Jiang Wanhe glanced at the group of villagers helplessly, and said in disappointment, "My lord, let's go."

Lu Fei wanted to stop and comfort the villagers again, but he didn't know what to say, he couldn't guarantee anything now, what he said was equivalent to saying nothing, so he simply didn't say anything, but the scene in front of him deeply stimulated Lu Fei to make up his mind to completely solve this illegal fishing rent matter, a few hours ago, these people were vicious and eager to kill themselves, and the scene of these people's weak accusations had long since disappeared. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

When the sun sets, it's getting dark.

Jiang Wanhe led the county magistrate to Jiangjia Lake, pointed to the house in the center of the lake wrapped in trees, and said, "My lord, that's where it is."

As soon as Lu Fei came out of Jiang's house, his injured head was not so drowsy, and he raised his eyes to look at the surface of the lake, it was indeed as Jiang Wanhe said, but it was the size of four or five football fields, and the shore of the lake was lush and green, and it was extremely farsighted, and there was really a hill less than a mile away from the lake, and the trees in the mountains were flourishing, and from a distance, the forest was dark.

Between the hill and the lake, there is a building built high with stones and other things, like a mound, Lu Fei pointed to the cemetery, "Jiang Lichang, there is your ancestral grave."

Jiang Wanhe nodded, "Exactly"

Lu Fei laughed, "Don't say it, the mountains and rivers are beautiful, it's a good place to bury people, your ancestors have a little eyesight, but this feng shui doesn't seem to bring you any good luck."

Jiang Wanhe's face was embarrassed, "Don't make fun of your lordship anymore, your lord will give you a boat later."

There was a small boat on the shore of the lake, which was specially used to facilitate the communication with the hut in the middle of the lake, Jiang Wanhe walked over and pulled the boat to the shore and cleaned the cabin.

Li Shun looked at the surrounding environment, approached Lu Fei and whispered, "My lord, I think the ancestral tomb of the Jiang family should be changed places, and the earth is exhausted."

Lu Fei sighed, and seeing that Li Shun's tone seemed to be quite ventilating, he asked, "What, what do you see?" ”

Li Shun pointed to the hill opposite, "It's not impossible to say that this is an auspicious place, if ordinary people choose this as a yin house, maybe they can, as long as they find the right hole and direction, the descendants will have no worries about food and clothing."

Li Shun pointed to the Great Contest Lake, which was completely covered by the village, "Look, sir, five miles to the south is the Great Contest Lake, the lake is wide and the water is stable."

Then Li Shun turned around and pointed to the faintly visible mountain road dozens of miles away after the ancestral tomb of the Jiang family, "More than 20 miles back is the towering mountain, relying on the mountain and facing the water, the Tibetan wind gathers qi, the north is facing the south, it is really an excellent natural yin house, although it is not as majestic as the imperial atmosphere of Kunlun Mountain, the public will be similar to the site here to overhaul the cemetery, then it can bless its descendants, be rich and noble, and worship the king."

Li Shun's indistinguishable feng shui theory aroused Lu Fei's great interest, and he asked, "What will happen if ordinary people are buried here?" ”

Li Shun smiled and shook his head, "Where is such a magnificent feng shui treasure land that the small people can hold, and the burial is as usual."

Lu Fei was puzzled and said, "Master, didn't you just say that ordinary people can ensure that their offspring have no worries about food and clothing as long as they find the hole and bury it here?" Why is it now a normal burial? ”

Li Shun pointed to the ancestral grave of the Jiang family, "Yes, if you can't find the hole, it is no different from the mass grave, the ancestral tomb of the Jiang family is a good cave, and the feng shui gentleman who helped the old man of the Jiang family must be a master, but"

Jiang Wanhe heard the conversation between the two, and when he saw that he was talking about his ancestral grave, he hurriedly came over, with a nervous face, "But what? ”

Li Shun snorted lightly and sneered, "Hmph, but this feng shui gentleman has a grudge against your Jiang family's ancestors, since ancient times, I have never heard that this feng shui treasure land can be artificially added, so that the feng shui treasure land can be built everywhere in the world, it is really nonsense, your Jiang family chose this cave, and future generations will be able to protect the ancestral industry, although it can't reach the officialdom, at least it can be rich, and you, I'm afraid that the family will start to fall from Ling Zun's generation."

Jiang Wanhe sighed, "Yes, the Jiang family is in my hands, and I can only barely make ends meet, then Master Li, you said that Mr. Feng Shui and my ancestors had a grudge, how do you see this?" Why did the Jiang family fall? ”

Lu Fei couldn't help but be a little funny when he heard this, in his understanding, this feng shui theory is just a kind of entertainment talk, it is okay to use it to relieve boredom, if you really want to connect him with Jiang Wanhe's family background, this has become a feudal superstitious theory, but there is nothing to do in the countryside, it is very boring, and there is no defense when you listen to it, so you just listen to the story.

Li Shun then teased his feng shui theory, shook his head and said, "The so-called dragonfly points to water, it doesn't necessarily have to be water, this feng shui gentleman, instigated your ancestors to build this lake, according to the next seems to be a snake to add to the foot, not only that, you see, although this lake embankment, although it looks solid, not a drop of water, but all year round, ants eat the rat hole, the lake water will slowly seep out, and the wealth and fortune of your Jiang family's ancestral grave will be exhausted, until the four walls of the family"

Jiang Wanhe was surprised when he heard this, and said again and again, "No wonder my Jiang family is declining, it turns out that it is from here."

Lu Fei laughed, "Master Li, don't be alarmist here, it's purely a strange force, Jiang Lichang, don't believe him"

Steward Hu on the side came to the spirit, originally he was not interested in this feng shui theory, but as soon as he heard that the water leaking in the lake took away the Jiang family's fortune, isn't this just the right use, isn't the villagers just asking to open the gate to release water, so Jiang Wanhe can still make up his mind?

Steward Hu squeezed over and pressed his hand again and again, "Neither is it, it is not either, feng shui is unpredictable, you can't believe it, doesn't Master Li's words just prove what happened to the Jiang family, isn't this the best proof?" ”

Li Shun didn't know Steward Hu's flowery intestines, but he was a little complacent, shaking his fan, very vivid.

Lu Fei was speechless, he didn't have the heart to discuss any feng shui, and threw out a sentence, "It's far-fetched, the gods and ghosts can't be measured, but people can measure it accurately?" ”

Li Shun saw that the old man was not very happy that his feng shui theory should be proved in the Jiang family, so he hurriedly said, "Jiang Lichang, I just read a few books like this from my predecessors when I was young, and I don't know much about the mysteries, you can't believe it, let's listen to it."

But Jiang Wanhe doesn't think so, he would rather believe that he has it, not believe that he doesn't, anyway, not a drop of water in this lake can flow out, and he will rebuild and renovate it another day, strengthen and strengthen it well, maybe there will be a day in the future when the Jiang family can reinstall the majesty of the ancestors.

Lu Fei didn't bother to argue with them, walked to the boat on the shore alone, found a clean place to sit in the cabin, and patted the hull, "It's over, send the master over"

Everyone got on the boat together, but Steward Hu said that he would get seasick when he was young, so Jiang Wanhe shook the oar, and the boat sailed straight to the center of the lake.

When the boat was halfway through, Lu Fei seemed to smell a very strange smell, and sniffed hard, he was sure that he had smelled it before, but he couldn't remember it for a while, he looked around for the source of the smell, the cabin was empty, there was nothing, Lu Fei turned his head to look at the water, the sky was slightly dark, the lake was very muddy, and he couldn't see clearly.

So he reached out and picked up a handful of water in the water, came to his eyes, and observed carefully, there seemed to be many plankton in the water, very small, but it could be seen with the naked eye, and smelled it, yes, the smell came from this water, usually the lake was calm, and the smell was very light, but as soon as the boat slurry stirred, the smell became stronger and stronger, Lu Fei stretched out his tongue and tasted it, and immediately spit it out again, and then nodded as if he had reached some conclusion.

"Jiang Lichang, you said earlier that you have never seen fish and shrimp in this lake?" Lu Fei had to find evidence to prove his judgment.

Jiang Wanhe shook the pulp and said, "Yes, it's very strange, not only can't fish survive, but even humans and animals can't drink it."

Lu Fei nodded more affirmatively, a smile appearing on his face.

If Lu Fei's guess is correct, there must be some kind of natural gas or oil and other substances under the surface of this lake, but it is difficult to judge what it is at this time, it is definitely not enough to rely on human senses alone, and he has not completely returned this knowledge to the teacher in his previous life, and the natural gas and oil and other substances in this era are much easier to find than now, since the seventies of the twentieth century, such materials in the shallow layers of the earth's surface have been surveyed, and in the Tang Dynasty, these things are not known.

Lu Fei sat on the boat, trying to recall the modern knowledge he had learned, in the territory of modern Anqing City, there are indeed a large number of oil fields have been developed, but it is difficult to say whether there is a location of the oil fields in later generations under Lu Fei, after all, there is a big difference between Anqing Mansion in the Tang Dynasty and Anqing City in Anhui Province in terms of geographical location.

Lu Fei remembers that in the year after graduating from university, he and several classmates under the leadership of his mentor did a survey of natural gas reserves in Anhui, of course, this was only as a geological study exploration, not too deep, at that time they also came to the Anqing area, in an ancient river in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, it is easy to survey the data of the existence of oil under the riverbed.

Later, after the matter was reported to the Anqing government, the professional geological team quickly sent people down, and sure enough, Lu Fei and his entourage's speculation was completely correct, and there was indeed oil more than 40 meters below the riverbed, but this amount was too small to have exploitation value, and the matter was not known, but in any case, the knowledge that Lu Fei had learned over the years had finally been confirmed, and everyone gave a satisfactory answer to the tutor.

At that time, the river that Lu Fei and others surveyed was called Daguan Lake, and now the river that appeared in front of Lu Fei in the Tang Dynasty is called Daguan Lake, is there a connection between the two? Is it possible that the oil spot that you will detect with advanced electronics hundreds of years later is here? That's too coincidental, hundreds of years apart, the sea has become mulberry fields, and the topography and landforms on both sides of the river are almost unrelated, which is related to the place is in Susong County, Anqing City.

Lu Fei was so engrossed that he didn't even notice that the boat was about to dock.

"My lord, it's landed" Jiang Wanhe put away the pulp and put it back into the cabin.

The bow of the boat gently hit the island in the middle of the lake, Lu Fei leaned forward and almost fell off the boat, Li Shun hurriedly supported him, "Master, be careful"

The three of them successively landed on the small island in the middle of the lake, the evening breeze on the island was gusting, the surrounding lake was murmuring, the environment was beautiful, a willow tree hung down thousands of green stripes, a small wooden house was built against the willow tree, and a circle of tea trees was planted around the wooden house, presumably the tea that the Jiang family drank came from here.

The wooden house is antique, simple but spotless, it seems that Jiang Wanhe often comes here to sit idly, the desk and two bookshelves take up half of the space in the wooden house, and there is a simple small bed next to the desk, on which a bamboo mat is spread.

Lu Fei looked at everything in front of him, very satisfied, and nodded, "Well, yes, let's stay here at night, Jiang Lichang, I'm sorry."

Jiang Wanhe smiled and said, "Why bother, it's too simple here, and I'm afraid that I will be wronged by my lord, so my lord will sit here for a while, and then I will prepare dinner for my lord."

While speaking, Jiang Wanhe put the teapot brought with the boat on the desk, poured a cup of tea casually, bent down and retreated, and sailed back to the lakeshore.

Lu Fei asked Li Shun to move the chair out of the wooden house, the sky was dark, the sky was dotted with stars, there was a moon in the sky, a moon in the lake, the lake was dingdong, and the breeze was gusting, it was really a paradise.

Li Shun shook the fan to help the old man drive away the mosquitoes, and said, "Master, this time you came here without any effort and didn't do anything, did you just go back?" How do you explain it? You didn't ask a word about the fishing rent."

Lu Fei put his hands behind his head, leaned back in his chair, looked at the sky, and said with a smile, "Just say that you don't practice stupid tricks, hehe, I'm just here to make a show and block the mouth of the county master."

Li Shun nodded and said, "Also, this matter can't be solved from the fishermen, but this Hu steward can see all this in his eyes, aren't you afraid that he will go back and talk nonsense?" ”

Lu Fei pointed to the gauze on his head, "I'm like this, he said that the county master wouldn't do anything to me, it's not that I don't do things, it's just that the fishermen's attitude is too resolute."

Li Shun said suddenly, "Oh, it turns out that you deliberately hurt yourself, Gao Ming, so the county master must feel guilty."

Lu Fei waved his hand, "That's not entirely intentional, I could only make this bad move in that situation at that time, I didn't expect so much, hey, no matter how much, the matter of fishing rent is not so easy, I just delayed a little longer, in this way, since I have stayed here, then I am not in a hurry to go back, tomorrow you go back to the Ya first, the county affairs can't be without the principal, I will go back after finishing the affairs here, by the way, you bring the Hu housekeeper back together, this person is too much of a hindrance"

Li Shun disagreed, "Master, you are here alone, and there is no one to discuss, how can I rest assured?"

Lu Feiman didn't care, "It's okay, you leave those servants for me, besides, isn't there Jiang Wanhe?"

Li Shun frowned, "Can you trust this man?" ”

"Look here" Lu Fei pointed to the wooden house behind him, "I can look around the Jiang family, and this small wooden house is quite exquisite, people's hearts are calm like this, where else can he be bad, I see, he and Steward Hu are not all the way, but Steward Hu is here, he doesn't dare to have more contact with me, this is also one of the thoughts I want you to bring Steward Hu back tomorrow."

Li Shun smiled bitterly, "People have to bow their heads under the eaves, I hope Jiang Wan and the Lord said."

Lu Fei looked at the lake embankment in the night, and a row of figures could be faintly seen slowly moving along the lake embankment.

"What's that?" Lu Fei pointed to the crowd in the night.

Li Shun raised his eyes and shook his head, "I can't see clearly, it seems to be a group of people, forget it, where do these people know the master's difficulties, and when the master solves this matter in the future, they will be grateful to you, master."

Lu Fei stood up and wondered, "No, no, they all seem to be kneeling there, look at it, take a good look"

Li Shun was also surprised, and after a closer look, it was true, and he knelt down in the black pressure on the lake embankment.

No matter how hard Lu Fei's heart is, he can't always see these sad scenes, they have been kneeling to the lake from outside the Jiang family's courtyard, maybe the county master will not come forward again, and some of these people will jump into this Jiangjia Lake.

"Li Shun, find a boat and go ashore," Lu Fei sighed.

"Master, someone has come to the island" Li Shun pointed to the shore on the other side, where he had just boarded the boat, a lantern was moving slowly, presumably Jiang Wanhe had brought dinner.

Lu Fei suddenly folded his thigh and stood up, "Why am I so confused, isn't this equivalent to being placed under house arrest on this island, what do they want to do, Steward Hu?" What are they doing? ”

Li Shun also suddenly realized, "Yes, why didn't he get on the boat just now?"

Thinking of this, Lu Fei shook his arm at the slowly moving firelight on the lake, "Hurry up, master, I want to go ashore"

The person who came was Jiang Wanhe, and he didn't understand why the county master suddenly wanted to go back to the shore, but he still did as he was told.

Jiang Wanhe carried a lantern to lead Lu Fei to the lake embankment, and Li Shun called several officials over and stood beside Lu Fei to deal with sudden danger at any time.

There were many torches, the lake embankment was bright, and when the people saw the county lord coming over, they kowtowed one by one.

The leader is still the old man.

Lu Fei asked Jiang Wanhe as he walked, "Chief Jiangli, where is Steward Hu?" ”

Jiang Wanhe thought about it and shook his head, "I don't know, I haven't seen him for a while, do you want to look for him?"

"Coming, Lord Lu looking for me?" A rush of footsteps came from behind Lu Fei, and Steward Hu was panting with a lantern.

Lu Fei looked at Steward Hu's face, this old boy's eyebrows were full of joy, what did he do?

"Oh, it's okay, it's dark at night, you're going to get lost, I can't explain it to the county master"

"Master Xie was worried, his stomach was uncomfortable just now, and he ran a few times to lie in the thatched house"

Lu Fei nodded, he was sure that this old boy must have made some small moves, and he had to be careful to guard against him.

Several people walked up to the embankment.

"My lord, will you intercede? Let the river open the gates," Lao Zhangtou moved his knees on the ground.

Lu Fei was puzzled for a while, what's the matter, why didn't he ask for fishing rent this time, so he glanced at Jiang Wanhe.

Jiang Wanhe's face was difficult, like a defeated rooster, his head drooped, he also knew that this gate could not be opened, it was really a bit lacking in morality, the reason why there would be hundreds of acres of paddy fields in the lower reaches of the lake, it was entirely because of the emergence of Jiangjia Lake, the whole village depended on this, before the lake appeared, it was all desolate wilderness, the villagers' paddy fields were concentrated on the other side of the village at that time, there were a few saliva water, since the Jiangjia Lake came up, because the water storage there was small, the paddy fields were changed to dry land.

Several ancestors of the Jiang family, including Jiang Wanhe before yesterday, all opened the floodgates on demand and irrigated hundreds of acres of paddy fields in the village, and no one in the Jiang family thought about whether this should or shouldn't be done, but everything went naturally, water is such a thing, the grace of God, it is finished today, and tomorrow it will be full of rain, where is there any private idea.

Originally, due to the pressure of Steward Hu in the afternoon, Jiang Wanhe had no choice but to do something against his conscience, and he thought that it should not be too late to open the gate after Steward Hu left, anyway, it would be a day or two later.

However, after hearing Li Shun's false and real feng shui theory, he seemed to have completely changed as a person, and he no longer needed the pressure of Steward Hu and anyone's instigation, no matter how big the world was, it could not be compared with the loss of the Jiang family's wealth, no matter how hard the villagers begged him, he was indifferent.

Steward Hu was leisurely on the side, and the light of the torch shone on his lean and smug face, which looked particularly sinister.

Lu Fei asked Li Shun, "What's the matter?" What gates to open? ”

Li Shun shook his head.

Lu Fei saw that everyone didn't speak, so he walked to Lao Zhangtou.

"This uncle, get up, everyone stand up, don't always kneel, my county master doesn't have anything to talk about" Lu Fei helped Lao Zhangtou up, and beckoned everyone else to get up, Li Shun also walked over when he saw this, and stood up with a few people with inconvenient legs.

"What do you mean by opening the gates?" Lu Fei asked Lao Zhangtou.

Lao Zhangtou sighed, "County master, you have to call the decisions of the grass people and others in this matter, you see, you look at this lake embankment"

Lao Zhangtou turned and pointed to the darkness in the lower reaches of the lake, "This is the ration of the whole village below, and now the fish can't be beaten, and the harvest in this field can't stand the toss."

Lao Zhang Tou roughly talked about the cause and effect of the incident, which caused Lu Fei to be filled with righteous indignation, what is this called, what is the difference between you Jiang Wanhe and Zhao Junma.

Like the geographical environment of Susong, the common people basically don't need to point to the sky to beat the grain, what the croppers care about the most, the water source, good in this Susong land from the time it is inhabited, the wind and rain are common, there are very few natural disasters, the drought is even less, the last time the drought affected the harvest of the hundred fields happened a few years ago, but it was a rare one in a hundred years, the locust plague is even more not, almost half of the land in Susong County is mountainous and pine forest, all kinds of birds are as many as cow hair, there is a large-scale army of locusts, That's too unlikely, at least not once.

The common people here almost every village have several ponds used to irrigate paddy fields, the size is different, depending on the area of the field downstream, there is artificial excavation, there are natural formations, the sluice gates are opened to release water when the farm is busy, the sluice gates are closed and stored in the idle time, there is a lot of rainfall here, and the water is full of water without a few rains.

Occasionally, there was a shortage of rain in those years, and the water was dry, so it didn't matter, the village was originally equipped with a waterwheel, which took water from the big lake to water the fields, the waterwheel was wooden, and the ring was almost ten zhang long, and a small ditch was dug from the river to lead the river water to the distance that the waterwheel could reach, and then the villagers kept day and night, stepping on the waterwheel to introduce the river water into the ditch of the well field, although it was troublesome, but there would not be a reduction in crop yield due to drought.