I will lead the whole village to occupy the land and become the king.

"Uncle Meng?" Chen Shao's voice came from the corner, "Uncle Meng, are you back?"

Meng Tianze said angrily: "You little bastard, hurry up and pull me up!"

At this time, Wang Bo and others who were following behind Meng Tianze also caught up. Wang Bo took a few big steps forward and pulled Meng Tianze up.

"It's just a misunderstanding, Uncle Meng, don't be upset. Something big happened in the village during the few days you were away..." Chen Shao hurriedly stepped forward with a smile and described in vivid detail the incident of the police searching the village.

Meng Tianze was shocked and confused. "They actually came to search our village? Didn't we send the tax grain to the county government ourselves in the past?"

"How do we know why? Anyway, they did come, and there were quite a lot of them!" Chen Shao said excitedly now, but he was also scared at that time.

"Have all the things we placed in the ancestral hall been searched away?" This is what Wang Bo was most concerned about.

Without those supplies, the people in this village would be miserable. He joined the collective life in the village not to suffer with them.

Chen Shao laughed heartily, "They found nothing! We have our ancestors' blessing!"

"What's going on?" Meng Tianze was stunned and asked quickly.

The cellar in the ancestral hall was built by everyone, and it was not built in a hidden way. How could it not be found?

"Uncle Meng, you don't know this, right? Our ancestor really showed up this time. Those officials searched the ancestral hall for so long but found nothing. After they left and we went into the cellar, all the things were there in good condition!" Chen Shao smiled proudly.

Wang Bo's eyes widened in surprise. "Is there such a thing?"

Is it true that ghosts and gods really exist in this world?

"How could it be false?" Chen Shao glanced at him. For some reason, he just didn't like the eldest brother of the Wang family. He had never liked him since he was a child.

Meng Tianze believed it, and it was a good thing that nothing serious happened. He was so thankful that he slammed his leg and said, "I'm going to talk to the village chief first."

"What's the matter, Uncle Meng? Can I hear you?" Chen Shao followed immediately.

Now he feels that he is an adult and he has to care about the affairs of the village. He must not back down if he can help.

Meng Tianze said: "I can listen to it. Oh, yes, go and call A Zheng's wife. She will need your help in the end."

"Okay! I'll go right away!" Chen Shao disappeared in the blink of an eye.

At this time, other people in the village also gradually knew that Meng Tianze and his friends had returned. Those who were more concerned about the crops in the fields, such as Grandpa Jiang, hurried out of their homes, wanting to know as soon as possible how their search for the direction of the underground river was going.

Not long after, the villagers gathered at Village Chief Li's house again.

Jiang Qinyu was in the front, listening to Meng Tianze and Village Chief Li explain in detail what they had experienced underground in the past two days.

"...There's actually nothing down there. Any snakes, insects, rats, or ants we encounter are easy to deal with. We'll walk towards the village until we can no longer see any water."

Jiang Qinyu asked, "Brother Meng, do you know how far the nearest part of the hidden river is from the village?"

"That's what I wanted to tell you!" Meng Tianze was a little excited when he mentioned this. "You will never guess where the river goes to in the direction of our village."

Chen Shao quickly interjected, "Isn't it over there on the ditch weir?"

"You kid! You..." Meng Tianze pointed at Chen Shao with his hand, his face full of laughter and tears, "You guessed it right!"

"Ah? It really is the ditch and dam?" Chen Shao was dumbfounded. He just said it casually.

There is a pond outside Dingshui Village, which was dug by the villagers many years ago to store water. However, the soil on the nearby mountains is not good, and collapses or mudslides often occur. In recent years, Dingshui Village has abandoned that place.

Moreover, there has been drought in recent years, and the ditches and dams cannot retain water, so no one goes there.

"But that's not right, Xiao Meng. If the underground river reaches the weir, how could there be no water there?" Grandpa Jiang asked curiously.

Meng Tianze looked at him and said, "No, Uncle Jiang, I'm talking about the direction. The underground river hasn't flowed there yet. Moreover, when we discovered the underground river, it had already stopped flowing in some places. Isn't it still some distance away?"

"Oh, is that so?" Grandpa Jiang was a little confused.

Jiang Qinyu understood, "Brother Meng means that we should find a way to connect the weir and the underground river and divert the water from the underground river, right?"

"Yes, yes, yes, sister-in-law understands. This is exactly what I mean!" Meng Tianze said quickly.

Jiang Qinyu said thoughtfully, "Since the underground river is not far from us, we must find a way to divert the water out... But we can't divert it to the weir, it's too dangerous."

She still remembers that the eldest brother of the Jiang family took the road on the other side of the ditch and weir to take a shortcut and rushed back to the town, but was killed by a mudslide.

She couldn't improve the soil there in a short period of time, but she could find another way to allow everyone to use the water in the underground river.

"Sister-in-law, do you have any ideas?" Meng Tianze looked at her hopefully.

Jiang Qinyu's lips curled slightly, "We're diverting water from the underground river, mainly to irrigate the land, so let's build a canal from that direction to our land!"

As long as the water can be drawn out, whether it will be used for irrigation or to respond to natural disasters in the future is a matter for the future.

"That's a great idea, niece!" Village Chief Li said. "Building the canal will kill two birds with one stone. Besides, we have so many people, so we can build it quickly. It'll be just in time for watering the crops for the autumn planting!"

To put it simply, a simple canal is just digging a larger ditch. The subsequent finishing work can be put off until later. The most important thing is to ensure that the crops in the field have enough water.

Wang Bo interrupted, "I also think Mrs. Lu's method is good, but..." He looked at Jiang Qinyu with embarrassment, "After we came out from underground, we estimated the distance from the lower mountain to the outside. It's about a hundred meters. If we rely on people like us to dig..."

He was not trying to pour cold water on these people, but he wanted to open up a mountain that was about a hundred meters long. It was no small project and would definitely take a lot of time.

Jiang Qinyu heard this and just smiled without saying anything.

Meng Tianze chuckled and said, "Why don't I let my sister-in-law do this? Xiaobo, you don't know yet, your sister-in-law Lu can make something. That thing is so powerful that it can explode a hole when it is dropped on the ground!"

He mentioned the last time they were hunting, Jiang Qinyu had made explosives.

Village chief Li and others also recalled that incident, and the burden on their hearts was immediately lifted.

"Yes, yes, yes, what Azheng's wife made is faster than us digging a hole!"

"Sister-in-law, how did you make that thing? I remember it required charcoal, saltpeter, and... something else?"

"..."

As the discussion became more and more heated, Wang Bo looked at Jiang Qinyu with shock.