Chapter 141: Jade Urn

"Daoist Duan, we, the planning for this area is like this..."

After greeting each other, a subordinate cooperated to open the 3D map of the area around Gubei Town with a tablet computer. Pang Xuesong took a paper document from the car and began to tell the young Daoist priest the reason for their trip:

"Daoist, please look, with the Hanging Pot Waterfall as the center, we are now at the yellow stone ancient monument by the waterfall lake mouth. This Hanging Pot Waterfall is the source of the Taojiang River. Downstream of the waterfall, south of the hanging lake is Gubei Town."

"And then here, southwest of the Hanging Pot Waterfall, there is a basin that is almost completely closed."

"This basin named 'Jade Urn' is surrounded by mountains on all four sides, isolated from the world, with abundant water sources and a humid climate. The vegetation inside is lush, and it has not been logged. In the dense forest, ancient trees can be counted by hundreds of years. Between the green and green, rare birds and animals are everywhere. It is a key nature reserve in Taoyuan City and even the entire Qinzhou Prefecture..."

Duan Geng raised the whisk in his hand and politely interrupted Pang Xuesong's narration: "Such beautiful words should be left for tourists from other provinces and prefectures in the future. As a native of Qinzhou Prefecture, the poor Daoist has long been tired of seeing the scenery here."

Pang Xuesong laughed: "Sorry, my occupational disease has committed."

"So why did your company invite me here?" Duan Geng picked up the demon-subduing pestle and put it in his clothes, asking.

"It's like this." Pang Xuesong didn't dare to neglect, and answered immediately: "We have approved the tourism development rights of the Jade Urn basin from Qinzhou Prefecture, intending to build it into a scenic spot for tourists to watch—but for the purpose of protecting the ecological environment in the basin, we will not and cannot engage in large-scale construction in the basin..."

As he spoke, Pang Xuesong turned a page of the paper document in his hand and handed it to Duan Geng: "Daoist, look, we plan to set up multiple 'aerial corridors' crossing the forest in the basin. These walkways are suspended high in the air, far away from the ground, ensuring the safe passage of tourists while also minimizing the damage to the environment in the basin."

"We plan to set up several steel-structured 'bridge piers' in the Jade Urn basin as transit nodes for these aerial corridors. Inviting you here this time is precisely to ask you to observe the mountains and waters and choose a few auspicious holes suitable for setting up bridge piers in the Jade Urn."

After Pang Xuesong finished speaking, he nodded to Duan Geng: "This matter is of great importance, please Daoist try your best, our company will definitely have a heavy reward."

Since ancient times, Feng Shui metaphysics has had an irreplaceable important position in the field of architecture. As early as the Qin Dynasty, when the Central Plains had not yet been unified, there was a custom of burying living people alive under the foundation of houses. The Qin people at that time believed that houses that had not been sacrificed by living people would not be solid, so every time they built walls and houses, they had to kill people to lay the foundation.

This custom of the Qin Dynasty is also the origin of the word 'dian' in the word 【Dianji】—using living people to sacrifice the foundation.

This kind of metaphysics has been gathered after thousands of years of development. Brutal living sacrifices have at least been banned on the surface, replaced by symbolic foundation-laying ceremonies, but Feng Shui physiognomy related to Qimen Dunjia has become more and more prosperous among the people.

From large cross-sea bridges to small civilian houses, various construction projects are always inseparable from inviting Feng Shui masters with backgrounds to observe the atmosphere and look at the points. Before starting work, a prayer ceremony to inform the four directions is also indispensable.

And Duan Geng, Daoist Duan, who is from Lushan, is a Feng Shui master with a loud name in Taoyuan City and even the entire Qinzhou Prefecture.

Rumors in the industry say that the famous 'Yin-Yang Wrong Hexagram Science Park' in the western suburbs of Yundu was selected and looked at by Duan Geng himself. Once built, it suppressed the former dynasty's dragon vein under the Han River, making the Yunshan Pharmaceutical Group make a lot of money every day.

With such a background and such means, inviting Daoist Duan to pick auspicious holes for the aerial corridors of Jade Urn is really the most appropriate.

"Easy to say." Duan Geng swept the whisk in his hand lightly, said a 'goodness,' and turned to go into the pink convertible sports car behind him.

"Daoist Duan, let's take our car." Pang Xuesong saw this and tried to persuade him: "I heard that the art of observing mountains and waters requires climbing high and looking far to be able to perform. Daoist, if you drive a sports car, I'm afraid it's not easy to walk on mountain roads." As he spoke, Pang Xuesong turned to signal the off-road vehicles he specially drove today.

Duan Geng was unmoved, drilled into the car on his own, and said without looking up: "Manager Pang's words are wrong. Traditional masters looking at the atmosphere and checking the veins do need to climb high and look far, but it is no longer the old era, and I am not those old antiques who don't know how to change."

"The poor Daoist has other methods, no need to climb high, can also look far, and the effect is better."

As he spoke, Duan Geng took out a black canvas travel case from the convertible sports car, opened the case, and took out...

A drone equipped with a telephoto camera.

"Ah, this..." Pang Xuesong was stunned.

"Amitabha, technology changes life." Duan Geng inserted the whisk in his hand into the reserved hole next to the steering wheel, and walked out of the car with the drone travel case.

As the regional manager of New World Group in Taoyuan City, Pang Xuesong is an elite with excellent professional quality. He quickly adjusted his mentality and calmed down.

Look at the Daoist Duan in front of him, with a slender torso wearing a Daoist robe with a landscape painting of mountains and rivers, carrying a modified drone used to look at Feng Shui, a string of sandalwood Buddha beads hanging on his neck, and a silver cross inserted on his head as a hairpin.

"Uh... Daoist Duan, please forgive me for being presumptuous. Are you really a disciple of Master Fangxiang of Zilu Daoist Temple in Lushan?" Pang Xuesong looked at the Buddha beads on Duan Geng's body and asked cautiously: "Did your master never have any opinions on your dress?"

"To tell you the truth, I haven't returned to the mountain gate since I went down the mountain." Duan Geng shook his head: "Time is running out, the poor Daoist will open the heavenly eye and start picking auspicious holes for your company. May God bless us."

"Okay, okay." Pang Xuesong smiled helplessly, watching Duan Geng walk to the open space on the other side of the yellow stone ancient monument, releasing the drone equipped with a camera, thinking that it turned out to be such a heavenly eye.

It was around seven or eight o'clock in the morning. Duan Geng placed the travel case flat on the passenger seat of the sports car. The drone had already been released with the camera. Pang Xuesong walked up to take a look. The travel case was inlaid with a 13-inch small wireless monitor. As the drone's altitude climbed, the rippling Hanging Pot Waterfall appeared on the screen.

Limited by the bandwidth of wireless communication, the resolution of the images returned by the screen is not very high, but it is more than enough to judge the terrain trend around.

While manipulating the drone to hover in the air and changing the shooting angle, Duan Geng explained the terrain structure and ground vein flow around Gubei Town to Pang Xuesong:

"The mountain where the Hanging Pot Waterfall is located is mainly limestone. After years of water erosion, a complex underground river network has been dissolved in the mountain. In the hills in the northeast of Gubei Town, skylights can be seen from time to time, which are collapsed caves..."

While introducing, Daoist Duan occasionally made exclamations of Hallelujah.

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