The whole family traveled through ancient times with their house

"Who said that? Isn't he afraid that my brother will come to him in his dreams in the middle of the night and scare him to death?"

"Don't scare my grandma. She said that. It seems like my grandpa said that too."

Yin Jiu: "Can we still have fun together?"

"sure!"

"That's right. If I don't keep an eye on you, you might get bullied by others because of your stupid behavior."

Ming Qi: "How dare someone bully her? You'd better kick that person into the Forgotten River."

"As if you don't kick that man over the Naihe Bridge."

Listening to the two of them bantering, Jiang Yan was unusually well-behaved and just stayed there without saying a word.

Fortunately, at the critical moment, Yin Jiu was still able to distinguish the big and small kings, and stopped arguing with the boss in time.

Seeing that the two had stopped bantering, Jiang Yan continued, "Brother, little brother, this spring water rushes down and falls into that small pool, wasting it all. If this spring water were redirected eastward, it would benefit the people in this area."

Ming Qi didn't even look at her. For the first time, he scolded Jiang Yan: "Stupid, why don't you take a pickaxe and dig a little further east of the spring, and that'll do it."

"Wow, big brother is really smart. He thinks differently from me, an ordinary person."

Ming Qi looked at Jiang Yan's face, which was even more exaggerated than Yi Chen's, and felt that he couldn't bear to watch it anymore. He turned around and went about his business. But he was still happy in his heart.

Yin Jiu felt a little uncomfortable. The boss was very smart, but what about him?

Jiang Yan was already used to Yin Jiu's pettiness, so before he could show it, she immediately made amends: "Brother, you're smart too. If you hadn't reminded us, we really wouldn't have remembered this."

With just this one sentence, Yin Jiu's mood immediately took a nine-level turn.

After watching the dizzy man leave, Jiang Yan took out an iron pickaxe from home, found the right angle, and controlled the strength before digging towards the east side of the spring.

The first hit didn't seem to have much effect. Jiang Yan didn't give up, and continued to hammer away at the pickaxe.

During this period, I had to control the strength, for fear that I would use too much force and collapse the rock into a fountain.

Alas, only you know how it feels.

In this way, Jiang Yan dug bit by bit for about half an hour, and finally dug out a gap on the east side of the spring.

Finally seeing hope, Jiang Yan dug harder and more carefully, as she didn't want to fail.

There was one thing she hadn't expected: the mountains had a strong echo, and the sound of her digging the rocks with a pickaxe could be heard from far away.

Not to mention Ye Zhan and his daughter, even the soldiers who were digging trenches and those near the western mountain heard it.

The soldiers who heard the sound didn't know what was going on, so they quickly reported it to General Ming. General Ming came over to listen carefully and found that it was indeed the sound of someone chiseling the mountain wall.

He felt a little uncertain. He didn't know who made the sound, and the key was whether it was an enemy or a friend.

General Ye had a different idea from General Ming. He was sure that the sound was made by his daughter-in-law.

I just don’t know why my daughter-in-law is chiseling the mountain wall?

However, he couldn't let the people present feel uneasy, so he expressed his guess.

When General Ming heard General Ye guess that the person who chiseled the mountain wall was Madam Jiang, his heart suddenly settled down.

"Then, should we ask Madam Jiang why she wants to carve the mountain wall?"

"Okay. But we have to find someone with a loud voice to shout, otherwise I'm really worried that Madam Jiang won't hear us."

"It's easy to find someone with a loud voice. Let's get the messenger Wu Tieniu over here. That guy has the loudest voice. I can hear him shouting from a mile away."

Jiang Yan soon found out about Wu Tieniu's joining the "Hanshan" group.

She would not be like a fool and shout at them at the top of her lungs, but instead she walked lightly across the hill and landed on the slope.

"General Ming is looking for me?"

"Yes. We just heard the sound of chiseling the mountain wall. I wonder if it was done by Madam Jiang."

"General Ming, it was me who did it." Jiang Yan then told General Ming about their discovery of a spring. "The spring's outlet is in the south, and I wondered if we could dig a hole in the east side of the outlet so the water could flow eastward."

Madam Jiang's words made the soldiers tremble with fear.

General Ming even yelled at the top of his lungs: "Don't just stand there, start digging trenches!"

"Yes!!"

The soldiers' vigorous and unanimous response echoed in the mountains, which was truly inspiring.

Jiang Yan informed General Tongming and General Ye Lao, then went back to continue digging at the rocks.

Seeing Madam Jiang disappear into the forest again, General Ming finally felt more confident. He urged his horse to the foot of the hillside where Madam Jiang had just stood. He stared at her for a long moment before calling out to his two sons, Mingli and Mingtang, "Come on, both of you, follow me up to take a look."

"Yes."

When General Ye saw this, he followed him out of concern.

When they climbed up the hill, they could see Madam Jiang digging rocks with a pickaxe from afar through the gaps in the trees.

They could also clearly see the rushing spring water shimmering with a rainbow-like halo in the sunlight.

Seeing this scene, Mingli and Mingtang seemed to see hope.

"Father, what should we do next?"

"Call up some strong young soldiers, pickaxes, and dig along this crevice for me. Even if it takes a lot of digging, you have to dig a ravine for me that leads to the trench below."

"Yes."

With a clear goal, the soldiers are more motivated.

Soon, Jiang Yan saw General Ming personally taking the lead, swinging a pickaxe, and some soldiers even shouted slogans.

Jiang Yan: I didn’t expect that there would be people shouting slogans in this era.

General Ming led the troops, and even though they were tired, everyone persisted.

Fortunately, hard work pays off. Not long after lunch, Jiang Yan dug open the rock on the east side of the spring.

Looking at the spring water, it really changed its course to the east as she expected, and Jiang Yan finally breathed a sigh of relief.

General Ming watched the cascading spring water rush down, his eyes red with excitement. He immediately shouted an order, "Tell the soldiers digging the trenches below to speed up."

"Yes."

That night, the scouts who had gone to the first station returned with a report: "General, the northern barbarians' wagons pulling cannons are only two days away from Blackrock City."

General Ming nodded, then waved his hand to let the scout go down to eat and rest.

General Ming did not speak, and the generals sitting on the ground next to him did not speak either.

Until General Ming stood up, took the torch handed to him by his eldest son, and walked quickly towards the trench.

The generals also got up, not even bothering to brush off the dirt on their bodies, and hurried to follow.