slack farmer in the wasteland

Chapter 11 Small Village
The sound of barking dogs finally attracted people, and just as Cang Hai was about to ride his motorcycle and continue walking towards the village, a young figure flashed out from the village.

The person who came out was about 20 years old and nodded, with a silly look on his face, he stopped the group of dogs first, then looked at Cang Hai eagerly, trying to say something, but he seemed to be afraid of strangers.

Cang Hai looked it up for a while, then opened his mouth and smiled, "Ping An, why don't you even recognize your Second Brother Cang?"

The person who came was Hu Ping'an, the eldest grandson of the old village director Hu Shijie. He was about 26 or [-] years old this year. He was a little mentally handicapped when he was born. He couldn't speak a complete sentence when he was in his teens, although he didn't look too good. However, the mental impairment of the whole person will stay at the age of seven or eight years old for normal people.

Fortunately, Hu Ping'an is not the kind of madman who has a gentle personality and has nothing wrong with him other than being a little silly.

It's just that Hu Ping'an's dress is not clean now, the sleeves of his clothes are all oily, his family is not too rich, and he is a fool with mental defects, so his parents naturally care less. Originally Cang Hai was dressed like this when he left home, who knew that he would still be dressed like this when he came back almost ten years later.

"Brother Cang?"

Hu Pingan looked at Cang Hai for a while, and felt that his big black dog was coming to rub against his pants, so he squatted down and hugged the big black dog while rubbing his head against the dog's head while continuing to look at him with puzzled eyes. Riding on a motorcycle, wearing bright and beautiful Canghai.

"I'm your second brother Cang, the second brother Cang who took you to Daji before!"

Cang Hai said to Hu Laian.

"Brother Cang!"

It took a while for Hu Pingan to remember, remembering who the person in front of him was, Hu Pingan stood up abruptly, cried excitedly and asked: "Second brother, where have you been all these years, Ping An misses you so much." you!"

While crying, the young man walked to Cang Hai's side, grabbed Cang Hai's shaft with one hand, and kept wiping his tears with the other hand.

Because he is a fool, the adults in the village generally ignore Hu Ping'an, and some bad boys even try to tease him from time to time. It is not that there is any serious malice, but these boys think it is fun to bully him. The only difference is Cang Hai, who is willing to take Hu Ping an Ping An played around, so since childhood, Hu Ping'an's dependence on Cang Hai is almost counted from his parents to Cang Hai.

"Boy, grow taller!"

Cang Hai didn't dislike Hu Ping'an's dirtyness, and reached out his hand to touch his greasy head.

"Second brother, they bullied me again after you left, Shuangwazi, Shunwazi, they bullied me yesterday...".

Seeing Cang Hai, Hu Pingan seemed to want to pour out all the grievances he had suffered in these years.

Hearing Hu Pingan's complaint, Cang Hai couldn't laugh or cry, because Hu Pingan remembered wrongly, none of the people he mentioned was in the village, and most of them were working in the south. How could he have time to come back and bully Hu Pingan? The youngest he mentioned is also 25-[-], how could he bully Hu Pingan like he was a child.

For a mentally handicapped person, it is difficult to explain this matter, the more he explains, the more chaotic, so Cang Hai said: "Then wait for the second brother to have time to clean them up!"

Hearing Cang Hai's words, Hu Pingan immediately burst into tears, but he still didn't let go of Cang Hai's cuffed hand.

Seeing that Hu Ping'an and Cang Hai were so friendly, the dogs in the village quickly calmed down, and one by one, they were no longer as arrogant as before, and lay down casually with their heads down and their ears shrugged, their dog eyes staring at Cang Hai. Continue to look up.

Pushing the motorcycle and letting Hu Pingan pull his cuffs, Cang Hai walked into the village.

The structure of the village here is not like an ordinary village. Every household here is like a staircase, and every household lives in cave dwellings. But now because there are few people living in the village, so it seems that along the way of Canghai, many people who used to live The cave dwellings of the people are dilapidated, most of the doors and windows are broken, and some caves have collapsed because no one has lived in them for a long time.

"What about the adults?"

When he came to the entrance of his long cave, Cang Hai found that his estimation of his home was a bit high. Although the two old caves in his home hadn't collapsed now, they looked like they might not be suitable for living anymore.

A motorcycle was set up at the door, and Cang Hai turned around and asked Hu Pingan where all the people in the village had gone.

"Ada and the others have gone with their backs!" Hu Pingan said.

As soon as Cang Hai heard about carrying water, everyone in the village went to fetch water.

Children in the east may not have much experience with water, but here, water is a very precious thing. When Cang Hai can remember, there was still water in the well in the village, but when he was in high school, the old well in the village dried up. There is no more water, and if the whole village wants to drink water, they can get water from a well about ten miles away.

Getting water is not simply a matter of carrying a bucket. Usually people lead animals and drive a car. The water bucket on the car is welded together by two large discarded oil drums, which can hold more than a ton of water at a time. water.

Usually all the three or four water trucks in the village go together to fetch water. The whole process of fetching water can be done within two or three hours.

In addition to the time spent on the road, there is also the time to fill the water, so there is no such thing as a water machine or anything. If you want to fetch water, you have to scoop it scoop by scoop by manpower. It is mixed with half a bucket of mud, and it can only be drunk after it settles down when it comes back.Even after the precipitation is over, it seems that the clear water still has a sandy taste when drunk.

Cang Hai, who came back this time, naturally wouldn't drink such water. This kid has already stored no less than ten buckets of pure water in the space, let alone drinking it, a small bath is enough.

Letting Hu Pingan hold his sleeve, Cang Hai pushed open the door of his cave dwelling. With just a slight push, Cang Hai heard a click, and subconsciously jumped back a step. When he raised his eyes again, he found that The door of my old cave dwelling had been cracked open, and at the same time, a musty smell came over my face.

While waiting for the dust at the door to disperse, Cang Hai found that the beds, cabinets, etc. in the cave were nearly five or six centimeters thick in dust. Not only was the dust accumulated, the entire cave was covered with spider webs. I originally planned to go home and lie down on my old bed, but now it seems that this wish will come to nothing.

Waving the smoke and dust, Cang Hai walked into the kiln and began to look at everything in the house. In fact, there were not many belongings inside. It was originally a poor village, and the furniture was nothing more than a table, a cabinet and a big bed. Even so, the big bed was broken, with only three legs, and the other leg was supported by a few broken bricks.

After looking at the contents of the kiln, and then at the roof of the kiln, a palm-width gap stood upright, and after glancing at Cang Hai, he felt that the old kiln at home was meaningless to repair.

Looking at the home in his memory, Cang Hai couldn't help but smiled wryly. Originally, he planned to clean up the old kiln and live in it first, but now he realizes that this wish is not feasible at all, so the immediate priority is to open a new kiln.

The backcountry is also beneficial. The advantage is that there is a lot of land. You can dig wherever you want. About 200 meters away from the entrance, Cang Hai decided to spend money to find someone to build a new kiln, and pushed out a large platform of more than [-] square meters in front.

Cang Hai likes this place very much, because there is no one below, so he can do whatever he wants, unlike the old cave dwellings, there are two kilns of the Li family below, so there is not much room for him to move, so he has to take into account The influence of neighbors, but there is no such worry at Shuyao. Not only can a large terrace be flattened, but also a vegetable garden can be flattened below, and fruit trees can be planted a little further away.

Of course, these are all things to say. If you want to do this, you must first solve the problem of water sources.The problem of water source was extremely difficult to solve in the past, but now it is not a problem for Cang Hai at all. The water in the so-called melting pot of life in the space is the introduction. Cang Hai knows that it only takes a little bit of knowledge from the shadow , that is enough to revitalize the old well that was originally withered.

It's just that Cang Hai is not ready to take it out yet, because there is no reasonable explanation for this thing, and it is too scary.

After thinking about all this, Cang Hai returned to the old kiln entrance, stood at the kiln entrance and looked around, all of which were yellow patches, because the scattered drought-tolerant plants in winter had disappeared. Color, so now Canghai sees, apart from the blue sky, an undulating loess mausoleum, which seems to want to fill the whole world, extending to the end of vision and mixing with the sky.

When Cang Hai was admiring the "beautiful scenery" of his hometown, a donkey bray suddenly pulled Cang Hai's thoughts back.

Without waiting for Cang Huo to turn his head, Hu Pingan, who had been following Cang Hainian, suddenly became happy, raised his feet and ran towards the direction of the sound.

While running, he shouted at the top of his voice: "Ada is back, Ada is back!"

Following behind Hu Ping'an, Cang Hai also walked over with a smile on his face. After a while, he saw several old people leading animals and pulling three water trucks, walking slowly towards the village.

(End of this chapter)