Baolu Tianxing

Wu Chen also felt that there was nothing to investigate for the time being, so he sent Du Qin home first, and told Lao Luo before leaving, don't stay here for the next two days, the house is dilapidated, don't look back and be unable to withstand the wind and rain!

Lao Luo let them go carelessly, and he would check Qianbi Mountain for clues as soon as possible.

Wu Chen and Du Qin drove to the fishing village, and they didn't feel anything special. What should everyone do? There are more than a dozen typhoons a year, nothing unusual.

Here, although the port is the South China Sea, the strange thing is that they are rarely hit by typhoons head-on. There are weather forecasts every year. When the typhoon forms, it is predicted that it will land here. It is usually two or three days later, when the center of the typhoon is close to the coast. , took a detour, or went south, or went north, or simply rolled back, sweeping the entire island of Taiwan.

According to ancient legend, this is the blessed land of Mazu, so the weather is good and the weather is smooth, and all disasters will not invade!A group of inspectors once came here, worked hard for a year or two, and finally came to the conclusion that it was because of the semi-circle of the bay, three small islands lined up at the mouth of the sea, and the unique terrain, which caused the airflow to change and effectively resisted the typhoon. login.

But the locals don't believe this kind of statement. The typhoon is whirling in the sky. How can a few small islands on the ground be able to stop it? These "experts" are really annoying. Do not bring such ah!

Everyone still believes that this is the blessing of Mazu, so that the environment and the people can be protected, so the four townships and Bali, a joint venture, built a statue of Mazu on the small island in the middle, which is also the largest bat island.I heard that two giant Buddhas have been built in recent years!Each statue is as tall as a dozen floors, but Wu Chen has never seen it before.

When Wu Chen returned to the village, it looked quite different, because there were mostly old houses in the village, and everyone was busy reinforcing the roof, doors and windows with mats made of straw, mixing yellow mud to the corners, and reinforcing the walls. The cows tied under the trees, the pigs and geese grazing everywhere were also driven back to the pens, leaving the village full of local dogs, flaunting their might and running through the streets and alleys, showing off their exclusive freedom.

As soon as she got home, Mama Wu called Wu Chen to accompany her to strengthen the old house, and by the way, bowed down to "Master".

The so-called masters are not ancestors, but the abbreviations of all kinds of gods. There are too many gods worshiped by country people, and most of them can’t call out their titles. Anyway, they are all gods and gods, so they are collectively called masters. The masters who worship are not the same.

Wu Chen has been confused by these various masters since he was a child, so he just followed suit anyway.

Due to historical migration, in the Chaoshan area, many ethnic groups live together, and in the coastal plains along the river, the economy is relatively developed. Many prominent families live in these places, and the old county towns also have a lot of ethnic groups living together.

Therefore, both urban and rural residents have a strong sense of clan, which is reflected in the settlement architecture, which is the walled pattern centered on the surname ancestral hall.According to the records of Qingfu County: "When a distinguished family builds a house, they must build a family temple, which is even more magnificent."

Because many ethnic groups live in the Chaoshan countryside, and the entire village is built according to its clan concept, Fengshui concept, production and life, defense functions and some aesthetic concepts, so the large pattern of the Chaoshan residence is a unique ideal Fengshui residence. environment, built houses such as "Xiashanhu", "Sanbilian", "Four Dianjin", "Wujianguo", "Four Horses Trailer", and "Hundred Birds towards the Phoenix", which are both beautiful and sturdy. It can be seen in Chaozhou and Shantou.

However, Wu Chen's hometown is located on the border with Funan, and the building also continues the Funan style. The whole village is divided into three round villages, the upper, middle and lower. The outer walls of this kind of village are all made of loess more than one meter thick mixed with rice soup. Cheng, after it is completed, it is invulnerable to swords and guns, water and fire, and its purpose is more important than defense, so there is often a word "village" embedded in the name.

In their village, each Yuanzhai has 64 rooms. The ground floor is a dining room, kitchen, and living room. The second floor is a warehouse. The third floor is divided into two halves. For east and west use, the balconies are uniformly facing inward, and the periphery is sealed, leaving only one lookout hole to the outside.

Every small family or individual room in the village is independent, and the rooms are connected by a circle of public corridors.These designs usually also focus on defensive functions.

Xiazhai, where Wu Chen's family is located, has been down for many generations, and the loess outside has been riddled with bullet holes.

When Wu Chen was a child, he often sat on the [-]-centimeter-high stone threshold at the gate of the village, listening to the old people in the village tell the history of the village, pointing to the bullet holes and saying that these were left by a certain weapon fight, those It was left by a bandit again.

In the middle of the Tuzhai, there is a large public square. On the east and west sides of the square, there is a well on each side. Longan trees are planted beside the well, and there are several farm tools such as stone mills, which are not used anymore. Into a stone table.In the past, every summer night, the elderly and children of various families would sit around here to enjoy the cool and play after dinner.

However, there are no people living in the village now, not only the courtyard walls are ruined, dead branches and yellow grass are scattered all over the ground, but also weeds grow in some corners, everything looks so deserted.

Ever since I moved to live in the town and "invited" the ancestral memorial tablets there to worship, I haven't been back for many years. Wu Chen only feels that the old village is much dilapidated than he remembered, and the space is also small. many.

Helped my mother to place all kinds of incense candles in the long and narrow hall on the first floor. This old Eight Immortals table was full of traces of time. There is half a dilapidated painting hanging there, which is a classical beauty picture printed in the early 90s. Unfortunately, only half of the figure is left, hanging crookedly over there.

Wu Chen was more interested in that table. While his mother was busy, he took a closer look. Seeing that the table was just ordinary wood, with one leg already broken, it was nothing to look at, so he went up to the second floor.

In his memory, this place used to be full of all kinds of old things, because his grandfather was a poor man with a strong root, and he was the most honest person. For a while, all the things handed over by the village were piled up in their house. , and later returned all the valuable items to the organization, leaving only some broken books and paintings, for which she was blamed by her grandma all her life, thanks to her secretly hiding two Yuan Datou back then, otherwise nothing would have been left behind .

"Xiao Chen——what are you doing? It's all dust!" Mom's voice sounded from below. It turned out that when Wu Chen was going through the pile of broken books on the second floor, the floor was old and the dust had fallen off. go down.

"Hehe, it's nothing, let's look through the old things from the past." Wu Chen pulled out a bundle of books from the junk pile and saw that they were all revolutionary books published in the 50s and [-]s, as well as some popular science on agriculture. He had no interest in magazines, so he choked on them and threw them aside, stirring up even more dust.

Under the book is another bundle of things, but it is the letters from that year. Most of the stamps on it were cut off by Wu Chen when he was a child, leaving a hole, and further down is a yellow snakeskin bag with vaguely The word urea!

Wu Chen opened the bag to look, but there was a roll of paintings inside, the vertical scroll was a little tattered, covered with dust, and Wu Chen didn't have time to take a closer look, so he pulled it out and shook it a little, not daring to use too much force, and put it aside .