At that time, we didn't have a very clear concept of money, we only knew that money was good, and we could buy sugar and cigarettes, but we couldn't have too much money, and when we had too much, we would be greedy for pleasure, spiritually degenerate, ideologically corrupt, and life would be rotten, and it was easy to embark on the road of bourgeois liberalization, but at that time we had a hazy idea in our hearts that we would make more money in the future, money is evil, but money is useful.

Finally had the money to buy tickets, we got on the train to Beijing with complicated feelings, all the way to Nanjing, this time has long been spent, the fat man borrowed 20 yuan from his aunt's house, put me on the train, he agreed with me on the platform, when I go back next year, I will meet directly in the Ganggang camp, the next year in the mountains to have more sets of foxes and yellow skins, and then go to the grassland to visit Ding Sitian, to discuss the major events of participating in the world revolution.

The train had started slowly, and I leaned out of the window to shake hands with the fat man and say goodbye, but I didn't expect this parting to be more than ten years. Many things have happened in the past 10 years or so, and after I returned to Fujian, I joined the army by mistake, and the army needs iron-like discipline, which is not as easy as being an educated youth, and in addition, in the first few years, I was on a secret mission in the Kunlun Mountains with the army, so I was unable to communicate with the outside world at all.

When I was transferred to the Lanzhou Military Region with the troops, I learned that Ding Sitian was no longer alive, and in the winter when I left the grassland with the fat man, a cruel "white disaster" occurred centered on the Baiyan Cave, and many animals froze to death.

In a blink of an eye, fifteen years have passed, and the fat man and I don't want to think about these tragic pasts, and we don't dare to think about them, until before we go to the United States, we packed up our belongings, opened the old photo album, and saw this old photo. Those dusty old things, once wiped off the dust covering them, still seem so real, and they are still vivid. Looking back at the past, it is inevitable to sigh and sigh, I looked at it, and suddenly found that there was a blurred back in the distant view of the photo, looking at the rickety figure, it seemed to be an old sheepskin, I don't know why, as soon as I saw his hazy figure in the photo, I immediately felt uneasy, why I had never noticed this detail before.

For so many years, I have always been haunted by the strange things that happened after the death of the old sheepskin, as well as the bronze dragon talisman that was thrown on the grassland by Ding Sitian, these questions have been entangled in the bottom of my heart, but when I think of these past things, I will feel sad, plus these years of exhaustion, it is difficult to have leisure to look back on the past, today I saw the figure of the old sheepskin in this old photo, I can't help but think of the past things he told, some of the details are very worthy of scrutiny.

When the old sheepskin was young, he was a craftsman who fought backwards, and he followed a thief surnamed Chen, and later this person went south to Yunnan to make a big deal, but he encountered an accident in Yunnan, and his whereabouts have been unknown, will this person be the blind Chen I met in Shaanxi? The blind fortune teller Chen who went to Yunnan to rob the tomb? Now that I think about it, many of the characteristics are all in agreement. It's just that although I know that Chen Blind once followed the disciples of Jieling to the Worm Valley in Yunnan to find the tomb of King Xian, he never told me that he had been a thief. But it's understandable to think about it, after all, Chen Blind broke a pair of tricks, and he wanted to fight again in this life, since he was now using fortune-telling to cheat and cheat, he naturally wanted to claim that he was the reincarnation of Chen Luan's ancestor, how could he admit that he had been the big leader of tomb robbers before.

Thinking of this, I immediately closed the album and got up and went out. Most of the old things that the old sheepskin mentioned to me in the Hundred Eyes Cave are difficult to verify, but Chen Blind came from the old society, and he may know some of the stories such as the Yellow Skin, the Ghost Yamen, and the Bronze Dragon Fu, and the most important thing is to ask him why the old sheepskin was struck by thunder and fire after his death, so as to solve the doubts that have plagued me for so many years.

Taoranting Park is the place where Chen Blind Man daily activities, but his whereabouts are erratic, and he has not dared to appear in public in the park recently. Opposite Tao Ranting is the Beijing South Railway Station, and he has often set up a stall in a small alley behind the South Railway Station lately, and I found him easily.

At this time, I was catching up with Chen Blind Man who was giving a female comrade a bone approval, the woman was in her thirties, fat and white, very rich, and she didn't know what difficulties she encountered, so she had to find a master to give advice. The blind man first touched her face and bones, pinched a few handfuls between her forehead, eyes and nose, and read the words: "How similar is the appearance of the person, why do you need to be rich and noble, the blind person has his own immortal fingers, and he can touch the five peaks in the bones." ”

The woman's face was pinched by this skinny, skinny old man, and she was so annoyed: "Can't you make it light?" How are these hands like iron pliers? ”

The blind man said: "The old man is an immortal finger, he can penetrate the flesh and bones, and he can pinch those ordinary people who have never found half a pain, only the immortal star monarch knows how powerful it is, it seems that the lady must be a person with a background, but I don't know what this fairy girl wants to ask?" If you talk about heavenly opportunities, you will not owe credit if you ask ten yuan. ”

At this time, I heard Chen Blind call her a fairy girl, and I firmly believed that she was not an ordinary housewife, and she did have some backgrounds, so I couldn't help but be impressed by Chen Blind, although the old man was blind, but he was really like a god, so he talked about the reason.

Although I was anxious to talk to Chen, it was not good to disturb his business, so I had to wait by the side, and after listening for a long time, I realized that this woman's husband was a businessman who used his relationship to resell approval documents, and there was a cash cow at home, so he naturally had no worries about food and clothing, but she and her husband had a strange dream recently, dreaming that a black dog gnawed her toes, and she often broke out in a cold sweat from her dreams. The two of them had the same nightmare at the same time, not only did they have trouble sleeping and eating, they were physically and mentally exhausted, but what was even worse was that the toe bitten by the black dog in the dream gradually began to have sores and pus, ulcerated and stinky, and they did not get better when they sought medical advice everywhere. I heard that there was an eye-blind ancestor near Taoran Pavilion, and he specially rushed to ask the ancestor for guidance, one was to ask why this strange dream was born, and the other was to ask if the sores on the soles of the feet could be treated.

Blind Chen asked the woman's husband about his body again, and after hearing this, his expression was calm, as if he was confident, and he shook his head and pinched his fingers: "Sure enough, as the old man expected, the fairy Gu is the reincarnation of the golden-winged carp in the Tianchi Yaotai, and the venerable husband is skinny, short and thin, and he was originally a canary in front of the Jade Emperor, and he was a spiritual official in the immortal class." The two of you came to this world to be husband and wife, originally because you wanted a fate, but the two of you and your husband offended Erlang Zhenjun's howling dog in their previous life. The evil dog refused to give up, and only then did he dream that there was a black dog gnawing his feet, and God fortunately let the old man know, otherwise the catastrophe was not far away. ”

When the fat woman heard that she and her husband were two beasts in their previous lives, this was too unpleasant, and she couldn't help but wonder if it was a blind man who was making up nonsense.

Blind Chen hurriedly explained that the old man's words were golden and jade, and the way was heavenly, how could there be any nonsense. Blind eyes and clear heart, see the world does not see the form, the world does not know the way, what is the form and what is the way, the avenue is invisible, the fertility of the world, the avenue is ruthless, the sun and the moon, the avenue is nameless, the long nourishment of all things, I don't know its name, the way of the strong name. The ancients said: "The Tao is speechless, and the Buddha is empty." "The language of the world has not been able to accurately describe what is the avenue, in short, everything in the world belongs to the avenue, whether it is a person or a bird, it is the shape of a fixed number in the avenue, there is no difference between high and low, and it is not possible to distinguish the noble and the ugly from the ugly, the vulgar and ignorant are just precious, in fact, the life of the beast and the bird, the life of the fish and the bird, just like the dragon and the phoenix, the life of the real wealth, if you ask how expensive this life is, hehe...... It's incredibly expensive.

This is called the number of birds and beasts, and some people have changed from birds and beasts in their previous lives, which can be brought out in appearance, this is the fate of creation, their own blessings, and what is there to be ashamed of? There is a key to the method of touching the bones and touching the skin to observe people, slender but to take from the birds, fat people to the view of beasts, like birds do not think that the body is thin, like the most important thing is to be fat, poultry fat must not fly, if the beast is thin and eat? The blind man was full of words, but he still spoke the truth, and made the woman obedient, and at last she even began to take pride in the fact that she and her husband looked like beasts.

But the blind man's words changed sharply, and he denied the wealth of this woman's life. He said that the fate of the boat is also, the luck of the wind is also, "fate" is actually two different things, although it is a rich life, but with half a lifetime of bad luck, just like although it is a giant ship, but there is no wind to help, but only stranded in the shallows, listen to its decay. You husband and wife are all free from the fate of the gods, how can you be tied up by the debt, the black dog gnaws the foot in the dream, the black star will be the head, and now you are going to be unlucky, it is really a good life, the family is ruined, and the heavy is trapped in the ghost palace, and the catastrophe will not return.

The fat woman was almost frightened by the words of the blind man and collapsed on the spot, and hurriedly begged the ancestor for help, and stuffed a roll of banknotes into the hand of the blind man. The blind man touched the money and gave it enough, so he helped unhurriedly to make suggestions, and he must move as much as possible, and there was a tablet in the new house, and the six words "Li Bing, the county guard, are here", why? Li Bingnai was the Shu county guard who built the capital Jiangkan when King Qin Zhao was king, and Zhenjun of Erlang Erlang in Shuzhong was the second son of Li Bing, and there was a tablet of Li Jun, and the heavenly dog did not dare to commit it again.

The blind man took a pen and wrote a prescription on a piece of broken paper, one finger of pine bark in Longhu Mountain, three peach pits, two in the south and two in the north, three taels of Baiwei stones, and one tail of the Yellow River fish, fried in Dongting Lake water, three bowls of water decoction for a bowl, one bowl a day, after taking it for three days, be careful of calmness, and the abscess on the soles of the feet will heal themselves.

The fat woman was stupid when she heard it, what is all this prescription? There are a few flavors of medicine that I haven't even heard of, and I'm afraid that I can't buy them even if I have money, so it's all a panacea in heaven? How can this be funded?

The blind man said that it would be okay, the old man sold medicinal herbs, and asked the fat woman for some money, found a broken bowl and lit a fire to burn the prescription, and the ashes fell into the bowl and handed it to the fat woman, and told her to divide it into three parts and take it with water, remember, remember.

I was secretly amused by the side, and when the blind man had cheated enough money and sent the woman away, he said that he wanted to find a place to talk and ask questions. So I took his blind cane and led him to the pavilion in Taoranting Park, and on the way I asked the blind man if he had pinched the fat woman correctly.

At first, I thought that Chen was blind and open-mouthed, but when I heard that he asked the fat woman to move her family, it did make sense. In the "Sixteen Characters Yin Yang Feng Shui Secret Technique" in the "ghost" character volume, it is described that there is a black dog and black cat gnawing under the bed in a dream, this house is fierce, not suitable for people, if you dig a few feet on the ground, you may dig out a section of black charcoal, it is the house in the past after someone hanged themselves, their dead into the ground for the end of the knot, or there is an ancient mound and old grave under the home. The fat woman's family may be living in a murderous house, and moving away from the place of right and wrong is the best choice.

Chen Blind Man's pride was overflowing, and he said with a smile: "I don't know what old man there is under her family, but the fat girl's family must have done too much opportunistic things, and they have paid bribes and embezzled all kinds of money." As the saying goes, there are sores on the top of the head, pus on the soles of the feet, it is bad to the home, this kind of person must be inevitably frightened, day and night, will be suspicious of the dark ghost, the most easy to listen to and believe, the old man is not blind can also count this hexagram, touch her bones to know that she is a stingy and unfilial beast, her family is all unkind and ill-gotten wealth, it is okay to take it. I think that when the crowd was gathered to unload the mountain, if he bumped into such a rich and unkind, the old man would have cut it clean one by one, and sent her two thieves and men to the yin cao to be used......"

I heard Chen Blind talk about the incident of robbing tombs in Jieling and gathering people for profit, so I took the opportunity to ask him if he had been a thief before, and I could recognize the old sheepskin and the sheep and two eggs, two Shaanxi people who could sing the Qin dialect.

The blind man was stunned when he heard this, and the Jieling Lux was the same as the Jin Captain and the mountain movers who robbed the tomb and dug the grave, after the Han Dynasty Red Mei Army uprising was suppressed and encircled and suppressed, some of the remnants of the tribe were scattered, and they still did some things to kill officials and rebel. At that time, the Red Eyebrow army turned over the Han Tomb, and its remnants also retained these traditions, and once the ancient tomb was discovered, it was widely excavated. Before the Song Dynasty, the unloading of the mountain and the inverted bucket still retained the method of smearing cinnabar or pig blood on the eyebrows when acting, and then washed off with medicinal solution after stealing the curtain.

The generation of unloading the mountains, there have been leaders as thieves in all dynasties, "Kui" is the leader, people are troubled and cannot be a group of dragons without a leader, and the spoils and righteousness are all decided by the thieves. The prestige of the thief is very high, and he has the power to kill and take away, not only can he dig the grave with the "technique of circle hole", but also the grass-headed son of heaven on the green forest road, and he can be regarded as a character who calls for wind and rain. Chen Blind did work as a thief during the Republic of China, but if you don't mention those old things, you will forget them.