Chapter 50: A Preliminary Look
After having lunch at the old village chief's house, Ding Xiaocong and Hua Hongying first came to the hot spring well in the center of the village.
This is really a man-made wonder, the upper head of the water is all shady springs, but the downstream has become positive, and this well in the middle is the key to the layout. All this is not visible to ordinary people, but it is very obvious in Ding Xiaocong's witch eyes, especially shocking.
Yang Qi rises along the mountain, Yin Qi falls, and the two Qi Qi continue to merge and die, and the entire Woniu Village has reached a near-perfect balance. This phenomenon is almost impossible to exist in nature.
"Awesome!" Hua Hongying lay on the edge of the well and looked down, and sighed sincerely: "This Fang Datong is really a character, but it's a pity that he has such a great ability, and it's not good to use it somewhere......"
Hua Hongying's words make sense, in this reincarnation game, on the surface, his descendants live no different from others, but from another perspective, they are isolated from the world, I really don't know whether the gains are greater than the losses, or the losses are greater than the gains.
Ding Xiaocong shook his head and whispered, "I'm afraid that this reincarnation bureau has a deeper purpose." ”
"Oh? Let's talk about it. Hua Hongying was interested, and sat on the edge of the well and posed with a deferential posture.
Someone shouted in the distance: "No one is allowed to sit on the edge of the well!" ”
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry......" Hua Hongying hurriedly got up and couldn't stop apologizing, and the peasant woman who shouted left with a shovel, it seems that this well is quite sacred in the village.
Getting back to the point, Ding Xiaocong thought about it carefully and said, "It's just my guess, what the situation is, I can't tell it now, we have to ......."
Ding Xiaocong looked up, and when he went up, he went out of the village, and he could see a waterway flowing down from the valley between the two mountains, presumably the ancestral tomb in the village was in the valley.
"Let's go, go up and have a look." Hua Hongying waved his hand and walked up first, about the things here, he was even more anxious than Ding Xiaocong.
The two began to swim upstream, passing through the antique houses, and after about 20 minutes, they finally came to the "cow head" part. From here, you will find a dense forest of mountains and greenery.
There is a path in the forest, parallel to the stream, which should be the passage for the villagers to send the old man up the mountain, walking on it, even in summer, you can't feel the slightest heat, the birds on both sides are singing and the flowers are fragrant, and the environment is pleasant.
The mountain road was difficult, so they followed the path upward, and when they finally found the ancestral cemetery, the sun was nearly dusk, and a large area of mountain flat land appeared in front of them.
The interior of this valley is like a zucchini, small at both ends and large in the middle, the water flow is divided into two in the upper reaches and merged into one in the downstream, and in the middle is a vast open space where the ancestral graveyard of Woniu Village is located.
Quite different from the surrounding scenery, there is almost no vegetation in this clearing, only a circle of old willow trees is artificially planted on the periphery, forming a very standard circle, and the tombs inside are almost identical. The only tomb that stands out from the rest, in the center of the circular cemetery, is entirely made of stone, and is guarded by other tombs, which should be Fang Datong's tomb.
When you get here, you can see it very clearly, the general cemetery is overgrown with grass, but here it is the loess facing the sky, which is the image of yin and yang imbalance.
When yin and yang are balanced, living things can flourish, and here yin qi is lost on a large scale, yang qi is too vigorous, and it is difficult for plants and trees to grow, just like a desert. This kind of scene is very common in the Loess Plateau, but it is very abnormal in the verdant Jiangnan Mountains.
Organisms produce yang, and dead things produce yin, and unless there is a special region, the general environment is relatively balanced.
When we arrived, the birdsong and insect whispers were gone, and there was a dead silence in the valley, and the atmosphere began to become a little oppressive. This is also a normal phenomenon, and when ordinary people see such a cemetery, their hearts will change more or less.
Ding Xiaocong was about to go over to take a closer look, but was pulled by Hua Hongying, he pointed to the sun in the west, and said in embarrassment: "It's too late, why don't we come back tomorrow morning?" ”
Ding Xiaocong was speechless, but he didn't go when he got to the ground, Hua Hongying was obviously scared, but it was still broad daylight, are you afraid of a ghost?
"You wait here, I'll go down and have a look and come back." Ding Xiaocong is not easy to say directly, anyway, this person is not very useful with him, so it is better not to add to the chaos.
Fang Datong agreed, and told again and again: "Be careful, there seems to be something wrong with this cemetery." ”
Something must be wrong with the cemetery, especially the circle of old willow trees outside. The willow tree has the effect of gathering yin, and judging from the pattern, it is obvious that it was deliberately planted here, attracting the yin qi from the corpses of the cemetery, and then seeping into the surrounding flowing water, and then entering the village of Woniu below.
Seeing this, Ding Xiaocong has roughly figured out the working principle of the entire reincarnation bureau.
In nature, yin and yang are generally mixed, but the contrast is not very strong, and this reincarnation bureau obviously exacerbates this reaction, causing Woniu Village to be isolated from the outside world.
The whole bureau, this ancestral cemetery is the energy warehouse, after the old people in the village are buried here, the yin qi produced by the corpse is conducted into the water by the willow tree, and flows into the village of Woniu as a driving agent. In other words, as long as people continue to bury it, this bureau will have a steady stream of energy, which is a cycle that can never be broken, unless there is no one in the village.
So, what is the purpose of this bureau? Ding Xiaocong doesn't believe that it is for the benefit of future generations, there must be a deeper reason.
After wading through the stream and entering the cemetery, Ding Xiaocong only felt that his body was hot, and the yin qi was sucked away, and the yang energy here was strong, which was just the opposite of the ordinary cemetery.
Standing on the edge of the cemetery, Ding Xiaocong opened his witch eyes to observe carefully, he was confused, it was clean here, and there was no sign of his soul to be found, which was more peaceful than the wilderness.
After the corpse is buried, they will go to sleep underground together, and in this state of tranquility, they can often exist for many years. On the contrary, those wandering spirits that float in the air are constantly disturbed by various breaths, and generally do not exist for long, unless they are very vicious in nature.
So, where did the souls of the old people go in such a peaceful place? Unless......
Ding Xiaocong walked through the old and new tombs, thinking as he walked towards the big tomb in the center.
This is indeed Fang Datong's tomb, come closer to see, there is a tall stone tablet erected in front of the tomb, engraved with a line of big characters - the tomb of Fang Gong Datong, and there are many dense small characters below, expressing the merits of Fang Datong's life.
Ding Xiaocong inspected the tomb around it, but he couldn't see through it because of the thick stone slab on the outside of the tomb. As for the act of digging up stones and digging graves, he didn't have the courage to do it, although he now doubted Fang Datong's purpose of setting up the reincarnation bureau.
"Master shallot, it's time to go back!" Hua Hongying shouted in the distance, and Ding Xiaocong realized that he had been in the cemetery for a long time, and it was really too late.
Ding Xiaocong gave up observation and turned around and walked outside the cemetery. Since he couldn't see anything now, he decided to go back first, and to explore the water mill in the evening, believing that he would definitely gain something.
Hurriedly went ashore and returned along the original road, on the way, Ding Xiaocong called home, saying that he was playing at a classmate's house in the countryside and would not go back until a few days. Now Ding Xiaocong is already a big boy after all, Gao Qun interrogated a few words, and after there were no flaws, he told him to go home early, and he didn't say anything more.
When they arrived at the old village chief's house, it was just dark, and the wine and food had been arranged, and the old village chief hurriedly invited them to sit down and sit down.
As soon as he sat down, a familiar female voice came from outside the door, "Is this Village Chief Fang's house?" ”