Wang Dongxu said: "Back then, Fan Zhongyan returned to Suzhou (Su) Prefecture and wanted to buy a piece of land in the city and build a house in order to support the elderly for life. The people of Su (Su) Prefecture know that Fan Zhongyan is a good official, and they hope that he will live in the city of Su (Su) Prefecture and do something good for everyone. Therefore, many feng shui masters are surveying the terrain and looking for places for him. One day, a feng shui master came to the door and said that he was a feng shui master in the city of Su (Su), and specially introduced a piece of feng shui treasure land to Fan Zhongyan.

Fan Zhongyan asked: 'I don't know where this feng shui treasure is?'

The feng shui master said, 'That barren hill to the west of the Canglang Pavilion. Su (Su) Zhou City is the treasure of the dragon's lair, Wolong Street (now Renmin Road) is straight and straight, is the body of the dragon, the stones on the street are the scales of the dragon, the North Temple Tower stands high, is the tail of the dragon, the head of the dragon, is the barren hill. The adults bought this treasure land and built a house, one can control the dragon, and the other is that the children and grandchildren will continue to be in the future. ’

At this time, the Su (Su) Prefecture opened the exam, and the candidates' results were normal. Fan Zhongyan thought that the poor results may be related to the lack of guidance from famous Confucians. He couldn't help but think of Confucius running a school, and decided to set up a school in Suzhou (Su) Prefecture. Fan Zhongyan raised funds on the one hand, and asked people to design and build a school on a barren hill. On the day of the start of construction, the feng shui master came to the construction site in a hurry, saw Fan Zhongyan, and said happily: "Fan Xianggong, is your mansion starting construction?"

Fan Zhongyan said: "No, it's not to build a private house, it's to build a house. ’

When the feng shui master heard this, he was anxious: 'This is a treasure of feng shui! Build a private house, and your children and grandchildren will be prosperous forever!'

Fan Zhongyan said: 'What is the use of the prosperity of the children and grandchildren of my family? The worries of the world are worried, and the joys of the world are happy. There is no government school in Suzhou (Su) Prefecture, and there is no place for scholars to further their studies, so they can't get into the Jinshi and the champion. ’

That's it, a year later, the school was built, with seven rooms wide, red pillars and glazed tiles, very magnificent. Fan Zhongyan not only gave lectures in the school himself, but also invited social celebrities to teach the students the scriptures. Since then, the local reading atmosphere in Suzhou (Su) Prefecture has become more and more prosperous, and more and more people have been admitted to the Jinshi and the champions. Not only will Fan Zhongyan's son Fan Chunren also be a famous person in the future, but the descendants of the Fan family are also very powerful, and almost every generation has been an official in the imperial court. To this day, the reading atmosphere in the city of Suzhou is still very prosperous, and there are many literati. Since Fan Zhongyan, when people talk about Jiangnan talents, they immediately think of Su (Su) Zhou City. Later, in the Ming Dynasty, the four famous talents in the south of the Yangtze River were also from the Su (Su) Prefecture. ”

Zeng Lao listened to it and sighed a lot: "Sure enough, it is a generation of famous ministers, who can give up a piece of feng shui treasure land for the people of a city." If it were me, I wouldn't have such a high level of ideological awareness. ”

"That's why Fan Zhongyan can be admired by future generations!" Tang Chen also sighed a lot.

Qian Lao smiled: "Then do you know the story of Fan Zhongyan's burial of his mother?"

"Oh, there are allusions in this, too?" Zeng Lao was stunned again.

Qian Lao nodded and said seriously: "That's right! It is said that after Fan Zhongyan's mother died, he wanted to find a cemetery. According to the custom of the time, he went with a feng shui master to choose a cemetery.

This feng shui gentleman admired Fan Zhongyan's personality very much, so he first pointed to a feng shui treasure and said to him, 'This is a feng shui treasure land, and the future generations will be nobles'. Fan Zhongyan shook his head and said, "I have no merit for the country and no virtue for the people, so I don't deserve to have this treasure of feng shui." ’

Mr. Feng Shui ordered a lot of land, but Fan Zhongyan was not satisfied. In the end, the Feng Shui master had no choice but to point to one place and say, 'This is a Jedi where ten thousand arrows pierce the heart, and the descendants of those buried here will only be cut off in two lifetimes, and they will be destitute'.

When Fan Zhongyan heard this, he said to his subordinates: 'Since I know that this is a Jedi, how can I allow others to be buried here and be poor all their lives?

After the wind and rain, everyone found that the feng shui of Fan's mother's tomb had changed greatly, and Mr. Feng Shui said that the cemetery pattern had changed from the original ten thousand arrows through the heart to ten thousand wat to the sky.

In this way, the descendants of the Fan family have also been extremely developed since then, and have passed down to dozens of generations of descendants, until now, it has been more than 800 years. At present, there are still most descendants of the Fan family in the area of Fan Tomb in Suzhou (Su), and there are still excellent members from time to time. After 800 years of undecaying, the Fan family has accumulated virtue and can share their good fortune with others to enjoy, and this good fortune is great! Therefore, many masters have praised that the one who can continue the scholarly family to this day is Fan Zhongyan after Confucius.

Fan Zhongyan's children and grandchildren have not declined until the early years of the Republic of China, and it is he who cultivated the 'virtue of a hundred generations', so that the descendants of a hundred generations can protect it. The first of the Chinese literati family was Confucius, and the second was Fan Zhongyan. What Fan Zhongyan did was indeed 'too virtuous, followed by meritorious service, followed by speech, although it has not been abandoned for a long time, this is called immortal'. The most commendable thing is that Fan Zhongyan did not have any savings for himself in the end, but his descendants were greatly developed. ”

Chen Lao nodded: "Although I know this allusion, every time I listen to it, I have different feelings." ”

Zeng Lao hurriedly asked, "Can you tell me about it?"

"It's definitely okay to talk about it, but it's just about my own feelings, and it's not necessarily right. Chen Lao smiled, "I think that the art of feng shui, to put it bluntly, is to achieve the state of 'unity of heaven and man'." But I don't know how you understand the 'unity of heaven and man'?"

When Qian Lao and Wang Dongxu heard this, they were all stunned.

To be honest, they've been in the business for so long, and they really haven't thought about it. Their master just taught them how to use Feng Shui, and as for how to achieve this "unity of heaven and man", they really never talked about it.

It's not that their master is incompetent, it's that even their master has never touched this level, so how can they be taught?

"Heaven and man are one, isn't this the realm of a feng shui grandmaster?" Wang Dongxu said with a blank face, "I'm too far away from the grandmaster now, how do I know?"

Qian Lao also sighed: "If I understood, I wouldn't have made no progress all these years." ”

Chen Lao smiled: "Then have you ever thought about it, if you don't have a clear goal, you won't even be able to find the way forward?"

Wang Dongxu smiled bitterly: "Old Chen, you are so right, I am like this...... However, after reading Master Tang's layout techniques, I seem to have a little understanding......"

Qian Lao also nodded: "The back waves of the Yangtze River push the front waves, although I have been hit, I still learned a lot of things......

(End of chapter)