Yin Meng was sitting on the railing on the second floor, holding a bag of plums in her hand, and she was on vigil.
From time to time, she would look down at the young man sitting by the bonfire in the yard below, and he was thinking.
Every time Li Chaiyuan reached out to pick up a piece of firewood and threw it into the bonfire, Yin Meng would also take out a piece of plum and throw it into his mouth.
With the sound of "crackling" as the firewood was burned in the fire, she would also smash her mouth with words.
The rest of the people were sleeping.
The fire shone on the young man's face, alternating between light and dark.
Xue Liangliang wrapped himself in a blanket, walked over, and sat down next to Li Chaiyuan.
"Brother Liangliang, you should go to bed."
"I can't play much role even if I get a full sleep, so I might as well sit with you for a while."
Li Chaiyuan nodded.
"Xiaoyuan, are you worried about the current situation?"
"Not to that extent."
Li Zhuyuan stood up, picked up the kettle on the bonfire, and filled the two large bowls in front of him, which contained brown sugar ginger tea.
Then, two people, one big and one small, each picked up the bowl, blew on it, and then drank it in small sips.
In the mountains in winter, drinking this can make people feel very comfortable.
Xue Liangliang looked at Yin Meng upstairs, and then looked back at Runsheng, Tan Wenbin and Lin Shuyou who were sleeping side by side in the room.
"You can't see anything on weekdays, but once you come out, you feel completely different."
"The more you experience things, the more mature you will become." Li Chaiyuan looked at the cigarette Xue Liangliang took out, "Brother Liangliang, aren't you too?"
"Yes, that's right, but it's far inferior to you." Xue Liangliang bit the cigarette, lowered his head, lit it, and spat out the smoke ring, his eyes also showed a myth, "When encountering such a thing, I find that I really can't help."
"If you can bring us here, you have already helped a lot."
"Isn't this the opposite?"
"No, it's the truth."
In the past, Li Chaiyuan would choose exam questions from Ah Li's dream, but he played too much last time and scared those things that couldn't be on the table so much that he didn't even dare to go on the table.
This time the test questions were drawn by Xue Liangliang "helping" himself.
It is a different form, but Li Chaiyuan believes that he will always take advantage of it, although it is not clear where this cheapness will appear.
The reason why Li Zhuiyuan didn't sleep so late was that he was trying to clear the fog on the chessboard as much as possible.
Then, he gradually realized that the significance of doing so was not great.
Because it is very likely that the entire chessboard belongs to the old woman, and this is her home court.
She was different from any evil spirit she had faced before.
First of all, she is free.
Secondly, she has a brain.
Finally, her condition is relatively stable.
Not sealed, not severely damaged, not just about to recover, she has been active in this area for many years.
Strictly speaking, she is the first, truly independent individual of all the opponents she has ever encountered.
Her vision shrouded the Miao village, the construction site, and the current village...... and the surrounding area.
Xue Liangliang finished smoking the cigarette in his hand, threw it into the bonfire, then took out a drawing from his arms and spread it on the ground.
"Xiaoyuan, I don't understand feng shui, and I can't understand the small flags you asked people to plant, so I can only look at these drawings more."
"Huh?"
"The construction of any water conservancy facility will have an impact on the original geomorphological environment, and this impact is sometimes relatively widespread and will not be limited to the construction area."
"Brother Liangliang, keep talking."
"You see, although this river is not wide and the water flow is not large, it is indeed a mainstream among the many small water systems in the nearby area, and when this hydropower station is completed, it will have the greatest impact......"
Xue Liangliang took out a pen and drew a circle in one position.
"There is a lake here, we saw it when we took the tractor into the village, and the scenery was good. After the hydropower station is completed, the lake will lose its source of living water, and it should gradually disappear."
Li Chaiyuan's eyes stared at the lake and asked: "Brother Liangliang, how did you think of paying attention to this?"
"Because Xiaoyuan, you have a good brain, and you can definitely see what is clearly visible, so I can only try to think about some small corners that you may not consider."
Li Zhuiyuan's fingers gently rubbed the drawing, and he closed his eyes.
The memory in his brain was called up, and he returned to the picture of riding Ran Dacheng's tractor on a bumpy mountain road.
The memory screen quickly recalled, and finally, I returned to the time period when the lake appeared.
In his ear, Tan Wenbin's voice appeared at that time:
"I've heard of geographical discrimination, and for the first time I found out that there are also geographical discrimination!"
At that time, I was sitting on the tractor, and in my eyes, the lake happened to appear, the lake was not big, and it was bigger than the pool.
The memory screen kept fast-forwarding and rewinding, intercepting his perspectives from various angles, and finally piecing together the lake and its surrounding terrain in the most complete way possible.
Then, Li Chaiyuan began to try to analyze its terrain and feng shui.
The result is...... Unremarkable.
Li Zhuiyuan opened his eyes, also, if there is really any special feng shui pattern, he will definitely notice it when he passes by it.
Xue Liangliang lit the second cigarette, he didn't notice Li Chase's expression and movements, but continued to talk about his analysis:
"In fact, although the project has not yet been completed, the effect of intercepting the flow and cutting off the water has also appeared, and the water level of this lake should be much lower than the normal period in previous years."
The water level is much lower?
Li Zhuiyuan closed his eyes again and pulled back the picture in his mind.
He actively makes the picture dynamic, when it is at the level, it rises, lifts, and then raises.
Suddenly, Li Chaiyuan was stunned.
Just raising the water level and submerging some surrounding areas and hills, the entire feng shui pattern suddenly became a standard [Pu Yue Ying and Loss].
At the time of waxing and waning, the essence of the mountains and forests is collected, like a person's lungs, spitting out the old and accepting the new.
This is an auspicious position, according to the description of "Liu's Qijue", it is the place where the mountain spirits and wild ghosts like to entrench, taking advantage of the power of nature to accumulate their own bodies.
I just passed by, and I couldn't keep adding and subtracting the scenery in front of me without doing anything, so I just ignored the past.
If you pass by before the construction of the project, you will probably see at a glance that the lake is a very good location.
It is not suitable for burying people, but it is suitable for raising people, and if the elderly live here for a long time, they can prolong their life, which is the so-called holy place for the elderly.
Such a good place is only "wild" in the mountains.
If you put it in a place like Luoyang, if it is a feng shui auspicious cave of a higher grade, dig it down with a shovel, one tomb, two tombs, and three tombs...... Good acupuncture points have long been crowded into group rental houses.
Compared with the feng shui pattern of that lake, the particularity of feng shui at the hydropower station construction site is nothing, and it is even likely that the old woman deliberately made the arrangement there, pretending to be confused and divert attention.
There is a high probability that she buried an ancient corpse with a coffin under the construction site.
She was fishing in this way.
The feng shui masters hired by the construction unit were all half-hanging and made a bunch of things, but they couldn't even find fake bait.
The old man of Miao Village found it and sent his three apprentices to solve it, but it was solved by the old woman's backhand.
She is really cautious.
Li Chaiyuan was very curious, what was she afraid of.
Is it fear of the way of heaven?
But from the logic of her behavior, it doesn't look like it.
The evil spirit's fear of the way of heaven should be reflected in the "sense of existence", but her sense of presence is particularly strong, she just didn't kill on a large scale.
It seemed that there was something close in front of her that made her have to exercise restraint in this regard.
"Brother Liangliang, thank you, the point you pointed out is very useful."
"Isn't it a scene?"
"No, that lake is very critical."
"I think it's appropriate for you to say this to me after we go to the lake after dawn."
Li Chaiyuan stretched out his hand and tapped his forehead: "No, I remember it here."
Xue Liangliang's mouth opened slightly, and finally turned into a wry smile: "Your memory is really enviable."
Li Chaiyuan lowered his head and took another sip of brown sugar tea.
There are two sides to everything, and "forgetting" is sometimes actually a self-protection mechanism.
If your memory is too good, you will "remember all the unhappy things you have experienced in the past".
At this moment, Li Zhuiyuan suddenly raised his head, he heard footsteps, and he was cautious.
"Snap!"
Yin Meng on the second floor pulled out a leather whip and threw it in front of him, and an explosion was heard.
In the room on the first floor, Runsheng, Tan Wenbin and Lin Shuyou immediately ran out, all with their hands in their hands.
Li Zhuyuan stood up, looked at the earthen wall on the southwest side, and waved his palm forward.
Yin Meng took the lead, hooked the railing with a leather whip, and swung over from the second floor.
Runsheng rushed forward and bent his knees under the earthen wall, Lin Shuyou stepped on Runsheng's knees during the sprint and jumped directly over the earthen wall.
Immediately, Runsheng jumped up, grabbed the edge of the earthen wall with his left hand, and then pulled his body with his arm strength and climbed over it.
Although this earthen building is old, it probably served as a semi-military site before liberation, so the earthen walls are very high and slippery.
After Tan Wenbin rushed under the wall, he saw that Runsheng didn't wait for him to turn over, so he continued to run, backwards, and came to the side of Li Chaiyuan and Xue Liangliang.
The three of them are out, so they will stay to protect important personnel.
Xue Liangliang asked a little nervously: "Is she here?"
Li Zhuiyuan shook his head: "It's not her."
Listening to the sound and recognizing people, the footsteps are more like a thief.
Not long after, the door of the Tulou was pushed open, and Runsheng walked in with a man in dirty overalls in his hand, and the man looked frightened.
Li Chaiyuan walked up to him and asked: "What's your name, Cui Hao or Li Ren?"
"My name is ...... Cui Hao." The man looked around, "You, are you from the construction team?"
"Hmm."
"Then you...... Then you ......"
Cui Hao really couldn't understand when the technicians of the construction team could fall from the sky with a "whoosh".
He had just sneaked out of the earthen wall, and three figures fell in front of him all of a sudden, surrounding him, and then one of them lifted himself directly, just like lifting a chicken.
Li Chaiyuan: "Tell me about you, is Li Ren still alive?"
"He's alive, but he's injured."
"Tell me what happened to you."
Cui Hao said in surprise: "Since you are members of the construction team, shouldn't you go with me to save people now?"
"Li Ren can't die for a while, right?"
"I can't die."
"Then don't worry."
Li Zhuyuan sat down and pressed his hand down.
Runsheng escorted Cui Hao to sit down, Tan Wenbin came over with a dagger, and before Cui Hao had time to react, he grabbed his hand first, and then slashed his finger.
"Ah!"
After the blood was dripped, an examination was done, and Tan Wenbin nodded, indicating that he was a real person.
"What are you going to do?"
Li Zhuiyuan reminded: "Let's get down to business and tell you about the experience of you and Li Ren staying behind. Bring him something to eat and let him talk while eating."
Yin Meng handed half a bag of plum to Cui Hao.
Tan Wenbin blocked Yin Meng's hand with his arm: "Wouldn't you get hungry the more you eat this?"
Later, Tan Wenbin threw Cui Hao a pack of compressed biscuits and poured him another bowl of brown sugar tea.
Seeing that there was food, Cui Hao began to gobble it up, and after stuffing some food, he breathed a sigh of relief and began to talk about what happened to him and Li Ren during this time.
Their leader carried forward the democratic style and allowed everyone to vote anonymously to elect two candidates for the great cause of staying behind.
This is almost no different from voting for "who you don't like the most".
Cui Hao was elected with a high vote, followed by Li Ren, and the number of votes of the two overwhelmed the third from the bottom.
Everyone else has gone back for the New Year, and the two of them stayed behind, so it is impossible to say that there is no resentment in their hearts.
However, the resentment in their hearts was soon swept away because they wanted to make room for fear.
The night Cui Hao recorded that "they" came back, which was actually just the beginning.
Because next, the people in the yard downstairs all went upstairs, and the consciousness of the two of them began to blur at that time.
It was like having a dream, and in a daze, he actually joined them and had a meeting.
At the meeting, leaders and colleagues repeatedly asked questions, and then Cui Hao and Li Ren began to answer.
This meeting lasted for a long time, and when the meeting ended, it was dawn.
When Cui Hao and Li Ren woke up, they found themselves lying in the yard.
The two thought they had hit a mountain ghost and immediately ran out for help, but when they met everyone in the village, they all laughed gloomy after listening to their stories.
In the entire village, all the fucking ghosts are ghosts!
The two were so frightened that they ran out of the village and hid directly into the mountains and forests.
During the period from a year before to the year after, both of them basically lived in a Zhao Jun temple in the mountains.
But their ability to survive in the wild was so poor that they didn't have time to bring supplies when they escaped from the village, so they could only sneak into the village to steal some at night, and then hid in the Zhao Jun Temple in the mountains before dawn.
Originally, when they entered the village to steal things, the two of them did not dare to approach this tulou anymore, after all, this was the starting point of the nightmare.
However, Li Ren accidentally stepped on the trap set by the hunter in the mountains, and although he was broken open and escaped, the wound began to become inflamed because it was not treated well.
Cui Hao found some herbs, mashed them and applied them to Li Ren, the effect was obvious, Li Ren's wound swelled high and began to ulcerate.
As a last resort, when Cui Hao sneaked into the village tonight, he touched towards the tulou, because he knew that there were medicines here.
Then, he was caught.
Li Chaiyuan rubbed his eyebrows while analyzing the words in Cui Hao's mouth.
Cui Hao didn't lie, but what he said may not be true.
The village is definitely not full of ghosts, the two of them are just paying attention.
Li Zhuiyuan suspected that the appearance of that scene that night may have been because the old woman wanted to find out the true intention of the construction team and whether they would give up the construction of the hydropower station.
The smiling villagers that Cui Hao and Li Ren met in the village later should all be fake.
It's just that there is something that doesn't make sense, either pull down after asking, or silence after asking, what is the purpose of playing with others after asking, is it so boring?
Li Chaiyuan: "Zhao Jun Temple, where is it?"
Cui Hao: "It's a ruined temple on the mountain, it's been a year, when we were doing surveys, we went there, and there was a person in the team at that time, saying that this was a temple of merit, and took a few of us to worship together, and one of us took a piece of tile as a talisman."
"Is that tile on you?"
"I have always carried it."
"Show me."
Cui Hao reluctantly took out a tile from his pocket and handed it to Li Chaiyuan.
The tiles are very small, with three patterns engraved on the top and three verticals below, which means that the will of heaven is obeyed and the people's hearts are followed, and the merit is immeasurable.
It is indeed a merit wa, but it does not have the actual effect of warding off evil spirits.
The folk do have a tradition of collecting merit tiles or merit bricks, not as antique collections, but because they think that taking this home and building it into their own house can be used to ward off evil spirits.
It is said that the real Leifeng Pagoda collapsed because the nearby people dug too many bricks.
Li Zhuiyuan suspected that since the tiles were ineffective, it might be the temple behind the tiles that worked.
Zhao Junmiao...... Li Zhuiyuan had never heard of this kind of temple, but he knew about the Soap Lord Temple.
But this Zhao Jun can make the old woman fearful, even if she has a piece of his tile in her pocket, she doesn't dare to really kill the two of them.
Li Chaiyuan clapped his hands, stood up, and said to Cui Hao:
"Let's go, let's save your colleague."
……
Zhao Jun Temple was already in a semi-abandoned state, or in other words, the purpose of building it was not for the inheritance of incense, because its location was too remote and difficult to go.
The temple has collapsed all around, weeds are overgrown, only the main temple house has a broken roof, barely sheltering from the wind and rain.
In the past few days, Cui Hao and Li Ren have been hiding here in the wilderness to survive.
Li Ren's condition is not very good, the wound has been infected, he is also feverish, and his consciousness is also in a state of confusion.
Li Chaiyuan pointed at him, and Yin Meng immediately squatted down and began to help him treat his wounds.
The rest of the people began to inspect this Zhao Jun Temple.
There is a stone sculpture in the temple, but the wind and sun have been exposed for a long time, and the stone carving has become very rough, of course, you can't blame all the problems on the wind and frost, mainly because this stone carving is relatively rough from the beginning, not very careful.
After the stone carving, there is a monument of merit.
The handwriting on it is mottled, but it is still vaguely recognizable.
After he came here, he helped the mountain people control the water and repair the canals, and also expelled the monsters and evil spirits in the mountains.
Li Chaiyuan frowned slightly, the content of this merit monument was also very vague, it didn't even clearly write Zhao Jun's name, Zhao Jun should be an honorific title.
Expel evil spirits?
So, has this Zhao Jun ever dealt with an old woman?
Li Zhuyuan walked out of the dilapidated temple, looked back at the direction the stone carving was facing, turned sideways, and according to the map memory in his brain, this direction was facing the lake.
The young man suddenly realized that this was a sub-temple, or a companion temple.
The real main temple of Zhao Jun Temple is not here.
But judging from the direction of the sub-temple, it should not stand here, but should be a little higher.
Li Chaiyuan looked up and looked above the Zhao Jun Temple, where there were several large stones piled up.
"Brother Runsheng, try to pry open a stone."
"Okay!"
Runsheng inserted the Yellow River shovel into the gap and began to pry it with force.
Soon, the stones gradually loosened, and one of them was pried open.
Inside, a stone tablet was exposed, which was soaked in the years, and the blood was written on it, which was powerful and powerful.
When he saw the content on the stele, Li Chaiyuan's eyes also froze.
"The Holy Maiden of Miao Jiang, who has gone astray, willingly falls into her own heart, plundering and killing infants and children from all directions, supplementing her own belly, and vainly trying to use herself as a cauldron to give birth to Gu children.
Heaven is angry and people are angry, and people and gods are angry.
Now I am here, killing the Gu boy and suppressing the saint.
The years are long, the manpower is poor, if the suppression is lost, this Liao will reappear.
The day it kills again is the time when my descendants will uphold my will and go here again to re-suppress evil spirits!
——Jiujiang Zhao Wuxian."
Jiujiang Zhao clan.
Zhao Yi's ancestor.
Zhao Wuxian, it is Zhao Jun, Li Chaiyuan guessed that this one is most likely the Dragon King in the history of Jiujiang Zhao, and the only Dragon King.
It stands to reason that this should be a chance for Zhao Yi, and he is also walking the river.
This wave should be given to Zhao Yi.
As a result, he gave it to himself.
Li Zhuyuan couldn't help but look at Xue Liangliang, who was standing in front of him and also looking at the words on the stele.
The first thought in the boy's mind at this time was: This is a good opportunity to kill Zhao Yi.
This is an instinctive reaction.
Because Zhao Yi deserves respect and is worthy of being killed.
But soon, this thought was erased from Li Chaiyuan's mind, because it was quite boring to do so.
If on weekdays, the two sides meet, each rely on their own abilities, dig holes for each other, and bury each other in advance, it doesn't matter.
But under the handwritten inscription of the Zhao family dragon king, if you think about this kind of thing again, you will feel like you are playing with a child's temper in front of adults, which seems boring and childish.
After all, no matter what, every generation of dragon kings is worthy of respect.
Li Chaiyuan stretched out his hand, gently pushed Xue Liangliang away, walked to the stone tablet alone, stood calmly, and said:
"It's a pity that your Jiujiang Zhao has only produced your generation of dragon kings so far."
He has two dragon king inheritances, even if he is facing other dragon kings, at least the first sentence must not show cowardice, that is, he cannot be too polite.
Each family has its own pride, and each leads a generation of coquettishness.
Afterwards, Li Zhuiyuan leaned over and bowed to the stone tablet, and then performed the door salute of the Qin and Liu families.
This worship is not the Jiujiang Zhao clan, but the senior who once suppressed the evil spirits of the rivers and lakes.
After the ceremony, Li Zhuiyuan straightened up and spoke:
"Your Zhao family's Dragon King's work, my Dragon King Qin and Dragon King Liu, take over!"
"Click!"
As soon as the words fell, the stone tablet cracked and split into two halves, with a rusty copper coin sword inserted in the middle.
Li Chaiyuan blinked.
He didn't expect the Zhao family dragon king to be so grand.
The inscription reads, "Future generations will suppress it; But even if it is a descendant of another family, as long as he is willing to come here to suppress this Liao, he will give him utensils to help him.
This is probably the mind of the Dragon King.
Li Chaiyuan stretched out his hand, grabbed the copper coin sword, and the moment he touched his tentacles, a cool feeling went straight down his palm, making his brain clear for a while.
Good thing.
Li Chaiyuan pulled out the copper coin sword, and while observing the precious copper rust on it, he sighed in his heart:
"I'm sorry, Zhao Yi."
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This is to make up for yesterday's word count, and there is still one tonight.
(End of this chapter)