Legend has it that it was in ancient times. To the south of Chenjiafang and Yijiaping, there used to be a large river running through the port. The name of the great river is Xijiang River. The water of the Xijiang River is clear, the green waves are slight, the green bamboos on both sides are in rows, the willows are shady, especially in the spring of March, the mountains are emerald green, the birds are singing and the flowers are fragrant, and the clouds and mist are wisps. Over time, the intoxicating beauty of the Xijiang River reached the ears of the carp essence of the Dragon Palace in the East China Sea. Hearing is false, seeing is believing, and the carp spirits in the Dragon Palace want to come to Xijiang River to find out. On this day, the carp spirits took advantage of the opportunity of the dragon king to go to heaven to pay homage to the queen mother, invited eighteen sisters, set off from the mouth of the Yangtze River, went up the river, crossed Poyang Lake, went down the Ganjiang River, all the way to the dust, and finally arrived at the Yijiaping and Chenjiafang sections of the Xijiang River. There are several stacks of rocky beaches in this section, the beach is three feet high, the river water rushes straight down, the water splashes in all directions, the rainbow reflects the sun, like a fairyland. The eighteen sisters felt the novelty and stopped to play and have fun. The carp spirits play in the water for a while, jump the dragon gate for a while, and hide and seek for a while...... They're playing! Play! Have fun! After forgetting the return date, the Dragon King of the East China Sea was furious when he returned to the palace. While scolding the court god loudly, he issued a decree to dry up the Xijiang River......

The water of the Xijiang River suddenly dried up, and the eighteen carp spirits who were playing were crying, making noise, and struggling, and they tried their best to return to the palace. In the end, he had to be trapped alive in the Xijiang River. Later, the body of the carp spirit slowly evolved into eighteen mountains. In the south of Yijiaping and Chenjiafang today, there are eighteen mountains of the same height and similar appearance standing in a queue. If you look closely, the eighteen mountains look like eighteen carps lying there. The people of Zhuangli call it the eighteen carp on the beach. To the north of the carp beach, there is a low-lying area several kilometers long and dozens of meters wide, and although it has been baptized for a long time, the traces of the river are still faintly visible.

The sudden drying up of the Xijiang River has caused a catastrophe to the people on both sides of the river, especially Chenjiafang, the terrain is already high, and now the river is dry, and the rice fields can not be planted with rice, even if they are planted with rice, they can only rely on the sky to eat. In a year with good rain, a few percent of the grain can be harvested, and in a drought year, the seedlings planted are almost not harvested. As a result, the people in the village had to leave their homes and flee for their lives. Although a hundred of them are unwilling to leave the hometown where he was born and raised, it is better than staying here and starving to death! As a result, Chenjiafang slowly turned into a dilapidated and sparsely populated village. After the Dragon King of the East China Sea learned about it, he regretted his rash actions that time, so he ordered the loach spirit to leave the palace and ask it to dig wells and deliver water along the banks of the original Xijiang River to benefit the people. One day, the loach spirit followed the dry river from east to west to the east end of Chenjiafang. He poked out of the ground to see a picture of depression and desolation. In midsummer, it is the period when rice is heading and flowering in the south, and the wide fields and harbors are overgrown with weeds and swarms of insects and rats. In the low-lying rice fields, although the seedlings were planted, the water in the rice fields had long dried up, and the seedlings with withered branches and yellow leaves stood in the cracked soil and were gently blown by the wind, staggering from side to side, and could no longer stand up. On the winding path, there was not a single pedestrian in sight. The village to the west of Tiangang has no life, and the once simple and simple earth-wood tile houses are gone; The village, once inhabited by dozens of families, has also been tormented beyond recognition by the years. There were two or three families living on the remnants of several half-eaves buildings, and a few sparse wisps of faint cooking smoke drifted out of the eaves and drifted towards the back mountain, and disappeared after a while. At this time, in the distance of the trail leading to Shuijiachong, two people, an old man and a young man, slowly came, the old one was carrying two bamboo tubes, and the few followed behind, jumping and jumping. Seeing this, the loach spirit wanted to try the character of this old man and young man, so he suddenly turned into a beggar in tattered clothes, lying under a camphor tree by the side of the road, panting and dying, looking like he was about to die.

"Grandpa, there's a guy sleeping here." I saw a beggar lying on the ground and quickly told my grandfather.

"How can anyone sleep here on a hot day? It may be that you are hungry or thirsty, and you can't walk. The old man gasped and replied softly to his grandson.

"Grandpa, give him some water to drink!"

"Hey," the old man nodded, and put the bamboo tube down.

Shao dragged a section of bamboo tube water put down by his grandfather, came to the beggar's side, pushed the beggar's body hard, and said, "Uncle, are you thirsty?" Drink water when you're thirsty. ”

The beggar first deliberately ignored it, and then took the bamboo tube and put it up, "Grunt...... Gollum ...... "I drank a bamboo tube of water in a few sips." While handing the bamboo tube back to the young one, he said: "The old man saved people to the end, ferried to the shore, let me take another sip?" ”

Without hesitation, the old man handed over another bamboo tube, "Drink!" Drink it! Drink enough! ”

"Grandpa, if he drank all our water, wouldn't we have no water? Save some for yourself. "It's a little reluctant.

"Save someone's life, win the seventh-level floating slaughter, let him drink it! We'll pick it up when we're done. ”

The beggar took another bamboo tube of water handed over by the old man, and drank the water in the bamboo tube by dividing it by two. After drinking, he didn't thank him, and continued to fall asleep.

The old man shook his head and said, "Poor thing! Poor thing! "I don't know if the old man is saying that he is pitiful to the beggar, or is he saying that he is pitiful? I saw that after he finished speaking, he picked up two empty bamboo tubes and turned back to the original place to carry water.

When the grandfather and grandson carried the water again to the camphor tree on the side of the road, the beggar was gone, but they saw that a well with a basin had appeared in the place where the beggar had slept just now, and the water of the well was crystal clear. The old man bent down, quickly scooped a palm of water with his palm, put it in his mouth and tasted it, and then exclaimed: "Good water!" Good water! "After saying that, he got down on his knees and bowed vigorously." The gods are coming! The gods have appeared. After worshipping, he pulled his grandson and staggered to the village, shouting loudly: "The gods are sending water, the gods are sending water......"

Later, the old man dug this well bigger, dug it deeper, and named it Zhangshu Spring Well. Since then, the water from the camphor spring well has become the main source of water for the people of Zhuangli to drink and irrigate the farmland in the port. Since then, no matter how long the drought lasts, the water source of the camphor spring well has never dried up. With the water of Zhangshu Spring, the number of people who returned to Chenjiafang to settle down gradually increased, and the name of Zhangshu Spring Well was passed down from generation to generation.

Nowadays, as long as it is summer and autumn, the people of Chenjiafang will set up ladders and ladders of four-person waterwheels around the spring well to irrigate the fields. Sometimes, in the event of a major drought, they would go up one ladder after another, and in the most years a total of 18 waterwheels were erected. The scene of the water is like a beautiful landscape, especially at night, next to each water wheel, a torch is lit, the breeze blows, the fire flashes and flashes, like a fire dragon, swaying from side to side, very spectacular.

Chen Zenger's home is located in the north of Chenjiafang Yani Upper Natural Village, and the small place is called Shangwuchang. Born in 1880, he was smart and clever from an early age, and when he grew up, he was even more diligent and self-motivated, and with a strong and sturdy body, he was a good young man in Chenjiafang. With a physical condition like his, in several nearby villages, even with lanterns, he couldn't find a second one. But fate seems to be against him, he has already reached the age of marrying a wife and starting a family, but he is still single. The kind-hearted matchmaker came to the door again and again to say goodbye, and the woman refused again and again on the grounds that Chenjiafang's natural conditions were poor, and it was not until he was thirty years old that he married a Liu woman from the neighboring village of Liujiawan. His wife is also considered to be angry for him, and he gave birth to four sons in a row in less than ten years, but because the family is not rich enough, the first son died a few days after birth, and the sentimental wife has a handful of snot and tears, and has been sad for a while.

Chen Zeng's family originally had some family business, but his father left them two tiled houses filled with mud and sand. The main house has four walls and three rooms, the horizontal house has six walls and five straights, and the two tiled houses have a total of six main houses and two halls. Chen Zenger has four brothers, and he is the second. When the brothers split up, their houses and furniture were distributed by lot. He and the eldest Chen Jinjin caught the main house, which is the four-walled three-room, the third brother Chen Zengda, and the fourth brother Chen Zengfan caught the horizontal house, which is the six-walled and five-straight building. The elder brother Chen Geng, who was naughty compared to the three brothers, grew up to be a little unprofessional, and was often scolded by his parents, so he ran away from home in a fit of anger, and later made a living in the city of Yuanzhou and became a family. Although the other person is not at home, the house has to be divided by lot when the family is separated. However, the house he got has always been lived in by his parents, and later their parents died, and the half-house of the eldest Chen Gengyang was naturally given to Chen Zenger to live in. In addition, Chen Zenger also has an older sister who married Tangzaichong, who is fifteen miles away from the neighboring township. Since the death of both of their parents, only during the New Year's holidays and celebrations, their siblings will get together for a meal, or stay for a night or two, and the rest of the time they will be busy with their own work and rarely interact.

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Thinking about it, Chen Zenger fell asleep unconsciously.

"Boom...... Rumbling ......" A loud thunder made Chen Zenger jump out of bed in shock. He said in shock: "Such a loud thunder, I don't know what that short-lived ghost has done, I'm afraid that I will be beaten by Lei Gong again!" ”

Then another bolt of lightning pierced the dark dawn, and through the cracks in the windows, the eaves of the roof penetrated, and the wind blew the whole house as if it were shaking from side to side, and then a torrent of rain fell from the sky, and the bean-sized hail smashed the roof tiles with a rattling sound.

"Son and his father, I'm afraid!" "Mother! I'm so scared! The wife and the eldest son, who was sleeping in the other bed, let out a scream that reached the ear.

Chen Zenger turned around and touched his wife's side, holding his second son in one hand and his wife in the other, and said, "Don't scold your mother, don't scold your father, Lei Gong is not afraid of heavy rain." ”

"Son and his father, will it fall to the sky?" Chen Liushi hugged her husband's body tightly with both hands, and asked with trembling hands and feet.

"Fool, how could the sky fall!"

"I'm afraid of toppling the house!" The wife shrunk her calves as she spoke.

"Don't be afraid! Unafraid! Don't be afraid of anything with me! Chen Zenger said as he tightened his wife's soft body.

"Quick! Hurry up to the rice jar to grab a handful of rice, and scatter it out of the window in three times, according to the old man, the rice valley is like a fairy, and it can suppress evil and drive away demons. The wife suddenly pushed her husband and said loudly.

"Good! I'll go! Chen Zenger followed his wife's wishes, touched the edge of the rice altar, gently grabbed a handful of rice with his hand, and touched it again