Chapter 77 Solving Water Problems
Su Qiwen smiled and said, "Grandfather, there's no point in worrying. You should go and have a rest. Leave the task of finding the water source to us."
The old marquis glanced at the three of them and said, "No need to look for it. Grandfather asked someone to ask the locals today to see where they could find water. They said there's a deep pool seventy miles outside the city. I guess that's the only place with water. But the pool is so deep that it's hard to get water out. You're back in time. I'm afraid only Miss Yue can get water out."
Su Yue said, "I thought it was a big deal. We'll go there tomorrow. Grandfather, don't worry about it. Go and have some rest."
The old marquis then nodded and followed Su Qiwen into the backyard.
Su Yue and Murong Li also went back to their own places. As soon as she entered the backyard, she saw Caixia still waiting for her. When she saw her come back, she immediately fetched water for her to wash up before going to bed.
Su Yue was really tired and fell asleep as soon as she lay down on the bed.
Caixia looked at Su Yue who was sleeping soundly, tucked the quilt for her, shook her head, and then gently closed the door and went out.
The next morning, the three of them rushed to the place the old marquis mentioned.
The deep pool is located upstream of the river in front of the county town. The river has dried up. I guess the water level in the deep pool has dropped to the point where no water can flow out.
It was already noon when the three arrived. The deep pool was located on a steep mountain, and it was not easy for ordinary people to climb up.
It is no problem for three people to climb the mountain. Isn't there a great master among them?
It took the three of them half an hour to climb to the top of the mountain.
This is indeed a very deep pool, which is naturally formed. The water in the pool is green and the water level is indeed very deep.
There were some footprints on the side, obviously someone had been there.
"Can we make a breach here?" Su Yue asked, pointing to the dike.
If the dike is broken, the water in the pond will flow down the river, and the people living along the river will have water to use.
Maybe we can even plant some autumn crops.
If you rush to plant, it will snow in winter, and when the snow melts next year, there will be water.
Murong Li took a look at the embankment and saw that it was natural and quite thick, so breaking it open shouldn't be a problem. He nodded and said, "Breaking it open is certainly easy, but building it up after breaking it open won't be so easy. It's not so difficult now that it's drought-stricken, but if it weren't, the water here wouldn't be able to accumulate. If it rained even a little bit, wouldn't everything below be flooded?"
"Well, it is indeed a troublesome matter." Su Yue did not consider this.
"What should we do? This pond is quite deep. How can we get water?" Su Qiwen also sighed as he looked at the pond. Seeing that there was water but no one could get it, he was really anxious.
Su Yue: "Getting water is not difficult, but it is a bit troublesome for me. I have to collect the water in the pond into the space and then release the water into the river."
"It seems that Yue'er will have to work hard." Murong Li couldn't think of any other solution, so he had to agree with Su Yue's approach.
"Okay, let's get started."
Su Yue immediately released her mental power and collected the water in the pool into the space pond.
I saw that the water in the pond disappeared in the blink of an eye.
Su Yue put all the water in the space pond into the well last night. She had just drained the pond, and now it was full again.
She asked Murong Li to use his Qinggong skills to help her get down, which was much faster than climbing up and down.
I thought about putting water on it, but it would make a loud sound like a waterfall, which would be bad if people saw it.
Murong Li used her lightness skills to carry Su Yue flying down. She transferred the water into the river and then flew up.
After several trips like this, the water in the river slowly flowed downstream.
The water in the deep pool didn't seem to sink much, so the three of them concluded that there must be a spring underneath.
However, the pool was bottomless, and Su Yue’s mental strength was unable to reach the bottom of the pool. She also didn’t know whether there was a spring or not.
But this is good, don't let it dry after a few drops of water.
As they were carrying water from above, people below saw water in the river and everyone cheered and jumped for joy.
Now we finally have water and food, and we have hope again.
Everyone was so happy that they forgot why there was water in the river after it had been dry for so long.
Su Yue stopped when she had almost taken enough water from the pool, and then filled the pond in the space before the three of them left.
On the way back, Su Yue was exhausted and had to be carried back by Murong Li.
They stayed here for a full month, and only after Xichuan County got back on track did the group prepare to leave.
Since having water, Su Yue took out all the seeds in her space and distributed them to the farmers so that they could plant in autumn.
The people of Xichuan County were so grateful to them that they almost made statues of them and worshipped them.
But since there are so many people, forget it.
No one expected that not only did they suffer from drought for more than half a year and have no harvest, but they also had to flee from famine for several months. They thought they were just waiting to die, but unexpectedly, hope came to them.
The common people treat them as their adopted parents.
They had finally waited for hope, but other refugees were not so lucky. Just half a month after they entered Xichuan County, Murong Li received news that the relief grain and silver sent by the court were robbed by bandits.
Su Yue and Murong Li didn't believe it at all when they said that it was robbed by bandits. They thought it must be the work of the master behind the scenes.
The reason why he didn't take action against any of them was probably because he was waiting for that batch of food and silver.
Only they had the courage to rob the imperial court's disaster relief grain and silver.
That morning, Murong Li and his party bid farewell to General Yun, went out of the west gate and headed towards the northwest city.
Only the Su family went this time, while Doctor Xie's family and the Yun family stayed in Xichuan County.
There were 5,000 troops here, and Doctor Xie worked there as a military doctor.
Needless to say, the Yun family must have stayed.
After leaving the west gate, the situation they saw was the same as when they had just entered the northwest region. It was a desert everywhere and there were refugees everywhere.
Everyone wanted to rob them when they saw their group of people, but when they saw their equipment, few people dared to come up and rob them.
However, Leader Qin told them that they could go to Xichuan County.
Many refugees were skeptical. Some of the bolder ones went directly, while others hesitated and did not go.
However, Su Yue still left some food for them.
Seeing those children who were as hungry as cats, Su Yue felt very sad and released the food.
In this way, five days later we arrived at a county town.
There are plains all over this place, and this city is located on the plain, so it was named Pingyao City.
Pingyao City is completely different from Northwest City. This city is basically empty and there are very few people left.
They only passed through Pingyao City, left some food for the people in the city, and then left it alone.
There are so many towns and villages like this that they have to speed up to get to their destination and settle down first.
Now that these towns have been built, it won’t be long before someone will come and take advantage of them.
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