the last priest

This New Year's Eve dinner, Master Dog was like chewing wax, after taking a sip of strong wine, he said: "I have to get a coffin for a while, I didn't expect him to go first after all."

The white-haired old man's name is Tong Kunbu, and as his name suggests, he learned Taoism from others when he was ten years old. Annual.

Ever since that gambling appointment, Mr. Dog's family has been in a slump.The following year, because the two elders couldn't swallow the breath in their hearts, they both died of depression.

That year, Lord Dog’s family was so poor that they couldn’t even afford a thin-skinned coffin. The relatives who came and went in the past avoided Lord Dog like plague gods. The dead bodies of both parents lay on the door panel for three days without even burning a single incense stick. rise.

Later, Kun Bu bought two coffins for Lord Dog's parents, and helped him to bury him in an extra-duty way. For this reason, Lord Dog regarded him as his own brother.

Mr. Dog is a libertine. After his family fell into ruin, he moved to this place alone. Some people offered him a wife, but Mr. Dog refused on the grounds that women are troublesome, and he has been single ever since.

Khun Bu learned Taoism until the age of 23 and started to start his own business, which is actually not counted.In that impoverished era, his master had no extra rations to support another apprentice. Although Khun Bu had high qualifications, he also faced stomach problems.

Starting from fortune-telling and naming, Khun Bu became more famous than his master after a few years.But at that time, a Taoist priest was not a profession, but an identity. Like Cha Wenbin, he could be regarded as a wild Taoist priest without going to a Taoist temple.Kunbu also spends most of his time farming. Taoist priest is just another name for him except the peasant clothes.

Kun Bu's fate is somewhat similar to that of Cha Wenbin. He also went downhill from the time he helped people recover their souls. Listening to Lord Dog's talk about collecting souls that time was even more thrilling than Cha Wenbin saving his aunt.

When he was young, Kun Bu's Taoism was superior to that of Zha Wenbin. He didn't have the seven-star sword with the great seal of the master. He managed to save two lives with only a mahogany sword and a small seal given by his master.

Lord Dog was also one of the spectators at that time. At that time, the village married a girl from the south. It is said that she fled here with her parents and lived a very happy life.On the way to escape from famine, both parents died, so he married a small group of people in the village, but he envied the group of bachelors, big and small.

Another year later, the girl was pregnant and was about to give birth. When people saw her ten-month-old belly, they said it was a son, but his family was very happy.

There are unpredictable things in the sky, and people have misfortunes and blessings.On the day of giving birth, the midwife rushed out of the room waving her blood-stained hands and shouting for help.At that time, medicine was underdeveloped, and most of the midwives in the village delivered babies. In that era of inconvenient transportation, dystocia often meant death.Sure enough, when the people in the yard were busy harnessing their carriages to take them to the town, there was a message from inside that the girl had died before picking her up.

Because it was one dead body and two lives, Tong Kunbu was invited to the scene immediately, and let the calculation go back to evil.As a result, Tong Kunbu came to see that there was just a female ghost who died of dystocia and was eager to reincarnate into this household.Kun Bu found out that the girl's soul hadn't come out of the house because of the high popularity outside. He felt that there was still hope, so he immediately sent someone to set up a stage.The owner is also a dead horse as a living horse doctor, so he was asked to try it out. As a result, Kun Bu managed to bring the woman back to her senses in just a short time of incense, and gave birth to a cub smoothly.

Since then, the Taoist priest of the Tong family, Kun Buxian, has been famous far and wide, and people from all over the world have invited him as a guest of honor, just to ask him to give him a fortune-telling fortune.Gradually, the land of his family began to be cultivated by women, and the children were also taken care of by women. Kun Bu traveled all day in various funeral places or east villages and west towns, and became a full-time Taoist priest.

Kun Bu is most famous for his fortune-telling. It is said that the fortune-telling he asks him to do is basically effective, but he, like Zha Wenbin, never does fortune-telling for himself, and he did not expect such a fate in the end.

The first was the Cultural Revolution. During the nationwide movement to overthrow feudal capitalism, Tong Kunbu, who had just been married for a few years, was almost a typical example of feudal superstition. He dragged Kunbu by his ears to the rice field.

After being criticized by the village, he was sent to the town for criticism as a model, and after the town finished eating the big-character posters, he was sent to the county again. Tens of thousands of people were so excited that they waved the red books in their hands and loudly shouted "Down with the feudal stinky old nine Tongkun" predict.During that time, he was dragged into the streets during the day and thrown into the cowshed at night. Because it was typical, he received extra care, and the price was painful, because the continuous beatings did not receive medical treatment, and one of his legs So disabled.

After the dying Tong Kunbu was thrown at the entrance of the village, no one dared to meet him, and everyone was afraid of being labeled as a party member.He crawled all the way to the door of the house. His wife held her son and refused to touch him. In the end, the dog couldn't stand it anymore and took him home.

After half a year of training, Tong Kunbu was pulled out again, this time because he was lame!

Others are crippled, they are disabled, they are representatives of the middle and lower poor peasants, and they can be united with.And he is lame, that won't work. Others say he is pretending to be the Tieguai Li in the Eight Immortals, the sublimation of feudalism, and a typical example of never regretting to change.So this poor Tong family Taoist priest was dragged up the street again by a group of teenage Red Guards.

When he came back, it was already after the exercise, but it was a pity that things had changed by then.The house had already been raided during the campaign, and there was only half a room left. The wife couldn't bear to bear the crime, divorced him and got married after completely drawing the line.Father and mother hanged themselves one after another to prove their innocence, leaving only a skinny son with a broken bowl in his hand to eat after Master Gou.

His son was forcibly stopped by Lord Gou, he treated him like his own son, and was barely dragged until Kun Bu returned home.

The spring breeze of reform and opening up came to this small village a few years later than in the coastal areas. During this time, someone came to him for fortune-telling again, but Tong Kunbu refused no matter who came. Perhaps the Tao in his heart had died at that time.How could he never have thought that the culture left by his ancestors could become a feudal superstition in others' mouths?

Later, when his son grew up and got married, life at home was peaceful for a year or two.When the conditions are good, people start to pursue spiritual enjoyment, and more and more rich people start to build houses and build lavish cemeteries. They all have to find someone to look at Feng Shui.People from all over the world knew that Tong Kunbu was a capable Taoist priest in the past, so some people began to ask him for a divination with thick red envelopes.

At first, he still refused, but at that time the wealthy families in the village had already started to build big tile houses, and their house was still adobe house.Because of this, his daughter-in-law scolded his son for his incompetence all day long, but Kun Bu heard too much and understood that she was scolding herself again. She is a disabled person, and she can't earn any income and drags her son down.Thinking about it later, Taoist priests have been doing fortune-telling and geomantic omen since ancient times, and they also rely on their ability to earn a small amount of money to subsidize their families.

After thinking about this reason, the name of the Taoist priests of the Tong family resounded again. In a short time, the Tong family jumped from a down-and-out family to a sweet home, and the conditions of the family gradually improved from that time on. In the third year, The family has already built a big tile house, but there is one thing, the daughter-in-law can't get pregnant no matter what.

Tong Kunbu was determined not to read divination for his family, which is also one of the Taoist rules. After another five years of hard waiting, his wife’s stomach finally started to move. Tong Kunbu was happy because the Tong family had a child. , Burning incense to the patriarch all day long for peace.

The son sent his wife to the township health center on purpose the day before the fruit and vegetables came to fruition, and the medical conditions at that time had already caught up.In the joy of waiting to be upgraded to a grandfather, Kun Bu did not feel the tragedy is coming.

Decades ago, the young Kun Bu took back the lives of a mother and child with a mahogany sword in his hand. Today, he has begun to bend his back. He has suffered from years of hardship and only wants to be a quiet old man.

A bad debt must be repaid after all.The relatives who came back from the hospital brought him the news that his daughter-in-law had dystocia and hemorrhage, and she died on the way to the county hospital. The doctor barely saved the child.

A thunderbolt hit Tong Taoist's head, and the happy face that was ready to receive the good news also became stiff.Because it was born with dystocia, and the child has not had breast milk since he was a child, he is in very poor health. The doctor said that the child may not be easy to raise.

Tong Kunbu named the child Hetu, and he hoped that this name could quell the bad luck that the child had to face upon birth.