Chapter 157 - Chapter 157: Chapter 153: Gourd Died_1 (1/2)
Chapter 157: Chapter 153: Gourd Died_1
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Jiang Quan immediately got up and pulled out the stopper to look inside.
There’s no water, incredibly there was no water in the gourd!
He did not believe it and picked up the gourd to shake, it was light and alas, still no water.
He turned the mouth of the gourd down, and only a few drops dripped out.
Jiang Quan was dumbfounded.
How could this be?
He picked up another gourd, shook it with the mouth facing down, still no water.
“Wah wah wahmy Magic Gourd is broken, it no longer produces water” Jiang Quan couldn’t help but cry big tears, “It must have been exhausted when I divided the water yesterday wah wah wah”
His heartfelt crying attracted everyone’s attention. Hearing him talk about the Magic Gourd’s breaking and exhaustion, everyone felt guilty.
Especially the people of Dongchen Village, they all knew that the gourds grown by Jiang family were extraordinary, but they had never seen ones that kept producing water.
And such a precious gourd was now broken, which pained anyone who heard it.
Those who still wanted to ask for water silently put away their pottery bowls, too ashamed to speak up.
Jiang Wu was woken up by the noise, rubbed his eyes and sat up. Seeing his second cousin crying heartbrokenly with the gourd, he got up to comfort him. “Brother, don’t cry. Even if the gourd is gone, Xiaowu will still play with you.”
Jiang Quan:
He held the gourd and cried even more heartbrokenly.
The first thing Yingbao did when she got up early was to check Chen Sanyou’s pulse and give him acupuncture, and then check on Chen Boyuan’s condition.
Afterwards, amidst the crying of the second cousin, she reported her pulse diagnoses to Madam Wen and Xiu Zhenniang.
Xiu Zhenniang patiently answered her inquiries, and instructed her to record Chen Sanyou and Chen Boyuan’s pulse cases in detail after she went back, for comparison with similar patients in future.
By noon, there were still no signs of bandits down the mountain, so many people asked to climb down the cliff.
After discussing with the Clan Leader Chen, Jiang Dahu decided to let two people go down first to check the situation.
After all, there was not a drop of water in the cave, if everyone did not take action, they might actually die trapped.
So, the old man Jiang connected two bundles of ropes together, let several people hold it tightly, and then sent someone down first.
“I’ll go!” Someone volunteered bravely.
Seeing that it was Wang Ke, a 15-year-old young man from his own village, Clan Leader Chen advised, “Wrap your palms with cloth to prevent abrasion.”
Wang Dashan nodded, took the hemp cloth strip handed over by someone nearby, wrapped it around his palms, and then, holding the rope tightly, began to climb down.
He was small and agile, and quickly reached the bottom of the cliff.
When he was still five feet from the ground, the rope was already at its end.
Wang Dashan gritted his teeth and directly jumped down.
The bottom of the cliff was all rubble. He was lucky not to sprain his ankle.
Clan Leader Chen and Wang Dashan’s mother watched his figure nervously as he sprinted down the mountain and into the woods.
After about half an hour, Wang Dashan came out of the woods and waved up at the cave, shouting, “There are no bandits nearby!”
Hearing this, the people in the cave were so excited that they jumped up and requested to go down one after another.
Clan Leader Chen asked them to line up one by one.
To prevent the rope from getting worn out by the cliff, the old man Jiang also brought his family’s cotton quilt and padded it on the edge of the cliff.
But even so, after sending down dozens of people, the rope still got frizzy from wear.
The remaining people were even more anxious, each demanding to be let down the mountain first, some even started fighting over it.
That was not the worst part, some of the elderly and children were simply unable to climb down the cliff themselves with the rope.
“What to do?” Jiang Dahu scratched his head in desperation.