Chapter 28 Housekeeping Skills
After hearing what I said, Yuanxiao couldn't help but raise her thumb, "Awesome! Then why don't you just write 'What is the deceased father like?' I read this in many books and TV series."
I sneered very despicable, "That's all the ignorant practices of bad writers or bad directors. If you write about the deceased father, it will be a great disrespect to the dead. In the thousands of years of Chinese tradition, there are names for living people, and for dead people, and for dead people, you can't be fooled, let alone imagine it out of thin air."
I pointed to the tombstone and said, "Since the tombstone was erected by my father and my second uncle, my grandfather's name is Zhuo Yunshan. According to traditional concepts, sons cannot directly call their parents' names, so the inscription reads: Zhuo Gong's name is Yunshan. The Duke is a kind of honorary title for the old man in ancient times. The rest is probably auspicious words, similar to Journey to the West."
After hearing what I said, Yuanxiao looked at the tombstones in front of other tombs. The content was roughly the same as what I said. Yuanxiao nodded, raised her hand and applauded gently, "It's really like what you said. I admire you! Your Zhuo family is so educated!"
"Hi," I shook my head and said, "In fact, this has nothing to do with whether there is culture or not. If this were in ancient times, it was a common sense that everyone should have known, but now people have forgotten some traditional etiquette."
Yuanxiao turned his head and suddenly pointed to a low tomb at the front of the cemetery and said, "Zhuoran, whose tomb is that? The first one!"
I took a look and said, "That is the ancestor of our Zhuo clan. It should be the one who came here a hundred years ago. So his grave is at the front, but we descendants only remember to protect the tombs of our ancestors, but ignored the original ancestor. This is probably considered forgetting our roots!" I looked at the small tomb covered with weeds. The tomb collapsed was almost flat with the ground, hidden in the weeds. If we didn't look carefully, we would almost never see it.
Lantern Festival's eyes lit up, "Is this the one who chose the site to build your ancestral home?"
I nodded, and Lanxiao continued, "In other words, he should be the first to discover the ancient tomb! Otherwise, he would not have chosen that location as the homestead!"
I nodded again, "That's right, that's probably it!"
Yuanxiao thought about it, and then slowly said: "In this way, as the senior of the successor of Faqiu, the ancestor of your Zhuo family should have a great skill in fighting. Have you ever seen any antiques in your family? "
I recalled it and shook my head, "I have seen a few antiques since I was a child, but they probably aren't particularly outstanding, because no one cares too much."
Yuanxiao smiled, "Since this senior Faqiu in your family is so great, he must have read countless tombs in his life, and there must be many good things in his hand..." Yuanxiao said as he spitted, then suddenly stopped and slowly turned his eyes to the small collapsed grave of my ancestor.
I looked at Lanxiao's gaze and guessed what this kid was thinking! I stepped forward and grabbed Lanxiao's arm, "You kid are crazy about meditation tools, dare to attack our ancestral grave!"
Yuanxiao shook my arm and said, "I'm going, what are you thinking about? Can I do that kind of thing? I'm thinking that such an expert will eventually settle down for an ancient tomb and use this kind of hunting method. I think this ancient tomb must be of great significance."
The method of hunting mentioned in the Lantern Festival is a form of backfighting. If the location of the ancient tomb is not conducive to blatant excavation, other methods of concealing people will be used, such as building a house, surrounding the yard, or even planting a crop, and it is basically a high crop such as corn and sorghum. The soil rakes use this method to conceal their actions.
I glared at Yuanxiao with doubts, and then carefully checked the surrounding ground again and said, "Okay, we have a purpose. Let's act according to the plan first and then talk about other things."
Yuanxiao looked at me and said, "Would you make a big fuss? Your second uncle spent the night here back then, maybe it was just because your grandfather had just passed away, and he just wanted to express his grief."
I shook my head, "I have tried to think this way, but there have been so many things recently, including what my second uncle did. I found that I really couldn't understand him. Maybe if I had been in the past, I would have thought that he didn't know what he was getting angry again! But now it's different. I always feel that there must be hidden information here. This idea is like a thorn in my heart. Now there is another horse army here, and it has something to do with my second uncle, so this matter seems even more wrong. No matter what, since it has come, I'll just check it out."
Yuanxiao nodded, "Okay!" As he said, he turned on the flashlight and walked towards the oldest tomb mound in my family. I quickly followed.
After taking two steps, Yuanxiao suddenly turned around and asked, "I have something I haven't figured out and understood. Could this ancient tomb under your ancestral home have never been really dug up! Do you think your second uncle is looking for that ancient tomb? I remember you said that the tomb underground in your ancestral home has a passage to other places, but it was buried by the collapsed soil. It means that the road there has always been blocked!"
I observed the surroundings and said without raising my head, "You start to have a light bulb when you say you are stupid. If the Zhuo family settled here because of this ancient tomb, then it has been more than a hundred years since the beginning, and it has not been able to enter an ancient tomb for more than a hundred years. The level of the successor of the Faqiu family in Zhuo family is too poor!"
When I said this myself, I was stunned for a moment, and an idea flashed through my mind.
After hearing my words, Yuanxiao frowned, "If your Zhuo family has successfully entered the ancient tomb, why did you give up the passage after only half of it? A hundred years of operation, let alone a passage, even if Yugong moved the mountain, it would be almost successful!"
Yuanxiao's words reminded me again, and the thought that had just passed in my mind slowly began to take shape. Yuanxiao saw me stunned and thought I was attracted by his statement. She was a little proud, so she continued his discussion, "Didn't you say that there were a lot of bones in that passage? I guess your ancestors must have discovered that there was danger in it, so they had to give up!"
Suddenly, an amazing idea took shape in my mind! I felt like I was struck by lightning, and I secretly scolded myself for being damn. I almost forgot the passage covered with various bones. Such an important clue was almost ignored by me!
I hurriedly watched around, eager to find a commanding height, and subconsciously jumped onto a higher tomb mound next to me in two steps.
Yuanxiao next to him looked at it and shouted, "I'm going! You're crazy! Come down quickly! I just said that I should respect the deceased people!"
I didn't bother to explain to Yuanxiao and was eager to verify my thoughts. I found that except for the open space where the ancestral tomb is located, there were dense grass around it, and the location of this open space is probably a protrusion eastward on the south side of Guibei Mountain. Looking up, I could probably see the village where the ancestral home is located.
I raised my hand and estimated the distance from the ancestral home here, and looked at the stars in the sky. Fortunately, it is still a long time before dawn, and today the wind blows away the clouds in the sky, and the entire night sky is very bright. Combined with all this, I think I finally understand why my second uncle came here to spend the night after his grandfather died.
I jumped off the tomb mound, and Lanxiao quickly bowed to the tombstone on the grave, "Senior, I'm really sorry, your boy is a little crazy! The adults don't remember the villain's mistakes, so you should remember it on his head!"
I was staring at the stars in the sky in a daze. Yuanxiao came over and pushed me from behind, "Hey, what are you doing? I was shocked, I thought you were possessed by any of your seniors!"
I didn't have time to pay attention to the run of the Lantern Festival and said excitedly: "I'm so stupid! I actually forgot about our family's skills!"
Yuanxiao looked at me in confusion, "What are the special skills?"
I took a photo of him, "Stargazing and meridian determination technique!"
After I said Lantern Festival, I became even more confused, "No, this is all about it! What do you want to say? What does this have to do?"
I pulled Yuanxiao and stood next to the small tomb of the Zhuo family ancestor in the front of the ancestral tomb. "Lanxiao, you stand in this position and look southwest hard. Can you see the location of our ancestral home?"
Yuanxiao squinted his eyes and looked at it for a while, "I can't see clearly what your ancestral home looks like, but the place where I saw the lights should be the lighting lamp at your ancestral home construction site."
I pointed to the direction of our ancestral home, "The direction of the connection between the passage in our caucus is here. According to my judgment, that passage should be connected to this place."
Yuanxiao was a little surprised by my words, "My God is so long, can't it?"
I waved my hands repeatedly, "Look at the sky, Tiankui is in the sky, Lu Cun assists, Tianliang sits in the life palace, the sun and Taiyin shine respectively, this is a typical sun and moon and bright pattern."
Yuanxiao looked at me blankly, "Zhuoran, these words like heavenly books will be spared. Just tell me the result directly. I am a little lacking in my mind!"
I said excitedly: "This kind of celestial phenomenon means that there must be a large tomb here, and it is not an ordinary large tomb. It is very likely to be an imperial tomb! Imperial tomb! Do you know!" I grabbed Yuanxiao's arm and shook it hard.
Yuanxiao understood what I meant, and suddenly became excited, "Really? Is it really an imperial tomb?"
I nodded, "Even if you can't understand the celestial phenomena, do you still remember the passage full of bones?"
Yuanxiao nodded quickly, and I continued, "That's not a passage at all. There is a burial ditch in vain! With such a long burial ditch, you can imagine how large this tomb is."
Chapter completed!