Zhou Qin looked at this woman with great vigilance in his heart, but saw that she was shaking a wooden wheel, which was squeaking and turning, and with the rotation of the wheel, a wooden barrel was pulled up little by little.

But to Zhou Qin's surprise, there was no rope on this wooden wheel!

But with each turn of the woman's wheel, the barrel in the ancient well rose a little higher, as if an invisible rope was hanging from it.

After the woman hoisted a bucket of water, she turned and walked to the room behind her, but she carried the bucket with five holes, and the water almost leaked along the way, and when she came to a huge tank on the side of the hut, the bucket of water was almost completely leaked, and she tiptoed the bucket and poured it into the huge tank, but only a few drops of water were poured into it.

But the woman didn't realize it, and after pouring the water, she immediately carried the bucket back to the ancient well, and then slowly began to draw water.

But what surprised Zhou Qin the most was that the soil under the water tank was wet, and it was obvious that the water tank itself was also leaking!

Zhou Qin saw her mechanizing and constantly repeating this action, and secretly wondered in his heart, and couldn't help but secretly think: This water tank is as big as a person, so thick that it takes several adult men to hug it, but this woman can only beat a few drops of water at a time! Besides, this water tank itself is leaking, even if a full bucket is poured in, it will leak cleanly, so I am afraid that I will not be able to beat a tank of water until the earth is desolate!

Zhou Qin watched quietly for a while, and the woman kept repeating this action as if she didn't notice her existence.

When Zhou Qin and the others saw the fiftieth time the woman repeat this action, she couldn't help but say, "Why don't you repair the water tank and this five-leaking wooden barrel before fetching water?"

When the woman heard Zhou Qin's words, she smiled slightly, turned her face, glanced at Zhou Qin with interest, and asked rhetorically in extremely standard Chinese, "Why don't you go away all your anger and talk to me again?"

Zhou Qin saw that this woman looked like she was only in her thirties, her skin was light and white, and she frowned secretly: "Where do I have all the anger?"

The woman smiled slightly, and also poured: "My barrel is also intact." As she spoke, she slowly picked up a bucket of water, which was still leaking badly, and it leaked cleanly all the way.

Zhou Qin pointed to the water stains under her feet and said, "Look, is it leaking?"

The woman also pointed in the direction of Zhou Qin's come, and said with a smile: "Look, are you angry?"

Zhou Qin was displeased and said, "I kindly remind you, you are playing with me, do you think I can't understand what you say? If it weren't for the monks under the mountain who offended me first, how could I be angry?"

The woman smiled and said, "You're right, everything has a cause and effect. But have you ever wondered why I keep fetching water here?"

Zhou Qin frowned and said, "You made a mistake and were punished?"

The woman laughed, "Yes, I made a big mistake, so here I was punished with these five leaky buckets of water until the tank was full." ”

Zhou Qin said with some sympathy: "Ah, I thought you were Tachibana Masako, but I didn't expect you to be not." Were you punished by Masako Tachibana for fetching water here?"

The woman laughed: "Yes, you are so smart, you guessed correctly." ”

Zhou Qin saw that the other party was kind and polite, although she was not very beautiful, but her face was soft, and her gestures revealed a different kind of tranquility, and the resentment in her heart gradually dissipated a lot, Zhou Qin said: "You are also very smart, you know at a glance that I was chased up the mountain." Why don't you arrest me?"

The woman smiled slightly and shook her head: "I'm not interested in your affairs, but the anger in you is obvious, you see, the souls here are watching you." As she spoke, she gestured around.

Zhou Qin took a look, but saw that the tombstones like the surrounding forests stood silently, where there was half a ghost, but this was the case, but in this silent silence, there was an incomparably huge coercion, which made her feel terrified.

Zhou Qin secretly fought a cold war, and she asked, "I was also forced to be helpless...... Forget it, don't talk about this, I want to ask you, do you know where Masako Tachibana is? I want to see her. ”

The woman stopped fetching water, looked at Zhou Qinlai carefully with interest, and asked, "What do you want to see her for?"

Zhou Qin said: "She sent a letter to my master a while ago, and I am sending it back now. ”

The woman laughed, "I see, I see. She pointed to a deep and hidden path behind her, and said, "You go from here, go two hundred meters inside, and you will see a wooden house, and there it is, and Masako Tachibana is there." ”

Zhou Qin palmed one hand, thanked her with Taoist etiquette, and then walked all the way inside.

Not long after she left, a little girl came out of the house, this girl was about thirteen or fourteen years old, with red lips and white teeth, and a beautiful appearance.

The orange boy stepped on the clogs, ran all the way to the woman, and asked curiously, "Grandma, why don't you show her the wrong way, why do you tell her where her mother lives?"

The grandmother of the orange child lowered her head and smiled slightly: "Silly child, she has already gone the wrong way, but how can she be allowed to go the wrong way again?"

Tachibana blinked his eyes as if he didn't understand: "But she's our enemy!"

Tachibana's grandmother laughed: "There are no eternal enemies, and there are no eternal friends, Tachibana Child, you have to remember this sentence!"

The orange child pouted in displeasure: "Don't be friends with them!" They hurt my mother to be scolded so badly by many people, and I was scolded so badly by my mother, I hate it to death!"

Grandma Tangerine shook her head helplessly and smiled, and said, "More than ten years ago, I was very good friends with their masters. Alas, I really didn't expect it to be like this now, I really didn't expect it!"

The orange child's eyes widened, and he said strangely: "Yes, grandma? I've never heard you say it! Who are these people you talking about? You don't mean that hateful Li Yundong, right?"

The grandmother of the orange child stopped moving, tilted her head, as if she was reminiscing about something, and she said leisurely: "I'm talking about Li Yundong's friend...... That little girl named Ziyuan, she has a very great master, called Wang Yuanshan......"

When the orange child heard this, she became interested, she supported her hands and sat on the edge of the ancient well, her two calves wearing white horizontal cotton socks shook and kicked, she asked with a smile: "Grandma, this person named Wang Yuanshan can't be your lover, right?"

Tachibana's grandmother smiled dumbly, and glanced at Tachibana with disgust: "You guy, you are not allowed to be disrespectful to him!" She did not continue the topic of Tachibana Child, but let out a long sigh and said, "When I went to Xiyuan Temple in Soochow City, China to pay homage to the statue of Kobo Daishi, I met him by accident. At that time......"

The grandmother of the orange child said, as if recalling the scene of the year, and her face couldn't help but show a gentle look, and she said softly: "...... At that time, he followed me all the way out of Xiyuan Temple, and I followed him for a long time, and I thought he was a disciple and wanted to drive him away. Unexpectedly, he suddenly told me that although the magic power in my body seemed to be powerful, it was actually vulnerable. I was arrogant at the time, and if I was willing to believe it, I asked him to go to a place to fight in private and compete. ”

The orange child snorted, covered his mouth and exclaimed, "Grandma, you lost?"

The grandmother laughed: "Yes, it was a miserable defeat! What an unbearable memory!"

The orange childish suddenly remembered that before she fought with Li Yundong, she was really majestic and invincible, but when she made a move with Li Yundong, she was slapped by him, and she was so frightened that she lost any reaction, and she cried

The orange child suddenly became unhappy: "Yes, the last time I fought with that Li Yundong, I also lost badly, and I cried!

Tangerine Child's grandmother laughed, touched Tangerine Child's black hair, and said with a smile: "In fact, when time passes slowly, when everything slowly settles down, you will find that these are actually nothing, they will all become your precious wealth." ”

But the orange child said disapprovingly: "But I feel that I wish none of this had happened!

The grandmother of the orange child smiled slightly: "So that's the case, I said why are you hiding here with me all day and night with my old woman!"

The orange child giggled, her eyes rolled, she took her hand, and quickly changed the topic: "Nonsense, my grandmother is not an old woman, she is young and beautiful." By the way, grandma, what about you after you lost to Wang Yuanshan? Did you fall in love with him at first sight?"

The orange child's grandmother's eyes became extremely soft, she was noncommittal, and said softly: "After I lost, I was convinced that I wanted to worship him as a teacher, but he insisted on refusing, but I asked him why he lost, and he refused to tell me." So I kept pestering him for more than two months......"

As she spoke, she fell into the years of memories for a while, the smile on her face became more and more gentle, sweeter and sweeter, and after a while, she said again: "It's a pity that it's ...... He still refuses to accept me, perhaps because I am the goddess of Satomaya. But when I finally left, he handed me the barrel and said to me: When you fill a huge leaky tank with this barrel, you will understand why you lost to me. ”

The orange boy snorted, and suddenly said: "So that's the case! I said, grandma, why have you been fetching water here for more than ten years! But this bucket and tank are leaking, and it is impossible to fill it!"

Tachibana's grandmother sighed: "Yes, for more than ten years, I have been using this bucket to fetch water, but I have never been able to fill the water tank, let alone fill it, and it is impossible to even fill half of it...... Alas!"

The orange child pursed her mouth: "Grandma, I think this Wang Yuanshan is playing tricks on you! This is impossible at all!" As she spoke, she jumped down from the edge of the well, picked up the wooden barrel in her hand, held it in front of her eyes, and said: "Grandma, look, it's not that sister who said it, I haven't noticed this wooden barrel, there are so many holes, one, two, three, four, five, wow, there are five loopholes! There are also next to it, and the most important thing is that there are also two loopholes underneath! You use this kind of wooden barrel to draw water, of course you can't get water!"

Tachibana said with a serious face: "Although I don't like that sister just now, but she is right, why don't you make up the bucket with five leaks, and don't repair the water tank?"

Tachibana's grandmother smiled: "Where is the truth?"

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Hmm, I saw on Weibo this morning that there were updates such as children's shoes and waited until more than five o'clock...... Tang Tang I am really ashamed and embarrassed......

Although there are a lot of things and I can't break out, I think it's a bit bad to let book friends wait for updates.

Tang Tang: I would like to sincerely apologize to all of you and admit your mistakes, and apologize seriously to the book friend who waited until half past five and was bitten by mosquitoes.

In the future, I will try to update a chapter in the morning or noon, and the update time will be advanced, even if there is a change, I will definitely tell the book friends in advance in the previous chapter.

This is Tang Tang I didn't do well, apologize again!

There will be a change in a while, and the change starts today!