Chapter 132: Four Phoenix Springs
When I heard the word "resentment well", I felt strange in my heart.
I asked Wang Junhui about the situation of the grievance well, and he hesitated for a moment and said: "This matter is a long story, and I have not personally experienced it, I have listened to my master tell me." It's not appropriate to talk outside, it's better to do this, come to me, I'll call Lao Lin over too, and I'll tell him again when the time comes. ”
Also, more than 20 years ago, Wang Junhui was only six or seven years old, unless he was from that village. Otherwise, how can he experience it personally, even if he has experienced it personally, how much can he remember when he was six or seven years old
When I went to Wang Junhui's side, Xu Ruohui came to me with a rabbit and came over.
When he arrived at Wang Junhui's house, Lin Sen was already waiting at the door and entered the room. Li Yajing first boiled a pot of tea and poured a cup for each of us, and then Wang Junhui began to talk about the complaining well.
Legend has it that 20 years ago, in the middle of the Taihang Mountains, there was a village called Bainiaozhai, which was backed by the mountains, the traffic was remote, and all the fields were dry land that depended on the sky for food. Moreover, the people in the village have a problem with water, and they have to walk several kilometers to fetch water at every turn.
Hearing this, Xu Ruohui couldn't help but ask: "There is no water to irrigate the fields, and it is difficult to draft water, why did the ancestors of that village choose such a place?"
Wang Junhui said: "You have asked this, then I will first tell you a legend of this village." ”
Legend has it that before the Qing Dynasty, there was a stream in the ditch beside the fields in the village, and the water potential was not large, but the four seasons continued, and the fields in the village could be watered at that time, and several wells in the village were all watered. It is also very convenient for everyone to have water.
The source of the stream is in the mountain behind Bainiaozhai Village, and it is said that there are four springs inside, and water is sprayed out in spring, summer, autumn and winter, so that there is the stream that trickles continuously.
For the four springs, there is a legend in Bainiaozhai Village, saying that the spring was transformed by four phoenix birds that passed through here in ancient times.
"It's too exaggerated," I asked curiously.
Wang Junhui said with a smile: "How many villages are there in this Taihang Mountain, and how many villages have legends of their own villages, and some legends are more exaggerated than this." ”
Then Wang Junhui briefly talked about the legend of the phoenix bird turning into a spring.
It is said that in ancient times, there was no village in the generation of the bird village, the mountain here is excellent, but because there is no water, the trees are not prosperous, the creatures are scarce, one day four phoenix birds from the nest pass here, and find that the mountain here is peculiar, suitable for nesting. So they build a nest in the mountains for a living, the phoenix bird is the first of a hundred birds, and the phoenix bird lives here, and the nearby birds will naturally fly to worship.
There are even some birds that have nested nearby.
It's just that because there is no water in this mountain, many birds have to fly far away to drink. In order to deal with those birds, the four phoenix birds discussed, on the rotation of the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter, each season, from a phoenix bird into a mountain spring, attracting the water veins of the mountain, moisturizing this piece of mountain, but also warming the birds living here.
Later, I don't know how many years later, the mountains here are also green, the water is clear, and there are more creatures, and later people also found here, and established a village here, because there are all kinds of birds here, so the village is named Bainiao Village.
After living here for a long time, they knew that the stream here originally came from the mountain spring made by the four phoenix birds, and they were very grateful to those phoenix birds, and took the initiative to build a temple for the four phoenix birds, and the name of the temple was the Four Phoenix Temple.
In the temple, the locals gave the four phoenix birds the names of the immortals according to the season of the mountain spring turned into the four phoenix birds, and they were the four phoenix immortals of spring, summer, autumn and winter.
The establishment of the four phoenix temples, the incense of the people in the village has not been broken, and the four springs in the mountain have never been broken in the rotation of the four seasons.
Later, in order to repay the local people for hundreds of years of incense, the four phoenix birds were willing to incarnate into four springs and live forever in the deep mountains of this bird village.
This legend sounds very perfect, the four phoenix birds are righteous and fraternal, and the locals are simple and grateful.
At the same time, just listening to this legend, it will make people yearn for the place of Bainiaozhai, and they will not associate this village with the deserted village behind it.
When I heard this, I asked Wang Junhui: "Before you just said that before Guangxu was clear, there was water here, but after Guangxu, the water here disappeared."
Wang Junhui nodded, and when I asked what the reason was, Wang Junhui said something like that in the village.
It has been a thousand years since the establishment of the village in the village, although the legend of the phoenix bird turning into a spring is spread in the village, but there are few people who really believe it.
Therefore, the incense of the Sihuang Temple in the village became less and less vigorous, and they began to worship the traditional temples such as the land and the city god.
The Temple of the Four Phoenixes began to become unattended, but even so, the four springs still spewed water out in turn throughout the four seasons, and they never broke.
At that time, the Qing Dynasty was weakened, and many missionaries came to China, and many of these missionaries did not come with the purpose of passing on doctrines, they were just pseudo-missionaries, and their purpose was to pave the way for imperialist aggression.
One day, a white-skinned, blue-eyed foreigner came to Bainiaozhai and spread their religion in it, and that year, all the villagers of Bainiao Village became Catholics.
The blue-eyed foreigner had a Chinese name, Shanmu, and he was not a devout believer himself, and his real purpose in going there was not to convey a deal, but to the legendary phoenix bird.
So the first thing he did when he got there was to turn the Temple of the Four Phoenixes into a church.
At that time, the villagers were all confused by him, and they all agreed, plus for so many years, they had never seen the Four Phoenix Temple show its might, so almost everyone in the village participated in the reconstruction of the Four Phoenix Temple.
But on the day when the temple was completely transformed into a church, there was a heavy rain in the sky, thunder and lightning, and some villagers saw four fiery red phoenix birds flying away from the back mountain, and some people even said that they shed tears when they saw four phoenix birds.
Hearing this, I couldn't help but say: "The four phoenix birds have long become the four phoenix immortals of the locals, and the four phoenix temples have become their homes, those people destroyed the four phoenix temples, which is equivalent to driving away the four phoenixes, they are good with the generations of the bird village, but they have been expelled for no reason, and it is possible for them to cry." ”
Wang Junhui nodded and said: "That's right, the four phoenix birds originally had their own nests, but people tied up the four phoenix birds in the name of sealing immortals, of course, the four phoenix birds were willing to eat those incense, which also showed that they were willing to help the locals, but they didn't expect that it was the locals who named them, and it was also the locals who took the initiative to depose them, if this story is true, the four phoenix birds should be so sad." ”
Xu Ruohui also said: "That is, that place was originally the place where the four phoenixes and those birds lived, and people stood there, and tied the four phoenix birds in a human way, and now they are doing such a treacherous thing."
The three of us complained for a while, and Li Yajing smiled and said, "Okay, what's the use of you being indignant now, Junhui, you continue to talk, what happened later?"
Wang Junhui continued.
Since the four phoenix birds flew away, the spring water in the mountain is getting smaller and smaller, and it stopped completely after less than a month, the people in the village of these hundred birds were panicked, they drove away the foreigner called Shanmu, and restored the temple of the four phoenixes, but it has been useless, the four springs have not come back, and the four springs have not been sprayed from the beginning since the beginning except when it rains.
Over the past 100 years, Bainiaozhai has changed from a wealthy village with mountains and rivers to a poor village with difficult drafts.
After talking about this, I continued to ask Wang Junhui: "Does the current grievance well in Bainiaozhai Village have anything to do with the legends in the village?"
Wang Junhui nodded and said, "I don't talk about this so hard, it naturally has something to do with it." ”
More than 20 years ago, there was a college student in Bainiaozhai, and she was also a female college student.
Her name is Lin Bailing, she went back to the village after graduation to run for the village official, at that time the college students were still very valuable, so her campaign process was very smooth, after becoming a cadre, the first thing she did was to dig a well with the people in the village, she learned a lot of knowledge about finding water sources, and soon she found a suitable place in the village, and then took the people in the village to dig the well together.
It is also strange to say that there are a few places that are lower than the terrain of the well, but there is no water, but the place that Lin Bailing chose is on higher ground, and the well is drilled, and there is water in all seasons, although the water cannot be used to irrigate the land, but at least the water for drinking does not have to worry anymore.
The people in the village also began to thank her, and erected a merit monument to Lin Bailing by the well, naming the well Bailing Well.
Because Lin Bailing has contributed a lot to the village, she has been rumored to be more and more evil, and some people even say that she is one of the four phoenix birds that once flew away, and now she has returned to the village to save them.
Hearing Wang Junhui say this, I couldn't help but ask him: "Is that Lin Bailing really the reincarnation of the Four Phoenix Birds?"
Wang Junhui smiled at me and said, "What do you think?"
I also smiled awkwardly, "Who knows." ”
Wang Junhui continued.
After the well was repaired, many people in the village liked to go to the well to see if they had anything to do, and many people would go to the well to fetch water and wash their clothes, which was also very comfortable.
But one day, a woman in the village took her three or four-year-old child to the well to wash clothes, and because she was not paying attention, the child fell into the well and drowned.
This drowned child became a fuse for the transformation of Bainiao Village into a deserted village.
I was curious: "Could it be that the child turned into a ghost and started harming people"
Wang Junhui shook his head and said: "If that child becomes a ghost, I estimate that Bainiao Village will not become a deserted village, it is the hearts of the people in this village who have changed, and the hearts of people have changed, which is more terrible than ghosts and gods." ”
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