Volume 4 Chapter 10 Listening to the Story in the Old Restaurant (II)
Fengyue Town is an ancient town, founded in the late Ming Dynasty and early Qing Dynasty, originally this town was not called Fengyue Town, but called Yueshan Town, the predecessor of Yueshan Town was Yueshan Village. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoBecause Yueshan Village is thirty miles east of Longhu Mountain, and when you look at Longhu Mountain at night, it seems that the moon rises from here every time, so it is named Yueshan Village. As a result, Wolsan Village also sprung up, and after many years it became Wolsan Town.
There are many itinerant merchants in Yueshan Town, and people who come from the east to worship Longhu Mountain will pass through Yueshan Town, which is a must-pass place. There are also many vendors selling metaphysics-related items, such as amulets, talismans, and so on. It is also a place where some Taoist priests who communicate with each other stop and stop.
It is also a small story to talk about why it was renamed Fengyue Town.
According to legend, in the late Qing Dynasty, when I can't remember what emperor was in power, an army passed through the town of Yueshan, and then stationed five miles north of the town. After all, they are officers and soldiers, and as for what they want to do, no one knows, and no one dares to ask more. As the old saying goes, you shouldn't ask less.
Not long after this army was stationed, they came to Yueshan Town in droves to have fun. However, Yueshan Town was originally a town where Taoism was more prevalent, and there were many Taoist priests, and there was no kiln at all, that is, Fengyue place. It's not as good as other towns, what are the Fengyue Tower, Chunxiangyuan, and Chunmanlou. In the past, the officers and soldiers were not as strictly controlled as they are now, so naturally they began to make trouble because there was no kiln.
There were no kilns, but there were still women in the town, so they turned their attention to the women in the town.
After that, there were some cases of women from good families being defiled by officers and soldiers, but ordinary people have no way to sue for this kind of thing, the yamen and the officers and soldiers are officials and officials are mutually exclusive, and the county magistrate will not accept these cases at all. There is no way, many young women in the family have moved to the foot of Longhu Mountain and left Yueshan Town, as the saying goes, if you can't provoke it, you can't hide.
As a result, Yueshan Town was a lot deserted, and those merchants seemed to see the opportunity to buy some women from other towns, come to Yueshan Town, and open Fengyue Place.
Who would have thought, these merchants seemed to have discussed with each other, and they opened eight stores in Yueshan Town at once, and in the southeast, northwest, and northwest, Fengyue Town had a total of eight main streets, and now each street was not cleaned up, and it became extremely lively.
Walking on the street every day, no matter which street, you can hear such a voice, "Uncle, come and play, Sixth Master, come back next time!" ”
Every night, the entire town of Wolsan is lit up, which is a city with an extremely rich nightlife.
Some ordinary people looked at this situation and sighed to themselves, "The world is going down!" ”
People who couldn't see it felt that Yueshan Town had changed, and they moved out of Yueshan Town in anger and went to the town at the foot of Longhu Mountain. That is, the town at the foot of Longhu Mountain, where Lu Ming is now.
As soon as those officers and soldiers heard that there were eight Fengyue places in Yueshan Town, they all came to play, and for some reason, these officers and soldiers were very rich, and they were not as poor as ordinary officers and soldiers. At the beginning, the eight Fengyue Places all relied on these people to support the scene, otherwise how could they maintain the eight Fengyue Places in such a fiercely competitive situation?
One day, when the general of the army was drinking and having fun in a place of wind and moon, he joked, "What kind of town is this Laoshi Ziyueshan Town, there are no Taoist priests, there are only wind flowers and moon snow left, I think it is better to call it Fengyue Town." ”
Just like that, it spread out, and then some people began to call it Fengyue Town, and after a long time, it really became Fengyue Town. And the county magistrate at that time felt that the general deliberately said this, of course he had to listen to the military general as a civilian, in order to please the general, he simply changed Yueshan Town to Fengyue Town.
The county magistrate has changed this place to Fengyue Town, and the people dare not have any complaints. Fengyue Town has continued to this day. At that time, the Taoist priests who regarded it as a place of mutual communication also changed their location and ran to the foot of Longhu Mountain.
If you want to talk about the businessmen and bustards who open Fengyue places in Fengyue Town, there are really two bustards, and I don't know what means are used, and there are guests who come to the door every day. Many of the people who live in Fengyue Town go to the kiln because of the men in the family all the year round, and the trouble is that the chickens and dogs are jumping at home. And some women also have a heart for revenge.
As a result, Fengyue Town opened three more duck shops. Men play men's, women play women's. The entire Fengyue Town has completely become a popular place. I don't know what evil spirit these people have fallen into, they all seem to have lost their minds. Many people have been in physical decay due to years of intemperate intercourse, and their lives have ended early. What's more, he died of exhaustion in that kiln.
Later, in time for the turmoil of the dynasty, troops often passed by Fengyue Town, so that Fengyue Town, which should have subsided in the flames of war, became prosperous and lively. I have to say that it has become a kind of wonder.
The reason why Fengyue Town has not decayed for so many years is because it nourished the mobile army and people during the war years. Perhaps because of its special role, it has become a rare place of peace. It can be described as sad and lamentable.
And the people who live at the foot of Longhu Mountain think that Fengyue Town is likely to be cursed by someone, or there are demons like fox demons to haunt them, otherwise why do people who arrive in Fengyue Town seem to have lost their minds and can't extricate themselves from it?
However, this has not been confirmed with certainty until now, and it is not known whether it was really cursed or that there was a demon at work.
In this way, during the war years a few decades ago, the invasion of foreign invaders completely disrupted the pattern of Fengyue Town, and the Fengyue woman here became the object of competition among many foreign invaders. And although the women and men of Fengyue Town have lowly status, they are not willing to serve these foreign thieves, and they all rise up to resist, so Fengyue Town has been completely abandoned. After a few artillery fires, Fengyue Town was bombed, death filled the entire Fengyue Town, and then the plague was rampant, and there were inexplicable earthquakes, and disasters were repeated. Fengyue Town was completely dilapidated and destroyed. All the people of Fengyue Town were killed in these disasters, and only a few people fled to the town at the foot of Longhu Mountain in advance.
The old man's story has been told so much, and the old man has been very vague about the recent ruins of Fengyue Town decades ago, and Lu Ming has also heard it vaguely. However, judging from the abnormal reaction of the old woman in front of the counter, Lu Ming felt that the old man had to know more about the specific story of Fengyue Town, and perhaps there were some secrets that were not known to outsiders, but it was inconvenient to explain them to him, an outsider.