The rich merchant was shocked, this land originally had an owner, so how can this tomb be cultivated, and the old man's tomb can't be stacked on top of it, right? I saw that the letter read: "Wealth is a thought, the old cave is looking for Longyuan, going west for a hundred and ten steps, and forming a good relationship under the tomb." ”

The rich merchant took this piece of paper and thought about these twenty words for a whole day, and slowly realized the deep meaning. The meaning of this poem should be to say that the location of the ancient tomb was set wrong, and the owner of the ancient tomb originally wanted to find the dragon's den, but did not want to get it in the current place, and became a rich cave, and a hundred and ten steps to the west is where the dragon's den is located. Then the master's idea must be to move this ancient tomb to the west, and then move his father's tomb in. In this way, the owner of the ancient tomb got the dragon's lair, and he got the rich and noble cave, isn't it just a good fate?

Thinking of this, the wealthy businessman was overjoyed and hurriedly arranged for the workers to move the grave. Rich businessmen usually like to collect some antiques, calligraphy and paintings, or some research on antiquities, open the ancient tomb to see, although the area is not small, but the burial things are very shabby, only some clay pots, bronze weapons, a small amount of jade, plus the age, the coffin has long been decayed. But judging from the shape of the burial goods, it should be a noble tomb in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

The rich merchant dug up the ancient tomb while arranging manpower to re-excavate the new tomb at a place of 100 steps to the west of the ancient tomb, and when the new tomb was almost dug up, he began to dig out the masonry of the ancient tomb and moved it over, and if the decay was serious, he made up for it with new bricks. After all the remains of the coffin and the burial goods were moved, the rich merchant also invited a group of monks to do water and land rituals for seven days, and everything was properly arranged, and the rich merchant began to continue digging under the ancient tomb.

He did not build a tomb on the original basis of the ancient tomb, because of the master's sentence "good karma under the tomb", and the master must mean digging deeper under the tomb. The wealthy merchant arranged for craftsmen to completely cut open the base of the ancient tomb and dig down a foot deep. At this time, a natural cave that had been concealed was revealed.

The wealthy merchant was shocked, could this be the wealth of the first life that the master said? Calculating the time, it was precisely seven days after the tomb was moved, and it turned out that the burial that the master said was not referring to his own old man, but to the old master in the ancient tomb.

The rich merchant hurriedly led people into the cave to investigate, and not far after climbing in, the craftsman in front of him took a black and shiny stone out. The rich merchant held the stone and looked at it, but he recognized that it was a piece of coal stone. Before the Jiaqing year of the Qing Dynasty, coal essence stone was only produced in Fushun, Liaoning, but it was the land of Longxing in the Qing Dynasty, with eight banners guarded and heavily guarded.

In the Jiaqing Dynasty, a lot of coal essence stone was mined in Sichuan Zizhong. The literati of the Qing Dynasty believed that coal essence stone is the soul of coal, and it is the same as jade, and it is spiritual, coupled with the fact that the hardness of coal essence stone is not high, it is easy to carve, and most of them are used to make seals, which is quite popular in Beijing. But coal is very rare, and sometimes the whole coal mine may not be able to produce a piece, so it is a very valuable mineral at that time.

When the rich merchant saw that he had dug up the coal essence stone, he immediately understood what the master meant by wealth and wealth. He immediately arranged for the craftsmen to stop working, and found a feng shui place for the old man to be buried, but he took his family wealth, moved around the government, won the permission to open a mine in the mountain, and built a mine to mine coal with great fanfare.

In less than five years, the wealthy businessman has become one of the leading wealthy businessmen in Shanxi, with money villages, silver buildings, and coal shops all over Shanxi and Zhili, and he also spent a lot of money to donate a six-pin state judgment, and became a figure calling for wind and rain in Guangling.

Ten years later, the coal was excavated, and Chengjialing became an ordinary coal mine, and from then on, the wealthy merchants began to decline. However, in three years, he was investigated for being involved in the corruption case of the political envoy of Zhili, and he was in a hurry and died. Soon, his huge estate fell apart, and his children and grandchildren fought non-stop for the family property. By the Daoguang period, the coal mines of Chengjialing had become the only source of income for the descendants of wealthy merchants.

However, in the autumn of the fifteenth year of Daoguang, a karmic fire fell from the sky and burned down the mansion of the wealthy merchant in Guangling. Then there were successive fires in the coal mine, burning more than 100 miners, and Li Wenqi, who was known for his honesty in Guanglingzhi County at that time, refused the bribes of the descendants of wealthy businessmen, sealed off the coal mine, confiscated his family property, and gave relief to the families of the dead miners. At this point, the descendants of wealthy merchants completely lost their family business, so that they had to beg on the streets to spend their days. This is in response to the prophecy of the Feng Shui master of the year.

After reading this record, I have confirmed that the Chengjialing mine in the Ming and Qing dynasties has a history of sealing and digging, digging and sealing, and the closure of the mine seems to be related to karmic fire, but what is this karmic fire?

The earliest origin of the word karmic fire comes from Buddhist scriptures, which says that bad karma harms the body, such as fire, which is the fire that sinners who receive negative karmic retribution receive in hell. In the "Lengyan Sutra", it is said: "Ananda, all of them are dried up with karmic fire, and they are paid for their debts, and they are animals." Su Shi also wrote in "Water and Land Law Portrait Praise: All Hell Beings", "When you think of it, the karma is blazing, not human burns you, but you burn yourself." But the karmic fire here is obviously a figure of speech, a metaphor, that the person who does evil will eventually set himself on fire, not the fire that exists in the real world.

But whether it is Zeng Wanchun's book or the miner Lao Li's statement, this karmic fire is real, otherwise they can directly use "fire" and "fire" to describe it, why use such an awkward word? Of course, there is also a possibility, that is, this fire has never been seen, how the fire is ignited, how fierce, and how it is extinguished, these are all mysteries, so they use the word karmic fire that no one has ever seen before.

Indeed, judging from the photos of the crime scene given to me by the Cao team the day before yesterday, this fire is indeed very strange. According to common sense, the outer flame temperature of the flame is the highest, and the inner flame temperature is low, and the reason is very simple, the outer flame is in more complete contact with the air, the combustion is more complete, and the heat released is greater. But in the photo, a black circle was left in the area where the burning occurred. There is only one possibility: the inner flame is hotter, and the objects that burn in the inner flame are not even ashes, while the outer flame is cooler, leaving behind a circle of inadequately burned carbon particles. But how is this happening? Is there such a thing as spontaneous combustion by the human body? But even if the human body spontaneously combusts, there should be some regularity, right?

Thinking of this, I suddenly realized a problem, and hurriedly asked Director Qi for the photo he had taken in the Dongyang Taoist Temple just now. When I first looked at those photos, my attention was on the blurred picture and the subject that the camera was aiming at, and I didn't pay attention to other details of the photos, and I found that one of the photos should be in the courtyard of the Taoist temple, and it was taken in the main hall, and the camera was placed low, and there was more white space below, and the bluestone steps in front of the main hall were photographed.

On the top step, there is a vague black circle, which is very similar to the burning residue in the photo of the crime scene.

I picked up the photo of the faceless ghost again, and in the lower left corner of the photo, on the stone bricks of the main hall, I also had half a black circle. Maybe it's very old, it's very bleak, and it's easy to ignore if you don't look closely.

I pointed to the black circles on the photo and asked Director Qi, "Old Qi, did you pay attention to these circles when you took the photos back then?

Lao Qi nodded, "Of course I noticed, there were several in the courtyard at that time, and there were also in the main hall, not only Dongyang Village, but also nearby Xiatian Village and Yukou Village, I have been to several ancient temples, and there are traces of such circles in the courtyard, and they are not all in the temples, the fields around Chengjialing will occasionally be encountered, but on the dirt ground, it rains in summer, and the snow is buried in winter, and it will soon disappear, and the traces on the blue bricks and stone bricks of the ancient temple can be retained for a long time." ”

Lao Qi paused for a moment, and then continued, "About two years ago, I saw one in the rice field of Yukou Village, a one-foot-square black circle in the wheat field, with a layer of ash powder inside, but there was no trace of the wheat stalks outside the circle burning. ”

"Then Lao Qi, what do you think caused these black circles?" I hurriedly asked.

Lao Qi shook his head, "I can't tell, I've never seen it with my own eyes, and I haven't heard anyone say that I have seen the formation of this strange circle, but an old man in the county told me that this circle was formed when the spirit creatures crossed the tribulation." It is said that the mountain of Chengjialing has spiritual power, and it is a dojo for the cultivation of ancient immortals. The snakes, rats, and hedgehogs on the mountain also followed the cultivation, and after a long time of cultivation, they all became fine, and in order to cross the tribulation and ascend to immortals, they all gathered near the temple. The place of the catastrophe will leave such a circle. Of course, this is just folklore, after all, no one has seen it with their own eyes. ”

Lao Qi's statement made me think deeply again. On the surface, this statement seems to make some sense, but on closer inspection, it is still full of loopholes. After all, Lao Qi has seen a lot of such black circles with his own eyes, judging from his description, there are at least a dozen, so isn't it an astronomical amount that he hasn't seen? The time required for spiritual objects to cultivate immortals is extremely long, and he has never heard of gathering together to cultivate immortals, the key is that the matter of crossing the catastrophe is even rarer, that is the cultivation to the extreme, it will only happen, and it depends on the creation, it is very accidental, within a radius of less than dozens of miles, spiritual objects frequently cross the catastrophe, this probability is too high. If this is the case, then Chengjialing has long been densely populated with temples and has become a holy mountain. But the reality is clearly not.

There is also a more important point, thirteen black circles have just appeared in Chengjialing Town, and it is obvious that it is impossible for the thirteen miners to all cultivate immortals in the mine, and then meet to survive the catastrophe, which is unreasonable. And I and the Cao team were in Dongyang Village that night, and we saw the weasel immolating to death, which should be a rare sighting of the tragedy in Chengjialing, I passed by the weasel, its crazy state, I am absolutely sure that the weasel is by no means a cultivator, and it is definitely not a tragedy.

(A good man, enlightened by his own nature, non-sexually existent, follows all natures, has no evidence or evidence, and in reality, there are no bodhisattvas and sentient beings.) Bodhisattvas and sentient beings are all transfigurations, transfigurations and extinctions, and there is no evidence. For example, the root of the eye, not seeing the eye, the sexual self-equal, the unequal. All sentient beings are fascinated and fail to eliminate all illusions, and they are distinguished in the function of extinguishing and not extinguishing delusion. If it is as it comes, there is no extinction and no extinction. --"Yuanjue Sutra")