Chapter 448: Changes in the Mountain City (1)
As usual, Huo Dingwen played a five-animal show in the yard and then took Bixian. He swept away the leaves and flowers that fell from the temple last night by the heavy rain, added sesame oil to the oil lamp in the temple, sorted out his clothes, and after everything was ready, he opened the temple door to welcome the few pilgrims. Although the Chen family had only built the temple for twenty years, it was already the third generation of Huo Dingwen. The first two generations of temples did not seem to be very good. The first generation of temples fought to death for more than ten years, and was addicted to a plague. The second generation of temples died in the Civil War several years ago. Huo Dingwen was an orphan and was adopted by the second generation of temples since he was a child. After the second generation of temples died, he naturally became the third generation of temples in Taohua Mountain.
Although the temples of the mountain god temple have many disasters, this does not affect the believers' belief in the Taohua Mountain Gods, and the incense in the temple has never stopped. Every day, some believers come here to incense from nearby Chen Jiachong, Shaoguan and surrounding mountain villages. The reason for this is mainly because this Taohua Mountain is too magical. The thick fog that never dissipates all year round has lasted for more than 20 years. Anyone will be lost in the thick fog after entering the mountain, and then retreat inexplicably from the original path.
Huo Dingwen has had a deep understanding of the peach blossom worker's magic since childhood. When he was a child, he was playful and always ignored his adoptive father's scolding and entered Taohua Mountain to play.
Unlike others, he had seen a huge peach tree more than ten feet tall and an old house located deep in Taohua Mountain. Unfortunately, every time he wanted to get close to the big peach tree and the house, he would eventually return to the outside of Taohua Mountain for no reason. This situation continued until he was about ten years old, just like ordinary people.
At that time, the first generation of Laomiao Zhu was still alive. After hearing Huo Dingwen's words, he repeatedly touched Huo Dingwen's head and praised him for his good fortune. He could see the mountain god and the gods' living place, and told Huo Dingwen's adoptive father that he would let him inherit the Taohua Mountain Temple. He heard that there was a charity village on this Taohua Mountain, which was specially provided by the Chen family, the former owner of the Chen family in the south, who specially provided a god to worship and live in. The gods knew the world and understood the great Dharma. It was a land god. When he left twenty years ago, he blocked the mountain with Dafa, so that the thick fog in Taohua Mountain would not dissipate for twenty years. As for the surprisingly large peach tree, it was the appearance of this Taohua Mountain God. People who could see the big peach tree were all lucky. If they could eat peaches on a big peach tree, although they could not live forever, they could prolong their life and drive away car diseases.
Although Taohua Mountain is protected by Gods and Dafa, the thick fog does not dissipate all year round, so many people with dissatisfaction are discouraged in this chaotic world. Some people who live in seclusion and those who escape natural disasters and man-made disasters have also moved here. In normal times, these people will not approach Taohua Mountain, but if war or disaster comes, they will hide in the thick fog of Taohua Mountain. The gods of Taohua Mountain will also be psychic at this moment and do not send them out of the fog as usual to save their lives. Therefore, more and more people gather here. After twenty years, a small village has gradually formed, and locals call it Taohua Village.
Compared to Taohua Village, which has some support, Chenjiachong Mountain City, which is not far from here, is not so lucky. According to the old people who moved from Chenjiachong to the point where Chenjiachong 20 years ago is completely different from the Chenjiachong today. At that time, there was no switch on and the Chen family did not separate. At that time, the Chenjiachong's prosperity was not inferior to that of Guangzhou City. What made these old people talk about the most was the water and land fair held by Chenjiachong every year at the Ullamban Festival. At that time, Chenjiachong Mountain City was crowded with people, and monks and great masters from all over the world gathered here to save the dead. Even people from the north were famous.
It’s a pity that twenty years ago, after the genius who lived on Taohua Mountain who assisted the Chen family in the south for hundreds of years left, the situation in the Chen family Chongshan City became worse and worse. First, the Chen family, who lived in these hundreds of years, suddenly split up. The family and the family no longer regarded the Chen family Chongshan City as the center of the Chen family, but only regarded it as an optional ancestral house, and sometimes they would come back to worship the ancestors. Later, the head of the Chen family in the north and south even moved the ancestral tombs to Nanjing and Guangzhou, and there were only a few old servants left to take care of the Chen family’s ancestral house.
As the Chen family, who was the lord of Chen Family Chongshan City, left, the Chen Family Chong gradually began to decline, and most of the people who lived in Chen Family Chong left with the Chen Family, and the remaining people were mixed with the Miao, Li and other tribes who moved here. Later, with the victory of the revolution, the Shaoguan switch and the caravans traveling between Huguang and Guang also reduced a lot, so no one took the Chen Family Chong mountain business road from a long way to the far-distance mountain city, and the Chen Family Chongshan City gradually became a mountain stopper.
More than ten years ago, a plague occurred in the Chen Family Chongshan City, and many people died in the plague fatigue, which made the Chen Family Chongshan City even more desolate, and even the Li Miao tribes left one after another. For a long time, only a dozen people lived in the huge Chen Family Chongshan City, and almost all became ghost domains at night. In addition, the people who died of the plague were buried nearby around the Chen Family Chongshan City, making the mountain city look like it was surrounded by countless tombs, adding a bit of gloomy aura.
A few east, the Chenjiachong Mountain City flourished again, but this kind of prosperity was not loved by people. Due to the many disasters and difficulties in the outside world, many people became bandits. In addition to some military forces that failed in political struggles, bandits gradually became rampant in China. After the Republic of China government officially took power, they began to eliminate these bandits and bandits. Guangdong, where the origin of the Republic of China, was naturally the top priority, and many bandits were wiped out. Despite this, some bandits with deep connections escaped. They hid in the mountains, and the place was remote, surrounded by mountains, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and easy to retreat, naturally became the best refuge for these bandits.
After several years of fighting, these bandits entrenched in the Chenjiachong Mountain City gradually formed three forces, among which Bu Tian Diao was the most powerful, followed by Zheng Dapao and Sun Shijiu, and some forces were still beneath the three. These bandits also had mountain villages on the surrounding mountains and usually lived in the Chenjiachong Mountain City. If there were officers and soldiers encircled them, they would hide on the mountain to avoid disaster until the officers and soldiers retreated. Due to the special geographical location of Chenjiachong Mountain City, the hidden roads between the mountains were open to all parts of the north and south, so this place became the largest gathering place for stolen goods and smuggling arms trading place in the south. In the south, especially the vast majority of bandits in the south, horse thieves and even regular troops would come here to sell stolen goods and buy the arms and various items they needed. Chenjiachong Mountain City also flourished again, but this prosperity was a bit abnormal.
Chapter completed!