Based on the wild goat's activity patterns, the most likely location for the water source is about 300 meters away from that small grassland.
Jiang Qinyu pretended to lead Old Man Lu and Meng Tianze around for a while before finally arriving at the place she had predicted.
“Sister-in-law, there are many goat footprints and goat droppings here.” Meng Tianze noticed the problem as soon as he arrived.
Jiang Qinyu was also here for the first time. Upon hearing this, she nodded and said, "Yes, but there are only footprints and no water source. This is very unusual."
"Their footprints disappeared in front of that cliff face. Let's go take a look," Meng Tianze said, pointing to the cliff face as he followed the tracks to the location.
Jiang Qinyu naturally saw it too, and mentally compared it to the map.
However, there was no water source on the ground in the map, but there was a lot of green light scattered below the mountain wall.
Jiang Qinyu observed carefully and noticed that the green lights seemed to be converging in one direction from few to many.
It's obvious without even guessing that that must be the location of the brightest spot she saw last night.
The entrance on the ground looks like it's inside the mountain wall. Could it be that there's a mechanism here, just like in Qinggang Mountain?
"Hey, Uncle Lu, sister-in-law, come quick! There's a cave here!" Meng Tianze ran to the mountain wall first, followed the goat footprints to get closer, and found that vines hanging down from the mountain wall were covering a cave entrance.
Jiang Qinyu and Old Man Lu immediately stepped forward and peered inside through the vines that Meng Tianze had torn apart, and they were both shocked.
"This hole looks pretty big."
"Brother Meng, there must be water down there!"
Jiang Qinyu now understood; the map hadn't misled her after all, and the entrance on the ground was actually here.
Meng Tianze excitedly lifted his foot to go in, but quickly stopped and turned back to look at Jiang Qinyu, asking, "Sister-in-law, is there any danger inside?"
Jiang Qinyu thought for a moment and said, "There shouldn't be any. Wild goats can go in to drink water, so there shouldn't be any large wild animals in the cave. But we still have to be careful. Let's make some preparations before we go in."
“Then you all stay here and get ready, I’ll go call the village chief and the others,” Old Man Lu said immediately.
Jiang Qinyu quickly grabbed him, "Dad, we're not sure how much water is in here yet. Let's go in and check before we tell Uncle Village Chief and the others."
"That's true." Old Lu nodded repeatedly upon hearing this.
However, there was a hint of doubt in his gaze as he looked at Jiang Qinyu.
Why didn't I realize before that Ah Zheng's wife was so thoughtful?
Jiang Qinyu noticed his gaze, but she didn't care. She had talked about this at home before, and her personality was, if not completely different from the original owner's, at least very different in terms of how she treated people.
She will start by letting them know little by little that she is different from the original owner of this body. Over time, the doubts of the Lu family and the villagers will naturally disappear, and they will fully accept her existence.
Meng Tianze walked in front with a bow and arrow, Jiang Qinyu followed behind him with a wooden stick in her hand, and Old Man Lu followed behind with a wood-chopping knife in his hand. The three of them slowly made their way into the cave.
After walking about ten meters, the ground beneath their feet began to get damp, and they gradually began to hear the sound of water droplets falling from above.
Meng Tianze gestured for them to continue forward, and the three quickened their pace. After walking another twenty meters or so, the view suddenly opened up before them.
This is a natural cave with many beautiful stalactites hanging upside down from the ceiling, and some of the stalactites are still dripping water little by little.
The water droplets gathered in a puddle about five meters in diameter on the ground, becoming the only sound there.
Jiang Qinyu and the other two watched intently, none of them uttering a sound.
After a while, Meng Tianze said, "I didn't expect there to be such a big puddle here."
The key is that there is still water in this puddle, and it's still full. Although it's not enough for the whole village to eat or drink, with this water, they can get through this year of disaster safely.
Jiang Qinyu walked around the puddle once, and then said, "Uncle Meng, take a closer look, there seems to be more than just these here."
According to the map, there should be a path leading to the next puddle.
Jiang Qinyu held the torch and circled the cave again, tapping on the cave walls as she went. After walking around once, she found that the cave walls were solid.
Seeing her actions, Meng Tianze said uncertainly, "Sister-in-law, I don't see anything special here, do I? At least the goat footprints and goat droppings don't seem unusual."
Jiang Qinyu shook her head, then squatted down and tapped the ground.
“Hey, Yu’er, how could there be a problem on the ground? If there were a problem, those goats would have trampled it long ago…” Before Old Man Lu could finish speaking, Jiang Qinyu suddenly stood up.
Pointing excitedly to the ground beneath her feet, she exclaimed to the two of them, "It's hollow down there!"
"Huh?" Meng Tianze and Old Man Lu looked at each other in bewilderment.
However, the two were not too optimistic. Meng Tianze laughed and said, "Even if it's empty, we probably won't find anything good even if we break it open."
"Whatever it is, let's go down and take a look. What if there's more water?" Jiang Qinyu raised an eyebrow.
She had a 3D map and knew very well that there was water below, and more than in the cave they were in.
But she wanted to go down, mainly to determine if the path below could lead to even deeper levels.
"Old Meng, why don't we break this place down and go take a look?" Old Lu said to Meng Tianze when he saw that Jiang Qinyu didn't want to give up.
She's his daughter-in-law, after all, so of course he has to support her.
Meng Tianze thought about Jiang Qinyu's performance over the past two days, hesitated for a moment, and then nodded, "Okay, I'll see if I can break this place open."
After saying that, he turned around and started looking for a suitable tool.
Before long, Meng Tianze came over carrying a rock that weighed about 20 kilograms. "Sister-in-law, Uncle Lu, you stand aside, I'll smash it."
Jiang Qinyu and Old Man Lu stepped back and watched as Meng Tianze lifted the large stone and smashed it down.
With a loud "thud," the stones on the ground cracked, but the crack hadn't opened yet.
Meng Tianze pressed on, and with another loud bang, the ground finally cracked open, and the sound of water came from below.
"There really is water down there?" Meng Tianze was stunned, blinking as he looked at Jiang Qinyu.
Jiang Qinyu smiled and said, "Uncle Meng is really strong. Then I'll trouble you to smash a few more times and see if you can make a passage so we can go down and take a look."
Meng Tianze laughed heartily, "Alright! Just you wait and see!"
After saying that, he rolled up his sleeves and slammed them hard against the crack several more times.
Jiang Qinyu and Old Man Lu watched as the opening grew larger and larger until it was finally big enough for a strong adult man to pass through, at which point Meng Tianze stopped.
He wiped the sweat from his forehead. "It's not high down here. I'll go down and check first. Once I'm sure it's okay, you can come down, sister-in-law."
As he spoke, he spat twice into his hands, rubbed them together, and then jumped down into the hole, supporting himself on the opening.
Jiang Qinyu immediately stepped forward and secretly breathed a sigh of relief when she saw Meng Tianze land safely.
Fortunately, the drop from here to the ground is only about 1.5 meters, otherwise she might not have dared to jump.
"Sister-in-law, there's more water down there than up there, and it looks like running water!" Meng Tianze's voice suddenly came.
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