At the end of the twentieth century, at the end of summer.

This is located in the southwest of Wudang Mountain, close to a ravine in the Shennongjia forest area, surrounded by mountains, green mountains and beautiful waters. The green of the vegetation here is different from the blue of the northern plants, and the green here is a light green, a vibrant green. If you're a northerner, you might feel a faint sense of weirdness when you come here at first glance. A dirt road winds its way from a distant mountain pass to the bottom of the hill, where there is a simple building made of thatch and wooden piles.

Huang Banxian sat in the hall and drank tea while watching the second apprentice instruct a teenager of the same age to unload the things on the truck with the driver.

This second apprentice of his is called Qi Yunsheng, he is about fifteen or sixteen years old this year, and his name is given by him. The child he bought back ten years ago from a small gang that manipulated children to beg for a living. They had three children in their hands at the time, and two of them were crippled. Huang Banxian suspected that they might have used the method of "harvesting and cutting" the child.

"Harvesting and cutting" is a long-standing technique among beggars, which uses cruel means to maim healthy children and then manipulate them to beg for a living. Huang Banxian, who regarded himself as a literati, almost laughed out loud when he saw the beggars in Mr. Jin Yong's novel. If the people in the beggar gang were as righteous and innocent as written in the novel, they would have died a long time ago, and there is still a fart beggar gang in the world.

It stands to reason that Huang Banxian is not a good person. He thinks he cheats for a living. His theory is: all the people who calculate the fate of others, such as physiognomy, easy calculation, four-pillar pushing, etc., are divided into two types. One is to believe in oneself. This kind of person believes in his own fate, studies his own set of algorithms as science, strives to study and improve, and believes in the fortunes he tells others. The other is himself, who never believes in fate. Fortune telling to others is to cheat money. Delving into algorithms is also for better deception.

Deceiving people is deceiving people, but Huang Banxian prides himself on never harming others. His purpose is to make a little money, so why cheat people out of money and hurt people again. Therefore, he never treats people, nor does he cheat money with alarmist and scary methods. Literati, cheating money is also calm.

So he felt great sympathy for the little boy who was only five or six years old. He thought about it again and again, and felt that if he didn't care about this matter, he would definitely have a troubled conscience and regret it in the future; But if you call the police, you will violate the rules of the rivers and lakes, and you will suffer from other people's dirt in the future, and the back of your buttocks is not very clean, and I am afraid that it will be unclear when you see the police. So his last choice was to pay for Xiao Qi Yunsheng's redemption. So he tried to scare and cheat, but those bastards refused to eat it, and in the end they spent most of his savings. Although Qi Yunsheng was young at that time, he had already understood the reason, and he saw Huang Banxian's hard work in his eyes and remembered it in his heart. Since then, he has been obedient to Huang Banxian and respectful of his own father. It may be because he has witnessed the process of other children being hurt, and he has been stimulated, and he is usually quiet and a little introverted.

Unloaded from the car were some tents, electric hammers, lighting and other equipment. It feels like a simple house is going to be built in the mountains. Actually, no, this is just the setting for a major plan of Huang Banxian.

Huang Banxian has been wandering the rivers and lakes for most of his life, and has always had a dream, that is, to be a big picture that can shock the industry. Let others mention the classic scam on the rivers and lakes, they will remember the one he did Huang Banxian, and stretch out his thumb and say that he really deserves to be the kind of leader in the industry. To this end, he began to prepare for it many years ago.

Twenty years ago, when the reform and opening up had just begun, martial arts novels from Hong Kong and Taiwan entered the mainland in a big way. You can see stalls reading and renting books on the streets and alleys, and adults and children are all obsessed with it. Many booksellers, booksellers, pseudo-authors, and even printers and paper dealers saw different business opportunities in it. But in the eyes of Huang Banxian, this opportunity was different.

At that time, he was setting up a stall near the Yellow Crane Tower in Wuhan to show people. In the afternoon, when there were few tourists and no one to take care of his business, he was very bored, so he went to a nearby bookstall and took a copy of "Heaven and Dragon Slayer" to read. Unconsciously, the more he looked, the more he loved it, and he couldn't help but be immersed in it, so he simply closed the stall and sat in the shade of the tree to read the book intently. Looking at it, a bold idea popped into his head, and instinctively he was attracted by the wonderful content of the book, and wanted to continue reading, but the idea could not be pressed, and it circled back and forth in his mind. It gradually showed its outline in his mind, and slowly turned from an idea into the prototype of a bold plan.

Huang Banxian stood up suddenly, threw down the book in his hand, and laughed up to the sky. Nearby colleagues glanced at him with contempt, shook their heads and sighed: "This bastard is really shameless, whenever business is bad, he will come out with a demon moth, this time he must be acting 'enlightenment', in order to attract fortune tellers, he really does everything!" ”

Huang Banxian didn't have time to care about the expressions of his peers, picked up the book and returned it to the bookstall, and then rode his broken bicycle home, not even bothering to clean up the things on his hexagram stall.

Huang Banxian bought something to eat on the way, and when he arrived at the small single room he rented, he took out a pen and paper and began to conceive the whole plan when he entered the door.

After a night of hard thinking and meditation, the next morning, he finally completed the planning of the overall situation. But he didn't rush to implement it, but slept first. He slept until three o'clock in the afternoon. After getting up, he got on his bicycle and went to the place where he was yesterday to find his peers, find the guy he left eating there, and continue to set up a stall to look at his face.

After calming down for half a month, he picked up the draft of the plan and looked at it again. He was going to look at the plan again from the eyes of an ordinary person.

"Feasible! Totally doable! Huang Banxian praised in his heart: "When I get serious, I can't help but admire myself, I'm really talented!" It seems that if I can do this in the second half of my life, I will have no regrets in my life. ”

Huang Banxian then decided to suspend business for a year and carry out the preliminary layout first. He first visited some so-called Feng Shui masters. In the end, it was decided to invite an old bachelor who was over seventy years old. This man had never married a wife and had no other relatives, and he claimed that he did not dare to marry and have children because he was afraid of being punished by heaven because he had revealed the secret of heaven.

He took this old bachelor who looked at feng shui to almost all the mountains and rivers around Wudang Mountain, where there was wilderness, where there was no one, where feng shui was the worst, and they went there. Finally, the old bachelor was tired and couldn't stand it, he firmly pointed to the southern slope of the ravine in the southwest of Wudang Mountain, which is close to the Shennongjia Forest Area, that is, a depression on the northern slope of the southern mountain, and said: "This is the most insidious place in the area of Wudang Mountain that you are looking for." The so-called mouth of hell, the eye of the abyss. The yin and evil qi in a radius of thousands of square kilometers around here all comes out of here, and the feng shui is definitely the worst of the worst. ”

Huang Banxian looked at the surrounding environment, there was no one in a radius of dozens of kilometers. He took out the topographic map again to confirm the location, and it seemed that the transportation channel was relatively convenient, and he felt that it met his requirements. But he didn't stop there, in order to keep it secret, he took this old bachelor to the vicinity of Shennongjia again. The old bachelor was tossed enough by him, so he pointed out a few so-called places with extremely poor feng shui to him. Huang Banxian paid to send him away. When the old bachelor left, he kept muttering that he had lost money on this job, and this money was not enough to buy shoes. Huang Banxian just laughed it off.

Since then, Huang Banxian has successively found many such old gentlemen who are over 60 years old and have their own expertise, some are invited to identify some antiquities of the Ming Dynasty, some are laboratory analysis of some soil, some are to analyze some Taoist ornaments, some are engraved on the mountain stones of the so-called mouth of hell Some specious text patterns, and some are to write some picture scrolls in ancient style. Fortunately, these people had not yet begun to be popular at that time, and the antique craze had not begun in society, nor had they begun to advocate trends such as feng shui superstitions, otherwise his little money would really not be enough.

Huang Banxian stayed in this ravine near Wudang Mountain for two years, and carried out a lot of hard work, including throwing acid dung on the mountain rocks, transplanting some woody plants that are more than 100 years old, and so on.

After the preliminary preparations were completed, Huang Banxian's money was almost spent. He then drifted down the mountain, re-entered the world, and returned to Wuhan to engage in his old profession.