Zhou Qin looked at this woman with great vigilance, and saw that she was shaking a wooden wheel. The wooden wheel made a squeaking sound, and as the wheel turned, a wooden barrel was pulled up bit by bit.
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But what surprised Zhou Qin was that there was no rope on the wooden pulley!
But every time the woman turned the wooden wheel, the wooden barrel in the ancient well rose a little higher, as if there was an invisible rope hanging on it.
After the woman hoisted a bucket of water, she turned around and walked towards the room behind her. However, the wooden bucket she was carrying had five holes, and almost all the water leaked out along the way. When she reached a huge hole on the side of the hut,
In front of the huge water tank, the water in the bucket almost leaked out. She stood on tiptoes, lifted the wooden bucket and poured it into the huge water tank, but only a few drops of water came in.
But the woman didn't realize it. After pouring the water, she immediately carried the bucket back to the ancient well, and then slowly started to draw water.
But what surprised Zhou Qin the most was that the soil under the water tank was wet. Apparently the water tank itself was leaking!
Seeing her mechanized repetition of this action, Zhou Qin felt strange in his heart. He couldn't help but think to himself: This water tank is as big as a person and so thick that it would take several grown men to wrap it around, but this woman can only hit her at one time.
A few drops of water! Besides, this water tank itself is leaking. Even if a full bucket is poured in, it will leak completely. If you draw water like this, you will never be able to fill a full tank of water!
Zhou Qin watched quietly for a while. The woman seemed not to be aware of her presence and kept repeating this action.
When Zhou Qin and others saw the woman repeating this action for the fiftieth time, she couldn't help but said: "Why don't you repair the water tank and this leaky wooden bucket before fetching water?"
When the woman heard Zhou Qin's words, she smiled slightly, turned around, looked at Zhou Qin with interest, and asked in extremely standard Chinese: "Why don't you get rid of all the anger in your body and talk to me again?"
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Zhou Qin saw that this woman looked like she was only in her thirties, with smooth and white skin. She frowned secretly: "How can I be so angry?"
The woman smiled slightly and said, "My bucket is also intact." As she spoke, she slowly fetched another bucket of water. The bucket was still leaking badly. As she walked over, it leaked completely.
Zhou Qin pointed to the water stains under her feet and said, "Look, is it leaking?"
The woman also pointed in the direction where Zhou Qin came and said with a smile: "Look, are you full of violence?"
Zhou Qin said displeasedly: "I kindly remind you, but you are quarreling with me. Do you think I can't understand what you said? If the monk at the foot of the mountain hadn't offended me first, how could I be so angry?"
The woman smiled and said: "You are right, everything has a cause and effect. But have you ever thought about why I keep fetching water here?"
Zhou Qin frowned and said, "You made a mistake and were punished?"
The woman smiled and said: "Yes, I made a big mistake, so I am punished here by using this five-leak bucket to fetch water until the water tank is full."
Zhou Qin said with some sympathy: "Ah, I thought you were Masako Tachibana, but I didn't expect you weren't. Were you punished by Masako Tachibana to fetch water here?"
The woman laughed and said, "Yes, you are so smart. You guessed it right the first time."
Zhou Qin saw that the other party was kind and polite. Although she was not very beautiful, she had a gentle face and a different kind of tranquility in her movements. The resentment in her heart gradually dissipated a lot. Zhou Qin said: "
You are also very smart. You can tell at a glance that I was chased up the mountain. Why didn't you catch me?"
The woman smiled slightly and shook her head: "I'm not interested in your affairs, but the hostility in you is obvious. Look, the dead souls here are all looking at you." As she said that, she pointed around.
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Zhou Qin looked around and saw the tombstones standing silently like a forest around them. There was no ghost anywhere, but it happened to be like this. There was an extremely huge coercion in this silent silence, which made her hair stand on end.
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Zhou Qin secretly had a cold war, and she asked: "I was forced to have no choice... Forget it, let's not talk about this, I want to ask you, do you know where Tachibana Masako is? I want to see her."
The woman stopped fetching water and looked at Zhou Qinlai carefully with interest. She asked, "Why do you want to see her?"
Zhou Qin said: "She sent a letter to my master a while ago, and I am sending back the letter now."
The woman laughed: "So that's it, I understand." She pointed to a deep and secret path behind her and said, "If you walk from here and walk another two hundred meters, you will see a wooden house. There is
Yes, Masako Tachibana is there."
Zhou Qin made a palm with one hand, Shi Taojia politely thanked her, and then walked all the way inside.
Not long after she left, a little girl emerged from the house. This girl was about thirteen or fourteen years old. She had red lips and white teeth, and was quite beautiful. She was none other than Ju Zhizi who had participated in a lotus picking competition and was beaten to tears by Li Yundong's palm.
Ju Zhizi walked up to the woman with wooden clogs and asked curiously: "Grandma, why didn't you point her to the wrong way? Why did you tell her where her mother lives?"
Ju Zhizi's grandma lowered her head and smiled: "Silly boy, she has already gone the wrong way, but how can you let her go the wrong way again?"
Ju Zizi blinked his eyes in understanding: "But she is our enemy!"
Ju Zhizi’s grandma laughed: “There are no eternal enemies and no permanent friends, Ju Zhizi, you must keep this sentence in mind!”
Ju Zhizi pouted her mouth in displeasure: "I don't want to be friends with them! They made my mother scolded so badly by many people, and I was scolded so badly by my mother. I hate them so much!"
Ju Zhizi's grandma shook her head helplessly and smiled, and said: "More than ten years ago, I was very, very good friends with their masters. Alas, I didn't expect that it would become like this now. I didn't expect that it would be like this now."
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Ju Zhizi's eyes widened and he said curiously: "Really, grandma? I have never heard you say that! Who are these people you are talking about? You don't mean that hateful Li Yundong, do you?"
Ju Zhizi's grandma stopped and raised her head, as if she was reminiscing about something. She said leisurely: "I'm talking about Li Yundong's friend...that little girl named Ziyuan, she has a great master.
, called Wang Yuanshan..."
When Ju Zhizi heard this, she became interested. She held up her hands and sat on the edge of the ancient well. Her two calves wearing white horizontal striped cotton socks were swaying and kicking. She asked with a smile: "Grandma, this is called
Isn't Wang Yuanshan your lover?"
Ju Zhizi's grandma burst into laughter and gave Ju Zhizi an angry look: "You guy, you are not allowed to be disrespectful to him!" She did not continue Ju Zhizi's topic, but sighed longly and said: "
When I went to Hanshan Temple in Soochow City, China, to pay homage to the statue of Kobo Daishi, I met him by chance. At that time..."
Ju Zhizi's grandma said, as if recalling the scene back then, her face couldn't help showing a gentle look, she said softly: "...At that time, he followed me all the way out of Hanshan Temple, and followed me for a long way.
At that time, I thought he was a scoundrel and wanted to drive him away. Unexpectedly, he suddenly told me that although the magical power in my body seemed to be powerful, it was actually vulnerable. I was arrogant at the time.
If he is willing to believe it, I will invite him to a place to have a private fight and compete."
Orange made a childish sound, covered her mouth and exclaimed: "Grandma, did you lose?"
Ju Zhizi’s grandma laughed: “Yes, I lost miserably! It’s such an unforgettable memory!”
Ju Zhizi suddenly remembered that before she fought with Li Yundong, she was so majestic and invincible. But when she started fighting with Li Yundong, she was slapped by him. She was so frightened that she lost any reaction and burst into tears.
Ju Zhizi suddenly became unhappy: "Yes, the last time I fought against that Li Yundong, I also lost miserably. I even cried! It makes me feel embarrassed just thinking about it!"
Ju Zhizi's grandma laughed, touched Ju Zhizi's dark head, and said with a smile: "Actually, when time passes slowly and everything settles down slowly, you will find that these are actually nothing, they will all become
Your precious treasure."
Ju Zhizi said disapprovingly: "But I feel like I wish all this had never happened! It makes me afraid to see my mother now, and I avoid her everywhere!"
Ju Zhizi's grandma smiled slightly and said: "So that's it. Why do you hide here with me, an old woman, all day long?"
Ju Zhizi giggled, rolled her eyes, took her grandma's hand, and quickly changed the subject: "Nonsense, my grandma is not an old woman, she is young and beautiful. By the way, grandma, you were
What about after losing to Wang Yuanshan? Did you fall in love with him at first sight from then on?"
The eyes of Ju Zhizi's grandma suddenly became extremely soft. She said softly without comment: "After I lost, I was convinced and wanted to become his teacher, but he refused. But I asked him why he lost.
He also refused to tell me. So I kept pestering him and followed him for more than two months..."
As she said that, she fell into the memories of that period for a while, and the smile on her face became more and more gentle and sweet. After a while, she said again: "It's a pity... he never refused.
Accept me, maybe because I am the goddess of Ura Takano. But when I finally left, he handed me this wooden bucket, and then said to me: When will you use this wooden bucket to fill a huge and leaking water?
Tank, you will understand why you lost to me."
Ju Zi made a childish sound and suddenly said: "So that's it! I said grandma, why have you been here fetching water non-stop for more than ten years! But this bucket and tank are leaking, and it is impossible to fill them up.
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Ju Zhizi's grandma sighed: "Yes, for more than ten years, I have been using this bucket to fetch water, but I still can't fill the water tank, let alone fill it up, even if I want to fill it half
Impossible...sigh!"
Ju Zhizi pouted: "Grandma, I think this Wang Yuanshan is teasing you! This is simply impossible!" As she said that, she jumped down from the edge of the well and picked up the barrel in her hand.
, raised it in front of his eyes and said: "Grandma, look, it wasn't that sister who mentioned it. I haven't noticed that this barrel has so many holes, one, two, three, four, five, wow, there are five holes in it!
There are also ones on the side, and the most important thing is that there are two loopholes at the bottom! If you use this kind of wooden bucket to fetch water, of course you won’t be able to fetch water!”
Ju Zhizi said with a serious face: "Although I don't like the sister just now, but she is right, why don't you fix the leaky bucket and the water tank? This sentence makes sense!
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Ju Zhizi’s grandma smiled: “What’s the point?”
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Well, this morning I saw some children's shoes on Weibo. I waited until after five o'clock for an update... Tangtang, I was really ashamed and ashamed...
Although there are a lot of things and I can’t break them all, I think it’s really not good to make book friends wait for updates.
Tangtang, I am here to sincerely apologize to all book friends and admit my mistake, and to seriously apologize to the book friend who waited until 5:30 and was badly bitten by mosquitoes.
In the future, I will try my best to update a chapter first in the morning or noon, and advance the update time. Even if there are changes, I will tell book friends in advance in the previous chapter.
This is Tangtang, I did not do well, I apologize again!
There will be another update soon, change starts today!