Daomu Biji

Chapter 53 A very similar village

Banai is the village where Agui and the others live, and it is also a typical Yao village. However, we have only lived there for a few days and have no idea about the topography of the village. When Yun Cai said this, I was really surprised.

"What's the resemblance?" The fat man took the picture, "Aren't all your villages here similar?"

Yuncai didn't dare to die, so he handed the picture to Agui and said, "Dad, take a look." We also immediately came over.

Agui looked at it, but didn't seem to understand it at first. Yuncai changed the direction of the picture, and then talked to him in the local language for a few words. Then he suddenly realized, scratched his head and said: "Hey! It does look a bit like it."

I'm interested. After all, we are not locals and are not as sensitive to many details as people who have lived here for generations. And the woman is very attentive, so we asked her to point it out to us.

I originally thought that it might simply be because the mountains in the lake are very similar to the mountains around Banai, so some of the buildings leaning on the mountains in the village are similar, but when Yun Cai mentioned it, I took a breath of air.

The similarities that were pointed out turned out to be roads and fences.

Yuncai told me that the first time she looked at this picture, she clearly found that the roads and fences in the "ancient village at the bottom of the lake" I drew were exactly the same as their village. This made her aware of the anomaly, and then she began to discover that there were many places in other parts of the village that were very similar.

It is impossible for me to recall all the bluestone roads and steps in Banai Village, but I have memories of the road near Agui's house. After a reference, it turned out to be the case. As long as you change the direction of the floor plan, you can immediately find several small roads next to Agui's house. The intersection pattern is very close to the one on the map.

I was so sad that I suddenly broke into cold sweat, which was a bit much. This plan depicts a village that sank under the lake. It may have been hundreds or thousands of years ago. But now it is discovered that the village at the bottom of the lake has countless similarities with an actual village. This makes him What the hell is going on?

Although I tried hard to suppress the inexplicable creepiness, I still shuddered inevitably. My intuition told me that there might be a big problem here.

After taking a few breaths to push back the goosebumps, I let the clouds point out all the similarities. I had to decide which ones were unlikely to be due to some special rational reason.

Maybe my face looked a little scary at that time. Yuncai saw me being so serious and got scared and didn't dare to speak. The fat man patted me and told me not to scare my little sister, and I realized that I had lost my temper.

We started from the entrance of the village and continued to the end of the village. The more we talked, the colder my heart became. I realized that this could not be done by chance. From the location of several decorative archways at the entrance of the village to the large number of bluestone roads, fences, and the arrangement of houses inside, they are really very similar.

The only possibility for such a situation is that the ancient village and Banai at the bottom of the lake were designed by the same designer.

However, how can a village be designed by a designer? Villages are formed naturally. All the villagers have spontaneously deployed them over thousands of years to find the most suitable places to build houses and the most reasonable routes, thus slowly forming the layout of roads and houses.

What struck me most was how similar the roads were. Once a village is formed, especially a mountain village, the road is unlikely to change for a long time, hence the saying "the ancient road to the west wind". For roads, the most that villagers do is repair, and it is impossible to remove the entire road and open a new one. Most of the roads we take in many mountain villages existed during the Jin and Jin Dynasties. Even in Hangzhou, the stone roads on the mountains were built by monks in the temple a long time ago. What the government is doing now is just constantly repairing them.

Therefore, the ancient roads in Banai Village are highly similar to the roads in the ancient village at the bottom of the lake, which is extremely abnormal and even weird. For someone like me who majored in architecture, it was even more torturous. All kinds of things I had seen before kept rolling around in my mind, but I didn’t know what I was looking for.

The fat man didn't realize how deeply I thought about it, so he asked: "Innocent, have you heard of this kind of thing before?"

I shook my head and asked him not to ask. This was not just a matter of "hearing about it." There were two building complexes with similar structures. In history, only one person had done this kind of thing, and that was Wang Zanghai. The city of Qujing he was responsible for designing is exactly the same as the city of Macau, but it is at the city level. Cities can be planned, but villages are completely different. I have never heard of two identical villages.

Moreover, if both villages existed, it could be said to be a spectacle, or the bad taste of some reclusive master. However, now, one exists and the other actually sank to the bottom of the lake.

No matter how much I tell myself not to think in complicated directions, my intuition always tells me that what is happening here is definitely not one-dimensional. The fragments I hold in my hands now are just the outermost layer of the onion of "truth."

Seeing that I had no reaction, the fat man went to ask Menyou Ping again. Menyouping didn't answer him. He didn't seem to be interested in this. He just stared at the picture in a daze.

Agui dodged and said: "We have said that the village was not there, but in the Yangjiao Mountain. Maybe it's like what the fat boss said, the village down here is our ancient village. The village was not burned down. , was flooded, and then our ancestors found a similar place outside and built a village according to the original layout. Anyway, the mountains here are similar to the mountains outside us!"

I said to him: "Unless your ancestors have a deep knowledge of Kanyu Xueyou, otherwise, even if you intend to imitate it, it will be difficult to imitate it to this extent."

To achieve this similarity, precise planning and measurement must be carried out when the original village was not submerged. The Yao people at that time were still in the uncivilized stage and could not have such accomplishments.

Yun Cai pouted and said: "Boss, why do you look down on Yao Min? Maybe there really is such a person!"

I smiled bitterly, not that I wanted to think so, but if it was true, then the matter would be complicated, so I replied: "It doesn't make sense even if there is such a person, because there is no need. Yao culture is not strict about architectural planning. , why do we have to make it the same as the previous village? The layout of this village itself has no special hidden meaning."

There are many villages in China built by experts. For example, there is Yuyuan Village in Zhejiang, which was built by Liu Bowen based on the astrology. The entire village is like a huge astrolabe. But the current floor plan of this ancient village at the bottom of the lake is very unplanned. Based on my experience, I can’t see anything strange about it.

"What do you think?" Fatty asked me, "You must have something on your mind."

Indeed, I had some speculations, but the speculations were actually useless, so I shook my head: "I can only say with certainty that this was done on purpose, and it took a lot of effort, because ordinary people can't cultivate it even if they want to." Such similarity." What I find most difficult to understand is that there is no local legend about such an obvious thing.

Agui has memories of several generations, and their village is very old. In other words, this COPY behavior occurred much longer ago. But judging from some signs in Zhangjialou, it will not be too late for jade mining. The backflow of lake water should have occurred after the jade mine was mined, otherwise the mine would not have been built.

Three things, COPY, the inflow of lake water, and the mining of jade mines, in the order of occurrence, COPY should be earlier than the jade mining, and the influx of lake water last.

In other words, before the jade mining, the lake did not exist. The village was not flooded, even though it was deserted, it was still there.

Then, the locals should know that there are two identical villages. Even if one of them was later flooded, it was so old that at least there would be a legend.

Moreover, the radiation range of this kind of legend will be very wide, even in other villages dozens of miles away, it will inevitably spread.

Agui said that there was no legend that mentioned the village at the bottom of the lake. This hidden ancient village is like an accident, completely forgotten by people in the process of history.