Hong Hai'er whispered: "I knew it was like this! There is a lot of water, and they give us that kind of broken water, huh, it's really not a good thing."
"Disciple, if someone is not related to you, giving you water is a favor, but not giving you water is human nature. Why do you complain so much?" Fang Zheng scolded in a low voice.
The red boy flattened his lips and said disapprovingly, "No, I'm dying of thirst. If he doesn't give it to me, I'll find it myself." After saying that, he turned around and ran to the well house.
Fang Zheng was eavesdropping outside the other person's room, and he couldn't shout loudly, so he could only follow him in an attempt to stop Hong Boy.
Red Boy ran very fast and got into the well room in one go.
The well house is an independent house with thicker walls, apparently specially built to prevent the sun's heat from entering and evaporating the water.
Fang Zheng pushed the door open and saw Hong Boy standing there in a daze.
Fang Zheng followed Hong Hai'er's gaze and saw that there was something mysterious inside the well house. It was empty in the middle and surrounded by sloping roofs. There was a reservoir in the middle, and the reservoir was covered with a big lid. Now the cover has been lifted, revealing the water underneath... to be precise, it's a slightly damp cement pool!
Red Boy turned his head and looked at Fang Zheng with some doubts: "Master, where did they hide the water?"
Fang Zheng sighed and said, "It's all here..."
Seeing this, Fang Zheng has basically understood that this village is not short of water in general, but very short of water! Their water mainly comes from rainfall from the sky, and how often does it rain in this damn place? This is obviously a problem. This house is used to save and store water.
There was a bag next to it, which was powder for disinfection. The water had a strange smell before, so it was probably the powder.
Red Boy pursed his lips and became silent. They had run out of water. They even brought him a big bowl, but he vomited it and complained all kinds of things. Now...
Fang Zheng patted Red Boy's head, left the water room, and returned to his room.
Not long after, Village Chief Lei came and asked the two of them to go out for dinner. They cooked potatoes and radishes. The food obviously smelled of disinfectant powder, and it tasted terrible. The rice was far inferior to the crystal rice from Yizhi Temple... But Fangzheng still ate two big bowls.
Back in the Zen room, Hong Hai'er looked at Fang Zheng with contempt and said, "Everyone has run out of water, how dare you eat so much?"
Fang Zheng smiled and said: "People are treating you warmly. If you don't eat after one bite, doesn't it mean that the food they made is not delicious? That would be rude."
Hong Hai'er turned around and said, "You have a point anyway."
The two were about to say something when they suddenly heard a chaotic sound coming from outside. Many people were laughing, as if it was the New Year. Village Chief Lei rushed out with a smile on his face.
Fang Zheng and Hong Hai'er looked at each other and immediately followed him out.
I saw two carriages parked at the entrance of the village. The carriages contained many boxes and were covered with thick cloths. One of the carriages has opened the cloth, and you can see that it is covered with mineral water.
A group of men and women dressed in brighter clothes stood at the door talking and laughing with the villagers. A woman wearing jeans and a big gauze took a selfie while hugging Huzi. Huzi had a look on his face. He was nervous, but he smiled happily. It was obvious that this mobile phone was a new thing to him, and he also liked taking pictures.
A burly man wiped his sweat with a towel. As soon as Village Chief Lei came over, the two people immediately gave him a big bear hug, and then laughed and said something.
Fang Zheng and Hong Hai'er approached and saw Dachengzi. Fang Zheng immediately asked what happened.
Dachengzi smiled and said: "Uncles and sisters brought us water, haha... we can drink clean water again, haha..."
Fangzheng was stunned. He didn't expect that the villagers were as happy as celebrating the New Year just because they could drink clean water! Thinking about his own life again, compared with theirs, it was simply the paradise of Lingshan. What else could he complain about
Fang Zheng asked a few more questions, and then he learned that Dai Li Village has been seriously short of water in recent years, and the water shortage is getting worse. Because of the lack of water, young people have gone out to work in order to survive, leaving a group of elderly people and left-behind children to survive here. These elderly people are unable to move out or survive. Coupled with their deep-rooted feelings, it is almost impossible for them to leave their hometown and leave here.
Without water, it is difficult for people to live. It was okay before if God would rain. But the rainfall has been less and less in the past two years. This year, the elderly in the village almost died of thirst. Village Chief Lei asked for help, and the government also sent people to look for groundwater here in an attempt to dig a well. However, the groundwater here has long since dried up, and there is no place to dig a well. The government organizes people to transport water inside, but the mountain roads are difficult for motor vehicles to enter, so we can only rely on horses and people to carry it. However, this was not a long-term solution after all, so he began to seek help from the society.
After everyone learned about the situation in Daili Village, many caring people from society formed a small group, and people used horses to pull water across the mountains and ridges every day to deliver it to the village.
The team in front of us is one of them, and the only team that has persisted. They have been delivering water for half a year. They usually deliver a truck of water in one or two days. On Saturday During the day, if there are enough manpower, a car will be delivered. They also give candies, school bags, and new clothes to the children. It can be said that they are the most welcome guests and best friends of the villagers.
Looking at these people in front of him, Fang Zheng was in awe. There are always some people who, not for fame and fortune, but just for a kind heart, silently contribute to others without asking for anything in return. There are many such people, but they rarely make headlines, but precisely because of the existence of such a group of people, the world will become better and better.
However, Honghaier rolled his eyes and said, "Master, there are so many fools."
Snapped!
Fang Zheng slapped Hong Boy directly on the head. Before he even scolded him, he heard a scolding voice: "Stop, how can you beat a child?"
While he was talking, a woman wearing a pink top and khaki trousers ran over, picked up the red boy, and stared at Fang Zheng with her eyes like light bulbs. Fangzheng thought, if he could find a switch, it would definitely be an eighty-watt light bulb! The eyes are too bright!
The woman's skin is slightly yellow, but she has a bit of spirituality even though she is dusty. She cannot be said to be very beautiful, but she is the kind of person who is attractive.
When the woman yelled, everyone in the convoy also looked over. They were all stunned. In this village filled with yellow soil, there was such a fair-skinned monk. It was indeed too conspicuous. Especially the woman holding the red boy looked at Fang Zheng like a monster. This monk's skin was actually better than hers! At that moment, countless information was added to the woman's mind. To be able to dress so white and maintain such good skin, this monk must not be a serious monk! At least he's not an ascetic, he must be a very particular kind of person... He also beats the children, which is quite fierce, and he's almost as good as a fake monk. At least not the kind of hard-working eminent monk!
(End of chapter)