With Pinxixi in hand, I have a supermarket in the Changzheng!

Zhao Dashan, who had just put away his shoulder pole, came over and asked, "What's wrong with this water?"

Zhou Yue held the basin of water and handed it to him, "This water is yellow and smells a bit bad."

The stench was like the water in the thermos that had been in there for many days and she forgot to pour it out, so she suddenly smelled it.

"Smell?"

Zhao Dashan took the basin, scooped up some water, and put it to his nose to smell it.

This water actually smells a bit!

When the big brother was scooping water just now, he found that the water was a little yellow, but he didn't take it seriously.

When I drew water from the well in the past, the water looked slightly yellowish, which is normal and does not affect drinking it.

"This is the water we fetched from the villager's water cellar. How come it stinks?"

When Zhou Yue heard this, she immediately understood what was going on.

When she was young, she often followed her grandmother to water the fields. There was a water cellar next to the fields, which was filled with a lot of water and was specifically used for watering vegetables.

The water in the water cellar is not flowing, but stagnant water.

Running water does not rot but stagnant water will deteriorate. It is easy for bacteria and microorganisms to breed in it, and the water will also turn into a smelly one.

Zhou Yue has always believed that the water in the water cellar is not drinkable since she was a child. She doesn't know why the villagers gave the water in the water cellar to Dashan and others.

Wang Tiezhu was also squatting nearby, smelling the faint strange smell in the water, with a worried look on his face.

"Will this water give you an upset stomach? How about we go get some more water?"

At this time, two soldiers came over from the side. They were the cooks from the battalion in front.

When they came over and saw the water in the bucket, a look of delight appeared on their faces.

"Comrade, can you lend us some water?"

Wang Tiezhu looked at them with some confusion, "Why don't you go to the village to fetch water?"

The soldier sighed, "This village is extremely short of water. We asked several households in a row, but none of them had extra water to lend us."

“Is the water shortage in the village so serious?”

After Wang Tiezhu asked this question, he and Zhao Dashan looked at each other, and both of them had doubts in their eyes.

I just knocked on a door and directly got four big buckets of water!

"Yes! This place is seriously short of water! There is a saying that girls should not marry men from the east. Do you know why?"

The three people, including Zhou Yue, were all confused after hearing this.

"Why is this?"

"Because every drop of water in Huidong is as precious as oil, if you marry here, you will have a hard time enduring the water shortage!"

After hearing this, Wang Tiezhu and Zhao Dashan's faces changed and they felt extremely guilty.

In such a water-scarce place, they actually took away four large buckets of water from that big brother!

The villages they had visited before had no shortage of water, so they thought it was normal to draw some water from the well.

Generally, there will be no expression of opinion, after all, water is not valuable.

But now they had arrived at a place where water was so precious, and they took four large buckets of water from someone else without any expression.

The guilt in their hearts was about to consume them!

At this time, cooks from several battalions came over, but they also failed to borrow water.

"Comrade, can you give us some of this water?"

Zhao Dashan originally wanted to return the water to the big brother, but without the water, how could so many soldiers in the camp endure being thirsty after a long journey?

He sighed helplessly, "Let's share some of this water."

After saying that, he pulled Wang Tiezhu and ran to the gate of the big brother's yard.

Standing outside the courtyard gate, Zhao Dashan asked Wang Tiezhu, "Zhuzi, how much money do you have on you?"

Wang Tiezhu took out the money from his pocket and counted it. "I still have 43 cents left."

Zhao Dashan also took out the money in his pocket and said, "I have almost fifty cents here. How about this, you pay twenty cents and I pay thirty cents, and we'll pool fifty cents and give it to that big brother."

In this era, fifty cents is really a lot of money, and you can buy several kilograms of meat with it.

Just as they were about to knock on the gate, they suddenly heard a woman crying from inside.

"Woo, woo, woo, those four big buckets of water, you just sent them when you said so, are we going to live like this?"

The big brother in the yard gently patted his wife's back.

"The Red Army helped us drive away the white dogs. How could I not give them this water?"

"But we can't give you that much! We can endure not drinking water, but what about the three kids at home?"

After hearing this, the elder brother's eyes were filled with helplessness and pain.

He didn't speak for a long time; he really didn't know what to say.

He did this out of gratitude and friendship for the Red Army, but this action did hurt his wife and children, and he felt very guilty.

The woman was shaking and sobbing, "It will be hot soon. Do you really want to let your three kids die of thirst?"

The man sat on the ground with his head buried in his knees, and his words were full of helplessness and apology.

"Xiao Fen, it's my fault. You've suffered so much since you married me."

The two people standing at the door at this time felt as if their hearts were being roasted on fire when they heard these words. It was such an uncomfortable feeling.

Wang Tiezhu also stuffed the rest of his money into Zhao Dashan's hands.

Zhao Dashan also took out the few cents left in his pocket, making a total of eighty or ninety cents.

"Dong Dong Dong~"

Zhao Dashan knocked gently on the gate.

The sobbing woman wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, stood up and opened the gate.

The two men were too guilty to look up. "Sister-in-law, I'm so sorry about the water issue. We didn't know there was such a shortage of water here. These are our gifts. You must accept them."

The woman didn't expect that they would come back, let alone come with money to apologize.

She looked a little surprised and pushed the money back.

"It's not your fault. It's just that we are short of water here."

Her complaint just now was not because she had any resentment towards the Red Army, but because she felt sorry for her three children.

Zhao Dashan stuffed the money into her hand and said, "Sister-in-law, you must accept it, otherwise we will feel bad!"

"Thank you, thank you."

The sister-in-law's eyes became red again. She had never seen such a kind and reasonable soldier.

She felt a little ashamed for crying just now, but she was really forced by life...

When the two of them returned, the soldiers in the team were eating. Today's meal was particularly simple.

Zhou Yue originally wanted to make a big pot of mushroom soup for everyone, but now she temporarily changed it to plain water with steamed buns.

After all, there is not even enough water to wash the pots when cooking other foods.

When Zhou Yue boiled the water, she deliberately used high heat and boiled it for a long time to ensure that all the invisible microorganisms in it were killed to prevent people from getting diarrhea.

After finishing her meal, Zhou Yue talked with the system for a long time. Only from the system did she know how severe the water shortage in Huidong County was!