聚宝盆 第三章

The sun was high. Xia Ren carried two large water buckets and walked very fast. The work that used to feel very heavy felt very easy today. Work that originally took a whole day, he finished more than half of it in just four hours.

Xia Ren looked at his reflection in the water, and suddenly felt very afraid in his heart. He thought, 'Something is wrong, this is too fast.' In this dangerous world, if an ordinary person suddenly showed great strength, it would definitely arouse others' suspicion. To avoid his secret being discovered, he decided to pretend to be very tired.

In the afternoon, he walked very slowly on the mountain road. He deliberately pretended to be out of breath, stopping every few steps to wipe away sweat, as if he was exhausted.

Suddenly, someone shouted, 'Hey water carrier, come here!' Xia Ren looked up and saw that the manager, Boss Zhang, was lying on the ground, beaten badly. Standing in front were two luxuriously dressed young women. One of them, wearing a pink skirt, held a sword in her hand and looked very fierce.

The woman in pink pointed her sword at Xia Ren and asked, 'Are you in charge of carrying water?' Xia Ren answered nervously, 'Yes.' The woman said angrily, 'Our spring water has always been sweet. Why has it become tasteless these past few days? Did you take a bath in the spring water and make it dirty?'

Before Xia Ren could explain, Boss Zhang on the ground suddenly jumped up. He rushed over to hit Xia Ren, cursing as he hit, 'It must be you! You have hatred in your heart, so you deliberately dirtied the water to revenge on us! This is all his fault, it has nothing to do with me!' Boss Zhang wanted to beat Xia Ren to death so that he would be safe.

Xia Ren shouted loudly, 'I am innocent! I have to drink this water every day too, how could I make it dirty? Besides, everyone is watching me work, when would I have time to take a bath?' Just then, a calm voice came from the side, 'Enough.' The woman wearing green clothes raised her hand and pushed Boss Zhang away.

The woman in green said, 'If someone bathed in the water, it would only get dirty, not lose its spiritual energy. Killing him is useless.' After saying that, she used magic to check the waterfall water in the distance. She took a sip and said, 'As expected, there is a problem at the source.'

She sighed and said, 'The spiritual energy in the water has been sucked dry by something. The source is on a very high cliff, and ordinary people cannot go up there at all, so this servant is not to blame.' Xia Ren breathed a sigh of relief, but he thought in his heart, 'The spiritual energy was sucked dry? Could it be because of that broken pot in my house?'