Ma Erniang's Splendid Pastoral

Chapter 6
In the steaming night, the stars became more and more ethereal, but Ma Miner's body was getting colder, her thoughts were flying wild, but her imaginary consciousness was getting weaker and weaker, this time I must be dead.

Tick...tick...the sound, I can still hear the sound, am I not dead?
Her ears were the first to be awakened. Following the sound, Ma Min'er felt that all organs of her body were being sensed. She subconsciously raised the corners of her lips. It turned out to be water. She instinctively opened her mouth wide and swallowed non-stop.

Gudu... Gudu... kept swallowing, causing Ma Min'er to sit up suddenly, coughing non-stop.

"Sister..." Wang Sanlang happily looked at his sister.

"Brother..." Ma Min'er stopped coughing in surprise, "I...still here?"

"Sister, after you drink the water, you will have the strength to leave here." Wang Sanlang happily replied.

Wang Sanlang didn't understand the meaning of 'here', Ma Min'er looked up guiltily, and found that 'family' was all around her, "Could it be that you also..." starved to death, and went to the underworld together?I didn't dare to say the second half of the sentence.

Seeing that his sister had misunderstood, Wang Dalang said hastily, "Father asked the messenger to give him water and food."

Ma Min'er glanced at her 'father' in this world, "Father, is that so?" The guard who molested him appeared in her mind.

Wang Qifeng nodded, "Well, the official is pretty easy to talk to!"

Ma Min'er is not a child of a certain age. She saw what happened yesterday. She could get water and food, which are more expensive than her life.

Did father change water and food for something?
The eldest daughter seemed to be able to see through her eyes, Wang Qifeng moved the corners of his mouth vigorously, and smiled weakly at her.

Ma Min'er was moved by the smile of 'Father', raised her head slightly, forced back the tears she was about to shed, and asked with a smile, "Then have you drank?"

Wang Sanlang blinked and lowered his head.

Ma Min'er immediately understood that the father in this life probably came back to find her as soon as he got to the water. Thinking of the conversation they had before they left last night, she immediately raised her head and looked around. There was nothing but the desolate wilderness, and she was instantly nervous Asked: "Father, you are an exile, they are assured that you will come out?"

Wang Qifeng smiled wryly: "There are rogues who cannibalize people everywhere, and even the vagrants are rushing to follow them. They don't worry that we will escape at all!"

Ma Min'er understood, and pursed her lips, "Then let's follow them after drinking water and eating."

Wang Qifeng replied weakly: "The sun has already risen, they stop more than ten miles away, I...we should be able to catch up with them."

Ma Min'er looked at the bamboo tube, pushed it, and said, "Father, let's drink this water in turn until we finish it."

"No...you should drink..."

Ma Min'er shook her head, "Father, you said one can't fall..."

"Min'er..." Wang Qifeng's eyes were moist.

"Father, it started with my younger brother."

"Okay!" Wang Qifeng was not pretentious, "Sanlang, drink."

Wang Sanlang with bright eyes nodded happily, took the bamboo tube and took a sip cautiously, "It's so sweet!"

Ma Min'er laughed, it's nice to have a family, her father in this life loves her just as much as her father in her previous life, but her father in her previous life couldn't call her, but in this life... she's satisfied, that's great!

The family drank water and ate a pancake, and finally had something to eat, which made them breathless.

"If it's not a catastrophe, we can escape without going to the Land of Exile." Wang Dalang said.

"If it's not a catastrophe, how can they rest assured that we will come out." Wang Qifeng shook his head, thought for a while and said: "Even if we can escape, how can we survive if we leave the family and don't even have a household registration!"

"That's right!" Wang Dalang pursed his lips and said, "Little sister is still with Aunt Guo's, let's go quickly."

"it is good!"

The family of four supported each other and walked forward.

In the midsummer of July, there is no cloud in the blue sky, the hot sun is scorching the earth, the river is dry and cracked, the land is smoking, and the earth is like a steamer, which is so hot that people can't breathe.

In the silent wilderness, only the breathing of the four members of the Wang family rose and fell.

Ma Min'er wiped the sweat from her eyes, moved forward step by step with a stick, in order not to make herself feel uncomfortable, to divert her attention, either to think about it or to look at it, suddenly——

"oops……"

"Big sister..."

"Min'er..."

Both father and son of the Wang family looked at Ma Min'er.

"My stick is stuck in the soil." Ma Min'er said as she pulled up the stick. Without it, she couldn't walk, but it was a pity that she couldn't pull it out even after exhausting her efforts.

"I'll do it..." Wang Dalang stretched out his hand to pull it out, and it took several attempts before he could pull it out, "Big sister, here you are."

"Thank you brother."

"Your family is welcome."

Wang Dalang came over and pulled the eldest sister, Ma Miner smiled gratefully, and walked forward with sticks in both hands.

It's so hot, Ma Min'er thought to herself, if she had a modern body, she would probably have been dried out long ago, so she swayed weakly.

"younger sister……"

"No..." Something flashed through Ma Min'er's mind.

"Why...how...lah!" Wang Dalang shouted nervously.

"Min'er..." Wang Qifeng exclaimed.

Ma Min'er turned her head and walked to the place where the stick was pinched just now, and sat down on the ground, pulling out the mixed soil and rock with both hands.

"Big sister, what are you doing?" Wang Dalang asked puzzled.

Ma Min'er didn't reply, she pulled the dirt and rocks with both hands.

"Min'er..."

"Father, brother, come and help me, I suspect there is a well below?"

"Well?" Wang Qifeng looked up and looked around, "There is no one here, and this is the side of the road, how can there be a well?"

"Maybe there were people here decades ago."

"This……"

"Father, brother, didn't you notice it? There is loess all around, it's been dried in the sun, it's impossible to be pierced by my wooden stick, you see..." Ma Min'er held a stone and said, "There's loess all around, only Here the rocks and soil are mixed together, and there is a gap that can be pierced by a wooden stick. I suspect it is an abandoned well, and I want to see if there is any water underneath?"

The Wang family father and son looked at each other, "Then take a look."

"Okay, Dad." Wang Dalang immediately picked up rocks and dirt with his eldest sister.

The four members of the Wang family had just replenished some water and eaten some food, and all their strength was spent on scraping the well.

Ma Min'er secretly prayed, God, since you let me wear it here, let me live, please, even if it is only filled with the bamboo tube that I just finished drinking.

After a while, the four members of the Wang family actually cleared the abandoned well. It wasn't that the Wang family was powerful, but this well. There were rocks and dirt on the top of the well. After that, it was empty and big inside.

Unable to see whether there was water at the bottom of the well, several people wove a rope out of dry grass and sent Wang Dalang to the bottom of the well.

Ma Min'er crawled on the edge of the well and asked, "Is there any water?"

"I feel a bit of cold air." Wang Dalang stood at the bottom of the well, stepped on it, and there was no water under his feet.

"No water?"

Wang Dalang nodded helplessly.

Ma Miner pursed her lips tightly.

Wang Qifeng felt his daughter's guilt and anxiety, and comforted him: "Min'er, it's okay!"

"Father..." Ma Min'er felt very sad.

"It's really cool down the well, big sister, little brother, why don't you come down and cool off."

Wang Sanlang is only a seven-year-old child, and he doesn't understand that if you have the strength to go down, you don't necessarily have the strength to come up, but he thought it was fun, and looked up at his father, "Father..."

(End of this chapter)