The whole village is starving, but I have a full warehouse of meat in the mall

Chapter 30: I misunderstood the digging issue. Erhai's marriage still needs to be seen.

"Forget about the ten kilograms I lent you before. It's not that our family doesn't need these ten kilograms of food, but mainly..." Jiang Wan's voice became colder, "I don't want you to come to the Ye family again, and I don't want you to come to our Erhai again. Go back to your Huaihua Village as soon as possible."

Li Xiaoyan was about to cry. She didn't dare to stay any longer, for fear that Jiang Wan would say something that would embarrass her even more. She picked up the bag of grain and quickly walked towards Huaihua Village. Her figure soon disappeared in the dense forest.

Jiang Wan turned to look at Ye Erhai, the boy looked distraught.

I'm afraid my heart will be broken.

After the little episode, the mother and her six children continued to dig wild vegetables and look for mushrooms.

The sun sets in the west.

Jiang Wan took the five children home.

She had a great harvest today. Just by taking a quick look around, she found three pounds of chicken mushrooms. She was in a very good mood.

.........

Old Madam Ye saw Jiang Wan washing vegetables in the yard, so she walked over and whispered, "Didn't you ask about the girl from the Li family in Huaihua Village last time? I asked around in the village, and several maids said that the girl from the Li family is about to get engaged to Ye Yougui's eldest son, Ye Mao. What's going on?"

Jiang Wan said dryly: "I misunderstood this matter. We have to wait and see about Erhai's marriage."

Old Madam Ye nodded: "I'll ask the matchmaker to find out later..."

As she was speaking, Ye Sishan came out with a basket of chopped wild vegetables and sat down in the yard. Two chickens rushed out from the corner and started eating the wild vegetables.

The old lady was surprised and asked, "Didn't your chickens have been slaughtered a long time ago?"

Ye Sishan said with a smile: "Grandma, you may not know this, but these are the two pheasants we caught in the mountains last time. They are egg-laying pheasants that lay three or four eggs a day!"

Old Mrs. Ye stared at the two big hens and became suspicious.

"Grandma, can pheasant eggs hatch chicks?" Ye Sishan blinked his eyes. "Now we only have two chickens at home. The big chicken will give birth to chicks. In a few months, we will have many chickens at home, and I can eat many eggs every day!"

Old Mrs. Ye smiled helplessly and said, "You can only have chicks if there are roosters."

Jiang Wan paused. Yes, why didn’t she think of raising more chickens? Next time she goes up the mountain, she can secretly buy a rooster in the mall and then she can hatch chicks.

A fragrance wafted out from the kitchen.

Jiang Wan stood up and said, "Mom, you can eat here. There is enough food."

Old Mrs. Ye turned around and walked out: "It seems like I came here just for a bite to eat. I have a lot of things to do at home. I'm leaving now."

The old lady disappeared quickly at the gate of the courtyard.

Jiang Wan was speechless. Was the old lady afraid that she would make excessive demands at the dinner table?
The dinner was particularly sumptuous, with a mushroom egg soup, a wild vegetable omelet, and a bowl of hand-rolled noodles for each person. Everyone looked very satisfied.

After dinner, Jiang Wan sat on the bench blankly, thinking. The most urgent problem to be solved right now was the water problem.

Without water, the crops in the fields will die.

She had also made a careful observation when she went to the mountain the day before yesterday. Although this place looked dry, there should be underground water reserves. If a water source could be found, that would of course be the best.

"Mom, let me go and borrow Uncle Niu's cart to bring a few buckets of water." Ye Dahai carried the buckets and left.

Ye Sanshu jumped to the ground and picked up the mud to show Jiang Wan: "Mom, look, this mud has been dried up in the sun in just one day!"

"Besides, this cart belongs to Uncle Niu. We can only borrow it for a while. There are so many people in the village waiting to borrow it! Uncle Niu has to go to the town later!"

Jiang Wan nodded: "I know that!"

Ye Sishan shouted, "Mom, why don't we make a cart ourselves? We can just chop some wood and make it. There are other people in the village who have made carts to fetch water."

"You're still making carts?" Ye Sanshu said disapprovingly, "By the time you finish making the cart, there will be no water in the well."

Jiang Wan noticed the pond dug behind their house. It was called a pond, but now there was no water. The pond was full of weeds, and the chickens were eating the grass happily.

Moreover, the grass here grows very lushly, a large area of ​​​​green.

“Is this the pond we dug earlier?”

Ye Sanshu nodded: "This is the pond that my eldest brother dug before. It originally had some water in it, but it hasn't rained in the past two years, so the water is gone and it's full of grass."

Jiang Wan raised his foot and walked over there.

"Mom, what are you doing!" Seeing that something was wrong, Ye Sanshu threw away the hoe in his hand and ran over.

"It's okay, Mom will go down and take a look."

Ye Sanshu hurriedly stopped Jiang Wan: "Mom, let me do it, be careful not to fall."

"Don't worry, you won't fall!"

Holding onto the edge of the pool, Jiang Wan jumped in with a light leap.

Ye Sanshu also jumped down: "Mom, are you okay?"

Jiang Wan patted him twice and said, "What are you worried about? The pool is less than two meters deep. I can fall down there."

Ye Xiaofang and Ye Sishan also came over: "Third brother, what are you and mother doing down there?"

Jiang Wan felt helpless and amused.

Ye Sanshu said hurriedly: "Mom, there is nothing to see in this pond. Let me help you get up."

"Don't worry." Jiang Wan waved his hand and asked Ye Sanshu and the others, "There was water in this pond before, right?"

"Yes." Ye Sanshu nodded.

Ye Sishan shouted, "When this pond was first dug, we swam in it!"

Jiang Wan pulled out a piece of grass. The grass was growing well and the roots were still wet.

Handing the grass in his hand to Ye Sanshu, Jiang Wan said, "There is water underneath."

Ye Sanshu's eyes widened: "Mom, you said there is water down here?"

"Yeah." Jiang Wan nodded: "You guys go back and get the shovels, quick!"

There is usually groundwater in mountain basins, not to mention that they are located in a valley.

Their family had been able to dig a well and get water before, which showed that there was a water source nearby.

The pond is located in a fan-shaped position in the valley. When passing by this area in the past two days, Jiang Wan noticed the terrain here. It is more likely to dig out a water source in such a geographical location.

The fact that there was a water source when the pond was dug further proves this point.

However, due to the lack of rainfall in the past two or three years, the water accumulation has also decreased, causing the pond to dry up. If we dig deeper, we will definitely find water.

If we dig the pond bigger and deeper and fill it with water, we won't have to worry about the fields drying up.

The three brothers came over carrying their things, "Mom, I've got a shovel. Can we really dig water here?"

Jiang Wan waved at them: "Well, you guys come over and dig, you will find water soon."

The depth of the water source can be judged from the roots of the grass.

Although there is no modern equipment, the water source is not deep and has been dug before, so it won’t take long to dig up water.

(End of this chapter)