A patrol member guarding the well was carrying a long knife. He had a simple and honest appearance, and his skin was bronzed by the sun.
He is none other than Nozawa, who contributed the monk's tortoise to the shrine.
"In three days." Nozawa was a little impatient. Today alone, no less than a dozen people asked him the same question.
"Ah? We have to wait another three days?" The villager was disappointed and subconsciously licked his chapped lips. His eyes were like wild wolves in the dark, staring at the well that exuded a cool breath.
"In three days, Mr. Ji will check the well. If the holy object is still alive, the well will be put into use. Then you can just bring your own wooden buckets to draw water." Nozawa spoke loudly, wanting to do it all at once.
He explained clearly and neatly, and the villagers in the province were asking him this and that.
However, he far underestimated the current desire of ordinary villagers for water resources.
As soon as Nozawa roared, the villager standing next to the well said impatiently: "Nozawa, what is that sacred object? We all heard that this well was built at the request of Lord Ji, why do we have to wait so long?
sky?"
Nozawa frowned. It was a hot day and there was a large group of people surrounding him. Even standing in the cool place beside the well, he felt restless.
"How can you know about the sacred objects? This is the rule set by Master Ji! Master Ji represents the shrine! Now, who is still dissatisfied?"
The ordinary villagers who were watching were dumbfounded. In their opinion, they could usually have a relationship with Yae Ji by calling him "Ji", "Xiao Ji" and so on, and Yae Ji would not put on airs.
But Ji-sama, who represents Yae Shrine, is another matter.
"I remember that the person in charge of rainwater is not the fox god. Will Master Ji dig a well for everyone to use? Will the god be dissatisfied?"
The crowd fell silent instantly.
The villager who spoke was only fourteen or fifteen years old. Seeing so many people looking at him at the same time, he turned pale with fright, thinking he had said something wrong.
"That's right, the gods are in charge of rainwater and rivers. Only through sacrifices can the Fox God be happy and bestow favors. Is Master Ji digging wells to get water... secretly taking the Fox God's wealth...
..."
The villagers murmured in low voices and discussed Yae Ji privately, but at the same time they maintained a high degree of respect for the fox god and did not dare to offend him in the slightest.
Nozawa was furious. In his opinion, these villagers were so stupid! Even if they didn’t know the secret, they still dared to talk about it!
"What do you know!" Nozawa yelled: "This was carried out after being guided by the gods..." Nozawa glanced at the teammates next to him and asked in a low voice: "What was done?
?”
"project."
"Yes!" Nozawa shouted loudly: "This is a project carried out under the guidance of the gods! It is an oracle! Be careful that the fox god will punish you!"
The crowd suddenly panicked.
He was still the young man about fourteen or fifteen years old. He said bravely: "I heard from grandma that only shrine maidens can communicate with the fox god. Could it be that Sakura-sama became a witch?"
Nozawa narrowed his eyes and stared at the young man.
Is this trying to cause trouble or something?
"Can you imagine the greatness of the Fox God and the power of the shrine? Don't think you know some secrets and just talk nonsense here!"
After Nozawa finished yelling, he whispered to the teammate next to him: "Am I using these two words correctly?"
"..."
Seeing that no one dared to talk back, Nozawa was like a victorious rooster, arrogant and arrogant, quite arrogant.
Just as Nozawa raised his head and scanned these "ignorant" villagers with his peripheral vision, he suddenly saw a familiar figure on the outermost edge.
Take a closer look.
"Get out of the way! Get out of the way! Lord Ji is coming!"
Nozawa rudely inserted himself into the large group of villagers, but after the villagers heard this, they began to voluntarily move out of the way.
Yaeji smiled and nodded to the villagers who looked at him from time to time.
With his very healing appearance, he immediately eliminated the dissatisfaction among the villagers.
In their eyes, Yae Ji, who is destined to become the shrine's god, has a very high status. In addition, he has always had a very good image in the village for so many years. Most of the villagers have a very good impression of Yae Ji.
good.
"Master Ji is here?" Nozawa said with a smile, completely losing the arrogance of the big cock before.
"In the past few days, our patrol team has been stationed at the well day and night. No one can steal a drop of water."
"Yeah." Yaeji nodded, stood by the well and looked inside.
It was pitch black, and a cool breeze rushed upward in the summer, not to mention how comfortable it was.
"Send someone down to see if that turtle is dead."
"I'm going down, I'm going down!" Nozawa hurriedly handed his katana to his teammates.
"OK."
Not long after, Nozawa went down into the well and shouted from the bottom up: "Master Ji, the holy object is not dead!"
"How are you feeling?"
"Spirit?" Nozawa, who was in the well, was stunned. The well was dark, but the sight was not very good. Besides, as soon as he picked up the "holy object", the other party got into the turtle shell.
, it’s really hard for him to judge.
"Wait a minute, Lord Ji!"
Echoes came from the well, which made Yaeji frown. It was impossible for them to have excessive heavy metals, pollution, etc. from other worlds here!
Yae Ji narrowed his strange eyes. He remembered that Daisuke had obtained monster limbs from outside the village a few days ago. Since monster limbs can turn people into corpse monsters, if the blood of dead monsters flows into...
..
"Lord Ji! The sacred object is very lively! It's just a little shy!"
The sound from the bottom of the well came again, and Yaeji breathed a sigh of relief and signaled to the patrol team member next to him: "Pull him up."
"yes!"
Not long after, Nozawa, who was stained with water, was loaded into a large wooden bucket.
"Is there anything strange about it?"
"No." Nozawa shook his head, "I am living well and in high spirits."
Yae Ji nodded: "After your shift is over, you go to the village mason to discuss the reinforcement of the well and the manhole cover. It is best to design one to prevent water from evaporating."
"Yes!" Nozawa listened in confusion. He couldn't figure out what evaporation and hair were. Anyway, he just followed Yaeji's instructions.
"Also, it's best to transplant two trees to the well. If there is water, the chance of survival is high."
"Okay, no problem, our brothers will be able to handle it in the evening!" Nozawa assured and said expectantly: "Master Ji, now that it's like this, can we guarantee that the well will be officially put into use in three days?"
"If the turtle hasn't changed much from seven days ago."
Nozawa nodded sharply, unable to contain himself with excitement.
Yaeji glanced at the well, then walked away from the path he came from.
"Lord Ji!"
"Huh?" Yaeji turned around halfway and found that it was the young man who had been critical from the beginning.