Chapter 99: Drought and Thunder sounds, water surging in the well

‘Boom~!’ After the first sound of the sound that was neither heavenly thunder nor as good as heavenly thunder, several huge sounds sounded one after another in Linhe Village, Sanshui County.

It was the fourth hour of Yin, that is, around 4 a.m., the people in the village were awakened in their sleep, but they thought it was going to rain. The thunder was blowing. They couldn't bear the trouble and fell asleep again. There were only some light old people who wanted to see what it was raining, put on their clothes, pushed open the door, and stood inside and looked out.

The sky is still so dark, and the stars are also twinkling. Except for the coolness of the night, you can no longer feel any water vapor. There are many dog ​​barking, and there is no change in the slightest.

"Why is it thunder sounding? What are God doing to hit these thunders? Hey~!" An old man who had already opened the door and stood outside and looked out sighed, muttered a few words and turned around and walked into the inner room.

"Old man, it's raining outside? I'm so old, I can't hear any sound." An old lady's voice came from the inner room.

"No, go to bed. I don't know that the prodigal thing did something bad. God was striking it with lightning." As the old man said, he moved back to the floor with hay underneath, squatted down with difficulty, took off the clothes he draped on his body, rolled it up twice, put it in the position where the pillow was supposed to be, pulled half of the blanket, and fell asleep with his back to the old lady.

In the darkness, the old lady blinked and narrowed her eyes, helped the old man tuck the blanket on his neck, lying there with his head raised, thinking for a while, sighed, waiting for the old man's snoring sound, and fell asleep as well.

The next morning, the little kids in Linhe Village got up first, dragging the water from their homes one by one to go to the well to grab the water. Every day, the water in the wells gets the most in the morning and the least in the evening.

This was not the case before. Usually, water was being fed on the same side, and the water in the well was also rising. If you really wanted to get the water to the end, you needed several adults to take turns using willow rolls to lift the water. They would lift it for more than an hour before the water could reach the bottom, and it would slowly rise again after a while.

Today they thought it was the same, dragging the heavy wooden barrels towards the direction of the well. Some families have two or three children. The older ones drag the barrels, and the younger ones run to stand at the wellhead first, which is also a position.

Now is no exception. A group of children are almost running out of the house. The older children should pay attention to the younger ones. Never fall into the well. This is not a shaking wheel. There is always a bucket hanging from the wellhead.

The well is an open well. A hole needs to be tied with a rope and there is an oil cloth blocking it. As long as it falls into the well, the weight of the water will allow the water to flush the layer of oil cloth. When the bucket is lifted up, the weight of the water will press the oil cloth to the bottom of the bucket, and some water will leak, but most of the water will be lifted up.

There are usually no guarantees for such wells. Some use a wooden board, while others just open their mouths and fall in. Not to mention the little kids, adults cannot save them.

When you go out, the little kid will run toward the well wherever your home is close. If you are about the distance, you will think about the fewer kids on the side and run to the side.

There are three children in a family. The two older ones are girls and the younger ones are boys. One girl ran to the well first, and the remaining girl still had to take care of her younger brother. When she and her younger brother arrived at the well, they saw the sister in front standing there in a daze.

"Cao'er, what are you doing? Be careful to fall into the well." When the sister wanted to take good care of her younger brother and sister, she looked at the straw curtains that were opened at the wellhead and asked her worriedly.

The grass came first, and before the others arrived, she looked into the well herself and found that there was actually more water inside, much higher than the previous few days, with white light shining in the dark, which made her very sure.

When he heard his sister ask, he quickly said, "Sister, there is actually too much water. Come and take some to see."

When my sister found another smell around her, it smelled very bad. When she saw her sister standing there, she approached her and looked down, she felt that the fruit was indeed much higher.

"Really, help me pull the rope, I'll put Liu Gu in and take a look." As he said that, my sister threw down the wooden barrel next to the well and waited for a loud noise there, and immediately pulled it up, otherwise the water would be full in a while and it would not be able to pull it again.

Half a bucket of water was pulled up, and the three siblings looked inside curiously.

"Big sister, second sister, this water is too muddy." After seeing it, the little brother said to the two sisters.

"Don't worry, take up the place and wait for my dad to fetch water." The elder sister has also seen the water, and it is a little muddy, but it's better than nothing.

At this time, other children also arrived one after another. There were two boys in the family who didn't need adults to go to the side and could just fetch water. They were brave and were willing to do more things for the family even if they had to give the parents a butt after the water was finished.

Seeing that there was someone standing there in front of me, I urged me to get water first, and I usually had a quarrel. Today, the three siblings in front were very easy to talk to and moved away from the position.

These two boys are a pair of twins, that is, twins. They are both ten years old this year. If others get out of here, they will naturally not be polite. They carried the bucket to the wellhead, estimated the distance, put it next to them, threw the willow that was still wet next to them, raised their ears and listened to the movement inside.

I felt that it was almost done, so I should have loaded half of the willows and boiled water. When I reached the wellhead, I directly put the back of the willows on the edge of the well, and the front mouth faced the bucket. As soon as I tilted, the water inside flowed into the wooden bucket.

The boy's mind was worse than that of the girl. He didn't even consider whether the water was turbid. Half of the willow boiled water fell down, and then started to pick up the water. After several times, he finally filled the wooden barrels he brought to his house and dragged them to the house together.

As he dragged, the adults came. He happened to see his two children taking water and walking back. He took two steps closer. Without saying a word, he carried one of them directly in front of him, squatted his body, thrust his knees, pressed the child on it, opened his hand, and slapped the child on the butt.

"How did you tell you? You took your brother to get water again. If it falls, how can you let me and your mother live? Kill you, a disobedient child."

"Dad, I am my younger brother. The water today is higher than usual. Get more water first. Why do you do when you hit me?" The beaten child screamed. It didn't hurt. It hurts more when fighting with children in the village. He mainly developed a fear since childhood, and he was afraid that his parents would beat him and would cry as soon as he hit him.

When his father raised his slap and put it back, he looked at the other son, but he had no choice. After so many years, as long as the two children stood together and could not see the birthmark on his body, he could not tell which one was the eldest and which one was the second. Especially these two children usually play together, and they always wear clothes.

Another child saw his father's eyes swept over and took two steps back, "Dad, I am my younger brother, brother, don't harm me."

"Brother, how can you tell lies with your eyes open? Well, I've been hitting you a lot anyway, so I'll be a brother once." Another child also said immediately.

The father-in-law slapped his forehead with his hand, "Stop talking, I'll calm me down. You are brother, I'm younger brother. You won't change clothes later. Go home and let your mother recognize him. Who is brother-in-law? You're ready."

The father is really helpless. He often calls the wrong child and makes his wife complain when he goes back. The child who does the wrong thing laughs secretly from the side, and the one who does nothing wrong can only cry and feel wrong. He is not as good as his wife. Whether he listens to the sound or takes a casual look, no matter how his two children change their clothes, even if they can't see clearly with mud, they can recognize them all at once and never miss them.

"Dad, don't worry, my brother and I will never change clothes. Brother, it's all your fault for this." The two children said to their father at the same time. He didn't say such words once or twice, and it was instinct.

The father doesn't really want to make his two sons look like, but he just worrys that the two boys will always go out to do things by themselves in the future. If there is a danger, one will be missing, and I will never forget it in my life. At the same time, I think that the two sons are sensible and know how to fetch water for adults.

I looked down at the water in the bucket and found that it was much turbidder than usual. Then I remembered what my son said just now. The water in the well was higher than usual. When I looked at the water, his eyes suddenly widened.

Of course he understood when such a thing would happen, that is, after just digging the well, the water inside gushed out with mud and sand, and the water would rise and be equally turbid. Several adults needed to take turns to fetch water outside until they saw the bottom and get out all the mud and sand that could enter the water inside, so that clear water would come out.

Of course, in addition to this, the water in the well will be very turbid when the earth moves. But the chickens in the village do not jump or the dogs do not bark, so it is impossible to move the earth. Could it be that someone has dug a well again?

At this time, some adults from other families came over and discovered this situation. Some people were very active. Thinking of the thunder he heard in the morning, they said excitedly: "Xiangrui, this is Qia. I heard that a dry well in the county town that had been in the past few thunders, water came out after a few thunders. Our well also had the thunder first?"

After he said this, the others also thought of it. They didn't care about getting water and were about to go to the county town to report. Before they could walk out of the village, there were also people in other places with wells saying such words.
Chapter completed!