Chapter 2247 Looking for Water
Manbao was riding on his horse, watching the scouts coming back from their gallops, and asked happily, "Did you find any water?"
General Nie and over a hundred other soldiers stared at him intently. The scout was about to cry. Why did he have to come back to report the news? He didn't want to come back, but he still had to say, "There's no... water."
Manbao expressed his doubt, "Is there no water? Isn't there a ditch ahead?"
Heavy rain was about to fall. He looked around. Although the sand dunes were always changing, some places remained unchanged. He thought the dry and ugly tree in the distance looked very familiar, so he said, "It's right up ahead. The ditch is not very small. How can your eyesight be so poor that you can't even find it?"
The scout and Lieutenant General Nie said, "Sir, if you go and see, you will know that there is no water inside."
Everyone had a bad feeling in their hearts, so they asked the convoy to speed up.
Gradually descending the sand dunes, the dry old trees not far away became more and more obvious. Manbao and Baishan looked at each other, kicked their horses' bellies, and rushed to the front, intending to take a look first.
When Bai Erlang saw them running away, he immediately shouted, "Wait for me, I want to go too!" and then ran after them.
General Nie was also curious, and since there was no one around, he simply followed behind.
When they reached the edge of what was obviously a ravine, they looked at a scout standing on the ground in silence for a long while.
The scout who followed immediately said, "Look, sir, this is it."
This is a gully that clearly shows water once flowed through it, because the gravel and soil underneath are not exactly the same as the yellow sand next to it, and it shows signs of being washed by water.
But now there is nothing.
No, there is still some. The gravel and mud are still a little moist. The scout who stayed behind took a knife and dug a hole as big as his head. Now a little water has gathered in it.
The scout said naively, "Sir, even though it's not much, it's still something. Even if we don't drink it, we can give it to the horses."
General Nie was sad.
Bai Shan and Bai Erlang were so sad that they couldn't speak.
Manbao almost burst into tears in his heart, "Koko, is this the water you mentioned?"
"Well," Koko said, seeing that the host seemed to be about to cry, "If the host is not satisfied with the surface water, you can also use groundwater."
Manbao's tears quickly stopped and he asked in his heart, "Where is the groundwater?"
Groundwater is naturally underground, but how deep to dig is a matter of opinion. If you find a suitable place, you can dig a few meters and it will come out. If you can't find a good place, you may not find it even if you dig dozens of meters.
However, Koko obviously would not make things difficult for Manbao, so he pointed her to a place.
As they were pointing, the convoy arrived. Yin Huo and the others got off the carriage, walked to their side, and looked down at the ravine together, also in silence.
Mr. Zhuang looked up at the sky and said, "Let's camp here tonight and discuss what to do."
Everyone agreed.
Manbao said: "We can dig for groundwater."
She said, "Didn't we ride horses to chase the lake water to where it disappeared when we were in the small town? Didn't they say that the last place it disappeared was underground? There should be groundwater here too."
Everyone looked into the distance along the ravine, while Bai Shan looked down into the ravine, squinting his eyes and asked, "So, do you think there is groundwater under the ravine?"
Of course there is, but according to Koko, the water here is deeper and not as deep as the one on the other side.
So after the team settled down, the soldiers took their swords and went to dig holes in the ravine. Just as the scout said, they could at least dig out some water. If they couldn't drink it, they could give it to the horses and camels. In fact, they could drink it if they were really thirsty, but it wasn't yet time for that.
The sun hadn't set, but it wasn't as hot anymore. Manbao put on his veil, took out his medicine hoe, and called out to his friends, "Let's go find some water."
Mr. Zhuang and Lieutenant Nie were counting the remaining water and ignored them.
Da Yu brought his men to join in the fun. Seeing them riding away on horseback, he also pulled his own horse to catch up. After crossing a sand dune and reaching a valley, he started to hoe and hoe around. He couldn't help but ask Da Ji, who was just standing by and watching, "You guys are just following us like this without helping?"
Daji stood there leisurely and said, "Don't worry about it. We just need to protect their safety."
Manbao was curious and used a hoe to dig up the yellow sand. Although this was a valley with sand dunes, it was still yellow sand. Such valleys were not uncommon. Was there really water underneath?
Bai Shan and the others were also suspicious, but there was nothing they could do. Since Manbao said that he felt there was water here, they decided to dig it up and take a look.
So the six of them pushed the sand aside, revealing the gravel layer underneath, and then used small hoes to dig, digging out the soil and piling it aside. Manbao dug for a while, and when he felt tired, he handed it over to Baishan. Baishan took over, thinking that they might have to dig very deep, he dug a large piece to the side to make it easier to dig down later.
Bai Erlang and Liu Huan took over. Yin Huo also hoeed the soil twice out of curiosity. He felt that pushing the soil they had piled up to the side was the job that suited him, so he handed the hoe to Zhou Liru.
It's her turn.
Zhou Liru jumped into the pit and dug a hoe into it. A stream of water gushed out, directly hitting her face...
Zhou Li closed his eyes subconsciously, and then his ears were filled with the cheers of the crowd.
When she opened her eyes, she wiped the mud and sand off her face, looked at the front of her clothes and then looked at the water that was gushing out. In a short while, a lot of water accumulated at the bottom of the pit, soaking her shoes, socks and trouser legs.
Manbao and the others wanted to throw the soil they dug out into the pit, so they also stood at the bottom of the pit and got wet as well.
But they are also excited.
The few of them didn't go up, but simply pulled up the hem of his shirt and tied it to his belt, then rolled up his pants and continued digging, "Open the hole a little wider."
The water flow has become smaller now, but it still bubbles up from below like a mountain spring.
Several people were working excitedly at the bottom of the pit. Da Yu and the others standing nearby opened their mouths in shock. After a while, they closed their mouths and exclaimed in amazement, "We actually dug out water?"
Daji was only shocked for a moment before turning around and ordering a guard, "Go back and tell them that water has been dug up here, and ask them to bring the water truck over to fill it up."
"yes."
When General Nie and his men hurried over, all they saw was a pool of yellow, muddy water and a few people laughing and joking in the water.
Furious, he immediately pulled them out, then ordered the soldiers to fetch a few large rocks from under the tree to block the water outlet. He then rolled up his trousers and went down to clean the bottom of the pit, scooping out the water and clearing away the mud at the bottom.
He picked up a bucket of small stones from the ditch and spread them on the bottom of the pit. After laying them tightly, he stepped on them and spread stones on all four sides of the pit. Then he slowly picked up a big stone to let the water inside come out.
See you at 6pm
(End of this chapter)
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