The old bachelor's words caused a group of village women to laugh at the door, and one of the women asked, "Did Lao Jun say anything other than telling you that the water will be stopped tomorrow?" ”

As if he didn't notice the ridicule of others, the old bachelor said with a thoughtful expression: "Lao Jun seems to have said that his Danfang has been expanded, and there are two alchemy boys, so he has to choose two children under the age of eight in our village to go to the Heavenly Palace." ”

The old bachelor's words made me laugh too, he has often talked to himself like this all these years, but fortunately he will come to me now that he is familiar with me.

The old man laughed when he saw me, and laughed with me, but the woman who asked me pulled her face down and came after me with a slipper board, because she happened to have a son who was not yet eight years old.

Watching the old bachelor being chased by the fat woman made me laugh even more presumptuously.

I have two large water tanks at home, because there is no solar energy at home, so if I want to take a bath, I dig well water during the day and put it in the big water tank to dry, so that the water temperature in the water tank is just right for bathing after dark.

Although there is some drought at the moment, the well rope can be put two meters more to get water, our Zhangjiagou is located in the mountains, there are many mountains and water, and it is not so dry that there is no water, so I didn't take it to heart.

After taking a bath in the evening, I was afraid that my mother would get up the next morning to carry water and be tired, so I filled two jars of water in advance, and who knew that after waking up the next day, a strange thing happened in the village.

Because all the wells dried up overnight.

This can make the villagers anxious, there was a lot of water in the well last night, and the water will not evaporate overnight in the drought, right?

Those who didn't have water at home borrowed water from their neighbors, Uncle Hagan's house didn't have water either, so they borrowed two buckets of water from my house to wash and cook, and the other neighbors around me also came to borrow water when they heard that my house had water, and I felt that something was wrong with the drought, so I asked my mother to keep a jar of water.

Fortunately, my family now has Dalong and Erlong to watch the house, no one dares to rush into the yard, otherwise the two jars of water are not enough to grab, my mother also kept an eye, saying that only one tank of water is stored, and a bucket of water should be left for their own draft.

We people in the mountains are poor and afraid, and they have never had the habit of buying water to drink, and those who have not borrowed water will go to the reservoir to pick up water to eat, and the water in the reservoir is not clean even if it is boiled, and there is a bad smell, so there are many people who drink diarrhea that day.

The villagers had no choice but to call to order water from the town, but as soon as they called, they learned that the town was also out of water, and a bottle of mineral water was fried to 30 yuan a bottle, who could afford it?

Villagers who returned from visiting relatives in neighboring villages also said that the surrounding villages were out of water.

Our village is located in the mountains, it is not practical to buy water online, I bought fish fry at the beginning of the extra charge of 100 yuan for postage, and only delivered to the town need to pick up, I rode a tricycle in two trips to pull the fish fry back from the town.

Water is not like anything else, you can't live without it for a day, especially on such a hot day. At the beginning, the old bachelor said that Taishang Laojun told him in a dream that the water in the mountains was going to be stopped, so he filled all the pots and pots that could be used at home with water in advance, and dug a pit in his yard with a layer of plastic film on it, and he said that this water was the water for bathing at night.

The water that can be eaten in the village is quickly exhausted, and even the water in my water tank is about to bottom out, and the rumors about the old bachelor have spread in the past few days, and have long reached the ears of the village chief, but the village chief ignored it, and took everyone to dig a new well.

Now the technology of sinking wells has been much more advanced than before, the people of the past dug the well purely by hand, digging seven or eight meters even if it is the sky, and now the well is drilled with the well, a drill is fifty or sixty meters, who knows that even so, the people who have asked the well drilling team to hit two new wells have not seen a drop of water gushing up.

What is even more frightening is that on the night after the sinking team left, many children in the village had a high fever, vomiting and diarrhea.

Nowadays, at this juncture, everyone is so thirsty that their throats are smoking, and the children vomit and diarrhea again, and the body is naturally seriously dehydrated, and there are children who will die that night.

At this time, the old bachelor's prophecy was brought up by the villagers again, because after the old bachelor said that the village was going to stop the water that day, he also said that Lao Jun would choose two children under the age of eight to go to the heavenly palace to be alchemy boys.

It may be a coincidence to say that the prophecy is right once, after all, it has been a drought for more than a month, but the two things that didn't happen were said by the old bachelor, so it's not a coincidence.

So a group of people walked towards the old bachelor's house with the dying child in their arms.

Seeing that so many people were blocking at the door of his house to ask for ways to save people, the old bachelor pondered for a moment and said: "Actually, there is no way to save people, and Lao Jun also told me." ”

The old bachelor's words came to an abrupt end, and he stopped talking halfway through.

"What is it?"

"What the hell are you talking about, human life is a matter of God!"

A group of people asked the old bachelor in a gossiping voice, and the old bachelor looked at the sky in a graceful manner, and said in a low voice: "Yes, human life is at stake, whose child is not a child?" ”

I vaguely heard everyone talking about the old bachelor's past, saying that when he broke the four olds, he was imprisoned in the cowshed because he was the village's Mr. Yin and Yang, and her woman was beaten into feudal remnants because of this relationship, and was dragged to the streets to criticize.

The old bachelor was also famous back then, after all, he was the apprentice of Ma Daoshi, and it was no surprise that he would be one of the best people in the mountains in the future, and he would definitely not worry about eating and drinking for a lifetime, so a rich family in the town gave him the daughter who grew up in the family.

The old bachelor woman is knowledgeable and reasonable, she is a thin-skinned person, how can she withstand the shame of thousands of onlookers, and even spitting and being slapped, and she committed suicide on the day she returned home after the fight.

As soon as the woman died, the autopsy revealed that the woman was pregnant, and the old bachelor became insane after learning about it.

At present, many people mention the old past of the old bachelor, and they don't know what he means for a while.

"Old bachelor, do you remember the hatred of the year? What happened back then was the trend of the times, and it didn't matter to us, let alone the children! ”

"Yes, no matter what, you save the child first, and then you can do whatever you want, the doll is dying, this is a hundred and eighty people!"

The villagers pleaded one after another.

The old bachelor sighed and said: "Lao Jun said, I can't do anything if I want to choose two dolls to go to the Heavenly Palace, even if I want to save them, I have to find two dolls to make up the number, when I was dozing off just now, I seemed to hear two names in a daze, one is called Zhang Laibao, and the other is called Zhou Hechun." ”

"Zhou Dachun?" A middle-aged man pointed at me and said with a puzzled expression.

"Yes, it's Zhou Dachun." The old bachelor said. "Lao Jun said that Zhang Laibao and Zhou Dachun's children are just the right age and eight characters, and they are very suitable for being alchemy boys, congratulations to the two, congratulations to the two."

After the old bachelor finished speaking, Zhou Dachun suddenly collapsed on the ground, and the woman next to him cried so much that she was holding a dying child in her arms, who looked to be three years old at most.

Another person named Zhang Laibao was also frightened, knelt on the ground and said: "Old fairy, I have eyes and no beads, I was disrespectful to you before, you are a lot, please save my son!" ”

Many people in our village have beaten and scolded the old bachelor, Zhang Laibao is one of them, the old bachelor looked at Zhang Laibao and said: "Taishang Laojun needs someone there, if you don't send your son over, you will suffer if you offend Laojun, but in fact, I still have a way, I just don't know if you are willing to try." ”

"Whatever the way, as long as I can save my son, I am willing to do anything!" Zhang Laibao hurriedly said.

"What about you?" After the old bachelor asked, Zhang Laibao looked at Zhou Dachun and asked.

Zhou Dachun also hurriedly said: "As long as I can save my son, of course I am willing to do anything." ”

"That's good, since you want to save your son, then come with me, this matter can only be known to the two of you, as for the others, after these two people save the two children according to the method I said, your children will naturally be saved."

As he spoke, the old bachelor turned around and walked into the courtyard, while Zhang Laibao and Zhou Dachun followed the old bachelor into the house together, and everyone waited at the door, and it took a while for the three of them to come out of the house.

Zhang Laibao and Zhou Dachun didn't say a word, and their faces were very ugly.

The old bachelor said: "Okay, it's not too early, let's go back, as long as Zhang Laibao and Zhou Dachun do the things I explained tonight, their children and your children will be safe, as for drinking water, I will ask Lao Jun again in the evening to see what instructions his old man will give me." ”

After the old bachelor finished speaking, he snapped the door shut, and the villagers got the old bachelor's words, and left in disbelief, while I stayed where I was, and when everyone was almost gone, I slapped on the door and shouted: "Old bachelor, what are you doing?" ”

But the room was silent, and the old bachelor ignored me, so I had to leave in a huff, and when I turned around, I found that my grandfather was standing behind me at some point.

"Grandpa, why are you here?" I was surprised.

"Of course, it's to see the excitement." Grandpa said. "I'll just say that these Taoist priests love to hold grudges, when the old bachelor woman was hanged on the old locust tree, how could it be forgotten, and now he finally can't hold it back."

"Grandpa, what do you mean by that?" I asked in a whisper, curious.

Grandpa said: "It was Zhang Laibao and Zhou Dachun's father who dragged the old bachelor woman to criticize and fight, those two people were so fierce and ruthless back then, and they were the vanguard of our village's Red Corps. ”

"You're saying that the old bachelor told them to go home and kill their own father?" I was taken aback by my grandfather's words.