Tomb Raiders in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 37 The Inexhaustible Ancient Well
According to Pan Cheng, some people wanted to cut down the tree at that time, but as much as it was cut down, the tree would grow back. People at that time thought it was a sacred tree, so they kept it.

People think that this is an auspicious sacred tree, so they often make wishes under the sacred tree. Surprisingly, the people who made wishes under the sacred tree at that moment almost all realized their wishes in the end.

Zhang Faqiu said curiously: "Find out all the county records about this ancient mulberry tree for me, and I will wait for you at the shelter of the ancient mulberry tree tonight."

Hearing what Zhang Faqiu said, Pan Cheng nodded and said, "Young man, let's go now."

Zhang Faqiu and many soldiers walked into the village, and saw an ancient mulberry tree from a distance. The branches and leaves were not so lush, but it gave people a feeling of vicissitudes of time and endless reincarnation.

"Is this the ancient mulberry tree?" Zhang Faqiu said casually.

"If you go back to the general, it's the ancient mulberry tree!" A soldier said hastily.

"choke!"

Zhang Faqiu felt that as much as he cut off, he would grow back, which is really too mysterious.

"General, no!"

But before Zhang Faqiu stepped forward, a soldier knelt on the ground and shouted loudly.

Zhang Faqiu stood on the spot with his sword in hand and asked, "Why not?"

"This ancient tree is a sacred tree, the general must remember not to destroy it." The soldier said: "The villain's hometown is in Zhuo County, and there are too many legends about this tree."

"Just now the county magistrate said that this tree will grow as much as it is cut down. I don't believe it. I will try it!" After saying this, Zhang Faqiu took a sword and chopped off a piece of bark.

When the bark fell to the ground, it turned into a burst of fly ash, and the top of the cut gap grew at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Is it really a sacred tree?" Zhang Faqiu asked in amazement, and asked someone to push the door open, and walked into Liu Bei's former residence. Zhang Faqiu walked around a few times.

"Pass down the order, and everyone will rest here." Zhang Faqiu held a wooden bucket in his hand and planned to go to the backyard to fetch water.

"Yes!"

The soldiers hurriedly turned around to deliver the order.

Zhang Faqiu had just walked to the backyard when he heard a beast roar.

It's very slight...but it looks like it can only be issued by a large beast.

"Could it be a tiger?" Zhang Faqiu ran back quickly, holding a sword in his hand, and walked towards the backyard vigilantly.

Squinting his eyes, he saw that there was only one firewood in the backyard, and there was an ancient well. A lot of grass had grown beside the ancient well. It seemed that Liu Bei had been away from here for a long time.

"Roar--"

There was another very slight beast roar, and Zhang Faqiu was very curious. The sound sounded like a war between the two, with weak legs, and a great deterrent.

"Isn't that some kind of beast behind the firewood team?" Zhang Faqiu immediately threw the scabbard over, hit the firewood pile, and there was nothing there.

"Grass, it's possible that he hasn't slept for a long time, and he has hallucinations." Zhang Faqiu cursed secretly, threw the sword on the ground, and led the bucket to the edge of the well.

Just when he was about to look into the well water, he was completely stunned... The well water in this ancient well... turned out to be blue!
This blue is completely different from blue in the general sense.

The well water here is like a viscous sky blue liquid tumbling, crystal clear like liquid crystal.

"This--"

Zhang Faqiu was startled, and secretly wondered in his heart: "Is there a Jinglong King here?"

He had heard people say about this thing before, in some rather strange environments, with the nourishment of spiritual energy, snakes can transform into mortal dragons.

Especially here, it was the bureau of Emperor Zhaolie of the Shu Han Dynasty, which was born on the back of the dragon's veins, nourishing the emperor's dragon energy. If there is a living being in this well that is nourished by the dragon's energy, it is really very possible!
"Zuo Ci said that as long as he uses dragon energy, he can cure the green scale curse on my body. Could it be that there is a real dragon dormant in this well right now?"

Zhang Faqiu's thoughts are already a bit whimsical, but in the face of life and death, who wouldn't be whimsical?

Zhang Faqiu put down the bucket lightly, afraid of waking up the real dragon in the well, he walked out lightly, and hundreds of warriors gathered in front of him.

"Follow me!" Zhang Faqiu waved his hand, and a group of people surrounded him.

"General!"

"Bring all the buckets!" Zhang Faqiu said quickly, standing under the courtyard and waiting.

In the entire village, there are hundreds of households, and the buckets from the homes are taken.

When Zhang Faqiu saw it, he led a group of people to the backyard, but when he climbed on the edge of the ancient well and looked down, he could only see black stones with some moss growing on them, and some weeds floating on them. Well water surface.

"General..." the soldier yelled out, really not understanding what happened to his general.

Zhang Faqiu stared at the bottom of the water, speechless: "How is it possible, how could I be wrong?"

"Dry the well, I want to see what's down here!"

Zhang Faqiu didn't give up, anyone who could find a chance to survive, who would give up?

"Yes!"

Hundreds of strong warriors began to carry water, while Zhang Faqiu stared at this ancient well!
From noon to dusk, the water in the ancient well did not decrease at all!

Zhang Faqiu red-eyed: "How could this happen?"

"General, I am familiar with water. When I was not in the army, I followed my father to help people dig wells to make a living. Now I must have met the ancestor of rice field eel!" A soldier who was carrying water suddenly put down the burden on his shoulders, He turned his head and said to Zhang Faqiu.

"Old Eel Patriarch?" Zhang Faqiu frowned, but relaxed again.

Rice field eel is a kind of aquatic animal. Zhang Faqiu's deepest impression on this kind of thing is fried rice field eel in sauce. The taste is really good, but now...how can rice field eel be an ancestor?
"Tell me!" Zhang Faqiu signaled everyone to stop to see what the soldier had to say.

After all, this matter is too weird. It is just a well, and a hundred strong men are carrying water. For a whole afternoon, even a hundred wells must be done by him.

That's good, there are less than a dozen tons of water in one afternoon, and there are dozens of tons of water at more. How can this big old well have so much water?

If there were no weirdness in this underground, who would believe it?

The soldier hurriedly said: "This is the local dialect of our place. If you want to speak it, it has been a long time ago. Among the older generation, if you can have a handicraft job, you can support a large family. My grandfather's generation is Do this dude..."

The soldier recalled that in his grandfather's generation, someone in the village wanted to fill in a thousand-year-old well to repair a house.

Since ancient times, it is necessary to choose an auspicious day for filling the well and installing the door.

Even in later generations, this custom is still preserved in many places.

According to the local custom, before filling the ancient well, the water inside must be drained first, and then filled with earth and rocks.

It sounds very similar to the current situation.

At that time, there was no such luxury as Zhang Faqiu, who directly mobilized a hundred-man team to carry water, but more than 30 strong people in the village carried water together, and it took three days and three nights to carry the water. The water in the thousand-year-old well, is not diminished one iota.

At this time, even people with the most slender nerves will know that such a thing happened and what happened.

At that time, there were no experts to give advice, so some people went down to the underground well to have a look.

There is always someone who is more breathless, and volunteers to go down first.

However, none of the people who dived into the water came back alive. They all went down into the water. The people above looked at it as if they had melted in the water. Looking at it with the naked eye, that person gradually disappeared.

It was as if this person went down into the water, his body, clothes and hair were all dissolved in the water.

Everyone who watched this scene shivered.

"Then what happened afterwards?" Zhang Faqiu asked. When these five big and three thick men were telling the past, their colors turned pale with fright.

"Later, my grandfather led ordinary people and took my father with him. He set up an incense table there and kowtowed to toast. It was strange to say that just after the incense stick was burned, the water in the thousand-year-old well fell by itself. It's just a cup of tea, and even the mud in the deepest part of the thousand-year-old well has dried up, and when you step on it, it's like dry mud in the middle of the road."

After saying this, the soldier looked at Zhang Faqiu anxiously: "General, should we try to set up an incense table?"

Zhang Faqiu stood up, looked at the bottom of the well, and asked, "How can your grandfather be sure that it belongs to the ancestor of rice field eel?"

"On our side, there is such a legend about the ancestor of the eel. It is said that it is an eel that has absorbed the dragon's energy. It has lived for thousands of years. As long as you can eat the meat of the ancestor of the eel, you can become a fairy!"

Zhang Faqiu put his palm on the fence beside the ancient well and patted it gently. Folk legends are generally not groundless, and many of them are real things that happened.

Even if some changes have taken place in the process of word of mouth, it will not deviate too much from the essence.

"Are you from Zhuo County?" Zhang Faqiu recalled, and couldn't help but look at the soldier.

The soldier nodded and said, "The villain is a native of this place."

"You people of the older generation, do you have any methods of catching the ancestors of rice field eels?" Zhang Faqiu asked.

Grave robbery is a profession, but the matter of catching ghosts and gods... Isn't there a saying that says that every line is like a mountain?

"The general is just joking." The soldier smiled wryly, "This patriarch of rice field eel, our people here only dare to sacrifice to him, so who dares to catch him?"

"No! Someone must have thought about it!" Zhang Faqiu said with certainty: "You digging people can be regarded as begging underground. There are three religions and nine streams in the 360 ​​line, which are divided into insiders and laymen. You belong to the lower nine streams of the nine streams, not the ancestors. If you don’t want to go to the real dragon, don’t you think I’m right?”

(End of this chapter)