Huzi remembered that when she first went out, the stool was facing this shady place, but now it was directly facing the opening in the house, and when she saw the sunlight falling on it, she realized that something was wrong.

"Auntie is me!" Yang Xiuxiu walked out from behind the tree.

"Miss Yang, why are you here?" Don't blame Huzi for his mother, Yang Xiuxiu has been gone for so long, so many things have happened in the village, even if he is a fool at this time, it is impossible to come back, everyone wants to go out, but Yang Xiuxiu appeared here.

"That's a long story." Yang Xiuxiu herself didn't know how to explain her sudden appearance here: "Auntie, it's better to sit down and talk, and by the way, I also want to ask you about Huzi." ”

"Okay, you sit down first, I'll pour you some water to drink." Huzi and her mother nodded, listened to the bucket, and ran to the well in the house to fetch water, but Huzi and her mother hooked for a long time but did not see the water come up, Yang Xiuxiu felt strange in her heart: "Auntie, you sit down and I will help you fetch water, right?" ”

"No need." Huzi and his mother turned her head, looking at Yang Xiuxiu who didn't know when she came to her, and couldn't help but say embarrassedly: "I mentioned it, but you know that in this drought, the water is getting less and less day by day, and even the well water is a little difficult to beat." ”

Since Yang Xiuxiu didn't know anything about this matter, she pulled Huzi and her mother away, and went to the well by herself to look down, but what she saw was a black patch at the bottom of the well, and there was a small basin of water with very low visibility and turbidity lying at the bottom. In the past, who didn't know that the well in Tiankeng Village was the clearest in Huzi's house, but now how could it become like this?

"What the hell is going on? How did this water become like this? She had just heard the word drought from their conversation, but she hadn't thought it would be so severe, and now she couldn't even drink water. She had only been gone for a long time, but she had no idea that there were so many big problems in the sinkhole.

"I don't know, it's just that half a year ago, it suddenly looked like this." Speaking of this, Huzi's mother sighed: "At the beginning, the village couldn't even irrigate the farmland, and now there is no water for people to drink, so staying in the village is just waiting for death." ”

Who would have thought that in just the past six months, the village would be depressed like this.

"Just now, what I said to Laneige at the door, I think you have heard it, the people in the village have left to save their lives, and now there are only a few families left." Huzi's mother didn't forget Yang Xiuxiu's help to their family at the beginning, and she was also sincere for Yang Xiuxiu: "So you shouldn't come back at this time, it's useless to come back, our Tiankeng Village will come to that point sooner or later." ”

The place where the ancestors have lived for generations has become a wild village like this, how could Huzi and his mother be willing, but the people in the village have not thought of a way, digging a well from another village or going to the mountains to find a water source, but all kinds of methods have been tried, and it is still like this, if it weren't for the fact that there is an old god tree at home to support her, she would have been unable to support it for a long time.

Putting the turbid water in the bowl in Yang Xiuxiu's hand, Huzi and his mother walked to the big tree and reached out and touched it: "Girl, you don't know, this is our family's sacred tree, but now even the sacred tree can't hold on, it seems that Tiankeng Village really can't keep it." ”

"There are still so many plants to raise on the mountain, but they are all dead, we tried our best, but if we can't save them, we can't save them." I don't know how many times I sighed, Huzi and his mother looked at Yang Xiuxiu with apology in their eyes: "Girl, I know you came back for those things on the mountain, right?" ”

"At the beginning, those things brought everyone in the village to get rich, but our life finally got better, but we encountered a natural disaster." After groping through the canopy of the secret grid of the sacred tree, Huzi took out a bag of things, she opened it and took out a small part of silver taels from it, and then put it back, walked to Yang Xiuxiu and said: "I know that your life must not be easy now, half of the wages I took from you at the beginning, I left half of the wages from Huzi, and the other half will be given to you, girl, you keep it, live well......"

Before the two words could be fully spoken, a man suddenly rushed in at the door, he grabbed her hand, and said angrily: "You gave this money to someone else, what should Huzi do?" ”

"I've left it for him over there, don't worry, I'm going to give these to the girl." Huzi's mother didn't expect to be intercepted suddenly, she glanced at her man a little helplessly, and persuaded her: "The girl helped our family at the beginning, and now it's time for us to help others. ”

"What helped my family!" As soon as the man heard this emotion, he was particularly impulsive: "Huzi ran away from home not because of this woman, what is the life-saving benefactor of our family, our family has already changed if you want to return it, you are still worried in your own heart, you don't see that people are wearing silk and satin, and you will be able to see our little silver." ”

The man snatched the silver from Huzi's mother's hand, held it in his hand, and then looked at Yang Xiuxiu with an opinionated gaze: "Now our family is not having a good time, what do you mean by coming to the door like this now?" ”

The hostility and dislike in his eyes are obviously aimed at Yang Xiuxiu.

"You're mistaken, I didn't come here to get anything out of you." The man with the eyes Yang Xiuxiu has also met a few times, he is Huzi's father, but the couple will often deal with each other in addition to Huzi's mother Yang Xiuxiu, and Huzi and his father, the number of times the two of them have met and talked is countable, and she is also a little worried about Huzi: "Huzi and I are friends, if I can help, I also hope to help somewhere I can." ”

"Just now you said that Huzi left Tiankeng Village by himself? Did he tell you where he went before he went out? She asked.

"He said he was going to look for you, but how can he find such a big person in the Great Hills and Mountains of the World?" Maybe he was moved by Yang Xiuxiu's sincerity, or seeing that her attitude was quite sincere, although Huzi's father's face was a little stiff, it was not as ugly as it was at the beginning.

"Don't worry, I will ask someone to find him immediately after I go out, and I will definitely give an explanation to my uncle and aunt." In recent years, Yang Xiuxiu and Huzi have been as close as they were when they were children, and she thought that the relationship between the two had become very weak as time went by, but it seemed that things were not like this, and she was a little shocked in her heart.

"Girl, you don't have to get him back." Hearing Yang Xiuxiu's words, Huzi's father hesitated for a moment and said: "That kid is a big boy, it's okay to go outside, now that something like this is happening in the village, he must have run back immediately when he heard it, but he can't help when he comes back, it's better not to come back, so if you really find him, don't tell him." ”

After all, it's his own son, where is there no reason not to feel distressed, the words just said are just angry words, it's just anger, think about it carefully, it's better to let him stay outside, at least have a sip of water to drink outside, and a mouthful of food to eat, there is nothing here, just follow them hungry.

"Okay, in that case, after finding Huzi, I will find a place for him to settle down, and this matter will be kept secret for the time being, but I am not sure how long it will be kept secret, but you can rest assured that I will do my best." Huzi's father thought that Yang Xiuxiu was just talking casually, or even perfunctory, but now he doesn't know why, he hesitated about Yang Xiuxiu's words, maybe he believed this child.

"Thank you, what I said just now, I said it a little heavily, girl, don't take it to heart, I sometimes like to say something directly, but I don't want to do things or people, you forget, just let it go as a fart."

"Uncle, it's actually nothing, I don't mind, and I understand it too." Huzi's father has not been by Huzi's side since he was a child, working outside, and he hasn't met Huzi a few times throughout the year, and he has always wanted to make up for him, so for this matter, she can't control it, and she is emotional, in fact, she understands it very well.

"Girl, thank you for understanding." was pulled and pulled by his daughter-in-law, Huzi's father was a little awkward, but he couldn't ignore his daughter-in-law's instructions, and said with an unnatural face: "This silver is still for you." He motioned to his daughter-in-law to take out the other half of the silver taels hidden on the sacred tree and handed them to Yang Xiuxiu: "Don't refuse me, Huzi will not trouble you in the future, at least I will feel at ease if you accept it." ”

"Take it, girl." Huzi's mother also encouraged on the side.

"Okay." Yang Xiuxiu sighed and accepted it, and she solemnly promised: "Huzi, you can rest assured, he will be handed over to me in the future, and I will treat him as my own brother." Not only Huzi's father's instructions, but also the friendship between her and Huzi, she will also be obliged: "There is also this thing for you, I didn't bring much when I came this time, and I will bring more next time." ”

Yang Xiuxiu took out some food from the storage bag, as well as a cowhide bag filled with water, and handed it to Huzi and his mother.

"I can't take this!" Look at the things in your hands, where do you dare to accept it, what is most lacking at this time, not silver but food and water! "Girl, you still keep yourself to eat me, we are elders in good health, it doesn't matter if we are hungry for two meals, and now there is still some food at home, so I don't need it."

"Since I received your silver taels, then I hope you don't see me either, uncle and aunt, don't forget, I am also from the village, did I receive less care from you when I was a child?"

"This ......," Huzi hesitated.

"Okay, don't stuff it around, take it, this is also a little bit of this girl's heart." Huzi's father couldn't see such a scene, so he accepted it happily as soon as he said it. Seeing this, Yang Xiuxiu couldn't help but smile.

"What are your plans now?" Both husband and wife thought that Yang Xiuxiu came back for the flowers on the mountain, so they couldn't help but worry a little about her at this time.

"I want to go outside and see ......"