diskusbooks Chapter 229 70 The Educated Youth Heroine's Excellent Sister-in-law 14
Chapter 229 70 The Educated Youth Heroine's Excellent Sister-in-law 14
All the trees on the outskirts had been cut down. Without the shelter of trees and no rain, the mountain was very dry, so they climbed the mountain much faster than before.
Tiedan looked at the scene and kept shaking his head and sighing like a little adult. Xiao Yun couldn't help but scratch his big head, "What's wrong? What are you sighing about?"
Xiao Tiedan said with a serious face: "Sister, you said that the water and soil in the mountains are maintained by these trees. Now that the trees have been cut down, the mountain is bare. No wonder the water level of the stream has dropped."
Xiao Yun looked at him with appreciation. This brother was really smart. She didn't give him any intelligence pills or anything. This was his own brain. She only said it once and the boy remembered it.
“It’s not that these people above don’t understand, they just think that something else is more important. If you want to accomplish something, you have to give up something, but sometimes you may not necessarily gain anything, and you may even lose more.
These are not things that ordinary people like us can control. If we want to have a say and have the final say, we must stand in a certain position..."
Xiao Tiedan listened carefully to what his sister said and kept it in mind. A small seed was slowly sprouting.
The two walked for another hour before they reached the spring. This was not at the top of the mountain, but a little bit up the middle of the mountain. The spring was under two huge rocks. Water flowed out from the cracks in the rocks and then flowed into a pool not far away.
The diameter of the pool is only about ten meters, and the water is dark green. You can tell at a glance that it is very deep.
Xiao Yun once used his spiritual sense to explore this pool of water. The diameter was getting smaller and smaller, but it was indeed very deep, at least dozens of meters. There was even a small hole with a diameter of thirty to forty centimeters at the bottom of the pool.
She couldn't even find the end of the small hole. It was very likely that the pool of water was not just storing the water from the spring, but was also connected to an underground river.
Xiao Yun even thought that this place was like a fountain, and the water was simply sucked up from the bottom of the pool of water, and then fell into here for a cycle.
But when she thought of the stream flowing out, she knew that this should not be the case. However, two water holes were possible. It was just that the pool was too deep, and she couldn't tell whether water was also gushing out of the hole below at the same time.
The brother and sister looked at the spring. The speed of water gushing out was no different from before, and the water level in the pool had not changed.
Xiao Yun searched through his original body's memories. Although they also suffered a disaster, it was because it did not rain and the crops in the fields did not yield a harvest, and it was also caused by the subsequent false reporting of production.
The water level of the stream has only dropped and has never stopped flowing. That is to say, even when the disaster was at its worst, there was still water in the stream, but it was much smaller and not enough to irrigate so many farmlands.
As for what their grandfather said about deepening the riverbed, this was never done, probably because they found it was of no use.
Just as Xiao Yun was about to withdraw his gaze from the pool of water, he froze again and subconsciously pulled his brother back a few steps.
Xiao Tiedan staggered and looked at his sister with a puzzled look. Just as he was about to speak, he was stopped by his sister's eyes.
His eyes flickered, and he glanced in the direction of the pond, then at his sister. Xiao Yun winked at him and said, "Just now I saw a water snake in the water! Anyway, we didn't bring a bucket today, so let's not catch fish. It's getting late, so let's get some firewood and go back."
Xiao Tiedan nodded in understanding and said reluctantly: "Okay, we finally found such a big pond, there must be fish in it."
"Alright, alright. If the snake is poisonous and you get bitten, you'll be dead. Anyway, you can't escape from this pond. I can come back again when I have the chance."
As she spoke, she pulled him back with all her strength, and at the same time, she probed backwards with her spiritual sense. Seeing that the man in the tree did not move, and did not show any hostility towards them, she felt relieved. However, she was still on guard. As long as the other party attacked them, she would use her spiritual sense to make the other party stupid!
Yes, there was someone on the tree beside the pond just now. She was careless and thought that there wouldn't be too many dangers in this world without spiritual energy. She didn't even use her spiritual sense to explore the surroundings in advance.
Of course, it is not ruled out that the other party was hiding too well. If a gust of wind had not just blown away the leaves covering his face, she might not have been able to spot him in the reflection of the pool.
I really didn't feel the other person's presence. He was at least a martial artist, and one who was very good at hiding and ambushing.
Using her spiritual sense to "see", although the other party had a lot of leaves hanging on his body, even on his head, Xiao Yun could still "see" the military uniform sticking out from the gaps, and she felt relieved.
As long as he wasn't an enemy, she guessed that he should be a soldier on a mission here.
Xiao Yun didn't want to expose his differences, so when he saw that the other party didn't intend to show up, he pretended not to notice and left.
As for what mission the other party was doing here, she was of course curious, so she directly pulled Jiaduobao out of the space and let it stay here to watch.
She just took a quick look and found nothing unusual within a hundred meters, so she asked Jiaduobao to follow the soldier to see what mission the other party had given her.
She was just purely curious and wanted to know. This might be a sequelae of her being a civet cat for more than a hundred years. Her curiosity was much stronger than before.
After the two of them walked a few hundred meters away, Tiedan looked at his sister again with a questioning look on his face.
Xiao Yun then whispered to him about what he had just discovered, but he did not say that the other party was a soldier, only that he saw someone hiding.
Xiao Tiedan was surprised, but also a little scared. Fortunately, his sister discovered it in time and they left directly. If they hadn't discovered it, and the other party attacked them when they were not paying attention, they might have really been injured.
Even though the brother and sister are strong and have some skills, he would not think that they are invincible. He knows that there is always someone better than you.
The two men walked back along the same route, but when they were almost at the foot of the mountain, they picked up a lot of branches and tied them into two bundles. Each of them carried one bundle and walked back. It wouldn't be a waste to come to the mountain.
By the time I got home, it was already past four in the afternoon. The round trip took me three or four hours.
Xiao Yun put the branches into the firewood shed in the corner and picked up a bunch of wheat straw as he would be cooking dinner soon.
Because of the previous canteen, there is not much food left in every household now. Many families have started to eat only two meals a day. There are not many families like Xiao Yun and his family who still eat three meals a day.
Therefore, people start cooking early in the evening, and smoke is already rising from every house.
Of course, the main purpose was to save oil lamps and candles. In a mountain village like theirs, electricity would not be available until at least the late 70s, and in some places even later.
Their family now lights candles. They used to light oil lamps. Xiao Yun thought the oil lamps were not only dim but also very irritating to the eyes, so he went to the county town to buy a lot of candles from the factory at that time and stored them at home. After all, those candles would not break.