It's the middle of May, there is not a single cloud in the sky, the sun is hot in the air, radiating heat unbridledly, the air is dry and hot, and the occasional breeze can bring up the floating earth on the ground.

"Smack", Zheng Si stomped the bowl on the table, "I said mother, let's look for water everywhere all day and night to water the fields, and the sun is big, so we eat such a thin paste?" ”

"If you don't eat and pull down, how can you survive until the autumn if you don't eat like this?" The old lady was impatient.

"Looking at this weather, I won't be able to produce much food until the autumn, and I'm afraid that I will eat even thinner when the time comes." Zheng Si lifted the bowl and muttered.

"How many can you fight, it's really going to be lost, and this big family must not starve to death." The old man shouted.

"Hey, Dad, half a month ago, I saw the third brother carrying a big bag of grain back to the village, I'm afraid that there will be one or two hundred catties, why don't we borrow some?" Zheng Si said again, "Get some thick food, and you can find more water to water the ground, don't you say?" ”

"Are there really that many?" The old man asked.

"That's still fake, I saw it with my own eyes, I was behind him at the time." Zheng Si swore an oath, in fact, he didn't see it too clearly at all, his eyes were actually not easy to make when the sky was dark, and he said more to make a large family tempted.

"A woman, two children, how can you eat so much food, tomorrow you will take the time to borrow some, and it is not that you will not pay it back. In a few days, you can also eat something dry during the Duanyang Festival. "The old lady has given the matter a decision.

"Not so good." The old man said.

"It's not appropriate, mother." The fifth sister said.

"It's not good, isn't it appropriate, you can get me food back?" The old lady suddenly roared, "I don't have a backache when I stand and talk one by one, this matter is settled." ”

The old man and the fifth sister didn't dare to let go of a fart, so they lowered their heads and drank mush.

Just after the end of the New Year, as soon as he has free time, Zhiwen likes to take Nan Nan to bask in the sun at the door of the cave, and he can have fun on the side, and Zhiwen only cares about the micro eyes, or standing, or sitting, carefully feel the feeling that the sun is sunning people from the outside to the inside, and the feeling of overflowing with heat, and looking forward to this solar energy to generate more vitamin D for himself, so that he can grow taller as soon as possible and get rid of the embarrassing situation of this little kid as soon as possible.

Now, Zhiwen looked up at the sun, forget it, if you don't want to suffer from heat stroke, let's find a shaded place to stay.

The cave is cool enough, but Zhiwen really doesn't like that dark feeling, this day is warm, except for eating and sleeping, he rarely stays inside.

I finally found a shady place, not far from home, at the pass of the two small hills, next to a shrub less than one meter, which can give the brothers and sisters a small shade, and occasionally blow a breeze from the direction of the village, a good place, just here.

Zhiwen sat cross-legged in the shade of a tree, his eyes seemingly closed, and he departed a trace of thoughts to meditate on the veins of the second picture, while other spirits were feeling the surroundings, including the scorching sun, the breeze, and, of course, the Nannan who was having fun not far away.

Since practicing the circulation line of the first diagram in that book, in order to distinguish it from the meridians he had learned before, Zhiwen named it the meridians, and he found that in addition to having thoughts to observe the meridians from time to time, when meditating or standing on the pile, while meditating on the internal veins and feeling the surrounding situation like now, the effect is much better than the original effect of closing the five senses and only focusing on meditation.

Nan Nan has long been accustomed to these strange behaviors of her brother, and she is busy in the neighborhood, catching insects, looking for stones, and occasionally pulling out a few dry thorns, and then she will take them home to make firewood, as long as she doesn't run too far, her brother won't care about her.

"Fourth, you said that so many days have passed, how much food is left of the third family?" Zheng Da asked as he walked on the mountain road.

"There should be a lot, the third child is not at home, just a woman and two dolls, how much can you eat." Zheng Si knew that he couldn't be discouraged at this time.

Originally, he said that he would come to borrow grain the next day, but he didn't expect the old man to shovel out a small puddle of water by mistake, and the family was busy pulling water to water the seedlings with fear, not only afraid of being found out to rob it, but also afraid that the speed would be slow and dried, how could they care about borrowing grain from Zheng San's family.

Yesterday, the small puddle of water was finally dry, tired for several days, the food was thin, and the hunger in the stomach was even stronger, and today Zheng Da and Zheng Si were busy borrowing food.

"Big brother, take a breath and blow the wind." Zheng Si stopped and said while wiping his sweat.

Zhiwen's slightly closed eyes slowly opened, and as the second picture began to cultivate, the kung fu of the first picture not only did not fall, but became more sophisticated, and the scope of his ears and eyes was expanding day by day, and these few words of dialogue between Zheng San and Zheng Si were carried into his ears by the wind far away.

It seems that his father was seen by their family on the day he bought food and came home, Zhiwen secretly said, this is what he remembers, saying that he is borrowing, I am afraid that it is forced to borrow.

There are indeed a lot of miscellaneous noodles left at home, so on the day of the Duanyang Festival, Zhiwen Niang was willing to cook a few cakes to eat, which was considered a festival, and she was afraid that the neighbors would smell it, which would make people worry about it, but I didn't expect that someone would have been concerned about it for a long time.

No, you can't cheapen them. Thinking of this, Zhiwen stood up.

"Nannan, Nannan, let's go, go home." Zhiwen beckoned Nannan and hurried home.

When he got home, Zhiwen asked Nan Nan to stay at the door of the cave, so that he could go in and do his hands and feet, and the uncle and the fourth uncle would come to borrow food later, and if something happened to him, Zhiwen didn't want to scare Nan Nan.

Rushing to the grain tank, Zhiwen put all the miscellaneous noodles in the grain tank into the warehouse.

I looked at a few places where my parents hid their money, and made sure that there was nothing, so I stopped.

When he was proud, the words "thieves don't go empty" popped up in his mind.

The last time I went to beg Zheng San for restraint, it was also because their family took a big advantage before they got back some of the white noodles, otherwise they didn't want to get anything back.

The two brothers who are about to come to the door, Zheng Si is cunning, and Zheng Da doesn't talk much, but he doesn't look good at faces.

And borrowing a piece of food, it is enough for one person, these two people, if they go back empty-handed, in case they have any bad intentions, the neighbors have all gone to find water, and there is not even a figure around, and now they have no ability to resist except for their ears and eyes, and they can't protect the safety of their own family and their nannan.

Forget it, let's suffer a loss.

Zhiwen put two catties of mixed noodles in the grain tank, and thought about adding two catties of mixed noodles, so that their family could eat a few meals, and then Shi Shiran walked out of the house.

"Zhiwen, Nan." Zheng Si just walked up the gentle slope at the entrance of the cave, and shouted from afar.

"Fourth uncle." Zhiwen and Nan Nan responded very respectfully, and the number of etiquette is indispensable.

After a while, Zheng Da also climbed up, and there was another greeting.

"Is your mother at home? Zhiwen. Zheng Si began to ask.

"My mother went to Xiucai's house to help, don't you know, fourth uncle?" Zhiwen felt tired for a while, he was in his thirties and his mental age, and he had to pretend to be cute when he spoke.

"What should I do, fourth." Zheng Da couldn't hold his breath.

Zheng Si turned his head and glared at Zheng Da fiercely, this fool wanted to come while the third sister-in-law was not there.

Zheng Da didn't understand what that glance meant, but he knew that he had a bad brain, so he obediently closed his mouth.

"Zhiwen, grandparents' family doesn't have much food, your family should still have a surplus of food, right?" Zheng Si didn't bother to go around in circles with a little kid at this time, "Do you want to lend us some food?" ”

After speaking, without waiting for Zhiwen to answer, he glanced at Ambassador Zheng, and the two brothers walked towards the cave.

"Stay here, don't come in." After explaining the matter, Zhiwen followed in.

Zheng Da and Zheng Si were already standing next to the grain tank, looking at the few catties of mixed noodles inside, their faces were a little dark.

"Zhiwen, that's all there is to eat at home?" Or Zheng Si asked.

"Yes, fourth uncle, the food that my father brought back last time was not as much as the previous few times, and he said that what had gone up." Zhiwen replied unhurriedly.

"Food prices have gone up, haven't they?" Zheng Si said.

"Yes, Fourth Uncle, that's what Dad said."

Zheng Si was a little convinced, the drought was so serious, the price of grain would rise, and his eyes were not good at night, and he really didn't see how big a grain bag Zheng San was carrying that night, one or two hundred catties was fooling his family.

Zheng Da looked at Zheng Si, and he was also embarrassed, just these three or four catties of mixed noodles, he borrowed half of them, and what was the use, but he still had a little conscience, and he didn't think about taking them all.

Zheng Si quietly swept around the entire hall, it was empty, except for the grain tank, there was no place to hold grain.

I glanced in at the door of the two rooms in a fake way, and there was nothing suspicious.

Zhiwen looked funny on the side, but he was not afraid of you looking for it.

"Where's my sister-in-law?" Zhiwen asked suddenly.

"Huh? Your sister-in-law hasn't gone to the village well to fetch water. Bite? Zheng Da was confused.

Zheng Si didn't speak, just stared at Zhiwen.

"My sister-in-law helped my mother do some needlework some time ago, my father and mother are very grateful, but the money has bought food, my mother also said yesterday that she would take a few catties of noodles to thank my sister-in-law, fourth uncle, the rest of these catties of noodles, you can take them all, it is a thank you gift from my family to my sister-in-law, and we will leave enough to eat two meals."

It's not appropriate to lend them grain generously for no reason, Zheng Si will definitely be suspicious, anyway, some time ago, my sister-in-law did come to the house to help Zhiwen Niang do some needlework.

"It's not proper, what should you do with your mother? I can't live with the third brother and you by borrowing so much. Zheng Si said hypocritically.

This time, it was Zheng Da's turn to stare at Zheng Si.

"Ah, I forgot to tell you, Fourth Uncle. We'll go into the county seat tomorrow to find my father. "Actually, it's still undecided.

"You can't finish these noodles in the jar, so you're welcome."

"Dad said last time he came, let's pack up, and when it's almost time, we will go into the county seat to find him. He said that the drought was so heavy that he was not at home for fear that we would be bullied. Zhiwen said pitifully.

This is the truth, not to mention the current situation, on a good day, no man in the family is easy to get angry. Zheng Si's doubts were basically dispelled.

Zheng Da and Zheng Si finally left with three and a half catties of mixed noodles.