After returning home, Lin Chaodong told Liu Shi, who was making breakfast, about his discovery, as well as his two younger brothers who were still in bed. Finally, he told Yue Jiuyue about it while they were eating.
Yue Jiuyue: (｀Δ′)!
This has given us away!
It seems the cement pipes need to be cleaned up, and the water supply should probably be turned off soon.
I just don't know when this drought will end.
The original owner and her companions traveled north. Because they left in early June, they did not encounter the locust plague. It did not rain or snow until early winter. However, the original owner lost her life not far from a city.
Sigh! What a worry!
If the water doesn't stop flowing, what if some curious person digs up the soil around the well and discovers a cement pipe? What will she do then?
But if the cement pipes are taken away, the villagers will have no water to drink. What will happen then?
We can't have a belated famine, can we?
The reason she willingly provided water to the villagers for almost a year was to prevent them from having to flee the famine.
She did this not only to avoid following the original owner's path, which was to be pierced through the brow by a sharp arrow and die.
The main reason, of course, is that she simply doesn't want to flee the famine. After all, there's the word "flee" and the word "famine," so the journey would be far more difficult than what the original owner remembered!
Anyway, she just didn't want to flee the famine!
"Does nobody know what happened?"
Yue Jiuyue couldn't help but inquire.
"Hmm, they guessed that there might be a spring next to the old well. But I thought to myself, with the drought this bad, how could there possibly be a spring? And what kind of spring would be gushing water and then be stuck? There must be something else strange about it!"
Lin Chaodong spoke eloquently, feeling that his guesses were much more reliable than those of others.
But neither the speculation of "there is a spring" nor the speculation of "something strange" is what Yue Jiuyue wants to see.
She hoped that those people would remain the same as before, knowing that something was strange, but not bothering to investigate the truth in order to continue having water to drink.
But when they feel they have discovered part of the truth and are only half a step away from the real truth, will they really be able to hold back?
However, firstly, a locust plague was coming, and secondly, Liu and her daughter were still living in her house. Even if Yue Jiuyue wanted to do something, it was too late.
All she could do was pray.
Yue Jiuyue ate the meal without tasting it.
"Mom, look! Aren't the clouds coming? Is it going to rain?"
Liu, who was washing dishes at the entrance of the main room, pointed to the original owner's dark sky and asked Yue Jiuyue with surprise.
That "dark cloud" was truly a massive, dark mass that blotted out the sun, and it was rapidly approaching their Linjiagou Village.
"No! Those are locusts! Come in quickly!"
She grabbed Liu, who was washing dishes at the door, and pulled her into the house. Then she dragged Xiaoman, who was still playing with locusts, into the house, shouting loudly:
"Eldest brother! Third brother! Fourth brother! Hurry back inside!"
The three brothers didn't notice a large number of locusts, but quite a few had already flown into their house. They thought they could kill as many as they could while there were still a few. One of them was using a shovel to swat the locusts, while another was using a broom to sweep them away. One of them was responsible for sweeping the dead locusts into the pit where the sweet potato seeds were buried and then setting them on fire.
Smelling the aroma of roasted grasshoppers, everyone felt a pang of regret.
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