At the fork of the yellow dirt road, behind an adobe house with cracks on the wall, a small head poked out at some point, Zhao Ping'an smiled and beckoned, signaling that he didn't have to be afraid, but he didn't want the little guy to be frightened and turned pale, and instantly retracted his head.

"You have to attract them with something, like food." Zhu Xiaowan shook her head and pointed to the mountaineering bag on his back and said.

"Yes." Zhao Ping'an chuckled, took out a piece of chocolate from his bag, then waved it in his hand, and shouted at the corner of the wall: "Come out, see what I have in my hand?" ”

Sure enough, the little head stretched out again with guts, a pair of eyes that looked extraordinarily big because of their thinness, staring at the small bag in Zhao Ping'an's hand without blinking, and a puzzled look appeared on his dirty face.

Zhao Ping'an's heart moved, and he quickly unpacked the chocolate, then broke off a piece and threw it into his mouth, eating it with an intoxicated face, "Hmm...... It's so sweet, it's so delicious! ”

The corners of the little head's mouth naturally overflowed with a trace of saliva, but it still seemed a little hesitant, until Zhao Ping'an waved his hand again and told him that he would give him this piece of chocolate, the little head finally moved, like a little rabbit, running quickly, and then grabbed the chocolate from Zhao Ping'an's hand, didn't dare to look at him, and ran back to the corner again.

Obviously, such a move had cost him almost all his courage, and even the slightest accident in between would have cost him too much fright.

At this time, Zhao Ping'an was slightly in a daze, he looked at the back of the little head disappearing into the corner, turned his head to look at Zhu Xiaowan beside him in surprise, and said, "Doesn't he need to wear pants and shoes?" ”

It's November, and the temperature in the mountains doesn't exceed 10°C!

"It's not that you don't have it, it's that you don't."

"Can't afford a pair of children's pants?" Zhao Ping'an frowned, although he had been mentally prepared, he still didn't expect that in the current era, there was still a group of such poor people living in the territory of the same province as him!

"It's normal, if there are more children in the family here, there will be not enough clothes to wear." Zhu Xiaowan explained: "The average family here will have 2-4 children. ”

"What if I'm sick?" Zhao Ping'an felt a little incredible, as a child from the countryside, he always felt that the new countryside was poor enough, but compared to here, it was simply a paradise.

"There is that kind of simple clinic in the village, and there is naturally no big problem with a minor illness like a cold and cough, but as for the ...... major illness" Saying this, Zhu Xiaowan subconsciously glanced at him, and said in a deep voice: "Wait for death!" ”

These two words made Zhao Ping'an's heart suddenly shocked, he really wanted to ask, how big a disease is a serious illness? But subconsciously, I was afraid of hearing some kind of unbelievable answer, so in the end, I didn't say it.

Suddenly, there was a noise at the intersection, and Zhao Ping'an looked up, good guy! There is a large black pressure on the little head, there are always thirty or forty, and it is estimated that all the children in the village have come.

They stood there and didn't dare to approach, their eyes staring directly at the gray mountaineering bag on Zhao Ping'an's back, their strong desire could not be concealed at all, Zhao Ping'an looked at them calmly, but there was already a touch of desolation in their hearts, what kind of harsh environment did this group of children live in! Their parents, don't they have time to wash their faces?!

But what he didn't know was what a precious resource water was here!

"Come, come here."

He took off his mountaineering bag and scattered all the food and drinks that had been prepared for himself and Zhu Xiaowan, but it seemed that it was not enough! A few children who didn't receive the 'delicious' looked at him pitifully, with some tears in their eyes, Zhao Ping'an really couldn't stand this kind of gaze, and asked, "Is there a store?" ”

He had to ask, because in a place like this, you could think of anything that was most common in a civilized society, and it was very likely that it would cease to exist.

"Yes!"

The sound was like heaven to him, because no one with a conscience could be so cruel as to disappoint the children, he remembered that there seemed to be some potato chips in the car or something.

Said it was a store, but it was a villager who went to the town to buy some food, and then put it at home to sell, the door was not allowed to enter, but in the cracked adobe wall, a window was opened as a trading window, and Zhao Ping'an and the two came with a group of children, a middle-aged man with yellow teeth grinned, knowing that there was a big business coming to the door, he quickly took out his best goods, and recommended them to the two.

1 cent a bag of spicy strips, 2 cents a bag of Tang monk meat, 3 cents a bag of watermelon sugar, 5 cents a bag of crispy noodles, the most expensive is a bag of egg yolk pie, not sold in bulk, a bag of 10, sold for 8 yuan!

"Can you eat these things?" Zhao Ping'an couldn't help frowning, 1 cent a bag of spicy strips, you don't need to look at it to think of what it is made of.

"It's okay, it's delicious for them, no worse than what they normally eat."

Zhao Ping'an was stunned and subconsciously asked, "What do they usually eat?" ”

"Potatoes, corn, and the roots you just saw on the roof." Zhu Xiaowan said: "Don't think about rice, the land here can't be grown, and the meat is eaten, three times a year, the Yi New Year, the Han Spring Festival, and the Yi Torch Festival." ”

Zhao Ping'an's heart was really touched, and handed the shopkeeper a hundred flowers bill, can you believe it, 100 yuan can buy the entire store!

The children's combat effectiveness is also very amazing, happily sitting on the ground, began to enjoy their own food, eating with relish, as if the so-called Tang monk meat, there are really things that can make people immortal!

In a short time, two people walked in the distance, uh no, three to be exact, a middle-aged woman who tied a baby that had not yet been weaned to her back with a torn towel, and next to her stood a child who looked to be five or six years old, but could not distinguish between genders.

When Zhao Ping'an and Zhu Xiaowan saw this child, they couldn't help but gasp and hurriedly walked up.

"This ...... What's going on? Zhao Ping'an looked at the child in front of him like a purple doll, and his eyes even reddened slightly, this should be a girl, after all, she didn't bare her lower body like many children, but her upper body, where is there a trace of good meat?!

Large chunks of horrible blood scabs covered her bony entire chest, arms, neck, all of them!

It's hard to imagine that with this level of injury, she can still withstand such intense pain, looking at the food in the hands of her friends, her eyes showing hope.