Chapter 26 Chapter 25 The person I miss the most

It was several days after Sun Xiaoliu and I met Mrs. Peng and heard her talk about the past.During those few days, Sun Xiaoliu taught me how to identify the armor formation, and we hid in the armor formation formed by eight or sixty-four pine cones.Every two hours—that is, the so-called hour—; he would move one to seven pine cones, saying that the only way to maintain the appearance of the formation; that is, let people outside the formation see at a glance It turns out that within a radius of one hundred meters there is a pine forest.Regarding this formation, I can only remember a general outline of Sun Xiaoliu's explanation, because I couldn't understand it, so I spared him to repeat it several times, so I had to pick out the words I could hear and write it down: "Our formation is The first formation in the transformation of Jiudun is called "Tiandun". Among the eight gates, Kaimen, Xiumen, and Shengmen can all set up this formation, but it must be in line with "the sky is in Bingqi, and the territory is in Changqi". Counting is covered by the essence of the moon. If yesterday was not Yimao day, and the time cannot reach Dui Palace, and cannot meet the Taiyin, then it may not be able to meet "Tian Dun"!, and it is impossible to escape and become invisible. But even if you do When the time comes, "times change and things go, and the flow does not live", it is necessary to make some adjustments at the transition points of certain hours. If it is a formation with a relatively large scope and complex content-that is, there are two formations in one formation 1. There are three formations in the second formation, and the formations are linked together. Those who match each other will have to be in a hurry and keep moving. What matters is the material, position and time of "starting formation". There must be no mistakes. "starting formation" If you don’t get up well, you will leave gaps—for example,” Sun Xiaoliu scratched the back of his head again, and after thinking for a long time, he said, “It’s like you wear a pair of old trousers, and you don’t know that the crotch line is blown up, revealing a Showing your butt to others, and walking on the street, that’s what it means.”

In fact——if I really think according to my heart—this kind of ghost formation with seven tons and eight tons of heaven and earth escapes no matter how magical it is, it only works because outsiders are too stupid.For example, after dawn, there were countless people passing by the camp where we were hiding—some came for morning jogging, some came for a walk, some came to dance folk dances, play chess, walk the dog, and walk the birdcage— Men and women, young and old, all looked energetic and agile.But most of them have never noticed that the small environment around them (maybe they pass by every day) has undergone a small change. They turn a blind eye: they don't feel that the children's play area has become a row What's the fuss about Black Pines. They're 1000, 1000 percent oblivious to everything and everything except the stupid stuff they're doing.

During the five or six hours in the morning, only one child and three dogs stared at us for a while, and only one dog barked at us a few times.Besides, we don't exist.I would also think the same way: even if we didn't put up this formation, Sun Xiaoliu and I would just be like two cowering Taiwanese macaques perched on a concrete tree stump, staring at us in that posture of squatting or sitting. In a park full of people coming and going for a whole day, two days, or even three or five days, no one would stop and look at us. I told Sun Xiaoliu about this idea around noon that day. At that time, he was making adjustments for our "Heavenly Dungeon" at the turn of "Siwu" - the adjustment method was to make the adjustment corresponding to the nine stars. The pine cones of Tianrui, Tianqin, and Tianren three stars moved southward by what he called "scales".In my opinion, it is just to dig another hole to bury the fruit at a place eight or nine centimeters away.While watching him measure and work, I said, "Don't you think that setting up this formation is like playing hide-and-seek? But after hiding for a long time, the cat doesn't come, isn't it very boring?"

Sun Xiaoliu immediately stopped, never saw him say to me with such a serious face: "Absolutely not like this! Absolutely not! Brother Zhang, you don't understand: no matter how you hide, no matter how you hide, it may be of no use at all; In the end you just can't hide, you can't hide. The cat will come, it will come. You will never know when, where, and how to find you. Trust me, I hum him With a bang, he said: "Did you say those four Zhu Bajie last night? " "It's not just them." Sun Xiaoliu resumed his original movements, and said in a deep voice, "There are many, many, many people, they will come out anytime and anywhere; it's scary! It's scary!"

On this topic, we did not go any further.Not long after, Sun Xiaoliu began to teach me some body and footwork in and out of the formation - the most important thing is a method called "eye method".The so-called "sight" is actually the ability to observe whether there are any unusual things in an environment.For example: a mushroom grows inexplicably on an ordinary asphalt road, a willow leaf, a daisy or a sweet potato pops up on the outer wall of a concrete building, and a stick of mushroom sticks out in the gap between the crystal-clear tile floor. Root hair or: peanut kernels, melon seeds kernels! ——Once these natural objects that should not grow in an artificial environment appear, they may be parts of a formation.The purpose of practicing "eye skills" is to be able to see the parts of these formations at a glance, and then find the distribution of other parts; to grasp the number of parts, no matter how many, the same natural objects are always equal to the square number (two two is four, Three-three see nine, four-four-one-six, five-five-twenty-five...) appear—and then survey its location and calculate its time, and you can roughly understand the purpose, scale, and duration of this formation.The more experience you have accumulated - you can also see the purpose of the person in the formation and the inheritance of family law.

"Practicing "eye skills" is the first step." Sun Xiaoliu patted me on the shoulder twice, and said, "We know how to form formations, but how do we know others won't do so? Isn’t it to harm people?” Then he told me: He once saw a person swimming in a municipal swimming pool, and he came to ask him to swim ten laps, twenty laps, one hundred laps, two hundred laps, and finally died of exhaustion in the pool. Everyone thought he was drowning, but they didn't know that there were strands of his own hair planted in the cracks of the mosaic in each of the four corners of the bottom of the pool;

"You can also form formations in the water?" I said I didn't believe it. "Water, fire, wind, rain, anywhere is fine. And let me tell you, Brother Zhang—" Sun Xiaoliu widened his eyes and said, "I lived in the same formation for several months! At that time I didn’t know anything, until I learned how to form an formation, I remembered bit by bit: I was really in a formation, but outsiders couldn’t see me or us.” Frankly speaking: until he said this, I could only shake my head in amazement and admiration, and tell myself: I don't believe it; I don't believe that supernatural things can appear or exist in nature, and escape the control of natural laws.Yes.I saw it, heard it, and even slightly had the illusion of touching something because the audio-visual senses were too realistic.But I’m sorry—I said this to Sun Xiaoliu in a certain depth of the brain’s cortex: I’m sorry, I don’t believe this; I think you were shot and wandered by some flower thieves when you were young, and your brain was burned out.But two other reasons prevent me from saying this.First, I spent most of the night and one morning with this kid, didn't I just pretend to be real and wanted to ask some things about him running away from home and missing his whereabouts?Second, am I not really trapped in a pinecone formation that outsiders cannot detect and believe?

In the next ten minutes, Sun Xiaoliu told me about the formation he "lived in", which forced me to completely overturn all my doubts - because Sun Xiaoliu was less than one full year old at that time, called two years old. ; That's because the Gregorian New Year has just passed.January 19th, fifty-five years of the Republic of China, the twenty-eighth day of the twelfth lunar month in the Yisi Year of the Lunar Calendar.In the early morning of this day, the baby Sun Xiaoliu, who was only a few months old, was still in the arms of his sister Xiaowu. He had just returned to Taipei by overnight train from Hualien.It was the grandfather of the five sisters and younger brothers who took them to the flowers to play. I vaguely saw it once or twice when I was very young, but I have no impression; I must say that I have, I am afraid that the impression It was also later that Xiao Wu mentioned that her grandfather was long and her grandfather was short. Like a story listener imagining the person in the story, I created a little impression for the grandpa of the Sun family: Grandpa Sun should have grown a little longer. He has a long beard and two slashing sword eyebrows like Sun Xiaoliu's father Sun Tiger, maybe not so ugly, maybe even uglier; but it doesn't really matter, anyway, there is such a vague figure in my mind that is.

Xiao Wu once told me: Not long after Sun Xiaoliu was born, his grandfather suddenly ran home mysteriously, saying he wanted to ask if his little grandson was born?What day were you born on?What time?After Mama Sun told him, his face turned blue and then pale, and his long beard burst open one by one. He cried a few times and laughed again. When I didn't pay attention, I quietly said to Xiao Wu: "I will come again at night, and I will take you two to play in the mountains - but there is one thing, don't tell your parents." The dogman and ghosts had already gone to bed early, and Xiao Wu's weird grandfather really went to the old family's village where we used to live.He probably got in from a small alley on Liaoning Street, through the patio between the kitchen and the bedroom, and held Xiao Wu and her brother in his arms.According to Xiao Wu's description, it was just a "swish" sound out of the courtyard, skipping and jumping over the roof, crossing the alley, on Nanjing East Road without rain, hailed a tricycle, and went straight to a brightly lit street. At the station, I got on a highway bureau of unknown number, which was wobbly and bumpy; I changed trains three or four times in the middle, and finally arrived at noon.Xiao Wu got out of the car and looked around, he was surrounded by sky-high rocky mountains, few flowers and trees, and no human habitation.Her weird grandpa said, "Let's give this kid a good bath."

Xiao Wu felt strange in her heart, but she was only an eight or nine-year-old child at the time, and she couldn't think of any words to disobey or resist the meaning of adults, so she had to follow her strange grandfather all the way to the mountains to collect herbs; Big cloth bag, one shoulder on the left, one shoulder on the right, it’s strange that grandpa still has two hands free to hold the child, and the rest is just a mouth.This mouth is in charge of giving orders, teaching Xiaowu to identify various plants in the mountains: edible ones, inedible ones, supplementary ones, and harmful ones. It is absolutely impossible to eat them by yourself, but you might as well give some of them to the bad guys.This is called "Shen Nong Kung Fu", and it is the basic skill necessary for a first-class practitioner in the world.There are also some herbal medicines with peculiar properties. They are vegetables when eaten raw without cooking, but they become medicines after being boiled;Even raw and cooked foods are unpalatable, but they can cause different sensations such as cooling and burning when applied on the skin and flesh, which are also curative and can cure some diseases.

After collecting enough herbs, the strange grandfather carried Sun Xiaoliu in his arms and led Xiaowu to a gorge where only one person could enter and exit.According to Xiao Wu's description in the future, the gorge seems to be just a whole piece of rock halfway up the mountain, with a thin and long crack from top to bottom; this crack winds down to the height of two floors It is only a little wider, and gradually lower and wider at the bottom, until it is three or four feet above the ground, just enough for an adult to bend over and walk sideways. After a dozen steps, you will feel the darkness, and you will only see light when you move dozens of steps in. .After climbing a short distance, the entrance of the cave suddenly appeared, and outside—or inside—there were actually two gurgling streams, one clear and one turbid.The turbid water is extremely cold, while the clear water is steaming. The place where the two streams meet is a pool with a radius of five feet. overboard. The strange grandfather could not help but pour the strange herbs in the two sacks into the pool first, and the water in the pool was dyed green in a short time.Xiao Wu described that green as the first month onion and February leek in Mrs. Peng's garden. "After looking at it for a long time, people's eyes smell like grass." Xiao Wu said: "I haven't seen it anywhere else, so I call it "green". The color is too wasteful, and the word "green" is too strong." The strange grandfather said that the green is called "Luo Bi", and the green must be almost transparent to be worthy of the word.While talking, he actually threw Sun Xiaoliu into the pool.Xiao Wu taught him how to throw it, and she was so frightened that she almost cried, but she blamed her grandpa and laughed: "You just let him soak it. Ba Yazi's family is born with water, don't worry!" On that side, Sun Xiaoliu fell into the pool with a "plop", took a few sips of "gudu gudu", sank first, then beat his hands and feet to get up to the surface of the water, turned back and smiled at his grandfather and Xiaowu, showing his talent. The four front teeth that came out.Xiao Wu was relieved, but still couldn't help asking, "Why did you come to take a bath so far away?" "This child's fate is dangerous in the future, and he will be bullied all his life; if he can't survive, he may die young, or he will die unexpectedly." "Death by fate" is the first idiom Xiao Wu learned in his life. When the strange grandpa explained it to her, he said: "If you live to the old man's age, it is fate; if you don't live to my age, you will die." Death is also considered fate. But no matter how old or young you live, if you don't want to die but die anyway, as I say, it is "death by fate." In order to prevent the unlucky Sun Xiaoliu from dying when he didn't want to die, this strange grandfather came up with the trick of taking a bath.Xiao Wu later recalled this incident to me, but I didn't believe it at first; how could a baby who was only a few months old be thrown into the herbal medicine pond for three days?At that time, Sun Xiaoliu didn't die unexpectedly, so he really went to hell. Maybe the brewing method is different?It is said that if a living person is soaked in such hot and cold water for a period of time, and soaked in hundreds of catties of herbs, the person is no different from a handful of pickles.But—Xiao Wu said—the strange thing was the pool of water.Sun Xiaoliu played and had fun in the pool, and he became proficient in water in a blink of an eye; within an hour or two, he was exhausted from playing, but he still refused to give up, rolling over, shaking and shaking , Leaning on the shore, he floated on the water and fell asleep.The strange grandfather showed a satisfied expression at the moment, and said to Xiaowu: "Success! He still won't wake up in one or half an hour, let's go pick some herbs." The pool of strange water that Xiao Wu mentioned was just supporting and holding Sun Xiaoliu's fat, sturdy body like a supporting arch and shaped like a baby.When the strange grandfather and the fifth grandfather and grandson went out of the cave and went up the mountain, and came back with two sacks of herbs, the water in the pool had gradually recovered under the current of cold and hot rain. The closer it is to transparent and colorless, that is, the shade before soaking the herbs.Obviously, its buoyancy is also related to the grass, because Sun Xiaoliu's body has obviously sunk a little, not rising as high as when he first fell asleep.Until the strange grandpa poured two sacks of herbs into the pool again, "Luo Bi" was dyed, and Sun Xiaoliu woke up, gulping down the pool water, as if drinking milk and rice soup.After that, as soon as he was full of energy, he kicked, kicked and slapped again, and started playing. During most of those three days, the grandparents and grandchildren spent most of the time in this way.It is strange that Grandpa and Xiao Wu would pick some wild vegetables and ripe fruits to eat when they were hungry.To sum up: Sun Xiaoliu has been a fish for three days, blame Grandpa and Xiaowu for three days as bugs.When telling me about this, Xiao Wu didn't know how Sun Xiaoliu would not die after taking a bath for three days, but she herself had developed a skill that seemed unbelievable to me—she could recognize Five hundred to eight hundred kinds of wild plants are used as food, medicine and poisonous bait. For me who is not working hard and can't distinguish five grains, this could be just a trick, but after a long time, it is impossible for me to expect In a certain time and space, Xiao Wu saved my life with this ability—not just me, but also Sun Xiaoliu.In addition, the strange grandfather also taught Xiao Wu another skill in his spare time picking herbs: identifying jewels hidden deep in ordinary rocks. Yes.Xiao Wu once told me this passage: "So I said: People are the same, some people have this strength, some people have that strength; these strengths and those strengths are hidden inside, others can't see it. I don’t know if I come out, and most of them are wasted, which is a pity. If you have a good vision, you can see the treasure hidden in people, and you will know: Everyone is a gem, it just depends on whether you take it or not. Just gems." These are what Grandpa Wei told Xiao Wu.I guess Xiao Wu is trying to figure out some meanings from this passage that she thinks are completely in line with the circumstances of her life.When she heard this, she was still a little girl who hadn’t developed yet. When she told me, she was already a young girl with pointed breasts and plump buttocks.When I heard Sun Xiaoliu talking about setting up the formation, I was already twenty-five years old, and Xiao Wu was also twenty-five. Putting on Xiao Wu seems to have missed a huge gem.However—even if you know it is a gem, after missing it for many years, it seems that you can only treat her as an ordinary mountain rock under the pretense of pretending not to care about gems or not—thinking like this At this time, in fact, I am already a stubborn rock, covered with dirty sand and mud, wrapped in an inner vulnerable dignity.A piece of decay, from the inside out. Just in such a trance, which can be called a state of trance and longing, I missed a certain passage that Sun Xiaoliu said, but it is not important at all, because that paragraph is exactly what Xiaowu said. Tell me: the process of the three of you and Sun went to Hualien to collect herbs, wash spring water, and find gems.Those were the years before Sun Xiaoliu had a long memory, and he himself heard what his sister told him 10% of the time; Tell me a story I already know. But I only know half of it.What I know is only up to noon on January 19th, 1955 in the Republic of China.Strange Grandpa took Xiao Wu and Sun Xiaoliu, who had been washed green all over, and got off somewhere at Taipei Main Station's East Station or West Station, and then took a tricycle back to Nanjing East Road.But the tricycle driver said: Traffic control within a few miles, you can't go south or west.Strange grandpa said we were going northeast.The coachman said that he didn't go to the northeast either, he wanted to go to the southwest to watch the excitement.Isn't it controlled?Strange grandpa said.The coachman said he was walking; this excitement must be seen, and if you don’t see it once in your life, how can you miss it?It's strange that grandpa said that it's so lively that you can't see it once in a lifetime.The coachman said that there was a big fire; the Xinsheng Theater on Zhonghua Road in Ximending was on fire. "Xinsheng Theater? That's bad." The strange grandpa thought for a while, bowed his head and said to Xiao Wu: "If the fire can really burn so badly, there must be a reason for it; Grandpa can't get rid of you sister and brother. How to do it——Grandpa I'll take you to have a look, if it's an ordinary fire alarm, let's find another way to go to the other side of the small south gate and go home; if anything goes wrong, I know the bottom line, and I'll make plans at that time." How can Xiao Wu Is there a sense of whether to agree or not?In short, follow grandpa. It was too late to say, but it was too soon, I blame Grandpa for wrapping up Sun Xiaoliu first and binding him into his arms.Seeing the driver go away, he turned around and pried open the wooden box under the seat of his tricycle, pulled out a bed sheet from the box and tore it into long strips, tied it three times around his chest, formed a ring-shaped back, put Xiao Wu in it, and turned back. With the hands on the back, I looked around for no one, I found a gray concrete telephone pole, climbed on it, and then hurried west along the wire on it, passed the north gate tower and the small park, and after a while When I came to the first building with the word "Zhong" in the Zhonghua Shopping Center - it was even more trouble-free. My grandpa took a deep breath, drummers were like wings, kicks were like wheels, and Xiao Wu only heard "ba da ba "Da" slapped her a few times, squinted her eyes, and saw through the cracks that people and cars on the ground had all turned inwards; it turned out that she blamed Grandpa for jumping from the wires to the side wall of the mall without changing his posture. Just like this, step by step sideways, straight up the wall, and reached the top in a short time.Only the Zhonghua shopping mall is named after loyalty, filial piety, benevolence, love, faith, righteousness, peace, and peace. It is lined up from north to south. The word "letter" is opposite to each other.If you look at it horizontally, there are roads between each shopping mall—whether it is Kaifeng Street, Hankou Street, or Wuchang Street—they are all very wide, but it seems that it can’t trouble the strange grandfather of the fifth sister and brother. .It is strange that Grandpa would yell in a deep voice from time to time: "Be careful! Close your eyes." Xiao Wu followed his advice.When he opened his eyes again, the strange grandpa had already landed on both feet-but he was on the top of the next shopping mall.After running and jumping like this for a while, in just a few blinks, the three grandparents and grandchildren have arrived at the north end of the "Xin" character building.But at the opposite side of the street near the circle, there was a black and dense smoke array like a giant mountain wall blowing towards us from south to north.Fortunately, they were separated by the four-lane Zhonghua Road. The thick smoke approached obliquely, and they had already lost their strength. Only the gusts of southerly wind did not weaken the momentum, which seemed to be intentionally fueling the fire and refusing to slow down.The strange grandpa took a few glances, and said: "It's not good, it's not good! This is clearly aimed at us. Alas!" After sighing, the strange grandpa stomped his feet so hard that the roof of the shopping mall was cracked One side of the cement didn't say anything, but also stamped two lines of tears from his eyes. What happened next—that is, what Sun Xiaoliu heard from his sister Xiaowu after he became sensible—happened so quickly that even Xiaowu’s own impression was incomplete and unclear.She can roughly remember: Another old man appeared on the top of the building, also with a gray and white beard, who looked older than her weird grandpa; maybe it was the weird grandpa. friend.He was wearing a robe that had been burned with hundreds of holes from top to bottom.The old man in the ragged robe said: "They are all still inside!" Blame Grandpa hurriedly wiped away the tears on his face, untied Xiao Wu, took out Sun Xiaoliu from the lapel of his chest, handed it to the old man in the ragged robe, and said, "I have to make a trip." After finishing speaking He lowered his head and told Xiao Wu, "Go home with this grandpa. When your parents asked, they said that grandpa was used to playing in the water and in the fire, and nothing would happen; Don't take it to heart." As soon as the words fell, he lowered his waist and picked up a few cement slabs and broken bricks that had just been smashed by him on the ground, grabbed one of them firmly, and threw it into the air, and then the figure rushed forward, one foot Step on the cement slab, throw out the second piece at the same time, and jump on it with the other foot, so that you can step on it again, three times... After throwing away the cement slab and broken bricks in your hand, the strange grandpa stepped on them one by one At the middle of Zhonghua Road, he himself ran to the fire scene that was emitting black smoke and red flames across the street. That fire has a deep memory in the minds of the men and children of our generation.There is hardly anyone who does not scream immediately after hearing the words "Xinsheng Theater Fire": Yes, yes, of course I remember; It is said that it was the largest fire after the recovery of Taiwan—of course, there were more serious ones and more casualties than that one.But no matter how old people of our generation live, and no matter how thrilling the scene of the fire will be, I believe everyone will still regard the fire at the Xinsheng Theater as the biggest fire in history. The Xinsheng Theater has a six-story building. The first to third floors are the theater, the fourth floor is the Wanguo Ballroom, the fifth floor is a Sichuan restaurant, and above that are some fragmented commercial offices.The fire started from the dance hall on the fourth floor.I have forgotten how the fire was described in the newspaper news on the second day, the third day, and even later. I only know that the six-storey building is a new type of building that was popular at the time-the building has no windows on the outer wall, and But there are huge advertising billboards.The billboard and the windowless concrete wall completely blocked the water hoses of the fire brigade, so even though hundreds of fire trucks converged from all directions and kept pouring out water, it was like pouring a few cups of cold boiled water on an animal. A smoldering hot stove is average and doesn't work at all.A fire brigade captain named Zeng Guangrong was knocked off a ladder to the ground by a guy who jumped off the building in a hurry, and became a rescuer on the spot.As a result, the fire burned property worth more than NT$100 million, and caused the loss of 30 lives, including 21 people who were slightly or seriously injured. For people of my generation, the disaster really began after the fire was extinguished—or should I put it this way—after the fire was extinguished, more terrible things happened, and they happened one after another, one after another. First, the entire building was being cleaned up, demolished and rebuilt. Eight workers were injured in varying degrees due to unexplained impacts—someone fell off the scaffolding, broke his head, and broke He got his hands and feet, but couldn't describe his experience, and became a fool.Some also received electric shocks, saw wounds, or were buried by suddenly dumped building materials for no reason. By the time rescuers arrived, the injured had already become dead. For ordinary citizens, these things are just distant things outside the body. It "should" only appear in a small corner of the newspaper, and people will sigh after reading it, "It's so pitiful." . . . "—Most of the time, even this slight exclamation may not be aroused.Those with better memories have something to say: "It's Xinsheng Theater again." The new theater, Suier, has become a graveyard for demons.When the rebuilding project of the entire building was repeatedly delayed due to accidents until the year and month before it was suddenly announced that it was completed and the theater could reopen for business, people forgot all the unpleasant things that had happened.They held tickets, talked and laughed freely, bought popcorn and pickled guava, and were about to sink their bodies into a soft sofa and a movie plot that was softer than the sofa. The smell, the smell is like the mucus secreted by reptiles - they turned their heads and saw a headless person sitting directly behind them. There are also people who have a head but no face sitting right behind them, and there are people who have a head and a face but no facial features sitting right behind them.Also some strange things do not appear directly behind, but directly in front.Xu Laosan in this village met one—there was no explicit ban on smoking in movie theaters at that time, and most of them were within the no-smoking range, which means: people like Xu Laosan can smoke as much as they want.After Mr. Xu smoked two cigarettes, the person in the front seat turned around and said, "Sir, may I borrow some fire?" Mr. Xu handsomely took out a US military advisory group—we called it PX, and no one knew that PX was PostExchange at the time. I thought it was the abbreviation of American products——the silver lighter, the grinding wheel was beating, but what appeared in front of Mr. Xu was not a cigarette, but a bundle of ghost paper.The guy sitting in front of him is a big bundle of papers.He was so frightened that Xu Laosan became a good man on the spot. From then on, he stopped playing hooligans and gangsters, and changed his career to the arms business. After a while, the bloody mouth, fangs, disheveled hair, hanging tongue, no nose, disemboweled... all kinds of ghosts have come out of the cage.None of the ghosts left any witnesses such as photos, but more than half of the people in Taipei said they had seen or heard that they had seen the haunted Xinsan Theater.In the end, even the security headquarters set up a project team - code-named "Zhong Kui" - to send plainclothes personnel into the theater to collect evidence at any time.Sun Xiaoliu's two elder brothers, freshman and sophomore, once pretended to be members of the "Zhong Kui Group" and entered the theater to watch a few white plays.People of our entire generation knew that what the "Zhong Kui Group" was really trying to catch was not ghosts, but spies who were said to be more terrifying than ghosts and wanted to create turmoil in our society. Since ghosts can't be caught, bandits and spies can't be caught either.The more shocking arrest was just that the real "Zhong Kui" caught the fake "Zhong Kui". Sun Dayi and Sun Dayer were dragged into the police headquarters and drank chili water for several days. However, the public's doubts about the haunting of the Xinsheng Theater have not been clarified-people who don't catch ghosts can pretend to be ghost catchers, why can't people who are not ghosts pretend to be ghosts?When rumors pointed to the starting point of the original fire—that is, the Wan Guo Ballroom—how many dancing girls were burned to death, and they were the ghosts with grievances, it was also reported that the women’s dressing room in the theater was dressed in fashion and wore topless clothes. Enchanting women with bare backs, it's just that these women either have browless and eyeless faces as smooth as eggshells, or they are dressed in "blood-colored skirts turned over wine stains", as if they just crawled out of a jar of jam.Some of them would actually grab the purses of the frightened female audience. These are the common memories of our entire generation - as long as it is owned by others, it is destined to have a somewhat exaggerated look. But this brief impression I remember was actually a big misunderstanding—in Sun Xiaoliu's words: "It's a misunderstanding bigger than the sky." "In the beginning, those ghosts were fake, but they didn't want to steal money." Sun Xiaoliu told me solemnly, his tone sounded as if I was just a baby when the ghosts were haunted, and he On the contrary, he is already a primary school student who knows a little about the world.In other words: He was telling me the story: "The ones who robbed money later were even more fake ghosts than fake ghosts; but the purpose of fake ghosts pretending to be ghosts is not to scare people, they are forced to come out." I listened to him gossip with me for a long time before I figured it out: the reason why Xinxin Theater is haunted is a "bigger misunderstanding than the sky", the reason is actually very simple, Sun Xiaoliu insists that there are no ghosts in this world, the reason why ghosts appear is because Purely due to someone pretending to be a ghost.There are at least two kinds of people who pretend to be ghosts in Xinsheng Theater: one is what he calls fake ghosts, and the other is ghosts that are even more fake than fake ghosts.The latter is Xiaoxiao who will loot property after people are frightened and passed out—but what about the former? "They are people scarier than ghosts." Sun Xiaoliu said, his shoulders, shoulders, and back trembled violently, as if he was teaching someone to take a big ice cube from behind and punch his spine. What happened to the infant Sun Xiaoliu at noon on January 19, 1955 of the Republic of China, of course, would not be imprinted in his memory immediately, but his sister Xiaowu told him everything that happened that day, including Their sister and brother's grandfather (how did he leap over the four-lane wide road of Zhonghua Road like a trapeze man, got into a puff of thick black smoke, and disappeared from this world without leaving a trace. He stayed in Xiaowu The clearest words in my mind are: "They are still inside!", "I have to run." and "Follow this grandpa home. When your parents ask, they say that grandpa is in the water. Come and go in the fire, if you get used to playing, nothing will happen; even if something happens, don’t worry about it.” The other grandfather sent Xiao Wu's sister and brother back to our village, bought two boxes of Snow White Bubblegum and two cans of fish cakes for snacks at the small grocery store run by the secretary of Xiangkou Village, and handed them to Xiao Wu. Say: "It's okay." Turn around and leave. A few days after Xinsheng Theater reopened, it started to be haunted. Sun Xiaoliu was photographed and taken away. It was the first time this kid disappeared for a period of one year. When he returned home, not even Tiger Sun and Mother Sun I know it, it's just that God picked up their strange grandpa, that grandpa missed his grandson in the sky, so he sent the little ghost to play with him for a year, and later felt that it was wrong-after all, the grandson still has his life in the yang world It was time to pass, and the little ghost sent it back again.This is what Sun's mother said. If she said otherwise, there would be no explanation for the whole matter.Of course, Mama Sun completely blamed Sun Xiaoliu's grandfather for this ghostly experience, saying that he was crazy when he was alive, and turned upside down after death;But Tiger Sun didn't say anything.According to Xiao Wu's description, he was sitting alone on a broken rattan chair in a four and a half-seat living room, rubbing his hands vigorously, rubbing the black mud all over the floor, his eyes hardly blinking. Staring at this lost and recovered child, after a full hour, he asked Mama Sun in a hoarse voice: "Then—how old is this child today?" No one expected that when Sun Xiaoliu was seven years old, he was photographed again. This time he only went for more than half a year. On the night we came back, we met unexpectedly at the gate of the new village after the relocation. , he couldn't stop his excitement and any kind of arrogance you can call it, and he said to me like this: "Brother Zhang, I will let you find it if you can't find it. I will never cover you." In 1972, maybe in 1973, he learned Qimen Dunjia during that disappearance, that is, at that time, he returned to a certain formation that he "lived" a few years ago, just In the new theater. It turns out that the Xinsheng Theater before the fire was a place similar to the "base" or "headquarters" where our children play games such as tracking travel - the difference is: take it as the "base" or "headquarters" It's not children, but a few old men. 在一开始的时候，孙小六从来没弄清楚过：他们一共是几个人。有时一个，有时两个，多的时候五、六个。把这些老头子们交谈的内容拼凑起来，孙小六所得到的结论大致上是这样的：他们曾经被人误会，做了一件其实他们并没有做的事——而且是件坏事。眞正做了那件坏事的家伙一直逍遥法外，从来没有现过身、露过面。误会他们做了那件坏事的人则一直不停地在追捕这几个老头子。他们祇好东藏一天、西躲一天，最后终于发现：新生戏院的确是个还不错的地方——它位在繁华热闹的西门町圆环，交通便利、人潮汇集，贩卖着各种山珍海味的小馆子和许多电影制作公司、试映室、道具和服饰店到处林立；这几种行业似乎对这几个老头子来说非常重要。他们平常日子一大早就各自溷迹在人群之中，不论你说他们像游魂也好、野鬼也好，总之就那样混一整天，也没有什么人会注意到他们。到黄昏时刻，有时会有一、两个人回到新生戏院，有时多些。他们有的会带不祇一人份的食物，有的还会准备各种各样、大瓶小瓶的酒。他们可以一起吃喝，也可以不一起吃喝。吃喝完了就在银幕后面或者存放广告牌、布幔、油漆和电影胶卷的贮藏室里睡个大头觉。不论放什么片子，他们都不看；也不论电影里的声音多吵闹、投射光多刺眼，也都影响不了他们。在发生那场大火之前，他们可能已经在里面住了好几个月，却没有任何一个电影观众或者营、管理戏院的人，察觉他们已经像住旅馆似地成了这座新生戏院的“房客”或“屋主”。据孙小六好些年以后的了解：这是因为那几个老头子之中的一个在戏院里里外外摆了七重遁甲阵的缘故。 但是，不知道是当初干下那些坏事的人、还是撒下天罗地网、一定要追捕到这些老头子的人，反正是有人“眼法”高明，看出了这个阵的阵脚，但是由于阵摆得太复杂又太牢固，使那想要破解这七重迷阵的人有心无力，最后索性请来一个专门会使火攻的帮派老大来勘察。那老大仔细硏究之后认为，从四楼的万国舞厅厨房放火最理想；既不致打草惊蛇，也能烧得比较干净、利落。也由于人家是纵火专家，有他专业上非如何如何不可的讲究，于是雇请他来破阵的人祇好答应他：一定在某月某日某时放火，那就是民国五十五年一月十九日中午，因为时持续吹起一阵风力达于二级的南风——纵火专家说：那个方向、那个等级的风力对火场来说是完美的帮助。可是，对于想要藉破阵而逮住或干掉这几个老头子的雇主来说，阵破/并没有太大的帮助，因为那时间没有一个老头子在火场里面。 然而——用孙小六的话来说是这样的——“不知道该怪老头子们太笨还是太勇敢。”大火一延烧开来，这些老头子们反而一个又一个地出现了，扑通扑通都冲进了火场；最后一个进去的就是孙小六的爷爷。 据日后告诉孙小六的一个老头子说：也正因孙小六的爷爷施展了一种家传的武术，才从火场里面鼓气搬风，暂时阻断火势，救出了一干老头——当然，这些老头子们当时已经被烧得皮焦肉烂，面目全非了。 “没有人被烧死吗？”我突然对那些生活形迹也十分像老鼠的老头子们起了一点兴趣——坦白说：他们那种看似逃亡的生活的确十分令人向往。或许也就因为这向往，我竟然会为他们的遭遇而担起心来。 “当时我祇几个月大，什么也不知道。”孙小六根本不怎么关心我的问题，他自己永远有他慢条斯理的节奏，所以他没有立刻说：“有”或“没有”，只是照他自己原本想说的继续说下去——世界上的确就是有这种人存在的——“后来戏院重新开张，我被拐来的时候也才学会说话，能记什么事？祇知道有一个长了两颗很长很大的门牙的老家伙一天到晚用手指头戳戳我这里、戳戳我那里。要不然就是把我的手骨、脚骨卸下来又装问去。我就记得他总是喊：“小六——儿！抓——穴——喽——”“小六——儿！错——骨——啦——”“小六——儿！分——筋儿——哩——”。这几句话一说出口，我就知道他要修理我了。” 长了两颗又长又大的门牙的老家伙和孙小六其实一直住在重新开张的新生戏院里——不用说：侥幸逃过一劫的老家伙们又摆了一个比先前更为复杂和隐秘的阵。此后，又过了相当长的一段时日——至少孙小六已经能灵活自如地拆装他自己身上的任何一块骨头，也学会了以意念控制一种可以名之为“气”的东西在各个穴道之间周游行走，还会背一套他不知其意，却能琅琅上口的“少林十二时辰气血过宫图”。 “我不信，你那时才多么一点大？”我摆摆手。不过就这么一眨眼间，孙小六说了声：“抱歉了张哥！”我同时感到浑身上下一阵酥麻，只见孙小六像一抹在我眼前不停游移出没的影子，而我自己腿上的跗骨、胫骨、腓骨、膝盖骨，还有上半身的井臆骨、肩带骨、锁骨，上手臂的佑骨、下手臂的尺骨和桡骨，以及每一节指骨和掌骨，都“叱叱喀喀”忽然崩松脱落，又在转瞬之间接合了回去。这还不算，他嘴里还一气不止，一字不停地念着：“子时气血归发胆宫血行在脚底透背后十骨足少阳/丑时气血归发肝宫血行在腰骨七支透九骨穴处下三支骨足厥阴/寅时气血归发肺宫血行泌在眼透十三支骨血右行三骨归中遇左右平直行手太阴……亥时气血归发一二焦血行两手抖位缺盆下三寸乳上三肋背十三骨下右寸半手少阳。”念完之后扭头冲我微微一笑，道：“感觉怎么样？张哥！” 我伸了个懒腰，又站起来抖擞两下手脚；但觉神清气爽，且筋肉骨血之间似有十分强健的一股力气，直要朝外撑皮破肤，爆发出来。 “如果你两岁的时候就会了这个——”我本来想说的是“那为什么还会受我那么些欺负？”可是话到口边，说不出来，当然是怕提醒了这个眞有两把刷子的楞头。 “那时候只当口诀是儿歌那样背了、唱了，其实什么也不会。”孙小六说：“这是我学的第一门手艺，直到最近这一年我才会用一点。比起后来的几次，那算是最轻松的了。” “这是一种——武功吗？”我比手划脚了几下，无意间一掌打在一支水泥树桩上，手不疼，那墩子倒扑散开一阵尘沙，还摇晃了两下。彷佛经孙小六那么一折腾，我连气力也长了几分。 “可以说不是，也可以说是。”孙小六一面说，一面翻身跳上那个绳梯架子，躺平了，对着蓝天白云深呼吸了几下，道：“反正后来我那些师父都说：大牙爷爷把他一身的功夫都传给我了；可惜我再也没见过他。唉——如果有人问我：我最想念的人是谁？我就会说是他，那个大牙爷爷。可是眞糟糕，那时我实在太小太小，只记得他的两颗大门牙。”