Everyone chewed grass and walked forward for another two days.
In the past two days, Qi Kang'an came back to report once, but the result was the same, there was no water.
In the past two days, their team has become quieter and quieter.
Qi Baoer remembered that she had seen such a sentence on the Internet, "Get away from me as far as your thoughts are."
They are now thinking how far it can go and how far it has gone.
What does it mean to be so tired that your mind goes blank, and what does it mean to be so tired that you have trouble even talking? This is what they mean.
As long as Qi Baoer thinks about it, she can still hear the voices at the back of the team even if she is at the front of the team.
Normally she doesn't like fun, but people are so incompetent. It's one thing not to like fun, but it's another thing to be restrained and unable to watch the fun, let alone participate in it.
She is bored.
Then, with her master on the horse, she began to listen to the sounds from everywhere in the team.
I didn't lie to her. That night Tian Daya's scolding was really civilized. She heard several scolding battles that started with parents, said eighteen generations of ancestors were too much, and ended with all future generations.
It is normal for someone to scold a granddaughter, scold a daughter-in-law, or something like that, and anyone who only scolds a loser is considered a civilized person.
The funniest ones are definitely Mrs. Yang and her grandson, Naughty.
Mrs. Yang talks normally to others, but when she meets a coward, she immediately seems to be covered in thorns.
The coward said: "Miscellaneous, it's a good thing we didn't marry the girl from the next village. Otherwise, we would have to drag another one, and if we don't get it right, we would drag the whole family."
Mrs. Yang replied: "Looking at you, the youngest of you is so embarrassed. People don't like you. What are you doing? You're still weighing things now, so you can't calm down."
Wuzai was wrong, "I didn't weigh it. I don't even remember the person's name, so I suddenly thought of it."
"If you don't carry anyone, you will starve to death. Do you still remember her? Why don't you carry the milk? Are you thirsty or hungry?"
"This just suddenly occurred to me."
"I believe your evil deeds. Just get out of here and get out of here. If you mention that person to me again, I'll be in a hurry with you."
"oh."
"What are you going to do?"
"If it's not a breast, you want me to get out?"
"If I tell you to get out, just get out. The cart won't push. What's going on? You have to give up your pick. You're not ready to get through, are you?"
"No, milk."
"It's not that I haven't pushed the cart yet."
For another example, the coward asked: "Nai, what should we eat for lunch?"
"Your eyes are wide open, right? Don't you know how many things we have in our house? Why, do you want to cut a piece off the milk and stew it?"
As long as the two of them spoke, they would have similar conversations, and one of them would be quarreling with the other, so much that they couldn't stop talking all day long.
Qi Bao'er passed the time yesterday almost entirely by listening to the chatter of the two nannies. She found it quite interesting, at least it was more amusing than the others.
But today, the two of them were so tired that they had been silent all morning.
Don't even mention the manpower pushing the trolley behind. They are just the Lao Qi family. They all walk without any burden, and occasionally they can rest on the carriage.
The old Qi family was so quiet that the only sounds left were the panting of tired dogs, the clatter of cows and horses' hooves on the ground, and the sound of wooden wheels rolling over the ground.
San Lang had a lot of blisters on his feet yesterday and could still cry twice. Today, he sat on the front carriage of the bullock cart and his eyes were straight.
At this time, a powerful running sound broke the tranquility of the team, well, broke the tranquility of Lao Qi's house.
The reports of "no water" and "no water" in the past two days have made everyone see their expectations from the beginning to their gradual numbness now.
"Master, there is water, there is water, there is water ahead." Qi Fugui raised his hands and thought he was shouting, but in fact he could only hear his voice.
"Ah?" Old Man Qi squinted his head.
Qi Bao'er looked up at her father and translated: "Sir, Fugui said he found water."
"What?" I was disappointed too many times, and for a moment I prayed that the old man didn't react.
Qi Baoer said again, louder and louder, "Sir, Fugui said they were looking for water ahead."
"real?"
"real."
"Ouch." Old Man Qi slapped his thigh, turned around and shouted to the back: "Everyone, please walk faster, we are looking for water."
Then he hurriedly shouted to the man in the family behind him, "Quick, pass it on, pass it on, we've found water, they've found water."
The man behind him also looked confused, and instinctively passed the words first and then later, and only then did he realize, "Master, are you looking for water?"
Even though he was so close, Old Man Qi was so excited that he couldn't help but roared in reply, "Found it."
"Ouch." The man cracked his teeth and shook the handle in his hand, feeling energetic all over his body.
The news was passed down from one person to another, and soon the entire team knew that they had found the water. The team that woke up in silence felt like pouring a pot of hot oil into the still water.
Old man Qi smiled and said to Qi Bao'er: "Although it is noisy, it still shows its popularity."
It was a quiet day, and he felt very unhappy.
I didn't dare to walk back, I didn't dare to look back, I was afraid that seeing everyone holding on with a grimace would make me feel weak, and I was even more afraid of seeing someone fall.
Qi Baoer handed the water bag upwards. She was short, with short arms and legs. When she sat on the horse with him, her head only reached his chest. When she gave him something, she could only raise her hands to the sky.
"Drink water, sir." She couldn't sympathize with him, "Drink water, sir, we are all in the water."
With water hanging in front of them, the team moved much faster.
Finally, after walking for a long time with that energy, they came to a lake this evening.
I saw them seeing other refugees for the first time in so many days.
There were quite a lot of people, and there were piles here and there by the lake, and some were clustered together in twos and threes.
Old man Qi also saw acquaintances. The group was not as large as them, but it was also a group traveling together from the same village.
Tianjia Village next door to them.
Most of the people in the two villages are related. The girl from your family married into his family, and the son from her family married a girl from his family.
When old man Qi arrived with Qi Bao'er, Qi Kang'an and Tian Li were sitting on the ground together.
"It's difficult, it's too difficult." Tian Li was trying to cry with a bitter look on his face.
"Uncle Tian, you said it's not difficult anywhere, but now it's difficult everywhere." Qi Kang'an squatted next to him, quite sympathetic.
It’s true that the people in Tianjiacun looked miserable. Not to mention their clothes were dirty and torn. Most of the people who fled were like this. They didn’t have anything to eat. When they stopped, they grabbed the grass on the ground and stuffed it into their mouths.
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Even if the soil is not shaken off clearly, it is said that the soil can make people hungry even more.
"Uncle, how long has it been since then, and why do you have nothing to eat?" It's only been five days, how could it be like this, and what should we do next?
"Been robbed."
"What? Robbery?" They are all running away, but the bandits won't leave?
"Well, we received a notice from your fourth brother. Let's organize our things and set off at dawn. Not long after we set off, we met people from Gejiatun. There was a knot of Gejiatun there, so we suggested we go together. I was thinking about people.
It was safer, so we left together.
Within two days of walking together, Gejiatun said that there were many men in their village and wanted us to pay a protection fee, one pound of grain per household per day. If we didn't pay, we wouldn't be allowed to leave together.
After walking for two more days, we woke up at night and found nothing."