Extraordinary little Shennong

chapter 423

In the past, people in the village all pinned their hopes on Xiaopang, the only college student in the village who went out, but after so long, Xiaopang seems to have no response in the big city.Gradually, everyone no longer placed their hopes on him, but when he was mentioned, they were still full of respect. After all, he was still the person with the highest level of knowledge in the village.

"Grandpa, I'm back!" A boy about thirteen or fourteen years old walked in, saw Yu Xiaofan and Mu Qingqing, didn't know how to address them, and smiled at them.

"Huzi, this is your little fat uncle's good friend. Don't you always say that you want to study and get admitted to university like little fat uncle? Call uncle and aunt!"

Huzi showed two small canine teeth, and smiled sweetly at Yu Xiaofan and Mu Qingqing, "Hello, Uncle and Auntie!"

"This is your little grandson?"

"Yes!" The village chief smiled proudly, "He is now in junior high school, and his grades are very good! Our family's hope is pinned on him!"

Hearing his grandfather praise himself in front of outsiders, Huzi was a little shy, and immediately turned his face away.

"By the way, Huzi, why don't you accompany your uncle and aunt to fetch water today, as there is not enough water at home!"

Huzi nodded sensiblely. Huzi's father went out to work when he was very young. It has been many years and there has been no news. He just left this grandson for the old man.

The village chief dragged his shit and piss to the ground. He didn't expect his grandson to be so promising, so he praised everyone he met.Now that the village head is getting old, he can no longer carry the water on his back, so this heavy responsibility falls on his teenage grandson.

Although the grandson only comes back two days a week, he will carry all the water tanks at home for his grandfather every time before going to school.The place where he goes to school is also far away from here, and it takes more than half an hour to jog basically.

Huzi has grown stronger since he was a child, just like his name, like a newborn tiger.

Huzi carried the family's big water tower on his back, then took Yu Xiaofan and Mu Qingqing and set off.Along the way, Yu Xiaofan chatted with Huzi, "Huzi, are your current courses heavy?"

Huzi nodded, "Compared with elementary school, the current course has several homework added, and it is quite difficult to learn. The main reason is that I don't have an exercise book, so sometimes I can only borrow other students' answers and cover up their answers with paper. , and then do it all over again.”

Huzi said casually, but Yu Xiaofan felt sad when he heard it.Although his family was poor in the past, his parents were not harsh on him for the learning materials he needed for his studies.Even if you tighten your belt, you have to chip in to buy it for him.

Huzi's grandfather is still the head of the village, and he doesn't even have the money to buy study materials, let alone the other children in the village.At this time, Yu Xiaofan admired the only golden phoenix chubby who flew out of this ravine. How many difficulties did he overcome to pass the exam and become a college student!

While chatting, Yu Xiaofan casually padded the water basket behind Huzi, "Huzi, how much water do you usually carry?"

Huzi thought for a while and replied earnestly, "I am young, and my grandfather forbids me to carry this water basket full, saying that it is too heavy, and it will not grow taller in the future. I usually carry more than half of this. Now that my grandfather is old I can’t recite it when I’m too old, so I can only recite it. On weekends, I basically have to recite it for a day to fill up the water tank.”

Yu Xiaofan carefully calculated the time account in his heart, and was extremely shocked, "So, during your two weekends, one day is spent on hiking the mountain road, and the other day is spent on carrying water, right?"

Huzi nodded a little embarrassedly.

"Don't you want to play at all?" You know, in the past, even though Yu Xiaofan's family was poor, what he was thinking about the most was how the little friends in the village were playing, and he never thought of sharing some with the family. No wonder the younger sister said I have only grown up recently.

Huzi is a very honest child, "Of course I want to, but grandpa is already old, if I don't take care of him and carry water for him, he will probably die of thirst."

Huzi has shown a more mature side than his age, Yu Xiaofan has to sigh, no wonder it is said that the children of the poor are already in charge of the family.

When he got to the backwater, Yu Xiaofan was shocked again, originally he had imagined a clear small river, such as a small river like his portable space.Even if the water in the small river in his own space is not as clear, at least it is not such a muddy well.

Yu Xiaofan pointed at the muddy well, his voice trembling, "Do you usually drink the water drawn here?"

"Yeah!" Huzi looked at Yu Xiaofan strangely, there was nothing curious about it, since as long as he could remember, people in his own village and the next-door village all drank water from this well.

"But the water is so muddy." Yu Xiaofan couldn't help expressing his inner thoughts again.

Huzi quickly explained, "It doesn't matter. After we pick it up and stir it with alum, the impurities in the water will naturally settle down. When we drink water, it's better to use the water from the upper layer. gone."

No wonder when Yu Xiaofan was in the village, he didn't see any flowers and plants on the roadside at all.Water resources are so scarce, how can the villagers use such precious water for irrigation.

"How often does it rain here?" Yu Xiaofan felt like he was about to become a problem baby.

Fortunately, Huzi didn't dislike him for asking too many questions, so he thought carefully before answering, "Probably once a month, and the rain is relatively light. Sometimes it's normal if it doesn't rain for several months."

Yu Xiaofan now fully understands the situation here, just before he left, the village chief agreed to give him the other water basket at home after he was soft-spoken.

Yu Xiaofan filled the water basket he brought over to the brim, and was about to carry it, only to realize that it was very difficult.Look at Huzi again, he has already skillfully carried the water basket on his back, as if he is as light as a swallow.

"Huzi, don't you feel pain in your shoulder?" Yu Xiaofan asked involuntarily when he felt pain in his shoulder after only a dozen steps on his back.

"Uncle, it's your first time reciting it, so it's not surprising that you feel this way. I've been reciting it for several years, and the skin on my shoulders has long been numb."

On the way back, I saw other people in the village carrying water baskets to fetch water one after another. Huzi greeted them happily.It seems that people in the village have long been accustomed to such days.

Back at the village head's house, Huzi poured the water from the water tower into the water tank, and was about to set off to carry the water, "Uncle, you already know where the water is fetched, so you don't have to follow me now, I have to go." Back and forth a few times."

(End of this chapter)