The thought of a pack of starving wild beasts waiting for him to come to his door for a feast made Lin Chaobei immediately abandon his idea of scavenging for scraps and instead dug up grasshopper eggs.
To be honest, this is a very meticulous task. Even Yue Jiuyue felt that it was no simpler than embroidering with a needle.
After the land near their house was dug up, Yue Jiuyue took the opportunity to retrieve the cement pipe in the middle of the night, and then dug some soil from the side to fill the pit, so that nothing could be seen.
I don’t know whether to be glad she acted quickly, because the cement pipe was retrieved. The next morning, the well was naturally dry, so someone suggested digging up the area around the well to see what strange things were inside.
"Look! This place is perfectly square. There must have been some treasure here before, but I wonder which bastard stole it!"
Villager A pointed to the pit they had easily dug, and to the east was the new wall that Yue Jiuyue had built. No one continued digging eastward, which allowed Yue Jiuyue to successfully extricate herself from this farce.
Perhaps because the wall was recently built, there was a spot where the soil was soft, so no one paid much attention to it.
"Holy crap! It really is! What kind of son of a bitch would do something so deadly! We have to tell the clan chief and the village chief, and we have to find that bastard and make him hand over what he found!"
"Yes! We must tell the clan chief and the village head, and make them hand over the items!"
"Let's go! We'll go to the chieftain's house right now!"
A group of people, carrying empty buckets, shovels, and hoes, headed towards the clan chief's house.
Lin Chaobei, who was in charge of fetching water today, was among them.
"Chieftain! Village Chief! Something terrible has happened!"
Before they even reached the clan chief's house, someone shouted loudly, summoning everyone in the vicinity. They all came out, some gossipy, some anxious, asking:
"What's wrong? What happened?"
That person's intention was to let more people know about this, so he immediately started talking non-stop:
"Sigh! You have no idea, some damned bastard dug up everything around the well, and now there's no water in the well today! I guess there won't be any water in the future!"
"Huh? There's no water!"
"Ah? There really is treasure in that ancient well!"
Different people have different focuses, but they all share the same surprise.
Some were surprised and somewhat panicked, while others were surprised and somewhat regretful.
Those who panicked were naturally worried about what would happen if the well ran out of water.
Those who regretted it were heartbroken that their treasure had been dug up by someone. If they had known earlier what treasure the well's water contained, they would have become rich in this year of disaster by possessing the treasure that could spew water!
Now, no matter what they want to do, they can only follow the crowd and go to the clan chief's house to ask about the follow-up situation.
"Chieftain! You must go check on the ancient well! Some scoundrel has dug up that great treasure! And there's no water left in the well!"
"Oh my goodness! Who knows how long this drought will end? If there's no water, how are we supposed to survive!"
"We must find the people who stole the treasure and return it! We must also exterminate their entire clan and drive them out of Linjiagou Village!"
...
The clansmen who followed quickly and, with a few words, convicted and punished the person who "stole the treasure."
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