Escape from the desert

Chapter 40

Jiang Yan picked up Lin Feng's bowl and coaxed him to eat it, mouthful of meat and porridge. At first, the little guy was reluctant, with panic and greed in his eyes, Jiang Yan had to comfort him carefully.

She looked at a few children, and the hatred in her heart deepened. She had never given birth or raised children, and she didn't know how to take care of a few children. She thought it was enough to feed them enough, but she always ignored it. them.

But now she is slowly integrating into the family. She knows that every child is different, with their own personalities and ideas, but they are all filial and obedient. Jiang Yan has begun to accept them and learn to love them.

After Lin Feng and Lin Bei were both asleep, Jiang Yan was still guarding by the bed. She would reach out and touch Lin Bei's forehead after a while. After confirming that the temperature was down and the fever was no longer, she rescheduled the going up the mountain.

The current situation at home does not allow her to stop. She always has to plan ahead before she reaches a desperate situation, so she has to find the water source in the mountains before the water in the village is cut off. In this way, even if she really reaches the step of escaping, there is still another way.

Jiang Yan took her three sons up the mountain, and asked Liu Xiaomeng to help at home. The two sensible daughters-in-law had already helped her to steam a few wowotou, so that she could stay on the mountain longer.

A group of five people went up the mountain. In order to pick more wild vegetables and green leaves, in addition to their own two baskets, they also borrowed three baskets from Zhang Yanzi's family.

The fierce sunlight shone on the entire land, and the rice in the fields was already half-dead, and the villagers who met along the way were sighing and mourning.

The dry and cracked land seemed to have its mouth open, longing for God to give some rain, but unfortunately, the cracks were getting bigger and bigger, but there was still no sign of rain.

After reaching the deep mountains, the towering trees blocked most of the sunlight, and the breeze in the mountains was much cooler, which made several people take a deep breath.

Jiang Yan asked them to move in familiar places, while she went deeper. Today's purpose is to find water sources, so for safety's sake, a few children are not allowed to take risks.

She has a shopping mall herself, and if she encounters any beasts, she can buy some weapons for self-defense. Jiang Yan fumbles into the mountains, looking for it according to the prompts of the shopping mall to see if there is anything valuable.

Jiang Yan tried her best to recall when she was studying astronomy and geography at school, whether there was any way to find groundwater or mountain water sources, but it was useless to mess up her head.

She clicked on the mall and searched for instruments such as water source detection. Although she couldn't think of any professional instruments, she searched the mall to see if it was cheap.

amount……

Jiang Yan looked at the detectors that could only be purchased by a few hundred taels, and then thought that she had all her belongings, and rolled her eyes, it was outrageous!

This stuff is not something she can afford!

She didn't give up and looked over, what kind of ore surveying instrument, metal scanner... everything, only what you can't think of, there is nothing on it, the premise is that you have to be rich!

Jiang Yan shook her head helplessly, and could only search back and forth in the mountains based on her shallow knowledge of the land.

There is no instrument for finding water sources in this era, so how did they find water sources?
Jiang Yan suddenly remembered a method, which was used in the old village in the past. It was to use a bowl and put the soybeans upside down. When the soybeans rose the next day, there was groundwater.

The bowls and soybeans can be purchased directly from the mall, but we have to wait until the next day. If the birds in the mountains eat the soybeans, the bamboo basket will be empty, and it is impossible to spend the night in the mountains...

Jiang Yan searched the mall for a long time. Soybean didn't decide whether to buy it or not. Instead, she found a geography book first.

This book is about groundwater discovery and exploitation plans. It also details where water sources may appear in the mountains. The price is [-] copper plates, and it is still discounted.

She made a quick decision, bought the book immediately, and found a shady place to read it.

She sat for an hour or two, and mosquitoes flew around her. No matter how rough and thick her body was, she was bitten by several large bags.

She didn't care about scratching the itch, she resisted the itch, and searched back and forth in the mountains according to the case in the book.

Everyone said that there is Yan Ruyu in the book, and there is a golden house in the book. For Jiang Yan, the most important thing at the moment is the water source, and the water source is her golden house Yan Ruyu.

But talking about soldiers on paper is just empty talk after all, she can only look for it in the mountains according to the information in the book.

The book said that a method that is more suitable for current use is to use mugwort to burn smoke. The mugwort burns with great smoke, and the direction of the smoke is downward. When there is groundwater, the smoke will evaporate and rise together with the water.

There are gaps on the surface of the groundwater. When the mugwort burns, the heat generated goes down the gap, and when it encounters water, it turns into steam, and there must be a water source there.

Jiang Yan thought about it, only this method was the most suitable and reliable for the moment. She started to look for mugwort, and the toss was past four o'clock in the afternoon.

People here will judge the time by looking at the sky. Jiang Yan has not learned this skill after staying here for so long. Every time she checks the time at the mall time.

She circled back to where she was separated from her sons, and sat on the mud with a handful of mugwort, panting, sweat dripping all over her body.

She ate the wowotou in large mouthfuls to replenish her lost physical strength. Since taking over this body, she has been busy all day long, tired or tired, but she feels that her body is much stronger. The original body is a lazy and slippery virtue, although she is a peasant woman , but the body bones are much weaker than the average peasant woman.

Lin Xi was the first to come back. He was carrying a basket full of green leaves. At a glance, he saw the mother sitting in the haystack rubbing her legs and touching her feet, and ran over in a hurry.

"Mother, what's wrong with you? Did you sprain your foot?"

Jiang Yan shook her head and smiled knowingly: "What are you doing in that hurry, I'm not sprained, you can rest for a while, have something to eat, and follow me to the west side."

The soil there is the most humid, and there is a greater possibility of water!
Lin Xi nodded hurriedly, hurriedly took out the wowtou that had been divided a long time ago, and began to gulp down. He saw the mugwort that Jiang Yan spread on the ground, and lowered his head to smell it.

"Mother, this is Artemisia, why are you cutting so much? Can this be eaten?"

"Can this be made into something as delicious as cold tofu?"

Lin Xi has a deep understanding of how mother can make delicious things with leaves. Seeing so much mugwort, he also thought that it could be made into food.

"No, it's not for eating."

Lin Xi scratched the back of his head: "I can't eat it. What did the mother cut it for? This thing smells bad, and it burns with a lot of smoke. If my mother uses it to pad your butt, I'll cut other hay for you."

(End of this chapter)