Yue Jiuyue was unaware that she had been discovered by Liu Shi when she returned. After waking up from her afternoon nap, she did not go out again, but stayed at home to dry earthworms.
This task was originally intended to be done by Liu Shi, but Xiao Man couldn't stay at home and kept wanting to go outside. No matter how Liu Shi tried to coax her, it didn't work. She didn't want Yue Jiuyue to take Xiao Man out to play, nor did she want to be alone at home with Yue Jiuyue, so she simply took Xiao Man and went to the back mountain.
As for Yue Jiuyue, she said she was at home looking for dried earthworms, but in reality, there was almost no need to look for them. With nothing to do at home, she started thinking about corn again.
Planting on the mountain?
If she gets eaten by a herbivore, then all her efforts will be in vain.
Why not find an opportunity to go to town alone and pretend to buy it from someone else?
I wonder if any outsiders have come to town, otherwise, this matter really wouldn't stand up to scrutiny!
She managed to dig the sweet potatoes from the mountain in full view of everyone, but the corn was not as easy to hide as the sweet potatoes. They were too tall and looked too similar to millet, making them too conspicuous. It would be difficult for her to cheat, so she had to find another way.
Having figured out where to get the corn, Yue Jiuyue continued to think about how to fill the ancient well with water without being discovered.
They're out every night?
Not to mention how hard she works, just the water from one well is only enough for how many families to eat and drink.
We need to think of a way, preferably to build a passage between her house and the old well. It doesn't need to be too big, about the size of a mouse hole would be fine.
But how can we create this passage?
The machine won't work. Even if she could buy a generator online, it would be too noisy. She couldn't possibly drug the whole village, could she? She couldn't do that!
She actually hoped she had some kind of beast-taming technique, so she could control the rats to dig holes for her.
But this is just an ordinary ancient world. There is no cultivation of immortality, no superpowers, and we don't even know if martial arts exist. So where would beast taming techniques come from?
Sigh! Why is it so hard to be a good person?
It's difficult, but the things that need to be done still need to be done.
To avoid the situation where a well is filled with water but only half full is left in the morning, Yue Jiuyue leaves before dawn.
It is said that the eve of dawn is the darkest and longest time of the day. Yue Jiuyue took advantage of this time to secretly go to the ancient well and then poured water into it.
The water is all spring water, spring water from Jinan (Spring City).
When the well was finally full, Yue Jiuyue leisurely returned home.
"Mother? It's not even dawn yet, where have you been?"
As soon as Liu came out of the outhouse, she saw Yue Jiuyue tiptoeing into the house. The sudden sound, though not loud, almost made Yue Jiuyue's soul leave her body.
People can scare each other to death!
"Huh? I was just thinking of going to the outhouse, but I heard some noise inside, so I thought I'd go back to my room and wait a bit."
Whether Liu Shi believed Yue Jiuyue's explanation or not, Yue Jiuyue felt that the excuse was quite airtight.
"Oh, then Mother, you should go quickly."
After Liu finished speaking, she gently pushed open the door to their room, then quietly walked in and gently closed the door behind her.
Yue Jiuyue: ...
Okay, I had to come up with a lie and explain it back!
Holding her nose, Yue Jiuyue entered the outhouse, feeling utterly devastated.
She really didn't want to relieve herself in that outhouse! What if she accidentally fell in? She'd heard quite a few people in the village had fallen in before…
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