue, and now the only way to find the answer was to wait for the old loach's bardo body to come and talk to me in person, and when I thought of this, I looked up at his photo again, and I shuddered unconsciously.

Time soon came to the funeral ceremony, there were more people than imagined that day, in addition to the colleagues and leaders of the advertising company at the end of the old loach, there were also a lot of people from several previous companies, and we also met a number of college classmates, the eulogy was read out by the vice president of his company, introducing the life of the old loach, what work hard, outstanding performance, jealousy of talents and a lot of other clichés, except for a few little girls like Merry whimpering and sobbing a few times, no one cried and yelled, although it seems a little too calm, but a qiē is still smooth.

Since there were no immediate relatives, the ceremony of carrying the coffin was done by our brothers, and I took one last look at the old loach's coffin, and his makeup was very good, and he had no dark circles under his eyes, and his face was ruddy, and his beard was cleanly shaved.

After closing the coffin, I carried him all the way into the back hall and finally on the way to the morgue room, I kept reciting the mantra for him until I was stopped by the staff outside the iron door of the cremation room. I only heard the kraft candy muttering to himself inside the iron door: "Brother, we can only send you here, and there will be no one to play with you in the future, what do you need, remember to dream about it." ”

Everyone folded their hands and bowed to the door a few times, then turned back and went out to entertain the guests to eat tofu rice, and did not repeat it.

The mourning hall of the old loach's family has not been broken for seven, so it has been set up, and a few enthusiastic old neighbors and aunts offered to help take turns guarding it, and we are naturally very grateful. said that I would do it on the first seven days.

The day after the funeral, or Sunday, the business in the store was much better than usual, I arrived at the store early, after the incense on the Buddhist platform, I hid in the meditation room alone and meditated with my eyes closed.

At first, my father lied to me that it was because I was always deserting in class, and the teacher complained that I had ADHD, so he forced me to practice this kung fu to learn to be centered, and then I realized that it was just a white lie, because meditation is a compulsory basic course for every yin and yang artist, and only through guò meditation can I make my thoughts enter the deep depths and make the functions of the five internal organs of the body completely opened.

In the view of martial arts practitioners, traditional Chinese medicine, Taoist priests and others, after opening up the Ren pulse on the front and the Du pulse on the back, the essence of the person can fall from the dantian in the abdomen in a circular trend, through the perineal acupoint, through the anus and up along the yellow midline on the back through the jade pillow acupoint to the top of the head Baihui, and then through the Baihui acupoint divided into two ways down the ears and cheeks, to the upper jaw, through the guò tongue tip and the upper jaw docking, this essence is then poured through the throat to the chest and dantian.

Martial arts practitioners pass guò to open up the two veins of Ren Du to regulate qi and detoxify, what is written in many martial arts novels is highly poisonous, and then sit down and luck, you can spurt out a mouthful of poisonous blood and the like, this is how you use it.

In traditional Chinese medicine, the qi and veins circulate around the body, and the uncomfortable area is where the lesion is located, and the right medicine can be prescribed.

For the Taoist Nei Dan technique, this is the process of opening up the Xiao Zhou Tian, and the circulation of luck can make the mouth secrete an extremely fragrant jin liquid - after swallowing, it can prolong life and rejuvenate.

Although our Zang family's meditation is roughly similar to these methods, there are also differences. In addition to the process of qi and blood circulation that can be perceived by the human body physically, it is also necessary to use the mind to reverse the circulation, simply put, the essence is from front to back and from bottom to top; And the mind has to go from the back to the front, from the top down.

Ordinary meditation only needs to spread the hands on the knees, or put the palms together in the dantian, and we need to bend the four fingers of both hands together, one up and down the palms of each other, the fingertips touch, and the two thumbs are attached to the palms, which is called "Yin and Yang Taiji Mudra", also referred to as "Heaven and Earth Seal".

As for what is the highest level of this kind of kung fu, no one can say clearly, according to my father, in the written records of my ancestors, some people say that they can resist all kinds of diseases and do not need to take medicine for life; Some people say that they can see through walls and hear 100 meters; There are even records that it is possible to separate the soul and the flesh, and the soul can fly outside the world to talk to the immortal Buddha......

I don't know if it's true or not. But my father's own personal experience is to guess objects in the air, this game I did when I was a child, hiding something behind his back, let him guess, every shot. I think he can speculate so well in stocks, which must have something to do with this ability.

As for me, to be honest, except for the fact that I feel physically healthy and have strong immunity, I haven't felt any other magical powers. But that's what I've learned a lot from, because when others have a fever and a cold and need days to recover, I only need to meditate for half an hour and then I'm alive again.

By the way, in recent years, some small changes have been discovered, that is, after closing your eyes and entering the meditation, you can hear the sound of blood flowing in the pipes in your body, and even the rumbling sound of your stomach and intestines digesting food; If you meditate in the dark, you can see countless points of light floating around you like dandelions, but you don't feel anything else.

Today, I am practicing meditation again, firstly, to relieve the fatigue of the past few days, and secondly, to continue to work towards the miraculous powers that my ancestors have achieved in legends.

Sitting cross-legged with the "seal of heaven and earth" in the hand, you can settle down in less than a few minutes after closing your eyes, and your muscles and bones begin to slowly soothe in the gurgling sound of qi and veins, which is like lying down in the jacuzzi and soaking in a fragrant bubble bath when you are tired and exhausted and your bones are about to fall apart, but the pleasure of meditation is a hundred times more than that of bathing.

At this time, the mind began to enter a state of chaos, as if he was asleep, but in fact, he understood that he was not asleep, all his thoughts were completely empty without leaving a trace of thought, and the whole person seemed to be floating in endless space, you can be a planet, you can be a speck of dust, or just a ray of light...... To achieve this state, it is generally necessary to practice meditation for more than an hour every day, and you can experience it after practicing it for seven or eight years.

"Zang Dao Zen, Zang Dao Zen!?" A woman's voice.

This is who is screaming! I tried to open my eyes and criticize the guy who interrupted my practice, how many times have I told them that as long as there is a Do Not Disturb sign on the door of the meditation room, there is no reason to disturb me, who is so bold to break the old rules!

I was about to get angry, but I realized that something was wrong, and I couldn't open my eyes—or rather, I had tried to keep my eyes open and I couldn't see anything; I wanted to scream, but I couldn't make a sound with my mouth open; I want to get up - but where is my body?! Where's my hands and feet?!

I can't feel the existence of the flesh at all!!