Time is like a river that flows in a hurry. Day and night, never rest, never rest.

Li Yunxin's archery skills, from ignorance at the beginning, to today's form of bare tools, only took less than five days.

That's right, it's a formality.

Li Yunxin can already fully draw the small bow that Yu Qingmei used when she was five years old, and she can shoot a full five hundred feather arrows from left and right.

It's just that this process takes almost half an hour.

Because in between, she had to rest several times.

Otherwise, the two arms will be so sore that you can't lift the arrows after you shoot them.

During the past five days, the flower matchmaker has come twice again. But without exception, they were all kicked out by the Li family. And Li Huai and the Cao family also came once, and they were also kicked out by the Li family.

Since then, Li Yunzhu has not cried again.

Li Yunzhu is still skinny, still wakes up suddenly in his sleep, still stares at the beams on the roof suddenly, and is silent for a long time, without saying a word.

But most of the time, she is struggling to take her medicine, eating hard, and will also start doing some household chores.

She put on the newly cut clothes that Qiao Ximei had given the children with the dyed cloth, tied her hair with a bamboo hairpin and a cotton silk handkerchief, and silently put the bright clothes and expensive jewelry in the past into the box.

At this time, Li Yunzhu stood with Li Yunxiu and Li Yunrou, and it was more like a family than before.

The good doctor invited by the Pang family from the capital finally arrived in Xiangyun County.

The doctor didn't care about the fatigue of the journey, and as soon as he arrived at the place, he went to see Pang Yaozu.

After giving Pang Yaozu two days of injections and a few more doses of medicine, Pang Yaozu woke up. And this time, he didn't pass out again.

The Pang family took advantage of his good spirits and asked him about the day he was injured.

Pang Yaozu only said that he didn't remember. Then he asked: "Where is Li Yunzhu, why don't you see her come to serve me?" ”

The Pang family, especially Pang Yaozu's original concubines, suddenly looked embarrassed, and they all hated Li Yunzhu deeply: "That fox girl didn't know how to hook the master's heart, and she was still thinking about her at this time!" ”

Soon these words reached the ears of the old lady of the Pang family and the old man Pang.

These two are accustomed to spoiling Pang Yaozu, and when they heard that Pang Yaozu was obsessed with Li Yunzhu, they immediately scolded someone again and went to Li Huai to talk about it.

Coercion and temptation were used, but although Li Huai was afraid of the power of the Pang family, he was even more afraid of being expelled by his own father.

In these years, without a family, it is like duckweed without roots.

Although those orphans who do not know where they come from may not necessarily have no future. But those unscrupulous descendants who originally had a family, but were expelled because of misconduct, will never have a future.

The Pang family may let him lose his job in the grain shop and live a hard life of going home to farm. Or let him die. But Li Jingfu can make him live and die directly.

Li Huai only felt that he was simply unlucky, like a mouse in a bellows - angry at both ends.

Li Jingfu is just unwilling to see him now, but he has not opened the ancestral hall and officially cleared him from the family tree.

But the Pang family's side pressed him more and more tightly.

There was really no way, he gritted his teeth, hardened his head, adopted Cao's idea, and sent the Pang family:

"The girls of our Li family are never allowed to be concubines. This is a rule handed down by the ancestors of the Li family, and future generations cannot fail to abide by it. Please also ask Master Pang for your understanding. ”

The Pang family always felt that Pang Yaozu's position as his wife was a throne, and even giving this position to Yu Qingmei felt that he had wronged his son, let alone Li Yunzhu?

Pang Yaozu was surrounded by other concubines, and he couldn't take care of Li Yunzhu for a while.

Therefore, the matter was postponed for the time being.

On the Li family's side, they didn't know that the Pang family had not given up.

Li Jingfu took a group of children and grandchildren, and he was so busy every day that his feet did not touch the ground, and he only cared about throwing himself into the field. No matter what the age is, this field is the root of the farmer's family.

The sun is getting fiercer day by day, the crops are wilting day by day, and the hearts of the farmers are about to smoke, where can they take care of other things.

In a pond in the backing hill, the water level has dropped to the point where it is almost bottoming, revealing large swaths of silt. The fish, loaches and snails that originally lived under the river were all salvaged by the villagers.

In the other place, the water of the small river also became much thinner and narrower, and I saw that some of the stones that had fallen below the waterline were exposed to the water.

There is water in the mountains, but it is not enough to even plug the gaps between the teeth, let alone to water the ground.

There is water in the port south of town.

But if you fetch water from the port, you have to cross the town and then transport it to the village.

Not to mention the inconvenience of transportation, the cost of hiring a car alone is not much worse than digging a well.

Li Jingfu was so sad that his beard was nearly half white.

Master Yu planned to invite a craftsman to dig a well, but the manpower to dig the well was delayed.

Fortunately, the family members who were sent out to do errands were relatively sensible, and they knew how to send someone back to deliver the letter first.

The letter said that it was the craftsman who drilled the well, and he was too busy to do so. Even if the housekeeper of the Yu family was willing to give the craftsman a thick deposit, the people resolutely refused to let him add a stopper.

After all, such a big event as digging a well involves the life and death of the village, and no one will easily tolerate others cutting in line.

And now, in front of Yu's house, there are already sixteen villages to dig wells.

When Master Yu heard this, he immediately extinguished his desire to dig a well to fight the drought.

Sixteen villages are ahead of him.

Even if a village only drills one well, and it only takes three days for a well, it will take two months to work!

If you don't water for two months, the seedlings will die of drought long ago!

What's more, the situation of each village is different, and the terrain is different. Finding a water source may not be so accurate, and it may not take only three days to drill a well. In addition, the craftsman is not made of iron, and after digging a well, he has to rest for a day or two to nourish his strength.

After thinking about it, Master Yu felt that there was no hope for this matter.

In order to keep the crops, Master Yu decided to simply have a luxury and bring water back from the dock at the southern end of the town to water the ground.

It's just that the cost is really high, and if you calculate it carefully, it's actually better to let the fields be barren and cost-effective.

Master Yu pondered for a moment, and then asked the family who sent the letter back to bring his own message back:

"The well-drilling team still needs to be invited. But let's not use it urgently, don't compete with the people for this moment, and the price doesn't have to be thickened. ”

The Yu family's water transport team rushed to the wharf at the southern end of the town early every morning, before dawn, and asked the wharf to fill the wooden barrels on the car with water, and then transported them back to the mountain one by one.

This scene has simply become a major landscape in Xiangyun Town.

When the villagers in the backing mountains saw it, they couldn't help but feel hot. So some people ran to Yu's family to plead, wanting to borrow a light and get a piece of the water brought back by the Yu family's water truck.