Wen ‖ Li Yueling
Eight hundred miles of Funiu Mountain stretches out like a dragon galloping eastward, reaching the mountain boundary of Dengfeng City, entering the territory of Yuzhou Fangshan Liuligou, suddenly rising, so that it becomes a small mountain with an altitude of about 560 meters, because the two wings of the mountain range are symmetrically stretched forward, the locals call it "Phoenix Spreads Its Wings", so this peak is called "Luofengpo".
It is said that during the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty built the capital Jinling (present-day Nanjing), because most of the dynasties built the capital in Chang'an (present-day Xi'an), so the population in Shanxi and Shaanxi was relatively dense, and the Central Plains area went through frequent wars at the end of the Yuan and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, coupled with the floods along the Yellow River for many years, the local people were miserable, uprooted from their hometowns and displaced and sparsely populated, so the Ming government promoted the "migration of the northern people to the south" to migrate on a large scale and reclaim the Central Plains.
In June 1404, the li family living near Hongdong County, Shanxi, also moved south, among which the three sons Li Li, Li Ming, and Li He moved with the crowd to Hongxue Hutong in Gong County, and the eldest son, Li Li, as a livelihood, left his mother and brother to go to Xishi Village in Gong County to make a living by squeezing oil and settled here. (Want to see what teacher Li's masterpiece was published last time?) Welcome to click on the following link to enjoy: one foot in two cities, nine ditches and eighteen slopes: I am waiting for you in Yuzhou Liuligou)
During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, due to the year of famine, Li Jin, one of Li Li's descendants, together with his wife Kang and his entire family, defected to his father-in-law's family in Luoji, Shundian, yuzhou, and settled here to thrive.
By the spring of 1824 AD, Li Jin's grandson Li Qijiao, introduced by relatives of Xixiang Fangshan Yi song surname, set up more than ten acres of land in Liuligou, and Li's descendants went through several turns, and finally settled under the Luofeng Slope, which was called "Li Jiamen" by posterity.
His son Li Jiang grew tall and burly, with superior arm strength, he carried more than three hundred pounds of large stones, walked on the hillside like a fly, and was nicknamed "Li Donkey".
Li Donkey has a solid heart, rakes and rakes, raises the field, weaves baskets and walls, and can do everything; Li Donkey marries his wife Wang Shi, gentle and virtuous to give birth to three sons, the eldest son Li Million, the second son Li Baiji, and the third son Li Baifang; the grandchildren have a total of thirteen male Ding, successively adults, started a family, and more than fifty people in a large family live together.
At that time, the whole family was managed by Li Million, however, what worried him was that although there were more than ten cattle and horses in the family, when it came to the busy agricultural season, the livestock were always not enough to summon, pull grain and grind noodles, dozens of old and young people in the family to eat became a big problem, cattle and horses were limited, both ploughing land and grinding, Li Million was anxious to scratch his ears and scratch his cheeks, and he did not know how to be good! As soon as he was idle, he wondered: Dozens of old and young people consume dozens of kilograms of grain a day, what should we do?
One day, a singing artist who spoke and commented on books in the field traveled to the countryside and sang at night with lights, saying that Zhuge Liang in the Three Kingdoms period made wooden cattle and horses in order to transport marching grain and grass; Li Million's eyes lit up after listening to it, since in the Three Kingdoms period more than a thousand years ago, wooden cattle and horses could be built instead of livestock, why don't I try, I also build a wooden horse and wooden donkey, let it pull grain and grind noodles, save the grass without rest, wouldn't it be beautiful!
Li Million himself can carpentry craftsmanship, he said dry, hard thinking, than gourd painting scoop, try to design a wooden donkey, after more than half a year of groping practice, repeated experiments and improvements, he finally made a wooden donkey that can replace the livestock grinding, this next family is happy, relatives and neighbors have come to his home to see the strange.
According to the old man surnamed Li recalled, in fact, the internal structure of the wooden donkey, much like the alarm clock that now needs to be clockwork and walking, when used, it starts a mechanism installed on the wooden donkey, first assists the donkey's hooves to walk around by hand, and the wooden donkey can cycle up the hooves around the fixed grinding path around the millstone, pull up the grinding bar, and drive the grinding disc to walk in a circle; later it is said that because of the wooden donkey pulling the grinding, the state official was alarmed to observe the scene. To this day, in the collapsed earthen cave of the Li family, some parts of the wooden donkey and two donkey hooves are still stored, which is like hearing the footsteps of "kicking and kicking" when the wooden donkey was pulling and grinding.
Li Million has a good way of governing the family, the head of the family inside and outside the management is the Tao, the family life is happy, the family is gradually solid, Li Million is thinking about letting the children and nephews of the family start to go to private school.
Among the sons and nephews of the three li million brothers, the nephew of the ninth oldest won the first place in the township examination and won the xiucai examination in one fell swoop, which added light to the face of the Li family. At that time, Xiucai was also a person with meritorious name, and when he entered the county court, he could enter the county court without notification, and the county official also gave him a seat, which was very beautiful; in addition, all those who were admitted to xiucai were also assigned to Xiucai a "copper knot" that could be embedded in the top of the official hat, symbolizing imperial power, called "top helmet (top wearing)", and he imitated an official hat with a red tassel at home, and fixed the "copper knot" on the top of the official hat to show that he was a person with a meritorious official eunuch.
Li Family Laojiu often crotched red horses, wearing red tasseled official hats, walking in the neighborhood, for a time envious of the surrounding three miles and five villages of the neighbors, Li Laojiu's brothers are even more envious, praise Laojiu, but also complain about the parents and uncles eccentric eyes, because Li Laojiu also spent some silver in the family to seek fame, the brothers whispered privately, angry ...
Li million brothers three total, the family now has a certain amount of savings, for the sake of family harmony, brother reconciliation, simply donate money to the county, give their brothers thirteen a red official hat (at that time to donate a show only need 80 taels of silver), so that Li Million's thirteen sons and nephews, each of them have a "top helmet", everyone made a red official hat.
When encountering major activities such as the marriage of the girls in the family, sending relatives to greet relatives, celebrating the New Year's Festival, and visiting relatives and friends, the thirteen brothers of the Li family all had their hips on high horses, wore official hats, and wore robes, all the way to the show, and they were a mighty style, and the Li family became more and more like the sun in the sky. Mule and horse trading, buying land, Liuligou, Guanzhuang, Zhangzhuang to Fangshan Street a total of more than 300 acres, money and grain warehouses, eating and wearing without worry, Li Million family because of the donation of money and grain to the state meritorious, Yuzhou Zhizhou Shangshu Imperial Court, the emperor specially gave a plaque (this plaque because of the high quality, in the Lushan Zhao platform reservoir construction by Liuligou migrant workers used as a board for cutting vegetables, and was later brought back, now in the Luofeng slope under the Miaojiawo Sang surname).
It is said that Li Donkey, the father of Li Million, grew up with his grandchildren one by one, and he gave up in the winter of one year, and the family was extremely sad, but life, old age, illness and death are the natural laws of life, and there is no way to return to heaven.
The Li Million family was also a famous and prestigious family in the neighborhood at that time, and they immediately sent someone from Beixiang to invite a feng shui gentleman who was familiar with astronomical geography to find a feng shui treasure land for his father. Mr. did not dare to be sloppy at all, and after a few days of running, he finally found a feng shui treasure in the south of the Ghost Push Mountain at the junction of Yudeng.
It is said that the "ghost push mill" on the ghost push mountain is located on the south slope of Liuquan Village at the junction of Yudeng. From a distance, like the stone mill of the peasant mill in the past, it has two layers of stones, more than ten boulders are naturally stacked, the shape of the stones is basically regular, each piece weighs about a few tons, the boulders are naturally arranged around the center of the circle, ingenious, forming a two-layer circle, with a circumference of about ten meters; the grinding stone is suspended in the east, north and south, and its heavenly, magical, resembling an enlarged version of the stone mill; pedestrians can climb from the west side of the path to the top of the mill, stand on the top of the millstone, overlooking the valley, dizzy, Involuntarily making people shudder and creepy, back home is still heart palpitations, where once climbed the top of the "ghost pushing", that is, the bold and strong man never dared to climb again in his life...
After thousands of years of ups and downs, the "ghost pushing and grinding" on the ghost push mountain, due to the inaccessibility of people, is still standing there viciously, as intact as ever.
Although the Li Million Brothers were afraid of mr. Feng Shui's tomb being close to the "ghost push mill", for the sake of the glory and wealth of future generations, they still used Mr. Li's words to dig a pit six feet deep according to the trend of the mountain's north high and south low, and buried his father Li Donkey on the hillside here.
At that time, it was the early winter season, the sun was shining brightly in the daytime, the sky was blue, and when the afternoon Shen Shi was buried, suddenly, the clouds and fog rose around, and the wind and snow were mixed, and the goose feather snow fell all over the sky, and the wind blew snow particles, making it difficult for people to open their eyes.
The Li family hurriedly buried the coffin, hastily sealed some soil, in the blink of an eye, the wind stopped and the snow stopped, and when they turned their heads, they found that the heavy snow had covered the tomb tightly and with four fingers thick; for a time, the Li family was very surprised and uneasy, and they didn't know whether it was a blessing or a curse, how to be good...
After Li Million buried his father, everything in the family was safe, and in the blink of an eye, there was more than one month, and the next day was his father's "May Seventh" death day.
The first night, Li Million slept very late, and in the haze, his father Li Donkey floated up and called out to Li Million very sadly, saying: "Child, save your father!" Ever since your father and I were buried in the ghost grinding, where they were tortured, pushed and grinded night and night, and now they are skinny and boneless, and I can't stand it anymore! ”
Li Million woke up, Fang knew that he had just had a dream, Li Million did not dare to be sluggish, quickly sent his brother to Beixiang and then asked Mr. Feng Shui, Mr. Asked about the burial process, hurriedly patted his head and said: "Alas, blame me for being confused, this is also your Li family is not blessed to consume this cave feng shui treasure land, originally here is high in the north and low in the south, the usual burial method, the head should be used to the north foot to the south, and here there is Running Horse Ridge in the north, there is Dailong Mountain in the south, you should bury the head south foot north, or use the method of standing burial, the younger generation can be rich and noble, and your father's name is Li Donkey, in addition, your father's name is Li Donkey. Committing the taboo of place names, Providence by chance, led to a big mistake. ”
There is still a folk song circulating in the local area: "Li Million, want to be an official, bury his father in Ghost Push Mountain, head pillow running Horse Ridge, foot pedal Dailong Mountain." ”
Subsequently, Mr. Feng Shui re-surveyed the auspicious land under the luofeng slope, known as "phoenix eye land", mr. Li repeatedly told Li Million's family at that time, let him first bury his father in the position of the third generation below the main acupuncture point, and then rebury it in turn after the death of the next generation, until Li Donkey was buried in the first coffin of the main acupuncture point, and the descendants could be rich and noble.
In the fourth year of Qing Guangxu (1878), the three Li million brothers sued to the Yuzhou Zhizhou Palace Guoxun because of the separation of the family and the unfair distribution of family property, so that the words of the feng shui master were put aside, until the late Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the people, only to find that about five meters above the tomb of Li Donkey, due to the rain, a crescent-shaped acupuncture point resembling a phoenix eye appeared in the ground, and around the "phoenix eye", the Lai stone was arranged in turn, naturally forming a strange acupuncture point like an eye, just enough to place a coffin, and posterity sighed after looking at it. Fang Cai suddenly realized that mr. Feng Shui's words were true, but now it was too late! But the descendants of the Li million family are still thriving, and talents are born...
According to the legend of the elders of the Li family, during the Qing Dynasty, the Qing government was corrupt and incompetent, and Li Million brothers plotted against the Qing dynasty at home because they hated the government's wanton expropriation and tyranny.
After being instructed by the high-ranking people, at night in the backyard to make a hundred boxes of leather people and horses, each box placed a hundred leather people-type soldiers, a hundred leather horse shapes, a total of 10,000 leather people, 10,000 leather horses, after doing it, use Taoist spells to pray, after placing a hundred days, open the box for the leather people and horses, line up, and raise troops to restore the Qing Dynasty.
One day, Li Million's brother-in-law came to the house to visit relatives, after hearing about this matter, he was very curious, sneaked into the backyard, opened the box, and for a time, the leather man Pi Ma Jin armor rode a war horse with weapons from the box, flew straight to the sky, covered the sky, because he did not understand the magic secret, could not take it back...
On that day, the pi man and pi horse were sealed in the suitcase for only ninety-nine days, and only one day was the expiration of the hundred days to be useful; looking up at the sky, the pi man pi horses flew north in groups, Li Million had to use the art of calling the wind and rain, and in a flash of time, the rainstorm was like a note, and the pi man pi ma ma collapsed like headless flies colliding with each other and falling... Lee beat his chest and stomped his feet, but it didn't help. precisely:
Falling Phoenix Slope under Li Million,
Wisdom Superman Race Immortal.
Made a wooden donkey that can pull and grind,
Pi Man Pi Ma ascended to heaven.
Thirteen brothers wear official hats,
The Imperial Plaque is a good name.
【About the author】Li Yueling, a native of Yuzhou, once wrote the book "The Story of the Founding of the Country on the Back".
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