"Cultivation is the most taboo and resentful, your obsession is too deep, and it is not suitable for learning spells. Lin Chen said lightly, "If you practice magic like this, you will definitely fight with others, practice well, harm others, practice badly, harm yourself." ”

looked at Zhang Xiaoli again, with tears in his eyes, and he didn't know if he had listened to it, but he just knelt down again, with a stubborn expression on his face.

For some reason, Zhang Xiaoli's expression made Lin Chen see his shadow, and he sighed at the moment: "That's it, since you are so insistent, then I will give you the name of an intern disciple for the time being, and I will see it after thinking about it later." But you have to remember that you are apprenticing to save people, not to harm people!"

"Thank you, Master, thank you, Master. As soon as Zhang Xiaoli heard Lin Chen's words, his head immediately hit the ground like pounding garlic.

"You get up first, you don't have to do that. Lin Chen made Zhang Xiaoli stand up and said, "After all, my identity is special, you can call me Master Lin in front of people, and call Master when no one is around." ”

Xiao Li naturally kept it all in mind.

"Since it's an apprenticeship, then I can't lose you, so be it. Lin Chen took out three feathers from his arms, handed them to Zhang Xiaoli, and said, "There is nothing to give you as a teacher, you can hold these three feathers, this is a magic weapon, if there is a bad person, take out one and throw it out, it can save your life." ”

"Thank you, Master!" Zhang Xiaoli was very happy when he heard that it was a magic weapon, he didn't expect that others would give him a generous gift, but he didn't give anything here, but the master gave a meeting gift first.

"Don't take it out for use unless it's in a hurry, and don't take it out for display. Lin Chen saw Zhang Xiaoli burst into tears and smiled, and said another instruct.

"Master's teachings, Xiao Li kept in mind. ”

Seeing that Zhang Xiaoli responded so well, he couldn't help but think in his heart, sure enough, it was the child of the poor who was in charge early.

"You just came, tell us why the villagers want to re-elect the village chief. ”

Hearing this, Zhang Xiaoli's face darkened again, and he said: "The water in our Gujing Village was originally drinkable, and it was very sweet. ”

Lin Chen nodded, indicating that he already knew about it.

Zhang Xiaoli continued: "But just five days ago, the well water suddenly became undrinkable, Fourth Uncle Li was the first to go to fetch water that day, and after returning home, the fourth aunt drank the water and almost didn't save it." Later, some of the more daring uncles drew a little water from the well and tasted it, but they all felt uncomfortable, and everyone realized that the water was undrinkable. ”

"Did it happen suddenly five days ago, without any warning?" Lin Chen asked.

"Yes, it happened suddenly. ”

"Has this ever happened before?"

"I haven't heard of that, but I'll have to ask my grandfather. ”

Lin Chen nodded, it is true that this question is difficult for an eight- or nine-year-old child to know, Lin Chen asked again: "I saw that there is a tank in your yard, which is used to hold this well water." ”

"No, that one is used to carry water against the river, although there is well water available, but the village uses river water to wash things, and only the water used for eating and drinking is used well water, this is the rule in the village. ”

"Why is that?" asked Dream Dance.

"I heard my grandfather say that there are 32 families and more than 100 people in our village, and if we use the water from this well for everything, it will definitely not be enough, so we have this rule. ”

"Then where is the well water you fought?" Lin Chen also asked curiously.

"Put it in the kitchen, there is a mouth jar in the kitchen, enough for the family to eat for many days. Zhang Xiaoli said, "By the way, is the master thirsty, I'll go get some water, my family is small, so there is still half a tank of water today." ”

After speaking, Zhang Xiaoli ran out of the door to get water.

"This little girl is in a hurry, and she runs away before she finishes asking. Lin Chen smiled and shook his head.

Not long after, Zhang Xiaoli ran in with a pot of water.

"Master, try it quickly, how does this well water taste? Zhang Xiaoli handed the kettle to Lin Chen like a treasure, and took two more cups from the table in the room.

Lin Chen and Meng Qingwu drank a glass, it really felt a little sweet, although it was not as good as the water in the holy lake, but it was much better than the water in the sea.

"Well, it does taste good. ”

"It's a pity that there aren't many left. Zhang Xiaoli sighed.

"Don't you have more on weekdays?"

"There are wells in the village, why do you have to pick so many at once? Zhang Xiaoli asked puzzled.

Lin Chen is used to seeing aunts and aunts hoarding rice and noodles and gold hoarding cabbage on the earth, so in this world where drinking water is scarce, he naturally thinks that everyone should prefer to hoard water, but it doesn't seem to be the case.

At this moment, the village chief came to the front of Lin Chen and Meng Qingwu's house, and seemed to have heard Lin Chen's previous conversation with Zhang Xiaoli, and said: "Because there are rules in the village, you can't take more water every day, the length of the rope is so long at most, you can't increase it again, if the water level reaches a place where the rope can't reach, you must wait for the well water to rise on its own before you can take water again." ”

"I see. Lin Chen knew that the well water was actually groundwater, and the groundwater slowly seeped into the well to form well water, so he said, "Presumably, the well water limit is so stipulated for the stability of the well wall." ”

The village chief listened to Lin Chen's words and praised: "The adults are really knowledgeable, not only that, but this rule is also to prevent some villagers from transporting water out and selling it, and there are more complications." ”

"Then this rule is set now?" Lin Chen asked.

"No, this rule was handed down by the older generation, it seems that this rule existed when the well was dug, and the rope used in the well should go around the mouth of the well at most twice, and it should not be any longer. The village chief replied.

Lin Chen thought to himself, the mouth of the ancient well was almost more than six meters long, which meant that the rope looked like twelve or thirteen meters at most.

"I just heard Xiao Li say that this well water suddenly became undrinkable five days ago, right? ”

"That's true. The village chief replied.

"Has there been a precedent for such a before?"

"It's the first time I've encountered it in all these years. The village chief sighed.

"I don't understand what the deterioration of the well water has to do with you, the village chief, and your son Zhang Zhong. Lin Chen asked his question.

As if he had said something on the village chief's mind, the village chief's expression immediately became extremely sad.

"Village chief, you better sit down and talk. Lin Chen saw that the village chief was a little unstable on his feet, so he asked the village chief to sit down.

"Thank you, little old man, I'm rude. After finishing speaking, the village chief sat down and told Lin Chen and Meng Qingwu what was going on.

It turned out that after discovering that the well water was undrinkable, the villagers were very anxious. So two days later, under the unanimous consultation of the villagers, Zhang Zhong led two people to take the property collected by the whole village and go to the water catcher in the south of the village to exchange for drinking water.

The waterman was about a day's walk from the village, and had to climb over a mountain. When passing through that mountain, Zhang Zhong wanted to relieve himself, so he asked the other two to wait, and he went to the dense forest for convenience.

The two waited left and right and didn't see Zhang Zhong come back, wondering if Zhang Zhong was lost, but the two looked around and didn't see anyone. So the two went to the water catcher to see if Zhang Zhong happened to miss it when the two of them went to look for him, and went to the water catcher first.

But the two of them waited for a day at the water catcher and didn't wait for Zhang Zhong, you must know that the wealth of the whole village is on Zhang Zhong's body.

The two didn't dare to delay any longer, and hurriedly rushed back to the village, but Zhang Zhong never came back after leaving the village. So the village chief took everyone to search the mountain, but after all, nothing was found.

So everyone was in front of the ancestral ancestral hall to discuss countermeasures. At this time, some people pointed out that Zhang Zhong was a Langzhong, who often went up the mountain to collect medicine, where is there a reason to get lost in this mountain, and there are no big beasts in this mountain at all, and there is no possibility of encountering danger.

In the end, everyone agreed that Zhang Zhong ran away by himself with the money, so in anger, everyone was desperate to change the village head, until someone found Zhang Zhong in the south of the village that he had actually returned by himself.

And then what happened next, Lin Chen and Meng Qingwu already knew.

"It seems that the truth will not be known until Zhang Zhong wakes up. But looking at this situation, Zhang Zhong couldn't wake up in three or five days. Seeing off the village chief and Zhang Xiaoli, Meng Qingwu sighed.

"Not necessarily. Lin Chen smiled mysteriously, "I don't know how Zhang Zhong became like this, but how did Jing become like this, I probably already have some ideas." ”