Broken wheels?

Eh...... The wheels of the car were broken, which meant that they had to get out of the car.

The other two people in the car were angry at the coachman, and the coachman simply sat down, facing the sun, with a "no rut" expression.

"Master, can you fix it?"

"They have been relying on it, how can I fix it?"

She asked the two people in the car to get down, and they resolutely did not move the ground, only muttering to ask the driver to return the money.

I don't understand.

Sun Er said that there is a village not far away, and from the other side of the village, it takes nearly two hours to walk to return to Nanxun.

The two passengers were still arguing, and the coachman was also angry, she persuaded for a while, and the coachman roughly checked the wheels of the car, saying that something was missing, and she said that she would go to the village with Sun Er to take a look.

The coachman was embarrassed.

"Then you go and see, forget if you don't."

It was true that the village was not far away, only walking for about ten minutes, but the sun was so strong today that neither of them could open their eyes.

The village has arrived.

At first glance, I was attracted by the tree at the entrance of the village.

"Wow!"

Hurry to the tree at the entrance of the village, the tree is not tall, the green leaves, the red fruit - peaches!

The peaches are not big, but they are the size of her fist, and when she looks around, almost all of them are red, and you can smell the aroma of peaches from a distance.

Ouch.

I couldn't hold back.

I picked one on tiptoe.

The skin of the peach is fluffy, wipe it on the clothes, tear off the skin a little more, take a bite, not a soft peach, a crisp peach variety, it is still very sweet - it is also delicious!

"Auntie, you, what are you happy about?"

"It's delicious!"

Sun Er showed an incomprehensible expression.

Picking another peach, she went into the village.

It may be that it is almost noon, and there seems to be no one in the village.

There are a few houses at the entrance of the village, the only village road, which is also potholes, it is difficult to walk in the summer, I don't know what the situation will be on a rainy day, I probably walked into the village, only to see a few women towards a small road.

They hurried to follow.

The trail leads to a hillside with a courtyard surrounded by many people.

"Lu Erniang, why are you so stupid?"

"When Lu'er comes back, what is he going to do?"

"You are stupid today, leaving your father alone, how do you want him to live?"

"Lu Erniang, listen to the old village chief's advice, don't do stupid things anymore, we know that you are difficult, you are difficult, we are also difficult, everyone make do, help a gang, how can we get by."

"Village, what do you say?"

The gray-haired man had sat on the dirt pit in the courtyard earlier, and when the eyes of the people were focused on him, he sighed and stood up again.

"Alright, you all go back."

"What the hell are you going to do, don't be all here."

The old village chief rushed a few times, and the twenty or thirty people gathered in the courtyard dispersed.

There was finally no one in front of her.

Look carefully this time.

In the courtyard, apart from the old village chief, there was a woman who was slumped on the ground, and there was a rope beside her, which had been cut, and at the door of the earthen house, there was an old man lying on the ground.

The old man's voice was not loud, she could hear clearly, but she couldn't understand what was being said, because the old man's accent was more serious.

Sun Er translated: "He said, it's all his fault, he deserves to die." ”

The old village chief asked the woman to get up, and while going to the door of the earthen house to help the old man, the old man was very stubborn, and his fingers were stubbornly picking at the mud door frame, but he refused to get up.

"What did he say?"

"Let him die there."

The woman was still crying.

It's not the kind of crying that other people know, just wipe your tears, sniff your nose, and don't cry at all.

At this time, the old village chief noticed them.

"Who are you?"

She held up a peach: "I picked two peaches at the entrance of the village, who will I give the money?" ”

The old village chief waved his hand: "Don't want money, eat as you like." ”

"Eat it all, too?"

The old village chief sat down against the earthen wall, looked at the old man lying on the ground, and then continued: "This year's disaster, our village can't sell peaches, so many peaches, you can only watch rotten in the ground, if you can eat, you can eat them all." ”

The woman was still crying, the old man was still lying on the ground, and the village chief sighed vigorously.

She squatted and ate a peach.

After eating both peaches, I found water and washed my hands.

"I can't eat for nothing, but I still give the money." She took two bucks.

The old village chief looked at it, took the money, and gave it to the woman.

"She picks two peaches, count them as your family, and you can collect the two dollars."

The old village chief got up and said to her, "Pick some peaches, pick as many peaches as you want." ”

The "disaster" mentioned by the old village chief is not that their village has suffered a disaster, but that the waterlogging in the Jiangzhou area has seriously affected land and water transportation, and the peaches in their village cannot be delivered at all.

It's not that it can't be sent at all.

To be precise, the cost of sending it over is much higher than the selling price of peaches.

The peach preservation technology is limited, the peach is almost ripe before picking, the scope of transportation can only be in the area of Nanxun Huai'an, and then far away, the peach is rotten on the road, and the transportation cost is too high.

In addition, fruits such as peaches are not valuable, and only crops such as rice and wheat that can be eaten as rice and fill the stomach are valuable, but not every piece of land can be grown with rice and wheat.

For this year's disaster, the old village chief is also worried.

The old village elder and village chief, although he is called "old", and his hair is also gray hair, but he is actually only in his forties, and the woman sitting on the ground, in her thirties, is an old man lying on the ground, but she has just passed the age of knowing the destiny of heaven.

Why is it like this?

It's not that life is too stressful.

There are only a few fruit trees in the village, and the whole village depends on these trees to earn money all year round.

If you can't sell the fruit, you won't have money this year.

If you can't buy rice, oil and salt without money, it's equivalent to having no way to live.

In the courtyard where they were, there were two people in total, and there was no rice and noodles at home, so they didn't know how to spend their lives.

The woman hanged herself.

was discovered by his father, and called the neighbor to save the woman.

"Why just the two of them?"

The woman is somewhat similar to the old man, she should be her father and daughter, and the woman is a married bun, does she have no husband and no children?

The old village chief looked at the old man at the door again and beckoned to Sun Er: "Come, take a hand, he should have no strength." ”

The old village chief and Sun Er helped the old man up.

The woman rose up to help.

She only saw it at this time...... It turned out that the old man had only one leg, and his right thigh was only half of it.

In ancient times, amputation, the probability of surviving ......

A few people helped the old man back into the mud house.

There was only one earthen house in the courtyard, two rooms, one for the old man and the other for the woman, and in the old man's room, the largest piece of furniture was a bed, a few weaving backs on the ground, and a bucket of and urine in the corner of the wall.

Stripped bare.

The woman was a widow, and after the man died, she went back to her parents' house to take care of her father, and she had a son, named Lu'er, who had left the village a few years ago and lived with the two of them on weekdays.

The two of them don't eat much, and they are very economical, but they still can't live like this.