The moon stars are scarce, and the black magpie flies south. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

At this time, it was already night, and in Shenshui Village, not far from the official road, the villagers who had been busy all day had already washed up and gone to bed. The whole village was very quiet, except for the frogs in the grass and the acquaintances in the trees.

Shenshui Village was not originally called Shenshui Village, but Gushui Village. The reason why it is named Shenshui Village is because there is a spring in the center of the village, which is constantly gushing out clear spring water day and night, forming a clear spring. The water is cool and sweet, and a sip of it will make people feel refreshed and the fatigue of the whole body will be swept away. The villagers of Gushui Village are very long-lived, and people are rare in other places to seventy years, but the centenarians here can't count them with two hands, so everyone says that this is the effect of the spring water in the village, and slowly this spring water is called Shenquan, and the village is renamed as Shenshui Village.

The villagers cherished this spring water, and built a circle of stone platforms around the pond with bluestones, and it is strange to say that the spring water will no longer gush when it rises to the edge of the stone platform, as if it is a living thing. In the event of a torrential rain, no matter how much rootless water God pours down, the pool overflows from dissatisfaction. So the name of the divine spring became louder and louder. The villagers built a temple near the spring and prayed that the water would never dry up, because there were many people who came to worship the spring god, and the incense was very prosperous.

Recently, some of the villagers remembered the idea of making a fortune from the sacred spring, and smuggled water to the side in the middle of the night to sell it, but the villagers thought that this would defile the sacred spring and anger the spring god, so they strictly forbade it. However, the world is bustling, all for profit, the world is crowded, all for profit, stealing and selling spring water happens from time to time, and even the people of the village collude with outsiders to steal water, so the villagers take turns to patrol the night, and send people to guard the spring every night, lest someone take advantage of the loophole.

That night, it was the turn of Xie Laosan, who lived in the east of the village, to patrol the night.

This Xie Laosan is a tenant, in his forties, honest and duty-bound, except for drinking a few taels of wine, he is often drunk and unconscious and is carried home, there is nothing wrong with him. He is in good health, his daughter married into a neighboring village and just gave birth to a big fat boy, his son-in-law was happy, and he gave a big pig's head when he reported the good news. Although this day is not enough compared to the above, it is still more than the bottom.

But at this time, he was worried at home.

"Boss, it's so late, are you going or not!" His daughter-in-law Xie Qiu finished washing her clothes by the well, and came back to find Xie Laosan still squatting at the door.

“...... Oh, I really don't dare......" Xie Laosan pulled his beard in sorrow, and he trembled when he remembered the scene that night.

Xie Qiu glanced at him: "Who told you that you like to pour yellow soup, you really take that matter seriously! Go quickly, if you don't go, the patriarch will be punished." ”

"How many times have I said it, I wasn't drunk that day!" Xie Laosan jumped up, "You mother-in-law knows a ball!"

He was so angry that he blew his beard and glared, and slammed the door open to leave, when Xie Qiu chased him out and shouted, "Where are you going to be a dead man?"

"Go on a night patrol! Wait for Lao Tzu to be eaten, watch your mother-in-law drink the northwest wind! Get out!" Xie Laosan scolded, turned around and left, didn't take two steps, and turned back again.

The daughter-in-law was surprised: "Aren't you leaving, why are you coming back?"

Xie Laosan scolded: "You stinky mother-in-law can't wait for me to leave, isn't it a good thief!"

Xie Qiu was scooping water, and when he heard this, he splashed a scoop of water: "Steal your mother! Get out, go quickly!"

"Phew!" Xie Laosan spat a mouthful of thick phlegm on the ground, "Lao Tzu came back to tell you, don't forget to feed the cows! If you lose fat when you return it to the owner, the owner will increase the rent!"

Xie Laosan scolded his wife and finally walked out of the house.

At this time, everything was silent, the night was dark and the wind was high, Xie Laosan looked at the dark night like splashing ink, and shivered twice. But at this time, there was no place to go, and he thought about it, and finally felt that it would hurt badly if he was fined by the patriarch, so he stomped his feet and walked to the middle of the village.

Thinking of what happened that day, Xie Laosan trembled, but every time he talked about it to others, he was ridiculed for being drunk, and even his mother-in-law thought so.

He was laughed at so much that even he was confused, and he really wondered if he was drunk that day.

After walking for a cup of tea, Xie Laosan finally arrived at the Shenquan Temple. The old man Li in the temple had been waiting impatiently: "Xie Laosan, you fucking snail!

"Last time, Lao Tzu also waited for you for half a night!Why didn't I see you fart that time!" Xie Laosan was not to be outdone, and immediately fought back.

Old man Li snorted: "I don't have anything to do with you, didn't you say that you saw a monster, then you wait here to feed it, and I will go home and sleep well!"

After speaking, Old Man Li patted his ass and left, leaving Xie Laosan alone in the Shenquan Temple.

After a while, nothing could be heard except for the occasional dog barking.

Xie Laosan couldn't help but stretch his neck, and looked at the sacred spring in front of the temple like a duck, only to see that the water surface was as calm as a mirror, and a silver plate-like moon was reflected on it, and there was not a trace of ripples.

"Damn, it's a bit of a demon, why is there no wind and no toads screaming......" Xie Laosan suddenly realized that this time was a bit like that night, and he couldn't help but panic a little, he hurriedly stepped forward and lit a stick of incense to offer in the incense burner on the table, and even crawled to the ground and knelt on the futon, pounding garlic and kowtowing: "The spring god is not strange!

After kowtowing more than a dozen times in a row, he finally stopped, only to realize that he was covered in cold sweat, and it seemed that even his crotch was slightly wet.

Xie Laosan couldn't help but scold: "Dead ball!

Suddenly, rolling black clouds surged in the sky, obscuring the bright moon for a while, Xie Laosan had not come back to his senses, a gust of wind blew up, and several candles in the temple were all blown out.

"Dear mother!" Xie Laosan was full of excitement, kicked his legs, and rushed under the offering table like a rabbit.

He trembled like chaff all over his body, cold sweat broke out, and he suddenly heard a woman's voice outside: "This is the divine spring, you see, is it strange?"

"Don't panic, wait for me to take a look. It was another man's voice.

As soon as he heard that it was a person, Xie Laosan's heart suddenly fell back into his stomach from his throat.

He thought to himself: I thought it was a monster, but who knew it was a human!

Knowing that there were people standing outside the Shenquan Temple, Xie Laosan was not afraid at all, there were people around here, as long as he struck the gong and shouted at the opening of his throat, these water thieves would immediately be surrounded by the angry villagers.

Xie Laosan rubbed off the shoes on his feet, touched the ground barefoot, tiptoed to the window lattice, and quietly looked out.

Although the black clouds still obscured the moon, five figures could be faintly seen.