Now I can describe what happened in the bookstore. That is a place called "Sanmin Bookstore", located somewhere on the east side of the first section of Chongqing South Road in Taipei City. I was standing in front of a row of bookshelves on the second floor sitting north and flipping through a book whose title was "Summary of Qimen Dunjia Technique". The reason why I read this book is because I just read another martial arts novel called "Thunder in Seven Seas" before. The novel mentions this kind of "unexpected retreat technique".
If I hadn't read this "Summary", I would only understand Qimen Dunjia literally, thinking that it was a kind of martial arts by a different side. After reading, I discovered that it is actually a divination technique. Just like many ancient Chinese esoteric studies, they set their origins in Hetu Luoshu, Jiugong Bagua, which is similar to some fortune-telling books such as Ziwei Doushu and Xingmen Palace God that I have read. I flipped through one or two hundred pages at random, and didn't notice any novelty. I even snorted twice because of the poor printing and several obvious typos. I was about to put the book back on the shelf and started playing the game of connected reading. Suddenly a low voice came from behind me:
"Wait! Young man, what is your attitude?"
It was an old guy—and it could be said that he was a lot of old guys. He wore a woolen cap colored like cow dung on his head, but there was no trace of hair left on the temples, and he couldn't tell if he was bald. But his eyebrows were all white, and they were silvery white, as if they had been brushed one by one with a brush. The root of the nose was raised at the center of the eyebrows, and the straight beams went down, and there was a slightly pinkish-glossy nose hanging down. There are two white beards at the bottom, and the tip of the Hu is raised upwards, as if to cater to the two strands of eyebrows hanging down from above. The old man was not very polite, but there was a slight smile on his face. For a while, I didn't think he was talking to me, but the smile on that old face was clearly directed at me. Looking back now, there must have been such a short one and a half seconds, I would think he was an old pervert who ran out of the new park across the street to catch the rabbit brother. In short, I ignored him and continued to search for a book on the shelf to read.
"Brother, you read fast?" The old guy didn't relax, and went on, "But what can you learn if you don't read the last chapter?"
I really want to say something to him: "I don't know what to do with your old ass!" I can think about it again: this person deliberately strikes up a conversation, and he can't stop talking to him. Turning around, he leaned behind the pillar next to him. Unexpectedly, standing still, the old guy appeared in front of me again, saying: "Just now, there was a "Preface to Qi Men Dun Jia" by Liu Bowen, a scholar of the Ming Dynasty, attached to the back of the book; Are some more?"
At this point, I can almost conclude that even if the old guy is not a pervert, he is a lunatic. In such a big room with strangers, if you ask an old madman to be entangled for no reason, even if you are reasonable, who can you tell? I was secretly anxious, and the old guy suddenly spoke again: "Before this "Summary of Qimen Dunjia Art", you read "Seven Seas Thrilling Thunder". Before that, you read "The Secret Society" since the beginning of the Republic of China. "Pu". Before that, it was "Study on the History of Shanghai Small Sword Society and the Secret Book by Hongmen". Before that, it was "Heaven and Earth Society's Medical Techniques, Medicine, and Medical Principles." Before that, it was "The Magical Painting Fang Fengwu of Genius Doctors". , Is "Food Morality and Paintings." Am I right?"