During the Tianshun period of the Ming Dynasty, there was a very legendary figure in Jinzhou, this person named Chen Zhongyan was a very clever feng shui gentleman, once he selected a good tomb called three ingots for the father of a local gentry who was about to die, and the gentry since his father was buried, their son began to prosper from a small six products **, and in just a few years he was promoted to the head of the household.
In order to thank Chen Zhongyan, the son of the gentry helped Chen Zhongyan get a position as the county magistrate of Qinghe County to repay the kindness of the year. Chen Zhongyan really had no way to shirk the hospitality of the household servant's family, so he reluctantly became an official, but even if he was so used to being idle and wild, he still couldn't Xi get used to this kind of clothes to stretch out his hand, open his mouth for food, food, clothing, housing and transportation, and just sit in the yamen every day and wait for the lawsuit to come to the door.
Therefore, since Chen Zhongyan took office, he often personally took a few officials, and then went to several villages under his jurisdiction to inspect, and when he met someone who reported to the official, he judged the case impartially on the spot to help the villagers resolve disputes. Sometimes if someone encounters a happy event, he will also surrender his identity to help do some of his old business, perhaps because he has never had any official frame and is honest and honest, so he is very popular with the local people, at first people just privately jokingly called him 'Feng Shui County Order', Chen Zhongyan heard that instead of getting angry, he felt that this title was very appropriate, so slowly the nickname "Feng Shui County Order" spread in the countryside.
Once Chen Zhongyan was chatting with his subordinates when he had nothing to do, the man asked him curiously: "My lord, you show feng shui to other people's homes all day long, why don't you choose a treasure cave for yourself, bury the bones of your parents, and you will be promoted and rich in the future, and the province will stoop to such a small place." Besides, even if you don't get promoted, you can enjoy the blessings of peace and stability when you get old in the future, right?Unexpectedly, Chen Zhongyan just smiled after hearing this, and said nonchalantly: "Even if the palace is beautifully built, it is built by bricks, everyone wants to sit in a sedan chair, but someone has to carry it, right?"No matter what you do in this life, you can't be too greedy, because everything has a cycle of cause and effect. After hearing this, the subordinate nodded again and again, and couldn't help but admire this old man a few points in his heart.
In fact, Chen Zhongyan said so, but he often muttered in his heart: "I don't know if it's because he revealed too many heavenly opportunities, which caused God to cut off his fertility and make him die Lone Star, and his wife also died of illness many years ago, so he is still alone." Fortunately, I am still young, and my health is not bad, and I can eat and do, but if I reach the age of seventy or eighty, who will take care of me when I am weak and sick at that time?Isn't this destined to suffer in old age?So he thought about it and finally made a decision. Since then, every time he goes to the countryside to check on the people's situation, he will pay more attention to the feng shui veins along the way.
On this day, Chen Zhongyan was going to Luohe Village, which was twenty miles away from the city, but found a large piece of wasteland in the west of Luohe Village on the way. Chen Zhongyan looked thoughtfully at the rotten stone depression and saw that the fog inside was misty, and there was a faint purple gas rolling in the mist, Chen Zhongyan's heart trembled violently, and his fists couldn't help clenching together, he knew very well that it was a rare feng shui treasure in a hundred years.
He observed the surroundings and found that there was a small land temple next to the wasteland, he hurriedly asked the accompanying officials to stop, walked out of the sedan chair, came to the land temple and bent down to take a look at the land lord sitting inside, and then asked the head of the team to light three sticks of incense outside the temple gate. Chen Zhongyan stared at the wisps of green smoke on the incense candle without squinting, no one knew what he was looking at, about half a pillar of incense time later, I saw Chen Zhongyan's brows suddenly wrinkled, and then he commanded the team leader behind him: "Come on, tie up the land lord in the temple to the official, and then bring it back to the yamen for trial." ”
The squad leader and several officials didn't react for a while when they heard this, and several people looked at each other a little at a loss, Chen Zhongyan saw that no one moved, and shouted: "Isn't what this official said clear enough?"Don't hurry up yet!"Although everyone doesn't know what kind of medicine is sold in the gourd of the county commander, since the lord has spoken, then they can only do it.
After the group returned to the county office, everyone did not see the county magistrate ascend to the court to interrogate the land lord, but it was only overnight, and the team leader moved the land lord back untouched early the next morning. This operation made everyone who was already puzzled even more confused. That is, in the afternoon of this day, Chen Zhongyan excitedly gave a task to everyone in the yamen, he instructed: "From today on, everyone should pay more attention to a person named Xu Wansheng, it is best to let relatives and friends at home also help ask, everyone rest assured, the official will not let everyone work in vain, no matter who finds this person, the official will give him a month's salary, no jokes!."”
First, it is the task assigned by the county magistrate, and secondly, there is a heavy reward, and the people in the yamen naturally dare not slack off. However, after searching for more than a year, there has been no news of Xu Wansheng, as if this person does not exist at all!Since no clues were ever found, people slowly lost their enthusiasm, and some people even felt that there was no such person as Xu Wansheng at all. When everyone no longer had any hope, only Chen Zhongyan refused to give up, and later every time he went to the countryside, he simply didn't even sit in the sedan chair, put on a casual clothes, and traveled with a personal team, he wanted to personally find Xu Wansheng's whereabouts. In this way, another half a year passed without a purpose, and in addition to breaking a few civil cases on the road, he lost more than a dozen pounds, and he still couldn't find any clues about Xu Wansheng.
This day dusk is approaching, Chen Zhongyan and the head of the team have been running in the countryside for a whole day in vain, at this time the legs of the two are tired as if they have been filled with lead, their sore faces do not want to go a step, they saw that there is an old man in the wheat field on the side of the road weeding in the field, the two of them found a shade to sit down, while watching the old man hoe the ground, while letting the sore legs rest.
At this moment, I saw an eleven or twelve-year-old boy running over from a village not far away, shouting loudly as he ran: "Uncle Xu, hurry up and go home now, my aunt has given birth and is a big fat boy." Now let's hurry back and come up with a good name!”
Xu Laohan put away the hoe in his hand, wiped the sweat on his forehead and said: "What is a good name for the child of the poor family, your aunt and I finally had a child at this age, since he came so late, it is better to call him Xu Wansheng!."Chen Zhongyan, who was resting on the side, immediately jumped up when she heard this, and couldn't help but sigh in her heart: "It's really nowhere to find the iron shoes, and it takes no effort to get it!."He never thought that he had been searching for nearly a year without results, and today he just sat down and rested for a while, and Xu Wansheng was just born in front of his eyes.
Chen Zhongyan immediately came to his senses, and he hurriedly stepped forward to say hello to Xu Laohan: "This brother, I was resting next to me just now, and I accidentally heard that you have just won a noble son at such an age, which is really gratifying." Xu Laohan was originally an authentic farmer, and he didn't know how to say those polite words, and after hearing Chen Zhongyan's congratulations, he just said thank you again and again. After Chen Zhongyan and Xu Laohan talked all the way back to the village, after Xu Laohan returned home, he returned to the county office with the team leader all the way without resting.
Early the next morning, Chen Zhongyan sat in a sedan chair, the dependents on both sides were neatly arranged, and there were officials in front of him who sounded the gong to open the way, and the group came directly to Xu Wansheng's house. Yesterday, Chen Zhongyan traveled in plain clothes, and he deliberately did not reveal his true identity, Xu Laohan naturally thought that he was just a passerby, and the two had a very happy conversation along the way. But see you again today, although the person is still yesterday's person, but the identity of the other party has undergone earth-shaking changes, I saw Chen Zhongyan in an official uniform slowly walked out of the county lord's sedan chair, Xu Laohan was suddenly frightened and quickly knelt down and kowtowed: "Xiaomin didn't know Taishan yesterday, I don't know that you are the county commander, if there is anything offensive in words, please don't blame the adult." ”
Seeing this, Chen Zhongyan immediately stepped forward to help Xu Laohan up, and said with a smile: "Wouldn't it be nice for us to be brothers yesterday?"I'm here today to congratulate you, Brother Xu, don't be formal. After speaking, he said to the official behind him, "Bring things up!"As soon as the words fell, I saw that the officials brought out all kinds of gifts, all of which were some rice, flour, oil, salt, eggs, and brown sugar, as well as a few clothes worn by babies, although they were not valuable things, but in the eyes of Xu Laohan, these things were the most practical.
Chen Zhongyan saw that Xu Laohan's house was dilapidated, and several places were already in the open air, so he ordered the official to find a craftsman to repair the house inside and out. Those villagers who came to see the excitement were talking about it below, everyone was saying that they had a good county order that loved the people like a son, and some said that the child of Xu Laohan's family was born at a good time, and he met a noble person just after birth.
Chen Zhongyan intentionally or unintentionally revealed that he had no children under his knees in his subsequent conversation with Xu Laohan, and wanted to recognize Xu Wansheng as a righteous son, Chen Zhongyan asked: "Brother Xu, I feel very close to this child and want to recognize him as a righteous son, I don't know what Brother Xu wants?"For Xu Laohan, it is a great thing for his son to be able to recognize such a godfather, so when he heard it, he suddenly said with a smile on his face: "Of course, this is a blessing that the child has cultivated for several lifetimes, to be honest, this is also our old couple climbing the high branches." ”
So Chen Zhongyan invited several respected elders in the village as witnesses, and in a joyful laughter, Xu Laohan held Xu Wansheng and Chen Zhongyan in infancy and held a ceremony to recognize his godfather, and Xu Wansheng became officially Chen Zhongyan's righteous son.
In the days that followed, Xu Laohan's family finally had a guaranteed life with the help of Chen Zhongyan, and the old couple could also take care of their children without hesitation and enjoy the joy of family. A few years later, Xu Wansheng reached the age when he should go to school, and Chen Zhongyan was responsible for all the expenses needed to go to school.
Once Chen Zhongyan asked when Xu Wansheng was chatting: "Son!."I see that your biological parents are getting older and older, and their bodies and bones are getting worse day by day, I wonder if they will have extra land as a burial place in a hundred years?After hearing this, Xu Wansheng sighed and said, "Alas!."Although my father and mother have planted the land all their lives, it is all someone else's, and they have their own fields as a cemetery!Xu Wansheng choked up as he spoke.
Chen Zhongyan gently patted Xu Wansheng's back and said, "Son!."You don't have to be sad, isn't there still a godfather and me?I have taken a fancy to a piece of feng shui treasure land that can be used to bury my eldest brother and sister-in-law at that time, and I will bring you some silver in a few days, and you can come forward to buy it for later use. After hearing this, Xu Wansheng said gratefully: "The child really doesn't know how to repay the kindness of the stepfather, and even the aftermath of my parents needs the stepfather to worry about, which really makes the child feel ashamed." ”
Chen Zhongyan smiled and said, "Silly boy, if you say that, it will be too foreign, we don't need to say that." Then the two discussed, and after two days, the two came to Luohe Village, which was twenty miles away from the county seat, and bought the rotten stone depression in the west of the village, Chen Zongyan paid the silver, and Xu Wansheng signed the title deed.
Two years later, Xu Laohan's lamp dried up and finally died, and his wife also went with him after a few days due to excessive sadness, Xu Wansheng looked at the two coffins parked in the yard, one was his father's, one was his mother's, and his parents died one after another, Xu Wansheng knelt down in front of the coffin and cried loudly.
On the day of the funeral, Chen Zhongyan arranged everything for Xu Wansheng early, hired two carriages to pull up the coffins of Xu Laohan's two people, and let Xu Wansheng wear linen and filial piety to break the tile basin, and then insisted on the "soul flag" in front of the carriage to guide the way, and also arranged for the officials in the yamen to wear filial piety cloth and pretend to be the relatives of the deceased to follow the carriage all the way.
The funeral procession came all the way to the rotten stone depression on the barren slope in the west of Luohe Village, but when people saw the place clearly, they were stunned by the scene in front of them, only to see that there were overgrown weeds here, the most important thing is that there are fist-sized stones everywhere, and the ground is everywhere, and they don't have hoes and shovels There is no way to dig the pit and dig the soil, just when everyone is at a loss, I saw the team leader take out a stack of yellow table paper from his arms and hand it to Xu Wansheng, and said: " Before leaving, the lord specially instructed me to give this to Childe when I got to the place, and asked Childe to light it in front of the Land Temple. ”
Although Xu Wansheng didn't understand what kind of medicine was sold in his father-in-law's gourd, he was very sure that his father-in-law would never harm him. Xu Wansheng took the yellow table paper and went straight to the Land Temple, and then took out the fire fold and lit it.
It is strange to say, with the flames that rose after the yellow table paper burned, the weeds in the rotten stone depression suddenly blew a whirlwind from it, and the whirlwind was motionless as if it had been nailed to the ground, but the whirlwind became bigger and bigger, blowing more than ten feet around, and the yellow sand covered the sky and the sun. Seeing this, the team leader hurriedly shouted: "Everyone quickly close your eyes, the brothers around the carriage protect the coffin, don't let the horse be frightened." The villagers of Luohe Village, who came to see the excitement, were also frightened by this battle and fled.
About a cup of tea time whirlwind suddenly disappeared, the funeral people opened their eyes to see, only to see a large pit in the middle of the rotten stone puddle out of thin air, and the bottom of the pit is boxy, Xu Wansheng's parents' coffin put in the size is just right. Xu Wansheng had just kowtowed after burying his parents and was about to get up, when the whirlwind that had disappeared suddenly seemed to come out of the ground again, and it blew up violently again, and the people who sent the funeral had no choice but to close their eyes again, and the villagers of Luohe Village, who had just been frightened and scattered, had just turned back and wanted to have a **, but before they could come to them, they were frightened by the terrifying whirlwind and retreated.
After this whirlwind, the original rotten rock depression no longer exists, and now it has become a large mound, and people may not notice that the land temple disappeared with the whirlwind. According to Chen Zhongyan's explanation, the team leader put a large number of firecrackers in front of the mound, and asked Xu Wansheng to kowtow to the mound three times, and then took everyone back.
This year, the emperor opened the department, perhaps it was the feng shui treasure buried by Xu Wansheng's parents to show the spirit, this imperial examination Xu Wansheng not only won the title of the gold list, but also won the champion of the new department in one fell swoop in the palace examination. Xu Wansheng was diligent and honest all his life after becoming an official, and kept in mind what his father-in-law Chen Zhongyan said to him: since you want to be an official, you must be a good official, and you must not be a **, because even if there are tens of millions of mansions in the family, it is only three feet wide to sleep, and the family has thousands of acres of fertile land, and you can't eat three meals a day.
Later, Xu Wansheng adhered to his duty and was appreciated by the emperor, all the way from the prefect to the official department, and Chen Zhongyan also followed this righteous son to enjoy the wealth and glory of the world, until he died at the age of ninety-eight without illness.
It turned out that it all started from Chen Zhongyan passing by Luohe Village and saw the feng shui treasure land, that day Chen Zhongyan saw that it was a piece of feng shui treasure cave that had not been encountered in a hundred years, and the descendants of the burial person could be prosperous in official fortune, and he could make a lot of money from business, he saw a land temple next to the treasure cave, so he asked the head of the team to burn incense and ask the land lord, and he asked for the answer in his heart. Who would have thought that the land lord would let the smoke of burning incense go against the direction that Chen Zhongyan acquiesced, which means that you have lost your eyes, this is not a feng shui treasure at all.
Chen Zhongyan was very confident in his eyesight, knowing that he would never be mistaken, he felt that the land lord deliberately lied to deceive him, so he was very annoyed, so he ordered the team leader to take the land master back to the yamen for trial.
On the night of that day, the land lord gave Chen Zhongyan a dream, and told his helplessness in the dream: "Since you are the county lord of the world, then you are at the same level as our Chenghuang master, and it is only natural to arrest a low-level little immortal Xingshi like me for questioning." I did lie to you, but I was also forced to be helpless, that piece of treasure land was born by someone Xu in the evening, people in the previous life for several generations of good deeds and accumulated virtue to scatter all the family wealth, Shangxian was afraid that this feng shui treasure land was snatched away by others, so he sent me to guard. Even if you want to take possession of the past, I am afraid that you will not be blessed.
A few years ago, the big shopkeeper of the Huizhou Chamber of Commerce invited a master to look for feng shui treasure holes all over the country, but they didn't expect them to find here, and they wanted to bury the parents of the big shopkeeper here to bless the offspring, I had no choice but to make him dig the pit and break the hoe and hurt his legs, and when he pulled the coffin, he overturned and injured people, so angry that the big shopkeeper scolded the feng shui gentleman for swaggering and talking nonsense, and finally had to give up this treasure hole. It's too late for me to hide the treasure hole, how can I be honest with you?”
Chen Zhongyan is not the kind of unreasonable person, he thinks that what the land lord said is reasonable, after all, this is a treasure cave that the ancestors of the people used for several generations of merit in exchange, how can it be forcibly occupied by others, even if he forcibly occupies it, I am afraid that it will be as unblessed as the land lord said. So the next day, he asked the team leader to send the land master back. Then there is the matter of looking for Xu Wansheng later, which is exactly this: the ancestors accumulate blessings for their children and grandchildren, Hugh has to occupy the blessings of others, treat others and things in the long run, and helping others is to help themselves.