Tanzi and I set off for Hebei this time. To be precise, it should have returned to Hebei. It's just that we didn't go home, but went to Huanghua. When we returned from the Dragon's Breath Pond, we had given the scrolls we had obtained in the Hall of Eternal Life to a professional institution to study and compare with the current geography. There was only one map drawn in that scroll, and it was not very detailed, so the only way to find out the location depicted on the map was to turn to professional research.

No, we had just returned to Shanghai when I got the news that the circle in the map marked the location of what is now Huanghua in Hebei Province. But the exact location is not clear, and it can only be seen from the map that it is not far from the sea. The research institute pointed out a detailed location for us as a reference, which is a village called Xiushui, close to the sea. The agency told me that the location indicated on the map was near the present-day Xiushui Village.

It wasn't until Tanzi and I arrived at Xiushui Village that we realized that this village was really remote. There are no more people in Xiushui Village within a radius of dozens of miles. To the east is the sea, and in the other three directions there are large areas of saline wasteland, and Xiushui Village is surrounded by these wastelands by the sea. It is said that in the past, if the people of Xiushui Village wanted to go to the nearest village or township, they had to walk dozens of miles. It is not until recent years, with the development of society, that some families have some money to buy a family car, which has alleviated the problem of difficult travel, but the fact that Xiushui Village is far away has not changed.

Before Tanzi and I came to Xiushui Village, we inquired about the local situation. Knowing that if we want to find the place marked on the scroll, we can only stay in Xiushui Village.

Xiushui Village, a small village, has only about 70 households in the village, and the whole village together is only more than 300 people. Although Tanzi and I traveled this time with us to take a portable tent just in case we slept in the wilderness, it is much better to live in the village than to live in the open air. First, it is more comfortable to live in a house than in a tent, secondly, to communicate diligently in the village and inquire about news, and thirdly, to avoid the infestation of poisonous insects and beasts. We only know that there will be clues here, but what the clues are and where the clues are, that is a black eye, and we can only explore little by little.

As soon as Tanzi and I entered the village, we saw a house at the entrance of the village, with white flags floating and wreaths, which seemed to be someone who had passed away.

Tanzi looked disgusted: "I just encountered a funeral when I arrived at the place, it's really ......" After that, he didn't continue, after all, he also knew that people were doing things in vain, and some things were not good to say.

Before I could speak, I saw several men with a white cloth wrapped around their waists, and one of them was wearing a white dress and a sackcloth in front of the two of us. This is the family of the deceased, and it is still a close relative, the one at the head must be the son of the deceased, otherwise he would not have dressed the deceased in linen and filial piety.

Seeing the one walking at the end of a few people, my eyes lit up, and I hurriedly shouted: "Li Yuan!" ”

The man was stunned for a moment, then turned to look at me. After seeing who I was, he said hello to the people in front of him, walked over directly, and asked me, "Why are you kid?" "This Li Yuan was a colleague of mine when I was an escort in Beijing, although it was not a group, but we still talked and talked to each other. But since I resigned, I haven't seen him again, I haven't been in touch, and I didn't expect to see him here.

Instead of answering him, I asked, "Why are you here?" ”

Li Yuan replied: "This is my hometown!" "I thought about it all of a sudden, Li Yuan originally told me that he was also from Hebei, so we also knew my fellow countrymen.

"Who's missing in the family?" I looked ahead and asked Li Yuan.

Li Yuan immediately showed some grief: "My uncle! Not yesterday! ”

"Why not?"

"Cancer!" Li Yuan sighed and said, "But he is old, and he has been dragged down by this disease for the past two years, and it is a relief to be gone......

"How did you get here?" Li Yuan asked me again.

Of course, I can't tell him what we're here for, just to get things done.

Li Yuan smiled: "Our Xiushui Village, the name sounds like beautiful mountains and rivers, but it is actually quite remote, and it is really 'no village in front of the village and no shop in the back'." If it weren't for the flat terrain of Huanghua and the lack of high mountains, we would definitely be a remote mountainous area. "The implication is that we don't have anything here, so what can you do here?

Actually, what Li Yuan said was also right. Although this Xiushui Village is said to be facing the sea and the purple air comes from the east, there is no support behind it and no hugging on both sides, so even if there is more auspiciousness, it can't keep half a point. There is a cloud in the ancient book: "Where the real dragon falls, the left and the right hug, the front and the back hug, so it becomes its shape." However, the left is empty and the right is missing, the front is open and the back is folded, and the anger is scattered in the wind. "Left back and right hug, in the language that we are familiar with now, it is the left green dragon and the right white tiger, so whether it is a yang house or a yin house, a place with a dragon and a tiger is the best choice. There is a saying in Feng Shui, which is called "There are no dragons and tigers on the left and right, the six gods of the living have no master, and the coffins of the dead will rot." ”

The so-called feng shui technique is the method of hiding the wind and absorbing qi. The so-called acceptance of anger refers to the storage of anger. The world is big, there are no surprises, the terrain is different, and the vitality is naturally different. It is the so-called mountain to look at the beautiful qi, the stone to find the evil qi, the valley to see the strange qi, the plain to find a gas, the water surface to observe the accumulated qi, the flat ground to find the spine qi. Xiushui Village is located in the plain, so if you want to find life, what you are looking for is this "one gas". Because on the plains, the terrain difference is very small, so wherever there is a bulge, you can build a city and town, build a house and sit on a tomb. It stands to reason that the establishment of this village and town should be located on a higher place, but this Xiushui Village is sitting in the low-lying part of the plain, and from a distance outside the village, the surrounding area is indeed higher than the village. Feng Shui aside, when it rains heavily or rains heavily in the summer, doesn't all the rainwater in the vicinity flow into the village? I don't know what the people who built the village thought at that time. Why the opposite? I think that the drainage system of this Xiushui village must be very developed, otherwise when it encounters heavy rain and heavy rain, this village will become a place where water gathers, and it will not take a few years for the people to stand it, and it can be passed on here for so many generations?