After the two of us finished speaking, the old man muttered after a long time: "Hey, Yang Hui's judgment also coincides with mine, he is indeed mentioned in the county chronicle, not only mentioned, but surprisingly, this has been in the county chronicles that lasted for two or three hundred years, in different periods, there are anecdotes about the blind people, as for these blind people, whether they are the same person, the county chronicles do not clearly say, of course, the people who write the county chronicles and study the county chronicles have noticed this phenomenon." During this period, several people who wrote the county chronicles tried to investigate and approach these blind people at close range, but these people, for some reason, all died one after another. Six or seven people died like this, and it was like a terrible curse.

Since then, no one in the county chronicle has dared to seriously investigate these blind people, so there are several books in our county chronicle dedicated to recording the anecdotes of these blind people. And the records of these "strange blind people" continued until the forties of the last century, that is, in 1940, and since then, those mysterious blind people have never appeared again. ”

"1940? Could it be the period of the Japanese invasion of China? I asked curiously.

"That's right, when the Japanese army invaded China, during that period, there was a blind man who killed several Japanese supreme commanders stationed in our area one after another, which was very shocking at the time......" Just as Sister Li and I were listening with relish, the old man suddenly seemed to think of something, and immediately stopped talking.

"Uncle, why did you stop talking about it all of a sudden", Sister Li asked a little coquettishly.

The old man's face was full of sternness, and he explained: "Although I am not superstitious, these things about the blind man are too bizarre and strange, and those books that record these anecdotes of the blind man will remind the reader at the beginning to "enter the eyes, can be silently remembered, but must not come out of your own mouth, into the ears of others", otherwise it will "cause disaster", that is to say, about these things about the blind man, it is okay to read the book by yourself, but you must not tell others or pass it around, otherwise there will be danger. Looking at the seven or eight people who died, you can know that these words are not all alarmist. So I've never told anyone about these things, although rationally I don't want to believe them, but in my heart, there will be more or less taboos. I don't care what happens to me, but you're still very young, and I'm afraid it will have a bad impact on you. ”

Although the old man's words made our hearts furious, on the other hand, we wanted to hear these anecdotes about the blind man even more.

After repeated persuasion by Sister Li and me, after a long while, the old man made up his mind to tell us all the stories he had read about blind people. The first thing he talked about was that the blind man confronted the Japanese army head-on in the past four years.

At that time, the place where the blind man lived was in a remote mountain village more than 100 miles away from the county seat, deep in the mountains. At that time, he had lived in that village for many years, and his hexagram technique was also very famous in the area of a hundred miles. There were many people who invited him to come to the county seat with a lot of money, but he refused them one by one, but even if the place was remote, there were still many people who went to him for fortune telling after a long journey.

One day, the people in the village vaguely heard the county seat hundreds of miles away, like thunder, roaring like thunder, but looking up at the sky, it was the sun shining, not even a little dark cloud, how could it be thunder? Later, the knowledgeable old man in the village said that it was a war, and it should be the sound of cannons.

At that time, information was extremely closed, there were no telephones, no televisions, no newspapers, and the village was deep in the mountains, so the people in the village had very little contact with the outside world. Although there are occasional outsiders who come to the blind man to tell fortunes, these outsiders usually have little communication with the people in the village, and at most ask where the blind man lives.

Therefore, almost all the villagers have not even heard of the Japanese invasion of China. I didn't know that these murderous Japanese had arrived at their doorstep.

During the warlord melee in China, although the cannon sound in the county town can sometimes be heard in the village, and occasionally a very small number of soldiers come to the village, but on the whole, these have little impact on the lives of the villagers.

It sounds like a paradise in a certain way, and the changes in the world and the change of regime have almost no effect here. Why is this so?

The main reason is that the location of this village is so unique.

What's the unique method? The village is actually a flat land on a steep cliff. In other words, the village is almost surrounded by cliffs, and only a steep path connects it to the outside world. On the top of the steep cliff, there is a very large flat land, and this village is located on this flat land. Villagers can not only build houses on this flat land to live in, but also cultivate on this flat land, and the spring water flowing down from the mountain solves the problem of drinking water and irrigation. It's almost a system of living that can be completely self-sufficient.

I was intrigued by the geography of the village and thought it was amazing. This may be the reason why the blind man chose this village to live.

Like the last few times, when I encountered something that I was interested in or wanted to know more about, I would ask Yang Hui for advice by email, so I also sent him an email about the geographical characteristics of the village where the blind man lived. I was struck by the fact that he was as enthusiastic as ever, writing a long email with a detailed analysis of the terrain.

Yang Hui said in the email that Chen Yinke, a master of Chinese studies, once summed up the characteristics of the "safe terrain" that is most suitable for civilians to take refuge in troubled times: the flat land on the top of the mountain with a dangerous momentum, and there must be a water source on this flat land. ("The most ideal place for a long time is a place where it is difficult to cultivate and irrigate with springs.") Those who can meet these two conditions must be the plains on the top of the mountains and the places where there are streams and water sources").

The terrain is dangerous to ensure that it can easily resist invasion, and the flat land with water sources on the top of this mountain enables people to cultivate food and solve the problem of people's food.

And the village where the blind man lives is exactly what Chen Yinge said. However, Yang Hui also mentioned in the email that in history, in fact, the most suitable for this kind of terrain is a place called Qiu Chi. and analyzed in detail why Qiu Chi can become a "paradise" in reality.

Qiu Chi, at the intersection of Gansu, Sichuan and Shaanxi provinces, "fights on all sides, more than 20 miles in Gaoping, sheep intestines and pan road, 36 times." The mountain is full of water springs, and the soil is boiled into salt".

The mountains are dangerous and remote, and it is easy to resist external armed aggression;

The abundant water springs on the mountain have an environmental foundation for survival;

And "boiling soil into salt" is very important, salt, is a necessity for people's life, people don't eat salt.

In ancient times, the Netherlands, Sweden and other countries stipulated that those who violated the criminal law were not allowed to eat salt for a period of time as punishment. It was even stipulated that prisoners who had been executed for betrayal could be released from prison if they did not eat salt for four weeks. However, it is said that none of the prisoners were released in this way. Prisoners who did not eat salt lost their appetite and sweated profusely for the first three or four days; Then he gradually weakened, barely living for eight or nine days, his hands and feet were sore, his muscles were involuntary, and he was unable to do his best; If it continues, the prisoner will be in a trance, have difficulty sleeping, have muscle twitches, and be unable to stand until he collapses and falls into a coma, and is on the verge of death. Therefore, if the prisoner really does not touch a little salt for four weeks, he will not only die, but also die a terrible death.

In modern times, in order to grab resources such as oil, it is possible to wage wars, but in ancient times, there were many wars because of salt, for example, the Qin State and the Chu State had repeated tug-of-war for the salt spring resources.

Some historians have found that the boundary between the boundaries of the Three Kingdoms is almost the same as the distribution area of salt resources. You can see how important salt is.

Qiu Chi State, by virtue of these geographical advantages, enjoyed a rare tranquility in the extremely ** Five Hu and Sixteen Kingdoms, and the two Jin and Northern and Southern Dynasties eras. An excellent geographical location, like a mother's womb, feeds and shelters those insecure and troubled beings.

The village where the blind man lives is actually a miniature version of Qiu Chi Country. But it is precisely because of the natural barrier here that the villagers ignore the danger that is slowly approaching.

On the third day after the sound of the cannon, the blind man suddenly took the initiative to meet the patriarch of the village, this was the first time he took the initiative to find someone else, and in the past two days, he would come to the village, and let the patriarch lead everyone to take refuge in the dense forest deep in the mountains. The seventy-year-old patriarch, pouting his goatee and squinting his eyes, and his old voice mixed with wheezing and trembling, asked the blind man: "What is a widow, I have never heard of it when I am alive, and I am not afraid of him regardless of the terrain in the village."

The blind man only snorted contemptuously from his nose, and without further ado, he came out of the patriarch's house and went straight to his dwelling.

Soon, some villagers saw a blind man, holding a blind cane, alone, groping his way to the depths of the mountain. In the eyes of the villagers, this blind man is definitely a strange man, although he can't see with his eyes, but people are curious, why can he come and go freely in the surrounding and extremely difficult terrain? Not to mention being blind, the young people in the village with sound limbs and dexterity have all fallen into the mountain stream and died.

On the second day after the blind man entered the mountain, more than a dozen strangers suddenly came to the village, these people were wearing very strange hats on their heads, shoes on their feet, and clothes were very strange, and the people in the village had never seen them before, and each of them carried "iron bumps" on their bodies, and in addition, they all carried a roll of rope on their shoulders. These dozen or so people are not tall, but each one is more energetic than the other.

When I first saw these dozen strangers, the people in the village were very curious, and a few old men and old ladies surrounded them to ask this and that, but when these strangers spoke, they all chattered and couldn't understand a word. It seemed that there was only one of them, and everyone could barely understand what he said, and after a difficult exchange, the villagers finally heard what the person meant, saying that he wanted to see the patriarch or something, so the kind-hearted villagers led these dozen people and went straight to the patriarch's house.