As the little boy excitedly led the old clan chief to South Lake, every household in the village was putting on the same show, instantly drawing everyone in their families to South Lake.
"There really is water!"
"Where does this water come from? It doesn't look like there's a spring!"
"We just turned the lakebed upside down a couple of days ago. If there were a spring, it would have started flowing a couple of days ago. Why would we have waited until today?"
...
The villagers had various opinions.
"Could it be that our ancestors have appeared to us again?"
An old lady said something uncertainly.
The villagers hesitated for a moment, then nodded in agreement.
It seems that no other explanation can be believed except this one, although deep down they know that this explanation is also untenable.
"It must be our ancestors appearing again!"
Yue Jiuyue: ...
I knew it would be like this.
After she came back the day before yesterday, she was so tired that she drank a bowl of wild vegetable soup and went back to her room to sleep. Yesterday she rested at home for another day and felt that her legs were so sore that they didn't seem like hers anymore. She slept too much during the day and couldn't sleep at night. Last night she couldn't help but go and buy that so-called spring water.
One coin for one hundred liters of water, which is two hundred catties, was used by Yue Jiuyue to buy ten taels of silver.
It wasn't that she didn't want to buy more, it's just that pouring water is hard work, and she was tired!
Therefore, South Lake has become what it is today, just a small puddle of water, and this water is gradually decreasing.
Having heard the answer she wanted, Yue Jiuyue yawned and went home.
She was busy for most of the night and didn't get enough sleep, so she needs to catch up on her sleep.
Whether those people outside discovered where she poured the water or whether they had any suspicions was none of her concern.
After the incident with the ancient well, I believe those people will know how to hide their ulterior motives and pretend they didn't discover anything. Otherwise, she might cancel the lake-clearing operation.
I believe everyone understands this.
Ten thousand tons of water can fill a small reservoir, but Yue Jiuyue used thirty thousand tons of water to fill Nanhu Lake.
After a month, Yue Jiuyue earned 560 taels of silver from a trip to the county town, but in the end, only 30 taels remained.
The reason why so much water was used in Nanhu was not because Nanhu was so big. Initially, it was to irrigate the soil around Nanhu, and later it was because everyone was busy carrying water to irrigate the land.
Because the village no longer lacks water, the villagers have replanted grains and vegetables on the previously idle land. They have also washed and dried their clothes and bedding, and the people are clean and tidy. Everything seems to have returned to what it was before the drought.
Aside from the heat, it doesn't rain.
Yue Jiuyue didn't plan to concern herself with that. She couldn't very well buy a drone and actually carry out artificial rainmaking, could she?
She was afraid of attracting the attention of the county magistrate!
Yue Jiuyue was on tenterhooks the whole time, knowing that Nanhu Lake had suddenly filled up with water and seemed to have an inexhaustible supply.
She's just an ordinary person, and I'm really afraid that her superiors will discover something strange about her and arrest her. They'll probably confess everything without even torturing her.
So, what awaits her in the future?
Imprisoned? Used?
No, no, she couldn't think about it. Murphy's Law told her: the things you least want to happen are the things that are most likely to happen. So, she decided to clear her mind and get some sleep!
"Mother! Mother! The village chief sent someone to summon you, asking you to go to the village chief's house!"
When Liu knocked on the door and called her, she had a very bad feeling.
No way?!
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