There is a temple in the Dabie Mountains called Xiangyong Temple. Ling Guangzu's home is in this area. He said that his home is more than ten miles away from Xiangyong Temple, but he has not been home for more than ten years because all his family members have died and he has no value to go back.

He took me to Xiangyong Temple.

Xiangyong Temple was completely destroyed, the ancient houses collapsed, the tall Buddha statues collapsed, and even the incense burner was pushed down, with years of rain inside. In the brick corridor, weeds grew out of the cracks of bricks, covering the road. Obviously, no one has been here for a long time.

Ling Guangzu said that his master was in Xiangyong Temple. He first learned physiognomy from his father at home. After his father passed away, he learned physiognomy from his master for five years. After his master passed away, he secretly buried his master's legacy, then walked out of the Dabie Mountains, and went to the world alone.

I asked: "What is the master's relics?"

Ling Guangzu took me to the backyard of the temple and stopped under a osmanthus tree that was as thick as a bowl. The osmanthus tree grew very slowly. It should have been a growth period of hundreds of years like such a thick osmanthus tree.

Ling Guangzu found a rusty shovel, bent down, digged under the osmanthus tree, and dug a depth of one meter, a wooden box appeared underground. Ling Guangzu carried the wooden box up and opened it. There were four thin books inside, and the paper pages turned yellow and crisp, just like cicada wings.

Ling Guangzu said solemnly: "This is the master's relic and it is also a classic work in our industry. As long as you learn these four books, you can settle down and enjoy wealth and prosperity. If you can't help but call the wind and rain, and turn the world around."

I took the four books with infinite devout devoutly and saw that the titles were: "Yingyao Pian", "Military Horse Pian", "Zhafei Pian", and "Abao Pian".

I carefully held these five books and placed them on the steps, like a baby who had passed down from ten generations. I leaned down and carefully opened the pages, but I couldn't understand them. Although I knew almost every word on them, I didn't know what it meant? "Yingyao Pian", "Military Horse Pian", "Zhafei Pian", and "Abao Pian" were written in words of different lengths like "The Analects of Confucius", while "Money Lesson" was written in poems one by one.

Ling Guangzu said: "My master often explains the first four books to me, but the last book "Money Class" has not been explained. The first four books are about physiognomy, and the last book wrote fortune-telling. Although they are all classic works in physiognomy, they have different ways. The master relies on physiognomy all his life to make a living, and may have started to study fortune-telling again in his later years, so he put these five books together. "My Class" was said to be written by King Wen of Zhou, but I can't understand it."

I asked, "Then you can understand the first four physiognomy books."

Ling Guangzu said: "I can understand."

I pointed to the first line of "Abao Pian" and read: "A greedy person will be poor. A gentleman is the great precept, and Buddhism is also the first of the five precepts. Therefore, the blame for Abao is not in the appearance, but in the same place." I asked: "What does this mean?"

Ling Guangzu said: "You want to ask the last question, right?"

I said, "Yes."

Ling Guangzu explained: "The meaning of this sentence is that when we do Abao, our mistake is not on ourselves, but on the deceived people. This sentence is written in the secret words of the rivers and lakes. Abao refers to the scammer, ‘Yi’ refers to the lie, and ‘Yi’ refers to the deceived people.”

I asked again: "Why are there any mistakes in the people we cheat, and there are mistakes in the people we cheated?"

Ling Guangzu said: "Because the deceived people are greedy and believe that pie will fall from the sky, so they are deceived. If they are not greedy or possessive, the scammers will not find any gaps."

I pointed to the first page of "Yingyao Chapter" and said, "Eight questions and seven, those who are happy want to be noble by their sons, while those who are resentful have seven worries. Seven questions and eight, if there is nothing to eight, it will definitely be difficult for the sons to rest..." I asked, "What does this mean?"

Ling Guangzu said: "This is still a slander. These four books are written in slander. They have not entered the selves of the world. Even if they see these books, they don't know what they say. Only gang members understand selves will understand it."

I was surprised that the books I saw in private schools were all the Four Books and Five Classics. Although we didn’t like them, we could barely understand them. What I never thought was that there were actually books written in slander, and what I saw was not one, but four.

I asked: "What is slandering in the world."

Ling Guangzu said: "The rivers and lakes are divided into many sects, and each sect has its own slander. As soon as these people say a few slogans, they know that they are their own people, not people from the sect. Even if they hear them talking, they don't know what they are saying."

I never knew there were so many gangs and so many contents in the world, nor did I know that physiognomy was also an independent world. When I was a child, I saw a blind man telling fortunes and thought he was poor and earning a few dollars in life. I was very pity for him, but I never thought that the blind man who told fortunes was also a man in the world, and there was a powerful gang behind him.

I asked: "How do we say the slander of our physiognomy world?"

Ling Guangzu said: "There are many and complicated slander in the world of physiognomy. You have to learn slowly. Don't be greedy for too much and seek speed without changing your food. Otherwise, you will not be able to walk in the world in the future. It doesn't matter if you don't understand slander, because you are not from this gang, and this gang will not make things difficult for you. What you are most afraid of is that if you only know a little bit of slander, you will rashly break into the world. The mild ones will become disabled, and the severe ones will die."

I asked, "I can't say bad words, it's so scary?"

Ling Guangzu said: "Yes, if you say slanderous words in the world, it will arouse suspicion from your fellow disciples. When you walk around the world, once someone suspects you, your fate will be bad."

I said, "I must learn the slander of physiognomy."

Ling Guangzu said: "I will only teach you simple things today, you must remember them."

I nodded.

Ling Guangzu said word by word: "The father is called heaven, the mother is called earth, the husband is called seven, the wife is called eight, the man is called seven, the woman is called star branch, and the monk or Taoist priest is called Lao Nian."

I followed him and read it word by word.

I have finally figured out the two sentences on the first page of "Yingyao Chapter": "Eight questions and seven are the wife asking her husband about the situation in front of the Master of Face and eight are the husband asking her about the situation in front of the Master of Face and seven are the husband asking her about the situation in front of the Master of Face and Face and seven are the wife asking her about the situation in front of the Master of Face and Face and Face.

That day, I only learned these few slanders in the world. I knew that I had to concentrate on learning every slander, and then leave Ling Guangzu and go out on the world alone, and I couldn't do without these slanders. These slanders are very important. Only by learning these slanders can I understand these four secrets of physiognomy; only by learning these slanders can I gain a foothold in the world. These slanders are the symbols of knowing the same sect. As long as I master these slanders, I can join the selves and the world, and I will never be alone.

It is not easy to become a person in physiognomy. Not only do you have to know the words and snippets, but you also have to know the snippets of the world; not only do you have to know the snippets of the world, but you also have to be able to understand the secrets of physiognomy.

However, why do these four secrets of physiognomy be written in slanderous words of physiognomy? I think there are secret skills in the world. Shaolin is the Yijin Jing, and Wudang is the Huntian Palm. These four books are our unique skills. Others will not easily see it, nor will others learn it easily.

Learning slander is the only way to physiognomy.

We began to organize Xiangyong Temple, clear the weeds on the corridor, straighten the collapsed Buddha statues, and clean the hall. Ling Guangzu said that Xiangyong Temple was where his master lived for the rest of his life and also where we made a fortune.

I thought Ling Guangzu would take me out of Xiangji Temple, like the tall forest in a circus, wandering around the world and wandering unsteadily. I thought this was walking in the world. I didn’t expect Ling Guangzu to take root in the Dabie Mountains and rely on this dilapidated temple called Xiangyong Temple to start our journey of deception.

I asked, "Are we still going outside the mountains? We will stay in the mountains all our lives?" After following Gao Shulin for so long, I felt that I had become very wild and could not stay in one place at all, especially an isolated temple in the deep mountains.

Ling Guangzu said: "It's very chaotic outside, there are wars everywhere, and it's still safe in the mountains. After we earn a lot of money, we will naturally go to the city to live."

I asked, "This is a temple, we are not monks, what should we do?"

Ling Guangzu said: "What's the problem? I shaved my hair and put on a cassock; you are a monk. If others only look at your appearance, do you still see if you have dog meat in your belly?"

Ling Guangzu said again: "I can earn a huge fortune in just three years. Three years later, we will come out again."

That night, we lived in the temple. Although it was already spring, the weather was still very cold. At night, the wind was whistling, and the cold moonlight shone down from the broken roofs and fell on the mottled walls. There were also the cry of unknown beasts in the wind, which was low and terrifying. There were beds in the temple, but no quilts. Moreover, the temple was more than ten miles away from the nearest village, so we could not stay at all. That night, we lit a bonfire and sat around the bonfire waiting for dawn.

After dawn, Ling Guangzu said that he was going out, but did not say where he was going.

He taught a few slander words to the world. He said: Eyes are called ticks, appearances are called tits, money is called fire, poverty is called water, tricks are called Yingyao, use words to deceive the other party to call military horses, worship gods is called Zhafei, use actions to defraud Abao.

The slander that day is easy to learn because the content is the title of these four books.

I asked, "When will you be back?"

Ling Guangzu said: "At least two days, and at most three days."

After Ling Guangzu left, I wandered alone in the dilapidated temple.

I have been walking in the world for many years, and staying alone has long become commonplace, but in the rarely visited Dabie Mountains, in the dilapidated temple far away from the village, I was really scared. Last night, I heard the screams of beasts coming from the top of the mountain. I walked around the dilapidated temple, and finally decided to go down the mountain to find someone to live in.
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