Don't run away, lady: pick up a witch to farm

Chapter 14 Investigation
"Master, we're here. The carriage can't move forward. We can only leave the carriage in this village." Chen Da, who came to act as a groom, said.

"Okay, stay here for one night tonight, and move forward tomorrow." Yaoyun said without raising his head, and then continued to play chess with the old man who set up the machine.

"Old man, you lost. It's time to get off." Yao Yun calmly put the white pieces on the chessboard into the chess basket one by one.

"You little baby, you must be so strict with your mouth. You will die if you say it. You really don't know how to respect your teacher." The old man who clothed the machine angrily said that he was slowly collecting the chess pieces.

"Cheating? How many times?" Yaoyun turned aside the old man who was putting on airs.

A certain old man immediately lowered his head, and silently picked up the sunspots on the chessboard as if nothing had happened.

"Master, this is the head of the village, and we will live in his courtyard tonight."

A man about 50 years old was waiting respectfully beside the carriage, and Yaoyun jumped out of the carriage under the arms of the old cloth machine.

"Hi village chief, I'll trouble you today." Yaoyun politely saluted the old village chief beside him.

Yaoyun looked at the adobe house in front of him, and then looked around at the crumbling thatched house. The plan he had made in his heart was to be carried out as soon as possible.

After entering the house, the village head ordered his wife to cook, and then sat in the hall with Yaoyun to chat.

When the village chief went out to ask his wife to cook, Yaoyun thought that in this poor place, the village chief’s family property would not have any good food, so he asked the old cloth machine who had lost chess to go hunting. The old Buji, who didn't like bran pickled vegetables, didn't refuse, and went out in a hurry.

So when the village head returned to the hall, he saw a child Yaoyun sitting on the front seat, with two tall and strong men standing beside him.It was different for those who had been soldiers and went to the battlefield. The old village chief was so shocked that he didn't dare to approach him when he came in. He bent over and waited aside.

"Sit down, village head. I need to ask you something." Yao Yun said gently, hoping to make the village head relax. Although the effect was not obvious, the village head still followed Yao Yun's words and sat aside.

"Village chief, how far away from you can we stop farming?" Yaoyun said lightly, holding a pen and paper in his hand, waiting for the village chief's reply.

"Go back to the young master, leave the village, go straight for about a mile and stop farming. People there can burrow up to their waists, so they can't grow anything."

"Are there any rivers and lakes nearby?" As he spoke, he began to write and draw on the paper.

"There is a river, which has been meandering through Nancheng. Other places are fine. If you leave our village, you can't get close to the river. It will sink into the water and you won't be able to get out."

"Is there no lake? There is only one river?" Yao Yun raised his head and frowned.

"Well, there is no lake. There used to be a few small rivers, but after a year of drought, they are gone now."

drought?It is still rare in this kind of place, but this river is a big problem, and the plan cannot be carried out without solving it.

"As many males as there are in the village, they can work." Yaoyun continued to write with his head down.

The village chief who was sitting at the bottom was a little dazed, a little on guard.

"Young master asked this, what do you want the male to do?" He asked cautiously.

This place does not support people at all, if there are no strong men, how will those old and weak women and children survive.

(End of this chapter)