After walking for so many days, they finally heard some good news. Lin Rui asked everyone to take out containers that could hold water, and asked him and Zhao Qing to take them to the cave to fill them with water.

Everyone was very happy and busy, just like the New Year. They took out the plastic buckets and water bags that Lin Rui had distributed to their families, as well as the bamboo tubes they had made to store water.

Lin Rui and Zhao Qing carried all the containers with their straps and walked towards the mountain spring water.

Zhao Qing looked troubled all the way: "Chief, I guess the water in that small puddle isn't enough to fill so many containers."

"It doesn't matter, just fill as much as you can. Are the plastic buckets and water buckets you brought full?" Lin Rui remembered that when they went out, they each brought plastic buckets and water buckets of similar capacity to be fair. If they were all filled with water, the amount should be considerable.

Besides, aren't you cheating by using the tap water in the house?

When they arrived at the small puddle that Zhao Qing and his friends had found, they found that it was indeed in a cave. There were many animal footprints around it. It seemed that those small animals were the first discoverers. In order to fight against the scorching heat, they went back and forth between their own caves and the puddle. Today they were really unlucky because their water sources were taken away by them.

The volume of the small puddle required Zhao Qing, Lin Changtai and others to draw three buckets of water. Excluding the water for the livestock to drink, the remaining water would not last more than two days even if everyone tried to save it.

Now Uncle Changfa, Uncle Changtai Changshou and others began to dig around the nearby caves. Lin Rui and Zhao Qing, who came from behind with large and small buckets, suddenly had no room to use the things in their hands.

Zhao Qing also took Lin Rui to the small puddle to take a look. The small puddle was about 1.4 meters high. The pit was still wet, but not a drop of water could be scooped out. Uncle Changtai and others had scooped out all the water.

Lin Rui saw that as time went on, more and more dirt filled the bottle. He would have to boil and filter it a second time before drinking it. Otherwise, who knew if there would be rat droppings or something in this seemingly clear puddle.

Uncle Changshou saw Lin Rui coming and said, "Chief, we've drained that puddle dry. Not a drop of water is left. If you're interested, look around. Maybe with your cleverness you can help us find another puddle!"

Lin Rui laughed heartily: "Okay, okay, okay, uncle, I'll give it a try!"

Everyone was busy looking for caves and puddles. He took advantage of everyone's inattention and walked towards the cave where the puddle was. He quickly went into the house and used a basin to collect water from the faucets in the bathroom, kitchen and sink. When the basin was full, he immediately took it out and poured it into the puddle.

In order to make the effect more realistic, he shouted loudly: "Hey, hey, hey, Uncle Changshou, come and see, water is coming out again, is this a living spring?"

Lin Ziming, Lin Changshou, Lin Changtai and others, who were exhausted and sweating, immediately grabbed their hoes and pickaxes and ran into the cave after hearing Lin Rui's voice. When they looked into the puddle, they found that it was just as Lin Rui said. A large part of the muddy water had come out of the puddle that had been dug to the bottom.

"What a living fountain, huh?"

"It's a good thing the tribe leader came to remind us, otherwise we wouldn't have wasted time and walked into this cave."

"Wouldn't it be a waste of water if we did this? Quick, quick, where's the bucket? Fill it up!"

After finding water, everyone was very excited and quickly handed over the buckets and bamboo water bags in their hands.

"Leave the water filling job to me, and I'll leave the task of finding puddles to you all." Lin Rui said, his main purpose was to get people away, otherwise how could he use his golden finger.

Finally, his father said, "Don't worry, Rui'er, quickly scoop the water from the puddle into the bucket, and I'll see if it will come out again."

Well, his father was not in a hurry, and neither were his uncles. They all looked at the puddle with great interest. Lin Rui probably understood what they meant. If this puddle could continue to produce water to meet everyone's daily water needs, why bother looking for other puddles!

It's a hot day, it's so hot that everyone wants to find a cool place to hide. But looking for water under the scorching sun is not a human task.

"Okay..." Since everyone was gathered here, he couldn't use his golden finger, and everyone was destined to return disappointed.

Lin Rui collected water from the foot bath bucket in the bathroom, which was about five or six liters, just enough to fill a plastic bucket and two water bags.

When scooping to the end, the scoop inevitably came into contact with the mud at the bottom of the depression, making it even more turbid. It was unclear whether there was more water or mud in the last water bag.

And then... everyone stared at the bottom of the puddle where there was not a drop of water left, hoping that water would regenerate as the patriarch had just seen.

A breath passed, half an hour passed, and no one had the time to wait any longer.

As the current clan leader, Lin Changxi still had some say: "I guess there's no hope. Let's go look for a cave and see if there's any water inside."

The others had waited for such a long time and had no desire to wait any longer, so they simply nodded and followed Lin Changxi out. Zhao Qing was also ready to leave and join everyone in the work.

When leaving, Zhao Qing looked at Lin Rui who was sitting there waiting: "Chief, are you still waiting for the second time to come out of the water?"

Lin Rui smiled and said, "Give it a try. Let me know when everyone is leaving. If there really isn't any left, forget it."

"Okay, we're nearby, just give us a shout if you need anything."

"Okay, go get busy first, brother-in-law."

After everyone left, Lin Rui sneaked to the entrance of the cave and made sure that everyone was busy and no one was around. Then he went back into the house and filled the water in the pipe with the water bags and plastic buckets they brought.

Lin Changxi and his team tried several more caves. There were indeed potholes inside, but they were all dry and cracked, with no trace of water at all.

They couldn't help but feel extremely disappointed. They had been busy for almost the entire afternoon, but still got nothing.

At this moment, Shuanzi stood at the entrance of Lin Rui's cave and shouted to everyone excitedly: "Uncle, second uncle, third uncle, water is coming out of the puddle again!"

The emergence of water from the puddle was like a shot of adrenaline for everyone. Their originally heavy and tired bodies suddenly seemed to become light, and their disappointed eyes were shining again. They all walked towards the puddle where Lin Rui was, taking one deep step and one shallow step.

This time the puddle was completely filled with water, and the water was so clear that you could see the bottom. Shuanzi, Zhao Qing, and Lin Rui were filling the puddle with water one after another with buckets. The gurgling sound of the water bubbling while filling the puddle sounded like heavenly music to everyone.

"Water, so much water!"

Lin Rui pointed to the partially filled bamboo water bag and plastic bucket and said, "The amount of water this time is so huge that I can't fill it all by myself, so I just dragged Shuanzi and my brother-in-law over. You all came just in time, so we can work together. After we're done, we can go back and rest quickly and tell our families the good news."