Chapter 128: It's Hard to Go Home
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The so-called capable man, even if he can get something back from hunting in the mountains.
Although people didn't eat a lot of meat before, after all, meat is so expensive, who has nothing to do to come and eat?
They can't even buy food if they have money.
Now they only eat wild vegetables, which are becoming less and less, and occasionally eating some meat is a must.
Many unmarried girls have taken a fancy to the woodcutter.
There are many girls who like Chi Hang, after all, his ability is obvious to all.
When he came back from the first hunt, Chi Hang carried a pig alone.
That pig, even if the family eats meat every day, it will take more than half a month!
The little girl secretly opened the door and saw that there were not many people around, so she walked towards Chi Hang with a twist.
Liu Xue is very white, and she hasn't been out much before.
Some time ago, her mother told her that there was not much food at home.
Liu Xue also asked innocently, "Why didn't the people from the government come to save them?" โ
If it hadn't been for her mother to explain to her, Liu Xue might not have understood it by now.
It's already a river below, and even if those people are coming, how will they come, even if they use boats, they will save those rich people first, and when it's their turn, I don't know when I will wait.
"Brother Chi Hang." Liu Xue walked to Chi Hang's side and shouted in a low voice, not even daring to raise his head.
Chi Hang was originally chopping wood, and when he heard the voice, he thought it was Gu Yu coming back, but he didn't think the sound was like it, and when he raised his eyes, he saw a little girl walking in front of him.
"What's wrong?" Chi Hang said, walked to the side without a trace, and felt that he was a little farther away from Liu Xue, so he continued to chop wood.
"Brother Chi Hang, are you tired?" Liu Xue whispered, handed the towel in her hand to Chi Hang, raised her eyes, and looked at Chi Hang intently.
Chi Hang's brows furrowed slightly, and he carried the wood to change places.
He didn't know why so many little girls had been coming to talk to him lately.
"Not tired!"
After answering, Chi Hang went directly to the other side, thinking that it was better not to stand with those people, in case he cried, it would be bad.
Liu Xue held the handkerchief in her hand awkwardly, looked at Chi Hang's appearance, pursed her lips, and gradually blushed on her face.
Slowly retracting her hand, Liu Xue's brows twisted into a ball.
When she was in the village before, she was a flower in the village, after all, those men couldn't take their eyes off her when they saw her.
"Brother Chi Hang." Liu Xue plucked up the courage to walk in front of Chi Hang and whispered, "Your forehead is sweating, or I ......."
As soon as Chi Hang raised his sleeves, he wiped all the sweat off his forehead.
The slender fingers grasped the handkerchief, Liu Xue stood in front of Chi Hang, pursed her lips lightly, and pursed a pale, "Does Brother Chi Hang hate me?" โ
"Huh?" Chi Hang didn't react to the situation at all now, and waved his hand hurriedly, "No, I'm not used to others touching me." โ
Liu Xue raised her eyes and glanced at Chi Hang resentfully, and lowered her head aggrievedly.
She had already seen it, every time Lin Guyu helped Brother Chi Hang wipe his sweat like this, Brother Chi Hang was very happy.
When Lin Guyu came back from picking wild vegetables with the Song family, he saw Liu Xue standing in front of Chi Hang.
"Xue'er is here," Lin Guyu exclaimed with a smile, "Do you want wild vegetables, I picked a lot today!" โ
Liu Xue glanced at Lin Guyu with aggrieved and tearful eyes, muttered her lips, shook her head, and said in a voice that was so low that she couldn't lower it anymore, "Brother Chi Hang, I'll go back first." โ
With that, Liu Xue turned around and left.
That figure was thin and helpless, as if she was being bullied by others.
Lin Guyu raised his eyes to look at Chi Hang and asked curiously, "What did you tell her?" โ
Chi Hang was also puzzled, shook his head, and said with an innocent face, "I don't know what's wrong with her." โ
Now that Lin Guyu is back, Chi Hang put the axe aside and helped Lin Guyu carry the basket and walk inside.
After lunch, Chi Hang said that he wanted to see how the village was doing, and Lin Guyu also wanted to go with Chi Hang, and the two of them agreed that they would give the bean paste to Zhao to see, and walked directly towards that side.
When he left the village, Chi Hang watched Lin Guyu raise his hand to wipe it dry, and thought for a while, "I'll carry you down!" โ
Lin Guyu looked at Chi Hang's forehead was also full of sweat, stood on tiptoe, and carefully wiped it for him.
A gust of wind blew, and the leaves rattled.
The broken hair on Lin Guyu's forehead floated to Chi Hang's face, and he smiled and put the hair behind his ears, "I can walk by myself, you are not too tired!" โ
"Not tired!"
Chi Hang said, half-squatting directly in front of Lin Guyu.
Lin Guyu looked left and right, and fell on his stomach with a smile.
The hand naturally wrapped around Chi Hang's neck and leaned into his ear, "Are you tired?" โ
"Not tired!" Chi Hang responded briskly.
I don't know why, when I was with her, Chi Hang never felt a little tired.
The way down the hill was very fast, and when the two of them were about to reach the village, they saw that it was all water, and all that could be seen was the roofs of each house.
Lin Guyu got down from Chi Hang's body and turned his head to look at Chi Hang, "There is so much water here, if you wait for it to dry naturally, I don't know when it will be." โ
"Yes." Chi Hang couldn't help but worry when he looked at so much water.
Chi Hang glanced around and thought for a moment, "It is estimated that the river is all flooded now, and there is no way to divert these away." โ
Draining the water away?
Lin Guyu turned his head to look at Chi Hang, and said with some confusion, "Then do you know where it is lower, we can lead the water over." โ
Hearing Lin Guyu say this, Chi Hang smiled between his eyebrows, "Yes." โ
Pointing to the northeast corner, Chi Hang said lightly, "There is a very low valley over there, if only we could lead the water over." โ
Even if it was a low valley, were they going to dig a river out of that little valley and bring water through?
This is unrealistic, and if you lead it over, you don't know how long it will take.
"How?" Lin Guyu asked with some confusion.
"I think if we can have one," Chi Hang figured it out, and then said, "It's like the kang we live in, isn't there a passage underneath, and if we have a passage, we can lead the water through." โ
Hearing Chi Hang say this, Lin Guyu's brows frowned slightly, and he said with some confusion, "Dig a hole?" โ
"No, you don't." Chi Hang said, pointing over there and saying, "I think it's much better for us to make a wooden cylinder on top of it and pour all the water into it and flow directly into the valley." โ
Speaking of this, Chi Hang frowned a little helplessly, "It's just that we have to have someone pour water every day, and we don't know when we can finish pouring it." โ
"Why don't you just dig that valley a little lower, and then the water will be better." Lin Guyu's brows furrowed, and he had a headache.
It would be nice if there were modern machines, just pump the water over and it wouldn't have to be so troublesome.
"Waterwheel," Lin Guyu looked at Chi Hang excitedly, and said affirmatively, "Although the waterwheel is also slow, we can do it at the same time." โ
Chi Hang was originally a smart person, but sometimes, he has been deceiving himself, such as on Zhou's problems.
"You're saying we're going to get a waterwheel and sprinkle the water right over it?" Chi Hang thought for a moment, then said, "Then some people dug a passage underneath. โ
"Yes." Lin Guyu frowned slightly, and said with some unease, "I think it's better to divide it into left and right, with a water wheel on the left and a person digging on the right." โ
Even if these two methods are feasible, they will require a lot of manpower and material resources.
What's more, the watermill is easy to say, but it's not so simple to do.
The waterwheel is usually very tall, and then there is an axle supporting a number of wooden spokes, evenly spread out in all directions, and the spokes are topped with scrapers and buckets.
Lin Guyu only remembered the general way of working, but he didn't know how to make it.
If you dig so much land, it is easier and more convenient to rebuild the house directly on the mountain.
So the two of them have a beautiful idea, but the reality is cruel.
Lin Guyu sighed, took Chi Hang's arm, and walked towards the mountain weakly.
The original home has now been lost.
Not to mention that their homes are gone, and their fields are gone.
The field is the lifeblood of the peasant, and with the field, the peasant can support himself.
"It's too much trouble for the two of us to think of that solution." Lin Guyu raised his eyes to look at Chi Hang and sighed, "If it's so tossed, it's better to live directly in the mountains, it's a big deal to get a big yard." โ
"That's right." Chi Hang nodded approvingly, "There is no other way now, go back and talk to the village chief." โ
The village chief is a little older and knows more things than they do.
Lin Guyu and Chi Hang walked towards it, and as soon as they reached the door of the house, they heard the sound of Zhao's laughter.
Chi Hang and Lin Guyu glanced at each other in confusion, and when Lin Guyu went to Zhao's house, they saw a woman with unkempt hair, dirty face, and gobbling up food.
When Zhao saw Lin Guyu coming back, he said with a smile, "Gu Yu, you can be regarded as coming back, you said that it was a coincidence, there was a person who went to the northwest to hunt today, and he saw a person fainting on the side of the road, so he brought it back, I didn't expect it to be your eldest sister!" โ
Lin Guyu looked at the person who was eating frantically on the side, frowning slightly, he couldn't believe that this person was Lin Lixia.
In Lin Guyu's impression, Lin Lixia has always been very polite, as if he was a lady with everyone.
Only then did Zhao notice that Chi Hang was also standing aside, and said with some embarrassment, "Don't be surprised, your eldest sister hasn't eaten for several days, that's why she is hungry like this." โ
Chi Hang just nodded slightly, leaned into Lin Guyu's ear and said something, and then respectfully said to the Zhao family, "Go back first", and then left.
"Big sister?" Lin Guyu looked at Lin Lixia like this, and felt a little uncomfortable.
Lin Lixia was eating, Chu Chu looked at Lin Guyu pitifully, and tears fell uncontrollably.