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Song Sanshun returned home and took a shower. It was already dark.

While eating, he relayed the magistrate's words to his wife and niece.

"The county magistrate wants me to find the source of the reservoir water. If I find it, I will pay two hundred coins." Song Sanshun spoke and glanced at his niece quietly.

Chang'an suddenly remembered his previous guess and said, "I want to go too."

Wu immediately shook her head: "What are you doing there? The sun is so hot, what should I do if it gets burned?"

"Hold an umbrella, uncle, hold an umbrella!" Chang'an must follow and see with his own eyes whether a leaf from Xiao Miaomiao will fill the reservoir.

Song Sanshun hesitated and asked, "Chang'an, how many clay statues do we need to bring there?"

Chang'an blinked and raised a finger: "One." In fact, it's fine without the statue.

Song Sanshun raised his forehead and said, "Okay."

In fact, he planned to dig a square well in the middle of the reservoir and place dragon king statues on all sides. If water came out, it would be said to be the water source of the reservoir. In this way, he could feel at ease collecting the two hundred wells.

But my niece said just one. Anyway, she put one in when she dug the well.

In Song Sanshun's opinion, if you want to get water in such a large reservoir, it will take hundreds of them no matter what.

The next day, Chang'an was making clay statues with grinding tools at home, when Zhang Tu came riding a donkey.

He also brought a teenage boy called Huang Guan, saying he was his new disciple named Zhang Lu.

"From now on, he will come to you to get the magic weapon." Zhang Tu said to Chang'an.

Chang'an nodded and looked at Uncle Zhang Tu curiously.

The current Zhang Tu is no longer slovenly as before. His sparse hair is tied high with a wooden hairpin. He wears a fine white Taoist robe that is not stained by dust. On his feet are blue cloth cloud shoes. He holds a fly whisk and holds an immortal wind Taoist bone.

Sure enough, once a person has money, even his aura changes. The little goldfish will not deceive me.

Chang'an took him to the side room, pointed to the water god statue placed in the big wooden box, and said, "Uncle Zhang Tu, I gave this to you."

When Zhang Tu saw the clay statue, his eyes immediately widened. He knelt down to look at the clay statue carefully and exclaimed: "Chang'an, you are so awesome, you made the clay statue so finely! Haha, that's great! Someone will invite me again in the future. When I go to perform rituals, I’ll just bring it with me.”

Chang An felt proud of being praised, and reminded him: "This has not been burned, so be careful when handling it."

Zhang Tu didn't care, he happily put the big wooden box into the big backpack and let his little apprentice carry it on his back.

After that, Zhang Tu took away more than twenty fired clay statues and a basket of vegetables and fruits before leaving.

A few days passed in a blink of an eye, and today was the day we made an appointment to go to the reservoir.

Before dawn, Song Sanshun hugged Chang'an and set off with a group of men.

This time we did not walk, but hired three donkey carts, and a dozen people sat in the carts.

There were also shovels, chisels, baskets, poles and other items on the car, as well as some dry food and water.

The donkey also brought a lot of fodder, which was all cut and prepared the day before.

The sixty-mile journey took nearly three hours in a hurry and slowly.

When we arrived at the reservoir, we saw a lot of people standing by the reservoir, hundreds of them.

The county magistrate was sitting under a tree, waiting impatiently. When he saw Song Sanshun arriving, he waved someone to bring him over.

Song Sanshun led his little niece to the county magistrate and saluted: "I have met the great master."

Magistrate Zhao hummed and was a little displeased to see that he was bringing a child with him: "You went into the reservoir to explore the water source, why did you bring a child with you?"

Song Sanshun didn't dare to tell the truth and said vaguely: "Don't worry, sir, we won't delay things."

"In that case, you go down to work quickly." Magistrate Zhao wiped the sweat from his forehead with a handkerchief, took a sip from the water bottle handed over by the clerk.

Song Sanshun clasped his fists, carried his little niece behind his back, and led a group of men down to the reservoir.

There is actually water in the deepest part of the reservoir, but not much. It is about the same as the pond in Songjiacun.

But this amount of water is of no use at all. It will only be visited once or twice by wild beasts in the mountains. It cannot be released to irrigate farmland or feed the people in the county because it is too far away and the water level is too low.

A group of people brought by County Magistrate Zhao watched Song Sanshun lead a dozen people down to the reservoir. Some people couldn't help but secretly sneer: "Whose bad idea was this? What's the point of letting a group of villagers enter the reservoir to find water? What's wrong with us here? Without mountains, how can we really find a spring that sprays water in a reservoir?"

"No." A pot-bellied squire agreed: "If they can really find some water source, I would like to spend hundreds of dollars to invite everyone here to have a meal at Baiweizhai in the county."

Although the officials standing around Magistrate Zhao did not dare to question the Lord's decision openly, they all whispered and complained about Magistrate Zhao's move.

"Did you get sick and seek medical treatment in a hurry? As soon as you thought about it, you actually called a few people who didn't know what you were talking about."

"Shh, please speak softly. I heard that these people are very good at digging wells. Taiping Township and Tieniu Town rely on the water from those wells, so I invited them here."

"Are wells and reservoirs the same thing? Do we still expect them to dig reservoirs as wells? It's really ridiculous."

"That's right, today I want to see how they find water sources?"

As the sun got hotter and hotter, everyone hid under the trees near the reservoir to enjoy the shade.

Song Sanshun took a dozen people to the innermost water source of the reservoir and stood there.

I heard my little niece say: "Uncle, let me down."

Song Sanshun had no choice but to put his niece down.

Changan stomped on the soil under his feet and said, "Uncle, dig it."

Song Sanshun complied, picked up the shovel and started digging. A dozen of his companions came over to help.

After a while, they dug a pit more than ten feet square.

"Okay, okay!" Chang'an took out a palm-sized clay statue and asked quietly in his heart: "Little Yuyu, can you fill this reservoir with water?"

As soon as she finished asking, the leaves on the small seedlings in her palm disappeared one by one and gradually melted into the clay statue.

Chang'an almost cried when he saw it.

Five of the ten leaves suddenly disappeared, and there seemed to be signs of decline.

Chang'an was so frightened that he threw away the statue.

The clay statue rolled down into the pit dug by the uncles, and then a steady stream of water poured out from under the clay statue.

Song Sanshun's eyes suddenly widened. Thinking of his little niece turning into water at home, he was so frightened that he picked up Chang'an and ran to the shore desperately: "Run!"

Everyone also saw water pouring out of the clay statue, and more and more water was pouring out, so they picked up their shovels, poles and baskets and ran away.

The water gradually filled the pit, and then spread in all directions, faster and faster.

Song Sanshun looked back and ran faster.

Gosh! Don't drown them in the reservoir!

A dozen people followed Song Sanshun, who were a little confused at first and didn't understand why the Sanshun brothers were running away.

When I looked back again and saw the water waves rolling in behind me, I was almost scared to death.

Mother! What's happening here? The underground fountain is not so crazy, right? Did they dig open the Water Dragon King's home?

Chang'an was excited and giggled.

Because the water seems to be connected with her own mind, she can go wherever she wants it to go. (End of chapter)