Cuiping Mountain, Jiang family.
Mrs. Jiang, the head of the Jiang family, looked at the money in her hand and asked loudly in disbelief, "Why is there only so little money this month?"
In the past, they could earn several thousand yuan every month from this fairy spring alone. In this environment where the average monthly salary is only a few dozen yuan, the Jiang family's ability to eat and drink delicious food and drink spicy food was mostly due to the money earned from selling this fairy spring water.
However, at this time, they were only given a few dozen dollars.
Her son, Jiang Wei, a middle-aged man in his forties, said angrily, "The new county magistrate refuses to acknowledge our responsibility! He says the spring water in Cuiping Mountain is natural and has nothing to do with us. At most, he'll give us a few wages. Don't expect anything else!"
Old Mrs. Jiang was so angry that she slammed the table.
"It has nothing to do with us? Fine, fine! Since he has such a big appetite, I will let him see, without our Jiang family, there will still be a fairy spring on Cuiping Mountain?"
Old Lady Jiang instructed Jiang Wei: "Go and follow the method I taught you before to destroy the spirit gathering array around the spring."
Jiang Wei hesitated: "Mom, we don't have many spirit stones left."
Old Lady Jiang sneered, "Even if it's not much, my Jiang family won't let them manipulate us at will! It's precisely because we don't have many spirit stones that we have to destroy the current spirit gathering array. This secure way of making money must not be cut off! Go ahead and do it!"
When Jiang Wei returned to the fairy spring, there was a long line of people waiting to get the spring.
While no one was paying attention, Jiang Wei quietly dug out the spirit stones from various places. He sneered and thought to himself, I think this spring can still spray out the immortal spring for you without the spirit gathering array!
This fairy spring water has never been confiscated, but has always gone into private pockets. In the past, they could split it equally, but I didn't expect this county magistrate to have such a big appetite, actually wanting to keep it all for himself! He didn't even consider whether his appetite was big enough! If our Jiang family can't get it, no one else can expect to benefit from it!
The fountain on Cuiping Mountain was running thinner and thinner, and was about to run dry. People who came to buy spring water were getting anxious and asking what was going on.
Jiang Wu, who was in charge of collecting money and fetching water, followed Mrs. Jiang's instructions and told everyone that the immortal was angry and decided to take back the fairy spring.
Soon, word spread throughout the area around Cuiping Mountain that the fairy spring water that had reached the mountain had been taken back by the gods! There would be no more fairy springs from now on!
Two days later, the fairy spring dried up completely, not even a drop of water came out. Upon hearing the news, people around Cuiping Mountain rushed up the mountain.
When the fairy spring water first became available, the well-off families nearby would frequently come up the mountain to buy it. Even those from less fortunate families, when someone in their family was sick, would grit their teeth and buy a bottle to boil for medicine. It's truly more effective than medicine boiled from ordinary water! Even drinking it directly without using it to boil medicine is still very effective.
At this moment, the fairy spring suddenly disappeared, and everyone felt indescribably sad.
There were also smart people who saw that the situation was not right two days ago, so they took out all the bottles in their homes to buy water. At this time, they raised the price and sold a bottle of water for 10 yuan, which was equivalent to one-third of the salary of an ordinary worker.
Lu Fengming and Lu Fengshou came over at this time.
Lu Feng received the message and told Lu Fengming about the situation at home, and also talked about the Feng family and Cuiping Mountain.
Lu Fengming was immediately interested. He had only been here for a short time and knew only that there was a mountain called Cuiping Mountain, which was said to have beautiful scenery, a quiet environment, and many outstanding people.
However, he had been to Daqing Mountain and knew that no other mountain could compare to it.
This time, when Lu Fengshou came and mentioned Cuiping Mountain to him, he took the time to go up the mountain with Lu Fengshou to find out what was going on.
When the two arrived at the fairy spring, they encountered a group of people crying and wailing there.
After a little inquiry, Lu Fengming realized that he was too late and the fairy spring here had dried up.
As for the mysterious thing of being taken back by the gods, he did not take it lightly.
Jiang Wu, who had been collecting money before, explained to everyone one by one that the spring water was gone in order to achieve the desired effect. He and two other members of the Jiang family were here to explain everything.
"When will it be available again?" Jiang Wu replied, "I don't know. When the gods take this spring water back, it usually means they are not satisfied!"
"Not satisfied? What are you dissatisfied with? Let's change it!" everyone asked anxiously.
Jiang Wu said mysteriously, "Oh, that's hard to say. We ordinary people haven't done anything disrespectful to the gods, right? So who else could it be?"
He pretended to think.
Lu Fengming raised his eyebrows. This person's words were quite interesting! The common people had no problems, only the officials had problems!
He didn't say anything either, just waited to see how Jiang Wu would continue.
Sure enough, unable to resist everyone's questioning, Jiang Wu finally whispered, "The common people have no problem, that's it..."
"It's the officials who have the problem!" someone rushed to say.
Everyone saw that although Jiang Wu didn't say anything, he looked agreeable, so they knew that this person had guessed correctly.
"Official? Which bastard has a problem?"
The corner of Lu Fengming's mouth twitched. The secretary behind him hurried forward to stop him, but Lu Fengming stopped him and gestured to continue listening.
Jiang Wu curled his lips: "Isn't it still the parent official!"
Lu Fengming glanced at the secretary, and the secretary immediately understood what he meant.
"You're talking about the patriarch. What did the patriarch do to make the immortal so angry? Did he take back all the immortal springs?"
Jiang Wu looked at Secretary Zhang and smacked his lips. "Where are you from? Why have I never seen you before?"
Secretary Zhang smiled and said, "I'm not a local. I came here because of your reputation. I don't know..."
Jiang Wu interrupted him: "Are you here because of your reputation? The way you're dressed, you look like someone who works for the government."
He looked at Lu Fengming again, and became more and more certain that these two people were not ordinary people.
Secretary Zhang continued with a smile, "You have a good eye. It just so happens that if you have any grievances you want redressed, or know of any secrets no one else knows, just tell me and I'll take care of it for you!"
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