Luo's father and the four of them hurriedly walked over with two bamboo tubes of water.

The nursing master said, "This is Steward Zhou, you tell him." ”

Father Luo thanked the master of the nursing home, bowed his hand to Steward Zhou, and said, "I've seen Steward Zhou." ”

Steward Zhou was in his early forties, slightly shorter, with a goatee on his square face, and a gleam in his eyes when he looked at people, and asked, "Which of you is in charge?" ”

Father Luo stepped forward: "Luo is responsible for this matter." ”

Father Luo said official words at this time, which made Steward Zhou look at him.

"Do you want to exchange water for food?" Steward Zhou asked, pointing to the bamboo tube in Luo's father's hand.

Father Luo understood, and handed the bamboo tube to Steward Zhou: "Yes, there is no food in our village, and the people in the village have gathered some water and want to exchange some food with the old man." ”

Steward Zhou took the bamboo tube, took a sip, and said with a smile: "Minao? There is a smell of earth in this water, I guess I just dug it up. ”

Steward Zhou returned the bamboo tube to Luo's father, and said straight to the point: "Brother Luo, my brother doesn't come with you, our lord has taken a fancy to your water, as long as you take us to the water source, our lord will allow you three bags of grain, all of which are high-quality white flour and white rice." ”

Father Luo's heart sighed, this week's family master's appetite is really big, this is to swallow their water source.

Father Luo shook his head: "Don't hide it from Steward Zhou, this water is related to the lives of everyone in our village, don't dare to go out casually, if Steward Zhou is not interested, Luo will ask other masters." ”

As he spoke, he turned around and left.

Steward Zhou couldn't get along, and he didn't dare to force the victims to be anxious, for fear of causing trouble, so he hurriedly stopped Luo's father and changed his words: "Brother Luo, don't worry, my brother just asked, there is no other meaning, our master said that he is willing to exchange food for water with you." ”

When Father Luo heard this, the four of them stopped, turned to look at Steward Zhou, and asked, "How do you change the method?" Let's talk about it first, we won't change it if there is too little food. ”

Steward Zhou knew that Father Luo was hard-tempered, and he was afraid of missing this rare opportunity to change water, so he gritted his teeth and said, "An urn of water, ten catties of fine grain." ”

Fine grains refer to white rice and white flour, which are more expensive than coarse grains, but Luo's father does not want them.

Luo's father said: "One urn of water is twenty catties of coarse grain, plus ten water jars." We have limited water, so we can change you for up to four urns of water. ”

They don't want small grains, but only food that can survive, and coarse grains are plentiful, and they can eat for a long time.

Steward Zhou is very satisfied, it is already God's blessing to have four water urns, as for the ten water jars, it is not worth anything, just give it.

"Okay, that's it." His lord said that he would exchange the water as soon as possible, so as not to be robbed by other rich families in Fucheng.

The matter of exchanging grain was negotiated, and ten water jars were obtained for nothing, and the four of Luo's father were very happy.

Steward Zhou ordered someone to bring four water urns, ten water jars, plus eighty catties of coarse grain, personally brought ten nursing homes, and followed Luo's father and the four into the night.

Father Luo was cautious, and after coming to the mountain pass, he asked Steward Zhou and the nurses to stop, and the four of them carried a water urn to the mountain, looking back as they went, and only after making sure that no one was following them, they were relieved.

The four of Luo's father came back and told everyone about the success of the grain exchange, and the big guys were very happy.

The third grandfather was busy asking everyone to put the filtered water into the water urn and take it out to change food.

Everyone moved quickly, and after a quarter of an hour they filled the four water urns, two people carried one, and eight people carried the four water urns to the mountain pass.

It took a lot of time to go back and forth, the sky was already hazy, Steward Zhou was anxious, and when he saw the torch and a few figures, he hurriedly took the nursing home to meet him: "Brother Luo, you are here, let the old brother wait." ”

Father Luo smiled and said: "Lu Yuan, it took a little effort, Steward Zhou took a look, the four urns of water are all clean." ”

Steward Zhou asked the nursing home to hold a torch for lighting, and looked at the water from one urn to another, scooped out the water from each urn and drank a few sips, and saw that there was only an earthy smell, and there was no strange taste, so he happily asked the nursing home to hand over eighty catties of coarse grain and ten water jars to Luo's father.

Father Luo took it and said, "Let's settle this deal, Steward Zhou, please go back." ”

Father Luo was worried that Steward Zhou would send a nursing home to follow them, so he let them go first.

Steward Zhou had already changed the water, made a great contribution, and happily left with the water from the nursing home and the four water urns.

After watching them go away, Father Luo rushed to the mountains with the rest of the seven people, as well as the food and water jars.

When they returned to the mountain, Gu Jinli and the others filtered out a lot of clear water, and everyone worked together to fill the ten water jars and all the water jars, bamboo tubes, and water bladders with water.

The third grandfather asked the big guy to pile all the water and food together, and said to everyone with an excited face: "Let's start distributing water and food!" ”

The water is well divided, two water jars for a family, as for the jars, water bladders, and bamboo tubes, these belong to each family, and each family takes it back by itself.

Eighty catties of coarse grain, not weighed, then use the old method, bowl by bowl, after the grain is divided, each household is packed in a sack.

Gu Jinli was afraid that his food and water would not be kept, so he proposed to Gu Dashan: "Dad, let's hand over the food and two jars of water to the third grandfather's house for safekeeping, take it back, I'm afraid that the milk will come to grab the food." ”

Gu Dashan listened to Gu Jin'an's proposal, and was a little hesitant, for fear that he would make Old Man Gu unhappy.

The third grandmother scolded him: "You have to be filial to the sixth child, no one will stop you, but you can't starve the child and your daughter-in-law to death." The food and water will be left in our house, and the old woman will watch for you, and if Pan is dissatisfied, let her come to the old woman and say. ”

Gu Dashan was scolded, remembering that Xiaoyu was injured and begging for food and Cui's was beaten, he was silent and did not object again.

Gu Jinli and Gu Jinan hurriedly moved the food and water to the third grandmother.

The third grandfather looked at the sky that had already lit up, and said to the big guy: "The mountain and the iron pillar will follow me out and tell the village chief about the water source." ”

They have received enough water and exchanged for food, and now they can let the villagers in and fetch water.

The big guy had no objection, and began to pack up his things, followed behind the third grandfather, and carried the food and water back to his resting place.

……

Bang Bang Bang!

The sky is already bright, and the villages are beating bangs and gongs and drums.

Gujia Village had already finished the name call, and he didn't hear the third grandfather and his family, and the village chief's face was very ugly.

The people of the old Gu family were gloating and dared to be late, and Gu Dashan's family was determined to eat the beating in the village.

Zheng's family suffered a loss in the hands of Gu Jinli yesterday, after going back at night, Brother Zhi didn't know what was going on, kept shouting that his hands hurt, and cried for most of the night, she coaxed her heart to fire, and at this moment saw that Gu Dashan's family was late, and hurriedly shouted: "Village chief, the rules in the village don't wait for anyone, let's hurry up, I can't get the Gu Dashan family to do too many bad things, and die in which mountain." ”

Gu Chengzhi in Zheng's arms cried and shouted: "Kill the cheap girl's family, the cheap girl's family deserves to die, woo woo woo woo ......"

His hand hurts, it hurts.

"Sixth, how do you teach children?" The third grandfather's angry rebuke suddenly came, staring at the old man Gu in the crowd and said, "You are so vicious at a young age, do you know that Xiaoyu has saved the lives of our whole village." ”

When the people of Gujia Village heard this, they looked at the third grandfather, and they didn't know what he meant by this?

The third grandfather came to Village Chief Gu and whispered a few words to him, and Village Chief Gu was pleasantly surprised: "What the third brother said is true?" Did the girl really find the water source? ”

The third grandfather directly asked Gu Dashan to hand over a jar of water to the village chief.

"Brother, take a look for yourself, this is the water that the five of us dug up last night, it's clear." The third grandfather said in a low voice, for fear of being listened to by the nearby victims.

Village Chief Gu took the water jar with trembling hands, and drank a few sips of water from the mouth of the can, there was an earthy smell in the water, but the water was clear: "We are saved." ”

"Brother, there is not much water in the pit, hurry up and organize the people in the village to fetch water, the water will seep out when it is late." The third grandfather reminded.

"Yes, yes, my brother is right." Village Chief Gu hurriedly whispered to everyone about Gu Xiaoyu's finding of the water source, and asked everyone to take something to get water.

In a word, it directly caused a sensation in the entire Gujia Village.

The old Gu family was even more confused.

Zheng screamed, "What? Gu Xiaoyu's cheap girl found a water source? She has that life?! ”