After saying this, Li Lanzhen ran out of the cave as if she were fleeing.
He left Han Minghai behind and stared blankly at the shelves filled with so many supplies he never dared to dream of.
Eggs, pork, cotton, and cotton-padded clothes and trousers that feel soft and thick to the touch.
Even when his father was alive, it was impossible to gather so many things all at once.
He stood there, wondering what reason he could come up with to give the food to his family.
Thinking about it makes me very happy, because I feel that his mother, Li Lanzhen, still values him as her eldest son.
He stood tall and proud, beaming with joy, pacing back and forth with his hands behind his back, trying to come up with a solution.
Suddenly, he thought of the mountain behind him; wasn't that the reason?
As for the pork, he had to tell Han Mingjiang to secretly tell Xue Nizi that Li Lanzhen had brought it back from Youzhou City, and to keep quiet about it, only letting their families know.
Han Minghai wasn't afraid that the aroma of the meat would attract attention.
Because we came to the valley, there were many small animals in the surrounding mountains. Last time, we hunted a wild boar, and every household got a share of the meat.
Moreover, Xue Laohu and Xue Bao also taught each household how to set traps and how to catch prey.
Every now and then, the Valley of Forgetfulness would be filled with the rich aroma of meat.
What's wrong with eating some meat at home?
Moreover, there were Xue Laohu and his son Xue Bao at home, as well as his second younger brother Han Mingjiang, the son-in-law of a hunter, all of whom were skilled hunters.
As for these chicken eggs, duck eggs, and goose eggs, they were said to have been lucky enough to be found in the mountains.
If you're eating at home, who's going to go into the pot to look inside?
Cotton, cotton-padded clothes and trousers were even less of a concern. People would wear their own old clothes on top while wearing cotton-padded clothes underneath, and no one would bother to check whether the cotton-padded clothes underneath were new or old.
Even if they find out, isn't there still Jin Fulai's young master to protect them?
Or perhaps it was the supplies given by the captain of the caravan we encountered on the road, which could also be plausible.
Having thought all this through, Han Minghai's smile deepened, and he straightened his back before going out to find his second brother, Han Mingjiang.
Having resolved a major issue, Li Lanzhen leisurely made her way up the mountain.
She had always had this idea in her heart: the Valley of Forgetfulness had such a large area of fields and so many caves.
Moreover, Xue Laohu, Zhang Deshui, and the old village chief had all made similar guesses.
This place must have been inhabited and cultivated several decades or even a decade or so ago.
If that's the case, there should be a water source.
So she wanted to go up the mountain to take a look and maybe find a surprise.
As for the old village chief and the others finding a place down below to build a reservoir, they continued with their work, while I wanted to go up the mountain to see the lake.
Logically speaking, the lake is quite large and has a large water storage capacity, but the entire village couldn't find out where the lake water came from or where it went.
However, everyone says that this lake is alive, meaning that there is an inlet for water and an outlet for water.
The lake is next to the big river. Li Lanzhen believes that the water in the lake and the water in the big river should have the same source. Perhaps there is an underground outlet for the river leading to the lake, and the big lake also has an underground outlet, but they just haven't discovered it yet.
Is it another underground river?
With that thought in mind, Li Lanzhen went to the lakeside.
The calm lake surface, like a piece of emerald jade, lies quietly amidst the mountains and forests.
She walked halfway around the lake, but didn't go to the side closest to the river. She walked slowly, looking around, and after walking two and a half laps, she still couldn't find a place with a water outlet.
Lost in thought, he kept walking around the lake, back and forth.
"Ouch."
Li Lanzhen saw a toad on her foot.
She was terrified of toads, so she stomped her foot hard and flicked it, sending the toad flying.
Then, Li Lanzhen suddenly lost her footing and was about to fall.
She quickly grabbed a bush nearby, jumped out with a burst of strength, and retreated more than ten steps to get away from the danger.
This gave her a real fright!
"Damn it!!"
"Do you want me to fall into an underground cave or something?!"
After the initial shock comes the pleasant surprise.
Li Lanzhen muttered to herself, craning her neck to look ahead at the dark, gaping hole.
She picked up a stick as thick as her arm and slowly walked forward.
When she was more than three meters away from the hole, she kept poking the ground with a stick.
Feeling safe, we continued forward, and as we approached the cave entrance, we heard the sound of rushing water.
She was overjoyed!
This is definitely the outlet of the lake!
As for the entrance to the lake, she no longer worries about it; if she can't find it, so be it.
As I got closer, I saw that what I had stepped on was a stone slab. Perhaps over time, external forces had cracked the stone slab.
I must have stomped my foot hard while walking back and forth, causing the stone slab to break and fall.
The two sides of that black hole were also made of blue-green stone strips.
It turns out that this riverbed was covered with stone slabs; wasn't this just an underground channel?
She quickly used a stick to slowly and tentatively walk along the stone slabs towards the Valley of Forgetfulness.
The stone slabs covering this culvert were all hidden by tangled, waist-high shrubs.
She followed the stone slabs all the way to the Valley of Forgetfulness.
At the edge of a cliff at the entrance to the valley.
Water gathers here, but it does not overflow.
This means that the water started flowing from here to other places.
She looked closely and found that several large rocks were blocking the front of the stone slabs of the culvert.
From her spatial storage, she took out a sharp-tipped hoe and first cleared away the surrounding bushes, then removed the sand and soil from the stone slabs.
The blue stone slabs came into full view of her, and Li Lanzhen quickly pried open the one closest to the mountain rocks.
Sure enough, the lake water was blocked by these large rocks when it reached this point, and then flowed away into the gaps in the mountains, disappearing into the unknown.
Li Lanzhen looked down and saw that the hill was about ten meters above the ground of Forget-Worry Valley. Looking down from above, it looked like a dried-up pool, but it was now buried by sand, stones, weeds and branches.
Li Lanzhen immediately concluded that the water channel coming from the lake must have formed a small waterfall here, which then flowed down and was stored in the pool.
If nothing unexpected happens, the pool will definitely have an outlet, and thus a river will appear in the Valley of Forgetfulness.
It is more than enough for the daily water use of the villagers in Forget-Worry Valley, or for irrigating the farmland in Forget-Worry Valley.
The key is that if this is the case, Forget-Worry Valley will have fresh water.
Below is the old village chief; they are making a racket, and I don't know what they are saying.
Li Lan was waving and calling out to them.
"Old village chief, old village chief."
The old village chief looked up and saw Li Lanzhen standing there.
He shouted, "Lanzhen, what are you doing standing there?"
"Old village chief, I've found water."
She patted the large rock beside her and shouted.
If you move all these stones, the water will rush down and form a waterfall in the pool in front of you.
Those below were surprised for a moment when they heard Li Lanzhen's shout.
Then they all cheered.
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