Chapter 36: What are we going to do?
Time passed quietly in peace, and before we knew it, a month had passed.
On the morning of the 5th, I met Brother Chengxin at the airport in Tianjin. He had arrived a day earlier than me and had come to the airport to pick me up.
We had already discussed the general course of events on the phone, so there was no need for any unnecessary chatter when we met. We took a taxi straight to where Master Liu was.
In the car, Brother Chengxin asked me, “Will Master Liu agree to let me go with him?”
I said with some uncertainty, “As long as I go, he doesn’t care who follows me, right?”
“That’s good.”
It was still Shen Xing who opened the door for us. She was still acting weird, as if the moment of normality last month was an illusion. It was the first time that Cheng Xin had seen Shen Xing, so he was naturally shocked by her strange appearance.
After she left, Cheng Xin naturally asked me, but I didn’t know either, so I could only say, “I don’t know, I only know that she took us to the ghost market. You say she’s weird, but I don’t feel any ‘ghost’ energy from her.”
Cheng Xin brother was silent for a while, and in the end he didn’t come up with any answers, but he said, “It’s pretty weird.”
We still saw Master Liu in that room. It was a clear afternoon, but his room was still dark and eerie, with a dim yellow light bulb on. No, perhaps it was the entire building that was eerie and dark.
“Sit down.” As if he had already decided that I would come, Master Liu didn’t even raise his eyelids in response to our arrival, and directly told us to sit down.
After we sat down in front of him, he asked me slowly, “Who is that next to you?”
“My senior brother, a senior brother of the medical school,” I replied.
“The medicine of the old Li school is really amazing. Those few gold needles were really good, hehehe…” Master Liu’s laughter was unusually hoarse and unpleasant. Under the dim lighting, I could see that Chengxin’s brother had big goose bumps on his neck. After all, it was the first time he had heard such an unpleasant voice.
Chengxin and I were silent, but Master Liu continued, “Spiritual medicine, little one, do you know how to do that too? Offering medicine, using spiritual energy, and using spiritual energy to cure diseases. Oh, that’s a little trick. If your lineage is willing to pay a sufficient price, it really can cure all diseases.”
At this point, Brother Chengxin finally couldn’t help but speak up, saying, “It is possible to cure the disease, but when the time comes, the patient will always die from an accident or suffer the consequences of the disease that should have been brought about by the accident. Whether or not the disease is treated, the effect is the same.”
“Hahaha…” Master Liu laughed again. I was playing with a piece of spirit jade in my hand. When I heard that laughter again, I really couldn’t help but want to stuff the piece of spirit jade in his mouth and make him stop laughing.
“You don’t understand. It’s not the same to live a year with a disease as it is to live a year without it. That’s the meaning of your spiritual healing. But the price you have to pay is too high, so I won’t ask you to transfer my daughter’s pain.” Master Liu said, as if he had promised my second elder brother a great deal of kindness.
My second brother obviously didn’t want to continue talking about this topic, so he just asked, “Is it okay for me to go with Chengyi this time?”
Master Liu raised his eyebrows slightly and said, “What’s the problem? I didn’t open the ghost market, so if you’re qualified, you can go in. It’s really a sin to think about it. Old Li’s lineage actually has two disciples who are going to contact the circle because of me.
“What do you want me to do?” I realized for the first time that this Master Liu is also quite a lot of nonsense. I guess it’s because he’s been alone in this environment for so many years.
But I obviously didn’t want to go on talking, so I asked him directly about the purpose. I asked him earlier, so that if he wanted me to do something I didn’t want to do, I could refuse.
“What do you want me to do?” Master Liu pondered for a while, then looked up and said, “It’s very simple. I want you to go to the ghost market to find a message. It’s about a woman with a XXX fate. Then find a way to bring that woman to me, and you’ll be done.”
“What do you want to do?” I frowned and immediately guessed the purpose of Master Liu.
“Oh, don’t worry. I’m still a descendant of the Shan family. I’m not a righteous man, but if you ask around, I’ve never been a bad person! Besides, it’s not something you and I want to do, so it’s meaningless for me to do it.” Master Liu said calmly.
Chengxin and I were silent, and at the same time, we were also impressed by the magic of the ghost market, which could find the person with the required fate in thin air.
“There aren’t many women with XXX fate, but there are quite a few in China, right? How do I know who to find?” I frowned and said.
“Good question! It’s very simple. When you trade, you can specify that you need someone with a great karmic debt or great karma. Hehehe… only someone like that can trade fairly with me.” Master Liu said.
“Is there such a coincidence? Is there such a person? What if I can’t find him?” I frowned and said.
“There are so many people in China, so you don’t have to worry about it.” Master Liu looked very confident.
“But you’re going to get involved in karma and cause and effect. Aren’t you afraid that karma will come back to bite you?” I asked.
“Hmph, am I afraid? For my daughter, I would even defy the heavens. How could I be afraid of a mere cause and effect?”
Chengxin and I were speechless. In our school, we don’t interfere with karma unless it’s an extreme situation. The master had once given a lecture to the masters, and these words were naturally passed on to us.
That is, this world is a crucible for refining the human heart. Human suffering, human grievances, and human karma are all raging fires that are burning and forging a heart.
Our indifference is never indifference, but a kind of naturalness. If we recklessly interfere, thinking that we are righteous and heroic, we may extinguish the fire of others’ refining.
What we should be concerned about is the great rebellion that relies on one’s own abilities and belittles the will of heaven, or things that harm the root of human existence. That is not the savior, nor is it the so-called Holy Father. That is righteousness!
That is why Master Liu joined the government, and acted in accordance with the general trend.
That is why Chengxin and I were speechless. Master Liu’s actions were too far from our way of life, but did we have a choice? In the face of obsession, we all lost. Reality is a piece of shit, forcing people to do the opposite.
“Say it, where is the ghost market this time?” After a moment of silence, I asked.
Master Liu smiled triumphantly and said, “On the 9th of this month, the ghost market will officially open at location 5 for three days. Shen Xing will take you there and then leave. Two little guys, in order for you to successfully accomplish what I want to do, I have to remind you not to offend the wrong people.”
“Location 5? Where is it?” This is what Brother Cheng Xin asked.
“Who shouldn’t be offended?” I asked.
“There are 21 locations for the ghost market to choose from for privacy. Location 5 is just that. You’ll know when you get there! Maybe you’ll even find out how to contact the ghost market at other locations. As for people you shouldn’t offend, there are many. Although Old Li’s reputation is very good, you should know that it’s not invincible. And you’re still very young, aren’t you? So just be careful.” Master Liu explained briefly.
With that, there was nothing more to say, so I said simply, “Okay, when do we leave?”
“Location 5 is a bit far away, so you should leave tomorrow,” said Master Liu calmly.
After leaving Master Liu, Chengxin looked a little depressed. He said, “Chengyi, this cause and effect is not something that he can interfere with alone. We are interfering with it too.”
“Brother Chengxin, do you think I’ve changed?” I said as I walked with my hands in my pockets and my head down, seemingly calm.
“You have changed, and so have I. In the past, our hearts were pure, and we always did things purely, and we could even touch our true selves. But now, you, me, and our line have long since planted a deep obsession in our hearts. How can we be pure when we can’t let go of our obsession? At most, we can try to get used to being unable to help ourselves. This is change.” Chengxin’s tone was also very calm.
But are our hearts really at peace? Perhaps the silent departure of the masters, without leaving a clue, was to let time dilute our thoughts and not plant obsessions in our hearts.
The sad thing is that you can calculate the heavens and earth and people, but you still can’t calculate the human heart. Even for your disciples who have been brought up by you since childhood, you still can’t calculate them!
Can emotions be calculated? If they can, then why is there a need for the world to practice the mind in the secular world, to easily calculate, to let go, and to become a Buddha or an immortal?