Chapter 27 Fetching Water
For Li Xiuyuan, Bai Xia was very relieved.
After all, the two of them have been hiding in the mountains for the past few days, and he has shown a maturity and sensibility that is different from ordinary children.
Let him stay in the cave and stay in the cave, and there has never been a problem, so she is also relieved to hide him in the Lin family's mother's house this time.
And even if he was discovered, he would be kicked out by Lin Cuilan and Old Man Lin, no matter how bad it was, it would be nothing more than arresting him and selling him.
You won't lose your life.
She tiptoed through the village, I don't know if it was because everyone was short of food, usually the dogs in the village were beaten and eaten, Bai Xia walked in the dark for so long, and he didn't hear a dog bark.
In troubled times, human life is cheap, let alone dog life.
She was cautious, lest she would wake up by stepping on something, and soon came to the first well.
She peeked inside.
It was swarthy, I couldn't see anything, and I subconsciously remembered a movie I had watched at that time, and the ghost in it crawled out of the well.
The more Bai Xia thought about it, the more furious his heart became.
She was a staunch materialist.
She is not afraid of ghosts.
She thought to herself, but she slowly lowered the bucket by the well, and at the same time listened intently to the movement in the well.
The bucket slowly descended and finally landed on the ground, and she shook the rope.
Empty.
There is no water.
Bai Xia was not discouraged and walked towards the location of the other well.
Before she got to the position, Bai Xia saw two tall men leaning on the grass hut next to the well and sleeping soundly, seeing this situation, she didn't need to look at her to know that there must be water in this well.
Bai Xia licked her lips, as if she could imagine how sweet the well water was.
She crept forward to look at the two sleeping men, and then at the well.
If they didn't take water, they would never wake up, not even if they just emptied the bucket, but if they were to carry water, they would inevitably shake their wheels, and the sound of the wheels rolling the ropes would definitely wake them up.
Bai Xia frowned.
It's time to put on a show of real technology.
She stepped forward and slowly lowered the bucket until the rope was exhausted, then she turned over and rode at the mouth of the well, and touched the wall of the well first, and sure enough, due to the humid environment, the wall of the well was covered with moss, which was not suitable for settling.
She found some small rocks to hold the wheels in place, so that she wouldn't make a noise from shaking when she went down for a while.
After making it, he took out a thin piece of clothing and wrapped it around his left hand, then held the rope, carefully turned into the well, held the rope in his left hand, held his left hand with his right hand, and slowly slid down towards the bottom of the well.
This well is deeper than the previous one, and there is still a lot of water here.
Bai Xia slowly fell to the bottom, suspended above the well water, wrapped the rope around his waist, his left hand still held the rope, and the other hand picked up the bamboo tube, bit the plug with his teeth, and slowly sank into the water with his hand, until the water was filled, Bai Xia directly picked it up and sent it to his mouth, and drank it carefully.
Joyfully.
She was dying of thirst during this time.
When she was full of water, she filled the bamboo tube again.
Then he took a few more bamboo tubes out and filled them with water.
If she wasn't worried that she wouldn't be able to take it away, she would have been eager to scoop up the well.
In the end, she only loaded six bamboo tubes, and she didn't dare to install them anymore.
After loading six, her movement was already a little inconvenient, and she forced her body to get up from the well, and as soon as she came out, she met a pair of copper bell-like eyes.
She stared at each other for a long time, then grimaced and stared with her tongue out.
A rude laugh came out of his mouth, and he asked, "Housheng, do you think I'm beautiful?" ”
She fled for several days, with a foul smell all over her body, her hair and hair, her hands and face were dark because she had returned to the fire scene to rummage, and she smiled at the moment, revealing a mouthful of white teeth, and deliberately made a grimace that made her facial features crowded together, and the sound she made was the coquettishness of an adult woman.
The man was woken up by the movement at the bottom of the well, and when he saw her crawling out of the bottom of the well, he was immediately frightened and shouted: "Mother, there are ghosts."
After saying that, he didn't care about it, and ran towards his own house with his feet up.
And his voice woke up another man, and as soon as he turned over and sat up from the grass hut, he met Bai Xia who crawled out of the well.
Bai Xia repeated his old tricks, grimacing, and smiled at the other party softly: "Housheng, am I beautiful?" ”
Are you beautiful yourself, don't you have points in your heart?
As soon as the man awoke from his dream, he saw such a scene, rolled his eyes, and fell down again.
And Bai Xia turned out of the well neatly with his hands and feet and ran towards Lin's mother's house.
I touched the road when I came, and this trip back was much smoother.
The man's voice was not small, and he quickly woke up everyone in the village.
If you haven't seen it with your own eyes, you naturally won't believe what he says about ghosts.
Every family got up from their homes, and the young men took their farm tools and sticks, and came to the well.
After arriving at the place, they saw another man fainting and dying, and everyone sighed in their hearts, could it be that he was killed by a ghost?
Thinking about it like this, one by one couldn't help but retreat.
"Village chief, I didn't lie, there are really ghosts"
"The ghost crawled out of the well"
"She also asked me if she was beautiful"
The man who first met Bai Xia was frightened, but he was better than the other, at least he didn't faint.
When the chief of the village heard what he said, he ordered the man to go first to see the one who was asleep in the shed, and after making sure that the man had only fainted, he came to the well, reached out and grabbed the rope, and lifted the bucket out of it.
Everyone lit the torches and lit the well, only to see that the slightly old rope was stained with a lot of black ash.
"I'll kill you, old man, I've lived for decades, and I've never seen what a ghost looks like?"
"You take a closer look at Lao Tzu, is your ghost still stained with ashes?"
"It's clear that you've met a water thief"
The village chief was angry, he never expected that these two guys would be useless, one thought that a ghost had run away, and the other was directly frightened, and let the thief who stole the water run away in vain
When the man heard this, he didn't believe it, but after taking the rope handed over by the village chief, he realized that he had lost his eyes.
Where is the female ghost, it is clearly a thief who steals water, thinking that she was so frightened that she woke up the whole village, and her face suddenly turned blue and white.
At this time, Bai Xia had already run back to Lin's mother's house, and Old Man Lin and his sons all took the guys and rushed to the well because they heard the movement, which was just convenient for Bai Xia.
first put the bamboo tube that fetched water outside the courtyard wall, and then she climbed over the wall and went in, found Li Xiuyuan's hiding place, and took him out again.
After filling the water, the two of them didn't bother to speak, and walked towards the town with the six bamboo tubes that had been fetched water.
After leaving Linjia Village, Bai Xia and the others immediately stopped.
"Brother Yuan, drink water quickly" She took a bamboo tube and handed it to Li Xiuyuan, he hadn't drunk water for a long time, he didn't care that the water had not been boiled, so he poured it into his mouth.