In front of the cave, Zhuang Yu was digging a reservoir while boiling bone soup.
The importance of this pond is self-evident. Whether his chili field can have enough water to irrigate, whether Fengxiu and a group of children can survive such a hot weather depends on it.
A group of children were doing it in full swing, although they didn't know what they were doing.
"Brother Yu, let's be good." Zhuang Yu didn't want to give them bone soup for fear that he would do less.
Zhuang Yu shouted, "Slow down, we will rest when the sun is high, and continue when we cool down."
"We're not hot at all, really, and we can work."
Zhuang Yu was a little moved in his heart. He knew why these children were so eager to express themselves, but they had to bear this at such a young age. When they were so young, they should have no worries.
Zhuang Yu sighed, he still had to make some arrangements, otherwise these children would have to work to death.
Little Mushroom tilted his head and looked at it for a while, but didn't understand. Then he took a small wooden stick and poked Fengxiu to ask him to add firewood to the bottom of the pot. The higher the fire, the faster the bone soup boiled.
Bee Kiss shrunk his head, his brother said that the fire should be simmered, just let him watch the fire not go out.
The little mushroom poked for a long time, and saw that Fengxiu was standing upright like a reprimanded criminal, but without adding firewood, he ran to play in the water storage shell angrily.
It is a little sad, because this is the last big shell that holds water, that is to say, it will have no water to play with soon, what can it do in such a hot weather, it does not want to be sunburned like its brothers Yan'er is so cute, she's not pretty anymore.
Zhuang Yu looked at the space, the sun was getting bigger and bigger, and he looked at the small pool that had been dug out. The speed was good, as expected, there were many people and strength, and then he called a group of children to rest, "Come here and wash your hands, get ready Drink bone soup, and dig the pond when it is cool at night."
A group of children screamed with joy. They drank bone soup again. Such a big pot must be enough for them to drink until they are full.
Asking a group of children to wash their hands, Zhuang Yu began to fill their shells with soup.
After washing their hands, a group of children lined up and ran to their shells.
Zhuang Yu looked at a row of children blowing soup in their bowls, and was also taken aback for a while. No matter how they looked, they looked like a group of small animals waiting to be fed, so he couldn't help being a little funny.
Zhuang Yu sharpened chopsticks for them because he filled them with bamboo shoots.
Zhuang Yu himself was also drinking soup, eating bamboo shoots, the taste was not bad, the bamboo shoots were particularly fresh and tender, and the bone soup had the fragrance of bamboo shoots, which also had a special taste.
A group of children also imitated Zhuang Yu and picked up the bamboo shoots in the soup with chopsticks. "We are really particular about it. We used to grab it with our hands."
"The bark is also delicious, crisp and tender."
"It's not bark. Brother Yu said just now that it's bamboo shoots, which are tender and delicious, especially delicious."
"That's right, I'm still full. Oh, I've already drank two bowls, and I feel my belly is bulging."
The little mushroom also eats it with relish. It turns out that its brother's neighbor is also so delicious, which is awesome.
A group of children got their bellies rounded from drinking, and lined up in a row, showing their little bellies, lying there basking in the sun. They wanted to continue digging the pool, but they were stopped by Zhuang Yu. It was so hot that heatstroke would be bad.
"I'm so full. I used to think about it every day. It would be nice to have a full day."
"Not only is it full, but it's also delicious. When I think of the taste of bone soup, my saliva is about to flow out again, but my stomach can't hold it anymore."
Bone soup is actually very nutritious, and salt, which is known as the source of life, is added. After drinking it, each little radish head feels full of strength.
At this time, on a high ground away from Zhuang Yu's cave, a small leather hat was lying on the ground, watching secretly. His position here has a good view, and he can have a clear view of the flat land in front of Zhuang Yu's cave.
The little fur hat was taking out the shell hanging around his neck and kept licking it, whispering in his mouth, it's so delicious, it's like he was drinking bone soup and eating bamboo shoots with a group of people. After basking in the sun, he left "satisfied".
This group of children had nothing to do except bask in the sun. They saw Zhuang Yu, Bee Kiss, and the little mushrooms who didn't use shells to eat, and they also found stones and began to chisel bowls.
"Brother Yu said, we have to use stone bowls to cut hands with shells."
"We use chopsticks instead of grasping. We are exquisite people."
"You have to wash your hands before eating. Brother Yu doesn't like children who don't like cleanliness."
Zhuang Yu was amused to watch it, and he didn't care about these children, enjoying the rare leisure.
At night, Zhuang Yu started digging again with a group of children.
The function of this pool is to store water, so it must not be too shallow, and as a swimming pool for these children, it must not be too deep. After thinking about it, Zhuang Yu simply divided it into a deep water area and a shallow water area. The deep water area is two meters deep, and the shallow water area Just reach the position of the bee kissing chest, the best of both worlds.
Zhuang Yu was actually in a hurry, because the young patriarch said last night that he would arrange for the ancestor beasts to drink water in the river soon, so they could take the opportunity to collect water for storage, and he had to repair the pond before then.
Fortunately, there were a lot of them, and they dug for a while when it was just getting dark and the weather was cool.
The next day, when Zhuang Yu woke up, outside the cave, a group of children were already digging a pond, like hardworking bees.
Zhuang Yu didn't want to go there, so he hurried up to the mountain with Feng Kiss to dig bamboo shoots, dug a lot of bamboo shoots and came back to make bone soup, rewarding these hardworking little guys.
Finally, at night, the depth and size of the pond were almost dug, and it was only a matter of inlaying flat stone slabs.
What Zhuang Yu has to do now is to let the group of children rest. Once he is away, the group of children will start digging again.
A group of children wondered why they were always not allowed to work. They drank such delicious bone soup and were still so full. They always felt uneasy if they didn't help with something.
The children drank the bone soup for the evening, and went to move the stone slabs again. They were all happy, talking and laughing along the way.
There are a lot of stone slabs, all of which are discarded by the teenagers of the Golden Centipede Department after their usual training, so they can pick and choose the smoother ones.
Zhuang Yu looked at these children, actually a little embarrassed, these children have helped him so much, but he can only give them some bone soup and bamboo shoots, if this is in modern times, he would not be scolded to death.
But the current conditions are like this. If he just discovered the bamboo forest yesterday, he might not even be able to eat the bamboo shoots.
A few children lifted a flat stone slab. Although these children were young and thin, they still had some strength.
In fact, judging from the ability of the young man from the Golden Centipede Department to cut a stone in half with a stone axe, it can be seen that the human beings in this world are physically stronger than those in Zhuang Yu's world.
This actually makes sense. In Zhuang Yu's world, the development direction of human beings was biased towards the use of skills and tools, but now this world is biased towards power.
Over time, there will be some slight changes in human genes, which will be passed down from generation to generation.
A group of children were moving stone slabs on a large scale, which of course attracted the attention of the Golden Centipede tribe.
"What are these idle kids doing?"
Someone followed to see that Zhuang Yu's cave is relatively remote, and few people usually go there specifically, and no one will notice any changes in his place.
"Why did these kids get mixed up with Yu from the Ministry of Water and Water? Don't they usually hang around and watch others make food while drooling?"
"The flat ground in front of Yushan Cave has been dug by them, and if it rains, the rainwater will not pour into the cave."
After looking at it for a while, I didn't see anything, so I dispersed. These children in the collective cave without parents, and Yu from a foreign race, were not existences worthy of their concern.
Of course, there are also some out of good intentions, for the sake of the same clan, they advised those children, "Don't fool around with Yu from the Ministry of Water and Water for a day, it's better to have some strength so that you won't be hungry."
These kids didn't listen at all, "We're not messing around, we're helping Brother Yu with something."
And they are not hungry at all now, they have never been full before.
Hearing this made people startled, why did the children in the collective cave have such a good relationship with Yu
Some hated that iron could not be made into steel, "If you are so close to Yu, you will not become a lazy person like Yu in the future."
As soon as he finished speaking, a child threw a stone at him, "Don't speak ill of brother Yu, brother Yu is not that kind of person."
When everyone forgot about them, it was Zhuang Yu who made bone soup for them to make them full. In their hearts, Zhuang Yu was different from other people. They were the first to disapprove of Zhuang Yu's bad words. , and they are willing to help Zhuang Yu work, but they also dislike that they have done less.
A group of adults were a little out of breath.
Something seems to be changing in the Golden Centipede Department. A group of children from collective caves are standing by Zhuang Yu's side to fight against those gossips. Zhuang Yu seems to be no longer a weak person. They are really too young, but their temper is not small. When someone speaks ill of Zhuang Yu, they pick up stones on the ground and smash them, and then run away after smashing them.
It caused a burst of scolding, and the chickens flew like dogs.
When Zhuang Yu embedded the stone slabs into the lower part of the pool and the wall, the child also brought back a message, "Brother Yu, the ancestor beasts will go to the river to drink water tomorrow, and all the beasts in the river will be scared away. You can go fetch water."
Zhuang Yu was taken aback. It seemed that he would have to work overtime tonight to finish inlaying the stone slabs in the pool so that it could be used to store water tomorrow. If he missed the opportunity for the ancestor beast to drink water, he didn't know where to get water.
However, there is a problem. His pool is so big and it is not too close to the river. It will take a lot of time to fill it up. The ancestor beast may not drink water for that long.
And even if it is full, he needs to consume a lot of water to irrigate the ground every day, and it will be exhausted soon, let alone use it as a swimming pool.
In other words, he needs a continuous and sufficient water source in order to achieve his original vision.
It took so much effort to get the pool ready, so there was no way it would be useless.
Zhuang Yu thought about it, and it was impossible to rely on the Golden Centipede to provide a continuous source of water, because the Golden Centipede saved water to survive a water collection cycle, and every time it fetched water was like a war, it was very hard work.
Zhuang Yu's eyes suddenly lit up, thinking of something, maybe he can really solve the problem of continuous water fetching.
At that time, those who look down on his Golden Centipede Department may ask him, and they don't know what expression they will have.