I Come to Teach You Cultivation-Chapter 92 - 4: Mountain God Reservoir (4/5)
Walking along the road paved with blue bricks, the middle-aged man’s eyes never stopped showing envy.
While blue bricks aren’t entirely unique in this era, it’s rare for a village to be extravagant enough to pave all its paths with them.
In most cases, being able to use bricks to build houses would already mean the village is fairly prosperous.
According to the middle-aged man’s understanding, it seems that the "Son of the Mountain God" improved the brickmaking process, making Li Family Village a renowned brickmaking hub nearby.
Unlike rice seeds that can be easily exchanged.
Li Family Village keeps a tight hold on the brickmaking process, seldom allowing outsiders to participate.
Even those who join the "Production Brigade" must go through layers of selection and testing to learn part of the process.
"Is that the completed ’Mountain God Reservoir’?"
Shortly after entering Li Family Village, the middle-aged man saw the dam in the distance, out of place for its era.
In this time when constructing a reservoir is considered a major project.
Such a structured, orderly, and massive dam is almost an unbelievable miracle.
When the middle-aged man first came to Li Family Village three years ago, he heard that the "Son of the Mountain God" wanted to completely solve the village’s reliance on Heavenly Time for subsistence.
Initially, the middle-aged man thought the "Son of the Mountain God" wanted to ask the Mountain God to redirect a waterway branch through Li Family Village.
What he never expected was for the "Son of the Mountain God" to mobilize hundreds of nearby villagers, working together for three years to build such a groundbreaking reservoir.
Although, surely, the full support of Li Family Village’s people for the "Son of the Mountain God" was vital.
It shows that the "Son of the Mountain God" is different from past priests and wizards.
He obviously prefers using his wisdom to rally the mountain people to solve actual problems together.
The key is that the "Son of the Mountain God’s" approach can be replicated.
If the villages near Li Family Village can unite and spend three years building a "Mountain God Reservoir."
Why couldn’t other regions’ villages build their reservoirs in a similar manner?
"Yes, that is the ’Mountain God Reservoir,’ but it is not completely finished yet."
Gazing complexly at the distant dam, Xiao’e evidently knew more about this point than the middle-aged man.
From the start of the reservoir’s construction, Xiao’e was continually in contact and negotiation with the old village chief of Li Family Village.
To coordinate relations among the major villages and to prevent the reservoir’s construction from impacting the water use of upstream and downstream villages.
"This isn’t considered complete!?"
Seeing the water pipes and channels branching from the reservoir to various terraced fields, the middle-aged man’s face showed disbelief.
The middle-aged man, an expert in agriculture, could naturally see the function of these water pipes and channels.
Storing water during the wet season and releasing it during the dry season...
Ensuring that crops in the terraced fields have abundant water for irrigation at any time.
If his own village had such a reservoir, the middle-aged man wouldn’t worry about whether they would have enough to eat next year.
"The ’Son of the Mountain God’ is different from us ordinary people."
"Though he built reservoirs and channels, he never considered them only as reservoirs and channels."
"In the ’Son of the Mountain God’s’ vision, storing water and irrigation are merely the most basic purposes of this reservoir."
Hesitantly glancing at the middle-aged man, Xiao’e, recalling Li Boyang’s ultimate plan for the reservoir, followed up to explain.
"It’s not just us humans who live in these mountains; there are also other wise spirit monsters."
"The ’Son of the Mountain God’ doesn’t want our conflicts to escalate, so the reservoir also serves functions like flood control, breeding, and even improving the ecological environment..."
Perhaps aware that these terms would be difficult for the middle-aged man to understand, Xiao’e used simpler, clearer language.
"Have you heard of the Human-faced Fish?"
"They’re those four-clawed fish with human faces."
"They live near water and have extremely stringent water quality requirements, so their numbers are very rare."
"But ever since this reservoir was built, every winter, Human-faced Fish swim through the migration channels into the reservoir and stay until the next year before leaving."
"Some mountain spirits and wild monsters, who can’t find water during the dry season, also choose to stay near the reservoir."
Hearing this, the middle-aged man’s face showed even more obvious shock and confusion.
"Aren’t the ’Son of the Mountain God’ afraid they will attack the village?"
Shaking her head gently, Xiao’e spoke with assurance.
"No, they not only don’t attack the village, but even intentionally or unintentionally protect this reservoir."
The mountain spirits and wild monsters of this world are not purely beasts.
The intelligent ones among them can be as clever as humans.
The establishment of a large reservoir, for this region, brings only benefits and no harm.
Moreover, most of these spirit monsters have connections with the Mountain God and River God, and know exactly who led the establishment of this reservoir.
Whether it’s the sword-wielding, land-splitting Red-haired Ghost God, or the revitalized Feilai Peak Mountain God...
They are not entities that ordinary mountain spirits and wild monsters can recklessly provoke.
They naturally choose to abide by the rules and order established by these two "great gods."
Isn’t it just favoring humans a little more?
These mountain spirits and wild monsters can fully accept it; after all, similar events have occurred before.
"But what if..."
Opening his mouth as if to speak but hesitating, the middle-aged man clearly still found it hard to accept this reality.
After all, the middle-aged man’s village had recently been attacked by a mountain monster, so he had no goodwill toward the mountain spirits and wild monsters in the forests.
"There’s no what-ifs; those mountain spirits and wild monsters don’t dare run wild here."
As Xiao’e finished speaking, the two formally entered the residential area of Li Family Village.
Then, the middle-aged man saw strong young men working in the fields, and from time to time, caught a glimpse of children playing and romping.
Compared to the emaciated mountain people, these young adults and children appeared particularly strong.
Especially the girl in the lead, playing with a butterfly knife. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝓮𝒘𝙚𝙗𝒏𝙤𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝒐𝙢
The sinewy muscles covering her body exuded a different kind of beauty for the era.
"I told you, this isn’t a place for you to fool around!"
Easily picking up a clawing boy with one hand, the girl leaped out of the fields.
The nearly two-meter-high terrace seemed nonexistent to her.
As for the youths working nearby?
They simply watched and laughed at the scene, some even mocking the boy for daring to challenge the girl’s authority.
This scene was clearly just daily life in the village.
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