Chapter 8: The Stone Well of Big Belly Village (1)
Since beating Li Xiaoqing and the old man to subdue this evil Taoist, the villagers sent things to the old Taoist priest one by one, and the old Taoist priest accepted some bacon, sausages, and some simple dry food, and even asked the simple villagers to ask for wine, the old man took out a gourd with small spots on the outside, and asked Li Xiaoqing to go to the commune to drink.
Li Xiaoqing thought that this small gourd could hold many things, but Li Xiaoqing was embarrassed to beat this wine, the village is so thick one meter, to the wine jar as high as an adult's waist, this small gourd is just two jars. At first, the village chief scooped the wine with a small scoop, but later he simply inserted a pipe into it, inhaled it with his mouth, and introduced the wine into the gourd.
Although the old man doesn't look like a master of the Tao when he asks for things from the people in the village, the old man still stops his heart and does a ritual in this village. Li Xiaoqing knew that the little ghost raised by the evil Taoist priest inhaled yang qi everywhere at night, and the villagers were more or less affected, and people were the most spiritual animals, and this such a yin thing naturally slept at night on the side of the couch and panicked.
Originally, everyone in the village wanted the old man to live here, and then leave after the New Year, but the old man said that he couldn't live anything, and took Li Xiaoqing to say goodbye to the villagers, and the villagers kept sending them out for seven or eight miles before returning to the village.
At the end of the sixty-ninth year, it rained in the southwest instead, and the old man and Li Xiaoqing were wet, and they walked for four or five days before they arrived at a village where Sichuan and Shu and Qianzhou met. If Li Xiaoqing said that the village they passed through before was a rich village, then this village was a poor and scumbag village, and none of the houses in the village were built with bricks, all of them were made of yellow mud mixed with thatch, and then built houses with a few pillars.
This small village in the southeast of Sichuan is more or less next to the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, everyone has studied geography and knows that the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau belongs to the karst landform, the ground can not retain water, all kinds of caves underground, the water is stolen, there was a rich man in the Qing Dynasty had a big fish pond, but one summer, the water of the fish pond was suddenly gone, this person reported to the government that someone instructed the little ghost to move away his fish pond, and the result was superstitious at that time, and the official took advantage of this to extort a lot of money from the rich.
This village is like this, when the Qing Dynasty declared unification, there was also a large lake, but one night this large lake suddenly disappeared, and the result was that there was only one well with water in the whole village, this well was given by a Taoist priest during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, saying that this well was a dragon's eye and would never be dry. It is said that a piece of land in the back mountain is all yellow, although it is winter, but the winter in Sichuan is relatively not very cold, and the leaves on the mountain should also be green, but this piece of land is full of yellow dead leaves because of the lack of water.
This winter rain is falling, and the people in the village see that these two masters and apprentices came with the rain, and they are both wearing Taoist robes, but they respect them very much, and they are the pair of masters and apprentices who brought the rain. And the old Taoist priest gave the village chief's family some bacon, and the village chief hadn't eaten meat for a long time, so he quickly fried a sweet potato leaf for them, and some mushrooms, bamboo shoots, and the master and apprentice were also very full.
"Village, isn't there something strange in our village, why does everyone have a big belly?" Li Xiaoqing asked curiously looking at the village chief's big belly.
"Alas, it's all caused by the lack of water, and there is a well in our village, and when it rains, it's good to say that there is still water in the river, but when it doesn't rain, you have to live on that well. But I don't know why, since ten years ago, as long as I drank the water in the well, within a few months my belly was big, and my limbs were weak, I had diarrhea, and sometimes I had a fever. The old village chief said as he wiped his tears.
"What kind of infectious disease is this?" asked Li Xiaoqing, pouting, for fear that his meals were also made with water from the well.
The folds on the old village elder's face continued to stretch because of excitement, and he cried as he spoke: "Alas, the health center in the city sent someone to check on it, saying that there are schistosomiasis in this well, and that after drinking the water in this well, you will get sick. Li Xiaoqing knew that schistosomiasis had been written in books before, and my country called it Shui Gu in the Sui Dynasty, and Chao Yuanfang and other "Treatise on the Origin and Syndrome of Diseases, Shui Gu Syndrome" cloud: "This is caused by the accumulation of water poison gas, which makes the abdomen gradually enlarge...... Famous water Gu also.
Li Xiaoqing looked at the old village chief and said pitifully, "Village chief, I'll go and apply a water purification charm to that well to see if it has any effect?"
This village is called the bandit village, saying that the people in this village used to be bandits, but after liberation, the people in the village drove the bandit leader away, and the people in this village became good citizens, but since this village got this strange disease, the people of ten miles and eight villages called this village a big-bellied village.
The only well in the village is in the middle of the village, the shape of the stone well is eight square and four, into the shape of eight trigrams, there are four stone pillars on the four sides of the south, south, west, and northwest, carved with four dragon patterns, symbolizing the dragon king of the four seas. It can be seen that the more water is scarce, the more attention is paid to the well in the village, and Li Xiaoqing is also the first time to see such a finely carved stone well.
There are two stone strips on the edge of the upper and lower wells, which are blocked by the well, which is afraid that children will fall into it while playing. The length and width of the well pier are about one meter and a half each, the thickness is about ten centimeters, and there are some water system Rui beasts carved on it, because of the use of time for a long time, the inner circle of the old stone well is ground out of grooves one by one by the rope.
"Have there been people dead under this well?" Li Xiaoqing suddenly found the clue, there was a grievance in this well, strange and scary, Li Xiaoqing asked the old village chief and couldn't help but say, "Yes, there used to be a landlord in our village, and a few years ago, he couldn't stand the criticism in the town, so he committed suicide by throwing himself into the well." ”
"I see. Li Xiaoqing took out a yellow talisman, took a cinnabar pen, drew a one-eyed dragon on the yellow talisman, closed one eye himself, and wrote a spell on the talisman. This water ghost is most afraid of the one-eyed dragon, the left hand pinched the talisman, the right hand shook the bell, rhythmically chanted "Tiande Avenue, all things are bounded, the emperor and the queen of the earth, depicting reincarnation, the pen frame Nanshan, Fu Zhen demon, urgent as the law, photograph!" This talisman slowly floated to the well, suddenly became natural, and the wellhead was bright, only to see a ghost with teeth and claws taken out by Li Xiaoqing, this kind of ghost is a group of scary black gas in the eyes of everyone, where have they seen ghosts and demons in the eyes of the sky. Li Xiaoqing covered him with a gossip bag and put the ghost away.
"Oh my God!" the old village chief was startled, and the villagers had already rushed over when they heard the news, stretching their necks to look down the well, and even the good deeds even flashed their flashlights to the ground.
"Well, look, there's a corpse floating up. A bold man said.
"Don't look at it, I have taken this terrible ghost in, you can fish out his body, and I will find him a place to bury him in three days after he lived. Li Xiaoqing said as he learned to look like a master like Hui Laodao.
"Okay. The man was the first to agree, and as soon as he touched the well, he felt a pain in the corner of his eye, and his left eye socket began to get wet, and he reached out to touch it warm and sticky with a hint of sweetness, but the pain was unbearable, and he dragged out a slender and slender red worm from his eye socket. He dragged longer and longer, because he was carrying everyone on his back, and no one paid attention, and when he saw that he couldn't pull it out, as if he was about to pull out his eyeballs, he quickly let go, and when he looked at his hand again, he only saw blood on his hand.
"Ahh
"Phew!" Li Xiaoqing shouted, holding a peachwood sword in both hands, one piercing his eyes, and the other on his navel, the man eased up, and the insects in his eye sockets and stomach seemed to be frightened, and then slowly drilled back.
"Master!" Li Xiaoqing found that he was still too shallow, and he had no way to deal with this schistosomiasis, saying that he had seen the disease of the big belly, but it could always be cured, and there were nearly 200 million people in Asia, Africa and Latin America who suffered from the disease of the big belly, and no one had heard of this screatium growing so big.
Originally, the village thought that the village was saved, but after seeing that the strongest men in the village were like this, the whole village was panicked.