Chapter 51: The Search for Water

At this moment, Wen Gong is looking for a pastry shop in the market outside the prefectural government. Yesterday, when he passed by the market with Su Rongrong, he noticed that her eyes had been glued to the rice cakes of a pastry shop.

Based on his memory, he managed to find the pastry shop.

"Childe, what do you want?" The shopkeeper came up with a smile and said, "Our cloud cake tastes the best, and we can't find a second one in the whole county, so the son wants-"

Wen Gong pointed to the rice cake and interrupted him: "No need, I just want this." ”

When the shopkeeper heard this, he immediately hung up another set of rhetoric, and while wrapping rice cakes, he boasted about the rice cakes.

He remembered Su Rongrong, who was staying alone in the county mansion, and had no intention of staying here longer, so he paid the money, and strode away with the rice cakes.

When Su Rongrong was wondering, Wen Gong had already returned with his things.

"Where have you been? Tell me to be easy to find. Su Rongrong pushed the wheelchair and was about to go over.

He stepped forward a few times, held the handle of the wheelchair steadily, and said, "Be careful not to move!" I just went to the bazaar and bought something, didn't I already come back? ”

"What did you buy?" Su Rongrong looked curiously at the dim sum in Wen Gong's hand.

On the oiled paper wrapped in the snacks is a neat line of letters. Su Rongrong stepped forward to see it, Wen Gong smiled, and reluctantly handed over the rice cake.

"Open it and take a look."

The moment she untied the rope and opened the oiled paper, she smelled the familiar aroma of pastries, she looked at the rice cake in her hand in surprise, and looked up at Wen Gong: "It's a rice cake!" How do you know I like this?! ”

Su Rongrong looked at him with sparkling eyes, Wen Gong couldn't help but raise his hand and rub her hair, "You kept staring at this family's rice cakes yesterday, I knew you would definitely like it." ”

She lowered her head with a slight flush on her cheeks, and she was embarrassed to look at Wen Gong again. She breaks off a small piece of rice cake and puts it in her mouth, and the taste is sweet and melts in her mouth.

"Is it delicious?" Wen Gong asked softly.

Su Rongrong nodded, thought about it and broke off a piece of rice cake, handed it over, and asked, "You also taste it?" ”

She originally wanted to hand the rice cake to Wen Gong, but who would have thought that the latter would lean over directly, and rolled the rice cake into her mouth with her hand, and Su Rongrong's face turned red with a "swish".

Wen Gong, who had tasted the "food", stopped teasing and pushed Su Rongrong into the house.

She wrapped the uneaten rice cakes and put them on the table, and began to talk to Wen Gong about her plan, "I want to first pick a few wells to dig wells to divert water from the villages I visited today. ”

He disagreed with her idea, "Isn't that too risky?" Not to mention that digging water itself is a matter of luck, once you fail to dig up water for the first time, it will be difficult for the later ones to cooperate with them. ”

"Don't you believe in my abilities?" Su Rongrong patted his chest and said confidently: "I have borrowed some people from the county order, and I will follow us tomorrow, don't worry about no one using them." ”

Wen Gong was still not at ease. It's not that he doesn't believe in Su Rongrong's ability, on the contrary, it is precisely because he believes in her ability that he is more worried about the result after the miss, after all, no one is born with smooth sailing.

However, at the moment, Su Rongrong was full of confidence, Wen Gong couldn't bear to blow out, so he could only suppress his worries in his heart and not mention it.

"I'd like to start here." Su Rongrong found a pen and paper, briefly drew a schematic diagram, and then put down the pen and continued: "This happens to be the junction of the two villages, and although the water source here is buried deeper, the amount of water is extremely large. It's a fitting opening to build credibility and dispel previous misgivings. ”

"How sure are you?" Wen Gong asked.

"Ten percent." Su Rongrong was convinced of his abilities.

Wen Gong didn't speak again. For him, there is no absolute thing in the world, and when the water is full, the moon is overflowing, and when the moon is full, it is losing. However, there were too many doubts about Su Rongrong today, and he was unwilling to continue to hit her, so he was silent and did not speak again.

The next day, Su Rongrong, who was ready to go, took a carriage to the place he had been yesterday.

There are two underground water sources here, and one of them is the one she is most interested in. Su Rongrong pushed the wheelchair into the way, becoming more and more firm in his judgment, and he couldn't wait to immediately command people to start working.

It's just that digging a well is not a simple task, and it requires the permission of the local people to start construction. Su Rongrong found Lizheng in the village, hoping that he could convince the villagers to allow them to dig a well here.

Li Zheng didn't agree, but he called all the villagers who were idle at home, and whether he could convince them or not depended on Su Rongrong's own ability.

"Isn't this the little woman in the county town yesterday?" Someone recognized Su Rongrong, "I heard that it was invited by the county magistrate, but when I look at it, I look like a charlatan who is swaggering." ”

Almost immediately, he turned to find the source of the sound, as if he was about to rush in the next second. Su Rongrong hurriedly grabbed him and motioned him to calm down with his eyes.

"I look at it, it's just a woman, what insight can you have, don't be the county master being deceived, right?" The man's words seemed to open the conversation box of everyone, and soon a second voice came out.

"What can a woman's family understand?" The person who said this was the person in the village who helped people look at the water and dig the well all the year round, Su Rongrong followed the voice and looked over, it was a middle-aged man with a beard. Peers repelled each other, but Su Rongrong ignored him.

"So young...... Is it reliable? ”

"It's the third time that I've found so many people to come over and not dig up water. Still a young little woman...... I don't think so. ”

……

Apparently, the villagers didn't trust Su Rongrong to help them dig up the water. Su Rongrong was also a little helpless, she knew that her appearance was too young, so that everyone she met didn't believe her. Fortunately, no one spit out evil words, Su Rongrong was only a little helpless in his heart, and he was not as angry as yesterday.

"Please rest assured, since I have promised the prefectural order, I will definitely not disappoint the expectations of the adults." Su Rongrong cleared his throat and said.

"Girl, it's not that we don't want you to help us." A woman with a child on her back said to Su Rongrong: "It's just that there is really no water in these places you picked, otherwise they wouldn't have been empty until now." ”

The people next to him also echoed the fact that because of the drought, the water in the village had already been pumped clean with wells. Su Rongrong explained to everyone that this was just a temporary plan, but due to inherent impressions, almost no one believed her words.

She had a headache. How good is that?