Jiang Quan immediately got up, uncorked the bottle and looked inside.
There is no water, there is no water in the gourd!
He didn't believe it, so he picked up the gourd and shook it, but it was light and there was still no water.
He then turned the gourd upside down, and only a few drops dripped out and then nothing else.
Jiang Quan was dumbfounded.
how so
He picked up another gourd, shook the gourd mouth upwards twice to control it, but there was still no water.
“Wow…my treasure gourd is broken, it won’t produce water anymore…” Jiang Quan couldn’t help crying: “It must have been drained by yesterday’s water distribution…wuwuwuwuwu…”
He cried heartbrokenly, attracting everyone's attention. When they heard him say something like the magic gourd was broken and drained of water, they all felt guilty.
Especially the people of Dongchen Village, they all knew that the gourds grown by the Jiang family were extraordinary, but this was the first time they had seen one that could produce water all the time.
But such a precious gourd turned out to be broken, which would be a pain for everyone.
Those who still wanted to ask for water quietly put away their pottery bowls and were too embarrassed to ask for water again.
Jiang Wu was woken up, rubbed his eyes and sat up. Seeing his second cousin crying sadly while holding the gourd, he got up to comfort him, "Don't cry, second brother. Even if the gourd is dead, Xiao Wu will still play with you."
Jiang Quan: …
He hugged the gourd and cried even more sadly.
The first thing Yingbao did when she got up in the morning was to take Chen Sanyou's pulse and give him acupuncture, and then she went to check on Chen Boyuan's condition.
Afterwards, while his second cousin was crying, he reported his pulse diagnosis to Mrs. Wen, Xiao Zhenniang.
Xiao Zhenniang patiently answered her questions and told her to record the pulse records of Chen Sanyou and Chen Boyuan in detail after returning home, so as to compare them with similar patients in the future.
By noon, there was still no sign of the bandits at the foot of the mountain, so many people asked to get down the cliff.
After discussing with Patriarch Chen, Jiang Dahu decided to send two people down to check out the situation first.
After all, there is not a drop of water in the cave, and if we don’t take action, we might be trapped to death.
So Old Man Jiang connected the two bundles of ropes together, asked several people to pull them tight, and let one person go down first.
"I'll go!" Someone volunteered to step forward.
When Chief Chen saw that it was Wang Dashan, the 15-year-old son of Wang Ke, a villager in the village, he warned him, "Wrap your palms with cloth and be careful not to scratch your hands."
Wang Dashan nodded, took the burlap strip handed to him by someone else, wrapped it around his palm, then tightened the rope and climbed down.
He was small and nimble, so he quickly reached the bottom of the cliff.
When it was five feet from the ground, the rope reached its end.
Wang Dashan gritted his teeth and jumped down.
There were rocks all over the bottom of the cliff, and luckily he didn't sprain his ankle.
Patriarch Chen and Wang Dashan's mother stared at the figure nervously, watching him quickly run down the mountain and into the woods.
After waiting for about half an hour, Wang Dashan emerged from the woods again, waved his hands toward the cave, and shouted, "There are no bandits nearby!"
When the people in the cave heard this, they jumped up excitedly and asked to go down.
Patriarch Chen asked them to line up and come one by one.
In order to prevent the rope from being worn out by the cliff wall, Old Man Jiang also brought his own quilt to pad the edge of the cliff.
But even so, after sending dozens of people down, the rope was still worn rough.
The rest of the people became even more anxious and asked to go down the mountain first, and some even fought over it.
These are nothing. The most terrible thing is that some elderly people and children cannot climb down the cliff by themselves using the rope.
"What should I do?" Jiang Dahu scratched his head anxiously.
Most of these people were from Jiangjia Village. They didn’t feel anything when they came up, but it was difficult for them to get down the cliff.
Patriarch Chen: "Then let someone carry them down."
"The key is who is willing to carry them?" Jiang Dahu said anxiously, "Every family has several elderly people and children, and there are only two young and strong people. If they each carry one, there will be other children."
"Then what do you think we should do?" Patriarch Chen immediately thought of his wife and injured grandson.
It would be fine if it were just these two people, but the key is that there are also several young grandchildren.
Moreover, the weight and body shape of an adult are different from those of a child, so how much arm strength does it take to carry a living person
Chunniang also became anxious when she heard their conversation.
She has two sons and one daughter. How can she take care of all three children
I'm not afraid of carrying three at a time, but if my hand slips...
Jiang Cheng noticed Third Aunt's anxiety and said, "Don't worry, Third Aunt, I can carry Yingbao down."
How could Chunniang not be worried? She looked at Yuanbao and Huzi and whispered, "There are still Yuanbao and Huzi."
"Aniang can carry ingots."
Jiang Cheng glanced at the weak Second Aunt. He just didn't know if this Second Aunt could carry Hu Zi down.
Chunniang: "What about your grandparents?"
Jiang Cheng paused.
Yes, there are also grandparents. I actually forgot about them. Damn it.
Chunniang sighed: "I'll just carry it myself."
On the other hand, Xiao Zhenniang decided to let Wen Fu carry the wet nurse down and take care of her daughter Wen Shu herself.
Nanny shook her head and refused: "I can do it myself, let Wen Fu take Shu'er down first."
Xiao Zhenniang thought about it and nodded in agreement.
Madam Lin suddenly came over and said, "Fourth sister-in-law, your two nieces are only eight years old. Just let Wen Fu take them down. Shu'er is already ten years old. There's no need for someone to carry her. Look at the ten-year-old kids over there. They all went down by themselves."
Xiao Zhenniang didn't even look at her and immediately asked Wen Fu to take Wen Shu down the cliff.
"Xiao! You've gone too far! After all, A Tian and A Jiao still call you aunt, but you don't care about their lives!" Lin was so angry that she wanted to pull Wen Fu and stop him from taking Wen Shu off the cliff.
Even the head of the Chen clan couldn't stand it anymore and stopped Lin: "Madam Wen, this is wrong. How can you let others abandon their own children and send your child away?"
Lin burst into tears, "But what about my child?"
Chief Chen frowned and ignored her. He asked several young men to tighten the rope and let Wen Fu carry Wen Shu down the cliff.
Then the nanny also went down. When she jumped off the rope, she almost sprained her ankle. Fortunately, she had a lot of work to do and her body was quite flexible. She quickly stabilized herself and ran to the other side of the cave and shouted, "Madam, please come down quickly. Just hold on to the rope and you will be fine."
Wen Fu had thrown bedding and other items as well as remaining food off the cliff. Although the jars and other items were broken, the water bag was wrapped in the quilt and was intact.
Now he gathered all the things together, carried them to a stable place, and waited for the hostess to come down before going to find water.
Seeing that the Wen family's wet nurse and Wen Shu had both left, Chunniang breathed a sigh of relief.
It seems that getting down the cliff is not too difficult. As long as you are careful, you should be fine.
Xiao Zhenniang came over and said to Yingbao, "Baoer, I'll carry you down the mountain." She had already seen that the Jiang family had too many children, and there was not a single young and strong one. Chunniang could not carry three children down the mountain by herself.
Since her daughter had already gone down the mountain, she would carry one for Chunniang.
When Chunniang heard that Madam Wen wanted to take Bao'er away, she was naturally happy and hurriedly thanked her: "Thank you very much, sir."
Yingbao shook her head: "Master, please take my brother down first."
She wanted to stay behind, not only because her mother and brother were still up there, but also because she believed she could go down the mountain alone without being carried by others.
"Okay." Xiao Zhenniang had no objection. As long as she could share one of the burdens with Chunniang, it would be fine. It didn't matter who it was.
So Xiao Zhenniang tied Jiang Jie tightly behind her back with the cloth belt given by Chunniang, and then wrapped her hands with another cloth belt several times, and climbed down the mountain pulling the rope.
At this moment, Lin fell to her knees and begged Xiao Zhenniang with tears in her eyes: "Fourth brother's wife! Please save your niece."