I am from Sichuan, my master Lin Qishan is also from Sichuan, and my best friend Songzi is still from Sichuan. Although I have traveled all these years and hidden in the markets to help those who need my help, in exchange for money and the necessities of life. But I still have a strong longing for Sichuan, especially my hometown.

However, in the dead of night, I often ask myself what I am missing, because most of the people I love and care about are no longer there, and I can't find much in my hometown other than those who are still there and my friends.

Sichuan, on the other hand, is a mysterious place. There are so many anecdotes and so many lesser-known stories. Sichuan is a multicultural place, in the north, there is the Qiangdi culture, in the south, there is the Tumiao culture, in the west, there is the Tantric culture, and in the east, there is the Bawu culture. In the center, it is the Shu Han culture, which was one of the three tripods in history. It is also such a complex cultural structure, so that the secret art of various sects here emerges in endlessly, here is not only the birthplace of Southwest Taoism, but also the place where Tantra, Sutra, Zen Buddhism are one, witchcraft, Gu magic, Wu opera, pear garden, and the various sects of the sect after the branch out of the formation of the sect is countless. This is a place where masters gather, and it is also a place where fish and dragons are mixed.

It is not easy for people like me to survive in the middle, especially when the masters of our generation rise, most of them come from the reputation that our respective masters once broke through in the rivers and lakes, and the masters may know each other for most of them, and they are polite on the surface, but secretly, they are secretly comparing their apprentices.

For example, if my apprentice is worse than your apprentice, it means that my method of teaching my apprentice is poor, so I am still a little faceless in front of you. So from that turbulent period onwards, most of the younger masters of the apprentice generation have shouldered the responsibility of making a name for themselves and maintaining the master's family. It's normal for each other to be unconvinced, but I'm a little different.

Because my two masters have passed away over the years, if you want to talk about the inheritance of the sect, I guess it is a well-deserved representative of the two sects, plus I have no students, and I can't compare with anyone, I may be humble in terms of seniority, but in terms of status, I am enough to be on an equal footing with those masters. In addition, in the past few years, with Songzi's big mouth, my second master Qin Bukong and I practiced to break through the Eight Gate Formation, break through the Seven Evil Passes and capture the soul of the Witch King, which has already been rumored to be a legend in this industry. When I was about 30 years old, I had already begun to grow a beard, and I was regarded by many as a so-called "master".

As for the rumors of pine nuts, as well as the legends that add fuel and vinegar to the market, when someone asks me for verification, I always laugh and do not answer, neither admit nor deny, deliberately give the other party a mysterious feeling of me, but in fact I know my own catties and two pounds, and among the masters of my generation, I am afraid that I will not be able to find a few who can be stronger than me.

With such a name, it is actually relatively easy for me to get things done. It's just that in those years, the world was not good, and I had to live in secrecy under pressure. This vigorous movement in just ten years, shook the foundation of the Chinese nation's 5,000-year-old culture, people no longer fear God and Buddha, everyone has the courage to defeat everything in their hearts, when a person is not afraid of heaven and earth, just like a madman who wields a knife to kill people, reasoning is useless, if you can dodge of course, of course, it is the best, but if you can't dodge, the best way is to kill the other party first.

It's not that I'm very realistic, it's what I've learned over the years. I was imprisoned for being treated as one of the four old elements, and I was put in the middle of the city with my head tied behind my back, receiving mud and rotten leaves from people I didn't know, maybe even someone I helped. After I fled, I hid in the countryside for a few years, and got to know many farmers who were not related to me, but treated me like family. But even so, I was also wary of people I didn't know, when I first came into contact with them.

In such an era, such caution and caution allowed me to survive myself. Many people say that if you don't forget your original intention, you have to always. My original intention has not changed, I still say the same thing I said when I first started my apprenticeship, I want to be a good person and want to help others. But I became more low-key, no longer sharp, so as not to make enemies. Even when my rumors spread in the industry, I just thought it was putting me on a higher level, not on a deeper level.

In 1976, the year in which many of our loved ones died, the decade-long struggle seemed to be coming to an end with the fall of the four masterminds, the political atmosphere of the people eased a lot, people began to try to speak their minds, and people in our industry were more tolerant than before.

My good friend Da Mao is a little apprentice of Master Tianyan, who practices the Pu'an Method, and when I first met him, he was just a little hairy child. And this little hairy boy is one of the people who rescued me from prison in the first place, so I owe him a debt that I can't pay off for the rest of my life. Today's Da Mao is already a tall and handsome guy, with a tiger head, and he is no longer the malnourished look he was when I met him. Presumably his master, Mr. Wang Chengqian, should have consumed a lot of food on him over the years. When I was tired from traveling all over the world and planned to go back to the old house, which was the house where my master was alive, to rest for a while, Da Mao became the person who often came to drink and talk to me during that period.

He said that now that the atmosphere has eased, many unjust, false and wrongful cases, as well as those who have been wrongly criticized, have begun to apply for rehabilitation. I smiled and said, I don't have to, people arrested the four old elements, they are feudal remnants, even if I have 10,000 unwillingness in my heart, people finally didn't catch the wrong person, what is there to rehabilitate? The key is that we don't live by this name, even if you are rehabilitated, you are still a Taoist priest, and it is an industry that does not enter the stream.

Da Mao has matured a lot, but like me, he was enlightened very late, and he has not seen the right girl until now. Da Mao's explanation for this is that he didn't think about it in his heart, although he has learned most of the master's crafts, but he still needs to practice diligently, after all, not everyone can encounter such adventures and luck like me, I am just the lucky one.

But one day Da Mao said to me, Brother Shan, I can't often come to you to play with you from the beginning of next month, I want to go to Shuzhong with my master, that is, Chengdu, Master wants to pick up some things, by the way take me to open my eyes, we are people with heavenly eyes, and it will be easier to identify good goods than others when we choose things.

I was a little curious, so I asked, "What do you have to go so far to choose?" Although our hometown is not as good as Chengdu, but it is also everything, why do you have to go all the way to pick up good goods, is Mr. Wang interested in some ancient artifacts of the previous dynasty, and want to buy them back for self-appreciation? Da Mao said, Master has no interest in those old things, and now this world has just begun to be peaceful, even if you like it, you have to hide it, who knows if these people will resurrect, and then give us a whole whole, isn't this money spent in vain?

I think it's a little funny, Da Mao is said to be in the year I left my hometown, already in the independent order to do things, in front of outsiders, he is a precocious little master who does not smile, and in front of me, although a few years apart, but Da Mao regards me as a big brother, he automatically turned into a child. I reminded Da Mao that in the future, don't call me Brother Shan, if you want to call me, you can call "Brother Shankong", or "Brother Situ".

Da Mao once heard me talk about Qin Bukong, and he also knew how my original name of Situ Shan became Situ Shankong.

Da Mao left, and it took almost a month to come back. After returning home and resting for a few days, he came knocking on my door again with some jugs of wine and some corn on the cob. But this time, when I met him, I was taken aback. Because he has lost a lot of weight, in just one month, he definitely shouldn't be like this. And his expression was gloomy, he looked rather depressed, and he deliberately forced a smile in front of me, but he carried more soju in his hand than before. This shows that this child has something on his mind.

Young man, the biggest concern is nothing more than to like a girl from a family, but other girls don't like him, or the family looks down on him or something, at least that's what I thought at the time, and even faintly felt a little funny. Since Da Mao can still laugh when he comes to me, I think this matter should not be a big deal.

But after three rounds of drinking, Da Mao may have drunk a little too much, and he actually cried while holding the corn cob on the wine table, which made me a little surprised, because I know Da Mao well, although he doesn't drink well, he won't be so drunk. So I asked him, what's wrong, brother, what are you crying about, what is there that you can't get by? How many times have I told you, when you encounter difficulties, think about your Shankong brother, it was so difficult to come over, there is nothing wrong with liking other girls, boldly pursue, you can't pursue it, the right is no fate, your brother and I were so stormy at the beginning...

Before he finished speaking, Da Mao looked up in wonder and said, Brother, what are you talking about, where is the girl?