It was already noon when Li Xuejian carried the water to the mountain beam where the slope was located, and the stalemate between the water and the wolf made him seem to be dozens of years old, and his dry and sparse beard stretched a lot overnight. He couldn't walk anymore, so he put down the bucket and rested on the beam.

The blind dog heard the footsteps and staggered towards the beam. When it was still three or five steps away from Li Xuejian, it suddenly collapsed on the ground and could no longer walk. Li Xuejian said to the blind dog: "Climb here, I can't walk a step." The blind dog climbed two steps, but could not climb anymore, and his eyes were full of tears. Li Xuejian comforted: "I know you are thirsty and hungry, but it's good to live." The blind dog was silent and looked at the sun. Li Xuejian's body trembled, and he hurriedly asked, "Maize is dead?"

The blind dog lowered his head and tears flowed down his eyes. Li Xuejian couldn't sit still, and walked towards the shack step by step. The camera switches back and forth between subjective and objective. At this time, the subjective lens adopts a shallow depth of field with a slight false focus, which makes the picture a little blurry, and perfectly presents the fatigue and tension of the ancestors.

Li Xuejian walked to the scaffolding, the camera cut a big close-up, his expression was changing clearly, panic and despair were like ink smudged on rice paper, making his whole face coated with a layer of desperate black gray. The audience clearly felt the despair in his heart, and everyone's eyes widened to know what had happened to the corn.

Subjective shot, in the scorching sun, the corn leaves are not green at all, and even the green and white leaf tendons have become dry and burnt yellow.

In the medium shot, Li Xuejian sat paralyzed on the ground, and the whole person collapsed completely. In the close-up shot, Li Xuejian seemed to want to speak, opened his mouth, but couldn't make any sound. In the subjective shot, the withered yellow corn leaves sway in the wind, but there is no sound, as if the whole world has died. In the close-up shot, Li Xuejian's eyes are extremely hollow, and he can't see any brilliance at all. In the big panorama, Li Xuejian sat in the field and looked at the corn, alone. The camera pans into the air, and the sun is like a knife.

Many of the audience at the scene had moist eyes, feeling that hope had been punctured like a bubble, and all the efforts and persistence were now meaningless. Some viewers muttered, "How can this be?"

In the medium shot, Li Xuejian slowly raised his head and looked at the corn, the dried corn leaves swaying in the wind. In a close-up, Li Xuejian's eyes suddenly brightened. Subjective shot, with a touch of green on the back of a corn leaf at the top. In the medium shot, Li Xuejian suddenly got up and turned over the corn leaves. Close-up, there are still silky thin green spots on the back of the leaf, and the pockmarks are scattered like stars in the cracks of the dry spots. There is also a trace of water vapor flowing slowly in the tendon of the bow-like leaf tendon. If you look at the back of the other leaves, you can also see more or less green.

The audience exhaled heavily, and the joy rippled in their hearts, the corn leaves were not yet dry, and there was still salvation!

Li Xuejian walked briskly towards the mountain beam, walked a few steps, and then turned back and took a bowl. When we reached the hillside, the blind dog was still slumped on the ground. He scooped out a bowl of water, put it in front of the blind dog's mouth, and said, "The maize is still alive, bring the bowl back when you finish drinking." ”

The camera switched, Li Xuejian came to the corn with water, lay on the bucket and poured saliva, pulled the corn leaves, and sprayed the water out. A scorched yellow spreads a dewy green. He sprayed seven mouthfuls of water in a row, like a rainstorm for seven days and seven nights, and washed the leaf thoroughly. After the leaves turned scorching green, Li Xuejian carried the bucket next to the corn and scooped water into a bowl to wash the corn leaves one by one. When the fourth leaf was washed, the blind dog came back from the beam with the bowl in his hand. It placed the bowl under the scaffolding and came over and stood next to Li Xuejian's legs. Li Xuejian asked: "Are you still thirsty? There is a spring, you can drink it." ”

The blind dog shook his head and touched the corn leaves with his front paws. Li Xuejian comforted: "Ye Zi is still alive, you can relax." The blind dog lay down with a long breath of relief beside Li Xuejian's legs, and the expression on his face was soft and stretched.

When Li Xuejian went to scoop up water, he saw a black thing like a bad eggplant not far behind the blind dog, and when he looked closely, it was a dead mouse. Looking up again, he saw a few still lying there in the circle. When I looked outside the table, I saw seven or eight of them dead in a mess, each of which was red like jujube skin and had holes bitten by teeth. Li Xuejian barked at the blind dog and asked, "You bit the mouse?"

The blind dog took Li Xuejian's hand and pulled it to the root of the corn. The corn root has a mouse-bitten mouth, and the juice flows out of the mouth, and when it is exposed to the sun, it condenses into a drop of blue-yellow gelatinous ball.

Li Xuejian stroked off the glue ball with his hand, touched the blind dog's head again, and said softly: "Blind, thanks to you, I will be born as you when I am detached as an animal in the next life, and you will be deborn as my baby when you are detached from being a human, and I will let you be safe and secure for a lifetime." ”

And the blind dog cried, and he couldn't stop crying. Li Xuejian wiped it on its eye sockets, took a bowl of water and put it in front of its mouth, and said softly: "Drink, drink enough, in the future, when I go to fetch water, you will have to guard the maize." ”

The dried corn finally came to life, and the green on each leaf expanded. However, the food problem was put back in front of Li Xuejian and the blind dog, the cloth bag was completely empty, and they had nothing to eat.

The camera cuts to the slope, and Li Xuejian digs a pit in the ground with an iron. After digging the pit, he stirred the remaining corn powder with water, put it in a bowl, put it in the pit, and lured the rats over. That night, he caught thirteen mice, skinned them by the moonlight, boiled them, and ate them.

The next day, Li Xuejian dug dozens of urn-shaped pits on the hillside, with a small mouth and a large belly, and the pit wall hung overhang, so that as long as the rats jumped away, they could no longer jump up. In the evening, he smashed and boiled a dozen corn kernels from the field, boiled them until the fragrance spread in the four fields, put the corn soup into the pit, and then slept on the scaffolding with peace of mind. In the morning, there were several, if not a dozen rats, in each pit.

More than half a month passed, and the corn stalk suddenly swelled up, and a thumb-like corn cob appeared. Li Xuejian stood in front of the corn and said with his hands dancing: "Blind man, do you think tomorrow will this ear look like a rolling pin?" The blind dog saw that he was happy, and licked and itched his leg with his tongue. Li Xuejian stroked the dog's back and said with a smile: "Maize takes a month and a half from ear to autumn ripening, how can it grow overnight." ”

The camera switched, and Li Xuejian walked to the corn with water. As he was watering the corn, he suddenly noticed that the corn cob spit out tassels, milky white tassels emerging from the top of the corn cob, like a child's fetal hair. He stood in front of the spike for a moment, and said with a smile: "Autumn is almost ripe, blind, have you seen it? ”

The camera cuts to the blind dog, which eats the rat skin it peeled yesterday by the ditch. Li Xuejian said: "Isn't it dirty? The blind dog was silent and walked towards the rat pit. Li Xuejian followed and took a look, and his face suddenly changed. The camera cuts to rat pits, where there is only one mouse in dozens of rat pits. When the camera came back, Li Xuejian's close-up shot, he muttered: "Five the day before yesterday, four yesterday, and only one today." All the rats on this mountain ridge have been caught!"

The camera switches, on the beam of another mountain, Li Xuejian is digging a pit with a hoe. He dug a dozen rat pits, and put a few corn kernels in each pit to lure the rats to eat. The next morning he went to the pit to catch rats, and half of the pits were empty, and there were only one or two pits with rats.

The rats became more and more difficult to catch, and eventually they could no longer be caught. Li Xuejian and the blind dog ate less and less, and became thinner and thinner, until in the end they were so thin that they were out of shape, as if a gust of wind could blow them away. A Chinese reporter couldn't help but say: "Teacher Li is so thin, I can't bear to look at it!"

When there was still the last mouse left in the rat pit, Li Xuejian decided to pick up the last load of water while he still had the strength on his body. This load of water was enough for him and the blind dog to endure for a few more days. He didn't expect rain, but he expected to stay up until autumn ripeness, and broke the cob of corn.

Li Xuejian went to carry water in the middle of the night, and came back in the afternoon of the next day. He carried the water to the mountain beam and rested until dusk. He didn't have the strength to carry the water to the bottom of the tank, so he decided to boil the last mouse and eat it, and then come back to fetch water. But when he arrived at the rat pit, he found that the rat had disappeared nowhere, and there were blind dog footprints in the pit, as well as scattered rat hair and blood stains.

The audience knew that the mouse should have been eaten by a blind dog, and they all sighed slightly.

Li Xuejian squatted on the edge of the pit until the moon came out, stood up, looked at the smoke shadow moving in the moon, and said softly: "It's okay to eat, I can tell you that in the future, you will either treat me as a meal and live with maize, or I will treat you as a meal and live with maize." Li Xuejian returned to the mountain beam and carried the load of water back with difficulty.

The blind dog was lying under the shed, heard Li Xuejian's footsteps, stood up, and seemed to want to walk towards him, but silently took a few steps back and lay down on the entrance of the maize table.

Li Xuejian put the bucket on the side of the tank, opened the mat to see the water in the tank, and said softly and slowly: "Blind, come here." ”

In the moonlight, the blind dog struggled to stand up, took a step forward timidly, and sat down in the direction where Li Xuejian was sitting, the sparse hair on his back trembling slightly, like a child who had made a mistake and was waiting for his parents to punish him.

Li Xuejian turned his gaze to the distance and said softly: "Blind, you don't have to be afraid, just eat, I don't blame you." He turned his head to look at the blind dog, and said, "There is something to say to you, there is not a grain of grain in this hundred miles, there is not a single mouse, and after three days, you and I are so hungry that we have no strength to speak, and if you want to live, eat me as food, and guard this maize, and when the people of the village come back, they will bring them to break this tassel; ”

He sighed and said, "Blind, the matter is up to you, if you want to live tonight, leave here tonight, hide wherever you want, and when you come back in three or five days, I will starve to death." After saying this, he burst into tears and wiped it on his face with his hand.

The blind dog stood motionless, and when Li Xuejian finished speaking, he slowly bent his front legs down, his hind legs were still straight, and his long thin head was raised high, looking at Li Xuejian silently. It knelt down for Li Xuejian.

After kneeling, the blind dog got up, walked slowly to the stove, arched the lid of the pot with his mouth, fished out something from the pot, walked towards Li Xuejian, and put the thing at Li Xuejian's feet. It was a mouse, covered in bruises, and the blood was all in the flesh, unlike Li Xuejian's gut-opening and stomach-breaking like killing mice, and the blood was about to flow out. Li Xuejian picked up the ball of purple meat and looked at it, and the blind dog's tooth marks were as dense as honeycombs on the meat.

Li Xuejian knew that he was wrong to blame the blind dog, so he sighed and said, "If you say you will eat it, you don't need to leave it for me." ”

The blind dog lay on the lap of the master, rested his head on the feet of the master, and whined in his mouth.

Countless viewers at the scene burst into tears instantly, and the softest place in their hearts was hit by a blind dog, it was really sensible. But everyone knows that now that the food is gone, the rats have also eaten up, and there is nothing left to eat, and the ancestor and the blind dog are afraid that they can only live by eating each other, and this is what everyone does not want to see, desperate and vicious gnawed at the hearts of the audience.