The two horses that Elena was leading were quite good, and they were on par with the horses of the Imperial Horse Warden, which she had brought from the western frontier.

The Hu Wei people produce good horses, and the seminarians of the Hu Wei class are either rich or expensive, and many of them bring their own horses, otherwise they can only buy ordinary horses in Middle-earth, and there is no need to think about military horses.

Elena also brought a few horses to facilitate her own travel, and on weekdays, she was entrusted to someone to take care of them, and the horses of the Hu Wei class students were all stored together, and she rented a piece of wasteland to make a stable, and hired a few more people, which didn't cost a few dollars.

In fact, the people who took care of the horses were all Hu Wei people, and they were the subordinates brought by the Hu Wei class monks.

However, although Elena brought horses, most of the time, she sat in the carriage.

In the beginning, she was on a horse, but her appearance was so eye-catching, not only beautiful, but also vaguely exotic—the people of Middle-earth did not think it was beautiful, but ...... It's also unique.

After being harassed a few times, she obediently sat back in the carriage, otherwise it would be too much delay.

Women are really strange animals, originally she and Ren Yongxin were very unaccustomed to each other, but Zhang Muzi didn't know what to say, so she made these two opponents talk and laugh.

In any case, with two more horses, the speed of travel was much faster, and seven days later, the group walked into Bashu County.

At this time, it was already the end of March, and it was extremely hot in Bashu, and when I passed through Chongqing, I couldn't rush at noon.

The group went out day and night, and it took another five days to rush to the county of Bashu.

Li Yongsheng took the mission book and went to the indoctrination room in Bashu County to report, only then did he know that the seminarians of the Chaoyang Repair Hall had been here for three days and had begun to carry out the task under the arrangement of the Yizhou Mansion.

In any case, Chaoyang Repair Hall is a leading seminary, even if you come to the local help, Bashu County can't arrange too remote places, and it is more reasonable to stay in the county to govern Yizhou Prefecture.

However, strictly speaking, Yizhou Mansion is not a good place, with a radius of nearly one million miles, in addition to the capital city of Furong City and the more prosperous nearby, there are also many poor mountains and bad waters.

Li Yongsheng came to the indoctrination room in Yizhou Mansion, and the indoctrination room said, "We have already arranged for the seminarians and teachings of your Chaoyang Repair Hall, and there are still a few remote towns that still need manpower.

Far away is far away, Li Yongsheng really doesn't care about this.

The indoctrination room came up with some positions that needed people and asked him to choose them himself.

I have to admit that the reputation of Chaoyang Repair Hall is really loud, like the seminarians of other convents who rush to do tasks, they generally accept their fate wherever they are assigned, but the seminarians of Chaoyang can actually choose by themselves.

Although the good places near Furong City have been selected, there are also options in remote places.

Li Yongsheng pondered for a while, and decisively chose Tongyi Town in Anle City, the conditions here are quite bad, but ...... Close to the Xuannu Palace.

Although Tongyi Town is known as a town, it is close to Bashan and rests on the earth, which is the appearance of a village.

The center of the town is two miles round, less than 1,000 households, a total of more than 4,000 people, can wear a patch of clothes to go out, that is decent.

Many people's half-sized children go out and wear leaves.

It took Li Yongsheng about a day to rush over, but the mayor of the town came forward to receive him, and then told him that there are a few houses on the southwest mountain, and no one lives in them at present, so you should live there.

The house on the hill is acceptable, at least it is a brick house, but it is also old, dilapidated, two main houses and four partial houses.

There is also a courtyard made of earthen walls outside the house, which is quite secluded to live in.

The two maids of the Ren family roughly cleaned up first, and the group barely settled down.

Li Yongsheng went out for a walk, only to learn that there was a shortage of houses in Tongyi Town, and many people had left their fields and come to the town to beg for a living -- there was no way, the drought had been too long, not to mention that the land could not be planted, and even water was rarely drinkable.

Most of the wells in the town have dried up, and there are still two wells with water, which is not enough for people to drink, and they have to rely on bringing water from other places to make ends meet.

Those who have some methods have already gone to other places, and those who stay are unable to leave or can't go.

Li Yongsheng's mission is to help maintain the distribution of disaster relief materials, and at the same time help Tongyi Middle School Seminary to substitute teachers.

There is no way, the teachings of the Central Seminary have all run away, not because they don't want to be a teacher, but because they are also short of water at home, they have to go home to help carry water and water the ground, and the Central Seminary should actually be on vacation.

But these middle school students are all half-grown children and girls, if they are not restricted, it is not good for the locality, anyway, there is no farm work to do, stay in the seminary, at least you can learn something.

All in all, Li Yongsheng did not have much to do, and his visit to Tongyi Town was far more symbolic than practical - the arrival of the seminarians from the Chaoyang Great Repair Hall proved that the imperial court attached great importance to the drought here.

On the first night, everyone was going to sleep, there were a lot of mosquitoes in the night, so that Ren Yongxin got up in the middle of the night to light mosquito coils, and when it was dawn, someone screamed again, it turned out that a snake crawled not far from a maid.

The task of the next day was to continue to clean up the house, Huang Jiuqing completed the escort task and left, leaving only Li Yongsheng and the coachman among the male laborers.

Then came the problem, they brought a total of seven horses, and the horses were almost out of water.

Li Yongsheng saw that this was not a problem, so he found Zhang Muzi: Do you know how to dig a well?

Zhang Muzi shook her head blankly, for digging wells, she has six out of seven tricks - she doesn't know anything, "There are people in the Dao Palace who specialize in the art of Kanyu, but I don't understand it at all." ”

Li Yongsheng is also embarrassed, he knows a little bit about feng shui, it is not profound, he can also see one or two of the water veins here, but if he wants to ensure that the water is hit, it is estimated that a hundred zhang deep is a more reliable number.

Without a water pump, it is not easy to get water from a well, which is 100 feet deep.

So he went out for a walk again, intending to feel the situation, but if he had no other choice, he had to dig a well.

This time, he walked for three days, and he looked at the hundreds of miles around Tongyi Town, and he also wrote down several places where water might come out -- if he drilled wells one by one, it would be impossible for every place to be without water.

Because of the scorching heat, most of the time he chose to do his activities at night, and in the early hours of that morning, he planned to climb over a mountain and return to his place of residence from the other direction.

When he was about to reach the valley, he found that there was also a good water vein here, and the probability of water coming out was extremely high, but unfortunately, if others wanted to get water, they had to come over the mountain.

He stood there again, taking a closer look at the mountain, and considering how he could easily get the water to the other side of the mountain.

As he was observing, he suddenly felt that something was wrong, and when he looked sideways, he found that a hundred feet away, there was a person leaning forward, walking cautiously, still holding something in his hand.

At this time, it was the beginning of the morning, and it was basically pitch black at five o'clock in the morning, and this person actually appeared in the mountains, which was obviously weird.

Li Yongsheng bent down and quietly embellished himself to see what this guy wanted to do.

He followed the other party with one foot deep and one foot shallow, and walked for ten miles...... It is ten miles of the mountain road.

At this time, it was already dawn, and he could see clearly that it was a lean man, holding a clay pot in his hand.

The man walked to the bottom of a cliff, where there was a simple shack made of branches in the bushes.

Li Yongsheng didn't dare to follow too closely, he hid far away, and he had enough eyes to see.

There were two people sleeping in the shack, an old lady and a child of four or five years old.

When the old lady saw him return, she leaned back and said something.

The man uncovered the clay pot, handed it over with both hands, the old lady held the jar, put her lips in, and after almost a breath, she raised her head, pursed her lips, pointed to the sleeping child next to her, and said with a smile.

Seeing clearly, Li Yongsheng was in a relatively high position, and he even saw that the water in the clay pot was quite clear.

Where did this guy get the water? Li Yongsheng thought about it for a while, but still took a heavy step and walked over.

As soon as there was a noise here, the man immediately closed the lid of the clay pot and hid it under a pile of dead branches, and then he stood up and looked over.

Li Yongsheng walked over slowly, with a faint smile on his face, "Don't be nervous, I won't rob you of water." ”

"I don't have water," the man licked his chapped lips, his voice unusually dry, but his eyes were alert.

"I followed you for ten miles of mountain road," Li Yongsheng saw that he was nervous, so he found a nearby stone to sit down, and said with a smile, "I am curious about where you got the water." ”

As soon as the man stretched out his hand, he grabbed the firewood knife on his waist, squinted his eyes and spoke, "Are you looking for death?"

"Your knife is not as good as mine," Li Yongsheng took out his short knife and inserted it back into the scabbard, still smiling, "I'm a geomaster looking for a place to dig a well, if you can tell me where to find the water, I can give you two silver dollars." ”

As he spoke, he took out two silver dollars and tossed them in his hand, "Don't you think about it?"

The man hesitated, but still shook his head, "I really want your silver dollar, but I really don't know what you're talking about." ”

Li Yongsheng really didn't want to be rude, and he also saw the situation of the other party, an old man and a child, if there was no water source, they would definitely move out of the mountain.

The other party refused to tell the truth, he could understand very well that at this time, water is life, if he hadn't put a lot of gourds in the storage bag to store water, looking around the terrain these days, the water needed was enough for him to have a headache.

However, he also had to ask, so he could only do his work more tactfully, "Do you understand? I am a geomer, and I can better help everyone survive the drought by digging wells, and you have old people and children at home, and other people's families have them." ”

The man sneered, "You don't have to lie to me, I've seen the earth master, and they can't dig a well...... It's useless. ”

As he spoke, he tightened his grip on the knife.

"Tell him," suddenly the old lady next to him spoke, "There are old and young people in other people's families. (To be continued.) )