Chapter 72 Hercules
"Let's get water quickly and boil water! I'm so thirsty!" Shen looked up at Tao Shiwu and the others and said.
"I gently touched the water-drawing wheel and broke it. How to fetch water? I'll go down." Tao Qini gestured at the wellhead with both hands.
The three Tao family looked at her in surprise, and then burst into laughter, "Haha..."
"Why are you laughing?" Tao Qini said to them with some surprise.
"What a stupid child. This well has no wheels. You can also use a rope to tie a wooden barrel down and fetch water. How can you go down yourself?" Shen said, taking down the wooden barrel and the hemp rope with a thick thumb from the wheelbarrow and tied the rope to the wooden barrel.
"I'll do it!" Tao Shiwu walked to the well with a bucket and a hemp rope, and walked the bucket along.
"Be careful? I don't know the depth of the water." Shen looked at him and told carefully, "Don't break the bucket."
"I know." Tao Shiwu carefully walked the barrel down, "The water is quite deep." He shook the hemp rope in his hand, filled the wooden barrel with water, pulled the rope upside down, and lifted the wooden barrel up.
"Wow... the water looks quite clear." Tao Liuyi looked at the clear waterway in the wooden barrel and looked at Shen eagerly, "Mom, mother, come over quickly and let me drink it first, I'm almost thirsty."
"No, the water needs to boil." Shen walked over with the water jug when he heard this.
"Mom, the water has boiled and cooled down. It took a long time to wait." Tao Liuyi looked at Shen and said with a smile.
"That's not OK. If there is water, it's not bad for a while." Shen put the clay pot on the ground, carried the wooden barrel and poured the water in, and placed it on the simple stove built with three stones.
"Hey! Jijiu." Tao Qini looked at Jijiu's eagle claws tightly grasping the edge of the barrel, and as she watched her head bury into the barrel.
Tao Qini took action decisively, holding its wings with both hands and carrying it away from the wooden barrel.
The result was that Jiujiu was very unhappy and kept struggling in her hands.
"Don't move!" Tao Qini's soothing cheek rubbed its head, and it became quiet indeed.
"Brother, pour some water from my wooden bowl for Jijiu." Tao Qini looked up at Tao Liuyi and said quickly. The little guy in front of him was quiet for a few minutes.
"Your wooden bowl was given to Jiujiu, what should you do?" Shen asked with concern as he looked at her.
"It's simple, I'm going to be a carved one." Tao Qini said with a smile on her face, then urged, "Hurry up, look at Jiujiu's impatient look, I can't wait."
Shen quickly took the wooden bowl from the wheelbarrow, filled it with water, and placed it on the paved straw mat.
"Go!" Tao Qini let go of the chirping, and it couldn't wait to fly over, plunge into the bowl and drink it happily.
"Mom, look at Jiujiu and drank it directly." Tao Liu looked at the wooden barrel with a belated look and said, "I can do it too."
"No, don't boil it anymore. If you drink it, your stomach hurts, but without doctors and herbs, you can't save it." Shen Shi's shiny black eyes looked at him and said firmly.
"Let's go and see if there is a water tank here first? What if the water is gone all of a sudden?" Tao Shiwu looked directly at the well and changed the subject.
Tao Qini nodded with shiny eyes and said, "Yeah!" As she said that, she lit the torch and walked towards the nearby house.
"Can the water tank be found?" Yao Changsheng chased after him and said worriedly.
"The water well is not available in every household. Water tanks can be said to be a must-have, and those who escape from famine will definitely not carry it on their backs. It is too heavy." Tao Shiwu said as he walked.
Tao Qini opened the door and entered the bare yard, which was very desolate.
Tao Shiwu said behind her, "Stop looking, go to the kitchen to take a look." He said, and walked straight towards the kitchen.
Tao Qini hurriedly followed him and stood at the kitchen door. Both the stove and the ground were covered with thick gray. "This is so dry that there is not even a spider."
"There is really a water tank!" Tao Shiwu walked inside and took down the cover curtain on the water tank.
The water tank is as high as an adult's waist, and one person can be hugged.
"Let's go, carry it out." Tao Shiwu turned around and looked at them and rolled up his sleeves and said.
"Brother, hold the torch." Tao Qini stuffed the torch into his hands.
"What are you doing for me? I'm still like a water tank?" Tao Liuyi said as he held up the torch and looked at her.
"No, I'll carry it out by myself." Tao Qini walked straight to the front of the water tank and said.
"Ni'er, what did you say?" Tao Shiwu blinked and looked at her confusedly, and said sternly, "Don't mess around!"
"I'm not making a fuss." Tao Qini grabbed the edge of the tank with both hands, grabbed it hard, and carried it on her shoulders easily, "Give it aside quickly, don't block the way."
In the dumbfounded of the three of them, they watched her carry the water tank out.
"This kid, don't say a word." Tao Shiwu stomped his feet and chased after him, and saw that the person had already left the yard, "Don't hurt yourself."
Shen, who was boiling water, heard the movement behind him and looked back, and saw his thin daughter walking over with a tank bigger than her.
"You...you..." Shen said stammeringly at her, looking at Tao Shiwu who was chasing behind her, "How come you, a father, let her carry the water tank alone!"
"Do you think I want it! Before I could react, our Nier came out with the tank." Tao Shiwu looked helplessly at Tao Qini who placed the tank next to the well.
"Hurry up, hurry up, wash the tank and pour water." Tao Qini carried the wooden barrel and poured the remaining water into the tank. It was not very reassuring that the water was stored in the well, so it would be better for the water tank!
"Use a broom, the broom on the wheelbarrow is newly ripped." Shen's index finger pointed to the wheelbarrow, "It's clean."
Tao Qini took off a broom with small hands and arms from the wheelbarrow.
"I tilt the tank, Dad, come and brush it." Tao Qini looked at the water tank, handed the broom in her hand to Tao Shiwu, and tilted the water tank.
"Okay, okay! I'll do it." Tao Shiwu brushed the inside of the jar thoroughly. Because the cover curtain was always covered, the jar was not too dirty.
After washing the tank, Tao Liuyi took the wooden barrel and filled the tank with water.
"Huhuhu! Now the water is enough for us to drink." Tao Liuyi put down the wooden bucket and wiped the sweat on his forehead.
"Is there still water in the well?" Tao Shiwu asked looking at him.
"It's so dark that I can't see it, I don't know." Tao Liuyi looked at them and shook his head slightly, looking at the water tank, "It would be great if we could bring the tank, so that we can fill more water." He smiled embarrassedly, "I just think about it, it's impossible."
Chapter completed!