Chapter 448: Changes in the Mountain City (I)

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As usual, Huo Dingwen played a set of five poultry plays in the courtyard, and then took Bixian. Sweep away the leaves and flowers in the temple that were knocked down by the heavy rain last night, add sesame oil to the oil lamps in the temple, tidy up the clothes, and only then open the temple door to welcome the few pilgrims. Although this Chen Jiachong Taohuashan Mountain Temple has only been built for 20 years, it has been passed to Huo Dingwen's generation is already the third generation, and the first two generations of Miao Zhu's life does not seem to be very good, the first generation of Miao Zhu died in more than ten years, in a plague, and the second generation of Miao Zhu died in the Civil War a few years ago. Huo Dingwen is an orphan who was adopted by the second generation of Miao Zhu since he was a child. After the death of the second generation of temple blessings, it is logical to become the third generation of temple blessings of Peach Blossom Mountain.

Although the temple of the mountain temple is full of disasters, but this does not affect the believers' belief in the mountain god of Taohua Mountain, the incense in the temple has never been broken, every day there are always some believers or from the nearby Chen Jiachong, or from Shaoguan and the surrounding cottages to come here to incense. The reason why this is so is mainly because this Peach Blossom Mountain is so miraculous, the dense fog on the mountain has lasted for more than 20 years, and anyone who enters the mountain will get lost in the thick fog, and then inexplicably retreat back from the original way.

Huo Dingwen has been deeply aware of the miracle of the peach blossom worker since he was a child, when he was a child, he was greedy for fun, and always ignored his adoptive father's reprimand and went into the peach blossom mountain to play.

Unlike others, he had seen a huge peach tree more than ten feet high and an old house in the depths of Peach Blossom Mountain many times. It's a pity that every time he wants to get close to the big peach tree and the house, he will eventually return to the outside of Peach Blossom Mountain for some reason, and this situation lasted until he was about ten years old, and he was just like an ordinary person.

At that time, the first generation of old temple Zhu was still alive. After he heard Huo Dingwen's words, he touched Huo Dingwen's head again and again, and praised him for being blessed. He was able to see the appearance of the mountain god and the god dwelling, and told Huo Dingwen's adoptive father that he was going to let him inherit the Taohua Mountain Temple. I heard the old temple say that there was originally a righteous village on this peach blossom mountain, which was Chen Jiachong's former master, the southern Chen family, who specially provided a god to worship and live, and that god knew the world and understood **. It is the flow of the immortals of the 6 places, when they left 20 years ago, they closed the mountain with **, so that the dense fog of Peach Blossom Mountain did not disperse for 20 years. As for the surprisingly big peach tree is the appearance of this peach blossom mountain god, people who can see the big peach tree are blessed people, if you can eat the peaches on a big peach tree, although you can't live forever, but you can also prolong life and drive away car diseases.

Although Peach Blossom Mountain is protected by gods and people, the perennial dense fog discourages many people with different intentions, but in this troubled world, it is also a paradise, and there are some people who live in seclusion and people who avoid natural disasters. In normal times, these people will not approach Peach Blossom Mountain, but if there is a war or disaster coming, they will hide in the dense fog of Peach Blossom Mountain, and the mountain god of Peach Blossom Mountain will also be psychic at this moment, and they will not be sent out of the fog as usual to save their lives. As a result, more and more people gathered here, and in the past 20 years, a small village has gradually formed, and the locals call it Peach Blossom Village.

Compared to the Peach Blossom Village, which has something to rely on. Chenjiachong Mountain City, not far from here, is not so lucky. According to the old people who moved from Chen Jiachong, Chen Jiachong 20 years ago was completely different from today's Chen Jiachong, at that time Shaoguan had not been switched, and the Chen family was not separated, and the prosperity of Chen Jiachong at that time was no worse than that of Guangzhou City. What these old people talk about the most is the water 6 puja held by Chen Jiachong every year at the Obon Festival, when Chen Jiachong Mountain City can be said to be crowded with people, and the great monks and great virtues from all over the world gather here to save the dead, and even the north is famous for its people.

It's a pity that twenty years ago, after the gods who lived on Peach Blossom Mountain and assisted the Chen family in the south for hundreds of years left, the situation in the Chen family's Chongshan City became worse and worse. First of all, the Chen family, who had lived in these hundreds of years, suddenly separated, and neither the family nor the branch family regarded the Chen family Chongshan City as the center of the Chen family, but only regarded it as a dispensable ancestral house, and sometimes came back to worship their ancestors. Later, the heads of the Chen family in the north and south also moved the ancestral tombs to Nanjing and Guangzhou, and only a few old servants were left to take care of the Chen family's ancestral house.

With the departure of the Chen family, who is the backbone of the Chen family Chongshan City. Chen Jiachong also gradually began to decline, and most of the people who lived in Chen Jiachong also left with the Chen family, and the rest of the people mixed with the Miao, Li and other ethnic groups who moved here. Afterwards. With the victory of the revolution and the opening of Shaoguan, the taxes that caravans needed to pay between Huguang and Guangzhou were also reduced a lot, so that no one took a long detour to Chenjiachong, a mountain trade route, and the mountain city of Chenjiachong gradually became an inaccessible mountain stopper.

More than ten years ago, there was a plague in Chenjiachong Mountain City, and many people died of plague fatigue, which made Chenjiachong Mountain City even more desolate, and even those Li and Miao tribes left one after another. There was a long time when there were only a dozen people living in the huge Chenjiachong Mountain City, and at night it almost became a ghost domain, and the people who died of the plague were buried around the Chenjiachong Mountain City, making the mountain city look like it was surrounded by countless graves. It adds a bit of gloomy atmosphere.

A few years ago, Chenjiachong Mountain City prospered again, but this prosperity was not popularized. Due to the calamities and difficulties in the outside world, many people have fallen into the grass, and some military forces that have failed in the political struggle, bandits have gradually become rampant on the land of China. After the government of the Republic of China officially took power, it began to eliminate these bandits, and Guangdong, where the Republic of China started, was naturally the top priority, and many bandits were wiped out. Still, there were a few well-connected bandits who escaped. Hiding in the mountains, and the remote place, surrounded by mountains, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and easy to retreat, Chenjiachong Mountain City naturally became the best refuge for these bandits.

After several years of fighting, these bandits entrenched in Chenjiachong Mountain City gradually formed three forces, among which the power of the Heavenly Eagle was the largest, followed by Zheng Dacang and Sun Nineteen, and some forces were under the three. These bandits also have cottages in the surrounding mountains, and they usually live in the mountain city of Chenjiachong, and if there are officers and soldiers to encircle and suppress, they will hide in the mountains to avoid disasters until the officers and soldiers retreat. Due to the special geographical location of Chenjiachong Mountain City, its hidden roads in the mountains lead to all parts of the north and south, so this place has become the largest gathering place for stolen goods and smuggling arms trading in the south. Most of the bandits, horse thieves and even regular troops in the south, especially in the southwest, would come here to sell the stolen goods and buy the arms and various items they needed, and the mountain city of Chenjiachong prospered again, but this prosperity was somewhat deformed.

Although these bandits usually run rampant. Even the Miao and Li clans, who want to be fierce, are a little afraid of these outlaws, but there are two places on the side of the Chen family's Chongshan City, and these bandits will never offend, one is naturally the Chen family's ancestral house, and the other is Peach Blossom Mountain.