The village chief noticed that when Xiaomi smelled the smoke, she pinched her nose and paused, tapping the tobacco out onto a stone beside him, stopping smoking.
"Indeed, there aren't many people left; the main issue is that the water is not easy to manage."
Jiang Hu quickly asked what had happened.
It turned out that there indeed was water, but it was very deep, deeper than they had imagined!
The day they returned from the mountain, someone went to fetch water from there, but unfortunately, it was not as easy as they thought.
Tying a wooden bucket to a rope, it was lowered nearly ten meters but wouldn't move, and not a drop of water came up.
Everyone surmised that the opening below must be very small, so they switched to something smaller than the bucket to test how big the opening was.
"Only a bowl-sized opening, and they quickly made a small bucket this size, using nearly forty meters of rope to finally get water up."
