An essay on the past

Bashangou, known as "Mountain Climbing Gully" on Baidu map, is located in the east of the government office building of Xiying Town, Baihe County, and runs from north to south. This ditch is about 5000 meters long. The ditch extends northward and connects with Dingjiapo in Huangzhong Village, Xiao Shuang. The south flow of ditch belongs to Lengshui River. The canal water is clear and does not dry up in all seasons, which is one of the drinking water sources for the residents in the town. The valley is surrounded by mountains and trees cover the sky, and the shallow ditches in the valley form a freehand "green" word. In the early morning and late at night, residents who come here for leisure and fitness come in an endless stream, treating it as a "natural oxygen bar", "green corridor" and "back garden" of the town. Now, there is a cement road parallel to the gully bank, which leads to Manyingzhai in the west, Maojiawa in Xiao Shuang in the east and Taoyuan in maoping town. There are three lateral ditches on the east side of Bashan Gully, which are Yanwu Gully, Zhifang Gully and Miaogou from south to north in turn, all of which are sealed by vines and trees, and are inaccessible. Only a narrow path winds among them. The western slope of Bashangou is sunny, and the small place names from south to north are Sanyuan, Sangshuyan and Lujiashan respectively. In ancient times, there were paths into Bashangou, or hunting, or drawing water, or chopping wood. It is said that only when "Huguang fills Sichuan" did someone get into this deep forest to live. The Third Hospital and Lujiashan are inhabited by Bao and Lu respectively. The people living in the ditch are Chen and Xu. At that time, there were four manors here, namely Garbo Third Hospital, Green Ran Workshop, Xujiawan and Chenjiazhuang. The most well-off family business is Lu Daier of Lujiashan, but unfortunately there is no heir, and the family business is declining, and it was later bought by the Xia family.

Bao's family is well-off and owns three properties, which are called "Bao's Third Hospital". There is a saying that "relying on mountains to eat mountains and relying on water to eat water". Bao's wine is made from wild grapes in Bashangou. It turns out that this valley is full of wild grapes. This vine crawls on the ground, climbing and winding with trees as ladders, weaving the whole valley into a green net.

At first, newcomers all ate wild fruits in the valley. Later, they reclaimed some cultivated land to grow food by slash and burn, and wild grapes all over the mountain were used to make wine. So the brewing business of "Jiabao Third Hospital" was booming for a while. Wild grapes brought benefits to the Bao family. On the first and fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the Bao family went to worship the "Grape God", which was called "Angel of the Vineyard", thus leaving the legends of "Beauty, Humility and Angel of the Vineyard".

It is said that there is a geomantic treasure-house opposite Sangshuyan in Bashangou, which is high around and low in the middle. The oblique valley intersects with the longitudinal valley of Bashangou, which looks like a beauty sitting, and there is a stream gurgling under the seat. Just in front of the seat, there is a wild vine as thick as a bucket. Its lush foliage and grape clusters are like flying ribbons, which just cover the beauty's body. People call this kind of landscape "the beauty is unlucky". This huge vine is rooted at the foot of Baosan Hospital, and its tip reaches Chenjiazhuang on the other side of the ditch, forming a natural covered bridge. Young people in the Bao family often take this path as a shortcut and go to Chenjiazhuang to listen to the Chen sisters singing at dusk every day.

One day, a Mr. Feng Shui visited here, only to know that this is a "land of lotus". Seeing a coffin grave buried next to it, I couldn't help shaking my head and sighing: Mr. He is so clumsy! Breaking people's incense-there are many boys and girls ...

In the east of Bashangou, there is a manor named "Chenjiazhuang". Chen Jia was originally a foreign businessman. After coming to Bashangou, they camped under this "Lotus Land" and soon died, so they were buried in the so-called "Lotus Land" not far from home. Later, his son "Chen Yuanwai" inherited the family business, and also started a wine business and ran a big inn. Although they compete with the Bao family in business and sometimes conflict over wild grape resources, they all contribute to the sacrifice on the 15th of each month. At the sacrifice ceremony, the Bao family offered "sacrifices", singing and dancing in the morning, which made the sacrifice ceremony extremely grand.

Teacher Chen has no children for the time being, but she has given birth to seven daughters, all of whom are shy and beautiful and can sing and dance well. Mr. Chen is worried about the childless inheritance of such a large family business all day. On this day, Mr. Chen went to Angel of the Vineyard for a walk after breakfast and prayed a few words of truth. He happened to hear this Mr. Feng Shui talking to himself. Mr. Chen saw middle-aged people shaking their heads and sighing there, and vaguely heard some fragments. In order to find the answer, he stepped forward and accosted the middle-aged man. During the conversation, Mr. Chen learned that the middle-aged man was a Mr. Feng Shui, so he asked Mr. Chen to point out the maze and dispel his doubts, and invited Mr. Chen to the villa for tea. After knowing Mr. Chen's idea, the gentleman pretended to be mysterious and said that "secrets" should not be revealed. He also said irrelevantly, "I planted a nail in front of the door, either stealing or whoring" and then left. Mr. Chen listened in a fog, but he felt that there was indeed a "horse-tied stake" in front of his house. It suddenly dawned on Mr. Chen that he seemed to have found the crux of the problem. It turned out that it was all caused by "tying the horse"! When I got home, I began to dig out all the pegs in front of the door.

It is said that there are seven horse-tying stakes in front of the manor, which were set up by the Chen family to facilitate the passing merchants to tie mules and horses. These seven "horse pegs" have a certain origin!

These seven pegs are seven strange stones selected by the Chen family in Bashangou. The magic of this stone is that it looks like a dead vine with natural grape clusters on it! It turns out that these seven strange stones all have extraordinary past lives. Their predecessors were seven gardeners in the vineyard in heaven. They were banished to the mortal world for their dogma and thrown into Bashan ditch to confess their sins. They were supervised by Angel of the Vineyard in Bashangou and allowed to reincarnate after 65,438+0,000 years. Fortunately, these seven strange stones were reincarnated in the same family-Chen Guren, who later became Chen Seven Sisters. Old Master Q Chen Jia planted these seven stone pillars in front of her house by mistake, which is a cause and effect and a coincidence. Chen Jia's family wealth, business and reputation have always depended on him to raise Seven Sisters as beautiful as flowers and pure as jade, but Mr W is worried about having no children!

When Mr. Chen came home, he had the horse stake dug up and thrown in front of the mountain. Since then, except for "Angel of the Vineyard", there are no more grapes on the vines in Bashangou. Later, people often say a two-part allegorical saying: "The grapes in Bashangou-fruitless!"

The wine industry of Bao Jia and Chen Jia has gone from bad to worse, and business is bleak only by this kind of grapes. This giant grape is rooted in the Garbo Third Hospital, and the tip of the vine is covered by the "beauty sacrifice shame" near Chenjiazhuang. Lush foliage and grapes. However, the Bao family will come to the Chen family to pick grapes. After a long time, there will be contradictions between the two families. At first, it was a small fight, but later it escalated into a big fight. In a rage, Mr. Chen broke off the newly concluded marriage relationship with the Bao family, and the young man of the Bao family cut off this piece of "Angel of the Vineyard" that was sanctified by them in a rage.

The cut vines actually shed blood. After waiting for three years, a stream of clear water in Bashan ditch was dyed deep red, and passers-by all sighed. Three years later, the vines withered completely and broke away from the treetops, revealing "beauty shame". The mountain was so dangerous that a landslide happened. See "Angel of the Vineyard" into two strands of smoke, curled up in the air, in an instant, the huge Chen Guzhuang into ruins.

Now walking in Bashan ditch, you can still vaguely see the hillside opposite Sangshuyan. The neatly carved cornerstone of Chenjiazhuang leans down, and there are trees of different heights in the gap, as if telling a story of ups and downs.