Village Chief Li shouted at the top of his lungs, "Zheng San, we're here!"
Before long, Zheng San and his men arrived. When they saw the scene before them, the fifty-odd men were all dumbfounded.
"Village chief, what's going on here?" Zheng San asked blankly.
Village Chief Li grinned from ear to ear, waving his hand and saying, "I just caught two wild boars, three wolves, and two hyenas on the side. It's nothing serious."
Everyone: "..." If you could just tone down that smug look on your face, we would have believed you.
Jiang Qinyu suppressed a laugh, "Uncle Village Chief, we need to clean this up quickly, otherwise it will attract more wild animals."
Although they now have more people, they are a different group, and their teamwork is not as good. It might be difficult for them to hunt on a large scale again, and it might even cause casualties.
"Yes, yes, all of you, stop standing there! Quickly carry the prey back to the cave and clean up the blood here," Village Chief Li immediately instructed.
Li Dachui and the others were already familiar with the process and quickly assigned tasks to the newcomers. However, with so many people arriving, quite a few had nothing to do.
“Uncle Village Chief, there must be a water source nearby. Shall I take some people to look for it?” Jiang Qinyu reminded him again.
The people of Dingshui Village were so blinded by their prey that no one thought they had originally come to find water.
"Look at me," Village Chief Li slapped his forehead, "I've forgotten the important matter. Come on, Zheng San, you newcomers, form groups of three and search the area carefully to see where there is water."
"Alright, village chief, I'll take the men right away!" Zheng San quickly handed over his work to the person next to him, then divided the others into groups, and they went their separate ways.
Village Chief Li then asked Jiang Qinyu, "My dear niece, Lao Meng, where do you two think the water source is around here?"
Meng Tianze was an experienced hunter. He had faintly heard the sound of flowing water earlier, but he couldn't pinpoint where it was. He could only shake his head and say, "I'm not sure. I'll have to keep looking."
Jiang Qinyu had just carefully examined the area and could only roughly determine that it was in the northeast direction, but she wasn't sure about the exact location. So she said, "Let's go look over there first!"
She pointed northeast, and her feet were already moving in that direction.
Village Chief Li and Meng Tianze immediately followed, protecting Jiang Qinyu on either side.
It was already late afternoon, around 3 PM, and the sun was beginning to set. Under the cover of the dense forest, it wasn't so hot anymore.
Jiang Qinyu looked around and discovered that this area was actually a circular valley, except that there was a gap in the circle, and that was how they entered.
Once the terrain was confirmed, things became much easier.
Jiang Qinyu led Village Chief Li and Meng Tianze to search directly from the gap in the circular valley, carefully searching along the foot of the mountain.
"Sister-in-law, village chief, can you hear the sound of water?" After searching around, Meng Tianze couldn't find any water, but he kept hearing the sound of water. He was starting to doubt his hearing.
Jiang Qinyu nodded, "I heard you."
Village Chief Li shook his head blankly, "I didn't hear anything! I just felt it was quite cool here, and the soil under my feet was very soft."
Jiang Qinyu stepped on the ground a few times. It was indeed more moist and soft than other places. Surely the water here couldn't be underground too?
Meng Tianze suddenly drew his bow and shot an arrow forward, startling Village Chief Li, who instinctively pulled Jiang Qinyu back two steps.
"Old Meng, you're so jumpy, you scared me to death." Village Chief Li spoke up only after Meng Tianze put down his bow.
Jiang Qinyu looked up and saw a scraggly-looking rabbit rolling down the mountain.
"Haha... Village chief, don't mind me, it's just a habit of mine, I want to shoot down any prey I see..."
Before he could finish speaking, Jiang Qinyu interrupted him, "Uncle Village Chief, Brother Meng, I think I know where the water source is here."
The two of them looked at her simultaneously. "Where?"
Jiang Qinyu pointed to the spot where the rabbit had fallen, "Up there."
This circular mountain has a vertical height of about 300 meters. They hadn't considered that there was water on top, so no one had ever gone up there.
Animals aren't stupid. They come here, especially since there was a tiger guarding the area before, so there must be plenty of food and water here.
Now that not only are the tigers dead, but the wild boars and wolves have also been dealt with, wouldn't the smaller animals dare to come over?
“Brother Meng, pheasants!” Jiang Qinyu pointed ahead and suddenly spoke.
Meng Tianze instinctively drew his bow and fired an arrow, which sent the pheasant tumbling down.
The pheasant was located right next to where the rabbit had appeared earlier.
Even Village Chief Li noticed the problem and immediately said, "I'll go get everyone, let's go up and take a look!"
Regardless of whether there was any danger up there, with the experience from the previous times, Village Chief Li had already made arrangements with ease.
Before long, Jiang Qinyu and her group began to climb up the slopes where the rabbits and pheasants had been.
With a vertical distance of 300 meters, and the terrain being mountainous, especially deep in the mountains, it wasn't easy to climb. It took Jiang Qinyu and the others almost half an hour to get up there.
Meng Tianze was the first to go up, and Jiang Qinyu gritted her teeth and followed closely behind him, becoming the second to go up.
After they went up, they both froze.
"Niece, Lao Meng, what's the situation up there?" Village Chief Li was not far behind them, about to come up.
Meng Tianze murmured, "My God, there's actually a place like this here?"
Jiang Qinyu also snapped out of her shock, feeling that even one pair of eyes wasn't enough to take it all in.
The mountaintop wasn't flat; it was a slope, and if they took one more step, they would fall.
It should be said that this is a valley, a circular valley.
The entire valley is breathtakingly beautiful, comparable to a paradise on earth.
Perhaps because the tiger was gone, when Jiang Qinyu looked down into the valley, she could vaguely see many small animals playing by the lake in the valley.
Besides, the valley was filled with all sorts of flowers, some of which Jiang Qinyu recognized, and some she didn't.
The fact that this valley can retain its appearance even in such a dry year is related to the trees that have been growing there for countless years.
As Jiang Qinyu looked down, these large trees completely surrounded the valley, making it difficult for the blazing sun outside to shine into the valley on a large scale.
"My God, is there a lake or something down there? Where did it come from?" Village Chief Li finally came up, and he got excited when he saw what was below.
Jiang Qinyu glanced around and said, "It must have been formed by the accumulation of rainwater over the years and the convergence of mountain springs." She pointed to a small pool below, "That should be the source of the mountain spring."
"There's a spring? Then we won't lack water to drink!" Village Chief Li's eyes lit up even more.
Jiang Qinyu smiled and nodded, "We don't need any more, but the villagers will have to come and fetch water."
Upon hearing this, Village Chief Li's face immediately fell. "That would be such a hassle!"
Jiang Qinyu remained silent. She unlocked the seafood section, where there were spare water pipes she could use, but...
"My dear niece, why don't you think of another way for us?" Village Chief Li looked at her hopefully.
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