11. Ordinary people
Ge Lao Village is still living peacefully, living unhurriedly, living a dull life, people still go to the ground when they should go to the field, and eat when they should go home to eat, but most of the time they are roasting potatoes to eat, which can save a lot of water, and can save the water for washing rice and vegetables to drink. People haven't paid too much attention to the changes in Xiao Qian's body, only occasionally sighing: "Xiao Qian seems to be much better, and now she will go out during the day, it's good to be young!"
Xiao Qian went out during the day, but he didn't work in the fields, and he didn't know where his land was. The children in the village didn't do anything out of the ordinary to him again, but avoided him when they saw him from afar. Maybe the child's mother greeted them and said that you better not mess with this little Qian, his lung disease will be contagious. Maybe it's because he pushed the child far away that day, the child was afraid of him, and the rabbit bit when he was in a hurry! Only Zhang Feng'er and the second uncle still didn't change anything about him, and they cared about him and took care of him as always.
Xiao Qian sometimes thinks that when he has money one day, he must treat the second uncle and Aunt Zhang well, they are the best people in the village. As for the village chief, he was grateful for the five small boards given to him every month, but he began to have an opinion about the village chief in his heart. He felt that the village chief did not completely think about the villagers, and that the village, as the head of a village, should do something for the villagers, and could not be satisfied with such a small thing as gathering the villagers to pick up some garbage every month. This kind of trivial matter can be done by him, Wang Xiaoqian.
The urgent thing to be solved in the village is the draft problem, and the little rain that night is too little, and it can't be managed for a while, and it is not a long-term plan at all!
Xiaoqian decided to dig a well in the river to try, why do you know if there is water if you don't try, only if you try hard, when you are about to die in the future, there is a reason to say, I have tried, there is no water under the river at all, it's not that I haven't worked hard, it's that God doesn't give me a way to live.
Xiao Qian said that he would do it, found a hoe by himself, and chose a place to start doing this thing.
Choosing a location is a very critical thing, I want to choose outside the ridge, but it is higher than the river, the depth of digging must be deep before there will be water out, dig in the river, if the water rises in vain, but he has already understood, there has been no big water here for a few years, now, it is to dig out the water as quickly as possible, as for whether the water will rise in the future, that is a later story, don't worry about it for the time being.
There is no one in the village to help, they are either the old, weak, sick and disabled, or a group of women and children, women have to support their families, of course the children have to wait for Children's Day, of course, this is just Xiaoqian's understanding, it is difficult to say whether the children here have Children's Day.
Xiao Qian digs up quickly, and it doesn't take long for him to go down to how deep the people are, which has a lot to do with his physical recovery. Unfortunately, there is no water yet, and it is much more difficult to dig it down, the soil inside is difficult to pour out, and the most important thing is that the wellhead is already full of mud, so he can only come out of the well first, clean up the mud at the wellhead and then dig down. But he could no longer jump from the mouth of the well, so he had to climb up with his hoe diagonally in the well, leaving him covered in mud.
Zhang Feng'er came, she found a hoe and brought a long rope on the bolt. She asked Xiaoqian to dig underneath, and she was responsible for lifting the mud up and pouring it down.
Xiao Qian's hands had already blistered with blood, but he didn't give up, didn't stop, and continued to dig down. What is the point of suffering this compared to survival?
Zhang Feng'er saw that he was tired and sweaty, so she told him to rest for a while and let him drink some water.
He took Aunt Zhang's water, took a big sip, and said gratefully, "Thank you, Aunt Zhang!"
"Thank you, thank you?" Zhang Feng'er said.
"Aunt Zhang, I think there must be water down here, but we didn't dig deep enough!" Xiao Qian said while resting.
"There should be, as long as you dig a little deeper, it will definitely come out of the water!" Zhang Fenger was also full of confidence.
Xiao Qian listened to Aunt Zhang's words, became more confident, and immediately started to move.
Zhang Feng'er doesn't want to pour cold water, and she doesn't want to ruin Xiaoqian's happiness, young people always have to have a little hope! It depends on whether this hope is in the field or in the river?
"Auntie, what do you think of us, Village Chief Zhao?" Xiao Qian suddenly said while digging in the dirt.
"Very good! He has made contributions to our village!" Zhang Feng said, "You see that he is so old, in fact, his health is not good, and he has not forgotten to do many things for the village, he is a rare good person!"
"I think it's one thing to do things for the village, but he doesn't prioritize them, for example, if there is a drought in the village, the main thing is to solve the draft problem. "Xiao Qian's opinion of the village chief has changed now.
"Xiao Qian, you can't say that, the village chief has really done a lot of things for the village, and he has also made great efforts to call the problem of water, when he took the young people in the village to find Wuhe Village, it didn't make sense and started to move, but they were all injured, some died on the spot, and a few died of injuries not long after they came back. Alas, that time was completely defenseless, and Ge Lao Village was severely hit, and from then on it could only swallow its anger and live. ”
Village Chief Zhao blamed himself for this incident, he thought that his leadership was not effective, and there was a problem with decision-making, and he wanted to wait until his strength was restored, and then go to them to settle accounts. As a result, it turned out to be the opposite, a lung disease, all the adult men in the village died, and the entire Gelao Village completely collapsed!" Zhang Feng'er said, tears flowed down her eyes, and she began to be speechless.
It turned out that the young man in the village was first injured by internal injuries before being invaded by lung disease, no wonder the old and weak were fine, and they lived well, but the young and strong men were ......
"Those people don't talk about reasoning and royal law?" Xiao Qian said indignantly.
"Truth, development is the last word, backwardness will be beaten! Wang Fa? Whoever has a hard fist here is the king Fa. Xiao Qian, you'd better not mess with that village, it is said that they have a lot of cultivators!" Zhang Feng suddenly lowered his voice and said, "All the people who came back from that injury are a little unconscious, and they are probably very frightened, I heard that Village Chief Zhao was also injured by cultivators, and they are not all right now!"
What? Doesn't the novel say that cultivators will not make a move on ordinary people? There is still a big difference between fiction and reality! This world may be even more unbelievable than fiction.
Xiao Qian thought to herself, "I also want to be a cultivator and do something better for Ge Lao Village in the future." But he didn't say this, Aunt Zhang may not understand it at all, and she doesn't understand, isn't it good to be an ordinary person?
Zhang Fenger also told Xiaoqian more about Village Chief Zhao, it turned out that the village chief used to do business outside and was struggling with some money, but since the day he became the village chief, he has not done business again, but spent all his own money in the village, and even organized people to pick up garbage and other things, all of which he personally paid. After all these years, his savings have been almost spent.
Xiao Qian listened and was speechless for a long time......