I think back to when I was a child, maybe seven or eight years old, there used to be a juggling troupe at the intersection of White Elephant Street. Different from ordinary Jianghu artists, these performers are all people with partial physical disabilities. Some have lost their hands and feet in the war, some have more than a dozen fingers on their hands, and some have fan bones bulging on their backs, much like a pair of wings.

I distinctly remember a young man who was always naked, because under one of his armpits, he also had a very short hand, and the fingers on his hand were still sound and could move. There is also the trick of the gnome training the monkey. At the end of each performance, he would have the monkey hold a small bowl and ask for money from the crowd around him.

So at that time, I would go and watch from afar every day, and I wasn't really interested in juggling, but I was curious about people with physical disabilities. Because I can't believe how such a person can survive. I don't mean to discriminate in the slightest, it's just that it's just strange.

But even though I had met those strange people in my childhood, it was still extremely unbelievable to hear what Master said. So I asked Master to be more careful, because when I saw his big beard before, it was really hard to imagine that there was a small mouth and eyes covered under the beard.

Master said that he didn't know it at first, but he had heard that the other party was disabled. But I never thought that it was not the missing body part, but one more. At that time, it was Senior Qin who pulled away his beard and let him see his other mouth and eyes. Master said, in fact, it is the eyes, which is a little inappropriate. After all, there are no eyes inside, and it looks like two closed eyes, and they are of different sizes, crooked. Without that mouth, the eyes would look more like scars or birthmarks on the face.

Master said, "But that mouth is different, it looks very specific, but it's much smaller than a normal mouth, about one-third the size of our mouth, and the strange thing is that that mouth can not only open on its own, but also has a row of tiny broken teeth in it, and a fleshy thing, which seems to be the tongue in that mouth. Master also said that this mouth can speak in a very small and strange voice, and can also make expressions such as crying and laughing, but no one knows whether it is the Qin seniors themselves who control this mouth, or the twin brother who has assimilated most of his body and only has one mouth left.

Listening to Master talk about this bizarre thing, and remembering that I had been in contact with this bizarre person in the past two or three days, this feeling was like listening to people's gossip behind my back and accidentally learning a big secret, and I felt quite amazing. Master went on to say that his beard was too thick, and if he didn't mention it, he wouldn't be able to spot it if he wasn't careful. Since he didn't tell you these things, it was naturally because you didn't know each other, so he had no reason to tell you this.

Master said that after he was seriously injured, he had been temporarily living in Qin's senior's house to recuperate, during which everything was delayed, and Qin's predecessor did not continue to do it alone, and when his body improved a little, he felt that if he continued to do it, he would encounter other dangers. Master sighed and said, we are not young anymore, since some things are secrets, the fewer people who know, the better, except for me and Qin seniors, at present, in the world, you are probably the only one who knows. And when you came into contact with Senior Qin, did you notice that he also had a hoarse voice and a strange tone of voice? I nodded yes, and I noticed it from the first time he sneaked up on me and scare me with a snake. Master said that his throat and vocal cords were also injured at the same time, and such injuries were permanent and could not be healed.

After talking for a long time, I became more and more curious about the "secret" that Master said he was involved with Qin's seniors. In fact, according to my grasp of my master's temperament, I know what he is planning to do. He didn't tell me what was going on, but he kept knocking on the side to pique my interest. And he also knows me as a person, and once he knows a little bit about something, he will be easy to be curious, and then get to the bottom of it.

So I followed his pleasure and asked, in a pleading tone, what kind of secret it was. Master said to me with a smile, "Have you ever entered the back room of his house, the room where the lantern was lit?" I said no, and I didn't go any further than I was at the door two times in a row. Master said that the secret was hidden under his bed, and he deliberately rented the house there because of this secret. The master paused and said that a secret passage had been dug under his bed, and at the end of this secret passage, there was a soul of a witch king that had been sealed for thousands of years.

The Witch King's Soul? What the hell is that? Since it was buried deep underground and sealed, I don't think it was to say that it would be accepted, and since the other party wanted this thing, what kind of fun did the master follow? Master said with a smile, in terms of skills, Master is not the opponent of Qin's predecessors, and in terms of knowledge, he can be comparable. When he asked me to do this together, I just wanted to join in the fun, driven by curiosity and to see and learn, and I didn't think too much about it. In addition, we are Taoist people, although they have the same root as the Wu family's art, but they are not of the same origin, even if I covet this Wu King's soul, it is useless to take it, after all, I don't have the Wu family's law lineage.

In this way, Master just wants to see the strange. However, I don't understand, how did the old Qin seniors know about this thing buried deep underground. Master said that the lineage of Qin's predecessors originally had the roots of the Wu family, and there must be some rumors in this sect. In recent years, a number of other countries have become more and more concerned about our country, which believes that they are gradually beginning to show their capitalist ambitions. Although it was not explicitly conveyed, it did give some instructions to the localities, saying that everyone should pay close attention to national defense and prevent the war between capitalism and socialism that will come one day.

As a result, many families, especially those in the cities, mainly in bungalows, dug cellars one after another to protect the common people from having a place to hide when enemy planes attacked.

This was the movement of "digging deep holes and accumulating grain" that swept the country in the following years. In fact, before this spirit was conveyed, many large cities had already begun to prepare such civil air defense facilities in advance, but there was no such concept as "digging deep holes" at that time. Master said that in the vicinity where Qin's predecessors lived, almost every household had been dug up. If there is a mountain on the side of the house, dig into the mountain, and if there is none, dig into the ground. Later, someone seemed to have dug up something strange, but they weren't sure what it was, so the news came out when they inquired. This is how the old Qin elders learned, first suspected that it might be one of the thousands of stories that have been circulated in the Wu family, and decided to come here to verify, after the field investigation, they found that the place had been backfilled, so they rented the house and planned to dig it up themselves.

Master told me that when he went to visit Qin's seniors, most of them had already dug up more than half of them. Originally, he didn't want to deal with the master, but the master later said that he could help dig together, and the old Qin seniors probably thought that the speed would be twice as fast, so they agreed.

I thought to myself, okay, I thought it was him and you who were sorry for each other, but I didn't expect it to be for you to help out of the coolies. The master smiled a little embarrassedly, and then he said that in the end, the two of them dug through the tunnel, but when they entered the door, something strange happened. That's why I hurt myself.

Master glanced down at the scar on his chest, then slowly buckled the button, and continued, Originally, this injury would not be so serious, but that old Qin senior, while dodging by himself, also pulled me to block it, so that it would be so serious. Master smiled bitterly and said, That's why, after that, I stayed far away in the morning, and never went to look for him again, and he probably didn't want to go, so he came to see me from time to time.

When I heard this, I couldn't help but be angry. I've met a lot of people of all kinds, and the ones I despise the most are the selfish ones. If it is said that the old Qin seniors took at least some small things about my master's blocking knife, this kind of practice of finding a substitute for the dead ghost when encountering danger, I can't bear it anyway, looking at the weak appearance of the master, thinking of these, I immediately attributed the guilt of the master who suddenly seemed to have changed a person in the past two years to the old Qin seniors.

Master said that the place where the soul of the Witch King was sealed was like a huge secret room, with a total of eight doors opened, and the order of arrangement was according to the combination of eight trigrams, indicating that the person who built the secret room thousands of years ago was a master who knew Yili well, and six of the doors were blocked, and only two of them could be pushed open to enter and exit. But judging from the arrangement, these two gates belong to the two gates of life and death among the eight gates.

After the birth gate was opened, there were many turns, although it was Jimen, but in the art of Qimen, you also know that it had the meaning of endless life. If it was so easy to pass through, the original master who sealed the Witch King thousands of years ago would have lost its meaning. Sure enough, as soon as we turned the first corner, we met a ghost pawn blocking the way, who was originally a small role, and could easily clean it up, but if we didn't clean up one, there would be two, and after cleaning up these two, four would emerge, so that the growth of the flip made it impossible for the door to pass through.

Master said, so he had no choice but to settle for the next best thing and enter through the door of death. And although the door of death is the most dangerous door, when it is opened, it is a straight road. At the end of the road was a rotten stone door. I thought that there was a vicious roadblocker behind the door, but if he joined forces with the old Qin seniors, it should be no problem to clean it up, but obviously they underestimated the people who laid down the Eight Gate Formation, and just when they were about to open the stone door, the old Qin seniors were taken by surprise, so that the master was affected.

I asked Master what kind of ghosts were hiding behind the door.