HLnovel Chapter 118 Surprise
Chapter 118 Surprise
After saying this, Li Lanzhen ran out of the cave as if escaping.
Leaving Han Minghai behind, he stared in a daze at the shelves filled with so many supplies that he couldn't even imagine them.
Eggs, pork, cotton, and cotton-padded clothes and trousers that feel soft and thick when you touch them.
Even when his father was around, it would be impossible for so many of these things to gather at once.
He stood there, worrying about what excuse he could find to give the food to his family.
Thinking about it, he felt very happy, as he felt that his mother, Li Lanzhen, still valued him as her eldest son.
He held his head high and chest out, looking very happy, and walked back and forth with his hands behind his back, trying to think of a solution.
Suddenly, he thought of the big mountain behind him. Isn’t this the reason?
As for the pork, he had no choice but to tell Han Mingjiang to secretly tell Xue Nizi that Li Lanzhen brought it back secretly from Youzhou City, and asked them not to make it public and only let their family members know about it.
Han Minghai was not afraid that the smell of the meat would attract other people's attention.
Because we came to the valley, there are many small animals in the surrounding mountains. Last time we hunted a wild boar and every household shared the meat.
Moreover, Xue Lao Hu and Xue Bao also taught every household how to set traps and how to catch prey.
Every now and then, the Forget-Your-Trouble Valley would be filled with the rich aroma of meat.
What’s there to be afraid of if you eat some meat at home?
What's more, there are Xue Lao Hu and Xue Bao, father and son, in the family, as well as his second brother Han Mingjiang, the son-in-law of a hunter, and they are all good hunters.
As for these chicken eggs, duck eggs, and goose eggs, they were just lucky enough to be picked up from the mountains.
Who would go to look into the pot when you are eating at home?
People are even less afraid of supplies such as cotton, cotton coats and cotton pants. They wear cotton coats and cotton pants inside and their old clothes outside. No one will take the cotton coats inside to see whether they are new or old.
Even if it is discovered, doesn’t there still the young master Jin Fulai to support us?
Or it could be that the captain of the caravan we met on the road this time gave us supplies, which could also be considered acceptable.
After thinking about this, Han Minghai's smile deepened. He straightened his back and went out to look for his second brother Han Mingjiang.
After solving the important issue, Li Lanzhen slowly went up the mountain.
She always had an idea in her heart that there was such a large field and so many caves in Forget-Your-Trouble Valley.
Moreover, Xue Lao Hu, Zhang Deshui, and the old village chief had all speculated about it.
This place should have been inhabited and cultivated decades or even more than ten years ago.
In that case, there should be a water source.
So she wanted to go up the mountain and have a look, maybe there would be a surprise.
As for the old village chief, he and his men asked someone to find a place to build a reservoir down below. They continued to do their work, while he himself wanted to go up the mountain to take a look at the lake.
Logically speaking, the lake is quite large and has a large water storage capacity. However, the people in this village have not found out where the water comes from and where it goes.
However, everyone says that the water in this lake is alive, that is, there are water inlets and waterways for it to flow out.
Next to the lake is the big river. Li Lanzhen believes that the water in the lake and the water in the river should have the same source. Maybe there is an underground outlet of the river leading to the lake, and then this big lake also has an underground outlet, but they have not discovered it.
Is it another underground river?
Thinking of this, Li Lanzhen came to the lake.
Looking at the calm lake, it looks like a piece of emerald jade, lying quietly among the mountains and forests.
She walked half a circle around the lake, but did not go to the side closer to the river. She walked slowly and looked around. After walking two and a half circles, she still did not find the outlet.
While thinking about something, I kept walking around this side of the lake.
"Ouch."
Li Lanzhen saw a toad on her feet.
She was most afraid of toads, so she immediately stomped her feet hard and shook the toad, and it flew away.
Then, Li Lanzhen's feet suddenly stepped on empty air and her body was about to fall down.
She quickly grabbed the bushes beside her, jumped out with all her strength, and quickly stepped back a dozen steps to get away from danger.
This made her break out in a cold sweat!
"Damn it!!
Do you want me to fall into an underground cave?"
After the shock, comes the surprise.
Li Lanzhen muttered to herself, stretched her neck and looked at the dark hole in front of her.
She picked up a stick as thick as her arm and walked slowly forward.
When she was more than three meters away from the cave entrance, she kept poking the ground hard with the stick.
I continued to move forward when I felt safe. When I got close to the cave entrance, I heard the sound of rushing water.
She was even more ecstatic!
This is definitely the outlet of the lake!
As for the entrance to the lake, she was no longer worried about it. She just let it go if she couldn't find it.
When I walked a little closer, I saw that what I had stepped on was a stone slab. Perhaps due to the passage of time, external forces had caused cracks in the stone slab.
I was walking back and forth just now, and I stomped my feet hard, and the stone slab broke and fell down when I stepped on it.
There are also blue stone slabs on both sides of the black hole.
It turns out that this river channel is covered with stone slabs. Isn't this an underground canal?
She quickly used her stick to slowly and tentatively walk along the stone slabs towards the Forget-Your-Trouble Valley.
The stone slabs covering the culvert were covered by a mess of half-man-high shrubs.
She followed the stone slabs all the way to the Forget-Your-Trouble Valley.
On the edge of a cliff at the entrance of the valley.
The water gathers here, but does not overflow.
This means that water starts flowing from here to other places.
She looked carefully and found that there were several tall rocks blocking the stone slabs on the culvert.
She took out a pointed hoe from the space, first cleared the surrounding bushes and then cleared the sand and soil on the stone slabs.
The green stone slab appeared completely in front of her eyes, and Li Lanzhen quickly pried open the stone slab close to the rock.
Sure enough, when the water from the lake reached here, it was blocked by these large rocks, and then flowed along the cracks in the mountains nearby to an unknown place.
Li Lanzhen looked down. The hilltop was about ten meters above the ground of Wangyou Valley. Looking down from above, there was a dry pool of water, but it was already covered with sand, rocks, weeds and branches.
Li Lanzhen immediately concluded that the water from the lake must have formed a small waterfall here, and the water was stored in the pool after rushing down.
If nothing unexpected happens, the pool will have an exit, and a river will appear in the Forget-Your-Trouble Valley.
It is completely sufficient for the villagers in Wangyou Valley to use water for daily life or to irrigate the farmland in Wangyou Valley.
The key point is that if this is the case, there will be living water in Forget-Sorrow Valley.
Below was the old village chief. They were arguing loudly and no one knew what they were talking about.
Li Lan was waving and calling out to them.
"Old village chief, old village chief."
The old village chief looked up and saw Li Lanzhen standing there.
He shouted, "Lanzhen, what are you doing standing there?"
"Old village chief, I found water."
She patted the big rock beside her and shouted.
As long as you move all these rocks away, the water will rush down and form a waterfall in the pool in front of you."
The people below were surprised for a moment when they heard Li Lanzhen's shout.
Then they all cheered.