When Zhang Kaixuan heard the word tomb from his mouth, he was not surprised at all.
Literati like to divide the tomb robbers into different groups, which is the so-called moving mountains, finding hills, and touching gold. In fact, there is not so much emphasis on it. If they really want to divide it, they probably just distinguish between the northern and southern factions. The difference is not big.
There is a little difference in the techniques of tomb robbing. Just like the northerners favored martial arts and the southerners worshiped literature in ancient times, the northerners' techniques were slightly rougher.
My father, Zhao Jianguo, has been missing for twenty years. Disappearance can be divided into active disappearance and passive disappearance.
Is it that he can subjectively control his own behavior, or is he being forced to disappear by others?
As I said before, my old Zhao family is considered a wealthy family in Luoyang City, but the so-called means of making a living are very disgraceful, because our family is engaged in the business of tipping buckets. To put it simply, they are tomb robbers. If
In ancient times, even if you had money, you would never dare to spend it, let alone show it off.
But now is an era that laughs at the poor but not at prostitution. As long as you have money, no one cares where your money comes from. And since the world-famous Luoyang shovel was invented by Luoyang people, from this simple point
Just look at it and you will know how rampant tomb robbing was in ancient Luoyang, not to mention Mang Mountain, which is full of antiques?
That is to say, because of the prevalence of tomb robbing, there are many craftsmen in this industry, and ancient tombs are of course non-renewable resources. If you dig one, you will lose one, so the competition is quite fierce. Nowadays, countless people have feelings for Henan people.
Prejudice, I can only say one thing: Henan is poor, too poor, and the poor mountains and rivers are prone to unruly people. Since ancient times, the folk customs of the Central Plains have been very tough, so in the process of competition between tomb robbers, the methods adopted by those desperadoes are also
It was quite bloody. Gradually, individual tomb robbers were eliminated, and those who grew up gradually changed their nature in order to protect their own power.
It has become a gang, and even has the nature of a mafia.
And my family is one of them.
My father, Zhao Jianguo, was a well-known craftsman before he disappeared. Although he had a bad temper, he was forthright and had excellent craftsmanship, so he was very famous in the entire industry.
But what I have to say is that this faction of my family is different from other factions. Other factions are composed of countless little tomb robbers. To put it harshly, they are just a bunch of rabble.
But our interest group, the old Zhao family, is a village, a village where all the people in the village are named Zhao, and the skill of pouring buckets has been passed down from generation to generation. To use a very elegant word, my family has a rich heritage.
But when it comes to this, I have to introduce the origin of this background. Our entire Zhaojia Village is of the same strain. To put it bluntly, they are all close relatives. They are the same ancestors for at least five hundred years. And the ancestors of our old Zhao family were in the last century.
In the beginning, he was not a tomb robber, he was a Feng Shui master.
Okay, now that we have talked about it, we must use a story to introduce the origin of our old Zhao family.
This story begins with an ancestor of my family. This ancestor’s seniority is so high that I don’t know how to call him. Here, he is generally called “grandpa.”
My great-grandfather's name in the ancestral tree is Zhao Gou'er. I don't know if his parents gave him this name, or if everyone else called him that, then it was his name.
In ancient times, the level of medical care was limited. When a family had a child, the first thing to consider was whether they would have food to feed them.
The second is whether it can grow up healthily. The ancients had little culture and were generally superstitious. They believed that the meaner the child's name was, the easier it would be to support him. Therefore, my great-grandfather had no choice but to give him the name Gou'er.
strangeness.
When Zhao Gou'er was 5 years old, both his parents died. After more than ten years of ups and downs, Zhao Gou'er begged for food, worked as a thief, picked up widows, and worked as a pimp. Anyway, he suffered all kinds of hardships.
A miserable person.
In the end, he came to work as a long-term worker in the family of a rich man named Guo. Zhao Gouer lived a hard life at the bottom of society. He was used to crawling and crawling. He had a good brain and was not afraid of hardship. Later, by chance, he got the chance to marry the old man of the Guo family.
Because of his appreciation, he became the housekeeper of the Guo Mansion.
The man surnamed Guo is not a high-ranking official or a noble queen, but a Feng Shui master from far and near civilization. He breaks ground and opens the door to the red and white dates. Weddings, burials, tombs, hunting for dragons, and acupoints. When it comes to what he is best at, it is Feng Shui.
His academic attainments, and even my great-grandfather’s notes said that the later renovations of the Ming Dynasty Palace and the location of the famous Chinese Bell were decided based on his opinion.
The old man surnamed Guo was given the name Gengchen, whose courtesy name was Taishang, and whose name was Mr. Mengji. He had a son named Qiankun.
This Guo Gengchen has been showing Feng Shui to those noble people all his life. Seeing that he was getting old, Guo Qiankun couldn't sit still. He thought, my old man is famous for his ability to find dragons and tap acupoints, but he has been doing this for a lifetime.
Yin Mansion, why can't you find yourself a feng shui treasured place to bury yourself, and rely on the protection of Yin De to make your descendants prosperous and reach the 951st level?
Guo Qiankun talked to Mr. Guo several times, but Mr. Guo kept shaking his head and said:
In a person's life, there are one destiny, two luck, three Feng Shui, four Yin virtues and five readings. The Feng Shui Yin virtue theory only ranks third and fourth.
Destiny is destiny, destiny is blessing, if the two are not achieved, and if you go against nature, you will surely suffer the backlash.
Even if I can give a piece of precious land to our Guo family, my Guo family has no luck at all. If I really want to change my destiny against nature, it will only harm our Guo family.
Guo Qiankun is also an eloquent person. He said: A real man should fight against heaven, earth and man. Even if he goes against heaven, wouldn't it be great if he could really have the same future as Tianbo?
Unable to withstand Guo Qiankun's hard work, Mr. Guo finally wavered. What old man doesn't want his children to become dragons and phoenixes?
Doesn't Mr. Guo want his descendants to have an emperor? But the more a person knows, the more he is afraid. He is just afraid of retribution. Guo Qiankun's words just gave him a step, or an opportunity.
The father and son traveled all night and arrived at a mountain range (the specific name of the mountain range cannot be written, everyone knows it). According to Mr. Guo, the dragon vein of the Chinese land is not fixed in Kunlun and Taihang. The real dragon vein of the entire Kyushu land is moving.
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The migration of dragon energy means the change of dynasties. Otherwise, among the ancient and modern dynasty imperial tombs, which generation is not worthy of being ranked above the dragon vein, but does not retain an immortal inheritance?
It's just because of the migration of dragon veins that the dragon vein that was facing the imperial mausoleum was exhausted.
Halfway up the mountain range, there is a dragon's head-shaped dock. Why was Mr. Guo able to find the place where the dragon vein was at that time?
It's because he searched for dragon's acupoints in his early years, visited famous mountains and rivers, and chased the dragon's energy. He already knew this place, but why couldn't he point it out to others?
This also shows that people are selfish and powerful. Who can really see through it and deal with it calmly? Guo Qiankun was forced by him, but he himself also had selfish motives.
They stayed in the inn, and Guo Gengchen whispered to Guo Qiankun: You are like this at night, and for the rest, my father has his own plans.
That night, Guo Qiankun was lying at the dragon's mouth on the mountainside. It seemed calm in the first half of the night, but at midnight, suddenly a dark wind blew up, and two "people" came slowly here.
When the two "people" saw Guo Qiankun lying there motionless, one of them said to the other, "How could this person die here? This Kuaibao land is the cemetery specially designated by the Lord of Hell for the "Guo Erliang" family. Hurry up
Carry him away."
After that, he lifted up Guo Qiankun and threw it aside. Then the two of them turned into a gust of wind and disappeared into the night.
Only then did Guo Qiankun get up, his back already wet with cold sweat, and ran all the way back to the inn where Mr. Guo was, not daring to hide anything, and told him everything that happened that night.
Mr. Guo said: "It doesn't matter, everything is as expected by my father. Tomorrow night you will continue to lie in that position, covered with dog feces. The two of them are in the underworld, and they are most afraid of filthy things and will not dare to touch them."
You will treat your body as having been buried here, so that this precious land can belong to my family in the underworld."
Speaking of Guo Erliang, the specific surname was not mentioned in my grandfather's notes, but he was briefly introduced. His name was not "Guo Erliang", Guo Erliang was just a title.
Moreover, generations of family heads have been called this by the common people. This family has been doing business for generations, and some people once served as high officials in the court. The family was quite prosperous, with thousands of hectares of fertile land. They were famous and prominent at that time.
His family's ancestors had a rule that all disaster victims who came to the family's granary to buy rice would be given an extra 2 taels of grain. During the years of drought in the Central Plains, his family's granary gave out an extra 2 taels of grain. No matter how little it was, it saved many lives.
As the saying goes, if you do good deeds in ten lifetimes, you will be prosperous in one lifetime. The King of Hell was impressed by his kindness, so he gave this geomantic treasure land to his family.
Regarding this person, in my great-grandfather’s notes, another ancestor of mine who donated scholars in the late Qing Dynasty wrote this line next to it:
When you act as a human being, you should have three parts of Buddha's heart and seven parts of conscience, and have good thoughts in your heart. Only then can you not be afraid of destiny, ghosts and gods. You must know that God will look at what you do.
Let’s not mention other things for now. According to what Mr. Guo said, Guo Qiankun was really deceived by the hands of Black and White. Naturally, he was in high spirits. After Mr. Guo drove to the west, he was buried here and relied on the protection of Yin De to live a good life.
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But Mr. Guo was frowning all day long. Finally, on his deathbed, he called my great-great-grandfather to the bedside, handed him a thread-bound book, and said: Dog, you have followed my Guo family for so many years.
The knowledge you gain is very great. If you succeed, you will rise to great heights. If you fail, your family will be ruined. This is what I have learned all my life. Now take it with you and leave. If everything is successful in the future, you will be promoted to the Ninth Five-Year Plan. After so many years of following you, you will never forget it.
I will treat you badly.
If it fails, pass this thing on. The knowledge passed down by my old Guo family cannot be cut off from me.
My great-grandfather kowtowed three times in front of Mr. Guo's bed and left the Guo family with the thread-bound book.
What follows is what my great-great-grandfather heard from hearsay after he returned to his hometown. If you believe it, there is something there, but if you don’t believe it, there is none. After all, Feng Shui and numerology are inherently mysterious and mysterious. You can’t disbelieve it, and you can’t believe it completely.
This is what my great-grandfather wrote in his notes:
Before Mr. Guo died, he asked his family:
After I die, my body will not be put into the coffin, and not a single trace of my body will be left.
Parade three times, he was buried three poles high in the sun.
After the burial, the whole family hid in the cellar, and no one was allowed to come out until July 49th.
Remember, remember.
Mr. Guo had a daughter who was married a long time ago. Her husband's family was a powerful official family at that time.
Guo Qiankun complied with Mr. Guo's will and wanted to parade his body through the streets and bury him naked, but his sister refused and said, "Dad was a respectable person when he was alive. How can you bear to let him be so embarrassed after his death?"
Showing naked to the neighbors?
Guo Qiankun thought about it, but Mr. Guo said this before he died. What if he doesn't do what he said and something goes wrong?
Later, the family discussed a compromise: wrap Mr. Guo's private parts in a white cloth, similar to how he only wears a pair of underwear now. This wouldn't be too embarrassing, wouldn't it?
After Mr. Guo was buried, Guo Qiankun took everyone in the Guo family, including the young and old, to hide in the basement, where they ate, drank, and defecated.
But he didn't know that after the Guo family hid in the basement, a big black dog raised by Mr. Guo stood motionless on the roof of the Guo family's old house. (To be continued)