Chapter 186 Chapter 24 Two Kinds of Time

"For example, pinching on wood in summer is very good. In summer, the wood is flourishing. But, it is good if the pinching is for children, but not for the elderly." Grandpa said something contradictory, and it was very difficult for me to understand. . "Why are old people bad? Children prefer it?" I frowned and asked. "Elders can't be prosperous, but children must be prosperous." Grandpa answered briefly. This answer is very blunt, just like a math teacher or physics teacher suddenly put out a formula in a certain class, and then said to many students under the blackboard: "You just calculate according to this formula, don't ask why." I don't know if it is My IQ is so poor because the teacher really didn’t explain it clearly. Anyway, at that time, I used many formulas that I didn’t understand to solve many inexplicable questions. I didn’t expect that I passed the high school and college entrance examinations smoothly.Now that I have learned a little more knowledge, it is really easy to look back and think about the things I have learned. I lamented why I couldn’t understand it at the beginning, so I feel that a stupid person like me can successfully pass the high school and college entrance examinations. It is really thrilling and fortunate. .

I pretended to think for a while, and then nodded: "The elderly can't prosper, but children must prosper? Well, I just remember." "If you pinch water in autumn, it's fine if you're a child; there's nothing else but the soil, which falls down." Grandpa gave another example. "It's not good to pinch the soil in autumn, right?" I didn't wait for Grandpa to answer, and immediately asked, "But, why is it like this?" "Well, it's not good for the soil to fall in autumn, of course." Grandpa replied in a natural manner, as if what he said was common sense, as long as the head is still on the neck, you shouldn't ask why, he That tone of voice choked me speechless.

"If you pinch the soil in winter, then it's okay; if it's fire, it's pretty good, because fire is needed in winter; if it's wood, it's not so good, because the wood will wither in winter; if it's water, it's not good. , the water is too cold in winter." Grandpa said again. This time I learned how to be good, no longer asked why, but silently kept these in my heart. Grandpa paused for a while after he finished speaking, as if waiting for me to ask a question on purpose, but after waiting for me to say nothing, he turned to talk about his experience: "Nian's father in our village, he came to see his wife when his wife was seriously ill. I did the calculation once and asked me when his wife would die. Because at that time his wife could not drink any water, and Father Nian wanted to know the time to prepare. I calculated it for him, and the result was on the water. At that time It's already winter. So I said to him, to put it mildly, I'm afraid your wife won't last this month."

Having said that, Grandpa turned his head to look at me, and I nodded hurriedly, indicating that I was listening carefully. He went on to say: "Father Nian sighed, and asked me again, since you can't last long, please give me the calculation of the date of death this month. I did the calculation for him again, and pinched him in the north. You know Yan Luo for the word Que in the north. This is the same result as pinching water in winter, so as long as it is calculated, it will have the same result no matter how it is calculated.” I interrupted: "Can you pinpoint the exact date of death?"

Grandpa nodded and said, "If you pinch to the north, you must die in the numbers two, four, or eight." "Two, four, eight?" I asked. "Well, it's been a month and a half at that time. I said, Father Nian, if your wife didn't pass away on the eighteenth, he must have passed away on the twenty-second, twenty-fourth, or twenty-eighth. During these four days you Pay more attention to your wife’s movements, she will definitely not pass away on the fifth day. After I said this, Nian’s father didn’t believe it, he made the final calculation with his fists, saying that his wife would not pass away on even-numbered days I'm not familiar with his divination method of counting fists, but I heard your grandpa mention it before. I shook my head and said, I don't know your method of counting fists, but I have confidence in my pinching. To be on the west is not to be on the north, that is to die in the numbers one, three, seven."

"Pinch in the west is one, three, seven?" Did something happen during the seventeenth day?" "Don't forget that there are thirty-one months in some months," added Grandpa. "Is there such a god? Even the days can be counted?" I admired and doubted at the same time. Grandpa smiled and said, "It's not a big deal for me. If your grandpa is alive, you can count the specific days and even hours." I tilted my head and asked, "Why is there still a gap between you and grandpa in calculating the same method? Didn't grandpa teach you everything?" I almost asked if it was because grandpa was stupid than grandpa, but fortunately he closed it in time mouth.

"Your grandpa doesn't want me to learn. Most of what I learn now is secretly, so I haven't learned everything, and I haven't learned deeply." Grandpa still had a smile on his face.If it were me, I would have been angry at my grandpa's decision, how could I still have a smile on my face!Although masters from all walks of life in those days always had the habit of keeping a hand in front of their apprentices, they were afraid that the apprentices would surpass the masters and not take the masters seriously.But grandpa is his own son, so he won't be stingy to that extent.

"Why?" I asked. "Your grandpa said that this is a skill only learned by blind people. People with eyesight can only listen to other people's whispers after learning it. When a blind person pinches someone or something, they have to pay some money or give a cigarette to show that the blind person is eating. It’s like your grandpa,” the grandpa said pointing to himself, “it’s okay for me to help when the child is sick, but when the chickens and ducks get lost, even when they sneezed in the morning, they all come to me to pinch them. Look in which direction the chickens and ducks are lost, and see what the sneezes in the morning indicate. If the calculation is good, there is no cigarette, and if the calculation is bad, I dare not say it directly.” Grandpa complained.

Thinking about it, this is indeed the case, and there may be other reasons, but my father just kept it in his heart and didn't say it.For example, grandpa used the abacus to figure out the matter between grandpa and the womanizer.I guess, maybe Grandpa regrets discovering this secret.If you didn't find out before, you don't have to bother so much, because you don't know, so you won't worry so much when you die.But once you find out, it will be different. If you intervene, you are afraid of backlash, and if you don't intervene, you will not be reconciled. "Do you know who created the pinch time?" Grandpa asked, with a certain expression on his face, sure that I would not know the answer.

"Who?" I succumbed to Grandpa's expression as quickly as possible. "Ghost Valley." Grandpa said mysteriously, as if it was a little-known secret. "Is it Guiguzi?" I asked disapprovingly.