Treasure well

Chapter 2 Ancient well in the backyard of the old house at the foot of the mountain
In eastern Shandong, the continuous mountains are like winding and crawling dragons, and the green wheat stretches as far as the eye can see. The wheat fields are divided into pieces, very neat and orderly. In the early spring season, it is not the busy farming period, so there is no one in the fields.

Above the mountains, there are shades of green trees, verdant and verdant. Tall trees cover the entire mountain range, covering the sky and the sun. In the emerald green, there is a bright red hidden, embellishing the monotonous mountains and rivers.

The country is green and thousands of miles away, but it is not as popular as a little bit!

It is colorful, it is the revival of all things, and it is the expression of spring returning to the earth. They represent vitality and vitality.

Sitting on the train back home, Chu Yunqiu looked at the mountains, hills, and ravines in the distance, and felt very kind. Only one's own hometown is the most beautiful.

Eager to be close to the countryside, eager to enter the countryside, timid to enter the countryside!
Chu Yunqiu's heart is very complicated. He wants to see his parents soon, but he also doesn't want to see his parents grow old. Every year, the flowers are similar, and every year is different!Every time he sees his parents and sees the slight whiteness on each other's forehead, Chu Yunqiu's heart aches and he doesn't want them to work any longer.

Chu Yunqiu lives in a small mountain village next to JN City, East Shandong Province. The village is called Chujiazhai. It used to be a cottage, but with the reform and opening up, the village has gradually changed. It is the population with the Chu surname that has joined other surnames, such as Zhao, such as Li, and so on.The village has a small population, only [-] households, but the scope is not small. From the forest behind to the water bay in front, it is all the territory of the Chu family village, with a large area and few people.

Relying on the mountains to eat the mountains, relying on the sea to eat the sea, the older generation in the village are almost all hunters, even now, the villagers are very good at hunting.

There is a bay in front of the village, named Yueming Bay. It is said that in ancient times, on the night of the full moon, the entire bay would be bright and bright. The villagers said that there are gods living in the bay, which are worshiped every year. However, with the advent of the technological age, , almost no one does it anymore.

The water in Yueming Bay is clear and sweet, and there are many fish and shrimps. Because of its remote location, the ecology is perfectly preserved.

The mountains of Chujiazhai are divided into the front mountain and the back mountain. The soil in the front mountain is fertile and suitable for planting. Therefore, in addition to the trees and bamboo forests, there are some scattered fruit trees on it, and they still exist from the older generation.

Why not develop?The land in the village can’t be planted. Whoever has the time to dig the mountains, let alone the tiredness, the harvest is still not sure. Thank God if they don’t get ruined by the wild beasts in the mountains. to develop.

As for the mountain forest in the back mountain, the older generation said that there are wild beasts eating people inside, and they never let their children go in. If anyone’s children are curious to go in and play, they will definitely get a fat beating when they go home, because of this , Chu Yunqiu was often beaten by his mother.

Later, he stayed away from it and didn't dare to go again, but he knew that there were many interesting animals in it. He had seen monkeys, elks, and cute squirrels in it, but he was beaten under the education of his mother. Scared.

The entire Chujiazhai has beautiful mountains and clear waters and a pleasant environment, no worse than "Jiuzhaigou", but it is not famous and attracts no one.

There are so many good places like this in the land of China, but because they are not well-known, they are all buried.

Although the government is very supportive, vigorously developing the tourism industry, and doing its best, it also funded the construction of a road from the county to Chujiazhai, but the publicity is not in place, and some people don't care even if they see the advertisement.

That's how Chinese people are, they echo what others say, and what others think is good is good.

Chu Yunqiu got off the train, took a bus passing by the village, looked at the trees on both sides, his mind was full of memories.Because his younger sister is still in school, Chu Yunqiu works part-time every holiday. In addition to paying his own expenses, he can also mail some food and clothes to his younger sister. It has been two years since the last time he went home.

"Dad, Mom," Chu Yunqiu shouted excitedly as he crossed the bluestone road in the village and pushed open the door of his house.

"Son", soon, a woman ran out of the house, saw Chu Yunqiu, her face was full of excitement, and hugged her son fiercely.

"Mom," Chu Yunqiu also tightened his arms, looking at his mother's white hair on her forehead, feeling heartbroken.

He wants to support his son, but he doesn't want to wait for his parents. He doesn't want to repeat such a tragedy, so he wants to stay with his parents for two more days, then find a good job as soon as possible, and bring his parents to him.

Father Chu Tianhe silently lit a cigarette and looked at the two of them with a look of relief on his face.

"Dad", Chu Yunqiu didn't say anything, and hugged his father deeply, with thousands of words in it.

"Just come back," Chu Tianhe nodded, "You haven't eaten yet, let your mother cook something."

"Well, I haven't tasted my mother's craft for a long time, I miss it so much."Chu Yunqiu chuckled.

"Dad, Mom, I want to move to the old house, where it's quiet," Chu Yunqiu proposed after chatting with his parents at night.

"Why do you go there? No one has lived there for decades. I don't know if I can live there. There are no other houses around. If something goes wrong, no one will know if I call for help." Before Chu's father could speak, Chu's mother was not happy.

"Mom, I have some work to do at night, and the old house is quiet. Besides, I'm a young man, so what's the danger?" Chu Yunqiu took Chu's mother's hand and said coquettishly.

The old house that Chu Yunqiu mentioned was a large courtyard handed down from his ancestors. Because the Chu family was the only large landlord family in the village at that time, they had great prestige, so the village was named Chu’s Village. made a contribution.

However, Mr. Chu felt unlucky, so he moved down from the foot of the mountain and lived with everyone, so the big courtyard has been abandoned.

Chu Yunqiu often went there when he was a child. There is a big orchard with a lot of delicious fruits, and the place is very big, it is a good place to play.

The entire big courtyard was built in the Qing Dynasty. It is a high-rise building with high eaves and teeth, full of ancient style. Chu Yunqiu doesn't know how much it cost to build the courtyard in the high place, but he can be sure that it is definitely not cheap.

The main hall is located in the center, which can be said to be the axis of the entire compound. The main hall is facing the door, with the master bedroom on the left and the study room on the right, with carved wooden doors. In addition to the main room, there are four The small houses are distributed symmetrically. There are two on the right, one is the kitchen, and the other stores sundries. The two on the left, one is the bedroom where the children sleep, and the other is the granary for storing grain. The toilets are arranged in the corner.

Several houses are well arranged and very symmetrical, surrounded by a small wall, why is it called a small wall, because there is a big wall around the outside, which surrounds all the territory of the ancient house.

A few rooms away, two long corridors stretched east and west to arched doors above the small enclosure.

Through the arched door on the left is an orchard. The orchard is full of foliage and blooming very vigorously. Through the arched door on the right is a place to enjoy flowers. However, due to the principle of long-term neglect, many flowers are dead. A bamboo forest remained.

The place where the orchard and the garden are connected is a vegetable field. It is located behind the main hall and is a backyard. There is an ancient well in the center of the backyard.

And what we want to talk about is this ancient well. The ancient well is hexagonal in shape and is all made of bluestone. It is strange to say that this well has a very old history. It is said that this ancient well existed before the house was built. The well water is sweet and refreshing. Regardless of drought or flood, the water level of this well has not changed. It seems that the bottom of the well is connected to somewhere. It is very magical.

That's why it was directly occupied by the Chu family. It can also be seen from this that Chu Yunqiu's ancestor was also a local tyrant, very extravagant.

In the past 30 years in Hedong and in the past 30 years in Hexi, who would have thought that the Chu family, which was very prosperous at the beginning, has also become a commoner, and the old house has not been moved.

The most commendable thing about this ancient well is that no one knows the origin of this well. It seems that it has existed since ancient times, and there is no record in the genealogy in the cottage. A memorable thing, no matter how you want to remember it.

The elders in the village also avoided talking about it, shaking their heads in ignorance.

And the place Chu Yunqiu was going to was this ancient house.

(End of this chapter)