Wang Ergou, who was sitting on the ground stupidly with rice in his arms, heard the voice of the village chief, and immediately moved his body, and looked at the village chief who was scolding him with his face, and then finally had a reaction on his face.

"Village chief, village chief, save the second dog! You can take a look at why the food of the Ergou family has become like this, there is no food in the field now, what can you do if you call us? I don't want to go to military service, I still have a daughter-in-law waiting for us! ”

Saying that, Wang Ergou looked at the old village chief excitedly, just like the village chief in front of him was the one who could save him, with obvious hope on his face.

When the old village chief saw the rice in front of him, he already knew what was happening!

When looking at the harvested rice and Wang Ergou, the village chief angrily wanted to teach Wang Ergou a good lesson, what do you say he did this thing called?

I know that the grain in this field will not be harvested for more than a month, but the current grain has not grown well, and it is useless to harvest it!

Yesterday, he told him Wang Ergou, telling him not to mess with his mind, since you can't take out the five taels of silver now, how will you live after you sell the grain?

When the time comes, it's not that there is no silver to buy rice, so won't the daughter-in-law and children in the family have to eat?

Thinking of this, the village chief was ready to teach Wang Ergou a lesson before he could say anything, when he saw Wang Ergou actually looking at him with a look of hope, and asked those words, which immediately made the old village chief's words stuck, and he couldn't say anything!

The old village chief raised his finger and pointed at the embarrassed Wang Ergou on the ground.

What do you mean by that? Yes? Isn't the grain in your field here? Why is it gone? Tell me? Don't you think the old man is dizzy? Can't see what's on the ground? ”

"No, no! Village chief, these are not food, they are not! It's all grass, but there is not a grain of grain in it, don't believe it! ”

Saying that, Wang Ergou quickly got up and took out a few pieces of rice in his arms, and easily crushed the rice in his hand in front of the village chief, revealing a handful of rice ear skins in his hand.

The village chief originally thought that Wang Ergou was afraid of being taught a lesson by himself, so he would say those muddy words, so that he wouldn't blame him!

But when he saw the rice that was easily crushed in Wang Ergou's hands, his face changed, it stands to reason that the rice that was still growing in the ground was raw, and it would not be crushed so easily!

"What's going on?"

Before the village chief finished speaking, he snatched the rice in Wang Ergou's hand at a very fast speed, pinched it with his hand, and his face began to turn pale, just like Uncle Wu, who had just found that the rice was different.

A hint of surprise and panic flashed in his eyes, and there was a fear that people couldn't understand!

Let Yun Niang, who is standing on the side of the road, look at it rightly!

Why does the village chief's grandfather have such a look? What is he afraid of?

The old village chief shook his hand and opened the rice husk in his hand, and found that there was really no grain in it, so he took a step back in shock!

Let the villagers next to him who realized that the situation was not right, and hurriedly stepped forward to take a hand.

"Village Chief, what's wrong with you? Do you know why our food is like this? ”

The old village chief heard the words of the villager who was supporting him beside him, and said to Wang Ergou who was looking at him with a pale face.

"Go and pick up the dirt on the ground and show me, quick!"

"Okay, okay, I'll go!"

Wang Ergou looked at the village chief's face and knew that the village chief must have known what was going on, and went to plow the fields very obediently at the moment.

"Alright, don't dig it! I've seen it! ”

The village chief looked at a small pit dug by Wang Ergou on the ground, let go of the villagers' hands, squatted down and pinched the soil on the ground with his hands!

It's like you're sure of something! Let the frightened villagers around them all open their eyes and look at the village chief on the ground.

After the village chief clenched his hands into fists, put them into the pit and touched them again and again, then stood up and shook them.

"How so?"

"What's wrong, village chief? What the hell is going on, you say! ”

Someone asked the first sentence, of course, someone asked the second sentence, and for a while, two indirect questions were forced in front of the village chief.

Everyone wants to know what happened to make the village chief so shocked!

"It's a drought, it's a drought!"

"What? Drought? ”

For a while, the faces of the villagers who heard the village chief's words changed one by one, and everyone's faces became pale, and their eyes showed a look of disbelief and fear.

I saw some villagers in the crowd shouting loudly.

"Village Chief, impossible! We have been in peace and security all these years, how can there be a drought, that is impossible! ”

"Yes! Village Chief, are you mistaken! Although we have not experienced a drought, we have all heard from our parents that the drought only happened once more than 50 years ago, and it has not happened until now! How could it be the terrible drought that the village chief said? ”

"Do you remember how many times it rained this year?"

The village chief began to think back to what happened this year when he knew that the water in the ground had been lost and the grain in the field had dried up one by one!

After thinking about it for a while, the village chief realized that the spring rain that was supposed to come did not fall at all, and the weather was getting hotter and hotter unusually.

I thought it was dog days, and it was normal to be so hot! So I didn't think of it that much!

I thought that it was only because of the abnormal weather a few years ago that the current situation would be caused by this, who knew that it would become like this?

After the village chief asked, the villagers immediately closed their mouths and stared at the village chief who was slightly bent on his back, and the fear in his heart became heavier and heavier.

In the village surnamed Wang, there is a situation that is easy to be deliberately ignored! That is, there are very few people in the village who are as old as the village chief, almost pitiful!

That's because more than 50 years ago, when the village chief was just a teenager, there was a terrible drought around the village.

The entire Qingshui County is also the same as it is now, there is no harvest! Panic.

It's just that the ground at that time was cracked, and the big opening could be opened to put down a child's calf.

The village still remembers it! His father and mother were so thin that they were only skinny and bones, but they still gave him the only ration and chose to let him live, while his father and mother both starved to death.

At that time, there were many people who survived, and in the end, less than one-third of the people in the village survived, and because of the drought, the people in the village died and walked! So that there are very few old people in the village who can survive to this day!

If it weren't for the father and mother of the village chief at that time, who left their remaining rations to the village chief for the sake of the old village chief's survival, the village chief would not be standing here today.

It was also when the people in the village were almost dead, or they never came back after escaping, so they accepted outsiders!

That is, Uncle Wu's family who fled here from somewhere else! and the widow Zhang Dabaolai, who later moved to the village.