Chapter 7 Out of Water
"Cough, cough, cough." Han was so shocked that she choked on her saliva. It took her a while to recover. She widened her eyes in disbelief, "Stinky girl, don't talk nonsense!"
Su Tai was worried about getting beaten, so she took a big step back, "Mom, what I said is true, Shen Yi said it himself, if you don't believe me, go ask."
Han's expression was unpredictable. She looked outside, then at Su Tai who was looking stern. She really wanted to go out and ask what was going on, but she was too embarrassed to ask too much about other people's private affairs. After hesitating for a moment, she shook her head and said, "I'll ask when I have a chance. You keep your mouth shut and don't yell and embarrass Shen Yi."
"You're just talking nonsense! I wouldn't have remembered it if you hadn't mentioned it." Su Tai muttered a few words, and when she saw Han glaring at her, she immediately gave in.
The two of them cleaned up the house, and Shen Yi finished chopping the firewood.
Han hurried to cook and asked Su Tai to come in and help.
Su Tai took the opportunity to change the water into spring water. Just as she squatted down to burn firewood, she saw Han coming in with a sad face.
"The food supply at home is almost gone. There has been no water for the past few days, and the crops are probably dead from drought."
As Han spoke, tears fell one by one and her hands were shaking with heartache.
Su Tai felt upset and said in a consoling tone, "Mom, we have already started digging the well. I believe there will be good news soon."
"Yeah." Han responded briefly and continued working.
At the dinner table, the Su family and Shen Yi sat together.
Han looked at the porridge on the table, which was so thin that the bottom could be seen, and her face turned red. "Well, Chen Yi, our family is poor, so it's difficult for you."
Shen Yi shook his head seriously, "Aunt, you don't have to be polite to me. It's difficult for everyone now. I'm already very grateful that you can let me stay for one night. I'll see the situation tomorrow. I'm almost going back."
When Han heard this, he immediately asked nervously, "Can you dig out water?"
Shen Yi paused, his face solemn.
Han's heart sank to the bottom in an instant.
Because the well digging was not going smoothly, Han didn't bother to ask about Shen Yi's broken engagement.
The next day, Shen Yi got up at dawn. As soon as he walked out of the Su family yard, he heard a noise behind him. He turned around and raised his eyebrows, "Miss Su is going out so early?"
Su Tai pulled the rattan basket behind her and said vaguely, "I want to go to the place where the well is dug and help with some work."
Shen Yi was a little surprised when he heard this, but his expression softened a lot, “I thought you never did any work.”
Yesterday he discovered that Su Tai was different from other girls in the village. She looked more like someone who was raised by a well-off family in the town. It was quite surprising that she said she wanted to help.
Su Tai curled her lips in frustration, afraid that she would make more mistakes if she said more, so she simply shut up and followed Shen Yi closely.
The place where the well was dug was not far from Su Tai's home, in the shade of the hillside. Originally there was a mountain spring here with a considerable amount of water. Unfortunately, due to the severe drought, the spring water dried up in the second year. There was another well nearby, which was closer to where the villagers lived.
Su Tai observed carefully for a while and decided to place the spring at the first position.
Firstly, there was a spring here, so it was normal to dig out water. Secondly, the village dug in another place yesterday, and they had just started here, so she could place the spring closer to the ground.
After making up her mind, Su Tai walked out of Chen Yi's sight under the pretext of looking around, and immediately entered the water space-time. She used 50 virtual coins to purchase the right to place a small spring, and spent another 1 virtual coin to purchase the medium tool. After a while of struggling, she finally placed the small spring in the designated location.
When she came out of the water time-space, she found that some villagers had already come to the well-drilling site. It seemed that everyone wanted to start working before the water got hotter.
The place was in a mess, and Shen Yi was surrounded by people and couldn't care about Su Tai. She was thinking about leaving when she suddenly saw Su Changxi coming over with a group of people.
"Is there water in the well in your village?" Zeng Kuan said while staring at the villagers who were digging the well.
Su Changxi picked his teeth, sighed, and pretended to be calm, "We just started digging yesterday, how can we get results so soon?"
Zeng Kuan, the head of Zhongmen Village, sighed, "We also started digging yesterday. We thought that digging more places would increase the chance of finding water. But after a day of hard work, the village is full of holes like a rat hole, and there is no water at all! Those idiots from Ximen Village even came to laugh at us. It really makes me angry!"
Zhongmen Village is sandwiched between Dongmen Village and Ximen Village, and cannot escape any disturbance.
"Didn't they go to the Canglan River to get water? I don't know what the situation is!" Su Changxi pondered. He had also thought about it. After digging for three days, if there was still no water, they would have to run to the Canglan River to get water.
Zeng Kuan shook his head. "If we haven't made any progress by the time they get the water back, we'll be laughed at for the rest of our lives."
Su Changxi thought of the faces of the people in Ximen Village and immediately spat on the ground, "I'm not going to make a fuss just to save face. No matter what we say today, we have to dig out something!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Shen Yi's exclamation came from the well digging site, "Something's going on! The soil here is wet!"
Su Changxi was stunned for a moment, then he ran over frantically, so excited that he couldn't speak clearly, "Hurry up! Call all the other lazy people in the village to come over and work! We will definitely be able to dig water today!"
We all deal with the land all our lives, and we can roughly guess the situation below just by looking at the moisture of the soil.
After Su Changxi's shout, in less than a quarter of an hour, all the men, women, young and old in the village gathered together. Some of them didn't even have time to put on their shoes, which shows how excited they were.
The people from Ximen Village never thought that they would come across someone digging up water, and they were overwhelmed with emotions for a moment.
Zeng Kuan asked other villagers to come over and help.
With so many people digging together, they had dug half a foot deep in less than an hour. The moisture underneath was getting heavier and heavier. When Shen Yi put down the last shovel, he saw a stream of water suddenly gurgling out.
Zeng Kuan was so shocked that he was stunned and muttered to himself, "I really dug out water!"
Coming back to his senses, he immediately threw himself to the edge of the well and looked at Shen Yi pleadingly, “Shen Yi, can you go to our Zhongmen Village to take a look too?”
Shen Yi raised his head, with a rare faint smile on his face, "Okay."
When Shen Yi came out of the well, everyone rushed to the well mouth and looked inside.
Many people shed tears of excitement and joy.
Shen Yi said to Su Changxi, who was grinning from ear to ear, "Uncle, we have dug out some water, but the amount is not large. We don't know how much water we can get and how long it will last. To be on the safe side, we still have to send someone to guard this well and continue to look for other wells. If we can dig more wells, we can have more protection."
"Yes, yes, you are very thoughtful." Su Changxi nodded repeatedly.
Zeng Kuan was anxious, "There's water in your village, but there's no progress in our village. Let Shen Yi go back with me to take a look first."
Su Changxi was a little reluctant, but still agreed, and repeatedly reminded Chen Yi: "Go and have a look, and come back to our village in the evening. Uncle will have to find a way to prepare a table for you to thank you."
(End of this chapter)
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
