Chapter 66 Chapter 66 Nine Phoenix Chaoyang

Early the next morning, we drove straight to our destination. Not far from Sihetun, the car drove off the country road and headed west along the ridge.The surrounding trees are overgrown, the weeds are messy, and it is very desolate.After walking a short distance, we saw several steles not far from the road. We stopped the car curiously and found out that it was a cemetery for revolutionary martyrs. It is estimated that our car is too eye-catching. A fellow villager with a hoe happened to pass by. After seeing our car, he walked over and asked us vigilantly what we do? Seeing people ask, there is no way, so we have to repeat the old tricks and put on the guise of the Folk Culture Protection Association.Tell the villagers, we heard that there is a princess mausoleum here, and this time we came here to inspect it specially to see if it is worth protecting or developing.

The old man looked at us, shook his head and told us that Gongzhuling has long since disappeared!When he was a child, he had seen a house there with some stone statues at the door, but later the house was gone and it became a barren hillock.The surrounding area has been reclaimed and farmed, and has no value, not to mention development, and even protection. Feeling that the old avatar knew some details, I hurried over to pass a cigarette, warmly lit the fire, and got close to him. After chatting for a while, I found out that the old man's surname is Sun, he is seventy-six this year, and he grew up in this area since he was a child.According to him, after passing the village of the fourth team of Xinqiao, there is Panjiatun, and the east of the village is Gongzhuling.A long time ago, there was a small house with a ridge on that land, with a courtyard wall and a gatehouse. It was a neat quadrangle.There are tall trees in front of and behind the house, and there is a tall pole erected in the yard, which is higher than the roof, like a flagpole, with a three-pronged branch on the top.In the earliest days, there was an old man living there, the mausoleum guard, who had been watching the cemetery here for generations.After the Japanese came, the place was burned down, and there was nothing but a few bricks and tiles.

Da Ya frowned after hearing this, and asked, "What the hell? Three-pronged branch? Is it a lightning rod?" The old man also shook his head, apparently not knowing what the three-pronged branch was. Liu Ye rolled her eyes, picked up a branch from the ground, squatted on the ground and began to draw.After painting, I asked Lao Suntou if the three-pronged branch he mentioned was similar to the one she painted. The three forks drawn by willow leaves have slightly longer tips in the middle and shorter ones at both ends, in the shape of a "mountain", and the overall shape is slightly egg-shaped.

The old grandson looked down for a long time, closed his eyes and thought about it again, finally nodded, and told us that the three-branched branch on the pole erected in the yard was very similar to the one drawn by willow leaves, and it was more beautiful than the one drawn by willow leaves. It's going to be flatter, but it's roughly the same. Da Ya and I couldn't help being taken aback, glanced at Liu Ye, wondering how Liu Ye would know these things.But with the old grandson here, it is not easy to ask more questions now, so I can only suppress my curiosity and smile embarrassingly.

Liu Ye told us with a smile that this thing is called "Sulu Ding", which is the invincible flag emblem and mascot of Genghis Khan during his expedition.The Mongolian iron cavalry army took it to conquer the Yuan Dynasty and established a great cause for thousands of years.This Su Lu Ding is actually more like the military flag of the Han people. As long as it does not fall on the battlefield, it means that the Mongolian army has not failed!Be the pride of the Mongolian army. Not only Uncle Sun, but also Da Ya and I heard what Liu Ye said for the first time.After listening to Liu Ye, the old grandson praised Liu Ye and kept praising Liu Ye's knowledge. Unlike him, it was as if he was blind, and he didn't know what it was when he saw it.

I smiled and said to the old grandson: "This man is good at different things. You can't say that, that's what we do. By the way, sir, does the tomb guard you mentioned still know whereabouts?" ?” Lao Suntou shook his head: "I don't know. If you want to ask, you have to ask the old Niutou in the village. I also listened to many things from the old Niutou. Don't look at the old Niutou who is over eighty years old, but there is nothing wrong with him." Don't be confused, if he doesn't know, then no one will know." The three of us looked at each other, and our hearts moved.Da Ya moved forward with a smile all over his face: "Master, that Uncle Niu you mentioned just now is from the same village as you? Which village is it near here?"

Lao Suntou pointed to the north with his hand and told us that they are all from Panjiatun, which is only a few hundred meters away from the Princess Mausoleum.The old Niutou's house is next to the village, and not far from the door is the Princess Mausoleum we are looking for. Hearing this, our hearts are alive.I quickly winked at Liu Ye, signaling Liu Ye to come forward and talk.After all, we two old gentlemen have to be more on guard when we talk, but Liu Ye is not. A girl, young and beautiful, looks pleasing to the eye, if she speaks, she will get twice the result with half the effort.

Liu Ye made a face at me, and then leaned forward: "Master, we have something to ask if you can help me. We want to meet the Uncle Niu you mentioned. Can you help guide me?" The old grandson first looked at Liu Ye, then at Da Ya and me, nodded, and let us follow him. Originally, he was going back to the village, so let's go together. Seeing that the old grandson agreed, we were immediately elated, and quickly invited the old grandson to take the passenger seat, while Da Ya and I sat in the back. It is estimated that the old grandson seldom rides in a car, and his body keeps shaking left and right. After shaking for a while, he looked back at us, sighed, and said that everything in this car is good and cool. The carriage was running vigorously, and there was a smell of gasoline.

We chatted with the old grandson for a while, and after a while, the car entered the village. As soon as we drove into the entrance of the village, the old grandson told us to stop the car, then opened the door, and jumped down dexterously. It seemed that we were used to getting out of the carriage, but it scared us. As soon as the old man landed, he heard someone talking in the yard next to him: "Hey, old grandson, where did you go to investigate work? Why are you still in the car?" The old grandson didn't even raise his head, he rushed into the yard and shouted: "Old cow, I brought you a visitor, someone wants to interview you, why don't you come out and have a look!"

As soon as the voice fell, the door was pushed open from the inside, and a short, fat old man came out, shaking a cattail fan in his hand, wearing a big vest, and looked at us curiously. When we saw someone coming out, we greeted them quickly and introduced ourselves. The rural people are simple and unpretentious, so they let us into the hospital directly, and the old grandson went back without entering the hospital if he had something to do. This small courtyard is very romantic. After entering the gate, there is a red brick road facing the door.There are three large tile-roofed houses side by side, with green doors and blue windows, red bricks and white tiles, and the colors are contrasting brightly, but they don't feel awkward at all.

The red-brick road is six or seven meters long, and on both sides are our own vegetable gardens.On the dome made of wire and bamboo strips above the head, grapes have already covered the frame, forming a natural green sunshade above the head.There were a few small benches just below, and we saw that it was quite cool here, so we sat under the grape arbor and chatted. If Lao Suntou hadn't told us, we wouldn't have been able to see that Lao Niutou was over eighty years old.The old man has a ruddy complexion and a good complexion, always smiling, like a Maitreya Buddha.When he heard about our intention to come, he couldn’t help being a little excited. He pointed to the east direction of his house and told us that there used to be a lot of dry willows growing there. up.It is said that there is a geomantic treasure land of "nine phoenixes facing the sun", and a princess is buried underneath. I froze for a moment, pretended not to understand and asked Lao Niutou what was going on with the "nine phoenixes facing the sun" just now, and where did I hear it. Lao Niutou shook his cattail fan and told me unhurriedly that when he was a child, there was a yard in the cemetery, and there lived an old man named Sun, named Sun Huanzhang.Their family has been guarding the tomb for generations, and his generation is already the sixth generation.At that time, he often went to deliver some side dishes from the garden to him, and the ones who came and went got a little more familiar.According to Sun Huanzhang himself, there are nine peaks in the Tuling here, the middle peak is the highest, and the peaks on the left and right are arranged in steps, like stars holding the moon. Fengshui is called the land of nine phoenixes facing the sun, and the one he guards Mausoleum is a princess mausoleum. Hearing what the old Niutou said, I was a little more curious, wondering whether the "nine phoenixes and Chaoyang" here are enough to be "Chaoyang".You must know that this pattern is the Quaker and auspicious place in Fengshui, which can be met but not sought.This pattern requires that the mountains be connected to form a single peak, and it is used solely for the purpose of drawing Qi from the peak. It needs to come to Longpingzheng, cross the gorge to draw Qi, and at the same time extend the branches and feet left and right. It is also called "Tange Lianfang".There is such a treasure of geomantic omen in such a small place, I really want to go there right away to have a look. Old Niutou really knows a lot, and he told us vividly that he also listened to Sun Huanzhang. It is said that the earliest mausoleum was surrounded by blue brick walls, with a gate tower in the middle. After entering the gate tower, there is a brick-paved passage leading directly to the food hall. .The dining hall is three green brick and tile houses, facing south, like a temple, with a tomb passage in the middle of the hall leading to the mausoleum.The buildings at that time were old-fashioned, but they were torn down during the Russo-Japanese War, and he had never seen them before. According to Lao Niu's description, it seems that the bell princess of Mongolia was not buried here. According to Mongolia's burial system at that time, it was impossible to have such a specification.Only the mausoleums of the Ming and Qing Dynasties have buildings on the ground and underground palaces underground.Since there are buildings on the ground here, it seems likely that they are the tombs of Gu Lun and Princess Jing, and this is why the mausoleum was built according to the burial system of the Qing Dynasty. I looked at the old bull head and said with a smile: "Uncle Niu, I don't know if you are inconvenient, can you take us to have a look? We want to go to the site for a field survey." The old bull looked at us with a cattail fan, and said, "What's so interesting about that place? It's already a wasteland. If you really want to go, I'll take you there to have a look, but there's really nothing to see. gone." After leaving the east end of the village, there is a corn field.The old bull head led us to find a small hairy road with ditches and ridges. After passing through a few hundred meters of crop fields, we saw a piece of barren soil buns. The old Niutou pointed to the weedy bumpkin under his feet, and told us that this is it. The three of us couldn't help grinning, there was no sign of a mausoleum here, it seemed like a barren meadow that couldn't be more ordinary.The loess is facing the sky, the ground is full of pits, uneven, and bowl-sized hoof marks can be seen everywhere.The wild grass has reached the ankles, and not even a decent old tree can be seen on the two acres of wasteland. We walked around a few times, one foot deep and one foot shallow, and found nothing except a few blue bricks and broken tiles. The old Niutou pointed to us the approximate location of the food hall and the surrounding walls, stood at the gate of the year, and told us about the situation here.He pointed to the mountain behind and told us that it was the mountain of "nine phoenixes facing the sun". In the early days, there were many trees on this mountain. Later, every house in the village was cut down to the same extent. The mountain has grown, and the trees on it are all small trees that have only been planted in the past few years. Several undulating mountains are almost connected together, but it really looks like a spirit dragon, coiled there, the mouth of the dragon is facing south, and the body of the dragon is winding. I asked Big Tooth and Liu Ye to accompany the old Niutou to wait for me here, while I ran and bumped up the mountain.I raised my toes and looked around. Looking south, I could see Hirakawa like a blanket.Looking north, there are many mountains and mountains, and there are endless greenery.The sun is shining in the wild, and the purple mist is misty.Not far away is a pool of clear water, sparkling, flowing slowly, shaped like a perfect golden bowl, it is really a place of precious water, and I can't help but admire it. We didn't say much else, let Liu Ye take a few photos casually, and briefly sketched the overall terrain here. Seeing that there was nothing else to see here, the photos were almost taken, and So I hurried back home. On the way back from the original road, I asked the old Niutou if he knew where the last guardian of the tomb lived now. The old Niutou was stunned, looked back at me, shook his head, and told us that he lived in Majiatun at the earliest, but he seemed to have moved away later, no one knows where he went, and there is no place now I found it.Speaking of this, he sighed and kindly told us that there is actually nothing here, and there is nothing worth protecting. Let us stop messing around here and waste our time. We smiled and said that we were also assigned by our superiors for routine research. As for the next step, we had to go back and report before listening to instructions. After sending Lao Niutou home, we drove away from the village. In the car, Da Ya couldn't wait to ask me if I saw any tricks, and if this is the place we are looking for this time. I looked at the topographic map I had drawn just now, and compared it with the map spelled out with beads, and told Da Ya, from the map, it should be here, but the exact location is still uncertain, but the general direction is not That's right, the shape of the mountain and the direction of the river are roughly the same. It should not be far from here, but I always feel that something is wrong here. This mausoleum is a bit suspicious. Liu Ye kept driving the car, listening to our conversation, but didn't talk much to each other. Hearing what I said, she looked back at me curiously. I put down the map in my hand and told them that this is indeed a geomantic treasure, but the location of the mausoleum is not right. According to the location and size of the food hall, the location of the gatehouse should be under the foot I stepped on at that time. , but there are no architectural traces there at all. The requirements of this kind of architecture in the past were extremely strict, ranging from the small ratio of doors and windows to the ratio of the depth and width of the hall, which would not be violated in the case of royal tombs. Low-level mistake. When Liu Ye heard it, she said "oh", and asked with some doubts: "You mean, the buildings here are not in compliance with regulations?" I nodded: "I have looked carefully. According to the location of the dining hall, there is no trace of construction at the gate tower, and the rammed earth is also gone. But about five meters to the side, it looks like there are some traces of construction. However, it is obviously not in a straight line with the food hall. The buildings on the mausoleum are all on a central axis, and they pay attention to Feng Shui, so how could they be built crookedly?" After hearing this, Da Ya shook his head: "Could it be that there is not enough space? Could it be that the direction measurement is wrong?" I glanced at Da Ya, and snorted, "Here? Two hundred years ago, it was all grasslands. It's impossible that there wasn't enough space, and it's even more impossible to go in the wrong direction. That would be a big crime to lose your head." Da Ya also felt that what he just said was unreliable, so he kept nodding after listening to me. I guess there must be a reason for doing this, but I don't know what it is for.It's really hard to figure out, it's impossible for craftsmen to make their own ideas, this was a matter of exterminating the nine clans in the past, and it must have been constructed according to the drawings.That is to say, this is the meaning of Lord Qianlong, but why did the gatehouse be built crookedly? The gate tower is related to the overall feng shui. If it is to the left, the offspring will have long-term widows and widows; if the gate tower is to the right, there will be many diseases.The gate is narrow, and both people and wealth are defeated; the gate is large, and the tongue-in-cheek officials are not dead.For the imperial mausoleum who believed in Feng Shui, it would be a bit strange if they didn't even understand these things. The car quickly fell into silence, and no one said anything. The windows are green, the mountains are also inlaid with terraced fields, and the river in the distance flows around like a blue ribbon.The sky is high and the clouds are light. Whenever I see such a sky and such a cloud, I can't help but relax. I have a sense of retreat away from the hustle and bustle. My mood is as clear and transparent as the scenery here. I looked outside the car, it was not yet noon, it was indeed a little too early to go back, so I asked Liu Ye to go around the village, drive past the village in the direction of the mountains, and then go back to have a look.After all, there was an old bull head there just now, so it was not convenient. The road conditions far exceeded our expectations. After driving for a short distance, the car could no longer go inside, so we had to get out of the car and walk forward.He carried all the things he needed on his back, looked around and saw that there were crop fields as high as a person, and estimated that no one would come in ten days and a half months, and it would be safe to leave the car here. Going forward along the foot of the mountain, the road is full of potholes, and there is no road at all, so we have to step on the place where the grass is sparse and approach the mountain. Fortunately, we had prepared long ago, wearing long clothes and trousers, and we were not afraid of being scratched by weeds, branches, or bitten by mosquitoes when we walked. It took us more than an hour to finally climb to the top of Zhongfeng. The wind blows slightly, like whispering softly in the ear.The corn at the foot of the mountain swayed eastward and westward, colliding with each other like a child who has just learned to walk, making a "rustling" sound.