Chapter 1138 The City Where the Sun Never Sets 8
Groundwater is easy to find.
There are two signs there, and when they are put together, the cross section of the huge stone looks like the Chinese character "人".
Fu Anan had already made the transaction at the cave entrance yesterday, without even going inside to take a look. Today, she paid the toll and went in with the bucket she had bought yesterday with the water. By the way, buying the bucket was more expensive than buying the water!
Enter through the passage below the "人" character by bending over. The passage inside is very narrow. It can only accommodate two people side by side. The further you go in, the more damp it becomes.
It will be here soon.
Compared with the narrow entrance outside, the inside is very wide, with a small spring in the middle. Groundwater continuously flows up from below, forming a small pool of about four meters.
The area around could accommodate six or seven people fetching water at the same time. When Fu Anan arrived, there were already people around, and her appearance did not attract any attention from others.
Fu Anan joined them carrying a bucket. She squatted by the pool and pressed the wooden bucket down with her hands. It seemed that she was filling the bucket with water, but in fact she was making room for the water in the pool to flow in continuously.
The movement was too fast, and the groundwater surged faster than Fu An's installation speed, and the water level began to drop. Fortunately, it was dark inside, and Fu An'an noticed it before anyone else noticed. She quickly slowed down her hands, but still collected a considerable amount of water.
It took quite a while, and finally attracted the attention of the people in the water behind. Looking at Fu Anan's motionless appearance, the guard shouted, "Hey! That woman, what are you doing?"
"I didn't do anything."
Upon hearing this, Fu Anan quickly stood up and said with an innocent expression.
"Why do you keep your hands in the water? Does it take so long to draw a bucket of water?"
The man glanced at the barrel at her feet with a wary look on his face, "Do you have anything with you?"
He was so wary for a reason. A few days ago, a passing camel caravan had told of another Gobi oasis where someone had stolen and poisoned its water source. The people there were either poisoned or dying of thirst, and their alarm couldn't be helped.
"No!"
Upon hearing this, Fu Anan quickly raised her hands to indicate her innocence. The water guard didn't believe her and scooped another bucket for her to drink. After waiting for a long time and seeing that she was fine, he let her go.
Fu Anan looked at the space. There must be several tons of water. It was definitely not enough for taking a bath, but it was definitely more than enough for two or three people to drink.
Then there were things like salt and medicine. In the Gobi Desert, where supplies were extremely scarce, these items were known as white gold and green gold. Even with money, they were incredibly difficult to obtain. They were rarely sold outside, though they were available on passing camel caravans, but they were all reserved.
Fu Anan finally made a reservation through the accommodation owner through his connections. There was also a high commission, but fortunately it was delivered together with the fruit.
The evil-hearted ones have connections.
Fu Anan really wanted to have sex with her, but couldn't bear to do so.
After solving all the material problems, she now only cares about two things:
First, she made a simple time-measuring device. She felt that the daytime was much longer than the nighttime, so she wanted to make something to measure it.
Hourglass, or water drop timing method.
To be accurate, she started trying both.
Since she couldn't make a sophisticated timer, she spent a lot of effort making two devices that could drop sand and water at a constant speed.
Measure the daytime at the same time, and then measure the nighttime at the same time.
By using the amount of falling sand and dripping water during the day and the amount of falling sand and dripping water at night, we can calculate the time ratio between day and night, and thus calculate how long the day and night are.
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