I took a look at Chongyang: "Did he fail?"
The veteran Taoist said: "In fact, although the longevity plan has been in existence for thousands of years, there are not many concrete results. It is too closely connected with metaphysics, chaotic, disorderly, and ineffective. Most of the energy is spent on meaningless things. Above, Chongyang is considered to be the closest person to success in the Longevity Plan, but this is not the longevity we want."
I nodded: "I have guessed at this point."
"That should be a matter of the Song Dynasty. In the late Northern Song Dynasty, the people of the Ning family discovered that Linqiong, which is now Qionglai, exists as a nation. Their king is immortal. This is an exciting discovery. Later they tried their best to get it. After the secret of immortality, he sent a test product in. This test product is him.
"Later, the Northern Song Dynasty fell, the northwestern part of the Central Plains was lost, and then there was the minority regime. Even the Ning family had to wander around. Few people remember that there was a test product lying in Qionglai Mountain.
Later, when he was in Ning's history, he discovered Chongyang. He found Chongyang was swimming around. He didn't know when he came out of Qionglai Mountain or what he experienced.
I only know that Ning Hanqing did not give up the plan of Chongyang, and I don't know everything else, but Chongyang is a failed experiment. There is no doubt about this. "
I said: "In a photo, he appeared in Huashan, Changning. What's the matter?"
The old Taoist laughed: "Didn't you have been to Huashan, Qin Wanling (Note: Qin Xiangsi was changed to Qin Wanling in the previous article) did not tell you?"
I shook my head: "She doesn't say much, except that Chongyang was brought back by the blind man Qin as a corpse."
The veteran Taoist said: "They are all people who are more ghosts than ghosts, and you can ask them again if you ask them again."
At this time I was very sleepy. Bai Ye had already leaned on the seat and fell asleep. I asked Chongyang, "Are you sleepy?"
He nodded, and the two of them closed their eyes and fell asleep.
The next step is to toss and turn back to Xuanhuitang in Guangxi. After a day’s rest, I slept dimly. Then I woke up hungry. The three people ate a bit. The old Taoist also lived in Xuanhuitang to see that we were almost rested. Shangdu was eager to die, and said: "Go to Huashan for a trip?"
I swallowed the food in my mouth: "After eating this bowl."
Huashan is still there, and there are a few houses scattered at the foot of the mountain. They are just that kind of ordinary small buildings. Qin Wanling lives in a small bungalow. When we arrived, she was weeding in the vegetable garden in front of her. She was such an old person. The waist is not as high as a hoe.
She felt someone coming, and when she looked up, she squinted her eyes, knowing that we were coming. Standing with a hoe for a while, finally he said: "Here?"
Then Zhang Luo, we went into the room and sat down. We stared without making tea. In the end, the old Taoist said: "Aunt Qin, you have said everything you know, and they come to ask every day."
They were still old acquaintances. Qin Wanling was silent for a while, and said: "My father is called Blind Qin, and my mother stayed in Guangxi for most of that matter. In the end, I still died here. I dare not say."
Guo Shanlin sighed and said: "Don't worry, you have nothing to do with this matter, just count as an insider. Just make it clear."
I thought to myself that you didn't propose the whirlpool theory. I just need to make it clear now. Then I can't help myself.
Qin Wanling finally smiled, "I am dying, and I am not afraid of this anymore. What do you want to know? I don't know much."
I pointed to Chongyang: "About him."
Qin Wanling's old face turned to Chongyang, staring at him blankly for a long while, "You are still so young, but I am dying."
She sighed, "Our ancestral home is in Hunan, but I have never been there. According to my dad, we came to Guangxi because a man named Ning Hanqing found my grandfather. They talked for a long time, and finally they seemed What was agreed. Later I learned that Ning Hanqing is the person in charge of the secret investigation bureau. Our surnamed Qin was once a participant in the Longevity Plan, and he wanted to re-enter us.
My grandfather agreed. That year should be 1928 or 1927. I can't remember. Our family moved to Guangxi and we have been waiting for someone here ever since. Ning Hanqing said that he didn't know how long it would take this person to appear, but he knew his appearance. He showed my grandfather a photo. The person in the photo was a young man, who should have been shot in Beijing. We have been here waiting for that person to show up.
Later, my grandfather died, and my father and my mother stayed here until my father carried a corpse one day, and this corpse was Chongyang. Before my father left, he painted the portrait of Mogu for the last time, and asked me to bring it to a man named Fang Haisheng in Sichuan.
But then Chongyang woke up and he didn’t remember anything. He stayed here for a while and was leaving. I asked him if you knew where you were going. He said he didn’t know, so I asked him to go to Sichuan with the portrait to find it. Fang Haisheng, because I don't want to go everywhere, I just want to stay here and wait for my parents to come back. "
She raised her head and let us see her white hair and wrinkled face: "You have seen the truth. I am dying and they have not yet returned."
I looked at Chongyang: "Do you remember what she said?"
Chongyang shook her head, and Qin Wanling said again: "There was also a foreigner who lived here with him back then. It should be 1947."
I nodded. Too much happened in 1947, especially in Guangxi. In this year, the undead village Jing Wang Ergang and his wife appeared in people’s vision for the first time. In the hands of people, Fang Haisheng should be Fang Xiangshi also connected with this matter.
Where is Ning Hanqing? In 1947, why did the corpse chaser hand over the portrait to Fang Xiangshi instead of Ning Hanqing himself? Where did he go
Qin Wanling said: "This is everything I know. Our surnamed Qin is the last one to come to me. You will not come to me again in the future."
Before we left, Qin Wanling suddenly said: "It turns out that you are called Chongyang. Do you really remember me? It should be that my appearance has changed so much that you can't recognize it." She slowly said: "When I was young, that foreigner I also took a picture, and I will show it to you."
She faltered and took out a wooden box from the deepest part of an old cabinet. The bottom of the wooden box was a cloth bag. She opened the cloth bag layer by layer and took out two small old photos.
The picture shows a young woman with a slightly stiff face. She is obviously not used to posing for a photo. She unconsciously pinches the corner of her clothes with one hand. She stood in front of a flower, but she did not look at the camera, but at a person outside the camera, who only left a sleeve in the camera.
"Look, this is me." Qin Wanling said, "Do you remember me?"
Chongyang took the photo, and met the woman in the photo over decades, and then looked up at Qin Wanling's pale face and white hair.
He shook his head. (End of this chapter)