Chapter 225: Ruining Su Zhen's Good Deeds
Dong'er looked at Su Nuan and then at the village chief. She smiled and said, "My sister is getting married."
The excuse Su Nuan had prepared was suddenly stuck in her throat, and she pouted in grievance.
The village chief nodded. "I see. Well then, it's just right for us to be relatives."
Su Nuan touched his nose and said, "Besides hunting, our family farms. We've cleared a lot of land over there, so we can't live here."
"We don't know how to fish, and hunting in the mountains is dangerous, so we should just focus on farming."
The village chief's eyes lit up and he asked, "Do you have any extra grain after the autumn harvest? I can trade ten kilograms of fish for one kilogram of rice."
Su Nuan knew that the seaside was not suitable for farming. They lacked food to fill their stomachs, and seafood was not enough to fill them up.
She nodded and said, "Yes, that's no problem. Our food will be available in three months, and then we can plant vegetables until the snow starts to fall."
The village chief almost jumped up with joy. He looked at Su Nuan and pushed the fifty taels of silver back, "Take these back."
Su Nuan knew that the village chief wanted to give her some benefits, but she couldn't accept it for Dong'er's sake.
"Village Chief, let's put things in perspective. My sister needs food here too. Don't worry, I will definitely come."
The village chief pondered for a moment and nodded. As long as he treated her sister well, there would definitely be food in the future.
Su Nuan saw that things were almost done, so she took out a piece of bacon from her backpack and said, "I brought this with me. Village chief, please try my cooking. I'll ask my sister to take me around."
When the village chief saw such a large piece of meat, he wanted to refuse it at first, but then he remembered that Su Nuan was a hunter, so he accepted it without hesitation, "Okay, okay, you guys go have fun, and come to my house for dinner tonight."
Su Nuan responded, "Okay."
After saying that, she pulled Dong'er and ran out.
Dong'er was still dazed, "So... I have a home?"
Su Nuan nodded, "Yes, your home. I'm going to look for the place we talked about yesterday. You go and clean it up first."
Dong'er nodded, "Okay."
Su Nuan rode Feixue along the coast and found a very flat place. It was not a beach, but there were three layers of natural rocks.
"This place is nice. It should be no problem to pump the seawater up and dry it."
The space spirit said, "That's right. Leave a pump and bury the pipe in the soil. Otherwise, do you want a little girl to carry sea water bucket by bucket?"
Su Nuan asked: "What is a water pump?"
The space spirit replied, "A hand-cranked water pump that uses vacuum and atmospheric pressure to operate."
Su Nuan, “…”
Forget it, just use something convenient, why hide it.
Su Nuan nodded, "Okay, I'll bury it."
She landed on the rock, cut it open with a bone shovel, buried the pipe underneath, and then put the rock back down.
She came to the top, where there were two handles. She turned them and water came up. However, the water was a little dirty and it took a while for it to become clean.
"That's good. The salt field issue is settled."
The space spirit said, "I sense someone over there, why don't you go and take a look?"
Su Nuan looked up and saw that the area was full of rocks, with high cliffs above.
"Above the cliff? There seems to be a forest above."
The space spirit nodded, "Yes, just now someone passed by with a shovel to see if there was any treasure."
Su Nuan immediately became interested and climbed up the cliff. The cliff was not as high as the one in the north, so she reached the top easily.
Following the direction guided by the space spirit, Su Nuan followed.
Not long after walking, Su Nuan hid behind a big tree, her eyes full of surprise.
Because the leader of the team in front was Su Zhen.
Then Su Zhen said, "There's no water here. Let's go over there and have a look."
Someone grumbled in dissatisfaction, "Isn't there a spring pit? Can't we just expand it? Why do we have to find a new water source?"
Su Zhen said, "Don't talk nonsense. I can't show my status as a goddess by the spring. Of course I have to find a new water source."
"Once I make fresh water freely available to the villagers, they will surely worship me as a goddess and never doubt me again."
Su Nuan touched her chin. She understood that Su Zhen's status as a goddess was unstable, so she wanted to consolidate her position by finding a water source.
Can she do this? Of course not.
She followed secretly like this, and if she felt she was about to be discovered, she would hide in a space.
Finally Su Zhen stopped on a huge rock.
"There's water under this rock. Move aside and I'll dig it out."
Su Nuan was stunned. Was Su Zhen so powerful? Or did she also have bone tools that could easily dig through rocks?
However, Su Zhen took out a long iron tube and placed it on the rock.
Su Nuan observed the rock. The area of the rock buried in the ground was much wider than the exposed area.
If the place where Su Zhen was standing was the center of the spring, then it would take a month to dig diagonally from the side to find water. No wonder she wanted to drill a hole directly.
Then she heard a squeaking sound coming from the iron tube she was holding, and after about half an hour the iron tube had drilled into the rock.
Su Zhen said proudly: "This is a magical weapon, only a goddess can use it."
Su Nuan was very curious and asked in her heart: "Space Spirit, do you know what that is? It looks so advanced."
The space spirit said with disdain: "It's an antique thing. It's obvious that her system is not the latest. It must be five hundred years away from my world."
Su Nuan raised an eyebrow, "So your stuff is five hundred years more advanced than hers?"
The space spirit immediately said proudly: "Of course, isn't it just digging a hole? We have that too."
Before Su Nuan could stop them, a row of mechanical animals appeared in front of her: mice, voles, spiders, pangolins...
The Space Spirit laughed and said, "All of these can make holes, and their efficiency is about the same, but the size of the holes they make is different."
Su Nuan nodded, "Put it away quickly."
The space spirit asked, "Don't you want to ruin her plan?"
Su Nuan touched his chin and thought for a long time, and finally came up with an idea.
"She seems to be announcing the availability of water tomorrow. How about we divert the water down the mountain in advance?"
The space spirit shook his head, "This is not pleasant."
Su Nuan couldn't think of any other solution and could only hide in the dark and wait for Su Zhen's next move.
More than an hour later, the metal cylinder emerged from a distance and Su Zhen put it away.
A clear spring gushed out from the rock, and the water was one foot higher than the rock.
Su Zhen blocked the water outlet with a strange object. She smiled and said, "Tomorrow, bring all the villagers to see me pray to the heavens for water."
The followers immediately nodded in response.
Su Zhen suddenly said with a cold face: "You all took poison. Without the antidote, you will die, so you'd better watch your mouth."
“Yes, yes, yes…”
Su Nuan raised her eyebrows. No wonder Su Zhen would use such strange things in front of these people. She was not afraid that these people would tell others.
The space spirit said again: "They are leaving, do you have any good ideas?"
Su Nuan looked at Su Zhen's back and said, "She wants to ask for water in public. We just need to disrupt her request for water..."
"Yes, I have a brilliant idea, but I need you and Hailan to help me."
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