Chapter 48 Huangquan Well
I don't know if my self-righteous guesses are correct. But the ancient well at the bottom of Haizi does seem to be the source of this series of strange events. I made up my mind to go in and take a look.
All I can do next is wait, waiting for another round of changes in Haizi's water volume.
Sometimes I suddenly worry very much, I worry that if I guess wrong, they did not enter the ancient well. Then if I rashly enter, I will push myself into an unimaginable dangerous situation.
But if Wen Mo, Kong Xue, Shi Tao and Dawuti did not enter the ancient well, then this matter would become even more strange. I can only think that they were kidnapped by aliens.
In any case, as far as I am currently in the situation, I cannot survive in the desert alone. If I leave here and walk out of the desert, theoretically, this can be done, after all, camels are there. But it is absolutely impossible for me to do this, and I cannot leave alone without figuring out where others are going. So in a sense, I have fallen into a desperate situation.
I looked at the ancient well from afar, and for a moment I felt it was gloomy and terrifying. The black wellhead seemed to be the entrance to hell.
I once heard from my grandfather that most wells are ordinary water wells, and a very small number of them are called Huangquan Wells! The so-called Huangquan Wells refer to those wells that happen to connect to underground rivers. The water inside them is not ordinary buried groundwater, but the river water of underground rivers.
In fact, it sounds like the two wells are just different from the water sources and there is no essential difference, but why is the well connecting the underground river called Huangquan Well? I didn't understand at that time, and I asked my grandfather this way.
So my grandfather told me something he experienced back then. Now, when I recall it, what my grandfather experienced seems to be somewhat similar to what he is today.
When my grandfather was young, he learned medical skills with his father. My grandfather was not like my second uncle. He was not a good job. My second uncle followed his grandfather for many years, but he still had no idea that he had learned six or seven of my grandfather's medical skills.
Grandpa was serious and smart. He was very skilled in medical skills at a young age. He liked to imitate ancient people and travel around the country. In my grandfather's own words, he liked to feel like he was a doctor in the square and had a sense of mission to save the world.
But now I heard from my second uncle that my grandfather was not just a doctor. The descendants of Faqiu were still the best at fighting and determining the meridians. So when I recalled my grandfather's experience of traveling around, I suddenly had a thought, would he be like his second uncle now, and he would be like Jin Qing's tomb and look for dragons to point acupoints. However, my grandfather's methods are much more skillful than my second uncle. I don't know how to explore Yin and Yang with one arm is not something that anyone can do.
One day, my grandfather came to a village, which was built along the mountain, and there were about a hundred households living there. After the village chief found out that my grandfather was a doctor, he was so excited that he came from outside the mountain for the first time. This looked much better than the barefoot doctor on the hill next door.
After knowing that my grandfather had just traveled here, he enthusiastically invited me to stay for a few more days. My grandfather was so kind that he could not help but agree. Although there was no seafood in the village, the mountain delicacies were still indispensable. When my grandfather was full, he would go to the nearby mountains to stroll around, and his life was comfortable. Occasionally, he would help the villagers see a doctor, and he was deeply loved by everyone.
After living for two days, my grandfather suddenly discovered a strange thing. The village is not big, and there is a well in the east and west of the village. However, my grandfather noticed that whether it is the people living at the east end of the village or the people living at the west end of the village, they will go to the east end of the village to fetch water, while the well in the west is empty.
Grandpa went to ask the Chief of the Security Bureau for the reason, but the Chief of the Security Bureau could not tell the reason. Grandpa had to go and investigate it personally. There was nothing unusual in the well in the west. However, the water level here was much lower than the well in the east.
But this should not be the reason why people don’t come here. As soon as my grandfather stood by the well, he saw Lao Zengtou, who was living next to him, coming back from the east of the village with two buckets of water.
Grandpa moved his heart and went up to talk. When Lao Zeng saw that he was the new doctor in the village, he immediately showed great respect.
Grandpa looked at the two buckets of water under Lao Zeng's feet, "Why do you have to guard a well and go east to the village to fetch water? Isn't this going to be far away?"
But Old Zeng sighed, "Buy a way, the water in this well cannot be used!"
"Can't use it?" Grandpa was stunned. "The water in the well seems to be cool and clean, why do you say it can't be used?"
Old Zeng's voice suddenly lowered, "Sir, don't you know that this well is very evil, I don't know what's underneath it? In the early years, this well was actually quite good. The water of the well was sweet and delicious, even better than the water of the well in the east! But a few years ago, there was an earthquake here. Although it was not serious, since then, the well changed."
A well can still change, but my grandfather couldn't understand it, "Has the water quality worsened?"
Lao Zeng shook his head, "It's okay to say that the water quality is poor, but the key is that there are more things in the water."
Grandpa was stunned when he heard this, "There are too many things in the water, so there can't be fish!"
Old Zeng head leaned closer and whispered: "It's a bone, a human bone!"
"Human bones?" Grandpa couldn't help but be surprised, "How come human bones appear in the well?"
"Not only human bones, sometimes there are also shriveled hands or feet." Lao Zeng pointed to a family next to him. "I remember that year, Erwang drew water from a well and actually salvaged a human head, long hair, shriveled face, and two black eye sockets. " Lao Zeng said while subconsciously staying away from the well.
"This is actually something like this!" Grandpa felt it was incredible and unbelievable.
"What I said is absolutely true! If I tell a lie, I will just fall into the well and drown!" Old Zeng swears, "You don't know, Erwang was so scared that he peed in his pants! He didn't get out of bed for three days!"
Grandpa looked at Lao Zeng's expression and felt that he should not be lying. Grandpa immediately became curious and his desire to explore was overwhelming. It seemed that this was the inheritance of our Zhuo family. When it came to the second uncle behind, including me now, it would not have fallen into such a field!
Grandpa wanted to ask a few more questions, but the Chief of the Security Bureau passed by here. Hearing a few words, he immediately said to Old Zeng: "Zeng Laoliu, I tell you, don't be careless about Mr. Zhuo here, don't make any trouble!"
Lao Zengtou quickly smiled and hurried back to his home with awkwardly. Seeing that his grandfather was staring at him, the chief of security guards originally planned to pretend to be calm and get away with it, but his grandfather's gaze was so sharp that the chief of security guards' psychological defense was quickly broken through.
Before grandpa asked anything, the chief secretary talked and said, "Oh, Mr. Zhuo, you don't know, I have no choice. If you can suppress such things, you won't cause any trouble!"
Grandpa understood the statement of the security chief. After all, as the head of a village, it is his responsibility to ensure peace in one side. Grandpa asked strangely: "Since this well is so evil, why don't you just seal it up!"
The Chief of the Security Bureau smiled bitterly, "Mr. Zhuo, do you think we don't want to. We have done such a thing a long time ago, but we can't seal it at all. We first covered the wellhead with bluestone slabs, but once we covered the wellhead, the water in the well began to burst out, as if something was about to come up! We were so scared that we quickly moved the bluestone slabs away and said it was strange. After opening the wellhead, the water inside returned to peace. Since then, we never dared to move this well any more!"
Grandpa nodded, "So that's how it is!"
The surveillance chief looked around and said to his grandfather softly: "I have asked the masters in this field, and the master said that this well is probably a Huangquan well. The river Styx is passing through the border, and ghosts gather, so don't move!"
Grandpa had heard of the story of Huangquan Well before, but according to Lao Zengtou, the change of this well occurred after an earthquake, so it must have been that earthquake that changed some underground structures, which led to the well becoming the so-called Huangquan Well.
At that time, my grandfather had only attended a private school and had no higher education. He had no idea what the geological structure was. However, despite this, he could still think that the changes in the well were related to the underground structure, which was really admirable.
Based on the things salvaged from the well, my grandfather speculated that there must be a tomb underground, and it is very likely that it is a group of tombs, so there are so many corpses.
Grandpa told the chief of security guards about his speculation. The chief of security guards could not understand his grandfather's thoughts for a while, so he was skeptical and hurriedly brought his grandfather back to his residence.
The next day, as soon as my grandfather got up, he heard something strange. Lao Zengtou, who lived in the west of the village, disappeared. People only found Lao Zengtou's shoes next to the Huangquan Well, which were neatly placed next to the eaves of the well, just like the bedside. It was obviously carefully placed.
People set up a torch and looked down the well, but found that Lao Zengtou's clothes were floating in the water. The chief of staff wanted the young man in the village to go down the well to see if Lao Zengtou fell into the well.
But no one in the village is willing to go down. Although the Chief of the Conservatory tried his best to cover it up, there is no airtight wall in the world. The saying of Huangquan Well still spread among people. So no one is willing to go down and go to the "Huangquan".
Chapter completed!