Others are fleeing famine, but I am a salted fish

The two little ones looked so adorable that everyone almost couldn't hold back their laughter.

Everything has been arranged clearly for everyone, so Lin Xiaoyue and Lin Zhaodi naturally cannot just sit back and enjoy the fruits of their labor. So what should the two of them do?

Isn’t Dr. Qiao curious about why the Lin family has clean water?

Take a bottle of mineral water out of the space?

Certainly not.

At most, you can use mineral water for daily drinking, cooking, washing vegetables, etc. It would be a waste to use it for laundry.

What should I do?

It's very simple.

Couldn't she and Lin Zhaodi just make a simple water filter?

Besides, the charcoal burned when they were hiding in the cave was not used up. Miao, a good housekeeper, packed it up and put it on a cart, which she pulled all the way.

Well, it is definitely not possible to ask everyone to burn charcoal on such a hot day, but making a simple water filter can be just the thing.

This is called making the best use of everything and not wasting anything.

When they heard that the Lin sisters were planning to make a water filter, Dr. Qiao and Chun Xing were eager to be the first to sign up.

Lin Xiaoyue glanced at the tool man who came to her door on his own initiative, and the smile in her eyes could not be hidden.

Doctor Qiao: …Why do I suddenly have the illusion that I’ve been sold and am counting money for others? ? ? ? ?

It’s an illusion, an illusion, it must be an illusion.

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The eight people from the Lin family were chatting and laughing. Everyone in the team was busy with their own responsibilities and the atmosphere was pretty good.

In contrast, on the refugee side, affected by all kinds of false rumors, the air pressure was obviously several degrees lower than anywhere else.

From the small, we can see how much of a stir this rumor, which came from nowhere, has caused in the Dayuan Dynasty, or in the areas of several northern states that were hardest hit by the disaster.

Ergou's mother and Ergou in the refugee group numbly dragged their heavy shadows and staggered behind the crowd.

Two days ago, Ergou's mother gave the last of the life-saving food for mother and son to Doctor Qiao. When Ergou woke up and learned about this, he simply clenched his fists and did not scold his mother for it.

This was the last ration for their family. The mother and son had saved and saved along the way, and only managed to squeeze out this small half bag of food from their teeth. They were counting on this life-saving food to play a role at a critical moment, and then they would find some wild vegetables, grass seeds, or peel tree bark and grass roots on the way, and make do with it. It should be enough for them to barely make it to the state capital.

According to their ideal situation, the government of the state capital would not let the people under its jurisdiction starve to death. Instead, it would open its granaries to provide food to the refugees, and they would have a way to survive.

Therefore, no matter how difficult it is, the refugees at least still hold on to a glimmer of hope and grit their teeth to hold on.

However, now that he had fainted due to the heatstroke, his mother gave away her last portion of life-saving food in order to save him.

He didn't blame his mother. After his father passed away, his mother cut off her own path and didn't go back to her parents' home to remarry. Instead, she raised chickens, ducks, pigs and other livestock, and carried firewood to the town to sell every day. She took on the responsibility of a man little by little and raised him up alone.

No matter how much suffering he endured and how much prejudice and discrimination he faced, his mother never complained to him or grumbled to him once. She swallowed all the hardships alone and did her best to give him the best.

With a mother who loves him so much, how could Ergou bear to blame her?

After Ergou took the medicine for two days, he felt much better. He was no longer dizzy and weak as before.

In order to allow the mother and son to last a little longer, Ergou, who had not yet fully recovered, kept his eyes wide open while traveling at night, searching almost every inch of the ground to see if there were any wild vegetables that had not been picked by others along the way.

Unfortunately, there were too many people who had the same idea as him, walking ahead of him, or refugees who had passed by this road earlier, and had already looted most of the edible wild vegetables and other foods.

By the time it was Ergou's turn, the dirt road had been dug up to the depths on both sides, leaving nothing behind. Even many Chinese toon leaves, acacia leaves, elm seeds, elm leaves, elm bark, etc., which were considered excellent food in the eyes of the refugees, were almost completely stripped away, leaving only bare tree trunks.

During the day, while everyone was resting in place, Ergou got up again, and under the increasingly scorching sun, he casually put on an old coat on his head, and regardless of his physical fatigue, he forced himself to walk further in the devastating situation to find food.

I don’t know if it’s a coincidence.

One day, when he went out to look for food, he saw from afar the two girls from the Lin family and Doctor Qiao bending over and fiddling with something near a low bush.

Ergou hesitated for a moment, pursed his thick, cracked and white lips, and walked towards them step by step with his heavy legs.

He thought, maybe they found a water source. Otherwise, they wouldn't be crowded together.

He didn't compete with them for the water. After all, they found it first. He just waited by the side for them to fetch water and then fetched some for himself to take back.

If there is no food to fill your stomach, if you can find some water, it can at least be equivalent to a bite of food and fill your stomach.

But when Ergou got closer, he saw that they were standing on a dry and cracked riverbed.

The extreme weather has caused great damage to the river's ecological environment, and water levels have dropped sharply in various places. Smaller rivers have dried up, with riverbeds exposed to the ground, and a large number of fish and shrimp have died due to lack of water. Even if there is still some water flow in larger rivers, the water quality has been severely damaged by the earthquake and the pollution of countless human and animal corpses, becoming turbid and unsuitable for drinking.

Lin Xiaoyue and her friends were able to find this water source by accident when they saw a patch of green among the dry bushes.

But before Ergou came over, the girls were lying on the ground in a very ungraceful manner, with their butts sticking out, digging in a slightly moist depression.

Doctor Qiao didn't want to stay with the three little girls, so he stood at the back, responsible for being alert to the situation around him.

"What are you doing?" Er Gouzi, who was walking over, saw the group of people behaving so strangely and couldn't help but ask in surprise.

Lin Xiaoyue and the other girls were busy with their work and had no time to answer him. So, only Doctor Qiao, who was in charge of the guard, answered for everyone, but he also replied with two simple words, "Find water."

Er Gouzi had helped people dig deep wells before. Although he had never learned how to do it from a master, he had done a lot of hard labor. Seeing that the girls were having a hard time digging, he simply let them come up and he continued to do the work.

Some men took the initiative to step forward and do the physical work. Naturally, the girls did not say a word, but stood up, patted the sand off their hands, stepped aside, and gave up their seats to the men.

Er Gouzi didn't say much. He found a flat rock nearby and continued digging deeper into the bottomless hole dug by the girls until he was exhausted and out of breath. When they had dug about one meter deep, a source of yellowish-brown water mixed with mud gushed out from the bottom of the hole as big as a washbasin.