Coming out of Jiushi's western suburbs garden, I felt refreshed. The night breeze filtered through the car window, and stars were dancing in the sky. The kind words of my friends made me feel like I was in the spring breeze, relaxed and happy. However, Xin Xiaoxin's glib tone made me feel relaxed and happy.
It's worth being careful. I said a few words to him before I left.
Yang Tao told me that in Nanxiang Ancient Town, there are many stalls selling imitation guns. The BB bullets emitted by those guns can easily break wine bottles. But there is a shop among them that is a fake. No, it should be said to be "beads".
"Mixed Fish Eye". This store sells real guns and has a lot of rare items. The owner of the store is a relative of the Hubei gang leader.
It is said that the name of the Hubei gang leader is Ye Rui.
Is this the guy I hung out with in the casino, drug den, and sex scene?
If it were him, it would be really easy. The so-called brothers who "went to school together, carried guns together, shared stolen goods together, and visited prostitutes together" have the deepest feelings.
Nanxiang is one of the four ancient towns in Shanghai. The closer you get to it, the stronger the antique flavor becomes. I opened the car window, feeling the evening breeze blowing, and felt very uncomfortable. I turned from Production Road to Heping Street and had a red wine.
When I was waiting at the intersection, a homeless man rushed up with a rag. He wiped it on my car a few times and asked me for money.
I shook my head and said I didn't have any change. The man couldn't ask for it after a few attempts. When the light turned green, he wiped my car hard with a rag. An extremely harsh sound came and the car was scratched.
This car wasn't originally mine, and it wasn't a good car, so I treated it as if it had been sprayed with a personalized paint. But because of my bad temper, I parked the car to the side, got out of the car, and chased after it.
The tramp didn't expect me to be so serious, so he ran away. His legs were not weak, and I stayed behind closely, so I couldn't catch up with him for a while. Suddenly, a black figure appeared next to him, holding out a stick in his hand to stop him.
My way to go.
I said angrily: "Who are you?"
Only then did I see clearly that this man was an extremely slovenly guy. He was quite old, had a long beard, and disheveled hair. He was wearing a Taoist hat on his head. His Bagua robe was covered with patches here and there, especially the two big ones.
My sleeves were probably dusted from being brushed on the ground all day long. The stick in my hand was the handle of a flag.
The man had a mocking tone and said, "Only dogs chase beggars."
Just this sentence made me speechless and choked. I was under great pressure and couldn't take any further steps. Originally, this guy said that I was like a dog. I should have said something in return, but I felt that this person was not simple.
, seemingly an expert, cupped his hands and said: "What do you call it?"
"The surname is Liu, and the odd number is Qing."
I cupped my hands again and said, "Oh, Daochang Liu."
"Little kid, why are you traveling to this place alone at such a late hour?"
"Hey, how does the Taoist priest know that I am a person?"
Liu Qing touched his beard, stretched out a hand, pointed his fingers, and said: "I figured it out. Didn't you? There is a little girl in the car?"
I secretly screamed in my heart, and then I laughed and said: "Daozhang Liu has a celestial spirit and a master's demeanor. He can tell the past and the future with just a few calculations."
Liu Qingdao: "Easy to say, easy to say."
"Does Mr. Liu know why I'm here this time?"
Liu Qing counted a few more times with his fingers and said, "Buy a gun."
I was surprised, I didn’t expect this person to be a real psychic, so I quickly said: "Liu Shenxian, awesome, awesome! Where can I buy a good gun? Real guy, can you tell me?"
Liu Qing smiled, spread his fingers, and asked for money.
I asked how much does it cost to tell a fortune?
The answer was one thousand yuan.
Without thinking, I ran back to the car and handed the money to him.
Liu Qing counted the money, smiled widely, and said: "Go down this road, and there is a Nanxiang Xiaolong on the door number of the third house on the left. It has the yellow door and window."
I nodded and was about to leave. Liu Qing said again: "Hey, little boy, my calculations are so accurate. You don't count your official career, wealth, health, sickness, and blessings. You just left without saying a word."
This is my first time seeing someone like you. But why?"
I politely cupped my hands and said, "Don't be surprised by Liu Shenxian. You are quite familiar with this area. I'm new here. Since I can afford the opening fee of 1,000 yuan, I just want to get some news from you. That's all."
Liu Qing looked up to the sky and laughed, and said: "Listening to what you are saying, little kid, do you really not believe in my calculation skills? Come on, come on, let me do the math for you first." As he said that, he stretched out his left hand.
, unexpectedly grabbed my wrist. He must have taken the bait after seeing that I was generous, and wanted to squeeze out a little more profit.
I was already a little impatient, but he was so persistent, and his tone became harder, and he said: "You said I came alone because you knew that the man I was chasing was paddling at the intersection, and the place we were standing was not far from the intersection.
Not far away, if there is a girl in my car, of course I will not worry about chasing that beggar; if I lock the car and there are people in the car chasing me, the car alarm should also go off at this moment. So you say I am alone
Yes, it's just a simple and reasonable speculation.
As for you saying I came to buy a gun, you must have seen that I am brave enough to chase beggars at night. I am not bad at it and I am a bit of a gangster. You came to this ancient town at this time and asked you if you know what I came for. It is definitely not tourism.
, it’s not like buying Nanxiang Xiao Long Bao. Apart from tourism and Xiao Long Bao, Nanxiang is also famous for its black market of guns. So take a bold guess and you’ll be rewarded for your correct guess, and there’s no problem if you guess wrong.
So, if you have the iron-toothed calculations and Liuren skills, I can also use these names to bluff people. Do you think you can bluff me?"
When Liu Qing heard what I said, he was stunned for a moment, as if he was thinking about something. He let go of his hand after a moment, but his face did not show the embarrassment that I had poked the peepshow, but he took out a cinnabar brush from the sleeve of his robe.
, put it in his mouth and let the ink melt, he wrote a few times in the palm of his hand, and said to me: "Little boy, at such a young age, you don't have the slightest sense of awe? Come on! Come on! Go away, go away!"
As he spoke, he muttered something in his mouth and said: "Everyone in the world talks about the gods, but they don't know where the gods are going. It's twenty miles away today, and we have to wait until the awakening of insects tomorrow."
While reading, I waved my robe sleeves, and I felt my eyes blur. His palm had already patted my back, turned around, and strode away. As he walked, he sang loudly: "The mountains and rivers are as vast as the sky.
The immortals in the cave are far away from the world. The white jade and gold will never be kept, and the spring flowers and autumn moon will be hard to escape. A hundred years of dreaming, but ten thousand years of loneliness, I will never hate the loneliness!" As we walked further and further away, the voice became smaller and smaller, and finally could not be heard.
I didn’t bother to pay attention to the crazy Taoist people who traveled around the world. I found the store Liu Qing mentioned before, and I couldn’t knock the door. I had no choice but to find a hotel to stay in, and of course I used someone else’s ID card. Thank God, my parents gave me the money.
I have a popular face, but no one can tell that I am the same person as the one on my ID card.
The person on this ID card is a student. This fully shows that I am still very young, doesn’t it?
The phone in the room rang, and the front desk lady said that the hotel's hot water would be cut off in an hour, and she needed to take a shower as soon as possible.
I had no choice but to take off my clothes, throw them on the sofa, wash up casually, and when I came out wearing a bath towel, I was shocked on the spot.
On my T-shirt, there are three bright red words, 木人人.
This is exactly what the crazy Taoist Liu Qing wrote on his hand with a cinnabar pen and printed it when he patted my back. Looking at it at this time, it was read from left to right, which shows that when he wrote it on the palm of his hand, it was
Written backwards from right to left.
These three characters were written with simple strokes and very fast, so I didn’t even notice them. But weren’t these three characters exactly my name?
"You" means two things. "Muyou" is the character for "林"; "人" is on the far right, and "人" plus "you" is the character for "you".
Sure enough, these three simple words can be understood as the word "Lin You". I have never known this crazy Taoist Liu Qing, how did he know my name? This is definitely not based on pure reasoning.
of.
I immediately felt the urge to go find this crazy Taoist and ask him for details. But a charlatan like him wanders around the world like a grass, and his whereabouts are as unpredictable as a duckweed. Where should I look for him?
By the way, before he photographed me, he said a poem...
Could it be...
I tried hard to remember, and with my little cleverness of photographic memory, I remembered that the poem should be: "Everyone in the world talks about the immortals, but they don't know where the immortals go. I will go twenty miles today, and I will have to wait until the awakening of insects tomorrow."
hour."
If he calls himself a god, then the meaning of the sentence "I don't know where the god is" is to tell me where to find him. The next two sentences must be where he is.
But, what does it mean to "go twenty miles today and wait until tomorrow when the awakening of insects wakes up"? If I want to tell others where I am going, in addition to mentioning the location, I also mean the direction. For example: "I am going to a place twenty miles northwest."
, or "I'm going to a place twenty miles away at ten o'clock." But, what direction does this "today" refer to?
I thought about it, but I didn't understand it, so I hurriedly thought of the next sentence, "We have to wait for the awakening of insects in the Ming Dynasty." Tomorrow is tomorrow, and tomorrow is July 8, which is summer. The awakening of insects is the solar term of spring, and these eight poles are
What nonsense are these things that don’t matter?
Wait, if this crazy Taoist Liu Qing is not as crazy and nonsensical as he seems, if he is a master of Chinese studies and an authentic Taoist, then should this poem be understood in a different way?
During the Ming Dynasty, the Waking of Insects...could it be that the Waking of Insects here is not a solar term, but refers to a time?
Speaking of solar terms, I suddenly remembered that today is July 7, 2007, which is the "Small Heat" solar term.
Could it be that Jingzhe and Xiaoshu, one represents time and the other represents direction?
Is there a clue in the middle that can connect all these clues?
My body was shaken.
A picture I saw when I was a child comes to mind.
In my childhood, my father was very stingy with toys, but very generous with books. For example, after I read "Farewell Cambridge" by Xu Zhimo, I liked it very much. I heard that there is a book called "Little Feet and Suits".
It was compiled orally by Xu Zhimo's first wife Zhang Youyi. However, it is extremely rare on the market. In order to satisfy my desire for reading, my father went to more than a dozen used bookstores during a business trip in Beijing to find a copy.
Some ancient books were boring to me, and I lost interest after turning two pages. My father was supervising the work and insisted that I read them carefully. Among them, there was a complete illustration of the sixty-four hexagrams.
I closed my eyes, and the image of this picture emerged in my mind little by little. Slowly, the picture started to rotate in my mind, like a "Tai Yi disk", constantly changing, and finally stopped at the correct position.
Coupled with the twenty-four solar terms and the corresponding hours... (Please see the picture below, mobile phone readers please use a computer to browse; pirated readers please go to Mo Tie to browse this picture.)
A complete picture of sixty-four hexagrams, solar terms, and hours
Xiaoshu corresponds to the two hexagrams "ding" and "heng" in the Xun Palace Bagua; while Jingzhe corresponds to the time of "Maochu" in "Maoshi"!
The location and time are all clear!
This crazy Taoist Liu Qing has such a profound foundation in Chinese studies. What kind of role is he?