Chapter 317： Incense flourishes

Upon seeing this, Mrs. Zhang quickly reconciled: "Let's go inside and take a look. It is said that the stalagmites inside are very beautiful."

The lady then said to her son: "Sanlang, why are you arguing with a villager? Protect your sister and let's go in and take a look."

The young man snorted at the villager and led everyone inside.

Yingbao fell behind and said to the villagers who were still angry: "Uncle, don't worry, these flowers will fall off very quickly even if you don't pick them. If you don't want the flowers to be picked, just put a wooden fence around the flowers." , don’t let anyone get close.”

 How can a businessman be unpopular? As long as he has a thicker skin and a stronger heart, it doesn't matter.

The business in the village has just started, and Yingbao doesn't want a good business to be ruined just because of a word.

The young man just now is the son of the Sima family. His father's position in Fucheng is only under the governor Zhang, and he is the absolute boss of the city. If he wants to cause trouble for the villagers of Zaoshu Village, even the governor Zhang may not be able to stop him.

Taking a step back, the sea and the sky are vast. Although Yingbao doesn't want to bow down to others, there are times when he has to bow down.

How about showing your spirit again? Shock and shock shocked those young men and women.

The villager nodded: "I listen to the little master, let's make a wooden fence now!"

After saying that, he turned around and left the cave.

Yingbao took the villager away and then walked slowly into the cave.

Since many people in the crowd in front were lighting torches, she could barely see the path under her feet.

Not long after, the crowd in front burst into exclamations.

Ying Bao ran over and took a look, and saw rugged stalagmites hanging from the roof of the cave inside. There were also many white stalagmites on the ground, the largest of which was higher than the house.

The inside of the cave is very large, but the road is not easy to walk on. Countless water droplets drip from the top of the cave, gradually forming a stream and flowing outside.

This is the source of the stone spring.

Ying Bao marveled, but did not go inside. Instead, he turned behind a huge stalagmite, took out the previously made stone tablet from the cave, and quietly placed it.

Yesterday, she secretly left the government office and went to a stonemason's shop, asking him to carve a text on a stone tablet, to the effect that this place was the residence of Jiutian Xuannv, who brought blessings to benefit all people, and the villagers living here were also blessed by her. Bless.

The inscription says that the villagers should guard the sacred peony trees in the cave and prevent people and animals from damaging them.

It is also said that if someone destroys flowers, trees and springs at will and insults the villagers here, he will be plagued with bad luck for life and everything will not go well.

Ying Bao gently placed the huge stone tablet behind the stalagmite, and taking advantage of his young age and wearing dark clothes, he quietly slipped away and came to the side of his second senior brother.

Zhang Min was taking out a wooden box from a stone niche at the moment, and said to his mother with a smile: "Mother, this is something that my son hid here before. I didn't expect it to still be there."

"What's hidden?" Xuehua asked.

Zhang Min opened the wooden box and saw several childhood toys inside.

Xuehua clicked his tongue, no longer interested.

Zhang Min happily held the things in his arms, turned to look at his junior sister, and said, "I'll give them to you later."

Yingbao was speechless.

The jigsaw puzzles in that box are all rotten, okay, why don’t you give them away?

Everyone stayed in the cave for a long time before someone saw a stone tablet behind the huge stalagmite.

This stone tablet is as tall as a person and is embedded in the cracks of the stone. You can only faintly see many words on it.

“Bring your torches closer! I see there are a lot of words on this stone tablet. What are they engraved on?” a young man shouted.

Everyone cheered and gathered around. Zhang Min and Mrs. Zhang also went over to check. After seeing it, they all fell silent.

The little girl who folded flowers earlier was so frightened by the inscription that she started crying and kept asking her mother what to do.

The little girl’s brother frowned and said, “This monument was deliberately created by the villagers. I don’t believe there is any Nine Heavenly Mysteries or anything in the world...”

This time Mrs. Sima did not indulge her son anymore and shouted sternly: "Shut up! Are you talking nonsense at such a young age that you even read into a dog's belly?"

The young man did not dare to speak anymore and lowered his head in silence.

In fact, he was quite scared, but he didn’t want to be looked down upon by others, so he insisted on saying that. Everyone did not dare to stay in the cave and left the cave one after another.

Walking to the peony tree, Mrs. Sima clasped her hands and bowed to Peony. She muttered something, but Yingbao didn't hear it clearly.

After that, Mrs. Sima gave the Taoist temple two hundred taels of sesame oil money, hoping that the people in the Taoist temple would recite some scriptures and mantras to her son.

Yingbao had no choice but to agree, and did not tell the lady that no one in their Taoist temple was a true Taoist practitioner.

The master is not the same, the senior brother is not the same, and the second senior brother is not the same as myself.

They are just spellcasters from Xinglin Yin Yang Branch, they are far different from Taoist priests.

The next day, the group finally left.

But they bought a dozen barrels of spring water and took them back.

After that, people came one after another from Fucheng to buy water, including several masters from Fucheng. They even went into the cave to see the stone tablet.

Afterwards, they also bought a few buckets of water and went back.

Since then, more and more people have come to visit, and many people have come to worship with incense and offerings.

Of course, the incense money was given to the Taoist temple, and Master Zhou Wuchang took it all away without ceremony.

Not long after, half of the money spent on buying the land on the hilltop and building the yard was returned.

Yingbao also asked the villagers to bring stones to surround the entrance of the Shiquan Cave. Those who wanted to enter the cave for sightseeing had to pay fifty coins each.

This not only reduces the number of people entering the cave, but also keeps the water source clean.

Who knows if those people can wash their feet and hands in the cave? If someone gets a bad disease and goes in to wash themselves, wouldn’t the water that comes out become unclean?

As soon as she reminded the villagers, they were enlightened and immediately laid a circle of stone pillars in the cave.

With these stone piers, people don’t have to step directly on the ground after entering.

It was the twelfth lunar month in a blink of an eye, and the weather was extremely cold. Even the water tank in the kitchen was frozen.

Zhang Min and his senior brother were in the kitchen, breaking ice to get water, and then mixing noodles for cooking.

Ying Bao stood on the window sill, looking at the snow particles falling outside, and began to think in her mind.

Jingzhou is much colder than her hometown. According to Cuilan, the ice in the pond is three feet thick and you can skate on it.

When Ying Bao was a child, he was skating, only in narrow rivers and ditches, but it was very boring to fall into the ice hole if he was not careful.

However, it is bitingly cold here. If I go out for a walk, my eyebrows and eyelashes will be covered with white frost.

These days she was too cold to stay in the house and dared not go out. She would stuff a handful of firewood into the kang hole from time to time.

In such a cold weather, if you bring a basin of pupil spring out, it will freeze into a lump of ice within an hour.

Before, Yingbao had long wanted to store some ice in the cave. In the summer, everyone would also have ice cream to eat.

But the climate in my hometown is humid and the winter is not as cold as here, so thin ice cannot be stored at all.

At the moment, this is a natural ice cellar. As long as you store enough ice, I believe it can be stored until next summer.

Just do it.

Ying Bao put on her cotton coat and jumped off the kang, then put on a tiger head hat and ran outside.

Several thatched huts have been built next to Shiquan Cave, and several villagers take turns guarding them.

“Xiaodouzi, go to the village and buy a few rhubarb pots for me, and then bring them to the Taoist temple.”

“Okay!” Xiaodouzi didn’t even ask the little master what he wanted the rhubarb basin for, and agreed immediately.

Ying Bao added: "I only want new ones, not old ones."

Many villagers bury rhubarb pots in the ground as manure pits in order to accumulate fertilizer, and defecate in them, so the old yellow pots are definitely not allowed.