Chapter 385 The Secret in the Well

The ancient well stands at the foot of the mountain valley, surrounded by dense vegetation and lush greenery, but the area around the ancient well is bare due to the trampling of villagers fetching water, which is very eye-catching.

"Someone should have lived here before, otherwise there is no way to explain the sudden appearance of such an ancient well."

Brother Yaozi suddenly said: "Look at this small mountain valley, the land is fertile and the scenery is pleasant. It is a good place to live, but there is no water source. This well may have been dug under such circumstances, but time has passed, things have changed, and all traces of living have disappeared, leaving only such an ancient well."

"Don't worry about these for now, hurry up, now is the best time, even if there are brothers in the well, they have to be restrained under the sun!"

I urged, took out a bottle of water and drank it hard, and handed it to Xiaozhi beside me. The little girl was very strong. She didn't cry out when she suffered this kind of suffering with us, and her little mouth was full of curled dry skin.

In this hellish season, there is no place where people can live at noon, even in the mountains. The katydids dormant in the woods kept calling under the sun. Zhang Xinya, who always loves cleanliness, had a greasy face. Her face was shining under the bright red sun, not to mention the few of us. This was not sweating at all, but refining human oil!

I had already taken off my camouflage clothes, bare-chested, and my back was covered with mosquito bites. The soles of my feet kept slipping in my thick boots. I didn't need to take off my shoes to smell how overbearing the smell was. Seeing that we had arrived at the place, I didn't want to waste a moment in the wild, so I dived down first.

The ancient well was completely made of square stones. It looked quite old. The water inside had indeed dried up. I took a look inside. There was no cool feeling like a normal wellhead. Instead, there was a sultry and humid air. Although there was no water, the well was still very moist overall. In such weather, it was like a steamer.

Lao Bai squatted beside the well and observed for a moment, then said with a smile: "Ah, this well is incredible. It's a treasure!"

Xiao Zhi laughed at Lao Bai's greed for money.

Lao Bai didn't take it as an offense. He shook his head and said: "This well is from the Tang Dynasty. It's an ancient relic!"

I was helping Brother Yaozi wind the rope for going down the well. I became interested when I heard this, so I smiled and asked him where he saw it.

"Take a close look at these stones at the well mouth."

Lao Bai wiped off the yellow soil around the well mouth with his sleeves. There were traces of time on it, but it was still vaguely visible that these stones at the well mouth had been carved. It seemed that the person who dug this well back then was quite famous.

Lao Bai observed it carefully for a moment and said that the carving on it was the Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea. The patterns and words were recessed, which was a typical intaglio in carving. Looking at the Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea, it was very delicate and vivid, especially some details, which were quite in place, just like line drawing in painting. A large number of intaglio fine lines were used, and short intaglio lines were combined to express clothing accessories and yin and yang concave and convex surfaces. Such carving techniques could only be done by skilled craftsmen in the Tang Dynasty. That was also the peak era of stone carving. After the heyday of the Tang Dynasty, there was no such skill in either the Song Dynasty or the Ming Dynasty, not to mention the Yuan Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty...

I nodded, and I just listened to it as a novelty while I was busy. I didn't take it too seriously. I just waited for the rope to be ready, sat by the wellhead to rest for a while, and then wrapped the rope around my waist, let Brother Yaozi put the rope on it, and then used my hands and feet to support the well walls on both sides and slid down the well little by little.

The well was very deep. I shone a flashlight into it. It was pitch black and I couldn't see clearly. The smell inside was very bad. The well water was dry. The mud below seemed to ferment in the hot weather, and a strong fishy smell came up. The sides of the well were covered with moss. My hands touched it and it was slippery. The touch was not good. I held the flashlight in my mouth and kept looking down at the situation below.

Gradually, the beam of the flashlight was no longer dark, and there were some faint sparkling lights reflected back...

"The bottom is seen!"

I breathed a sigh of relief. The sparkling lights were the water at the bottom of the well that had not completely evaporated. It was like a muddy pond. There would always be some reflections when shining in the dark environment. I used my hands and feet to speed up. In my opinion, even if there was something strange, it must be lurking at the bottom of the well. All my attention was focused on the bottom, and I didn't pay attention to the situation on both sides of the well wall. Before I reached the bottom, my right foot suddenly kicked into the air! !

To be precise, the well wall has come to an end here. I didn't notice it in advance, and the consequences can be imagined. I screamed "Oh my god!" and fell straight down. At the critical moment, I heard Brother Yaozi roaring from above, and quickly clamped the rope to slow down my falling speed. Even so, I still had a close contact with the bottom of the well in the end, and the whole person "slapped" into the mud pond...

"What's the situation?"

Brother Yaozi's urgent voice came from above: "Jingzhe, are you okay?"

I spit out the stinky mud in my mouth and replied that I was okay. Brother Yaozi was holding me when I fell, and there was mud all below, and the falling height was limited, at most three or four meters, so it really wouldn't hurt anyone.

With one hand on the Tianguan Blade at my waist, I fumbled around in the mud with the other hand. After a while, I finally found the flashlight. After pulling it out, I found that it was almost completely covered by the mud. I could only wipe it with my hands. Although it was not wiped clean, a bunch of light finally bloomed, illuminating everything around.

In front of me was a square cellar-like place, about 100 square meters, but it was very open. The well went straight to the top center of the cellar. No wonder I missed a step and fell directly.

Lao Bai and Brother Yaozi asked me about my situation from above.

The cellar was empty and there was no danger.

I raised my head and shouted at them: "Nothing, come down, damn, today I've opened my eyes, I've never seen such a well, other people's wells are straight into the ground until water comes out, this is great, there is a cave below, I just don't know what this is? Is it a well or a cellar?"

After saying that, I barely stood up and shook off the mud on my face. When I opened my eyes just now, the mud and water entered my eyes, and my eyes were stinging.

Lao Bai and the others acted very quickly. With my reminder, they no longer fell into the muddy pond. Soon, several people all came down and wandered around here like bandits.

"Jingzhe, something is not right!"

Lao Bai suddenly turned around and said to me in a mysterious way: "This doesn't seem to be a well!"

I was busy washing my eyes with clean water, and I didn't have time to observe this place carefully. I subconsciously asked him what it looked like?

"It looks like a tomb!!"

Brother Yaozi suddenly took out a black thing from the muddy pond and threw it at my feet, saying with a dark face: "Look at what this is!?"

I subconsciously picked up the thing and rinsed it with water in my hand, and found that it was a piece of black wood.

"Sinking wood?"

I sniffed, this is a good thing, and then I reacted all of a sudden, staring at the wood in my hand, and the more I looked at it, the weirder my face became.

The wooden stick is round, like a rolling pin, and the length is about one foot and three inches.

This size and shape of sinking wood... it has only one function - to pad people to death! !

There is an elegant name for this kind of wood in the industry, called bone-setting ruler!

People live with one breath, and they die with their breath gone. But some people in this world may be born with a hunchback or acquired reasons. According to the old saying, such people cannot lie flat, especially when they die, they are still hunched over, and it is easy for them to hold their breath in their hearts. They will not be at peace after death, so someone invented this bone-setting ruler. After the hunchbacked dead are put into the coffin, this thing is placed under the neck, in the name of helping the dead breathe smoothly...

A bone-setting ruler has been found here, what else can it be but a tomb?

I held this thing in my hand, and I was stunned. I couldn't help muttering to myself: "Oh my goodness, a good well turned out to be a tomb. Isn't the water that the villagers of Xia Village drink..."