Banai is the village where Agui and his family live, and it is also a typical Yao village, but we have only lived for a few days, and we have no idea about the terrain of the village. I was a little surprised when the clouds said that.

"Where's the like?" The fat man took the picture, "Aren't all your villages here?" ”

Yun Cai didn't dare to say dead, handed the picture to Ah Gui, and said, "Daddy, take a look." "We immediately went over to it.

Ah Gui looked at it, and didn't seem to understand it at first, Yun Cai changed the direction of the map, and then said a few words to him in the local dialect, he suddenly realized, scratched his head and said, "Huh! It's kind of like that."

I was interested, after all, the puppets are not locals, and they are not as sensitive to many details as the people who have lived here for generations. And the woman was very careful, so she pointed it out to us.

Originally, I thought that some of the mountain-leaning buildings in the village were similar simply because the mountains in the lake were similar to the mountains around Banai, but as soon as Yun Cai said this, I gasped.

The similarities pointed out turned out to be roads and fences.

Yun Cai told me that the first time she looked at the picture, it was obvious that the road and the fence in the "ancient village at the bottom of the lake" I drew were exactly the same as their village. This made her aware of the anomaly, and only then did she begin to discover that the rest of the village, as well, was very similar in many places.

It is impossible for me to recall all the bluestone roads and steps of Banai Village, but I have a memory of the road near Agui's house. As long as you change the direction of the floor plan, you can immediately find a few paths on the side of Agui's house, and the intersection is very close to the map.

My grief was all cold sweat, and that was a bit too much. This plan depicts a village sunk under the lake, which may have been hundreds of thousands of years ago, but now it is found that the village at the bottom of the lake has countless high similarities with a real village, what the hell is going on?

Even though I tried to suppress that inexplicable creeping, I inevitably shuddered, and my gut told me that there might be something big wrong here.

I took a few breaths and pressed the goosebumps back, and then let the clouds point out all the similarities, which I had to determine could not have been caused by some particular legitimate reason.

Maybe my face was a little scary at that time, and the clouds saw that I was so serious, and they were scared and didn't dare to speak. The fat man patted me and told me not to scare the little sister, and I realized that I had lost my temper.

We started from the entrance of the village and continued to the end of the village, and the more I talked about it, the cooler my heart became, and I realized that this could not be done by any accident. From the location of several decorative archways at the entrance of the village, to the large number of bluestone roads, fences, and the arrangement of the houses, it is really very similar.

There is only one possibility to create such a situation, and that is that the ancient village and Banai at the bottom of this lake were designed by the same designer.

But how could a village be designed by a designer? Villages are all naturally formed, and all the villagers have spontaneously deployed them over the millennium, looking for the most suitable places to build houses, looking for the most reasonable routes, so as to slowly form the layout of roads and houses.

What worries me the most is the similarity of the height of the roads. Once a village is formed, especially in a mountain village, the road is something that is unlikely to change for a long time, hence the saying "the west wind of the ancient road". As for the road, the most the villagers have done is to repair it, and it is impossible to remove the entire road and reopen a new one. Most of the roads we took in many mountain villages existed during the Liangjin Dynasty. Even in Hangzhou, the stone paths of those mountains were built by the monks in the temple very early on, and now they are done by the zhèng fǔ, but they are constantly repaired.

Therefore, the ancient road in Banai Village is highly similar to the road in the ancient village at the bottom of the lake, which is extremely abnormal and can even be said to be weird. For me, a student of architecture, it was even more tormenting, and all kinds of things I had seen before were constantly tumbling in my head, but I didn't know what I was looking for.

The fat man, without realizing how deeply I was thinking, asked, "Innocent, have you ever heard of this kind of thing before?" ”

I shook my head and told him not to ask, this is not just "heard", there are two buildings with similar structures, history, only one person has done this kind of thing, that is, Wang Zanghai. The city of Qujing that he was responsible for designing is exactly the same as the city of Macau, but it is a city-level category, the city can be planned, the village is completely different, I have never heard of two villages that are exactly the same.

Moreover, if both villages existed, it could be said to be a spectacle, or the evil taste of some hidden master, but now i, one exists, and the other actually sinks to the bottom of the lake.

No matter what I tell myself, don't think in complicated directions, but my intuition always tells me that what is happening here is definitely not a single line. The fragment in my hand now is nothing more than the outermost layer of that "truth" onion.

The fat man saw that I didn't react, and went to ask the stuffy oil bottle again. The stuffy oil bottle didn't answer him, it seemed that he didn't dare to be interested in this, just looked at the picture in a daze.

Ah Gui dodged and said: "We have a legend, and we all say that the village is not in that place, but in Sheephorn Mountain. Maybe it's like what the fat boss said, the village below is our ancient village, the village is not burned, it is flooded, and then our ancestors will go to a similar place outside, and then build a village according to the original pattern, anyway, the mountain here is similar to the mountain outside us! ”

I said to him, "Unless your ancestors have a deep knowledge of Kanyu, it will be difficult to imitate it to this extent, even if they are intended to imitate it. ”

To achieve this similarity, it is necessary to carry out a planning survey at a time when the original village was not submerged, and the Yao people at that time were still in the uncivilized stage, so it was impossible to have such attainments.

Yun Cai pouted, "Boss, why do you look down on Yaomin?" Maybe there really is such a person! ”

I smiled bitterly, not that I wanted to think so, but if it did, then it would be complicated, and I replied, "Even if there is such a person, it doesn't make sense, because there is no need." Yao culture is not harsh on the planning of buildings, so why do you have to make it the same as the previous village? The layout of this village itself does not have any special implication. ”

There are many villages in China that were built by high-ranking people, for example, there is a Yuyuan village in Zhejiang, which was built by Liu Bowen according to the astrological signs, and the whole village is a huge astrolabe. But now the floor plan of this ancient village at the bottom of the lake is very unplanned, and with my experience, I can't see anything strange.

"What do you think?" The fat man asked me, "You must have something in mind." ”

Indeed, I had some speculation, but speculation was actually useless, so I shook my head: "I can just say with certainty that this was done on purpose, and it took a lot of effort, because ordinary people can't cultivate this similarity even if they want to." "What I find most incomprehensible is that there is no local legend for such an obvious thing.

Gui has memories of several generations, and their village is very old. That is, this y-behavior happened much earlier. But judging from some signs in Zhangjialou, the time for jade mining will not be too late. The backflow of the lake water should have been after the jade mining, otherwise the pit would not have been repaired.

Three things, Y, the backfilling of the lake and the mining of the jade mine, in chronological order of occurrence, should be Y earlier than the jade mining, and the backfilling of the lake last.

In other words, before the jade mining, that lake did not exist. The village is not flooded, even if it is deserted, it is still there.

Well, the locals will know that there are two villages that are exactly the same. Even if one of them was later flooded, it would be so old that there would at least be a legend.

Moreover, the scope of this legend will be very wide, even in other villages dozens of miles away, it will inevitably be spread.

But Gui said that there was no legend that mentioned the village at the bottom of the lake. This hidden ancient village is like an accident, completely forgotten in the course of history.