Thinking of the imperial water talisman, Jin An quietly approached several village elders in Huangzishan Village, explained his purpose of coming, and continued: "If these village elders are willing to trust me, let's go back to the village now and try my method to see if it works.
Effect."
Jin'an didn't know how effective Erlang Zhenjun's water talisman was in this wilderness. There was ready-made well water in the village and ready-made underground rivers flowing through it, which could minimize the risk of failure.
That's why I proposed to return to the village.
"This..." Several village elders hesitated and looked embarrassed.
Li Zheng stood up and said: "Taoist Master Jin'an, we already regard you as one of our own, how can we not trust you? If we didn't trust you, we would not send water."
Li Zheng said with a look of disbelief: "We have been busy all day. We haven't driven the piles, we haven't found any water, and we have been tired and thirsty all day. How can we just go home empty-handed and let the folks who came out with us go back to the village?"
It's a bit unnatural to explain to the old people, children, and mothers-in-law waiting eagerly at home."
"Nan, what is Nan Chang?" Jin An was a little confused.
"I'm sorry, I speak a little too fast because I'm in a hurry." Li Zheng showed an embarrassed and honest smile, and then explained that Nanchang is a local dialect, which means difficult and difficult to handle.
Jin An turned to look at the villagers, who had chapped lips after being exposed to the sun all day, and were standing listlessly waiting to give orders to the village elder. He subconsciously whispered: "This is indeed a bit difficult to handle."
"What did you say, Taoist Master Jin An?" Several elderly people had poor hearing and did not hear Jin An's voice clearly.
Jin An's gaze was called back by Li Zheng: "Ah, oh, it's nothing, Li Zheng, what do you think about it? Everyone treats me badly, and I can't just watch and do nothing. I have a trick here.
You see if it can be done, and if it can be done, then a few old people will call the fellow villagers over."
"Taoist Master Jin'an, just say that you are bigger than the market we have seen, and you are smarter than us country folk. You definitely have more ways than us."
Jin An was so praised by Li Zheng that he quickly waved his hands and said that he didn't dare to take it seriously. These old gentlemen will always be my elders, and the elders are my father. Then he said his own solution: "I see that the sun in the sky is getting lower and lower, and the time is changing.
It's getting late and it's going to be dark soon. I'm sure it will rain today because I can't drive the dry bone stakes. If you continue to search like this, you will only be wasting a small amount of fresh water. So, I'll try to see if I can find a new one for you nearby.
water source. In order to avoid trouble later, I have to ask Li Zheng and several village elders to gather everyone and stop everyone from running around."
"The sun is about to set anyway, why don't you take a gamble?"
Although Li Zheng and the others had not read any big books and did not understand any big principles, they understood one thing. Jin An was sincerely looking for water sources for their whole village. This alone was enough for Jin An.
He will always be their distinguished guest in the northwest, and he has the same heart as the 21 households in Huangzishan Village.
Immediately, Li Zheng, several village elders, and old herdsman Sun Tugen began to call everyone together to tell everyone what happened. Instead of causing trouble, these villagers were very interested in how Jin'an could get water by himself.
, they will listen to whatever Li Zheng says and promise not to cause trouble around them.
In particular, Sun Tugen, an old herdsman who personally led Jin'an into the village, became the focus of everyone's attention. The villagers gathered around to inquire about Jin'an, asking them how they met and whether Taoist Jin'an could really find the water source... This man
Although the expression on the old man's face was serious, he was very proud of himself in his invisible heart.
"My friendship with Taoist Master Jin An started when we drank a sip of goat's milk wine on a dark and stormy night..."
While old herdsman Sun Tugen was bragging to his fellow villagers, Jin'an also started looking for water sources.
In order to greatly increase the chance of success in finding water sources, he went down the mountain and found a clump of Achnatherum splendens that was a little yellow due to drought.
When it comes to survival ability on the Gobi Desert, humans can never compare to these tough and drought-tolerant weeds.
Where grass can grow, it means that there must be moist soil in the sand under the grass roots. Jin An asked for a shovel and quickly dug out a pit. It seemed that the drought for half a year had indeed had a great impact on Xizhou Prefecture. He
After digging down for more than ten feet, I finally found some wet soil.
But this was not enough. He had to continue digging and try to increase the success rate of the Imperial Water Talisman as much as possible. After all, this was Zhenjun Erlang's first battle in the Northwest, and he could not hold back.
At this time, Jin An's confusing behavior was completely incomprehensible to everyone. They knew that Taoist priests could subjugate demons and eliminate evil, and draw talismans to suppress evil. They originally thought that Taoist Jin An was setting up an altar, and then making talismans to pray to the Dragon King.
rain.
As a result, Taoist priest Jin'an didn't look like a Taoist priest at all. He wore a Taoist robe tied around his waist. After picking up the shovel, he quickly dug the soil with his hands and feet, without blushing or breathing.
"Taoist Master Jin'an, what are you doing?" Several village elders were also a little confused.
"We know that there are places where weeds grow. If we dig down, we will find some water. But if we don't see moist soil after a few shovels, we will definitely not be able to dig out any water if we continue digging for a long time."
"Yes, especially since it is still the dry season. Even the most drought-tolerant Achnatherum splendens has yellow leaves. Even if the whole village digs together, no one can get any water."
Several village elders tried to persuade Jin'an to stop working in vain, not because they didn't believe in Jin'an, but because this was their experience gained from their ancestors living in the wasteland of the Northwest for generations.
Hou'erge means "the day after tomorrow" in the local dialect, which means that everyone can dig together until the day after tomorrow, but still can't get any water.
Several village elders saw that Jin An was still digging the loess tenaciously, and they were about to call some young and strong young people to help dig the hole. When those young people came over, Jin An had already dug the hole. When they saw Jin An,
People dug a pit as deep as one person in such a short period of time. They couldn't help but marvel: "Jin, Master Jin'an, are you a Taoist priest or a farmer?"
Even planting crops doesn’t require so much effort.
Seeing that several young people in the village couldn't speak, several village elders immediately lowered their faces and yelled in displeasure. Jin Anle said it was okay. When he first came to Xizhou Gobi Desert, he wanted to dig a sand pit for fun, but this time he finally satisfied him.
A sense of novelty.
Jin An took out from his arms a four-time imperial water talisman of True Lord Erlang. When he carried the statue of the Patriarch on his back to suppress the mountain god, the water talisman was not completely burned out. At this time, the water talisman on this water talisman was
The spirituality is once again complemented by the concentric golden lock.
His index finger and middle finger came together to hold the Erlang Zhenjun's water talisman. The fingertips felt cool, sweeping away the distractions on the loess soil of the plateau, making people feel peaceful physically and mentally, as if even the strong sunlight above their heads was no longer so intense.
As expected, it was the imperial water talisman that had been sealed four times. With the help of Erlang Zhenjun's divine power on the yellow talisman, he could clearly feel the invisible water vapor floating in the hot air that could make people peel off. Those weak water vapors began to move towards him.
His fingertips gathered together, gradually forming a drop of water the size of a sesame seed, a drop of water the size of a grain of rice, a drop of water the size of a teardrop...
But this process of gathering water vapor was too slow. He gave up on getting water from the surrounding air and instead used the power of Shinto to "see" the underground water veins. He "saw" a magnificent underground river with well-developed water veins.
Some of those underground rivers are shallow from the surface, and some are very deep.
Northwest drought-tolerant plants, such as the most common splendens grass, grow on underground rivers that are shallow above the ground.
But most underground rivers are very deep from the surface.
The settlement location of the people in Xizhou Prefecture happens to be at the shallowest point of the underground river from the surface of the earth. This is the experience of searching for water sources summed up by the people in the Gobi Desert for generations. People are always migrating with the water sources.
But now is the dry season, the water level of underground rivers has dropped, and the underground rivers that were originally shallow above the ground have become deeper. No wonder even the drought-tolerant splendens with deep roots is showing signs of withering and yellowing.
In fact, not only Jin An felt the coolness from the imperial water talisman, but several other people standing near the pit also felt this rare coolness in the northwest, and they all looked at Jin An's doubtful eyes at the cold water between his two fingertips.
Yellow Talisman.
Every stroke of the talisman on the yellow talisman is filled with spirituality, especially the most important word "Edict" on the talisman. It shines brightly, and even ordinary people can see that this talisman paper is extraordinary.
Wow——
Hua Hua Hua——
When you get closer and listen carefully, you can seem to hear the sound of tidal water from the yellow talisman, and the ripples of the water become clearer and clearer.
"water!"
"Water, water, water..."
There was a sound of exclamation. The young people pointed at the pit in surprise. They looked at Jin An in stunned silence. They looked at the imperial water talisman in Jin An's hand in stunned silence. They looked at the village elders in stunned silence. They looked at the pit in stunned silence again.
Look at Jin An...
"!"
"!"
It turned out that the sound of tidal water did not come from Erlang Zhenjun's water talisman, but from the underground water that quickly filled the pit. Li Zheng, the village elder, and the old herdsman Sun Tugen all stared blankly at the scene in front of them.
Plop!
Plop!
Plop!
These old people, who have been rooted in the barren land of the Northwest all their lives and have a deep love for their hometown, cried with joy and knelt down at the puddle, spreading their arms to embrace the land at their feet. Only those who grew up in this loess land can understand the beauty of water.
It’s hard-earned and has deep feelings for my homeland.
"It's holy! It's holy!"
"Water really turned into water!"
There were more and more cheers here, and the other villagers who were standing on the outside could no longer suppress the curiosity. They all gathered around desperately. When they saw the water still pouring out of the puddle, they burst out in surprise.
Like the shouts.
Jin'an at this moment is a holy manifestation to the people on this piece of Gobi land!
Some people couldn't wait to run to the puddle, scoop water directly with their hands and drink it, regardless of the rough sand in their mouths, and they only had a deep love for water from their hearts.
To be continued...