Chapter 32 Signature

At this moment, a farm tricycle emitted a puff of black smoke from far and near, driven by a small old man, and a young man sitting in the car, looking very fashionably dressed, like a city person.

"This big brother!" Zhang Guozhong stretched out his hand to stop the car, "Ask you about something!" ”

"What?" The little old man who was driving looked at Zhang Guozhong vigorously.

"Do you know where the water in this pool comes from?" Zhang Guozhong handed over a cigarette with a smile on his face.

"Huh? Brought in from there! The little old man pointed in the direction of Niangniang Mountain not far away.

"Yes, I know it was brought from there, do you know how? Was it dug a trench or pumped with a pump? ”

"Why are you asking this?" The little old man jumped off the agricultural tricycle with one leg, took out a lighter and lit a cigarette, and looked at Zhang Guozhong with a pair of little mung bean eyes.

"Oh! This is the gentleman we invited! Just for the sake of drowning people a few days ago! Yang Zhou hurriedly stepped forward to talk, put his mouth under the little old man's ear and muttered.

"Oh! Zhang Banxian! After listening to Yang Zhou's muttering, the little old man's expression was simply a 180-degree turn, "My surname is Li, just call me Li Er!" Half of the water in this pool is pumped by a pump, and half is dug and channeled, but the ditch is not dug by modern people, it has been since ancient times! ”

"Since ancient times?" Zhang Guozhong frowned, "Can you tell me more details?" ”

"This ...... I won't let me take you to have a look..."Li Lao Er pondered for a while, and simply decided to personally take Zhang Guozhong and Yang Zhou to dig a trench to investigate the site, "Sanshui, you drive the car back first, and I'll take Zhang Banxian to Baizhang Pond to have a look!" ”

After walking for about seven or eight minutes, Li Lao Er took Zhang Guozhong and Yang Zhou to the edge of a small pool, "This is it!" Li Lao Er wiped his sweat and pointed to the small pool, "This is the 'Baizhang Pool'!" The water in the fish pond is pumped from here! ”

"Here?" Zhang Guozhong leaned down and looked at the waterhole carefully, only to see that the waterhole was about five meters square, and the pool was dark and black, and I didn't know how deep it was, the four walls of the waterhole were all bluestone, and it really didn't look like it was built by modern people, but looking at the weathering degree of the bluestone around it, it didn't seem to be too long, at most two or three hundred years.

"Can the water in this pond fill the entire fish pond?" Zhang Guozhong frowned, put his hand into the pool water, and only felt cold and biting.

"If you want to talk about this pool, it's weird!" Li Lao Er frowned, "No one knows when it was repaired, and no one knows why it was repaired, someone once tied a stone with hemp rope and wanted to try the depth, but it took more than sixty meters of rope to probe the bottom!" For as long as I can remember, the adults didn't let us get close to this place, this pool is the closest to our village, but at that time, the people in the village would rather go a mile away to fetch water than come here to fetch water, and I don't know why. In the past eight years, there was a man named Zhang Shengli in the village, who had nothing to do when he was full, so he got a pumping machine and wanted to drain the water in this pool, but the pumping machine pumped for three days and three nights, and the water in this pool was not seen at all! At that time, everyone said that there must be a secret passage in this pond, which was connected to other water veins, and then a few young people in the village wanted to get a fish pond, so they pondered to pump water from here, but the water just pumped over and before the fish could be raised, they drowned people first......

"Secret Passage?" Zhang Guozhong opened the compass, walked around the pool, and found that Baizhang Pond was facing the center line of Niangniang Mountain, and the yin and yang were really a little abnormal. "Could it be ...... 'venting'?" Looking at the changes in the compass, Zhang Guozhong couldn't help frowning, because the water in this Baizhang Pond and this so-called "dark path" had a yin qi that was obviously higher than that fish pond just now.

Maoshan Shu believes that where there is stagnant water next to the tomb, it is the image of the great yin, and the solution is to dig a canal or waterway to lead the water to the place where yin and yang can circulate and flow, because the water is not only the main yin, but also a good carrier of yin and yang circulation, and the stagnant water is led to the place where yin and yang can circulate and flow, which not only helps to release the yin qi accumulated in the dead water, but also helps to release the resentment of the tomb owner due to the accumulation of yin qi.

The scale of "venting" and the size of the stagnant water area next to the tomb is proportional to the size of the tomb, calculated by the scale of the grave of ordinary people, if there is a stagnant water within one acre on the side of the grave, then it is enough to dig a small ditch half a foot wide, the length of the ditch is at most one to two meters, it can play a good role in "venting", and now this "Baizhang Pool" is really the product of "venting", then how large is the "discharge" of "evil"?

Frowning, Zhang Guozhong took the compass and walked out one or two hundred meters along the so-called "culvert" in one breath, until there was no way to go, although there was no place to put his feet on the ground, but according to the compass, the underground "culvert" seemed to be still extending forward, and there was a great tendency to not stop until Niangniang Mountain.

"Zhang Banxian?" Li Lao Er followed behind Zhang Guozhong, and finally couldn't help but ask curiously, "You, what do you see?" ”

"This culvert should be right under our feet!" Zhang Guozhong said, "If my estimate is correct, this culvert should lead to an underground water vein somewhere in Niangniang Mountain!" ”

"You mean that drowning people in fish ponds has something to do with water?" Li Lao Er said with a thief's eyebrows.

"It's hard to say now...... Zhang Guozhong took a deep breath, "If you know where this waterway leads, you may be able to figure it out." ”

"Zhang Banxian, do you know what this Baizhang Pond is for?" Li Lao Er continued to ask, and it seemed that he had been holding back these words for a long time.

"I suspect it's a tomb leak!" Zhang Guozhong said, "Uncle Li, do you know if there are any ancient tombs nearby?" ”

"What do you mean?" Li Laoer's two little mung beans stared roundly, "Ancient tombs...... This one...... I've never heard of that! ”

"Do you know where to go up Niangniang Mountain?" Zhang Guozhong pointed to Niangniang Mountain not far away and continued to ask.

"You have to go around the mountain from that side, there's no way here!" Li Lao Er pointed with his finger in the direction he came from just now, "Master Zhang, otherwise, I'll drive you over, what's the matter?" ”

"No need, we have a car, you can tell us the road......" Facing the enthusiasm of Li Laoer, Zhang Guozhong was a little embarrassed.

"Your car?" Li Lao Er smiled, and seemed to be very disdainful of Santana's Yangzhou, "You can't get on that car!" If you go that way, you have to have my car! ”

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Sitting on Li Laoer's agricultural tricycle, Zhang Guozhong regained a little bit of the feeling of riding an ox cart in Bashan, and the mountain road under his feet is indeed not something that a car like Santana can drive, and after about half an hour, the car stopped in a slightly flat open space at the foot of the mountain, "I can only go here!" Li Lao Er smiled, his face full of wrinkles.

"Thank you!" Zhang Guozhong turned over and got out of the car, looked at the road up the mountain, and it was much smoother than he thought.

"Thank you or not, you are also doing things for the village! I'm here to watch the car, waiting for you! ”

"Thank you so much!" Zhang Guozhong held Li Laoer's hand, "I really don't know how to thank you when we meet in Pingshui!" ”

"Hey......" Holding Zhang Guozhong's hand, Li Laoer's smiling face suddenly froze, "Zhang Banxian, I have a personal matter I want you to help with, I don't know if you have time?" ”

"Huh?" Zhang Guozhong's expression was also stiff, and he secretly said in his heart that it was not good, but at this moment, he had just finished making someone's car, and it was not easy to shirk it, "You can say ......"

"Don't get me wrong! I definitely didn't mean that, if I didn't come to this Niangniang Mountain, I really couldn't remember this! Li Lao Er also looked unhappy at this time, "My nephew, once I went to Niangniang Mountain to play and brought those unclean things home, if you have time, can you ...... Can you take a look? ”

"Something unclean?" Zhang Guozhong was stunned, "What is not clean?" ”

"Speaking of this, it must be a year younger......" Li Lao Er squeezed his mung bean eyes and sighed vigorously...... "I can't say whether it has anything to do with Niangniang Mountain, the children in the village always go up the mountain to play, nothing happens, only he ......"

Li Lao Er has a younger brother named Li Zhen, the daughter-in-law married the aunt and cousin, after more than ten years of marriage, there have been no children, at first I was very anxious, I asked for medical advice everywhere, and the money saved in the family was all tossed in, not to mention, and I borrowed a lot of debts, but then a family planning propaganda team came to the city, specifically for the problem of close relatives to marry Li Zhen and several other close relatives in the same village to talk to them, saying that close relatives are prone to problems when they get married and have children, and gave a lot of examples, Li Zhen was also a little scared, It's better to be a fool and a nerd, in case it's a missing arm or leg, and you can't even do your job.

Just when Li Zhen and his wife decided to give up their plan to have a child and were about to spend money to buy a child, Li Zhen's daughter-in-law was pregnant, and when she was more than three months pregnant, the two of them once went to the back door to stuff red envelopes to find a doctor in the county hospital to do a B-ultrasound, and it turned out to be a boy, and it was shown in the B-ultrasound that the child was at least normal in appearance and outline, and there were no obvious physical defects, at least not missing arms and legs; Seeing his daughter-in-law's belly getting bigger little by little, Li Zhen finally made a helpless decision, that is, to go to Wudang Mountain to ask for a signature, hoping to let the "immortals" decide the fate of the child.

To tell the truth, this kind of sign is actually difficult to find, whether it is Buddhism or Taoism, are against abortion, according to the religious interpretation, whether the child is good or bad is a cycle of cause and effect, not to say that you can avoid by abortion, so strictly speaking, no matter what the result of the signature, the person who unsigns will recommend keeping the child. Li Zhen is no exception, although he asked for a sign, but under the persuasion of the Taoist priest, he decided to keep the child, according to the words of the Taoist priest, the child's congenital should be fine, but the day after tomorrow there may be some accidents, but what the specific problem depends on the birth date, so the child should go up the mountain after birth and ask for a signature.

Six months later, the child was born on time on the hospital's due date, to say that the child is also very competitive, not only was the birth smooth, did not let Li Zhen's daughter-in-law suffer a trace of sin, and both physiology and appearance are very healthy, not deaf, not dumb or deformed, and can even be said to be quite handsome.

Time is like an arrow, seven or eight years of hard work, the child has reached the age when he should go to school (local rural children generally enter school late, and the age of eight is a normal age), but just a few days before the school starts, the child has an accident.

Early that morning, the child went out to play with a few older children, and the family didn't care much, the countryside, the children are more precocious, seven or eight years old is already half a young man, and there are a few older ones to follow, theoretically nothing can happen, but I didn't expect that the child went out during the day or was good, and when he came back at night, he suddenly became abnormal, as if he lost his soul, that is, on that day, the child went out on the front foot, Li Zhen went out to buy cigarettes and came home as soon as he opened the door, he saw a bloody human head hanging at the door, so frightened that Li Zhen foamed at the spot, and told his family about it afterwards, and the family said that he was wrong, and there was a hat hanging at the door of the house, and a small basket was hung under the hat, which did look a bit like a human head at first glance, maybe it was dark and dazzling, but Li Zhen insisted that what he saw was a human head, because illusion is the first sight, and then the second glance will never continue to be wrong, and his first reaction at that time was also wrong, After calming down and taking a closer look, he found that it was indeed a human head, so he fainted in fright, otherwise he was in his fifties, how could he let a broken basket that had been hanging at the door for several years be frightened to foam?

Later, the family also asked the child where he went that day and what he did, but the child just didn't say it, and insisted that he had been with other children in the village, that is, he had a play on Niangniang Mountain, and the other children also said so, but he didn't expect that the next night, Li Zhen's daughter-in-law got up at night, and when she woke up, she found that there was a person outside the window looking at herself, and she fainted with a frightened throat. found that the person standing outside turned out to be his son, angrily opened the window and stretched out his arm to slap him, but he didn't expect the child to wake up like a dream after being slapped, saying that he didn't know why he was standing here.

Since that time, this is not normal, there is always something to talk about, this Li Zhen is anxious all day long, and the person who is more than ten years younger than Li Lao Er looks even older than Li Lao Er.

It has been tossed for several months, and many people said that Li Zhen's house should have entered something unclean, and persuaded Li Zhen to find a gentleman to see, at this time Li Zhen remembered that the Taoist priest asked him to ask for another signature, and hurriedly took his son to Wudang Mountain to ask for another signature, and the result was "the body is afraid of the water, and the livable mountain is not climbing".

At this time, the Taoist priest who unsigned was no longer the Taoist priest who told Li Zhen back then, and Li Zhen himself did not remember the signing of the document, and the Taoist priest who unsigned could only sign and sign: according to the signature, the north is "Ren Kui Water", and "the body is afraid of Ren Gui and the heart is afraid of water" indicates that the child's nemesis is in the north, and "Mo Denggao under the livable mountain" is very easy to understand, that is, it is best for the child to live under the mountain in this life, and rarely go to high places to ensure his health. Li Zhen was completely stupid this time, the child went to Niangniang Mountain at the time, and this Niangniang Mountain is to the north of his house, it is both the north and the mountain, and the two unreliable things are all occupied, can there be no accident?

"Afterwards, the family also invited Mr., and they all said that it was okay and nothing, but they said that it was not normal for the child to see it!" Li Lao Er frowned, and the two mung beans stared at Zhang Guozhong intently, "Zhang Banxian, Zhang Shenxian, I, Li Lao Er, is a dead horse as a living horse, whether there is it or not, please take a look, is it okay?" ”

"Your nephew's birthday, do you know?" Listening to Li Laoer's godly vernacular for a long time about his nephew going to Niangniang Mountain, Zhang Guozhong felt that the suspicion of the whole thing was not in Niangniang Mountain, but Li Zhen took his son to sign from Wudang Mountain, it is not difficult to say that it is not difficult to ask for a signature, but it is definitely a university to ask for a signature, and Daomen has a saying of "three points for seven decomposition" for this kind of thing, but the importance of signing can be seen, in Zhang Guozhong's view, more than 90% of the signature, its implicit meaning is far greater than the literal meaning, It is even possible to say that it is completely different from the literal meaning or simply diametrically opposed, and at present, the Taoist priest of Wudang Mountain obviously failed to understand the deep meaning of the signature, but only translated the signature "just sign and say sign".

"Hey...... I don't know, but my brother knows that if you have time, when you come down from the mountain, we'll go straight to his house! At night, I Li Lao Er will be the east! Seeing that Zhang Guozhong seemed to agree, Li Lao Er was obviously a lot more relaxed.

On Niangniang Mountain, Zhang Guozhong did not find any valuable clues. This Niangniang Mountain is somewhat similar to the Shuangta Mountain in Shandong back then, although the mountain is not big, but it is not small enough to rely on the compass to find the target. Probably due to the thick rock formation on the mountain, the compass seemed to have completely lost its reaction to the so-called "dark passage" leading to the "Baizhang Pool", and after wandering around to no avail, Zhang Guozhong simply took Yang Zhou and Li Lao Er to Li Zhen's house together.

Li Laoer's so-called nephew is called Li Shuai, according to Zhang Guozhong's aesthetics, he is indeed very handsome, and the appearance of a tiger head and tiger brain is quite the charm of Zhang Yicheng's youth, but this child's eyes are a little wooden at the moment, and he doesn't know how to wipe it when his nose is flowing into his mouth, and he looks sloppy at first glance.

"This kid didn't ...... like this before" Li Zhen seemed to see Zhang Guozhong's thoughts, "I used to be clever, alas! It's all my fault for this, if I had thought about asking for a hexagram, I wouldn't have been able to let him go up the mountain even if I died......"

"How old are you, young man?" Zhang Guozhong touched Li Shuai's head, looked at the compass with his other hand, and everything was normal.

"Eight years old!" Li Shuai raised his eyes and looked at Zhang Guozhong, "Uncle, how old are you?" ”

The sentence "I ......" made Zhang Guozhong cry and laugh, to be honest, after living so big, it was the first time he heard someone call him "uncle", and he was a little depressed.

"Go! No big, no small! Did you ask the elders that!? Li Zhen seems to know a little bit of etiquette, "Ask the elders, you have to ask how old you are!" ”

"Uncle, how old are you?" This Li Shuai is quite obedient, and he learned it immediately after listening to his father's teaching.

"I ...... Forty-eight years old! Zhang Guozhong almost cried, the two of them sang and harmonized, but the question is that they are so old?

"Yo? Zhang Banxian, you ...... Forty-eight? As soon as Zhang Guozhong said this, Li Lao Er, who was sitting on the side, immediately looked surprised, "Then you are very tender!" I just praised your brother and daughter-in-law for being young and promising, and you are three years younger than me after a long time! ”

Listening to Li Laoer's words, Zhang Guozhong really has a dead heart, the uncle shouted all the way, and after a long time, this "Uncle Li" is three years older than himself, and rural people like to count "virtual years", if you want to talk about the first birthday, this "Uncle Li" may not be three years older than himself, and then he also fell into a "tender face"......

"There's nothing wrong with this kid...... I'd better take a look at this house......" When it came to this, Zhang Guozhong had to divert the topic.

"Hey! Good! Good! Look at the house! Li Zhen and Li Lao Er followed Zhang Guozhong out of the house......