A fortune teller selling knives

Knife on credit, a traditional and mysterious profession, has many folklore. The word "credit swordsman" is still relatively unfamiliar to modern young people, but the older generation knows more or less that there are such a group of people in the world. They walked from village to village, carrying kitchen knives and predictions, selling them for free, and then collecting money after the predictions came true.

Thirty years ago, in the 1980s and 1990s, in the vast rural areas of China, a group of people were walking in the street, carrying kitchen knives, scissors, iron pots, farm tools and other items for trading. Their trading method is very special, not just selling, but selling on credit. They choose to give credit to people in need, such as kitchen knives and scissors, and write down the name and address of the credit payer in the notebook as the basis for collecting accounts, promising to collect money when rice exceeds one yuan, and only when it rises to one yuan. You know, at that time, rice was less than a dime a catty. If you believe it, you will still leave one or a few mysterious predictions about the future.

These predictions cover almost everything from our daily necessities to the future of the world. For example, wheat and rice are recycled for one yuan, and pork is 10 yuan a catty. There is even a saying that "there is no land to plant and no house to live in". People will take off their clothes, and animals will walk in clothes. "There are thousands of pigs, tens of thousands of cows and 180,000 wives." Most people naturally take it as a joke and are noncommittal. Many people haven't delved into it. Why not give a kitchen knife or something for nothing?

With regard to the origin and identity of the credit knife man, people become more curious and puzzled because of these predictions. In fact, what many people don't know is that the profession of credit swordsmen has existed since ancient times. It is reported that people who borrowed knives first appeared in the Song Dynasty. At that time, the borrower was not called the borrower, but called "selling". They are so called because they, like fortune tellers, have the ability to predict divination and predict the changes of the times. Many of their predictions usually come true eventually.

Legend has it that during Guangxu period, a knife seller predicted that if the price of wheat dropped from the current 90p to190p, everyone would come back to collect money. Everyone didn't believe him, so they all took his knife on credit. After Guangxu ascended the throne, they began to change the New Deal, paying attention to the people's food, clothing, housing and transportation, and reducing wheat from 90 pence a catty to 19 pence a catty. At this time, everyone thought that the people who lent knives on credit were very powerful, which was recorded in the books of the Qing Dynasty. The so-called knife-wielder is homophonic "Tao", so some people say that the knife-wielder belongs to Taoism and is a disciple of Guiguzi. His duty is to predict life and death, predict prosperity and decline and predict the future. Every time the world changes, it will give the world a hint.

Guiguzi, a legendary and mysterious figure in the history of China, is called the ancients. It is said that he is familiar with the art of intercourse, and he has unique wisdom! Only in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Su Qin, Zhang Yi, Sun Bin and many other elites came from his door, and upholding justice and saving the world became the respected objects. As a disciple, it is natural to take this as our responsibility. The act of holding a knife on credit is nothing more than doing good for oneself, spreading benefits for others, increasing one's self-cultivation, concentrating on practice, predicting the Oracle and spreading information to the society. However, after responding to the prophecy, most of them disappeared and could not receive money, which also made people believe it.

Tell the story of a knife seller in a small village in the deep mountains of Northeast China. It is a small village at the foot of Daxinganling. I can't remember my name. I only remember that there is a mountain behind the village, which looks like a person's ass. The villagers call it donkey mountain. The older generation said that mountains that look like human bodies are full of hidden treasures. Call it ass village for the time being. The regular knife seller in Donkey Village is a middle-aged man, and I don't know his specific age. Why do you say that?

The old people in the village say that he was so old when he was young. Now they are old. The person who bought the knife on credit is still the same person, but his eyes are full of vicissitudes. He is carrying a broken bag. People say that besides knives, there must be peerless artifacts in the bag. No one knows his name, and no one asks his age. He just knows that his knife is particularly sharp and he doesn't want money. He just left a prophecy and came to take it when it came true.

There was a drought in the village that year, and there were no clouds for thousands of miles. One morning, the old people in the village began to get busy. The housewife took out a kitchen knife and the banker took out a sickle. Everyone looked at the entrance of the village, because when the blood moon came out in March of the drought, the swordsman said he would come the next day, and the blood moon in the sky was shrouded in fog that night. According to folklore, the blood moon appears and the big devil comes out. In the northeast, besides killing pig dishes, sausages, toads with big sauce and other delicacies, there are more legends about demons. Long pythons are yellow and white, Ma Xian's unique culture and so on.

Early that morning, the knife borrower arrived as promised. He walks slowly and quickly. Without saying anything, he sat down at the entrance of the village to receive people waiting in line to change knives.

After changing the last one, he suddenly got up and walked to a hillside at a leisurely pace. He took out a bow from the broken bag, a black bow with paint on it. This kind of bow is very common in the northeast, especially in such a village with a backer. Any bow of Orion is better than his. People think that maybe he can tear the air quickly, which is unexpected. The crowd began to be less afraid of him, and even his next prediction was not seriously listened to, and no one sent him enthusiastically in the past. He didn't care, but left slowly and quickly.

Later, a good-hearted man pulled out an arrow, a stream of blood gushed out and the mound collapsed. A yellow skin as big as a calf (commonly known as a weasel) has 36 arrows stuck in it. Like a hedgehog, dark clouds are gathering in an instant and the thunder is deafening. A series of purple giant thunder mixed with heavy rain slammed on the monster. This is what makes people panic. It turns out that slow action is just the afterimage left by shooting too fast. Since then, the credit knife has another special function, to ward off evil spirits.

As always, the borrower arrived as scheduled according to every prediction.

I think in this world, there will always be hidden experts guarding the world silently.

Mysterious knife borrowers usually follow the police, usually in autumn and spring, and they can also be seen in deep mountains and forests, and they come all the way, without revealing their emotions, without trading with people, talking about the land again and again, coming and going without a trace, giving people a sense of mystery and many reverie.

Thirty years ago, or after many teenagers, the mysterious knife borrower may come to people again and tell them more about what will happen.

The man who borrowed the knife reappeared in the Jianghu.

There are many stories about "the man with the knife on credit". "People who sell knives on credit don't accept cash. He made a prediction and waited until it came true before collecting money. Many things predicted by the "credit swordsman" in the past have appeared one after another.

In February, 2020, a "credit knife customer" appeared again in a certain place, and no cash was collected after selling the knife. He said two words: "Wait until 35 yuan a catty of rice costs 60 yuan a day to collect money." Our daily workers here are now 170, 80 for big workers and 120, 30 for small workers. I heard this saying 30 years ago: "Building a building requires a bag of noodles" or "Marrying a daughter-in-law requires a bag of noodles". People at that time would not believe that such a terrible thing would happen. After a few decades, people's mentality and morality are declining. The day before yesterday, menstruation came back and said this: "At that time, all kinds of forms were persuading people to value morality and be good, and now all kinds of forms are teaching people to become bad." Nowadays, with the evolution of the material world, the corruption of the whole human morality and the extreme expansion of desire have brought about various crises in the social and natural environment, and global plagues, earthquakes, fires and floods have spread all over the world. ...

It is a warning to us that the knife-paying man appears in the Jianghu again. Only starting from morality, returning to our traditional culture, awakening people's good thoughts and conscience, improving people's moral quality, understanding the truth of life, conforming to the way of heaven and earth, and being a real good person, is the only way to save ourselves!