It is said that during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, there was a village called Laojing Village in the north of Zichuan County. Why is this village called that? Because there is an old well in this village, it's as simple as that.
I don't know how old this well is, but anyway, the old people in the village said that they had heard their grandfather mention it when they were children, and that this well had been called Laojing when their grandfather was a child.
As soon as life gets better, then naturally you have to marry a daughter-in-law and have children, and soon there will be more and more people in this village. The water in the old well is getting shallower and shallower, and it is not enough for everyone to drink. When the population is large, the village chief will convene a meeting to discuss the issue of water sources, and everyone will either dig out this old well to see if they can produce more water. Either everyone will pool the money and ask someone to dig a new well.
None of the rural people are willing to spend more money, and they all save what they can. Everyone discussed for a long time, and finally decided that it was better to dig out the old well first. And you don't need to hire someone, just let the village boys go down and dig it. The young people of the village quickly formed groups to dig in groups, one group went down to dig, one group dug and then another group and then continued to dig. When I dug down about two feet deep, there was more water, but a little more was not enough.
But as soon as the water level rises, it is too difficult for people to stand in the water and dig out the silt. Some people say, so much water is enough, so let's make do with it. The village chief said, everyone is still working hard, you all come here and dig again, then you really can't dig it.
In order to encourage everyone to continue to cheer, the village chief organized his son and nephew into a group. The result was really a coincidence, the village chief's son didn't dig a few times, and dug up a skeleton, ordinary people must have been frightened. But the village chief's son was bold, he was holding the skull head, he was not afraid at all, and shouted at the top, Dad, I dug up a skull head.
When the village chief heard that his scalp exploded, he said why are you holding him, why don't you hurry up and throw it. The village chief's son pouted and said, "You are too bold, a skull, what are you afraid of him for, he won't bite me." So saying, he threw the skull head out of the well, and said, "Father, I have heard that there are people in the city who take this, and I will take it to the city and sell it tomorrow."
The village chief was startled, and quickly reached out to pick it up, he was a little scared, he didn't receive the skull, and it snapped to the ground and shattered, and the onlookers were all frightened, and an old lady simply fell to her knees on the ground, kowtowed on the spot, chanting Amitabha, please bless the Bodhisattva, don't blame us.
Some of the young men were so bold that they were very ashamed to cut it? When they came up and saw that something seemed to be shining in the skull, they went and pulled it with their hands, and actually picked out a piece of gold from it.
Good fellow, all the people in the village were excited, and many of the countrymen never saw gold in their lives. The village chief took the gold and put it in his mouth and bit it, he was not afraid, it was broken out of the skeleton's mouth, and the tooth marks clearly left on the gold were real gold.
The whole village was boiling, and everyone went to the mouth of the well, shouting with the village chief's son to see if there were any skeletons in the well. The two boys at the bottom continued to dig, and sure enough, they dug one and threw it up, and then dug it up, and dug it out again, and the two boys did a great job, digging out a dozen skeletons in total, but not every skull had gold in it.
Among them were three skulls with gold, and later they dug up two porcelain, as well as a bronze object. This bronze ware is about the size of a basin, weighing dozens of catties, and there are double rings on both sides, rusty, but I can't see what to use, the porcelain vase must be an old object, not a popular style in recent years.
The whole village worked together to lift everything that had been dug out of the well. Everyone shouted, or transport it to the city to sell, and the whole village shared the money, and they were about to go to the city noisily, but the village chief's son suddenly fell to the ground, and the big guy hurried over to help the village chief's son up.
What's the matter? I rolled my eyes when I saw it, and I quickly pinched people, some slapped their faces, some splashed water on their heads, and it didn't work at first glance, and some people hurriedly said, "Then why don't you ask a doctor?"
At this time, the village chief's son woke up, he sat there and opened his eyes, and began to speak, I am Liu Xiu of the Han Dynasty suffered from Wang Mang's rebellion, and the whole family threw himself into the well and died.
The gold in my mouth is not the proceeds of corruption, why do you want to break our skulls? It's really hateful, when Wang Mang saw that Liu Xiu killed us and we were cornered. Now that I have been dead for 2,000 years, I am still angry to suffer such a humiliation. After saying that, the village chief's son lay down again, frightening everyone.
Some people have already brought the sesame oil paper money, and everyone seems to come and go, hurry, burn incense, worship and worship, everyone is in a mess. When the village chief saw his son like this, he felt that he must have fallen into evil spirits, and it was useless to burn incense and worship here.
He turned around and ran towards the Taoist temple, he went to ask the Taoist priest to bring two apprentices over to cast some spells, and recited the spell several times in turn. The village chief's son finally woke up, but he didn't wake up, and he was stupid and stupid. If you ask him anything, he doesn't know anything, as if he has forgotten everything.
The Taoist chief began to inspect the porcelain vases and bronze ware, and he consulted with the village chief, who said that he would bring these things back to the Taoist temple. The village chief also felt that these things were unlucky, so he sent the villagers to help carry them to the Taoist temple.
As a result, this matter reached the ears of the county magistrate, and the Zichuan county magistrate heard about it, and this matter was greatly surprised. He has a friend surnamed Yuan, who is filial piety. He went to the Taoist temple with this Yuan Xiaolian and carefully observed it for a long time.
In the end, the county order and Yuan Xiaolian alone funded the purchase of a porcelain vase, and the bronze ware was not wanted, but was left in the Taoist temple and placed in the middle of the courtyard by the Taoist chief.
After Dao Chang got the money, he couldn't collect it himself, it was dug up by the villagers, so he took the money to the village to share it with the villagers. The people in the village are very scared, but who doesn't want this money, isn't this just that they want to eat and are afraid of being hot?
The Taoist chief looked at it and said, "Well, you dig up the skeleton and bury it back." Then I will set up a magic circle on this old well, and then don't ask for this big guy, let's use this money to build a Taoist temple on this old well, and build as big a Taoist temple as you want, and see how much money you have, and see how much money you can build a small temple.
People in the village, you come here every year to burn incense, so that you can keep the people of the village safe and there will be no problems. Although the people in the village did not get the money, they finally settled down.
Since then, the chief has become acquainted with the villagers, and he will come over to chat with the villagers when he is fine. One day, the Taoist chief said that the porcelain vase of the county commander's house can predict the weather, and there was no weather forecast that year, so it was called predicting the change of weather weather and rain. When it's about to rain, there will be a little sign of wetness on this porcelain vase.
At first, it was the size of a grain of rice, but it gradually expanded over time. Soon it will rain in the sky, and the greater the moist area, the greater the rain, and the smaller the moist area, the less the rain will be. By the time the signs of wetness subsided, the day was almost clear.
Everyone asked again, doesn't Yuan Xiaolian's house also have a porcelain vase? What is the function of that bottle in their house? The Taoist chief said that his porcelain vase can display the date, which is also too evil, how does it display it? Every time a black dot appears on the bottle at the beginning of the year, then the black dot will increase as the days go by. By the 15th day, the entire bottle was covered with this black dot.
After 15 years, the black spots on the bottle will gradually decrease until the last day of the month, when all the black spots disappear.
The villagers dug up the well and pulled out the skeletons and antiquities. It stands to reason that the dead should be the greatest, so at least you should be respectful and find a place to bury the bones of the people, wouldn't it be good? But what! Throw the skull to the ground and break it, and when you see the gold inside, you immediately go to grab it, so what are you waiting for? In the end, the villagers didn't get anything, and there was a Taoist temple in the village.