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During the Tianyuan year, there was a severe drought in the world, and there was no rain for several months.

In the clear blue sky, the scorching sun hung high, and not a single cloud could be seen. Between heaven and earth, there is a dull silence, no insects and birds chirping, no voices boiling, every qiē is quiet.

A small meandering river, the bed of which is dry and cracked, revealing large mouths crisscrossing it, as if it opened the mouth of a blood basin that devoured human life.

There was a village beside the river, with only a dozen families, but it was a dead silence, all the villagers fled to the famine, and domestic animals such as pigs, cattle and sheep were either taken away by the master's family, or eaten by the master's family, or simply died of thirst and starvation.

The scorching sun baked the small village as if it were about to roast the village and the land beneath it.

In a house near the entrance of the village, there was a sound of a scream, and a moment later, a head poked out of the window. This is a young man, with a yellow and thin face, a messy and dirty head, full of life, and the only thing that has a little aura is his dark eyes. Even in such a desperate situation, his eyes were still clear and bright.

The boy's name is Li Wenjun, he is a local, his father is an ordinary craftsman, his mother washes clothes, and he has brothers and sisters. Originally, their family lived an ordinary life, and they could still eat two mouthfuls of meat during the New Year's holiday, but this time the drought lasted for a long time, and people's survival became a problem, and their family was no exception.

After running out of food and no longer able to pump water from the well in the town, the family followed the people of the town on the road to escape. There are too many people fleeing the famine, there are many brothers and sisters in the family, and my father and mother take care of this and not that, but I don't know when, Li Wenjun and his family were separated.

Li Wenjun relied on a strong will to survive and a desire to reunite with his family, and a cowhide water bladder, but after being separated from his family, he persevered for half a month. During this half month, he was hungry and picked bark, ate grass roots, thirsty, drank water, and when the water was gone, he drank his own urine. But even if it is urine, the more urine there is, the less it is.

A few days ago, Li Wenjun found this village near the river, he was starving, rummaging through the village, and he actually found half a black flour cake that was harder than a stone. Relying on this half of the bread, he held on for a few more days.

There is always a time when the bread is finished, and what makes Li Wenjun even more unbearable than hunger is thirst. The hot air breathed in through his nose, like a line of fire into his lungs, with a scorching burning that was unbearable.

The bark, grass roots, and other things around the village that can satisfy hunger have been pulled out and dug up. The villagers of the entire village also fled the desert, and if it weren't for Li Wenjun here, this would be an uninhabited village. In a year of great drought, this is a normal thing.

Li Wenjun instinctively knew that he could not continue to stay in this village, and if he stayed, there was only a dead end, and only by leaving here could he find a way to live, a way to live with extremely little hope.

The sun was too poisonous, and Li Wenjun didn't dare to go out. Walking in the sun will consume a lot of his body, and more importantly, it will make a lot of water in his body steam. Today, he can't afford to lose either his body or his water.

All he could do was wait! When the sun goes down and the weather cools down, he will step into the world outside where there is not a trace of moisture.

It is impossible to wait, it will only make the person unbearable hunger and thirst, and he will not be able to resist the little water left in the water bladder to drink. Without this saliva, he really had to wait for death.

Li Wenjun lay down in the shade again, closed his eyes, and forced himself to sleep. As soon as his eyes were closed, the surroundings were so cold that Cheng Dù was terrifying, and the only sound was the sound of his breathing.

The sound of breathing is whirring, with a heart-rending sound, which is chilling to listen to in the ears.

Hunger, thirst, physical weakness, longing for loved ones, fear of death, boundless loneliness, hot air...... Countless negative states haunted him, keeping him awake for a long time.

After a long time, Li Wenjun reopened his eyes, the sun had set outside, and the afterglow of the setting sun poured on the ground, as if he was saying his final goodbye to the young man.

Li Wenjun didn't dare to go out immediately, the sun went down, it didn't mean that it was cool outside, he had to wait.

After waiting for about an hour, it was completely dark, and a crescent moon hung weakly in the sky.

Li Wenjun sorted out a few of his treasures, a cowhide bladder, a jujube mallet, a torch, flint, and a change of clothes wrapped in a cloth sheet. That's all he has.

The cowhide bladder was brought out when he came out of the house. The jujube mallet was also brought out of his home, and it was a tool for his mother to wash the pulp for people, two feet long and thick arms. The parcel sheets and clothes were also brought out of the house, and they were already dirty and torn. Torches and flint were found in the makeshift village.

By the hazy moonlight, Li Wenjun walked out of the entrance of the village, he didn't dare to light the torch, he didn't dare to let himself have a little waste, fortunately, there was a moon, and he could barely see the road clearly.

Li Wenjun has been thinking about it for two or three days in a row, and the biggest problem he faces is the lack of water and food, of which water is the most fatal shortage. As long as he can find a water source, there may be wild plants around the water source, then he has solved the problem of water and food at the same time.

Li Wenjun decided to walk along the riverbed, after all, this was once a river, maybe somewhere, the terrain is low-lying, and there may still be some water.

This is the way Li Wenjun came up with to survive, as for whether he can find water as he wishes, he can only force himself to believe that he will be able to find it.

Along the riverbed, Li Wenjun walked with one foot deep and one foot shallow. He was weak and lacking, but with a strong will to survive, he gritted his teeth and persevered for more than half a night.

However, for most of the night, he did not gain at all, let alone water, and did not see even a single grass. The weather was so dry that the grass was either eaten by humans and animals, or died. Li Wenjun didn't dare to eat the dry dry grass, it was difficult to swallow and not speak, and he couldn't digest it, which would only exacerbate his bleak situation.

Seeing that the sky was about to dawn, Li Wenjun couldn't help but get anxious. Judging from his experience, it is very likely that tomorrow will be another sunny day, and if he is exposed to the sun for a day, he will have to shed his skin if he does not die.

He hurried up the embankment and looked around, hoping to find a place similar to the village he had just left, and let him hide from the scorching sun. However, he was disappointed that this was a wild place, not to mention the village, and there was not even a thatched hut.

Li Wenjun withdrew his gaze in disappointment, and suddenly, a very pale green broke into his sight. He couldn't help but lift his spirits, and hurriedly took a closer look. And behold, in the riverbed, there was a reed. The green shimmered out of the reeds.

Li Wenjun didn't have time to think about it, so he spread his feet and rushed over, rushing into the reeds.

The area of this reed swing is not small, almost half an acre in size, and the reeds are intertwined with each other, and most of them have dried up. There was a small patch of reed lying on the ground, and that green came from here.

Li Wenjun lifted the reed, and he was pleasantly surprised to find that the ground had not yet dried up, and there was a little more moisture than the land next to it.

Li Wenjun was overjoyed, he hurriedly found a branch and dug it up in the ground. With little effort, he dug out a dozen reed roots. He didn't bother to clean the soil from the reed roots, and threw the dirt into his mouth along with the reed roots.

With a bite, a little sweet reed root juice was squeezed out of the bitterness, and Li Wenjun seemed to have eaten the sweetest food in the world, closed his eyes and enjoyed it.

After eating two roots, Li Wenjun didn't dare to eat any more, he didn't dare to guarantee that he would have this good luck in the future, and he would be able to dig up the reed roots again. He opened the water bladder and stuffed all the reed roots into the water bladder, so that the water on the reed roots could not be lost to the greatest extent.

Li Wenjun carefully checked the land he had just dug up again, and after making sure that there were no more reed roots with moisture, he ran to the south bank of the river and lay down against the inside of the embankment, ready to hide from the scorching sun that was about to rise.

Relying on these dozen reed roots, Li Wenjun miraculously persevered for another three days, and by this time, he had already left the village where he had settled for hundreds of miles. But how much water and nourishment does the reed root provide him? The weaker his body becomes.

After another sunset, Li Wenjun opened the water bladder and checked it, and there was only the last reed root in it, and the last mouthful of saliva. Once again, he was in danger of being deprived of food and water.

All Li Wenjun can do is continue along the riverbed and look for water. If he can't repeat his good fortune, he really can't hold on any longer.

Li Wenjun put the last reed root in his mouth and chewed it carefully, he wanted to chew off every fiber on the reed root, suck out every trace of water contained in it, and wave out all its value.

After eating the reed roots, Li Wenjun lifted the water bladder, and the pungent smell of urine came out of the water bladder. He thought about it, and then stuffed the water bladder again, and the last sip of water left in it was absolutely impossible for him to use until the last moment.

Forcibly shaking his spirits, Li Wenjun re-embarked on the slim road to survival.

The moon hanging in the sky is already close to a circle, and in a few days it will be fifteen. I wonder if my parents and siblings are together, and if they ever think of him?

Shaking his head violently, Li Wenjun forced himself not to have any weak feelings, which did him no good at all.

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