Chapter 109: No Water, What to Do?
Chapter 109: No Water, What to Do?
Early the next morning, Luo Xi divided everyone in the villa into several water-finding teams. In particular, the soldiers under Xiao Yi suspended their training and focused on going up the mountain to find water.
After the people found out, they joined the team one after another, or organized their own teams to go there. Suddenly, all the major hilltops in Tongning County were crowded with people and it was very lively.
"Do you think we can really find water in the mountains?"
"If the boss says it can be done, then it can be done."
Luo Xi: "..."
Did she say that?
Rong Bai laughed so hard that he fell backwards: "Boss, are you so amazing? Otherwise, you said Rong Bai would live a hundred years."
"Okay." Luo Xi smiled maliciously: "Rong Bai will live to be a hundred years old, but his teeth and hair will all fall out, his eyesight will be dim, he will be bedridden, and his bowel movements will be ..."
"Stop!" Rong Bai's face turned black: "Boss, I was just joking, do you have to curse me like that?"
If this really comes to the point, he might as well just die early.
Luo Xi kicked him and said, "Are you kidding me now? Look at you, even the governor Si walks faster than you."
If we keep dithering like this, when will we be able to find water?
Well, the son of the right prime minister is indeed more valuable than him, Rong Bai has nothing to say.
"Master Luo, you don't know this, right?" Si Mo said proudly, "Although everyone in our Si family is a scholar, our family tradition is very strict."
"Everyone must not only learn literature, but also martial arts. However, they don't need to have peerless martial arts like the boss, as long as they can strengthen their bodies."
"Plus, our husband likes to go to the countryside to check out the local people's sentiments and opinions, so walking and climbing mountains is really nothing to us?"
Rong Bai wailed: "God, it must be so tiring to live like that."
Cockfighting, bird-walking, and polo, isn't it fun? Why torture yourself like that?
Luo Xi just smiled and didn't participate in their conversation. He walked quickly forward, looking for water carefully.
She maximized her senses, not missing even the slightest change in moisture, and at the end of the day, she felt a little dizzy.
Plus the climate is like a steamer, which is really tiring.
"I can't do it anymore, Boss, let's take a break." Rong Bai threw himself to the ground, his face flushed red.
The others were also sweating profusely.
Luo Xi nodded, not knowing whether the other teams had found it.
The reality is that there is no such thing. Until the teams gathered at night, they did not make any major discoveries. At most, they found a small puddle or a stream that was about to dry up, which was of no use at all.
Everyone was silent for a moment.
The disaster is more serious than they imagined!
"Let's all go back and look for it tomorrow." Luo Xi pursed his dry and chapped lips.
However, after a few days, they still had nothing to show for it. All of a sudden, they all lost motivation, like wilted cabbages.
The worst thing is that although it is already the beginning of September, the temperature still shows no sign of dropping, let alone rain.
At first glance, the whole mountain was covered with dry grass and weathered soil. A gust of hot wind blew, and grass and dust flew all over the sky, hitting everyone's heads and faces.
The few people who were already sweating profusely looked even more embarrassed now.
"Boss, let's go back and think of other solutions. I'm really about to be dried up by the sun." Rong Bai licked his cracked lips.
His handsome face has become unbearable to look at in just a few days.
Although the others didn't say anything, they all raised their tanned faces and looked at Luo Xi eagerly.
Si Jia no longer had the elegance and grace he had when they first met, and now he was much more down-to-earth. He didn't say anything at this moment, but just looked at Luo Xi with a smile.
Luo Xi had given up on finding water in the mountains at this point: "Notify the team to gather and go back."
"That's great!" Everyone smiled for the first time, but when they thought of the water tank at home that was almost dry, their faces turned bitter again.
There is no water, what can I do?
Just at this moment, someone came to cause trouble.
Luo Xi and his friends had just come down from the mountain and were preparing to go back to rest, but they were blocked by a group of people at the gate of the villa.
They were all dressed gorgeously, with rosy and clean complexions, which formed a sharp contrast with the dusty appearance of Luo Xi and his companions.
"The big boss is the head of several big families in the city." After a quick glance, Rong Bai whispered to Luo Xi: "The fat man in the lead is the current head of the Jin family, the second richest family after my family, Jin Xin."
"I understand." Luo Xi nodded.
"They are not kind, be careful." She then ordered: "Xiao Yi, take your men to protect them."
"Don't worry, boss." Xiao Yi's face was stern, and he neatly protected Yin Li, Wei Qing, Rong Bai, Sijia and others to the innermost side.
All the soldiers in the villa are here, and Xiao Yi is a little worried, not knowing whether it is a good thing or a bad thing.
Si Mo, along with the Si family guards, automatically stood in front of Si Jia, taking a protective posture.
The people over there also saw Luo Xi and the others. The fat man Jin Xin mentioned by Rong Bai asked right away: "Boss Luo, now that you are in charge of Tongning County, are you responsible for the water shortage in the entire county?"
"That's right. We were originally doing well as the people of Tianqi, but you made us..." Another master shouted, his tone full of dissatisfaction with Luo Xi: "Now we have no water to use, what do you say we should do?"
After they started talking, the others began to talk one after another.
"Yes, if it were the imperial court, the matter might have been resolved long ago. Why would we have to wait until now?"
"That's right. I haven't showered for three days. I almost stink. Seriously."
The soldiers glared.
The water they were drinking was almost gone, and these people still wanted to take a shower?
Rong Bai has never been one to suffer a loss. He snorted coldly: "Are you blind? Didn't you see that we just came back from finding a water source?"
"You guys, not only did you not come to help, you didn't even send a servant over, and you still have the nerve to say this."
"How can you blame us? It's your fault for not sending anyone to notify them." It was Jin Xin who spoke again. The fat on his face kept shaking as his mouth opened and closed.
Rong Bai said with a sigh: "Who was I talking about? It turns out to be Fatty Sijin from the west of the city."
"Why, have you grown too fat and the fat has blocked your ears and eyes, making you blind and deaf? Otherwise, why don't you know something that the whole county knows?"
If you want to pretend, you have to find a better excuse.
"Rong Bai, you're talking nonsense!" Jin Xin hated it most when anyone called him fat, especially Rong Bai, his mortal enemy who always outshined him in everything.
"So what if I know? Your stupid method has wasted all my efforts after searching for so many days."
"Of course, if you have already found a water source, just pretend I didn't say anything."
He looked disdainful, obviously knowing that they would return empty-handed.
"Brother Jin, isn't it obvious that they didn't find it?" The head of the Chen family echoed him: "Otherwise, why are you all so dejected?"
"Can't find it? Then what should we do?" Jin Xin looked at Luo Xi: "Boss Luo, you left us without water. Just tell me, what should we do now?"
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