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  "Look at him, he's pointing to the window. What's the point of telling you? Besides, it's already like this, do you want even more people to get involved?! Go take a look at him, if you think you're better than him, then go! I'll tell you now!"

  He had never been fierce to me, nor had he ever yelled at me like today. I was stunned, is this still the Cha Wenbin I know? For a moment, I couldn't respond, but he continued: "Don't think you're the only one who cares about others, and don't think no one takes you seriously. But also don't think you're the center of everything, everyone has their own independent thoughts. It's impossible for all facts to be reported to you, some things are better left unknown."

  He turned around and was about to leave, I grabbed his arm and said: "Make it clear."

  "Do you want to know?" he asked me back.

  "I want!"

  "Alright, come with me."

  Outside the gate, there is a row of vegetable gardens. These were opened up by my father later on. The soil here is all yellow mud, and it's very difficult to walk on rainy days. A path was laid down in the middle. At one end of the path is a bamboo forest. In the bamboo forest, there is an earth mound for taking soil, about three or four people high. In the past, houses were built with walls made of rammed earth using yellow mud. These earth mounds were stripped away layer by layer by people taking soil.

  "What brought you here?" I stood under that mound, Cha Wenbin asked me: "Do you know your hometown?"

  I smiled and said: "Growing up here since childhood, what about you?"

  "So tell me, what is this?" He patted the mound of earth with his hand, his expression slightly complex. I suddenly felt a sense of unease in my heart, could it be...

  He saw that I didn't respond, so he said directly: "You've lived here for twenty years, and you actually don't know that your family's garden, your family's house, and the road in front of your family's gate were all built with grave earth?"

  "...Look, use your hands to rub open these clods of earth. These are all five-petaled soil. Look at the ground under your feet, these fragments... Do you really think these things grew out of the muddy ground by themselves?"

  "I'm asking you, have you seen the walnut tree at your doorstep?" Zha Wenbin was referring to the mountain walnut, a type of nut tree that originated in the Tianmu Mountains. There were two trees at my doorstep, both as thick as a small bucket.

  I'm puzzled: "Saw it, what's with the tree?"

  "As far as I know, the two walnut trees at your doorstep have always been flowering but not bearing fruit. You might not even be aware of it, but all the walnut trees in Hong Village are like that. Let me tell you something else - if we transplant the saplings from Hong Village to the village next door, they will bear fruit the following year and be laden with them. Do you know why?"

  This thing I really know, a very strange phenomenon, our Hongcun village really has many walnut trees, big and small ones are everywhere, but it's almost impossible to produce fruit. It wasn't like this before, I remember when I was a kid, the walnut trees at our doorstep were so fruitful that they could break the branches, but in recent years, it became like this. So some people took the young walnut trees from Hongcun and transplanted them elsewhere, as soon as they left Hongcun, they bore fruit immediately. At first, everyone thought it was a problem with the climate or soil, but here in the mountain village, almost every village is the same, villages are separated by only one small hill or a river, there's no big difference, yet somehow our place just doesn't produce fruit.

  It's not just walnuts, but also plums, peaches, persimmons and even wild fruits on the mountain. Every year, many flowers bloom, but when it comes to bearing fruit, they all disappear. So I was very depressed as a child. Basically, our village has always been short of fruit. Other villages would bring their surplus to sell in our village every year. The same environment and the same tree species, yet different results. Cha Wenbin brought this up today, and I'd like to hear more about it.

  It's not just this, for these few years, Hongcun's feng shui has been quite bad, often having strange occurrences...

  "Then you think this is natural?" Cha Wenbin smiled and said: "Xiao Yi, when I first came to your house, I knew it, but your family didn't seem to be affected. On the contrary, it's quite good. Not only that, every household in Hongcun village is like this. Don't believe me? Go back and dig five meters under the foundation of your house, almost every household has a tomb underneath."

  I exclaimed in surprise: "Is this really true?" If it is indeed so, then wouldn't every household be sitting on someone else's grave?...

  Cha Wenbin continued: "If it were just one or two families, it wouldn't be unusual, and you would eventually encounter such things. Later, I found that the newly built old houses in Hongcun Village are basically rebuilt on the original site of the old house. Only then did I understand that it wasn't that you didn't know, but rather that the ancestors of this place might have been like this before. So the land energy of Hongcun has long been occupied by the yin-yang house, and this tree is also a principle, with only yang energy and no yin energy, and the yin and yang cannot be harmonized, how can it bear fruit?"

  "What did Er Dai say?" Because Cha Wenbin has been with me for the past few days, I wonder where he learned these things from. Thinking back to the bowl that Er Dai found that day, I can only infer that it was him who told Cha Wenbin these things, who else could have?

  Cha Wenbin did not deny, he continued: "Originally this was a dragon vein, the Tianmu Mountain range originated from Hongcun Village, it was originally the direction of the dragon's head, the mountain is clear and beautiful, the people are outstanding and the land is spiritual. So even if there were many wild graves here, they would not have caused any evil spirits to arise. However, in recent years, Hongcun has been vigorously developing its construction industry, some people have been digging caves and burning charcoal in the mountains, I reckon someone has dug up the dragon vein, cut off the dragon energy, so these years Hongcun has become somewhat unpeaceful."

  I believe in the sayings about Feng Shui, which has been prevalent on China's land for thousands of years. No matter what religion or belief it is, whenever it comes to architecture or planning, Feng Shui will always be involved. From the grand Forbidden City to ordinary private homes, Chinese people have always followed their ancestors' Feng Shui teachings to find auspicious locations. As the saying goes, "A thousand pieces of gold cannot buy a dragon's lair." Has Hongcun Village really been unlucky all these years because of its Feng Shui?

  "Ye Qiu told me that there have been some unusual movements in Hong Village these days, and he felt that something bad was going to happen. So I asked him to take a look. Do you think the urn of ashes found in the irrigation ditch that day was an accident? Don't you think it's strange that such a thing would appear in such a remote mountain wilderness, and there's also a golden seal ancient symbol suppressing it."

  "Do you mean there's something dirty in Hongcun?"

  Cha Wenbin nodded and said, "It's best not to go out at night recently. This kind of thing is easy to cause panic, the fewer people who know about it, the better. What's meant to come will still come. I even think that the ancestors here weren't driven away by some Long Mao disturbance. No one would leave their hometown and never come back again. These houses and fields are enough to explain that Hongcun Village was once prosperous and satisfied, but in the past hundred years, have you ever heard of any original residents of Hongcun coming back to visit relatives?"

  "No." As Cha Wenbin said, Hongcun has been occupied by outsiders since my great-grandfather's generation, and the subsequent arrivals were all immigrants from outside. No one had ever heard of any descendants returning, everyone lived in other people's houses, farming on land that others had opened up, and after a long time, they got used to it. Nobody had ever thought about what had happened here before, or who suddenly abandoned everything.

  "Ye Qiu found something, I'm still waiting for him to wake up. Although he's a strange person and his appearances are always unexpected, but I feel that there's different blood flowing in his body." Cha Wenbin paused and said: "Before he becomes an enemy, I think he can be a friend first."

  "Wen Bin, can you please not keep things from me next time?"

  He didn't say a word, he just smiled at me, and that smile was without any pretence or hypocrisy, it was so natural. Sometimes I really don't understand these Taoist practitioners, at least they are different from the Taoists in my impression, I used to think that Taoists were just carrying cymbals and swords, drawing talismans and chanting spells all over the place, I never thought a real Taoist would be so concerned about the world. I understand why he wanted to hide it from me, because he knew this matter was dangerous, and I didn't need to get involved. The more it is like this, the more it shows the importance of this matter, I secretly decided that I must follow them, because they are my brothers!

  Ye Qiu returned and slept for two days, this person is really strange, his wound healing speed is beyond human imagination. On the second afternoon, his scab had already begun to form, and by the third day, he started to peel off the scab, and those stitches were somehow torn off by himself, this man is truly an enigmatic existence.

  Apart from his pale complexion, Ye Qiu played with the dog again, as if in his eyes, only the dog was his friend. He lived in my house, ate in my house, and even my parents were ignored by him. This person gave me an indescribable feeling. At mealtime, he didn't need to be called, he would come on his own, finish eating and then tease the dog. I really admired my father's temperament, as he had a very appreciative attitude towards this kind of person, with eyes full of approval.

  Four days later, Ye Qiu disappeared again, and Cha Wenbin also disappeared with him. This time I didn't let them go, I quietly followed them, it was the night of the fourth day.

  I remember that night the moon was particularly round, shining on the ground so brightly that we didn't need flashlights. It was around 10 o'clock, I had just fallen asleep for an hour when I suddenly turned over and saw Cha Wenbin getting dressed. What was he going to do at this late hour? When he went into the courtyard, I followed him and peeked out from the windowsill, Ye Qiu was already in the courtyard teasing the dog, the two of them moved in perfect sync, one in front of the other, out of the door. I quietly picked up my slippers and followed them.

  They walked in the direction of the Grand Temple, and I kept a distance of about 300 meters. When I reached the big tree, they had already disappeared, and those two people didn't know where they went. Suddenly an idea popped up in my mind, would they go to the Yi Zhuang Grand Temple? Thinking of that place, my heart suddenly felt a chill, after considering it for a moment, I decided to take a look too...

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