Chapter 9 The Well

According to Old Man Zheng, the location of Mao'er Village is far away from Chengdu, but it is also in Sichuan, at the gap between Shaanxi and Sichuan.

"Around our village, there are primeval mountains within dozens of kilometers, push forward for more than ten years, and the days spent there are similar to savages, Ru Mao drinks blood....... Old man Zheng smiled bitterly: "Now that I think about it, those days were really bitter, but I didn't worry about eating, the problem is that there is no water for a period of time every year.......

Old man Zheng said, took out a cigarette from his pocket, and took the initiative to send us a round, and finally lit it for himself.

"You want to know how these two little people came to be?" Old man Zheng asked.

We nodded in unison, waiting for him to tell us the origin of the villain!

"What if you're the bad guys?" Old man Zheng glanced at us and said with a smile: "It's like you think I'm a bad person, if I say it...... What are you going to do if you get these villains out of the species? ”

"What are we doing with them?" Qibao smiled, "We're just curious! Pure curiosity! ”

Old man Zheng didn't squeak, as if he was thinking about it.

"Where the hell did they come from?" Shippo asked.

"I don't think you're a good person." Old man Zheng said very directly: "Take a gun and hold people hostage..... That's not the way to go! ”

Qibao was a little embarrassed when he said this, and he lowered his head and smoked in confusion, and didn't dare to speak again.

"There are too many people who are interested in seeing wealth, and although it is not wealth, the meaning is similar." Old man Zheng sighed: "You are afraid of me, and I am also afraid of your ......."

"What do you want?" The old man asked.

"Take a poisonous oath." Old man Zheng smiled: "When I was a child, I heard the old people in the village say that those Mr. Yin and Yang are most afraid of retribution, since you are gentlemen, it is not difficult to make an oath, right?" ”

Mr. Yin and Yang is afraid of retribution? That's right!

Just because we gentlemen know the existence of retribution, we are afraid of retribution, how can we dare to swear poison when we open our mouths and close our mouths?

"Just send it." The old man simply raised his hand, as if taking an oath, and said seriously: "I, Shen Kurong, swear, if I have crooked thoughts about these villains, I will definitely not die well when the sky thunders." ”

"What about you?" Old man Zheng turned his face sideways and glanced at us.

Under the gaze of his gaze, we had no choice but to follow the old man's text and swear a poisonous oath as usual.

"Hey! Old gentleman! We've all sworn by it! You should have said that, right? Shippo asked impatiently.

Old man Zheng smiled, nodded and said, "The origin of these villains...... It may sound a little unrealistic, but the reality is that way. ”

As he spoke, he sighed deeply, and his expression became complicated.

"Mao'er Village is not big, but there are many legends that have been passed down from generation to generation, especially the kind of stories about mountain spirits and wild monsters, which are countless......," said Old Man Zheng, smoking a cigarette: "Nearly half of these local local stories are about the legends of Lilliputia. ”

Lilliputia?

Is there such a thing??

"The old people in the village often say that a long, long time ago, there was a waterhole near Mao'er Village...... "Old man Zheng said, with a look of recollection: "The water of that waterhole is very clear, and it still has a sweet taste in the mouth, but the deeper you look, the darker the color of the pool becomes, and you can't see the bottom ....... at all."

"You're still short of water with this pool?" Shippo interjected curiously.

"No." Old man Zheng smiled: "Because this is just a legend, since I can remember, the people in the village have never found that waterhole." ”

"Lilliputians you are talking about...... What does it have to do with this waterhole? Chang Longxiang asked.

"That waterhole dries up for a period of time every year, starting in February and continuing until June." Old man Zheng suppressed his throat and whispered to us: "Whenever it dries up, the bottom of the waterhole will be exposed, I heard that the inner wall of the waterhole is full of stone bricks, it looks like a man-made well, and there is a stone door in the lower position.......

Speaking of this, Old Man Zheng's eyes lit up, and he said excitedly: "Behind that stone door, there is the legendary Lilliputian Kingdom!" ”

"Isn't that right?" Chen Qiuyan couldn't help but ask: "If there is really a door, and it is made of stone, it is very likely to leak...... Don't you want to drown them in Lilliputia? ”

"There are some things that science can't explain." The old man smiled: "Maybe it's better sealed?" ”

"I don't know if the seal is good or not, but I dare say that this door is real......."

Hearing Old Man Zheng say this, everyone was silent, looking at him curiously and excitedly.

"Eleven years ago, a heavy rain washed away the mountains behind our village." When Old Man Zheng said this, his voice slowly deepened, and the expression on his face was very complicated, with a sense of unbearable recollection: "After the collapse, a spring came out of the mountain.... No, it should be a borehole. ”

According to Old Man Zheng, the borehole was not big, that is, about one square meter, and it was originally covered by a large stone slab, which happened to be opened by the villagers, and then its true body was revealed.

The inner wall of the borehole is made of stone bricks, and the edges are very smooth, as if they have been polished manually, and they look a little reflective.

"The water in there is very clean, you can ......drink it directly," Old man Zheng took a puff of cigarette, and his expression became more and more heavy: "At that time, the old people in the village pondered, the area of this well is not large, but the characteristics are very similar to the legendary waterhole......."

"You're going down to see it?" I asked curiously.

"Nope." Old man Zheng sighed: "The water is too deep, and it is bitterly cold, and the space in the well is too small, so you won't be able to come up if you go down." ”

As he spoke, Old Man Zheng suddenly smiled bitterly and shook his head incessantly.

"We were so glad at the time..... I think this is God's opportunity for us to Mao'er Village....... The two old wells in our village have bottomed out....... If you can't find a suitable water source....... The consequences are unimaginable........"

"Make sure that the water in that well is not poisonous, and our village can be regarded as escaping until February of the following year......." Old man Zheng gritted his teeth: "That well is dry." ”

"Lao Zheng!! Lao Zheng!! Don't say it, don't say it!! The little man with a thicker voice yelled directly in the wooden box, and his tone was full of panic: "Don't talk about my family anymore!" ”

At this moment, another little man also spoke, but did not shout, just whimpered and cried.

"The well is dry, so you went down, right?" The old man asked.

"Yes, I was the most courageous person in the village at that time, so I was on my back to go down the well." Old man Zheng gritted his teeth and said, "There is a spring at the bottom of the well, which should be connected to the underground river, it is the size of a fist, and when you get closer, you can hear the sound of water underground." ”

As he spoke, Old Man Zheng clenched his fists, his body trembled slightly, I don't know if he was afraid or because of what, he couldn't speak.

"In ..... On the inner wall of the well..... There is indeed a stone door...... It's about half a meter high......." said the old man Zheng, "There are many artificially carved totems on the door...... It's all the kind of beasts that can't tell the history........"

Listening to Old Man Zheng, when he found this stone door, he was also a little excited, and almost subconsciously knocked on the door with his hand.

If you don't knock on it, there will be an echo in the door, and the sound is very dull, and it makes people feel muffled to listen to it.

After knocking for a minute or two, and seeing that there was no other movement, he dared to open the stone door.

"I haven't had time to kick it yet...... And they opened the door for me......"

"They?" The old man nodded: "Residents of Lilliputia, right?" ”

"It scared the hell out of me...... The door is pull-out...... It's like there's a mechanism...... You can pump it up by yourself,......." Old man Zheng smiled bitterly: "There are seven villains who open the door, each holding a torch as thick as chopsticks, I still remember that the fire coming out of those torches is blue, and it looks particularly eye-catching." ”

As soon as the words fell, Old Man Zheng suddenly had red eyes, as if he was about to cry, he raised his hand and rubbed it.

"But I didn't think of it at the time....."

"It's because of my knock....... brought ruin to these villains......."

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