Song Siyuan and the others stood on the highest stone platform in the village, and only the withered wild forest remained in the higher places.

After ascending, you can clearly see that most of the houses in the village are similar in shape, and the eaves of the word "human" on three sides are inclined downward, forming countless houses with yellow walls and gray tiles.

At this time, the sun had set, and countless withered winter trees had left the shadow of the sun, like a ghost beast swaggering imprinted on the back of the yellow wall, dazzling to see, as if there was really a shadow of a ghost beast circling and jumping.

They wanted to continue walking up the mountain, but something was falling above their heads, Yue Guanchao touched his forehead, and the stars and raindrops wiped the ground and his forehead was cool.

"It looks like it's about to rain, let's hurry back."

Song Siyuan looked at Tang Dayang and asked curiously, "It's raining?" It just snowed the other day. ”

"Miss Song, only Qinling will rain in winter, the mountains here are foggy, it is easy to hail and rain, this kind of rain with snow particles is very cold, and it can freeze people to death when it hits the body."

Tang Dayang's kung fu spoke, the ice and rain gradually thickened, crackling on them, everyone had to run to Old Man Tang's house while avoiding the rain, and when they returned to the house, their faces and bodies were already soaked with a lot of snow and ice chips, it was really cold, even if they put on a few layers of cotton jackets, they could feel the cold, especially the place where the top of their heads was directly drenched, so cold that their scalps were numb.

In the backyard, Yue Guanchao picked up firewood and burned the kang fire walls in each room, and when the fire wall warmed up a little, they felt that the house was not so cold.

"Big baby, there is ginger buried in the earthen tank in the stove room, you go and take a few pieces of boiling water, this ice rain is not a joke on the head, just cover your sweat after drinking ginger water."

After listening to this, Tang Dayang walked down from the eaves of the house to the front yard, there was really a large vat near the stove, which was soft loess, and there were ingredients such as onions, ginger and garlic buried on it, and the fertility of the soil was there, as long as the water was moist, these vegetables were not easy to wither and yellow.

He peeled and cut the ginger into pieces, boiled a large pot full of brown sugar in a large iron pot, picked up a large bowl and filled them with ginger water, and they drank it much warmer.

Song Siyuan stood by the window and looked out of the house, the ice and rain fell downward, only to see countless silver and white bead curtains rustling, falling from the clouds and dust, once it fell on the eaves, it must have slipped from the gray tiles, and flowed into the low-lying canal in the yard, although there was rain in the yard, there was no mud.

"This house is well repaired, and the rainwater flows into the canal, so it must have gone into the well."

When Song Siyuan first entered the yard, she inadvertently glanced inside the well, and there were several square drainage outlets below the well, which was estimated to be the place where the courtyard canal collected water.

Tang Dayang roasted the wood stove and introduced: "These inwardly inclined eaves are called herringbone eaves, which is the popular architectural style after the Tang Dynasty, the temperature on the Loess Plateau is high and the rain is scarce, once it rains, it can be regarded as rainfall from the sky, the people are not willing to waste rain, so they change the eaves to a "half fan human shape", the eaves are inclined down along the back wall, and all the rainwater can be introduced into the yard.

"Some people will lead the canal to the water cellar, some are dug wells, so that they can be stored for daily use, and it is good to say near Xijing, there is no shortage of water in the plains and green fields, you go to the Loess Plateau in northern Shaanxi to see, where the common people have saliva cellars."

"However, this is the Taiyi River Valley, and there is no shortage of water here."

The Taiyiyu River valley has abundant water, and even flows directly into Zhongnan Mountain, and the valley where they are located also has a river channel for taking water, so there is no shortage of water.

"Miss Song, it is true that the Taiyiyu River can get water, but this water is bitter and fishy, and it can only be used for laundry and washing, if you want to cook, you can't use it at all, this sweet well is for draft, and once it rains, it can also lead out more rainwater and store it in the well, no matter whether it is a famine or a good year, it can ensure that there is water."

Sun Daqiao listened to Tang Dayang's introduction, and after drinking the ginger soup, his body gradually regained its warmth, and complimented: "This is called one side of the water and soil to raise one party." ”

"It's just that the old man doesn't understand that the mountain spring water is the clearest and sweetest, why the water in the Taiyi River Valley is bitter and unpalatable, isn't it also cursed by the Soul Palace."

After listening to Sun Daqiao's words, Tang Dayang hurriedly waved his hand: "That has nothing to do with the Soul Palace, the water in the Taiyi River Valley itself is sour and bitter, ordinary people will have abdominal pain when they drink it, and the clansmen all know that this water is not drinkable, and no one has to take the water in the valley to cook." ”

"Why can't you drink the water in this valley, I still don't know what is going on."

Song Siyuan listened to his words and guessed at random: "The river water is sour and bitter, it may be that there are more metal impurities in it, generally speaking, this kind of river water flows out of the rock formation, which means that there are very likely to have some gold and silver ores in the rock formation, and their impurities melt into the water, which makes the river water so undrinkable." ”

"Are you so sure?"

Yue Guanchao didn't believe her very much.

Song Siyuan nodded at everyone and explained quite seriously: "Of course, remember the Jinsha Creek we encountered in Tiesha Mountain, when we washed the lynx skin, the taste of the water was almost the same as here, I can only say that I guess so, there are many valleys in the Seventy-two Yu River in the Qinling Mountains, and it is not strange that there are gold and silver ore rock formations." ”