Zhang Yan told me that, like me, he had been frail and sickly since he was a child. He was hospitalized every three days. He also had constant ups and downs in accidents and almost died several times.
Later, when he went to elementary school, he got a little better, but from that time on, he began to see things that others couldn't.
This experience was very similar to mine, so he was particularly curious about these things at that time, and his sensitivity was also very strong. He always felt that there were many ghosts and gods around him playing with him.
At that time, most children of the same age liked to watch cartoons and comics, while he liked to read Buddhist scriptures, the Tao Te Ching, and unsolved mysteries.
Moreover, when he was reading the Tao Te Ching, a Buddhist scripture, he could even see the characters glowing golden, and he could also see the pictures from the book.
Then when he got older, he liked to watch ghost movies and Lin Zhengying's zombie movies, whatever was scary. Later, he started to have two villains chattering in his mind.
These two villains were in his mind every day, nagging him from heaven to earth, almost causing him to suffer from schizophrenia. Sometimes he would even chat with those two villains together.
As a result, he couldn't go to school anymore. Whenever he went to school, he felt uncomfortable, as if he was suffering from depression.
Sometimes the teacher is lecturing above, and he is chatting with the villain in his mind below, just like a psychopath.
Then he had long-term dreams, in which he dreamed of mountains or water, or an old man teaching him things, telling him how to burn incense and so on.
But even so, he persisted in going to school and made it to junior high school.
In junior high school, his senses became stronger and he always felt that he should confess something, but his family did not agree and would not let him believe it.
Because his great-grandfather is an old Red Army soldier, his grandfather, and his father are all soldiers, so he will definitely not be allowed to go in this direction, let alone offer anything.
Once they found out that he believed these things again, his family would scold him, especially his father, who hated these things deeply and would not let him mention a single word.
Zhang Yan is also a stubborn person with a good idea. If his family doesn't let him believe it, he will believe it secretly. If he is not allowed to confess, he will confess it secretly.
He was already in junior high school at that time. Because his parents were both in business and had no time to take care of him, they gave him 500 yuan a month for living expenses.
He does all the things like buying groceries and cooking by himself, so he is very independent.
So he controlled his living expenses within 200 yuan every month, saved the rest of the money, and never spent a penny.
Later, after saving for almost a semester, during the summer vacation, he took a train to the Northeast alone, found a master, and went out on his own.
This kid was so daring that he used all the money he had saved to establish a church. He spent all the money and only had dozens of dollars left in his pocket when he came back.
Moreover, when the horse was going out, his great-grandfather came when he signed up, and so did his great-grandmother. He said that he had led people and horses when he was alive, and that he always had a Tangkou and Xianggen in his family.
But these words were not what he said at all. When he signed up for the race, he was tied up with a dead body. He had basically no consciousness and only had a vague memory.
He was also puzzled, because in his impression since childhood, no one in his family had offered anything at all, but the master told him to go home and ask, someone must have offered something to the prince.
But he did it secretly and didn't dare to ask his family at all. When the cousin brought it back, he didn't dare to offer it, so he bought a landscape painting and said to his parents: You don't let me offer anything either, so I'll just hang a landscape painting. You can't control me anymore, can you?
In this way, he secretly taped the Tang sheet behind the landscape painting, hung the landscape painting in the shoe cabinet in the entrance hall of his home, and hid it.
Since he couldn't provide the incense burner, he hid the incense burner in his drawer and kept it locked so that no one could see it. He only took it out to burn incense secretly when no one was at home.
But he still had to go to school and couldn't be at home all the time. He just went back and forth like this. One day when he came home from school, he found that his father had opened up the landscape painting, and all the secrets were exposed.
His dad didn’t even beat him, but asked him when he secretly established a courtship. He didn’t dare to tell him, so his dad told him: I know even if you don’t tell me. The last time you came back from a trip, I knew you brought something back. .
He was very surprised and said, Dad, how did you know?
At this time, his father finally sighed and told the truth.
His father told him, in fact, our family has always had a Tangzi, passed down from your grandma, and I can also see things.
He was confused when he heard it, because his father had always been very disgusted with these things. As a result...his father could also see things?
He said, Dad, you hide it very well and haven’t exposed it for so many years!
His dad said that the reason why he doesn't let you come into contact with these things is that he thinks you are too young and doesn't want you to believe them, so he has been trying every means to stop you, for fear of delaying your schooling.
In the end, even this didn't stop you. You actually secretly saved your own money to find someone in another place to set up a marriage ceremony. You are really promising.
His mother also said, if I had known this, why would I have spent money to find someone outside and kept secretly and fearfully worried? Our family has a son of our own...
So, his parents took him back to his hometown and dug out the dusty incense burner bowl from a closet on the wall.
Zhang Yan said that he was dumbfounded at the time because he had been looking at this closet since he was a child. There was a curtain on the closet and his family never told him what was inside.
As a result, when I opened it, I saw inside the incense burner bowl for worship and a wedding sheet as big as two A4 sheets of paper.
In the past, the halls provided by the elders were not as particular as they are now. There were rules for the size of the halls and so on.
At that time, rural areas didn't care about these things. Even if you didn't have an order, you could just provide an incense burner bowl and put a piece of paper on it, and you could still make people aware of things.
The secret of the family was finally exposed, and his father told him that this hall had also been established, and it would be fine if he didn't worship it. This was his destiny, so he should worship it well.
Just like that, the family bought an altar table, brought out the incense burner that he had hidden in the hall, and then started offering sacrifices to the hall in a serious manner.
At that time, he was still in junior high school, and people at home started to queue up to read the hexagrams. There was an endless stream, and he always used the old master's method to read the hexagrams.
In his words, at that time, when people were reading divination, as long as the immortals tied up their upper body, they would even know what kind of underwear you were wearing today.
He said that the way of reading hexagrams when he was tied to death was completely different from the way of reading hexagrams now, and his voice was different when he was in the upper body.
So even though he was only a junior high school student at the time, he quickly gained some fame in the local area.
But two years later, when he entered high school, the situation changed.
