The sky gradually becomes brighter.
Cheng Wanwan went out and saw the village patrol passing by.
A total of two hundred people participated in the patrol team, divided into fifty teams. Five groups took turns patrolling every day. Each person would take a turn once every ten days. They only had to be on duty three times a month, for two and a half hours each time. It was not as time-consuming as imagined. .
Roadblocks are set up at the entrance of the village so that people in the village can come and go freely, but those coming in from outside the village have to ask a lot of questions before being let in.
Cheng Wanwan walked under the big locust tree and was surrounded by a group of women.
"Sister-in-law Zhao, that idea you came up with is really good."
"Have you heard that those bastards from Osmanthus Village sneaked in last night?"
"It just so happened that my guy was on duty, so he shouted out, and the ten people on duty immediately rushed over and caught him."
"Guihua Village only sent seven people, and they dared to come and steal food. It's really ridiculous."
"What happened to those seven people?"
"We didn't let them succeed, and no one got the stolen goods, so we had to let them go."
"Next time, don't shout out so early, catch the thief and steal the stolen goods, let them get it, then arrest them, and send them directly to the government!"
"I'm afraid there won't be a next time. I heard that a meeting is being held in Guihua Village, and the villagers are being detained and not allowed to come to Dahe Village to cause trouble. They say it's embarrassing."
Cheng Wanwan smiled and said: "I just came up with an idea. It was mainly because of everyone's concerted efforts that we saved the whole village's food."
When she smiled, something seemed to shine through her eyes.
Everyone looked at her, a little stunned. Why did Sister-in-law Zhao look so much whiter? Her temperament was different from before.
The person who used to be a jerk now seems to be a bit gentle.
Cheng Wanwan was stared at by so many pairs of eyes and felt inexplicably terrified.
She coughed and said, "I'm going to visit Lao Zhao's house."
She walked towards Lao Zhao's yard.
A group of women started discussing again.
"Didn't Sister-in-law Zhao have a falling out with Mrs. Zhao? She hasn't entered Old Zhao's house for a year."
"We are all a family, with broken bones and tendons, how can we really live without contact with each other for the rest of our lives?"
"makes sense……"
Cheng Wanwan stood at the door of the yard and called out: "Mom, are you here?"
When Mrs. Zhao heard the sound, she stepped over the threshold and walked out, she was really stunned for a moment.
Although the relationship with the eldest family has become much closer recently, the eldest daughter-in-law has never been here in person since she moved out.
This happened suddenly, and the old lady felt a little panicked.
After giving away food for so many days, are you going to move back?
No matter how many reasons and excuses this little whore has later, no matter how much this little whore cries, she cannot be soft-hearted!
Mrs. Zhao said calmly: "Da Shan Niang, why are you here?"
Mrs. Sun also came out of the house: "Sister-in-law, come in and sit down."
Cheng Wanwan walked in and sat down on the low stool opposite the two of them. She thought about it and said, "I came here today mainly because I want to inquire about someone."
Sun lowered his head and rolled his eyes.
My sister-in-law obviously just wants to move back, so she just says it directly, why are she beating around the bush?
Mrs. Zhao was very calm: "Just tell me."
"A girl named Sun, nicknamed Shuiqin." Cheng Wanwan said, "She seems to be from Osmanthus Village. I wonder if Mom has heard of this girl?"
Old Mrs. Zhao never leaves the house, and her activity range is Dahe Village. Naturally, she has never heard of her.
Mrs. Sun said: "I know this girl. Her father and my father are cousins. When I got married, she was only three or four years old. Now she has grown into a beautiful girl. Why does my sister-in-law ask her?"
"Don't you want to find a wife for Ergou?" Cheng Wanwan said with a smile, "Let's find out about this girl's character. If she's good, you can come and propose marriage."
Mrs. Zhao was very worried about Ergou's life-long events, but before she even mentioned it, this girl started to make plans for Ergou.
As long as the eldest daughter-in-law can finalize Ergou's marriage, it will be okay for the eldest family to move back.
The old lady didn't even realize that before the other party asked to move back, she had already happily agreed in her heart.
Sun Shi almost laughed.
Her cousin was a rough-and-tumble man who was proficient in everything from eating, drinking, whoring, and gambling. He made Shuiqin's mother so angry that she relied on Shuiqin to support the whole family.
If the sister-in-law marries a daughter-in-law called Shui Qin, it will be like getting involved with an in-law who is not stingy, and she will have a lot of work in the future.
Sun said casually: "Shui Qin is a good girl. I won't tell you how pretty she is. The main thing is that she is hard-working and can do all the work in the fields. She is better than many men. If my sister-in-law marries such a daughter-in-law, she will enter the house." , I will enjoy great blessings in the future.”
Cheng Wanwan saw Sun's expression and knew that she was speaking against her conscience.
I definitely won’t be able to find out anything specific, but the Sun family is certainly not simple.
She stood up and said, "Then I'll go back and figure out when to come to propose marriage. I'll leave first."
Mrs. Zhao was stunned: "Why don't you sit down for a while?"
You haven't even gotten to the point yet, are you leaving now?
Isn't it because she wants her as an elder to take the initiative to move back to the big house?
Cheng Wanwan nodded: "I still have things to do at home, so I'll go back first."
She got up and walked out of the yard, and soon disappeared at the entrance of the yard.
She thought that she should go to Osmanthus Village and find out for herself. She should not listen to any biased beliefs, nor should she just believe in her own feelings, in case the girl was a reserved person.
But this matter is not important now, the focus is on the water source issue.
In the afternoon, Cheng Wanwan carried mugwort on his back and took his four sons up the mountain.
With the Dahe Village patrol team present, there were no more people from Osmanthus Village on the mountain, and there was no one at the lotus pond, making it very convenient for Cheng Wanwan to do what he did.
The soil dug out of the dry pond was already dry and cracked after just one day of exposure to the sun.
Cheng Wanwan walked to a place where the soil was slightly moist, and asked his four sons to take out mugwort, pile it on the ground, and light it with fire sticks.
Mugwort is very smokey, and the smoke will find its way downwards. When there is water underground, the smoke will evaporate and rise together with the water. Wherever the smoke rises, there must be a water source.
Zhao Ergou was very curious: "Mom, what do you do after the Qi moi burns?"
Cheng Wanwan looked in the direction of the smoke: "Follow me."
A large pile of mugwort burned, creating a lot of smoke, and the smoke drifted downward toward the valley.
A group of five people followed the smoke through a dense forest, and when they arrived at the edge of the valley, there was a gap, which was a sunken area at the mouth of two mountains. The vegetation here was extremely lush, and there were many mosquitoes flying around.
Here the smoke suddenly began to rise.
"Mom, there is water here!" Zhao Sanniu's eyes almost fell out, "There is water flowing out of the cracks in the rocks here!"
In this dry season, there is living water in the mountains!
Zhao Dashan took a few drops of water and tasted it: "It's so sweet, it's mountain spring!"
Cheng Wanwan laughed. It seemed that this method was used correctly, and the source of groundwater was actually found.
Water can seep out of the rock walls from the ground, which shows that the groundwater is very rich.
The drought problem is half solved.
