Then the problem is that the rest of the gas gathering platforms are nowhere to be found, not to mention where the spiritual mountain with a large number of treasures recorded in the scroll is located, if it wasn't for the fact that my uncle entered Qixing Mountain by coincidence of exploration in 1915, this matter is estimated to have been sealed in history for a long time. The years have changed, and some mountain names more than 2,000 years ago have changed many times, or Ge Zhang and Yu are not marked with the real names of the mountains at all.

From our later experience, we are told that the five mountains of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth and the spiritual mountain described on this map are combined with a large number of local Ba people's feng shui, and this ancient Ba people's feng shui is also "Di Jun Kanyu Jue", which is different from books such as "Book of Changes", "House Classic" and "Dragon Shaking Sutra" in the Central Plains in many places.

And I haven't even heard of the book "The Secret of the Emperor", let alone found this book to find out. The more I think about these questions, the more I feel that I don't have a clue, but sometimes it's just so coincidental that we can't write a book, maybe we are destined to have something to do with this matter.

Then came the Spring Festival in 1920, after my grandparents left, my parents often went back to my mother's hometown to celebrate the New Year, so almost all these New Year's celebrations were spent at my grandmother's house. I remember that it was the longest Spring Festival in my opinion, and of course, it was also the Spring Festival that completely changed my fate.

My grandmother's house must be said about this place, this place is also a thousand-year-old town, the ancient town is built on the mountain, born along the water, Youshui and the North River meet here, the waterway is the main channel for material exchange and civilization transmission with the outside world in the mountainous area, where several rivers meet in our mountainous area, such wharves are usually quite prosperous.

Every day before dawn, you can hear the boatman's horn in the river, and the wooden boats that rely on manpower to paddle and support the penny and pull the fiber, will continue to transport out the tung oil, gallnut, animal skins, medicinal materials and other local products on our side, and then bring back the foreign oil, salt, cloth, and daily miscellaneous goods from the downstream port.

This is still a few days before the Spring Festival, my brother has already written a letter to come back for the New Year, with his girlfriend who was also studying in the United States of America beautiful sister back, my sister-in-law's family is Suzhou Wang, the family is said to have several department stores, and it looks slender and exquisite, which makes my parents quite face-saving, and praises when they see people, but when relatives and friends ask me about my situation, I have to support me for a long time, so that I simply hide in the attic every day every day.

My brother asked me about the situation and said, if you like history so much, you should learn more about it, he knows a professor at Yenching University, and if he was admitted to his major, I said that I was interested in it for a while, and I didn't have any plans to study it for a long time. My brother sighed, I don't know what to say, after he went out of school, in fact, we had less contact, and I felt that we were not the same kind of people as him, originally we were nothing, but we were often compared to each other, and slowly I became more alienated from him.

I remember that day was the twenty-ninth day of the lunar month, I have a characteristic, until now, never sleep lazy, every day thunder can not get up at 7 o'clock, at this time the sky is not very bright, grandma also got up early, burned charcoal fire and waited for everyone to get up can be around the stove to roast the fire, and then give me a brazier and said: "Erwa, you go to the door to guard a few fish." ”

What is called guarding fish, that is, my grandmother's house just lives on the dock on the bank of the Youshui River, and it takes more than 100 stone stairs to get up the street, and the fishermen who come back from fishing in the early morning will take the fresh fish to the market to sell, we get up early, wait at the door early in the morning, and we can buy the best fish first.

When I came to the door, at this time, except for the fishermen, the neighbors on both sides were still sleeping, and ordinary people would not get up so early, so I sat on the stone lion at the door, roasting the fire and smoking boredly.

After a while, a hurried fisherman came up from the shore panting with a big fish basket, I hurriedly called out to him, saying that I look at the fish, the fisherman was very anxious, I said I would choose a few good ones first, and the fisherman said: "Xiaowa, can you do me a favor?" ”

I asked suspiciously, "Okay, what's the matter?" ”

The fisherman said: "I'm a little anxious, I have to go back to XX (a village under our town) immediately, these fish are the old man of the Yuwang Palace under the mountain of my filial piety to my mother-in-law for the New Year, you can choose two at will, and you can help me send the rest over, I won't charge you money." ”

I happily chose two big fish and said, "This is not a small effort." I'll still give you the money, you call it Ha. ”

The fisherman waved his hand and said, "It's just two fish, and I don't have anything to gain." Then he reported his name and told me, "You can deliver the rest of the fish to me." That old man did our family a big favor this year, and I should have sent it in person, but now I have this urgent matter, Mofa. ”

I said, "You go first, and I'll send it to you right away." ”

The fisherman nodded, turned and descended the stone staircase.

I told my grandmother about it, and my grandmother said, "This old man is really powerful, and people in the neighborhood look for him to see feng shui, and sometimes exorcise ghosts and solve Gu." is more than a hundred years old, and it is estimated that he practiced martial arts when he was young, and he looks like his body is still very strong. ”

I said, "I've never heard of him before." ”

Grandma said: "He used to be in Xiangxi, but when he got older, his daughter married here, so he took him over, and the old man couldn't stay idle, so he went to live in Yuwang Palace, managed Yuwang Palace, and by the way, showed people what feng shui did to do the law." ”

I picked up the fish basket, carried the rest of the fish and went to Mother-in-law's Mountain, which was not far from the town, and it was not close to the town. When I was a child, I went to the small river of Yuwang Palace to swim, and I didn't go for a long time, but fortunately there was no change at this time, the road was familiar, and I arrived at Yuwang Palace from time to time.

It was still early and the door was still closed, so I knocked on the knocker and shouted, "Master, I've brought you fish!" ”

"Which!" I only heard a sound like a bell coming from inside the door, which startled me, I steadied my mind and said: "Master, I am XXX asked me to send you fish, he is a little anxious today, I wanted to thank you in person!" ”

The door creaked open. An old man in Tsing Yi with white hair but eyes like torches opened the door, looked at me and said, "XXX, this turtle, why worry about it!" "The voice is loud, it really doesn't look like an old man in his hundreds.

I laughed and said, "The grace of dripping water, the spring reciprocates, and the other one is also a piece of heart." ”

The old man in Tsing Yi smiled and said boldly: "Come in and sit, baby!" "I was not allowed to do so, so I went into the house first.

I hurriedly took the fish basket and followed him into the palace gate.

I poured the fish into the tank and said, "Master, I'll go first." ”

The old man in Tsing Yi said in an unquestionable tone: "It's cold, drink a glass of wine and leave!" ”

This time, I saw this old man drinking in the courtyard alone in the morning, and there was a mottled ancient sword next to him, and I don't know if this was practicing or borrowing wine to kill his sorrows.

Seeing that the old man was quite bored alone, I was moved with compassion, thinking that I would hide upstairs to play when I went back, so it was better to sit here and drink with the old man and set up a dragon gate array.

I picked up a cup and poured it full of wine, and said, "Okay, drink some with the old man, it's going to be the New Year, I'll toast you first!" ”

The old man seemed to be very happy, took a glass and drank it all, it is estimated that this place is also relatively remote, we have no friends and relatives here, a little lonely alone, an old and a young chatter.

The old man is a very talkative person, he can't hold this word box as soon as he opens it, from Brother Pao to the Alliance, the Hunan Army Huaijun, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Eight-Nation Alliance, Cixi fled westward, from Youshui to Dongting, from the first girl he liked when he was young to his later fragrant legends, as well as dragon boat racing, mountain songs, crying marriage, waving hands and dancing. The old man is simply a legend, a living Xiangxi encyclopedia, and if he has the opportunity in the future, he can write a novel alone, which is absolutely wonderful

It's already afternoon when this chat starts, the old man is still interested, and it is estimated that he hasn't chatted with someone like this for a long time, when an old lady in her 6 or 70s pushed the door in, I got up and wanted to greet him, the old man waved his hand and said, "It's nothing, it's my daughter." ”

The old lady came to bring food to the old man, and I was a little surprised to see this old lady chatting so happily, I have seen this old lady, I know my grandparents, but I definitely don't know me.

The old lady put down her meal and cleaned up the room, and then said something like going home for the New Year, and then left with a smile. The two of us chatted for a long time while drinking, and I wanted to ask about Feng Shui several times but I didn't know where to start, but the old man never mentioned his Feng Shui metaphysics, witch and ghost things, and I think there must be a reason for him.

The old man was almost drunk, waved his hand at me and said, "You baby is okay, but Lao Tzu is going to sleep now, you can come and sit again when you have time." Then he didn't look at me, hummed a little tune, and went to sleep on stilts.

I had no choice but to get up and take my leave.