The poor little girl who traveled through the book, her father was lazy, her mother was stingy, and

Unusually quiet.

Lin Dajiang and Lin Xiaoman, who was standing at the door, looked at each other and saw worry in each other's eyes.

"Uncle, uncle."

Seeing no one behind Lin Lichun who had hurried over, Lin Dajiang asked, "Where's the doctor?"

"I knocked on the door but there was no response. I'm afraid he went out and is not in Shanglin Village anymore. What should I do?"

Lin Dajiang felt bad and ordered Lin Xiaoman: "Xiaoman, call your mother and Jingzhe quickly, something has happened."

Lin Xiaoman realized the seriousness of the matter and ran away without caring about anything else.

"Come with me on the beginning of spring." Lin Dajiang said in a low voice, sighing, "Not only the winter solstice, your grandparents and your third uncle are also in trouble."

"What? What happened to grandpa and grandma? Are they also having a fever?"

Lin Dajiang walked into Lin Gui's room. Lin Lichun, who followed behind him, saw that the usually hot-tempered grandma was now unconscious on the bed, and he was suddenly filled with grief.

I went out and didn't find a doctor, and before Dongzhi recovered, my grandparents also fell ill.

I don’t know if drinking salt water can wake me up during the winter solstice.

Lin Dajiang followed Xiaoman's method just now, made some coarse salt water, and fed the two elders the salt water.

After all, he was not as easy to serve as a little kid. Lin Gui and Old Lady Lin kept their mouths tightly shut and couldn't feed him.

Lin Dajiang tried several times without success, and said to Lin Lichun who was standing there in a daze: "Lichun, quickly pry your baby's mouth open. The salt water can't go in."

Lin Lichun sat on the edge of the bed and tried twice to no avail. Lin Dajiang was so anxious! He couldn't wait any longer, so he put the bowl aside and pinched Mrs. Lin's jaw with one hand, forcing her to open her mouth.

Seeing Lin Lichun still standing there stupidly, Lin Dajiang yelled, "Lichun, your milk mouth is open, why don't you feed it some water!"

Lin Lichun then fumbled with the bowl and almost spilled half the water.

Old Mrs. Lin drank just half a bowl of water, and the two of them used the same method to pry open Lin Gui's mouth and feed him the remaining half bowl.

After we finished the work here, Li Taohua came.

Lin Jingzhe and Lin Xiaoman also followed behind, panting.

Seeing that the two little ones didn't come, Lin Dajiang asked worriedly, "Taohua, where are the two little ones?"

Li Taohua's hair was messy at the moment. She had just coaxed the two little ones into bed and had just laid down for a short while when Xiaoman came running back in a hurry to call her, saying that something had happened in the old house.

She didn't care about anything else, and she and Xiaoman went to Li Erli's house, each holding a sleeping baby.

He put the child aside and ran straight to the old house.

"Hey, this place is a mess. I sent the two little ones to Erli's house and asked them to take care of them for a while."

As he spoke, Lin Dajiang wiped his parents' foreheads and said to Taohua, "Taohua, wipe mom's forehead more. I'll go see my third brother."

Several people acted separately. Lin Dajiang fed Lin Dahe salt water, Lin Xiaoman went to look after Dongzhi, and Lin Jingzhe stayed to help out.

Not long after, Dongzhi opened his eyes. Wang Chunxiu finally stopped crying when she saw her son woke up.

Lin Dahai was also forced to drink a bowl of water by his son Lin Lichun. "Dad, look, even if you don't drink water, our family doesn't have enough water. Dongzhi still fainted due to lack of water. If we die, we die together, and if we live, we live together!"

Lin Dahai said with a sad face, "As a father, I am incompetent and I have no other options except saving my breath."

Lin Lichun said in a muffled voice: "Dad, if you really die, what will happen to Mom alone?"

Lin Dahe was young after all, and he woke up in less than half an hour after being fed water.

Only Lin Gui and Old Lady Lin were still in a coma. Li Taohua and Lin Dajiang fed them salt water again.

It was late at night and everyone was asleep, except for the old couple. Everyone else was extremely grateful and terrified.

Lin Dajiang said to Lin Lichun, "Lichun, take good care of grandpa and grandma. I'm going to go to the village head's house."

"Uncle, it's too late today. Let's go tomorrow."

Lin Dajiang shook his head. "This is urgent. I'm afraid it will be too late to talk about it tomorrow morning."

After saying that, Lin Dajiang and his family of four hurried to the village head's house.

The door slammed loudly. After a long while, the head of the village came out to open the door. "Hey! Dajiang, what are you doing?"

"Uncle, something happened in the village..." Lin Dajiang briefly told the story of what happened in the old house. He also said that Lin Lichun did not knock on the village doctor's door, and he suspected that many families in the village had accidents.

When the village head heard this, he couldn't help but tremble in his heart, "I'll tell Linda, Linzhuang and the others to get up and go with you."

As he said this, he hurried back to the yard, took out the hidden gong, and banged it a dozen times, waking up the whole family.

The old woman and the eldest son's wife were left to look after the house, and the rest of the people followed him out.

Lin Chunhua also wanted to go, but the situation was urgent and the village head didn't want to say more.

On the other hand, Lin Xier, who was older than her, looked unhappy and went back to her room yawning.

The group was divided into four groups.

Lin Dajiang, Li Taohua and Lin Xiaoman are in the same group.

The village head was in a group with Lin Yaowu and Lin Chunhua.

Lin Da is in a group with Lin Jingzhe and Lin Yaowen.

The second son, Lin Zhuang, is in a group with his wife and Lin Yaoguang.

Lin Xiaoman told everyone that Lin Dongzhi and Lin Dahe in the old house had their fevers subsided and woke up after being fed salt water. The head of the village felt nervous, but still ordered Lin Da and Lin Zhuang to bring water and coarse salt.

Fortunately, the instruments for beating gongs and drums during festivals were kept in the wing room of the headman's house, and they came in handy now. The four groups of people were beating gongs and drums, but their mood was particularly heavy.

The reason was simple: due to the loud noise of gongs and drums, only a few households turned on their lights.

When those families who had their lights on heard this, they hurriedly took out whatever objects they could knock and joined the queue to call people.

Lin Dajiang broke open several doors. Some people inside were still conscious but did not have the strength to open the door. Some people, like Lin Dongzhi, fainted with a red body and a high fever.

Fortunately, it was discovered in time. After Lin Xiaoman gave the seven households broken into by Lin Dajiang salt water, the fever gradually subsided.

All that’s left is to open the door for ventilation and continue watering.

That night, those who were awake were extremely tired. When the roosters crowed, they all fell down in exhaustion.

The village chief slumped on the ground and suddenly slapped his thigh, "Oh! I forgot to report the news to Xialin Village!"

"It's over, I hope nothing will happen to my daughter!"

The people who were sitting on the ground exhausted looked grim. Linda stood up and said, "Dad, I'm going to Xialin Village now."

"I'm going too! I'm going to see my daughter."

Xie Ci'an was awakened by the sound of gongs and drums in the middle of the night yesterday, and later joined the team calling people. Perhaps it was because he had been riding horses and shooting arrows with his uncle's brother since he was a child, and he was in good health, so he volunteered to go to Xialin Village.

Lin Jingzhe and the village head's three grandsons also stood up and wanted to go.

The village chief waved his hand and said, "Go, anyone who is able to go."

The rest of the people stayed to clean up the mess. Lin Dajiang's family didn't sleep all night, and the village head advised them to go back and take a nap.

As soon as the Lin family left, the village head supported himself on the ground with his hands and it took him a long time to get up.

"Uncle Lizheng, Doctor Liu is awake." Lin Daniu ran over and shouted, "He must get up, and no amount of persuasion can stop him."

"Let him rest well and tell him that everyone in the village is fine."

Fortunately, the Lin family was alert and discovered it in time, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable.

I don't know what's going on in Xialin Village...

Lin Dazhu just felt that his mind was in a mess.

Relief, distress, fear...all kinds of emotions are there, and it's hard to tell which one prevails.

At this time, Wang Ergou was holding an empty bucket, with a heavy face, "Uncle Lizheng, the water is gone."

"Oh, the water is gone..." The headman stumbled and knelt on the ground, kowtowed and shouted: "Oh God, please open your eyes! If it doesn't rain, we poor people will not be able to hold on any longer and will die!"

People who are tired after a night of sleep are now filled with fear of lack of water. Who knows, one day, they may fall asleep.

Now they still have water to save their lives. When the time comes, will anyone be willing to use water to save their lives?

A group of people followed the head of the village and cried and shouted, and the scene was chaotic for a while.

......

After noon, Lin Jingzhe came back.

Xie Ci'an also came with him.

The two looked tired and remained silent.

Li Taohua hurriedly brought a bowl of water to the two of them, "What's wrong? Are you tired? Jingzhe, take Ci'an to your room and lie down for a while?"

Lin Dajiang also asked: "What are you two doing? Your mouths are sawed off?"

Lin Jingzhe looked at his parents, with a look of pity on his numb face, "The water shortage in Xialin Village is more serious than in our village. Several old men... several old men were found with their bodies cold."

Lin Dajiang sighed and stopped talking.

Li Taohua covered her chest with her hands in fear, wondering what was happening in Shadi Village and whether her parents would be short of water.

Xie Ci'an was in a heavy mood. A few days ago, he received a letter from his uncle saying that the drought in the north was severe and water shortage was beginning to occur in the suburbs of Beijing.

The government is unreliable, and humans are too insignificant in the face of drought.

Lin Xiaoman sat in the corner with his head down and said nothing.

If you look closely, you can see the reluctance, entanglement and worry in her eyes, which suddenly become firm at some point.

She was not that great and could not save everyone, but she knew that if the villagers found out that they had water and were really desperate, they might unite and rob their house.

They were outnumbered, and the uncle's home in Shadi Village was far away. By then...

The human heart is unpredictable and the consequences are disastrous.

As long as her family has a "well" that produces a steady supply of water, the villagers will have hope. With hope, they will not be too impulsive, and the village head will be able to control the villagers.

Lin Xiaoman stood up and said silently: "Dad, our well can produce five buckets of water every day. We will keep half a bucket for ourselves and let the village head arrange the rest."

"Xiaoman, you..." Li Taohua instinctively wanted to refuse, but halfway through, she thought of the scene she saw last night, and the scene where the headman took out the remaining half tank of water in his home for the villagers to drink, and she couldn't say the words of refusal.

"But there are more than a hundred households in our village! Even if we take out five buckets of water, it still won't be enough!"

Lin Dajiang said: "We don't know when the drought will end. We can't keep the water from our well forever. Instead of waiting for the villagers to grab it, we might as well buy some."

"It's been two and a half months since the Dragon Boat Festival. Even if there's a drought, it can't last a whole year. When the weather gets cold, it will definitely rain."

"Just do as Xiaoman said. Take it first and talk about it later. Also, go get a bucket from Daddy, Mommy, and my second and third brothers first."

The water tanks in the utility room were filled with water every day by Lin Dajiang in order to make soap for Lin Xiaoman. Now there are only two large tanks left that are full.

There is life-saving water there, you can't move.

For the rest of the days, their family had to follow the villagers and drink a certain amount of water every day.

The next day, Lin Dajiang found the village head and told him that the well in his home was still producing water.

The village head was overjoyed. "There's water every day? How much water can be produced?"

Lin Dajiang held up five fingers, "Five barrels."

"So many!" The village head couldn't believe it. "Are there really so many? Take me to see it quickly."

"Let's go. Xiaoman hasn't fetched water yet."

The two hurried to the Lin family, and Xiaoman was holding a bucket and preparing to fetch water.

The headman closed the gate and said in a hoarse voice: "Xiaoman, wait, let me see..."

There is actually a layer of water at the bottom of the well, unlike the shallow layer in other wells.

"Dajiang, are you really planning to provide water to the villagers for free?" the village head asked excitedly.

"Uncle, can I still coax you with this? If I coax you, what kind of person would I, Lin Dajiang, become?"

The head of the village stroked his white beard and nodded, saying, "Dajiang, your home is truly a Feng Shui treasure land! Very good, Xiaoman is a blessed person. The way you two treated Xiaoman was all due to your accumulated blessings. God is truly merciful and has given us a way to survive!"

Li was crying beside the well. Only after he finished crying did Lin Xiaoman start to fetch water.

A total of six buckets of water were drawn up.

Lin Xiaoman pretended to be surprised: "Hey, there are six buckets today? Yesterday we could only get five buckets?"

Lin Dazhu now firmly believes that the Lin family is blessed. Otherwise, among the more than 30 wells of all sizes in Shanglin Village, why can the well in Lin Dajiang produce so much water?

The bucket is not big, about one foot wide and about one foot and twenty to one foot deep.

Lin Dajiang poured out half a bucket of water and gave the rest to the village head.

"Uncle, how are you going to divide it?"

The village head said in a serious tone: "Although your well can produce water, what if there is no water one day... ah, I am such a bad mouth, bah bah bah——"

The village head slapped himself hard on the face and quickly changed his tone, "Our precious well may keep producing water, but we must also prepare for a rainy day and save water. Even though these five and a half buckets of water seem like a lot, in fact, for more than a hundred households, each household can only get two small bowls of water."

"In special times, it's better to have something than nothing. Dajiang, our villagers will definitely remember your kindness."

The village head bowed to Lin Dajiang, and Lin Dajiang was so scared that he hugged the village head, "Uncle, uncle, why are you bowing to a junior like me? Aren't you embarrassing me? Uncle, I, Lin Dajiang, am not a good person, but we have lived on this land for generations in Shanglin Village. We are all from the same village. How can I watch what happened last night happen again?"

The head of the village was deeply moved.

Dajiang is a young man with feelings and righteousness.

From now on, anyone who dares to say something bad about Lin Dajiang in front of him will have trouble with him, the village head!

"Don't worry, Dajiang. I, an old man, still have some strength left. Linda and I will take good care of the water for you and not let them waste even a penny."

In the evening, Lindalinzhuang notified every household.

"what?"

"You said that Lin Dajiang's well water has come out?"

"Five or six buckets a day?"