Section 17 The serpent beats the drum, and the ox rides the man
In ancient times, there was a place called Phoenix Mountain, where there was a village surnamed Wang, and there was a good man named Wang Zhengyou in the village, his family was not very rich, but it was also one of the best solid families in the village. This year, Wang Zhengyou's father died, a blind date within a hundred miles of his family came to mourn, there was an old feng shui gentleman named Shi Laishun heard it, and couldn't help but be sad, he and Wang Zhengyou's father is an old friend, he still remembers that if there was no Wang Zhengyou's father, there would be no current him. Therefore, he decided to use his life's learning to find a peerless treasure to bury his old friend.
And Wang Zhengyou also happened to plan to let his father's old friend Shi Laishun preside over his father's burial. Came to Wang Zhengyou's house, Shi Laishun couldn't take a break and rushed to the back mountain with a compass, after a day of checking the pulse, Shi Laishun finally selected a wonderful place. Looking from afar, I saw that this treasure land seemed to be on top of the head of a phoenix.
According to custom, after the death of an ordinary person, they should stay at home for three days, and on the third day, they should choose an auspicious time for burial. But Shi Laishun did not choose any auspicious time this time, he just asked everyone to carry the coffin of the old lady Wang to the grave early on the third day, and then he instructed everyone to say that when the snake beat the drum and the ox rode the man, he would be buried. After hearing this, the crowd was puzzled, where was the snake beating the drum and the ox riding the man happening? Seeing Shi Laishun's serious expression, everyone had no choice but to wait and see what happened.
But waiting, it was noon, it was the height of summer, everyone was thirsty and tired, everyone couldn't help but complain, but Shi Laishun was not in a hurry, he asked everyone to wait. After a short time, suddenly the weather changed, and I saw dark clouds on the horizon, and everyone knew that a storm was coming. Sure enough, after a while, the heavy raindrops poured down, and then a man with a sheepskin drum passed by, and when the rain came, he put the drum on his head to cover the rain, but it happened that there was a sudden thunder, and the frightened eagle threw the snake he had just caught from the air, and just hit the drum and made a sound. When everyone saw this scene, they were all surprised to think that this was not just a snake playing a drum. As soon as he walked to the coffin of the old lady, the cow stopped and gave birth to a little cow and came out, and the cow driver looked at the crowd not far away, and without saying a word, he drove the cow away in a hurry.
At this time, Shi Laishun hurriedly beckoned everyone to be buried, and on the third day after the burial of Mrs. Wang, the people of Zhaozhuang on the opposite side suddenly found that all the chickens and dogs in their village did not crow. At first, the people of Zhao Zhuang didn't care, but after a long time, it aroused the suspicion of the people of Zhao Zhuang, and after they found a Mr. Yin and Yang to observe on the spot, they learned that the location of the tomb of the old lady Wang on the opposite side was too good, and a strong aura had been formed, which affected the livestock of Zhao Zhuang. In order to avoid further aggravation of the influence, the people of Zhao Zhuang worked together to build a huge wall to block the power of the old lady Wang's aura. What is a wall? It is a wall or stone monument built by the people in order to block the evil and avoid evil. Strange to say, since the construction of the wall, the chickens and dogs of the Zhaozhuang people have returned to normal, and since then almost everyone in the local area knows that the old lady Wang was buried in the treasure land of feng shui, and the influence of the Wang family has been further expanded.
One night, Wang Zhengyou had a strange dream, in which he saw a beautiful big bird and said to him, "Your family has done good deeds and accumulated virtue for generations, and can afford the blessings of the blessed land, but if you want to be blessed, you have to wait for another three years, and I will take all the livestock here to a distant place, and in these three years, you must do your best to make the whole village not slaughter the livestock and feed them well, and after three years, I will return your livestock ten times as much, remember!
When he woke up the next day, Wang Zhengyou felt suspicious, after all, the outside world now knows that their family's grave is well hidden, and many people have said in private that their Wang family will definitely be rich and rich, and even several families who are not in harmony with his family are now taking the initiative to make friends with them. But after all, it was a dream, did Wang Zheng pay much attention to it, but he had been repeating the same dream for several nights, Wang Zhengyou felt that this thing might be true, and he was sure that the beautiful big bird that gave him the dream was the phoenix where his grave was located. So he mobilized his family, persuaded the whole village, and promised his family to pay for all the livestock raising. The next morning, after this was done, all the livestock in the village went limp as if they had lost their souls.
Three years later, one day, all the livestock in Wang Village suddenly regained their vitality. This made Wang Zhengyou also relieved, he has almost exhausted his family wealth in the past three years, and he has also suffered countless cold words. But this made Wang Zhengyou even more convinced that his good days would come.
And this is indeed the case, a year later, the number of livestock in Wang Village reached ten times as before, Wang Zhengyou family is even more amazing, his three sons are a high school champion, one is a businessman, and one is at home guarding the family business to Wang Zhengyou and his wife are filial piety.
It is said that there are no more than three generations of poverty and no more than three generations of wealth, and when Wang Zhengyou's family business reached the hands of his grandson Wang Liye, all this changed. It turned out that Wang Liye didn't know who he had listened to, so he had to build a temple in his family's cemetery, and it was said that building a temple would make his family richer. The location where the temple was built was on top of a towering boulder, which is exactly where the phoenix's head is located. But the temple he wanted to build was extremely unsmooth at the beginning, and the people he invited couldn't drive the pile, and finally he was there in person, and he drove it for three days day and night before he got into the pile, and when the pile was driven down, blood suddenly flowed from the boulder.
The temple was eventually built, but the more wealth that Wang Liye longed for did not come, on the contrary, bad luck continued, and within a few years the huge family business completely decayed.
Therefore, whether people are poor or rich, they must maintain a kind heart, do not take ill-gotten gains when they are poor, and do not be insatiable when they are rich. In this way, the good fortune will continue to flow.