Chapter 442: Removing Shrubs Upstream of the Stream

Qingyue looked at the barrel and said, "It's a trivial matter!"

With that, it opened its small mouth and spat out a stream of blue air. The air currents are very strong, like the Milky Way at night, shining brightly.

Immediately afterward, the power of this blue heaven and earth suddenly expanded, turning into a surging stream of water and falling, filling the barrel in the blink of an eye.

The excess water overflowed and completely watered the entire yard.

Zheng Qiu picked up the wooden bucket and walked back to the house, and said to Feng Caosan: "Caosan, go and call your father and bring this bucket of water back."

From tonight onwards, you are not allowed to drink a sip of the stream's water, only the water in this bucket. Remember?"

"Ahem, remember, ahem, I'm going to call my dad. ”

Soon, the third father of the grass hurried over and brought back the heavy wooden barrel.

In the next few days, Feng Caosan also went to the clinic every day to tell Zheng Qiu about his physical condition, as before.

After drinking the water in the wooden barrel, Kusan began to have a reduced cough, and it only took two days to get rid of the symptoms completely.

Zheng Qiu stared at the teapot on his table and thought, "Judging from the situation of Cao San's recovery, there must really be a problem with the stream.

But Fenglu Village depends on this stream for its livelihood, and it is completely impossible to keep them from drinking water. ”

Zheng Qiu remembered that the villagers had said that there was no such disease in Fenglu Village before, and that the strange disease had spread since thirty or forty years ago.

In this way, it is very likely that the stream water is polluted, and the disease can be eliminated by removing the source of the pollution.

So he left a note on the table and set off for the stream that crossed the village of Fenglu.

This stream is not wide, only about one zhang and two feet, the shallow position can only reach out to the bottom without reaching the elbow, and the deep position is estimated to be able to cover Zheng Qiu's shoulder.

The stream is relatively fast, and if something pollutes the stream, the polluted location must be upstream.

Zheng Qiu slightly urged his legs to strength, took a step and ran along the bank of the stream, upstream.

With the blessing of his strength, he can step two to three zhang with each step, and his figure quickly shuttles through the grass, like a bird gliding against the tip of the grass.

As he ran, he tilted his head sideways to observe the stream to see if anything strange had fallen into the water.

Running and running, the stream is getting narrower and shallower.

At this moment, Zheng Qiu saw a large cluster of plants growing in the water not far ahead.

The lush green appearance is like abundant aquatic plants emerging from under the water, and like a flat grass cutting off a stream.

Zheng Qiu leaned to the side and squatted down to take a closer look.

The leaves of these plants are triangular with small hairy filaments around the edges, and the stalks are relatively short, making the whole plant appear a little dwarf.

Zheng Qiu had never seen such a thing, so he pulled up one and looked at it.

These plants have very hard stalks and very thick roots, which are supposed to be a shrub that grows in the soil.

But these shrubs are now in the water, which obviously does not match its appearance, perhaps this is the cause of Fenglu Village's cough and strange illness.

He tore off a leaf, stuffed it in his mouth and chewed it, the juice tasted fresh, a bit like a throat-moistening herb.

"Ahem, ahem!"

Before he could make a judgment, Zheng Qiu's throat was tickling, as if there were a bunch of ants crawling around, which made him cough violently.

But this situation only lasted for a short time, and as the qi was running, the itching sensation gradually faded, but the throat was still a little dry and uncomfortable.

This plant is so powerful that even he will be tricked, no wonder those villagers will suffer from the strange disease of coughing.

It is four mountains away from Fenglu Village, and those villagers are ordinary people who cannot come to such a far place, no wonder no one has discovered the reason after thirty years.

Zheng Qiu hurriedly performed the "True Recipe of Plants and Trees" and pulled out the shrubs in the water one after another.

Then he ran far away from the stream, and performed the "Twenty-Eight Methods of Stone Obedience", dug a large pit in the ground, and buried all the shrubs in it.

However, he still kept one for himself, and planned to take it back to grow the seeds and keep it as a collection.

After cleaning up the creek, he walked a little more upstream, and after confirming that there was nothing else, he turned around and rushed back to Fenglu Village.

When I returned to Fenglu Village, the sky was already dark.

Zheng Qiu did not tell the villagers about the incident, and he decided to observe for a few more days to see if the villagers' cough symptoms would improve.

Sure enough, on the third day, the villagers' coughing diseases disappeared one by one, and even the frail old people stopped coughing.

The village was overjoyed, and everyone gathered around the wooden tower, laid out all kinds of food, and thanked God for forgiving them with songs and dances.

Seeing that the strange illness in Fenglu Village had been cured, Zheng Qiu decided to leave.

However, the day before leaving the village, Zheng Qiu found the respected elders in the village and took out the plant to show them.

"Ladies and gentlemen, there is something I want to tell you the truth.

This is the shrub I found in the upper reaches of the creek, and it makes people itch and cough incessantly.

At that time, there were many shrubs growing in the stream, polluting the water source, and everyone drank the polluted stream water to suffer from cough and strange diseases.

Although I have uprooted all the bushes in the stream, I am afraid that in a few years they will fall into the stream.

If there is another cough in the village, please tell the villagers and send a few able-bodied people to search the creek upstream. ”

After that, Zheng Qiu broke off part of the bush and handed it to several elders, so that they could use it as a comparison when searching in the future.

Several elders thanked the villagers one after another, hoping that the saint would stay longer, and they would tell the villagers about the incident, so that the villagers could tear down the wooden pagoda and erect a statue of the saint.

Zheng Qiu shook his head and refused, saying that he had just done some trivial things and couldn't afford such thanks.

The next day, Zheng Qiu cleaned up the clinic, restored the house to its original appearance, and walked to the village gate on the stone road in the village.

However, at the gate of the village, he was stopped by the little boy Feng Caosan, who insisted on pulling him to the location of the wooden tower in the village.

Coming to the small square of the wooden tower, Zheng Qiu found that more than 130 villagers in Fenglu Village were here.

The villagers lined up in a neat line, led by the elders, and bowed to the wooden pagoda.

When he knelt down, he saw from a distance a half-foot-high wooden statue on the incense table in front of the wooden pagoda.

The statue holds a shrub in its hand, which is exactly what it looks like.

After three prostrations, an elder stood up and spoke to the villagers.

"For the sake of our Fenglu Village, the saint is not allowed to tear down the wooden tower to build a statue, but we must not forget the kindness of the saint in healing.

On behalf of several elders in the village, I decided to store this statue at the top of the tower, which has since been renamed the Saint Tower.

You will come here every month to worship and give thanksgiving, and wish the saints a long and healthy life. ”

Following the words of the elder, a man dressed in red and green respectfully held up the statue of the saint and slowly entered the wooden pagoda with solemn steps.