In my memory, Beijing that year was sultry and rainy, but very dusty.
The sky was yellow, the ground was gray, and clear skies were rare.
It is said that at the end of the Ming Dynasty, King Li Chuang entered Beijing and uttered a folk proverb: "The sky is yellow , use swords and soldiers; the ground is covered with dust, and wolves are walking away.
"Wolf" means a wolf among men, a murderer.
Although the sea is calm and there is no war, the abnormal sand and dust weather in the hot summer does not seem to be a good sign. .
On the way home from the train station, I saw the gray sky and the earth, and I already had a bad feeling.
I was indescribably afraid, and I didn’t know what I was afraid of.
When I got home, I saw that the blind old man was no longer there.
I left in one day, but I didn’t get to see him the most On the latter side, usually Blind Lao Yi's body and bones are not good, and his eyesight is not very good, but there are many things that ordinary people can't do.
For example, when someone brings a jade ring finger, Blind Lao Yi smells it with his nose first, and then uses his hands to Touch it, or at most stick out your tongue and lick it.
You can tell the year of the ring, and you can also tell whether it was buried in the grave or passed down in the family.
You can almost never miss it.
Without these two moments, how would you dare to exchange the lamp for the soft drum in the ghost market?
Back then, in the antique market When mentioning the brand name of Xi Laoyi in the industry, no one would fail to mention it.
He had saved a lot of treasures in his life, but unfortunately most of them were destroyed during the Cultural Revolution.
Only the iron grill for eating barbecue and the wolf-skin mattress survived, as well as the sale of tomb stones.
After explaining, he left all these things to me.
Although Blind Lao Yi passed away, he left behind his name and his brand name is still there.
Everyone looked at Blind Lao Yi's reputation and thought that I was also a good disciple and that I should be a disciple of Blind Lao Yi.
Every now and then, someone would offer me something to treat me.
I can't shirk it no matter what.
Fortunately, I In the past, I have heard a lot of things from Blind Lao Yi, and I have seen a lot of real things.
I couldn’t avoid them, so I dealt with them blindly, but it didn’t ruin the name of Blind Lao Yi.
Sometimes I would roll up a few packets to get the lamp. , a man went to the ghost market and squatted, trying to get lucky and collect some licensed goods.
In those years, Xi Laoyi mainly engaged in the business of "tombstones".
There was a place called Dushikou near Chicheng, Hebei Province.
As the name suggests, there was a single stone left in the ancient times.
The huge stone was solitary and raised from the ground, more than two feet high. , it takes about a hundred steps to walk around it.
It has been exposed to the sun and rain for many years, but it still stands tall.
However, there are four ancient elm trees growing on the boulder, with lush branches and leaves, big enough to cover an ox.
There are many legends from ancient times to the present about where the boulder came from, but there is no conclusion yet.
The local area is famous for its stone work, including tomb passages.
There are all kinds of "tomb bricks, pillars and pestles, Weng Zhong" and so on in Dushikou, some are real and some are imitations.
The business on this road is relatively remote, and there is a lot of exquisiteness, especially the tombstones with patterns of birds and animals, all of which have sayings, such as "The head of the Chi means looking into the distance; the fish with a body like a hawk can spray clouds and rain, which can be used to calm down."
Fire; the Suan Ni has the meaning of continuing the incense; the one-horned cow is the Xie Zhi, which can distinguish between good and evil.”
Patrons who believe in these customs, Most of them are village officials and rich people in the countryside.
In the early 1990s, this trend revived in the countryside.
They are not afraid of spending money to build the tombs of their ancestors.
It is also a very honorable thing to use the tomb stones for their ancestors' tombs that are hundreds of years old.
There are many types of tomb passage stones, such as old tomb bricks with incised or embossed sculptures, pillars and pestles in the tomb passage, and Weng Zhong used to guard the tomb and ward off evil spirits. , stone figurines and horses, these are called "tombstones".
Customers take what they need, those with more money use real ones, and those with less money use imitations.
Most of this kind of stone work comes from the Chicheng area of Hebei Province.
Lao Yi started doing this business seven or eight years ago.
After his death, he still owed many customers for their tombstones.
Those people also came to me, and I demolished the east wall to make up for it.
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At Xiqiang, I have to take care of these customers every day, and I often have to go to the countryside to collect stones.
I am so busy that I can't get away from it.
When I think about this business that Blind Lao Yi left for me, I can't leave it alone no matter how difficult it is, and deal with it for a day.
One day, I had to write a letter to Sonnier, telling her that she would not return this year and would wait until next spring to go to the Northeast to look for gold veins.
After that, I made several trips to Dushikou in northern Hebei, and slowly figured out some ways.
As long as I got acquainted with the local people, everything was easy to discuss.
Since ancient times, the mountain people in northern Hebei have been hospitable.
In their place, guests are welcome to enter.
When drinking tea and eating, always use a special big bowl to serve you.
You must also go there Understand the rules.
Firstly, you should not drink tea with the bottom of the bowl upside down.
Secondly, when serving food, you should not put down your chopsticks in the middle of eating, otherwise it will be regarded as looking down on the host.
When you are full, you should put two chopsticks flat on the mouth of the bowl.
I heard that When it's cold, you go to the village and sleep on the same big kang with the host and his family.
You must never avoid suspicion.
When you say goodbye, you will definitely take away as many local products as you can, such as chestnuts, jujubes, and persimmons.
There are stonemasons all over the village here, and the antique stone work is very authentic.
When I got busy with the tomb bricks and tombstones, I no longer had any extra thoughts.
I was dawdling day after day, but sometimes I kept having nightmares.
When I closed my eyes, I would see the dead person dragging his intestines out of the coffin.
I thought maybe I was thinking too much, but I couldn't help but feel uneasy. , until I met a strange man who was already lying in a coffin in the mountains of western Henan
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