Qiu also traveled with Wei Xuancheng all the way, passing the temple gate and the front hall, there were few pedestrians along the way, and occasionally a few small novices passed by in a hurry. Seeing that Wei Xuancheng still had no intention of stopping, Qiu Ye had no choice but to continue walking along the stairs towards the apse.

"Do you know that the topography here more than twenty years ago is very different from today?" Wei Xuancheng, who was walking with his hands, suddenly talked about the landform of this place again, and it stands to reason that Wei Xuancheng's identity would not talk about some irrelevant things at such a moment.

"Although Xiaodao is not good at feng shui, he still knows a little. Just now, I was also very puzzled in my heart, the mountain soil, the vegetation in the mountains, including this Wangdi Temple, are all like 。。。。。。 ”

"It's like something, but it doesn't hurt to say it. Wei Xuancheng saw that Qiu also looked strange, so he said directly.

"It's like。。。。。。 The surrounding mountains are undulating and the prime minister is the prime minister, but the mountain where the Wangdi Temple is located suddenly appears here, which is obviously incompatible with the surrounding mountains. The soil here is even more strange, it stands to reason that most of the area around this city is purple soil, and even the whole of Yizhou. And this mountain is indeed black soil, and it is full of black soil that can only be seen in the north. Qiu Ye actually had something in his heart, but he didn't say it in front of Wei Xuancheng. The mountain clearly felt like someone had been carried here from somewhere else. It's just that who can move a mountain here from thousands of miles away without alarming anyone, presumably for example, even a few people on the mountain can't do it, this mountain is really incredible, and it is incomprehensible.

"Do you know that I worked as a county clerk in Huaxian County twenty-one years ago. Wei Xuancheng listened to Qiu Ye's slight nodding and recognized what Qiu Ye said, but he did not answer what Qiu Ye said, but talked about it himself, or two things from the past twenty-one years ago.

Wei Xuanwei is not from Yizhou, he was born in Xiliang and Bingzhou, and his ancestors have lived in Huaxian County in Bingzhou for generations. The Wei family has been cultivating and reading for generations, and the poems and books have been passed down to the family, although the ancestors have not produced any big officials, but they also have a solid family background and have a lot of prestige in the township. Until Wei Xuancheng's generation, it was the same, even if Wei Xuancheng passed the township test in his teens, but Wei Xuancheng, who was quite a talented man in the local area, had no way out because of his hardships in the imperial court, and in the end he only made it to the local county.

However, when he was young, Wei Xuancheng did not have any resentment in his heart, but he just thought that if he did more for Huaxian Township, he would be conscientious and happy every day, so five years had passed. Until the summer of twenty-one years ago, that is, in the thirteenth year of Wende. That year, a strange thing happened in Guzhang Village, which is under the jurisdiction of Hua County!

It was a year of abundant rain and a good harvest. Seeing that the autumn harvest is approaching, the villagers of Guzhang Village are also looking forward to this year's harvest, and some families are even planning to add those new items during the Chinese New Year.

But for some reason, all the crops in Guzhang Village died overnight. This matter is considered a trivial matter in Great Xia, but it is a big matter for the village, after all, it involves the rations and survival of the whole village. The incident happened suddenly, the village did not dare to hide it, and quickly reported it to Huaxian overnight, and Wei Xuan, who was still a county minister in Huaxian, thought it was a bug plague or something like that, and he didn't pay much attention to it, but he still routinely sent someone to check, and then began to prepare for the allocation of rations and deal with the follow-up matters of disaster relief.

The person who Cheng wanted to send down rushed back that day, saying that he was asking Wei Xuancheng to go to the field to check, this matter was a bit unusual, and he didn't dare to call the shots. Wei Xuancheng understands that the little official he sent down, although he is slippery, he is also a hard-working old official, although this kind of thing is not dealt with much, but it should have been dealt with, so it is not like this.

When Wei Xuancheng came to Guzhang Village with a full stomach full of suspicions, he was also shocked by the scene he saw in front of him, this disaster was far more serious than expected. It is not an exaggeration to say that all the land in Guzhang Village has been cracked by drought, and the cracks on the surface of the ground have penetrated deep into the village, as if it had experienced a year of great sweat. Not only the crops, but all the plants in the village died overnight.

The most bizarre thing is that when Wei Xuancheng took people into the village to take a look, he found that all the crops and plants were not killed by drought, but by being soaked in water for a long time and waterlogged. The entire village has been cracked by drought, and even all the crops in Guzhang Village, where the well water has dried up, have been waterlogged.

Wei Xuanchengrao is familiar with astronomy and geography, and is diligent in farming, but he also thinks that this matter is too strange, and it is simply unbelievable. Since this thing is so weird, it must not be simple, if you don't check it out, I'm afraid there will be troubles. So Wei Xuancheng led a few water officials and servants to stay in Guzhang Village to investigate the matter.

Wei Xuancheng first sent people to explore and check the local water source, and at the same time, with the cooperation of local villagers, Wei Xuancheng personally supervised the construction of several new wells in several places where water could theoretically be pumped. After two days of fighting, several new wells were drilled to a depth of more than 20 meters, and all that was dug out was still sand, and there was no moisture in the sand.

Within two days, when the water officials and officials who were tracking down the source came back to report the results to Wei Xuancheng, their faces turned pale as if they had seen a ghost. It turned out that everyone had been tracking the river all the way to the upstream source these days, and there was yellow sand all over the way, without any angry water. When everyone traced back to the junction of the boundary of Guzhang Village, the source of the river was broken, as if people had forcibly divided the river in half, and then removed half of it. The boundary of Guzhang Village is full of yellow sand, and the water outside the boundary of Guzhang Village is still abundant and full of vitality.

The leader of this person, the position of this water official is hereditary ancestor, several generations have been water officials, this family has been dealing with water affairs for more than a hundred years, but they have never encountered this kind of thing. So he hurried back and asked Wei Xuancheng to check it out in person.

As a result, when Wei Xuancheng arrived again with people, the plants around the river at the junction with Guzhang Village were all yellow and shriveled, and they all died.

Everyone present was shocked, and said in their hearts, could it be that this Guzhang Village had offended the gods and was punished? But Wei Xuancheng knew in his heart that there were no gods in this world, otherwise why had no one seen them in the past two thousand years? Even the masters of that sect had not been able to soar to become immortals, and Gu was naturally passed away when he reached his age.

After checking for a few days, there was no progress, as the head of a county, there are still many things to deal with, and I can't just talk about the time spent in this Guzhang Village, so I have no choice but to give up. In the end, some monks and Taoists were invited to do some rituals, and the villagers' calculations were settled.

Later, Wei Xuancheng reported the matter while arranging disaster relief, but at that time, all prefectures and counties were busy with the affairs of the saint's birthday. The matter of a small Guzhang Village has not attracted attention. Wei Xuancheng's official document was sunk into the sea, and no one cared about it anymore.

Originally, there were no casualties in this matter, and no one paid attention to it, so it was forgotten by everyone over time.

It wasn't until another strange thing happened that winter that everyone remembered it, that is, that later that incident changed the lives of Wei Xuancheng and many others.