On the Double Ninth Festival on September 9, the weather was clear and sunny. I brewed a pot of the best West Lake Longjing tea under the shade of a locust tree, sat in a rocking chair, and savored it slowly. My wife went to play cards, and I had a rare moment of peace and quiet. At this time, my former classmate Li Xin called and said that the Xingheng Expressway passed through their village, and his family’s ancestral tomb was drawn within the line and needed to be moved, so he asked me to help with the feng shui.
I am not a fortune teller, but I am very knowledgeable about Feng Shui.
I didn't ask Li Xin to rent a car to pick me up. Instead, I drove there myself. We are old classmates, so why should I be so arrogant?
Before leaving, I cast a fortune, and the hexagram showed that the person in the tomb was still alive and not dead. Is this Yin-Yang Feng Shui possible?
After arriving at Li Village, Li Xin took me for a walk outside the village. We didn't find a good Feng Shui location, but we could faintly sense a mixture of immortals and demons. It seemed that there were snake spirits and fox spirits hidden here. However, since they don't harm people, there is no need for me to mess with them.
I selected a burial site for Li Xin's family at the foot of the West Mountain. Although this is not a formed dragon vein and no rich and powerful people can be born here, it is a safe and blessed place that can ensure the health of the Li family for generations to come.
After the grave site was chosen, the only thing left was to move the grave. After Li Xin's father had burned paper money, someone first held up a black umbrella and covered it over the grave. This was a rule passed down for thousands of years. The dead could not be buried. They saw the light, and then began to dig the soil. After a while, the coffin was exposed. The coffin was already rotten and it would break when touched. People carefully opened a coffin, but did not see the body, but only a long pole. The pipe of the old man lay quietly inside! When the other coffin was opened, there was still no body, only a pair of gold-thread embroidered shoes, neatly placed… Someone exclaimed, "There really is a fox fairy!" People dispersed with a buzz.
"How could this be? How could this be?" Li Xin's father, who was in his eighties, knelt in front of the tomb, tears streaming down his face. He had buried his parents with his own hands and watched them being buried with his own eyes. How could this be? How could this be?
Looking at the scene in front of me, I suddenly remembered the divination I had when I came here. Could it be that…
That night, I didn't go home, but stayed at Li Xin's house. At dinner, Li Xin's wife prepared two dishes and a pot of wine, saying that it would calm us down. Li Xin's father drank only one cup and then trembled. He stood up and went back to his room to rest.
"My grandmother is a person of unknown origin," Li Xin said, his tongue a little big after drinking too much. "My grandfather picked her up on the way. No one knows where her family is from. She won't tell me, and no one has ever seen her. Her family came to see her… She had been with her grandfather for decades, and she always looked young and never looked old. The villagers said she was a vixen…"
That winter more than 80 years ago, the weather was really cold, the north wind was blowing hard, and the snowflakes were flying everywhere. In order to make a living, Li Xin's grandfather pushed a grasshopper cart out to sell goods every day. One day, Li Xin's grandfather was walking on the road when he met a shivering young lady, who was curled up on the side of the road with a bundle in her hands. It seemed that she could not walk anymore. If no one took care of her, she would die overnight. She would freeze to death, so Li Xin’s grandfather was kind-hearted and carried the young lady onto the grasshopper cart and pushed her back. Later, the young lady became Li Xin’s grandmother.
Ever since Grandpa Li Xin married Grandma Li Xin, his business has been surprisingly good. People say that Grandpa Li Xin was blessed by his wife.
A year later, Li Xin's grandmother gave birth to Li Xin's father, and the following days were plain but fulfilling. With the help of Li Xin's grandmother, Li Xin's grandfather became the richest man in the village in a few years and built a There are five large northern houses with green bricks and tiles. Li Xin's father married Li Xin's mother when he was sixteen years old. Li Xin's mother was a famous beauty in the area.
Li Xin's grandmother liked to wear embroidered shoes. She embroidered many pairs of gold-thread embroidered shoes, each of which was exquisite and envied by many young girls and wives. When Li Xin's grandfather had nothing to do, he liked to sit on the stone bench in the yard and smoke a pipe. The long pipe had a jade mouthpiece. Amid the smoke, Li Xin's grandfather seemed as comfortable as a god. Perhaps because he smoked too much, when he was sixty years old, Li Xin's grandfather got lung disease and coughed all night long. One night, Li Xin's grandmother said to Li Xin's grandfather, "Da Gao (Li Xin's grandfather's name), your children have already started their own families and careers, what else do you have to worry about? Why not go? Save the children from suffering."
That night, Li Xin's father slept soundly – he didn't hear his father coughing all night, and thought his father's condition had improved. When he went to visit his father in the morning, he found that his father had passed away. His father was lying flat on the kang On the top, with a peaceful look , the mother and father lay side by side, and they also passed away together…
Now it seems that Li Xin’s grandparents are not dead, but have gone to another world to enjoy a happy life.
Is there really another world? Are there really gods and monsters? Who can tell clearly what is going on in this world?