Li Longyuan is a Taoist priest, who knows the Book of Changes, helps people to divinate hexagrams, read feng shui, chant scriptures, and do dharma deeds. has been relying on these livelihoods, and also working in the fields, barely supporting a family of seven, an old man, four children, a sick wife and himself.

In 1960, Li Longyuan was forty years old, and his years were not good. This year was the second year of the "three-year famine", countless people died of hunger and disease, and there was no food to eat. I don't care if Feng Shui is good or not, whether fate is good or not, anyway, they are all hard-working people.

Chunhua Town, Jiangning, where Li Longyuan is located, is no exception, in the past two years, business has become worse and worse, and the Taoist priest has almost no work to do. I can only work in the fields to earn a living. The elderly, sick wives and children also had to work in the fields to earn their share of the work.

The production team distributes grain according to work, even if the family works hard, when converted, there are only twenty or thirty catties of grain per month, and seven people have to be fed. The three children are all at the age of growing their bodies, and these grains cannot last for three or four days. As a result, grass roots, distiller's grains, peanut seedlings, sweet potato vines, corn cob cores, pulp, and tree bark are all eaten in the mouth.

"Grains" like distiller's grains, pulp, and corn cob cobs also need to be certified by the brigade before they are eligible to go to the bazaar to buy them, otherwise they will have money, and no one will dare to sell them to you.

Day after day, Li Longyuan's wife and a sensible eldest child, because they ate too much bark and pulp, were unable to digest, resulting in malnutrition, "edema", and died one after another, and suffered for a long time before they died, and their whole bodies were swollen and itchy and uncomfortable. At that time, there were a lot of people suffering from this disease, and all the Chinese and Western doctors in the vicinity had seen it, but they were helpless and could only watch them die in pain.

The old man wanted to leave the little food he had left for the children, but he ate very little each time, and he was hungry all the time, his resistance became worse and worse, and his old disease worsened, and he soon died.

When the winter was approaching, the youngest daughter also suffered misfortune, when she was six years old, she had eaten the last meal and did not have the next meal, that day the meal was ordered, Li Longyuan worked in the field and did not come back, wanted to do a little more to earn more work, the youngest daughter ran alone in the mountains to pick wild fruits, but the wild fruits were poisoned and died in the wilderness. After Li Longyuan returned home, he found that his youngest daughter was not there, thinking that he had gone out to play and didn't care. But there was still no trace of her very late, Li Longyuan was anxious, and searched everywhere to no avail, so he mobilized the entire team to search together, and when he found her, it was the early morning of the next day, and she had already lost her breath.

That year, Li Longyuan held back tears again and again, until his daughter also died, and finally couldn't control it and cried. There are only three members left in the family of seven, and he and his two sons depend on each other for their lives.

Both sons are in their teens, and seeing that they are getting thinner and thinner, Li Longyuan is worried about repeating the mistakes of the past, and he is determined to do a big job and not let the two sons go hungry all the time.

Fifty miles north of Chunhua Town, there is a Baohua Mountain. Once went into the mountain to carry the coffin and burial grave, passing by a place, the compass pointer in his hand rotated strangely, so he surveyed around, with years of experience, he judged that there was something underground, but at that time, he didn't want to provoke right and wrong, and the right did not meet.

With the skill of feng shui, after explaining his two sons in one afternoon, he went to Baohua Mountain alone to find the tomb again. The emperor lived up to his wishes, and after repeated surveys and treks, in the middle of the night, he finally found this tomb.

On this night, the sun and the moon were dark. It was the depths of winter, the snow on the top of the mountain had not yet disappeared, and the night wind was so cold that people shivered. Li Longyuan was bold, determined the location of the tomb, and began to dig a robbery hole more than one meter wide.

After digging about two or three meters deep, he felt that the ground was hard, and he knocked it with a shovel, making a dull echo, and he judged that the ground was a brick and stone structure of the dome of the underground palace, Li Longyuan was so happy that he instantly forgot the hunger in his stomach. Seeing the masonry that opens through the dome, you can sneak into the catacomb.

Just as he was about to open the dome, a black snake came out of the thief hole, about a meter long and as thick as a thumb. Li Longyuan was startled and immediately rushed out of the pit. The snake also crawled out of the pit, spitting snake letters at Li Longyuan, making an attack gesture.

In the fields, in the fields, and in the mountains, the wild animals and plants that can be eaten have long been eaten, and snakes like this have not been encountered for a long time. As long as you meet it, you will be beaten to death by someone, and in this era, you are nouveau riche who can eat meat. And now it is in the depths of winter, and the snake hibernates in winter, and it can't touch the snake at all.

Li Longyuan understands Feng Shui I Ching, seeing a snake in winter is not a good sign, among the five elements, the five elements in winter belong to water, and the five elements of the snake belong to fire, the two contradict each other, it stands to reason that you should stop digging, drop the shovel and don't go home.

Li Longyuan looked at this little snake, it seemed that he was looking at food, and he couldn't take care of food and clothing, so how could he take care of feng shui taboos. I thought to myself: It's ridiculous to protect the tomb of such a small snake, now come back to the table with me.

Finding the right time, he picked up the shovel and smashed it at the black snake, solved the black snake with a shovel, put it in the bag, and thought about making snake meat soup for his sons to replenish his body.

Li Longyuan continued to dig the hole and finally dug through the dome of the underground palace. Before entering the underground palace normally, a small animal, such as birds and birds, will be prepared in a cage, tied with a rope and sent into the ground, and then pulled up after more than ten minutes. If the birds are safe, the underground air is free of toxins and oxygen is abundant.

At this time, Li Longyuan did not have this kind of animal by his side, if there were, he would have slaughtered and eaten it a long time ago, and he would not have left it until now. He had already prepared a wrist-thick candle and tied it at one end of the rope, the end of which was tied in a triangle and tied to a wooden board, to which the candle was glued. After lighting the candles, Li Longyuan slowly sent the candles from the entrance of the thief cave and delivered them to the bottom of the underground palace.