Chapter 298: The Ancient Temple in the Mountains
The sun brings vigor, hope and vitality, while the moon makes people feel quiet, distant and peaceful, at this time it is already the end of summer and the beginning of autumn, and the top moon is fast and refreshing.
Thirteen's volley speed is almost the same as that of the Jade Whisk, and the large amount of Neidan that Zuo Dengfeng fed it before has gradually taken effect, and Thirteen's current fur color has begun to turn yellow, although there is still a certain gap from the noble golden yellow, but after all, it is developing step by step to the good.
Since ancient times, talented and beautiful women will choose to spend the moon before the moon, that is because the soft moonlight makes people more emotional, the jade whisk at the moment with a bun, white clothes fluttering, slender limbs slightly swinging, ups and downs calmly, under the background of the moonlight, the woman is elegant and charming.
"Why did you give the Chengying Sword and that Daoist artifact to Du Qiuting?" Jade Fu asked.
Zuo Dengfeng frowned suddenly when he heard this, Yufu's words seemed casual, but in fact they had a deep meaning, if he answered positively, he would immediately face emotional problems.
"I have the Xuanyin handguard, this is my most handy weapon, I will wear this robe until the end, and it is useless to ask for those Taoist clothes." Zuo Dengfeng said.
Hearing this, Yufu nodded, and didn't say anything more.
The distance of less than 100 miles is nothing to the two of them, and after half an hour, the two of them rushed to the area, and there is relatively little cultivated land in the plains of Zhouzhi County, and the mountains and forests account for more than half of the area, which is a relatively remote and poor area.
At this time, the wheat had been harvested, and corn and other crops were growing in the few cultivated fields.
"It's not like a big drought." Zuo Dengfeng frowned and shook his head.
"It's a great drought, look at the trees on the hills." Jade Whisk stretched out her hand and pointed westward.
Zuo Dengfeng turned around and looked west when he heard this, and found that most of the weeds and shrubs between the mountains and fields in the southwest have dried up, and most of the leaves are curled, usually the leaves will be slightly curled when they are scorched by high temperature during the day, and they can stretch out when the humidity is heavy at night, and it is now midnight, and the leaves of the weeds and shrubs here are still curled, which means that they have been in a state of lack of water.
"What's going on?" Zuo Dengfeng frowned and spoke.
"Wells, wells here." The jade whisk moved ten feet east, and stretched out his hand to point to a well in the field.
Zuo Dengfeng immediately swept over, looked down, and found that the well was no more than three feet wide, less than five feet above the ground, the well water was sufficient, and the surrounding crops did not dry up precisely because there was well water to irrigate.
"If there are marls hiding in this area, it will cause the water table to drop, and there shouldn't be such shallow wells." Yufu said.
Zuo Dengfeng did not immediately intervene when he heard this, but looked down at the stones that built the well, which were covered with thick moss, which showed that the well had been used for many years.
"Look again." After Zuo Dengfeng finished speaking, he raised his breath, looked around the left and right, and found another well not far from the north side.
Zuo Dengfeng ran his aura and swept to the ancient well on the north side and looked down again, and found that the size and depth of this well were exactly the same as the previous well, except that there were muddy water stains around the well, which showed that someone had drawn water from here to water crops before.
"What's wrong?" Yufu, who came later, saw Zuo Dengfeng's brows tightened, and asked questions in confusion.
"The mountains here are high in the southwest and low in the northeast, and it stands to reason that the groundwater will flow from west to east, but these wells are arranged from north to south, which means that the groundwater veins flow from north to south, which is not logical." Zuo Dengfeng shook his head and said.
"It's rare, but it's not uncommon." Jade Fu shook her head and said.
Zuo Dengfeng heard that there was no interface, and after quickly raising it, he found a third well on the north side, and the two of them quickly swept there.
"How can all these wells be dug at the dam of the field and the junction of two fields." Zuo Dengfeng frowned and spoke.
"Is there anything wrong with making it easier for farmers to irrigate?" Yufu asked, she is a southerner, usually lives in the mountains, and does not understand the structure of the northern fields.
"There is nothing unusual about the location of the wells, but the shape of the fields is wrong, and the fields in the area where the wells are located are not of regular shape, which means that there are fields first, wells later, and the most important thing is that there should be no water veins in the location of these wells." Zuo Dengfeng closed his eyes and shook his head, tidying his thoughts.
Yu Fu nodded when he heard this, the people in the Dao Gate are proficient in yin and yang gossip, and they naturally know the art of public opinion, and there should indeed be no underground water veins in this area, so the groundwater here appears very strangely.
"There is only one explanation for this situation, and that is that there are people in the Taoist sect who have changed the underground water veins." Zuo Dengfeng frowned and spoke.
"Modifying and moving the underground water veins at least requires the cultivation of purple qi and the corresponding spells, and the person who can change the underground water veins will definitely be able to discover the existence of the drought fish, in this case, why didn't he just get rid of the drought fish, and adopted this method of making up for the surname." Yufu also frowned, the current clues seem to be extremely contradictory, under normal circumstances, if the people in the Dao Sect encounter a similar situation, they will use the method of drawing wages from the bottom of the kettle to directly get rid of the drought, and they will definitely not waste time and effort to modify the underground water vein, which is a hundred times more difficult than subduing the drought.
"Let's take a look down the well." Zuo Dengfeng couldn't think of a reason, so he could only sweep north again.
These wells are not sparse and dense, the two wells are only two miles apart in the near place, and there is no one in the far more than ten miles, in addition, the wells are not a single line extension, but intertwined with each other like a spider web, some wells are located in a relatively normal location, located on the normal water veins, but the depth of such wells is generally deeper.
For an hour in a row, the two of them searched along the well in the longitude and latitude, but until the end of the Zuo Peak, they did not find a pattern, but he determined two things, first, the weeds and trees in the mountains where there are no wells are in a state of water shortage, which indicates that there are indeed droughts in Zhouzhi County, and second, there are people in the Daomen who have changed the direction of the water veins, so that although this area is drought, it does not affect the growth of crops and the lives of residents.
"Is this guy fed?" Zuo Dengfeng was a little irritable under the puzzle, this Taoist people in Zhouzhi County wantonly modified the underground water vein, strictly speaking, this is a move against the sky, even if it is not against the sky, it also belongs to the land, because the underground water vein can not be modified at will, otherwise it will have an impact on the ground atmosphere in the east area, this situation is like interception, leaving the groundwater source here, the groundwater in the east area will be less, and it will have a certain impact on the residents there, which is an out-and-out violation of the rules of heaven.
"There's only one plausible explanation, and that's that this person is protecting the droughts hidden here." The jade whisk is the right color opening.
"It's possible." Zuo Dengfeng nodded when he heard this, the drought fish is a monster, and when it is met by the people in the Daomen, it will usually be surrendered, even if he is too lazy to do it, he will not try his best to protect it, but according to the current situation, the people in this Daomen are indeed protecting the hidden drought here, because he minimizes the adverse effects caused by the drought fish, and no one will meddle if it does not affect the lives of the residents here, this is a means to protect the drought fish.
"There's one other thing I'm worried about right now." Jade Fu frowned and spoke.
"What." Zuo Dengfeng raised his hand to look at his watch, it was already four watches.
"Mortals don't have such great ability to carry out such a huge project, if this drought is protected by immortals, we will be in great trouble." Jade Whisk looked solemn.
"It's just that there are no immortals to protect me, and the more immortals protect me, the more I have to kill it." Zuo Dengfeng sneered when he heard this, when Wu Xinyu died, he had prayed to the heavens in every way, but without the immortals taking care of him, the immortals would not interfere in mortal affairs, and if there were immortals interfering in mortal things, he would feel a strong injustice.
"Don't be upset, I'm just guessing." Yufu understood what Zuo Dengfeng was thinking.
"If my yin and yang life and death recipe is still there, I will be keenly aware of the existence of yin qi, and I won't have to bump around like I am now." Zuo Dengfeng snorted angrily.
"We can look for it according to the direction of the mountain, and the land of extreme shade ......"
"No, I thought about it, the impact of the drought is spread in a circle, and if you find the wells at the very edge, you can deduce the middle area, and the middle area is where the drought is located." Zuo Dengfeng had a flash of inspiration and interrupted Yufu's words.
"It's a good idea." Jade Fu smiled and nodded.
Zuo Dengfeng immediately grabbed the thirteen on his shoulders and swept eastward, the thirteen inner pills did not fully recover, and Zuo Dengfeng was reluctant to let it waste aura.
Legend has it that the drought can be thousands of miles away, in ancient times, "thousand" is just an adjective, generally refers to many, wide, is not an accurate number, the two went east two hundred miles to find the end of the well, these wells were not built, just a pool of clear water.
"It's dawn, go back and say hello, so as not to be suspicious of Master Mingjing." Yufu stretched out his hand and grabbed Zuo Dengfeng, who wanted to turn back.
"It's fine." Zuo Dengfeng nodded in agreement, and then turned back to the south.
Back to the hotel where they stayed, the two of them swept into the courtyard softly from the back wall, the door of the hotel is a wooden door, there will be a sound when it is opened, after the jade breeze opens the door, Zuo Dengfeng walks to the front yard with heavy steps, causing the illusion that the jade breeze opens the door to send him out.
When he returned to the room, Tie Shoe opened his eyes and glanced at him, then closed his eyes instead, this time he didn't chant again, in order to let Zuo Dengfeng have a good rest.
Zuo Dengfeng lay on the bed and closed his eyes to rest, and after getting up early, the three of them had breakfast together, and the two went out with Thirteen again.
"I have to get the drought over today, it's been a bit long, I'm worried that Master Mingjing will be suspicious." Zuo Dengfeng looked back at the inn.
"The approximate range was determined last night, and today we only need to look for the area in the middle, so there must be no problem." Jade Whisk nodded and said.
When they reached a place where no one was around, the two of them immediately accelerated in the air, and last night they traveled two hundred miles eastward, and what they had to do today was to shift a little south and look back, so that they could determine the center point by the arc of the two positions.
An hour later, the two found their destination, a temple in the middle of a mountain, a temple of the same size as Shimizukan, small, old, and deep in the forest.
If this is a deserted temple, the two of them will definitely not be suspicious, but from a distance, they can clearly see that the temple is inhabited, how can zombies hide in the temple......