Chapter 216: Drought, Contradictions Appear

On Zhao Furui's side, the team is still in the process of rushing.

It's just that with the sign of Shuiyunzhai's previous car, Zhao Furui didn't dare to stay in any big town this time.

So in the last few days, they have been walking the kind of mountain paths, occasionally changing to official roads, and they will not walk for a day.

In this way, there was news about the conscription in Changle County, and everyone missed it perfectly.

Therefore, I don't know that almost all the men left in Shangwa Village have been conscripted away, and I don't know that it was Zhao Shanfeng from the same village who did this.

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The forest is noisy, and from time to time there are piercing insects and birds.

With the big sun above his head, Zhao Yu felt in a trance that they were not in mid-March, but in June.

It's too hot!

In the team, it was difficult to travel, and many people who were hot had already changed the clothes they were wearing into thin single clothes.

But the weather is still slightly cool at night, so many people have a fever and typhoid fever.

After boiling herbs all day long, the smell of herbs in the team has not been broken.

Even though Father Yuan took young people to hunt in the mountains and forests every day, everyone still lost a lot of weight, and the children were not thin with yellow faces.

At this time, Zhao Yu felt that his current experience was really like escaping the famine.

Sweating and feverish, eyes looking at things double, throat dry cough and pain, always feeling that I can be angry when I speak.

Not surprisingly, I accidentally caught a cold and typhoid fever.

No way, recently a few small ones have been sleeping together at night, Zhao Xia didn't cover her at night and was like this, she slept next to Zhao Xia, obviously infected.

Reaching out and dragging the Li family on the side, Zhao Yu couldn't help but whisper, "Milk, water, water," she was so thirsty.

Li lowered his head, and his lips were full of dehydrated and chapped cuts.

Hearing Zhao Yu's words, he hurriedly reached out and took out the jar containing water on the side and handed it to Zhao Yu.

Zhao Yu hugged it, pursed her lips and took a sip, and returned the jar to Li's family, while she continued to move forward.

It's not that she doesn't want to drink more, it's that there is no water in the area they walked, and the water stored at home is not enough, so they don't mention washing.

For the little water they have left in their homes, they have to save until they find a water source.

After walking for a while, just when Zhao Yu couldn't help but want to fall to the ground, suddenly there was a commotion in front of the team.

The commotion soon spread like a gust of wind to the back.

Zhao Yu was a little stunned, she stared, listening to the whispering sound spreading around her, and couldn't react for a while.

Well, what's going on?

Turning his head to look at the Li family, the Li family also looked dazed, but, "You wait first, don't move, I'll go ahead and take a look," After speaking, he gathered all the people in the family together, and followed, Li raised his legs and went to the front.

Soon, Li walked back with a happy face, followed by Zhao Fuxiang and others, who were originally leading the way.

"Hurry up, hurry up and bring the wooden bucket that can hold the water jar at home, the water is coming out in front,"

Li's words are very abrupt! Everyone was stunned for a moment when they heard this, and then they became excited after reacting.

If there is water, it doesn't mean they don't have to save for now.

Needless to say, Liu and the others took down the clean wooden barrels and jars from the car, and then ran forward like a swarm.

Not only their home, but also other families around them.

Except for the children and the elderly in the group, who could not walk, the rest of the people ran over to fetch water.

Soon, Li ran back with a jar that was soaked from the outside.

Ignoring the soaked clothes on his body, Li directly pulled out a few white porcelain bowls from the ox cart, poured the water in the jar into it, and then handed it to Zhao Yu and other children who came over, "You're all thirsty, drink quickly, this newly beaten mountain spring water is sweet and cool." ”

He, it turned out to be mountain spring water!

Hearing this, Zhao Yu hurriedly took it, and then raised his head and poured all the mountain spring water in the white porcelain bowl into his mouth.

Not...... The cool silk is sweet and swishing, and the sharp contrast between the poisonous and spicy nature at the moment.

With a bowl of underwater belly, Zhao Yu's whole body revealed a trace of comfort.

Such a feeling made Zhao Yu couldn't help but moan comfortably, and couldn't help but continue drinking.

Li didn't stop him, and gave the whole jar of mountain spring water he brought back to a few children to drink.

At this time, Liu and others also rushed back one after another with buckets full of mountain spring water.

When the adults were fetching water, they had already taken this opportunity to drink a full water, but they were not thirsty at the moment.

"Quick, don't be stunned, pour the water in the bucket into the jar and store it, if it's not enough, continue to fetch water," Li was also scared by the water in the past few days, so he immediately thought of storing water.

took out all the jars that could hold water, and motioned for the Liu family to pour them quickly.

Liu and the others are not hypocritical, they all know that water is expensive, and after pouring it, they continue to draw water with a bucket in a majestic manner.

At this time, everyone was still stopped on a mountain path, and because of the sudden water, they took the opportunity to rest in advance.

Lee went on two more trips, and when the jar was almost full, he handed over the work of fetching water to the men of the family, while the women stayed behind to prepare lunch.

I finally came to the water, and I always have to eat a good meal today.

found a place that could be shaded to build an iron pot and add firewood, and Li instructed the daughter-in-law of the family to quickly carry the grain down.

There is water and can make porridge, so Li set the noon as coarse grain porridge based on corn and the cooked cakes baked before.

Simply set up the food table, and put out the corresponding pots and pans, raw materials, seasonings and salts one by one.

In addition, there are all kinds of different meats, the common cured pork, rabbit meat leftover from yesterday, venison, all of which they will eat today at noon.

This can be regarded as the richest meal that their Zhao family has eaten in the past few days.

In the past, when they were not as nervous as they are now, they always had three meals a day, and one or two meals were hot.

But now leave Shuiyunzhai and go to Qingzhou on the way.

For seven days in a row, I didn't touch a decent town, and for the next four days, the water supply was cut off.

So much so that although they still eat three meals a day, the food they eat has changed from hot food to cold food and fried noodles, although it is convenient, but they choke and have no water, so that the whole team is even more depressed.

Last night, the crowd couldn't take it anymore.

Father Yuan gritted his teeth, went up the mountain to catch some hares and a wild deer and came back, Li used the seasoning at home to test some wild meat, deer blood and so on to make a deer and rabbit bloodshot soup, but still did not understand the root problem.

But now, with a water source, they are alive again.

Afraid that it would not be enough to eat, Li deliberately poured out a small half bag of brown rice brought over, washed it with mountain spring water, and poured it directly into two iron pots to boil in one go.

That's right, in order to feed the two families, the Li family directly set up four iron pots.

Three of them are their own, one is Yuan Lao Niang's, and the two families use it together, two are used to boil corn and brown rice porridge, and two are used to stir-fry.

At present, there are few green vegetables, and only some mountain mushrooms and mushrooms are left from the mountains.

On the other hand, meat is rich in ingredients compared to staple foods.

Especially now, they have a complete range of venison, rabbit meat, pork, chicken, etc., and when they want to eat it, as long as Daddy Yuan goes up the mountain, they can hunt fresh.

The buckets were filled with mountain spring water, and the Li family was not polite, and asked the Liu family to quickly clean up the meat.

Zhao Fuxiang saw that the bucket was empty, and Zhao Shanlin and others came again, and continued to line up to fetch water at the front side.

"You have to prepare more, who knows if the water will be cut off in the coming day," just like a few days ago, they didn't expect that there was no water at all on the mountain path.

Zhao Shanlin nodded and took his brother to line up at the water source in front.

Li took the time to interject and asked him to come back early and prepare for dinner.

Today's lunch meal is good, and the fragrance is wafting out now.

Zhao Shanlin and the others nodded, couldn't help but swallow their saliva, and then hurried to the front to line up.

As a result, before Zhao Shanlin and the others arrived at the place where they were in line, they heard shouting from the water source in front of them.

Well?

The Zhao Shanlin brothers looked at each other, Zhao Shanhe was the gossip the most, and couldn't help but hurry up and take two steps to see what the situation was.

Seeing this, Zhao Shanlin was afraid that Zhao Shanhe would cause trouble in the past, so he beckoned the backward brothers to follow.

Several people rushed one after another, stretched out their hands to pull away the crowd in front of them, and saw the situation at the water source.

There were people arguing at the entrance of the water source.

Because this water source is mountain spring water, which flows naturally from the mountain, a distance from the top and bottom of the mountain spring water directly forms a deep circle, and then, at the corner of the circle, a mouthful, overflowing water flows down to form a small ditch.

They generally fetch water, and for speed, they all fetch water in circles.

Because where there is the most mountain spring water, and the bucket can be filled quickly, it greatly saves them the time to fetch water.

So, if someone gets in the way of the ditch and no one else can get through, they won't be able to continue fetching water.

That's why more and more people are gathering here.

Just when Zhao Shanlin frowned and wanted to go over to fetch water as soon as possible, the anger of the two people who were arguing in front of him also came up suddenly.