Six Ways of Fumo

Chapter 2292 Ups and downs (big chapter)
Everyone picked up the shovels, threw their arms away, and started working.

The area of ​​this pool is not large, six feet long, three feet wide, and the depth is three feet below the ground.In short, it is enough to accommodate three waterwheels.

It's easy to get things done when there are many people. Everyone worked together and it was done in less than half an hour.

Everyone dug the pool, each withdrew, and looked at the left city god together, waiting for the city god to show his magical powers, and see how the city god brought down the well!
"Cough cough cough..." Zuo Chenghuang tightened his belt, walked to the wellhead, stepped down, held the bluestone circle on the wellhead with both hands, and pulled hard toward the east.

In full view of everyone, a miracle happened!

At the mouth of the well, there was originally a circle of bluestone one foot above the ground. Now, the circle of bluestone begins to tilt toward the east, tilting...

As the city god of a locality, Zuo Chenghuang can change the local feng shui in a small area, so he has the ability to overturn wells.

Amidst the exclamation, the well continued to tilt.

Gradually, the bluestone circle at the mouth of the well became tilted 45 degrees.

And the well water gradually poured towards the wellhead, shining brightly.

Zuo Chenghuang let go of his hand, smiled, pointed to the mouth of the well and said, "Wait a little longer, the well water will reach the mouth of the well, everyone just wait."

Everyone was so amazed that Zuo Chenghuang almost knelt down.

Only the ghost priest squatted aside, smoking happily.

The well water continued to approach the wellhead, and soon it reached the lower edge of the wellhead.

Zuo Chenghuang found a hammer and knocked open the lower edge of the bluestone circle at the wellhead. The water from the well flowed out and flowed into the pool dug by everyone.

After a while, the pool was filled with cool and clear well water.

"Okay, let's start driving." Zuo Chenghuang said.

Everyone took action, got on the waterwheel, and started pumping water.Some villagers continued to dig canals to guide the well water from the cars to low-lying areas.

Zuo Chenghuang had a proud look on his face and a puffy belly, feeling that he was the most beautiful person today.

In fact, this is all arranged by the ghost priest, otherwise, Zuo Chenghuang would not have thought of using such a method to make a name for himself.

In fact, the well water that came up from the car was not all from this well, but was caused by Zuo Chenghuang using his spiritual power to concentrate the nearby groundwater and squeezing it, causing it to gush.

After all, knocking down wells and waterways are redundant procedures.The reason for doing this is to create an opportunity to show off.

Each waterwheel is served by four strong men, the handles are turned, and the eyes are dazzled.

Three water trucks started at the same time, and the water output was actually quite large.

The water flow rate from the wellhead is not fast.Therefore, the water flow gradually failed to keep up, and the three waterwheels were in a semi-working state.

Traffic started flowing at ten o'clock in the morning, and by three o'clock in the afternoon, there was finally no more water flowing out of the well mouth.

Zuo Chenghuang waved his hand and said: "Okay, the remaining water needs to be fetched with buckets. Let's go together, fifteen buckets to fetch water, seven up and eight down!"

There were indeed more than a dozen buckets on site.

Everyone selected strong men and gathered around the well to draw water.

When the bucket was put down, everyone felt that the well had really been overturned and was no longer vertical as before.

But based on my feeling, the slope of the well is not as exaggerated as the wellhead.

Buckets of water were brought up, and the water level in the well continued to drop.

Zuo Chenghuang personally guarded the mouth of the well and paid attention to what was going on down there.

In fact, even now, Zuo Chenghuang still doesn’t know what the goblin in the well is!
He asked Taoist Ghost, but Taoist Ghost wouldn't tell him.

Some villagers also asked Zuo Chenghuang what was under the water. Zuo Chenghuang himself didn’t know, so he glared: “We’ll find out later? Fetch water, fetch water!”

Seeing that the surface of the water had dropped by more than ten feet, Zuo Chenghuang waved his hand and said, "Stop, and ask Master Tianshi to take a look."

Just now he was just showing off, Zuo Chenghuang felt that he should praise the Celestial Master.Otherwise, what should I do if Master Tianshi gets angry and won't help me?
However, the Ghost Taoist shook his head and said without looking: "Continue to fetch water. It will take another half an hour."

"Fetch water, continue to fetch water!" Zuo Chenghuang immediately waved his hand and asked everyone to continue fetching water.

He was the one who asked everyone to pause just now, and now he is the one who asked everyone to continue.

Everyone continued to fetch water, and there was a dark circle of people surrounding the well mouth.

After about half an hour, everyone stopped fetching water.

Because the well is slanted, everyone cannot see the bottom of the well when standing upright.

Even when you climb down, you can't see the bottom of the well, because if it is an inclined shaft, the light cannot find its way inside and the water surface cannot reflect it.

Someone took a flashlight, bent down, and shined it along the slope, shouting: "Master Tianshi, Master City God, there is no water in the well, only black..."

The ghost master took the flashlight, shined it in the well, and said with a smile: "Actually, there is still water in the well, but it is blocked by a dark thing, so your bucket cannot go down. If you don't believe it, just throw a stone Go down and have a look.”

"What is it, stuck in the well?" Old man Chen Wang asked.

"Snail shell. It's a shell the size of a stone roller." Ghost Daoist said.

Everyone was surprised and asked: "Is that a conch shell from the sea? How can ordinary conch shells be so big?"

At the foot of Ailao Mountain, it is inland, still thousands of miles away from the sea.It can be said that the vast majority of the villagers here have never seen the sea in their lives.

But they have all seen snails. The snails here are only as big as a thumb, and the larger ones are only as big as a baby's fist.Snails as big as stone drums naturally come from the sea, because everyone thinks that everything in the sea is oversized.

However, the ghost Taoist priest shook his head and said: "This is not a conch, but the snail here has become a spirit."

"The snail became a spirit?" Everyone looked at each other.

Zuo Chenghuang was also dumbfounded and thought to himself, could there be a snail girl under his rule?No wonder that in the cornfield earlier, the ghost priest said there was a fishy smell, and it turned out to be a big field snail.

The Snail Girl is a relatively well-known story, which comes from the historical work "Sou Shen Ji".

It is said that during the Jin Dynasty, there was a man named Xie Duan. Both his parents died when he was young. He had no relatives and no relatives, so he was raised by his neighbors.When he was seventeen or eighteen years old, Xie Rui moved out from a neighbor's house and lived alone, guarding a few acres of thin fields, working from sunrise to sunset, and was very miserable.

On this day, Xie Rui got up early and picked up a big snail under the corner of his house.This snail is very big, several times larger than the largest household teapot.Xie Rui thought this thing was fun, so he put it at home.

From then on, strange things happened.When Xie Rui comes back from work every day, the food at home has been prepared, the clothes have been washed, and the bed has been neatly made.

At first, Xie Rui thought the neighbor next door was helping because he grew up next door when he was a child and the family next door regarded him as their son.

But it was like this every day for more than ten days in a row, and Xie Rui felt a little dissatisfied.After all, I have reached adulthood and can no longer accept unconditional care from others.So Xie Rui went to the neighbor’s house to thank him.

The neighbor was confused and said: "I didn't help you with cooking and washing. You married yourself, right? We all saw that there is a little lady who works in your house every day..."

Xie Rui was dubious, so he went out to work the next day and secretly turned back on the way.I lay down under the window and took a look. Sure enough, there was a girl at home, busy around the stove!

Xie Rui was surprised and happy. She sneaked into the house and suddenly appeared in front of the girl, asking: "Where did the little lady come from? Why are you in my house, helping me with cooking and washing?"

The girl was shocked and tried to run away, but was stopped by Xie Rui.

There was really no other way, so the girl had to tell the truth and said: "I am a white-water plain girl among the heavenly people, that is, the big snail you picked up. The Emperor of Heaven said that you are poor, so he ordered me to help you look after the house and cook. I have ten years to help you make a fortune and find a wife. Now, since you have found out, I can no longer be here and should return to heaven. I will leave that shell to you, and you will always have the white rice inside. There’s so much to eat.”

After saying that, the girl turned into a stream of blue smoke and floated away.

Xie Rui was shocked and came to see the snail. The shell was indeed filled with white rice, which was inexhaustible.

——This is the story of the mythical snail girl, and Zuo Chenghuang is naturally familiar with it.

But the ghost said that there was also a snail in the well, which really surprised Zuo Chenghuang.

Over there, Taoist Ghost took a fist-sized stone and threw it down the well.

Everyone crowded around the well to watch, and saw the stone rolling down the well wall and hitting the black thing with a muffled sound.

"There's something, there's really something!" the villagers shouted when they heard the sound.

Because the sound made by the stone falling into the well was obviously caused by hitting something hard.Everyone can judge based on common sense.

The ghost Taoist sneered, put his hands to his mouth, and shouted down the well: "Miss Snail, come out and meet me."

Zuo Chenghuang also gathered near the well and shouted in a mighty manner: "Monster, if you don't come out, don't blame me for being rude!"

But there was no movement down there, only the echoes of the conversation between Ghost Taoist Priest and Zuo Chenghuang.

"Monster, if you don't come out again, I'll go down and deal with you, do you hear me!" Zuo Chenghuang was furious, rolling up his sleeves and about to do it.

In front of everyone, the Ghost Taoist Master couldn't help but laugh and said: "City God, this goblin is in the well and has great magical powers. If you continue like this, I'm afraid it won't be easy to subdue her."

"Uncle Tianshi, what do you think we should do?" Zuo Chenghuang hurriedly asked Taoist Ghost for instructions.

Now, everyone calls him Master Tianshi, and Zuo Chenghuang also follows suit.

The ghost Taoist priest smiled and said: "It's actually easy. Everyone found an iron chain, attached a hammer to it, lifted it up and dropped it again and again, and smashed the shell below. Once the shell is broken, the goblin will naturally be unable to withstand it. .”

The villagers hurriedly prepared and found thick iron chains with a big iron knot tied on them.

The iron chain was originally the iron rope used to chain the cattle.Because in the summer, the cattle sleep outside, in order to prevent theft and prevent the cattle from breaking away in the middle of the night, the villagers will hang iron ropes around the necks of the cattle and lock them up with locks.Everyone contributed their own ox-tying iron ropes and connected them together, and the length was more than enough.

The lump of iron was even more powerful. It was the scrap body of a small diesel engine, weighing thirty or forty pounds, and it was angular.

The Ghost Taoist Master checked the equipment and gave an order for everyone to release the hammers.

The iron lump was put down and hit the shell of the shell underground, making a loud bang.

"Ah..." Then, a woman's scream came, shrill and painful, and it was clearly transmitted to everyone's ears.

When everyone heard the sound, they all changed color.

But Chen Wang, Chen Laohan and other family members of the deceased were filled with grief and anger. They shouted: "Pull up the iron lump and smash it down to kill this monster!"

The Ghost Taoist Master nodded and said, "Keep smashing!"

Everyone worked together to pull up the iron lump and put it down again.

There was another bang, and the sound of a woman screaming, coming from the well.

The ghost Taoist priest twisted his beard and sneered, saying nothing.

This happened three or five times, and finally a voice begging for mercy came from the well. The female voice shouted: "Master City God, Master Tianshi, I know I was wrong, please let me go!"

The villagers were a little scared and stopped together.

"Youdao means repaying debts and killing people to pay for their lives. You have done too many evil things and killed people. Do you still want us to let you go?" The Ghost Taoist looked at the mouth of the well and said:
"If you come out on your own, I can give you a happy death. If you don't come out, when I catch you, I will cut you into pieces, sprinkle you with salt, and fry you in a pan. , let you die in pain!"

Old man Chen Wang and Chen collapsed to the ground crying, shouting: "Master Tianshi, City God, please don't let this goblin go!"

The other two families did the same, pointing at the well and cursing, and yelling at Ghost Taoist Priest and Zuo Chenghuang.

"Everyone, please don't make any noise. I will naturally make the decision for you." The Ghost Taoist soothed him and once again shouted down the well, issuing an ultimatum.

There was silence in the well for a while, and the female voice suddenly said: "Since I can't escape death, then why should I come out? If you have the ability, just catch me and go up."

"Well, you monster, you said this yourself!" The ghost Taoist priest was angry and waved his hand: "Keep smashing, the other people will take out all the salt from their own homes, and the villagers Also buy me all the salt from the store!"

Everyone was ordered to act separately.

More than a dozen big men continued to smash the iron lumps down the well, while others went home to get salt.

After a dozen more hits, the sound from the well changed somewhat.

When it was smashed down before, there was a thumping sound, that was because the iron lump hit the shell; but now when it is smashed down, it is the sound of plopping water.

Obviously, the snail shell has been smashed and the iron lumps have fallen into the water at the bottom of the well, which is why it made such a sound.

"Keep smashing, don't be idle. The goblin must be hiding aside, but the iron bumps can't hit her, but they can still scare her and make her frightened." said the ghost Taoist priest.

Everyone followed the order and continued to lift the iron knot and put it down again.

It was not long before salt was delivered to the villagers one after another.

"Spread the salt, spread it all!" said the Ghost Taoist Master.

Bag after bag of salt was thrown into the well.The total amount of salt in the whole village, plus the salt from the village sales point, is more than 100 kilograms.

(End of this chapter)