With Chen Yuci here, Ping An stayed in Gu Niang Temple for a few days, but he couldn't wait for Nie Xiaoqian.

He couldn't wait for his sister, so he had to go home.

As he was descending the mountain, he saw that in addition to the homeless people, there were many people he knew.

These people are all villagers from several villages close to the Gu Niang Temple, and they carry large and small buckets to the well of the Gu Niang Temple to fetch water.

It turned out that the well in their village had completely dried up, and in order to drink, they had to walk several miles and climb mountains to the Gu Niang Temple to fetch water to eat.

Although it is very difficult, there is still a lot to pick.

According to them, if they didn't even have to pick up water, they would probably have to go away.

There may be an old saying that a tree dies and a person lives, but it is difficult to move to the homeland, and it is good to be at home for a thousand days, but it is difficult to go out for a day.

If you have relatives and friends to rely on in other places, it's fine, if not, it's actually no different from a homeless person, and you are really uprooted from your hometown.

When he returned home safely, he found that the well was still being drilled in the village.

Under the guidance of the middle-aged geomaster, the newly hired wellsmiths dug wells everywhere.

However, a few days have passed, but the entire Daoxiang Village has been dug with deep pits everywhere, and all that has been dug out are waste pits that have not been able to produce water, which makes the villagers of Daoxiang Village frown.

The earth master with a bubble at the corner of his mouth swore that he pointed to a piece of land and said, "Here, digging here, you will definitely be able to produce water." ”

After opening eight wells without producing water, the villagers' eyes on him became very dangerous, and the earth master who was as steady as Mount Tai finally couldn't sit still.

Coupled with the loss of the trust of the villagers, he no longer has big fish and meat to eat, and every meal is pickles and dishes, so that he is so hungry that his face is blue with hunger.

Liu Yang, the village head, glanced at the earth master, and said in a hoarse voice: "If there is no water again, how can it be good." ”

When the earth master heard this, his right eyelid jumped suddenly.

The left eye jumps wealth, and the right eye jumps disaster.

And so on. The villagers suffered from natural disasters, and he had to encounter some man-made disasters.

The earth master pulled his face, smiled bitterly, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart: This is the crime that the heavens are going to kill me, not the crime of war.

His ancestors have been earth masters for several generations, inheriting the skills passed down from his ancestors, and he rarely looks away, but he didn't expect to be in this poor countryside.

In fact, he and the first well maker had the same opinion in some respects, since the crops in Daoxiang Village were still alive, there must be groundwater somewhere underground. Perhaps it is not impossible to have an underground river.

But as a result, he may also end up in the same fate as the wellsmith.

When he returned home safely, he heard from Liang that the manna well in the village was about to be dried up.

There are only a few buckets of water that come out every day, and the amount of water distributed to each household is only a few cups.

"It seems that there is no way, we can only go to the temple to fetch water to drink, just like other villages." When Liang spoke, he looked at Ah Huang and said.

Ping An knew in his heart that his mother was going to ask Ah Huang to carry water back.

Ah Huang has the power of a bull. You can pick hundreds of pounds at a time, which is much more important than people's burdens.

Ping An patted Ah Huang's neck and received: "Ah Huang, I will work hard for you in the future." ”

Moo!

Ah Huang shook his head. Screamed.

At this moment, there was a knock on the door, and a man walked outside the door.

When Ping An went out to look, he saw a person outside the door in a plain veil dress. Holding an oil-paper umbrella, elegant and dignified, his face suddenly burst with joy.

He took a few steps to meet the door. I shouted happily: "Sister, you are finally back." ”

Liang also walked to the door: "Ping'an, are there any guests?" ”

Nie Xiaoqian saw that it was the Liang family, put away the oil-paper umbrella, and gave a salute: "Auntie." ”

Liang saw that it was Nie Xiaoqian, and before he could speak, a seven-point smile appeared on his face, and when he saw Nie Xiaoqian saluting, he hurriedly walked over to help her up, took the oil-paper umbrella in her hand, and said, "Please come in quickly." ”

It stands to reason that in a situation like the Liang family, the most guests can do is a bowl of boiling water, and the best thing is to sprinkle some tea powder into it.

But when he got to the house, Liang was like a trick, and in a blink of an eye, he came up with a table of refreshments.

Nie Xiaoqian naturally couldn't enjoy these refreshments, she remained silent and used the drought as a topic to divert Liang's attention.

So soon, it came to the crops and grain.

The Liang family's crops benefited from Nie Xiaoqian's all-out rescue and survived, but due to the drought, the reduction in yield was inevitable.

Of course, compared to the crops of the rest of the village, it is much better.

It's just that the crops of this era have no chemical fertilizers and pesticides, even if they are intensively cultivated, they still depend on the time of day, and even in the year when the wind and rain are smooth, the yield per mu is extremely low.

Now, if the production is reduced again, there will inevitably be little left after the harvest has been paid.

If it weren't for the good times in the past few years, and there was still a little surplus food at home, there would have been a famine.

But even if the family has surplus food, they are panicking.

Because every day when I wake up, I see the sky is blue and the sun is shining, and there is no sign of rain, and I don't know how long the drought will last.

What the Liang family is thinking about now is that in addition to the rain, they only hope that after the current saints know about the drought in Qilu Province, they can reduce their taxes this year and next year and reduce their burden.

If the taxes remain the same, it is likely that people will be killed.

Liang sighed one sentence after another for this.

Nie Xiaoqian learned some of the conditions in Daoxiang Village from Liang's words, and knew that the village was struggling to drill a well that could not produce water.

She came back from collecting wood qi this time, and when she returned to the temple, she learned from Chen Yuci that Ping'an had come to look for her, so she went straight down the mountain to find Ping'an's house, just to see what she could help.

"Dig a well?"

Nie Xiaoqian's eyebrows frowned slightly, looking at the ground under her feet, and suddenly her heart moved.

There must be water somewhere underground, after all, it is not a desert, but those wellsmiths and earth masters are limited by conditions and previous knowledge, and cannot effectively find out the water source hidden deep underground.

Nie Xiaoqian, who thought of a way, hurriedly said goodbye to the Liang family and said to Ping'an: "Ping'an, come with me." ”

Ping An didn't know why, but he quickly followed.

It's just that it didn't take long to catch up and find that Nie Xiaoqian was gone.

Just as he was touching his little head and puzzled, Nie Xiaoqian suddenly appeared in front of him again.

"Sister, where did you just go?" Ping An asked confusedly.

"I'm going to find an underground water source." Nie Xiaoqian said with a smile.

Hearing Nie Xiaoqian say that she was looking for an underground water source, Ping'an's eyes lit up suddenly: "Sister, have you found it?" ”

Nie Xiaoqian nodded, pointed to a big bluestone at the entrance of the village and said, "I found it, it's just under this big stone, about three zhang deep." You immediately go and tell your mother, just say that you can dig three zhang here and you will be able to get out of the water. ”

Ping An said excitedly: "I'll go now." ”

At the end, Nie Xiaoqian said again: "Wait, don't say what I said." ”

"If Ping An knows, he said that Gu Niang said it to his dream." Ping An blinked smartly, then walked away with a puff of smoke. (To be continued......)