Chapter 2 Absconders
While talking, “Master Sun Jiu” has finished vomiting, and was back by the fat man to sit down again, he was already as drunk as mud, and even his mind was a little trance, sitting in a daze, I do not know what is in his mind, even as if the ghost of God, muttered inexplicably: “A good king, there is a body without a head; the mother is not
(Note: the old nine can not go – “Wisdom to take the tiger mountain” in the bandit leader Zaoshan Diao, under the command of the eight gold steel, into the bandits within the undercover Yang Zirong, was ranked in the ninth position, so it is known as the “old nine”, Zaoshan Diao to retain Yang Zirong, once exclaimed “Lao Jiu can’t go.”)
I listened to “Sun Jiuzi” said half-literary and half-vulgar, like an ancient poem, like a jingle, and the content of the bizarre, it is difficult to understand the meaning of the time, until I heard the words “want to visit the Immortals”, my heart just realized: “Most likely to look for the Immortals! It was only when I heard the words “want to visit the Earth Immortal” that I realized in my heart, “Most probably it’s a hint to find the entrance of the Earth Immortal’s tomb!”
At this time, the fat man said: “This Sun Laojiu, do not know how to drink, don’t drink, you can have fat master this amount of alcohol? You see drink too much and start to recite the Three Character Classic, what is all this nonsense ……”
I hurriedly put the fat man’s mouth to press, stretched his ears to listen to Professor Sun’s drunken “nonsense”, but he finished “want to visit the earth immortal, the first to find the Wu ……” and then no further, crouching on the table! He fell asleep on the table and never woke up, and his mouth never said anything again.
I itchy, hate to Professor Sun’s mouth open, let him from beginning to end word for word again, the key is that sentence: “want to find the tomb of the Immortal Seal King Grave to find the first black what?” I didn’t listen carefully to the first few sentences, but now I think about it, it seems to be “What good woman will cook the water for the king?”
Shirley Yang, who has a knack of never forgetting, said, “It’s not “What good lady cooks for the king”, what Prof. Sun just said should be “What a good king, he has a body without a head; if he doesn’t come to the lady, the mountains won’t open up; he burns wood and starts a pot, and cooks his liver and lungs; he drills a well to cut down the salt, and asks the ghosts to ask for money; he goes through a long and winding road, and makes a return in a hundred steps”; If you want to visit the Earth Immortal, look for Wu …… first.”
I hurriedly write down these sentences to the notebook, it seems that Sun Jiu master also has some information about the ancient tomb of the earth immortal hidden in the stomach, he was emotional to drink two more two, which unintentionally spit it out, what exactly is the mute mystery in his few words that are not gulped down? We simply can’t understand.
Shirley Yang said, “A good king …… has a body without a head ……? I think the word king has no head, it is exactly an earth character, could it be a hidden word puzzle? Hinting at the secrets in the ancient tomb of the Earth Immortal? What is the hidden character in the sentence “If the lady doesn’t come, the mountains won’t open”? It shouldn’t be an anagram riddle, the next few sentences can’t be broken down into words.”
I was also at a loss for words at this point: “A great king with a body and no head? Who is the headless king? And who is the Lady of the Open Mountain? I can’t even figure out this first sentence, and naturally I don’t have a clue about the hints that follow.”
Fatty said, “to be fat master to find a cup of cool water to, Sun Jiuzi spray wake up, and then severely grilled ask, if you refuse to tell the truth, we will have to give him on the means, what chili water, tiger orange and other cruel tricks, are greeted on him, the torture wait.”
I shook my head and said, “This is not the White House in Jagdish Cave, and Prof. Sun is not an arrested revolutionary, so how can we torture him? I don’t think we should torture him today, after we finish eating, we will take him home and ask him when he is sober, he won’t dare to hide anything.”
Afterwards, the three of us ate the meal full of questions, paid by Shirley Yang, took Professor Sun back to the place where I live, at the entrance of the courtyard, Professor Sun asked me in a daze, “Eh? Where is this place? Don’t let me go to the farm, I’m not a rightist, I’m not a traitor, I haven’t killed anyone ……”
I comforted him, “Don’t worry don’t worry, won’t be armed escort you to the labor farm, you see this is to my home, this place is called the right Anmen ah, it doesn’t matter if it is typed as a rightist, no matter which country is a rightist, as long as you live in this right Anmen …… a hair’s breadth of peace and quiet.” My heart but the doubts deeper, thinking: “Professor Sun has killed people? Who did he kill? Although he has a bad temper, but not like a master who can kill people, killing people is not slaughtering chickens, that is not anyone who has the courage to do it.”
Fatty impatient to wait for Professor Sun’s sobriety, after arriving home, he went to Panjiayuan to practice, in the afternoon, Shirley Yang and I saw Professor Sun sobered up, we poured him a cup of hot tea, I closed the door to the room, moved a chair to sit in front of him, single-handedly said: “Nine masters, to be honest, you just drank a lot of high, to the year of the murder and as a traitor to the matter of all, but To my eyes, it is not false to say that you love fame, but to say that you are a murderer, to death I refuse to believe, I reckon you must have been wrongly accused, it may be worthwhile to tell us the ins and outs of these things.”
I also patted his chest to Chairman Mao to ensure that this matter as long as I can help, go to the fire, in the fire, certainly do not want to do, and will try to return your innocence, in case the force is not enough, listen to your words today, I and Shirley Yang are rotten in the stomach, and will not be to the outsiders to spit out just a few words.
Prof. Sun knew that he had lost his words after drinking, but Shirley Yang and I looked sincere, so he had to tell the experience he encountered during the Cultural Revolution, and it was unexpected that he also had a connection with the “Tomb of the Immortals”, Prof. Sun wanted to find the “Tomb of the Immortals”, and 80% of the reason was because he was in touch with the “Tomb of the Immortals”. Professor Sun wanted to find the “Tomb of the Earth Immortals”, which 80% of the reason is related to his experience in the labor farm back then.
During the Cultural Revolution, Sun Xuewu was impacted, due to bad connections, was falsely accused, at first accused of life style problems, and then I do not know which villain headed, gave him a top revolutionary traitor hat, public trial of the General Assembly, which allows him to explain himself? Fortunately, his old classmate Chen Jiuren, also known as Professor Chen, came forward to testify that Sun Xuewu’s consciousness was very low, and he had never participated in the revolution, so he could not talk about being a traitor, and this allowed him to escape from death.
Later Sun Xuewu and Chen Jiuren pair of difficult, were sent down to the orchard ditch in Shaanxi, labor reform, orchard ditch in fact, no orchard, but a stone quarry, Chen Jiuren a scholar, swinging a sledgehammer chiseling stone work which can stand? Not out of half a month on the body collapsed, fortunately, his family has entrusted the relationship, opened a tumor in the stomach of the hospital certificate, he took him back to Beijing for treatment, which did not die to the farm.
But Sun Xuewu no one cared, he was alone, his wife died a long time ago, no children, no children, and no way, only in the farm one day after another day of suffering, good thing that he is physically better, before the liberation of the farm work, engaged in such a heavy physical labor, a short period of time can still withstand, but the mental pressure is too much, the future is not clear, I do not know what will happen in the future, and these reformers, and also to each other to inform the whistle! You don’t expose others, others have to find ways to expose you, that day is simply not a human life.
Sun Xuewu in the farm to meet a person, this person in the anti-American war or a regimental commander, surnamed Feng, do not know what reason he was sent to the devolved labor, due to labor with Sun Xuewu always companion, some of the same life, the two are quite talkative with each other, and one day Feng regimental commander stole with Sun Xuewu, said: “Sun, this kind of man is not human and ghosts are not ghosts of the day, I really can not stand it, think a few days, and I want to be a good man. I can’t stand it, I’ve thought about it for several days, and now I’ve thought about it, and I’m going to run away, and I think you’re going to die, so why don’t you just run away with me.”
Sun Xuewu was shocked and asked Head Feng, “Run? You don’t want your head? Besides, although this farm is not tightly guarded, but this is after all in the sparsely populated mountains of the Daba Mountain Range, even if you run out, what about afterward? Where will you hide? Can you still be good if you get caught and come back?”
Feng seems to be very confident, he said: “After the mountain even into the Sichuan, my hometown is in Sichuan, rather than stuck here waiting for death, I might as well take the risk of crossing the mountains, as long as the return home, that is the fish into the sea, the bird on the blue sky.”
It turned out that the Feng leader, his ancestors are the Ming Dynasty local magnates, had done “Guanshan Taibao”, that is, grave robbers, “Guanshan Taibao” in Sichuan a long time ago in an ancient tomb, dug out the Dragon Bone Book of Heaven, after understanding the mystery, got the road, so that he became a fairy in the ancient tomb stolen in the underground palace of the ancient tomb. Stolen ancient tomb in the underground palace, built a village of the Earth Immortal, as a hundred years later to hide the real place, it is said that whoever finds this village of the Earth Immortal, worship the Earth Immortal Guanshan Taibao, who will be able to live forever, and from now on do not eat, do not drink, and even the earth’s smoke and fire do not touch it.
But this ground fairy tomb, hidden too deep, no trace, from the Ming death so far, there is no one can find, but when the ground fairy to Feng family descendants left a few cryptic phrases “a good king, there is a body without a head; Niang Zi does not come, the group of mountains do not open; burning wood pot, boiled liver and lungs; chiseling wells and cutting salt, asking ghosts to ask for money; the bird road vertical and horizontal, a hundred paces nine back; want to visit the ground fairy, the first to look for the Wu Yang! ……”
In this ancient mystery, hiding the important secret of the entrance to the village of the Earth Immortal, in addition to the Feng family, from the refusal to say and outsiders know, when the Feng leader only said a small half of Professor Sun, persuade him to run back to Sichuan with their own, hiding in the Earth Immortal Tomb to take refuge, do not look at the Feng leader of the soldiers fought in the war, but he was for the ancestors passed down the misty things, extraordinarily superstitious, is because of this reason, only to be put down to this, and now can not stand! Chiseling and quarrying this crime, would like to abscond back home, can not become a fairy immortality is still difficult to say, but there is always a place to go, anyway, now inside and outside is a death, in case the king’s tomb really has a heavenly book, then follow the ancestors to become a fairy to go.
Prof. Sun heard at that time, I think this Feng leader must be brain problem, may be overwhelmed, mental collapse, how dare you say anything? These days, just for those words just now, shooting you ten times would not be too much.
So Prof. Sun made his attitude clear and firmly refused to go with him, saying, “If you want to go you go by yourself, don’t worry I will never tell secrets behind my back.”
Feng leader laughed coldly: “As the saying goes, don’t put things in your heart, spit it out to people, since I told old Sun you about the absconding plan, even if you don’t expose it, I’m afraid that you can’t get out of it after I escaped, so let’s do it, I’ll give you a hand.”
Professor Sun was shocked, “What do you want?” The words did not fall, the back of the head ate a pickaxe handle, immediately fainted, and so woke up has long disappeared Feng leader of the trail.
The disappearance of the head of the Feng Group, in the labor farm in a row, searching the mountain of people looking for a hundred miles around, even the head of the Feng Group did not find a hair, he could not have inserted the wings to fly, then someone uncovered that the last seen Professor Sun and he was together, Professor Sun was arraigned at that time, Professor Sun also know that this absolutely can not be said, otherwise it is bound to be more and more in-depth investigation, even if you want to tell the truth can not be said, is it the truth to say that the head of the Feng Group went to the ancient tomb of the Earth Immortal to seek help? Could he tell the truth that Mr. Feng went to the tomb of the Earth Immortal to seek immortality? Who would believe that? I can only bite the bullet and say that he may have run away, and the rest of the story, I don’t know, the back of the head has a wound as proof, he is also a victim.
Although this matter is not settled, but people can be afraid of, some people began to suspect, probably Professor Sun and Feng leader of a personal vendetta, secretly Feng leader killed, do not know where the body buried, this argument is not officially recognized, but widely spread in private, everyone sees him as a murderer, until the crushing of the Gang of Four, he is still explaining this matter.
Professor Sun is not clear whether the Feng leader fled back to Sichuan, and Feng leader of the problem was later vindicated, even if he was hiding in the mountains, now can also straighten his back out, but still do not see him show up, this person is as evaporated, so many years, is always “not seen in life, not seen in death,” so about the He was killed by the enemy, Professor Sun, hiding the body of the deserted mountain” rumors are more convincing, but for the time being there is no evidence, who can not take Professor Sun.
The mystery of the disappearance of the Feng leader, in the future has become a piece of Professor Sun’s heart, and then in the work of the contact with the “ground immortal village tomb” of all kinds of legends and records, will be particularly attentive, one wants to find the ancient trigrams, so that their own research results can be a breakthrough, and in addition is also trying to find that the missing ten years of Feng leader, to wash away the wrongs suffered. The wrongs suffered.
Prof. Sun also knows that, after the escape of the head of the seal, it is likely to have been in the mountains to feed the beasts, or fell into which mountain streams fell to death, the possibility of escaping to Sichuan is minimal, even if you find the “Tomb of the Earth Immortals”, may not be able to find the person from the tomb, but Prof. Sun vaguely have a kind of heartfelt premonition that “the head of the seal, a very unusual person, but also to find the person who has been missing for ten years, and to make his research results can be a breakthrough. The head of the group, this person, is very unusual, maybe he can really find the entrance to the tomb, and is still alive in the world.
I listened to Sun Jiuzi’s account, a turn in the brain, there have been some ideas: “The riddle of the village of the Immortals we can not be solved in a moment, and the bronze trigram mirror can only be used once or twice more at most, not until the critical moment, it can not be easily used to test the geomancy of the earth, but I see the Feng leader, is an important clue to find the tomb, about the Ming Dynasty Immortals legends, most confusing, always said only in Sichuan, but no one has seen the tomb, but it’s a very important clue. Only said it was in Sichuan, but not a general area, and even do not know whether it is Ba Di or Shu Di, and is the east or west Sichuan? I don’t know, it’s hard to find. But as long as we can find out which county and which town is the home of the head of the seal, we personally go over to follow the clues and act opportunistically, want to find out the entrance to the tomb, the material is not difficult.”