Wu picked the vegetables and went back to the house, not noticing that there was already water in the water tank.
She sat at the door with a stool, picking vegetables while waiting for her husband to come back with water.
But she waited and waited, but her husband was nowhere to be seen, and she couldn't help but worry.
"Chang'an, stay home and let your aunt go find your uncle." Wu put the vegetables into the basket and got up and left the yard.
At this time, the sun had not yet set, and many villagers had moved their small dining tables to the doorsteps of their houses, and the families were sitting around eating.
Wu hurried to the public well at the entrance of the village, and saw several people standing by the well from a distance, all carrying buckets of water.
"There's no water in our village's well. We've only drawn a few buckets? It's already bottomed out?"
Several people didn't draw any water, and they were anxious. They kept looking through the well mouth:
"It shouldn't be like this? How could there be no water? I didn't draw any water in the morning, so I waited to check in the evening, but there was still no water. We don't even have water to cook at home. What should we do?"
"Yes, there's no water at home either.
" "How about we go to Zuo Village to have a look?"
"No need to go. I just came over there, and those people chased me away before I even got close to them." A villager snorted.
"Why chase people away? I just saw people from Zuo Village coming to our side to draw water."
"That's right! Maybe the well in our village was emptied by people from their village!" Someone was indignant.
"A bunch of bastards! They're so insidious. They emptied our well and saved their well water."
Song Sanshun looked at the sky and knew that he couldn't draw water tonight, so he walked back dejectedly.
When he looked up, he saw his wife running towards him and asked, "Why are you here?"
"I came to check." Wu looked at the empty bucket and asked, "Is there no water?"
Song Sanshun said, "Well, they looked around and there was no water. By the way, isn't there a basin of water at home? Just make do with it for now, I'll come to get water before dawn tomorrow."
After that, he went back carrying the empty bucket.
Wu followed behind him and said worriedly, "Aren't you going to deliver the tax grain tomorrow? Let me go and fetch it."
Song Sanshun said nothing and went back home with his wife in dismay.
Putting down the empty bucket, pulling out the shoulder pole and putting it aside, he saw his little niece looking at him eagerly and asked, "What does Chang'an want?"
Chang'an stretched her head to look at the empty bucket and said with a smile, "There is water."
Song Sanshun touched her head lovingly and sighed, "Uncle San didn't get any water, you can't take a bath tonight."
Chang'an saw that her uncle didn't understand what she meant, so she pulled him to the water tank and said, "There is water, it's made by Xiaozhuzhu."
Song Sanshun stretched his head to take a look and his eyes widened immediately.
He subconsciously reached in to scoop a handful, and clear water splashed out of the water tank.
The full tank of water just overflowed to the edge of the tank.
"Where does this water come from?" Song Sanshun turned around and asked his wife.
Wu also hurried over and was shocked to see the overflowing clear water in the tank. "I don't know."
Chang'an saw that her uncle and aunt didn't pay attention to what she said, so she simply didn't explain it and stood on tiptoe to pick up the rice dumplings in the cupboard.
She was hungry and wanted to eat rice dumplings with locust tree honey.
When Song Sanshun saw it, he quickly took the zongzi down and asked while peeling it: "Changan, what did you say just now?"
Changan blinked and said seriously: "Xiao Zhuzhu can turn into water, we have water to drink."
"Who is Xiao Zhuzhu?" Song Sanshun peeled the zongzi and sprinkled a little honey on it.
Changan stretched out his little hand, pointed to his palm and said: "Xiao Zhuzhu is here." Song Sanshun grabbed his niece's hand and looked carefully, but saw nothing.
He thought for a moment and said, "Then change it again for Uncle San."
Chang'an shook her head and put her hands behind her back: "No." There is water at home now, and she doesn't want to waste a leaf.
Seeing that his niece was unwilling, Song Sanshun didn't force her. He poked a chopstick on the zongzi and handed it over: "Eat a zongzi first, and then drink porridge later." Chang'an
happily took the zongzi, gave it to her uncle to take a bite, and then gave it to her aunt to take a bite, and then sat on a small stool to taste it slowly.
Song Sanshun and his wife looked at each other, and the two said nothing and were busy with their own work.
Scooping water to wash the vegetables and making half a pot of vegetable porridge, Song Sanshun also took the water from washing the vegetables to the back of the house and poured it into the vegetable garden.
At present, the vegetables grown at home do not seem to be affected by the weather, but the radish and greens are very delicate, and they will wilt when there is no water.
Even so, their own vegetable garden is much better than other families. The garden is lush and green, and the seedlings are growing fast.
Song Sanshun took a look at the newly built wall, and was very glad that it was built early.
His niece had something supernatural, and he must not let others know. After dinner, he would teach her well and let Chang'an not show abnormality in front of others.
Dinner was a bit dull, but Chang'an didn't feel anything.
After her aunt gave her a bath, she carried her to the kang. The little baby rolled into the tent and pulled the quilt over her belly.
When Song Sanshun and his wife finished their bath and went into the house to rest, they saw Chang'an was already sleeping soundly, with a smile on her lips, and she seemed very happy.
Song Sanshun sighed and said to his wife, "Look after her at home tomorrow. I will go to pay taxes with my sixth brother and others. I may not be back for a few days. Don't go out to fetch water these days. Use the water in the tank sparingly. It will be enough for you to eat for three or four days."
"Yes." Wu nodded gently.
The new water tank bought by her family is very large, and it takes five loads of water to fill it.
And she and her husband carried two loads of water each time, which was enough for the family to use for one or two days.
A large tank of water should be enough for four or five days.
I don't know how little Chang'an got that tank of water, it's really puzzling.
Wu touched Chang'an's chubby little arm, and her heart softened.
"Sanshun, when you go to the county, look for the second sister-in-law's family. I seem to have heard that she works for a family surnamed Zhang. You might as well ask about it."
Song Sanshun was silent for a while, and said, "I asked someone to inquire before. That family has been promoted to the prefectural city, not the county."
Wu sighed and stopped talking.
The next day before dawn, Song Sanshun ate the meal prepared by his wife, sorted out his own grain, and brought an extra twenty or thirty kilograms to prevent damage when harvesting grain.
He carried more than a hundred kilograms of grain on his shoulders and staggered out of the door.
Outside the door, Song Laoliu and a group of villagers also pushed carts and carried loads, and walked out of the village one after another.
It is more than sixty miles from Songjia Village to the county town, and it takes them a whole day to carry their loads.
When they arrive at the county town, they have to queue up to pay taxes. It would take them two or three days to go back and forth.
Mrs. Wu watched her husband walk away, then turned around and closed the gate.
Now that the family has a high wall, it really gives her a great sense of security, and there is also a clever puppy at home, which will bark non-stop once someone approaches.
Mrs. Wu let the chicks and geese out of the chicken coop, grabbed a handful of millet and threw it on the ground, and went back to the house to sleep.
Not long after she slept, she suddenly heard someone knocking on the door outside the yard: "Third sister-in-law! Open the door!"
The little flower dog lying in the nest suddenly straightened its neck, jumped up and barked wildly.
"Woof woof woof woof!"