Except for the first day, the people of Linjiagou Village got used to it. Their ancestors would only leave them a well of water before dawn. If they tried to find out anything at night, there would be no water left the next day.
So the people of Linjiagou Village learned their lesson and stopped wandering around at night. As soon as it got dark, they would close their doors and go to sleep. Then, as soon as it got light, they would carry their buckets to the ancient well and line up.
After discussions among the clan chief, elders, and village head, it was decided that each family could only carry one load of water from the well, and the remaining water would be shared among the families in turn. This made things much easier for the villagers, and some even went to their maternal homes to show off. As a result, many people came to Linjiagou to inquire about the situation.
"Clan head of the Lin family, please have a moment of kindness and tell me how you managed to get your ancestors to appear to you? These days, water is becoming increasingly scarce. If this continues, our village will truly have no way to survive!"
"Yes, Lin family patriarch, please tell us. We also want our ancestors to show their power so that the village can get through this famine!"
As if by prior arrangement, the village chiefs and clan leaders from several villages all came to the Lin clan chief's house, hoping to find a way to invoke the power of their ancestors.
However, the Lin family patriarch truly had no idea.
But the village chiefs and clan leaders of the other villages really didn't believe that the Lin clan leader was unaware of the situation.
The drought is so severe now that the springs in the mountains are slowly drying up. But the ancient well in Linjiagou, which had been abandoned for who knows how many years and was already as dry as it could possibly be, suddenly started gushing water. It fills up with water every day, and the water tastes sweet and refreshing. If this isn't a miracle from our ancestors, what else could it be?
The Lin family patriarch actually told them he didn't know, which must be because he was afraid that if their ancestors manifested, they would be more powerful than the Lin family's ancestors and outshine them.
"Sigh! Why don't you believe me? I really don't know what happened. If you don't believe me, go ask the married women from your village. Did the water from the ancient well suddenly appear? Before that, our village hadn't done anything like that."
The villagers who came believed the Lin family patriarch's explanation.
Before they arrived, they must have inquired about the situation. Indeed, as the Lin family patriarch said, the ancient well suddenly gushed water. Then the Lin family patriarch opened the ancestral hall to thank the ancestors. After that, he ordered several young men in the clan to go down into the well to dig out the silt. A few days later, the ancient well suddenly filled with water.
But if the Lin family's ancestors manifested themselves willingly, why didn't their ancestors do the same? Are there really such large differences between the ancestors?
People from other villages who had come to the clan chief's house left dejectedly.
There's nothing they can do; it's just that they didn't have a good ancestor who cared about future generations!
Yue Jiuyue also heard about these things.
She had expected that the sudden appearance of water in the village well would attract people from other villages to investigate, but she never imagined that it would all come down to whether her ancestors were reliable or not, or whether they cared for their descendants.
Although it left her speechless, it also relieved her of a worry.
She was afraid that someone would like to pry into the details. For example, when she wanted to continue filling the well with water the next day, she suddenly discovered that someone was lying in ambush near the well. If that person hadn't suddenly spoken up, she probably would have already crossed the Bridge of Helplessness by now.
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