Man Bao sat on his horse and watched the scouts coming back from the horse race, and asked happily: "Have you found water?"
Nie Canjun and more than a hundred people stared at him with bright eyes. The scout was about to cry. Why did he come back to report the news? He didn't want to come back, but he still said: "There is no... water."
Man Bao expressed doubts, "Is there no water? Didn't you say there is a ditch ahead?"
The heavy rain started coming soon. He looked around and saw that although the sand dunes were always changing, some places would not change. He felt that the dry and ugly tree in the distance looked familiar, so he said: "Just
In front, the ditch is not very small, but your eyesight is so bad that you can’t even find it?”
The scout and Nie Canjun said: "Sir, you will know when you go and see that there is no water in it."
Everyone had a bad feeling in their hearts, so they asked the team to speed up.
Gradually descending the sand dune, the dry old trees not far away became more and more obvious. Man Bao and Bai Shan looked at each other, kicked the horse's belly, and rushed to the front, planning to take a look first.
When Bai Erlang saw them running away, he immediately shouted: "Wait for me, I'm going too!" Then he ran right after them.
Nie Canjun was also curious, and since there was no one around, he simply ran after him.
When they arrived at the edge of what was obviously a ravine, several people looked at a scout standing on the ground and were speechless for a long time.
The scout who followed him immediately said: "Sir, you see, this is it."
This is a ravine where it is obvious that water once flowed, because the sand, gravel and soil at the bottom are not exactly the same as the yellow sand next to it. It has traces of water flowing and scouring it.
But now there is nothing.
No, there is still some. The gravel and silt are still a little moist. The scout who stayed behind took a knife and dug a hole as big as his head. Now there is a little water collected in it.
The scout said naively: "Sir, although it's a little, it's still a bit. Even if we don't give it to the horses, it's okay."
Nie Canjun was sad.
Bai Shan and Bai Erlang were also too sad to speak.
Man Bao almost burst into tears in his heart, "Koko, is this the water you are talking about?"
"Well," Keke said when he saw that the host seemed to be really about to cry, "If the host is not satisfied with the surface water, he can also use underground water."
Man Bao's tears quickly fell away, and he asked in his heart: "Where is the underground water?"
Groundwater is naturally underground, but how deep you need to dig is a matter of opinion. If you find a suitable place, you can dig a few meters and it will come out. If you don't find a good place, you can dig dozens of meters and it won't come out.
However, Keke obviously would not embarrass Manbao, so he pointed out a place for her.
Just as he was pointing, the convoy also arrived. Yin or the others got off the carriage, walked to their side and looked down at the ravine together, both speechless.
After looking at it, Mr. Zhuang looked up at the sky and said, "Let's stay here tonight and let's discuss what to do."
Everyone agrees.
Man Bao said: "We can dig underground water."
She said: "When we were in the town, didn't we ride horses to chase the place where the lake disappeared? Didn't it mean that the last place it disappeared was underground? There should be groundwater here too."
Everyone looked along the gully into the distance, while Bai Shan looked at the ground of the ravine, squinted his eyes and asked, "Then do you think there will be underground water under the gully?"
Of course there is, but according to Keke, the water here is deeper and not as good as the water on the other side.
So after the team was stationed, the soldiers took their swords and dug holes in the ravines. As the scouts said, digging would at least bring out some water. If they couldn't drink it, it was okay for the horses and camels to drink. In fact, they were really thirsty.
It's okay to drink, but it's just not that big yet.
The sun had not set, but it was not that hot anymore. Man Bao put on his curtain hat, took out his medicine hoe, and called his friends, "Come on, let's go find water."
Mr. Zhuang and Nie Canjun were counting the remaining water and ignored them.
Heavy Rain followed them with his men to join in the fun. Seeing them riding horses towards the distance, he also pulled his own horse to follow them. He climbed over a sand dune and reached a valley, where he started banging around with a hoe.
, he couldn't help but ask Daji, who was standing by and watching, "You just follow along and don't help?"
Daji stood leisurely and said: "Don't worry about it, we will just protect their safety."
Man Bao was very curious and used a medicinal hoe to break up the yellow sand. Although this was a valley with sand dunes, it was still yellow sand. Valleys like this were not uncommon. Is there really water down here?
Bai Shan and the others were also suspicious, but they had nothing to do. Since Man Bao said it felt like there was water here, let's just open it and take a look.
So the six people pulled the sand aside to expose the sand and gravel layer below, then dug with small hoes, pulled out the soil and piled it aside. Man Bao hoeed for a while, and when he felt tired, he handed it over to Bai Shan, who took over.
Thinking that he might have to dig very deep, he hoeed a big piece to the side so that he could dig down later.
Bai Erlang and Liu Huan both took over, and Yin You finally hoeed twice out of curiosity. He felt that it was more suitable for him to push the soil they piled up, so he handed the hoe to Zhou Liru.
It's her turn.
Zhou Liru jumped down into the pit and with a hoe, a jet of water spurted out, directly towards her face...
Zhou Li closed his eyes subconsciously, and then his ears were filled with the cheering and screaming of everyone.
When she opened her eyes, she wiped a handful of mud from her face, glanced at her front, and then looked at the water that had shot out. After a while, a lot of water accumulated at the bottom of the pit, covering her shoes, socks, and trouser legs.
Wet.
Man Bao and the others wanted to throw the hoeed soil up, so they stood at the bottom of the pit and got wet as well.
But they are also excited.
The few people didn't go up, they just pulled up the hem of their clothes and tied it to the waistband of their pants. After rolling up their pants, they continued to dig, "open the hole wider."
Now the water flow has become smaller, but the water still pops up from below like a mountain spring.
Several people were working excitedly at the bottom of the pit. Dayu and others standing by the side opened their mouths in shock. After a while, they closed their mouths and exclaimed: "Did you really dig out water?"
Daji was just shocked for a moment, then turned around and ordered a guard, "Go back and tell them that water has been dug out here, and ask them to bring the water truck to fill it."
"yes."
When Nie Canjun and others hurried over, what they saw was a pool of dirty water and a few people laughing and joking in the water.
When he was angry, he immediately carried them up, and then asked the soldiers to move some big stones from under the tree to block the water outlet they had made. Then he rolled up his trousers and went down to clean the bottom of the pit and drain the water.
Scoop it out, and then clean up the soil at the bottom of the pit...
I picked up a bucket of small stones from the river ditch and laid them on the bottom of the pit. After laying them out, I stepped on them tightly. Then I spread stones on all sides of the pit. Then I slowly picked up a big stone and let the water inside come out.