Chapter 37: Go up the mountain to find a cave
Early the next morning, Yang Lei called Chen Ziyang, made an appointment with the time and place, and asked him to take the compass and go to the mountain to choose a cemetery for Liu Banxian.
When Chen Ziyang was waiting for Yang Lei, he looked at the mountain where the cemetery was from a distance, and thought in his heart, small mountain villages also have the benefits of small mountain villages, at least this cemetery saves a lot of money, and there is no need to spend tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy a cemetery for the dead like those in big cities, and even some places can't buy or afford a cemetery, so they enshrine the urn, and people can't go into the earth when they die, and the place is still small and pitiful. Here the cemetery is full of mountains...... It's like eating a buffet, you choose.
In Dawalnut Town, if a person dies, the family only needs to pay more than 300 yuan to the relevant departments, and the person can be buried. However, the burial is the burial, and the burial is not allowed, and the person must be pulled down after the burning of the Linhai City Crematorium and then pulled back. There is a mountain outside the town, which is a special cemetery, and this mountain is the East Mountain where the old road is buried, and the West Mountain, where the blood spirit coffin was buried, is opposite the West Mountain. It is said that the mountain is outside the town, but in fact, one-fifth of the buildings in the town are on this mountain, but they are all at the foot of the mountain. After going to the relevant departments and paying the money, the task of the general manager of Bai Shi is to choose acupoints on the mountain, and some of the general managers who can't choose acupoints themselves will hire Mr. Feng Shui. In the past, when the old way was not sealed, everyone basically looked for the old way when they chose the acupoints.
Northeast China is vast and sparsely populated, and in terms of Jilin Province alone, the number of permanent residents in Jilin Province is basically the same as that of Beijing. However, the area of Jilin Province is much larger than that of Beijing, and it is indeed vast and sparsely populated. So the cemeteries here are much more relaxed than those in the big cities. The area of the cemetery in Big Walnut Town is very wide, a whole mountain, and the cemetery here is not as ghostly as the cemetery in the big city. Choose a cemetery here, as long as you don't cut down trees or dig other people's graves on this mountain, you can dig a pit and that piece of land will be yours.
Choosing a cemetery is choosing a feng shui hole, and choosing a good cave can bless your children and grandchildren. Chen Ziyang remembered: In the past, when he followed Lao Dao to choose acupoints for people here, he liked to choose them near the top of the mountain, because the feng shui there was good. Later, with the improvement of living standards, people became more and more lazy, and the cemetery was selected lower and lower. Even some time ago, there was a tomb built directly at the foot of the mountain, less than 100 meters away from the nearest bungalow house, Chen Ziyang heard that the two families had a lawsuit because of this matter, and he didn't know how to deal with it in the end.
The cemetery is built in a low place, which is convenient for the funeral, and the other is to save effort when going to the grave in the future. This mountain is not high, but it takes nearly an hour to climb to the highest peak, and it is very tiring. Therefore, most of the graves are now built halfway up the mountain, about a 20-minute walk from the foot of the mountain.
The general manager of white affairs basically does not choose acupoints, and invites a feng shui gentleman. Liu Banxian understands feng shui and usually calculates hexagrams. You can also choose acupoints when doing white things. Since the old way was sealed, there have been many people looking for Liu Banxian to see the acupoints.
Normally, whoever does white things will have to give the general manager who does white things 2,000 hardship fees, and those who choose acupoints will be given 2,000 yuan, spending a total of 4,000 yuan. If the chief manager helps to choose the acupoint, he only needs to give him 3,000 yuan per person, which is why everyone loves to find Liu Banxian to be the head of white affairs, and he can save 1,000 yuan. And Liu Banxian can also earn an extra thousand, so this is a win-win situation. But Yang Lei, this kid, used to follow Liu Banxian to learn the funeral manipulation, and Chen Ziyang really didn't know how well he chose the acupoints.
"Have you chosen a hole before, don't be foolish, it's not worth complaining about something in order to earn this thousand dollars more. Besides, it's your master. Chen Ziyang looked at the accompanying family members and was left behind by the two of them before opening his mouth to ask. This matter can't be heard by the family, in case this kid is really a second knife and is known by the family, it is inevitable to complain.
"Don't worry, it's okay, as long as you don't sit on the meridian, the rest of you can find a place with a wide field of vision, just find a mountain and make up some nice words, how many people really know feng shui now? Even those feng shui gentlemen don't have a few serious people who can read the compass, and most of them are mallets both horizontally and vertically. How many Feng Shui gentlemen are as serious as you and your master? It's not me who blows, Liu Banxian doesn't know as much about the compass as I do. I've chosen a few holes with him, and they're all so foolish, don't worry, it's okay. I don't understand why your master won't let you eat this bowl of rice, or we like half-people will have to stand aside, and we won't let you use it after learning it for so many years. ”
Chen Ziyang smiled and didn't speak, the old Tao said that he was very soft, the farther away from these things, the better, the selection of acupoints must often walk around from the cemetery, there are a lot of dirty things here, in case there is really a powerful body, and then put his little life here is not worth it, no amount of money can buy a life. If it weren't for the fact that he really didn't have any money at hand recently, Chen Ziyang wouldn't have come to help Yang Lei do the work of selecting points and drawing lines.
Yang Lei was told by Chen Zi Yang Yi about the nature, and he had to talk about the knowledge of the compass.
Chen Ziyang still remembers the scene when he learned the compass from the old Taoist, and the old Taoist said that people who have never been in contact with the compass will feel very profound if they see others using it. At a glance, the various lines on it are vertical and horizontal, large traps and small circles, countless straight lines and line segments, plus the pointer is turning randomly, most people will think that the compass is very complicated. Actually, the use of the compass is not that complicated. As the saying goes, those who will not be difficult will not.
The compass is mainly divided into three parts, the middle round compass-like thing is called Tianchi, the round plate outside Tianchi is called the inner plate, and the square plate outside the inner disk is called the outer plate. One circle and one side implicitly coincide with the meaning of the sky and the round place.
Tianchi is actually a compass and datum point, when you use it, you can use the datum, just look at the pointer.
The role of the outer disc of the compass is relatively small, but it only plays a role in fixing the inner disc and balancing the inner disc and using two vertical lines to cross the Tianxin Ten Dao for comparison and calibration. However, now many compasses often add some additional things on the outer disk for the sake of fancy, including compasses, levels, etc., and even Chen Ziyang has seen the magnetic field strength meter that measures the strength of the magnetic field with a battery on the outer disk, but he estimates that it is a gimmick to sell a compass, and it is of little practical use.
The knowledge of the compass is on the inner disk, with the middle of the Tianchi as the center of the circle, and each concentric circle is called a layer. Each layer depicts something different according to the different things you see. There are those who look at the yin house and the yang house, the heavenly phase, the hydrology and so on. Each layer of the compass is divided into different levels by the straight lines emanating from the center of the circle, and it is said that the most complex compass has 52 layers, and the simplest compass has only 2 layers.
Throughout the ages, the development of the compass is actually the development of Chinese feng shui, and the somewhat famous feng shui sects have added their own things to the compass, and how many years of accumulation have made the compass have so many layers. The more layers of the compass you have, the more you can use to explore. The compass left by Grandpa Chen Ziyang has 47 layers, which is already the most complex compass he has ever seen. At the beginning, the compass used by such a professional character as Lao Dao was only 30 layers. Liu Banxian and Yang Lei used to use even more badly, only 22 floors.