Others are fleeing famine, but I am a salted fish

After working under the scorching sun for more than half an hour, we finally dug up some water.

When he was pulled up, Er Gouzi was exhausted. Besides being tired, he was also hungry. His stomach was protesting loudly, and his pale face had an unusual red color.

He lay weakly on the ground, gasping for breath like a dying fish. After a long while, he said weakly to everyone, "You guys get the water first, I'll wait for you to get some."

It's a strange person who pretends to be generous even though he is thirsty. If it were someone else, he would have gotten water first and would not have given water to others.

No one said anything. Since Ergou was a simple and honest person, they couldn't bully him. They just had to wait for the water filter to be ready and leave some clean water for him.

With water, the girls continued to work in a divided manner.

Chen Xiaocao was in charge of going down to the pit, collecting the water in a basin and passing it up, while Chunxing stood outside the pit to collect the water in the basin and pour it into the wooden barrel. Time after time, the two of them carried the water up little by little in a relay race.

On the other side, Lin Xiaoyue took Lin Zhaodi to place stones collected nearby into another large wooden barrel.

This wooden barrel was made in the cave at that time. At Lin Xiaoyue's request, Old Man Lin used the big tree that Lin Xiaoyue carried back violently to replace the water tank to store water.

Thinking back to that time, when Lin Xiaoyue watched Old Man Lin making a wooden barrel, she curiously asked him why he was not afraid of the barrel leaking.

Her question made the whole family laugh, and then Miao produced a small jar of tung oil like a magician.

Later I learned that applying tung oil can prevent water leakage. If the wooden barrel is cracked, just nail another piece of wood on the outside to prevent water leakage caused by the cracks.

Lin Xiaoyue secretly sighed: The wisdom of the ancients really cannot be underestimated.

The two took turns to lay stones at the bottom of the barrel, laying several layers of stones densely, and then poured in small stones and coarse sand in turn. When it was almost full, the two took over and pressed down with all their strength. After compacting it, they poured in fine sand and charcoal. After everything was done, they laid another 10% of fine sand, and then covered it with a layer of coarse gauze.

Such a simple yet complicated set of procedures made the two of them exhausted. The key point is that they did not stop after finishing one, and filled the wooden barrel with the same method. Lin Xiaoyue took out from the space, which is a plastic barrel with a capacity of 20kg for waterproof mortar.

Before taking it out, Lin Xiaoyue carefully tore off the outer packaging sticker to ensure that the source would not be exposed. As for the plastic bucket, it was not a product of this era. There were only two buckets at home, and there was no point in having one more, so she took out the plastic bucket without caring.

Since the Lin family had doubts, she would just push the blame onto Mo Xuyou, the "god".

As for Doctor Qiao and Chun Xing, even if they were curious, they were not the type to talk too much or pry into other people's secrets.

Of course, even if they asked, Xiaoyue wouldn't tell them.

After everything is ready, it’s time to witness the miracle!

Everyone witnessed with their own eyes that Lin Xiaoyue poured a bucket of khaki-colored water mixed with mud into a large water filter bucket. Soon the water sank into the sand and disappeared, leaving only a thick layer of silt on the gauze.

Lin Xiaoyue asked Xiaocao to collect more water, and she received it from above. After filling a bucket, she poured it into the filter bucket. Lin Zhaodi stood by with a small piece of wood, and when the silt accumulated to a certain level, she would scrape off the silt with the wood chip.

Bucket after bucket, soon everyone saw a stream of water gushing out from under the filter bucket. At first it was still yellowish sewage, but after a while, the water became clear, and it became more and more transparent and brighter.

"This, this is..." Ergou, who didn't know what was going on, pointed at the water gushing out from the bottom of the wooden barrel, and was so surprised that he couldn't speak clearly.

Doctor Qiao and Chun Xing's eyes were sparkling, as if there was light hidden in them. They hurried forward and wanted to reach out to take a handful and drink it.

Lin Xiaoyue asked Lin Zhaodi to hold the two of them, and she went over to move the plastic bucket to the location where the water came out of the big wooden barrel.

Yes, she has to filter it twice.

It's not that she was doing something unnecessary, but this yellow and severely polluted water obviously contained no less than hundreds of microorganisms and bacteria.

Even after filtering and purifying twice, Lin Xiaoyue could not guarantee that all bacteria and viruses could be filtered out. In this era, drinking dirty water could cause stomachache or other diseases, which could be fatal.

This is also the reason why Lin Xiaoyue only dared to let her family drink the mineral water stored in the space.

After the water came out after being filtered twice, Lin Xiaoyue no longer stopped Doctor Qiao and others from going forward to get the water.

Several people washed their hands with clean water, took a handful and put it into their mouths, "Oh my god, look, such clean water, there is no earthy smell at all, it's so clean."

"Doctor Qiao, this water tastes just like the well water in our village, refreshing, cool and sweet."

Doctor Qiao was not polite. He took out a bowl from somewhere and put a bowl of water in front of the water outlet. The water was clear and sparkling, which made people feel comfortable. He raised his head and drank it all in one gulp. Doctor Qiao sighed happily.

It has been a long time since I could drink such clean water. It is so difficult.

Seeing that Lin Zhaodi and Xiaocao also wanted to move forward, Lin Xiaoyue did not stop them, nor could she stop them. There were outsiders present at the moment, and even if she did not want the Lin family to come into contact with the filtered water, it was not easy to say it out loud.

I can only remind you loudly, "Don't rush to drink it, boil it before drinking, it is cleaner and more hygienic."

Doctor Qiao was a doctor. Even though there were no such things as microorganisms, bacteria, and parasites in that era, he knew that boiled water was cleaner and more hygienic than raw water, so he asked everyone to go back and get containers for water.

After finally getting some clean water out, I have to take as much as possible back home and store it, at least so I can have a few more meals.

Upon hearing this, Lin Zhaodi and a few others ran back.

Lin Xiaoyue did not follow and just sat there. She was not short of water and was too lazy to run back and forth. In such a hot day, she would sweat a lot if she ran back and forth.

Besides, even if she pumped the water back, she would only let her family use it for washing. She would secretly replace all the water they ate with mineral water from the space.

Otherwise, I won’t feel at ease.

Not to mention the adults, the fourth and fifth children are still young, with weak stomachs and poor resistance. We have to be careful. If the two little kids get caught with some serious disease, it would be worrying and distressing.

"Well, Dr. Joe."

"Is something wrong?"

"Well, can we let the people in our village get some clean water as well?" After the initial surprise, Ergou remembered the situation in the refugee team and embarrassedly asked Dr. Qiao for his consent.