I don’t know when Daya woke up, so I sat up and suddenly said behind my back: “Brother He, you said there are always missing people in your family. Did your ancestors do anything that hurt the world?”

When I heard Daya ask this, my head hurts. Daya never wakes up early or late, so how can I say that? Isn’t it just that I’m looking for trouble!

He Changjun didn't know that Daya had woken up. Daya's words scared him so much that he was shocked. He quickly turned around and glanced at Daya: "Oh...oh my god, brother... I'm awake, what... what... what hurts the sky... what harms the truth? No... I haven't heard of it, no... but... there is a story... I don't know if it's true... or not?"

Big teeth stared at their eyes, opened their mouths, and the corners of their mouths were stuttering with He Changjun's stuttering speed. Liu Ye and I couldn't hold back their joy when we looked at them.

To be honest, I was really patient in chatting with He Changjun. Sometimes I was so anxious that you really wanted to scratch the wall. In the words of Big Teeth, I could have a good sleep when chatting with this guy. When I woke up, I found that I could still take care of it.

I heard He Changjun tell him another story, which we were very interested in, so I asked He Changjun to make a long story short and make it clear, without having to be both emotional and vivid. Although I have repeatedly reminded him, with this not-so-long story from He Changjun, we were told for an hour, which made us so depressed that we wanted to hit the wall together.

Fortunately, it was explained clearly. According to him, this story was told to him by his grandfather, and to him by his grandfather.

It was said that it was quite long ago that there was a hunter named He Xiantian in their family. Everyone in the village called him Boss He. This man was so good at shooting skills. He shot every shot. Once he was wandering around the fox cave in the south of the village and encountered a red-eyed fire fox. Boss He even shot three times but failed to hit him. He was so angry that he let the dog chase the fire fox.

Just as he was about to catch up, the big yellow dog suddenly caught fire for no reason, burning the big yellow dog to scream, running home desperately, and then went straight into the firewood pile. In the blink of an eye, the fire was rising into the sky, and coincidentally, another evil wind blew, which burned the house.

An old man in the village advised him that the fox was probably a spirit and told him not to provoke it. However, Boss He was angry and did not believe in evil. He carried a hunting rifle on his back to seek revenge on the fire fox.

As soon as the sky turned dark, the fire fox came out again, his eyes flashed with red light, and he bared his teeth at Boss He. Boss He forgot to be afraid and raised his gun to shoot, but he couldn't hit the fire fox. Boss He felt that his back was hot, and when he turned around, he realized that his clothes were actually on fire. He quickly rolled on the ground a few times. After the fire was extinguished, he looked at the fire fox and disappeared.

After that, Boss He had just hunted, tears flowed from his eyes, his eyes were red and he couldn't see clearly, so he stopped hunting. Later, he married a wife and gave birth to three sons for him. His life was pretty good. Until one morning, he found that his youngest son who was sleeping on the kang suddenly disappeared. The whole family was stunned. I don't know where the man ran to bed at night.

Then Boss He suspected that the fire fox had dismantled his son, picked up the hunting rifle that he had not used for many years and went to the fox cave ditch. The family couldn't stop him. However, after leaving, he never came back, and he could not see anyone alive or dead. From then on, every forty or fifty years, someone in the He family would sleep inexplicably.

After the story was finished, I looked at Daya and Liu Ye, and recalled the legend about the Fox Li Cave Grotto I just heard yesterday. I was also wondering whether this red-eyed fire fox was the legendary red fox. I pretended to inadvertently ask where the fox cave ditch he just mentioned was? What is it like now?

He Changjun seemed to be talking happily, and said with a gaze, Fox Cave Grotto is only about one thousand meters south of this village. When he was a child, he and his friends often went there to hunt birds and dig wild vegetables.

There were three large landblocks there before. The terrain between the landblocks was low-lying, and there were many caves everywhere, and some even hunting dogs could climb into it. I heard that it was a fox and a badger pig's hole before the liberation. It was said that there were many foxes here, but after the liberation, they were basically unable to see the land after the liberation. Now they have been reclaimed into farmland, and the caves are invisible. The landform of the three large landblocks is still vaguely visible.

At this point, the clues of the beads have been cut off. The black cat is gone, and no one can tell whether the matter we are about to investigate is related to the red-eyed fire fox. What happened so smoothly has now formed a deadlock.

Since we were all here, we all wanted to go and have a look. We finally convinced He Changjun not to accompany us and in the direction he pointed. After less than twenty minutes, we saw three obvious land buns not far away, which were in a three-legged tripod. To the south of the land buns was a large poplar forest, which was lined up in several rows in dense rows. I don’t know how many years it has grown. The thinnest tree trunk is almost as thick as a jar.

Daya stood on a high slope, looked into the distance, turned around and asked me, "Lai Liang, where are you talking about the 'shrimp beard and crab eyes'? Can you tell me?"

I followed Daya and stood on the top of the slope and looked into the distance. The vast black soil in front of me was desolate and desolate. I saw that I had not seen any other villages far away. Everything I could have had been reclaimed into farmland. The mountains were invisible and the water was shadowed. I could not see any of the previous landforms. There was no such thing as looking for dragons and pointing acupoints.

The eye of the shrimp, beard and crab should be surrounded by half a mountain, and there is a breath in the center of the embrace, which is the "Lotus Point". But it seems very difficult to find the shape of the surrounding mountain now. The mountains hundreds of years ago have long disappeared, and it is almost flat here. Looking at the situation in front of me, I feel a chill. With my current level, even if the environment has not changed at all, it will probably take a lot of effort to find the true cave, let alone the shape of the mountain is gone now?

Liu Ye knew that the situation here was worse than expected when she looked at my expression. She didn't say anything, but just smiled helplessly, touched the scars on the tree, and remained silent, and didn't know what she was thinking.

This kind of poplar tree is the most common in the northeast. The trees in front of you are more than 30 meters high. The thickest trunk must be more than one meter in diameter. It is estimated that two people will be able to hug each other.

This kind of poplar tree should be called Zantian poplar. It has a long lifespan, which can reach more than 200 years. Normally, it will gradually age after forty or fifty years. However, these trees are probably growing for more than 100 years. They are aging in a typical shape, "centrifugal growth". The gray-brown old tree bark has been cracked longitudinally, and the base of the backbone branches has fallen toward the end of the tree, and it feels like it is dying.

After looking at these trees, I lowered my head but was attracted by a piece of tree stump.

This stump is only more than 30 centimeters tall and about one meter thick. It should have been cut down in recent years and the section is still very new. What attracted me was not the stump itself, but the annual rings on the stump.

I studied Douglas's chronology in college. In fact, to put it bluntly, by studying the changes in the width and narrowness of the annual rings, judging the changes in the climate and growth environment in the past year. In addition to knowing the age of the tree, I can also record many things that happened in the past. I can even measure earthquakes, climate changes and environmental changes in the past through the shape of the tree wheels. It can be said that after thoroughly studying, you can know nothing and know everything. Through the memory of trees, you can understand the past and predict the future.

After squatting down, I carefully cleaned up the snow and frozen soil on the tree stump, stared at it with wide eyes and motionlessness, while trying hard to recall the relevant theoretical knowledge. Only then did I really feel that I had no regrets when I used the book.

I stared at the big tree stump without saying a word, which caused big teeth and willow leaves to surround me, and also squatted on my left and right, looking at the tree stumps and me, not knowing what medicine is sold in my gourd.

Big teeth were impatient waiting beside me, and shook my hand in front of me: "Long, what kind of calf are you pretending to be? When can you communicate with the tree stump? It didn't tell you whether it was a male or a female before? How old did you live? Why is it different from your body and head?"

I gave him a fierce look. I originally wanted to bury him a few more words, but seeing Liu Ye beside me, I still held back.

After sighing, I pointed to the tree stump and said, "This tree has lived for nearly 150 years. The initial 100 years of growth was very fast. At that time, the soil should be fertile and the water system is sufficient. But the environment suddenly changed in the next few decades. It should be drought, which led to the growth of very slowly over the next fifty years."

After hearing what I said, Liu Ye and Da Ya were both surprised and looked at me like they were looking at Martians, looking like they didn't believe it even if they were beaten to death.

There was no way, so I had to tell them the relevant theories discussed by Douglas, and while talking, I gestured at the annual rings on the tree stump and explained them.

Liu Ye seemed to be extremely interested in this and kept asking questions. I almost made up everything I knew, but still didn't stop her question. Her questions were like 100,000 why, one after another. It seemed that I was really a disease in my studies and had to ask the bottom of everything.

After hearing what I said, Daya ran around in the woods and observed several pieces of tree stumps continuously. Then she couldn't help but be amazed. Although the thickness of these stumps is different, the width and width of the annual rings are basically the same. I can't help but look at my annual rings with admiration and worship it very much.

Seeing that it was getting late, the three of us also began to walk back. Although it was early spring now and it was warmer than before the New Year, it still felt cold when walking in this wilderness.

While walking, I said to Liuye and Daya: "Although there is a hint of 'Shrimp, whiskers, crab eyes, and lotus flowers' for that cave, the current situation is no longer the same as before, and I can't see what it used to be. It's a fool to find a cave on this land without any purpose, so I don't even think about it. However, by observing the annual rings just now, I had an idea, maybe it could do it."

Daya and Liuye were inevitably a little depressed when I said that at the beginning, but when I heard that there was a way, they all urged me to say it quickly and not to keep it in the way.

Actually, I don’t want to sell anything. The key is whether this method can work. I don’t have a clear idea. The annual rings show that trees have grown very quickly in the first hundred years, and the annual rings are wide. It should be that there should be a river here before. It is probably because something happened later. The river dried up, which changed the environment here. The lack of moisture has led to the annual rings becoming more and more compact in more than 50 years.

The "Fengshui Point" must contain wind and gather energy, especially the entrance of this lotus hole, which must be surrounded by water. Where the acupoint is formed, there must be water to bound the veins. If there is no water, the dragon energy will not stop. As long as you find the location of the river that year, and then combine it with the search for the hole and the point where I am confident that I can spend more time to find the hole.

After hearing me, Liu Ye thought about it and asked: "Is there another possibility that there is a 50-year-old rain and drought, but it was plenty of rain fifty years ago?"

I looked at Willow Leaf and told her very surely that I believe there should be a river. Because the stones under the roots of the tree are pebbles instead of mountain rocks. The mountains are full of edges and corners, and pebbles can only be formed after many years of washing. In the wilderness, this kind of pebbles must not be scattered here by someone. It should be that river water passed by here before, so that the land was turned over and cultivated.

In the past, since there were so many foxes and badger pigs here, there must be water nearby. This is a natural rule and the iron will not change.

The old man from He Chuanguo has not come back yet. Thinking about it, the maximum speed of the tractor is about 40 meters per hour, and it takes four or five hours to go back and forth. When He Changjun saw us coming back, he was very enthusiastic and hurriedly asked us to go to the kang to warm up.

Sitting on the kang, we started chatting casually. After a while, I pretended to be nothing and asked him casually: "Brother He, is there a river in that area of ​​the Fox Cave Gully before?"

He Changjun hesitated for a moment and shook his head: "He? No... I haven't heard of it. I've been fighting... I haven't seen it since I was a child."

After hearing what He Changjun said, the three of us were a little discouraged. Could it be that all my speculations were wrong? I also hung my head and stopped talking.

At this moment, Aunt He came in the outer room. Maybe she heard what we said. She looked at He Changjun and said to us: "Hey, what do he know? Why don't there be a river? We had touched fish there when we were young. When his father was young, he often caught some silver carp that was more than half a pound. Later, the river water became less and less, and finally it became dry (Northeast Dialect: There is no water in the river)."

These few words suddenly raised our spirits, and our eyes were shining, constantly asking about the situation back then. Aunt He seemed to be quite touched when she talked about the past. She wiped her hands and sat on the kang and started chatting with us.

According to Aunt He, this small river was only more than three meters wide, with water not deep, but it was very clear and had no knees in the shallow place. It should be a tributary of the "Suzhaotai River" today, and finally it flowed into the main river channel of the ancient city on the flat-faced city hundreds of meters away. After liberation, the land was opened and farmed, and the water slowly dried up in a few years. More than fifty years have passed, and now the shadow of the river is invisible. As for the location of the river, Aunt He mentioned that it should be more than ten meters south of the forest, because when they were young, they put their clothes and shoes in the woods when they were playing in the water.
Chapter completed!