Chapter 41: Hindsight
In helplessness and embarrassment, I ended this long trip with Junko. However, I had a harvest, before bidding farewell to Chiang Kai, he gave me the book "Thirty-six Techniques of Taoism", telling me that this book is of great use, hoping that one day it can help me solve the problems I encounter, and I also hope to carry forward the Taoism in it.
During this time, a lot of things did happen around Chiang Kai-zheng, he seemed to say goodbye to an old friend and made a new friend, both melancholy and happy. I was in the same mood as him, and even I didn't expect that in the decades that followed, I would be inseparable from this book and have a destined fate.
This is a later story, so I won't show it for the time being.
After Runzi and I returned to Shuizawa Village, we told Runzi's father what happened in Shandong. In addition to being worried, he also asked about Jiang Jiezheng's situation, of course we picked it up and said that there was nothing wrong with it, but we were worried about his future life, and hoped that Runzi and I could run more to Shandong and take care of it as elders.
Runzi's father also told us that the police station probably had mastered the whereabouts of the "third brother" and could have been able to capture it, but the strange thing is that since Runzi and I went to Shandong, the "third brother" has disappeared, and now there is almost no trace, as if he disappeared out of thin air. I don't know if this has anything to do with us, or if we have already been wary of the police, and it will be even more difficult to find it again in the future.
At the same time, shortly after we returned, Chiang Kai-cheng sent another telegram with the following words: There is no loss of thieves in the house.
Later, I learned that the thief's purpose had nothing to do with Commander Ma at all, his real purpose was this "Thirty-six Techniques of Taoism", but unfortunately this book has been carried by me, so he returned in vain, and the reason he wanted to steal it was because of a Taoist technique recorded in the book - Demon Extermination, which was related to subduing the thousand-year-old demon corpse, and it was also the only Taoist technique left by Jiang Youdao that could destroy the thousand-year-old demon corpse.
I think that if I had a clear understanding of the consequences of the thousand-year-old demon corpse at that time, I would never have regarded this book as a treasure, and I would not hesitate to burn it with a fire, even if Jiang Jiezheng knew that I had destroyed his family's heirloom and blamed me, I would not hesitate to do so. Things are often so simple, but in front of people who don't know the truth, they are so complicated. Hindsight is a common mistake that ordinary people make, and I certainly can't escape the fate of a mortal.
Although fate is predestined, life is different.
Historically, the special people's commune system has gradually spread throughout the country, and rural grass-roots administrative units with townships as units have been established in various localities, and the system of division of work has been implemented, and my village has become the first production brigade. Under the interweaving of various reasons, I gave up the idea of studying, and under the order of the leader of the production team, I followed the villagers everywhere to engage in construction and farm work.
Strange to say, the originally good countryside has slowly changed, at first everyone is very energetic, although it is hard, but at least there is a hope, under the leadership of Chairman Mao and the wise leadership of the Party Central Committee, the life of the people in the village seems to have gone to a higher level. But the good days didn't last long, and the phenomenon of comparing with each other emerged in endlessly, and bragging, the most famous example was the yield of 130,000 catties of grain per mu, which was also hyped up in the newspapers. At that time, under the influence of this irrational atmosphere, no one thought it was a whimsical thing, but now it has become a joke after dinner.