The content of the letter is probably mainly about blessings, because after getting married, in addition to taking daily orders and helping people, he also has to take on family responsibilities, even if his wife is a fool. In the future, he will have to think of ways to continue the family lineage and continue the incense. These things will take him a lifetime of hard work. In the letter, I told Da Mao and asked him to help me take care of the house. Now that the Great Revolution is over, many people who have left their homes because of this may come back. Among them are my uncle and the second uncle who is bound to the sky. I ask Da Mao to help me from time to time. I'm going to walk around and pay attention, especially to my second uncle. Di Baotian is responsible for his own misfortune, but his second uncle may not know all this, so we must not tell him the truth we know.
In addition, I also told Damao that the house must be kept for me, because I will come back to live in the future, but I don’t know how long I will be there, maybe a year and a half, maybe ten or eight years .
In fact, it has been fifteen years since I left my hometown this time.
During this period, I almost had no fixed place to live. I would stay in a city for about half a year, learn about the customs and folk customs of different places, visit the docks with masters from various places, make friends, and share with each other. I have skills, and they are constantly improving. I am getting better and better at doing things, and I am helping more and more people. But I don’t open the door to do things every day, but when life is stressful, I will make a sum of money, enough to support me for a period of time.
In the early 1980s, the "reform and opening up" concept proposed by Comrade Xiaoping a few years ago began to bear fruit in several pilot special economic zones. Soon the reform swept across the country and blossomed everywhere. The loosening of the political atmosphere made the common people begin to use In addition to doing other things during working time, private business gradually began to be allowed, and the existence of collective communes became less and less, because everyone began to stop working hard for the few work points every month and no longer guarded the state's distribution. We were able to get by without enough supplies, and people showed great gratitude and enthusiasm for participating in Comrade Deng Xiaoping's reforms.
In those years, during Comrade Xiaoping's visit to the United States, the long-standing confrontation between China and U.S. imperialism was greatly eased, and the people began to affectionately use the slogan "Hello Xiaoping". This is probably China's best practice for thousands of years. Come on, this is the first time someone has addressed a national leader with such an affectionate name. In those years, the self-defense and counterattack against Vietnam in the southwestern frontier produced a large number of touching heroic deeds, which led to the song "Blood-stained Style" that was sung all over the country. In the early 1980s, television began to enter the lives of ordinary people as a new form of entertainment. If there was a television in any house, the threshold would be trampled by guests and friends. The Commune Revolutionary Committee was abolished and replaced by the Commune Management Committee. That year, one of the most popular songs sung on the streets included the following lyrics:
"Ah, dear friends, who does this wonderful spring belong to? It belongs to me, to you, and to our new generation in the 1980s."
Yes, those were the best years of my life, even though I was over forty at the time.
People often say that when you are thirty, you will not be confused when you are forty. Maybe I came a little earlier, so that when I was in my thirties, I had already started to live a life without confusion. So I often lament that the wave of reform is constantly being witnessed around us, and everyone's enthusiasm for production has reached an unprecedented rise. This suddenly brings my memory back to the Great Leap Forward period in the early days of liberation. However, with the income of the people, With the improvement of academic standards, the voices of intellectuals are increasingly valued, and people no longer think that studying is a waste of time. However, people like me, who was born in the early 1940s, seem embarrassed at this stage.
You may ask me why I am embarrassed, and I may answer you, because only at this time will you realize that I was in the world before, and after decades of being immersed in it, I realized that I could not return to reality at all. In the society, integrate into this vigorous and prosperous collective. Fortunately, with the development of people's thinking, people in our industry are becoming more and more tolerant. Although they are still the so-called "feudal remnants", there are already some old masters and Taoist priests with gray beards who put a pony stool on the street. On the other hand, if you give people a horoscope and see the whole picture, you will no longer be easily caught and squatted.
I think that may be my last career when I am gray-haired. Now, while I am still in good health, I want to walk around and appreciate the great rivers and mountains of my motherland. I have lived in this country all my life, but I still don’t know that our country is so beautiful. But even if I continue to wander around, I will definitely return to the other side of the Xiling Gorge within a certain period of time every year, and kneel across the river towards Qin Bukong on the cliff opposite the mountain to thank my teacher.
In the past fifteen years, I have dealt with nearly five hundred weird ghost cases of various sizes, and I have met nearly a hundred partners in the industry who can cherish each other and are also competitors. Among them are the Wu brothers from the Liyuan Sect in northern Sichuan and southern Shaanxi, Senior Yang, the last descendant of the Lingnan Shanshi Sect, and Shangguan, a master who was originally from Sichuan but returned from his studies in Shandong. The person I have to mention here is Shangguan. If I travel around the world by exorcising evil spirits and catching ghosts, then what Shangguan does is to subjugate and eliminate demons. He mainly relies on dealing with animal spirits and "going out" to solve problems for the people. Therefore, when I gradually became a master in this industry, a saying began to spread in the world: "To drive away evil spirits, look for Situ, and to catch demons, look for Shangguan." Master Shangguan and I both have compound surnames, and we both ended up staying in the mountain city.
In the past fifteen years, I have been staying at Yunsheng Palace in Yunyang County for almost two and a half years, staying with pine nuts, practicing Qigong and reading all day long, or watching the misty clouds on the top of the mountain. Songzi's master passed away a few years ago, and his disciples traveled all over the world because of their achievements in learning. Some became highly respected masters among the people, while others took over other Taoist temples and promoted the essence of the Taoism of the Quanzhen Sect, but only Songzi One person stayed, raised a cat, and planted an acre of land. Every year he would go to the secret cave where the Witch King's soul was stored to consolidate the seal. Maybe because he had been alone for a long time, Songzi also learned to entertain himself, because I didn't inform him in advance when I went up the mountain, and I didn't know that the Taoist temple had such a huge change. After I walked around to the entrance of Yunsheng Palace, I heard someone whispering on the side of the courtyard wall. Out of curiosity, I went around to take a look, only to find Songzi squatting on the ground holding a hoe, piling up a cabbage in the field and pointing, as if following Cabbage talks.
I thought it was funny at the time, so I coughed from a distance. Songzi looked around and looked at each other. We looked at each other for a long time. The old friends who were young and immature in the past can hardly hide the traces of time. We smiled, saluted, and shook hands. , then hugged each other and cried.
During the two and a half years at Yunsheng Palace, I learned that Songzi still stayed on the mountain most of the time and didn't like to walk down the mountain very much. Most of the knowledge he gained came from reading various books. So I invited him to go down the mountain with me and continue to travel in the world. Who knew that this trip would make Songzi addicted, so much so that after we returned to Yunsheng Palace, he began to feel sad about spring and autumn, feeling that the mountains were depressing and not as fun as the flower world. After being bored for a few days, we both felt bored and started to have some fun for ourselves.
We were two middle-aged people. We were bored to death in the temple on the mountain, which lacked entertainment facilities. Songzi and I imagined that there was a table tennis table in front of us, and then we both had a pair of table tennis rackets and a table tennis table in our hands. The ball, I served, he caught the ball, and then he made a fast break that caused me to hit a high ball, and then he spiked the ball to catch me off guard.
We just waved our hands in the air, creating a wonderful game. In the end, Songzi said that my serving speed was too fast, so he threw the "racquet" off his hand and stopped playing in anger.
When I returned to my hometown mountain town, it was already the mid-1990s. Da Mao brought the silly girl to pick me up. Mr. Wang Chengqian had passed away, but I only found out after I returned. Da Mao's son has also started to go to middle school. Da Mao has not taught him any crafts in our industry, because Da Mao believes that children should study well, and it doesn't matter whether they learn crafts or not, as long as they are in awe. I asked Da Mao, wouldn’t it be a pity if there is no successor to your craft? Da Mao said that the future is long, and when the child grows older, he will find a way to find a good seedling among the people and accept him as his apprentice, just like Mr. Wang Chengqian accepted him as his apprentice.
We haven’t seen each other for more than ten years, and the silly girl has no memory of who I am. Although her appearance has begun to age a little, she looks much happier than other women of the same age due to her innate optimism. In her world, besides candy, there is also her son. Even if she is a fool, she still has the feeling of protecting the calf. Maybe the silly girl is just used to living with Da Mao and does not really understand the meaning of the word "husband". Even her like and love for Da Mao may not be the same as that of Da Mao. We understand "love" to have the same meaning, but she loves her children as much as she loves eating candy.
I was very pleased to see Da Mao manage his own life well. Da Mao gave me a key after receiving the wind, saying that in the years since I left, with the rise of land reform and construction, the old house had gradually changed. It will affect the appearance of the city, so the government is thinking of ways to prepare for demolition. However, because many people are unwilling to give up their old houses, they are still holding back. Da Mao was worried that my house would be unoccupied for a long time and someone would break into it, so he took it upon himself to change the lock for me.
Da Mao also told me that if it is really demolished, I will get a lot of compensation, because when my master passed away, the house was transferred to my name, and now the land is said to be the entire city One of the most valuable locations.
So I continued to live in the old house. After being away for more than ten years, I didn't feel any strangeness at all. I even dreamed of my master several times while living in the old house. Many of my neighbors have moved away or passed away over the years. The remaining old neighbors were as happy as seeing their relatives when they saw me returning home. So when I reopened the door for business, I decided to do this. , If I don’t leave in the future, I will stay here until I can’t do anything anymore.
I am considered a very lucky group of masters. We survived a catastrophe and are regarded as legends because of some amazing experiences. Just over two years after returning to the mountain city, I became the most famous person in this industry. Many people came to visit me, not really asking for help, but just to see what was going on. Like all industries, there is also business competition in our industry. In the competition, some people keep lowering their prices, but I have always maintained a high price. Even so, there is still an endless stream of people coming to me for help. As my fame grows, people's rumors about me become more and more bizarre, sometimes even so bizarre that I can't help but want to laugh when I hear them.
As people became more and more accepting, we ushered in the most golden period of our industry. I began to not only do business with ordinary people, I even started fighting with some business units and even government departments. Communicate. Because I was able to do things efficiently and neatly, and almost never failed, it was not until I was in my fifties that I truly improved my life. I have a lot of money in my hand, and I deposit it in the bank to earn interest, but I don’t know who should leave this money to spend it on my behalf. So I took out all my savings and bought a big house near my old house, where you can see the Yangtze River. Not only that, I also bought myself a car, and after buying the car, I asked someone to learn to drive when I was in my fifties.
When I was young, I secretly promised myself that when I get rich in the future, I will also buy a bullock cart; when I get rich in the future, I will also buy a tractor and so on, but the world has changed in these short twenty years. Over the years, things have changed so fast that things I couldn’t even imagine before are now real in my life. The most popular cars of that era were nothing more than those old three cars. I thought it was too vulgar, and the streets were full of the same cars, which seemed like I was too following the crowd. So when everyone was driving Jetta, Fukang, and Santana, I But I bought a black Audi 100.
So much so that sometimes when I go out for a drive, some police comrades will salute me when they see my car from a distance, because those who could drive such a car back then were basically high-ranking officials. Who would have thought that the person sitting in it, He turned out to be an old Taoist priest, an old Taoist priest who just didn't want to waste his time, a person with such a special life.
What really makes me feel helpless is not the so-called trend of the times, but the new things that suddenly pour into my life.
