Chapter 34: Uncle's Reminiscences
"Zang Daguan, what kind of princess and Gege, how can you talk nonsense without drinking!" Jin Facai grabbed his head on the side, looked at me for a while, and then looked back at Ah Zi's reaction.
As soon as I said it, Ah Zi's face immediately froze, I knew that something was wrong, so I hurriedly asked again: "I see that your eight characters are different from ordinary people, and there should be no such fate in today's society." But considering that you are an ethnic minority, so dare to guess, your parents' palace is arrogant and full of anger, rich in wealth compared to the sky, and the power can kill all sides. Could it be that Miss Ah Zi is ...... the emperor? β
As I spoke, I looked at Ah Zi's expression, from surprise to panic, and finally choked up and asked, "You, who are you?" β
I didn't answer her words directly, but continued: "It's a pity, Ah Zi, you are all yin, if there is a trace of yang or you are a boy, you will not be able to overcome your fate, and you can even create a bigger world than your parents, but now this pattern has encountered the luck of the passing years, what a disaster!" β¦β¦ But fortunately, after all, the overall pattern is strong and prosperous, and the probability of turning evil into good fortune is still very large! Just your parents...... Maybe I'll have to save you a lot of disasters! β
I stared at Ah Zi as I spoke, and the playful and lively appearance I had before had long since disappeared. Seeing that her tears couldn't stop dripping, her red lips twitched over there, which made people feel pity.
Jin Facai was baffled, but seeing Ah Zi's expression, he should naturally know that I was not talking nonsense, seeing that he didn't know what to say for a while, he just kept "Don't cry, oh mom, don't cry girl, oh mom~"
Just as I was waiting for Ah Zi to give me a little feedback on the calculation, I saw my uncle tilt his neck and drink the full glass of liquor in the cup, suddenly stood up, grabbed my arm and said, "It's not convenient to talk here, you come with me!" β
was suddenly grabbed by my uncle and walked in, I couldn't help but feel a shock in my heart, I don't know if it was murderous or lucky. Looking back at Jin Facai again, I saw that he said "keep up" and grabbed Ah Zi's wrist, pulled her behind us, and when I saw him, he squeezed his eyes at me, and squinted at his hand holding Ah Zi.
At first, I thought that he didn't forget to eat Ah Zi Tofu at this time, and I was secretly angry, but when I looked at him blinking, I immediately understood that this fat man is usually five big and three thick, but he is really long-hearted at a critical time.
He saw Uncle holding my hand and wasn't sure what would happen, so he simply changed one person for another, and he also grabbed Ah Zi's hand, once Uncle treated me well, he also had a hostage in his hand, smart!
But I was still not very relieved, so I decided to take advantage of the time when my uncle was pulled up the stairs of the back room to calculate the bad luck.
As a group of four people scurried along a symmetrical double row of stairs, they glanced at the three bunches of corn hanging on the staircase fence. I took the plum blossom easy to follow the hexagram technique, and immediately secretly occupied a hexagram in my heart.
Left and right stairs, two front and two back hand in hand, three bunches of corn...... Seven, seven, eight, and eight will combine the scenes in their eyes, and there is, Shangkun and Xiaqian, Tai Hexagram!
That is, the Thai hexagram, that should be auspicious. The lord of Tai is small and large, otherwise Ji Tai Lai, will be because of a small thing and all the way forward, get greater achievements, then don't worry about it, wait and see what happens.
The four of them went all the way to the second floor of the inner room, which was a rest area of the owner's house in the back hall of the entire hotel, and entered a room, which was not grandly furnished, but it was exotic.
Looking around, there are some Buddhist paintings hanging on the wall, there is an offering table in the center of the house, and in the middle is a seated statue of Godama Buddha of Theravada Buddhism, in front of the sitting statue are two wordless tablets, and in front of the tablet are offerings such as incense, candles, flowers and fruits.
There was also a square table and a few chairs, and some kettles and tea bowls on the table. A curtain was drawn in the house, the curtain was half-covered, revealing half of the bed, perhaps the uncle's bedroom.
When the four of them entered the house, my uncle let go of my hand, turned around and walked to the door, looked out left and right, and then closed the door. Looking at Jin Facai again, although he had also let go of the hand holding Ah Zi, he was still standing close behind Ah Zi, looking around the room with a stern expression.
Without waiting for us to ask, Uncle suddenly knelt down in front of the offering table and kowtowed to the Buddha statue and tablet, muttering something to himself, but it was not Chinese, and after listening carefully, it was not the pronunciation of Yunnan dialect, but more like the Pali language often used in communication between monks of Southern Buddhism, but because his voice was very soft, he did not understand what was being said.
Although I know Pali, since I was a child, I have been exposed to more Sanskrit languages of Mahayana Buddhism, and my understanding of Theravada Buddhism is only scratching.
But since Uncle is a faithful Buddhist, no matter what kind of Buddhism it is, he should be a person with good thoughts, right?
After muttering for about three to five minutes, Uncle got up and motioned for us to sit down at the table and chair next to him, and he took a one-foot-long bamboo tube from the corner wall, broke a few pieces of tea from it and put it into the kettle on the table, made tea with boiling water from a thermos, and then gave each of us a porcelain bowl. Within a few minutes, the tea had already evaporated a light fragrance.
I know that this is a unique bamboo tube tea in Yunnan, the way to make zuΓ² is unique, and the storage time can also be very long, I have heard of it, but I have never drunk it. I was lucky enough to give it a try today.
Ah Zi poured half a bowl for each of our several bowls, out of caution, I first pretended to blow cold, while secretly looking at Ah Zi and her uncle with my spare eyes, and kicked Jin Facai's leg under the table, he immediately understood, and simply didn't even serve the bowl.
"Hey!" Uncle's sigh broke the long dead silence, and after he took a sip of tea: "This little master, you are not wrong at all." β
At this time, Ah Zi's eyes still showed signs of crying, she wiped the corners of her eyes, and said, "Zang Daguan, fortunately, I have met you in the bar before, and I know that you are not a bad person." Otherwise, if you talk like this today, I would have thought you were from there. β
"From there? Over there...... Which side is it? I picked up the bowl and took a sip of tea, and it was really fragrant.
"Oh! Don't say it, I'll guess and see if I'm right! Jin Facai saw that I had relaxed my vigilance at this time, so he returned to his true appearance: "I used to say that Ah Zi was a princess, and then when I said that her parents were fighting for her, she cried into tears, I guess...... Could it be that Ah Zi was robbed by some alien and was ready to rob her relatives and go back to be Mrs. Zhai, and then your parents stepped forward and died honorably to save you? And then you fled to Shanghai to join your uncle? β
I gave him a blank look and told him not to guess, I don't know if I am dead or not, so it is too unlucky to say this.
Uncle nodded, and sighed again: "Hey, it's true that life and death are unknown!" β
Ah Zi was said by Jin Facai, and the tears that were about to dry began to moisten again, and he opened his eyes hard so that the tears would no longer flow.
Uncle glanced at me and said, "This little master, if you don't mind, can you first introduce where you learned this fortune-telling skill?" β
I think he suddenly asked me these things at this time, he should have something to say later, but he didn't know my identity and didn't dare to talk nonsense.
In this case, I also wanted to hear what kind of story Ah Zi had, so I decided to explain it to them with reservations.
The blonde almost couldn't hold his breath again, but fortunately I was prepared, and when he was about to open his mouth to blow lightly, I gently touched his leg under the table, and he restrained his breath again, and lowered his head to drink tea.
I roughly said that our family is the ancestral family of yin and yang Yishu, and has always made a living by helping people tell fortunes and look at feng shui, and sometimes do some magic for people, what exorcism, summoning spirits, etc., although it can't be said that there are all kinds of trials, but because of the orthodoxy of the mantle, there has never been a big difference.
Speaking of this Cheng dΓΉ, I will not go deeper, as for the descendants of the gods and ancestors, three thousand years of yin and yang symbiosis or something, I think no one will believe these words, but people think that there is a suspicion of YY.
"Oh? Will you also subdue demons? "My uncle seemed to be particularly interested in what I said.
"This is part of the Yin and Yang Technique, and it is also a compulsory course, although many people in this world do not believe in ghosts and gods, and have never seen ghosts and gods, but we believe that there are, but meat and eggs are not easy to meet." I replied.
"Meat and eggs?" Uncle interrupted me in confusion.
Only then did I realize that because of my father's previous call, I had been scrolling the words ancestral spirit, underworld, and meat and egg in my mind repeatedly for the past few days, and I had accidentally said it out of my mouth for a while.
"Oh, oh, this is the technical term of my family, which means ordinary people......" I quickly covered up.
Uncle said, "Oh...... In fact, we also believe that there are ghosts in this world, and we also believe that there are Buddhas. He will definitely protect my sister and brother-in-law from being safe! β¦β¦ Oh yes, does the little master believe in Buddhism? Or do you believe in Han Taoism in this profession? β
I nodded and replied: "We are in a family of yin and yang Yishu, and our beliefs in religion are actually very broad, whether it is Buddhism, Taoism, Islam, Christianity, etc...... In our opinion, it is the same, in different regions and different times, due to the limitations of human cultural understanding and language transmission, they all have their own understanding of the living beings in the universe, and different regions and times, due to the different effects of magnetic fields, will also produce different phenomena. A qiΔ is in change, and a qiΔ change is eternal. β
Uncle didn't seem to understand, nodded and shook his head, Ah Zi continued to ask, "Then what do you believe?" β
I asked rhetorically: "We're going to the moon, Chinese want to go, Americans want to go, Europeans want to go...... You say, which country has people who have come closer to the past? β
"This ......" Ah Zi looked at me, and then at the other two: "Then how do I know?" β
I smiled and said: "In the eyes of the people of our Yin and Yang family, all religions are just a road to the moon, as for which road is closer, it is completely up to you to decide where you are at the time, how convenient to go, in China, from China, in the United States, from the United States, as long as the direction remains the same, the choice of the road is free." β
Jin Facai took a big mouth and said: "The more you talk about them, the more confused they become, I can understand a little bit, and help you summarize: You guys, you believe everything~ and don't believe anything!" β
I rubbed my chin and agreed slightly.
Ah Zi still didn't quite understand, and asked again: "Is the foreigner's Jesus and the Chinese's Guanyin the same?" β
I smiled and said, "They are like tour guides who take us to the moon, they are most familiar with the route they guide, so we worship them as teachers and respect them as gods, and when you are familiar with that path, you can also become a Buddha or become a god." β
Uncle realized a little and said, "Then speaking of which, you who learn yin and yang are indeed more profound than us ordinary people...... Are you similar to wizards? β
I shrugged my shoulders noncommittally, to be honest, I really didn't think about this, after all, religion is a kind of knowledge, mysterious and mysterious, if you really want to change it to words, you can't understand it. This is "the road does not speak", human language in the face of the vast universe, how humble it is, just like using a black and white pencil to paint an oil painting, how can it be expressed?
In order to stop the topic from entering the dead loop, I took the initiative to ask my uncle: "Earlier, you said that the Buddha would bless your sister and brother-in-law to be safe and sound, I guess this should be Ah Zi's parents, right?" If it's convenient, can you tell me what the hell is going on? β
"Hey...... Speaking of which, we are still not very sure! Maybe we have offended the gods and been retaliated against, but in short, it is really terrifying! Overnight! The whole tribe numbered in thousands...... It just disappeared so suddenly! β
I listened to my heart, thousands? That's a huge number bigger than a catastrophe, why hasn't it been reported in the media at all? This should be a big news in the world!
Jin Facai said: "Overnight? Could it be the flood? Earthquake? Tsunami? β
I gave him a blank look: "Yunnan is not close to the sea, where is the tsunami?" β
Ah Zi poured us a lot of bamboo tube tea, and said to his uncle: "Uncle, if you talk about it, I think Zang Daguan may know something, and maybe help us find Abba and Auntie." β
Uncle lit a hookah made from a cannonball shell, lowered his head and smoked. Jin Facai looked at the arm-long smoking gun with interest, and said to Ah Zi: "What is this, smoking?" β
Ah Zi smiled and said: "This is our hookah in Yunnan, which is similar to you Han people smoking, but our smoking method is more natural." β
Jin Facai touched the top of his head: "I thought that the people of Yunnan all smoked Hongta Mountain, it turned out that there was such a thing, and when I got there, I would also go to have a play." β
I waved my hand at them, motioning not to interrupt my uncle's thoughts, and I think he was already thinking about how to tell us about the "horrible" night he was talking about.
After a few minutes, Uncle slowly raised his head, shivered, crossed his hands on his chest and stroked his arms, stared at the ceiling blankly for a long time, and finally let out a long sigh and said, "It's really a little scary in retrospect now, and it seems like it's right in front of you." If I hadn't run fast, Ah Zi and I wouldn't know what would have happened now. β
So, Uncle began to slowly recall the past......