Chapter 153： Calabash is dead

Jiang Quan immediately stood up, pulled out the cork and looked inside.

There is no water, there is no water in the gourd!

He didn't believe in evil, so he picked up the gourd and shook it. It was light and fluffy, but there was still no water.

He turned the gourd over with its mouth downwards, and only a few drops dripped from it.

Jiang Quan was dumbfounded.

how so?

He picked up another gourd and shook the mouth of the gourd downwards twice to control it, but there was still no water.

“Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu…"

He cried heartbrokenly, attracting everyone's attention. When everyone heard what he said about the treasure gourd being broken and being used up, they suddenly felt guilty.

Especially the people in Dongchen Village, they all know that the gourds grown by the Jiang family are extraordinary, but this is the first time they have seen one that can consistently produce water.

But if such a treasure gourd is broken, it would be painful for anyone to leave it alone.

Those who still wanted to ask for water silently put away their pottery bowls, too embarrassed to speak again.

Jiang Wu was woken up, rubbed his eyes and sat up. Seeing his second cousin holding the gourd and crying sadly, he got up and comforted him, "Second brother, don't cry. Even if the gourd dies, Xiao Wu will still play with you."

Jiang Quan:…

He hugged the gourd and cried even more sadly.

The first thing Yingbao did when he got up early in the morning was to check Chen Sanyou's pulse and give him an acupuncture, and then go to check on Chen Boyuan's condition.

Later, amid the cries of his second cousin, he reported the pulse diagnosis he had made to Mrs. Wen, Xiao Zhenniang.

Xiao Zhenniang patiently answered her questions and told her to record the details of Chen Sanyou and Chen Boyuan's cases when she returned home, so that she could compare them with similar patients later.

At noon, there were still no bandits at the foot of the mountain, and many people asked to go down the cliff.

After discussing with Chief Chen, Jiang Dahu decided to let two people go down to see the situation first.

After all, there is not a drop of water in the cave. If we don't take action, we may really be trapped to death.

So Old Man Jiang connected the two bundles of ropes, asked several people to tighten them, and let one person go down first.

“I’ll go!” Someone volunteered to come forward.

When Patriarch Chen saw that it was Wang Dashan, the fifteen-year-old son of Wang Ke, a villager in this village, he warned: "Wrap your palms with cloth, be careful not to hurt your hands."

Wang Dashan nodded, took the linen strip handed by others, wrapped it around his palm, then tightened the rope and climbed down.

He was small and agile, and he quickly reached the bottom of the cliff.

When there were still five feet above the ground, the rope had ended.

Wang Dashan gritted his teeth and jumped directly.

The bottom of the cliff was full of rocks, but he was lucky that he didn't sprain his feet.

Chief Chen and Wang Dashan’s mother stared nervously at the figure, watching him run down the mountain quickly and into the woods.

After waiting for about half an hour, Wang Dashan emerged from the forest again, waved his hand towards the cave, and said loudly: "There are no bandits nearby!"

The people in the cave jumped up excitedly and asked to go down one after another.

Chief Chen asked them to line up and come one by one.

In order to prevent the rope from wearing out against the cliff, Old Man Jiang also held a quilt from his home as a cushion on the edge of the cliff.

But even so, after sending dozens of people down, the rope was still rough.

The remaining people were even more anxious and asked to go down the mountain first. Some even started fighting over this.

These are nothing, the most terrible thing is that some old people and children cannot go down the cliff alone along the rope.

“What should I do?” Jiang Dahu scratched his head anxiously.

Most of these people are from Jiangjia Village. They didn’t feel anything when they came up, but it was difficult to get off the cliff.

Patriarch Chen: "Then let someone carry them down." "The key is who is willing to carry them down?" Jiang Dahu said anxiously: "Every family has several old people and children, and there are only two young and strong people. They can each carry one down, but There are other children."

“Then what do you think we should do?” Patriarch Chen suddenly thought of his wife and injured grandson.

That’s it for these two people. The most important thing is that there are several young grandchildren.

Furthermore, an adult's weight and body shape are different from that of a child, so how much arm strength is required to carry a big living person?

Chunniang became anxious when she heard their conversation.

She has two sons and one daughter. How can she take all three children with her?

I’m not afraid of carrying three at a time, but if my hands get slippery...

Jiang Cheng saw Third Aunt's anxiety and said, "Third Aunt, don't worry, I can carry Ying Bao down."

How could Chun Niang not be worried? She looked at Yuan Bao and Hu Zi and whispered, "There are still Yuan Bao and Hu Zi."

“Aniang can carry ingots on her back.”

Jiang Cheng glanced at the weak second aunt. I just don’t know if this second aunt can carry a tiger on her back.

Chunniang: "What about your grandparents?"

Jiang Cheng paused.

Yes, there are also grandparents, but I forgot about them, **** it.

Chunniang sighed: "I'll carry it myself."

On the other side, Xiao Zhenniang decided to let Wen Fu carry the nanny down while she took care of her daughter Wen Shu.

Nanny shook her head and refused: "I can do it myself, but I'd better let Wen Fu take Shu'er down first."

Xiao Zhenniang thought for a while and nodded in agreement.

The third lady Lin suddenly came over and said, "Fourth brother and sister, your two nieces are only eight years old. Just ask Wen Fu to take them down. Shu'er is already ten years old. There is no need for someone to carry her. Look at the ten people over there. Next year, no kid will go down by himself."

Xiao Zhenniang didn't even look at her, and immediately asked Wen Fu to take Wen Shu down the cliff.

"Xiao! You're going too far! After all, A Tian and Gillian still call you aunt, but you don't care about their life or death!" Mrs. Lin was so angry that she tried to pull Wen Fu to prevent him from taking Wen Shu off the cliff.

Even Patriarch Chen couldn't stand it now and stopped Mrs. Lin: "Mrs. Wen San, this is wrong of you. How can you let others abandon their own children and send yours down?"

Ms. Lin burst into tears, "But what about my child?"

Clan Chief Chen frowned and ignored her. He asked a few young men to tighten the rope and let Wen Fu carry Wen Shu down the cliff.

After that, the nanny also went down, and almost sprained her foot when she jumped off the rope. Fortunately, she did a lot of work on weekdays, and her body was still flexible. She stabilized quickly, and ran to the other side and shouted to the cave: "Madam, come down quickly. Hurry up. The rope is fine.”

Wen Fu had already thrown the bedding and other items as well as the remaining food off the cliff before. Although the jars and other items were broken, the water bag wrapped in the quilt remained intact.

At this moment, he gathered all the things and carried them to a stable place. After the hostess came down, he went to find water.

Seeing that Aunt Wen and Wen Shu had gone down, Chun Niang breathed a sigh of relief.

Looks like it’s not too difficult to get off the cliff. As long as you’re careful, you should be fine.

Xiao Zhenniang came over and said to Yingbao: "Bao'er, I'll carry you down." She had already seen that the Jiang family had too many children, but Qingzhuang didn't have any, and Chunniang couldn't carry three children down the mountain by herself.

Since her daughter has already gone down the mountain, she should carry one for Chun Niang.

When Chun Niang heard that Mrs. Wen was going to take Bao'er down, she was naturally happy and hurriedly thanked her: "Thank you very much, sir."

Yingbao shook his head: "Master, please take my brother down first."

She wanted to give up her mother-in-law, not only because her mother-in-law and her brother were still up there, but also because she believed that she could go down the mountain alone without anyone else carrying her.

“That’s fine.” Xiao Zhenniang didn’t have any objection. Anyway, she could share one with Chun Niang, it didn’t matter who it was.

So Xiao Zhenniang tied Jiang Jie tightly behind her back with the cloth strap given by Chun Niang, and wrapped another cloth strap around her palms several times, then pulled the rope and climbed down the mountain.

At this moment, Ms. Lin knelt down and begged Xiao Zhenniang in tears: "Fourth brother and sister! Please save your niece."

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