I am cannon fodder, but I can hug thighs

"No confidence?" Liu Zhengqing thought this was normal. Natural disasters were always catastrophic and no one knew how many people would die in one natural disaster.

Lin Jin asked herself if she was scared. She wasn't scared at all. She just wanted these hardships to be over as soon as possible. "When Chunzao goes back, I'll ask her to scold that damn girl."

Can’t you write a few more sentences, like the summer weather is good, the country is prosperous and the people are strong?

"Who are you scolding?"

"No, it's just a friend, just kidding. Keep turning the soil." Lin Jin smiled and shook her head, intending to bury Jiang Tingxue deep in her heart.

When people feel powerless, they will pray to gods and Buddhas, looking for spiritual comfort, seeking hope and a prospect. Regardless of whether what Zhongfu said was true or false, Lin Jin was indeed farming, and the appearance of Lin Jin undoubtedly gave the people hope.

Some people picked up hoes and went to their own fields, intending to plow the soil together so that God would see their sincerity and send down rain sooner. However, they had not eaten a full meal for a long time, and they could not rest and drink water to quench their thirst like Lin Jin and the others. Many people suffered from heatstroke one after another.

When Lin Jin heard this, she was stunned: "Everyone fainted?"

"Yeah, isn't this just making things worse?" The person who came to report slapped his thigh heavily, as if he was a little angry, and then looked at Lin Jin with some embarrassment, "Your subordinate, your subordinate asked someone to cook some sour plum soup to cool you down..."

Lin Jin quickly calculated the gains and losses in his mind, and smiled: "In the future, if there are more people helping to cultivate the land, I will prepare water for them to quench their thirst and try to make sure they have enough to eat."

Although the exchange rate is ten to one, if ten people cultivate one acre of land, they can exchange it for one acre of food. The food from one acre of land is enough for the ten people to eat for a long time. So, it is not a loss. On the contrary, the food shortage can be solved quickly.

"But we agreed that you can't be lazy." Lin Jin's eyes sparkled.

The officers were stunned when they saw that Lin Jin did not blame them, but asked them to take care of the food and water for the people. They said, "But we don't have enough food now."

"Enough! As long as they don't slack off in tilling the land, it's enough, but you can't tell them this directly. If they are willing to help, they can come, if not, forget it." Lin Jin said quickly, "If someone else goes to help with tilling the land tomorrow, prepare food and water."

She looked at Liu Zhengqing: "Brother, I feel that it is not difficult to grow crops on this land."

There is still a shortage of water. Only one faucet is enough to supply water to the entire city. At most, it can feed the people in the city. It is still a drop in the bucket for other prefectures and states.

Lin Jin now works on the farm during the day, and teaches Xing'er nursing knowledge at night. Xing'er already knows some medical knowledge, so it is not difficult for her to learn. Occasionally, if she doesn't understand something, Lin Jin will explain it to her in a few words.

"Young girl, what are you doing?" Xing'er fetched a basin of warm water to wipe her face. Because water was needed for farming, she could allocate water for Lin Jin to wash, but the water was not boiled, only warm.

She watched Lin Jin reading a book and drawing at the same time: "Is this a well? Even if there is a well, there is nothing we can do. All the wells in the city are dry."

"No, it's a map for groundwater exploitation." Lin Jin didn't want to use groundwater unless she had to, but her life was obviously more important now. She might not be able to see the end of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project for decades, so groundwater would be relatively simpler.

Even the extraction of groundwater requires certain techniques, which is her professional blind spot. She must check various information to avoid accidents among workers during the extraction process.

"Groundwater? What are you talking about, girl? Where is the water now? The ground is so dry." Xing'er sat aside, holding the nursing book given to her by Lin Jin.

Lin Jin smiled. The shallowest of their current wells is only a few meters deep, and the deepest is probably only twenty to thirty meters.

"There's no well that's twenty meters deep, and there's no well that's thirty meters deep either. How about fifty meters? How about a hundred meters?" Lin Jin had to solve the water problem no matter what. It was not easy to dig such a deep well, and there were no modern tools in this era. She had to be more cautious.

Xing Er thought about it and realized that she had never seen such a deep well before: "Where can I get such a deep well?"

"Yes. Even if it can't, I want it to work." Lin Jin supported his chin and continued to look at the information about deep water wells and how to find groundwater.

Xing Er still felt a little worried: "But... we can't draw water from such a deep well."

"Silly girl, the meat is right next to your mouth, are you still worried about it burning your mouth?" Lin Jin laughed, feeling much better, "As long as there is water, I can find a way to get it up."

If that doesn't work, she can make a first-generation water pump and tinker with a wind turbine, and everything will be fine.

Lin Jin knocked her head. She felt that there should be something else besides the water pump that could be used even without electricity. "What is it?"

[Is the host thinking of the old-fashioned water well? ] The system sensed what Lin Jin was thinking and quickly spoke to remind her.

"Yes! It's a pressurized well!" Lin Jin remembered that even without electricity, water from the deep well could be pumped up using only manpower.

"Water pressure well?" Xing'er's eyes were full of curiosity. "What is this?"

These girls are really getting better and better.

Lin Jin winked at Xing'er: "Good stuff, you will know later."

Some people fainted from heatstroke on the first day of farming, but even so, there were still people willing to go farming. This time they were not thirsty and hungry like before. Instead, someone brought them rice and licorice water.

"This, this is all for us to eat?" Several grown men looked at the full bowls of rice and swallowed their saliva, but their throats were dry and uncomfortable.

"That's right. Madam heard that you fainted yesterday, so she specially asked for this to be prepared. You know, Madam herself doesn't eat so well." The official's face was full of words that you should be content. "Since you are going to help farm, you are not allowed to be lazy. Don't let Madam down."

If Lin Jin knew that the official said this about her, she would really feel ashamed. She also wanted to eat better and eat more, but she still owed the system some land to be plowed, and she didn't know how long the food would last. How could she dare not eat more? She would feel guilty if she ate a little more.

Last night, Liu Zhengqing had people put up black cloth on the fields here to provide shade. A group of people had their first full meal after such a long drought. Looking at the black cloth above their heads, several of them secretly wiped their eyes.

When the people behind heard that those who went to farm had eaten their fill and had water to drink, some of them immediately became dissatisfied, asking why they could only drink porridge to fill their stomachs.

"No, why should we do this? Didn't they say there is not enough food?" A man immediately threw the bowl and was about to go to the county government to argue.

"Where are you going? Do you think you can get ahead of these officials? Aren't you afraid that they will get angry and not even give us the porridge?" His accomplice next to him immediately grabbed him.

Someone immediately expressed his opinion. He felt that it would be bad to make trouble like this: "But didn't the lady make a deal with the gods? All these were earned by farming. If we go to the lady to make trouble like this, will the gods think we are not sincere? What if, what if, we anger the gods like this? Then wouldn't we be sinners in Taiyuan Prefecture?"

The food and water we finally got were hard to come by. If they were cut off again, how would we survive?

Someone immediately came up with an idea: "Well, they can just go and farm and have a full meal, so we can go there tomorrow too."

"Yes, we'll go too. If he doesn't give us food tomorrow, we'll make a scene!"