The old man's words aroused our interest at once, and Xiao Jiuhong wanted to interject and ask, but I quickly stopped her, and Maitreya set three sets and two sets, so I asked the matter clearly. However, too long has passed since those things back then, and what the old man said was all rumors heard from the old generation.

This old well is actually a bit mysterious, more special, Huangshachang this place, the well will produce water, but it will dry up in a few days, only the water source of this well is continuous all year round, just because of this reason, the immortal view of the year, and the later Hu family, are built on this well. In the early days of the Republic of China, the Hu family's status in the Yellow River beach had plummeted, and it was barely a big local family.

One year, the Hu family had a few strange things one after another, and then began to die, I don't know why, the Hu family suppressed the matter, and tried their best to hide the news, but the family is still dead, almost every once in a while to die one, people died in the Hu family's old mansion, at that time the Hu family hired a cook is a southerner, one day in the middle of the night to get up to relieve his hands, he heard someone in the old house screamed a few times, he ran over in a daze to see. The screaming person was the favorite grandson of the old lady of the Hu family, only sixteen or seventeen years old, who fell to the door of his room, bleeding all over the ground.

When the cook ran over, the Hu family's family also arrived, and they immediately asked the cook to avoid it, and took that opportunity to see the body of the deceased, which was quite miserable. The corpse looked like it had been gnawed by something, its flesh and skin mutilated. The flesh on the arms and thighs was almost gone.

Subsequently, the Hu family resigned from all the old mothers, servants, and cooks hired up and down the family. The rumors leaked out, and there were different opinions, anyway, it was not a good word, and they all said that the Hu family was not clean. I calculated, at that time, the old knife had not yet been born, and the Hu family had withdrawn from the rivers and lakes for a long time, so it was estimated that there was no one with good skills.

The people of the Hu family were panicked, and after a while, they didn't know where to invite someone, who was very mysterious and pulled to the house overnight in a cart. That night, the Hu family seemed to be in chaos, and the whole old mansion seemed to be covered by dark clouds, rumbling like thunder.

The next day, the Hu family began to demolish the house, and then set up a new home three or four miles away. At that time, the nearby villagers were quite happy, because there was only this sweet water well within a radius of many miles, and the Hu family moved away, but the well could not be moved, and the locals could take water from the well to eat. But after the Hu family demolished the old house, they actually filled in the well. The villagers who provoked this time were very unscrupulous, and felt that the Hu family was too lonely, so they had to fill in the well when they moved away. The Hu family was already in decline at that time, but it was much stronger than the people of Pingtou, and for a period of time, no one touched the well, and after a few days, some brave people dug the well.

As soon as the well was dug up, the water inside was still sweet and sweet, and people from two nearby villages came here to fetch water. After the Hu family got the news, they immediately came over to stop it, and they didn't say why, anyway, no one was allowed to use this well. The two parties had a quarrel, there was a conflict, the Hu family had money, and finally suppressed the matter and filled in the old well again. Later, when the whole country was liberated, this matter was shaken out, so that the Hu family had been carrying the black pot for many years and couldn't raise their heads.

As soon as it was liberated, the Hu family couldn't control the situation, when Wu was in the zero year, the well was dug up, but this time it didn't take long for the well water to dry up suddenly, inexplicably, someone went down to the well to check, and once they went down, they never came up again. The third time, the person who went down tied a rope, to the bottom of the well, the rope began to shake, the person above pulled the rope hard, and there was a wail in the well, several people pulled the rope and did not let go, but the people down the well seemed to be stuck, and finally pulled up, and the person had become a pile of rotten meat.

The people in the Yellow River Beach originally believed a lot, and when there was such an accident, some people remembered that the Hu family did their best to prevent the villagers from using the well, and they ran to the Hu family to ask, the old lady of the Hu family was dead, and the rest of the people didn't know whether to pretend, or really didn't know anything, anyway, they didn't say anything, and they pushed it all away. Anyway, after tossing back and forth a few times, people died, and suddenly there was water in the well again, which was very strange.

But the good times did not last long, after a period of time, the well dried again, dry inexplicably, the villagers specially invited someone with experience in drilling wells from outside to come and see, that person also died in the well, and when he pulled it up with a rope, he had lost his breath. As soon as the master of the well died, water came out of the well again. After repeating this several times, the villagers suddenly understood a rule, if there are no dead people in the well, then it will always be, and unless there are dead people, the well water will reappear. The cost of eating the water in this well was too great, and at that time, various feudal superstitious activities were being cracked down, so the village opened up to fill the well.

After more than ten years, in the WG period, some people in the county went to the Yellow Sand Field, and those people were not afraid of heaven and earth, firmly believing that Marxism-Leninism could defeat everything, and took the initiative to dig a well. As soon as the well was dug up, the villagers still took water to eat, but this time it was the same as more than ten years ago, the well water dried up, and only when they died would there be water, and then they dried up, and then they died. At that time, the militia of the county came to check with a gun, and the militia captain was a man from Huangshachang, who had fought in North Korea, and he was very bold and did not believe in evil, so he personally went down the well with a gun.

"When Xiao Wang was dragged up by the rope, he still had a breath, but he was no longer human." The old man in the village said: "Two legs are gone, one arm is broken, and the brain is broken, he can be regarded as remembering this well, so many years, often come to the well to sit, grab the sand and throw it into the well, trying to fill the well." ”

Hearing the old man's story, I immediately remembered that the half-cut man I saw at the well last night, the half-cut man was so similar to what the old man said, and nine times out of ten it was the militia captain back then. He was the first person in so many years to go down to the old well and not die, his vitality was quite tenacious, and he was rescued after being pulled up, and he actually lived. But after living, the whole person was stupid and couldn't ask anything.

At that time, the people's mouths were the hardest, and they refused to admit that they couldn't handle the well, and they were afraid that they would die again, anyway, during the period, they didn't find much trouble with the Hu family. After a while, I was confused, and finally I filled the well. It wasn't until more than two months ago that a few young people in the village planned to dig the well again.

"I said it at the time, but the babies refused to listen." The old man in the village said: "The old well was dug for less than a month, and the well water dried up. ”

At this moment, more than ten years have passed since the time of WG, and the young man is young and vigorous, and he has not experienced the events of the year, so he doesn't know how dangerous the old well is. But there were dead people, and the well water came out, and a few days ago, the well water dried up for the first time.

Anyway, this is probably the case, there are dead people in the village, and they can't find the reason, so a group of people have a fire in their stomachs, so they go to find trouble with the Hu family. Fortunately, the old man of the Hu family is more forbearing, and when he encounters such a situation, even if he has nothing to do with him, he still calms down in the end.

After the old man in the village finished talking about these things, he saw that it was time for lunch, Maitreya chatted with them hotly, and the other party invited us to the village for dinner. There was nothing good in the countryside, and when I was filled with homely food, Maitreya winked at me.

Xiao Jiuhong and I found time to sneak out, Maitreya touched his chin and said: "That well, I always feel strange, I have been thinking about it for a long time, and I estimate that there is only one possibility." ”

"What is possible?"

"I can't tell, come with me first."

The three of us left the village, the back of the village is about less than a mile, there is a small mountain, the mountain is not big, but relatively high, the road is very steep, we climbed this mountain for the first time, tired enough, Xiao Jiuhong gasped, said: "Fatty, what do you want to show us." ”

"You'll know when you get there."

Without saying a word, Maitreya continued to climb and led us all the way to the top of the mountain. From here, you can see from far and near. When we had caught our breath, Maitreya pointed down the mountain and said, "Take a closer look." ”

I looked up, the village, the big river, the gentle slope, the hill, everything was clear, it was just a very ordinary place on the river beach, and I couldn't see anything.

"You have to look at it this way." Maitreya pointed to a hill under the mountain, which was only more than ten meters high, and then pointed to the depression where the terrain was naturally cracked, and guided little by little: "Do you understand?" ”

I thought about it, if I had separated those things from the large terrain according to Maitreya's instructions, then the large piece of land in front of the village would be vaguely like a person, a person lying flat on the ground. And the old well in front of the village happens to be in the middle of this "person".

"This is called the Lying Corpse Ground." Maitreya said: "Sure enough, this lying corpse is the most ferocious feng shui terrain, and the old well is in the middle of the heart of the lying corpse, where there must be something." ”

"What's in town?" I hesitated for a moment, because when I overheard the Red Lady and the Lu family's palm lamp talking, although what they said was more vague, I could still hear that the Hu family's old house seemed to have a faint connection with the people from the west. So I really want to know what happened to the Hu family's old house at that time, and what is hidden in this strange old well.

"I don't know what it is, but the Hu family invited someone to their home back then, and then moved immediately and filled in the old well, which has something to do with what they want from the town." Maitreya squinted his eyes and looked at the Hu family's mansion from the afterglow of the setting sun, and said, "This secret of the Hu family has existed since they demolished the old mansion. ”