Chapter 633: Hutou Village (I)
"But before I tell you about Kunlun, you need to go to Hutou Village. ”
"Hutou Village, but the weird Hutou Village rumored in the feng shui world?"
Qin Feng looked puzzled and asked rhetorically.
"That's right, it's that Tiger Head Village. ”
Valkyrie Xia Xue nodded.
Affirming Xia Xue, Qin Feng fell silent.
The Hutou Village that the other party said, Qin Feng knew and heard the rumors of this weird Hutou Village.
According to legend in the feng shui world, in the late Northern Song Dynasty, the county magistrate of Pixian County was named Zhang Zihan, he was clever and good at management, and recently he found a solid backer, there are rumors in the officialdom that after this year, he will be promoted to the prefect of Ruyang.
On this day, Hou Jie, a poetry collector, led his servant Zhao Shouyi to Pixian County, and Zhang County Ling was holding a banquet in the back hall to entertain him.
Suddenly hearing the sound of the drums outside, Zhang Xianling hurriedly stood up, hugged his fists at Hou Jie and said, "Hou Shiguan, don't accompany you!"
Zhang Xianling led the officials to the court, and when he looked at the entrance of the hall, he saw three ordinary people in coarse cloth clothes kneeling at the entrance of the hall.
These three people are all villagers in Hutou Village, this county.
Hutou Village is a small village, there are only about 20 families in total, because it is backed by the majestic Hutou Ridge, so it is named Hutou Village.
As soon as the leading villager Ding Lao Er said the situation, Zhang Xianling's nose was almost crooked, it turned out that there was a robbery in Hutou Village, and the thieves stole three copper coins, a bag of mountain goods and half a jar of pickles hidden on the beams of the house.
These three robberies were so small that they couldn't even hold chopsticks.
Zhang Xianling was impatient, he asked the three villagers to fill out a lost slip each, and then so-so sent a few of his subordinates to catch the thief.
Early the next morning, Hou Jie was about to say goodbye to Zhang County, and then went to the countryside to collect poems, when he saw two headhunters from Pi County, escorting a cockroach thief with a sharp beak and monkey cheeks into the county office.
This thief's name is Tian Ermao, and he is the thief who stole the property of the people of Hutou Village.
Tian Ermao was selling stolen mountain goods in the morning market before dawn today, and he was being caught by these two catchers.
Tian Ermao confessed to the fact of stealing Hutou Village, and Zhang County ordered Tian Ermao to be beaten with 20 boards, and then ordered him to hand over 10 taels of silver, which was more than enough to compensate the villagers of Hutou Village for their losses.
Hou Jie's ears were full of the name of Hutou Village that day, and he turned his head to his personal companion Zhao Shouyi and said, "I want to go to Hutou Village to collect poems and folk songs!"
Zhang Xianling persuaded Hou Jie for a long time and didn't let him go to the place where rabbits don't, but Hou Jie couldn't go, Zhang Xianling had no choice but to send two men to protect Hou Jie.
Hou Jie rode a donkey, a group of four people walked for a long time, and then came to the entrance of Hutou Village, Zhao Shouyi, who led the donkey, looked at the majestic mountains of Hutou Ridge behind Hutou Village, and he exclaimed: "The dragon is panning and the tiger is standing, the phoenix is Tengjiao, good feng shui, good feng shui, but unfortunately there is a problem in the direction of the ditch mouth of the village!"
Zhao Shouyi means that if the direction of the entrance of Hutou Village is due south, the tombs of the ancestors of whose families are buried here, and the descendants of whose families will definitely be able to pass the martial arts championship!"
Hou Jie still knows Zhao Shouyi's details very well, when he was in the capital, he once worked as a feng shui master who fooled people for a few years.
Hutou Village is really poor, more than 20 old thatched houses leak everywhere, the courtyard walls are all crooked and broken fences, and occasionally chickens and dogs show their heads on the street, and they are all wilted and have no spirit.
Hou Jie turned east and west, looking for folk songs, but the villagers told him that the people here were so poor that people could not get enough food and clothing, so how could they have the leisure to sing any songs?
Hou Jie had no choice but to inquire all the way, and finally came to the house of Lao Lizheng in Hutou Village.
There is an old man in his eighties in Hutou Village, not only his hair and beard are all white, but his teeth are about to fall out.
Don't look at his family's poverty, but he is holding a delicate wine gourd in both hands.
Ding Laoer, who lost the money, and two other villagers who lost mountain goods and pickles, were telling Lao Li about the specific situation of the theft.
Not long ago, Ding Lao Er hid the three hanging copper coins in the grass on the roof of his house, and after the copper coins were stolen, he re-checked the place where the coins were hidden today.
But Ding Lao Er reached out to hide the money, and grabbed a handful of freshly dried house grass.
Hou Jie looked at the new house grass that Ding Lao took in the second-hand hand, and he said in wonder: "Hey, how can the new house grass appear on the old roof of Toma ten years ago?"
The second family lost a bag of pecans, weighing more than 100 catties, and the third family lost half a jar of pickles was even more terrifying, weighing more than 200 catties.
Tian Ermao's physique is thin and weak, and his strength is naturally not great, so let him carry three hundred catties of things out of the village, let alone a person, the ghost will not believe it.
Hou Jie asked Lao Lizheng suspiciously: "You have lived in Hutou Village for many years, have you recently found anything abnormal in Hutou Village?"
Lao Lizheng said: "If you want to say that it is abnormal, there is really an abnormality!"
It was still a month ago, when Zhang County Commander showed compassion for the poverty of the villagers of Hutou Village, and he sent the beauty of the county's repair of the embankment of the Muddy River to Hutou Village.
The salary for repairing the river embankment is ten copper coins per person a day, two catties of white rice, such a generous salary is purely a good thing for the villagers of Hutou Village.
More than 50 men, women and children from Hutou Village went out to the village for a while, and in the end, only the old man of Hutou Village was left guarding the village.
The villagers had been there for exactly a month, and when they returned, they found that many of their homes had been burglarized.
When Lao Li finished speaking, he took the delicate wine gourd at the head of the bed, took a sip of wine, and said: "The foreman who repaired the river embankment is really a good official, and he sent someone to bring me a gourd of good wine......
Before Lao Li finished speaking, he fell drunk on the bed and snored.
Hou Jie took the wine gourd in surprise, he dropped a few drops of wine to import, after a while, Hou Jie only felt that his tongue was straight, and his words were not effective, he pointed to the wine gourd and said: "This wine, this wine has a problem!"
There is really something wrong with the wine in this wine gourd, after a few drops of wine, Hou Jie felt that his tongue was stiff and unconscious, if he really drank half a catty and eight taels, he would not have to sleep for several days?
After Hou Jie finished speaking, he took out a pink pill from his arms and stuffed it into Lao Lizheng's mouth, as the medicinal power of this pill bloomed, Lao Lizheng shook his head a few times, and also woke up from the coma.
Hou Jie talked about his suspicions, and Lao Lizheng and Ding Lao Er were stunned together.
Ding Lao Er looked at Hou Jie and said suspiciously: "In addition to being dilapidated, our Hutou Village is poor, if anyone makes up their minds with us, they are really blind!"