Chapter 006: Wu Zhenren
This Wu Zhenren is my master a few years later, at the beginning I said, that group of Taoist priests who chased and killed the phoenix, there was a person who stayed in Wangjia Village for some reason, and built a Taoist temple on the back mountain of Wangjia Village, named Taiyin Temple, after his death, his son became the master of Taiyin Temple, which is now Wu Zhenren.
Wu Zhenren's original name was Wu Zhenqing, the word long beard, his father, that is, what my Taishi ancestor is called, I don't know anything about his life deeds, Wu Zhenren has never mentioned it to me after becoming my master, when Taishi Zu was alive, his name was not obvious, it seems to be a Taoist priest who does his duty, and the young Wu Zhenren has long been famous, he is very accurate, you can see the person's birth date at a glance, report whether the person's parents are still there or not, a few sisters, sometimes whose cow is lost and can't find it will go to ask him where to calculate, Wu Zhenren did not refuse to come, and helped them divination for free, so the villagers of Shili and Eight Villages respected him very much.
Later, Wu Zhenren's Taoism became more and more profound, once in front of people showed a hand of means of taking things from the air, many people came to visit, wanted to worship under his door, at that time Wu Zhenren was unbearable, bid farewell to the ancestor and began to travel the world.
At that time, New China had not yet been established, the world was in chaos, and there were wars everywhere, Wu Zhenren gave Wu Zhenren a note before he traveled, and the content of the note was not a metaphysical secret record, but a description of several strange people he had seen when he traveled the world.
Among those people with strange fates, there is a person who is a woodcutter in Cuiheng Village, Xiangshan County, Guangdong, named Sun Dixiang, Taishizu gave this woodcutter a piece of jade and left after a few words, and said that he might see him again in the future.
It was not until the end of 1911, when Sun Yat-sen was elected as the provisional president of the Republic of China, that Wu Zhenren, who traveled to Wutai Mountain, knew that Sun Dixiang was Sun Yat-sen, and Emperor Xiang was his childhood name.
Wu Zhenren was not in a hurry to see Sun Yat-sen at that time, and did not meet Sun Yat-sen until the spring of 1925, but unfortunately Sun Yat-sen was critically ill at that time, and Wu Zhenren also lacked skills.
Later, someone wrote in a biography: That night, no one knew what Mr. Sun talked about with the strangely dressed person, and no one knew what the identity background of that person was, and he seemed to have disappeared from the world and disappeared again. It wasn't until 17 years later that I met him again on the day of his death, but I asked a lot of people, and they all said they didn't know who that person was, and his appearance seemed to age very slowly and I remembered him very well, so I could recognize him at a glance in a crowd. The last time I saw him was in Beijing in 1961, Mr. Mei Lanfang's last stage career performance, the play was closed, I asked Mr. Mei who was sitting alone on the second floor of the Mei viewing platform, Mr. Mei only told me that his surname was Wu, and he didn't say anything else. And I believe that these are just the tip of the iceberg that I have seen, and I can't figure out what one person can do to make these figures who are enough to shine in history so flattering and jealous, and what is even more terrifying, everyone knows nothing about him.
The master does not know how many politicians and celebrities he has seen in his life, and he has accepted three apprentices when he traveled the world, and then only his eldest apprentice returned to Wangjia Village with him, this person is the seventy-seventh generation of Confucius's eldest grandson, the last generation of Yan Shenggong, Kong Decheng.
Thirty years ago, the unprecedented outbreak of the Cultural Revolution, after the slogan of breaking the four olds was proposed, the Red Guards who swept all the ghosts, snakes and gods surrounded the back mountain of Wangjia Village for the first time, and thousands of them surrounded Wu Zhenren's Taoist temple, and the villagers of Wangjia Village and several nearby villages surrounded them, persuading these Red Guards not to be disrespectful to Wu Zhenren, the Red Guards did not listen, smashed the Taoist temple, burned plaques, destroyed the statues, Wu Zhenren and his big apprentice Kong Decheng stood behind the crowd without saying a word, at that time Kong Decheng was only in his forties, in the prime of life, Seeing that a few Red Guards came over to be disrespectful to Wu Zhenren, the nurse was so heartfelt that he overturned two people on the spot.
When the Red Guards saw that their revolutionary companions were beaten, they rushed to Wu Zhenren and Kong Decheng, wanting to tie them up and burn them to death, at this time the leaders of the county rushed over, they knew Wu Zhenren, and they knew Kong Decheng even more, but who knows, when they said that Kong Decheng was the seventy-seventh generation of Confucius's eldest grandson and the contemporary Yan Shenggong, those Red Guards became even more rampant, and threatened to defeat Kong Laoer.
As a result, this group of Red Guards escorting Wu Zhenren and Kong Decheng went straight to Qufu, Shandong, and more and more Red Guards joined along the way.
In the destruction of the tomb of Confucius, the Confucian Mansion, the Confucian Temple, and the Confucian Forest were burned, and when Kong Decheng, the Emperor of Yansheng, saw the tomb of Confucius being blown open, and saw the bodies of his grandparents and parents being dragged out of the tomb by the Red Guards with iron hooks, he howled and cried like a child.
And when Wu Zhenren saw that the plaque of the "Wanshi Watch" was kicked to pieces by the Red Guards, his old man's eyes were disappointed in addition to disappointment.
Later, the leaders of the county funded the construction of a Taoist temple for Wu Zhenren, but the disheartened Wu Zhenren had already decided to go to Taiwan with Kong Decheng, and he left like this for 30 years.
Now Wu Zhenren has returned to Wangjia Village for some reason, just in time for the murder of the plane tree being cut down. Wu Zhenren helped me up, as if he deliberately didn't look at me, but turned his head to look at my grandfather and said: "Dao Sheng, I came back this time to take care of the things caused by this tree, there are already twenty-nine dead in the village, if I don't care about it, I'm afraid there will be more lives at night." ”
As soon as Wu Zhenren said this, the people of Wangjia Village were so frightened that they knelt on the ground to ask for help, this old immortal was a man who said it decades ago, and he never made a mistake, he said that if he wanted to die tonight, then he would definitely die.
Grandpa gasped when he heard Wu Zhenren say this, but then he frowned and asked: "Wu Zhenren, the group of people who cut down the tree is a leader named Chen Tiantian, and his group has killed twenty-seven, plus this little policeman, there are only twenty-eight people, how do you say twenty-nine?" ”
Wu Zhenren said: "That may be because I am old." ”
Wu Zhenren asked the villagers to get up as he spoke, and kept saying that he couldn't stand it.
At this time, a policeman walked up to Liu Quanquan and whispered a few words, Liu Quan's eyes widened and he glanced at Wu Zhenren incredulously, and then said to his grandfather: "Secretary Wang, I just received a report, and another person from the Wang family died, called Wang Cripple." ”
"What?" Grandpa was taken aback. "The lame king neither cut down the tree nor moved the phoenix corpse, how could he die if he was not sick or sick?"
Wu Zhenren said: "I showed him the appearance of the little cripple when he was a child, and it shouldn't be so short-lived. ”
Liu Quan asked in surprise: "You mean that he died by him?" ”
Wu Zhenren said: "Whether he killed him or not will only know after watching it." ”
After a while, Wu Zhenren followed everyone to the door of Wang Cripple's house, he frowned and said, "Longwei Mansion? ”
Grandpa asked, "Wu Zhenren, what is the Dragon Tail Mansion?" ”
Wu Zhenren shook his head and said: "Longwei House, I have only heard of it, and I am not sure that this house is Longwei House, ordinary houses are divided into three yin and three yang, nine blessings and nine disasters, southeast and northwest, all different, but the Dragon Tail House is not among them, and no one will put such a feng shui pattern after the Qing Dynasty." This dragon tail is not the dragon tail in the twenty-eight constellations, but the real dragon tail, but the last phoenix in the world is dead, not to mention the ethereal dragon, can you still make an emperor with a dragon tail house? Am I thinking too much? ”
Wu Zhenren stood at the door of Wang Cripple's house and watched for a long time and didn't go in, but Liu Quan was in a hurry, there were still dead people inside, this old gentleman actually studied feng shui, but he could only follow behind respectfully, grandpa was a living immortal in his eyes, but at this moment grandpa followed Wu Zhenren like a follower, not to mention him, his elders told him thousands of times, seeing these strange people must grovel, and never offend half a point.
"What age is it, where can there be an emperor. I guess I'm wrong. Wu Zhenren didn't think much about it, and stepped into Wang Cripple's house.