Xizhou Prefecture is not all desert Gobi. There are also green mountains, green waters, forests and grasslands, but they are all in the southern area bordering Wuzhou Prefecture, which has abundant rainfall.
The climate of Xizhou Prefecture is divided into the southern part with green mountains and green waters, and the eastern part which becomes more and more desolate with increasingly sparse vegetation.
People living in the east and east face year-round sandstorms and severe water shortages, which has led to the concentration of most of the population in the southern part of Xizhou Prefecture.
However, the southern part with green mountains and green waters only accounts for a very small part of the territory of Xizhou Prefecture. Most of Xizhou Prefecture is still dominated by the Gobi Desert.
The reason for such extreme geographical differences is mainly due to the continuous dry wind and sand blowing in from the deserts of the Western Regions, destroying forests and mountains every year, and eating away at the mountains and forests. If it were not for the Qinling Mountains, which anchors the world and blocks the desert wind and sand from the south. , sandstorms, there would be no Kangding country with rich products.
Wuzhou Prefecture is full of mountains and ridges, and it is impossible to reach Xizhou Prefecture directly because there are thousands of mountains in the middle, so you can only take a detour before entering Xizhou Prefecture.
The place where Jin'an and the goats entered Xizhou Prefecture was not in the south, where water and grass are abundant, but in the east, which is short of water. This area is affected by desert winds and sand, and there is little rainfall all year round. Once drought weather occurs, all men, women, and children in the northwest village will be wiped out. They will go out collectively to dig graves and dig bone piles.
This is the death of drought, and the death of waterlogging. Wuzhou Prefecture is flooded by flash floods every year, and the adjacent Xizhou Prefecture is desolate and lacks water. It is only because of the Qinling Mountains that the world is completely different.
Jin An also didn't expect that on the second day after he arrived in Xizhou Mansion, he would see the fierce folk customs in the northwest. Even a boy under ten years old was so aggressive that he wanted to dig up graves and kill zombies.
He finally had a clear understanding of the tough folk customs of the Northwest.
At this time, Sun Tugen, who had already understood the situation, brought over several old smokers with sweat towels on their heads and a dry cigarette each.
"Li Zheng, village elder, this is Taoist Jin'an who I mentioned is different from other Central Plains people. Taoist Jin'an wants to buy some water in our village." Sun Tugen introduced Jin An to those few people very enthusiastically. The village elder with a sweat scarf on his head.
The atmosphere between the two parties was harmonious. When it came to buying water, several village elders with deeper wrinkles on their faces than Sun Tugen said warmly and hospitably: "Taoist Jin'an, you and Tugen drank goat's milk wine together, you are our Huangzishan Village." You are such a distinguished guest, why don’t you decide whether to buy it or not, so as not to be laughed at by several villages, we people in Huangzishan Village don’t know how to entertain guests, we can give you some water saved in the village."
Water resources are precious in the northwest. There are only one well for the twenty or so households in Huangzishan Village. The whole village depends on this well water for survival. When the villagers put down the buckets into the well, only half a bucket of water came up, and the well water was full of sediment. It was turbid, and there was a lot of yellow mud on the bottom of the barrel. It seemed that the well water was about to bottom out, but the hospitable Northwest people still provided precious water.
Jin'an felt that he couldn't take this water because he was worried about his conscience. No matter he paid for it or was given it for free, he couldn't accept the water that could save a whole village.
Sun Tugen and several village elders saw the hesitation on Jin An's face, and mistakenly thought that Jin An was dissatisfied with the turbid well water. Several honest faces that had been affected by the northwest wind and sand showed embarrassment: "Because of the hundred-year event half a year ago." We encountered a big sandstorm, and it has been dry for half a year without rain. The small river that used to be dry has dried up, and now the only well in the village can still draw some water."
"We are about to go out to build drought bone piles. If not, Taoist Jin'an waits for us to come back from digging drought bone piles. Maybe by then God will rain again and there will be clean water in the river again."
When Jin An saw that the people in Huangzishan Village had misunderstood him, he hurriedly explained: "Li Zheng, and a few elderly people, you have misunderstood. I didn't mean that. Seeing that everyone is severely short of water, I still want to take it for free." There is only a little water in the village, and I feel really sorry."
"How about this? Everyone is going to dig dry bones anyway. Why don't you let me join in the effort? If you encounter a bad dry bone, I can also help. If I don't go out, No matter how hard I am, I’m embarrassed to ask everyone for this water again.”
Several village elders wanted to continue delivering water, but after being rejected by Jin An several times, they no longer persisted. After thinking about it, they agreed to join Jin An's team in digging drought bone piles.
"Lao Tugen is right, Taoist priest Jin'an is very different from those who come from the wealthy Central Plains." Several village elders said with emotion.
Next, the villagers of Huangzishan Village continued to dig dry bone piles.
But this time it was different from the previous dry bone pile driving. This time there was a young Taoist priest and a goat as big as a calf in the team.
Apart from being shocked at the goat's physique at first, these villagers did not make any other special move. In their understanding, the Central Plains is rich and fertile with water and grass, and it is normal for the Central Plains to feed sheep as big as a calf.
The purpose of digging bone piles is to find out where there are newly buried corpses and nameless grave bags. Because no one worships the nameless grave bags, it is easy to feel resentful and come out to cause mischief.
The villagers formed a huge team and climbed up a hill. According to the village elder, this hill could still grow some sparse grass in the past. It was also one of the places where everyone often went to graze. However, it has been drought for half a year. Without rain, even the sparse grass no longer grows, and now it has completely turned into a mountain of dirt.
According to the villagers, this earth mountain is considered to be the land with the best feng shui in the area. If someone secretly buries people, they will definitely bury them in this mountain. There must be new graves in this mountain.
"Taoist Master Jin'an, if you encounter a drought in the Central Plains, will you also build drought bone piles?" A village elder whose teeth were yellowed by drought smoke asked Jin An, who was accompanying the team.
Jin An looked at the vast numbers of men, women, and children from the northwest who came into the mountains to look for zombies, and said with emotion: "It rains a lot in the south, and the humidity brings corpse gas, which is the most suitable place for some corpse evil spirits to hide in dark and damp caves or yin gas." Practice in places with severe cold, but places with lots of rain and thunderstorms are also common. These corpses have strong Yin energy and are easy to attract lightning strikes. They are often killed by thunder before they cause too much harm. Therefore, there are few places. Driving dry bone piles.”
"Even if they are not killed by lightning, there is abundant rain in the south and the population is concentrated, so there are many Taoist monks and yin-yang monks among the people. Often, the dead people have been done by Taoist priests and monks to relieve their grievances before they become evil, so there is no chance at all. Fraudulent corpses hurt people.”
"Of course, when there is a severe drought in some places, drought bone piles will occasionally be seen, but the number is sparse and not common. After all, there is no shortage of Taoist monks among the people. Due to the lack of water in the northwest, the land is vast and the people are sparse. Taoist priests among the people Monks are rare, and because they have been resisting foreigners for many years, the folk customs in the northwest are very strong, regardless of men, women, or children, and they are not afraid of anything and dare to fight with ghosts and gods, so driving drought bone piles is the most common in the northwest."
The land in Xizhou Prefecture is barren, and the land is vast and sparsely populated. Often, a village has no information and cannot communicate with the outside world. The villagers of Huangzishan Village have never seen the colorful world of the outside world. They listened to Jin An's introduction to the local customs and customs of Kangding Country. , fascinated.
The number of villagers surrounding Jin'an gradually increased, and everyone seemed to have forgotten that they had to drive bone piles to pray for rain.
"Taoist Master Jin'an, you are so knowledgeable. It's called Bo. What does Bo mean? Is it the word you Central Plains people use to describe a person who has read a lot?" Sun Tugen, an old herdsman, wrinkled his face and couldn't remember anything. .
"Eradematic?"
"Yes, even if you are knowledgeable, Taoist Master Jin'an, you, a cultural man, know more." Sun Tugen, an old herdsman, praised.
Speaking of this, Jin An began to miss the old Taoist priest again: "These are all taught to me by an old Taoist priest who traveled all over the world. He is truly knowledgeable, knowledgeable and knowledgeable about astronomy and the present." geography."
The village elders heard that Jin An's tone was a little downcast. They did not inquire further, but dispersed the surrounding villagers and hurriedly looked for where there were freshly buried graves or unnamed grave bags.
The search for bone piles along the way was not smooth. Several ownerless graves were dug up, and only a pile of dead bones with dead people were dug out. Several new graves were dug up that had been buried within half a year, but the dead people underground were almost rotting into the loess. Obviously, the dry bone piles could not be so shabby.
The villagers exposed the newly dug grave to the sun for a long time before closing it again. Finally, they expanded the scope and continued to search for dry bone piles. Then they found a lone dead man beside a ditch. The man had been dead for some time. The body has been dried and dehydrated into a black mummy.
If this was a dry bone pile, exposed to the wilderness and exposed to the sun for such a long time, all the resentment and negative energy would have been lost.
But the villagers still planned to beat the mummy as a dry bone pile.
Driving bone piles actually means smashing the limbs, head and body of the mummy, and then leaving it in the sun for several days.
Jin'an saw that the deceased was pitiful and alone, and his body was exposed in the wilderness. In the end, he had to suffer such an unreasonable disaster. He couldn't bear to see him die miserably and with no body left. He quickly stopped the villagers and said with absolute certainty that the man on the ground was not A dry bone pile is a poor deceased person who has no one to set up a tombstone after his death. If everyone is willing to believe him, he will personally find a dry bone pile for everyone.
Jin'an practices the art of hope.
No resentment, death, or evil spirit can escape his Qi-Watching Technique, especially as his cultivation improves, his Qi-Watching Technique also improves.
However, under his qi-gazing technique, the sky was clear and cloudless.
This shows that the surrounding area is calm and there is no dry bone causing trouble. Think about it, if there is any dry bone causing trouble, the auspicious clouds in the clear blue sky will not appear in the morning, but the evil wind and ghost clouds will block the sun. .
He also felt a little regretful that he did not see the legendary dry bone pile.
But this world does not necessarily have to have water by driving bone piles to pray for rain.
He already had other ideas.
I wonder if Erlang Zhenjun’s water talisman will be acclimated to the climate in the Northwest?
