"Look, the cracks in the rocks are all dry, which means the water will evaporate very easily. With the hot weather, I'm afraid it won't last more than a few days. The water in the stone pool is almost gone after we filled it. Hurry up and fill it with as much as you can, or it will be gone." Song Zhuiyan said with droopy eyes and then left.
"Oh, heroine, why don't you carry more?" Zhu Xiu felt bad seeing that she had only carried half a bucket of water.
Seeing that Song Zhuiyan and Song Tantan didn't turn around, it was unclear whether they had heard or not. However, no one could control them anymore. They had already reminded them that they didn't want the water themselves. The remaining water was divided among the others, with each family receiving two buckets, which they carried back.
However, everyone felt that something was wrong, but they couldn't quite put their finger on it.
It wasn't until seven or eight days later, when everyone had run out of water, that they found water again in the original crack in the rock, and then they realized what had happened.
"It seems we drained the water from the stone pool last time, so it's empty now, isn't it?"
“I came to check it out a couple of days ago, and it was all dry inside, no water.”
"I checked yesterday and there was no water. How come there's water again today?"
Everyone was talking at once, all expressing their confusion.
"What's wrong? There's water here, hurry up and get it, or it'll all be gone." At this moment, Song Zhuiyan and Song Tantan walked over, the former reminding everyone to hurry up and get the water.
"We're catching it right now. It's just strange how this water suddenly appeared, as if it was waiting for us to come and collect it." Zhu Xiu looked surprised and couldn't figure it out.
"This is amazing! Could it be that a deity is helping us? When I came here last time, everyone was frantically searching for water, and then we found this place. I didn't expect you to find it again this time. It's incredible!" Song Tantan said earnestly, trying to fool us.
"Could it be that Heaven has taken pity on us and couldn't bear to see us die of drought like this, so it gave us a way to live? It's truly a blessing from the Bodhisattva, thank you, Heaven!" Song Zhuiyan added fuel to the fire, and as she spoke, she knelt down on the ground with a thud and kowtowed to Heaven in gratitude.
After she did that, everyone else immediately knelt down and kowtowed to heaven.
Seeing that everyone believed in this superstition, or rather, believed that it was God's arrangement, Song Tantan and Song Zhuiyan secretly breathed a sigh of relief. They had gone to great lengths to ensure that everyone could have water without revealing the secret of the space.
Wiping the sweat from their foreheads, the two were about to go back when everyone called out to them, "Heroines, come and fill up the water quickly. Last time you only filled half a bucket, and we don't know how you managed to last until now. This time we'll fill up less water so you can fill up more."
There's really no need for that.
But they still need to get some water, otherwise how do they explain where the water the four of them drink every day comes from?
After carrying half a bucket of water home, Song Zhuiyan was so hot that her clothes were soaked with sweat. All she wanted to do was take a shower and drink some mung bean soup, otherwise she felt like she was about to get heatstroke.
"If this awful weather doesn't rain soon, how much longer will I have to pretend to be a saint, and how many more times will I have to pour water into the cracks in the rocks? What will I say if someone finds out one day?" Song Tantan was also unbearably hot, raising her little arm to wipe the sweat from her forehead with difficulty.
"Just say you're Little Dragon Girl, sent by Heaven to save all living beings," Ye Moxun said with a light laugh as he walked out of the room.
"Don't give me any bad advice. If I say I'm a dragon girl, what if everyone makes me fly to the sky and make clouds and rain?" Song Tantan frowned and glared at him angrily.
"I was just joking, you don't have to take it seriously." Ye Moxun suppressed a laugh and went into the kitchen.
"You're teasing me again! Ye Moxun, I'm angry! You're not allowed to eat my food or drink my water!" Song Tan strode into the kitchen, determined to stop Ye Moxun from taking any food from the pot.
The two childish kids were making a ruckus in the kitchen. Song Zhuiyan chuckled. Actually, Tan Tan's personality was somewhat like hers. She was calm and composed, and it was difficult for ordinary people to anger her. But Ye Moxun could always make her so angry that she would jump up and down. These two little devils.
"Hey hey hey... I surrender, I'm sorry, can you let me have a bowl?" Ye Moxun took the bowl and wanted to scoop out the old duck soup from the pot, but Song Tantan, though small, was strong and stopped him.
It's all because his body is too weak now; he can't even push a little girl away.
"In your past life, you must have been an ignorant and good-for-nothing playboy, all talk and no action. You apologize now, but you'll do it again? If I trust you again, I'll change my surname to yours, and you can forget about eating my food, including your uncle's." Hmph, she didn't believe she couldn't teach him a lesson.
Ye Moxun's face stiffened for a moment, then she quickly slumped her shoulders and softened her voice, "This time I'll definitely keep my word, I'm serious."
"You're being punished today by not eating lunch or dinner. If you dare to eat, your uncle won't have any medicine and will go hungry." Zhong Qingyi woke up two days ago; she had been unconscious for six whole days.
He had a high fever four times during that period. If it weren't for the various good medicines in the pharmacy section of Song Tantan Supermarket, he would have died many times over. In addition, he had to drink nutritious soup every day.
He was given frozen pork ribs and fresh chicken from the supermarket every day. In order to get him out of danger as soon as possible, Song Tantan even took out ginseng from the medicine cabinet to make soup for him. Although he was unconscious, he drank a lot of nourishing soup.
Ye Moxun knew that if it weren't for Song Tantan, he and his uncle would have been doomed. He always remembered this kindness and wanted to do something to repay her, but for now, he could only be a burden.
He didn't mean to make her angry, but every time he looked at her big round eyes, chubby little face, and soft, sweet voice, he couldn't help but want to tease her.
Song Tantan: "Is it my fault?"
"Don't be angry, smile. I won't eat your food for nothing. I have a gold ingot. How about I give you one as payment for your meal?" He had given Song Tantan a silver ingot before, which she liked very much. Holding the one-ounce silver ingot, she smiled so much that her eyes narrowed into crescent shapes.
He's a total money-grubber reincarnated.
"Is it like the gold ingots on TV?" Song Tantan's attention was indeed diverted, and she looked at him with her big, watery eyes.
Ye Moxun smiled, but his expression remained cold. "Well, I don't have much money on me, so I can only give you a gold ingot for now."
"Okay, give me one first, and I'll give you food." Song Tantan stretched out her chubby little hand, her fair palm open, waiting for him to take the gold ingot.
"Were you always this chubby before?" Ye Moxun always wanted to pinch her little hands whenever he saw the five chubby little dimples on them, but he always managed to resist.
"What do you mean? Say it again!" Song Tantan said angrily. She quickly ran to the side, grabbed a small stool, placed it next to the stove, stepped on it, and put the pot lid on.
The stove is too high, it's up to her neck, she has to stand on a low stool to put the pot lid on.
"I didn't mean to say you're fat. You're very cute now, and your chubbyness is endearing. No, you're not fat at all..." Ye Moxun's words only made things worse.
"You won't get any food tomorrow either, you skin and bones, a skinny human skeleton." How could Song Tantan not retaliate? She could at least verbally retaliate without resorting to physical violence.
Ye Moxun was speechless. Sigh, bowing down for a pittance. "Fine, I'm skin and bones, I'm just a human skeleton. I'll give you the gold ingots. Now can I eat them?"
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