After thinking about it all night, I am glad that Master Wu has not changed his mind, otherwise Qin Bukong would definitely think of some unfriendly tricks. Master Wu told us that after we left yesterday, he let the troublemakers go to avoid trouble. Qin Bukong asked, didn't you let those children apologize to you? Master Wu smiled lightly and said, "The Tao is in the human heart, and it doesn't matter if you don't listen to the words spoken."
Master Wu told the Taoist priests in the Taoist temple not to go near the main hall during these days, especially the place where the Ming Xin Bei Ji Monument is located. Perhaps the Taoists here are used to accepting things as they come, so Master Wu simply gave an order and everyone followed suit. Songzi calculated the position on site. According to the depth of the water surface we visually measured when we were drawing water from Tanlongjing, it was about five meters from the ground. That means we can dig out moist soil by digging five meters down. Continue digging for more than two meters, and water will begin to pour into the well.
The senior who set up the formation a thousand years ago must have directly hoisted the box into Tiji Well. In terms of depth, the stone box under the character "魍" should be about six or seven meters below Tiji Well. Therefore, we only need to dig down about five meters and dig diagonally in the direction of Tiji Well. On the one hand, we can prevent water from accumulating in the hole, and on the other hand, we can dig to the bottom of the well more accurately.
Songzi chose an octagonal floor tile and said that we would start from here. I am strong enough, so I used a shovel to pry up the floor tile, and then with this piece as the center, I turned up the surrounding circle to expose The clay at the bottom of the bricks was dug downwards.
Digging a hole is a very physically demanding task. At the end of the day, my hands and feet were so tired that I could only dig more than two meters deep. That night, Changchun Temple arranged a wing room for us to live in. Perhaps because he realized that Qin Bukong and I both had skills, Master Wu was still a little cautious, especially Qin Bukong, who looked like Zhang Fei, which made him nervous. Master Wu didn't even dare to say a few words. He just finished delivering the water and food and then left silently.
Because I was very tired that day, after dinner, I asked Qin Bukong and Songzi to take over my work and continue digging, while I went back to the side room to rest. The three of us slept in the same wing, and I fell asleep not long after I fell asleep on the bed.
But generally speaking, it is not easy for tired people to dream. I have personally confirmed this many times before this day. But that night, since I fell asleep, I have been dreaming. The content of the dream is probably that I am standing in a field. In what looked like a paddy field, there was darkness all around. The area that my eyes could see was roughly a radius of about two meters radiating out from my position as the center. Everywhere I look, there are paddy fields. The reason why I think they are paddy fields is because I can still see the rice ears growing on the water, as well as the cold feeling of water under my feet, and the softness of the paddy fields when my feet step on them. The touch of sticky earth.
In the dream, I seemed to be looking for a place to stand on the shore, but no matter which direction I walked, no matter how long I walked, no matter whether my speed was fast or slow, I could never find any place to go ashore. place. The surrounding environment is constantly changing as I move, but it always looks like a paddy field. After going around several times, I became completely disoriented. Only then did I realize how strange the whole thing was, and I immediately realized that this was a dream.
I believe that most people have had similar feelings. When they are in a dream and realize that it is just a dream, they will wake up immediately with a little subconscious, or at least get out of the dream immediately, but that night , but this is not what I encountered. When I realized that it was a boring dream, the soles of my feet would immediately feel empty, as if I had stepped on an uncovered kiln shaft in the muddy muddy water. , and quickly fell to the bottom of the well, but the process was extremely short. After only a few tenths of a second, I would fall to the bottom of the well. When I stood up and took a look, I found that it was still a paddy field.
What's even weirder is that from this moment on, I started to have a new dream, but it always repeated the plot. I was still wandering in the paddy fields looking for the direction to get ashore, then got lost, and then fell, and so on. Even if I stepped on the air and fell, I could clearly feel that I had a natural reaction of kicking my feet while sleeping on the bed, but there was no process of waking up at all, even for a moment.
Normally, I would have immediately realized something was wrong after repeating this a few times, but that night I never did, because the next time I fell, I immediately forgot what happened before, and I can’t say I completely forgot. I just forgot that I had the same dream before. And throughout the night, I kept falling and walking like this, and the sound of the iron tool rubbing against the soil and stones when I used the shovel to dig holes in the day was always heard in my ears. Every sound made me laugh. My memory is so profound that in my dream, I can accurately know the length and size of the sound before the next sound of shoveling is heard.
I attributed all this to being too tired that day, because after I fell for the last time, I woke up and found that it was already dawn, and Songzi and Qin Bukong were sitting on the bed getting dressed. But even though I was the first one to go to bed and the last one to wake up, I was quite tired all day long. I felt the same as all night long. I was often distracted and absent-minded.
Originally our job was to continue digging holes, but as it was approaching noon, I fell asleep standing in the hole holding the shovel while digging. In the end, pine nuts came to wake me up. Such a situation has never occurred. Songzi is more caring and considerate, so he took the initiative to take a rotation with me and let me go back to rest first. I thought that such a state would indeed greatly affect our progress, so it was better to rest and then work hard again, so I I agreed to him, and when he pulled me to climb out of the hole, I looked back and realized that I might have only dug a little more than an inch deep in the whole morning.
However, after returning to the wing, I quickly fell asleep again, and fell into that weird dream again and again, but this time, I couldn't wake up at all.
I don’t know exactly how long it took, but when I was wandering aimlessly in the “paddy field”, I heard the calls of Qin Bukong and Songzi. The sound was like what I was hearing. Deep under the water, while they were shouting from the shore. The duration of this dream was even longer than the duration of my sleep the night before. It was so long that even in the dream, I began to feel obviously weak. At this time, there was a pungent smell in my nose. I am very familiar with this smell. It is the smell of someone burning mugwort. The strong smoky smell makes my nose feel irritated, as if water suddenly poured into my nose under the water. The excitement quickly went down the bridge of my nose and went straight to my brain. At that moment, the sound of the shovel in my ears gradually became weaker, while the voices of Qin Bukong and Songzi gradually became stronger, and then my eyebrows started to move towards On the whole upper part of my head, I suddenly felt a sharp coldness. The coldness was the same as the coldness coming from the soles of my feet at that time. It seemed that I had been soaked in cold water for too long, so that I felt a little numb from the cold. .
And when this feeling appeared, I suddenly woke up and opened my eyes. It takes a few seconds for people to adapt from sleep to waking up, so in the hazy state, I saw Songzi and Qin Bukong squatting beside my bed and looking at me. Songzi held a moxa stick in his hand, and Qin Bukong Qin Bukong was holding a wooden bucket in his hand. I felt that the area on my pillow was wet. I thought it was because I sweated while sleeping last night. When I reached out and touched it, I found that my whole head and pillow were soaked.
So I sat up all of a sudden, and I was shocked. I saw Songzi exhaling a breath, as if I was relieved that I finally woke up. I asked inexplicably, what was going on, why was my pillow wet? Then I saw water dripping from the edge of the barrel in Qin Bukong's hand, so I asked him, did you do some prank on me while I was asleep and pour water on me?
Qin Bukong saw that I was speaking clearly and consciously, so he slowly stood up straight, snorted and said, "Smelly boy, are you still awake?" I was a little surprised by what he said, so I said, didn't you ask me to sleep here? Only when you sleep well can you have the strength to work! Qin Bubai glanced at me and said, do you know how long you have been sleeping? You slept all night!
I looked out the window. It was broad daylight, and it was no different from when Songzi asked me to come back to sleep for a while. Songzi said worriedly, Situ, I asked you to come back to bed at this time yesterday.
I was startled and immediately jumped from the bed to the ground. When I landed on the ground, I felt my feet sinking. It was as if I had misjudged my weight. The strength under my feet could not support the weight of my body. I knelt down with a bang. I stood on the hard ground, which made my knees hurt. At this moment, I also felt a swelling in my lower abdomen. It was the feeling that I had not peed for twelve hours and could no longer hold it in. But at this time, I I couldn't even stand up by myself to pee.
I saw that both Qin Bukong and Song Zi had serious faces, and I knew something was wrong. I was afraid that I had caused some trouble. At this time, Songzi handed over a glass of water and said, your mouth is dry, drink water quickly. I shook my head and said, help me up first to pee.
I didn't even have the strength to walk to the latrine, so Qin Bukong handed me the bucket in his hand and asked me to finish it on the spot. It took a very long time to pee. My body was finally relieved and I looked down at my own body. My feet have become quite swollen. After finally sitting down by the bed, I asked him what happened between the two of them.
Qin Bukong took a mirror from the small table in the wing room and said to me, take a look at your appearance.
