Yin Yang Rogue

  That night, neither of us remembers how we got back. My last memory is that Liu Wanwan called me, and afterwards Liu Wanwan said that on the phone I was laughing wildly and kept saying to her: "I found my brother, I found my best brother." The tone was blurry, with a thick tongue, completely in a state of intoxication.

  Liu Wanyan finally managed to extract my location from me with great effort, ran over and helped the madman carry me onto a taxi, and sent us back to my place. The next day when I woke up, I only felt a splitting headache, which should be the first time I didn't practice my morning exercises, and I even thought finding the madman was just a dream. However, looking at him snoring beside me with a contented expression, my heart was still filled with infinite satisfaction. (Suddenly feeling a strong sense of bromance, isn't it?)

  In those years, we were all young. We turned the school upside down. Five years later, now that we have entered society, can we reunite with all our brothers and make a shocking impact on this world?

  When the madman woke up, I was facing Liu Wanwan's accusing eyes and the breakfast on the table. I awkwardly thanked her, but Liu Wanwan shook her head and whispered, "Don't drink so much in the future, it's not good for your body."

  I didn't answer her, I knew she would never understand this kind of feeling. After Liu Wanwan left, I had a thousand words to ask the madman, but for a moment, I didn't know where to start, so in the end, I asked the madman, how did you come to Beijing to read people's fortunes?

  The madman finally told me the whole story after I pressed him. It turned out that five years ago, I decided to go up the mountain with my master Nan Lao San to practice Taoism. After that, he had a falling out with Bei Lao Si, who was his junior fellow apprentice and also my uncle-master. My master learned the art of capturing ghosts, while Bei Lao Si inherited the earth method. He simply taught the madman some things and left him two books for self-reflection. Although the madman wasn't his disciple, they had a few encounters along the way.

  So he taught the madman those things, although they couldn't find dragons and point out auspicious locations, but it's still okay to let him take a look at people's homes. Moreover, the madman's brain is flexible, and after reading those books, he already has his own views on home feng shui.

  Then think about giving people a look at Feng Shui, which also counts as making a living.

  After finishing speaking, the madman strangely asked me again how I found him?

  I watched him devouring his food, and told him the whole story of Zhu Jiaqiang. When I mentioned "Cui Yunfu", the madman paused for a moment, putting down the bun in his hand.

  " Auspicious symbol? Impossible, I don't even know how to draw symbols, where did this auspicious symbol come from?"

  I thought about it carefully and found it strange too. Frowning, I asked: "Are you sure you won't draw talismans? Is there someone who has a grudge against Zhu Jiaqiang and deliberately sabotaged the feng shui of the Zhu family?"

  The madman pondered for a moment, smiled and said: "That should be it. I heard he's a salted fish seller. I'm being kind to him, but if someone cheats him, don't blame me."

  I looked at the madman, always feeling a bit off. His smile seemed to have a few points of clarity and a few points of awkwardness. In the past, the madman had fooled me once or twice, but after hanging out with him for many years, experiencing so many things, plus my five years on the mountain, I was no longer the careless fool I used to be.

  I stared at the madman: "Have you thought of something?"

  The madman glared at me: "What's it to you if I'm thinking about your sister? What does someone else's bad luck have to do with me? Who are you to tell me whether I should die or not?"

  I thought about it, and that's also true. For a while, I couldn't think of a reason. It was Sunday, and I had the day off. The madman wanted to go back to his place to get something, so I went with him. At first, he didn't want me to, but I insisted. When we arrived at the madman's place, my eyes really did turn red.

  This place is a basement, dirty and messy and broken. The madman lives in the innermost house of the underground room. The whole room is gloomy and damp. I saw that on the madman's broken mobile phone, there was also a simple signal receiver made from an empty can. All the madman's clothes were piled up on a rope next to him, messy and disorderly. In the only broken cabinet in the house, it was unknown what was inside.

  The madman slammed the cabinet open without saying a word. I only felt a sour smell rushing up my nostrils. The things in the cabinet were neatly arranged, all of which were the ones I didn't take away when I was studying at Sanhai. My quilts, clothes, and small items packed in paper boxes. My paintbrushes, painting board, and our joint photo attached to the inside of the cabinet.

  In the photo, there are me, Crazy, Ma Zhuang, Monkey, Sun Qiong Long and Wolf Dog. Crazy is smiling very cheaply, I'm smiling very foolishly, Ma Zhuang is silly and stupid, Monkey has a big mouth open, Wolf Dog is eating something in its mouth, even Sun Qiong Long, the school grass who is usually cold to the bone, has a faint smile at the corner of his mouth.

  On the side of the cabinet, a scarf was hung. It was the first birthday gift I received in my life. It was given to me by a madman. I almost trembled as I took out the things inside with my hands, one by one, each of which made me recall those memories.

  I really want to turn around and punch the madman, scolding him: "SB!"

  You don't even have a place to put your own things, why are you keeping my trash? The madman looks at me with a heartless and ruthless smile. A deadpan expression that says "do whatever you want".

  Finally, the madman took out a bank card from a box at the very bottom of the cabinet and handed it to me.

  "There's 500,000 yuan in here. Back then, you and Nan Lao San went up the mountain without taking anything with you. I'll just hold onto this bank card for you."

  That year, we experienced many things and helped others, and there were also some coincidences, so I had a considerable amount of savings in my card. However, at that time, I was devoted to the Tao, followed my master up the mountain, and didn't bring these external things with me.

  I looked at the bank card and then at the madman. He has already mixed it up in Beijing like that, why not move the money on this card? The password of this card is my birthday, the madman must know. Actually, I have already had an answer to this question in my heart, the madman is afraid that I will go down the mountain and have no money in my pocket.

  Being as clever as he is, how could he not know that in today's society, it's hard to find a job doing what I do? Thinking of this, I almost shed tears again.

  I didn't say another word, picked up the crazy guy's phone, found a small moving advertisement at the entrance of the basement where I just came in, and made a call with the crazy guy's phone. The crazy guy smiled and didn't stop me either.

  I directly called the moving company, next I threw away some of the madman's broken clothes, the madman didn't object, just watching me busy back and forth, with one hand not helping, holding a small cigarette, shamelessly hehe sneering.

  As I threw it away, I saw a white down jacket with the letters "MB" on it. Merrell's Bonwey! A brand that my wolf dog and I had envied for a long time. Luxury brand!

  The down jacket has been around for a long time. I didn't throw away this clothes, because the damaged marks on it were left when I and Crazy, Wolf Dog fought side by side for the first time. I couldn't bear to throw it away. Crazy couldn't either.

  I had all these things moved to my place by a moving company. Then I said to the crazy guy, "Brother is back, from now on we'll live like human beings. Let's go buy some stuff."

  When it comes to buying things, I just remembered that Zhu Jiaqiang gave me a thick bag and I haven't opened it yet. Hurriedly took it out and opened it, inside were three stacks of RMB neatly arranged. It turned out to be 30,000 yuan.

  The madman's eyes turned green, and it was said that Zhu Jiaqiang gave it to him. He cursed in his mouth, but didn't refuse me. He patted my shoulder, took a small cigarette, and followed me out the door. Since I started working at Lao Shenpang, I've also earned about 7,000 yuan recently. It seems that I'm also someone with a family now.

  The madman bumped into a fatty as soon as he went out, and the man was about to scold him. He raised his head and saw me, immediately came to life, and rushed over like seeing a savior, saying: "Ah, Master, I finally found you! What a broken place is this? It's too hard to find. I've been circling around here for several rounds."

  I took a look and it was actually Jiang Paozi. The madman looked at me with great interest, clicking his tongue and saying: "Eh yo, Brother Xian has taken on an apprentice?"

  I gave him a white eye, and in my heart, I clearly understood the extent to which he knew me as a madman. Plus, I told him about my job at Lao God's shop, so it wasn't hard for him to guess the twists and turns inside. It's just that this guy loved to humiliate me.

  I briefly introduced the madman to Jiang Paozi, and Jiang Paozi just nodded anxiously and hurriedly said to me with a crying tone: "Master, you have to save me!"

  I looked at Jiang Pangzi's behavior and had no choice but to take him back to my place. I asked Jiang Pangzi to explain what was going on. With a sigh, he said that last time I told him to dig up the jar, he did as I said and dug up a jar, which he happily carried upstairs. From that night on, Jiang Pangzi started winning at mahjong.

  Fatso gave me another round of flattery, saying I'm a master strategist and a genius. Before I could even respond, the crazy guy next to me couldn't hold it in anymore: "Hurry up and say something already, stop wasting time. Your brother here hasn't eaten lunch yet."

  Jiang Pangzi saw the madman and me together, wearing tattered clothes, and for a while couldn't figure out the madman's identity. He probably thought he was some kind of high-ranking official. Hearing the madman say this, Jiang Pangzi seized the opportunity and said that no matter what, he had to invite us to dinner. So we came to a small, run-down shop downstairs, ordered a small pot of wine, and started cooking meat.

  I just had time to introduce Crazy to Jiang Pangzi, and only said that he was an old friend of mine.

  Jiang Pangzi drank with us while shaking his head and tail, sighing: "Originally, my luck had improved, but that night didn't feel quite right. In the middle of the night, I could hear strange noises."

  The madman was also curious: "What strange noise? What strange noise?"

  Jiang Pangzi found out that Fengzi was a madman and no longer treated him as a superior being. He gave him a cold glance and said, "Speak up, or I'll scare you to death."

  Both I and the madman burst out laughing. In our school days at San Hai, what spectacle hadn't we seen? The four most famous wonders of San Hai were: "The baozi in the big cafeteria, the water in the dry well, Da Sang's mouth and the ghosts of San Hai!"

  The three seas can be said to be a place where ghosts are abundant, with all kinds of spirits and strange things. We've long since grown accustomed to the strange occurrences.

  "Have you guys ever seen a ghost play cards?" Jiang Pangzi said angrily.

  This really made me stunned, ghost playing cards? I took a look at the madman, and the madman's rogue spirit came up again, hehe smiled and said: "You can't say that, I've actually seen it."

  Jiang Pangzi didn't believe it, so he let the madman talk. The madman then told us a story about something that had happened to his grandfather.