Chapter 61 Finding Water
Wang looked at Chen Xiaohua's aggrieved expression, rolled her eyes at her, and said:
"Don't even think about it. If you really want to go, then don't come back. You married into our Gu family, but you're still thinking about your parents' home all day long. Our Gu family can't afford a big Buddha like you."
"Hmph, don't think you can control our Gu family just because you are pregnant with Yun'er's child. As long as our Yun'er wants to marry or take a concubine, there will be many girls fighting for him."
Upon hearing this, Chen Xiaohua wanted to ask for help from Gu Yun who was standing beside her, but he didn't even raise his head and just let his mother treat his pregnant wife like this.
All the villagers here strongly refused to lend out the grain, and the head of the village had no choice but to take out another ten kilograms of grain from his own home, and lent a total of twenty kilograms of grain to Chen Jun.
The head of the village said, "You three should save these 20 kilograms of food and wait until you reach the neighboring county to see if you can buy more food!"
Chen Junyun: "Thank you, Lizheng"
"Alas," Li Zheng sighed.
When Mrs. Hu saw that there was twenty kilograms of food missing, she realized that her family had four mouths to feed and food was not in sufficient supply to begin with, so now she had to save even more.
When the head of the village came back and saw that Mrs. Hu was sulking with him, he immediately begged for forgiveness aggrievedly: "Wife, don't be angry. We are an old couple. We are making fun of our son and daughter-in-law."
Hu Shi: "Humph, you are so generous, why don't you lend out the remaining grain as well?"
The head of the village sighed when he heard this: "Alas, do you think I want to? But you forgot that I have another identity, head of the village. Can I really ignore it? Then what use is there for me to be the head of the village to the villagers?"
Mrs. Hu: "You have done your best for them. I am afraid that if this incident happens to you, will they remember your kindness? Can everyone lend a helping hand?"
The village head said: "You think too much. Most of the villagers in our Liuhe Village are still kind-hearted. It's just that everyone is really short of food now, so they refuse to lend it to you."
Hu: “…………”
Because the Chen family was delayed for some time because of the grain theft, it was already noon when everyone finished breakfast. The head of the village waved his hand and shouted to set off, and the villagers followed closely.
At this time, Li Mazi, who had been in the middle of the team, pretended to have a sore foot and fell directly from the middle to the back.
"Mom, please keep an eye on the people in front. I'll be back soon." After saying this, Li Mazi quickly ran to the woods next to him, picked up a bag of food in the withered grass and ran back to the team.
After putting the grain on his cart, he looked at the team in front of him and saw that no one turned around to look, so he quickly hid the grain in the cart and covered it with a cloth.
Li Mazi's mother felt extremely proud watching her son's actions. It turned out that her son was the smartest and most handsome one in Liuhe Village!
By the time we left Rong'an County, seven days had passed!
During these seven days, most of the villagers had almost no water left, and their lips were visibly cracked.
"Mom, I'm thirsty"
"Dad, I want to drink some water."
"Let's be patient for a while. After we rest, Dad will go find some water so that our dog can drink enough."
The head of the village said: "Everyone, let's take a rest here! Each family should send one person out. Let's form several teams and look for water sources nearby!"
Shen Wuyou heard this, looked at Xu Zhiyi and said, “My lady, I’ll go!”
Xu Zhiyi shook his head: "Oh my god, now everyone has no water. If we don't find a way to solve this problem, we won't be able to use water anymore."
"Most of the villagers' lips are cracked and bleeding! Ours is the only one that is fine. Outsiders will know that we have always had water. Over time, they will always wonder why we can't use up all the water, which is very disadvantageous to us."
After listening to Xu Zhiyi’s explanation, Shen Wuyou understood it and had to nod.
But then he remembered the water issue, and quickly pulled Xu Zhiyi, who was about to get up, and whispered, "Madam, if you get our water out and give it to the villagers, what if they feel something is wrong after drinking it?"
Hearing this, Xu Zhiyi whispered back, "Don't worry! Their usual method of finding water sources is wrong. I know how to find it, and maybe I can really find it."
Xu Zhiyi was then assigned to a team of eight people. The eight people walked directly into the woods. Every time they walked a distance, they squatted down to check the condition of the soil in the ground. If the soil was a little moister than other ground, it proved that there was a water source within a few miles.
Xu Zhiyi looked at their investigation method and found it too slow. When would they be able to find a way?
"Can you really find water by searching like this?"
The seven villagers who were lying on the ground and observing carefully, when they heard Xu Zhiyi's words, all looked at her with questioning faces.
"You can't find it this way. There's no way there's a water source nearby. Look at the trees and grass nearby. There's no green at all. This proves that there's a water shortage in this area."
When the seven people heard Xu Zhiyi's words, their eyes lit up and they actually felt that what Xu Zhiyi said made a lot of sense.
"Ms. Xu, how do we analyze where the water source might be?"
Hearing this, Xu Zhiyi looked up at the mountain, pointed to the top and said, "Let's go to the top now."
"What? The top of the mountain? There's no water at the foot of the mountain, so how can there be water at the top of the mountain?"
"Yeah! I'm afraid the drought is even worse in the mountains!"
Xu Zhiyi: "We don't go to the mountains to find water sources, we go to the mountains to see where the most likely water sources are."
After saying that, he walked up the mountain first. The seven villagers hesitated for a moment, but finally followed him obediently.
After half an hour, Xu Zhiyi and seven others climbed to two-thirds of the height.
When the seven people saw that Xu Zhiyi had finally stopped, they were so tired that they sat down on the ground and gasped for breath. Their lips, which were cracked due to lack of water, were now bleeding slightly.
Xu Zhiyi shielded the sunlight with his hands and carefully observed the trees at the foot of the mountain. He saw that almost all of them were dying and were gathered in a circle.
Finally, she discovered that there was a small area at the foot of the mountain where the leaves were green. Compared with those withered ones, it was full of vitality!
Xu Zhiyi shouted towards the seven people: "You seven, come here quickly, if we go down this direction, there may be a water source."
When the seven people heard this, they excitedly ran behind Xu Zhiyi and followed her.
When they arrived in the direction Xu Zhiyi said, they were surprised to find that there was still some green grass there. The seven of them were excited and thought that they could pick some and mix it into porridge, which would save a lot of food.
Xu Zhiyi didn’t know what they were thinking, she just focused on observing the source of the water.
The seven people watched Xu Zhiyi look left and right around the mountain wall, and then suddenly put his ears close to the mountain wall to listen.
The seven people were completely stunned by Xu Zhiyi's actions! What was he doing?
"Xu's sister? What are you doing?"
"Shh, don't make any sound," Xu Zhiyi said, and then listened carefully to the mountain wall.
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