Chapter 60: The Widow and the Monk
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Li Changshu led the way, Ao Yan followed, and the two walked all the way in the direction of Lijia Village.
Along the way, Ao Yandong looked at the west, and did not find much drought, whether it was in the village or in the wilderness, it was a lush, fresh and refined image.
In a moment of confusion, he had already walked out of the five-mile range, out of the boundary under the jurisdiction of Ao Yanhu Bo's position.
As soon as he stepped out of the border, Ao Yan felt that something was wrong.
Five miles away and within five miles, the grass that grows and withers on one side forms a natural yellow-green border.
At this time, a dry and scorching wind blew in his face, blowing Ao Yanzhi frowned, fortunately he was not invaded by the cold and heat, this is nothing, just Li Long Spear on the side, bronzed skin sweating in the sun, and his body exuded a scorching heat.
Ao Yan approached him.
Li spear grasped the sweat, his heart was annoyed by the sun, and there were countless dead grass and sunburned trees in his eyes, and he was anxious to see it, and at this moment he only felt a coolness enveloping him, and the whole person was vibrated and much more comfortable.
He turned his head and looked, it turned out that the young man's temple had walked with him at some point.
He is not a stupid person, and now when he realizes the divine power of this thin young man, he knows that this person has strange feelings, and then he is even more convinced, and he faces Ao Yan with a burst of gratitude and admiration in his heart.
With Ao Yan's help, the two soon entered Lijia Village.
Ao Yan relied on his extraordinary eyesight to look at the village before he arrived.
Every house in the village has a yard, surrounded by an earthen wall, which looks very regular, compared to Xiangliu Village, the buildings here are western-style houses.
It's just that under the scorching sun at this time, whether it is the ground, the wall, or the house, it is erupting with scorching heat, and the invisible heat distorts the air, and the ground is harder than stone, and there are countless spiderweb-like cracks.
Ao Yan's heart was shocked.
He had seen some Northwest drought propaganda films on TV before, which were more exaggerated than this, but once he saw it with his own eyes, it was far more trembling than seeing it on TV.
"Miaozhu, this way. ”
Hearing the sound of Li's spear, Ao Yan followed him into the village, and it didn't take long for him to come to the south of the village.
As far as the eye can see, there is a green and yellow patch, like a crop about to ripen.
Ao Yan frowned, and a green smell like boiling water rushed into his nostrils, these were not ripe, but were about to be sunburned.
If this continues, it will take at most five or six days, and there will be no harvest.
Looking towards the end of the cultivated field, Ao Yan seemed to see a ditch.
"Huh, why don't you use a ditch? Am I mistaken?"
Ao Yan walked straight along the ridge, until he got close to the front to make sure that he was not mistaken, according to the direction of this ditch, he judged that it should be connected to the long river, he thought that the water source in the long river is quite rich, this small river ditch should not be out of water.
When he looked further, he was stunned by the scene in front of him.
The huge ravine has bottomed out, and the stream-like water is flowing in the middle of the riverbed, and under the three-inch high water level is pitch black silt, and from time to time you can see a lot of loaches, catfish, black fish, and the like, rolling and stirring in it.
However, more crucian carp and carp were roasted straight on the sun-dried mud on the shore.
What catches your eye is a variety of gray fish carcasses, which attract flies and buzz.
"This tributary of our village is blocked by silt, so that the terrain is too high, and the water level of the long river is down, and that's it here. On the side, Li Changshu said anxiously.
"Are you just going to drink the water here?" asked Ao Yan.
"This water can't be used even if there are no dead fish, so it's barely irrigated nearby. If you want to drink water, you can only endure the sun to go to the long river five miles away to pick it up, and you can only pick up fifty catties of water back and forth for ten miles, and you don't even dare to take a comfortable bath. ”
When Li Changshu said this, he recalled the situation when he first arrived at his sister's house, he first drank a full amount of water, and then took a bath happily.
Although Xiangliu Village is not living well, compared with Lijia Village now, to be honest, he is reluctant to come back.
"If it rains heavily, it works better than anything else. Li Changshu glanced at Ao Yan and said deliberately.
Ao Yan didn't answer, a light rain to solve the urgent need, only fifty incense, he waved his hand, but a rainstorm that can solve the crisis here requires hundreds of incense, which is not a small consumption for him.
After thinking about it carefully, he already had a plan in his heart, but he was still silent on the surface.
Ao Yan left the ploughing field and returned to the village, when a shout suddenly came from his ears, and from time to time he was still loud, and he didn't know what he was doing.
"It's this! Adultery with others! Corrupt the virtue of our Lijia Village, and make God angry!"
"This is Li Sun's family, her husband died just after getting married, and she has been a widow for five years, but not long ago, her mother-in-law found out that she was pregnant, and it happened to be a drought, and the villagers felt that this woman must be not abiding by women's morality, and she ruined the virtues of Lijia Village that has been passed down from generation to generation, and angered God. As Li Changshu spoke, the commotion of the villagers became more and more intense.
"This widow! Dead hoof! Village elder, what do you say?!"
"Our Lijia Village has always been smooth and rainy, and now that this incident has happened, it must be blamed by God, what do you say?!"
"Dip the pig cage!" shouted almost in unison.
"Alas...... Ignorance, stupidity. Ao Yan sighed.
If a widow steals a man and causes several towns around Mayfly Town to suffer a drought, wouldn't the earth have long been desertified?
"It's really stupid and pedantic, a bunch of foolish people!" Ao Yan scolded again in his heart.
With this spare time to catch widows together, it is better to think about going to a place five miles away to pick up water and solve the problem of drinking water.
However, when it came to dipping the pig cage, these villagers were dumbfounded, there was not even water in the ditch, and they were soaked in hair, so they proposed not to do this, or discuss how to solve the urgent need at hand.
Someone said that he went to find Muramasa, and he rushed to the door of a compound again, knocking alive.
Finally the village came out, and after discussing for a while, Ao Yan listened to the old man who was the village leader: "There is one way, which is to dredge the river and bring the water over again." ”
The ditch is five miles long, and the degree of silt is at least one meter deep, and the water in it is exposed to the sun and boiling, and the scorching sun is on the head, and the total number of men and children in the whole village is only one hundred and fifty or six, and this also requires a lot of money, so it is better to use this money to buy a few cars to go to the river to push water back.
Ao Yan shook his head, and if this method is useful, even if it is completed, it will take a month to pass, and even if the person does not die, the crops will definitely be hung up.
As soon as he thought so, the villagers raised the same question and made a fuss again.
In the end, Muramasa blushed and became impatient, and yelled: "If God doesn't go down within five days, all of them will die!
At this moment, Ao Yan's ears moved, and he turned his head to look at the field.
I saw a great monk carrying water along the riverbank, walking all the way like a gallop.
His pupils immediately shrank.
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