A Husband Who Traveled Through the Famine and Developed a Chronicle

Chapter 28 Education
Just after taking a sip with his mouth still on his lips, he stopped and handed the bamboo tube to Bai Xia.

"Sanya, I'm not thirsty anymore"

Water sources are scarce in this world, and he doesn't know if there is any water to drink in the future. He said that he is not thirsty anymore, but there is still some reluctance in his eyes.

"Drink, I drink a lot of water."

Whether he is thirsty or not, it doesn't matter if he says it, but it doesn't matter if Bai Xia says it.

After staying together on the mountain for so long, the two of them were so dehydrated, how could they not be thirsty.

Bai Xia handed him the bamboo tube again, his eyes lit up, he took it and drank it, half of the water in the bamboo tube dried up.

That's it, is this thirsty?

Bai Xia was a little funny.

After he drank the water, the two continued to walk towards the town.

The only advantage of this severe drought is probably that the moon is big and round, even if you walk in the dark, you can still see some shadows.

Anyone who has walked the night road in summer knows that if you see a reflective place, don't step on it, because it is likely to be a puddle.

But now it is impossible to have puddles.

"Sanya, where are we going?"

Perhaps it was too quiet along the way, Li Xiuyuan was a little scared and couldn't help but speak.

Bai Xia thought about it.

Neither Bai Sanya nor Li Xiuyuan had ever left Lijia Village. Bai Sanya's original hometown was in the northwest, and I only remember it was called Jizhou. Everyone has no rice to eat, so they can only flee from famine in the end.

The northwest is remote and the road is far away, and if you meet a city along the way, you are not allowed to enter the city, and you will be expelled by the government.

Rest outside at night, eat and sleep in the open air, sometimes if you are unlucky, you will encounter wild animals.

Their situation will only get worse.

"When we arrive in town, let's ask someone first to see if we can get a map. If we can get a map, we will decide which direction to go."

In the end, Bai Xia decided to make a map first.

I didn’t think there was navigation before, but now that I’m in this place without satellite navigation, I really don’t know where to go.

Although she is not a road idiot, it is impossible for her to remember every road.

"What's a map?"

Li Xiuyuan's eyes flickered for a moment, but it was too dark, and Bai Xia couldn't see it even though he was walking. At this moment, he was looking at Bai Xia with a confused face, as if he really didn't understand what a map was.

Bai Xia paused for a moment, then stopped, looked at the sky, it was still dark, not much light.

However, it is better to hit the sun than to choose the day. She felt that it was necessary to give Li Xiuyuan a scientific explanation of such a common-sense question.

I saw that she picked up a branch from the side, which was actually taken from the transformation pool, but it was too dark, so Li Xiuyuan didn't see it.

She squatted on the ground, poured a little water out of a bamboo tube and poured it on the ground, took a branch and drew three small circles on the ground, then connected the three small circles with lines, and marked the four directions of east, west, north and west respectively. .

"Come on, brother Yuan, look, here is Lijiacun, here is Linjiacun, and here is the town. We walked from Lijiacun to Linjiacun tonight, and then walked from Linjiacun to town. The lines drawn represent the paths we can walk.”

"If we know the route from Lijiacun to the town, then we don't have to go around the town from Linjiacun, and we can just start from Lijiacun directly."

"So like this, a picture that records the name of the place, the direction, and the route is called a map."

It was very dark, Li Xiuyuan had to open his eyes wide and lower his head a lot to see what Bai Xia drew clearly.

Seeing the picture on the ground, he nodded half understanding.

"So, a map is a topographic map?"

"The same can be said"

Bai Xia nodded, it's just that maps are common in modern times and are not important things, but in ancient times, these things were basically military secrets, and I'm afraid they were not so easy to obtain.

But there was no hurry, instead, she took advantage of this time to rest with Li Xiuyuan and teach this child by the way.

"Brother Yuan, do you know why we went from Lijiacun to Linjiacun first, and then from Linjiacun to the town?"

"Because you don't know the way from Lijiacun to Linjiacun" Li Xiuyuan knew the question, so he answered it in one go.

"This is one reason, what else?" Bai Xia looked at him encouragingly.

He frowned and thought hard, just when a cloud above his head moved away, the silvery moonlight fell down, reflecting on Bai Xia's body, and also showing the bamboo tube wrapped around her waist.

His eyes suddenly lit up.

"Is it to find water?"

"By the way, Brother Yuan is awesome." Bai Xia gave a thumbs up, and then explained: "The well in Lijia Village has dried up, and many villagers have even left the village. Both of us are babies. Fleeing all the way, don't know when it will be the end, and our water source is only a little bit"

"If people don't drink water, they will die"

"So we have to find enough water before we are ready to leave the village"

"Linjia Village is relatively large, and there are many wells in the village. Although the drought is severe, there may still be water. Therefore, apart from the fact that we don't know the route from Lijia Village to the town, it is also a good place to find water in Linjia Village."

"No, let us find it." Bai Xia raised the bamboo tube in his hand, there were six tubes of water in it.

Li Xiuyuan also had a happy face, but he quickly asked in doubt: "But why do we have to go to the town?"

Silly boy, that's because your mother was sold by your grandfather to a traveling merchant in the town.

Bai Xia murmured these words in her heart, but she didn't dare to say them out.

"Didn't I say, we're going to find a map"

"Then decide where to go"

Bai Xia took his hand and started to walk again.

Li Xiuyuan nodded his head, half understanding.

The silhouettes of the two were elongated by the moonlight until the moon was setting and the sky was bright. The two could be regarded as outside the town.

The town itself is called Wujia Town, because there is a big family surnamed Wu in the town, and a group of small traders living in the surrounding area, slowly forming a town.

It is said to be a town, but it is actually a market where everyone buys and sells barter.

Before entering Wujia Town, Bai Xia noticed the acquaintance with sharp eyes, and she quickly pulled Li Xiuyuan to hide.

"Brother Yuan, do you think the one in front is the second wife Li?"

Li Xiuyuan took a closer look, and nodded repeatedly: "It's the second wife, and the one next to her is Aunt Chunlin, and Hu Zi."

Li Chunlin is a fellow villager in Lijia Village, married to the eldest son of Li Erpo, and everyone usually calls her Aunt Chunlin.

At this moment, Mistress Li was sitting on the street of the town with a stick in her hand, and Chunlin's mother was holding her seven-year-old tiger next to her. Thin and widowed, sitting on the ground decadently, sleeping with eyes closed.

Not far away, Bai Xia also found several other daughters-in-law and grandchildren of Li Erpo.

"Sanya, do we want to help the second wife and the others?"

Li Xiuyuan held Bai Xia's hand tightly, they were all from the same village, seeing them like this made him very uncomfortable.

　If you are good, you will benefit the world, and if you are poor, you will be good for yourself!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)