Quick Transmigration: Cannon Fodder Female Supporting Character Reaches the Pinnacle of Life

Before nightfall, they finally reached the nearby county town, but the disaster there was so severe that they could not get much food or water.

They rested at the government-run hotel arranged by the commune, just as usual.

Perhaps only Qiu Tong and her younger brothers received better treatment, with slightly larger rooms arranged for them; everyone else had to squeeze into one room.

They often sleep outdoors, and are already quite content as long as they have a place to sleep.

Compared to their military campaigns, they are now living a very comfortable life.

If it weren't for the fact that there were women and children in the team, they would have preferred to take the easy way out and just sleep in the wild.

People from Tangjia Village, lacking a letter of introduction from the commune, were generally not allowed to stay in the county town. If caught by the police, they would be driven directly out of town.

Food is scarce everywhere now, and when the police catch people without a letter of introduction from the local commune, they can only throw them out of the city.

Otherwise, if they are imprisoned and fed, where would they get so much food to provide for them?

Many poor people in county towns even commit crimes on purpose to avoid starvation, just to be locked up and eat free prison food.

Led by people from the commune, Wang Shaoyu went to the local post office and asked them to send an urgent telegram to the relevant department.

Early the next morning, they received a reply telegram from Beijing, along with new tasks assigned to Wang Shaoyu's team.

The telegram indicated that it agreed with Qiu Tong's suggestion.

They also allowed Wang Shaoyu's team to continue protecting Qiu Tong, so that she could be free from the locals' interference and focus on her research on the water-saving and drought-resistant rice she mentioned.

The higher-ups took Qiu Tong's suggestion about water-saving and drought-resistant rice very seriously, finding it very reasonable, and thus granted all her requests.

They will arrange for people to go to nearby counties and villages as soon as possible to bring over enough rice seeds for Qiu Tong's research.

The only condition is that Qiu Tong must produce results in her research; otherwise, she will bear all the consequences of failure alone.

When Wang Shaoyu saw the message, he frowned. Although he knew the instructions from above were correct, he still felt uneasy seeing that Qiu Tong would bear all the consequences alone.

Qiu Tong received a reply but did not care about the punishment that would follow her failure.

The various implantation plans implanted in her mind are the culmination of many years of human effort, the result of step-by-step research and practice by our ancestors, how could they possibly fail?

Besides, she has the advantage of the advanced technology brought by the magical city in her spatial dimension, so there's no way she can fail.

Having received confirmation, Qiu Tong went to the commune in the county town to check on the nearby villages that had suffered severe disasters and famine.

She plans to select a village and requisition the land for research on drought-resistant rice.

However, one condition must be met: there must be groundwater flowing nearby.

Qiu Tong then had Xiao Fu implant geological knowledge into her mind, and she studied topographic maps to find areas with large amounts of groundwater flowing through them.

So even if the ground there is dry, there is still water underground that they can use.

Qiu Tong plans to dig a well to irrigate her crops. If she digs the well deep enough, she can access groundwater.

This is impossible without extensive geographical knowledge.

Fortunately, Qiu Tong has the bug that Xiao Fu has, so she can acquire knowledge effortlessly.

Although it is drought-resistant rice, it still needs water for irrigation, but the amount of water required is much less than that of rice grown in the past.

Once Qiu Tong used her knowledge to analyze which village had abundant groundwater, she led everyone there without stopping.

The people of Tangjia Village, who were still waiting in front of the county town gate, were unaware that their target had already left from the other side.

Previously, they would wait in front of the county town gate, and the next day Wang Shaoyu would lead Qiu Tong and the others to leave through the same gate.

They still thought so this time, and even when the sun was high in the sky, they still didn't see Wang Shaoyu bring his men out.

Wang Shaoyu might consider them and give them a ride sometimes.

But now Wang Shaoyu's top priority is Qiu Tong's safety, and getting rid of these Tangjia Village people is a decision made after careful consideration.

Wang Shaoyu asked Qiu Tong about the villagers, and Qiu Tong answered honestly.

When he learned that they had some friction with Qiu Tong, he resolutely left the county town through another exit.

Anyone who threatens the research must be excluded from the team.

The people from Tangjia Village often caused trouble on the road, making things difficult for Wang Shaoyu.

Having spent these days with them, he had long seen through the character of the people in Tangjia Village. He felt no guilt about leaving them behind, since it wasn't him who had asked the villagers to follow him all the time.

The place Qiu Tong chose was indeed desolate, so desolate that all the local villagers had fled. It took Qiu Tong and her group more than a day to walk there.

She chose this place not only because there is underground water flowing deep underground, but also mainly because it is desolate enough.

She inquired with people in the commune and learned that the drought here was severe, and most of the villagers had fled to other places.

The people who remain in the village now are mostly elderly.

The elderly people in every village are unwilling to leave their homes, preferring to die there rather than flee the famine.

Qiu Tong happened to need some help with the planting, which is why she chose this place.

The location is remote, and what they are doing is not so easy to be revealed.

Qiu Tong knew that if word got out about digging a deep well, people all over the country would follow suit.

Over-exploitation of groundwater can disrupt the ecological balance, turning over-exploited areas into barren, arid regions.

The reason these places are so dry now is because of drought.

As long as groundwater remains deep underground, these places will eventually return to their original state once the drought is over.

The lessons of history are still fresh in her mind. Qiu Tong does not want to become a sinner for all time, so she can only keep the secret and conceal this method of extracting water.

She didn't want to take the people of Tangjia Village with her, and that was because she knew their character all too well.

If they find out, they will definitely spread the news about digging the well.

So when Wang Shaoyu asked her about the Tang family villagers, she was cautious and said that they all had a grudge against her, and she didn't want them to continue following her.

Just as Qiu Tong had guessed, Wang Shaoyu immediately abandoned them and left the county town through another gate.

They arrived at the place called Caihua Village several days later.

This place used to be famous for its rapeseed flowers. Before the drought, the surrounding counties all got their rapeseed flowers from here.

Because of the abundant groundwater here, the rapeseed flowers grow lush and vibrant, and you can tell at a glance that they are sweet and delicious.

Now the land here is cracked and parched, and no one is moving around in the village. It is estimated that the remaining people are too hungry to move and are waiting to die at home.

Qiu Tong didn't care about anything else right now. As soon as she arrived at the location, she plunged headfirst into the ground.

Find the tools for tilling the land in the nearest empty house, pick them up and start clearing the land.

She wanted to loosen the soil first. Actually, she mainly wanted to grab a handful of soil, take it back, and use the instruments in her space to check its composition and see if it could be used to grow rice.

Not all land is suitable for growing rice. If she finishes digging the well only to find that the soil is not suitable for growing drought-resistant rice, then all her work will have been for nothing.

We should test the soil composition first, and then choose a location to dig a deep well.

No one understood why Qiu Tong wanted to loosen the soil first, but since she was an expert, they just followed her lead.

Seeing Qiu Tong start loosening the soil, the others also put down their luggage, found tools, and worked hard. Even Aiguo and the others joined in.

After loosening a patch of land, Qiu Tong told everyone to stop. She only wanted to check the soil; she didn't actually intend to reclaim the land.

Once she got what she wanted, she let everyone go and prevented them from suffering any more.

They casually settled into several empty houses in a row. After Qiu Tong entered the room, she immediately took out the instruments from her spatial storage and began to examine the composition of the soil.

Fortunately, the soil here is very suitable for growing rice, otherwise Qiu Tong would definitely have gone to the next alternative region.

Since the land in Caihua Village is suitable for growing rice, the next step is to select a site and dig a well. Once the seeds arrive, seedling cultivation will begin.

On the fifth day after they arrived in Caihua Village, the seeds finally arrived.

At this time, under Qiu Tong's command, a deep well had already been dug in Caihua Village.

Originally, no one was optimistic about Qiu Tong's well-digging project. The place was so desolate, how could a new well be dug?

No one knows how shocked they were when water started gushing out of the well.

From then on, these soldiers treated Qiu Tong with more respect than they treated their captain, Wang Shaoyu.

Even Wang Shaoyu no longer dared to underestimate her. Compared to his initial indifference, his interactions with Qiu Tong now carried a tenderness that he was unaware of.

With Wang Shaoyu's help and the availability of water, the elderly in the village have recovered a lot and are able to get out of bed and walk around.

Knowing that Qiu Tong and the others were using their land to research drought-resistant rice, they spontaneously came to help.

They didn't know that Qiu Tong had dug a well here, and they thought that the water was brought in from outside.

The old man was grateful, so he helped with the farming to repay their life-saving kindness.

Qiu Tong didn't intentionally hide the well; she wanted to observe them to see if they were trustworthy before telling them.

Not all elderly people are kind and honest; some are selfish and self-serving. Qiu Tong is afraid that there might be such people among these elderly people.

Only after confirming their trustworthiness did Qiu Tong reveal the existence of the well to them.