Chapter 72： 72 Find the water source

Chapter 72 72 Find the water source

The team walked to the foot of a big mountain, and Ruyi found Zhou Jia, "Master, the water is running out and there is not much fodder for the animals. We have to find water and fodder."

Li Yu turned his head to look at everyone's tired and sallow faces, and discussed with Zhou Jia, "I think everyone should rest here for a few days! If you go on like this, you will be dragged down."

Zhou Jia turned his head and glanced at the exhausted villagers and nodded, "Okay, let's find a flat place to live first and then look for a water source."

Li Yu walked to the village chief's ox cart and said to the village chief, "Village Chief, we don't have much water and grass, I think this mountain is pretty beautiful, I think we can find a place nearby to rest for a while. God, let everyone also raise their spirits."

The village chief licked his chapped lips and looked at the old cattle with foam at the corners of his mouth. "You can look for it. The livestock's fodder was gone yesterday, so what about the beans you feed the cows and mules."

Li Yu discussed with the village chief and informed the team to stop, and everyone put their things on the side of the road. Li Yu stood at the foot of the mountain and looked around, and found that the terrain in the front section of the mountain road was gentler, so he took the machete and led Chen Yaohui and Ruyi to the south mountain.

The village chief led everyone to mow the dead grass at the foot of the mountain, looking for grass and tender leaves to feed the animals.

Li Yu and Chen Yaohui, Ruyi pushed aside the grass and shrubs and walked up the mountain. They walked for about an hour and looked at the mountain in front of them. There was a mountain, and there were cliffs and caves on both sides of the mountain.

Ruyi thought of the water that was replenished in the cave on the way, and pointed at the cave with a face full of hope, "Miss Li, do you think there will be spring water in the cave?"

Chen Yaohui stopped and put his hands on his knees, gasping for breath, "Let's go and see if there is really water in the cave."

The three cut away the bushes and vines on the road, cut a path and walked to a cave. Mountain mice and hares escaped from the bushes at the entrance of the cave. Li Yu blew a fire and ignited a dead branch and walked away. Near the cave, they saw that the cave was dry and waterless, with only some animal feces. The three of them walked to another cave in disappointment.

Chen Yaohui looked at the cave above in disappointment, "The three below the little fish have no water, and we don't have to look at the one above!"

Li Yu wiped his sweat and looked at the last cave above, "Since Uncle Chen is here, let's go and see the remaining cave!"

Chen Yaohui had to nod in agreement, the three walked towards the last cave, Ruyi cut off the bushes at the entrance of the cave and walked into the last cave, and heard the sound of water dripping from the inside.

Ruyi seemed to have heard the most beautiful sound, and shouted to Li Yu excitedly, "Miss Li, come and see, there is water here." The loud voice echoed in the valley.

Ruyi shouted and cut down the bushes at the entrance of the cave. Li Yu and Chen Yaohui also rushed to the entrance of the cave, lit the dead branches and walked in. When they entered the cave, they saw a pool under the rock wall and water dripping from the top of the rock into the pool. , The pool water is crystal clear, and there is a small-finger-thick mountain spring flowing out from the crevice of the cliff.

Chen Yaohui rushed over and hurriedly took two sips and drank it, then turned to look at Li Yu, "This water is so sweet, let's go and call them up, everyone rest here for two days before leaving."

Li Yu nodded and took two sips of water to moisten his dry throat, and walked down the mountain with Ruyi and Chen Yaohui.

Several people reached the bottom of the mountain, Chen Yaohui flew down the mountain and hugged the village chief and laughed, "Father, we have found water, there is water."

The village chief was suddenly hugged by his son and stiffened for a while, and then he patted his son with a smile, "The boss is not too young, and he is so frizzy."

Everyone was happy when they heard that they had found water. Zhou Jia looked at Li Yushui's peeling smile, and with a sadness in his heart, he walked over and took Li Yu's hand and said softly, "Are you tired?"

Li Yu looked at him and nodded, "I'm a little tired but I'm glad, we found water."

Chen Baozhen looked at Zhou Jia's gentle look at Li Yu, her heart ached for a while, and whispered, "Hu Meizi, shameless."

Seeing her jealous look beside her, Mrs. Li whispered in her ear: "You are shameless and dare to covet Xiaoyu's fiance, and you don't pee and take pictures of yourself, are you worthy of Mr. Zhou? I advise you to stay calm and don't embarrass our old Chen family."

Chen Baozhen listened to Li's words, tears welling in her eyes, but she didn't dare to talk back to Li's, so she stepped on the mud on the ground and rubbed it back and forth.

Mrs. Li looked at Chen Baozhen contemptuously and said to herself: A woman with no face and skin will suffer in the future.

Everyone worked together to climb up the mountain. The weaker ones split the bushes on the mountain in front, and the stronger ones pushed the mule cart up the mountain at the back. Unload the livestock and let the cows and mules graze the grass on the mountain.

Chen Yaohui excitedly pointed to the three caves below and said loudly: "We saw that there was no water in these caves below. At that time, my heart was cold, and I said that the little fish is fine! There is no water below, so I don't need it. Look, since Xiaoyu said that she's all here, let's go after reading it, but fortunately, if you listen to her, otherwise, you'll miss it."

The village chief patted him with a strange smile, "You said you are a few decades old and have no children yet."

The older one smiled and looked at the two grandfathers, "It's time to fight, Mauri is frizzy."

Everyone lit the torches and walked into the cave. They cheered when they saw the water pool. They scooped up the water a little bit with the water ladle and swallowed it slowly, as if they had drunk nectar. It felt so sweet and delicious.

The village chief excitedly shouted to Chen Yaohui and Chen Zhong: "Hurry up, hurry up and bring the bucket over and fill it up."

After everyone drank water, He Xiaoyu pulled Zhaodi and Laidi, "Zhaodi, Laidi, go, let's mow the cows." Li looked at the three and said, "There are beasts on the mountain, don't go far. Right around here."

The three of them happily agreed, and Zhao Di touched the grass on the ground, "It used to be annoying to talk about cutting the grass, but now I look at the grass, why do I feel so happy!"

He Xiaoyu wrinkled his nose playfully, "I've seen dead branches and hay every day for more than a month. It's bare everywhere. I've never seen anything green, of course I'm happy!"

Li Yu asked Aunt He to take out the big iron pot and smiled at Mrs Lin: "To celebrate we found a water source, we will eat a big pot of rice tonight."

Lin smiled and clapped his hands, "Okay, eat a big pot of rice, I still have taro, and taro rice is delicious."

"Okay." Li Yuying came down and took out sausages and bacon from the bamboo basket. Mrs. Li brought dried cowpeas. Aunt He and Li Mei washed the rice. The other women found some stones and chopped some wood. He set up three large pots, Li Yu fry the sausages and bacon slices in oil, then fry the taro and dried cowpeas, then pour the rice in and add water to simmer.

Aunt He and Li Mei washed some pork belly and spareribs, took out dried sauerkraut and cooked a large pot of sauerkraut soup.

Two pots of taro, sausage, bacon, cowpea stewed dry rice, a pot of sauerkraut soup, and some dry food at the end, everyone slumped on the ground and didn't want to move.

The village chief looked at the sky and kicked Chen Yaohui, "Xiaoyu and the others cooked the rice for you, you go clean up the cave and chop some firewood and sticks to pile at the entrance of the cave, everyone can sleep peacefully tonight. Night."

Chen Yaohui got up and took people to clean up the cave. Everyone tied a broom with dead grass, cleaned up the excrement and stones in the cave, and went back to chop up some sticks, dug a hole and buried it in the soil and hit wooden stakes. , led the animals into the cave and tied them to the stakes, moved the salute into the cave, lit firewood at the entrance of the cave, and everyone rested separately.