A round trip to the mountains takes four hours, almost a whole day. Even if one person goes by pushing a wheelbarrow, they can only bring back a few buckets of water at most. If she and Lu Yancai come to water their own land, it will take them at least ten days to thoroughly water their plots of land.
Granny Wang was also worried. Although her eldest son had returned, he had been sent by the village to scout out the direction of some underground river.
Wait... that's right!
As if suddenly remembering something, Granny Wang clapped her hands excitedly and said, "Oh my, what are we worried about? Isn't our village a collective? Shouldn't everyone work together on their land? Sister, we don't need to fetch water to irrigate the fields ourselves!"
Hearing this, Ma was taken aback for a moment, then burst into excited laughter, "Oh, Auntie, you're right, we were all thinking wrong just now, hehe, it's true that we don't have to do it ourselves, this work-point system is pretty good..."
For the first time, the two genuinely felt that Jiang Qinyu's proposed work-point system was good, and that it was great for the villagers to live a collective life together.
While Dingshui Village remained completely unaware of what was happening outside, in the Yongshan County government office, Magistrate Zhu Youcai and One-Eyed King met again.
"Useless! They got away again!" Zhu Youcai slammed the teacup beside him down.
One-Eyed King dared not dodge and took the blow head-on. The teacup hit his forehead, immediately leaving a bloody gash.
"My lord, please forgive me. Those people were just too cunning. I didn't expect it..." One-Eyed King tried to defend himself.
Zhu Youcai interrupted him, "Alright, alright. Fortunately, I've been having the yamen gatekeepers keep an eye on things. The names you mentioned, Li Dachui and Liu Yazi, should have been confirmed by now, after all these days."
After saying that, he shouted to the outside world, "Someone, bring Old Hu from the household registration office to see me."
Not long after, Old Hu came in carrying a booklet.
"My lord, the person you ordered us to find should have been found..." [To all you readers who have made it this far, please give me a "request for more updates" button! Let me see how many of you have actually followed this far. Please, I'm begging you! Writing this alone every day is just too painful!]
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