Chapter 33 Chapter 32 Signature

At this moment, an agricultural tricycle approached from a distance, emitting a puff of black smoke. The driver was a little old man, and there was a young man sitting in the car. He seemed to be dressed in fashionable clothes, like a city dweller. "Brother," Zhang Guozhong stretched out his hand to stop the car, "I want to ask you something." "What?" The little old man driving kept looking at Zhang Guozhong. "Do you know where the water in this pool comes from?" Zhang Guozhong handed him a cigarette with a big smile on his face. "This one, it came from over there." The little old man pointed in the direction of Niangniang Mountain not far away.

"Yes, I know it was drawn from there. Do you know how it was drawn? Did it dig trenches or pump it?" "Why do you ask this?" The little old man swindled and jumped off the agricultural tricycle, took out his lighter and lit a cigarette, and kept looking at Zhang Guozhong with his small mung bean eyes. "Oh, this is the gentleman we invited, just for the incident of drowning someone a few days ago!" Yang Zhou hurried forward to strike up a conversation, and put his mouth under the little old man's ear and muttered. "Oh, Zhang Banxian!" After hearing Yang Zhou muttering, the little old man's expression turned 180 degrees. "My surname is Li, and you can call me Li's second child. Half of the water in this pool is drawn by the pump, and half It was created by digging ditches, but the ditches were not dug by modern people, they have existed since ancient times.”

"It has existed since ancient times?" Zhang Guozhong frowned, "Can you elaborate?" "This...how about I take you to have a look." Li Laoer pondered for a while, and decided to take Zhang Guozhong and Yang Zhou to investigate the trench digging site himself, "San'er, drive the car back first, I will Take Zhang Banxian to Baizhang Lake to have a look." After walking for about seven or eight minutes, Li Er Er brought Zhang Guozhong and Yang Zhou to the edge of a small pool, "This is here!" Li Er Er wiped off his sweat and pointed to the small pond. The pool, "This is the Baizhang Pond. The water in the fish pond is pumped from here."

"Here?" Zhang Guozhong leaned down and took a closer look at the pool. He saw that the pool was about five meters square, and the water in the pool was so dark that he didn't know how deep it was. It looks like it was built by modern people, but judging from the degree of weathering of the surrounding bluestone edges, it seems that it is not too old, at most two or three hundred years old. "Can the water in this pool fill the entire fish pond?" Zhang Guozhong frowned, and put his hand into the pool water, feeling icy cold. "This pool is very strange," Li Lao Er frowned, "No one knows when it was built, and no one knows why it was built. Someone once tied a stone with a hemp rope to test the depth. In the end, it took more than 60 meters of rope to reach the bottom. As far back as I can remember, the adults would not let us approach this pool. This pool is the closest to our village, but at that time, the villagers would rather carry water one mile away. I don’t even come here to carry water, and I don’t know why. In the 1980s, there was a man named Zhang Shengli in the village. He was full and had nothing to do. He bought a water pump to drain the water in the pool. As a result, the water machine pumped for three days and three nights, but the water in the pool did not come down at all. At that time, everyone said that there must be a dark passage in the pool, which was connected to other water veins. Later, some young people in the village wanted to get it For the fish pond, I thought about pumping water from here, but as soon as the water was pumped, people drowned before the fish were raised!"

"Secret passage?" Zhang Guozhong turned on the compass, walked around the pool, and found that Baizhang Pond was facing the center line of Niangniang Mountain. The yin and yang were indeed a little abnormal. If there is really a so-called secret passage connecting other water veins at the bottom of the pool , should be just below. "Could it be to vent evil spirits?" Looking at the changes in the compass, Zhang Guozhong couldn't help frowning, because the water in the Baizhang Pond and the so-called dark passage were obviously higher than the fish pond just now. Mao Shanshu believes that any stagnant water around the tomb is a sign of Yin, and the solution is to dig a canal or waterway to lead the water to a place where Yin and Yang can circulate, because water is both Yin and Yin. It is a good carrier, leading the stagnant water to the place where yin and yang can circulate, which not only helps to release the yin qi accumulated in the stagnant water, but also helps to release the resentment caused by the yin qi accumulation of the tomb owner. The method of Yin Yin is called Xie Sha.

The scale of Xiesha is directly proportional to the size of the stagnant water area around the tomb and the scale of the tomb. Based on the scale of the graves of ordinary people, if there is less than an acre of stagnant water beside the tomb, it is enough to dig a small ditch half a foot wide. At most one to two meters, it can play a good role in releasing evil spirits, and if the Baizhang Pond is really a product of releasing evil spirits, how large is the evil spirit that is being released? Frowning, Zhang Guozhong walked one or two hundred meters along the so-called culvert with a compass, until there was no way to go. Although there was no place to set foot on the ground, according to the compass, the culvert seemed to be still open. Extending forward, there is a tendency not to give up until you reach Niangniang Mountain.

"Zhang Banxian," Li Laoer followed behind Zhang Guozhong, and finally couldn't help asking curiously, "What kind of tricks have you seen?" "This culvert should be right under our feet," Zhang Guozhong said. "If I guess correctly, this culvert should lead to an underground water vein somewhere in Niangniang Mountain." "You mean to say that the drowning in the fish pond has something to do with the water?" Li's second son asked with sly eyebrows. "It's hard to say now," Zhang Guozhong took a deep breath, "If you know where this waterway leads to, maybe you can figure it out."

"Zhang Banxian, do you know what the Baizhang Pond is used for?" Li Laoer continued to ask, it seemed that he had been holding back the words for a long time. "I suspect it's used to vent the tomb." Zhang Guozhong said, "Uncle Li, do you know if there are any ancient tombs nearby?" "What does it mean to release the tomb?" Li's second son stared wide-eyed, "I have never heard of ancient tombs." "Do you know where you can go to Niangniang Mountain?" Zhang Guozhong pointed to Niangniang Mountain not far away, and continued to ask.

"You have to go around there to go up the mountain. There is no way here." Li Lao Er pointed to the direction he came from just now, "Zhang Banxian, otherwise, I'll drive you there, how about it?" "No need, we have a car, just tell us the way." Facing the enthusiasm of Li's second son, Zhang Guozhong felt a little embarrassed. "That car of yours?" Li Laoer smiled, and seemed to be dismissive of Yang Zhou's Santana, "If you can't get in that car, if you take the road over there, you have to take my car." Sitting on Li Laoer's agricultural tricycle, Zhang Guozhong regained a bit of the feeling of riding an ox cart in Bashan. The mountain road under his feet was indeed not something a car like Santana could drive, and it was bumpy for about half an hour. , the car detoured and stopped on a slightly flat open space at the foot of the mountain, "I can only go here!" Li Laoer smiled, his face was full of wrinkles.

"Thank you!" Zhang Guozhong turned over and got out of the car, and looked at the road up the mountain, which was much smoother than he imagined. "Thank you very much, you are also doing business for the village. I will watch the car here and wait for you!" "Thank you so much!" Zhang Guozhong held Li Laoer's hand, "We met by chance, I really don't know how to thank you!" "Hey," holding Zhang Guozhong's hand, Li Laoer's smiling face suddenly froze, "Zhang Banxian, I have a private matter and I want to ask you for help. I wonder if you have time?"

"Ah?" Zhang Guozhong's expression also froze, and he secretly thought that it was not good, but at this moment, he just got in his car, so it is not easy to evade, "Just say it." "Don't get me wrong, I definitely didn't mean that. If I didn't come to this Niangniang mountain, I really wouldn't remember it." Li Laoer also had a look of regret at this time, "My nephew, I went to Niangniang mountain once. Shanwan, brought those unclean things home, if you have time, can you...can you show me?" "Unclean things?" Zhang Guozhong was taken aback, "What unclean things?" "Speaking of this, I must have been young for a year." Li Lao Er squeezed his mung bean eyes and sighed persistently, "I can't tell whether it has anything to do with Niangniang Mountain, and the children in the village always go up to the mountain to play. , everything can happen, but he..." Li's second brother has a younger brother named Li Zhen, who married his aunt's cousin. After more than ten years of marriage, he has no children. At first, he was quite anxious, seeking medical advice everywhere. Borrowed a butt debt.But then the family planning publicity team came from the city and talked to Li Zhen and his wife and several other close relatives in the village about the issue of close relative marriage. This example made Li Zhen a little scared. It would be better to give birth to an idiot. What if someone lacks arms and legs, he can't even do work. Just when Li Zhen and his wife decided to give up their plan to have a baby and were about to spend money on buying a child, Li Zhen's daughter-in-law became pregnant.When they were more than three months pregnant, the couple once went through the back door to ask the doctor in the county hospital to have a B-ultrasound. It turned out to be a boy, and the B-ultrasound showed that the child was normal in appearance at least, and there was no obvious abnormality. Li Zhen was hesitant because of his physical defects, so let’s talk about fighting, thinking that he was looking forward to his son for so many years, and he was almost crazy, and besides, the condition of the B-ultrasound is not bad, at least he is not missing arms or legs; Let's go, but the words of the Family Planning Propaganda Team are still in my ears, and the pictures of the grotesque deformed children are also vivid in my memory.Seeing his daughter-in-law's belly growing little by little, Li Zhen finally made a helpless decision to go to Wudang Mountain to ask for a lottery, hoping to let the gods decide the child's fate. To be honest, this kind of lottery is actually very difficult to find. Both Buddhism and Taoism are against abortion.According to the religious interpretation, whether a child is good or bad is a karmic cycle, and it does not mean that he can escape by abortion. Strictly speaking, no matter what the result of the lottery is, the lottery solver will suggest to keep the child.Li Zhen is no exception. Although he asked for a lottery, he still decided to keep the child under the persuasion of the Taoist priest. According to the Taoist priest, the child's innate should be fine, but there may be some accidents the day after tomorrow. , but if there is any specific problem, it depends on the birth date, so after the child is born, he should go to the mountain to ask for another lottery. Six months later, the child was born on time on the due date. The child was quite up to date. Not only did the birth go smoothly, without causing Li Zhen's wife to suffer the slightest crime, but he was also healthy physically and externally, neither deaf nor dumb. Deformed, and even handsome, this made Li Zhen and his wife so happy that they simply forgot the Taoist priest's exhortation to ask for another lottery. Time flies, and seven or eight years later, the child has reached the age when he should go to school (local rural children generally start school late, and eight years old is the normal age), but just a few days before the school starts, something happened to the child. Early that morning, the child went out to play with a few older children, and the family didn't pay much attention to it. In the countryside, the children are relatively precocious, and the age of seven or eight is already half-grown. The older ones followed, theoretically nothing would happen, but it turned out that the child was fine when he went out during the day, but when he came back at night, he suddenly became very dull, as if he had lost his soul.That night, when the child went out on the front foot, Li Zhen went out to buy cigarettes and came home. When he opened the door, he saw a bloody head hanging on the door. Li Zhen was so frightened that he foamed on the spot. He said that he saw it wrong. There was a bamboo hat hanging on the door of the house, and a small bamboo basket was hung under the bamboo hat. At first glance, it did look a bit like a human head. It might be because it was dark, but Li Zhen insisted that he saw it. It is a human head, because the illusion is only a matter of the first glance, and the second glance will never continue to be wrong, and my first reaction at that time was also wrong, so I took another look carefully and found that it was indeed a human head. , I just fainted from fright, otherwise I am in my fifties, how could I be frothed by a broken basket that has been hanging at the door for several years? Later, the family also asked the child where he went and what he did that day, but the child refused to tell, and insisted that he had been with other children in the village all the time, even going to Niangniang Mountain to play for a while, and other children also said the same.Unexpectedly, on the second night, Li Zhen's daughter-in-law got up at night, and when she opened her eyes, she found someone outside the window looking straight at her. She was so frightened that she groaned and passed out.After Li Zhen was awakened by his wife, he also saw a person standing outside the window. After being frightened, he took a closer look and found that the person standing outside turned out to be his son. He was so angry that he opened the window and stretched out his arm. After the slap, he woke up like a dream, saying that he didn't know why he was standing here. Since that time, this child has been abnormal, always talking about things, making this Li Zhen in a state of distress all day long, who is more than ten years younger than Li Laoer, and looks younger than Li Laoer still old. After several months of tossing like this, many people said that something unclean must have entered Li Zhen's house, and advised Li Zhen to find a gentleman to take a look. At this time, Li Zhen remembered the exhortation of the Taoist priest who released the lottery and asked him to ask for another lottery. , Hastily took his son to Wudang Mountain to ask for another lottery, and the result was that "the body is afraid of Rengui and the heart is afraid of water, and it is livable to go down the mountain and don't climb high." At this time, the Taoist priest who released the sign was no longer the Taoist priest who told Li Zhen back then. Li Zhen himself didn't remember the sign. Rengui water", "the body is afraid of Rengui and the heart is afraid of the water" shows that the child's nemesis is in the north, and "the livable mountain should not climb high" is easy to understand, that is to say, it is best for the child to live at the bottom of the mountain and avoid going to high places in this life. Only in a place can we ensure our health.This made Li Zhen completely stupid. The child went to Niangniang Mountain, and this Niangniang Mountain is just north of his home. It is both the north and the mountain. Both unreliable things have been taken up. Can something happen? "Afterwards, the family also invited the husband, and they all said it was all right, nothing, but they said, the child is abnormal!" Li Laoer frowned, and the two mung beans stared at Zhang Guozhong, "Zhang Banxian , Zhang Shenxian, my second brother Li is a dead horse and a living horse, whether there is one or not, please take a look, will it work?" "Your nephew's birth date, do you know?" Listening to Li Laoer's nonsensical talk for a long time about his nephew going to Niangniang Mountain, Zhang Guozhong felt that the whole thing was not suspicious about Niangniang Mountain, but that Li Zhen took his son from The lottery obtained from Wudang Mountain.It is not difficult to ask for a lottery, but solving a lottery is definitely a university question. There is a saying in Taoism about "three points and seven divisions" when it comes to asking for a lottery, which shows the importance of lottery.In Zhang Guozhong's view, more than 90% of the signatures have a hidden meaning that is far greater than the literal meaning. It is even possible that the literal meaning is completely different from the literal meaning, or it may be completely opposite. However, the Taoist priests in Wudang Mountain obviously failed to do so at the moment. I have an insight into the deep meaning of the signature, but just translated the signature "just sign it". "Hey, I don't know about this, but my brother knows. If you have time, let's go directly to his house when you come down from the mountain. I will be the host at night!" Seeing that Zhang Guozhong seemed to agree, Li Laoer obviously agreed. It's a lot easier. On Niangniang Mountain, Zhang Guozhong did not find any valuable clues.This Niangniang Mountain is somewhat similar to the Shuangta Mountain back then. Although the mountain is not big, it is not so small that you can find the target with a compass.Probably due to the thick rock formations on the mountain, the compass seemed to have completely lost its response to the so-called secret passage leading to Baizhang Lake. After wandering around to no avail, Zhang Guozhong simply dragged Yang Zhou and Li Laoer to Li Zhen's house. Li Shuai's so-called nephew is called Li Shuai. According to Zhang Guozhong's aesthetics, he is indeed quite handsome. His tiger-headed and tiger-headed appearance is quite the charm of Zhang Yicheng when he was young, but this child's eyes are a little dull at the moment, and snot is flowing from his mouth. I don't know how to wipe it, it looks sloppy at first glance. "This kid wasn't like this before." Li Zhen seemed to have seen Zhang Guozhong's thoughts, "I used to be smart, alas, I'm all to blame for this. If I had thought about asking for a lottery, I wouldn't be able to let him go up the mountain even if I died!" "Young man, how old are you?" Zhang Guozhong patted Li Shuai's head, and looked at the compass with the other hand. Everything was normal. "Eight years old." Li Shuai looked up at Zhang Guozhong, "Master, how old are you?" "I..." This question made Zhang Guozhong dumbfounded. To be honest, this is the first time he has heard someone call him "Master" in his life, and he feels somewhat depressed. "Go! No matter how old you are, have you ever asked an elder like this?" Li Zhen seemed to know a little bit of etiquette, "When you ask an elder, you have to ask how old you are." "Master, how old are you?" This Li Shuai was quite obedient, and he learned it immediately after listening to his father. "I'm forty-eight years old." Zhang Guozhong almost burst into tears. The couple sang together very harmoniously, but the question is, are you that old? "Hey, Zhang Banxian, are you forty-eight?" Zhang Guozhong said this, and Li's second son who was sitting on the side was immediately surprised, "Then you are so tender! I just told my brother and wife that you are young and promising. , after a long time, you are three years younger than me!" Hearing what Li Laoer said, Zhang Guozhong really wanted to die. Uncle and Grandpa yelled all the way, and after a long time of trouble, this "Uncle Li" is three years older than himself. Rural people like to count "false years". In terms of one year old, this "Uncle Li" might be no more than three years older than himself, and then he lost his "face tenderness". "There's nothing wrong with this child, I'd better take a look at this house." Zhang Guozhong had no choice but to change the topic when talking about this. "Hey, okay, okay, please look at the house!" Li Zhen and Li's second son followed Zhang Guozhong out of the house.