the last priest

Yangcun Middle School was built in the 60s. At that time, Yangcun was still an independent township, with three large natural villages under its jurisdiction, a total of 32 production teams, and a total population of about 4.

Yangcun Township is located at the junction of Zhejiang and Anhui provinces. The Tianmu Mountains, the highest in northern Zhejiang, are the natural dividing line between the two provinces. It is a typical mountainous area with seven mountains, two rivers and one field.Although this place is remote in the field, it is a battleground for military strategists. As long as you control Yang Village, a mountainous village, you can control the lifeline of transportation in two provinces and three counties. It's quiet.

The history that can be traced back under the eyes is the tombs of the nobles of the Yue State in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods in Yangcun. In the Five Dynasties, the Wuyue Qian family built a solemn and magnificent temple in Yangcun, named: Jinghui Temple.The temple with the largest scale in Northwest Zhejiang at that time and the most Buddhist collections also gradually declined in the vicissitudes of historical wars. It was rebuilt in the middle of the Ming Dynasty and was later destroyed by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement.It was not until the year before last that overseas people donated money and materials to choose another address for reconstruction, and now it is called a prosperous place.

Why choose another address instead of rebuilding on the original site?Of course there is a reason for this.

When the Great Leap Forward was launched in the 50s, Yangcun was still a large commune. In order to better educate the children of farmers in New China, the commune decided to build a junior middle school.Because the grain production competition was in full swing in the land at that time, it was very difficult to find the foundation needed by the school.

Jinghui Mountain was originally the site of the old Jinghui Zen Temple. Due to the continuous reconstruction and expansion in history, the entire area is about [-] mu of land, which is completely enough to build a middle school.It’s just that the original temple site was located halfway up the mountain, and the construction project was huge. But in order to erect a five-star red flag over Yangcun, the commune resolutely decided to allocate hardcover labor to do farm work during the day and build a school at night.

At that time, my uncle and second uncle both participated in this movement.The place where Jinghui Temple is located is extremely viscous loess. This kind of soil can be used locally to make an earth wall. It only needs to level the foundation, but the difficulty of the construction process far exceeds their imagination.

At that time, people worked with all their energy. Everyone knew that building a school was a good thing, and they didn't feel tired, but half of them didn't dare to continue working at the initial stage of construction.

There used to be large buildings at the original address, so in order to level the land, explosives were used in the commune at that time. Those stone statues, stone piers, and stone slabs that could not be pried by manpower were all smashed with explosives.

On the first day of work, when the third shot was fired, something happened.A fuse stopped burning halfway through, and a brave man went to see that there was no movement for a long time, but when he just got there, the fuse had already burned to the end, and there was a loud "boom" Blow him aside, and the person will be gone at that time.

Something happened, but the project could not be stopped. Inspired by the spirit of the great leader, the leaders of the commune were determined to overcome all difficulties.As a result, more people were dispatched to this construction site. In the next period of time, either this person's foot was hit by a stone, or that person's head was hit with a hole. In short, accidents happened every day. bleed.

Later, members of the community began to say that this place is the foundation of the temple, and that such a rude movement of the Bodhisattva's site will result in retribution.That was indeed the case at the time. Those crumbling Buddha statues were all blown to pieces. The leader's request was to level the entire [-] mu of land without seeing a single weed.

After one accident after another, the members of the commune were unwilling to go again, and the construction site was forced to stop on the fourth day.At that time, the head of the commune used to be a soldier, a company commander, and had studied Taoism for a few days before making the revolution. He felt that this was a bit strange, but because of his identity, it was hard to say, so he went to privately find a few people who understood Go clean up and do ritual things.

Until dawn, the few people who did it did not come back. The commune sent people to the construction site to check, and all three of them passed out in the pile of rubble.Among these three people, one went crazy, another died not long after, and the other ran away overnight with his family.That crazy person can only say four words from morning to night: what a big face. . . . . .

This construction site was brought up again in the 60s. During that vigorous movement, the Red Guards clamored to beat all monsters and monsters.The local Yangcun Middle School, which was forced to suspend work due to a series of haunting incidents, naturally became their primary place to eradicate. It took root and sprouted, so the reconstruction of Yangcun Middle School was put on the agenda again at that time.

Although most people have experienced the lockout ten years ago, the enthusiasm of the revolution has once again overcome the fear. Almost everyone in the commune who can move is thrown into this war with feudal superstition.

Strange to say, perhaps the strength of the Red Guards frightened the haunting ghosts, so there were no accidents on the construction site this time.All the historical relics in the temple base with a radius of [-] mu were blown up to the sky. After cleaning up the ground buildings, people began to level the base. Only then did they find that after removing the ground buildings on the first floor, the loess below Inside are layers upon layers of tombs.

My uncle was in charge of transporting the earth with a two-wheeled cart, and all the buckets were filled with human bones. More than [-] two-wheeled carts were used to transport the earth non-stop. It took a whole week, and the accumulated human bones were piled up. Mountain.The more you dig down, the more tombs there are, and you can't tell the dynasty and age at all. All the bottles and jars are smashed on the spot, and the dead or intact coffins are dug out and piled up on the spot. Bronze ware that can't be destroyed The material was taken to a small workshop and melted in a steel furnace.

After the foundation was dug, it was impossible to continue. There were too many tombs, and those hard tombs needed to be blasted with explosives.In order to catch up with the construction period, they used the previously destroyed ground buildings as earthwork for pit filling.

The entire Yangcun Middle School is structured like this: the bottom is the tombs that cannot be cleaned up, the foundation above is a mixture of destroyed Buddha statues, temple buildings, loess, and human bones, and the next layer is cinders and lime. and loess mixture.

According to the second uncle who was in charge of building the wall at that time, there were broken bones everywhere in the loess used to build the wall. If they were too big, they smashed them with a hammer on the spot.In less than two months, a brand-new school completely replaced Miaoji. From then on, Yangcun people began to have their own middle school, through which generations of Yangcun people walked out of the mountains.

Yangcun Middle School has hardly changed from my father's generation to our previous two years. There is a row of two-story teaching buildings, a row of flat houses as dormitories, a cafeteria and a large auditorium.This auditorium was remodeled from the previous auditorium. At that time, apart from reporting performances, most of them were used to park bicycles. The place was extremely cold all year round, and it was cooler than an air-conditioned room in summer. .

Almost nothing happened in the nearly 40 years after Yangcun Middle School was built, and gradually the older generation began to forget the story that happened in Yangcun Middle School in the 50s.

Cha Wenbin took a sip of tea, got up and walked to the corridor of the newly built four-story teaching building, patted the railing and said, "This building is not strong enough."

Upon hearing this, Zhao Yunxiao immediately asked the principal coldly, "Who built it?"

The headmaster's neck is covered with sweat. He has indeed taken some kickbacks from this building. If it is revealed that he has lost his black hat, he may even go to jail.

"I'm not talking about the construction quality of this building. You may not know what happened in Yangcun Middle School 40 years ago, but if you ask here, there are not many people over 60 years old who don't know." Cha Wenbin turned around Lai continued: "Not everyone can move the ground we are standing on. If someone moves, it will kill them."

Cha Wenbin patted Hetu on the shoulder again and said, "In your opinion, how is the Feng Shui here?"

Hetu leaned on the railing and glanced at it: "Surrounded by four elephants, it can divert water and hide wind. Shallow and deep can be multiplied, Feng Shui is self-contained, and scholars are the mother of anger. Only with soil can there be anger. Air is the mother of water." Mother, where there is energy, there is water. If it is buried deep here, it will be an excellent acupuncture point."

Cha Wenbin smiled and said, "What I'm showing you is the school, not the cemetery."

"But this place is only suitable for burying the dead..." As soon as these words came out, the faces of those next to him turned pale.

"You child is still too young." Cha Wenbin stepped on the ground lightly with his feet and said, "This is Jinjing, which is the best land within a hundred miles. There are too many private houses, but it makes this area The good land has become a gathering place for evil spirits. This Jinghui Temple came into existence later, and the person who built this temple was also a master. I want to use Buddhism to resolve the hostility here, because there is only one Jinjing exit, and the ghosts buried here They all came in and out through this opening, so this place was specially vacated at that time, and a courtyard was built, which was originally guarded by the Four King Kongs, but it was later destroyed."

Zhao Yunxiao listened surprisingly and interrupted: "Master, how do you know so much?"

Cha Wenbin pointed to Hetu and said, "His grandfather was also from Yangcun back then, and he ran away from here because of that accident."