Uncle Nine, where are you running to?

After getting off the bus, Jingzhi stretched out his body, had a good sleep, and felt refreshed.

She looked forward and saw Lin Jiu and the village chief walking side by side, as if they were discussing something. The man named Shi Cheng was following closely beside his father.

Jingzhi touched the mane of a horse that was eating grass by the roadside with great interest.

She was angry because someone touched her, shaking her head, and was about to kick someone. Then she touched her nose and took two quick steps to catch up with Lin Jiu.

Before he reached Lin Jiu, he saw his right hand, which was behind his back, opening and closing as if he was stretching his muscles.

what happened to him?

Numb hands?

Knowing that he was shy, Jingzhi didn't want to help him rub his hands outside. She just followed him quietly and listened to him talk.

After listening for a while, Jingzhi's dog brain automatically blocked out those words because they were all professional terms.

Bored, he began to look around at the surroundings without any control over his eyes.

This hilltop is different from the two Feng Shui treasures of Ren Fa and Dashuai.

Although the location is also on the top of the mountain, it is surrounded by greenery and the sound of gurgling water can be heard faintly.

After following the village chief out of a dark jungle, the view in front of me suddenly became clear.

The stream by the roadside rushed straight down along the top of the cliff. The fine water splashes even refracted the good sunlight today, casting a faint rainbow in the sky not far away.

The cat clenched its hands, closed its eyes and made a pious wish.

Bad guys, get out of here!

She wants to marry Ajiu!!!

Suddenly, the smell of burning straw filled the air.

Jingzhi opened his eyes and looked down. There was a village below shrouded in sunlight, with smoke rising from the chimneys of several houses.

Autumn is also the harvest season. The acres of rice enclosed in the middle of the house have turned yellow. The diligent people have harvested the rice early and burned the dried rice straw in the fields.

Smoke from cooking?

Jingzhi looked at the sun which was almost rising above her head. It should be past eleven o'clock now.

If there is nothing to do in the charity cemetery, we always eat early.

I don’t know if Jiu is hungry.

Suddenly, a breeze blew in from the entrance of the jungle, and the white skirt fluttered forward. A few slightly yellow leaves slowly fell from above her head to her eyes, and were blown by the wind all the way to the village below.

The leaves are turning yellow, it must be autumn.

Jingzhi didn't think about anything else, turned around and walked towards Lin Jiu.

Lin Jiu followed the village chief down the side slope and was almost at a small pool protruding from the middle of the waterfall.

"This village is surrounded by mountains on all sides. On the left, there's a golden plate offering blessings. On the right, water flows through the central hall. In front of us stretches a magnificent court with cranes. Behind us is the jadeite of Jingshan. It's the perfect direction for good feng shui. It's destined to bring both people and wealth."

With this situation, everything you want is available, and Lin Jiu couldn't understand why there would be problems.

Before Shi Dafu could say anything, Shi Cheng had been holding it in all the way, worried about his two fish, and was extremely anxious.

He stepped past his father and stood on the same large rock with Lin Jiu.

"Where can I find any wealth? Uncle Jiu, look down there is the fish pond I just dug. I was planning to start a fish trading business, but all the fish I raised have turned belly up these days. I'm almost losing everything."

Once he started talking, Shi Cheng kept talking about the abnormalities in the village in the past two days.

"And the chickens raised by my aunt next door have been infected with chicken plague for some unknown reason these past few days. They are almost dead."

"And my pet, Dahei, used to be so well behaved, but lately he's been going crazy and barking non-stop whenever he sees people!"

As he spoke, he pulled Lin Jiu's sleeve and pointed at the crooked tree in the most magnificent courtyard below.

Jingzhi blocked the sunlight and squinted to see that the black dog was digging at the tree roots frantically. No one knew what it was doing, and it looked a little abnormal.

After hearing the first two incidents, Lin Jiu thought it was caused by their improper breeding.

But the matter of the black dog is a bit mysterious.

The Five Black Dogs are the most loyal and protective of their owners, and domestic dogs are generally very docile, unless... they encounter something unclean.

Lin Jiu stared at the manic black dog for a few seconds before turning to ask Shi Dafu behind him, "Does it bark at everyone?"

Shi Dafu nodded without hesitation, "Yes, it used to be very well behaved, but it suddenly became like this in the past two days."

He tightened his grip a little embarrassedly and said, "Don't worry, I asked a vet to see him, but before he could even get treated, he bit me. I had no choice but to tie him up."

"Any other special symptoms?"

Shi Dafu looked up and thought, "It's eyes are red, and its mouth is drooling... Oh, right, it digs trees every day and can't eat. In the past two days, it has only drunk a few sips of water. I don't know where it gets the strength."

The more Jingzhi listened, the more frightened she became. Is this guy going to turn into a zombie dog?

Lin Jiu heard the key word——【Water】

"Look at the water."

The group slowly descended along the cliff next to them.

This place is soaked in water all year round, and the surface of the stone is covered with a thick layer of moss, making it very slippery.

Lin Jiu subconsciously reached out and held Jingzhi's wrist, helping her walk slowly down.

Arriving at the foot of the waterfall and walking to the area where the water flow is gentle, Lin Jiu half squatted down and said, "The water level pattern of your village is quite good. The Dragon's Pearl Cave is quite rare."

Jingzhi saw that he was talking clearly and could not help asking, "What is the Dragon's Swallowing Pearl Point?"

Lin Jiu pointed to a stone with a hole in the middle at the water outlet at his feet and said:

"After being impacted and eroded by the mountain stream, a stone ring was formed, trapping the water flow, forming a golden dragon chasing the pearl. As the saying goes, fat gold and jade make the house prosperous, and a fat home makes the house prosperous. If there is any problem, just look at the pearl and you will know."

Jingzhi: "Where's Zhu?"

Lin Jiu pushed aside the layers of water plants floating on the water, revealing most of a round stone. "This is it."

Jingzhi had a look on her face that said, "You are my God," and gave him a thumbs up. "Ajiu, you are awesome!"

Lin Jiu raised his chin slightly, "...let's see."

After saying this, he turned the round stone and examined it.

When turning to the bottom, there was an obvious crack in it, as if it was about to split the entire boulder.

Lin Jiu thought to himself that something was wrong, put down the pebble, and quickly pulled up the water plants to take a look.

Sure enough, the roots were rotten.

There really is something wrong with this water.

“Inform the villagers not to drink the water drawn from here.”

Shi Dafu had been feeling anxious since Lin Jiu's expression changed, and he felt even more embarrassed when he heard Lin Jiu's words.

"Uncle Jiu, our village's only source of water is this stream. What will we do if we don't use the water here?"

Lin Jiu stood up, shook the water off his hands, and said to Shi Dafu: "Let's see if there is any problem with the water source first."

"Okay, I'll take you there."

……

After finally climbing up the waterfall and just coming out of the small jungle, Jingzhi saw two familiar people appear in front of her.

Her eyes lit up instantly, and she pinched the hem of her skirt and ran towards her.

"Aunt Sue!"

Before he could run two steps, Lin Jiu grabbed his wrist and pulled him back.

"She is not Sugarcane Girl."

Jingzhi looked at him, then looked at the woman walking towards her.

"Are you jealous again?" she whispered, with a hint of displeasure in her voice.

Lin Jiuke is going to die unjustly.

"Look carefully, is there a mole under her right eye?"

Jingzhi squinted and took a closer look, and it was true.

But the face was so similar that she couldn't help but look at it again and again, "If it's not Zhe Gu, then who is it?"

"Zhegu's twin sister and Awei's cousin."

"???"

If that’s the case, then isn’t Zhe Gu also Awei’s cousin?

Then how come he was saved by Jiu?

The woman in front of me is dressed gorgeously, comparable to Tingting in the past, which shows that her family background is not ordinary. Then why doesn't Zhe Gu go home but stay in the Queen Mother Temple?

His mind was suddenly filled with many questions, but this was obviously not the time to ask Lin Jiu these questions.

Because the person standing next to Zhegu's sister was Awei himself.

Moreover, she liked Zhe Gu, but her sister kept saying it little by little, a little at a time, which was a bit... pretentious.

It's nothing like Zhe Gu's straightforward personality.

The younger sister is sorry, she only likes her elder sister!

Jingzhi looked away and poked Lin Jiu's arm. "Didn't I hear that Ah Wei couldn't make it in Renjia Town? Why is he still wearing the security team's uniform?"

Lin Jiu stood by the roadside with his arms folded, watching coldly as A Wei showed his attention to Zhe Gu's sister. "Have you forgotten who his brother is? Changing to another village and becoming an official is nothing to him."

If possible, he doesn't want to have any contact with this kind of person.

Jingzhi: "Hey, they seem to be going in the same direction as us."

Lin Jiu: "Let's go our way."

Having said this, Lin Jiu deliberately slowed down his pace to let the two men pass first.

Alas, enemies often meet on a narrow road.

They really met again.

When they finally reached the water source, they saw Sister Zhegu standing far away, her face pale as she held onto a tree. Awei's feet were entangled in vines, bringing up a large bunch of vines in the water.

Jingzhi only glanced at her once and then looked away.

Zhe Gu wouldn't be like that. She really still couldn't like this person.

Jingzhi's eyes returned to the vines flying in the air, and her pupils shrank. The scene before her was really too unbelievable.

It turned out that the vine had already rotted, and it was pitch black without a trace of green. It looked like it had grown fruits, and was covered with densely packed bat corpses.

Lin Jiu: "Why are there so many bats?"

Shi Dafu was speechless for a moment, his throat felt itchy and he felt like vomiting.

Is it possible that what he has been drinking these days is the bat corpse water?

So the reason why Dahei went crazy was because he fed it the water here?

The problems with other livestock and Cheng'er's fish are also caused by the water here?

Then why hasn't he gone crazy yet?

Oh, the water he drinks is boiled.

At this moment, Shi Dafu was extremely grateful that he had good living habits. "...I don't know either."

He immediately turned to Awei lying on the ground and said:

"Captain, quickly pick up all the vines! We can't put them back into the water. They'll be poisonous!"

When Awei looked back, his face turned pale with fright. Before he could untie the vines wrapped around his feet, he immediately clutched his throat and lay on the ground retching.

He has been living in the village office here for almost half a month. When he thinks that the water he drinks and uses comes from here, he feels like vomiting and his whole body feels itchy.

He said that the mosquito bite on his neck would not heal and even showed signs of festering. It turned out that he took a bath in the water here.

"Tsk, it's useless!"

Jingzhi walked over, grabbed the vines at his feet, and pulled them towards the shore.

Awei staggered to his feet, backing away continuously without even thinking of offering help.

Lin Jiu rolled his eyes at the back of his head, walked around him and went forward to pull with Jingzhi.

After the vines were completely pulled back to the shore, the two of them squatted down and observed this disgusting thing that could give them nightmares at the first sight.

Jingzhi picked up a stick from the ground and poked the bat on the vine twice, but found that the bat seemed to be growing on it and could not be moved away no matter how hard he tried.

So she tried another one.

When she moved on to the third bat, she discovered that the bat's feet seemed to be fixed to the vine.

Moreover, these bats did not rot after soaking in water, as if they were asleep. It was really weird.

Jingzhi quietly said to Lin Jiu:

"Look at the bats' feet. They were tied to the vines. I was wondering why none of them fell off, and no bat carcasses were found downstream."

"Ajiu, it must be man-made." She said with a serious expression.

Yes, but it's an affirmative sentence.

Lin Jiu also agreed.

To die without decaying is against the will of heaven.

Lin Jiu immediately made a decision, "Burn it."

The village chief was so eager for him to burn that his head almost fell off. "Burn, burn, burn, Cheng'er, go and pick up some firewood."

After explaining this, he walked towards Lin Jiu with a worried look on his face. "Uncle Jiu, this water is temporarily undrinkable. Do you have any other solutions? How can people survive without water?"

Lin Jiu glanced at the source of the stream surging upwards in the distance. "It takes time for the water to renew itself. Since there's a water source here, there must be groundwater beneath this mountain. The water is surging upwards, and the bats are only contaminating the water on the surface. I think we should find a place to dig a well."

Seeing how confident he was, Shi Dafu knew that Lin Jiu must know where to dig the well, so he eagerly led him out of the woods and back to the road.

"Uncle Jiu, it's getting late. Why don't you go to my house for dinner and come back later?"

Lin Jiu waved his hand and refused, "No, I was in a hurry to come out today and didn't bring any tools. I'll come back tomorrow morning. Let's go back and prepare first."

Shi Dafu: "Okay, then I'll trouble Uncle Jiu. I'll ask Cheng'er to take you back."

Jingzhi: "Just send it to town."

……