Chapter 64
Along the way, the driver enthusiastically started chatting with us.
If you want to say that this driver has a good memory, I have been asking about the progress of the folk culture work of Daya and me. Daya and I were talking all over the place, and it was a foggy thing. Even we didn't know what we meant.
After hearing that we were going to Foxdonggou on the outskirts of Lishu County this time, the driver shook his head and told us that he was not familiar with the place we were talking about and could not find it. He could only send us to Lishu County and asked us to find another local bus in the city, saying that the travel fee would be lower. Daya and I smiled at each other, and didn't say much.
After more than an hour of bumpyness, I finally arrived at Lishu County.
I heard Daya say that I wanted to stay in the county town for a day, so the elder brother drove along Chaoyang South Road for a while and pulled us directly to the entrance of Lishu Hotel next to the town government building and stopped. He said that this is also a very good hotel in Lishu County. It is in a bustling commercial area, with a superior location and convenient transportation, so it is convenient for us to do anything.
Then I asked the driver about the travel expenses. The driver was quite real and didn't ask us much. He paid the car very happily. The driver said hello and turned around and went back.
As soon as Daya and I piled up the things at the gate, the security guard in the hotel ran out. It seemed that the service was quite in place.
Daya and I asked for a standard room, and the first thing we did was to take a shower. There was no such condition in the countryside. In the past few days, I felt so exhausted. The mud fell down after rubbing it. It was finally washed clean and then I lay down comfortably for a while.
After resting for a while, I felt much better. I saw that it was noon and I was indeed a little hungry. Daya and I put on my clothes and planned to go out to eat something, and also inquire. As soon as I went down the stairs, Daya was about to go to the restaurant. I quickly pulled him away and said, "We have to inquire about Fox Cave Grotto. It will be useless to find out about this restaurant. There are a few people living in the hotel who are locals, and maybe we are not as good as we know. It's better to find a local restaurant outside. If you can't prepare, you can find something."
Big teeth shook his head, nodded, and looked like he suddenly realized: "Don't say it, it seems that this is the case. There are often this plot on TV. It seems that in addition to drinking and eating meat, most of the taverns are also Jianghu intelligence stations. Moreover, restaurant owners are generally famous for "Jianghu All Things". Without something he doesn't know, we really have to go out and have a walk."
After saying that, he pointed to the gate and bared at me: "How did you say Beijing dialect? Yes, yes, then 'Okay', 'Walk!'"
I shook my head and smiled, and then went out of the door with Daya.
The road in front of the door is also the main road. There are no small restaurants on both sides of the road, so I had to walk north along the road. When we saw an intersection, we turned directly in. As soon as we looked up, we saw a very inconspicuous snack house on the side of the road. There were not many people eating inside. Daya and I looked at each other, nodded, pushed the door and walked in.
The boss was a middle-aged man. When he saw us entering the house, he quickly wiped the table and poured tea for us. He greeted us enthusiastically. I didn’t look at the menu, but ordered two authentic Northeast dishes. Whenever I ordered a bottle of beer from Daya, I chatted with the boss all the time.
The boss was in his forties and was very talkative. Seeing that we were from another place and wanted to go to Fox Cave Gully, he pulled a chair and sat not far from us, and chatted with us while taking care of the business.
It turned out that Fox Donggou was a village, which was very small, near Dongbaishan Village in Baishan Township. In the early 1960s, Baishan Commune was established there. At that time, there were four brigades, namely Laoshantou Brigade, Dongbaishan Brigade, Xibaishan Brigade, and Shijiabao Brigade. Fox Donggou Village belongs to Dongbaishan Brigade, and the current production team has long disappeared. The Dongbaishan Brigade of the past has become the current Dongbaishan Village.
According to the boss, there is really a story about the name of Fox Cave Gou. It is said that not only Fox Cave Gou, but there is no one else in a few miles. Two or three hundred years ago, a wealthy family named Fu, who lived nearby. Later, people called the place where he lived "Dafuling", and then they called it "Dafuling", which should be the Dafuling of the Xibaishan Brigade.
At that time, there were still barren ridges around, and no other family. The family named Fu opened land and farmed around them. The area of land was getting bigger and bigger every year. In a few years, the surrounding barren ridges became croplands, and the family's industries became larger and larger, and they stocked up a lot of grain at home.
But one day, I suddenly found that the rice in the grain stockpile was not eaten, and the jerky meat hanging on the beams was often missing. At first, I thought there were rats, so I put two big cats in the granary, but the next day I found that the two big cats were missing, which was very strange. So I sent someone to hide in the granary at night to see who was stealing the food.
In the middle of the night, it was late at night and I saw a large string of things coming down the beams of the granary, including rats, yellow-skinned and peanuts. The two missing cats followed behind them were the missing cats. These things were like someone was commanding. In the blink of an eye, they took away some of the food and returned along the same path.
But the people hidden in the house were scared enough, but in the end, they still plucked up the courage to open the door carefully, followed the things far behind for several miles before they arrived at a deserted hill, which was a mountain bun. They crawled into a hole and disappeared. The people who followed them went back to report the news when they saw this.
The next day, Fu Dahu brought some people to the cave and started digging holes. He dug it very deep. At this time, a red-haired and red-eyed fox ran out of it and squatted in front of these people without moving. When the people who dug the cave saw it, they were shocked and knelt down and kowtowed, saying that they didn't know that the fairy Hu practiced here and broke the cave palace. They would definitely build a temple well in two days.
After hearing this, the red-haired fox returned to the cave with a "swoosh".
The people who dug the holes were strange. After a few days, they had sore waists and legs, and they could not find any problems. Later, they remembered that they promised the fox to build a temple for it. Later, Fu Dahou paid for it, and these people built a small temple in front of the entrance of the cave, and often put some sacrifices in it. It was a bit mysterious. Since the small temple was built, the problems of those who dug the holes were cured, so everyone knew that there were fox fairies living in that deserted hill.
Later, in the era of chaos, the temple had long disappeared, and the entrance of the cave was sealed. No one knew the specific location of the fox cave. Later, more and more people were pursuing the land, and gradually the name of the fox cave ditch was called out, and some families gathered around it. Now it is an ordinary small village, and the legendary fox cave has long been no longer found.
I guess the boss was so fascinated by the old man and I. After taking a few puffs of cigarettes, he told us that although the story is a story, the older generation believed it. It is said that a Feng Shui master came here more than a hundred years ago. After searching for more than a month, he actually found the fox hole and got in. However, when the Feng Shui master came out, he was covered in wounds and dying.
Before he died, he repeatedly told the villagers that they must seal the entrance of the cave, otherwise it would bring a major disaster to the village. Then the demon said nonsense in a daze, repeatedly saying "Shrimp, beard, crab eyes, and a lotus flower". He died inexplicably in the middle of the night.
"A lotus flower in the eyes of shrimp, beard and crab?" Daya muttered it and looked at me.
The boss smiled: "It has been passed down like this over the years, and no one knows what it means."
On the way back, Daya kept muttering this sentence. Seeing that I didn't say anything, he asked me if I knew what this sentence meant.
I glanced at Big Eyes and smiled proudly: "Daya, if you want to say this, probably few people except me know what it means."
Daya's eyes lit up when he heard my words, and he looked at me in disbelief: "Let's go, you brag very fresh and refined, a little bit out of your own, which really makes me feel a little ashamed!"
In fact, when I first heard the saying "Shrimp, beard, crab, and a lotus flower", my head seemed to be swung several times by a big hammer, and it was blank. It was either because of anything else, or because of this sentence when I was a child, I heard my grandfather say it to me several times. I knew that this was an oral trauma used to set up a hole in the flat sea. When setting up a tomb and tomb in the dark house, I had to pay attention to Feng Shui, and choosing a land in the dark house can be called setting up a hole in the flat sea.
Seeing Daya's expression of not believing it, I curled my lips at him and started talking to him as I walked.
"Shrimp, whisker, crab eye, and a lotus" is a type of "hole shape". The "hole shape" is also distinguished by the five elements. From the nearby mountain trend and the direction of water, you can determine the five elements attributes of the hole shape. As a Feng Shui master's introductory homework, you can understand the situation of the five elements and make the situation apart. Regarding the situation of the five elements, I have heard my grandfather talk about it since I was a child. I memorize it carefully, but my practical experience is a bit worse.
The five elements cave shapes generally include Venus and bird shapes; Jupiter and human shapes; Mercury and dragon, snake and eel shapes; Mars and human shapes; Saturn and beast shapes. Each shape has different burial methods, and there are many things to say.
As for the "shrimp, whisker, crab eye, and lotus" situation, it should be normal to have a high left and a low right. Half of the ring-shaped high ground behind the hole surround the hole. There should be a water outlet not far from the hole, and there should be a guard on the left and right, that is, a turtle and snake guards. However, even if you know these characteristics, you may not be able to find the hole. First, after all, the geographical terrain has changed a little over the years, and the current landform may not be the same as before; second, I am just half-baked, and the oral trajectory is familiar, but in fact, it is unknown whether I can find it when I arrive at the scene. So it is useless to say anything now, and I can only see it on the scene to know.
Daya was obviously a little confused when she heard me talking about this lot. Seeing that I didn't seem to be lying to him, she scratched her head and turned her head to ask me: "Let's Liang, as you say, the Feng Shui master must have recognized the pattern there, and the words he said were the name of the cave shape, right? But in the end, this hole was just a fox hole, but now it has an underground tomb. The old man who repaired the shoes said, it is probably not small to the ground. I remembered one thing, is it not normal for you to say that there is a red-haired fox in this tomb?"
After Daya said this, I realized this problem and had been studying the shape of the cave. But I forgot that it was just a fox hole at first. It was the Feng Shui master who saw through this place and took the risk to enter the underground palace and came out for a lifetime. If the underground was really a tomb, then the red fox would have some origin. When Xiaobao stepped on the grave of Lao Dao Xuan, a yellow skin that protected the tomb, causing Xiaobao to be troubled, and finally died suddenly. Although we have not found out that Xiaobao's death is directly related to the incident when we were young, we have subconsciously accepted this result these days. And there was a red-haired fox in this grave protecting the tomb, and this grave is definitely not simple!
As soon as he finished speaking, a gust of cold wind blew on the road at the right time, which made me and Daya fight several times, and the atmosphere was fully exaggerated.
Chapter completed!