"At that time, my mother was very fierce. I couldn't study, I could only learn from him. Among all the children, I was an outlier. Maybe I was still talented. When I was a girl, I learned from my mother. 7, 8th floor skills, at that time my mother no longer went out to be seen by others, I was the one who came forward, and gradually, I also gained some fame in the surrounding villages."
"Slowly, I discovered that many strange things first appeared in our village. At that time, the ancient well had not been sealed, but there was already a tradition in the village that has been passed down for a long time, that is, after the appearance of the moon, absolutely They will not draw water from the ancient well, even if the people chatting around the ancient well are thirsty and go from the entrance to the end of the village to drink water, they will not draw water from the ancient well. Teach me a lesson."
"At the beginning, I didn't feel anything, but once again I helped someone exorcise ghosts. It was a stranger who was possessed by a ghost for some reason. I had never encountered such a difficult ghost at that time. Fei It took a lot of effort to get rid of the ghost, but it only takes one night, and the outsider will be possessed again for no reason."
"Even if I live next to that foreigner, I can't find the reason. You know, I have been helping my mother to show others for three years at that time. Naturally, I can't accept it. The stranger wanted to be with him, and I gradually developed a good impression of the stranger. But at this moment, my mother appeared, saying that the stranger drank the water from the ancient well when the moon rose, and offended the gods, so he couldn't get it. rescued."
Goddess Yan stopped, her face blushed a little because of the mention of foreigners, but it was replaced by sadness not long after, Aunt Li and I didn't speak, just watched Goddess Yan quietly reminisce, for a long time, Yan The sorceress seemed to have just come back to her senses, and smiled a little embarrassedly.
"I'm old, I'm laughing at telling you this." Goddess Yan didn't wait for our answer, but continued talking about the past.
"I've been looking for people for so long, but I've never seen any gods. If there are, they're all vampires and ghosts. Naturally, I don't believe it. In order to better protect the stranger and understand all this, I live with the stranger. In the same house, rumors started to spread outside, but I didn’t care about it at all, but even if we lived together, I still couldn’t find out how the expelled ghost got possessed again.”
"Since one road doesn't work, I'm going to take another road. Isn't it because I drank the water from the ancient well when the moon rose and offended the gods? Then I want to see what kind of gods they are. One night, I I brought him to the ancient well, I wanted to go down, but he refused, the reason is because I am a woman."
"That was the only one who let me go because I was a woman. I, I couldn't compete with him, so I could only watch him disappear at the mouth of the ancient well bit by bit, and the last sentence I heard from him was: the following There is a way. Just when I thought I could find out the truth of the matter, my mother came and beat me hard, and then I just knelt by the ancient well, watching the villagers slowly lift the buckets in the ancient well. stand up."
"Unfortunately, he is no longer there, only a shadow."
Goddess Yan looked behind her with tenderness on her old face, stroking her hand in the void, and then I saw, at some point, that huge black phantom had appeared behind Goddess Yan, just silently standing.
Could it be that this is the foreigner
Sure enough, Goddess Yan's next words proved all this.
"After the shadow came up, my mother's expression was very strange, and she said that I was blessed by the gods and asked this stranger to protect me, because he also fell in love with me. I remember that I was very happy at that time, as long as I was still there, it was a ghost It doesn't matter if it's human, but later, I realized that I was wrong, he has no self-awareness at all, and can only protect me instinctively."
"Because I was grounded by my mother, I started to learn about Gujing from all channels during that time, but everything seemed to be deliberately hidden, and I didn't get much information."
"I only know that the ancient well and the locust tree have existed since the establishment of the village. No one knows how long they have existed, but the ancient well and the locust tree have become the patron saints of the village since when they bless the village with good weather. No one asked the reason, just obeyed the ancient regulations, but anyone who did not abide by the agreement and offended the gods would be punished."
"And there are two kinds of punishments. One is to be possessed by a strange ghost like that foreigner. He cannot be released for life. He will disappear mysteriously after about 49 days."
"As for the matter of the shadow, I also learned that as long as there are people who love each other deeply, if one of them voluntarily enters the ancient well, he will become a shadow, protecting his lover from evil spirits all the time."
"It has been like this for many years, and the gradually opened illusion made many young people leave here to go out, and more and more young people no longer believed in the legend of the ancient well until more than ten years ago."
A young man who went out was doing well outside. I don’t know why he suddenly returned to the village. At that time, he was very beautiful. People in the village finally saw high-end cars, and the young man was also able to do things. Almost every household was generously gifted. , It was only later that I found out that the young man somehow got into the world of antiques. He insisted that there was an ancient tomb under the ancient well and he wanted to dig it. "
"The old people in the village disagreed, but they were soft-spoken and short-handed, and the young man admitted to building new houses for every household in the village. Under the persuasion of his children, the old people gradually became silent. .”
"Young people are still very professional. Although they don't believe in legends, they are almost fully armed when they go down. After a few times, nothing happened. The young people gradually became more courageous and started digging for the first time. It’s just that none of the people who went down came up, and only countless bones were brought up by the machine, and some people even recognized that there were old people who got lost decades ago.”
"The old people in the village quit, and the young people were frightened, and ran away in a hurry, but within a month, the villagers found the young man at the entrance of the village, and he was received by the legendary second kind of punishment."
"It doesn't matter whether the ancient well is a god or not. With so many bones in the ancient well, no one dared to come to fetch water anymore. The ancient well was sealed and no one left the path. Speaking of it, I have to thank that young man. After all, he A road was built for the village."
Goddess Yan seemed to have finished telling the story and stopped talking, but my heart was moved, because Goddess Yan never explained one thing, that is, what is the second punishment