Chapter 40 6. Show Feng Yuxiang's face

Mei Xuanzi reappeared in people's field of vision in 1924 during the Second Zhifeng War, when he established the "Plum Blossom Association" in Shanghai. He once said to his brothers and sisters: "You should clean up in the Taoist temple and keep the master's spiritual position. I will toss around for a few more years. Everyone takes a different path, but you can rest assured that I will not do anything against my will again. !" Mei Xuanzi saw the decline of Great China. Since the Opium War, the great powers invaded, the land was lost, and the faith was also lost. He wanted to use his own power to carry forward the Taoist culture again.Later, when it was actually put into practice, it was discovered that it was not so easy: he taught others Taoism, others taught him Western learning; he talked about alchemy, others talked about cannonballs; he talked about self-cultivation, others talked about freedom; Tianzun, others talked about Jesus Christ...he just realized that the foundation of Chinese culture has been shaken, under the rampage of powerful ships and guns, religious thinking is also slowly infiltrating, and the anesthesia of thought is the most terrible. The only way to make the people of the country believe in him.

At this time, he met Gai Feixian, a famous goddess in Anhui.Gai Feixian, whose real name is Gai Xia, often "bumped into the shell" when she was a child. Bumping into the shell means being caught by something unclean, such as a dead person, a fox in the country, or an evil ghost who died unjustly. Later, when she grew up, she often said that she could see things attached to other people.Once in the evening, the old man Wang from the neighbor’s house was coming back from herding cattle. She pointed to the old man’s back and said, “You have a horse’s head on your back, and another cow’s head.” After seeing this strange phenomenon, death is not far away.Sure enough, the next day, the neighbor's house across the wall cried out, and the old man passed away.

People are talking about it, it's too evil!Gradually, people began to visit Gai Xia, and Gai Xia became more and more famous. She often exorcised ghosts and cured diseases for some people, and later she became known as "Gai Feixian". Mei Xuanzi suddenly realized that the power of superstition is so powerful.So he tried every means to get close to Gai Feixian, showing his favor frequently, and finally got his favor. Just like the "Jiang Xiang faction" who robbed the rich and helped the poor, the real purpose of the "Plum Blossom Club" is not to cheat money, but to expel foreign religions and restore Chinese learning.That's why, when meeting with his grandfather at the restaurant in Xiya, Mei Xuanzi lamented, "Cultivate one's body and do good deeds, follow the holy learning to open up the future", and then solemnly told the grandfather: "'Meihua will 'In the twelve years since its establishment, every account has been clearly remembered, except for maintaining the normal expenses of the hall, all income has been deposited in the account..."

For many years, Mei Xuanzi has been looking for a bigger backer to carry forward Chinese studies, but the warlords are busy fighting in the melee, the authorities are obsessed with it, and the "Hui Dao Sect" has established itself. He feels that it is difficult to achieve a fact.At this juncture, the Japanese approached him.When he heard this, he thought that the opportunity to "leverage strength and strength" had come, and it was a god-given opportunity. He wanted to use the power of the Japanese to drive the foreign religion out of the country, and when the time was right, he would make a drastic move to overturn the Japanese ship.

Mei Xuanzi told his grandfather everything in his heart.After hearing this, the grandfather nodded silently and sighed endlessly.Then he said to Mei Xuanzi in a low voice: "People don't know but don't feel stunned. It's really difficult for Master Mei to be reprimanded for a long time. Master Mei, just listen to me..." Mei Xuanzi bowed his head and listened carefully, the two masters began to talk openly, the former enemies had such a speculative talk, in the face of the national crisis, they smiled and wiped away their grievances! Later, the two made a detailed plan for the next step, until dawn, they still had more ideas.At about noon, the two of them knelt in front of Mr. Mei Fuzu's spiritual tablet, burned incense and made oaths, kowtowed eight times, and married Jinlan!

After forming an alliance with Mei Xuanzi, the grandfather felt more at ease, but he always felt that there was still something missing.Three days later, the grandfather met Zeng Jingwu in secret again, told him the plan in his heart, and asked him to pass it on to Master Jiu.In fact, Zeng Jingwu is also looking for an opportunity to talk to his grandfather recently. If his grandfather is really a traitor, he must kill him with his own hands. When he learned of his grandfather's real plan, Zeng Jingwu said with concern: "Grandpa must be careful, the Japanese are hard to deal with."

The grandfather nodded and said, "I have to trouble Mr. Zeng with the first thing." "Grandpa, please tell me!" "Help me find someone..." A week later, through the clues provided by Zeng Jingwu, the grandfather found Peng Hanfeng, a famous physiognomy living in Anhui. Peng Xiangshi was a well-known figure of magic in the Republic of China. He had a lot of research on physiognomy.The reason why Peng Xiangshi has such great ability is that besides being talented, diligent and studious, it is also because he was lucky enough to obtain the fragments of physiognomy from the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang.

The reason why Dunhuang Studies is famous overseas all stems from the Sutra Cave that accidentally reappeared in the sky, and the few remaining Dunhuang scrolls after being divided up by the great powers. On May 26, the 26th year of Guangxu (June 22, 1900), Taoist Wang Yuanzhuan, who was guarding the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang, accidentally found a hole in the right stone wall when he was dredging the silt in the No. 16 tunnel in Dunhuang. Taoist Wang thought that the stone wall was empty, so he knocked the murals apart. This knock was terrible, and the "Dunhuang Buddhist scripture cave" was knocked out, which shocked the world!Thousands of years of Buddhist scriptures, Taoist scriptures, and magic scriptures are all displayed in front of you at once!This includes the ancient classics of physiognomy.It is a pity that these scriptures did not attract the attention of the Qing government. The turbulent last dynasty had no time to take care of itself and did not care about these things at all. Then the great powers flocked to them, and the Dunhuang scriptures were taken by the Japanese, Americans, Russians, The Germans were divided up, and there were very few left to the Chinese. Mr. Ji Xianlin, a master of Chinese studies of a generation, once lamented: "Dunhuang is in China, and Dunhuang studies are in the world."

Afterwards, in order to learn from Dunhuang, Peng Xiangshi traveled thousands of miles to Long, explored scripture caves, and visited hermits. He finally obtained 12 volumes of Dunhuang physiognomy, and then retreated for three years. Before the Central Plains War, General Feng Yuxiang personally invited Peng Xiangshi to look after him.Peng Xiangshi carefully looked at Feng Yuxiang's facial features, and then said a word: "Born in the mountain of swords, died in the sea of ​​fire." Feng Yuxiang can understand the first half of the sentence. Feng Yuxiang's ancestral home is Anhui, where he was born in a place where dragon veins flourished. There is a mountain on the left side of his ancestral home, which is called "Testing Dao Mountain". "Trying the knife mountain", as for "death in the sea of ​​fire", Feng Yuxiang couldn't understand it.

Eighteen years later, history confirmed this statement. When Feng Yuxiang sailed from New York to Odessa on the "Victory" ship, the film on the ship caught fire and his family died in the sea of ​​fire.Peng Xiangshi's skills can be seen! The reason why my grandfather sought out Xiangshi Peng was because he wanted to learn real physiognomy.For so many years, my grandfather has always been thinking about what kind of fortune-telling method is the simplest and most practical. Horoscopes need birthdays, six lines need copper coins, and strange gates need to start. You can know good or bad, if you can learn this method thoroughly, it will be like adding wings to a tiger at this critical juncture.

The most profound aspect of physiognomy is the "fleeing year luck" that can be seen on the face of a person.From fleeting years to fleeting moons, from fleeting moons to every day, one can judge a person's recent good or bad fortune from the daily features and complexion of a person's face.A good fortune teller, he can accurately judge even such a trivial matter as you just had sex from your adulterous complexion.Grandfather wanted to use this method, hoping to accurately judge the success or failure of the opponent and also judge his own success or failure in critical moments. Unexpectedly, after seeing Peng Xiangshi, he was disappointed. Peng Xiangshi gave his grandfather a blow: "Fortune-telling and looking at fortune-telling are evil ways, which not only confuse the people's minds, but also lead themselves astray. No one who engages in fortune-telling has a good end. Six lines of the Han Dynasty The master Jingfang counted his life for a lifetime, but was finally killed by the emperor, and his body was divided and eaten after his death; Li Xuzhong, the founder of Bazi, Han Yu praised him for fortune-telling, but he died of poisoning by swallowing mercury by mistake; Liu Bowen has the reputation of "knowledge five hundred years before and five hundred years later", but in the end he was poisoned to death by Hu Weiyong. One of his two sons jumped into a well and the other hanged himself. Either the bad luck will continue for the rest of my life, or the future generations will be disabled and mentally retarded... I have long stopped showing people, and all the books of fortunetelling have been burned!" These words knocked on the grandfather's heart.Grandpa was confused, and asked cautiously, "Why?" "Stealing people's minds, deviant." Peng Xiangshi said silently. "Please tell the real person!" Grandpa didn't understand for a while. "From the beginning to the end, I explain the principles of being a human being. From the beginning to the end, the emphasis is on the individual's own cultivation. Only by following the way of heaven, reflecting on oneself, and improving one's own virtue and behavior can one achieve the goal of seeking good fortune and avoiding evil. In other words, The only person who can change your destiny is yourself. This is a fundamental rule of life. But fortune-telling just breaks this rule. He makes people pin their hopes on external objects, on fortune-tellers, and on drawing symbols, reciting spells, feng shui names, etc. By doing heresy ways, all living beings lose their xinxing and ego, which is the theft of souls, how big a crime do you think this is?" Peng Xiangshi explained. The grandfather nodded vigorously, deeply convinced, and then asked: "So, no matter whether it is a master who really understands fortunetelling, or a young man who cheats in the world, there will be no good rewards?" "What's the difference between a master and a liar?" Peng Xiangshi asked back. "One is true and the other is false." Grandfather replied. "Hahahaha." Peng Xiangshi laughed loudly, "It's bad! A master and a liar are the distance between 'fifty steps and a hundred steps'. Their starting point is to make people pin their fate on fortune-telling, while ignoring the importance of their own cultivation. Sex, the purpose is all for money, they talk eloquently and talk eloquently, all they think about is the money in the pockets of the guests, but the performance skills are high or low, they are well hidden, and they are temporarily calm in the face of money A master is a master; a person who hides poorly and sees money with golden eyes is a liar. But once you take off the master's painting, you will find that he is more greedy and deceitful than a liar!" Enlightenment!Grandfather is enlightened! "What the real man said is very true! What he said is very true!" Peng Xiangshi chuckled: "In my opinion, there is only one real master in ancient and modern times, and that is Zhang Liang of the Han Dynasty. He was the one who really understood the true meaning of the Book of Changes, so he never told fortunes to others. Ji Liu retreated bravely. This is the only person who played Zhouyi to perfection and died. Zhuge Liang was no good. He went against the sky in the next few years, wasting people and money, and finally died in Wuzhangyuan; But not the whole body; Shao Yong is considered a half-master. In his early years, he also tried to change the lives of ordinary people through fortune-telling methods, but later found that it didn’t work, and finally he didn’t say anything at all. This point is mentioned in his book "Huangji Jingshi" He only wrote about the social pattern of the origin and natural evolution of yin and yang, but he didn’t reveal the calculation method at all, just because he was afraid that others would learn this method and go astray.” Grandpa nodded again and again: "A real person sees and teaches!" "And, did you find an interesting phenomenon?" Peng Xiangshi frowned. "What phenomenon?" Grandpa was puzzled. "For those who like fortune-telling, their fate will become worse and worse. Those who seek wealth luck will get worse and worse; those who seek marriage will get worse and worse; those who seek health will get worse and worse; Sooner or later, I lost my black hat..." Peng Xiangshi said with a smile. "The more fate counts, the thinner it is?" Grandpa had a little understanding. "Yeah." Peng Xiangshi nodded, "Because these people leave their lives to others to take care of, can they still have it?" The grandfather nodded again, and then hurriedly told Peng Xiangshi his true intentions. After hearing this, Peng Xiangshi nodded slightly: "You are here to save the country... It would be inhumane for me to drive you out... Let me pass on some of the Five Elements to you, it may be useful, as for how to use it, you can figure it out , I might die!" Grandfather hastily leaned over to listen. Only then did the grandfather discover that this Xiangshi Peng is not only very proficient in physiognomy, but also has a lot of research on other types of arithmetic. Because all prediction techniques are inseparable from the restraint of the five elements, the deduction tools are all heavenly stems and earthly branches. Wanfatong, the principle is the same!The two talked at night while holding candles, and they stayed up all night!From face reading to palmistry, from palmistry to horoscope, from Nayin taking life to iron plate magic calculation, from Qimen Dunjia to plum blossom easy counting, Peng Xiangshi chooses the main points to teach, and the grandfather carefully remembers them! On the fifth watch, the grandfather was still not sleepy, but considering Peng Xiangshi's health, the grandfather suggested that he rest first. After Peng Xiangshi went to the master bedroom and fell asleep, the grandfather gently closed the door, walked out alone, came to the mountains, sat cross-legged on a big bluestone, took a deep breath of fresh air, and reviewed all that Peng Xiangshi had passed on overnight. Excited, I can't help but marvel at the great magic of Chinese magic! The sun was high and it was nearing the end of the day. My grandfather thought that Xiangshi Peng had already woken up, so he returned to Xiangshi Peng's residence, and knocked on the door after entering the courtyard. "Really Peng?" No one answered in the house, the grandfather was eager to study, but then he remembered the allusion of "Chengmen Lixue", since the old man did not wake up, he waited here, the grandfather stood outside the door for a full hour, seeing It was almost noon, and I couldn't help knocking on the door again. There was still no sound in the room, and an ominous premonition quickly filled Grandpa's body, and he pushed the door open suddenly. "Ah!" Grandfather screamed, the bed was empty, Xiangshi Peng was gone! The grandfather couldn't figure it out, and then used the technique of "Qimen Dunjia" to start a game in his hands to see where Peng Xiangshi was going. In the end, it was determined that one of the nine games of Yang Dunjia, and the master fell out of the door.There are eight gates in Qimen Dunjia, which are divided into Xiumen, Shengmen, Injury Gate, Dumen, Jingmen, Death Gate, Jingmen, and Kaimen. Among them, Xiu, Sheng, Jing, and Kai are the four auspicious gates, and the rest are the four fierce gates. Door.Back then, General Cao Ren of Wei set up the "Eight Gate Golden Lock Formation" to lead Liu Bei to death, but Liu Bei's military adviser Xu Shu saw it through at a glance. Later, Zhuge Kongming improved this method and created the "Eight Formation Map". "Fire Company" defeated Liu Bei, chasing and fighting all the way, and accidentally got into the eight formations laid out by Zhuge Liang. If Zhuge Liang's father-in-law hadn't led him out of the gate of life, he would have been trapped to death!The grandfather learned and used it flexibly, started the game with the palm of his hand, and saw the master leaving the door, which means that there is no danger of life, but it means "traveling far away". Did Zhenren Peng leave by himself, or did some accident happen?Grandfather's skill is not enough, and he can't analyze it for a while... While hesitating, he found a package on the case table, with a piece of rice paper attached to the package, and there were impressive words on the paper. My grandfather looked carefully and found that it was written by Zhenren Peng himself: "Spells are all illusory, and the Tao lies in it." My grandfather hesitated for a moment, Slowly opening the package, a book appeared, with a four-character title: "Four Lessons of Liao Fan". Grandpa's head buzzed, and the memories of his childhood instantly filled his eyes...