Chapter 42: The Location of the Heart
This assassination plan went very smoothly, as pre-conceived, first using the troupe to create a noisy environment, and then using beautiful women to arouse the blind man's **, and this was all to disturb the blind man's inner peace, and when his heart was in chaos, all extraordinary and terrible abilities would be greatly weakened, so that it would be much easier to deal with.
My grandfather couldn't help but secretly admire his master in his heart, and felt that he was really wise enough to come up with such a strange plan.
For two whole days, my grandfather rushed to the county seat almost non-stop, slowed down the horse when he was tired, took a nap on the horse, and drank a few mouthfuls of water and ate a few mouthfuls of dry food on the horse when he was thirsty and hungry. Except for changing horses in the middle of the road and soaking a few bubbles of urine, the journey was almost non-stop.
By the time he arrived at the back door of the infirmary with a dusty face and a haggard face, he couldn't get off the horse. When my grandfather's brother saw this, he immediately took my grandfather off the horse, carried him to the bed in the house, and brought me a bowl of ginseng soup for my grandfather to drink. My grandfather slept in a daze, perhaps too tired, and he slept until the next morning.
When he woke up, he found the master sitting on the edge of his bed. As soon as he woke up, Master couldn't wait to ask, "How is it?" Is it done? ”
My grandfather sat up quickly, and then he felt that every bone joint in his body hurt, and he looked in the room and found that there was no one else except the master, so he told the master in detail what had happened.
In fact, the purpose of this operation, except for my grandfather, the Taoist priest did not tell anyone. The troupe was found by Taoist priests at great expense, and lied to them that they were invited to sing operas, which was entirely commissioned by a local gentry; And those women were specially hired from a far away, and they only told them to harass the blind people, and as for other information, they did not disclose any other information to them, and arranged for special personnel to quickly take them away and evacuate once my grandfather succeeded.
Therefore, there are only two people who know the core secret of this operation, and that is the Taoist priest and my grandfather.
After listening to my grandfather's speech, the Taoist priest was of course very happy, and his decades-long wish finally came true.
After killing the blind man, my grandfather asked his master why he wanted to kill the blind man. The Taoist priest did not elaborate, but simply told him that the blind man was a "monster", not an ordinary person at all, he had lived for more than 200 years, and a long time ago, a Taoist temple of the Taoist priest's ancestor and apprentice had been washed by the blood of this blind man. The heads of the Taoist priests in that Taoist temple were all cut off by the blind man and placed on the steps of the courtyard, leaving not a single living mouth. Since then, all the disciples of this branch have made it their duty to kill this blind man for generations.
But for some reason, although my grandfather had clearly told the Taoist priest that he had inserted the knife deep into the blind man's heart, for some reason, the Taoist priest still vaguely felt that the blind man was not dead.
He also repeatedly asked my grandfather about the details of the assassination, such as: "How deep was the knife?" What exactly is it pierced? "Wait, a bunch of questions.
After all these years, he is the most aware of my great-grandfather's abilities and limitations. He knew that although his apprentice could see the meridians of the human body, he could not see the internal organs of the human body, especially through clothes. When I was able to judge that a person's ribs were "plate ribs", it was also judged indirectly based on the characteristics of that person's meridians, rather than directly through clothes.
One of the things that the Taoist priest was most worried about was that the apprentice failed to accurately stab the Taoist priest in the heart. Because this blind man's physique is very different from ordinary people, it is difficult to kill him if he does not stab him in the vital parts.
For this assassination, he and my grandfather also repeatedly studied the parts that should be assassinated, and after careful consideration, the Taoist priest felt that it was the safest way to go straight to the heart.
It is worth mentioning that this Taoist priest was very different from the ordinary medical doctors at that time, in order to study the internal structure of the human body, he often went to dig those new graves in the cemetery, and stole the corpses inside, and then disemboweled the corpses to observe the internal structure of the human body in detail.
If you talk about this alone, this Taoist priest is quite up to date, because during the Renaissance, many Western doctors and artists often went to the cemetery to steal corpses for dissection and research. Doctors study the internal structure of the human body, while artists focus on the movement and texture of muscles for better painting and sculpture.
In order to make this assassination plan more rigorous and secure, the Taoist priest also gave special training to my grandfather, and took my grandfather to the cemetery at night to pick up the corpse, and then dissected the corpse, so that my grandfather could be familiar with the location of the human heart. It wasn't until my great-grandfather mastered it that he was relieved.
It is said that the plan is so tight, the training in advance is so sufficient, and the key is that the assassination plan is also progressing so smoothly, it is said that there is nothing to worry about, the blind man must have been killed.
But for some reason, the Taoist priest still felt that the blind man had not been killed at all. My grandfather was in his heart, and he secretly laughed at his master, thinking that he was frightened by the blind. Isn't it clear that he's dead, why are you still so suspicious?
However, a few days later, the henchmen sent by the Taoist priest to inquire finally came back with the exact news that the blind man was indeed not dead! The Taoist priest was right.
When my grandfather first heard the news, he didn't believe it. The person who went to inquire, in the secret room, faced with a disappointed and depressed Taoist priest, and my grandfather with a suspicious face, detailed what happened at the scene after the blind man was assassinated.
After being stabbed by my grandfather, the crowd around me was, of course, panicked at first, but after my grandfather rushed out of the crowd with a knife, people came over and surrounded the blind man who fell to the ground. When people saw the knife stuck in the blind man's chest and the amount of blood that flowed out, they thought that the blind man was doomed to death.
But what was amazing was that the blind man slowly got up, although his face was full of pain. It was already difficult for him to speak, but there were still people around him who could hear him clearly, begging others to find a car to push him away. There were always good Samaritans, and soon a peddler pushed his wheelbarrow over, and the blind man was put into the cart and pushed down to the temple where he lived in seclusion on the mountain.
Later, news came from the temple that although the blind man was badly injured and had been in a coma for two days, he did not die, but miraculously survived. Lang Zhong, who went up the mountain to give him medicine, said that this blind man is really a strange man, and his heart does not grow on the left side like ordinary people, but on the right side! It was precisely in this way that he was spared death.
The heart grows on the right side!
After hearing the news, the master and apprentice thundered like five thunders!
Nobel laureate Tsung-Dao Lee, when he was received by Mao Zedong for the first time, once said: "In this world, there are about one in a million people, and the heart is a ...... on the right side", and this blind man is this one in a million people.
Now, the official face is making every effort to investigate the murderer, and the monks of the temple are also taking strict precautions, for fear that someone will take the opportunity to hurt the blind man again.
After spending so much energy, so much careful planning, and so much financial and material resources, in the end, it still fell short, and what is even stricter is that with the personality of a blind man, he is bound to take revenge.
Just in case, the Taoist priest disbanded the medical hall and wandered around nowhere. My grandfather had been in hiding for many years, and finally he felt as if the danger had passed, so he returned to the village and became a langzhong. Because of his superb medical skills and special talent, he became a famous doctor of our generation at a young age.
But at the same time, he also left behind a reputation for being lustful. There are also many women who seduce, and three fingers of his left hand were chopped off because of this. But many people say that my grandfather was not like this before, he was a very obedient and well-behaved child when he was a child, and he never messed with women until the years when he studied medicine with Taoist priests. And our family, in the last few lifetimes, are honest people, and there has never been such a womanizer. I've been hiding outside for a few years, and I don't know why I seem to have changed as if I was a different person, and I became a cowardly pervert.
There are many different theories about the drastic change in my grandfather's personality, one of which is this: when my grandfather was out and about, he still practiced medicine for a living. But everywhere he went, with his extraordinary ability, it didn't take long for his fame to quickly spread in the local area. But he was always afraid that the blind man would find him, so he never dared to stay in one place for too long.
Once, he got lost in a big mountain, relying on the wild fruits in the mountain to satisfy his hunger, and it took a few days and nights to get around, and he didn't know that he was going to go north, south, south, and northwest after he came out, so he walked aimlessly, but fortunately he walked for a short time and met a small mountain village.
There were few families in that small mountain village, and they were scattered all over the mountainside.
At that time, my grandfather's body was almost collapsed, and he desperately wanted to find a place to rest. It was already dark, and he was tired, hungry, and sleepy, so he walked to the door with difficulty, raised his hand and knocked softly.
After a long while, an old man came out of it, and the old man looked at him, and was somewhat surprised to see that it was a stranger.
My grandfather was busy and weakly explained that he had lost his way, and he had been in the mountains for several days, and he almost couldn't get out, because he couldn't walk, and he wanted to stay at the old man's place for one night. The old man was not polite, he took it, checked it with his hand, felt that it was still a lot, and secretly glanced at the bag on my grandfather's waist, so he immediately became much more attentive than just now, he let my grandfather into the house, and boiled some soup in a pot, took two black and hard steamed buns, and pickles, and let my grandfather eat.
My grandfather devoured the steamed buns and pickles in a few bites, then picked up the bowl and drank the bowl of soup in one go, and after having a meal in his stomach, his spirit was much more restored.
The oil lamp in the room was very dim, and he couldn't see the old man's facial features clearly, but with his extreme sensitivity to various states and movements of the human body, my grandfather could clearly perceive that the old man always looked at the bag on his waist, which made his heart very unsteady, but he was too tired to move, and he didn't want to move.