In the blink of an eye, only a pop was heard, followed by a splash. Lu Yao subconsciously closed his eyes, and before he even had time to close his mouth, he fell into the ditch.

What Lu Yao didn't expect was that the water in the ditch was actually not bottoming. He fell in and sank for a long distance, without his feet touching the bottom of the ditch.

Fortunately, he could swim, and in a panic, he used a dog planing style, using both hands and feet, and flapped a few times, and his head was exposed to the water. He exhaled the water from his nostrils, took a deep breath, and swam toward the ditch.

Lu Yao grabbed the vines and weeds on the edge of the ditch with both hands, climbed up to the edge of the ditch, and lay down under the root of a pine tree and gasped for breath. The four vicious dogs on the opposite side stood in a row on the edge of the ditch, still barking wildly at the road. As if in a demonstration against him, they defended their territory as a team, beating the invaders into a desert, and they emerged victorious.

After his breath smoothed out a little, Lu Yao checked the things on his body. The glass bottle containing half a cup of tea smashed into several vicious dogs in a panic, and I don't know if it was broken. Even if it wasn't broken, he didn't dare to look for it in the vegetable garden opposite, these vicious dogs were really a little terrifying. The straw hat was still floating on the water, and it seemed that it was hanging from a branch, so it did not go down the river. The dripping clothes and pants were still intact, and there was no damage in sight. What made him particularly uncomfortable was that the rubber shoe on his left foot fell off.

Because he was almost hit by Fang Fang's Harley in the morning, he fell to the freshly watered green belt in a panic, and his clothes, shoes and socks were all covered with mud. After he returned to the shed to change and wash, he found a pair of old rubber shoes under Wu Jingsheng's bed. At lunchtime, Wu Jingsheng said that he wore spare shoes to work on the construction site. Although it is one size larger, as long as you tie the shoelaces a little tighter, you can still cope with it. Now that I have lost one of Wu Jingsheng's spare shoes, I am barefoot, how can I climb the mountain to find a job?

He thought about it carefully, and before the ditch, the rubber shoes were still wearing on his feet, and he must have stepped on them when he was splashing in the water. Anxious, he quickly stood up and looked into the ditch for a long time, but he didn't see the rubber shoes.

He reached out and touched the pocket of his jacket, but fortunately, the hundred yuan that Wu Jingsheng lent him last night was still in his pocket. He didn't bother to pay for the water to dry first, he had to find a long branch, scoop up the straw hat, and quickly return to the small shop in the shack area, buy a new pair of rubber shoes to wear, and then go up the mountain to find a job.

Lu Yao saw a dry branch lying in the woods not far away, more than a zhang long, just enough to catch a straw hat in the water, and he walked towards the dry branch with his bare left foot.

He had only taken four paces when he stepped on something unusually hard in the center of his left foot, as if it had been pierced into the flesh, and a piercing pain hit him, and he couldn't help but let out a scream. He bent down and raised his left foot in pain, and it turned out that a ceramic piece had been pierced into the center of his foot, and the blood had stained the porcelain piece red.

He quickly sat down against the root of a tree, his left hand tightly grasped the ball of his left foot, and the thumb, index and middle fingers of his right hand pinched the porcelain piece covered with blood, gritted his teeth, and pulled it out vigorously. The moment the bloody porcelain piece was pulled out of the center of his foot, his whole body trembled violently, and the pain made him grin and break out in a cold sweat.

He endured the severe pain, quickly cleaned up the debris and dust from the wound, immediately put his left foot on his right knee, and then pressed the wound tightly with the thumb of his right hand to stop the bleeding.

Five minutes later, Lu Yao felt that the wound was not bleeding much. He looked sideways at the stones and tree trunks beside him, and he saw a layer of white powder sticking to the stone under his right foot. He plucked a tree, laid it under the stone, picked up a dry branch, carefully scraped off the white powder from the stone, and poured it all over the wound.

Injured and bleeding in the wild, this powder is particularly effective in stopping bleeding. When he was working on the farm in his hometown, his hands and feet were accidentally cut by a sickle or something else, and if he sprinkled a layer of this powder, the bleeding would soon stop.

He untied his belt again, preparing to tear off a strip of cloth with his teeth and bandage the wound. He thought that he would have to walk barefoot and that he would have to tie the wound a little tighter, so he wrapped the ball of his foot with the entire belt.

Because Lu Yao was too thin, each of his pants was loose on his body. Without the belt, the pants would fall down. Of course, this problem is not difficult to fall to Lu Yao, who grew up in the mountains, he pulled two handfuls of hay on the ground, picked out the harder grass stalks and threw them away, and then rubbed the soft hay in his hands a few times, which was a very flexible straw rope, tied to the two loops in front of his trousers, very firm.

Now the pants won't fall off, and the wound doesn't hurt so much. He grabbed the trunk of a pine tree beside him with both hands, slowly stood up, limped to the dry branch with his wounded left heel, bent down to pick it up, and walked towards the ditch.

He came to the ditch, took the trunk of a pine tree in his left hand, held the dry branch in his right hand, and hooked the straw hat that floated on the water to a place on the edge of the ditch where he could reach it with his hands. He supported himself on his right leg, slowly squatted down, and reached out to scoop up his straw hat, only to see something in the water rise to the surface of the water, and then move slowly down the water.

He fixed his eyes on it, and it was a shoe. He hurriedly lay down on the edge of the ditch and reached out to scoop up his shoes. That's right, the galoshee that fell off his left foot.

Overjoyed, he rolled over and sat down on the edge of the ditch and took off the rubber shoes on his right foot. After draining the water from both shoes, he squeezed the water out of the uppers of both shoes and exposed them to the sun.

Although the four vicious dogs on the opposite side have not left, they are no longer barking, but just snorting and glaring at Lu Yao, as if they are guarding against Lu Yao and swimming over.

"Come on, come and bite me! One day, you will be stewed and eaten by the bad guys!" Lu Yao roared angrily at the four vicious dogs on the other side of the drain.

He was eager to wait for his wet clothes and galoshes to dry before he hit the road. But his desperate desire to find a job kept urging him: he can't delay any longer, he must stand up and find a job quickly.

He broke the dry branches, leaving the thickest section as a crutch, which could also be used as a dog beating stick. Since the water in the rubber shoes has not yet dried, the freshly bandaged wound should not touch the water. He untied the shoelaces of his rubber shoes, knotted the laces of the two shoes, hung them on the branches of his crutches, and then walked with the cane to an orchard behind the mountain.

When it was almost dark, Lu Yao walked out of a chicken farm halfway up the mountain, and he was in a very happy mood at the moment. Because the owner of this chicken farm told him to come over tomorrow for a trial work, and if he was qualified, he could stay. I have food and housing every month, and the basic salary is 120 yuan. The whole month is endless, plus ten dollars of full attendance award.