Chapter 208 [Discovering New Features]
Wen Qiao saw that something was wrong and immediately called Jiang Lili.
Jiang Lili just sent the blueprints to the three escorts and asked them to find the craftsmen introduced by Zhang Xin to assign tasks.
Not long after the escorts left, Jiang Lili received a video call from Wen Qiao. She answered it immediately, thinking it must be an emergency.
In order to conceal her presence, Wen Qiao spoke in a low voice, but it was too noisy around her and Jiang Lili couldn't hear what she was saying.
Seeing the commotion over there, Jiang Lili quickly asked, "What happened? Is there a fight going on over there? What weapons do you need?"
Jiang Lili saw a speaker icon on the video call interface between her and Wen Qiao. She wanted to turn up the volume so that she could hear clearly what the people around Wen Qiao were saying.
The speaker icon lit up, and Wen Qiao's voice became louder. Jiang Lili heard Wen Qiao say, "Someone wants to steal the well!"
Wen Qiao was about to continue speaking when there was a knock on the door outside Jiang Lili's room. Wen Qiao subconsciously stopped talking. Jiang Lili also turned off the loudspeaker out of caution. After turning on the loudspeaker just now, Jiang Lili had a feeling that Wen Qiao's voice was echoing in the room.
After the speaker icon was turned off, the room became noticeably quieter.
He only heard the voice of the person outside the room saying: It was the voice of the maid who brought him hot water yesterday and the evening maid: "Manager Jiang, I'm here to bring you breakfast!"
Jiang Lili shouted outside: "Come in!"
The maid came with a three-layer food box and placed the bowls and dishes in the box one by one on the pearwood table in the wing room.
The breakfast was very rich, with boat porridge, crab roe buns... Jiang Lili thought that Wen Qiao had not had breakfast yet, so she planned to feed Wen Qiao some after the maid left.
Unexpectedly, after the maid had laid out the dishes, she asked with a puzzled look on her face, "Manager Jiang, I heard you mention a well just before I came in. Are you looking for water from a well? You can just ask the innkeepers to take care of these things. You don't have to go there yourself."
"The wells here are very deep. It would be terrible if you fell in."
Jiang Lili was stunned. She didn't say the word "well" just now. Could it be that this maid just heard Wen Qiao's last words?
Jiang Lili looked calm as she said to the maid, "Okay, thank you."
Her mind raced as she added, "I just heard the water from your wells is generally very sweet, and I'm curious, that's all."
The maid understood and smiled softly, saying, "Yes, our Haizhou Island has many mountains, trees, and rivers. The water underground is especially sweet, and it's easy to dig wells, so there's no shortage of drinking water. We even have two wells in our inn!"
She told Jiang Lili the locations of the two wells in the inn and left with her lunch box.
After the maid left, Jiang Lili breathed a sigh of relief.
Are there any instructions for using this group chat interface? You have to explore the functions on your own. The first time I sent a red envelope, I cheated a pair of geese, and I almost cheated myself the second time.
Wen Qiao listened to the conversation between Jiang Lili and the maid and guessed what happened: "Did the maid hear us talking?"
That’s not right. Normally, the voice messages and video sounds from their chats only ring in the minds of the group members.
Jiang Lili then told Wen Qiao about the changes that had just been made to the speaker function.
@Wenqiao: So, turning on the speakerphone function is equivalent to turning on the video and voice playback, so outsiders can also hear the audio of our conversation? 】
Jiang Lili felt that the function of the speaker was just as Wen Qiao described.
Wen Qiao's eyes flashed with contemplation, and while she was thinking, a group of people had already galloped to the only well with water in the tribe.
At the same time, many people exclaimed: "The Lord God's Messenger is here!"
The man called "Lord God's Messenger" wore a golden mask inlaid with agate gems and a black riding suit made of silk.
His dress was in stark contrast to the tattered and linen-clad tribesmen in the tribe.
The horse he rode looked like a BMW, with smooth and clean black fur and a touch of white on its head, which looked like a cloud, making people think of the phrase "dark clouds chasing the moon".
The horse is in high spirits and it is obvious that it has been carefully raised.
Wen Qiao didn't expect that under such a severe drought, there were still people who could live so comfortably.
Jiang Lili saw the divine envoy appear on horseback and exclaimed, "Sister Qiao, this divine envoy's mask and horse are both so beautiful."
Wen Qiao replied arrogantly: [Just wait, I'll take you there.]
The messenger saw that the guards he had sent were no longer around the well. Seeing that the five guards had been tied up, he flew into a rage: "How dare you!"
"Our northern tribe wants to requisition this well, and you dare to resist!"
The messenger of God rode his horse and approached the tribe. He looked down at the tribe with only the elderly, the weak, women and children left.
The tribal chiefs used to respect the northern tribes very much. Even though these messengers of God acted a little overbearingly, they could accept it. After all, they were messengers of the shepherd god, different from mortals like them.
However, during this severe drought, the other side plundered them again and again, captured able-bodied men, and snatched water sources, disregarding the lives of their people. Many people could no longer blindly worship the northern tribes.
The chief stood in front of the well and argued: "The water in this well is saved by our entire tribe for our children to drink."
"Your northern tribe has taken our ponds and lakes, and now you won't even leave us a well? This is really too much!"
The chief who protects the tribe is like an angry lioness and is very intimidating.
The envoy was stunned by the chief's behavior. Realizing that he had been momentarily intimidated by this frail woman, he became even more furious. "It is your honor that we have requisitioned your well. This is the will of the shepherd god. Do you intend to go against his will?"
The chief was filled with grief and indignation upon hearing this: "Three elderly people and two women in our tribe have already collapsed in their beds due to lack of water. Why is the god still demanding water from us?"
Jiang Lili looked at the heroic scene in the tribe and sighed in her heart. She looked outside the inn. A cold front had passed through Haizhou Island in the past few days, the temperature dropped sharply, and it rained frequently. At this moment, it was raining heavily outside the inn, and raindrops as big as beans hit the window frames.
Jiang Lili wished that the rain could be transferred to Mi Country.
Hiss, Jiang Lili thought about it carefully, it seems that it is not impossible?
Jiang Lili got up and went downstairs, asked the waiter for an oil-paper umbrella, and then went to the backyard of the inn.
Jiang Lili already had a plan in mind at this time. She told Wen Qiao about her plan and asked Wen Qiao to be ready to take action at any time.
While discussing the plan with Wen Qiao, Jiang Lili saw in the video that the messenger of God did not directly answer the chief's question, but instead scolded the chief.
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