Chapter 383 The folk customs in the northwest are fierce! Driving drought bone piles to pray for rain!
Xizhou Prefecture is not all desert Gobi. It also has green mountains, green waters, forests and grasslands, but these are all areas bordering Wuzhou Prefecture, which has abundant rainfall.
The climate of Xizhou Prefecture is divided into the southern part with green mountains and green waters, and the eastern part which is becoming more and more desolate with increasingly sparse vegetation. People living in the east and east face wind and sand disasters and severe lack of water sources all year round, so the southern part of Xizhou Prefecture
This concentrated most of the population.
However, the southern part with green mountains and green waters only accounts for a very small part of the territory of Xizhou Prefecture. Most of Xizhou Prefecture is still dominated by the Gobi Desert.
The reason for such extreme geographical differences is mainly due to the continuous dry wind and sand blowing in from the deserts of the Western Regions, destroying forests and mountains every year, and spreading and encroaching on the mountains and forests every year. If it were not for the Qinling Mountains, which anchor the universe and block it.
The desert winds and sandstorms going south would not have the rich Kangding Kingdom.
The terrain characteristics of the entire Wuzhou Prefecture are like a long and narrow sharp knife piercing the Western Region. It can suppress the countries of the Western Region on the left and interrupt the expansion of the northern grassland tribes into the Western Region on the right. Strategically speaking, it completely blocks the Western Region and the Northern Region.
The comings and goings of the grassland tribes.
Wuzhou Prefecture is surrounded by steep mountains, and it is impossible to reach Xizhou Prefecture directly because there are thousands of mountains in the middle. If you take the mountain road out of Wuzhou Prefecture, it will be too time-consuming. You may not be able to get out smoothly in half a year, so Jin'an
Choosing the water route to reach other prefectures and then entering Xizhou Prefecture, although it seemed like a long detour, it saved more time than traveling deep into the mountains and old forests. In this way, he also traveled around for a month before officially entering Xizhou Prefecture.
The place where Jin'an and the goats entered Xizhou Prefecture was not in the southern part with abundant water and grass, but in the eastern part where water is scarce. It is affected by desert wind and sand, and there is little rainfall all year round. Once there is drought weather, the people of the northwest will be in trouble.
All the men, women, and children from the village went out to dig out the graves and bone piles.
This is the death of drought and the death of waterlogging. Wuzhou Prefecture is flooded every summer during the rainy season. The adjacent Xizhou Prefecture is desolate and lacks water. The Qinling Mountains only block the wind and sand from the south.
Jin An also did not expect that on the second day after arriving in Xizhou Mansion, he would see the fierce folk customs in the northwest. Even a boy under ten years old was so aggressive that he wanted to dig up graves and beat zombies.
He has a clear understanding of the tough folk customs of the Northwest.
At this time, Sun Tugen, who had already understood the situation, brought over several old people from the village who were wearing sweat towels and each had a dry cigarette.
"Li Zheng, village elder, this is Taoist Jin'an who I mentioned is different from other Central Plains people. Taoist Jin'an wants to buy some water in our village." Sun Tugen introduced Jin An to those few people very enthusiastically.
A village elder wearing a sweat turban on his head.
The atmosphere between the two parties was harmonious. When it came to buying water, several village elders with deeper wrinkles on their faces than Sun Tugen said in a warm and hospitable manner: "Taoist Jin'an, you and Tugen drank goat's milk wine together, and that's our Huangzishan Village."
You are a distinguished guest, so why don’t you decide whether to buy it or not? In order to avoid being laughed at by several villages, we people in Huangzishan Village don’t know how to treat guests. We can give you some water saved in the village."
Water resources are precious in the northwest. There are only one well for the twenty or so households in Huangzishan Village. The whole village relies on this well water for survival. When the villagers put down wooden buckets into the well, only half a bucket of water came up, and the well water was filled with sediment.
It is turbid, and there is a lot of yellow mud on the bottom of the barrel. This means that the well water is about to bottom out, but the hospitable Northwest people still provide precious water.
Jin'an felt that he couldn't take this water because he was worried about his conscience. No matter if he paid for it or was given it for free, he couldn't accept the water that could save a whole village.
Sun Tugen and several village elders saw the hesitation on Jin An's face and mistakenly thought that Jin An was dissatisfied with the turbid well water. Several honest faces that had been affected by the northwest wind and sand showed embarrassment: "Because of the 100-year event half a year ago."
We encountered a big sandstorm, and it has been dry for half a year without rain. The small river that used to be dry has dried up, and now the only well in the village can still draw some water."
"We are about to go out to build the drought bone pile. If not, Taoist Jin'an waits for us to come back from digging the drought bone pile. Maybe by then God will rain again and there will be clean water in the river again."
When Jin An saw that the people in Huangzishan Village had misunderstood him, he hurriedly explained: "Li Zheng, there are a few elderly people, you have misunderstood, I didn't mean that, seeing that everyone is severely short of water, but I still want to take it for free.
There is only a little water in the village, and I feel really sorry for it."
"How about this? Everyone is going to dig dry bones anyway. Why don't you let me join in the effort? If you encounter a bad dry bone, I can also help. If I don't go out,
No matter how hard I am, I’m embarrassed to ask everyone for this water again.”
Several village elders still wanted to continue delivering water, but were rejected by Jin An several times, and they no longer persisted. After thinking about it, they agreed that Jin An would join the team in digging drought bone piles.
“Lao Tugen is right, Taoist priest Jin’an is very different from those who come from the wealthy Central Plains.” Several village elders said with emotion.
Next, the villagers of Huangzishan Village continued to set out to dig dry bone piles.
But this time was different from the previous bone pile driving. This time there was a young Taoist priest and a goat as big as a calf in the team.
Other than being shocked at the goat's physique at first, these villagers did not do anything special. In their understanding, the Central Plains is rich and fertile with water and grass, and it is normal for them to be able to feed a goat as big as a calf.
The purpose of digging bone piles is to find out where there are newly buried corpses and nameless grave bags. Because no one worships the nameless grave bags, it is easy to feel resentful and come out to cause mischief.
The villagers formed a huge team and climbed up a hill. According to the village elder, this hill could still grow some sparse grass in the past. It was also one of the places where everyone often went to graze. However, there has been a drought for half a year.
Without rain, even the original sparse grass no longer grows, and now it has completely turned into a mountain of dirt.
According to the villagers, this hill is considered to have the best feng shui in the area. If someone secretly buries people, they will definitely bury them in this hill. There must be new graves in this hill.
“Taoist Master Jin’an, if you encounter a drought in the Central Plains, will you dig drought bone piles?” A village elder whose teeth were yellowed by drought smoke asked Jin An, who was accompanying the team.
Jin An looked at the vast numbers of men, women, and children from the Northwest who went into the mountains to look for zombies, and said with emotion: "It rains a lot in the south, and the humidity leads to corpse aura, which is perfect for some corpse evil spirits to hide in dark and moist caves or in the yin aura."
Practicing in cold places, but rainy places also have frequent thunderstorms. These corpses have strong yin energy and are easy to attract lightning strikes. They are often killed by lightning before they cause too much harm. Therefore, there are few places.
Driving drought bone piles.”
"Even if they are not killed by lightning, there is abundant rain in the south and the population is concentrated, so there are many Taoist monks and yin-yang monks among the people. Often, the dead person has been done by Taoist priests and monks to relieve their grievances before they become evil, so there is no chance at all.
Fraudulent corpses hurt people.”
"Of course, when there is severe drought in some places, you will occasionally see drought bone piles, but the number is sparse and not common. After all, there is no shortage of Taoist monks among the people. Due to the lack of water in the northwest, the land is vast and the people are sparse. Taoist priests among the people
Monks are rare, and because of the long-term resistance to foreigners, the folk customs in the northwest are very strong, regardless of men, women, or children, and they are not afraid of anything and dare to fight with ghosts and gods, so driving bone piles is the most common in the northwest."
The land in Xizhou Prefecture is barren, and the land is vast and sparsely populated. A village is often blocked from information and unable to communicate with the outside world. The villagers of Huangzishan Village have never seen the colorful world of the outside world. They listened to Jin An's introduction to the local customs and customs of Kangding Country.
, fascinated.
The villagers around Jin'an gradually became more and more, and everyone seemed to have forgotten that they had to fight for the rain.
"Taoist Master Jin'an, you are so knowledgeable. It's called Bo. What does Bo mean? Is that the word you Central Plains people use to describe a person who has read a lot?" Sun Tugen, an old herdsman, wrinkled his face and couldn't remember anything.
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“Erudimentary?”
“Yes, even if you are knowledgeable, Taoist Master Jin’an, you, a cultural man, know more.” Sun Tugen, an old herdsman, praised.
Speaking of this, Jin An began to miss the old Taoist priest again: "These are all taught to me by an old Taoist priest who traveled all over the world. He is truly knowledgeable, knowledgeable and knowledgeable about astronomy and the present."
geography."
The village elders heard that Jin An's tone was a little downcast. They did not inquire further, but dispersed the surrounding villagers and hurriedly looked for where there were freshly buried graves or unnamed graves.
The search for bone piles along the way was not smooth. Several ownerless graves were dug up, and only a pile of dead bones were dug up. Several new graves were dug up within half a year, but there were almost no dead people underground.
It was rotted into a piece of loess. Obviously, the dry bone pile could not be so shabby.
The villagers exposed the newly dug grave to the sun for a long time before closing it again. Finally, they expanded the scope and continued to search for dry bone piles. Then they found a dead man alone beside a ditch. The man had been dead for some time.
The body has been dried and dehydrated into a black mummy.
If this is a dry bone pile, exposed in the wilderness for so long, and exposed to the sun for so long, it is estimated that all the grievances and negative energy have been lost.
But the villagers still planned to use the mummy as a bone pile.
Driving bone piles actually means smashing the limbs, head and body of the mummy, and then leaving it in the sun to dry for several days.
Jin'an saw that the dead man was alone and his body was exposed in the wilderness. It was pitiful enough, but he had to suffer such an unreasonable disaster in the end. He couldn't bear to see him die miserably and with no body left. He quickly stopped the villagers and said with absolute certainty that the man on the ground was not
A dry bone pile is a poor deceased person who has no one to set up a tombstone after his death. If everyone is willing to believe him, he will personally find a dry bone pile for everyone.
Jin'an practices the art of hope.
No resentment, death, or evil spirit can escape his Qi-Watching Technique, especially as his cultivation improves, his Qi-Watching Technique also improves.
However, under his qi-gazing technique, the sky was clear and cloudless.
This shows that the surrounding area is calm and there is no dry bone causing trouble. Think about it, if there is any dry bone causing trouble, it is impossible for the auspicious clouds in the clear blue sky to appear in the morning, but the evil wind, ghosts and clouds covering the sun.
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He also felt a little regretful that he did not see the legendary dry bone pile.
But this world does not necessarily have to have water by driving bone piles and praying for rain.
He already had other ideas.
I wonder if Erlang Zhenjun’s imperial water talisman will be acclimated to the climate in the Northwest?