Chapter 157 Xu Qiuyue's Plan
In the morning, Xu Qiuyue found that there was a long circle of people lined up outside the pond.

Although Wuming is half disabled, he is still a man.

Naturally, it is impossible to let Xingzhu do the task of fetching water.

But after he fetched a few buckets of water, his arms felt a little sore.

Xingzhu couldn't bear it because the speed was slow and the people had to wait in line longer and stand longer, so Xingzhu stepped forward.

If these people were asked to fetch water themselves, it would be too slow.

I don't know how long I have to wait in line.

Xingzhu came from a poor family, so naturally she sympathized with these ordinary people.

Xingzhu was very serious when fetching water.

When Xu Qiuyue offered to help, Xingzhu refused to let her help.

Chunzhu and Qiuxiang also wanted to help, but their abilities were limited.

In the end, Xu Qiuyue and Xingzhu took turns to replace each other, and the speed became a little faster.

"Thank you girl!"

"Girl, I have plenty of strength, let me do it!"

Some men saw that it was too hard for Xingzhu and Xu Qiuyue, a girl, to fetch water, and offered to help.

They also knew that the guards had worked hard digging the well yesterday.

Overnight, the well turned into a pond.

Listen to what the county magistrate says.

It seems that they are planning to dig this into a lake.

We will solve everyone’s water problem in these three days, and you can queue up for another day tomorrow.

You can't queue up the day after tomorrow.

So in the past two days, there have been a lot of people queuing up.

But I heard that the county magistrate plans to ask a witch to purify the sea water, and then everyone can boil the sea water and drink it.

Even if you can't drink it, you can use it for bathing or something like that.

Seeing that the other party was determined to help, Xu Qiuyue let him try it. However, Xu Qiuyue would not let the other party help for nothing. She planned to reward him with a bag of snacks later.

Xu Qiuyue also had some free time, and she began to look carefully at the site chosen by Lu Yuan.

There is nothing wrong with this place. If there really was no water, the grass and trees here wouldn't be so lush.

Where there is grass and trees, there must be water.

So, why can't we dig out water?

Why is there no water in the North City?

There must be something wrong here.

Also, fishermen say there are sea monsters in the North Sea.

What exactly is a sea monster?

Many years ago, when people from the imperial court came to collect pearls, there were no sea monsters in the North Sea.

So now, why are there sea monsters in the North Sea after the water shortage?

Xu Qiuyue only slept for an hour last night.

Xu Qiuyue was actually a little sleepy, but for her great martial arts skills, a little less sleep was not a big deal.

But now the North City is in a state of disrepair.

Xu Qiuyue hopes that Lu Yuan can stay in North City for a long time.

In this way, we can avoid all the disputes in the capital.

The capital is not peaceful now.

Assassins can easily sneak into the Qiuyue Banquet.

He could even kill the prince easily.

Xuan Jiuqing was forced by Emperor Sheng to marry a dancer, but afterwards, he began to regain his trust in Xuan Jiuqing and began to entrust him with important tasks.

Xuan Yi became the crown prince and sat in the Eastern Palace.

But the responsibility of regent was not in his hands, but in Xuan Jiuqing's hands.

Xu Qiuyue knew without thinking that Xuan Yi and Xuan Jiuqing must be fighting fiercely at this time.

Although Xu Qiuyue had left the capital, she still knew something about what was happening there.

In this life, her destiny will no longer depend on anyone else.

Her fate will only be in her own hands. So Xu Qiuyue will start to come forward now and slowly win people's hearts.

If Lu Yuan is really unreliable.

Xu Qiuyue already has a new idea.

She will become the new pirate king of the North Sea.

It is precisely because of this that Xu Qiuyue came out to show up in public.

Stealing water is never a bright thing to do, so Xu Qiuyue must be wearing a mask.

In fact, the number of people coming to fetch water today is not as many as yesterday.

Because there are four to five thousand people working at Lu Yuan's construction site.

Road construction is also being carried out simultaneously.

Just building a house doesn't require so many people.

This also allowed Xu Qiuyue to see Lu Yuan's financial resources.

It is not easy to transfer so much food from other towns.

Lu Yuan directly promoted a new county lieutenant today. This lieutenant was also from North City. He was a very young man with great strength. His surname was Niu and his name was Niu Dali. He had just turned sixteen years old.

I heard that he was born with supernatural powers and only learned martial arts roughly in the military camp.

I don't know many words.

But Lu Yuan chose to promote this person.

Because young people have passion in their hearts.

Lu Yuan could win over this person with just a little promise, and let him bring soldiers to help transport supplies in.

Even the monthly allowance was not increased by a single cent.

However, the migrant workers were given an extra meal.

Their relatives can join the migrant workers and work for free. They are treated the same as other people, eat the same food, and do not receive wages. They have to work for ten days before they are paid.

The only difference is that other migrant workers, as long as they are young people and the soldiers' family members, as long as they are able to work, can go to work and their treatment is exactly the same as that of other people, regardless of age.

Just this one thing made these people work wholeheartedly for Lu Yuan, and they would even take the initiative to go to the construction site to help maintain order and eat with everyone.

Because everyone eats the same thing.

It's not exactly the same. Those who go to work usually only have two pieces of meat.

All of these soldiers had a spoon full of braised pork.

But the spoon is very small, and a full spoon only holds about ten pieces of meat.

Then he used wood to build a simple wooden table and a row of benches.

The officers and soldiers had tables to sit and eat.

Generally they don't sit down, preferring to hold their bowls and food and sit on the floor to eat with their family.

That's what Chen Fa is like.

The braised pork in his bowl was piled on top of the vegetables, and it looked particularly abundant.

It’s not that Chen Fa doesn’t want to sit down and eat.

Instead, his wife and daughter sat on the pile of rocks to eat.

He prefers to eat with his family.

"Chen Fa, why do you have so much meat?"

Heng Niang was a little surprised. She was worried that Chen Fa had used some means to get so much meat.

There were only two pieces of meat in her bowl.

There were also two pieces of meat in Ranran's bowl, but the aunt who served the food was very nice to Ranran and even gave her an extra spoonful of broth.

"We worked hard digging a well last night. The county magistrate gave us extra food. The people in the barracks also had so much meat. Look at them."

Chen Fa pointed at the person next to him.

Many people choose to stay and eat on this stone land.

There are many officers and soldiers here to maintain order, because they are worried that someone will steal other people's food.

So everyone chooses to eat here.

There were also some people who did not eat here. Those people were strong and healthy and were not afraid of anyone snatching their food away.

The inspection here is very strict. If anyone is found stealing other people's food, they will be immediately kicked out of the construction site.

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