Chapter 60 Bulging Belly
"I went to several water sources we used to go to, and found that three of them had dried up, and two had very little water left, so we refilled our tanks."
Even if I brought it back, I still couldn't fill the ten buckets I brought.
After Yan Shilei finished speaking, the faces of the people around him became very heavy.
"But don't be too discouraged. These are just places we often go. I once heard from an old hunter in the village that there's a lake in Anshan, but because there are tigers there all year round, no one in the village has been there for almost 20 years."
Yan Shilei looked at the half-filled bucket, clenched the bow and arrow in his hand and said, "If there is really no other way, I can go find that lake."
The water in mountain lakes always drains away more slowly than the water in lakes below the mountains.
Zhou Yunshu looked at the sky and said, "The birds are all flying southeast."
Zhou Yunshu's inexplicable words puzzled those around her. Wei Zhong thought she was distracted and said to her, "Mr. Zhou, tomorrow I will have the patrol team follow Old Yan to find the lake. Let's..."
Zhou Yunshu pointed in the direction the bird flew away, looked at Yan Shilei and said, "Look for it in the direction the bird flew tomorrow."
"Which direction did the bird fly?"
Zhou Yunshu nodded. "Birds living in the mountains and forests always understand the topography of the mountains and forests better than us outsiders, and they also know where the water is."
She looked towards the southeast and said, "This is the sixth flock of birds to fly southeast in the past three days."
Yan Shilei's eyes lit up, why didn't he think of it!
"Okay, I'll take some people over to take a look tomorrow!"
The next day, in order to wait for the results of Yan Shilei and his team's exploration, Zhou Yunshu and the others walked very slowly.
Before noon, Yan Shilei and others returned to the team with surprise on their faces.
He looked at Zhou Yunshu, who was teasing the little girl with a puppy made of dogtail grass, and slowed down his pace. "Mr. Zhou, we found the lake!"
Zhou Yunshu handed the dogtail grass in her hand to Xixi beside her and nodded.
"How do you know that?"
They often wandered in the mountains and forests, and had many ways of their own to find water sources, but Zhou Yunshu in front of them looked like a scholar who did not eat grains. How could she know all this?
"You'll find out if you read more books."
In fact, Zhou Yunshu learned this method when she watched a survival game in the wild in modern times. She just watched it for fun and never thought that one day she would actually use it.
If she had known that there would be a day when she would return to her own world, she would have memorized that show and all the similar shows!
After hearing this, Yan Shilei had no doubts. Instead, he felt that letting Luo Xiaoshan study with Zhou Yunshu was an extremely correct decision. If he could find his wife and children, he also wanted to entrust the children to Zhou Yunshu for teaching.
The reason why Yan Shilei thought so was that during this period, the children in the team often followed Zhou Yunshu to learn to read half an hour before dinner in the evening. Zhou Yunshu never refused anyone, so she should not refuse his children either.
The longer Yan Shilei spent with Zhou Yunshu, the more he admired her. After all, among the scholars he knew, no one would teach children like Zhou Yunshu, regardless of their status and without asking for anything in return.
If Zhou Yunshu knew what Yan Shilei was thinking at the moment, she would just say that she was not that noble.
"How far is the lake from here? Is the road difficult to walk on? Can we return to the original route after we get there?" Zhou Yunshu asked several questions in a row.
"It's about five or six miles. The road is not difficult to walk on. It's a gentle slope. The lake is not far from the original route. We can go back."
"The tiger?"
Yan Shilei said, "There is animal feces next to the lake, but I only saw wolf feces, not any other beasts' feces."
He thought about the wolf pack that raided yesterday and said, "I think it's possible that this area has been occupied by those wolves. If there really is a tiger, it should have been driven away."
Xixi blinked her big eyes, looked up curiously and asked, "Can a wolf beat a tiger?"
Yan Shilei had never seen such a pretty girl before. When he heard her question, his tone softened involuntarily. "I'm definitely no match for them if we fight alone, but if there are many wolves in a pack, the tiger won't be able to defeat them."
Xixi nodded her little head and said, "I understand. Thank you, Grandpa."
"You're welcome."
Yan Shilei touched his head. This little girl behaved like a young lady from a wealthy family. He didn't know where Mr. Zhou came from.
With Yan Shilei leading the way, the team slowly walked towards the lake.
Before she got completely close to the lake, Zhou Yunshu felt the moist air coming towards her.
The closer we got to the lake, the more lush the vegetation became. When we reached the lake, we heard exclamations from the entire team.
They haven't seen so much water in a long time!
The lake is not big, at least not as big as the artificial lake in Zhou Yunshu's modern school, but it is rare to see it these days, especially since it is still running water with fish in it.
There is a large open space around the lake, which shows that its original size is larger than this. People settled down around the lake and urged the patrol team to fetch water and boil water for a drink.
Yes, even when seeing so much water, no one would just rush over and scoop up the water to drink.
Not to mention that Zhou Yunshu has warned people many times not to drink raw water. Just looking at the punishments Zhou Yunshu has given to those who break the rules, no one dares to go against the rules.
Not to mention that although they are short of water on weekdays, they have never been short of water, and they still have some rationality.
The patrol team was divided into three teams. One team patrolled to guard against attacks from wild beasts; one team loaded and transported water; and the other team went hunting with the people from the village at the foot of the mountain.
The group of people who started the fire privately started collecting firewood, moving stones, moving luggage, and doing all kinds of hard work in the surrounding area.
Chunque and Feng Xujie took the hunting dogs and bears to hunt, while Zhou Yunshu and Li Jialan accompanied the children to boil water at their own locations.
Perhaps because there was finally no shortage of water, the lakeside was filled with the laughter of men, the chatter of women and the joy of children.
The main course for the evening was still wolf meat, accompanied by a rich and fragrant fish soup. Everyone in the team was very satisfied with the meal, and some even cried while eating.
Zhou Yunshu and her group did not eat wolf meat. Instead, they ate pheasant meat and rabbit meat hunted by Chunque. In addition, Fang Huiwen also cooked a pot of millet and red date porridge and a pot of steaming fish soup, which they ate with roasted sweet potatoes and enjoyed heartily.
While Zhou Yunshu and her friends were eating and chatting, the women who had already eaten their fill not far away were directing the men to build a simple tent for bathing.
They couldn't use up all the water anyway, so they might as well take this opportunity to have a good wash.
Li Jialan and Fang Huiwen were also very excited. They had not washed for a long time since they started fleeing the famine, and they felt like they were rotten.
They don't want to miss this opportunity that comes so hard.
Action speaks louder than words. Chunque directed the bear and the hunting dogs to build a shed in the corner on their side. Zhou Yunshu and Dr. Xue chatted while boiling water for bathing.
After Li Jialan and Fang Huiwen took the children to take a bath, they prepared hot water for Zhou Yunshu, lit candles, and asked Chunque to watch over her while Zhou Yunshu went to take a bath.
The candlelight was very dim, and I could only barely see the situation inside the shed. As for the outside of the shed, there was hay blocking the view, so I couldn't see anything inside the shed at all.
When Zhou Yunshu immersed her body in the bathtub, she felt her whole body relaxed. She leaned comfortably against the edge of the bathtub and touched her gradually bulging belly.
Before they knew it, they had been away from the palace for a long time.
If she hadn't been wearing thicker and thicker clothes, and if she hadn't been covered by a cloak, she probably wouldn't have been able to hide the fact that she was pregnant for two months.
Footsteps were heard outside, and Chunque's alert voice came: "Stop! Who are you?"
"I'm here to serve Mr. Zhou."
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