Journey to the West: Break the entire Western Heaven!-Chapter 355 - 10 Digging One’s Own Grave

No sooner had the voice faded than Tang Caiyi snatched the torn cheque fragments away. Although Tang Caiyi could not read characters, she understood the word "cheque," and more importantly, she recognized numbers!

She stretched out her fingers and pieced together the shredded remnants of the cheque, focusing on the numerical part, and then counted them one by one, after which she burst into tears.

"What’s wrong now, girl?" asked Tang Sanzang.

Tang Caiyi wailed, "Dad, this is a cheque, a ten million yuan cheque! And you’ve torn it to pieces... it’s gone, all gone! It might even be more than what’s in the card!"

Tang Sanzang was stunned; he was so frustrated. If he had known these two worthless scraps were so valuable, he would never have destroyed them.

So there they were, a grown man and a little girl squatting in the vast desert, weeping together in heartbreak.

...

However, what was done was done.

Tang Sanzang, with a generous heart, and Tang Caiyi, although pained by the loss of the money, showed the strong will characteristic of a poor man’s child and toughed it out.

But Tang Caiyi also set three rules with Tang Sanzang: once they had money, it must be entrusted to her care!

Owing to his prior mistake, and indeed, his lack of understanding of this world, to prevent wasting heaps of money again, Tang Sanzang agreed.

Thus, Tang Caiyi officially became the family’s little piggy bank... marching down the road of wealth obsession!

After allocating their duties, Tang Sanzang once again turned his gaze to the desert; to revive Tang Seng, he had to plant trees.

He lacked Divine Skills, so if he wanted to plant trees, it had to be done the old-fashioned way, one tree at a time. But then a problem arose.

"Dad, planting trees requires water, and the groundwater here has been almost completely pumped out, what little remains is polluted... To plant trees, we would have to fetch water from fifty miles away, at Willow Town," Tang Caiyi pointed out one of the significant hurdles they faced in tree planting.

Tang Sanzang didn’t care about the mere fifty miles; he could leap back and forth hundreds or thousands of times in a second.

What he cared about was that distant waters can’t quench immediate thirst; it’s better to rely on oneself than on others, and what others have is not as good as having one’s own!

So, clenched fist in hand, Tang Sanzang said firmly, "Girl, remember this, what others have is not as good as what we can provide ourselves. We must solve the water issue on our own!"

Tang Caiyi looked troubled and said, "It’s easier said than done, dad. You had someone investigate before, there’s no water within a thirty-meter range beneath us, we must dig deeper, maybe a hundred or two hundred meters, or even more.

More importantly, we’re not even sure where the water is at such depths...

And hiring professionals to handle it would be very costly. If the card or the cheque hadn’t been destroyed, we might have considered it, but now, it’s just not feasible..."

The mere mention of the words "card" and "cheque" now gave Tang Sanzang a headache.

He quickly said, "Isn’t it just digging a well? Why hire someone? I can do it myself!"

Tang Caiyi looked at Tang Sanzang with doubt, but her eyes clearly conveyed the message: "You can’t do it!"

Tang Sanzang’s temper flared instantly, and rolling up his sleeves, he declared, "How hard can it be to dig a well? Isn’t it just digging a deep hole? Just watch me work!"

After speaking, Tang Sanzang turned and punched straight down at the ground.

Almost simultaneously, Tang Caiyi leaped up and grabbed Tang Sanzang’s leg.

Having learned her lesson from being thrown by a previous shockwave, the little one had picked up a new life-preserving skill.

Sure enough, the next moment...

Boom!

A loud explosion!

Dust filled the sky, and sand swirled in the air!

At the same time, a huge pit appeared on the earth, ten metres deep and just as wide.

Tang Caiyi looked at the giant hole, then shook her head and said, "Dad, we need to dig a well, not a hole. Also, there’s no water in this pit..."

The comment wasn’t very hurtful, but the insult was severe, what do you mean there’s no water in this pit?

Tang Sanzang said, "Not strong enough, let’s put more effort into it. If we dig deeper, there’s bound to be water!"

Then Tang Sanzang threw another punch!

Boom!

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But alas...

Tang Caiyi glanced over and said with a pout, "Dad, there’s still no water."

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Tang Sanzang’s temper flared up as he rolled up his sleeves and said, "Hey, with this temper of mine, I refuse to believe that I can’t dig up a well!"

Boom!

Another punch, and the pit was punched straight down a hundred meters into the earth!

But alas...

"Dad, you sure are ’good with water’," Tang Caiyi said blandly.

Tang Sanzang was so frustrated, but with the reality being so unyielding, there was nothing he could do.

"We must be in the wrong spot, let’s go somewhere else to dig a well!" Having said that, Tang Sanzang leaped to the ground, picked another spot, and prepared to continue digging.

Tang Caiyi, in her infuriatingly calm and nonchalant tone, said: "Dad, remember, you’re supposed to be digging a well, not a hole. Also, if you keep this up, we won’t need that lousy boss to do anything - you’ll have demolished our village yourself..."

The fist Tang Sanzang held high suddenly couldn’t come down.

His strength was indeed terrifying; he could even control the force of it, but focusing that force into a single point and sending it straight down in a cylinder rather than dispersing it to form a wide pit – that was tricky.

At least, Tang Sanzang couldn’t remember how to do it.

Just then, Tang Sanzang saw some excavation tools discarded around the village, including hoes and iron shovels...

Tang Sanzang’s eyes suddenly lit up; he rushed over, grabbed a hoe in one hand and an iron shovel in the other, and then laughed heartily, "Girl, it’s just a well, how could it stump me? Watch this!"

Having said that, Tang Sanzang swung his arms left and right, sending soil flying everywhere, and indeed quickly dug a vertical well over ten meters deep in the blink of an eye!

Tang Sanzang stood in the well, laughing heartily, "Just digging a well, what’s so hard about that!"

The next moment, with a thunderous crash, the well collapsed.

Boom!

The ground exploded, and Tang Sanzang, along with Tang Caiyi, burst out from underneath.

Tang Caiyi coughed violently and said, "Dad, we agreed on digging a well, why did you dig a grave instead? And bury yourself in it?"

Tang Sanzang’s face turned beet red, and for a moment, he was at a loss for words.

However, with this experience, Tang Sanzang gained some know-how.

So he set Tang Caiyi aside and began digging on his own. That way, it didn’t matter if it collapsed; if it didn’t, he would just keep digging...

And so, Nanfeng Village seemed to have been raided by a groundhog spirit, pits everywhere, with occasional bursts of soil and sandstones coming out from them.

Meanwhile, the village’s already scarce stock of iron tools was being rapidly depleted...

The next day, as dawn was breaking and she perched on the rooftop, viewing the village full of pits with hardly a place to set foot, Tang Caiyi lamented, "Dad, you’ve finally turned our village into an ancient tomb all by yourself..."

Just then, an excited voice came from the west side of the village, "Girl, water! We’ve struck water!"