Chapter three hundred and fiftieth eight inquiries
Luo Ding wore a straw hat and an old dress, looking like an ordinary local farmer, even his barefoot exposed calves and arms, and they were bronzed. This was a real natural color that the sun had only been exposed for a long time, so he looked quite a local at this time.
Now he was frowning at the paddy field in front of him. To the extent of his tightly frowning brow, this should not be a good thing.
This is Luo Ding's second time here. Of course, his purpose is not to travel, but to the pit that appears here. This small village called Tiandong Village is reportedly the place where the first pit appears, so Luo Ding put his first stop to visit here.
Yesterday was Luo Ding's first time here. He mainly inspected the situation around the village. He found that the terrain of the village was actually mainly hills surrounded by hills. However, from the overall layout of the village, there was a hill that blocked the entire village in front of the village, and behind the village was the fields in the village, that is, the houses in the village opened the door towards the mountains and carried water.
In Feng Shui, this is a big taboo, because as the paddy fields of Zhuque, it must be located before the village. Now it is located behind the village. Not only can it not bring wealth, but it will bring evil spirits. So there is a problem in the layout of this village, which makes Feng Shui masters like Luo Ding frown, because this is the most basic principle in Feng Shui. He doesn't know why this village did not handle this problem well when it was built. Of course, he also discovered that before the current village, there was a road in the mountains. The people at the time might have planned to let the opening of the house in the village directly face the road for convenience, but this problem can actually be solved. For example, the opening is still facing places like paddy fields, and only when building the road leading to the village, it is enough to handle it with a certain bending.
Moreover, this can form a "encirclement" Feng Shui pattern, which can kill multiple good things in one go. But now it is too late to talk about this matter. After all, the people in this village have been living here for many years and it is impossible to change it. But seeing this situation, Luo Ding was indeed quite helpless.
The sun slowly rose, and there were more people working in the fields. Looking at the green seedlings in the fields, Luo Ding became enlightened. He clearly felt that the evil spirit here was quite heavy, and he believed that although there was nothing wrong with this field, he knew that many accidents must have happened in this field, such as someone was injured when working, or when children came here, they were more likely to drown in places like small ponds, etc. It can even be said that people would die here every few years.
Shaking his head, Luo Ding found that he really couldn't solve this problem. This was not that he could not eliminate the evil spirit here, but that he could not make the people in this village believe in him. He was a great Feng Shui master in Shenning City, but here he was a person without any fame. Maybe he was not as important as Lao Wang in the next village, so he gave up on such an idea.
"I'd better find a way to figure out the purpose of coming here first."
While thinking, Luo Ding turned his attention to the center of the field. That place was where the pit appeared - in the center of the entire field, a large pit with a diameter of about ten meters appeared, and this was Luo Ding's only purpose here.
After a while, it was almost time, and those who worked in the fields began to walk to the big tree next to the field in groups of three or three to rest and drink water.
There is no end to the work of the fields in the village, but generally speaking, we will work early and late. At noon, because the sun is too hot, it is time to rest. Therefore, the so-called getting up early and getting into the darkness in the village is to a certain extent because of this reason.
After thinking for a while, Luo Ding stood up and walked towards the pit. When he approached, he found that water had begun to accumulate in the entire pit, and the water surface was five or six meters away from the ground of the field.
Seeing a man fetching water from the pit to irrigate, Luo Ding walked over and said, "Uncle, did this pit suddenly appear?"
Chen San looked at Luo Ding, then smiled and said, "Brother, you are not from the neighborhood of us, are you?"
Luo Ding was not surprised that the other party saw this. The village here is relatively small and even a certain distance from the nearest town, so there are not many people coming and going. Besides, people in a place have certain characteristics in the tone of speaking, etc. So when Luo Ding, a foreigner, spoke, he could see it by scanning it.
Nodded, Luo Ding said, "Yes, I'm from outside, come here to have fun."
"Just come just for this pit? Haha, you are not the first one to come."
"Oh? Have you been here many people before?"
Luo Ding asked a little unexpectedly.
"Yes, a lot of people came."
In fact, everyone in the village is very hospitable. Seeing Luo Ding like this, Chen San stopped working for the time being, but sat down next to the pit and started chatting with Luo Ding:
"Especially during the first period, after the pit suddenly appeared, the newspaper reported it, and people became curious, so there were many people coming and going, and they wanted to see what happened. Many of them were like you, who came from other places, traveled thousands of miles away, and there were many people in the year. I heard that they were all college students or something."
"Our village is relatively erratic, so basically not many people will come. Since this thing appeared, there have been quite a few people."
Chen San was quite happy when he talked about this. In fact, for those who grew up in the village and grew up here, no matter how wonderful the outside world is, it means nothing to them. However, this sudden big pit allowed them to have close contact with the outside world. This is also a big thing.
Luo Ding understood Chen San's mentality quite well. He smiled and said, "Yes, no matter what, this pit is the first one, so if you say such a thing, we must have the first move here, right?"
After hearing Luo Ding say this, Chen San became even more proud. He opened his mouth and said, "That's right, that's the reason. Later, I heard that such pits appeared in other places, but we were the first one here, so there were still quite a lot of people coming here. They might be like you, come here to see something new, and then you naturally have to find the first place to appear when you see something new."
"Yes, uncle, I see this big pit appearing next to your field. You should be familiar with its situation, right? Tell me?"
Luo Ding said as he took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket and then lit them for Chen San. He knew that for these villages, a cigarette and a bowl of wine would be enough for them to nag with him for most of the day.
However, Luo Ding was very happy when he found that Chen San was saying these words. In other words, such a pit appeared in Chen San's eyes, not only was it not a bad thing, but it was a good thing. However, Luo Ding was quite worried in his heart. He felt that this matter was not that simple.
"Ha, no one knows this more clearly than me." Chen San took Luo Ding's picture, took a few beautiful sips, and continued:
"That's right. That night, because there was still some work not finished during the day and the moonlight was better, I stayed in the field to continue working. Speaking of which, this was also quite thrilling. At that time, I was weeding on this end of the field, and suddenly I heard a loud "wow". At the beginning, I didn't know what was going on. At that time, I was frightened by the sudden sound."
"After a while, I slowly came to my senses. Then I plucked up my courage to walk over. Now I think it's funny when I think about it. When I saw this big pit, I was so scared that I sat on the ground all of a sudden."
Chen San remembered what happened that night. Anyone suddenly found a large pit with a diameter of about ten meters appeared on the flat ground under the night, and it looked a little unfathomable. Even if you see such things during the day, it would be terrible, let alone at night. Under the night, such a pit looked like an abyss, or a tiger's mouth opened.
"Ha, uncle, this is not surprising. Anyone who sees such a thing will be shocked first."
Luo Ding said with a smile.
"Yes, but then again, after a while, we found that there was nothing wrong with such a big pit. To put it bluntly, a big pit suddenly appeared. Now, the big pit has begun to accumulate water, just like digging a big pond for us. Usually, we take water from it to farm, which is much more convenient. You must know that if we dig such a big pond, it will take a lot of effort."
Hearing this, Luo Ding laughed. This is the truth. For ordinary places without rivers or reservoirs, you have to dig ponds to store water. Otherwise, there will be no water use when there is a drought. It is normal to have such an idea from the other party's perspective. It is indeed quite difficult to dig such a big pit, so although this sudden big pit will suddenly appear a little surprised or even scared at the beginning, as time goes by, when such surprise and fear slowly disappears, such things actually make them feel convenient.
"Yes, this can be a lot of water."
Chen San nodded, because the pit was about ten meters deep when it first appeared, and now the water surface is only about five meters to the ground. In that case, it means that there is nearly five meters deep water here, which is a lot of water. And in Chen San's memory, the pit was so deep that groundwater had already come out at that time, which means that the water in the pit was "self-sufficient".
Luo Ding thought for a while and said, "Uncle, there is such a big pit here, no one has said anything?"
Luo Ding also grew up in the village, so he knew that not to mention such a big pit in the village, even if something smaller happened, there might be various statements, especially the old man must have some statements in this regard, and Luo Ding wanted to know some statements.
Many people may regard the statement of Ye Lao in Yamamura as superstitious, but for Luo Ding, that is not exactly the case. For a Feng Shui master like him, there are many things that can be heard from it.
"Yes, how could it be not?"
"Oh, what's the point?"
When Luo Ding heard that there was something really to say, he became interested in it all at once.
"The old man in the village said that such a thing must be because there was a problem with the water vein at the east end of the village and was dug up, so the current situation was like this."
Chen San's words made Luo Ding immediately hear the smell. He naturally had a way to judge whether the water veins were dug up, but the key was that he could hear from this sentence that the water veins in this village were at the east end of the village.
"It seems that I want to go and see what's going on."
Luo Ding thought to himself.
In the following time, Luo Ding talked with this man named Chen San for a long time and got a lot of useful information from him. The main thing was about the situation around the village. Many of them were "ancient" things passed down from the village. It is hard to say whether such things are true or false, but such things are quite important to Luo Ding. These are background information and are very important, and may have an impact on Luo Ding's future judgment.
After chatting with Chen San, Luo Ding turned around the village again. He didn't leave until the sun was about to set. He had decided to go for dinner now and come here to take a look at it in the evening. The main purpose was to see the water veins in this village, to see how it was going, and to see if such a pit was caused by the water veins.
If it is really because of the water vein, what causes the water vein to be dug out? How big is the impact? Is there any way to change or make up for it? All these are problems, and Luo Ding must be considered one by one.
(To be continued)
Chapter completed!