Chapter 46: Hundred Birds Paying Homage to the Phoenix

  He took out his SLR camera, snapped the beautiful scenery and praised: "It's really beautiful. If we came up directly in the morning, I guess we could take even more beautiful pictures."

  Just as we were all shocked by the beautiful scenery here, that tall and strong man slowly knelt down facing the mountain.

  We also noticed that he was kneeling in the direction of three tombs, arranged in a triangular shape. All three tombs were built with brick tiles and had platforms paved with brick tiles, clean and tidy. The tombstones standing on top of the tombs were very large, and there were exquisite carvings on them. These three tombs were much better than those of ordinary people's families.

  Not only that, but a little further behind the three graves, there is a very large pine tree. The branches of the pine tree stretch out over the graves about 3-4 meters away, as if they are holding up a canopy for the three graves.

  I turned around and looked straight ahead, and indeed, from here, the positions of the four spirits, Qinglong, Baihu, Zhuque, and Xuanwu, were very good. Moreover, the distant hills, water flows, and so on, all seemed to be converging towards this place in a spiral manner.

  "Hundred birds pay homage to the phoenix! This must be where hundred birds pay homage to the phoenix! Whose tomb is this?" I asked.

  Su Haicheng was already crouching in front of the stele, looking at the inscriptions on it. Ah Tian put away his camera and walked over, just saying: "Qin..."

  "I don't know!" Su Haicheng suddenly shouted, interrupting his words. Ah Tian nodded and smiled at him: "I don't know."

  Kakaxi stood beside me: "Is Bai Niao Chao Feng very powerful?"

  "His descendants should be officials, and the official should not be small." I looked at the tall man who was standing up and asked: "Brother, do you know him?"

  "No, don't know, see a grave, always greet is good."

  Being fellow villagers, the other two almost knelt down without a word. He said he didn't know, how strange. I leaned in close to Kakashi's ear and said: "Take a look, is there an official around here, whose hometown is nearby?"

  "This task is quite enormous. How many civil servants do you have at least?"

  "Don't start with the civil servants, turn it around, all birds pay homage to the phoenix, this official must be of a high rank, probably at or above the provincial level. If not in this generation, then within twenty years, they'll definitely produce someone at the provincial level."

  He gave me an "OK" gesture: "What can you use to win me over?"

  "What do you want?" I almost gritted my teeth to ask. It's just this matter, if it were the boss who entrusted it, he wouldn't have said a single extra word. And still wanted me to be polite.

  "Not much, just the final paper, we're in a group, you write it and I'll sign it."

  "Deal, flunk, don't look for me!"

  He smiled contentedly, opened his tablet and started working. And our transaction this time went unnoticed by everyone as they were all watching the tomb over there.

  Su Haicheng, Ah Tian and the boss were huddled together on that side, talking about something I didn't know. When I walked over, I saw a smooth drain to the left of the grave. It seemed like the starting point of this drain didn't extend upwards. The boss said: "That snake's home should be around here. Don't know if it still has family members. Some snakes live in families."

  My head got big as soon as I heard it. "Su Haicheng," I said hastily, "let's hurry up and leave. That snake was killed by us, the snake's resentment is very big. And it just so happens to be a snake living near the tomb."

  "What's it to you?" the boss asked.

  "My grandfather once told me something. There was a family who moved their tomb, and a big snake and five small snakes crawled out of it. The family beat the snakes to death. The smallest one didn't escape and was killed. In the same month the following year, the youngest son of that family had an accident, his little finger was cut off by a machine. Some snakes will come back for revenge even after many years, tens of years have passed."

  "That's just superstition," the boss questioned.

  "This is what they call animal spirituality. Boss, you've also seen Sakuya before..."

  "Cherry Blossom Snow didn't die."

  "Alright, I have nothing else to say, it feels like we can't communicate with these people. Kakashi said while fiddling with his tablet, "This place is called Hundred Birds Paying Homage to the Phoenix, but such a big snake has appeared, and snakes are small dragons. Haha, is this the little dragon giving the phoenix's husband a green hat?"

  The tall man glared at him: "Don't talk nonsense. She's right, let's hurry up and go."

  I'm looking at this place, such good Feng Shui, three well-built ancestral halls, even using pine trees as a canopy, this ancestral hall should be specially laid out. If a geomancer walked to this place and saw this treasure land, he must have also walked to the lake behind. It's worth knowing that geomancers usually leave home for several days or even months. They walk on the mountain like this, and it's impossible to just climb one mountain, but rather to walk around all the nearby mountains. Many great Feng Shui spots are measured by geomancers with their footsteps.

  Behind is a man-made layout, suppressing something, while the other side is such a good Feng Shui treasure land. My intuition tells me that these two places should be designed by the same gentleman.

  Just as I was thinking about these relationships, my phone rang. Here is very close to the signal tower, and the signal is also full. Who can call me at this time? I thought it was my parents, and I thought that if they had something now, it would take a lot of time to go back and forth.

  But I only realized it was Su's mom's phone number after I picked up the call. My face turned white instantly, and my first reaction was to hand the phone over to Su Haicheng. "Hello, hello, it's your mom!"

  Su Haicheng was still studying the soil next to the ravine. Stretching out his hand, it was also a handful of mud. I took my phone back again: "Forget it, give it to you, you won't be able to answer either." I nervously cleared my throat and pressed the answer button. "Hello?"

  But it wasn't Su's mom's voice that came from the phone, but rather Su's grandfather's voice, which made me feel a lot more at ease. He said: "Chen Siyi, where are you?"

  "I am in our workshop."

  "Shouldn't it be lunch break now?"

  "Yes, I'll go eat lunch right away." As I said that, I stretched out my foot to kick Kakashi's calf. Kakashi immediately understood and shouted: "Fourth sister, let's go! Let's go eat together, the boss is treating today."

  "Alright, I'll finish the call and then leave, you guys go downstairs first. Grandpa, anything wrong?"

  After a moment of silence on the other end of the phone, Grandpa Su said in a low voice: "Don't lie to me! Did you go to that place in Haicheng again?"

  "What? No way! I'm carrying a body here, where can I put it?"

  "I'm telling you, no matter where you are now, hurry back to school for me. The troops have received news that someone is poaching privately in the place where Haicheng had an accident, and the local armed police haven't moved, but the troops have acted first. You hurry back to school!"

  "Uh, grandpa, grandpa, I, I understand." Grandpa seemed to be infuriated and just hung up the phone. Everyone looked at me, waiting for my account of what happened, from the feeling I got when I answered the phone earlier, it was clear that something had gone wrong.

  I turned to Su Haicheng and said: "Grandpa said that the troops received a message, there are people poaching here, they have already sent someone over."

  "Are we hunting?" Ah Tian asked in confusion, "Is this referring to us?"

  Su Haicheng patted his shoulder, and although he didn't say a word, that was also an affirmation of his intention. Last night, they fired several shots. If it were just those few shots, the people nearby wouldn't have reacted much either. The main thing is that such a large snake with blood all over its body rolled down the mountain, scaring several villagers half to death. They reported the incident, and the report was passed on, so it's not impossible for the news to reach the troops. Come to think of it, last time we were by the lake, there were indeed people from the troops who came looking for us.

  Su Haicheng said: "The handling of poaching will not mobilize troops, it is obvious that they are coming for us. From now on, we have about 24 hours of absolute safety time. After 24 hours, the troops may arrive. Then, let's play hide and seek with them in this mountain. The first step to play hide and seek is..."

  He patted Tian's shoulder again, and Tian nodded to him. Then he turned around and walked towards me, holding me a few steps out of the platform, standing at the edge of the platform and said: "What is this place called?"