Man Bao rode on his horse to watch the scouts coming back from the race, and asked happily: "Have you found any water?"
Nie Canjun and more than a hundred people stared at him with piercing eyes. The scouts were about to cry. Why did he come back to report the news? He didn't want to come back, but he still had to say: "There is no... water."
Man Bao expressed doubts, "Is there no water? Doesn't it mean that there is a ditch in front?"
The heavy rain was coming soon, and Zhanmu took a look. Although the sand dunes always change, some places don't change. He felt that the dry and ugly tree in the distance looked familiar, so he said: "Just Let's go ahead, that river ditch is not very small, your eyes are so bad, you can't even find it?"
The scout and Nie Canjun said: "My lord, you will know when you look at it, there is no water in it."
Everyone had a bad premonition in their hearts, so they asked the team to speed up.
Gradually descending the sand dunes, the dry old trees not far away became more and more obvious. Man Bao and Bai Shan looked at each other, kicked the horse's belly, and rushed to the front, intending to go and see it first.
Seeing them running away, Bai Erlang immediately shouted: "Wait for me, I'm going too!" Then he ran away.
Nie Canjun was also curious, and there was no one in the field, so he simply ran behind.
When they reached the edge of a ravine, they looked at a scout standing on the ground and were speechless for a while.
The scout who followed immediately said, "Look, my lord, that's it."
This is a gully where it is obvious that water once flowed, because the gravel and soil underneath are not exactly the same as the yellow sand next to it, and there are traces of water washing.
But now there is nothing.
No, there was still some, the gravel and silt were still a little wet, the remaining scout took a knife and dug a hole the size of a head, and now a little water had gathered in it.
The scout said naively: "My lord, although there are few, there are still some. Even if we don't drink it, it's okay to give it to the horses."
Nie Canjun was sad.
Bai Shan and Bai Erlang were also too sad to speak.
Man Bao almost burst into tears, "Keke, is this the water you mentioned?"
"Well," Keke saw that the host seemed to be about to cry, so he said, "If the host is not satisfied with the surface water, you can also use the groundwater."
Man Bao's tears were wiped away, and he asked in his heart: "Where is the underground water?"
The groundwater is naturally in the ground, but how deep to dig is a matter of opinion. If you find a suitable place, it will come out after a few meters of digging.
But Keke obviously wouldn't embarrass Man Bao, so he showed her a place.
Just as he was pointing, the convoy also arrived, Yin or they got off the carriage, walked to them and looked down at the gully together, also speechless.
After looking at it, Mr. Zhuang looked up at the sky and said, "Let's stay here tonight, and we can discuss what to do."
Everyone should be down.
Man Bao said: "We can dig groundwater."
She said: "When we were in the small town, didn't we ride horses to chase after the place where the lake disappeared? Didn't it mean that the place where it disappeared finally entered the ground? There should also be groundwater here."
Everyone looked into the distance along the gully, while Bai Shan looked at the ground of the gully, squinted his eyes and asked, "Then, do you think there will be groundwater under the gully?"
Of course there is, but according to Keke, the water here is deeper, not as deep as that on the other side.
So after the team settled down, the soldiers took their swords and went to dig holes in the ravine. As the scouts said, they could get some water out after digging. It’s okay if they can’t drink it and give it to the horses and camels. In fact, it’s okay if they are really thirsty. It's drinkable, but it's not that much yet.
The sun hadn't set, but it wasn't that hot anymore. Man Bao put on his veiled hat, took out his medicine hoe, and called his friends, "Let's go, let's find water."
Mr. Zhuang and Nie Canjun were counting the remaining drinking water and ignored them.
Heavy Rain led his people to follow them to join in the fun. Seeing them riding their horses towards the distance, he also pulled his own horse to follow them. After crossing a sand dune and reaching a valley, he started beating around with a hoe , he couldn't help asking Daji who was standing by, "You just follow, won't you help?"
Daji stood leisurely and said, "Don't worry, we'll just protect their safety."
Man Bao was very curious and used a hoe to scrape away the yellow sand. Although this is a valley of sand dunes, it is still yellow sand. Such valleys are not uncommon. Is there really water underneath? ,
Bai Shan and the others were also suspicious, but there was nothing to do. Since Man Bao said that there is water here, let's take a look.
So the six people pulled the sand aside to reveal the sand and gravel layer below, and then dug with small hoes, pulled the soil out and piled it aside, Man Bao hoeed for a while, and when they felt tired, they handed it over to Bai Shan, and Bai Shan relayed the responsibility. Because he thought that he might have to dig very deep, he hoeed a large piece to the side so that he could dig down later.
Both Bai Erlang and Liu Huan took the relay, and Yin Or finally hoeed a couple of times out of curiosity, thinking that pushing the soil they piled up to the side was suitable for him, so he handed over the hoe to Zhou Liru.
It's her turn.
Zhou Liru jumped into the pit, and as soon as he got down with the hoe, a stream of water sprayed out, directly hitting her face...
Zhou Li subconsciously closed his eyes, and his ears were filled with the screams of everyone cheering.
When she opened her eyes, she wiped the sand from her face, and looked at her front to see the water coming out. After a while, a lot of water accumulated at the bottom of the pit, covering her shoes, socks and pant legs. Got wet.
Man Bao and the others wanted to throw the hoeed soil up, so they also stood at the bottom of the pit, which was also wet.
But they're also excited.
A few people didn't go up, they directly pulled up the hem of their clothes and tied them to the waistband of their trousers. Once the trousers were rolled up, they continued to dig, "open the hole a little more."
Now the water flow has become smaller, but the water is still bubbling up from below like a mountain spring.
A few people were working excitedly at the bottom of the pit. Da Yu and the others standing beside them opened their mouths wide in shock. After a while, they closed their mouths and exclaimed, "Did the water really come out?"
Daji was only shocked for a moment, then turned his head and told a guard, "Go back and tell them, just say that water has been dug here, and ask them to bring the water cart to fill it."
"yes."
When Nie Canjun and the others arrived in a hurry, what they saw was a puddle of yellow water and a few people laughing and laughing in the water.
When he got angry, he immediately picked them up, and then asked the soldiers to move a few big rocks from the bottom of the tree, and blocked the water outlet they made. Scoop it out, and then clean up the dirt at the bottom of the pit...
I picked up a bucket of small stones from the other side of the ditch and spread them on the bottom of the pit. After the paving was done, I stepped on it firmly, and then spread stones on the four sides of the pit, and then slowly picked up a big stone to let the water inside come out.