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  "Wind surname, may I ask where your ancestral home is?"

  This was the second time that Cha Wenbin asked. Feng Qiyun turned around with his back to Cha Wenbin and said, "You must want to know, right?"

  Zha Wenbin also stood up and said: "I want to make friends with Brother Feng."

  "Alright, friend, you've learned enough. Now it's time for you to leave the mountain!" said Feng Qi Yun finally, "Your ancestral home is in Hong Village!"

  This time, Cha Wenbin did not entangle again. At the end of the day, he asked: "Feng brother, I wonder if I can have the good fortune to witness the grand ceremony of praying for rain tomorrow?"

  The wind rose and the cloud did not respond, but instead took out a chess piece from his bosom and handed it to Cha Wenbin: "Keep it as a memento, you and I are gentlemen who understand each other, if you don't want to give it away."

  When going down the mountain, Baozi asked Cha Wenbin why Feng Qi Yun wanted to give him this chess piece.

  Zha Wenbin flipped over the chess piece and said, "As they say, 'A good chess player encounters a worthy opponent, a talented general meets a wise strategist.' He's quite impressed with me. The gift he gave me was a black chess piece, which means he's already made his first move. Life is like a game of chess, from the very beginning, the first piece you place on the board represents your first step in life.

  "This game starts from this move, if you make a wrong move, then the next steps will follow the mistake. The layout of the first piece is very important, it may dominate the whole situation, but also can lead to being trapped in the opponent's layout and ultimately lose completely, quite an interesting person."

  "I don't understand why you guys are so troublesome, just say what you want to say and let it out. Fatty waved his hand and liked to complain. 'Are we still coming tomorrow?'"

  "Come, of course come, how can such a big show be missed? He wants to play chess, then we'll accompany him together. The surname is Feng, and the ancestral home is Hongcun Village. It seems that it's really like this. If I didn't guess wrong, they are the real owners of these houses in Hongcun Village. Originally, everyone in this village was surnamed Feng, but why did they all leave? People left, but their roots are still here, and they will still come here to worship their ancestors."

  Cha Wenbin dared to think of this, but he didn't say what came next because he knew the significance of the surname Feng.

  About three to five thousand years ago, in the vast land of China, there were three tribes that became their own outstanding leaders: Suirenshi, Fuxishi, and Shennongshi. Chinese recorded history began from this era, later generations also called it the "Three Emperors and Five Sovereigns" era, and Suirenshi was also known as the "First of the Three Emperors" because he invented drilling wood for fire and knotting ropes to record events.

  This is a tribe that can continue to move forward in the distant past, about 40,000 years ago, when the great mountain was first made, the ancient people of Kunlun Mountain observed the celestial phenomena to understand the heavenly way, and began to name mountains, rivers and all things.

  Suirenshi stood on Mount Kunlun, erected a wooden pillar to observe the celestial phenomena and worship heaven, and discovered the "Tao of Heaven".

  Inspired by the Heavenly Way, Suirenshi began to name mountains, rivers and all things, thus having "Earthly Way".

  The virtue of heaven and earth gives birth to all things, while man is the most noble of all things.

  It was from then on that the Suiren clan began to use the surname "Feng" for humans, imposing bloodline restrictions on human marriage and mating, making a strict distinction between humans and animals. This is the early human ethics, also known as "humanity".

  The heaven is born from the Way of Heaven, and the earth is born from the Way of Earth. The human is born from the Way of Heaven and Earth, which is the view of "one gives birth to two, two gives birth to three, and three gives birth to all things". Heaven, Earth, and Human start from namelessness and become established with names. With names, heaven and earth are enlightened, and humans become civilized.

  China's archaeological records date back to around 30,000 years ago, when people first marked the position of the North Star; about 15,000 years ago, the Suiren invented the large wooden solar calendar, which is the world's first solar calendar, about 12,000 years earlier than the Maya civilization; about 14,800 years ago, the Suiren invented the "River Map" and "Luo Book", and began to have China's earliest embryonic form of astronomical records and symbolic writing; about 12,000 years ago, the Suiren invented "陶文" (Tao Wen), creating the "Ten Heavenly Stems"; about 11,000 years ago, the Suiren established the eight-trigrams calendar, which was later considered by Taoism as an ancient classic, totaling eight volumes, with the first three volumes called "Three Jing", the next three volumes called "Three Bian", and the last two volumes called "Two Hua".

  Chinese historians are convinced that about 10,000 years ago, Suiren discovered the Heavenly Canopy, Heavenly Order, Taiji Seal and Taiji Vortex Cosmogenesis Pattern, and the Taiji Diagram first appeared.

  Later around 7800 BC, Suiren summarized the great discovery of the heavenly way and established ancient Chinese civilization.

  "Now do you know what the surname Feng represents? It's not an exaggeration to say that it's one of China's earliest surnames. Without Fuxi, there wouldn't be the Eight Trigrams, and without Fuxi's grand summary of the Heavenly Way, there wouldn't be the later "Tao Te Ching". They were among the first people to study the Heavenly Way and are revered as the leaders of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors. The status of Feng Yun in their midst must have been extremely high, just look at how respectfully they treated him. The incantations they chanted weren't modern words or pronunciations, I guarantee that those people will have some connection to all the strange things we've encountered before."

  "So shall we go and take a peek tomorrow?"

  "No!" Cha Wenbin said: "We must make him trust us, at least this chess piece is a good start today!"

  The next day, the weather improved. After breakfast, several people went together again. At more than six o'clock, three people were panting, and Fatso didn't forget to bring cigarettes and wine for Old Cao. It turned out that he was only told yesterday that someone had given him a pill. Zha Wenbin took the peanut-sized pill and smelled it, and it seemed that the old man hadn't lied, he just wanted to teach Fatso a lesson for his rudeness.

  Zha Wenbin saw Old Lu smiling and carrying a rooster down from the mountain.

  "Uncle Lu, what's going on..."

  "Which year was this chicken not mine?" Old Lu said with great pleasure: "This year it's very fat, come on, let's go to my house for a drink tonight!" He patted the rooster that had been slaughtered and was covered in blood, and Zha Wenbin took a look, oh no, hadn't they already finished?

  "Are those people who prayed for rain still there?"

  "They left, you're too late, they just took a step." "What about you?" "Me? I came yesterday afternoon, oh and I saw you guys, they went to pray for rain before dawn and squatted all night, it wasn't in vain after all." Old Lu said with a smile, carrying that big rooster down the mountain.

  "By the way, Uncle Lu, where did they go?"

  Old Lu pointed upwards and said: "The mountain!"

  Looking ahead at the endless mountains, Cha Wenbin clenched his fists and slammed them against his thighs: "Ah, I'm one step late! Hurry up and chase after them, they can't go far with so many people!"

  Yesterday's rain-seeking Wulon Pond still had a bloody stain, after the waterfall washed away, those bloodstains dispersed and gathered like clouds. Cha Wenbin dabbed a bit under his nose and sniffed gently: "It's human blood!"

  Pangzi and Ye Qiu searched around for a while, but they didn't find anything except those bloodstains. It seemed like no one had been here at all.

  Behind Hongcun Village lies the towering Tianmu Mountain range, which is the highest mountainous area in western Zhejiang Province. The Huangpu River originates from here and stretches for thousands of miles with no human habitation. Nobody knows where the other end of this mountain leads to. Going north on that slope will take you to Lion's Peak, a place that Cha Wenbin once visited. Since ancient times, people from Hongcun rarely ventured further after reaching the reservoir. It is said that our ancestors also explored this area in the past, but these deep mountains and valleys are home to venomous snakes and ferocious beasts, with steep cliffs that only monkeys can climb. The elderly say that there is a miasma there, and people who went to collect herbs or hunt in the past would fall ill with boils and skin ulcers after returning downhill. Later on, when the fields at the foot of the mountain were sufficient for food, nobody ventured into the mountains again.

  The villagers called the reservoir "Diu Hún Gōu", which means that once you enter, it's easy to not come out, there is no road and no way to find one. Cha Wenbin and his two companions chased after them, but they couldn't even find the footprints left by that group of people, it was as if they had evaporated into thin air. Standing at the bottom of the towering cliff, Cha Wenbin judged that the only possible place was the Lion Peak to the north, but on that hundred-meter-high cliff which seemed to have been cut by a knife, there wasn't even a foothold, were those people monkeys reincarnated or what?

  "From here on, no matter which direction they go, they will enter Anhui Province." Zha Wenbin sat on the ground with his head down, and just as he had a little clue, it was interrupted again. Wasn't it going to have to wait until next time to ask for rain? After thinking about it, he took out the chess piece from his pocket and played with it in his hand. At this time, the sun had already come out, and Zha Wenbin suddenly found that one side of the chess piece flashed a white light. At first, he thought it was just the reflection of the sun, but when he looked again, he found that there seemed to be something inside the chess piece.

  He hastily beckoned to Fatty and said: "Get me a stone."

  Zha Wenbin placed the chess piece on the stone slab, and Pangzi asked him: "Are you sure you want to smash it open? If you smash it, there will be no more ideas."

  "Bang!"

  With a "crack", the fatty smashed down a stone, and the chess piece instantly turned into powder. Carefully peeling away the fragments, the fatty happily exclaimed: "I've got it! I've really got something inside!"

  It was a piece of tin foil, only the size of a small thumb, which Zhang Wenbin carefully unfolded, and saw that there was a line of words written on it: "July 25th, meet at Wangji Teahouse in Huoshan County."

  "July 25th? What's today's date?"

  Zha Wenbin grasped the note and said: "Today is the 22nd, there are still three days! Let's go, we'll head to Huoshan County immediately!"

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