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Chapter 240 Occasionally in the mountains

The two horses that Yilena led were quite good, and she was comparable to the horses in the Imperial Horse Prison. This was what she brought from Western Xinjiang.

The Huwei tribe produces good horses, and the students in the Huwei class are either rich or noble. Many people bring their own horses. Otherwise, they would have no idea how to buy ordinary horses and military horses in Central China.

Yilina also brought a few horses to facilitate her travel. She usually asked someone to take care of her. Hu Weiban Xiusheng's horses were stored together. They rented a wasteland to build a horse shed, and hired a few more people, which would not cost much money.

In fact, those who take care of horses are all Hu Weiren, who are the servants brought by Hu Wei Ban Xiusheng.

However, although Ilena brought horses, she was still sitting in the carriage most of the time.

At first, she was riding a horse, but her appearance attracted much attention. Not only was she extremely beautiful, but she also vaguely had an exotic style. People in Central China did not think that it was beautiful, but... it also had a unique flavor.

After being harassed several times, she still obediently sat back into the carriage, otherwise it would have been too much time.

Women are really strange animals. Originally, she and Ren Yongxin couldn't stand each other, but Zhang Muzi didn't know what he said, so they actually made the two opponents talk and laugh.

Anyway, with two more horses, the speed of traveling was much faster. Seven days later, the group walked into Bashu County.

It was the end of March, and Bashu was so hot that it was hard to catch up. When I passed Yucheng, I couldn’t rush to travel at noon.

The group hid in the morning and left at night, and took another five days to arrive at Yizhou Prefecture, the county seat of Bashu.

Li Yongsheng obtained the task book and went to the education and cultivation room in Bashu County to report. Only then did he realize that the cultivator in Chaoyang Daxue Hall had been here for three days and had already started to carry out the task under the arrangement of Yizhou Prefecture.

In any case, Chaoyang Reconstruction Hall is the best monastery. Even if you come to the local area to help, Bashu County cannot arrange a too remote place. It is more reasonable to stay in Yizhou Prefecture, the county seat is under Yizhou Prefecture.

However, strictly speaking, Yizhou Prefecture is not a good place, with a radius of nearly one million miles. In addition to Furong City and the relatively prosperous nearby, there are also many poor mountains and bad waters.

Li Yongsheng came to the education and cultivation room in Yizhou Prefecture. The education and cultivation room said that we have arranged the practitioners and teachings of the Chaoyang Grand Reconstruction Hall. There are still several remote towns and still need manpower.

Just stay away, Li Yongsheng really doesn't care about this.

The education room took out some places where people needed and asked him to choose it himself.

I have to admit that the reputation of Chaoyang Grand Reconstruction Hall is really very famous. Like the practitioners from other monasteries who come to do tasks, they usually accept their fate wherever they are assigned. However, Chaoyang practitioners can actually choose by themselves.

Although the good places near Furong City have been chosen to leave, there are also options in remote places.

Li Yongsheng thought for a while and decisively chose Tongyi Town in Anle City. The conditions here were quite bad, but... they were close to Xuannv Palace.

Although Tongyi Town is known as a town, it is close to Bashan and is placed in the earthly world, just like a village.

The town center is two miles apart, with less than a thousand households, with a total of more than 4,000 people. It would be decent to be able to wear patched clothes to go out.

Many half-baby people wear leaves when they go out.

It took Li Yongsheng almost a day to come over. The mayor came forward to receive it and told him that there are several houses on the southwest mountain and there is no one living there at present, so you can live there.

The houses on the mountain are still good, at least they are brick houses, but they have been old and are in a dilapidated manner. There are two main rooms and four side rooms.

There is also a yard made of earthen walls outside the house, which is quite secluded to live in.

The two maids of the Ren family roughly cleaned up and the group barely settled down.

Li Yongsheng went out for a walk and realized that Tongyi Town is short of houses now, and many people left the fields and came to the town to make a living. They had been drought for too long, and they couldn't even drink water.

Most of the wells in the town have dried up, and there are still two wells that are not enough for people to drink. They have to rely on other places to deliver water to this place to barely maintain their lives.

People who have some ideas have already gone to other places, and those who stayed can't leave or cannot leave.

Li Yongsheng’s task is to help maintain the distribution of disaster relief materials, and at the same time help Tongyi Middle School Seminary substitute.

There was no way, all the teachers in the Central Monastery ran away. It was not that they didn’t want to be a role model, but that the teachers’ family was short of water and had to go home to help carry water and water the land. In fact, the Central Monastery should be on holiday.

However, these middle-aged students are all half-year-old and girls. If they don’t restrain them, it will be not good for the place. Anyway, there is no farm work to do. If you stay in the monastery, you can at least learn something.

In short, Li Yongsheng didn't have many tasks to do. When he came to Tongyi Town, his symbolic significance was far greater than that of the practical significance of Chaoyang Daxiu Hall. All the students came, proving that the court attached great importance to the drought here.

On the first night, everyone was sleeping. There were so many mosquitoes at night that Ren Yongxin got up in the middle of the night and lit mosquito coils. When it was dawn, someone screamed again. It turned out that a snake crawled not far from a maid.

The task of the next day was to continue to clean up the house. Huang Jiuqing finished the escort task and left, leaving only Li Yongsheng and the coachman.

Then, the problem arose. They brought a total of seven horses, and even the horses could not drink water.

When Li Yongsheng saw that this was not a problem, he found Zhang Muzi: Can you dig a well?

Zhang Muzi shook her head blankly. When it comes to digging wells, she had no idea about the six orifices. "There are people in the Taoist Palace who specialize in geoscience, but I don't understand at all."

Li Yongsheng was also in a dilemma. He understood some Feng Shui and geomancy, but it was not very profound. He could see the water veins here, but if he wanted to ensure that water was produced, it was probably a relatively reliable number of 100 feet deep.

Without a water pump, it is not easy to get water if a well a hundred feet deep is drilled out.

So he went out for a walk again, intending to touch the situation, but if he really had no other choice, he could only dig a well.

This time he left for three days and looked at several hundred miles around Tongyi Town. He also remembered that if he digged wells one by one, it would be impossible that there would be no water in each place.

Because the weather is so hot, he usually chooses to go to activities in the evening. In the early morning of that day, he planned to climb over a mountain and return to his place of residence from another direction.

When he was about to reach the valley, he found that there was also a good water vein here, and the probability of water coming out was extremely high. Unfortunately, if others wanted to get water, they would have to cross the mountains.

He stood there again, carefully observing the mountain and thinking about how to easily deliver the water to the other side of the mountain.

While observing, he suddenly felt something was wrong. He turned his head and found that a hundred feet away, a man was hunched over, walking forward carefully, holding something in his hand.

It was the beginning of Mao, and it was almost five o'clock in the morning, and it was basically pitch black. This person actually appeared in the mountains, which was obviously quite strange.

Li Yongsheng bent down and quietly put it on to see what this guy wanted to do.

He followed the other person with one foot deep and one foot shallow, and walked ten miles... ten miles of the mountain road.

It was already dawn at this time, and he saw clearly that it was a thin man, holding a pottery jar.

The man walked to a cliff where there was a simple shack made of branches in the bushes.

Li Yongsheng did not dare to follow too close, and hid far away, so he could see with all his eyes.

Two people were asleep in the shack, one was an old lady and the other was a child of four or five years old.

When the old lady saw him come back, she owed her body and said something.

The man uncovered the pottery jar and handed it over with both hands. The old lady held the jar and stretched her lips in. After almost a breath, she raised her head, pursed her lips, pointed to the sleeping child beside her, and said with a smile.

After seeing it clearly, Li Yongsheng was in a relatively high position. He even saw that the water in the clay pot was quite clear.

Where did this guy get the water? Li Yongsheng thought about it, but he still let his pace go and walked over.

As soon as there was a noise here, the man immediately covered the pottery jar and hid it under a pile of dead branches, then stood up and looked over.

Li Yongsheng walked over slowly, with a faint smile on his face, "Don't be nervous, I won't snatch your water."

"I don't have water," the man licked his cracked lips, his voice extremely dry, but his eyes were alert.

"I'll follow you on the ten-mile mountain road," Li Yongsheng saw that he was nervous, so he found a stone nearby to sit down and smiled, "I just wonder where you got the water."

The man stretched out his hand, held the hatchet on his waist, squinted his eyes and said, "Are you looking for death?"

"Your knife is not as good as mine," Li Yongsheng pulled out his short knife and inserted it back into the scabbard, still smiling. "I am a ground master looking for a place to dig wells. If you can tell me where I found the water, I can give you two silver dollars."

While saying that, he took out two silver dollars and threw them in his hand, "Don't think about it?"

The man hesitated for a moment and shook his head, "I really want your silver dollars, but I really don't know what you are talking about."

Li Yongsheng really didn't want to move, and he saw the other party's situation. An old man and a child, if there was no water source, they would have moved out of the mountain.

The other party refused to tell the truth, and he could understand it very much. At this time, water is life. If it weren't for the fact that he had put a lot of water-storing gourds in his storage bag, looking around at the terrain these days, the water needed would be enough for him to have a headache.

However, he had to ask, and could only do the work more tactfully, "Do you understand? I am a ground master. Drawing a well can better help everyone get through the drought. You have elderly people and children at home, and others have them too."

The man sneered, "Di Shi? You don't have to lie to me. I have seen the Di Shi, and they can't dig out the well...it's useless."

While speaking, he tightly held the hatchet's hand.
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