At the beginning, I beat Lazy, and the host is cruel.

The old patriarch knocked on his cigarette, frowned and said, "Raise your hands if you agree to continue walking. The premise is that you don't let me hear anyone complaining on the way back. Anyone who relies on this or that will be removed from the family tree immediately." Lose."

The villagers looked at each other, hesitated, and then raised their hands one after another.

Xia Mo raised her hand without hesitation, and Aunt Shi followed suit.

"Look, there are all these big men out there, and there are not two women who can do it."

Li Zheng looked at the villagers with half-raised hands and felt angry in his heart.

"Then can you ensure that there is food and drink?" a villager asked.

Li Zheng was directly annoyed, "Damn it, are you deaf? I just talked about my feelings for a long time, and you didn't listen to half of the words? Come and tell me, who can guarantee you that you have food and drink? What are you doing? Do you want to blame me?"

"You are Rizheng, you have to think carefully about whether we can survive, right?"

"I am an upright person, not a god. I made it clear. If you want to go, you can leave. If you don't want to, just stay."

"Shut up, everyone." The old patriarch coughed and shouted.

The old patriarch raised his eyelids and glanced around, "I'll say it again, everyone is taking care of each other. No one can guarantee the safety of others. If you want others to guarantee your food and drink, is he your father or your mother? If you are like this again, If you are divided, just go on your own, no one will care about you."

The villager's face turned red, his mouth puffed out, and he gasped in dissatisfaction.

With the support of the old clan leader, Li Zheng finally lost some of his anger at being criticized by the villagers. He looked at the crowd and said, "After you've thought about it, you can vote by a show of hands. Those who want to continue walking south, raise your hands."

After Li Zheng finished speaking, he raised his hand, and the old patriarch also raised his hand.

The villagers thought about it for a moment and then all raised their hands.

Li Zheng nodded and said, "Since we have all decided to go south, we must unite as one on the road. We will set off at nine o'clock tomorrow and go to the mountains to prepare more water at night."

The old patriarch also nodded and said, "If you don't have any objections, let's leave. Take the time to go up the mountain to prepare some food and drink."

After hearing this, Xia Mo pulled Aunt Shi and left. She had to change a few more earthen pots. When the time came, they would be tied to Aunt Shi's cart so that it would be convenient for her to pull them.

Xia Mo talked to Aunt Shi, and each took a small basket with two smaller fishes in it, and went to other villagers to exchange for earthen pots.

After a while, Xia Mo came back with a large and two small earthenware jars. Aunt Shi exchanged two large earthenware jars, which was quite a deal.

The two put their things away, and Xia Mo decided to let Aunt Shi stay at the resting place to look at the things while she went to the mountain to get water.

"Qingcao, let me go with you. How can you carry two such big earthen pots!"

"Auntie, I can carry it. If it doesn't work, I can run twice. However, the things we have here are the most important. We have all left and left our half-year-old child and mother-in-law behind. I am really worried about this! "

Aunt Shi frowned, pinched her fingers, and was very confused, "How about you go there and I go there? I can't let you run back and forth alone. How can your body bear it? I have to travel tomorrow."

Xia Mo patted Aunt Shi's arm and said, "Auntie, don't worry, I will definitely call you if I can't fix it. You keep things safe here."

Aunt Shi looked at the two large earthen pots full of bacon and reluctantly agreed. People are really indispensable here.

Xia Mo was carrying a large basket on his back, with three earthen jars, one large, two small, and one in it. He also held a large earthen jar in his arms. He was completely submerged in the middle and could not see anyone clearly from the front or back.

The villagers could only glance at it, wondering how she got so many earthen pots down the mountain, but no one asked. Every household was busy going to the mountain to get water and food. The news had already spread, and there would be another one tomorrow morning. On his way.

At the end of summer, I quickened my pace and went directly to the creek where I first discovered it halfway up the mountain.

When she arrived, there were already several people gathered around the creek, some of whom were from the village, filling water.

When they came to the stream at the end of summer, the villagers in this village looked up, then lowered their heads without saying a word and continued to fill the water.

Xia Mo ignored them and didn't have time to chat. She took two steps upstream and found a place to fill her water.

The water in this creek is much less visible to the naked eye. Fortunately, the source of the creek has been flowing downward, otherwise the creek would have been drank up long ago.

At the end of summer, I quickly filled up the water, carried the basket on my back, and held the earthen pot in my arms, and went down the mountain.

"Qingcao, slow down..."

Aunt Shi was worried, and she glanced towards the mountain from time to time, and she spotted the green grass carrying the earthen pot down the mountain.

Aunt Shi rushed forward and took the crock pot from Xia Mo's arms.

"Mom, it's so heavy. How did you get it all off at once? Don't let it show up to your waist!"

The moment Aunt Shi hugged the crock, she almost didn't hug her. Seeing Qingcao hugging her so easily, she didn't expect it to be so heavy.

"It's okay, aunt. The water halfway up the mountain is almost gone. I'm going to go deep into the mountains while it's still dark."

Xia Mo followed Aunt Shi to the resting place without blushing or out of breath.

"What, you want to go to the mountains, but don't go. It will get dark soon. It's too dangerous to go to the mountains at night."

"Don't we still have a big earthen pot with nothing in it? I'll take it up and take a look. If there's nothing else to put it in, I'll get some water and bring it down. It'll be quick."

"No, no, we can get through it by saving some food, but we can't take risks."

Aunt Shi shook her head repeatedly and disagreed with everything.

When they arrived at the resting place, Mrs. Shi stared at the green grass, fearing that she would sneak up the mountain. The sky was getting dark and there were dangers everywhere on the mountain.

Seeing Mrs. Shi's worried look, Xia Mo had no choice but to stop thinking about going up the mountain. Anyway, there were many mountains behind, not least of which was this one.

After a wonderful meal, everyone went to bed early. We have to go on the road early tomorrow morning, so we can sleep a little longer.

Before going to bed, Granny Shi brought five pairs of straw sandals to Xia Mo.

Granny Shi had knitted all the straw sandals for a family of five. She was such a nimble old lady.

Granny Shi put down her shoes and climbed into the hammock to rest.

At the end of summer, the shoes were distributed to the three children and asked them to wear straw sandals tomorrow morning. They could wrap a few pieces of cloth around their feet so that they would not wear them.

Xia Mo looked at the pair of big straw sandals in her hand and saw that they were Song Laicai's shoe size. She didn't want to give them to him at all.

Unfortunately, these straw sandals were too big for her to wear, so as not to spoil Granny Shi's feelings, Xia Mo had to reluctantly throw the straw sandals to Song Laicai who was lying under the hammock.

Song Laicai was unexpectedly hit by a straw sandal. He almost jumped up in shock. When he touched it, he discovered that it was a pair of straw sandals.

He curled his lips, muttered something, put his straw sandals under his head, and went to sleep.