Chapter 31: The Beginning and the End
After taking another sip of water and resting for a while, Huang Ran continued: "After having the reward given by Long Keduo, the situation of Liu Ming's branch has improved a lot, and in the next year, when his injury is almost healed, he actually began to tell fortunes to the surrounding villagers. He counted nine out of ten, and slowly became famous in the local area, until the twenty-ninth year of Qianlong, Liu Ming died without a problem.
His descendants continued until the end of the Qing Dynasty, and they were famous for fortune-telling in the Guanzhong area. Later, whether it was fortune telling, or high-ranking officials and nobles who committed evil things in their families, they would also ask them for help. What the famous Mr. Yin and Yang can't do, after Liu Ming's descendants arrive, they can easily settle it. Of course, it is not easy to invite them, unless they are rich and powerful, and if it were not for such power and financial resources, they would not be moved.
In the early days of the Republic of China, someone in our committee wanted to invite people from their Liu family out of the mountain. It's a pity that in the end, because the price could not be negotiated, I had to give up. There are a lot of records left by this branch of the Liu family, and it is relatively easy to check them. However, it is a little difficult to follow the line where Liu Ming broke into the barracks at the beginning and find out about Robben."
After Huang Ran changed his tone, he continued: "In the historical documents at that time, there were too few records about Robben. I only know that he was the Qin Tianjian of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, and when he was in the Chongzhen Dynasty of the Ming Dynasty, he had a good relationship with the court painters at that time, so he also left a portrait, which I also saw when I was in the committee. Except for this portrait and the list of officials of the Ming and Qing dynasties about Qin Tianjian, there is almost no record of him. "
After hearing Huang Ran say this, after pausing, Sun Fatzi took out a cigarette and gave it to Huang Ran and me, and after lighting the cigarette for the two of us, he lit one himself. After taking a sip, he looked at Huang Ran with a smile and said, "Old Huang, since you can't understand Luo Ben's matter, then let's talk about Liu Cheng's matter, not me, your committee seems to have a little friendship with him before"
Huang Ran smiled at Sun Fatzi and said, "Now it's like this, so I won't hide it from you." More than 30 years ago, our committee had a contact with this Liu Cheng. At that time, the power of your polling bureau was getting bigger and bigger, and our committee had to find some new blood to replenish it, so as not to decline too quickly."
After drinking another cup of tea, Huang Ran went on to talk about the origin of their religious committee with Liu Cheng and Robben......
At that time, after returning from a Taiwan businessman who had a good relationship with the committee, he said that he had met a strange person named Liu Cheng in a small county town in Gansu. A local official who was with this Taiwanese businessman at the time suddenly had a heart attack while accompanying him on the inspection, and he died after being sent to the hospital.
Originally, it seemed to be an unexpected tragedy, but not long after, the official's family brought this Liu Cheng, and he didn't see anyone burning the talisman and chanting the spell, but he went over and looked at the eyes of the deceased, and after blowing his breath, the local official, who had no vital signs, immediately opened his eyes.
At first, the Taiwanese businessman thought it was a corpse fraud, but when he saw that the people around him were just standing far away and had no intention of escaping, he had the courage to continue to stay in the ward and watch the development of the situation.
The local official, who had been dead for more than half an hour, under the guidance of Liu Cheng, told which bank the private money he usually saved was stored in, where the passbook was hidden, and who else had borrowed money from him and did not pay it back, and also said his name, so that his relatives could help ask for it in the future. The dead official didn't mean to end the words for more than ten minutes, and in the end it was this person named Liu Cheng who urged him, and the dead official was willing to give up and said his final goodbye to his wife and children. After Liu Cheng slapped him on the head, the official lay back on the hospital bed and swallowed again, and only then did his family begin to cry.
After learning that this person named Liu Cheng had survived, the committee sent a few people to disguise themselves as Taiwanese businessmen who had come to the mainland to invest in the mainland, and went to a small county town in Gansu to inquire about the whereabouts of this Liu Cheng, and if possible, asked him to come to Taiwan to join the committee to help. At that time, there was a senior member of the committee, who was himself a local person in Gansu, and wanted to take the opportunity to invite Liu Cheng to go back and have a look, but it turned out that this senior saw the problem."
Huang Ran was no better than Sun Fatzi, and after talking for a while, his mouth became dry, and after drinking two cups of tea to moisten his throat, under the gaze of Sun Fatzi and me, he continued: "At first, it was smooth sailing, and the people of our committee, under the leadership of that senior member, found Liu Cheng very smoothly. They invited Liu Cheng to a local foreign-related hotel, and when they saw Liu Cheng for the first time, the senior committee member who led the team knew that he had found the right person this time, and this Liu Cheng was absolutely unusual. After explaining the intention, Liu Cheng was very interested at first, after all, the mainland had just reformed and opened up at that time, and the living conditions were relatively scarce. If you can develop in Taiwan, which is relatively wealthy, it is also a very good choice.
After saying a few words, our senior committee member found out that this Liu Chengcheng was the descendant of Liu Ming back then. Their whole family didn't know what evil they had committed, and since they were stripped of their identity as banner bearers, the people have become less and less prosperous. His ancestors began in the fifth or sixth generation, and they were passed down all the way. He was also forty or fifty years old, married a wife but never had children, and laughed at himself at the time, saying that after his death, the branch of the Amuru clan of the Zhenghuang Banner was completely wiped out.
We chatted very happily that day, but when it was almost the end, Liu Cheng added a condition, in addition to bringing his wife to Taiwan, he also had to bring another person with him. As long as Liu Cheng can go, everything else is easy to say. The senior member of the committee made a decision on the spot and agreed to Liu Cheng's condition.
gave Liu Cheng a large amount of deposit, and gave him a week to go home to clean up, and finally meet relatives and friends. Taking advantage of this time, the members of the committee also began to arrange a route for Liu Cheng to go to Taiwan. At that time, it was almost impossible to go to Taiwan from the normal route, and it was impossible for Liu Cheng to go to Hong Kong for a transfer. The only way for him to go to Taiwan was to smuggle in.
The members of the committee were busy for several days, just when they had finished the matter of Liu Cheng's smuggling, and waited for Liu Cheng to take his wife and return to Taiwan with another person. Liu Cheng suddenly arrived earlier than the agreed time, and there was a man in his thirties who came with him. When the senior adviser who led the committee saw him, he felt familiar for a while, but he couldn't tell where he had seen him.
Liu Cheng and this man came this time to illustrate one thing. If you can't leave home because of something, you can't go to Taiwan. The deposit he gave before allowed him to use it for other purposes, and he can't pay it back, anyway, you Taiwan compatriots have money, or just forget it.
The people in the committee were amused by Liu Cheng's words, if you don't pay back the deposit, and people don't follow, is there such a bully? A few words don't agree, and when I see that I am about to do it on the spot. The senior adviser of the committee suddenly stopped his own people, and he looked at the silent man who came with Liu Cheng, and said the name of a person - Robben.
Robben's previous portrait was in the committee, and the senior member had seen it a few times. Just now, when he was about to make a move, he suddenly remembered what happened to Liu Ming in his mind. Extending the portrait of Robben that I remembered, wasn't it the silent man in front of me?
Robben was also a little surprised to hear someone say his name. But he immediately returned to normal, and after glancing at the senior commissioner, he came in for so long, and finally said: I haven't been out and about for so many years, and I can't imagine that anyone will know me.
Not sure why. Ever since Robben appeared, the senior commissioner's heart has been uneasy. After knowing that this person was Robben hundreds of years ago, the senior commissioner's heart was uncomfortable to the extreme. At the moment, he involuntarily changed his strategy, no longer forcing Liu Cheng to go to Taiwan to defect to the committee, as for the deposit he gave before, he didn't want the deposit he gave before, you are right, we Taiwanese have money, and we don't care about this point.
Robben didn't say anything, but after looking at a few people in the committee, he made a gesture at Liu Cheng that only the two of them could understand. Then the two left together.
After seeing the backs of these two people disappear completely, the senior commissioner immediately said to his people that he couldn't stay here anymore and had to leave quickly. After saying that, I couldn't care about packing up, except for the clothes, cash and ID documents on my body, I didn't want anything. Hurry up, the faster you go, the better.
His subordinates still didn't understand their boss's intentions, but looking at the appearance of this senior commissioner, it was as if he had seen a living ghost in broad daylight. He didn't dare to say much at the moment, and quickly followed the senior commissioner and left this small county town as quickly as possible. Unfortunately, the transportation situation at that time was not so developed, even if they left the county and rushed to the provincial airport, they found that only the flight they had booked could fly to Hong Kong at the earliest, and then transfer back to Taiwan.
They lived in the provincial capital for a few days before they finally left on a plane on the day they had planned. After transiting in Hong Kong, I finally returned to Taiwan.
As soon as he returned, the senior adviser returned to the committee under these men. Because it was still early at that time, there were not many people in the committee, so they stayed in the lounge for a while, preparing to report to President Min Tianyuan about the emergencies of this trip to the mainland.
They waited for half an hour, and when President Min's secretary pushed open the door of the lounge and told them to go to see Min Tianyuan, they saw that the few living people who were still sitting here were gone. Instead, human tissue is separated into several parts - human skin, bones, and internal organs.