Ghost Blowing Lantern II

The hands of the fat man and I were shaking when we held the money. At that time, we didn’t have a very clear concept of money. We only knew that money was good and could buy candy and cigarettes, but you couldn’t have too much money. Once you had too much money, you would be greedy for pleasure and become mentally degenerate. With rotten ideas and rotten lives, it is easy to embark on the path of bourgeois liberalization. However, at that time, we had already had an unobvious idea in our hearts: to make more money in the future. Money is evil, but money is useful.

Finally, we had money to buy the tickets. With mixed emotions, we got on the train to Beijing and arrived in Nanjing. By this time, the money had been spent long ago, and the fat man borrowed it from his aunt's house. He gave me 20 yuan and sent me on the train. He agreed with me on the platform that we would meet him directly at Ganggangyingzi when he went back next year. Next year, he would buy more sets of foxes and yellow skins in the mountains, and then go to the grassland to visit Ding. Si Tian, ​​let’s discuss the major issues of participating in the world revolution.

The train was slowly moving, and I reached out my hand from the window to shake hands with the fat man and say goodbye. I didn’t expect that we would be apart for more than ten years. Many things happened in these ten years. After I returned to Fujian, I accidentally joined the army. , the army needs iron discipline, which is not as easy as being an educated youth. In addition, in the first few years, they were performing secret missions with the army in the Kunlun Mountains, and they were unable to communicate with the outside world at all.

When I was transferred to the Lanzhou Military Region with the troops, I learned that Ding Sitian was no longer alive. In the winter when Fatty and I left the grassland, a cruel "White Disaster" occurred centered on Baiyan Cave. Many people and animals died. Ding Sitian was also killed in the natural disaster of the Great Winter Famine, and her body has not yet been found.

In the blink of an eye, fifteen years have passed. Neither Fatty nor I wanted to recall these tragic past events, nor did we dare to recall them. Until before we left for the United States, we packed up our belongings and casually opened an old photo album and saw this. An old photo, those buried past events, once the dust covering it is wiped away, still looks so real. It is still vivid in my mind. Looking back on the past, I can't help but sigh. As I looked at it, I suddenly found that there was a figure in the distant view of the photo. The blurred back and the rickety figure seemed to be Lao Sheeppi. For some reason, as soon as I saw his hazy figure in the photo, I immediately felt uneasy. Why had I never noticed this detail before?

For so many years, I have always been worried about the strange things that happened after Lao Yangpi's death, as well as the bronze dragon charm thrown by Ding Sitian on the grassland. These questions have always been entangled in my heart, but when I think of these past things , you will feel bursts of sadness. In addition, after years of running around, it is difficult to have time to look back on the past. Today, when I see the figure of Lao Yangpi in this old photo, I can’t help but think of the past events he told. Some of the details are worthy of scrutiny. .

When Lao Yangpi was young, he worked as a back-fighting craftsman. He followed a bandit leader named Chen. Later, this man went south to Yunnan to do a big business. Unexpectedly, he encountered an accident in Yunnan and his whereabouts are unknown. Will this man be able to do it? Is it Blind Chen whom I met in Shaanxi? That fortune teller Chen Xiazi who went to Yunnan to rob tombs? Now that I think about it carefully, many of the characteristics are consistent. However, although I knew that Chen Xiazi had followed the Xiling disciples to look for the "Tomb of King Xian" in the Worm Valley of Yunnan, he never told me that he had been a bandit leader. But think about it It’s understandable. After all, Blind Chen has broken a pair of tricks and will never fight again in this life. Now that he’s using fortune telling to cheat food and drink, he naturally wants to claim that he is the reincarnation of the ancestor Chen Tuan. How can he admit it? A former tomb robber leader.

Thinking of this, I immediately closed the photo album, stood up and went out. Most of the many old things that Lao Yangpi mentioned to me in the "Baiyan Cave" are difficult to verify, but Blind Chen came from the old society, so he might know some. The most important thing is to ask him about the stories about Huang Pizi, the Ghost Yamen, and the Bronze Dragon Talisman, as to why Lao Yangpi was struck by thunder and fire after his death, so as to solve the doubts that have troubled me for so many years.

As far as I know, Taoranting Park in Beijing is where Chen Xiazi goes about his daily activities. However, his whereabouts are erratic and he has not dared to show up in public in the park recently. Opposite Taoranting is Beijing South Railway Station. He has often been on the street behind the South Railway Station recently. He was setting up a fortune-telling stall in a small alley, and I finally found him.

Just then, Blind Man Chen was touching the bones of a female comrade to judge her fortune. The woman was in her thirties, fat and white, and was very wealthy. She didn't know what kind of problems she encountered, so she wanted to ask an expert for advice. The blind man touched her bones first. He pinched the bones between her forehead, eyes and nose several times, and murmured: "There are so many different faces, so there is no need to judge wealth by looking at them. A blind person has his immortal fingers, and he can touch the five mountains in his bones." end."

The woman's face was pinched so hard by the skinny old man that it hurt, and she was really annoyed: "Can't you be gentler? These hands are like iron pliers."

The blind man said: "This is my fairy finger. It can cut through flesh and bones. It can pinch even ordinary people without even noticing any pain. Only those who have descended from the gods and immortals know how powerful it is. It seems that the lady must have a background, but I wonder what this fairy lady wants to ask? If you want to talk about secrets, if you ask for ten yuan, you will not be owed any credit."

The woman had a fat face and big ears. She was often said to be wearing a three-point blessing sign since she was a child. Now when she heard Blind Man Chen call her a fairy aunt, she was even more convinced that she was no ordinary housewife. I was impressed that although the old man was blind, he really knew things like a god, so he talked about the reason.

Although I was eager to talk to Blind Chen, I didn't want to disturb his business, so I had to wait nearby. After listening for a long time, I realized that this woman's husband was a businessman who used his connections to buy approvals. He had a money tree at home. Naturally, she has no worries about food and clothing, but she and her husband have been having strange dreams recently, dreaming of a black dog nibbling her toes, often breaking out in a cold sweat. The two of them have the same nightmare at the same time, not only have trouble sleeping and eating, but are also physically and mentally exhausted. , and what’s even more terrible is that the foot bitten by a black dog in the dream gradually began to develop thick sores, festering and smelly. I sought medical advice everywhere but could not get any better. I heard that there is a fortune teller near Taoranting. Ancestor Chen Tuan came here specially to ask for some advice. First, he asked why this strange dream occurred, and second, he asked if the sores on the soles of his feet could be cured.

Blind Chen asked the woman about her husband's body shape again. After listening, he looked calm and confident. He shook his head and counted: "As expected, the fairy girl is the golden-winged carp in Tianchi Yaotai." In the reincarnation, your esteemed husband is skinny, short and skinny. He was originally the canary in front of the Jade Emperor. Both of them are spiritual officials in the Immortal Class. You two came to this world to be husband and wife, originally to break up a fate. , but you and your wife have offended Zhenjun Erlang's howling dog in the previous life. The evil dog refused to let go, so you dreamed of a black dog chewing its feet. It's lucky that I learned about it, otherwise a catastrophic disaster would not be far away. "

When the fat woman heard that she and her husband were two beasts in the past life? These words were so offensive that I doubted whether a blind man was just making them up and talking nonsense.

Blind Chen hurriedly explained: I have a golden tongue and can reveal the secrets of heaven. How can I be talking nonsense? When the eyes are blind and the mind is clear, one can see forms that the world cannot see, and understand the Tao that the world does not understand. What is the form and what is the Tao? The Tao is formless, gives birth to the heaven and the earth, the Tao is ruthless, moves the sun and the moon, the Tao is nameless, and nourishes all things. I don’t know its name. The way to make a strong name is that the ancients said, "The Tao is wordless and the Buddha is empty." There is no language in the world that can accurately describe it. What is the Great Dao? In short, everything in the world belongs to the Great Dao. Whether it is a human or a bird, they are all certain shapes in the Dao. There is no difference between high and low, let alone beauty and ugliness. Only people who are ignorant tend to value people. In fact, Human beings are in the shape of animals and birds, and the fate of a fish and bird is just like a dragon swimming around and a phoenix flying. It is really the fate of being rich and powerful. How valuable is this life? Hehe...it's priceless.

This means that there are birds and beasts, and some people were transformed into beasts in their previous lives. This can be shown in their appearance. This is fate, and it is one's own blessing, so what is there to be ashamed of? There is a key to observing people by feeling their bones and skin. If they are thin, they should be like birds. If a fat person is like an animal, it is not too small to look like a bird. It is most important to be fat like an animal. If a bird is fat, it will definitely not be able to fly. If an animal is thin, it will be fat. Good food? A blind man talks nonsense, but he still talks eloquently and makes the woman submissive. In the end, she even starts to feel proud that she and her husband look like animals.

But the blind man changed the subject and denied the woman's lifetime wealth. He said that destiny is determined by the boat and luck is determined by the wind. "Destiny" is actually two different things. Although she was destined to be wealthy, she was destined to have bad luck for half her life. Just like a huge ship, but there is no wind to support it, it can only be left on the shoal and allowed to rot. You and your wife are both destined to be free and easy gods, but you are bound by karmic debts. In the dream, a black dog gnaws the foot, and the black star will surely take the lead. Now he is about to be unlucky. It is really dangerous to live in such a dangerous situation. At worst, his family will be destroyed and his family will be destroyed. At worst, he will be trapped in a ghost palace and never recover.

The fat woman was almost frightened by Blind Man Chen's words and paralyzed on the spot. She hurriedly begged her ancestor for help and put a roll of banknotes into Blind Man Chen's hand. The blind man touched the money and gave him enough money. To help with suggestions, we must move as soon as possible. There is a memorial tablet in the new house and a letter with the words "County Governor Li Bing is here". Why? Li Bing was the governor of Shu County who built Dujiangyan during the reign of King Qin Zhao. Zhenjun Guankou Erlang in Shu was the second son of Li Bing. With the memorial tablet of Jun Li, the Heavenly Dog did not dare to do it again.

The blind man took up a pen and wrote a prescription on a scrap of paper: one finger of Longhushan pine bark, three flat peach cores, two each of southern pearls and northern gall bladders, three liangs of Baiwei stones, and one Yellow River fish, boiled in Dongting Lake water, and three Boil a bowl of water to make a bowl, one bowl a day. After taking it for three days, you will be sure to feel calm and the thick sores on the soles of your feet will heal on their own.

The fat woman was stunned when she heard it. What was on this prescription? There are some medicines that I have never even heard of, and I am afraid that even if I have money, I cannot buy them. Could it be that they are all miraculous medicines from heaven? How can this be financed?

The blind man said that it was okay. I was selling medicinal materials on behalf of others, so I asked the fat woman for some money. He found a broken bowl and lit a fire to burn the prescription. The ashes fell into the bowl and handed it to the fat woman. He told her to divide it into three parts and pour them with water. Send the service, remember, remember.

I was secretly amused when I heard it. Finally, after Chen had defrauded him enough money and sent the woman away, he said that he wanted to find a place to talk and ask questions, so I took his blind stick and led him to Taoranting Park. In the pavilion in the middle of the road, I asked the blind man if he was accurate in calculating the fat woman just now.

At first, I thought Blind Chen was just talking nonsense, but when I heard that he asked the fat woman to move her family, there was indeed some truth to it. In the "Sixteen-Character Yin-Yang Feng Shui Secret Technique", the word "ghost" is described in the volume of the dream. There is a black dog and a black cat gnawing on the feet under the bed. This house is a sign of evil and is not suitable for people to live in. If you dig a few feet into the ground, you may find a section of black carbon. This is because someone hanged himself in this house before, and his soul entered the ground and was trapped by evil spirits, or There are ancient tombs and old tombs under the house. The fat woman's house may be a haunted house. It is definitely the best choice to move away from the place of trouble and trouble.

Blind Chen's pride was palpable and he said with a smile: "I don't know if there are any old men in her family, but the fat girl's family must have done too many things for speculation. They have bribed and taken bribes, and they have been short-changed. They are selling the approval of the court." It’s inevitable, and you must have done a lot of bad things. As the saying goes, if you have sores on the top of your head and thick discharge on the soles of your feet, it’s extremely bad. Such people will inevitably be frightened. They will be worried day and night, and they will suspect dark ghosts. They are most likely to listen to others. I believe that even if I am not blind, I can calculate this hexagram. If I touch her bones, I will know that she is a stingy and unfilial beast. Her family is full of unkind and unjust wealth, and there is no harm in taking it. I think of the time when people gathered to unload the mountain. , if I had encountered such a rich and unkind scoundrel, I would have chopped them all off one by one, and sent the thieves and thieves to the underworld..."

I heard Mr. Chen talking about the people who gathered to rob tombs in Xiling to make money, so I took the opportunity to ask him if he had ever been a robber before. Did he know Lao Yangpi and Yang Erdan, two Shaanxi people who could sing Qin opera?

The blind man was startled when he heard this. Xiling Lishi was a tomb robber and grave digger with the same reputation as Mo Jinxiaowei and Taoist Banshan. After the Red Eyebrow Army uprising in the Han Dynasty was suppressed and failed, some of the remnant tribes became bandits and scattered throughout the country. They still did some things of killing officials and rebelling. Back then, the Red Eyebrow Army ransacked the Han Tombs, and its remnants also retained the tradition of making money. Once they discovered the ancient tombs, they robbed and excavated them. Before the Song Dynasty, During the Xie Ling fight, they still retained the method of smearing cinnabar or pig blood on their eyebrows when they were doing it, and then washed it off with potion after robbing the tomb. This habit of dyeing their eyebrows red to ward off evil spirits was gradually eliminated in order to make their actions more secretive. .

The people of Xiling have always had leaders as bandit chiefs in all dynasties. Since "Kui" is the leader, there are many people and things to do, so the group cannot be without a leader. The bandit chief has the final say in all activities of dividing the spoils and gathering justice. The bandit chief has a very high prestige and has the authority to live and kill. Not only can he use the "circling technique" to dig up graves, but he is also a grass-roots emperor on the green forest road. He can be regarded as a man who can call upon the wind and rain. Chen Xiazi did serve as a bandit leader during the Republic of China, but those If you don't mention the truth about old things, you will forget them.

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