Chapter 73 – The Golden Basin of Accounts

Zhang three master is the end of the Qing dynasty grave robbers in the line of “old man”, he hangs a person three charm, the world more known as “Zhang three chain”, real name is unknown, even when the “Kunlun Mountain” in the post, body In the official face, but also only with the real name, buried the real name.

But Zhang San master’s real name teach, even his disciples family members do not know, this is why? Because of what he did in his life, are all prohibited acts, black and white are not familiar with, in the greenwood also has his name.

In the Republic of China before, China is still under the imperial system, if you commit a serious crime, there may be “nine families”, a person commits a crime, his relatives and friends have to follow the implicated, so the Greenwood, has not been used in the real name, only to “name, nicknames,” said, even if some people are famous all over the world, but the name is not the same, but it’s not the same, so it is not the same. Even if some people are famous all over the world, but until their deaths, they only leave nicknames in the world.

Although Zhang Sanjun has accumulated a lot of cases, but when he was young, he had been rewarded by the Xianfeng Emperor, and moreover, he was skillful in the world, and made friends with countless princes with the rare antiques he got from inverted fights, and the officials and constables did not dare to touch him, so he had a large number of disciples, and his family’s wealth was innumerable, and all the great and powerful people from all over the world would like to be friends with him.

One year, Zhang Sanjiai was reluctant to leave, he was tired of the world, tired of the world of business, intends to return to the mountains and forests, the rest of his life, so widely spread invitations, inviting friends from all over the world to come to the Zhang House to feast.

As a result, he invited his friends from all over the world to come to the Zhang residence for a banquet. As a gangster, he can’t be separated from the 13 provinces controlling the southern seven northern six provinces, “Shackling Horse”, which is a family of officials and bandits, and naturally, Zhang Sanjun has to join the gang, and this time he is pulling out of the “Changsheng Mountain” in the open.

At that time, the unloading of the Ling group of thieves declined, many people do not know that the third master is the “gold detector” Zhang San Chain, coupled with that at the time of the theft of the leader of the identity of the higher, but the prestige is far less than the Zhang San Master, so his move, made more than the withdrawal of the leader of the theft of the movement is also a big thing, was a major event in the Greenwood at that time.

It was a big event in the jungle at that time. Who wouldn’t want to open their eyes to the newcomers? And to the lunar calendar June 15, really full of guests, gathered together, the generation, all of them are the JiangYangDaOi, green forest ringing horse, tables and chairs from the main hall row to the door, the side corridor of the two compartments are also crowded with people, a lot of low seniority, can only be in the edge of the standing, no place to enter the seat.

Scheduled to sit in the generation, the first to open the incense hall, knocked over the ancestor Wu Sheng Zhenjun, move up to pull incense salute, in fact, this is just going through the motions, but the rituals can not be exempted, and do not dare to be slow to take it lightly, looking at the moon in the sky is full, the stars are almost all out of all the time, it will be invited to unload the ridge stealers sit in the main hall under the god, both sides of the emcee lifted a incense burner in the front of the hall, which inserted a point of nineteen columns of large incense, insertion of the incense in the formation is “Three before and four after, five on the left and six on the right, when the center inserted a column of incense”.

After a round of gongs and drums, the ceremony is about to take place, watching the ceremony of the various gangsters were silent, then by Zhang San Master came out in front of the theft of half-kneeling gift, when the Greenwood Road is “easy to join the gang, pulling the incense is difficult,” the general public simply do not dare to pull the incense, the ordinary thieves want to wash their hands of the gang, unless it is a parent or wife and children have a big event, the main person had to go back, this is a good time to go back, and the main person has to go back. The person in charge of the family had to go back, which dared to mention the matter of washing hands, the helmsman sent a person to check is really so, in order to let him pull the incense, otherwise there is no amnesty for killing, although the status of the Zhang San master is different, but still can not avoid the set of the scene, first of all, in the front of the thieves to pull the incense before the statement of the reason.

Zhang San master first reported “pulling out the incense to withdraw” the original reason, only that now the old disease, and have a wife and children involved, it is difficult to do the murder of goods, but also hope that the ancestor master and helmsman high hand, allow disciples to leave in one piece.

Stealing Kui heard hurriedly will ZhangSanMaster help up, accompanied by smile: “congratulate three brother gold basin wash hands, the courage to retreat is rare, the world of black and white which side are in hot water, can survive to this day can be really too difficult, there is a saying – the wind and clouds often meet, gathering and dispersing always indefinitely, pulling incense withdrawn from the gang, righteousness to stay. ”

So Zhang San master accompanied by thieves to the front of the hall, to the incense burner side of the stand, read the pulling incense chant: “full of stars and constellations in all directions, always win the mountains in the middle of the; strayed into the jungle for dozens of years, much thanks to the brothers to take care of; today I want to leave, willing to ask for more forgiveness of the brothers; I go back to the old age of the mother, but also and all the brothers connected to the life of the soldiers and soldiers will come to the brother to pass the news, there is a fire, there is a water brother ventilated; the bottom of the loess up to the day, brother and all the brothers. There is the sky, brother and all the brothers a line; hammer broken teeth mouth not open, steel knife gouging out gall heart will not change; little brother false words have a sentence, five thunderbolts hit the top of the family is difficult to be whole; distant wish the Kuixing gather golden light, always win incense cover Kunlun, for heaven and earth to be passed on forever.”

Whoever pulls the incense on the Greenwood Road, have to read this praise words, said his family has an old mother to support, is to take the “hundred good filial piety when the first” reason, no matter what to stop people to do, even if there is a great excuse, but also can’t stop people to do filial piety, although the three masters since the childhood of the orphan without a father without a mother, can still be read in accordance with the original text of the praise, can not be changed in the slightest, and the process of reading the song, and moreover the process of the “goodness” is not to change, but to be able to do so. And in the process of reciting the hymns, there can not be a word of oral error, and can not stop in the middle of the word, otherwise it is regarded as a guilty heart, the intention of misbehavior, around the group of thieves will immediately come forward to the chaos of the blade, will read the hymns of the person chopped into meat paste.

The whole praise a total of 19 sentences, each read a sentence, will pull a pillar of incense, and so Zhang San master’s praise are read out, the incense in the furnace is also pulled out, then the helm immediately to him arching clasped fists and said happy: “three brother good to go, when when homesick, and then come back to drink a cup of water wine.” To this is even into the ceremony, from now on, Zhang three masters and the Greenwood Road, no longer have anything to do, around the crowd at the same time to go up to congratulate, outside the mansion firecrackers, drums and music, underlings then opened on the table, a time of land and water Chen horizontal, cups and fronts staggered, the guests and hosts are happy.

Groups of thieves on the table, someone proposed: “Today is the Zhang San master pull Xiang withdrawal of the big day, all the heroes gathered on the table and all the wine and food, so not happy, but there is no thing under the wine, which teaches the wild drinking is not happy, it’s difficult to enjoy themselves. Our green forest road is mostly rude men, men and women husband, can not follow the literati to wine order, how can this be good? Kid dare, may wish to ask you all high people in the seat in public to tell the life of the experience, said to the strange, brave, or ordinary people can not reach the place, our generation when each drink a big bowl to praise.”

Groups of thieves boomed said wonderful, Zhang three masters this is a spontaneous person, he knows, this is the group would like to take the opportunity to listen to their own things, just in time for today’s happy, where there can still be any excuses, and so it was in the seat to speak out, but Zhang three masters hanging talisman touch gold, are private hooks, do not want to spit it out in front of the public, just pinch the head to the end, to give the crowd said a few sections of his life involved in the experience of the strange and dangerous.

Zhang three masters is a famous family after the defeat of the family since childhood in the countryside, young people involved in solving a few strange cases, in the Jiangnan leveled the bandits became famous, and then did the officer, with the Taiping army to do war, but also to fight the twists, and follow the left adult suppression of the rebellion in Xinjiang, the life of a long time in the battlefield, more than in the battlefield, the life of a number of strange encounters.

The three masters of the deeds, just which section to tell out, that are taught “to say that the stars and the moon have no light, the road broken the river water flow backwards”, listen to the crowd as if intoxicated, he said, according to the seniority of seniority, according to the rest of the several predecessors to describe their own traces, the group of thieves across the north and south, to and from the miles, in addition to killing and setting fires, but also did a lot of unloading of the mountain bucket! Big things, their experience is also more sensational place, the people in the green forest more like to show off these heroic things, really said the colorful, listen to the spellbound, the seat also do not know how many empty jars of wine put over the table, this time the wine sound, from the dark straight to the turn of the day light, only then drunken and dispersed.

And so the black and white things on the road are well settled, enough after more than a month, Zhang three masters this only with relatives back home, he also in front of the ancestor god “picking seal gold”, the future do not intend to do the “gold feeler” again.

The world’s only three remaining “touch gold ancient talisman”, is the generation of things, according to the ancient rules, not hanging talisman can not be reversed. Zhang three masters have a son and a daughter, and there are four disciples, in addition to the daughter is not counted, adding up to a total of five brothers and sisters. Zhang’s family are feng shui masters, the world is qualified to hang the charm of the people, not only is the Zhang three masters and his group of disciples, to say more, but also far less than ten people, but the real charm is only three, in the end, the touch of gold charm passed to who? The four disciples of Master Zhang are the most important ones.

Zhang three masters of these four disciples, each have outstanding, one is later in the no bitter temple monk dust elder, when the dust elder has not yet shaved, in the green forest does not leave a real name, no one knows its family name, this person has done since childhood to fly the eaves and walls of the sky thief, people send nicknamed “Flying Birds Liuqian”, stealing the mansion never miss, turn high head! The lightness of the high head is very good, the skill of searching for dragons and the technique of dividing gold and fixing points are taught by Master Zhang San, his heart is hot like fire, he is good at managing the world’s injustices, and he often has the heart to help the world.

The other is “Abacus”, a merchant family, know the magic door pin child, people are smart and slippery, rare is the heart of the upright, just too high self-esteem, do not put ordinary people in the eye, a pure gold abacus never leave the hand, abacus beads and frames engraved on the number of the heavenly stems and earthly branches, he is not used to calculate the abacus, but specifically to This abacus is not used to calculate, but specializes in calculating the five elements of the numerical arts, accounting for the eight door orientation, he and Zhang San masters early acquaintance, friendship is extraordinary, half master and disciple half friends.

The third is the yin and yang eyes Sun Guofu, this is the son of the family, only because born with yin and yang eyes, since childhood, “eyes can see ghosts”, so was thrown out of the family, wandering in all directions, and then was met by Master Zhang San, received as a disciple, this person is kind and generous, full of experience, a faction of the Taoist mind, in other words, is a more traditional and old-fashioned, although learned a body full of skills, but do not want to do a fight for profit! In other words, it is more traditional and old-fashioned, although he has learned a full body of skills, but he is not willing to do the hook of the fight for profit, and never participate in the green forest in the division of spoils of the action of the gathering of righteousness, so he wherever he is with his real name.

The last youngest child, is Zhang San Master received the closed door disciple, a nickname called “Iron Grinders”, full of cross-practice children’s hard skills, had fallen into the grass for the bandits, and into the twist, before killing countless people, but Zhang San Master said that his temperament, very much like their own early years of a brother, the idea of his means of strong, honest people, only to be him under the door.

On this day, Mr. Zhang summoned his disciples and grandchildren to the front of the hall, put three ancient talismans in a jade plate, and told them that “it is better to choose the day than to hit the day”, and that they would pass down the talismans today, and that there was no banquet that would not be broken up, and that no matter whether they got the talismans or not, they would all have to set up their own families from today onwards, and they would all be able to make their own way out into the outside world with their own skills, and that they could have learned one thing. The gold touching inspector’s dragon secret and gold points, but do not hang the gold touching talisman of the people to go back to the fight, once or twice may be able to pick up a life back by chance, but the bad old rules, sooner or later can not avoid the fate of the big robbery, you if you do not listen to the master of the words, and so on the day when the death of the time, do not blame for the teacher did not say clearly.

The disciples all know that Zhang Sanjian clever identification cover the world, say out of words without fail, naturally do not dare to disobey, all forward to pay homage, all said: “three touch gold ancient talisman pass to who, all depends on the master to make the decision, the disciples no longer have two words.”

Zhang three master nodded, in fact, although there are five disciples, including his son, in fact, touching the golden talisman to whom, has long been decided, he first let his own son to withdraw from the room, the original touching the golden secret art, a thousand years of inheritance, the internal rules are very much, the real talisman does not pass on their own descendants, is one of them.

With no rules and regulations of the folk of the scattered theft is very different, this line of rules, is out of the fight to take profit from the extreme loss of Yin Fu, even if it is the gold detectives to steal the treasures of the ancient tombs, most of them are to help the world to save the people, but those treasures more than not on earth to see the mundane things in the world revealed, will lead to the fight for the dark, to trace back to the bottom of the problem, that the fight to take the treasure of the tomb of the person who ultimately sinned a lot, and therefore there are” Do a generation, rest three generations,” he said, from the three master’s son’s generation to count, to his grandchildren that generation, can not do again to hang charms tomb raiding hooks, otherwise it will be punished by God, cut off the children and grandchildren, the body loss of the family defeat.

The same is the craftsmen of the old society, at first in the butcher’s line of killing pigs, there is also said that in Shandong Jinan Province on the ground, there is a butcher retribution legend, not ordinary folk talk, especially credible, because these crafts are all the ancestor passes on male not female so many generations passed down, do how many generations of butchers have been clearly documented.

All butchers, every three generations there is a generation can never do butcher, although also to inherit the craft of learning from ancestors, but can not set up their own slaughter of livestock, it is said that this is out of too much concern for the killing of livestock, for fear of extinction, but whether the reason is really so, no one has been able to say to this day. In any case, every three generations, there must be a generation that can not manage the ancestral business, but to learn other crafts to make a living, and when he has a descendant, but can do the butcher again.

The Mi family has been slaughtering pigs and sheep for generations, and when it was passed on to the “Mi Butcher”, he violated the taboo of killing pigs and passed on to his generation, and according to the custom, he should not move the butcher’s knife, but he did not take this matter to heart, and he still slaughtered pigs and opened a butcher’s store. One day, the rice butcher got up before dawn, in order to slaughter an old sow, he was alone in the butcher’s room, lighted the lamp and candles, put the old pig on the ground, felt the blood vein on the neck, copied the knife and wanted to bleed the old sow, but suddenly the pig made a human language, opened his mouth and said: “I should have died on May 15, and today it is only May 14, and the time is not right, how do you dare to kill me. How dare you kill me?”

Butcher’s courage is not ordinary people can compare, and rice butcher got up too early, it is sleepy, thought he was confused and misheard, even heard the pig speak human language, then also did not think much, inserted into the knife to bleed, let the old pig struggling and howling, is also indifferent.

Can turn the day, it is the fifteenth day of May, rice butcher or so early to get up to slaughter pigs, I can not imagine that today more sleepy, even the lights are too lazy to point out, anyway, hand familiar, touching the black knife, but today did not hear the slaughtered pig talk, slaughtering is very smooth, seems to be less than the previous effort, wait until the fade the hair of the pig, the rice butcher is also puzzled: “Hey, strange, today, this pig! The knife but did not how to scream on no movement? And …… and how this pig’s leg has no hair on it, which is smooth and slippery, and feels soft like a white chicken …….”

Thought of this rice butcher steeply woke up, found that he did not enter the slaughterhouse, but sitting in his own home, the house bed underground all bloody, their hands holding a snow-white fat woman thighs, rice butchers scared three souls away from the shell, the seven vertigo ascension, how dare to believe that the tragedy in front of the eyes of the real real, even in the sleepwalking in their own wives to the dismantling of the eight pieces of the pig slaughtered, full of blood are still hot, as a result The same day the rice butcher hanged himself, before he died, he also used blood on the wall to write “the wrong time” this few words.

Regardless of whether the matter is the countryside wild rumors, or the real story, in short, with the craft of the people who eat, would rather believe it, not believe it, so Zhang San Master refused to let his son to do again to touch the gold, so that the person who can hang the talisman, leaving Zhang San Master of the four apprentices, which is the “eyes of the yin and yang” Sun Guofu, is a Sun Guofu, a scholar without a crown, is not willing to fight, willing to do some ordinary livelihood, or to open a museum to teach students, or for the people to play the divination phase of the land, to choose the yin and yang mansion, anyway, on the body of a lot of skills, do not worry about the livelihood of the unavailability of.

Zhang see “yin and yang eyes” mind has decided, took out a book, this book is called “sixteen words yin and yang feng shui secret art”, a detailed record of the three masters know what he has learned in his life.

Mapping the secret art of the “Yi” branch, Zhou Tian Gua total of sixteen words, passed on to the later generations of the only remaining gossip, which is divided into eight gossip and heavenly gossip, it is said that heavenly gossip from the tortoise shell pattern from Fu Xi Da Di, heavenly gossip for the Zhou Wenwang, in fact, they are all made, the two are not very different, belong to the “Dragon” as the image of the heavenly gossip! The number, so the interpretation of Gua of the Zhou Yi should be the Dragon Gua, in this gossip in the refutation, although there are rising and falling elephants, but in detail, are revitalized number, so the “Yi” since the beginning to the end, talking about the Qianyuan heavenly way.

Since the Western Zhou period has been lost since the other eight trigrams, is Yin Gua, most of the star phoenix as the elephant, the ancients believe that the number of Gua Gua is too full, the mystery of the creation of heaven and earth are all vented, so will be cynical ghosts and gods, to stay in the unspecified, the sixteen hexagrams will be destroyed half, and then no longer reexisting in the world.