No one believed Yue Jiuyue's words.
If it weren't for the fact that she had only slept three or four hours a night and a little over an hour at noon for almost a month, and had bags under her eyes and dark circles, and was so exhausted that she almost chopped up the crops while hoeing the field, she wouldn't believe it either.
But what can you do when she's the "ancestor"?
Because there's not much to do these past few days, all the weeds in the fields have been cleared. Without rain, even grass doesn't grow easily. And if we want to irrigate the fields, there's no water. So we can only rely on luck to dig for earthworms. What can you expect from farmers who can't stay idle?
Therefore, it was much easier for Yue Jiuyue to catch up on sleep. If a mother wanted to rest for a few days, could her son and daughter-in-law say no?
After finishing breakfast, Yue Jiuyue slept until noon, and after lunch, she slept again until dinner time.
Even so, Yue Jiuyue still felt like she hadn't recovered, her head was still dizzy and she wanted to keep sleeping, wishing she could sleep forever.
The alarm clock rang before dawn. This time, Yue Jiuyue did not show any signs of drowsiness. Instead, she immediately got up, slipped on her shoes, and walked towards a place that looked like a mouse hole on the north wall. Then she took out a large funnel, inserted it into the hole, and took out a bucket of water to pour water into the funnel.
The sound of running water could be faintly heard. She wondered if the people in the other two rooms could hear it. She didn't want to add something to their diet every night. Although it wouldn't harm their bodies, medicine is always a little poisonous, so it was best to avoid it if possible.
After daybreak, Yue Jiuyue estimated the speed at which water was being drawn from the ancient well and slowly poured water into the funnel. She stopped when she estimated that each family could carry about two buckets of water.
It was time for breakfast.
"Mother! You really dreamt it! Today, there's enough water in the old well for our family to carry two loads and more! Maybe in a couple of days, we'll really have water all day long, and then we can carry water to irrigate the fields!"
Lin Chaonan was even more excited than Lin Chaodong. When his mother mentioned it yesterday, he didn't even bother to respond, since it was just a dream.
No one would have thought that a dream could become reality, even though the well didn't always have water like in his mother's dream.
When he saw that there was more water in the well than usual today, he couldn't help but show off to his friends about the dream his mother had told him yesterday morning. Of course, his friends didn't believe that his mother's dream could be so accurate, but he still couldn't help feeling happy, as if he had received the approval of his ancestors, and he always felt that he would have a great future.
Upon hearing Lin Chaonan's words, Yue Jiuyue's expression stiffened.
There's nothing else to it, I just feel a little sorry for her spending so little money.
One well requires nearly two thousand buckets of fifty liters of water, which is more than five taels of silver. If it weren't for hoeing the fields and picking herbs on other people's lands during this period, she would have spent all the fifty taels of silver she had saved up before!
Now she has to pay ten taels of silver a day, and she feels like her heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys are all aching. But Lin Chaonan still hopes that her dream can come true, though she feels that it may not.
It's really too expensive!
Unless, of course, it's replaced with lake water or river water.
If you need to change the water, you need to find a different place to store it; you absolutely cannot use the old well.
The thought of having to go to another place gave Yue Jiuyue an even bigger headache.
The drought outside is so severe now, and she still wants to fill a lake with water. Even if she were an ancestor, she probably couldn't do it.
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