The black water has not yet receded, these days of the village, can only go to the mountain market well to draw water, there is a Han village, here the Han people, the Dong people, the Miao people get along very well, but this kind of harmony can only show that their well water does not violate the river water. If there is always one party to share their own water and soil, this harmony will be broken little by little.

Although the lord of the village, that is, the uncle, has said to the steward of the Han village that the river water in the village is different, these days the people in the village want to borrow the water of their village, and when the river water is clear, they will use the water back to the village. Naturally, this water is not in vain, and the uncle has already given this village fifty taels of silver. These fifty taels of silver are by no means a small number for this village, the whole village sells the five bitter seeds to the Elixir Division for a year, and can earn more than 100 taels of silver, and the rest of the people go down the mountain to sell medicinal herbs and earn less than 20 taels for a whole year. And this year, they folded the five-flavor bitter seed business, and the more than 100 taels of silver don't know where to fill it.

But the people of the mountain are the most moral, they regard it as a precious thing to others, and it is also the general thing that they regard the river water as the life of the village, and naturally they also regard the well water as the life of the Han people, and it is reasonable to produce such a valuable silver coin.

Just because you give money doesn't mean everything will be smooth. A well, if a village people come here, it must be enough, but these days, the people of the village also come to the village in the morning to fetch water, so there is a lot of congestion next to the well. In crowded places, there will naturally be right and wrong, and even the inconvenience caused by congestion can cause friction: who stepped on whose foot, whose water spilled a little on whom, and so on are countless when people are congested. There will always be people who can't stand this kind of "excitement".

There was a scuffle next to the well, and the crowd split into a mess, several buckets fell to the ground, water splashed everywhere, and the street was soaked. The crowd is tearing, and such a beating will not be silent, it will definitely be accompanied by some scolding

"What are you doing, you" Someone pushed a young man, and then several young men surrounded him.

Someone shouted, "Go back to your mountains."

"What are you talking about?"

"We paid the money, and it was your steward who asked us to come here. ”

"The bucket you're waiting for has touched my daughter-in-law's clothes," said the man, who put his fingertip on the forehead of one of the young men.

"That is, you should also talk about some rules when you come here to fetch water. What are you doing like a ghost, do you want to get more water or something? The old lady who was fetching water on the side also participated.

One of the people naturally couldn't bear it anymore, and went over and asked, "What do you mean by this?"

Someone pushed the man, "This is my mother, you dare to talk to her like this?"

"She's your mother, not mine, I didn't take it for nothing when I came here to fetch water, why did she talk like that?" said the young man.

"That's right, if it weren't for the river disaster in our village, how could we come here to suffer your anger?"

The quarrel is getting more and more intense, and the consequences of this will inevitably lead to fighting.

The village elders came, and a few strong men separated the two groups of people who were fighting next to the well, and a few village elders in charge stepped forward and asked, "What's going on, why are you waiting for no reason to fight?"

A young man said: "You village elders came just in time, the owner of my village came here to pay water money to your village, why do the people in your village still treat me like this?"

An old man asked, "What is the displeasure of the people in my village?"

The people told a few village elders what had just happened, and one of the village elders said to the old woman who spoke to the other party: "Sixth uncle, you are such an elder, how could such a thing happen to fan the wind and light the ghost fire on the side?"

The sixth uncle said: "You people in charge, how can you just listen to the words of these strangers? they are so ignorant of the rules, the water is everywhere, and I am an elder, so their words ......"

The man who spoke: "You also said that you are an elder, is your words what an elder should say?"

The son of the sixth uncle stepped forward and wanted to do it again, but was stopped by the strong man next to the old man in the village, and the young man immediately shouted: "Will you wait for the nest, do we have a penny after receiving the water money?"

When the strong men saw the stewards' eyes, they directly escorted the man out of the crowd, and the young man was still roaring, scolding and scolding intermittently, until he was far away from the crowd. The sixth uncle was also a little unhappy, and said, "You ...... Folks, you have also seen that my son just told the truth, and they will cure my son's sin, what kind of reason is this?"

These six uncles have such a temper, and once something happens, they are left with such a sloppy trick. Fortunately, she gets along well with the villagers on weekdays, of course, this harmony is when she doesn't lose any advantage, once there is no advantage to take advantage of, or others take advantage of it, she will break this harmony by herself. Such people can be seen everywhere in the world, such as in the village and the Han people. Eating hard and not soft is the best word to describe them.

Zhai Lao said: "My village has been living in harmony with neighbors since the establishment of the village, in the mountains of the southeast of Guizhou, the cottages are dotted, and the Han people, the Dong people, and the Miao people have been harmonious for generations. There are so many cottages, people of all ethnic groups should help each other, how can they sweep the snow in front of their doors? Moreover, our ancestors came here to avoid the war in the Central Plains, and it is thanks to the care of various villages that they have been able to prosper so far. The ancestors have said that my cottage has been friendly and mutual assistance with the surrounding villages for generations, and must not violate the covenant of harmony between the villages.

The sixth uncle did not answer,

The old man continued: "The reason why our village has been able to prosper since the establishment of the village is that it depends on the mutual support of the villages in southeast Guizhou, and on the other hand, it depends on the strict rules of my village. Today, the sixth uncle, your mother and son have broken the rules, and your son has broken the covenant between our village and the village, and you have spoken disrespectfully, and you, as an elder, have not only not persuaded the young people of the two villages, but have added bad words here, and if something happens, you will play tricks here, if you don't punish your mother and son, how will we manage the cottage in the future?"

Hearing this, the sixth uncle panicked, and immediately got up and cried: "Folks, you know what happened this morning, my wife has lived in this cottage for almost sixty years, and several generations have known my wife, although my wife has more words in the cottage, but it is by no means the kind of person in your mouth, today is so slanderous, my wife can't stand it"

Among the elders of the village, you have another humane: "Your son said that I will not share the water money from the village, then let me ask you, a few days ago, did the mules and horses that your family transported grain into the city give to you in my village for nothing? These mules and horses came down from the sky? We respect your family's long time in the village, so we first distributed the newly bought mules and horses to your family, and now you and your son even say that my village is not ......."

The sixth uncle knew that she was wrong, so she stopped talking, she was used to using such silence to deal with such a dilemma. The young man who had just made trouble muttered: "Zhai elders, I and Neiko are both wrong, in this place with many people, it is common sense to sprinkle some water, today's matter ...... I'm sorry brothers. ”

Naturally, the young men didn't take such a thing to heart, and after returning the salute, they lined up again to fetch water.

The sound of horses' hooves sounded from a distance, and the people who fetched water looked to the side of the street, and sure enough, there were five horses coming, and those five people were Pu Mu, Duan Gan Weifeng, Bai Yang, Li Defei, and Guo Yu had such a strange case when the commander of the Ouchi came to the knot, and they were all four people out of the palace, but this time it was five people who came, and they thought that the situation was serious, and they needed to send another cadre, otherwise how could it be?

They don't know how this group of people came to the countryside in the southeast of Guizhou, they are not like the people in the southeast of Guizhou, because the horses here are shorter, and the horses under their crotches are high, looking at these horses, the old people guessed that these are people outside the southeast of Qiandong, and some of the old people saw that the boots of these people were not ordinary people, so they looked at the figure of these people going up the mountain and sighed.

After the crowd fetched water in turn, they dispersed, and only the group of village elders were left next to the well, and a strong man next to him stepped forward and asked the sighing village elders: "Why did the third master sigh, could it be that the people who rode horses were not good?"

"Don't speculate if you don't know. "The third master said.

The strong man replied and retreated to the rear, and the rest of the village elders did not speak, but looked in the direction of the horse's hooves for a while, and then turned back home. The third master shook his head, and then left the well.

It is only said that the five horses have arrived at the foot of the mountain of the village, Duan Gan dismounted in a treacherous wind, looked at a big stone under the mountain, and the big stone stood on the side of the road with cinnabar and wrote: Green Pothos Village.

"Pothos Village?" Guo Yu wondered.

Pu Mu looked at the stone tablet and thought for a while, and said, "Pothos...... Blackwater...... That's it. ”

Bai Yang said: "Just now we saw a few people in the village under the mountain, as if they came to the village to fetch water, at this time I think there should be many people up and down the mountain road, how can there be no one on the road?"

Pu Mu asked, "Brother Bai has any thoughts, you might as well elaborate." ”

Bai Yang said: "Xia Ming and Yan Jing's letter said that the village is indeed on this mountain, but the name of this cottage has never been mentioned in the letter, the letter only said the general direction, I waited until I arrived in the middle of the mountain to see this green pothos village." How could Brother Pu conclude so much that this green pothos village is the one we are going to?"

Pu Mu said: "Whether this green pothos village is the same village as mentioned in the letter, we also need to go in to find out." ”

Li Defei said: "'The green pothos hides the secret lizard, and Hongmeng hides the real hand', Brother Pu means that he thinks that this village is related to the way of heaven?"

Duan Gan took out the deerskin gloves from his waist, stroked the cinnabar characters on the stone tablet with his hand, and said with a smile on the corner of his mouth: "I want to cover it...... This pothos village is not that village, this stone was moved from elsewhere, and the cinnabar word was just written, but it was deliberately old. There must be some famous halls here, do you brothers want to go in and have a look?"

"It seems that the Heavenly Dao people have set up a formation to wait with me, just waiting for me to go in. Guo Yu said.

Bai Yang said: "The enemy is in the dark, I am in the light, if you rush in like this, it will be disadvantageous for us." And anyone with a discerning eye knows that this is a trap laid by the enemy, so how can the enemy dig a trap and jump directly into it?"

Duan Gan said treacherously: "Brother Bai is right, this stele is not clear whether it was placed here in vain, and it has just been placed here, I don't know what is hidden behind this stele, how can I go in directly to investigate? Brother Pu has always been thoughtful and shrewd, how can he have such an idea?"

Pu Mu said: "The green pothos village is located in the northwest of this mountain, and Xia Ming's village is also in the northwest of the mountain, I will wait all the way up the mountain along the main road, this mountain village lives on this mountain, is it possible that the people who go down the mountain never take this big road, only take the small road?"

Bai Yang replied suspiciously: "Could it be that there are other sections of the mountain in the mountains, or that there are two cottages close to each other?"

Pu Mu said: "This ...... I don't know if the green pothos village is really on this mountain, and if the two cottages are neighboring villages, why did Xia Ming never mention that there is another village next to the village? And Brother Duan has just said that the stone is moved, and the cinnabar character is deliberately old, I think there is no green pothos village at all, just the fog of the enemy's old cloth, and the road is indeed here, I waited all the way to drive the horse, and there are also mule and horse hoof prints on the road, I think this road is often walked, but this stone does not know when it was moved

Come on. ”

Guo Yu dismounted and went to the stone, looked at the soil that was crushed next to the stone, squatted down and looked at the dirt chips carefully, frowned, and didn't seem to see anything. Pu Mu immediately turned over and dismounted, and said, "I'll tie the horses here first, and we'll wait for three of them to enter this pothos village, leaving two people to wait here." What do you think?"

Li Defei said: "Then when I enter the village, will anyone go with me?"

Duan Gan said treacherously: "I also entered the village, who else will go with me." ”

Pu Mu turned his head to Bai Yang and said: "Brother Bai, you and Brother Guo stay here together, if we don't return here after dusk, evacuate here immediately, and fly the pigeon to pass the book to the local government." At the same time, he warned the people in the Han villages below the mountain not to come up the mountain. ”

After that, Pu Mu looked at the cottage in front of him, opened the pigeon cage that the horse was carrying, took out the carrier pigeon that Xia Ming flew, took out a scroll of letters from his coat pocket and put it on the pigeon's feet, and released the pigeon.

The five of them looked at the pigeon and flew straight in the direction of the pothos village, and there was no shadow in a short time. Duan Gan said treacherously: "This carrier pigeon knows the way, it seems to have flown along this road, this pothos village won't only have this stone, right?"

Li Defei took the saber and said, "At present, I won't have eyebrows when I wait here, so it's better to go directly into this green pothos village to find out." ”

Pu Mu nodded and said, "I'll wait for the weapons to be taken, bring some water and enter the village immediately."

While speaking, the three of them entered the cottage before and after, saying that it was better to say that the three of them continued to go on the road and walked on the road behind the stone.

It is only said that the figures of the three people are getting farther and farther away from the stone, and the farthest end of the road is densely wooded, so Bai Yang and Guo Yu can no longer see the traces of the three people.

Pu Mu and the others walked along the road, surrounded by some dense leaf tall trees, many trees have grown aerial roots, the aerial roots hang directly to the bottom of the tree, the trees in this mountain directly cover the sun outside, and the sunlight can only penetrate a few threads to this surface. The three of them walked in this dense forest, and the fallen leaves covered the stone bricks laid on the road, and after walking for about half an hour, Li Defei saw that an old tree had been scraped and there seemed to be something written on it, so he leaned up to look at it.

Seeing this, Pu Mu and Duan Gan went up to look at it together, and Li Defei said, "Xia Ming's mark." ”

The two saw that there was a dart engraved on the tree, which was Xia Ming's unique mark After Ouchi's reorganization, all officials had their own marks, and those marks were used as a code for walking the rivers and lakes, and the code could be used to contact the same door or send orders for help. Therefore, many sects of the law are also used, but each faction has only one mark, which is easy to be recognized, so the mark of all officials in Ouchi is different, and all officials need to remember the mark of their colleagues and their own.

Pu Mu said: "Why did Xia Ming leave a mark here?"

Li Defei leaned in to see the mark of the mark, and the mark was issued by a special hidden weapon specially built in the armament, so where the hidden weapon hit, the mark would be reflected. "The nick hit quickly, and from this trace, Xia Ming sent out and retracted the hidden weapon while running. ”

"When you fled?" Pu Mu looked at the carvings on the tree again, and said, "Then how could this old tree be scraped for no reason?"

Duan Gan took a look, and suddenly felt that something flew down on his head, and immediately pulled the two of them to jump away from the tree, only to see many strings of pothos vines hanging down from the old tree in front of him, Pu Mu was a little puzzled, and said, "How can this pothos vine be on this old tree?"

"It's not good to stay here for a long time, I'll go back first and then make plans," Li Defei said.

The other two naturally felt that this place was a little strange, so they planned to turn back, at this time the three of them heard some footsteps on the road, and immediately got up, the three of them held the weapons in their hands, and saw a man and a woman walking in front of them when they were young, the woman seemed to be pregnant, and the man was carefully supporting him.

When the two groups of people met in this way, in this mountain, everyone would be afraid to see such a person with such a weapon, and the man immediately stood in front of the woman, and said, "Where are you from, and why are you here?"

Pu Mu saw that the two of them looked kind, and the man had no weapons in his hand, and he didn't hear the internal strength in his voice, so he lowered his vigilance a little and only said: "This big brother, I'll wait to come to Dongzhai to find relatives." I have a distant cousin in this cottage, these two are relatives below, and they came to see my cousin in this southeast village of Qiandongnan. ”

The expression on the man's face became less solemn at this time, and he said: "The three of them originally went to visit relatives in Natong Village, and Dongzhai walked along this road and saw the house. But I heard that this village has been a little messy recently, and it's not right for you to come here to visit relatives. ”

Duan Gan asked, "What's going on in this village?"

The man said: "There is a river in this village, but I don't want the river to turn black about half a month ago, and this cottage has not yet found out what it was doing." The cottage now shares a well with the Han village below, and there is still a lot of trouble. ”

Li Defei asked, "I wonder if the eldest brother is from the village?"

The man smiled and said, "It's not a person from the village, it's a resident of the city under the mountain." It's just that there is a temple in this village, I smell it very well, and the inner son is pregnant, and I want to go to the temple to ask for a good sign. The man said, and the woman nodded.

Pu Mu continued to ask: "Big brother, then why do you want to stand on the road and call this place a pothos village?"

"Pothos Village?" the man wondered. "I'll wait all the way, but I haven't seen any green pothos village?"

The three of them felt very strange, and hurriedly said goodbye to the couple and went down the mountain the same way, only to see that the original intersection was indeed without stones, and the horses were still there, but Poplar and Guo Yu were gone, and the marks of the two were also engraved on the trunk of the tree next to them.

"Immediately inform the government under your jurisdiction to come here," Pu Mu said.

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