Chapter 42: The Dragon's Quest
At the end of this booklet, Chen Ziyang's grandfather left a riddle. It reads "Chen Zhichuan, Ding Xinglong, Shen to Ding Shui, cross the stream and arrive at ......" Chen Ziyang knew that this riddle was actually the location where the ancient book was buried. This riddle is called the dragon quest, and it is one of the most common code words used by Feng Shui masters to record the location of a tomb or a certain location. As long as there are some people who know a little about the art of feng shui and the use of the compass, as long as they know the starting point of the dragon search formula, they can find the recorded location according to this dragon search method, which Lao Dao once taught Chen Ziyang when he used to use the compass.
This dragon hunt may seem profound, but it's actually very simple. "Chenzhichuan" refers to starting from the starting point, walking to the Chenwei in the twenty-four mountains, Zhichuan is to the foot of the mountain, and "Ding Xinglong" is to reach the foot of the mountain and then turn to Ding, to the top of the ridge...... In fact, this dragon hunt is just a test of the primary use of the compass, and all the references of the dragon hunt are based on the mountains and water in Feng Shui. Chen Ziyang used to like to play this kind of game very much, and from time to time he asked Lao Dao to give him a dragon search trick to find, because this dragon search trick gave him a feeling of treasure hunting. The only difficulty in the dragon hunt is to determine the correct starting point for this dragon hunt.
Chen Ziyang is more understanding of his grandfather's approach. The old Chen family didn't want the descendants of the Chen family to rob the tomb anymore, and even Chen Ziyang's grandmother didn't know that the old Chen family had robbed the tomb. In this way, if the descendants of the Chen family are not interested in this compass, then this secret will never be discovered. It is also time for the secret of the old Chen family to be revealed, who would have thought that the old Chen family eighty years later would have a Maoshan master.
Chen Ziyang put the booklet in his pocket, used a pen to record all the words on the inner disc of the compass, and then studied it for a long time to assemble the compass. This compass is just an ordinary compass, his grandfather has seen it many times, even if Chen Ziyang himself looks at it, he can't see anything else, as long as he writes down these passwords. After the compass was assembled, Chen Ziyang gave it a try, but fortunately the compass was not broken.
Chen Ziyang made a decision, he decided to follow this dragon search recipe to find those ancient books. Anyway, he has nothing to do, and secondly, the Taoist people believe in chance, and it is a coincidence that the ancestor of the old Chen family has this adventure of robbing the tomb, and it is a coincidence that this compass and ancient books are still in the hands of the Chen family, and it is still a coincidence that the descendants of the Chen family are Maoshan masters, who know the art of feng shui the most, and the most coincidental thing is that this Maoshan master accidentally broke the compass and discovered the secret. With so many coincidences together, this is the will of God, and God destined Chen Ziyang to work hard to uncover these secrets.
But Chen Ziyang thought about it carefully and found several problems in the whole thing. First, this set of ancient books has been passed down to his ancestors for more than 1,500 years, and now it has been more than 1,600 years, why is this ancient book so well preserved? It would be good if there were half of the other ancient books left now, and this set of ancient books should be a lot of descriptions of my grandfather, and they have been unscathed for so many years. How did the descendants of the ancient books understand the words? For more than 1,000 years, the text has not been universal. Why did the owner of the tomb of the Seven Dead Guardians bring the secret of this compass into the coffin, bring the secret into the coffin and guard it with such a powerful formation and mechanism, it was because he didn't want people to know the secret, but why didn't he just destroy the compass? Wouldn't that be more thorough?
Chen Ziyang shook his head, he couldn't figure it out, so he didn't want to think about it first, take one step at a time, find the ancient book first, and maybe there would be an answer. Tomorrow, tomorrow will start to break the dragon search trick first.
That night, Chen Ziyang lay in bed and couldn't sleep for a long time, thinking about where the starting point of this dragon search would be. Generally speaking, the starting point of the dragon hunt is the most important place for the person who wrote the dragon quest, or the place where it makes more sense for someone or something. Chen Ziyang thought about it, but there was really no other place except his grandfather's house. Because Chen Ziyang's grandfather is an outsider, there is basically no meaningful place for him, and the only most likely thing is the old house of the Chen family.
The next day, Chen Ziyang got up early, took the compass and walked to his grandfather's old house. As far as Chen Ziyang knows, his grandfather and grandmother used to have their own bungalow, and later after Chen Ziyang's grandfather died, his grandmother sold the house and moved to Chen Ziyang's uncle's house to live, so the starting point of this dragon search will not be Chen Ziyang's uncle's house, but should be the old house.
Chen Ziyang started from the door of the old house and searched for the direction mentioned in the dragon hunt. Dahetao Town is surrounded by mountains on all sides, and is accompanied by the Yalu River on one side. Mountains of all directions abound, and the Yalu River to the south is not the only river, so it can be said that there are mountains and rivers everywhere. The dragon quest is a code word between feng shui masters, and they all record the direction of mountains and rivers. Here, no matter which direction you go, there are mountains, there are ridges. Therefore, generally speaking, in this area, walk according to the direction pointed by the dragon hunt, even if the starting point is wrong, the first few steps of the dragon hunt can be correct.
Chen Ziyang remembered that once when he and Lao Dao played the dragon trick, he found the wrong direction on the way, and the result was that he was able to find a destination, although the location of the end point is wrong, but from here it is enough to see the disadvantages of this dragon hunting, in a place with many mountains and waters, this dragon hunting trick is easy to record the wrong place.
When Chen Ziyang reached the third step of the Dragon Quest, he knew that he had found the wrong starting point. The third step of the dragon hunt is written as "Shen to Ding Shui" to the "Shen" direction in the twenty-four mountains to Ding Shui, and Ding Shui refers to the three forks of the water flow. At this time, in front of Chen Ziyang was the Yalu River, a turquoise water belt that went straight to the southwest, not to mention Dingshui, and there was not even a small ditch that forked.
Chen Ziyang walked more than 100 meters to the upper and lower reaches of the Yalu River, and after making sure that there was indeed no branch in this section of the Yalu River, he walked to his grandmother's house. The only clue he knew was broken, he knew too little about his grandfather, and he had to ask his grandmother carefully.
Chen Ziyang asked his grandmother in a daze, all the things his grandmother knew about his grandfather were said, and even Chen Ziyang even asked the question of whether his grandfather's grave was chosen by his grandfather himself, in case the cemetery was chosen by his grandfather himself in advance, then the starting point of searching for the dragon recipe could be his grandfather's graveyard. But Chen Ziyang asked and asked, but he still didn't know anything about the starting point of the dragon hunt. It wasn't until Chen Ziyang's grandmother inadvertently told the scene when she first got married that Chen Ziyang knew that he was mistaken.