Chapter 15: Collecting the Water from the Reservoir

"Xiang Yu, I heard that City A is about to be closed down. Where have you been?" In front of the screen, Chang Ming's eyes were sunken and his cheeks were thin.

The next moment, she made a video call to Xiang Yu. Due to poor network connection, the circle on the screen kept spinning and the video was not sent out until five minutes later.

But after the ringing lasted for a few seconds, it showed that the network was bad and it was disconnected. Chang Ming looked at the food pictures that Xiang Yu sent him and swallowed his saliva.

Xiang Yu said he would bring him some food, and he must be on the way.

There was a sizzling sound coming from the bed next to him. It was the sound of some food packaging bag. Chang Ming suddenly felt even hungrier.

"Zhang Lei, Zhang Lei..." Chang Ming tried to shout twice towards the bed opposite, but there was no sound the next moment. It was obvious that the other party didn't want to share some food with him.

There was resentment in Chang Ming's eyes. Just wait. When Xiang Yu brings him food, he won't share any with Zhang Lei.

He even wanted the other person to watch him eat. Thinking of this, Chang Ming fell asleep.

After getting up in the morning, Xiang Yu took a shovel and set off to the village entrance, where more than 30 people were already waiting.

Xiangjia Village has a small population, only a few dozen households.

The village chief arranged everyone into four or five groups. Xiang Yu followed the children who had swept the snow before and swept the roads in the village.

Xiang Yi was considered a young and strong laborer. He followed the middle-aged men in the village to sweep the main road, and the rest of the work was done to clean up the back mountain. After all, many villagers went there frequently recently.

After the work was assigned, Xiang Yu followed the seven children into the village.

"How about this? There are eight of us, four will sweep the front half and four will sweep the back half," Xiang Yu suggested. This way, work efficiency will also be improved.

There is no question of who will be lazy.

"I agree," a little boy said immediately, and the rest of them nodded in agreement after thinking about it.

When they were sweeping before, they were all together, and they walked together just to talk and chat.

"Sister Xiang Yu, do you want to sweep the first half or the second half?" the little boy walked to Xiang Yu's side. "The second half," Xiang Yu thought that side seemed to be close to the reservoir.

You can also go there and have a look.

"I'll follow Sister Xiang Yu and sweep the second half," then two people also chose to follow the little boy to sweep the second half.

After division of labor, the snow clearing efficiency is obviously faster than before. In the past, they had to wait until dark before they could go home, but today they completed the task at noon.

"Sister Xiang Yu, this is for you," after finishing his work, the little boy walked to Xiang Yu and took out a black thing from his pocket and gave it to Xiang Yu.

Just by smelling the aroma, Xiang Yu knew it was chocolate. "I don't want it, keep it for yourself," Xiang Yu pushed it back.

"Sister Xiang Yu, they all have it, just take it," the two friends behind the little boy came over, each holding a piece of chocolate in their mouths.

"Xiang Cheng, your mother has brought you so many good things. This chocolate is so delicious." The two of them were obviously the ones who played best with Xiang Cheng among the children.

Xiang Yu couldn't resist and finally accepted the chocolate. After the three of them went back, Xiang Yu went to the reservoir along the path leading to the back mountain.

During this period, I also met Xiang Yi and others who were sweeping snow in the back mountain.

Houshan Reservoir is a huge lake with clean and clear water. Xiang Yu climbed over the fence and walked towards the lake.

His feet were stepping on the snow, one foot deep and one foot shallow. Because it was a slope, Xiang Yu walked very carefully. He squatted by the lake and put his hand into the water.

There was a sound of hurried footsteps behind him, and a familiar voice came from behind him, "Xiang Yu, don't think too much..."

Xiang Yu: …………

The person chasing after him was Xiang Yi. When he saw Xiang Yu walking towards the back mountain, he quietly followed him. After all, there was a reservoir in the back mountain.

He learned some things about Xiang Yu's life from his grandmother, that he was a man with a miserable life.

Xiang Yu stood up and shook the water off his hands. "You think too much. I just came here to take a look..."

Xiang Yi looked embarrassed for a moment, but he still looked at Xiang Yu with suspicion. After all, it was so cold, who would come here for no reason?

Xiang Yi didn't turn around and leave until Xiang Yu came up from the reservoir.

Xiang Yu turned on his phone and looked at the signal bar displayed above. With the heavy snow in recent days, the signal deterioration was just the first step.

There will be power outages and water shortages, and the city will be paralyzed overnight.

Three days passed quickly and Xiang Yu's snow-clearing task was completed.

After getting up in the morning, Xiang Yu did not go to the mountain to chop firewood, but first wandered around the village and finally walked towards the reservoir.

"Sister Xiang Yu, where are you going..." A farmhouse was located halfway up the mountain. The person who opened the door was Xiang Cheng, followed by a woman in her thirties who walked out from behind Xiang Cheng.

The woman was holding a wooden basin full of water in her hand. With a splash, she poured the water in the basin onto the roadside.

"Go take a walk around the neighborhood," Xiang Yu's figure quickly disappeared at the intersection. The woman frowned as she watched Xiang Yu's leaving back.

"Xiang Cheng, whose daughter-in-law is she? Why haven't I seen her in the village before?" the woman asked in a low voice.

She looks very beautiful and has a unique temperament. She doesn't look like a village girl at all.

"Mom, that's Sister Xiang Yu, the granddaughter of Second Grandma Xiang," the woman thought for a moment after Xiang Cheng finished speaking, and instantly remembered.

"Oh, it's her."

No one had cleaned the snow on the back mountain near the reservoir. Xiang Yu looked around and walked towards the bottom of the reservoir.

Recently, she dug a huge puddle next to the black soil in the space, and pumped water from the reservoir into it without anyone noticing.

Xiang Yu went down to the reservoir, stretched out her hand and put it into the water. Suddenly, a suction force appeared in her palm, and the water in the reservoir gathered towards her palm.

Soon Xiang Yu discovered that the water level was dropping little by little, and even a water mark appeared around it. Only after filling the puddle in the space did Xiang Yu stop.

Now, her water problem has been solved. Now she just needs to wait for the riot to start and go to the K City Water Research Center.

Processed drinking water is available there.

The sky and the earth were all white, even the big trees were buried in the snow. The goose feather-like snow blocked the view, and when the snowflakes fell on the winter clothes, you could hear the rustling sound.

Returning along Yuyuan Road, in such heavy snow, few people in the village came out. On the cement road that was once bustling, she was the only one who could be seen.

"Hahaha, Mom, do you think this snowman I made is big?"

"My pile is the biggest. Look at mine, mom."

When passing by next door, Xiang Yu saw Xiang Ling taking three children wrapped like dumplings to make a snowman in the yard.

A child of about four or five years old was sitting on Zhao Xingshan's shoulders, and the child kept shouting for his father to lift him higher.