There was an old TV in the house where the landlord lived, and a VCD under the TV cabinet. When we entered, the TV had a snowflake screen and made a loud clattering sound. Xiaobo took the remote control and pressed it casually, trying to turn it off.
As a result, as soon as he changed the channel, the VCD underneath made a beep sound, and he could clearly hear the sound of the machine reading the CD.
The TV screen flashed, and the landlord actually appeared on the TV.
Tian Sanjiu frowned and stared at the screen.
"Hello, you are welcome to visit my home."
The landlord, Li Eryuan, was not disguised at all. He was sitting on a chair, holding the bowl in his hand, smiling and waving hello to us.
"I didn't expect to find you so soon. I have to say, you guys are very smart. No one has seen me in almost twenty years."
"Wait a minute, let me eat some noodles first, otherwise they will become lumpy."
Tian Sanjiu moved a chair, sat down in front of the old TV, lit a cigarette, threw the lighter on the table, and just looked at the landlord who appeared on the screen.
On the screen, the landlord blew some air, ate some noodles with chopsticks, and took two sips of soup.
He put down the bowl, wiped his mouth with a towel, and said with a smile: "Hey, I saw you, Tian Sanjiu, was it fun? I tell you quietly, don't tell others, the fun is yet to come."
"Hmm..." He cleared his throat and continued.
"Next, let's introduce ourselves solemnly."
It was probably taken with a handheld video recorder, and it has a grainy texture after being burned into a disc. The whole scene is like watching an old documentary, with a very real feeling.
The screen shook, the camera turned, and four other people appeared in the room.
There are two men and two women, namely Dragon Monkey, Tin Nose, Medicine Box, and Little Man.
The little dwarf was drinking soy milk. She was a little resistant to the video recorder. She put her hand in front of her face and said, boss, don't take pictures of me. I'm eating.
The landlord smiled and said: "Xiao Fei, why are you ashamed? This is not the old society, and we ugly people have to keep pace with the times. Let me ask you, you will die in a while, please say a few words."
"Um...."
The little man bit into the soy milk and liked it. He took a few sips, tilted his head and waved his hands and said, "Hi, hello."
"The person who will replace me has been chosen. During the two days in the hospital, I met a person who is just like me. He may be much taller than me." The little man stretched out his hand to show his height.
"After I die, she will be a dwarf. This name is not nice and I don't like it."
The screen moved and showed the second dragon monkey Hu Liqun.
There is also a bald red-faced monkey lying on his shoulder, grinning at the camera.
Hu Liqun touched the monkey and said, "It likes the red eye. What's the name of Bao? Although I don't want to admit it, that person has a special physique and is stronger than me."
"But... I have to give it a try before that. Otherwise, if I don't give in, I will first say that I will kill him. Only if he beats me can he be qualified to be a dragon monkey."
"Third brother, it's your turn. Say a few words and stop teasing your toad."
In the picture, the fat Taoist priest is dragging a small toad in his hand. There are three pustules on the back of the toad, like a human eye opening a slit.
"Saorui, four subjects in one subject, nothing like you."
"I don't understand, I'm talking in human language," the landlord said.
"Me, I don't have anything to say. I just can't let go of the children I adopted. Without masks, they don't dare to go out on the street for fear of scaring people. Hey..."
"Fourth, it's your turn, please say a few words."
The camera caught the proprietress of the canteen. She was sitting on the sofa eating melon seeds. After hearing this, she said: "Mei Zi might be able to do it (Tang Gui's wife), but I'm afraid she won't be able to bear the effects of the medicine. If she goes crazy, she can only choose a doctor."
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"Okay, you just need to show up, it's my turn."
Landlord Li Eryuan pointed the video recorder at himself and said: "You don't understand the Five Uglys, and you will never understand the Five Uglys. But after all, this is a rare opportunity. You can get to know me."
"Nineteen years ago, when I was 25 years old, I practiced qigong at that time. Things like hitting people from a distance, reading with my ears, and turning off the electric fan with my fingers were all fucking fake. They were all like mentally retarded."
"I'm different from those retarded people. I have real abilities. I think there can be some kind of connection between people and animals."
"I always dreamed about snakes when I was a kid. Once when I went into the mountains with my dad, I was bitten on the foot by a five-step snake. My dad was frightened. But in the end, nothing happened to me. My dad said that I might be born with the right...
Immune to snake venom.”
In the picture, the landlord seemed to be lost in memories. He said: "I remember I was seventeen years old. Two people, a man and a woman, came to our house, claiming to be subordinates of the secret research institute. They gave my father a thousand yuan.
Then they took me away."
"After riding the train for several days, they locked me in a small dark room. The cage was full of snakes, all kinds of venomous snakes. They said they wanted to test it, so they opened the cage and let the snakes bite me."
"After a damn competition, I was fine and could play with snakes. Later, they judged me to be qualified and sent me to a place called the 749 Human Research Institute."
"I was ostracized there and not taken seriously, so I just cleaned the house because I couldn't perform or have any special powers in Qigong. A year later, a man named Li Baosheng came, and they all assigned cars to people like him.
Equipped with a secretary, a chef, and a mobile phone.”
"From then on, I understood that this place did not belong to me, and I wanted to create my own unit. Because the day I escaped was March 31, I named it 331 Institute."
"One day when I was on the mountain, I suddenly saw a small snake without eyes emerging from the soil. The moment I saw it! A man's voice suddenly appeared in my mind. This man said, his name is
Self-harming snake.”
Speaking of this, he suddenly looked excited in the picture.
He said: "After that time, I no longer had that voice in my mind. When I was 29 years old, I came to Hunan and accidentally went to an ethnic minority village hidden in the mountains in Pingyang Township, Tongtong County. There was a man named
The old man Amaozhong, the first time he saw me, he said, you are the same person as me."
"With the help of this old man, I know why I am not afraid of venomous snakes anymore, because in my previous life, I was the leader of the Five Ugly People of Shehuo and hurt snakes myself."
Tian Sanjiu watched the old TV and slowly exhaled a puff of smoke.
The landlord on the screen smiled and continued: "No one has ever opened the seven Vajra Gates at the foot of Guizi Ridge. At this moment, do you really want to know what's inside?"
"Tell me, do you want to know?"
Tian Sanjiu threw away the cigarette butt, looked at the screen, and said with a smile: "You think about it, tell me."
Unexpectedly, the landlord suddenly opened his eyelids with both hands and made a face at Tian Sanjiu, saying I won't tell you, I will make you angry, come and beat me.
"Lulu-lu-lu..."
The screen flashed and Tian Sanjiu turned off the TV directly.
The room suddenly became quiet, and there was no longer any voice from the landlord.
(The following chatter by the author can be viewed as having nothing to do with the main text.)
Shehuo Five Chou existed during the Guangxu period. At that time, the Changchun Society had just been established in Jinan, Shandong, and later developed its focus to the Northeast. The landlord Li Eryuan personally told me that in his previous life, he was the boss of the Five Chou who hurt himself.
I thought at the time that it was true that he was not afraid of snake bites, but for the other things, he might be delusional.
Why can’t I remember what I was in my last life? Could it be that I was also a tomb robber in my last life? Otherwise, why would I have started robbing tombs at a young age?
I don't believe it, but I still want to say it.
The village in the mountains he was talking about is in Pingyang Township, Hunan Province. The majority of the Dong people live in this village. This village is nicknamed Reincarnation Village. It is said that there are hundreds of people in the village who clearly remember who they were in their last life, whether they were male or female.
How old is he who died? What is his name?
I have never been to this place, but last year or the year before that, I was browsing online and saw an expert saying that in the human brain, deep in the hippocampus, there is something called "Wako", which stores subconscious and past life memories.
thing.
In order to maintain normality, the hippocampus is suppressing this "Hezi". If it cannot be suppressed within a certain period of time, that person will suffer from epilepsy.
If the hippocampus is removed, people will not be able to remember anything, not even what they just ate.
The old man said that some of us had never met each other before, but when we met for the first time, we felt familiar, as if we had seen each other before, but when we thought about it carefully, we just couldn't remember where.
He also said that there is a word called love at first sight.
That's because the "Wako" deep in the hippocampus wants to tell you through your subconscious mind that you liked this person in your last life, so go ahead and don't miss it this time.
I think it’s better not to think about it. Otherwise, when you see someone on the street, you will say, “Hey, grandson, do you know who I am? I was your grandfather in my previous life.”
