the last priest

The old farmer was panting heavily, his eyes fixed on the ferocious beast that was less than a step away from him, knowing that he almost went to the Palace of Hades to report just now.

Dashan backed up with the sow upside down, pulled it with one hand, and the two hundred catties seemed so weightless in his hand.

The old farmer came back to his senses and looked at Cha Wenbin, pointing at the mountain and said, "What does he do?"

Zha Wenbin smiled and said: "He's a rough man, he's just a little bit stronger." "My mother, she's too powerful. I can get you wild boar belly tonight. It's a good thing."

The little pig that was bitten by the dog was taken down the mountain together. With such an injury in the wild, it would not survive three days.The old farmer intends to heal its wounds and raise it in his own home. This animal, well raised, is no different from a domestic pig.

Before going down the mountain, Cha Wenbin still looked back, but it was really dark now, and he was so blurred that he could only see a group of slightly higher bumps.

After going down the mountain, Dashan helped the old farmer clean it up for more than an hour.The best part of this wild boar is the belly. This stuff has a miraculous effect on treating old stomach problems. It must be stewed, but the taste is a bit bitter. Whether the wild boar belly is good depends on how many "nails" there are in the belly.The so-called "nails" are something similar to calluses, which grow in the stomach. The more "nails", the more full the stomach is.This is a folk remedy in our local area. My father’s old stomach disease is eaten with this food. Now a wild boar belly costs 3000 yuan, which is no longer affordable by ordinary people.

The moment he opened his stomach, the old farmer was stunned. After half the payment, he shouted: "I got a treasure, I got a treasure!" Of course, Cha Wenbin didn't understand the way here, because this belly There are nine nails in it, and they are all the size of copper coins.

Cha Wenbin looked down and said, "It's calluses." Because the wild boar is a very mixed-eating animal, it often swallows things that are too hard to digest. Over time, a layer of horny substance will be formed on the surface of its stomach.

The old farmer cleaned up the filth inside carefully, and he said excitedly: "This is a treasure. It's the first time I have seen so many nails. One nail can be sold for 0 yuan. This belly is worth 00 yuan at least."

Cha Wenbin smiled and said, "Then you can keep it and sell it tomorrow."

The old farmer grinned and said, "It's not good. It's good for you young people to eat more of this."

The things that came out of his stomach were all undigested things. The old farmer packed them up by the river, and threw the things that escaped into the river. He touched a hard thing in his stomach, and he let it go After washing it in the river, it turned out to be a ball the size of an egg, which was quite heavy in the hand.

"I said why are there so many nails, a stupid pig who dares to eat anything." The old farmer threw the ball to the shore, and it happened to be at Cha Wenbin's feet.

Cha Wenbin seemed to be fine, so he tapped with his toe. It didn't matter this wave, and he squatted down in the next second.

There were many spots and scratches on this spherical object. Cha Wenbin picked it up and put it in the river and rinsed it carefully again. He gently wiped off the dirt and water stains on it with his sleeves, and then completely exposed the object. out.

At this time, the Eastern Taibai Venus had already risen, and Cha Wenbin touched the ball in his hand and placed it in front of his eyes, and kept turning towards the star. Suddenly, he felt a flash of white light in front of him, just a The vibration caused by breathing made the white light disappear.

Cha Wenbin stared at the glass ball in his hand for a while, and said, "Dashan, go get some sticks to make a tripod."

Dashan casually found a few small tree branches and tied them with a rope. Cha Wenbin put the shelf at the gate of the yard. On the shelf was the round ball. They kept flipping the ball until the old farmer asked them to eat.

The dinner was very sumptuous and full of farm flavor. The large pieces of wild pork were stewed in clear water. A few side dishes were paired with the old farmer's homemade rice wine. The three of them had a refreshing meal.Dashan has a good capacity for alcohol, and he drank with the old farmer. Cha Wenbin took a few bites of side dishes and ate a steamed bun and stopped moving. He has been eating very little these years, insisting on vegetarianism.

After drinking for three rounds, the old farmer was already blushing and began to talk too much. The old farmer was a soldier for a few years when he was young, and became a forest ranger after retiring from the army. He will stay here for a lifetime.

"I'm old, I can't go anymore, and I don't want to go. One day I feel that I'm going to die, so I dig a grave for myself and get into it. Isn't there some kind of cremation now? The person who was burned will only be left with scum No, I won’t go, and I won’t let others go.” The old farmer waved the big bowl in his hand and took a sip: “I still want to go down with my old woman, it’s so dark, how can she know me? ..."

You make one bowl, I'll have two bowls, and the two of them drank a whole pot of rice wine. When it was completely dark, the old farmer was already unconscious, lying on the table and snoring.

After tidying up the dishes, Zha Wenbin and Dashan carried the old farmer into the house. The house was very simple, with a bed, two wooden boxes, and farm tools leaning against the corners, which could be easily spotted at a glance.There is another room in the northwest corner. When you open it, you can see spiders hanging on your face. It is so dark that there is no electricity. There is a bed, but there is no bedding.I am used to sleeping in the wild. For Cha Wenbin, this is considered a luxurious villa-level treatment. He went to the pigsty to hug some hay on the bed and let Dashan go to sleep for a while. When he came to the door, he went out by himself.

At night, the air in the mountains is good, the visibility is high, and the stars in the sky are intertwined with each other.Cha Wenbin went to fiddle with that ball again. The reason why this ball fascinates him is because it is a very rare thing called: Observing the Planet.

The ancients used to ask the sky when they were priests or divination. The so-called asking the sky is to observe the stars. The ancients drew the stars in the sky into pictures and called them star palaces.Astrology is an indispensable knowledge in Taoism, and it is also an extremely profound knowledge. This knowledge has a master named Chen Zhuo.

Chen Zhuo is a native of the state of Wu. It is said that he compiled the respective systems of the three star officials popular in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods, and then compiled the stars in the sky into a star system with a total of (3 officials and 1464 stars). Later, this table was drawn into a star map. It is said that those who can penetrate this star map can measure the past, understand the future, communicate the fate of the country, and know the fate of the sky. After the Wu State was destroyed, this map was exiled among the people, and finally fell into the In the hands of Liu Bang, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.

Liu Bang was originally the head of a small pavilion in Surabaya, a rascal, when Xiao He saw 72 black hemorrhoids on Liu Bang's legs, he resolutely decided to follow Liu Bang and help him conquer the world.Xiao He admired Huang Lao's art, which was the predecessor of modern Taoism. He was proficient in astrology. He believed that Liu Bang was the incarnation of the 72 earth evil spirits, and he was ordered by the emperor.Xiao He is most powerful in watching astrology and divination. Liu Bang is very scheming, and immediately got rid of Han Xin and Yingbu and other princes and kings with different surnames to consolidate his power.One of the reasons why Xiao He was able to save his life and continue to be reused in the future is that he donated his own star map. Without the star map, Xiao He is just a counselor. He no longer has the ability to divination and ask the sky. Later, this star map was destroyed by Liu Bang Go, so far, the complete star map has been lost since then.

And what Zha Wenbin learned is only the simplest two kinds of Sanyuan and 28 constellations in this star map. There are only a few dozen stars. It is not impossible to get all the star maps and break the destiny!

There are countless points and lines densely distributed on this ball, which seems to be chaotic, but Cha Wenbin has accurately locked the positions of the 28 stars in it, and the other points and lines, if you look carefully, you can find them. There are rules to be found.Now, he is very sure that this ball is a star map, because whenever the topmost point is aligned with his own star position, the starlight can directly penetrate from that point to the ground, just like a laser pointer penetrating through the glass. The same is true for balls.

From the perspective of Taoist practitioners, everything that can emit light has energy, and the natural world is nothing more than the sun, moon and stars. Therefore, the sun and the moon have always been regarded as the power of yin and yang. People in the past can grasp this. Both powers are legendary immortal figures.And people who can use starlight are even rarer, because starlight exists beyond the sun and moon, and it belongs to the more distant sky!

Cha Wenbin kept turning the ball, and from time to time, light penetrated and hit the ground. Whenever he was sure of a position, it was equivalent to understanding one more astrology. , It is not an impossible task to familiarize yourself with the 1464 stars.