Chapter Twenty-Three: The Sound of Horses' Hoofs
In the face of Ding De, he wants to change his face and teach a few more lessons!
Ding Xiaodie and Ding Gui just continued to walk forward as if they didn't see it, the original owner was bullied by him a lot, and now he is something.
"Hey, this ......"
Ding De choked and watched them go away, and the sun really came out in the west.
"I said the second child of the Ding family, do you see it, the family is always a treasure, your mother helps the third family to speak, and now even the third child is angry."
"That's it, why don't you still take your mother to raise you?"
When a few villagers who usually mingled with Ding De saw this scene, they made fun of him.
was so angry that Ding De only scolded: "I want to raise you and give you multiple mothers." ”
"Hahaha!"
The crowd burst into laughter.
Laughing and laughing, I still have to talk about business, and finally agreed to stay at the people's house, Ding De has been busy for a while, saving eight families, all of whom still have a little food on hand.
But counting the heads, there are only about 20 people, and most of them are old and young, and there are not many young and strong.
Ding Rong was very dissatisfied with this, he meant that at least half of the village was willing to stay.
But even if he is not satisfied, he doesn't speak, let the second child mess around, and he will carry it in the end.
Here Dabao and Erbao heard the news and went back to the house to tell their father about it.
"The second child of the Ding family is urging everyone to stay, and so far eight families are willing to stay."
Laifu sat in the corner and smoked dry cigarettes, he had just eaten lotus root yesterday, and his body was stronger today, but now his mind has begun to change.
Seeing that he can't afford to get a bite to eat for the people in the village, then he wants to go or stay, let them be!
Seeing that his father didn't speak, Erbao said, "Dad, what are you thinking?" ”
Laifu took a puff of dry tobacco heavily: "Whatever they want, stay and leave if you want to, I can't control it." ”
Yang knew that her man was upset, so she gave her two sons a look and motioned for them to say less.
At this moment, Ding Xiaodie and Ding Gui came to the door and told them about their desire to go up the mountain.
Dabao Erbao was immediately very interested.
"Fluttershy, let's go up the mountain with you!"
"Okay, we're here to call the two brothers."
There is a lot of strength in people, and the two little brothers are not outsiders, and it is also possible to pick up food and divide half of them, not to mention the people of a village, interpersonal relationships are also very important at the moment.
Ancestor especially likes Ding Xiaodie, and when he saw her come to the door, he pulled her into his arms and hugged her.
Ding Xiaodie also affectionately filled the ancestor's gourd bottle with water.
After they went out to the mountain, the ancestor took a sip: "This water...... It's sweet. ”
The water they drink in these years is either muddy or has a faint astringent taste, like this modern mineral water, drinking it in their mouths, they naturally feel clear and sweet.
After the ancestor finished speaking, he saw that everyone didn't believe it, so he asked Yang to take a bowl and pour it out for them.
"Ouch, the water is so clear."
"It looks like well water."
They also had a well in Aozigou before, and the water in it was also sweet, and since the drought, there has been no water in that well for a whole year!
Old Ancestor asked everyone to take a sip, and the expressions on everyone's faces were surprised after drinking.
The taste is better than well water.
"But we haven't even seen muddy water all the way, where did Fluttershy get such good water?" Laifu was very confused, and he was most concerned about water resources along the way.
But no one in the village found water.
Yang said: "Maybe the doll was brought on her before she went out, she has been reluctant to drink, didn't she meet grandma today, so I gave her some." ”
Ancestor nodded in agreement, "Fluttershy, this kid is very kind, I hope God will take care of her!" ”
Just as the family was talking, there was a fight in the street outside.
The reason is that because the corpses of the townspeople next door are too smelly, everyone wants to fight for the house, so the two families fight.
Don't look at these people who usually don't have enough to eat and drink, once a dispute starts, it is really a desperate effort, and in a short period of time, the men on both sides are hung up.
shouted that he was going to come to the village chief to give a review.
An hour ago, Laifu went to the street to stop everyone from walking around and consuming physical strength, no one listened to him, and now it's good, and when the fight starts, one is heavier than the other.
The village chief of Laifu was dragged to the street by the villagers, and he didn't want to care, but at this time, looking at the two families, he had a feeling of hating iron and steel.
So he shouted: "If you want to fight, you can fight, kill one less one, and I have to applaud you!" I haven't seen these embarrassing things, the days have come to this, I don't know how to unite, I am afraid of losing a little thing, you still think that it is in the village, which family's field stalk occupies which family's land, which family's pond leaks into which field, you have to fight and quarrel.
Okay, I'm still holding the rotten temper I had when I was in the village, noisy, and then noisy. ”
“……”
The two families were directly dumbfounded.
Unexpectedly, the village chief was asked to come out to administer justice, but both families were scolded.
However, this scolding has hit the point, and many sensible people in the village have quietly lowered their heads.
In fact, this is the case, the whole village came out to flee the famine, but there were fights in the nest every day, and at this time, I was a little embarrassed to hear the village chief scold directly.
"What's the matter, no squeak?" Laifu roared: "Okay, if you don't squeak, then I'll say a few more words, everyone will go back to their respective rooms to prepare, and when the sun goes down and the sky is not so hot, we will set off." ”
"Village Chief, where are we going?" Questions were raised.
"Follow the official road, and if you stay, everyone will starve to death."
Laifu dropped this sentence and entered the house, and the villagers standing on the street discussed with each other for a while, but they had no choice but to go back to their houses and start to pack up.
And in the process, some villagers came to Ding De and told him that their family planned to continue to follow the team and didn't want to stay.
Then there was a second, and then a third......
No matter what Ding De said, they didn't change their minds, and the small gang that had been pulled up with great difficulty dispersed again.
After Ding Rong learned the news, he was not surprised: "What do I say, no one dares to stay at all, and in the end there is only to follow the people in the village to take this road, alas, forget it, go back to the house and pack up your things!" ”
"But brother, we have food, there's no need to follow them, right?"
"If you have food, how can you drop it, in case you meet a robber, you alone...... Even my life has to be taken. ”
As soon as Ding Rong finished saying this, he stiffened, and the expression on his face changed slightly: "Did you hear it, there was movement." ”
"What's going on?"
Ding De looked at his brother's attentive appearance, and he also listened with bated breath: "There is really movement, it's a horse...... The sound of horses' hooves. ”
Boom!
A rapid sound of horses' hooves galloped from far and near, galloping down the quiet street, instantly grabbing everyone's hearts.