Back to more than half an hour ago, Xu Dajun followed Zhang Sanlang and Xu Sanlang to the woods and first found a place to urinate.
Then Xu Sanlang and Zhang Sanlang took advantage of the afterglow to start looking for grass roots.
The drought has lasted so long that no weeds can grow well, and locusts have been chowing down on them. There are very few edible grass roots that can be found.
Zhang Sanlang also carried a hatchet on his back, turned around and found an elm tree, and began to peel off the bark of the tree.
Although the Zhang family has a small number of people, it does not have much land. The harvest has not been enough in two years, and there is not much food left. Otherwise, they would not be able to flee the famine.
The only dry food they brought out has been eaten in the past few days. Their family will not be able to survive without looking for bark, grass and roots for the rest of the journey.
So after this stop, all the Zhang family members, except Uncle Zhang and Zhang Erlang who were keeping vigil tonight, didn't take any rest. They all scattered out to find something to eat.
Zhang Sanlang and Xu Sanlang play well, and they must go together when they get the opportunity.
Although the Xu family still had dry food, Old Man Xu didn't let everyone just sit back and eat. When they got to the place, and others went to buy food, he asked his family to go and buy as much as they could, just in case.
So these days Zhang Sanlang and Xu Sanlang always go out together to find food.
Xu Yinyin didn't want to move today, and Xu Dajun wanted to pee, so he joined them.
Zhang Sanlang had a hatchet to peel off the bark of the tree, while Xu Sanlang and Xu Dajun pulled out the roots.
So he moved the ground while pulling, and unknowingly, he moved out of the forest.
The sky was getting dark, and there were not many people still walking in the woods, let alone the three of them walking out of the woods. There was no one else around, only the three of them.
The movement became quieter. Xu Dajun was tired from pulling, so he sat down and took a breather. After taking a rest, the tips of his ears moved slightly, and he seemed to hear the sound of water.
His whole body was aroused, and he quickly lowered his consciousness, channeled his ear power, and listened carefully.
Then he was sure that he really heard the source of the water, which was not far away from him, only three or four miles away.
Xu Dajun got excited and quickly got up and ran in that direction.
When Xu Sanlang saw it, he couldn't help shouting: "Liu Lang! Why are you running?"
But Xu Dajun's mind was so full that he didn't even care about the two people behind him.
Seeing that he just ran away and ignored him, Xu Sanlang became anxious. He quickly got up and chased after him, not forgetting to shout to Zhang Sanlang: "Hurry up!" He didn't trust Liu Lang alone.
The two of them ran after him, running out of breath, and finally caught up with him.
At this time, the sky was completely dark and he couldn't see anything clearly. Xu Sanlang propped up his knees and stuck out his tongue from exhaustion, "Liu Lang, why are you running here?"
Xu Dajun was looking in front of him. He had good hearing and his eyesight seemed to be better than others in the night. He saw a dried up river bed at his feet, with cracks like the wrinkles on the face of old man Fengzhu.
He propped up his ears, then continued to raise his feet and walked to the right. There was a depression against the mountain wall. As he got closer, he lay down and listened again and again with his ears pressed against it.
Xu Sanlang and Zhang Sanlang didn't understand what he was doing, so they had to follow step by step. One of them held a handful of grass roots in his hand, and the other had a hatchet on his waist and a tree bark in his hand.
"Mukuro?"
Xu Dajun raised his head, with a hint of excitement on his face, "Third cousin, quickly, lend me your hatchet."
Zhang Sanlang was puzzled, but he immediately took off the hatchet and handed it over.
Xu Dajun took the hatchet and began to pry up the mud in front of him.
"Liu Lang, what are you doing? It's getting dark, we have to go back quickly." Xu Sanlang shouted again.
Xu Dajun kept moving his hands and said excitedly: "Third brother, there seems to be water underground!"
There seems to be...water on the ground?
Xu Sanlang raised his hand and touched Xu Dajun's forehead, "Liu Lang, your head is hot? Are you confused? The river is so dry, where does the water come from?"
"There is really water! Third brother, don't worry, wait for me to pry and take a look!" After Xu Dajun said this, he stopped talking and concentrated on his work.
Xu Sanlang and Zhang Sanlang looked at each other, both a little confused.
But after only a moment of pause, Xu Sanlang put down the things in his hands and climbed up to find something handy.
Not long after, they found two pointed stones and gave one to Zhang Sanlang to help him pry up the pit.
Without it, in Xu Sanlang's opinion, Liulang was well-educated, literate, and his brain was always smarter than theirs. The old boys in the village school praised him a lot, saying that he would be able to take the exam to become a scholar in the future!
He can't pull Rokuro away, so just join him.
What if there really is water?
In this way, the three people dug noisily for two quarters of an hour. When they reached a small pit, there was no water, but they obviously found that the mud they had pried up was starting to become a little soft.
As a result, the three of them pried harder. Was it tiring? That didn't exist!
If the three of them really found the water, the elders would all praise them, which would be exciting enough!
The three of them lost track of time here, so when they were found missing at the camp site, they almost got into chaos and several groups of people were sent out to look for them.
To be honest, if Xu Chunshan didn't have a golden finger, at least until tomorrow morning, we wouldn't be able to find the three of them.
Who would have thought that the three of them ran out of the forest and walked so far to the foot of a mountain?
It was dark at night and he couldn't see the road clearly. He didn't know where he was. Zhou Dalang, who was returning with his mission to report the news, was not surprised that he got lost!
Before, he was pulled by Xu Chunshan all the way, and all he could think about was "Cousin Chunshan is possessed by a ghost." He didn't even bother to look at the road, and ran back based on his feeling. But after running for a while, he realized
Not sure of direction.
I originally wanted to turn around and go back, but after two turns, I couldn't even figure out the direction back to Xu Chunshan and the others.
Zhou Dalang was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot. His family was still anxious. Cousin Chunshan and the others were waiting for him to take people there again.
But he can't find his way!
If it had been daytime, he wouldn't be so obsessed!
Zhou Dalang turned around for a long time, getting more and more wrong, and his physical strength gradually became exhausted. His eyesight blurred, and he fell backwards.
Zhang Erjiu and Zhang Dalang were in a group. They searched a lot but couldn't find anyone. They were about to go back first. When they passed nearby, they heard a thud. The two of them hurried over to this side and caught the light of the torch.
, saw Zhou Dalang lying on the ground.
"Dalang of the Zhou family? Dalang of the Zhou family?" Uncle Zhang slapped his face for a while, but Zhou Dalang didn't wake up.
The two of them looked around, but they didn't see Xu Chunshan. Only Zhou Dalang fell here alone. He didn't know what had happened. Uncle Zhang was extremely anxious. His nephew had not been found yet, and his brother-in-law was missing again.
He quickly asked Zhang Dalang to hold the torch, slapped Zhou Dalang on his back, and the two of them hurried back to the camp.
At the campsite, Xu Chunhe's group and Zhou Dachuan's group have returned. Three quarters of an hour has passed and they haven't found anyone. Now they are waiting for the two groups, Zhang Erjiu and Xu Chunshan, to come back.
But they didn't expect that when they came back, Uncle Zhang and Zhang Dalang were carrying Zhou Dalang who had fainted, but Xu Chunshan was nowhere to be seen.
At this time, several families almost got into chaos.