Ma Yu looked up at the map engraved on the roof, and although the pen marks were shallow, they were extremely neat.

The map and small characters on this are engraved by Zhou Xuan.

It turned out that after Zhou Xuan opened his eyes to peek at the strange treasures of the Pichu Realm, he was greedy and began to look for a place where the two realms could connect.

Later, from the northern foot of Lishan, a swallow-winged mountain was found.

Traditional Chinese culture pursues the unity of heaven and man, and the means are yin and yang and the five elements.

In terms of folk houses, its prototype is the Taiji diagram, which pays attention to the harmony of yin and yang, and pursues the reproduction of life and the prosperity of people.

However, the Pichu realm is cold in the south and hot in the north, cool at the top and warm at the bottom, yin and yang, which is extremely special.

The north side of this swallow wing mountain is a place of extreme yin, but the south side is extremely yang.

Both have one yin and one yang, the opposite sex attracts, each echoes each other, and is the easiest to communicate.

The only thing to worry about is that Zhou Xuan faintly saw that there seemed to be a water of extreme yin under the north of the mountain.

If one yang falls into two yin, and the two overlap, it is very dangerous.

But at this time, Zhou Xuan had already fallen into the devil, and he was bent on taking the Pichu Treasure Book, thinking that the water contained in this mountain was extremely hidden, and he was afraid that it would not appear in a thousand years.

So I found the local squire, and only said that it was the ancestors who entrusted the dream.

The yin and yang here are very consistent with the eight characters on the ancestors, and they plan to find a piece of feng shui treasure here as the foundation of the family, so they intend to spend a lot of money to buy this mountain.

This was originally an ownerless barren mountain, and the squire naturally agreed after taking the benefits, and secretly laughed at Zhou Xuan's stupidity in his heart.

The county government got a large amount of financial revenue out of thin air, and the local squire was vigorously guaranteed, so it agreed.

Zhou Xuan immediately invited craftsmen to come, and dozens of people came to a depression according to the guidance of the gossip compass in his hand.

Zhou Xuan pointed to the center of the depression and said: "Excavation"!

One of the foremen in this craftsman, named Lan Xiang, shouted: "I'll come"!

Anyway, jump out!

Seeing that this person is eight feet tall, with a thin waist tied to his back, his shoulders are hugged, his sword eyebrows are closed into the sky and his forehead is inserted into the mustache, a pair of handsome eyes are distinct, his nose is like a jade pillar, his mouth is like a Danzhu, and his big ears are wheeled.

is really better than Pan An, better than Song Yu.

Zhou Xuan secretly praised in his heart, what a beautiful man!

This Lan Xiang stood there majestic, majestic, and magnificent.

Suddenly there was a loud roar, and the big hoe in his hand dug down to the ground.

"Lan Xiang is digging fast!" everyone was amazed.

I saw that the trees fell and the rocks rolled, and under the leadership of Lan Xiang, everyone quickly dug a passage.

Zhou Xuan guided everyone to dig all the way, this mountain is also strange, it seems to be majestic, but the soil is loose and easy to excavate.

In this way, I dug for more than two months, digging hundreds of miles with twists and turns, and the soil was mixed with some gravel.

Lan Xiang was a little impatient, and ran to Zhou Xuan's ear to make a noise, Zhou Xuan took the gossip compass and only deduced that he had not yet found the treasure land of feng shui, urging Lan Xiang to continue to lead everyone to dig down.

After digging for more than ten days, he has gone deep into the bottom of the mountain. The soil is getting harder and harder, and the mountains are cold and damp, and I can only dig a dozen meters every day.

Fortunately, Zhou Xuan was entertained with good wine and food every day, and the construction period was already extensive, and Zhou Xuan did not urge, so everyone was desperate and dug the mountain here with peace of mind.

When the tunnel was dug deeper and deeper, Zhou Xuantui said that it was inconvenient to go up and down, so he stayed in it at night.

Seeing this, Lan Xiang led everyone to dig out a stone chamber in the passage.

Na Lanxiang is really skillful, and he found the slightly loose crushed stone clay to make a dry piece of furniture.

Zhou Xuan saw that Lan Xiang was well-behaved, and he liked it more and more.

After finishing work for a day, Zhou Xuanliu Lanxiang chatted in the stone house.

I took out some sauced beef, pig's head meat, peanuts and other things purchased by the trustee during the day, and took out a jar of Shaoxing daughter red from under the bed, and ate it in this stone house in two days.

Zhou Xuan asked: "Lan Xiang, although my project is huge and slow, there will be a time when the dust settles, what do you plan to do on that day?"

Lan Xiang replied respectfully:

"Don't hide the long, small can not be talented, no strengths, only natural brute force, good at digging, four miles and eight towns have a little false name, people around them are praised, in recent years, some people have inquired about the acceptance of apprentices. ”

Lan Xiang paused and continued:

"I think that everything in the world has a certain number of growth, and although I am full of brute strength today, he will eventually run out of strength, but all kinds of skills in excavation, such as what kind of soil to apply and what kind of excavation technology, how to excavate, how to transport soil, many skills, accumulated over time, but I am familiar with it. ”

Lan Xiang looked at Zhou Xuan and said with an extremely sincere face:

"I want to wait for the completion of the Taoist project, return to my hometown with my family, open the door to teach, recruit disciples, and spread my excavation skills all over the world, what do you think of my plans?"

The more Zhou Xuan and Lan Xiang talked, the more they found that Lan Xiang was smart and clever, and found that this person was so ambitious, so he immediately praised him.

Lan Xiang also had the intention of seeing Zhou Xuan late, and took out a drawing from his arms: "Dao Chief, look at it!"

Saying that, Lan Xiang slowly unfolded the drawing in front of Zhou Xuan, and saw that the drawing outlined a precise mechanism in detail, with dozens of joints large and small, which were put together extremely exquisitely.

Lan Xiang Road:

"This is a sketch of the excavation mechanism I designed based on daily excavation, which is operated by people in the back, and the mechanism replaces the human digging, and the shovel used by the mechanism is made of ancient black iron, weighing thousands of catties, and the digging power and speed are far beyond the reach of man. ”

When Zhou Xuan heard this, his eyes lit up, and he thought to himself, if this mechanism is made, this opening of the Pichu realm should be just around the corner!

Lan Xiang was also extremely excited, and after a while, he was worried, put away the drawings, and said in a low tone:

"It's a pity that this ancient dark iron is not easy to find, this drawing has been in my arms for many years after I designed it, during which I have also used gold, silver, copper, iron and other metals to smelt, but this mechanism is extremely powerful, all kinds of metals are destroyed at one touch, and it is impossible to reuse. ”

Zhou Xuan heard and comforted:

"Do your best, obey the destiny of heaven, all things in the world are the desire of heaven, and you and I cannot force them. If there is a fate in this life, you can find the ancient dark iron, if not, you will pass on this drawing to future generations, and leave it for future generations to solve!"

Lan Xiang thought about it for a long time, nodded suddenly, and was immediately relieved.

At that time, the bright moon outside the cave is not a branch to frighten the magpies, the breeze chirps cicadas in the middle of the night, and the cups are staggered in the cave.

It wasn't until the lonely lamp was exhausted and the night was three watches that Lan Xiang went away.

Zhou Xuan fell asleep drunk and didn't mention it. Let's say that the swallow wing mountain dug by Zhou Xuan is where today's inkstone pond is located.

He never imagined that thousands of years later, the world would make steel, and later generations would almost hollow out this mountain.

In particular, the inner edge of the hall where Ma Yu entered the secret passage was only a few inches away from the wall of the secret passage dug by Zhou Xuan.

However, history cannot assume that there is a providence in the dark.

At that time, the steelmakers were divided into two passages, left and right, and excavated at the same time.

The worker on the right has just dug here, and the worker on the left has already chiseled the spring vein.

The water poured in from the tunnel, and the workers had to quickly exit the mine.

The spring gushed more and more, and the water flowed bigger and bigger, and in an evening it flooded the pit.

The spring water is continuously injected for three days and three nights, and the talent is exhausted, forming a huge piece of pond water, because it is surrounded by mountains, this water is like an inkstone, and it is named inkstone.

Generally, the shape of the pond is mostly round or irregularly round, and from the perspective of feng shui, the shape is best to be semicircular, like the bright moon and half full.

For example, the pond in front of the traditional Hakka enclosed house and the pond in front of the Puji Zen Forest in Puxu Mountain are all semi-circular, and the meaning of the moon is the loss.

Li Hongzhang Zeng Yun: "The sea has a real tolerance, and the pool is not always full. ”

Li Zhongtang didn't know that in fact, the best feng shui pool was in the shape of this inkstone.

This inkstone pond is surrounded by mountains, sitting in the north and facing south as the water, and the filth in all directions is "turned into a seal", and it is impossible to touch one for thousands of years.

Qiao Yufan and others later got out of big dangers, all of which were related to this inkstone, which is a later story.

Let's say that Zhou Xuan lived in the stone room, and the craftsmen mined the secret passage every day, although the daily progress was slow, but it couldn't survive the long years, and it took more than half a year to dig down.

On this day, Lan Xiangzheng stopped the pickaxe in his hand and rested against the stone wall, when suddenly someone inside was surprised.

Lan Xiang hurriedly ran in front of everyone, only to see that at the end of the passage in front of him, a flat hole was dug out obliquely.

Although I didn't get closer, I already felt a little cool.

A hoe in the hands of a craftsman was thrown aside, and the surface of the hoe had been coated with a layer of ice.

When I saw Lan Xiang, the craftsman said:

"Lan Xiang, come and see this strange thing, I don't think this is the feng shui treasure that Dao Chang Zhou is looking for, didn't it open up the hell of Ah Bi?"

Lan Xiang was also suspicious, and when he heard this, his face sank, and he glared at the craftsman:

"Don't talk nonsense, demagoguery, wait for me to see. ”

Lan Xiang looked down from the flat entrance of the cave, and saw that there was a layer of ice about several meters thick at the entrance of the cave, and there was a slight cool air.

Looking under the ice, I saw a huge ethereal world below, with pink peach blossoms flying all over the sky, and white clouds and mist at the entrance of the cave, which was not real.

Lan Xiang said to the craftsmen: "Don't panic, watch here, I'll ask the Taoist chief to come and see." ”

Let's say it, Lan Xiang hurriedly turned around to find Zhou Xuan.

I didn't want Zhou Xuan to hear about it, and he was ecstatic in his heart, and he was already busy rushing here.