A Husband Who Traveled Through the Famine and Developed a Chronicle

Chapter 53 Water

Who is Bai Xia?

Even calling Lin's mother, I have made some mental preparations, how could I just casually recognize a refugee as my father.

She thought so.

Back mouth is a shout: "Dad"

Yu Dazhuang was startled by her voice, the arrows in his hand were shot crookedly, and Bai Xia also seized the opportunity, rushed forward, kicked the bow in Yu Dazhuang's hand with one kick, and landed in Yu Dazhuang's lower three-way position instantly with an elbow.

"Ow..."

A particularly shrill scream rang out in the forest. The refugees who came out with Yu Dazhuang had just arrived here and saw this scene. They were so frightened that they subconsciously clamped their legs. Li Xiuyuan, who rushed here on the other side, also saw this scene. His legs trembled inexplicably and felt a little chilly.

But Bai Xia didn't think about it so much. She saw the refugee team coming and saw Li Xiu Yuan.

The soles of the feet hooked up the bow that fell on the ground, and quickly picked up an arrow, holding it and ran towards Li Xiuyuan.

And Li Xiuyuan also knows water very well, so he turned around and ran away immediately.

"Quick... chase them back quickly"

There was the sound of Yu Dazhuang gnashing his teeth behind him, but the refugees were still immersed in Bai Xia's elbow and hesitated one by one.

"Da Zhuang, why don't you just forget about it"

"Yeah, that's two kids"

"They are also poor"

Have you pity me?

And my bow and arrow?

Yu Dazhuang glared angrily, but at the moment he was so painful that he couldn't straighten his back, that girl was too cruel, did she want him to kill off all children and grandchildren?

It's a pity that the refugees couldn't get his anger. Anyway, there doesn't seem to be much water on this mountain, so why bother to provoke that terrible girl for a little water.

Besides, the bows and arrows are not theirs, and it is not theirs who are injured, so why do they care so much?
Although the refugees formed a patrol team, they were not as disciplined as the army. No matter how Yu Dazhuang roared, the refugees were unmoved and supported him to walk back.

At least they didn't leave him alone, these refugees still have a conscience.

"have they gone?"

"gone"

Bai Xia looked with his head, making sure that the refugees had left, and then came out of the hiding place.

It turned out that the two of them didn't go far at all, but hid and waited for the refugees to leave before they came out.

"Let's go over and see, we should still be able to collect some water"

There are still several puddles that Bai Xia saw just now, although some are only as big as a fist, but now any drop of water is precious and must not be let go.

She walked a few steps, and seeing that Li Xiu hadn't followed, she couldn't help turning to look at him.

But he saw her looking at her with complicated eyes.

Bai Xia suddenly understood why his eyes were so complicated. Thinking of his previous elbow strike, he couldn't help touching his nose, and explained embarrassingly: "I said it was an accident, do you believe it?"

She didn't do it on purpose, after all, her current body is only a child, and her height is only half of that person's. She only thought of snatching his bow and arrows, defeating him, so as not to be captured by him and become a baby.

She didn't want to either.

Li Xiuyuan forced a smile, nodded repeatedly: "I believe, I believe"

As she spoke, she didn't dare to approach Bai Xia.

The corner of Bai Xia's mouth twitched, and he glanced at a certain little Douding who was shorter than her. To be honest, it was unlikely that her elbow hit the place he cared about.

Of course, Li Xiuyuan didn't know what was going on in her heart.

The two followed the location of the creek. In order to avoid unnecessary disputes, they did not go downstream, but slowly searched along the upstream. Sometimes they could find a little bit of water in places that were pressed or surrounded by a few big rocks.

They were all carefully collected.

The water collected this time has a lot of sediment.

It's just that I can't even drink water, so what's a little bit of sand.

Fortunately, the refugees were all downstream, and after Yu Dazhuang's incident, Wang Lu didn't arrange for anyone to come up, and asked Bai Xia to collect two bamboo tubes of water.

It's just that these can't be drunk directly, they need to be filtered and then boiled.

It's not like the previous ones that installed well water anyway.

I don't know how many bacteria there are in the water in the creek, so I just drink it like this, I'm afraid I will get sick.

The well water between them and the refugees does not interfere with the river water. They made a simple filter device with the sand they brought, wrapped it in a layer of cotton cloth, filtered the muddy water, put it in clay pots, and buried the stove to boil the water.

Although both of them were dying of thirst, they still boiled water patiently.

To avoid getting sick after drinking unboiled water, it is fatal.

When the water was boiled, Bai Xia held his hand with a cloth pad, took out another clay pot, poured the boiling water into the newly taken out pot, then took another pot, and poured the water in again.

At this time, she discovered a benefit.

The conversion tank has its own cleaning function.

The clay pots taken out from inside are clean by default, which saves her from washing dishes or pots.

In this way, taking advantage of the coldness of the clay pots that are taken out every time, soon, a pot of water that was burned out will be cooled.

Li Xiuyuan swallowed and watched Bai Xia's movements, feeling like he had learned it again.

"Here"

Put the cooled water into the bamboo tube and pass it to Li Xiuyuan.

Li Xiuyuan took it, but didn't drink it, but looked at Bai Xia.

Bai Xia still had a bamboo tube in his hand, which was also filled with water.

She didn't have as many thoughts as Li Xiuyuan, she took a sip with the bamboo tube, and some warm water nourished her long-thirsty body, her chapped lips were soaked, and the water-deficient cells in her body seemed to come alive because of this sip of water.

Seeing her drinking water, Li Xiuyuan picked up the bamboo tube and took a sip.

Take a sip of water, drink it carefully, for fear that you will drink it if you are not careful.

"I don't know how far it is from Quanzhou, but now I can see some water sources, and I should be able to find water later."

Bai Xia was just guessing, and didn't persuade Li Xiu Yuan to drink more.

Two bamboo tubes of water, one for each person, and there will be nothing left after drinking.

It is hard to say whether water will be found later.

The water problem was temporarily solved, and the two of them also took some steamed buns and jerky out to eat. Before handing the food to Li Xiuyuan, Bai Xia came out with her own note-taking book, and took a charcoal pen to record the account in the book.

"This time the total is 17 Wen, half a catty of jerky and a steamed bun. You owe me 280 and [-] Wen."

Ever since Li Xiuyuan learned to be self-reliant, Bai Xia has resolutely carried out the principle of letting him buy food with money. Due to the difficult conditions, traveling and lack of water, he has no time to weave straw sandals, so the food these days is all on credit. I thought Bai Xia would not care about it, but who knew she would remember it.

Li Xiuyuan felt a little uncomfortable.

Taking the food to read her account, she was silent like the past few times, but after looking at it for a few times, she still couldn't help asking: "What did you write?"

"Numbers"

"What are the numbers?"

"It's for math"

"Is it the words of your fairies?"

Bai Xia was silent, then looked up at him, nodded and shook his head: "Yes, and no."

"Then can you teach me?" Although he didn't understand much, Bai Xia only wrote a few strokes, but he was able to keep the accounts well. Li Xiuyuan became very interested in this number.

Bai Xia didn't speak, Li Xiuyuan thought she was unwilling, and hurriedly said, "I can give you money."

(End of this chapter)