strayed into fairy mountain

Chapter 19 [Bottom of the Well]

But if that was the case, why didn't Yunniang tell him?
Zhang Jingxu's eyes flickered a few times.

Decided to try again...

But before Zhang Jingxu continued to probe, the girl Yunniang had already spoken first.

She seemed to want to interrupt the topic just now, and hurriedly said: "Oh, it's getting late, I have to start working, otherwise I won't be able to finish making tofu before dawn..."

Zhang Jingxu's heart moved again, seeing through Yunniang's intention to hide certain things.

But he didn't expose it, instead he nodded with a smile and said, "After you reminded me, I feel a little ashamed. Tonight we came to visit with empty hands and no gifts. This move not only disturbed Sun Yun's study, but also delayed you two." Make tofu..."

Zhang Jingxu stopped talking, smiled again and said: "Fortunately, this matter can be made up for. We have a lot of people coming tonight, and everyone will help you to finish your work early."

After finishing speaking, he deliberately gestured to Yunniang with his eyes, and said: "Look at us, all of us are strong men working hard. Although we don't know how to make tofu, we can help you...how about it, girl , would you like to let me help?"

After saying this, before Yunniang had time to answer, the little scholar actually spoke out first, stood there and waved his hands anxiously, saying: "How can this be done? How can this be done? Sir, you are a guest at the door, how can a student let the guests work hard?" Hard work. This is so disrespectful, so disrespectful."

Zhang Jingxu laughed, pretending to be an elder on purpose, and said: "Don't stop us, it's our intention to visit you suddenly and disturb your study and study. If you can't do something for your family, why don't you let us Are you restless?"

"Ah? This, this..."

The little scholar murmured twice, as if he was persuaded by Zhang Jingxu.

At this moment, the girl Yun Niang spoke, as if she was cooperating with Zhang Jingxu, she deliberately pretended to be happy and said: "You want to help? Okay, okay. So many people help me, I finally don't have to be too tired tonight La……"

Hearing that she finally didn't need to be too tired, the little scholar's persistence seemed to relax instantly, and he nodded subconsciously: "Yes, it's good to have someone to help. Yunniang doesn't need to be too tired, and I don't need to be too tired either."

Yun Niang hurriedly said again: "It's not just that you don't need to be too tired, you don't have to work tonight! There are so many people helping me, and I can finish the tofu soon... So brother Sun Yun, you go to study directly Right. There aren’t many good opportunities like this, and it’s not every day that guests come to help.”

The little scholar nodded subconsciously again, and murmured: "Yes, there are not many opportunities like this. If someone helps Yunniang with work, I can devote myself to studying."

Zhang Jingxu opened his mouth while the iron was hot, and said with a smile: "Then what are you waiting for? Let's start quickly. Miss Yunniang, may I ask what is the first step in making tofu?"

Yunniang walked to the corner of the room, picked up a wooden bucket with difficulty, and said, "Let's go to the well in the village first, and retrieve the beans soaked there. You may not know it, but the beans need to be soaked for a long time to make tofu!"

As he spoke, he took the lead and walked towards the door, and hinted with his eyes to everyone to follow, and continued: "If a single family makes tofu, then the soaked beans must be soaked in your own home. You need to carry water home every day, and it takes extra effort... ..."

"However, Sunjiazhuang's ancestors have been making tofu for generations, and they have accumulated many labor-saving methods for decades and hundreds of years. For example, the whole village pays for beans together, and put them in a special well for soaking."

"After the beans are soaked, each family will get them according to their share of the money. This saves the steps of carrying water home and saves a lot of energy."

Zhang Jingxu quickly pretended to be surprised, and praised: "This is really a good way."

While speaking, he took the opportunity to follow out, and the other yamen servants also put on a show, rushing to say: "Miss Yunniang, we will help you carry the wooden barrel."

The little scholar chased after him, with a hesitant tone, he said, "Yunniang, I... I... Shall I follow?"

Yun Niang smiled at him, and said softly: "Of course you are studying at home. There are not many good opportunities like this. Work hard and don't forget your ambition."

Hearing the word ambition, the little scholar's eyes were in a trance, and he subconsciously said, "Yes, I have ambition. I want to improve my studies and change the poverty in the village..."

He stood there in a daze, watching everyone follow Yunniang out.

……

But after everyone walked out of the courtyard, they suddenly found some changes in the village.

The dense fog that had originally enveloped the entire village was much weaker at this time, and the color was no longer black, no longer like thick ink that could not be melted.

But everyone suffered a loss once, and this time they did not dare to relax their vigilance. They even moved to Zhang Jingxu's side and asked cautiously: "Catcher Zhang, are we fascinated by ghosts again? Why do we feel that there is a lot of fog when we look around?" .”

Zhang Jingxu frowned slightly, and he also felt a little strange, because with the help of the magic weapon, he could clearly distinguish the authenticity of the environment...

The fog in the village has indeed thinned.

but!

why?

Obviously, it was already the most dangerous late night, so the cold fog should be thicker.

But now it is unreasonable, the fog is so thin that it almost disappears.

It's puzzling!
at this time……

A faint sigh was heard from Yunniang.

The voice was sad, and the tone was inexplicably miserable, and said: "You don't have to doubt, all of this is true. Whenever I start making tofu, he will subconsciously understand my hard work... and at this time For him, evil thoughts will be suppressed by good thoughts."

Zhang Jingxu's heart moved, and she took the opportunity to ask: "Is this him you mentioned, the one we just met?"

Yun Niang looked at Zhang Jingxu, nodded lightly in admission, and said, "Yes! It's him!"

Zhang Jingxu quickly asked again: "Since there are good thoughts and evil thoughts, there must be good deeds and evil deeds, so I want to ask, has he ever harmed others when he had evil thoughts?"

When you have evil thoughts, have you ever harmed someone?
This question made Yunniang silent, as if unwilling to answer.

But after being silent for a while, she finally spoke again, but instead of answering directly, she asked Zhang Jingxu a question, and said, "Sir, I guess you are a person who has practiced. He once told me This kind of person can subdue demons and destroy ghosts."

Zhang Jingxu pondered for a while, and also asked rhetorically, "Why does Miss Yunniang make such a guess?"

But seeing Yunniang looking at him, she landed on the grass in Zhang Jingxu's hand, and said quietly: "Little girl can feel that the grass in your hand is not ordinary. It looks weak like grass, but Faintly exuding power..."

He said with a wretched smile, and then said: "This kind of power is very powerful, and I have a very clear and unusual feeling. You only need to shake the grass to kill me."

"So, sir, you are a person who has practiced, right? And this little grass in your hand should be the magic weapon in the legend, right?"

Zhang Jingxu didn't deny it, but he didn't admit it either. He just nodded vaguely and said with a hint in his words: "In fact, Miss Yunniang doesn't need to worry about anything, because Zhang is not the kind of person who doesn't care about right and wrong. Even if I I really have practice in my body, and I will not do it for no reason."

He paused slightly while talking, took advantage of the situation to continue the topic just now, and asked again: "You haven't answered me yet, did he ever harm anyone when he was evil?"

This time, Yunniang was no longer silent, but she still didn't answer directly, but asked again, "Would you like to personally experience the hardship of making tofu once, sir?"

Zhang Jingxu's heart moved, she nodded without hesitation, and said warmly: "If Miss Yunniang plans to answer me this way, then Zhang is willing to experience it for herself..."

Yunniang sighed softly, "Come with me!"

After the girl finished speaking, she turned around and led the way. Zhang Jingxu glanced at the crowd with her eyes, signaling that everyone should follow and have a look.

He had an intuition that the investigation was about to come to light.

Is the little scholar an evil ghost?

Did he kill the villagers?

All of this should be revealed soon!

……

But Yunniang led the crowd along the small road in the village, and gradually a well appeared in front of it, like a beast with its mouth wide open in the night.

I only heard Yun Niang's faint voice, as if telling a story: "He was poor since he was a child, but he wanted to study. In fact, he didn't like reading. He just wanted to change the poverty of the villagers through reading."

"But the villagers of Sunjiazhuang, perhaps because they have been poor for too long, think this is whimsical, thinking that they should make tofu for generations."

"They laughed at him, they were indifferent to him, and even gradually turned into bullying, blatantly and continuously bullying."

"What a ridiculous thing to do!"

"The poor don't know kindness, but they bully each other cruelly"

"The well you see in front of you is the place where the whole village soaks beans together. Every household in the village makes tofu and takes beans home from here."

"It's the same with him. He also does the job of making tofu. Although he hates it from the bottom of his heart, he has to do it for food and clothing."

"Only when food and clothing are guaranteed can he continue to study."

"But as I said just now, he actually doesn't like reading..."

"What he really likes is a craft of carving."

"That year, he carved a girl out of tofu!"

"That year, he carried a wooden bucket to the well to fetch beans!"

The night was deep and silent, and Yunniang's words seemed to be a little jumpy, and it was difficult to coherent, often jumping from one topic to another suddenly.

But Zhang Jingxu didn't make a sound to remind, but chose to let her speak naturally.

At this time everyone had arrived at the well, and Yun Niang looked at the mouth of the well quietly, her face seemed sad, and her tone was like raving, she continued: "Do you know where his body is? It's in this well where the whole village soaks beans. ..."

Everyone was shocked!
In the well, there is the corpse of the little scholar?

The whole village soaks beans in this well, and after taking them home, they make tofu and sell them. Doesn't this mean that many people have eaten tofu soaked in dead bodies?
But this is not what everyone cares about. What everyone really cares about is why the little scholar's body is in the well.

And just when everyone was confused, the girl Yunniang's voice sounded again, it sounded like she was crying, full of deep sadness.

"They blatantly oppressed him!"

"They snatched his soaked beans"

"The whole village paid for it together, and every household has a share. The ancestors and grandparents got what they needed, why did they start robbing..."

"He just wanted to argue a few words, but they beat him to death right here! When the body fell into the well, they didn't even want to fish it!"

"How hateful, how hateful they are."

"A young man who wanted to change the poverty of the village was beaten to death by a group of people he wanted to save."

"From then on, the corpse was in the dry well. The cold and cool well water eroded him in darkness..."

"Sir, please comment. Is his experience pitiful?"

The girl Yun Niang's gaze was fixed on Zhang Jingxu.

Zhang Jingxu sighed softly, nodded solemnly and said, "Your question is easy to answer, and it would be pitiful for anyone to answer it!"

But after Zhang Jingxu finished answering, she immediately changed her tone, and asked more solemnly: "But girl, you never answered the question I asked just now. Did the little scholar harm the people in the village when he thought evilly... "

Speaking of this, Wei Wei paused, and then said: "Or I should change the way of asking, after all, he was killed by the people first. Under this premise, even revenge is reasonable."

"Then Miss Yunniang, can you answer me now, did he take revenge on the people when he thought evil?"

(End of this chapter)