"Right, what about the shared spring water? How do we share it?" Gu Qingcheng asked.
"The water source is free, but you need to spend 5,000 pleasant points to merge the spring water with your original existing water source. From then on, the spring water will flow continuously and endlessly.
Moreover, if the host spends 5 million pleasant points to purchase the permanent usage rights, even if the host no longer exists, the spring water will still remain."
Upon hearing this, Gu Qingcheng felt that the system was quite calculating, even arranging for her afterlife.
"Alright, you mean I can't just lie down and I have to work hard to earn pleasant points, right?"
Gu Qingcheng snorted coldly.
The system remained silent, clearly agreeing with Gu Qingcheng's statement.
After Gu Qingcheng calmed down, she realized that the appearance of the Mountain Cat Farm this time was a substantial benefit to her, especially the spiritual spring. In the face of the current potential for contaminated water sources, it provided a great guarantee.
At this moment, she checked her pleasant points. Fortunately, another villager had killed 50 zombies, and her pleasant points had reached 5,000.
Therefore, she spent these 5,000 pleasant points to merge the spiritual spring water with the village's mountain stream water source.
During this period, Gu Qingcheng's biggest worry was the water issue. Now that this problem had been solved, she could clear land and farm, and recruit new villagers with even more impunity.
Meanwhile, Zhang Yu, who was washing clothes by the pool below the village mountain stream, was happily washing under the moonlight.
Da Peng, who had accompanied her to wash clothes, looked at the clear, cool water and couldn't resist the urge to jump in for a swim.
By the time Zhang Yu noticed, it was too late to stop him. Da Peng, stripped down to only his cow-hide underpants, jumped into the water.
Zhang Yu couldn't help but chide him, "People come and go here. Be careful someone sees you."
"Heh heh, it's so late, who else would be here besides you and me?"
Da Peng said dismissively.
"Forget it, I won't bother with you anymore. Now, this water is getting less and less each day. In a while, I don't know if it will even reach your knees. If you can swim, swim while you have the chance. Perhaps you won't have another opportunity."
Zhang Yu sighed and no longer tried to stop Da Peng from swimming. In reality, she couldn't stop him anyway, so she simply let him have his way.
Upon hearing this, Da Peng ducked his head into the water and dove to the center of the pool.
This pool was formed by mountain spring water rushing down from the mountain. It was deep in the middle and shallow around the edges, making it unsafe for children to play in. Only those with good swimming skills like Da Peng dared to enter.
Da Peng was quite agile. After swimming for a while, he suddenly swam to the shore, stood up in the shallow water, holding a fish with shimmering silver scales, and said proudly:
"Wife, look, I caught a fish."
"Oh, not bad! Good skills. We can make soup for a late-night snack tonight."
Zhang Yu was also happy to see the fish.
Seeing his wife happy, Da Peng, wanting to make her even happier, threw the fish onto the shore and continued to dive for more.
Zhang Yu casually broke off a flexible branch, threaded it through the fish's gills, and strung the fish up.
At this moment, Da Peng tossed another fish onto the shore. This one was even bigger, weighing more than eight taels. After it landed, it was still wriggling.
Before Zhang Yu could string up this fish, Da Peng tossed another five-tael fish ashore.
Da Peng's skill in the water was truly not for show. He caught three more fish in a row, full of enthusiasm.
"Huh? Why are the fish so easy to catch? Is it because the water is shallow?"
Zhang Yu muttered.
"What? The water is getting shallower?"
Da Peng heard his wife say this. Once was one thing, but after hearing it several times, he also found it strange.
"Yes, logically, with floods everywhere, the water on our mountain should be even more abundant. But look here. This was the water level last month, and now it has receded to here. It's receding quite quickly."
Zhang Yu said with some concern.
"Oh, there's actually a clear waterline. I wouldn't have noticed if you hadn't said anything."
Da Peng looked closely when his wife mentioned it, and indeed, there was such a thing.
"Of course, you wouldn't notice. You don't come to fetch water and wash clothes." Zhang Yu gave him a sideward glance.
Since their marriage, Da Peng had been running around for village matters and hadn't helped much at home.
Being glared at by his wife, he knew he was in the wrong and chuckled sheepishly.
"If the water level keeps dropping, will our village people have a problem with water in the future? I need to talk to Young Master Gu about this."
Da Peng knew that the village's water was directly channeled from the mountain spring at the summit using bamboo pipes.
It was because the intake point was upstream that he dared to swim here. Otherwise, if this were the intake point, he definitely wouldn't dare to swim, as he would be cursed by the entire village for contaminating their bathwater.
"Anyway, the amount of spring water flowing down the mountain is getting smaller and smaller. It used to sound 'whoosh', but now it doesn't have the same momentum. What if there's no water? How will we live? I don't want to be a wanderer again."
Zhang Yu said worriedly.
"We've finally found such a paradise. I want to live here peacefully for the rest of my life, have a few chubby babies with you. There will definitely be water."
Da Peng said to himself.
Hearing Da Peng say this, Zhang Yu, being a newlywed with a shy disposition, blushed instantly. She scolded him, "You're shameless! Don't say such things here. If anyone hears, it will be too embarrassing."
"Hey, you're my wife, legally married, and we even have a seal from the village marriage registry. The village protects our legal relationship. What's there to be embarrassed about?"
Da Peng said righteously, and then he reached out to pull Zhang Yu into the water to play.
But at that moment, Da Peng suddenly felt his body lighten, as if he had floated upwards.
Da Peng thought it was an illusion, but at that moment, Zhang Yu was frantically moving clothes to the shore, along with the fish threaded onto the branches. She exclaimed, "Strange, why has the water level suddenly risen? It almost washed away the clothes."
Only then did Da Peng realize. Indeed, the stone where his wife had been standing was now submerged, and the water level had suddenly risen. No wonder he felt his body lighten – that was the sensation of the water level suddenly rising.
Before their eyes, the water level in the pool rose inch by inch. Watching the speed at which the water level rose, they thought it might be a flood, but suddenly, the rising stopped, and it didn't go any higher.
Zhang Yu looked closely and said, "How peculiar. The height the water reached is about the same as the initial water level of the pool. Look, the water has submerged the original waterline and isn't rising any further."
Da Peng felt that the pool had become much wider.
So, he dove to the bottom to check the situation. There was nothing unusual, and no new spring had suddenly appeared underwater.
Upon returning to shore, Da Peng casually remarked, "How strange. Could it be that because you were worried about the water level dropping and kept complaining, even the mountain spirit heard you? So it brought the water back?"