hold space!Royal beast!The poisonous woman gets rich and turns the world upside down

Chapter 647 Drilling a Well
Shitou chuckled and said, "No, this is the ancestral method of digging a well in my wife's family. They won't pass it on to me, a son-in-law."

"I see. All right then. Tomorrow morning, I'll take you to choose a house. After we're settled, we can talk about the well."

"The house doesn't matter, as long as it's habitable. My wife and I will dig a well tomorrow morning, and you can arrange the house as you see fit."

"Then it's settled!"

This family was so poor that they didn't even have an oil lamp, but luckily the moon was round.

The porridge is cooked quickly and the pickles are ready, so just cut them.

Everyone sat around the table, each with half a bowl of porridge. There was no dry food. Although the weather was cold, they felt warm in their hearts as they could drink the hot porridge.

After dinner, the family cleaned up their place to live and the village chief gave them some instructions before leaving.

Goudan's family surname is Ma. Qin Yue knew the family's surname when the village chief called Goudan "Old Ma".

Old Ma, Little Ma, Ma, Little Ma, these names are unique.

At night, Qin Yue and Shitou couldn't sleep. They looked at the roof at the same time and sighed.

“It feels like we’re back to when we first met.”

"Haha, this feels pretty good. I can sleep in the adobe house again."

"With such a drought, the rats and mosquitoes must have starved to death."

"Well, there are no other living creatures except humans, so you can sleep peacefully."

"Wife, my husband is hungry."

Qin Yue chuckled: "I only drank half a bowl of porridge, of course I'm hungry."

She took out a bottle of milk and a piece of bread from the space: "Eat it."

"My wife eats it too."

"It's okay for me to not eat for a few days. You eat, and I'll go look around."

"Oh"

Seeing his wife close her eyes, he decisively stopped talking and started eating in silence.

Qin Yue looked at the terrain nearby. There was a 90% chance that her daughter would follow the official road to this side after getting off the boat. Not far from this village was a small town. This girl would definitely stay here for a while and open a clinic or something.

Given this girl's personality, she will definitely make a donation, and in that case, her stock will be used up quickly.

However, if she was smart, she would definitely stock up on goods from the south.

As she was thinking, Qin Yue actually fell asleep.

After Shitou had eaten his fill, his wife started snoring. Knowing that she was snoring only because she was tired, Shitou moved closer to her.

It was so cold and there was no fire. The room was like an ice cellar. They didn't use the host's bedding, but the thick bedding from the space. Even so, he still felt terribly cold.

He crawled into Qin Yue's bed and covered her with his own quilt, so that the double layer would be warmer.

He suddenly thought of the host family. If they moved the bedding evenly among the people, would the blanket they were covering themselves with be too thin?

So he was worried, so he put on his clothes again, tiptoed out with the old quilt, knocked on the door, put the quilt on the ground, and said softly: "We brought our own quilts, yours, I'll give it back to you. It's so cold, don't freeze, I'll put it at the door."

After saying that, he turned and went back into the house.

When Ma put on her clothes, she saw the bedding placed at the door. She sighed softly and carried the bedding to her son's room.

"Son, take this quilt back and cover yourself with it. Don't let the child get cold. They said they have it. Put the quilt at the door."

Xiao Ma opened the door and quickly held the quilt in her arms.

"Since it's not necessary, let's cover it. Mom, you should go back to the house quickly. It's too cold."

The next day, Xiao Ma cooked another pot of porridge. The porridge that Shitou brought was only eaten after two meals, but there were still some pickles.

Because of Qin Yue's family, this family also had two half-full meals.

The village chief hadn't even eaten yet and came here on an empty stomach. Qin Yue and Shitou arrived at the village well. At this time, all the villagers gathered here. They heard about this this morning and now they all looked at the two with grateful eyes.

Shitou waved at them and said, "Just do what you need to do. You can't help me here. If you have nothing to do, just help me clean up the house. From now on, we will be neighbors."

"Haha, I heard from the village chief that as long as you can draw water from the well, all of us in the village will worship you two like Bodhisattvas. Anyone who dares to embarrass you will be making things difficult for us."

"Okay, I'll remember what you said."

To be honest, the two had never seen the well, they just said that. At this time, Qin Yue lowered his head to look at the well which was more than ten meters deep.

He immediately grabbed the well rope and asked Shitou to pull her down.

The village chief shouted to the onlookers, "Go home and get your tools. Follow me to repair the house. The benefactor is working in the well, so we can't just sit there and do nothing. Hurry up."

Suddenly, the villagers scattered, leaving only Shitou at the wellhead. Far away, at the doorsteps of each house, there were some women and children watching from afar.

When strangers came, they were all very shy and didn't dare to approach. They only dared to look from a distance. This made it convenient for Qin Yue. She reached the bottom of the well, looked up, and started to work seriously.

She couldn't dawdle, but she couldn't go too fast either.

Because she saw that the villagers' mouths were all chapped, and they all looked pale and thin from hunger, and they wouldn't be able to hold on for long.

So, they took out a basket and a thick hollow tube. Soon, a tinkling sound came from the well, and then baskets of soil were lifted up with stones.

It was dry at first, but after carrying more than ten baskets, the soil became moist.

The old village chief picked a house that didn’t look good in appearance, arranged for the villagers to work, and then ran back.

Seeing a pile of soil next to the well, he suddenly had an idea. He decided to carry the soil to the back of the house. If there was water in the future, the mud at the bottom of the well would be very nutritious. If the two men wanted to grow vegetables, they could just fill the vegetable field with it.

So, more people were sent to carry soil. Every strong man in the village was busy, and the women in the village saw that the men were busy, so they also hurried to get needles and thread and started mending clothes.

The children were all staring at the village well, hoping to get some water to drink.

All morning, there was a tinkling sound coming from the well, and soil was being transported out of the well continuously. The village chief was very excited.

Because he saw that the soil became wetter as time went by, which gave him hope.

In fact, Qin Yue did not dig the soil at the bottom of the well, but directly inserted a thick pipe into the middle. The soil was pumped out of the pipe. It didn't matter how thick or small the pipe was. Once it was connected to the deep groundwater, the water would bubble up under the pressure.

The jingling sound was also her pretense.

At noon, Shitou pulled Qin Yue out of the bottom of the well. Seeing that she was covered in dirt and her face was black, he couldn't help laughing.

When has his wife ever been so embarrassed? Even though he knew she did it on purpose, he still felt funny and distressed.

An invincible being came here and pretended to dig a well. If people in the world knew about this, I don't know what they would say.

At this time, Goudan's wife came over with two bowls of porridge with a handful of pickles on top.

"Come, eat. Without food, you won't have the energy to work."

Shitou was stunned: "What I brought is only enough for two meals, and you don't have any food at home, where did this come from?"

"Every household in the village has collected this money. Let's focus on you two first. We can endure not eating for two days."

Shitou glanced at the villagers around him. Comparing them with the villagers of Shanshui Village, he realized how honest the people here were.

If there is food, give it to the most important people first.

He didn't hesitate and handed one bowl to his wife and picked up the other. They both finished eating quickly, took a short break, and then continued.

The village chief still hadn't eaten. He asked someone to bring him a stool and talked to Shi Tou.

"Look at this soil. It already has some moisture."

"Well, my wife's method of digging a well is unique. I believe that water should be available before dark."

"Can't you dig it out there?"

"Yes, the terrain is high where we are, and the water level is dropping. We have to drill for dozens of meters. If it's too deep, we can't drill."

"I see, thank you for your hard work."