"Don't worry, I'm just letting you take a look. What we really want to take is another road. Although it is not as dangerous and steep as this, it is a full eighteen kilometers longer. It usually takes nearly two hours to climb this way. That road is at least Four hours is enough to make it almost time for dinner, so be mentally prepared. Of course, if you also want to save trouble and climb the ladder, I don’t mind either.”
After saying that, Qin Hao didn't say any more nonsense and went up the mountain carrying his things. Mu Qianjun and others quickly followed. As for the ladder to heaven, he didn't even dare to think about it. Do you really want to die
However, when Mu Qianjun thought of the skinny, malnourished classmate from the same dormitory, she used to carry corn, potatoes, and wild vegetables on her weak shoulders when she was young, climbing this dangerous ladder to sell outside, and save enough. She studied with tuition fees and then passed the Tianhai exam. She wanted to cry for no reason.
She originally thought that Lu Siying was just poor and struggling against fate, but now it seems that it is more than that? It is not an exaggeration to say that you are using your life to resist fate! She finally understood why the senior student never complained and turned pain into motivation. It turned out that pain was nothing compared to hard-won life.
However, when Mu Qianjun arrived at the village where her destination was after a full four-hour climb, she saw that the children were in terrible pain. She couldn't bear it anymore and burst into tears, as if she was heartbroken. Heart child.
Qin Hao did not choose to comfort her. Just as Mu Qianxue said, since you have chosen to go through this life, you must have the awareness to face everything. This is just the beginning, just a small release of emotions. , followed by multiple mental and physical tortures.
There is no electricity or mobile phone signal here. All modernization here seems so useless and useless. Communication can only be done by writing letters. It is even said that even to drink water, one has to go to a ravine nearly ten kilometers away to fetch water. The round trip is twenty kilometers. This is just for drinking water. Think about the fact that water can be released by turning on the faucet in the city. Isn't this bitter
The group of them lived in a spare house in the village. The village chief of Cliff Village had already received the news that Lu Siying was going to build a hometown, and had arranged accommodation for them early.
The house is an earthen house with a mud floor. The furniture is just a few wooden stools and a table. It looks like it was newly built. There is a kerosene lamp on the table. There is no electricity here, and there is no light except for the kerosene lamp at night.
As for cooking, there is no liquefied gas, natural gas, or even coal stoves here. Because there is no coal, they can only use the most primitive method of burning firewood.
New guests came to the village, and the children all followed them, because they knew that only when the guests came, they could eat candies and snacks from outside, which they had never eaten before in their lives.
The adults only have a few words to describe their impressions of these children: "black, dirty, shabby, and thin."
He endured the sadness and gave all the little inventory he had to the children. The children ran away with joy, but everyone could not calm down for a long time.
However, when they went to the kitchen to take a look, they couldn't help but feel worried. There were two large stoves and two large pots with some oil, salt, soy and vinegar on them. In the jars were some rice noodles, plus some unknown wild vegetables. Look at the freshness. , it must be picked fresh.
Qin Hao's cooking skills must be nothing to say, but he has no intention of doing anything, otherwise how can he be regarded as suffering? Besides, he would leave after only two or three days, so a group of more than a dozen people couldn't starve to death without cooking.
It was already late, and it was almost getting dark. On this day, everyone just ate some bread and dry food in the car. Their stomachs were growling now. Qin Hao asked Mu Qianjun to assign tasks. place, he should retreat to the rear and give up command.
As a result, Qin Hao, Qin Tian, Qian Duoduo and a few men went to fetch water, and then the rest of the girls gathered firewood to prepare food. No one had any objections to this. After all, the conditions were difficult. Walking 20 kilometers to carry water was probably not something that any of the white-collar girls in the big cities could do.
In fact, there is nothing we can do about it. The main reason is that there are too many people. A few buckets of water are simply not enough. For example, eating, drinking, and washing all require water. There is no need to think about taking a bath for the time being. They have worked so hard. I'm afraid the water I got back from the hard work is not enough for two or three washes.
Carrying poles and buckets made of iron sheets, the men just went out. They had to go back and forth on a 20-kilometer mountain road and carry water. They walked for nearly three hours. By the time they returned to the village, it was already dark. Totally dark.
Along the way, Qin Tian and Qian Duoduo, for the first time, did not complain about Qin Hao's overeating and suffering in the remote countryside like they did before in the car. The only thing they felt now was pain and sadness.
The two of them, one is the second master of the Qin family and the other is the young master of the Qian family, are both high-ranking and powerful beings in this country. However, they elites did not expect that in many places that they cannot see, there are increasingly powerful people. Within the motherland, there are still these people who are suffering such hardships.
Comparing the three-hour walk on the mountain road just to eat saliva with the squandering of millions and tens of millions of pleasures, they felt bad.
Qin Tian is a martial arts practitioner and can still resist at least, but Qian Duoduo is just an ordinary person with a little foundation and a relatively strong body. How can he bear this crime? He almost lost half of his life. As for the others People, they were all white-collar workers sitting in the office, and their physical strength was not as good as Qian Duoduo. They almost fell down. If Qin Hao and Qin Tian hadn't helped to carry more, three hours would not have been enough.
When they returned to the dormitory, they saw white smoke billowing into the sky from a distance. It looked like a fire. Qin Hao was immediately startled and ran over. As soon as he entered the kitchen, he saw Mu Qian There were still a few girls there wiping their tears, but there was nothing about the fire.
"What's wrong? You can't stand it anymore and are you crying?"
Qin Hao thought they felt it was too painful and couldn't bear it. Who would have thought that Mu Qianjun shed tears: "It's not crying, it's because of the smoke."
Qin Hao took a look at the source of the white smoke, then went outside the house to look at the firewood that the girls had picked up. He immediately understood what was going on and said, dumbfounded: "The firewood you picked up is wrong. You must use dry firewood to make a fire." , If it gets wet, it will definitely smoke. Isn’t this common sense?”
"We don't use firewood, so how could we know this?" Mu Qianjun said gloomily.
This is true. Nowadays, let alone cities, ordinary firewood in rural areas has basically been eliminated. Indeed, few people know this. If Qin Hao hadn't grown up in the mountains when he was a child, he probably wouldn't know.
However, the kitchen was so full of smoke that it was impossible to cook. Qin Hao could cook with the smoke, but he didn't intend to do it.
Everyone could only wait until the smoke in the kitchen stopped, and then they started cooking. They were almost starving, but all the dry food and snacks they had prepared were given to the children in the village, so how could they still cook? Do you have any stock to fill your belly
"Brother-in-law, I'm hungry." Mu Qianjun couldn't bear it anymore. For a foodie, being hungry is really a very painful thing.
Qin Hao spread his hands: "There's nothing I can do about it, Xiaojun, if you can't stand it, let's go back. Anyway, there are people from the foundation to handle it, so it's not necessary."
Mu Qianjun immediately refused: "How can this be done? My sister and I have issued military orders. If we don't do it well, I don't know how she will laugh at her!"
Yes, then keep waiting.
Just when everyone was screaming with hunger, the children who had received food from them before came again, but this time they did not come to ask for food, but to bring food. However, these food But there was no white rice or noodles, only two kinds, potatoes and a different kind of corn than what we usually eat.
But having something to eat is better than nothing. Now is not the time to be picky. Everyone divided the food and couldn't wait to stuff it into their mouths.
"so hard!"
“It tastes so bad...”
The moment the food entered their mouths, everyone's expressions changed. They looked at the food in their hands and even wondered if these children had deliberately brought something unpalatable.
The only person present who ate with gusto was probably Qin Hao, as if what he was holding was some delicacy. Mu Qianjun was a little distrustful, so he went over and took a bite of what Qin Hao was holding, and immediately opened his mouth and spit it out: "This How did you eat it?"
"That's what you eat. You come here to suffer. Do you think they usually have rice and noodles to eat like in the kitchen? That's because the village chief was afraid that you wouldn't be able to bear it and asked someone to buy it outside. The money was paid by Lu Siying. The village The staple food that people eat is what you have in your hands. By the way, I forgot to mention, it seems that they also use this to feed pigs." Qin Hao said with a smile.
Mu Qianjun and others all looked unbelieving. After all, it was unrealistic for humans and pigs to eat the same thing. But seeing the children eating with gusto, they couldn't help but disbelieve.
The tears burst out again! (To be continued)