“How about using bamboo?”
"Every household goes to the mountains to cut bamboo and make water into bamboo barrels." Mountain spring water is clean, even if it is left for many days, it will be the same when you drink it, let alone boiling it.
"Okay!" The village chief slapped his thigh: "I will gather everyone early tomorrow morning to chop bamboo together."
…
After dawn, Gu Jiu took the rope and bucket and went to the back mountain first.
The location of the pothole is too low. If each household is allowed to go down alone, there is not only the possibility of contaminating the water source, but also the risk of slipping and falling.
Gu Jiu looped the rope around the branch, tied one end to the barrel, and the other end to the stone under the tree.
"Girl Jiu, is the water below here?"
Several villagers who came up first asked holding barrels.
"Yes. We need to tie a rope around our waist when we go down later. There will be a natural hole right below this location."
Gu Jiu knelt down and described the situation below to them in detail.
"Then what is this and the rope for?"
The villager asked, pointing to the rope tied to the barrel.
"Catch the water. If you don't use this branch, the water will not only scatter when you pull it up, but it will also be stained with soil."
"Well, while there are few people, I'll go down and get a bucket! I have to chop bamboo later."
As he said that, the man picked up another rope on the ground and tied it around his waist, squatted down and was about to get down.
Gu Jiu quickly grabbed him: "There will be rocks seventeen or eight meters down. The water droplets on the surface make it impossible to relay. If there is no one pulling up, it will be impossible to accurately step on the edge of the rocks. And once you go down , if there is no one to pull you or the person pulling you is not strong enough, even if there is a rope, it will be difficult to get up.”
"This...how to deal with it?"
"Keep your weight low and your body flexible."
After a while, other villagers arrived one after another, and under the leadership of the village chief, they took buckets of water in an orderly manner.
"Folks, don't be impatient. Every family has it. Don't be greedy for too much. We'll cut bamboo as soon as we've had enough. It doesn't matter if we got it late. We in Gujia Village are determined to wait for every household to take out the bamboo they cut. One-tenth of it will be used to subsidize those below who fetch water for us and those who don’t have young men at home!”
After the water source problem was solved, Gu Jiu planned to go back.
"Village Chief, besides taking the carriage in town, is there any other way to get back to the city?" If we wait for the town, it will take seven or eight days before we can go back.
The village chief thought for a while and said: "Ma Laizi has a horse at home. Just wait. The day after tomorrow, I will take you there myself!"
Gu Jiu nodded: "Okay. Thank you, village chief."
"With a little effort, you helped the village solve such a big trouble. Isn't that what it should be?"
The villagers chopped bamboo to make big barrels very quickly. By the afternoon of that day, each family had a bamboo barrel with a diameter of one meter and a height of 1.5 meters.
"Village chief, this bucket is ready. Let's go get water quickly! Otherwise other villages will know about it and steal it from us."
"Yes, yes, village chief, we will pump out all the water tonight!"
So under the night, the whole village lined up one after another, and from the top of the mountain to the bottom, there would be a person standing at intervals to deliver water to the village one after another, which greatly accelerated the speed.
The day after they finished fetching water, news came that Taohua Village was without water.
"Village Chief! Oh no, Village Chief, someone fell to death!"
"What? From that family? Where did it happen?" Li Zheng stood up suddenly and asked urgently.
"It's not from our village, it's from Taohua Village! I don't know who told them where we got the water, but one of them fell down without a firm grip. I heard Mrs. Chen said that when she went up the mountain in the morning, she heard someone calling for help. Waiting for her to go down the mountain. If you call people to come up again, there will be no movement down there."
The village chief's face darkened: "Let's go and have a look."
When we arrived, many people were already gathered on the slope.
"Do you know which family is down here?" the village chief asked as he stepped forward and tied the rope.
The villagers all shook their heads. Gu Jiu stood aside and didn't dare to look up but couldn't help but worry. Wang, who didn't look over for a moment, guessed something.
The village chief tied the rope and climbed down carefully. Although Gu Jiu had reminded him before, he almost failed twice.
"Village Chief, the rope is over! Let's pull you up!"
As soon as the village chief came up, Wang immediately came up and asked anxiously but pretending to be calm: "Village chief, how are you? Is there anyone down there?"
The village chief shook his head.
Wang's face lit up with joy, her lips curled up, and she was about to leave when she heard the village chief say.
"There's not enough light down there, so I can't tell if there's anyone there. But I discovered this." As he spoke, the village chief showed a small piece of gray cloth in his hand.
Wang quickly took it.
"Village Chief, could this have been blown in by the wind before?"
"Not sure. But if someone really falls, I will never be able to get up."
The village chief sighed: "Everyone, please go back. Our village is not responsible for looking after the mountain. If someone falls down, there is nothing we can do. If anyone wants to tell their parents again, let them know that this place is dangerous."
After everyone went down the mountain with regret, within an hour, people from Taohua Village came up. It was Wang's natal family.
"No, it won't make sense if you people from Taohua Village don't come to our Gujia Village to cause trouble!"
"Why can't you explain it?" Sister-in-law Gua stood in the courtyard of the village chief's house, pinching her waist, pointing at the village chief and said: "Our third son came to get water, and he didn't come back all night, so he was secretly arrested by you. "
"Don't think I don't know, you caught our clan's traitor last time!"
The village chief sighed helplessly after hearing this.
"Sister-in-law Gua, that mountain is the common property of our villages, and all the regulations are decided by the village chiefs of each village. You go up the mountain and don't care about our business, and we don't know where you get the water. When did you come here, where can I catch him?"
"That's where you get your water."
The village chief was silent for a moment and asked seriously.
"Sister-in-law Gua, are you sure he really didn't go back?"
"right!"
"Then go and look for the place where you get water. The terrain is not good and it's easy to get up there."
As he spoke, regardless of what Sister-in-law Gua said, he pushed her out and closed the door.
In the afternoon, Gu Jiuzheng was about to leave. As soon as he left the village entrance, he met a villager who had returned.
"Didn't you go to the city with Vincent?" The village chief looked at the disgraced people and asked suspiciously, "How did it end up like this?"
well--
The person walking at the front sighed with such force that he seemed to be sighing out all the misfortune in his life.
"Forget about the village chief, you don't know how screwed that person is! You know what he asked the villagers to do. That's not work, it's just life-threatening."
"That's right, village chief, you don't know that you only get one copper plate for working non-stop for an hour! It's all laborious work! The villagers have never worked so hard in all their years of life!"
Gu Jiu said thoughtfully, "Then the rest of the people will continue to stay there?"
"Um."
A few people nodded feebly: "Then Bapi said he wouldn't get a cent if he didn't work for ten days. The other villagers couldn't bear to leave, so they continued to stay there."
"Okay, the water in the village has been solved now, go home quickly."
The village chief patted several people on the shoulders and said.
Hearing this, everyone's eyes immediately brightened up: "Oh, if I had known it would be so fast, I wouldn't have gone out and suffered like that!"
As they spoke, everyone ran home excitedly. Gu Jiu looked at the backs of several people and suddenly realized that Gujia Village was indeed quite poor. If there was a chance, he could make some money with everyone.
"Okay, village chief, just send me here. There are a lot of things going on in the village, so there's no need to send me to the city."
"Okay, then be careful yourself."
"okay."
I originally thought nothing would happen again, but I didn't expect to be stopped when I entered the city gate.
Wang Dahu? Why is he here?
"Girl, I promised Li Zheng to send you to the city, but now something suddenly happened, old man, I don't care."
"I understand."
As soon as Gu Jiu got out of the car, Ma Laizi turned around and drove away.
"Grandpa, I've been standing here day and night for two days, and I'm waiting for you. Everyone, except this girl, hurry in!"
"Eh-didn't you hear that I didn't let you in?"
Gu Jiu turned sideways to avoid Wang Dahu's outstretched hand and said calmly: "Is something wrong?"
"No matter what happens, you can't go in!"
"Why?"
"Just because you have no power, just a girl!" Wang Dahu sighed and stretched out his hand: "One hundred taels."
"What?"
"Grab a hundred taels of silver, grandpa, and I'll let you in."
Gu Jiu smiled and said in a confused tone: "I have met your daughter."
Wang Dahu was startled and looked at Gu Jiu doubtfully, not understanding what this had to do with one hundred taels.
"Your daughter was kind to me, but you killed her."
"Damn it, you're muttering silently. When did I hurt her? If it weren't for me, she wouldn't have lived this long. Hurry up and get the money!"
Wang Dahu frowned and spat out saliva, but Gu Jiu remained unmoved.
"You are not worthy, and you have no reason or qualification to stop me."
Upon hearing this, Wang Dahu glanced at the guards standing aside and laughed at Gu Jiu.
"Do you know who is covering your grandfather and me?"
"Wang family."
Gu Jiu spoke so calmly that Wang Dahu couldn't help but be stunned.
Turning around and looking at Wang Dahu, Gu Jiu continued: "But even the Wang family is not qualified to stop me!"
After finishing speaking, he walked directly around Wang Dahu and walked inside. This time Wang Dahu didn't stop him.
Looking at Wang Dahu who showed no expression at all, the other guards who were called over by him didn't know whether to stop him or not.
"What happened to Dahu? Did that girl promise to give you money?"
After Gu Jiu left, several people came forward and asked.
Wang Dahu shook his head and said, "That girl is a bit strange. Wait a minute while I check to see if there is anyone behind her."
Even the Wang family doesn't take it seriously, could it be that they really have tied up a wealthy family?
If this is the case, then we really need to find another way to extort money.
If not, hum! He had to skin that girl!
