"The village chief is back."

"It's the village chief!"

"Village chief, some of the villagers haven't drunk water for two days, and it's not a way to go on like this!"

As soon as the village chief returned to the village, a large crowd immediately surrounded him.

"That's right, village chief, could it be that we really take the grain to change the water? Wensheng, what should you do? ”

The village chief raised his hand to signal everyone to be quiet: "Folks, don't worry, you will definitely give you an explanation in the next two days." Wensheng and Xiao Jiu have just returned, so we have to give them time to understand the situation. ”

Hearing the words of the village chief, the villagers immediately dispersed and talked around Gu Jiu and Gu Wensheng.

"Folks, I just came back here, I have to go back to see my family first, wait a minute, I'll be back soon."

Gu Wensheng waved his hand and squeezed out of the crowd and walked home, laughing to death, finally came back, of course he took a look at his home first! There are still several fruits in the baggage, and it is not good for others to see them.

After Gu Zhiqi left, Gu Jiu pulled Aunt Chen and asked about the dead people in the village.

"Alas, this is said to be dying of thirst, but in fact it is dying of starvation."

"What do you mean?" Gu Jiu looked at Aunt Chen with some confusion.

Hearing this, Aunt Chen raised her hand and pointed in the direction of the village.

"It was the second woman in the village who died, how could anyone starve to death, and the bark of the grass roots and trees was not the same to fill the stomach when they were hungry? But when the two mother-in-law died, their stomachs were so flat that there were bones left. The second mother-in-law is getting old again, and I'm afraid that she has already had a plan to die and give the family an empty meal. ”

Gu Jiu was silent.

At the moment, the leaves are growing, and the empty meal is just to allow the people in his family to drink more water, looking at it this way, Gujia Village is really short of water to a certain extent.

"Is the well in the village completely broken?"

Gu Jiu pondered whether there was a need to dig again, obviously, if it was really completely broken, it meant that there was no groundwater at this level, and there was no need to spend time digging wells.

"Nope."

The village chief came over and said, "There is still a little water in the well in the village, but it is very small, and only two or three liters of water can be fetched a day, not to mention the whole village, even if it is a family, these are not enough." ”

Gu Jiu nodded.

"What about the back mountain?"

Hearing this, the village chief sighed in disappointment: "No, we have taken people to look for it before, and even we went to the fog area, but we didn't find a water source. ”

Gu Jiu nodded slowly, looked at the village chief and suggested, "Let everyone go back first, walking back and forth will speed up the consumption of water in the body." Village chief, you can accompany me to the back mountain again to see if there are any new discoveries. ”

"No problem."

The two left the crowd and walked towards the back mountain, and as soon as they stepped into the back mountain, Gu Jiu found that something was wrong.

The ability of large trees to draw water is strong, and it is understandable that this situation is growing vigorously at the moment, but what about grass?

Gu Jiu lowered his head and ran his fingertips across the leaves.

"Xiao Jiu, what's wrong?"

"The grass is not very right, and the wells are dying, but the plants with shallow roots in the mountains are still alive. Although the leaves are a little yellow, they are still growing. ”

"Do you suspect that there is water in the back of the mountain?" The village chief looked at it and asked, and shook his head without waiting for Gu Jiu to speak: "But this is impossible, everyone has searched for this mountain several times, and they have not seen the water source at all." ”

"Plants, unlike humans, are very stealthy and clever in hiding what they need when resources are scarce."

Gu Jiu turned his head to look at the village chief and said, "Village chief, I heard a storyteller say a few days ago: There is a place called desert in this world, where there is no trace of land in the yellow sand, and it stands to reason that there can be no plants in this kind of place, but guess what?" ”

"Not only is there vegetation there, but there are even flowers – desert flowers."

"The storyteller said that the roots of this flower store a lot of water, and the people who live there depend on pounding the roots of the flower to survive."

Hearing this, the village chief was a little shocked and asked, "Can that kind of place still survive?" ”

Gu Jiu nodded: "So, I think our mountain must also hide a lot of water." ”

Hearing Gu Jiu's words, the village chief suddenly held up hope again, and his steps to raise his legs became much brisker.

People are often like this, all they need is a hope, a hope that can sustain themselves and move on.

The deeper you go, the less wilted the surrounding plants become.

The higher the terrain, the higher the groundwater level, which is exactly the opposite of the water from the well in Gujia Village, and Gu Jiu is more sure that there is a water source here.

But the two searched for more than four hours, but they didn't find anything.

"Xiao Jiu, are you really sure there is water around here?" The village chief pursed his chapped and bleeding lips and asked.

"Hmmm! I'm sure! ”

She believes in science, and judging from the vegetation, even if there is no bare water source, the groundwater must be extraordinarily abundant, and it is impossible to find no trace of it.

"Village chief, give. After eating, we continue to look for it. ”

Gu Jiu skimmed the village chief's white and blood-dripping lips, took out a sweet potato from his baggage and handed it over.

The village chief looked at the sweet potatoes handed over, and was a little flattered for a while, and there was a shortage of water at the moment, which is a good thing! It can be full and hydrated!

"Village chief, you can rest here for a while, and I'll go up there and take a look."

"Be careful, don't step on the air."

Don't step on the air......

The village chief's words gave Gu Jiu a reminder, yes, they have always been afraid of suddenly stepping on the air and falling into the valley that does not know the depth, but what if the water is under these miscellaneous leaves and branches?

Gu Jiu walked to the edge of the valley, cleaning up the withered and accumulated branches, and trying to find a focus point to take a look.

Falling and falling, Gu Jiu suddenly found that the soil around him became moist.

"Xiao Jiu, Xiao Jiu! Where are you? ”

Hearing the village chief's voice, Gu Jiu hurriedly responded: "Village chief, I'm here, below!" ”

After a while, the village chief's voice came from above, and a small stone also rolled down from Gu Jiu's side with the voice: "Xiao Jiu, are you down here?" Do you see that round stone the size of a date? ”

"See."

"That's okay, you wait, the village chief will go back to the village and pull you up with a rope. Don't move, there are too many dead branches in this place, and if you get a puncture, it will be troublesome. ”

"Wait a minute!"

Hearing that the village chief was leaving, Gu Jiu hurriedly shouted at him.

"Village chief, I came down by myself, you look to the right, I tied the rope to the big tree in advance before I came down. If something happens, I can come up again along the rope, and even if I can't borrow the strength, you can pull me up. ”

When the village chief heard this, he looked to the right and breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the rope on the big tree.

"Xiao Jiu, it's too dangerous to see nothing down here, you come up first, the village chief has lived so many years longer than you, and he is more experienced than you."

"No, you don't."

Gu Jiu grinded the soil in his palm, grabbed the weeds growing on the valley slope one by one, and walked down.

Under the high level of tension, Gu Jiu didn't know how long he had been crawling down, but the village chief's voice would come after a while to make sure that something had happened to her.

"It's, water!"

Gu Jiu's palm swept across the rocks on the side, looking at the wetness in his hand and said excitedly.

Just wanted to go over to check further, but there was resistance from the rope on his waist, Gu Jiu pulled hard, and the rope did not move at all.

"Xiao Jiu, is something wrong?"

The village chief asked nervously as he looked at the straightened rope.

"No, the rope is over."

"Then I'll pull you up."

"Okay."

With the power of the village chief slowly pulling the rope up, Gu Jiu could climb up easily.

"Come on, it's not hurt, are you?" As he spoke, the village chief took away the dead leaves from Gu Jiu's head.

"Nope."

Gu Jiu shook his head: "Village chief, there is definitely something down here, let's go back to the village and get a longer rope." ”

While speaking, Gu Jiu hastily rolled up the rope, stuffed it into the baggage, and pulled the village chief down the mountain.

……

"Village chief, it's not good, come and see, there is no water in the well now!"

As soon as the two of them came down the mountain, five or six villagers hurriedly surrounded them and pulled the village chief in the direction of the well.

"The villagers fetched water every six hours according to what they said before, but now the villagers have been waiting by the well for more than an hour, and they haven't seen a drop of water!"

When Gu Jiu and the village chief arrived, the well was already full of people, all of them bowed their heads and sighed, and some even kowtowed to the well.

"We haven't done anything hurtful, so why doesn't God let us go! Why is it that the water in our Gujia Village was cut off the earliest! ”

Without saying a word, the village chief walked to the well, and fell silent as he watched the well that had dried up completely.

Gu Wensheng suddenly appeared out of nowhere: "Folks, the ancient books record that the person who knows the times is Junjie, and now that this situation has occurred, we must make changes in time." ”

Hearing Gu Wensheng's words, everyone raised their heads one after another.

"Wensheng, what do you say? Everybody listens to you! ”

"Go to town."

Hearing this, the hope that had just been ignited by everyone suddenly fell again.

"This, Wensheng, we are going to the city, where do we live? The things in this city couldn't be more expensive! ”

"That's right, Wensheng, the villagers don't have much money, it's a problem to go to the city to eat and sleep, and if something happens at that time, you will die directly."

Gu Wensheng smiled, and said with the appearance of a mysterious master pointing out all beings: "There are many opportunities in this city, anyway, the dolls in the family have to take the test to gain fame, and they will go to the city sooner or later, so what if they go two years earlier?" ”

"Wensheng, do you mean that you can help everyone find a job?" One of the villagers asked excitedly.

Gu Wensheng nodded: "It's not a secret, I met the big boss in the city, you went to report my name, and gave at least ten copper plates a day!" ”

Ten!

That's not three hundred a month!

"Wensheng, are there any other conditions? Can the aunt go? Aunt Chen looked at Gu Wensheng and asked excitedly.