genius divination

Chapter 1520
The next day, Fan Jiannan asked Fatty Zhang to call that Miss Li, saying that he was ready, and that he could go with her to her hometown at any time.

Ms. Li's hometown is in the countryside. Looking around, a mound on the opposite side looks like a huge official seal; , one by one displayed in front of the eyes.

A few people drove up, and Fatty Zhang couldn't help but said, "Hey, Miss Li, the Fengshui layout of your hometown is good. Fengshui pays attention to the back of the mountain and the front of the water. You can see that the hillside behind the village has been man-made. It should have been instructed by an expert."

Ms. Li smiled and said, "Yes, according to the old people, Feng Shui is very good here, and officials can be produced here. However, as far as I know, there are not many officials. We can only see the development of future generations!"

There is a small reservoir beside the hillside, nourishing the land on this side.This old village has experienced wind and rain and witnessed the changes of the times.The mountains are still so beautiful, and the water is still so clear.The crops in the fields are also growing well, and the folks on the roadside are basking in the sun in twos and threes, looking very leisurely.

A few elderly people still hold the leaf tobacco sticks in their hands, smashing and puffing the clouds, with different smiles and sadness engraved on their faces.In the field in the distance, several women were weeding rapeseed.In the lotus pond, there are two people picking lotus root, their faces are full of harvest.However, most of them are elderly people who walk in a hurry, hard-working women and some children.

Ms. Li said with emotion, "Now the countryside has lost the hustle and bustle of when we were at home. It is quieter without the sounds of cattle and sheep and the resonance of chickens and dogs. But it still retains the simplicity and peace of the countryside. From The helplessness of life and yearning for the outside world can still be seen on the faces of the villagers. This is like a long-term dream of mine.”

"My homeland, it's always like this." Fan Jiannan smiled, but his eyes turned to the village on the other side.

The old house of Ms. Li's family is located in the middle of the village. Dozens of families live here, and generations live and work in peace and contentment.The old house occupies more than one-third of the land, and the main house is a building with a first floor and a ground floor.They are all brick and wooden structures, with a total of 8 rooms.

A wall was built in the yard, a well was drilled in the yard, and a water tower was set up.These are left over from before, because there was no running water at that time.People here are used to calling this kind of water tower "semi-automatic water", because after the water in the water tower is used up, you need to turn on the motor to pump water from the well.But this way, I no longer have to work hard every day to fetch water from the old well in the middle of the field.

There are orange and grapefruit trees in the yard.In summer, the garden is full of the fragrance of yellow Gelan and sweet-scented osmanthus.After autumn is the harvest of grapefruit and oranges.There are several big trees planted in the backyard, and the bamboo behind the kitchen almost covers the whole backyard.

The main room is in the center, and there is a shrine. According to Ms. Li, it is used for ancestor worship every Qingming Festival and Spring Festival.It is said that a private school was run in the yard next to it for several years.Burnt incense smoked the entire wall.A large square table and four benches are the dining table and reception table.

Next to it is the bedroom with a wooden bed and an old-fashioned mahogany cabinet.Fan Jiannan touched it with his hand, and found that the red paint on the box was seriously discolored and peeled off.In the utility room, the hoes, poles and other agricultural tools used by parents are still kept, which are already rusted...

At first glance, it is basically the same as an ordinary old country house.Old, with a musty smell is the unique smell of old houses.

Fan Jiannan frowned and said, "I'm afraid the previous owner of this house was not simple?"

"How to say?" Miss Li asked a little strangely.

"This house was modified later, and the previous scale may have been much larger. Because the structure of the house can be seen, and the wood used is very particular. The old cabinet is made of high-quality mahogany, and the carving process is also authentic. It is enough to prove that your ancestor was a wealthy family in this area." Fan Jiannan said with a smile.

"Master Fan has good eyesight. This house has been around for some years, and it has indeed undergone many changes. I remember that it was originally a large courtyard house with a total of several thousand square meters of living rooms. The beams and pillars are one meter in diameter. There is a huge facing gate, which is very majestic. There are two stone lions guarding the gate, and there is a small pool at the gate.

Because my great-grandfather was once an aide of the Cantonese warlord Chen Jiongming during the Republic of China.Later, when he was disarmed and returned to the farm, he worked hard to save some money to renovate the old house, so many places have been changed. "Miss Li explained, "Actually, I also heard from my grandma. "

Fan Jiannan nodded and said, "That's right, but it seems that your great-grandfather has a lot of research on Fengshui theory, or someone taught him. So although his changes have changed the layout of the house, the Fengshui pattern has not affected it at all. .”

"Yeah, although I don't live here anymore, I still come back sometimes. I don't want to give up this old house, because there are many memories of my childhood here. Otherwise, why would I be so persistent in wanting to invite that old house?" A yellow fairy is leaving." Miss Li smiled.

Fan Jiannan smiled, didn't speak, just strolled to the half-cleaned room. "Is this the room where the accident happened?" Fan Jiannan turned around and asked.

"Master Fan can see it?" Ms. Li was a little surprised, "Could it be that you are really as unpredictable as the legends say?"

Fan Jiannan shook his head, "The so-called prophecy is just a very direct and mysterious feeling. It can only be triggered when it has a great relationship with oneself, and it is very random. Sensation, it doesn’t come often. I know because I can feel the situation.”

"It can also rely on feeling?" Miss Li said in surprise.

Fan Jiannan smiled, but did not speak.He narrowed his eyes slightly, carefully feeling some subtle changes in the room.After thinking for a while, Fan Jiannan said, "At that time, this person walked in from the door. First he turned in from this position, then walked to this position, and finally walked into this wall."

"Yes, yes, it's amazing. Master Fan, how did you know? I was standing in this position, and suddenly I felt someone walking by, and then, as you said, that person walked in Inside the wall." Ms. Li still had some fear.

Fan Jiannan walked to the wall, put his hand on the wall, frowned slightly and said, "I seem to understand a little bit now."

"What? Boss, tell me quickly, what do you understand?" Fatty Zhang said hastily.

"Miss Li, what you met was not Huang Xian, but a person." Fan Jiannan said with certainty, "He used a very special way to enter the wall and took something away. So, you are not I met some yellow fairy, but I met a thief."

"Things in the wall, how is this possible?" Miss Li asked in surprise.

"Under normal circumstances, this is of course impossible. But your situation here is a bit special. I remember you said just now that according to your grandma's description, your ancestors left a very large house. But, It was changed later, should it look like this?" Fan Jiannan asked Ms. Li.

Ms. Li nodded in a daze, "It seems to be like this. But there are some things that are too long ago, and I don't know at all."

"That's right. Logically speaking, at that time your great-grandfather used to follow the Cantonese warlord Chen Jiongming. And this man was a hero of the [-] Revolution. He had great power in Guangdong and was considered a prince at that time. Your great-grandfather Following him must have been prominent for a while, and after your great-grandfather returned home, he made large-scale construction projects to renovate the residence for a long time. It shows that he should have quite a fortune at that time." Fan Jiannan said slowly.

"It should be." Miss Li nodded.

"Then there is a problem here. Most people have money and want to renovate their old residences. Even if they don't want to expand, how can they think of downsizing? And the general remodeling of long-term residences is always tinkering, adding bricks and tiles, rarely Change the original pattern." Fan Jiannan said slowly.

"It sounds reasonable." Fatty Zhang nodded. "Then why did he downsize the house?"

Fan Jiannan smiled, "Actually, it's not a small change, but a mezzanine, so it seems that the area of ​​the house has shrunk. If I'm not wrong, there must be something else behind this kind of wall."

Fatty Zhang walked over and knocked on the wall with his hand, shook his head and said, "Probably not, the sound sounds very solid. If there is a mezzanine inside, there should at least be some spatial echo."

Fan Jiannan shook his head and said, "There must be. Because the main purpose of the person Miss Li thinks is Huang Xian is to go in and take something."

"I don't think it's possible." Ms. Li also hesitated, "Our family has never mentioned that there are secret rooms and mezzanines in the old house. These things sound a little scary."

Fan Jiannan smiled, "The old house always feels a bit gloomy, because in that era, it was not like it is now. Due to the constraints of construction technology, there are relatively few windows, and it is a bit dark. There is nothing to be afraid of.

When your great-grandfather was renovating the old house, he deliberately built this mezzanine secret room.It is probably also because of the troubled times at that time, the wars between warlords continued for years, and the fact that Chen Jiongming, who he followed, was about to lose power.So it makes sense to take some precautionary measures. "

"It turned out to be like this." Ms. Li said so, but she still had doubts in her heart.

Fan Jiannan smiled and said, "In this case, let's look around. Since the secret room has been built, there must be a way to get in. Maybe it's been too long, and some secrets have not had time to pass down. And don't enter this secret room If so, how do you know what the thief stole?"

"But where should we start looking?" Miss Li asked in surprise.

Fan Jiannan looked down at his watch, then frowned and made some calculations, then shook his head and said, "The entrance is not in this room. At that time, the thief entered through the wall, so he probably didn't know the entrance. But I was able to direction, find the real entrance."

Fan Jiannan led them out of the room, searched in the yard, and finally found a well behind the house.This well seems to be of some age, and there are stone carvings on the well head and the well fence.

Fan Jiannan thought for a while and said, "The entrance is in the well, and there should be a passage on the side wall of the well."

"Ah? On the top of the well wall?" Fatty Zhang was surprised.

"Looking at the direction, it should be. There is an entrance on the wall of the well, and then this entrance passes through an underground passage and enters a compartment in the house. This entrance is very hidden, so no one has discovered it for so many years." Fan Jiannan sighed. tone way.

"Then how do we get in?" Fatty Zhang said, "I'm not afraid to go down. If I fall down, I won't even be able to climb up."

"It depends on Miss Li's attitude." Fan Jiannan turned to Miss Li and said. "Miss Li, you are the owner of this place. I wonder if you would like to open a hole in the wall of the room to open the secret room behind the partition wall."

Miss Li hesitated for a moment and nodded, "Well, if there is a secret room, I would also like to see what it is like."

Fan Jiannan nodded and said to Fatty Zhang, "Fatty, go to the utility room at the back and find some tools, we will directly dismantle this wall in the room."

Fatty Zhang nodded, and after a while, he found a few tools, a big hammer and a crowbar.The three of them returned to the room together and began beating the wall with a hammer, then slowly pounded a hole with a crowbar.Sure enough, a dark cave was exposed in the original wall.

Fatty Zhang tried his best to widen the hole with a hammer and a crowbar.When it gradually expands and a person can get in, it is considered to stop.

Fatty Zhang cautiously probed the entrance of the cave with his hands, and said with a surprised face, "There is wind, but it is still ventilated here."

"Isn't this nonsense? I told you just now that the entrance and exit of this secret room is the well leading to the backyard. The well is not covered, so it is naturally ventilated. And if a secret room is completely sealed, you can hide in it Isn’t the person in the room going to be suffocated to death?” Fan Jiannan said amusedly, “Ms. Li’s great-grandfather built this secret room to avoid disasters. The issue of ventilation must be considered.”

"But it's so dark inside, I can't see anything." Fatty Zhang probed his head and said.

"I can't see it, you don't want to find a lighting tool. This is a rural area, so there should be that kind of emergency lamp." Fan Jiannan frowned.

Ms. Li was a little curious, but also a little scared, "Are we really going to go inside? What will be inside?"

Fan Jiannan joked, "It depends on what kind of ending you like. If it is a comedy, it will contain gold and silver treasures; if it is a tragedy, it will contain nothing at all. If it contains monsters with teeth and claws, then it must be a horror movie. If Peerless martial arts cheats, it must be a martial arts movie."

Miss Li couldn't help being amused by him, and the tense atmosphere was much less.

(End of this chapter)