"Okay, okay, this matter is over, everyone goes to sleep after eating today, and when someone passes by here, they turn a deaf ear and let them go......"

"Okay, okay, then listen to you."

Everyone ate the bread in two bites, and starved for more than ten days, and now that they can eat a full meal, they naturally don't want to think about anything, they just want to sleep well.

Song He'er came and went, delaying for half an hour, Qin Xiaoniang and the others were worried about the place, and almost ran to the forest to find someone.

"Little lady...... It seems that my five girls are back! Li Qiang's daughter-in-law reminded beside her.

Qin Xiaoniang looked in the direction pointed by Li Qiang's daughter-in-law, and sure enough, in the forest not far away, she saw a thin figure.

"He'er!"

Song He'er walked quickly to Qin Xiaoniang's side, and comforted with a smile: "A-Niang, are you anxious again?" Didn't I come back safely? ”

Qin Xiaoniang's face was displeased, and she stared at her up and down: "Since the day I raided the house, I felt that your child was a little abnormal, and said, are you hiding something from me?" ”

Song He'er knew that Qin Xiaoniang was really angry, so it was not easy to contradict her, so she could only follow her and continue: "A-Niang, you really think about it, I just think it's cool in the forest, and I stay for a while longer, I won't do it next time." ”

Qin Xiaoniang saw her daughter admit her mistake, and she felt distressed in her heart, "Okay...... Just know that it's wrong, don't leave us without permission in the future, how old you are, blame me for being too indulgent to you, some things are always left to you alone, so you are so willful......"

"Okay, A-Niang, I know."

"Okay, A-Niang won't talk about it, let's go, if you don't leave, your three aunts will be sleepy!"

"Okay."

With that, the two returned to the team.

By the light of the moon, the group began to move on.

Sure enough, after walking all night, I didn't see a single homeless person come to look for trouble, until I got out of the forest and went on Tongming Avenue, where I could see a few rickety and thin old decay digging wild vegetables in the field.

Song He'er looked around and saw that their houses were already in tatters, neither sheltering from the wind nor rain, and most of them were still shacks.

It seems that the people here are far worse than they imagined.

Li Qiang's daughter-in-law and Su Yu's daughter-in-law covered and covered the grain in their cars with cloth, for fear of being discovered.

In the shed not far away, there was a baby crying, in order to appease her, the woman next to her directly bit her finger and let the child suck in her mouth......

Qin Xiaoniang was also a little uncomfortable when she saw such a tragic situation, but they still couldn't solve their own food and clothing, and they couldn't add to the turmoil.

"Isn't there a way for the people here to save themselves?" Zhang Xiu'e asked suddenly.

"Is there any way to save yourself, didn't you say that the people in the government do not allow the people here to selfishly abuse the water of the Huai River to water the land? With so much rain, they can only grow a small number of vegetables every year, and now they are all expropriated by the government, and they are only starving. Song He'er analyzed it for you little by little.

Zhang Xiu'e looked at the hill in front of her, and suddenly came up with an idea.

"When I used to work with my old father on the farm, I saw my father digging a well, so why don't we dig a nominal well for the people here, but in fact, we dug it down and secretly brought the water of the Huai River over, which also solved their urgent needs!"

Su Yu's daughter-in-law shook her head: "How can it be so simple, if this is feasible, then why don't the people here dig a well themselves?" ”

Zhang Xiu'e smiled: "Digging wells, where to score, how deep to hit, not just a casual sip can be fetched water, the wells in the lower village are all drilled by serious workers, they are naturally not concerned about this kind of thing." ”

"And you really will?"

"Yes! It's just that I don't have any tools, so I have to borrow some necessary farming tools from these people. ”

With that, Zhang Xiu'e walked to the bottom of the shed and asked a couple inside, "May I ask the surname of the strong man?" ”

The man's face was pale and his beard was unkempt, and it seemed that he could no longer care about whether he was clean or not in the face of hunger.

"Zhao Quan."

"Oh, how old is this kid?"

"Six months."

The man named Zhao Quan obviously didn't want to answer this series of questions, probably because he was upset by watching the child hungry.

His daughter-in-law was kind-looking, raised her head, looked at the crowd here, and saw that there were children in the car, so she took out a shriveled white radish from the frame next to her.

"Take this and give it to the children, we are also very poor here, and we have nothing to eat...... That's it. ”

Song He'er was a little shocked, they couldn't even take care of themselves, and they still wanted to take out the last single white radish for them to eat?

Qin Xiaoniang took the radish embarrassedly, Xu was uncomfortable, and did not speak.

She quietly walked to the side of the cart, picked up a few large eggs from it, and secretly stuffed them into Zhao Quan's daughter-in-law's hands, "These are all cooked, you eat them secretly, so that you will have milk." ”

Zhao Quan's daughter-in-law had red eyes, and knelt on the ground with a handful of snot and tears: "Thank you, good Samaritan, thank you for ......"

Zhang Xiu'e waved her hand: "No need to thank you, this can only help you for a while, not a long-term solution, I want to ask, don't you have a well here?" ”

Zhao Quan shook his head, "There is a bite on the hillside far away, but it has dried up, in order to create a disaster and raise the price of vegetables, the government does not let us use the water of the Huai River, there are people everywhere to guard it, we are really ...... It's better to live than to die......"

Zhao Quan cried as he spoke.

Zhang Xiu'e felt uncomfortable while listening, and after a long time, she stood up and replied with an oath: "Do you have any butterfly cones?" ”

Zhao Quan's daughter-in-law was stunned, "Butterfly cone? It's not a thing for digging wells, there are some of them, but they're all rusty, so what's the use of looking for them? ”

"Of course it's a well! Is it still used for cooking? ”

Zhao Quan shook his head, "It's useless, the land here, if it hasn't happened for a long time, it will have long been dry and dead, even if the well is drilled, it will be a dry well!" ”

"I'm talking about helping you bring in water from the Huai River!"

Zhao Quan's eyes widened, a little incredulous: "What did you say?" This...... I'm afraid it's hard, right? ”

Although Zhang Xiu'e is not 100% sure, she is willing to give it a try.

"I know a little bit about the terrain, I know where there must be water in the pipe, do you see the hill ahead? Because the ground is damp, that's why those ugly mushrooms grow on the ground, and even though you have pulled them out, I can also see the moss over there! ”