"Qi'er, don't hold your head and look inside, be careful of falling."

Xiao Yuqi was looking at the deep well, and shouted twice inside, listening to the echo silly music inside, her mother called herself, Xiao Yuqi quickly got up, turned around and ran back to her mother.

"Mother, aren't we going to fetch water?".

Li Yurong carefully tied her daughter together, straightened the rope hanging around her neck, and after confirming that the rope hanging the water bladder would not strangle her daughter's delicate neck, she replied gently.

"It's just that the well is too deep and we don't have the tools, so we have to ask the kind villagers to borrow buckets and ropes that can only fetch water."

"Oh, let's go, then.".

Xiao Yuqi was very simple, took his mother's hand and set off.

In order to facilitate the fetching of water, the mother and daughter did not plan to go far, and walked towards the most taboo families from the well.

Walking outside the half-human-tall courtyard wall surrounded by specially planted thorn bushes, looking at the simple fence gate, Li Yurong shouted towards the open door of the three brown and yellow earthen embryo houses inside.

"Hello, is anyone home?" , The voice fell, and no one came out, Li Yurong thought that the other party couldn't hear it, so she shouted again, "Hello, is anyone at home?" ”。

The voice fell, and before the master came out, Li Yurong was waiting to speak again, but no one came out of the house, but there was a hurried and mean voice.

"What's the ghost shouting about early in the morning? No one is here at my house, you hurry up, hurry up! ”。

Xiao Yuqi: I'm grass, is there no one here? Is it a ghost who has just spoken out?

Xiao Yuqi was angry and wanted to kick the door directly, but was pulled by Li Yurong, who was carrying a wooden barrel beside him.

looked back puzzled, only to see her mother shaking her head at herself with helplessness in her eyes.

Xiao Yuqi retracted his raised little foot stupidly.

"Qi'er, let's go to the next one." , Li Yurong pointed to the house next door, the house with the same door open.

Seeing this, Xiao Yuqi nodded obediently and followed her mother honestly.

As a result, the mother and daughter walked to the door of the courtyard, and before they had time to shout, the mother and daughter were stunned to find that the door of the house, which had just been opened, was closed with a bang from the inside.

What the hell, it's just closed?

"Mother!" Seriously, the grumpy little alien is a little angry.

Li Yurong sighed, stroked her daughter's head, and softly comforted her daughter who was about to blow up.

"Qi'er, don't worry, we are newcomers, and we are guilty, so it is natural for the other party to be wary of us. It is said that the strong dragon can't overpower the ground snake, we still have to live here, we can't offend people at the first sight, let's see again, okay? We have been wronged today......".

Was she wronged? That's not it, she just feels sorry for her!

"Okay." , Xiao Yuqi, who felt sorry for her mother, also sighed, took her mother's hand, and obediently followed towards other people's homes.

She still doesn't believe it, borrowing all over the village, can't they borrow the guy who fetches water today?

Then, the mother and daughter continued to ring the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth houses......

It turned out to be so peaceful and helpless.

Next, the two of them, mother and daughter, can really see the hot and cold of the world.

There are obviously people at home, but they don't come out, don't squeak, don't reply;

There are obviously people in the yard, who saw their strange mother and daughter, and then ran into the house as if there was a ghost behind them, and plugged in the door;

There are even those who feel that they are unlucky and can't hide in time, and after facing the borrowed things proposed by their mother and daughter, they wave their hands again and again and say that they don't have this thing;

Wait, wait, what kind of situation is it, it's all met by their mother and daughter today.

Ten families asked, and the irritable Xiao Yuqi said in his heart, these spicy chickens are all looking at them with colored glasses!

That attitude of being afraid to avoid is funny! Are they the plague?

"Mother, I really have itchy hands!" , yes, it's really itchy and irritable, as if you roll up your sleeves and go to their group of spicy chickens who have no eyes.

Li Yurong's eyes flashed with deep helplessness, and she let out a long sigh, "Otherwise, Qi'er will go back first, and my mother will borrow something?" ”。

"Don't!" , she didn't worry about her mother facing such a bad scene alone.

"Alas...... Let's go. ”。

Looking around, a small group of wolf ditch, a total of seventeen families, just asked ten families, there are still seven left, today she still doesn't believe it, asked the whole village, their mother and daughter have not met a good person?

Holding her daughter, Li Yurong was unprecedentedly resolute and continued to walk towards the seven households on the periphery of the ditch.

The location of the wolf ditch, judging from the house in the deepest part of the house that I came into contact with yesterday, the further inside, the closer to the well, the higher the status in the ditch, and the family situation is slightly better.

Just now, I was going to go to the chief's house to borrow it, but the door was closed, Li Yurong shouted for a long time, and no one came out of the house, she knew that the head of the wolf ditch, the old man Chen Gaozhuang, was not a good-hearted person.

In this way, the mother and daughter kept working until they were about to lose heart, until they knocked on the fence door of the sixteenth house......

"Hello, is anyone at home?" , Li Yurong has expectations in her heart.

In the end, these two families were left, hoping to borrow a guy to draw water.

Of course, the most important thing is not actually the question of borrowing a bucket, but the future and the survival of their family here.

After all, whether it's a bucket or a rope, it's only a temporary difficulty, and it's not like they can't get it.

Only this person's heart, thinking of living here in the future, even if it is for the environment in which the children grow up, she doesn't want to be excluded by everyone, after all, the environment in which people grow up is very important.

Just as Li Yurong was praying in her heart, suddenly, a crisp female voice came from the room.

"Who?" Immediately afterward, a girl wearing a patched shabby gray-blue jacket, with a rough gray face and a red cheek, looked about thirteen or fourteen years old.

Early in the morning, before dawn, my father took my brother to Yonggu City to find a job, saying that it was to earn two big money before the change of relatives, and how to make a dress for myself, which was considered to be the whole of this scene of changing his brother's affection.

My mother and brother went out to pick up dung before dawn in the morning, and there was a pasture seven or eight miles away from their wolf ditch, where the land was barren, and the sparse trees on the ditch could not be cut down, and the shallow layer of dead branches and leaves falling under the trees could not withstand the consumption of the 17 families in the village.

For example, their family was later integrated into the outside of the village, and the settlement family was in the outermost part of the ditch, not to mention, so they couldn't pick up firewood and grass many times, and even if there were, the pickup was not enough for a meal.