CHAPTER 193: CHAPTER 187: MAINTENANCE (4000 WORDS)

It’s really dried up, not a drop of water is left, and the water marks on the cliff are almost gone.

Very deep, at a glance, it seems like a black hole, you can’t see the bottom.

"Oh my, there was water just yesterday, and now it’s gone like that." Liu Yang couldn’t help but click his tongue.

Jiang Hu put down Xiaomi, letting her stand a bit farther away.

Then he asked Liu Yang to find a handful of dry leaves, tied together with grass vines.

"Brother Jiang, do you want to see how deep this pond is?" Liu Yang held up the dry leaves, making it easier for Jiang Hu to light them.

Beside them, Li Sheng held Xiaomi, afraid she might fall in.

Jiang Hu nodded: "Since we’re here, let’s take a look."

The dry leaves were lit, Liu Yang held them in his hand until the fire grew larger, then tossed them directly into the pond.

As the dry leaves fell, the bright red light kept getting smaller, then suddenly disappeared...

The people above watched clearly, exchanging glances.

Li Sheng swallowed, he was the first to speak: "Brother Jiang, isn’t this too deep? We didn’t even hear the sound of anything hitting the ground."

The surroundings were very quiet, not even the sound of birds, when Liu Yang threw the torch, everyone held their breath, listening carefully.

No sound at all.

Xiaomi blinked her eyes, asking puzzledly: "Did it fall into the water and get extinguished, is that why there’s no sound?"

The people who had been frowning suddenly froze.

"Xiaomi might be right, it’s not impossible. I’ll find a stone to throw down, let’s listen carefully."

Jiang Hu said, picking up a fist-sized stone from nearby, then leaning over the pond’s edge and tossed the stone down.

As the stone fell, he quickly listened intently, the others mimicked, even Xiaomi lay on the ground to listen.

Li Sheng was quite responsible, still holding onto Xiaomi, even now he kept a grip on her back, afraid she might fall.

Thud, thud, thud, splash~

"There is water!" Liu Yang jumped up excitedly, even though the final splash sound was very faint, he indeed heard it, it was the sound of the stone hitting the water!

The village chief remained calm: "It’s too deep, at least thirty to forty meters deep!"

"Dad, who cares how deep it is, as long as there’s water. At worst, we can lower a bucket with a rope to fetch water, even if it’s slow, it’s better than having no water at all, right?"

Jiang Hu and Liu Yang both nodded, even Xiaomi agreed with this.

The village chief patted his waist, seemingly wanting to touch his dry tobacco pipe, but found nothing, so he just pinched his fingers: "It’s probably not that simple."

After all, he is the elder, having experienced more things, he thought more.

But no matter what, they still had to try.

The group hurried back down the mountain, most outsiders had already left, only a few stubborn ones remained in Fu’an Village.

The villagers also returned home in shifts to eat, keeping an eye on them, lest they cause trouble.

After they came down the mountain, the village chief told Jiang Hu to take Xiaomi home first, no need to worry about other things, with so many villagers, there’s no fear of a few outsiders, right?

Jiang Hu hesitated for a moment, then took Xiaomi and left.

The people coming to fetch water, they weren’t from town, they were from other surrounding villages, originally having ties with Fu’an Village.

Not to mention anything else, just the exchanged seeds and potential future seed exchanges, would make these people not dare to act too excessively.

Ever since Jiang Hu left, the Jiang family had kept their door tightly shut, even when Jiang Hu knocked, Xi Qi first confirmed it was indeed him and not someone else before opening the door.

"Big brother Jiang, you’re finally back, your sister-in-law was really worried after you went up the mountain."

"What happened? Did someone come by?" Otherwise, why is everyone so nervous? They don’t even dare open the door easily.

"Not exactly, just that we heard a lot of noise in the village earlier, not sure what exactly happened, so a bit worried."

There are several kids in the family, no one to rely on, Liu Bo is not familiar with Fu’an Village’s situation, doesn’t dare to speak up easily, so he can only anxiously wait at home for Jiang Hu to return.

Jiang Hu breathed a sigh of relief, he was afraid someone would cause trouble while he wasn’t home.

"No big deal, don’t worry too much."

Within a few words, they were already in the inner courtyard, Second Aunt and Aunt Yang were sewing shoe soles, the other kids were studying in the study room.

Only Xi Qi had been guarding the door just now.

Seeing Jiang Hu return, Second Aunt was delighted, hurriedly running over: "Brother Hu, Xiaomi, are you guys alright? Just after you went up the mountain, things got noisy outside, not sure what was happening."

"Isn’t it because of this natural disaster..."

Big and small gathered around, Jiang Yu even brought a bowl of water for his father.

Although it was already cold, Jiang Hu was really thirsty from climbing up and down the mountain, he drank it in one go, then explained what happened earlier.

After he finished speaking, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

Liu Bo stroked his graying beard: "Didn’t expect, your village folks are quite protective of Xiaomi."