Chapter 9 Dusty Clues
After picking out these two books from a stack of old books, Wu Zhongyuan did not read them immediately. He was hesitating whether to read them.
If these two books were helpful to him and his senior brother, Master would have taught them a long time ago when he was alive. The reason why Master did not teach them during his lifetime means that learning the contents in these two books are harmful to them or not, at least that's what Master thinks.
But these two books should still be valuable. If they are all feudal superstitions, the master will definitely burn them before his death. However, the master did not do that, but hid them on the roof, which shows that the master himself was also contradictory and felt that he should not teach them, but he was reluctant to burn them, so he could only hide them in a hidden place. Whether he could find it depends on the will of heaven and the luck of the two.
After hesitating for a while, Wu Zhongyuan picked up the Thirty-six Methods of Geometric Simulation.
I was about to open it, but hesitated again. Now is the era of science. These mysterious things are often associated with scammers, but don’t become treacherous after reading them.
Hesitation is still open, and it is finally opened. Whether this thing is the wisdom of the ancients or the superstition of the poison can only be judged after reading it. The great man once said that without investigation, there is no right to speak. Investigate first, and examine it objectively with a scientific perspective and a critical attitude.
The first page is a message, which means that the author may also be the copywriter’s words to future generations. The message is written vertically, using traditional Chinese characters. The difference between traditional Chinese characters and simplified Chinese characters is not very big, and there is no obstacle to reading. It is written as ‘Come empty-handed and go alone, good and evil will be rewarded, and there will be borrowed and rewarded.’
"This is fair, it's just a bit pessimistic." Wu Zhongyuan said to himself.
The classmate who didn't sleep in the same dormitory casually answered, "Zhongyuan, what are you looking at?"
"The history of the development of ancient literature." Wu Zhongyuan casually spoke.
"I'm going to the battlefield soon. Are you sure you can get through the exam?" The classmate's words refer to the upcoming college entrance examination.
"I'm sure I'll bake the batter." Wu Zhongyuan turned to the second page again.
Seeing that he was absent-minded, his classmates ignored him, held his glasses and continued to read books.
The second page is the directory, which is divided into three chapters: the upper, middle and lower. The name of the chapter surprised Wu Zhongyuan. The first chapter was to support his family, the second chapter was to seek wealth and honor, and the second chapter was to be kind and life and death.
This is the first time Wu Zhongyuan has seen this kind of name. It is logical that mysterious things are often very high-end, but these pages are very popular, not nice, and not transcendent.
The book is not thick, only a few dozen pages, and it all talks about content and methods related to geomancy. The so-called geomancy does not only refer to Feng Shui, but also includes many contents such as stargazing, timing, site selection, and house setting. There is no time to read it carefully for a while. I have read it at a glance at ten lines at a glance, and I am confused. I only know that each page records a lot of the same type of jerky content.
After careful counting, the main text of the book is thirty-six pages, 27th chapters in the first chapter, 6th chapters in the second chapter, and 3th chapters in the second chapter.
After roughly reading the whole book, Wu Zhongyuan finally understood why the author or copyist gave such a name. Many of these methods related to geomancy were realized at the cost of reducing their own lifespan. The methods recorded in the previous article were mostly some contents that they would use in daily life, such as giving a name to a child and looking at the Feng Shui of the house, it would have little impact on oneself, help others, make some money, and support the family.
The content recorded in the second chapter is more dangerous. Once it is used, it is very likely to hurt yourself. However, because of the danger, the effect is good. If you help the nobles and nobles a lot of money, you will naturally get more money, so it is called seeking wealth and prosperity.
The next article only has three pages, and it records the essence of geomancy, which has mysterious methods to prolong life and change the amount of energy. Correspondingly, the price is also very high. Maybe you have to pay yourself in it. The reason why it is called "kindness and life and death" is because doing this is no longer for money, but often to repay other people's great kindness.
After reading the Thirty-Six Geometric Methods, Wu Zhongyuan did not remember the specific Geometric Methods. What impressed the most was that he could not tell fortunes randomly, because fortune-telling was classified as divination. Divination was the content of the 36 Geometric Methods, which was very serious and serious. It doesn’t matter if he calculated it wrong. If he calculated it correctly, he would reveal the secret of heaven. At least he lost his life. The life-long record in the book was calculated based on nine. From nineteen to nine nineteen, at least 19 days, at most 19 years, 99 eighty-one, and the most serious one was suddenly broken.
From this we can see that those who set up fortune tellers on the street are all scammers. If you are really capable, who would exchange their nine-day lifespan for those who are ten or twenty yuan, even those who are eighty yuan cannot do anything.
After reading the whole book, I have to make a summary and set my personality for the book. However, after thinking about it carefully for a long time, it is difficult to determine whether the book is the wisdom of the ancients or the superstition of the toxicity. The reason is very simple. It is impossible to determine the authenticity of the content recorded in the book, unless you try it yourself.
It was already midnight, and he was the only one left in the dormitory. After sleeping for a while earlier, Wu Zhongyuan was not sleepy and took the ghost painting talisman again.
The content recorded in this book is even more outrageous. It is all about catching ghosts and exorcising evil spirits. Drawing talismans is just a common method, and there are some strange methods. The reason why it is called ghost painting talismans is because most of the talismans and methods recorded above come from folk accumulation, which is different from the orthodox Taoist methods of painting talismans. Therefore, using ghost painting talismans comes from humility, so the orthodox Taoist priests will not be able to beat them up if they encounter them.
In addition, the copyist of this book should not be the same person as the copyist of the Thirty-Six Geometric Methods, because the handwriting is different. Compared with the Thirty-Six Geometric Methods, this book has less credibility. You can try the Thirty-Six Geometric Methods yourself, and you can't even try it. Where can you find ghosts these days?
By the time I finished reading the ghost drawing talisman, it was already past one o'clock in the middle of the night. Wu Zhongyuan tied up the books and put them under the bed. The college entrance examination was about to be taken. He had no time to read these, and then he would look it out and study it carefully after the holiday.
I woke up early the next day, everything was the same, the college entrance examination was about to be done, and there were endless mock test papers.
Wu Zhongyuan is still sure about the college entrance examination, but he is limited to being able to pass the admission score line. Other subjects are good, but mathematics is not good. Everyone says that interest is the best teacher. He is not interested in mathematics at all, but mathematics is a liberal arts and science subject.
Although he was poor, he did not have the subsidies from the school, nor did he have any assistance from any charitable person. This is not that the school does not have corresponding policies, nor that no one is willing to fund him, but that Lin Qingming did not allow him to accept help from others. Lin Qingming always said that the debt of favor is the most difficult to repay, and it is best not to ask for people if he can handle things himself.
On the night before the college entrance examination, Lin Qingming called and told Wu Zhongyuan that he didn't want to work in the mine in the neighboring county and wanted to go back to work in Huang County. Lin Qingming didn't say what he did, but said that he would come to the school to find him after the exam.
The hospital has not been moved these days, which made Wu Zhongyuan feel relieved. He was most afraid that his affairs would be leaked and was arrested by the relevant departments for observation and research.
As the college entrance examination is approaching, candidates are all facing great enemies. Wu Zhongyuan is not very nervous and cannot apply for military academy or police academy. He has no interest in other schools. Moreover, the university costs more than high school, and it costs tens of thousands a year. If you take the undergraduate degree, you have to study for four years. It is better to study for three years in junior college, which can also slightly relieve the pressure on your senior brother.
After the exam, the students were both nervous and excited. They gathered together to discuss what major to apply for in college and fantasize about a beautiful university life. Wu Zhongyuan was not active in this regard. The reason was very simple. Everyone knew that everything would be fine if they were admitted to college. Most people went to fall in love when they went to college. It costs money to fall in love. He didn’t have that spare money, and he was not the reason why he had an abnormal gene. Isn’t it harmful to find a girlfriend?
However, although he was not interested in falling in love, some female classmates liked him, not because he was handsome. To be honest, he was not a very handsome boy, and his academic performance could only be considered reasonable, but there were still female classmates who liked him. As for the reason, he couldn't figure it out, maybe it was because there were few boys in the liberal arts class.
The school is about to leave school, and the youthful trepidation of boys and girls has reached its peak. The mood of parting has evolved into emotional blindness. The ordinary graduating and leaving school is fantasized by the boys and girls who are just beginning to fall in love, and the separation of life and death is deeply rooted in the small hotel outside the school, under the big trees on the school, in the dormitory, and in the classroom, are full of blind instinctive impulses and shallow and cheap vows.
Wu Zhongyuan received two love letters in one day, and a new mobile phone. The love letter was written in a rich and touching way, but after reading it, Wu Zhongyuan found that the two girls did not like him, he was not what the other party’s love letter described. He was just a carrier of the other party’s emotional fantasy under the emotion.
The one who gave the phone was from the same town as him. He was also very beautiful. The phone was installed in a large envelope. In addition to the phone, there was also a note, which only had one sentence on the note, 'I don't want to lose contact with you.'
This confession is affectionate and direct enough, but Wu Zhongyuan still returned the phone to others. The reason is very simple. This female classmate has given a boy a cell phone for the first time. He has seen this female classmate get into a car of different men at the entrance of the school.
Not every beautiful face has a beautiful soul, and not every beautiful word has a beautiful truth.
Lin Qingming came, he came in a Mercedes-Benz sedan. He was dressed very well, and Wu Zhongyuan almost didn't recognize him.
Lin Qingming came and went in a hurry, said a few simple words, left a cell phone and two thousand dollars and left.
The Mercedes-Benz sedan is naturally not Lin Qingming's. The reason why Lin Qingming was able to sit was because he became Zhao Dazhong's bodyguard. Zhao Dazhong is a celebrity, a real estate agent, the richest man in Huangxian County, and is well-known nationwide. He has several companies under his command. The company that runs a resort in Huangjia Village is one of his subsidiaries.
It is not difficult to guess why Zhao Dazhong invited Lin Qingming as a bodyguard. The group of gangsters brought with him in Hua Shi's shirt were broken, and the medical expenses were inevitable. This matter must be reported to Zhao Dazhong.
It is not difficult to guess why Lin Qingming is willing to be Zhao Dazhong's bodyguard. For the sake of money, he will soon go to college. Lin Qingming earned not enough money in the mine to pay his tuition and living expenses.
Watching the car disappear, Wu Zhongyuan returned to the dormitory worriedly. When his master was alive, he kept warning the two of them not to show their martial arts in front of others. Lin Qingming did this contrary to his master's warning, and the reason why Lin Qingming did this was all for him.
After the college entrance examination, the classmates left school one after another, and soon the dormitory was empty and he had nowhere to go. The school knew about his situation and temporarily let him live in his original dormitory.
The old house was still there before, and he could go back every holiday, but now the old house is gone and he is really homeless.
On the first day of the holiday, he took the initiative to find Huang Ping and told Huang Ping about Lin Qingming's situation. Huang Ping was very surprised and needed to ask, Lin Qingming had not told her that he had come to the county town before.
Seeing Huang Ping's mood depressed, Wu Zhongyuan wanted to say something, but after hesitation, he said nothing. What could he say, so that she would stop making futile efforts? Or let her persevere bravely?
The holiday was very long, and Wu Zhongyuan was unwilling to waste his time and wanted to find a short-term job to earn some money, but temporary jobs were not easy to find, and he couldn't find a suitable one after a day.
When I returned to the dormitory at night, I had nothing to do, so I took out the bundle of old books under the bed to read them casually. He was not interested in the scriptures. He should not read more of the two books that were not known to be the wisdom of the ancients or superstitious Yu Du. Finally, I chose the master's experience in practicing medicine. There are many real cases and many effective folk remedies. I took a look at them and may use them in the future.
After reading two pages, Wu Zhongyuan found a detail. This book of medical practice was written by the master in his later years. Although there is no specific time and patient's name on it, it contains the patient's age, gender and specific symptoms.
He almost vomited blood when he was a child. It was his master who cured him and adopted him. If nothing unexpected happens, this book of medical practice will also be recorded. As long as you find this record, you can know some of your situation at that time.
In addition, the strange corpse in the coffin was buried by the master himself. This person may still be alive when he met his master and had communicated with him. Otherwise, the master would not be willing to give his coffin to him. If he is lucky, he might have recorded his experience in practicing medicine.
Chapter completed!