At this moment, a farm tricycle was approaching from a distance with a gust of black smoke. The driving was a little old man, and there was a young man sitting in the car. He looked very fashionable, like a city man.

"This big brother!" Zhang Guozhong reached out to stop the car, "I'll ask you something!"

"What?" The old man driving kept looking at Zhang Guozhong.

"Do you know where the water in this pond comes from?" Zhang Guozhong handed a cigarette with a smile on his face.

"This? It was brought from there!" The old man pointed to the direction of Niangniang Mountain not far away.

"Yes, I know it was brought from there. Do you know how it was drawn? Did it be drawn by digging a trench or pumping it with a water pump?"

"What are you asking about this?" The old man jumped off the farm tricycle with his legs, took out a lighter and lit a cigarette, and looked at Zhang Guozhong with his little green bean eyes.

"Oh! This is the gentleman we invited! Just for the matter of drowning people a few days ago!" Yang Zhou hurried forward to chat with him, put his mouth under the old man's ear and muttered.

"Oh! Zhang Banxian!" After hearing Yang Zhou mutter, the old man's expression turned 180 degrees. "My surname is Li, just call me Li Laoer! Half of the water in this pool was pumped by a water pump, and half was digging and digging, but the ditch was not dug by modern people, and it has existed since ancient times!"

"It has been since ancient times?" Zhang Guozhong frowned, "Can you say more details?"

"This... I won't let me take you to see it..." Li Laoer thought for a while, and simply decided to take Zhang Guozhong and Yang Zhou to dig a trenches on site for investigation. "Sanshui, drive the car back first, I will take Zhang Banxian to Baizhangchi to take a look!"

After walking for about seven or eight minutes, Li Lao Er took Zhang Guozhong and Yang Zhou to a small pool, "That's it!" Li Lao Er wiped his sweat and pointed to the small pool, "This is the 'Baizhang Pond'! The water from the fish pond was pumped from here with a water pump!"

"Here?" Zhang Guozhong bent down and looked at the pool carefully. He saw that the pool was about five meters square. The water was dark and dark. I don't know how deep it was. The four walls of the pool were made of bluestone, which did not look like modern people. However, judging from the weathering of the surrounding bluestone, it seemed that it was not too long, at most two or three hundred years.

"Can the water in this pond fill the entire fish pond?" Zhang Guozhong frowned and put his hand into the pond water, feeling the cold and harsh.

"If you want to talk about this pool, it's very strange!" Li Lao Er frowned, "No one knows when it was repaired, and no one knows why it was repaired. Someone once tied a stone with a hemp rope to try the depth, but after putting a rope of more than 60 meters before he reached the bottom! As long as I can remember, the adults didn't let us get close to this place. This pool is closest to our village, but at that time, the villagers would rather go to a mile away to fetch water, and I don't know why.

A few years later, there was a man named Zhang Shengli in the village who was full and had nothing to do. He got a water pump and wanted to drain the water in the pond. However, the water pump was pumped for three days and three nights, and the water in the pond was not seen at all! At that time, everyone said that there must be a secret passage in the pond, which was connected to other water veins. Later, a few young people in the village wanted to build a fish pond, so they thought about pumping water from here. As a result, the water had just been pumped and before the fish was raised, they drowned the person first..."

"Secret passage?" Zhang Guozhong opened the compass and walked around the pond. He found that Baizhang Pond was facing the center line in the direction of Niangniang Mountain. Yin and Yang were indeed a little abnormal. If there was really a so-called "Secret passage" at the bottom of the pond that linked other water veins, it should be below. "Is it... 'Eliminate evil'?" Looking at the changes in the compass, Zhang Guozhong couldn't help frowning, because the water in this Baizhang Pond and this so-called "Secret passage" had the yin energy that was obviously higher than the fish farming pond just now.

Maoshan Shu believes that any stagnant water at the edge of the tomb is a sign of great yin. The solution is to dig a canal or waterway to lead the water to a place where yin and yang can flow, because water is both the main body of yin and a good carrier for yin energy circulation. It will guide stagnant water to a place where yin and yang can flow, which will not only help release the yin energy accumulated in stagnant water, but also help release the resentment stimulated by the tomb owner due to yin energy accumulation. In Maoshan Shu, this method of digging canals to attract yin is called "release evil".

The scale of "removing evil" is proportional to the size of the stagnant water at the tomb and the size of the tomb. Calculated by the scale of ordinary people's tombs, if there is stagnant water within one acre of stagnant water at the edge of the tomb, then digging a small ditch half a foot wide is enough. The length of the ditch can be at most one to two meters, which can play a good role in "removing evil". If this "Baizhang Pond" is really the product of "removing evil", then what large-scale "removing evil" is it?

Frowning, Zhang Guozhong walked out one or two hundred meters with a compass along the so-called "underbolt" until there was no way to go. Although there was no place to step on the ground, as shown in the compass, the "underbolt" underground seemed to be still extending forward, and there was a trend that he would not stop until Niangniang Mountain.

"Zhang Banxian?" Li Laoer followed Zhang Guozhong and finally couldn't help asking curiously, "What tricks do you see?"

"This culvert should be under our feet!" Zhang Guozhong said, "If I guess correctly, this culvert should be connected to some underground water vein in Niangniang Mountain!"

"What do you mean is that drowning people in the fish pond is related to water?" Li Laoer said with a stingy look on his face.

"It's hard to say now..." Zhang Guozhong took a deep breath, "If you know where this waterway is connected, you might be able to figure it out."

"Zhang Banxian, do you know what this Baizhang Pond is for?" Li Laoer continued to ask. It seemed that he had been holding this in his mouth for a long time.

"I suspect it is used to release the tomb!" Zhang Guozhong said, "Mr. Li, do you know that there are any ancient tombs nearby?"

"What does it mean to be a tomb bleed?" Li Laoer's two little mung beans stared at him, "I have never heard of ancient tombs... this... this!"

"Do you know where to go up to Niangniang Mountain?" Zhang Guozhong pointed to Niangniang Mountain not far away and continued to ask.

"You have to go around the mountain from there, there is no road here!" Li Lao Er pointed to the direction he had just arrived, "Master Zhang, why don't you do this? I'll drive you over?"

"No need, we have a car, just tell us the way..." Faced with Li Laoer's enthusiasm, Zhang Guozhong felt a little embarrassed.

"Your car?" Li Lao Er smiled, as if he was very disdainful of Santana, who was yangzhou. "Your car cannot get in! If you walk there, you have to be my car!"

...

Sitting on Li Laoer's agricultural tricycle, Zhang Guozhong regained the feeling of riding a ox cart in Bashan back then. The mountain road under his feet was indeed not something that a car like Santana could drive. After about half an hour of bumpy, the car stopped in a slightly flat open space at the foot of the mountain. "It's all we can do!" Li Laoer smiled and his face was full of pleats.

"Thank you!" Zhang Guozhong turned over and got out of the car, looked at the road up the mountain, which was much smoother than he thought.

"Why are you grateful? You are also doing business for the village! I'm here to see the car and wait for you!"

"Thank you so much!" Zhang Guozhong held Li Laoer's hand, "I really don't know how to thank you when I meet by chance!"

"Oh..." Holding Zhang Guozhong's hand, Li Laoduo's smile suddenly froze, "Zhang Banxian, I have a private matter and want to ask you to help you. I wonder if you have time?"

"Ah?" Zhang Guozhong's expression also froze. He thought to himself that it was not good, but at this moment, he had just finished the car, so it was hard to refuse. "You just say..."

"Don't get me wrong! I definitely don't mean that. Otherwise, I really can't remember this matter if I come to this Niangniang Mountain!" Li Laoer looked disgusted at this moment, "My nephew, once I went to Niangniang Mountain to play and brought those unclean things to my house. If you have time, can you...can you show it?"

"Is unclean?" Zhang Guozhong was stunned, "What unclean is unclean?"

"I have to be a year younger than this..." Li Lao Er squeezed the green bean eyes and kept sighing... "I can't say whether it has anything to do with Niangniang Mountain. The children in the village always go up the mountain to play. There is nothing wrong, only him..."

Li Lao Er has a younger brother named Li Zhen. He married his wife and his aunt's cousin. After getting married, he had no children for more than ten years. At first, he was quite anxious and sought medical treatment everywhere. He didn't talk about the money he saved at home, but he also borrowed a lot of debts. But later, a family planning propaganda team came to the city, which specifically talked to Li Zhen and his wife and several other couples who got married in the same village about the problem of marriage of intimate relatives. He said that intimate relatives and had children prone to problems. He also gave a lot of examples, which made Li Zhen a little scared. It would be better to give birth to a fool. If he was a person with few legs, he would not even be able to do work.

Just when Li Zhen and his wife decided to give up their childbirth plan and were about to spend money to buy a child, Li Zhen's wife was pregnant. When she was more than three months pregnant, the couple once went to the back door to get a red envelope to ask a doctor in the county hospital for an ultrasound. She was actually a boy. The ultrasound showed that the child was at least normal in appearance and contour, and there were no obvious physical defects. In this way, Li Zhen hesitated again. He wanted to have a fight. Thinking about how he had been looking forward to his son for so many years, he was almost crazy. Moreover, the situation of the ultrasound was quite good, at least not missing arms and legs. As the family planning propaganda team said, the words of the strange and deformed children were still vivid in their minds. Seeing that the wife's belly grew bigger little by little, Li Zhen finally made a helpless decision, which was to go to Wudang Mountain to ask for a visa, hoping that the "god" would decide the fate of the child.

To be honest, this kind of visa is actually very difficult to obtain. Whether it is Buddhism or Taoism, they are opposed to abortion. According to the religious explanation, whether the child is good or bad is a cycle of cause and effect. It is not that he can escape by abortion. So strictly speaking, no matter what the result of the visa is, the person who deciphers will recommend keeping the child. Li Zhen is no exception. Although he asked for a visa, he decided to keep the child after being persuaded by the Taoist priest of the signature. According to the Taoist priest of the signature, there should be no problem with the child's innate nature, but there may be some unexpected problems the day after tomorrow. However, the specific problems depend on the birth date and horoscope, so the child should go up the mountain to ask for another visa after birth.

Six months later, the child was born on time on the hospital's due date. If you say that the child is very successful, he was not only born smoothly, but did not suffer any guilt at all. He was also very healthy in both physiology and appearance, neither deaf nor dumb nor deformed, and even said that he was quite handsome. This made Li Zhen and his wife very happy, so they simply forgot about the Taoist priest's advice to ask for another sign.

Time flies, and in a flash, the child has reached the age when he should go to school (local rural children generally enter school late, and the age of eight is normal). However, just a few days before the school starts, something happened to the child.

Early that morning, the child went out to play with a few older children, and the family didn't care much about it. In the countryside, the children were precocious. They were already half-aged at the age of seven or eight. Besides, there were a few older people who followed them. In theory, nothing could happen. Unexpectedly, the child was still fine when he went out during the day. When he came back at night, he suddenly became dull and lost his soul. On that day, the child went out for the front foot. Li Zhen went out to buy cigarettes and went home. When he opened the door, he saw a bloody head hanging at the door. He was so scared that Li Zhen foamed on the spot.

Later, he told his family about this. Everyone in the family said that he had read it wrong. A straw hat was hung at the door of the house, and a small basket was hung under the straw hat. At first glance, it looked a bit like a human head. It might be dark, but Li Zhen insisted that what he saw was a human head. Because the illusion was just the first thing to see, he would never continue to read it wrong again. His first reaction was also wrong. He calmed down and looked carefully and found that it was a human head, so he fainted. Otherwise, he was in his fifties, how could he make a broken basket that had been hanging at the door for several years frightened and foaming?

Later, the family also asked the child what he did when he went that day, but the child just didn't say it, insisted that he had been with other children in the village, and went to Niangniang Mountain for a while, and the other children said so. Unexpectedly, on the next night, Li Zhen's wife got up at night, and when she opened her eyes, she found someone looking at him straight outside the window, and she fainted with a fright. After Li Zhen was awakened by his wife, she also saw the person standing outside the window. She looked carefully and found that the person standing outside was his son. She opened the window so angry that she stretched out her arm and slapped her arms. Unexpectedly, the child woke up like a dream after being slapped, saying that she had no idea why she was standing here.

Since then, this has not been normal. He always talks about it all the time. This made Li Zhen feel anxious all day long. A person who is more than ten years younger than Li Lao Er looks older than Li Lao Er.

After several months of hard work, many people said that Li Zhen’s family must have had something unclean in it and advised Li Zhen to find a gentleman to see it. Only then did Li Zhen remember the advice that the Taoist priest asked him to ask for another sign. He hurriedly took his son to Wudang Mountain to ask for another sign, but the result was that "he feared Ren and Gui, and he was afraid of water, so he was a good place to live at the foot of the mountain."

The Taoist priest who explained the signature was no longer the Taoist priest who told Li Zhen back then. Li Zhen himself did not remember the signature of the signature. The Taoist priest who explained the signature could only tell the signature: According to the signature, the north is "Ren Kui Water", "fearing Ren Gui and fearing water" means that the child's nemesis is in the north, and "not climbing the heights under the mountain" is easy to understand. That is to say, the child's life is best to live at the foot of the mountain and avoid going to high places to ensure health. Li Zhen was completely stunned. The child went to Niangniang Mountain at that time, and Niangniang Mountain was just north of his home. It was both north and mountain. Both unreliable things are all. How can something happen?

"Afterwards, my husband was hired at home, and everyone said it was okay and there was nothing, but they said it was abnormal for the child to watch it!" Li Lao Er frowned, and the two mung beans stared at Zhang Guozhong in a flash, "Zhang Banxian, Zhang Shenxian, I, Li Lao Er, are just treated as a live horse. No matter whether there is or not, please give me a look, will you do it?"

"Do you know your nephew's birth date and horoscope?" Listening to Li Lao Er's magical vernacular talk for a long time, Zhang Guozhong felt that the suspicion of the whole thing was not Niangniang Mountain, but the signature that Li Zhen and his son asked for from Wudang Mountain. It is not difficult to ask for a signature, but it is definitely a big question. Taoist sect has the saying of "three parts and seven parts to solve" for such a sign, which shows the importance of the signature. In Zhang Guozhong's view, more than 90% of signatures have a much greater implicit meaning than the literal meaning, and it is even possible to say that it is completely different from the literal meaning or is simply completely opposite. At present, Taoist priests in Wudang Mountain obviously have not been able to understand the deep meaning of the signature, but just translated the signature "just sign and say sign".

"Hey... I don't know this, but my brother knows that if you have time, when you get down from the mountain, we will go directly to his house! I, Li Lao Er, will be the host tonight!" Seeing that Zhang Guozhong seemed to agree, Li Lao Er was obviously much more relaxed.

On Niangniang Mountain, Zhang Guozhong did not find any valuable clues. This Niangniang Mountain is somewhat similar to the Shuangta Mountain in Shandong back then. Although the mountain is not big, it is not as small as a compass to find the target. Perhaps because of the thicker rock layer on the mountain, the compass seemed to have completely lost its response to the so-called "secret passage" that connects the "Baizhang Pond". After wandering around for no reason, Zhang Guozhong simply took Yang Zhou and Li Laoer to Li Zhen's house.

The so-called nephew of Li Lao Er is called Li Shuai. According to Zhang Guozhong's aesthetic, he is indeed quite handsome. His thorny appearance is quite as charming as Zhang Yicheng when he was young. However, the child's eyes are a little muted at this moment, and his snot flows into his mouth. He looks sloppy at first glance.

"This kid wasn't like this before..." Li Zhen seemed to see Zhang Guozhong's idea, "I used to be smart, alas! I'm all blamed for this matter. If I had thought about asking for divination, I wouldn't let him go up the mountain even if I died..."

"Young man, how old are you?" Zhang Guozhong touched Li Shuai's head and looked at the compass with his other hand. Everything was normal.

"Eight years old!" Li Shuai looked up at Zhang Guozhong, "How old are you, uncle?"

"I..." Zhang Guozhong was so amused and crying. To be honest, it was the first time he had heard someone call him "uncle" after living such a big life. He felt a little depressed.

"Go! No big or small! Are you asking your elders like this??" Li Zhen seemed to know some etiquette, "Ask the elders, how old do you have to ask!"

"Uncle, how old are you?" Li Shuai was quite obedient. He learned it immediately after his father taught him.

"I... forty-eight years old!" Zhang Guozhong almost cried. The two of them sang together in harmony, but the question is, are they that old?

"Oh? Zhang Banxian, you... are all forty-eight?" Zhang Guozhong said this, and Li Lao Er, who was sitting on the side, immediately looked surprised, "Then you are so tender! I just praised you for being young and promising to your brother and wife. You will be three years younger than me after a long time of trouble!"

After hearing what Li Lao Er said, Zhang Guozhong was really desperate. The old man shouted all the way. After a long time of trouble, this "Uncle Li" was three years older than him. People in rural areas like to be considered "Xu Sui". If you want to be a one-year-old man, this "Uncle Li" may not be three years older than him, and then he became "tempered"...

"There is no problem with this child... I'll take a look at this house..." As for this, Zhang Guozhong had to change the topic.

"Oh! OK! OK! Please look at the house!" Li Zhen and Li Lao Er followed Zhang Guozhong out of the house with a mercy...
Chapter completed!