Chapter 10: Turning Opportunity (7)

The three of them rushed into the hut together. The room was very small. There was nothing else except the pile of firewood that had been chaotic in the corner of the house. Li Yuanfang was stunned for a moment in the middle of the house. The other two looked at him with breath and did not dare to say anything. Suddenly, Li Yuanfang suddenly pulled Han Bin and asked sternly, "Where did you fall yesterday?" Han Bin was so scared that he quickly pointed to a raised muddy piece by the corner of the wall, and said nervously, "That's it, it's here."

Li Yuanfang stepped forward to the mud, squatted down and stroked the ground with his hands. The raised mud was round. He wiped the sand covering the top, and a black round iron lid was revealed. "Ah!" Di Jinghui and Han Bin both exclaimed and hurriedly came over to see. Li Yuanfang moved the iron lid to the side, and a round hole appeared in front of everyone. Di Jinghui asked in surprise: "What is this?" Li Yuanfang took a breath: "Bin'er, go get a candle. Oh, come with a long rope!" Han Bin agreed to run out, and Li Yuanfang said to Di Jinghui: "I hope it is a saliva well as I thought."

"Water well?" Di Jinghui was surprised and happy, asking, "How come there is a well in this desert? And... how did you know you were going to find a well here?" Li Yuanfang shook his head and saw that there was water below. "Han Bin ran back with a candle and a long rope. Li Yuanfang tied a candle on the lower end of the rope and hanged into the entrance of the cave. The three of them looked at each other. The hole was very deep, and the candle slowly reached the bottom, but it did not reflect the rippling waves. It was dry below.

Di Jinghui was very disappointed and sat down at the wellhead "puzzled" and muttered, "How could there be a well in the desert that is so dry? Even if there is, it has already dried up." Li Yuanfang stared at the wellhead and said in a deep voice: "I'll go down and take a look." It was already completely dark at this time, and Li Yuanfang still sent Di Jinghui to light a bonfire outside the house to prevent the wolf, so he only let Han Bin lie at the wellhead holding a candle, and bit a burning candle in his mouth, slowly climbing down the dry well.

When he went down to the bottom of the well, the sand under his feet was soft. Li Yuanfang grabbed a handful of sand and felt a little sticky. Li Yuanfang was excited and called Han Bin to throw the iron shovel down the well. When the iron shovel was obtained, he began to dig hard. There was a faint stench in the well. Li Yuanfang endured his nausea, but didn't know how long it took to dig. The sand soil dug out became more and more, and gradually became wet. Li Yuanfang put the sand soil into an iron pot and asked Han Bin to lift it up to the wall of the well with a rope. Li Yuanfang had burned out the candles from the well and he was reluctant to light it again. He just let Han Bin hold the candle at the entrance of the cave, and he touched the black dig with an extremely faint light.

When the water finally emerged from the bottom of the well, Li Yuanfang's mind was almost dark and suddenly woke up. He threw the iron shovel to the side, held the water to his mouth with trembling hands and tasted it. It was sweet and delicious and refreshing. He had not dripped water a day and night, and he drank a few sips of water one after another, and felt a little dizzy. Han Bin shouted at the entrance of the cave: "Brother! Is there water? Is there water?" Li Yuanfang filled the iron pot with water, raised her head and shouted at him: "Pick up the iron pot, be careful!" In just a while, he heard Han Bin's surprise coming from above his head

He shouted: "Water! Water!" Li Yuanfang dug a few more times on the ground, and the water gradually poured out and soon passed his feet. Li Yuanfang decided to go to the well. He wanted to try to climb up the well wall, but there was nowhere to focus around. Besides, he was exhausted and was in a dilemma. He threw the rope off his head. Di Jinghui shouted at him: "Hold on the rope, I'll drag you up." Li Yuanfang hurriedly climbed the rope, stepped on the well wall with both feet to leverage the force to move up. Somewhere in the middle, he felt that a well wall under his feet seemed to be loose, but he didn't have time to investigate it carefully.

As soon as he left the wellhead and had not yet stood firm, Li Yuanfang sternly asked Di Jinghui: "You are not outside to guard the bonfire, why are you here to come?!" "You!" Di Jinghui pointed outside the door: "You didn't see that it was getting bright!" Li Yuanfang raised his hand and fell to the ground.

In the desert in late winter, the day is much shorter than the night. Soon it is afternoon again. The sunset spreads the golden afterglow all over the yellow sand. The rolling sand dunes are like a golden ocean with turbulent waves, extending and expanding endlessly. There was no wind all day, and the air condensed and quiet, but you can still clearly feel the smell of sand and dust in your breath. The temperature in the desert is rising day by day, indicating that winter is finally coming to an end. At this moment, a magnificent sunset is still hanging high on the top of the distant mountains, surrounded by swaying mist, which dissipates and gathers, and suddenly disappears invisible.

Di Jinghui and Li Yuanfang stood side by side at the top of a towering sand dune, looking at the sunset scenery in the desert from afar, and their faces showed the relaxation and peace that was rare in many days. Perhaps because they felt a little cold, Di Jinghui tightly dressed and sighed for a long time: "This is the sixth desert sunset I have seen." Li Yuanfang also nodded slightly: "Well, before we knew it, we left Tingzhou and entered Shatuodis. Today is the sixth day." Di Jinghui

The interface said: "That bastard Wu Xun threw us here to fend for oneself. It has been three days since then." As he said that, he put on a pergola, stretched his neck and looked away for a long time, and said hatefully: "What! He also said he would come to pick us up the next day. Now, he can't even see a ghost! No wonder there is a saying that the poor mountains and rivers are out of troublemakers. I originally thought that the people outside the border were simpler and easier to deal with than those in the Central Plains. I didn't expect that the sinister people in the hearts of people are even worse!"

Li Yuanfang frowned slightly and said, "You can't draw a conclusion like this. I always feel that Wu Xun doesn't look like a bad person. Maybe he really has something to hide..." Di Jinghui sneered: "Is it hard to hide? Humph, if you didn't dig the well last night, the three of us would have sat down now. We have no grudges with him in the future, and he is not a bad person. Why do you want to kill someone for no reason?" Li Yuanfang smiled and asked, "Didn't you say I offended him?" Di Jinghui stomped his feet: "Hehe! Such a villain should offend him, there was no need to be polite to him!" Li Yuanfang shook his head: "You are really good at speaking." Di Jinghui curled his lips: "I'm much worse than my father's eloquence. If you have seen him, you don't have to make a fuss about me."
Chapter completed!