Chapter 11: The Village

The barking of dogs finally led people out, and just as Canghai was about to ride a motorcycle and continue walking towards the village, a young figure flashed out of the village.

The person who came out nodded at about twenty years old, with a stupid face, first drank the group of dogs, and then looked at the sea with blank eyes, wanting to say something, but there seemed to be a fear of strangers.

Canghai looked at it for a moment, then opened his mouth and smiled: "Ping'an, why don't you even recognize your second brother Cang?"

The person who came is called Hu Ping'an, the eldest grandson of Hu Shijie, the director of the old village, who is about twenty-six or seventeen years old this year, and is a little mentally handicapped at birth, and he can't say a complete sentence when he is a teenager.

Fortunately, Hu Ping'an is not the kind of martial madman, he has a gentle personality, and there is nothing wrong with him except for being stupid.

It's just that Hu Ping'an's dress is not clean now, the sleeves of his clothes are oily, the original family is not too rich, plus he is a fool, mentally defective, and his parents naturally care less, originally when Canghai left home, he was dressed like this, who knew that when he came back in almost ten years, he was still dressed like this.

"Second Brother Cang?"

Hu Ping'an looked at Canghai for a while, and felt that his big black dog came to rub his pants, so he squatted down and hugged the big black dog, rubbing the dog's head with his head, and continued to look at Canghai who was riding on a motorcycle and wearing bright clothes with a confused look.

"I'm your second brother Cang, the second brother Cang who took you to the big set before!"

Canghai said to Hu Lai'an.

"Second Brother Cang!"

After a while, Hu Ping'an remembered who the person in front of him was, Hu Ping'an stood up suddenly, and asked excitedly: "Second brother, where have you been all these years, Ping'an misses you so much!"

While crying, the little boy walked to Canghai's side, grabbed Canghai's shaft with one hand, and kept wiping tears with the other.

Because he is a fool, the adults in the village generally ignore Hu Ping'an, and some bad boys still want to tease him from time to time, so that there is no big malice, but these boys think it is fun to bully him, the only difference is Canghai, who is willing to play with Hu Ping'an, so from childhood to adulthood, Hu Ping'an's dependence on Canghai is almost from his father and mother to Canghai.

"Boy, grow taller!"

Canghai didn't dislike Hu Ping'an either, and stretched out his hand and touched his oily head.

"Second brother, they bullied me again when you left, Shuangwazi, Shunwazi, they bullied me yesterday......".

Seeing the sea, Hu Ping'an seemed to want to pour out all the grievances he had suffered over the years.

Hearing Hu Ping'an say this, Canghai suddenly couldn't cry or laugh, because Hu Ping'an remembered wrongly, none of the people he said were in the village now, most of them were working in the south, where would they have time to come back and bully Hu Ping'an, besides, the youngest he said was twenty-five or sixteen years old, where would he bully Hu Ping'an like a child.

For a person with mental defects, it is not easy to explain this matter, and the more he explains, the more chaotic it becomes, so Canghai said: "Then wait for the second brother to have time to clean them up!"

Hearing Canghai say this, Hu Ping'an immediately broke into tears and laughed, but he grabbed Canghai's sleeved hand and still didn't let go.

Seeing that Hu Ping'an and Canghai were so enthusiastic, several dogs in the village quickly quieted down, and one by one they no longer had the arrogant hao just now, and they hung their heads and shrugged their ears and lay down at random, staring at Canghai with a pair of dog eyes and continuing to look.

Pushing the motorcycle, Hu Ping'an pulled his cuffs, and Canghai walked towards the village.

The structure of the village here is not like an ordinary village, here is like a step, every family lives in a cave, but now because no one lives in the village, so it seems that many of the caves that originally lived in Canghai are dilapidated, most of the doors and windows are scattered, and some of the kilns have collapsed because no one has lived for a long time.

"What about the grown-ups?"

Came to the entrance of his own long cave, Canghai found that his estimate of home was a bit high, although the original two old caves of his house have not collapsed now, but it looks like it is not suitable for people to live anymore.

set up a motorcycle at the door, Canghai turned his head and asked Hu Ping'an, where did the people in the village go.

"Ah Da, they went back to the water!" Hu Ping'an said.

As soon as he heard about the backwater, Canghai understood, and the people in the village went to fetch water.

Children in the east may not have much feeling for water, but here, water is quite a precious thing, when Canghai remembered, there was still water in the well in the village, but when he was in high school, the old well in the village dried up, and there was no more water, and if the whole village wanted to eat water, they would get water from a well ten miles away.

The water bucket on the car is welded together by two discarded large oil drums, which can hold more than a ton of water at a time.

Usually, all three or four water trucks in the village go together, and the whole process of taking water is not possible in two or three hours.

In addition to the time spent on the road, there is also the time to fill water, so there is no water machine or anything, if you want to get water, you have to rely on manpower to scoop a scoop, even if it is a bucket of water taken out in this way, it is mixed with a small half bucket of mud, and it has to be precipitated before it can be drunk. Even after the precipitation is finished, it seems that the water smells like sand when you drink it.

Canghai, who came back this time, naturally wouldn't drink such water, this kid had already stored no less than ten buckets of pure water in the space, not to mention drinking, a small bath was enough.

Let Hu Ping'an hold his sleeve, Canghai pushed open the door of his own cave, just a slight force, Canghai heard a click, subconsciously jumped back, and when he raised his eyes again, he found that the door of his old cave had been broken, and at the same time, a musty smell came to his face.

When the dust at the door dissipated, Canghai found that the bed in the cave, the cabinet and the other were almost five or six centimeters of ash on the area, not only the ash was accumulated, but the whole kiln was covered with cobwebs.

With a wave of smoke and dust, Canghai walked into the kiln and began to look at everything in the house, in fact, there were not many belongings in it, it was originally a poor village, and the furniture was just a table, a cabinet and a large bed, even so, the big bed was still broken, only three legs, and the other leg was supported by a few broken bricks.

After looking at the things in the kiln, and then looking at the top of the kiln, a palm-wide slit was very domineering, and after a glance at Canghai, he felt that his old kiln had no meaning to repair.

Looking at the home in his memory, Canghai couldn't help but smile bitterly, he was originally going to clean up the old kiln and live in it first, but now he found that this wish blind is not feasible at all, so the first task at the moment is to open a new kiln.

There are also advantages to the poor countryside, the advantage is that there is a lot of land, where to dig where you want, no one cares, so Canghai went out to walk around, and he has already decided the address of his new kiln, almost 20 meters away from the old kiln, Canghai decided to spend money to find someone to build a new kiln, and push the front of a large platform of more than 200 square meters.

Canghai likes this place very much, because there is no one below, how to toss and how to toss, not like the old cave, there are two kilns of the Li family below, the place where they can move is not big, how to say it has to take into account the impact on the neighbors, but there is no such worry at all, not only can you level out a large terrace, you can also level out a vegetable garden below, and you can also plant fruit trees and the like a little farther away.

Of course, these are all afterthoughts, and if you want to do this, the first thing to solve is the problem of water sources. In the past, the problem of water source was extremely difficult to solve, but now it is not a problem for Canghai at all, the so-called water in the furnace of life in the space, that is the introduction, the knowledge obtained from the shadow, Canghai knows that it only takes a little bit, which is enough to rejuvenate the original decayed old well.

It's just that Canghai is not ready to take it out now, because there is no reasonable explanation for this thing, and it is too scary.

Thinking about all this, Canghai returned to the old kiln mouth, stood at the kiln mouth and looked around, all the eyes were all yellow fluttering pieces, because in winter, the original scattered drought-tolerant plants have lost their previous colors, so now Canghai sees in addition to the blue sky, is a undulating loess mausoleum, as if it wants to fill the whole world, and extends to the end of the vision and the sky is mixed together.

Just when Canghai was enjoying the 'beautiful scenery' of his hometown, suddenly a donkey's cry dragged Canghai's thoughts back.

Without waiting for Cang Huo to turn his head, Hu Ping'an, who had been following Canghai Nian, suddenly became happy, raised his feet and ran in the direction where the voice came.

While running, he shouted at the top of his voice: "Ah Da is back, Ah Da is back!"

Following behind Hu Ping'an, Canghai also walked over with a smile on his face, and after a while, he saw a few old people leading livestock and pulling three water wheels, slowly walking towards the village.