Artisans in Tunli

Chapter 16 Yin Yang Tun

At that time, I was also anxious, thinking that it was just a talisman, or I would take this opportunity to get rid of him and attach it to someone else, it would be difficult to handle.

Thinking of this, I hurried to catch up, but I didn't know that this guy's movement speed was full, and he ran fast.Seeing that he was about to enter the door, he suddenly stopped.

Ha ha!Unexpectedly, there is a door god posted on my door!

It was also the first time I saw this thing, and it worked. Although the two elders couldn't come out to catch him, they couldn't hurt my family either.

When I was feeling triumphant, the door suddenly opened.

"Son, don't worry, your father brought you a knife!"

You are really my dear father, when is it not good to come out, why come out at this time?Looking at the jade pendant in his hand, it's okay to go to hell.

Just when the long-tongued monster was about to approach my father, the jade pendant I threw hit him impartially, and suddenly the whole body of the black shadow twisted, and within a few seconds, the jade pendant was sucked in.

I stood on the wall and took a long breath. With the accuracy of throwing this jade pendant, I can blow it for a lifetime.

The police car and the ambulance arrived in front of the neighbor's house at the same time. One of them died and the other fainted.

The police station was on duty with one of my dad's childhood friends, Uncle Li, and after casually asking about the situation, we told another story with the deletion.Uncle Li said it was all right, he could spare some time tomorrow afternoon to come to the prison to record the statement, so don't worry about it in the middle of the night.

After entering the room, no one spoke. I saw tears still in the corners of Wang Jingjing's eyes. It seemed that she had just cried. She was usually careless. When something like this happened, she was just a little girl.

"It seems that Uncle Zhang is right." Seeing my father sighing, I asked him what was going on, and he told me everything in detail.

About a month after I went to Harbin to go to school, Uncle Zhang came to my house suddenly, gave my father a talisman and said that he would definitely use it in the future, and asked me to go to his house to celebrate the New Year together when I came back from the Chinese New Year.

I don’t understand why Zhang Muzhen said these words to my father. Although I missed it for a year, it still came true for me, and the curiosity in my heart became even heavier.I also developed a great interest in metaphysics. Things like cultivating immortals and divination were unfolding in my mind one by one.Are there really such strange people in this world?
"What did you see just now?" my dad asked me, and I told him everything I saw before.

He was very surprised, why didn’t see anything when I went out, I said maybe it was because I had the jade pendant, and he asked me where the jade pendant came from, I lied to him that Zhang Muzhen’s grandson gave it to me for protection .As soon as I heard that I know his grandson, it's good now, I will ask this and that.I waved my hand and said we can talk about it later, I am too sleepy.

Everyone lost interest in playing cards and went home one after another.The old man scratched and pulled the melon seeds on the kang, spread the quilt on me, and said that we should sleep on the kang tonight, and we are chatting.

I was 1 unwilling, tossing and tossing for an hour, feeling like my whole body was falling apart, but I didn't want to disappoint my father, so I agreed.

The father said that a few years ago, the neighbor's son and husband were murdered by thieves with knives. Later, his daughter-in-law couldn't think about it and drank medicine several times, but they were all rescued.In May, her masters went to the city for urgent business, and when they came back, they saw her hanged in the living room.Alas, this life is too cheap, if you say you die, you will die.

Seeing my father smoking and talking, I suddenly thought of my mother. Last year, I didn’t go to her grave when she was in a coma. When I was fifteen, I had to burn more paper for her.After thinking about it, I fell asleep. The strange thing is that there was no dream all night, probably because I was too tired.

When she woke up, she saw Wang Jingjing sticking her ass on the kang and shaking her phone.

"You know how to play with your mobile phone every day. You may have been a mobile phone in your last life!" Just as I was about to stretch my waist, I felt a sharp pain in my ribs. It may have been from the fall yesterday.

I got up and decided to look for safflower oil. When you don’t need it, you can see it every day. When you need it, you can’t find it.

"Who is Jiang Chun? Your girlfriend?"

"How do you know Jiang Chun?" I flipped through a shoe box, hoping to find safflower oil, but instead saw a ledger.

"She sent you a text message, saying she was so sad, her boyfriend abandoned her, blah blah blah." I looked, and it turned out that this little girl was playing with my mobile phone.

"Can you respect me, this is an invasion of personal privacy!" I snatched the phone, and sure enough, Jiang Chun sent a message. Seeing that her text editing was a bit illogical, and there were a few typos, I guess She got drunk too much.Women are the most sensitive at this time, so just ignore them.

"See my dad?"

"I went to the police station and said I'll be back in a while. I have to call my mother and ask her to come over and cook." Wang Jingjing went to the outhouse to make a call. I put on my clothes, flipped through the account book, and found The harvest at home is really not very good, and we still have tens of thousands of foreign debts.

After thinking about it, it is better to give the money Liu Chunling sent to my family to pay off the famine first, I am not short of anything.Just save the tuition fee, I counted it, and there was 5 yuan.This Liu's family is really generous. When I think that I may have to use a computer when I start school, let's set aside another part to buy a computer.Secretly stuffed the rest of the money into the account book, but found that it couldn't fit at all, so just threw it in the box.

In the end, I went to the pharmacy and bought two bottles of Yunnan Baiyao. The safflower oil was too hard to find.

At night, I climbed onto the kang very early, and it is still comfortable to sleep on the kang in winter, so as to relieve fatigue.The second aunt is still playing mahjong there with a loud voice, but I don't feel noisy at all. In a few years, it may be very difficult to get together again.

That night was probably the most peaceful sleep I've ever had in my life.

This is the first time I came to the Zhang family, and I heard it all from hearsay. Mr. Zhang Muzhen did many earth-shattering things in the past, making him very mysterious.In fact, when I came back to his house, I found that it was no different from a normal house, except that there was an extra god.

As soon as my father entered the house, Zhang Muzhen enthusiastically asked us to smoke and drink, and the two of us were chatting aside, and I kept staring at the statue on the altar.

I don't know much about religion. This idol holds a long sword in one hand and a jade seal in the other.Tall and ox-heart hair, five-willow long beard, dark skin, tiger eyes and thick lips, thick eyebrows printed on the forehead.Riding a white tiger under my crotch, I really didn't see who it was, although this statue is very delicate.

"It's Zhang Daoling, Zhang Tianshi." Zhang Muzhen explained from the side, "Zhang Daoling is the ninth grandson of Zhang Liang, the Liuhou of the Han Dynasty. The Dao of Yimengwei also gave various scriptures, evil swords and jade seals, and established the predecessor of Taoism, the Five Dou of Rice Dao, which was later carried forward by the descendants of Taoism."

Seeing that Zhang Muzhen was speaking seriously, his words were precise and unambiguous at all, it can be seen that he also respected Zhang Tianshi very much.But to be honest, no matter how powerful Zhang Daoling is, he is only the younger brother of the Taishang Laojun, why not offer it to the Taishang Laojun?
"I know what you want to ask. Do you think my surname is Zhang and Tianshi Zhang is also surnamed Zhang? Are there any connections between us?"

I nodded, as if he could guess what I wanted to say.

"Actually, it doesn't matter a dime, but I think Zhang Tianshi is more real, and Sanqing is a bit mysterious, haha" After listening to what he said, I really want to throw all my thoughts into the trash can.

"Actually, it doesn't matter who you worship, as long as you don't forget your original intention, we people who learn the Tao must help the world and save people. Really, don't fix those old bald donkeys. Thinking about getting something for nothing, hum!" I really don't know what to say, and when it comes to religion, I always approach it with the mentality of a melon-eating crowd.

"Master Zhang, where is Zhang Feng? I haven't seen him for such a long time, how is it?" Just after finishing speaking, two people came in from the door. They were the brothers and sisters of the Zhang family.As soon as Zhang Ling saw me coming, she came over laughing and pinching, and Zhang Feng was behind, leaning on crutches.

"Why do you scold me as soon as you see me, help your brother quickly."

"It's okay. I used crutches because I was afraid of falling. It's too slippery outside." Zhang Feng put the crutches by the door and walked over slowly.

"We've come a long time ago, and you didn't tell us to look at us!" Zhang Ling pouted, looking at her pretending to be angry, it was really endearing.

While we were chatting, Liu Chunling also came in with a lot of vegetables in her hands.I hurried over to pick it up, she saw me and didn't say anything, just smiled shyly.Women are so difficult to deal with. One day they smiled at you, and the next day they are a different person.

I also smiled awkwardly and took the dishes into the kitchen.

"Don't move, I will cook with Sister Liu today!" Zhang Ling said.

"Farewell, we have suffered enough after eating your food these days. Today I make an exception and cook." Zhang Muzhen took Zhang Ling's words and walked into the kitchen with a smile, leaving only Zhang Ling in the kitchen. With a stinky face aside.

Not to mention that Zhang Muzhen's fried dishes are really good, he said that he cooked good meals when he was very young, and his brothers and sisters love to eat his cooking, and it is rare that green vegetables can be so delicious.

After dinner, Zhang Muzhen started talking about the tea ceremony with my father, and I sat in the back room with Zhang Feng and talked about a series of things that happened a while ago.

"I heard from Sister Liu about the hospital. I didn't know what was going on. I asked Grandpa what was going on. He just sighed and didn't say much." Zhang Feng said, lighting a cigarette Passed it to me and ordered another one myself.This is my second time smoking a pack of cigarettes since I was bored in the hospital.For me, this kind of thing is just a thing to kill time, and there is no addiction.

"Brother Feng, do you remember that when we came up, Sun Jing gave me two jade pendants, and after the hospital incident, what happened to the lack of one jade pendant?"

"It's not that one piece is missing, the piece that Sun Jing gave you is still on you."

"It's still on me?" I was rather confused, why did the jade pendant, which had obviously disappeared, come to me?

"She was given to you in the underworld, so of course you can't bring it to the underworld. The piece that disappeared has always been on you." I seem to understand, and I am more sure, the hospital, that dark world, must be that evil A microcosm of the place.

"However, this matter also makes me very worried. The overlap of the two worlds must not be accidental. It seems that the world is going to be in chaos!" Zhang Feng extinguished the cigarette and said nothing quietly.

"I don't know if Zhang Muzhen can still accept me as an apprentice. Strange things have always happened around me recently." Zhang Feng still didn't say anything, and took out a small mahogany box from under the bed. The box was carved with patterns, which was very delicate. .Open the box and take out a thick book, covered with dust.

"This is my grandfather's travel notes from his travels. He asked me to give it to you. He told you to read it before deciding whether to worship him as a teacher." Zhang Feng's hand holding the book kept shaking, making me I wonder if there are any martial arts secrets in this book.

"It's just my previous travel notes. You call it a diary now, but I just recorded some important experiences." At some point, Zhang Muzhen came in and said to me with his head down.

"After you've finished reading, come to me again. It's getting late, so let's take a rest." After he finished speaking, he turned and went out. I saw him muttering words in front of the god, lit three sticks of incense, and then I went into the back room to rest.

Father was afraid that the heating at home would freeze, so he went back by himself and asked me to stay here overnight.Zhang Ling suggested playing Three Kingdoms Killing. Zhang Feng's recovery was not very smooth, and he was often tired, so he went to bed first.To be honest, I seldom play poker, and I can be stupid. Zhang Ling kept hurting me and pinching me all the time, so I might as well go to sleep.

That night at Zhang's house, I didn't sleep very well. The spooky events one after another made me have several dreams, and the dreams were also fragmented and it was difficult to put them together.What impressed me the most was in the dream. I dreamed that there were two huge monsters looking down at me, and then I woke up from the dream.

I didn’t go home until the fifth day of the new year, because Zhang Feng had another computer, and I made up some religious knowledge on the Internet, such as the origin of Taoism, mainly to figure out a series of relationships.But I am also sure that I must worship Zhang Muzhen as my teacher. I think there are some mysteries that only I can solve.

After returning home, he was quite bored, so he dialed Sun Jing's cell phone number again.

"Hi, the number you dialed is down."

I don't know how many times I've called, and it's always in a state of shutdown. What happened to Sun Jing?Alas, I really want to go back again, as if to see her beautiful face again, and what was the last sentence she said.

In the past few days, besides eating and sleeping, occasionally looking through the textbooks, it suddenly occurred to me that I had been in a coma for a year, so wouldn’t I have to repeat my freshman year?Thinking of this, my scalp became numb, and I hurriedly called the instructor.

The instructor said it was fine, just give me two months to complete the defense and give it to him. I licked my meal, and said that I must buy him a drink when I go back to Harbin.When he heard about the drinking, he was so happy there, seeing if I didn't drink it for you when I went back, I vomited.

It's not a problem to stay like this all the time, so I planned to go to play with Li Xiao, and suddenly thought that since I'm back this time, I might as well go to Heigouzi to have a look, maybe I might find something.As a result, when we got there, we found that the trees over there had been brought down by someone, and the black ditch seemed to be filled up.After searching for a long time, I couldn't find it. Maybe it was fate. If I couldn't find it, I stopped looking. I took Li Xiao's car and went to the city to have a drink.

I received a call from Wang Jingjing in the car, saying that she was going to the city too, and as soon as she got in the car, she said that it was Chen Xiaohe who wanted to treat us to dinner, and she was here to grab a meal.

I looked at Li Xiao with a calm expression, I don't know what happened between them, I just vaguely remember that Chen Xiaohe's parents didn't agree with their early love in Li Xiaohe's time.Later, Li Xiao, who drank too much at the wine table, told the truth himself. It turned out that he was the one who proposed the breakup. Because he wanted to go abroad, he broke up because he didn't want to delay Chen Xiaohe.

I thought to myself, aren't you playing me? I'm the only one who is kept in the dark about your feelings?
Li Xiao was a little drunk and wanted to get back together with Chen Xiaohe at the wine table, what could his boyfriend do, he gave Li Xiao a beating at that time, I really couldn't stop him.The party that night ended in the hospital.

In fact, Li Xiao didn't suffer much injuries, the main reason was alcohol poisoning.

What happened in the hospital before made me sober and extremely hyperactive as soon as I entered the hospital.I was smoking one cigarette after another, trying to find something to do for myself, I found the travel journal that Zhang Muzhen gave me, took a deep breath, and opened the book that had been eroded by the years. notebook.

It is said that Zhang Muzhen's handwriting is really hard to read, there are typos all over the place, and it is difficult to read smoothly. I am afraid that he has been cooking in the Taoist temple and has no time to learn to read.I just skimmed through it quickly, and there are a few things written that are quite interesting.

In the 36th year of the Republic of China, when Zhang Muzhen was traveling with his master, he passed a small village in Jiangsu Province. Everyone called this town Yinyangtun. Why do you say that?There was a plague in this village last year. Logically speaking, in that village with underdeveloped medical conditions, this plague is equivalent to an invisible massacre.

But the strange thing is that only the people on one side of the main road died of the plague in the village, while the people on the other side were safe and sound.At night, it is particularly obvious that one side is brightly lit, and the other side is endless darkness.

It was night when the master and apprentice passed by, and the two originally planned to find a place to stay.When Zhang Muzhen was young, he didn't notice anything unusual when he first entered the village.But his master found something abnormal, so he told Zhang Muzhen his doubts.

He said that one of the ways for Taoists to become immortals is to refine qi and learn to perceive the "qi" in nature. As soon as the master enters the village, he can feel an ominous aura, or in other words, an unbelievable aura. Yangjian's aura flows here.So I want to take a break first, and then go to ask the people living here what happened to the people living here when the sun is bright tomorrow.

The two came to a small deserted Taoist temple. The master looked at the dilapidated Taoist temple and felt emotional.In this troubled world, people have lost their faith.After walking more than half of China, there are ruins and ruins everywhere, and people are devastated.Just after the war between the warlords ended, foreigners invaded again.

Zhang Muzhen clearly remembered every word of the master, it seems that his strange temper is also because he has seen too many cruel scenes.Seeing this, I came to my senses, even if Zhang Muzhen was just a naughty boy at that time, he should be seventy or eighty now.I thought that this old man might have some panacea, so I hurriedly read on, maybe there is some secret technique of alchemy.

Early the next morning, the master and the apprentice went into the village to find out. Who knew that when the people in the village saw a stranger, they all ran back home, with the doors and windows closed.After searching for a while, I found an old beggar under a big locust tree at the north gate of the village.

(End of this chapter)