In fact, Maosheng has been here a long time ago, and he listened to the words of the village chief's father.

Mao Sheng seemed to be on fire in his heart, and he said to the village chief's father: "Bagong, we can't bet all our bets on Long Sigou, who is Long Sigou, don......'t you know?

The village chief's father didn't wait for Mao Sheng to finish speaking, so he angrily retorted to him: "Now you are standing on the charcoal fire with your feet, just waiting for the water to be poured, and you are still here to say something inconsequential! You don't believe Long Sigou, but you have to come up with your own way to make the well water." If you have a way, why should I beg him!"

Mao Sheng was anxious and wanted to say something, but was stopped by Shui Xiu.

Shui Xiu said: "Brother Maosheng, this thing is too sudden, everyone's hearts are in a mess, and they have long lost their sense of proportion. In my opinion, since Long Sigou has the courage to boast about Haikou, we have the right to believe him this time, and if it doesn't work, we will think of other ways. ”

Mao Sheng heard that Shui Xiu's attitude seemed to be a little ambiguous, and he hurriedly said: "Shui Xiu, this matter is not a joke. ”

Shui Xiu wanted to say something, but squinted and saw the shadow of Long Sigou in the corner of the wall in the distance, and swallowed the words again.

She turned to the village elder and said, "Hachiko, you are busy, I'm leaving." ”

Mao Sheng grabbed Shui Xiu: "Where are you going?"

Shui Xiu smiled: "Didn't the eighth prince say just now, Long Sigou wants to find me as a helper, so I'll help him." ”

Mao Sheng was shocked: "You are succumbing to feudal superstition, I don't allow you to go!" Shui Xiu blinked vigorously, but Mao didn't let go.

Seeing this, the village chief's father couldn't help but get angry, he said: "Maosheng, if you don't let the water show go, see if I don't give you two slaps!"

In the eyes of the village elder, Maosheng is a grandchild, and if he dares to be presumptuous in front of the elders, he has the right to slap him.

But Maosheng was stubborn: "I won't let go!"

The village chief's father really raised his slap and looked menacing.

Shui Xiu was in a hurry, and hurriedly yelled at Mao Sheng: "Mao Sheng, you bastard! Get out of me!" After speaking, he withdrew his hand from Mao Sheng's hand, and then turned around.

Here, the village elder said to Mao Sheng: "Mao Sheng, are your eyes angry? I think Si Gou has that meaning to Shui Xiu, and Shui Xiu also has that meaning to Si Gou, what are you fooling in the middle? Although Shui Xiu usually has a good impression of you, where are your conditions comparable to Si Gou? As the saying goes, when people go to high places, water flows to low places, why can't you figure out such a simple truth?"

Mao Sheng looked at the distant water show and didn't say a word. He didn't hear anything the village chief and his father said.

Let's talk about the water show, three steps and two steps to Sigou's house, look up, a brand-new building, in this mountain and wilderness, so conspicuous.

She knew that this building must have been earned back from Sixiang by virtue of his mouth, and it seemed that Sigou was determined to go down this road.

Shui Xiu stepped into the threshold of Sigou's house, and saw Sigou sitting alone at the table, leisurely drinking with a wine jug.

Sigou has no parents, supports a family by himself, and life seems to be quite clueless. Sigou was really overjoyed when he saw Shui Xiu, and hurriedly poured tea on the stool, and offered it diligently, while also saying that Shui Xiu was eating.

Shui Xiu glanced into the bowl and asked curiously, "What kind of dish are you?"

Sigou said: "This dish has a history, you can't guess it from today to tomorrow." ”

Shui Xiu guessed: "Is it a field chicken?" or rat meat?"

Sigou said: "The mouse" is next to the side, but it is not a mouse that burrows in the corner of the field, but a yang mouse in the cave. ”

"Yang Mouse?" Shui Xiu was a little surprised.

Sigou smiled and said: "It's a bat, we have a lot of rocky mountains here, there are many caves, there are many yang mice in the caves, they are hundreds of thousands of sleeping upside down on the rock wall, it's quite easy to catch, catch a basket, you try it." ”

Shui Xiu took a bite and said, "Bats can eat it too? Why haven't I heard of it?" It seems that your mouth is really getting more and more greedy. ”

At the end, Shui Xiu asked tentatively, "In which cave did you catch this?" Tell me, I'll also catch some to open the meat?"

Sigou said: "If you want to eat, I'll catch it for you, and I have to work hard for you? ”

When Sigou said this, he couldn't help but look at Shui Xiu's face, as if he was full of worries.

After a long time, he finally couldn't help it and said to Shui Xiu: "Shui Xiu, are you like them, a little bit down on me?"

Shui Xiu smiled and said, "How can you have such an idea? I look down on you and still come to your house?"

Sigou was very happy when he heard Shui Xiu say this, he said: "Shui Xiu, you don't look down on me, I am very grateful to you, but I can see that Mao Sheng underestimates me, but I don't care about him." Over the years, I have mixed in society, and I have gained a little knowledge. In fact, everything in the world is false, only money is real. I don't talk about anything else, I just talk about benefits, and I will do whatever is beneficial. Look at the way I am now, what is not good about food, clothing, and housing? It may be insufficient compared to the above, but it is more than enough compared to the bottom......

Shui Xiu suddenly interrupted him: "Sigou, don't talk about this yet, let's talk about something serious." ”

"What's the matter?" asked Si Gou.

Shui Xiu said: "Didn't Hachiko talk to you and let you find a way to make the water in the well bubble again, and you agreed, don't you ......?"

Si Gou hurriedly snorted and said, "That's it, you can rest assured, wrap it up on me!"

Shui Xiu didn't believe it: "Sigou, don't open the river with your mouth, this thing is no joke." I know that your tricks are purely for the sake of the scene, and you can't see the light of day, unless you have some other secret in your heart. ”

Si Gou saw that Shui Xiu was real, and he hurriedly put on a look of not telling lies in front of real people: "Shui Xiu, you are a smart person, I do have other plans in my heart, but I can't tell you now, I ...... when it is done."

When Sigou said this, he suddenly stopped talking, as if he was deliberately selling off. Shui Xiu was unwilling, she said: "When do you have to wait, it's almost the New Year, and the villagers are waiting for the water to save their lives!"

Seeing Shui Xiu's anxious appearance, Si Gou suddenly had an idea in his heart.

Taking advantage of Shui Xiu's inattention, he suddenly took two steps forward, hugged Shui Xiu into his arms, and said, "Shui Xiu, Shui Xiu, you want to kill me!" Shui Xiu didn't expect Si Gou to come suddenly, and his heart was suddenly shocked, and his face turned white.

In a hurry, she hurriedly said: "Sigou, don't be like this! If you don't let go, I will ignore you for the rest of my life!"

Sigou still didn't let go, he said: "Shui Xiu, if you let me kiss it, just kiss it!"

Shui Xiu was really annoyed at this time, so he suddenly pulled out a hand, gathered all his strength, and slapped Sigou in the face with a "horn".

Si Gou received this slap, seemed to be a little sober, and hurriedly let go of his hands and let go of the water show.

Shui Xiutie said to Sigou with a blue face: "I didn't expect you Long Sigou to be this person, blame me for usually looking away!"

Sigou panicked in his heart, knowing that he was too reckless, he pounced, knelt down in front of Shui Xiu, and stammered: "Shui Xiu, you beat me, I don't blame you for beating me, but no matter how you beat me, my determination to love you will not change! I really love you, Shui Xiu, aren't you tempted at all? As long as you promise me, I will depend on you for everything, if you want birds flying in the sky, I will catch them, and if you want fish swimming in the sea, I will catch ......."

Shui Xiu listened to it, and couldn't help but feel annoyed, and hurriedly interrupted him and said: "You don't swear like this first, I don't want anything, as long as you do something for the villagers, let the water come out of the well again!"

Sigou hurriedly agreed: "Okay, I will definitely let the well bubble up again!"

Shui Xiu asked, "When?"

Sigou thought for a while and said, "Two days." ”

Shui Xiu disagreed: "We can't delay it any longer, just tomorrow! We must have water tomorrow morning!"

Sigou said: "Okay, tomorrow!"

Shui Xiu chased after him: "What if you don't come to the water tomorrow?"

Sigou is full of confidence: "If you don't come to the water tomorrow, you will move out of the chicken village from now on, and you will never see the face of the villagers, just as there is no such person as me Long Sigou in this world!"

Long Sigou's words were like a certainty, but Shui Xiu had no idea in his heart, it seems that Long Sigou is a bamboo in his chest, what kind of medicine is he selling in his gourd?

Shui Xiu feels that this matter is not trivial, and it must be taken seriously, otherwise, he is confused, he can't trap the fox, and he will make a commotion, isn't that bad luck?

It seems that we have to find Maosheng.

Shui Xiu came out of Long Sigou's house and met Maosheng head-on.

It turned out that Maosheng was relieved not to go to the water show, and followed the water show to Long Sigou's house.

Shui Xiu entered, but Maosheng had been hiding on the outer wall of the door and waiting, not daring to leave half a step.

He didn't believe that Shui Xiu would suddenly leave him, Shui Xiu must have done it for her sake.

Shui Xiu couldn't tell how happy she was when she saw Mao Sheng, she dragged Mao Sheng to the woods outside the village, and then said, "Mao Sheng, you don't blame me for what happened just now, do you?"

Mao Sheng said happily: "I blame you for something, I know you will not leave me." ”

Shui Xiu saw Mao Sheng's humble appearance, and laughed.

Knowing that there was no need to mention this matter again, he changed the topic and informed Maosheng of some of the situations he saw at Sigou's house and his own thoughts.

Shui Xiu said to Mao Sheng: "I have a knot in my heart that I can't unravel, which is why I want to visit Long Sigou." I saw that his attitude seemed to make the well run again, which increased my suspicions. ”

"Think about it, can you get the water out with those superstitious things? It turns out that my suspicion is right, Long Sigou later admitted that he had another secret in his heart, but how to trick him, he just didn't say. However, I found something at his table, and I thought it was strange, perhaps connected with the secret in his heart. ”

"What is it?" asked Shigeru anxiously.

Mizumi tells him he's a bat.

"Bats?" Shigeo also thought strange.

Shui Xiu said: "In my opinion, this bat must be related to the secret in Long Sigou's heart.

Bats like to live in dark and damp caves, and the water in our well, on the surface, flows out of the rocks, but in fact, its source must be a dark river in a cave, Maosheng, think about it, behind our village, which cave has bats?"

Maosheng counted back and forth, and there were only three or four caves with many bats, but they were not close to the village, and the terrain of those caves was so complex that even a stone could not hear the sound of it falling to the bottom, as if no one had entered it.

Could it be that Long Sigou ate the leopard's gall and dared to go down to the cave alone to catch bats?

Shui Xiu said: "Long Sigou this person, there is no place he dare not go, he must have gone down to the cave to catch bats, stumbled upon some mystery, and then used it to blackmail the villagers, it is really a ghost! But Long Sigou's trick must not succeed, I have just told him, tomorrow morning must see the water, in this case, then he must take action tonight, we might as well follow and pursue, what do you say?"

"That's right, follow and pursue!" Mao Sheng clenched his fists, full of energy.

That night, as soon as it got dark, Mao Sheng and Shui Xiu each took their flashlights and quietly went to the forest near Long Sigou's house to wait.

As the saying goes, twenty-two-three, the moon rises in the middle of the night.

The crescent moon won't come out early today.

But today the weather is fine, looking up at the night sky, there are still some sparse stars.

Mao Sheng and Shui Xiu stood next to each other under a sheltered slope pit, their eyes fixed on Sigou's new book-like house, not daring to slack off.

Slowly, the crescent moon showed its face, and there was a faint light on the ground.

But the weather suddenly cooled down at this time, and Shui Xiu's body shivered a little in the cold wind. 、

"Are you cold?" asked Mao Sheng with concern, and stretched out his arms to hold Shui Xiu's entire body in his arms.

At the same time, they saw a black shadow sneakily rushing towards the stone mountain nest behind.

Mao Sheng and Shui Xiu suddenly felt cold, and they didn't dare to delay for a moment, and followed closely behind.

The shadows are fast, they are fast, the shadows are slow, they are slow.

They didn't dare to let the black shadow find out, and they couldn't lose their target, so it was very difficult to run.

Shui Xiu accidentally slipped one foot into the field.

Mao Sheng whispered: "What should I do?" It's so cold, one of your trouser legs is wet, I'm afraid I can't stand it for a long time, do you want to go back first, and I'll deal with him alone." ”

Shui Xiu said: "No, if something goes wrong, our plan will fail, and then we will lose our wife and soldiers, no matter how cold it is, I will hold on." ”

As we walked, we passed the col behind the village and came to the foot of a large rocky mountain two or three miles away.

The black shadow suddenly stopped in front of a stone slope, looked back and forth, left and right, and seemed to hesitate.

Mao Sheng and Shui Xiu's hearts suddenly tightened, thinking that he had discovered something, so they hurriedly squatted down, holding their breath, and didn't even dare to breathe.

After a long time, when they stood up again and looked again, the black shadow was so fast, and suddenly it had jumped far away.

They didn't dare to slack off, and hurried after them.

But in the blink of an eye, the shadow was gone.

What's going on? Maosheng and Shui Xiu's hearts were pounding, and it was not good to rush to pursue him, for fear that if he lay under the rock, he would find out.

When he was anxious, a fire suddenly lit up from the stone in front of him, and from the firelight, it was Si Gou who was lighting a torch.

Mao Sheng whispered to Shui Xiu to show that there was a cave there, and the dark river must be in this cave.

Shui Xiu nodded in agreement.