Chapter 33 The Strange Affair of the Zhanghe River

It is said that in the spring of 208 A.D., three years after the Battle of Chibi, Cao Cao built a famous building in Yecheng - Tongque Terrace, Golden Tiger Terrace, and Bingjing Terrace. The three bronze bird platforms are built according to the city wall of Yecheng, and the tallest bronze bird platform casts a large bronze bird on the top of the building, becoming the symbolic building of the Cao Wei regime. There are pavilions connected between the three Tongque platforms, which are majestic and magnificent, and are called Cao Wei three platforms. It is recorded in historical materials that Cao Cao often climbed the Tongque Terrace to listen to songs, watch dances, or write poems to express his feelings.

In Santai Village, Linzhang County, Hebei Province, there is an earthen platform that is not too high, and this earthen platform is the Tongque Platform built by Cao Cao. Today's Tongquetai has long been gone. Due to the flood of the Ming Dynasty, part of the Tongquetai was washed away, and the Beibing Jingtai has been completely washed away by the flood of the Zhanghe River. In the past, these three stations were separated by 60 steps and were erected with bridges, and these three platforms were a very famous building in Yecheng at that time. Among the three, the most famous is Tongquetai. If Cao Cao's mausoleum can be seen from the Tongque Terrace, it means that Cao Cao's mausoleum is not too far from the Tongque Terrace. Moreover, it is very likely that Tongquetai is an altar of Cao Cao's tomb?

The fat man touched his not-so-bright head and squeaked, why did he go to Tongque Tai again?

Seeing that they were still confused, I was speechless, and sighed: "Obviously, Tongquetai is another important reference for Cao Cao's tomb. Moreover, in metaphysics, this Zhanghe River also conforms to various feng shui five elements. ”

These words aroused Lao Hu's curiosity and asked me if the feng shui of this Zhanghe River was very good. And the fat man muttered, they all said that it is safe to go into the earth, but I have never seen anyone buried in the water after death. Half-immortal, did you think of a fork in the road from the beginning?

I said, "Although we usually talk about being buried in the soil, we can't understand the pattern here. In the five elements, we pay attention to gold, wood, water, fire and earth, and the five elements are interlocking and endless. I ask you, do you know what a brassal finch is? ”

Lao Hu replied first: "Isn't the bronze bird a phoenix?" ”

I nodded: "Yes, the bronze finch is the phoenix, and the phoenix is also called the red bird." ”

"So what? Does this thing have anything to do with Cao Cao's tomb? The fat man asked.

"Of course it's related, the yin house feng shui also pays attention to the green dragon, white tiger, vermilion bird, xuanwu, the green dragon is the oriental wood, the white tiger is the western gold, the vermilion bird is the southern fire, and the xuanwu is the northern water, and this bronze bird platform is located in the south, doesn't it refer to the five elements of fire and the red bird?" I explained.

Lao Hu patted his head and said excitedly: "Then according to what you say, the five elements are mutually reinforcing each other, and water overcomes fire, so the last one is water?" Is that the river you are referring to? ”

I sighed, what a fool can't teach, I said, "Xuanwu represents the water in the north, and according to the pattern here, the ice well platform is in the north, and the ice well doesn't mean water?" ”

Lao Hu smiled and continued: "Yes, yes, it seems that this really needs to be tutored in the future." But I also know what you mean now, water can overcome fire, so below the ice well platform is the bronze bird platform representing the red bird, and the red bird belongs to fire, and the fire can overcome gold, so the next one should be the white tiger, the white tiger is the western gold, and the golden tiger platform is in the west, so below the copper bird platform is the golden tiger platform. Then Jin Neng Kemu, but this wood is in the East, and there is no platform in the East, so where does this refer to? ”

I saw that Lao Hu had walked into my way of thinking, so I pointed to the Zhanghe River in front of me and smiled: "Isn't the position we are in now the east of Santai?" Therefore, this Oriental Green Dragon Tree should refer to the Zhanghe River in front of us! ”

"What? No, this Zhanghe River is obviously water, why did it become wood? Are we thinking wrong again? Both of them were surprised, after all, no one thought that the wood in the five elements would refer to the Zhanghe River.

In order to make the two of them understand, I said: "Although the Zhanghe River is water, it takes its shape in the five elements, and this Zhanghe River seems to be a dragon, just in the east of Santai, so it is the green dragon of the east." In feng shui, the dragon is the dragon vein, so Cao Cao's old house is located in this dragon vein (Zhanghe), and now we just need to find his hole. ”

When Lao Hu and the others heard me say this, they immediately became excited, as if the Zhanghe River in front of them was full of piles of gold treasures, their eyes lit up, and they praised me for being amazing, and such a difficult secret could be analyzed.

To be honest, looking at the two of them in high spirits, I felt endless bitterness in my heart. After all, Zhang Zhenren once said that I committed a "lack of life", and a year later it will be my calamity, and only by accumulating virtue and doing good deeds can I change my fate. But now I have revealed the secret of Cao Cao's Yin House, which will inevitably damage my Yin Virtue, although I dare not say whether the calamity will come in advance, but this Yin Virtue must have lost a lot.

You must know who Cao Cao is, although he did not claim the title of emperor when he was alive, but after Cao Pi forced Emperor Han Xian to abdicate, he became the emperor himself, established the state of Wei, and then posthumously gave Cao Cao the title of Emperor Wu of Wei. The nickname, that is, the title given to the dead, although this is given by his son Cao Pi, but it can also be regarded as a character of Ziwei Star, I will tell the Yin Mansion of the stars in the sky, this is a metaphor for the way to break the sky, it seems that his life is really not long.

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but sigh that I had created and made people, and I planned to come out to do more good deeds and accumulate virtue in order to survive the catastrophe next year, but the reality pushed me step by step into the abyss of evil. Am I just waiting for the end in a year? Thinking of my mother, who was looking forward to my return from my hometown, I couldn't help but make up my mind that I couldn't die, even if it wasn't for myself, for the sake of my family, I couldn't die early. But thinking about the catastrophe that will eventually come, my heart is full of confusion, what should I do?

When I was thinking about my thoughts, Lao Hu probably saw that my expression was depressed, so he asked me what was wrong? Is there something on his mind, or has he thought of other doubts, isn't this Zhanghe the real location of Cao Cao's unlucky bastard?

Naturally, I wouldn't tell them what was on my mind, one might not believe it, the other would be done, and telling them would only make it difficult for them to do, so I hurriedly put my mind aside, shook my head and said, "It's nothing, I'm just worried that it will be dangerous to enter the dungeon." However, Cao Cao's mansion is here in the Zhanghe River, and I have heard a few legends that the Zhanghe River is related to Cao Cao's tomb! ”

As soon as they heard the story, the two of them began to surround again, and it seemed that they were going to listen to my story again. Seeing that they were addicted to listening to my stories, I started telling them about it.

It is said that during the Tongzhi period of the Qing Dynasty, there was an orphan named Zhu Yan'er who lost his parents since he was a child by the Zhanghe River. Helpless, he had to make a living shepherding sheep for the landlord's family. One year, the Central Plains region was dry for many years, and the pond water dried up, and the Zhanghe River gradually silted up, overgrown with reeds, and turned into land. Zhu Yan'er was shepherding sheep here, and suddenly found a large tomb in the tall artemisia grass, and a stone tablet lay on the side of the tomb. Zhu Yan'er was illiterate and curious, so she asked a private school teacher to identify her. When Mr. Private School read the inscription, it turned out that this was the mausoleum of Cao Cao, Emperor Wu of Wei. So, they informed the Yamen of Cizhou County. When the prefectural order learned of this, he immediately rushed to the river in a sedan chair, but strangely, when he led people to remove the weeds, the large mound was nowhere to be found. The prefectural magistrate was very angry, thinking that Mr. Private School had deceived him, and ordered the soldiers to beat him with 300 rods, but the young man was never found again.

Lao Hu and the others were shocked when they heard this story, and then said Didn't you say that there are a few stories, and there is another one, hurry up and listen to it.

I sighed speechlessly, and then told a story from Pu Songling's book "Strange Tales from Liaozhai", saying that there is a river outside Xuchang City, called Zhanghe, which is turbulent and turbulent. Near a cliff bank, the color of the river turns deep black. In the middle of summer, someone jumped into the river from here to bathe, and suddenly as if he had been cut by a knife and axe, the body broke in two and surfaced. And then another man did the same. People were amazed. When the prefectural commander heard about this, he sent someone to cut off the upper reaches of the river, drain the remaining water, and saw a deep hole under the cliff bank, in which a runner was installed, and sharp blades were arranged on the wheel. Remove the wheel, go deep into the hole, find a small stone stele, the words on the stele are all Han seal characters, carefully identify, it turned out to be the tomb of Cao Cao. So he broke the coffin, scattered the rotting bones, and took out all the gold and silver treasures of the burial.

When Lao Hu and the others heard it, they asked me urgently, the second story wouldn't be true, right? If it's true, it's a bad thing, and the treasure inside may be emptied by the bird county order.

I smiled, and said that it was the story in Pu Songling's book "Strange Tales from Liaozhai", do you think it will be true? So don't make a fuss, let's think about what to do next!

The fat man first proposed to go back to the county seat for a big rub, and then find a hotel to sleep well, anyway, Cao Cao's old camp here has almost been confirmed, so don't rush to do it first.

And Lao Hu really agreed with the fat man's good proposal to eat and be lazy this time, saying that the Yin soldiers disappeared in this place, and he thought that Cao Cao's unlucky old house should be by the river, so he first went back to the city to rest for a few days, and then bought some diving equipment, and then turned the gun to launch an all-out attack on Cao Cao, the unlucky man, and ended his nest in one fell swoop.