Chapter Forty-Eight: Huangquanjing
I don't know if my self-righteous speculations are correct. But the ancient well at the bottom of the sea seems to be the source of this series of strange events, and I am determined to go in and have a look.
All I can do next is to wait and wait for another round of changes in the amount of water in Haizi.
I sometimes suddenly get very worried, and I'm worried that if I guess wrong, they didn't get into that ancient well. If I rush in, I will push myself into an unimaginably dangerous situation.
But if Wenmo, Kong Xue, Shi Tao, and Dawuti didn't go into the ancient well, then this matter would be even more weird. I can only think that they were taken away by aliens.
In any case, in my current situation, I cannot survive in the desert alone. And if you get out of here and out of the desert, theoretically speaking, this can be done, after all, the camels are here. But there's absolutely no way I'm going to do that, there's no way I'm going to leave alone without figuring out where the others are going. So in a sense, I've fallen into a desperate situation.
I looked at the ancient well from afar, and for a moment I only felt that it was eerie, and the mouth of the black hole seemed to be the entrance to hell.
I once heard my grandfather tell me that most of the wells are ordinary wells, and a very small number of wells are called Huangquan Wells! The so-called Huangquan Wells refer to those wells that happen to be connected to underground rivers, and the water in them is not ordinary buried groundwater, but the water of underground rivers.
In fact, it sounds like the two wells are just different water sources, and there is no essential difference, but why is the well that connects to the underground river called Huangquan Well? At the time, I didn't understand, and I asked my grandfather the same thing.
So my grandfather told me about an incident he had experienced back then, and now looking back, what he experienced seems to be somewhat similar to today's scene.
When my grandfather was young, he followed his father and learned medical skills, my grandfather is not like my second uncle, Jiao'er Lang should not do his job, the second uncle has followed his grandfather for many years, and he has not learned six or seven out of ten of my grandfather's medical skills.
Grandpa is serious, people are also smart, young medical skills have been quite clever, he likes to follow the ancients to travel the north and south of the river, in my grandfather's own words, he likes to go to the feeling of Fang Langzhong, there is a sense of mission to help the world.
But now I know from listening to the second uncle that grandpa is not just a langzhong, and the best thing for the descendants of Faqiu is still the technique of inverting the pulse and fixing the pulse, so when I recall my grandfather's experience of traveling around in the past, I suddenly have a thought, will he be the same as the second uncle now, dividing the Jinqing tomb in all directions, looking for dragon points. However, grandpa's methods are much better than that of the second uncle, and not everyone can do that one-armed stunt of exploring yin and yang.
It is said that one day my grandfather came to a village, which was built on the mountain and was home to about 100 families. After the chief of the village learned that his grandfather was Langzhong, he was very excited, and for the first time he came from outside the mountain to see the real Langzhong, which looked much more powerful than the barefoot doctor on the next mountain.
After knowing that grandpa was just passing through here, the chief warmly invited grandpa to stay for a few more days, but grandpa was gracious, so he nodded and agreed. Although there is no jade food and seafood in the village, but the mountain treasures are still indispensable, and the grandfather goes to the nearby mountains to walk around every day when he is full, and the life is also comfortable. Occasionally, he would help the people in the village to see if he was sick, but he was also deeply loved by everyone.
After staying for two days, Grandpa suddenly discovered a strange thing, this village is not big, there is a well in the east and west of the village, but Grandpa noticed that both the people who live in the east and the west of the village will go to the east of the village to fetch water, but the well on the west side is empty.
Grandpa went to ask the chief of the security department the reason for this, but the chief of the security department couldn't say why. Grandpa had to go and investigate it himself, and the well on the west side didn't look unusual. It's just that the water level here is much lower than the well to the east.
But that shouldn't be the reason why people don't come here either. As soon as Grandpa stood by the well and turned around, he saw the old Zeng Tou who lived next to him coming back from the east of the village with two buckets of water.
Grandpa's heart moved, so he stepped forward to talk. Lao Zeng saw that he was a newcomer to the village, and immediately behaved very respectfully.
Grandpa looked at the two buckets of water at Lao Zengtou's feet, "Why do you guard a well and go to the east of the village to fetch water?" Isn't this a reluctance to seek the near and far! ”
Lao Zengtou sighed, "Buy a way, the water in this well can't be used!" ”
"Can't be used?" Grandpa was stunned, "The water in the well seems to be cool and clean, why can't it be used?"
Lao Zengtou suddenly lowered his voice, "Sir, you don't know, this well is very evil, I don't know what is down here?" In the early years, this well was actually quite good, the water was sweet and delicious, even better than the water from the well in the east! But a few years ago, there was an earthquake here, and although it was not serious, since then, the well has changed. ”
A well can still change, grandpa is a little confused, "Is the water quality getting worse?" ”
Lao Zengtou shook his head, "It's okay to say that the water quality is worse, but the key is that there are more things in the water." ”
Grandpa was stunned when he heard this, "There are too many things in the water, it can't be a fish!" ”
Lao Zeng leaned in and whispered, "It's bones, human bones!" ”
"Human bones?" Grandpa couldn't help but be surprised, "How could there be human bones in the well?" ”
"It's not just human bones, sometimes there are shriveled human hands or human feet." Lao Zengtou pointed to a family next to him, "I remember that year, once Er Wang fetched water from the well, and he actually salvaged a human head, with long hair, a shriveled face, and two black hole eyes looking straight at Er Wang. Lao Zengtou said while subconsciously staying away from the well.
"There could be such a thing!" Grandpa thought it was unbelievable and unbelievable.
"What I'm saying is true! If I tell a nonsense, I'll just fall into the well and drown!" Lao Zeng swore and said, "You don't know, Erwang was so scared that he peed his pants at that time!" I didn't get out of bed for three days! ”
Grandpa looked at Lao Zengtou's expression and felt that he should not be lying. Grandpa's curiosity immediately soared, and he was eager to explore, it seems that this is the inheritance of our Zhuo family, and the second uncle in the back, including me now, is not like this, otherwise he would not have fallen into such a field!
Grandpa wanted to ask a few more questions, but the chief of the security department passed by, and when he heard a few words, he immediately said to Lao Zengtou: "Zeng Lao Liu, let me tell you, you don't have to talk nonsense with Mr. Zhuo here, don't look for trouble!" ”
Lao Zengtou hurriedly smiled, and hurriedly returned to his home with water. Seeing that his grandfather was staring at him, the chief was going to pretend to be calm and get through the test, but how sharp his gaze was, and the chief's psychological defense line was quickly broken.
Without waiting for grandpa to ask anything, the chief of the security department talked by himself, "Alas, Mr. Zhuo, you don't know, I can't help it, this kind of thing can be pressed, so as not to really cause any chaos!" ”
Grandpa also understands the chief's statement, after all, as the head of a village, it is his responsibility to ensure the peace of one party. Grandpa asked strangely, "Since this well is so evil, why don't you just seal it up!" ”
The chief of the security guard smiled bitterly, "Mr. Zhuo, do you think we don't want to, we have done such a thing a long time ago, but we can't stop it at all." We first covered the wellhead with bluestone slabs, but once we covered the wellhead, the water in the well began to bubble out suddenly, as if something was about to come up! Frightened, we quickly removed the bluestone slab, and it was strange to say that after opening the well, the water inside also returned to calm. Since then, we have never dared to touch this well casually! ”
Grandpa nodded, "I see!" ”
The chief looked around at no one, and said softly to his grandfather: "I once asked the master in this area, and the master said that this well is probably a yellow spring well, and the Styx River crosses the well, and the ghosts gather, so don't move rashly!" ”
Grandpa had heard of this Huangquanjing before, but according to Lao Zengtou, the change of this well occurred after an earthquake, so it must have been that earthquake that changed some underground structures that caused this well to become the so-called Huangquanjing.
At that time, my grandfather had only attended a private school and had no higher education, so he didn't know what the geological structure was, but despite this, he could still think that the changes in the well were related to the structure of the underground, which was really admirable.
Grandpa speculated based on what was salvaged from the well that there must be a tomb connected to the well, and it was probably a group burial tomb, which is why there were so many bones.
Grandpa told the chief of security his speculation, and the chief of security could not understand his grandfather's train of thought for a while, so he listened to it with suspicion. hurriedly took grandpa back to his residence.
The next day, as soon as Grandpa got up, he heard a strange thing, Lao Zengtou, who lived in the west of the village, disappeared, and people only found a pair of shoes of Lao Zengtou on the edge of the Huangquan Well, which were neatly placed next to the eaves, as if they were placed next to the bed. Apparently it was carefully placed.
People lit torches and went down the well, only to find that Lao Zengtou's clothes were floating in the water. The chief wanted the village boy to go down to the well to see if Lao Zengtou had fallen into the well.
But no one in the village was willing to go down, and despite the chief's best efforts to cover it up, there was no impermeable wall in the world. So no one wants to go down and go to "Yellow Springs".
Just when the chief complained that the people in the village couldn't save him when he saw death, suddenly his grandfather stood up and said, "Let me go down and have a look!" ”