Chapter 21 Chapter Twenty

Regarding the origin of "Iron Head Kunlun", Hong Lian actually didn't say so much.She only told me: Once upon a time, there was a very small child who followed his mother to play under a bridge every day. Once, the mother and child suddenly found that there were twelve Buddha heads in the bridge hole next to the river. According to the arrangement of the big and small holes chiseled on the Buddha's head, the little kid practiced a strange kind of kung fu. When he was five years old, he unintentionally rescued a man from several flower thieves. little girl. As far as Honglian knows, the iron-headed melon of this little kid nicknamed "Iron-headed Kunlun" has made many great achievements in the future, but it is a pity that after he grows up, "the head is getting stronger and stronger day by day." ", "Too hard to turn", was finally framed by a traitor, and when he died, his head and body were separated.The reason why she told me this, according to Honglian herself, is just because I have read too much and hardened my head, so I should take it as a warning.

When I heard her say that, I was hungover, and like the king in the story, I was full of longing for her to sit by my bed forever and ever, saying whatever I wanted to say on and on and on.In order to delay her stay, I would interrupt from time to time to ask her some unimportant details-for example: "Where did those Buddha heads come from?" "How can a five-year-old child beat several Pai Hua?" A thief?" "Then what great achievements did the "Iron Head Kunlun" achieve?"...and so on.Guren may or may not have answered anything.In short, all I can remember is a few words, a plot summary like the one handed out in the foyer of a movie theater, and - most importantly - Guren once stretched out her white, soft, pink and smooth right hand , caressing for a while where I was hit by the bottle.Strange to say, her palm—the location called Laogong Point in the medical books— unexpectedly felt wave after wave of pushing force, which was as warm as pulp and as soft as cotton. .And then—I don't know if it was my hallucination—I heard her say, "I'll sleep with you sometime, huh?"

It should be shortly after that moment that Guren disappeared without a sound; more correctly: I fell asleep.And it was impossible for me to know at the time: How did Honglian take the anagram of "Bodhisattva Man" that I solved from the wastebasket in the process of cleaning up my room before or after. However, when I woke up, what I couldn't get rid of was the impression of that small incomplete story about "Iron Head Kunlun".Moreover, this impression is also vaguely similar to the small data I have read in libraries, some rooms on Chongqing South Road—for example, the Sanmin Bookstore I mentioned—and some books on my own bookshelf. can be mutually verified.

At that time, I should focus on writing my master's thesis, but—to paraphrase the words of Xu Laosan, the arms king who had been involved in the Blood Banner Gang in our village: I "only listen to the second brother, not the eldest brother".The meaning of Xu Laosan's words is: Men often lose the ability to think rationally because of excessive hormone secretion.Applied to my situation at that time, the saying "only listen to the second brother, not to the second brother" is extremely appropriate.All I could think about was 100% Guren, and everything she had said—the most intriguing, repeated words she said while stroking my "iron head".At that time, I seemed to ask casually: "Where did you read the story of "Iron Head Kunlun"?" Hong Lian smiled and said: "I don't read books. There is no need for this story. Read; it's my dad's story."

No matter how closely related to hormone secretion, from that day, I knew a definition of love - at least to this day, I still believe in it - that is: once love happens, it will stimulate you Insatiable curiosity about the one you love.Driven by such curiosity, I almost forgot about my master's thesis, but ran dozens of times to the library and Chongqing South Road, and finally found a few books related to Honglian's life experience among the piles of papers. Of course, it includes a copy of "Secret Society Scores Since the Early Republic of China" written by "Tao Daiwen" - actually Li Shouwu - and a martial arts novel "Seven Seas" written by "Piaohua Lingzhu". Thunder".

These two books were borrowed by Myanmar or Vietnam not long after, and I am afraid that they have already been exiled to the Chinese second-hand book market in a certain country in Southeast Asia.If the seven books bequeathed to me by the historical novelist Gao Yang before his death also included these two books—frankly speaking: I would not be able to satisfy my obsessive curiosity about Honglian at all.Of course, if I hadn't been able to inadvertently piece together a few small cases that went nowhere decades ago from Honglian's life experience, I wouldn't have fallen into the trap of those ghostly old guys and couldn't escape. ——This situation is so similar to Sun Xiaoliu, whom I have always looked down upon, and so ambiguous.

To this day, I have experienced many world events that I have no way of predicting! ——Including sudden first love, turbulent sex, real-fire fighting and killing, confusing escape, chasing, stealing, intimidating, kidnapping, and destroying state assets...etc., I can't remember clearly: I was in the What kind of a chance to get these two books.Maybe—I can only say maybe—it’s because I was flipping through books at Sanmin Bookstore before, and when I happened to meet Zhao Taichu, I saw this "Secret Society Since the Early Republic of China" and "Seven Seas Thunder". Some plots are very similar to the story of "Iron Head Kunlun", so when Honglian told me about "Iron Head Kunlun", I went to search for it.Another possibility is that after Honglian told me the story of "Iron Head Kunlun", I either bought or borrowed these two books for a while, and then the overseas students took them away, and I met Zhao Taichu.No matter what the situation is, in short, during the time when I carefully deliberated these two books in order to understand Honglian's life experience, I never thought of Honglian and Zhao Taichu together; I don't know that Honglian is involved in a conspiracy that closely interacts with the big history, and I don't know that the reason why Honglian is so close to me is actually part of this conspiracy.Of course, I can't even imagine that in the corner of the big history, countless little people like me who are like mice are actually using our humble lives and such wretched lives to affect the trajectory of that history.