154 backyard ancient wells
"To be honest, I've lived for so many years, but when I was alone in that yard, I was really scared. The old man said with a smile.
Fortunately, he didn't stay long, Hu Xiaozi moved quickly, but in a flash, he summoned a group of people over, there were twelve of them, and almost all the young people in the village rushed over. ”
"At first, they didn't believe me. Although Bailu Village is a little closed, it is still connected to the outside world after all, and as young people, they naturally believe in scientific explanations more. ”
"I didn't explain anything, just watched them bang on the door. Unexpectedly, the small backyard door that they thought they would be able to break open soon was like being welded with a layer of gold, firmly guarding the passage to the backyard. ”
At this point, a dozen of them looked at each other, aware of the strangeness, and a few of them even cowered and did not dare to enter. ”
In the end, it was Mi Shi who pretended to have the courage to climb over the wall, who knew that like Ah Guang, he fell down as soon as he climbed up. ”
"Now the big guy is really scared, and no one dares to step forward. ”
"I don't want the villagers to take any more risks, rather than risk not knowing, it's better to save your life first. The worst-case scenario is not to use this house, just live in another place. ”
"So, in the end, I suggested that the big guys should not rush in, but should live around first, and then find a few basins of sewage, or break a few peach branches, and then make plans. ”
Then, when we were ready, and even called a Taoist priest outside the mountain, and we were about to rush to the backyard, the courtyard door opened automatically. ”
According to the Taoist priest, it was said that it was because the dirty things smelled the righteousness on his body, so he fled first, for fear of meeting him. ”
Xuanyuan looked strange, Taoist priest and Haoran righteousness, between the two......
Ah Guang, who was standing on the side, noticed Xuanyuan's expression, as if he had obtained some Shang Fang sword, and said firmly to the old man: "Grandpa, you look at Xuanyuan's expression, he also thinks that this is obviously bragging!"
"I really don't understand why you gave him a hundred yuan at that time, how much rice can be bought here!"
The old man looked at Ah Guang helplessly, although his grandson was diligent and smart, but he was a little obsessed with money, sometimes even to the extent of drilling the horns of the bull.
"If I don't give him money, is it in vain that he did the three days of Dharma work in our house?" the old man glared at Ah Guang angrily, "Don't stand here, quickly boil water and make the bed!"
Seeing Ah Guang walking away with the little guys, the old man turned his head to look at Xian Xuanyuan: "Dao Chief, what kind of thing do you say is that? I don't know what I want when I come to our house." ”
"So, how about you take me to the backyard to see?"
"No problem, no problem!" Propping up his waist, which was already much better, the old man took Xuanyuan and slowly walked towards the backyard.
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When he came to the backyard, the old man pointed to the yard and said, "Well, this is our backyard, because it is used to pile up debris, so it is more messy." ”
In fact, the backyard doesn't look messy, but it's a bit overloaded, so it looks a little crowded.
More than a dozen baskets were stacked in the corners of the wall, like stacks of arhats, almost all of them were higher than the wall.
On the west side of the wall, there are agricultural tools for farm work, such as ploughs, harrows, rakes, sickles, and short pickaxes...... It seems that it is because some days it has not been used, except for tools such as sickles, plows and rakes used to plough the land have long since rusted.
On the east side of the fence, there are several threshing machines for threshing. Also because it has not been used for a long time, the machine has been covered with dust, and even the runner part has been stuck with rust.
In addition to these, the most occupied space is a dry well in the center of the courtyard.
The dry well itself is only about a few square meters, but around the dry well, there is a small shed with a stone base. In this way, its footprint has been greatly increased.
Xuan Yuan was a little puzzled, and asked the old man beside him: "Uncle, why is there a dry well in this backyard? ”
"Oh, this. The old man looked at the dry well, and there was a look of nostalgia in his eyes, "This dry well was built when I was a child. ”
"Our house didn't have a three-way courtyard before, and at the beginning, there was only this one courtyard. ”
"At that time, my family was not in a good situation, my father went out to work, and my mother was doing some chores at home. In addition, Grandma will also help some people wash their clothes and earn a few small amounts of money to subsidize the family. ”
"It's not a lot of money, but it's enough to relieve some of Abba's pressure and buy an extra meat or two a month - but Grandma is tired enough because of this. ”
"The most fundamental reason is that it takes a lot of water to wash clothes. However, because our family was poor at the beginning, we didn't think about digging a well when building a house, and finally chose a place close to the village stream to build a house. ”
"Although we chose a place close to the village stream to build a house, it takes at least seven or eight minutes to make a round trip. ”
"Every day, just the water used to wash vegetables and rice takes my grandmother half an hour, and after adding the water for washing clothes, it takes even more time and effort. ”
"So, when my father made money, the first thing he did was not to expand the house, nor to buy vegetables and sell meat to improve the food, but to hire someone to survey the well, and the closer to the house, the better. ”
"I don't know whether to say it's a coincidence or luck, but the Feng Shui master I invited came to our house and took a look around, and immediately said, 'This is it!' I still remember Abba and Grandma's surprised expressions at that time. ”
Xuanyuan raised his eyebrows slightly, he didn't expect that there was such a story in this dry well, such a well is indeed worth staying to commemorate.
"Strange to say, although the water in this well is sweet, whenever there is a rainstorm, the water will be muddy. ”
"At first, my father thought it was because there was too much sediment in the well, but after washing it several times, it still didn't change. ”
In the end, he came to the conclusion that the source of the well water would become turbid during a rainstorm, and that the only way to store it was before the rainstorm came. ”
"At that time, I was about seven or eight years old, and I was at the age of formal playfulness and curiosity. I didn't believe in this evil, picked a few big lotus leaves, and covered the manhole cover on a rainy day. ”
"It's amazing, after the rainstorm, I opened the big lotus leaf and saw that the well water was surprisingly not muddy!"
"Inspired by this, my dad simply built this platform. Although the yard space is reduced, it can prevent the well water from becoming muddy, and it can also provide a platform for putting things - it can be regarded as making up for the lack of space. ”
Saying this, the old man seemed to understand something, and his eyes became suspicious.
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