The old house where I am now does not belong to the territory of Jiulong Fort, but it is the most eclectic place in Longyang Town, because its name is "Phoenix Fort", and there is a big river between Phoenix Fort and Kowloon Fort, called "Houtu River".

The source of its meaning is: Kowloon is nine mountains, representing the male yang, that is, "Huangtian"; The river is water, representing the female yin, that is, "thick soil", and every summer when the water rises, the river is always yellow, so it is named Houtu River.

One of the strange things is that the people of the two villages have not been very harmonious since ancient times. When I was a child, the children of the two villages liked to go to the river to play, and our children in Phoenix Fort always liked to compete with the children of Kowloon Fort for a deep pond for bathing, because if the water is deep, you can hit the bottom of the water, and there is enough space to turn your head in the water.

Moreover, the water flow in the deep-water pond is not fast, and there are quite a lot of fish in it. I remember going to bathe in the river with Ma Peng and them before, because of a misunderstanding, Zhou Xiaohou of Jiulong Fort stomped on my thigh fiercely. It was that time that Ma Peng took our children from Phoenix Fort and the children of Kowloon Fort to fight in a group.

Phoenix Fort also used to have a feng shui name for the "Nine Dragons Playing Pearls", called "Phoenix Spreading Wings". Because Phoenix Fort is also a big mountain, almost the same as the nine mountains, and our village is attached to the foot of Phoenix Mountain, by the thick soil river.

Watching in the Longyang Temple on the top of the Jiulong Fort, the mountain shape attached to the Phoenix Treasure Fort looks like a phoenix flying down from the sky, coming fiercely, flying over the Houtu River, wanting to win the "Dragon Ball" and spread its wings and fly high.

Therefore, for a long time, the people of Phoenix Fort have taken this feng shui image theory as a reason to hate Jiulong Fort, and Phoenix Fort was also the closest place in Longyang Town at that time, but it was not occupied by their family.

Until the Liberation War, because the topography of Phoenix Fort and Jiulong Mountain together is a horn trend, up and down the river, you can go to many places, so the Kuomintang army built two pillbox platforms on the two mountains of Phoenix Fort and Jiulong Fort respectively, and put several cannons in order to block the advance of the People's Liberation Army.

But the People's Liberation Army has always been the team of the common people, and even the "tiger standing on the dragon plate" in Nanjing City has been taken, not to mention a small Longyang Town. What "dragon flying phoenix dance" is something that is useless. After taking Longyang Town, cleaning up the ** in the two bunkers, the local people changed the names of the two villages to "Phoenix Village" and "Jiulong Village" in order to commemorate the turnover.

However, there is an even more coincidental thing, our old house is where the Phoenix Fort bunker used to be. After the rout, because the temple on the top of the Jiulong Fort was destroyed, the People's Liberation Army used the Phoenix Fort with a higher address as a temporary combat command room, and the location of the bunker was on the right wing of the Phoenix. It's a pity that the sky first blesses the people's hearts, not the people's hearts, and they are wrong in the direction.

Our family came to Phoenix Fort from my great-grandfather's generation, and there are always more girls than boys in Phoenix Fort, and some families don't even have boys, so they can only choose to recruit relatives, so there are more different surnames in Phoenix Fort.

My great-grandfather came to Phoenix Fort by recruiting relatives, and I heard that my great-grandfather lost his father and mother at the age of eight, and he was helpless and helped people work everywhere, just like a wandering dandelion seed, trying to find a place to stabilize and take root strongly.

At that time, my great-grandfather was a helper in the family of the rich man who came to Phoenix Castle, and later met my great-grandmother in the village, and my great-grandfather's diligence and kindness infected my great-grandmother, and the two fell in love, and my great-grandmother was the only daughter in the family at that time, and with the consent of my great-grandmother's parents, my great-grandfather was recruited into the house, and my great-grandfather became their son-in-law.

Only later, his great-grandmother's mother added two more younger brothers to him, because the property was limited, and his great-grandfather was not a parent-child, so he could not share the real estate, fortunately, his great-grandmother was not a simple person, she used to be the chairman of the peasant association in several villages in Longyang Town, and often dealt with the People's Liberation Army living in the bunker of Phoenix Fort.

After the end of the Liberation War, when the People's Liberation Army evacuated Phoenix Fort, my great-grandmother exchanged the two big pigs that she and her great-grandfather had fed at that time for the bunker, and after the modification, our family has been rooted in the bunker ever since.

It wasn't until my father became an adult and planned to marry my mother that he felt that the bunker was too old, so he demolished the main structure of the bunker and built the second bungalow in the history of Phoenix Village. Until now, there are still two blockhouse walls in the old house, and the dragon gate under the wall is still there.

Many people are proud to be able to live in such a blessed place as Longyang Town, but a place like this should be a place with outstanding people, but from ancient times to the present, I have never heard of any Jinshi Juren, according to the Feng Shui doctrine to give the approval, at least one or two first- and second-grade court officials or something, at least a few governors or governors or the like.

In response to such a strange question, some people's explanation is that the Longyang Temple on the top of Jiulong Fort Mountain.

I heard that in the Ming Dynasty a long time ago, there was a very famous feng shui gentleman came to our Longyang Town, after watching this terrain was frightened, he proudly said that there is a good feng shui in this place, who occupies that land, there will definitely be a "soil emperor" in the future.

This remark caused a big stir at the time, and it reached the ears of the local magistrate, which can only be corrected, this is a very serious situation, if it reaches the ears of the emperor in the capital, this will kill the head.

At that time, the chief executive was very anxious, so he visited the feng shui gentleman, begged to crack the feng shui method, and also threatened the feng shui gentleman, if he could not crack it, he would be executed for the great crime of confusing the public with evil words, demagoguery, and plotting rebellion.

In desperation, Mr. Feng Shui came up with a strategy, that is, to build a temple on the beads of the "Nine Dragons Playing Pearls" to suppress it. Because there is a legend that the dragon ball is actually the soul of the dragon, which is condensed by the essence of the dragon's soul, and the dragon will not be able to live without the dragon ball, so the dragon needs the dragon ball, and the level of science and technology at that time, it is obviously impossible to level the mountain of the "Nine Dragons Play Pearl". Then you can only choose to build a temple to suppress it, and if the Dragon Ball is suppressed, then the dragon will be suppressed, and the world of the Son of Heaven will be safe.

It's a pity that this statement was proved to be wrong, after the liberation, the Longyang Temple on Jiulongbao Mountain was destroyed by artillery fire, and the houses were basically burned down, leaving a few mud Bodhisattva statues. Longyang Temple has been gone since then, and the government built a Longyang Middle School on the foundation of the original Longyang Temple, and my father was also the vice principal in it, but he was transferred away by the principal before he became a two-year official.

But even after the Longyang Temple was gone, there were no great big people in Longyang Town, and people began to dilute the rumors of Longyang Town.

Until many years after the reform and opening up, the economy of Longyang Town also developed, the government on the grounds of protecting local cultural sites, built a rubble hut between Longyang Middle School and the outside world, put in a few mud bodhisattva statues that were not destroyed in the original war, and turned Longyang Temple into Longyang Temple, incense is very strong every year, and there are many people who go to worship Bodhisattva during the New Year's Festival, especially in the Chinese New Year's Eve like today.

At this time, I stood on the old wall of the bunker of Phoenix Fort, which belongs to the edge of Phoenix Fort, but I can clearly see the panoramic view of Phoenix Fort and Kowloon Fort, maybe the confrontation habits accumulated over the past hundred years, the fireworks of the two villages are always non-stop, always want to suppress each other, make the Houtu River over a colorful sky, so that the beautiful scenery is fascinating, I feel that Long Tong is by my side, she sits on the wall of the bunker like me, looking at the gorgeous fireworks on the Houtu River, it seems like a dream, what a romantic picture.

"Bump! Touch! Touch! The sound of firecrackers suddenly sounded in the courtyard surrounded by the bunker, and I was so involved in the fantasy that I was almost frightened by the sudden noise that I fell off the wall, and I stabilized my mind and came to my senses, and I couldn't help but feel a little more sad in my heart. At this time, the old man called back to the hall, kowtowed to the ancestors, and the ancestor worship ceremony ended.

I can finally start the meal, looking at the eight delicacies on the table, the smiling faces of the lord and grandma, I suddenly feel happy and happy, forgetting the sadness of not having Long Tong on the wall of the bunker, and the love covered by family affection at the moment. There is nothing more satisfying in the world than for the family to get together, share the family, and enjoy the taste of home.

After the reunion dinner and the red envelopes, my father, mother, sister and I all had to return to the new house from the old house, and left the old man and grandmother to accompany each other, raising their eyebrows, this is the most real white-headed old together.

This night, I rarely spoke, my inner thoughts were complicated, I had too many thoughts, and I was no longer in the mood to watch any Spring Festival Gala.

I'm a person who can't suppress emotions in my head, and I always want to find a breakthrough. Watching the fireworks disperse in the sky, but there was no one I liked sitting beside me, and the beautiful starry sky reflected on the river was watched by me alone, and I couldn't share it with her, this picture was too painful for me to dare to look at it again.

I found a bottle of beer and brought it back to the room, and when I thought of Hua Tingwei and Long Tong holding hands together, I was heartbroken, and drank the whole bottle angrily.

The mood is like this silent galaxy, and every shining star is a tear. I really want her to accompany me to watch this brilliant and beautiful fireworks, and I want her to sit with me on the wall of Phoenix Fort and watch the reflection of the starry sky in the Houtu River. Looking at the brush on the desk, as well as the paper left over from the previous couplet, he wrote a mediocre poem:

The sound is dissipated and the smoke of a village is dispersed, and the galaxy is lonely in the water.

A glass of turbid wine turns into love, and books and tears become thousands of poems.