Chapter 10: Zhu Yuanzhang's dream is the grave of Chen Youliang, who has not become benevolent

Section 2: "Rumors Dig Chen's Grave"

[Distant view, close-up] The scene of the opening ceremony was spectacular. First of all, the people surnamed Chen burned incense and paper money (dark coins) under the grave; setting off firecrackers; Then the drummers beat the gongs, drums, and locks; The last is the "horn gunner" to put the "cupola". This "horn cannon" is fired with injected iron.

The monks presided over the ceremony of "protecting the fish into the (Hunan) River". This ritual is actually very simple, it is still to release whips, burn paper, beat gongs, beat drums, and release horn cannons. The difference is that the horn cannon is the smallest rank, and the gunner stands in the middle of the top of the grave, with the muzzle facing the center of the first pool of water that has already been stored. There are some natural phenomena that are still difficult to explain with scientific knowledge. When the sound of the horn cannon passed, the "golden-scaled red carp" at the bottom of the one-eyed grave pool rose to the sky, jumped seven or eight meters high in the air, and several turned bodies turned over and fell smoothly into the first reservoir. Judging from the shape of the fish that jumped into the air, this "golden-scaled red carp" weighed about more than ten catties.

When the "golden-scaled red carp" jumped into the first reservoir, the Chen people dug a hole in the dam and released water down. The honor guards of the monks, known as the "drummers", were stacked from both sides of the tomb to the sides of the first cistern. Repeat the procedure of whipping, burning paper, beating gongs, beating drums, and firing horn cannons. The difference is that the Horn Gunner stands in the middle of the first cistern and places the smallest (horn) cannon towards the center of the second cistern. After the sound of the cannon, the water of the first reservoir was almost drained, and the "golden-scaled red carp" in the pond rose to the sky again, jumping seven or eight meters high in the air, and several turns turned over and smoothly fell into the second reservoir. The ceremony of "protecting fish into the river" is carried out in this way in a cycle.

[Distant view, close view] It takes about half an hour for the "Golden Scale Red Carp" to jump down into the reservoir. By about 4 p.m., the "Golden Scale Red Carp" had successfully jumped into the eighth reservoir. If nothing happens, the "Golden Scale Red Carp" jumps from the eighth reservoir to the ninth pool, and it is basically done. Because, from the ninth pool, the "golden-scaled red carp" can fall into the "bottom well" spring water flowing into the stream water of the Xiangjiang River passing through here as long as it jumps into the air.

The accident happened in the eighth and ninth cisterns. The distance between the eighth reservoir and the nearest point where the water from the "Bottom Well" flows through it is about 20 meters. The Arowana jumps at a distance of about seven to eight meters. If the Chen people had dug a square-shaped reservoir with a length and width of 8 meters at the center point between the eighth reservoir and the nearest position where the water of the "Bottom Well" stream flowed through it, an accident would not have happened, and the legend of Tianzigang would have been another version.

Because the people of the Chen family at that time were worried that the people surnamed Zhu would "dig graves and exterminate fish", they dug only a square-shaped puddle of about 4 meters at the center point between the eighth reservoir and the stream of the "bottom well" flowing through the nearest position here. It was thought that the "Golden Scale Red Carp" jumped eight meters and could fall into the puddle from the eighth reservoir. In fact, when the "golden-scaled red carp" jumped from the eighth reservoir, the water in the reservoir was almost dry, and the jumping position was not the water surface position, which increased the distance from the puddle. Moreover, the "Golden Scale Red Carp" has jumped eight times in a row, and the physical exertion is greater. So in the ninth jump, it did not meet the expectations of the Chen family. When the "golden-scaled red carp" soared into the sky, jumped seven or eight meters high in the air, several turned bodies and turned over, and as a result, they fell on the ground of the ninth reservoir, which was actually a puddle, and was about two meters away from the puddle. If it weren't for the providence of God, if it weren't for the interference of the people surnamed Zhu, although the "Golden Scale Red Carp" was seriously injured, it could jump into the puddle after a few turnovers. There may be two endings in the future: one is to continue to complete the tenth jump, swim into the Xiangjiang River to become the "Dragon King", and protect Chen Youliang as the emperor; The second is the result at that time, which disappeared without a trace.

The occurrence of the [long-term and near-view] incident provided a good opportunity for the people surnamed Zhu to "block the fish from entering the river", thus achieving Zhu Yuanzhang's long-cherished wish to defeat Chen Youliang from the "roots". On the same day, all the people surnamed Zhu were on the scene to watch the Chen family's "protecting fish into the river". Although they all had the motive of "blocking the fish from entering the river and destroying Chen Feng Shui", when they saw that the golden carp was really excavated from the grave of the old man of the Chen family, they were all impressed by the ingenuity of the host of the nunnery, "Xiao Shenxian". When the Golden Carp made the first eight jumps on the slope, they all gathered around the ninth puddle to watch. Although they have the motive and purpose of "blocking fish from entering the river", under the broad court, they are always not allowed to use fishing nets and harpoons to catch or kill fish in mid-air. If that were the case, it would inevitably cause public outrage. It will not only be opposed by the people surnamed Chen, but also by all other citizens with surnames such as Xiao, Zou, Deng, Tang, and Nie.

Therefore, when the "Golden Scale Red Carp" made the ninth jump, the width of the puddle was not enough because the people surnamed Chen made a mistake in digging the ninth reservoir. As a result, when the "golden-scaled red carp" fell from the sky, it flew over the heads of the people surnamed Zhu who were standing around the puddle and fell to the land at the feet of the people surnamed Zhu. The people surnamed Zhu immediately sobered up from the shock, a God-given opportunity, how could they easily miss it. They rushed up, grabbed their hands and feet, and pounced on the "golden-scaled red carp". The "golden-scaled red carp" fell from the air to the ground, and must have suffered heavy injuries, but still endured the pain of internal injuries, fluttered on the ground a few times, and finally jumped into the puddle. The people surnamed Zhu also poured into the puddle. Because the puddle is not large, the water storage depth is less than two feet, and the people surnamed Zhu are too dense to pour into the puddle, and the human limbs such as hands and feet occupy all the positions of the puddle, so that the "golden scale red carp" not only has no room to swim and jump; And fundamentally lost the space to swim. The people surnamed Zhu stepped on their hands and feet in the puddle for dozens of seconds, and the muddy water in the entire puddle, and the people surnamed Zhu did not see the corpse of the "golden-scaled red carp"; All the people who watched the scene did not see the tenth jump of the "golden scale red carp".

[Long view, close view] just when the people surnamed Zhu were going all out to "catch fish" in the puddle, a cumulonimbus cloud suddenly surged in the sky of Xianren Mountain. Suddenly, lightning and thunder roared, and wind and rain intertwined. The entire Tianzigang area was shrouded in wind and rain. A flash flood ensued, which connected the water from the ninth puddle with the water from the Meitang Spring. The muddy water in the ninth puddle, which was originally "red", soon flowed into the Meitang Spring to the Xiangjiang River, and flowed through the stream here. This thunderstorm came and went, and a few minutes later, the Tianzigang area was sunny and empty. At that time, the people at the scene looked up and saw a rainbow hanging in the sky. One end of the rainbow originates from the spring of the "Bottom Well" at the foot of the Immortal Mountain, and the other end seems to fall on his own head and on the village of Zhujiayuan. Because the site is less than 300 meters away from Zhu's courtyard. As a result, descendants have legends that the "Son of Heaven" and "Xiao Immortal" are out of the Dragon Vein Holy Land of Tianzigang. The people surnamed Chen "protected the fish into the river" and failed in vain. Zhujiayuan is located in the "heart of the dragon vein", Zhu Yuanzhang was the emperor "rain to success", and the "water" became a "dragon".

[Distant view, close view] Originally, the Umetang spring water flowed through the stream, and soon formed a waterline of three colors: red, blue, and black. The torrential rain washed away the red soil on the side of Tianzigang into a red flood; Wash the black mud on the side of the Immortal Mountain into a black flood; The original "bottom well" flowed out of the dark blue water. The "tricolor" water soon connected the water from the ninth puddle with the stream through which the water of the original Meitang Spring flowed. The muddy water, which had a "red" tinge in the ninth puddle, soon mixed with the tricolored water. This torrent flowed like a galloping horse into the river leading to the Xiangjiang River as fast as lightning、、、、、、

This sudden storm eventually led to the displacement of the lord of the Tianzigang Dragon Vein Holy Land, leaving behind this heirloom story. To the descendants of Xiao Zhai, Xiao Yingzheng left valuable material for writing this masterpiece!

Although more than 600 years have passed since the legend of Tianzigang, the grievances and grievances of the Zhu and Chen ethnic groups have long become history. At that time, the Chenjiayuan (the birthplace of the author of this article), which was the closest to Xianren Mountain, can now only be told by the elderly people in the area who are old enough to tell you the exact location of the "Sanhetu" homestead of the lord of each surname hundreds of years ago. The address of Zhujiayuan village has not changed, and the whole has lost the style before the "special period", and only a few old residences still retain the blue brick walls, blue brick floors and cyan tiles fired by the brick kiln. But the house is empty, and the Zhu family has long since lost the descendants of the Zhu family. Zhu Jiayuan is now full of descendants of Xiao and Zou. There are dozens of kilometers in the vicinity, and there is no trace of the descendants of the Zhu family. The shape of the grave of the deceased of the Chen clan on the Tianzi Gang is still the same, and the three cypress trees next to the grave are still like the "girl" more than 600 years ago. The eight reservoirs dug by the Chen people on the northern slope are still clearly repatriated today, but the water surface of the reservoir has become dry soil and planted with local daylily. The spring water of the "bottom well" at the foot of the fairy mountain is still the same. In 1958 of the last century, the local people built a reservoir in the middle of Xianren Mountain and Tianzigang. Since the fifties of the last century, the water of this reservoir has been continuously watering the farmland on both sides of the red soil represented by Tianzigang and the blue soil represented by Xianren Mountain. Now it has become a source of water for farmers on both sides of the strait. The nunnery on the top of Xianren Mountain was converted into Meitang Primary School in the fifties and sixties of the last century; In the 70s, the nunnery was demolished, and Meitang Primary School was relocated to Liumu Hall. In a certain year after 2000, in the courtyard of Maowu under the slope of Tianzi Gang, the Zou family came out with a Zou Baoan, who was then the director of the Hengyang City Public Security Bureau, and took the lead in offering love to Meitang Village and donated money to build a new Meitang Primary School, which was located under the reservoir dam. Tianzigang, Xianren Mountain, and Meitang Spring, this "treasure land of feng shui", belonged to the jurisdiction of Qiyang County of Yongzhou City before 1952. In 1952, Qidong County was carved out of Qiyang County, and the Meitang area was under the jurisdiction of Qidong County. In the sixties and seventies of the last century, Qidong and Qiyang counties were under the jurisdiction of Hengyang City. In the eighties of the last century, Qiyang County was placed under the jurisdiction of Yongzhou City. Therefore, when it comes to the legend of Tianzigang, not only today's Qidong people say it with relish; The elderly Qiyang people are even more talkative.

Today, the couplets on both sides of the gate of Meitang Primary School still inherit the couplets on both sides of the gate of the nunnery:

Meiwan seedlings grow into phoenix trees day by day

The living water of the pond should jump out of the Arowana at the right time

(The photo at the header of this chapter is taken in real life)

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