Chapter 101 God's punishment has come, and everyone will suffer
At this moment, Feng was about to take her daughters-in-law to Fushan Hall to take a look.
When the two brothers ran into the house and said something, the whole family was immediately excited.
"What? Someone watered our land?" Li Qiqiao was overjoyed.
"God, what good news is this? Fengnian, take me to see it!" Sun Chunxue couldn't help but jump straight, almost forgetting that there was another baby in her belly.
Feng's heart was beating wildly, she hurried into the inner room, jumped on the kang to see the maiden.
Little Nuobao was tired after a night of labor, and was sleeping soundly with his head tilted back. The chubby flesh on the side of his cheeks drooped down, like two small meat eggs.
Feng knew that it was the maiden who helped the family.
Although he was happy, he couldn't help but feel distressed, afraid that he would tire her out again. He kept kissing her little feet and was so pitiful.
With their own land now settled, the Jiang family could relax. Fengnian and Fenghu no longer had to get up early and work late. They could go to Fushantang to help when they had nothing to do. Their lives were much more leisurely.
But other villagers were not so lucky.
Every day, a line of men lined up at the village well, all holding shoulder poles and carrying buckets of water. They looked at the fields that had not been moistened yet with a look of sorrow.
Xiao Nuobao knew the importance of spring planting. In order to make the family feel at ease, he transferred a lot of water to the fields for two consecutive nights and was almost dizzy from exhaustion.
When she woke up in the morning, the little girl rolled up her red bellyband, grabbed her shirt and put it on, and hurried to get off the bed to pee, so that she could continue to sleep.
Feng heard the noise and came in with a small urinal.
In a daze, Xiao Nuobao's belly swelled, and she was finally "released". She shyly buried her face in her mother's arms and waited for her mother to put her into bed.
While taking care of the daughter, Feng replied to Li Qiqiao: "Second wife, what did Feng Hu say when he came back just now? Did someone help water our land again?"
"Yes, he was so surprised that I almost couldn't explain it when the village chief asked. Fortunately, my eldest brother reacted quickly and said that we bought water from other villages." Li Qiqiao smiled.
Feng looked down at the daughter and sighed slightly.
No wonder this baby is so sleepy, it turns out that he went to "farm" for the family again.
She patted Nuobao's little butt and said with concern: "Take it easy, girl. You are so young. If you get tired, you will be hurting your mother."
Nuobao opened his sleepy eyes, tried to grin, and gave his mother a big smile.
Feng shook her head helplessly. Knowing that she had her own ideas, she could not say much and could only kiss her forehead.
There is no need to water the fields too much in the early spring. This much is enough. If you continue to water, I am afraid that the villagers will become suspicious.
Nuobao decided to stop, wrapped in a small quilt, kicked his short legs, and fell asleep again.
Before noon, Feng went down to the cellar and took out a bucket of river shrimps, intending to chop some shrimp paste.
"I'll fry some shrimp balls for lunch, and then make some Chinese cabbage and shrimp soup to nourish my daughter." She lowered her head and smiled to herself.
At this time, Jiang Fengnian came back from outside with a hoe on his shoulder: "Mom, this is really weird. It's just now, and our village well can't get any water. There's a lot of snow in winter, how can it be so dry?"
Feng's hand chopping shrimps paused: "What are you talking about, Boss? Is the village well really dry?"
"Well, the village chief has been guarding it all morning, but he didn't get half a bucket." Jiang Fengnian wiped his sweat.
I don't know why, in addition to the drought, he also felt that this day was much hotter. It was still spring, but he was sweating more than in early summer.
Li Qiqiao wiped her hands on her apron and said in surprise, "I was afraid that the well would dry up two days ago, so I just said that casually. I didn't expect that there would be no water today. But mother, it's only spring now. In the past, when the well in our village dried up, it was always in the summer."
Feng couldn't help but frown.
It snowed in winter, and the well dried up in spring. This is really weird.
I'm afraid that the drought this year will be much more serious than in the past...
At noon, smelling the aroma of food coming from the outer room, Xiao Nuobao came back to sleep after a good sleep, stretched her waist and finally got up.
Feng Miao wanted to put on her thick shirt yesterday, but she was too hot, so she changed into a thin pink shirt and matched it with linen elastic pants.
Xiao Nuobao was dressed in pink and green, and she was sitting in the yard eating meatballs.
Her face was swollen from eating and stained with oil, but no matter how you look at it, she didn't look sloppy like a farm child. Her skin was white and she looked good while eating. It was a pleasure to watch.
After a while, the village chief and Old Li came together. As soon as they
entered the yard and saw Xiao Nuobao, their anxiety eased a bit, as if they had been refreshed for a moment!
Xiao Nuobao wiped his greasy mouth, stood up and called out, "Grandpas, why are you here~" He
was busy in the fields and hadn't seen them for a few days. Xiao Nuobao found that the two grandpas had been tanned a lot and looked like halved eggs.
She swallowed her saliva greedily.
I really want to eat tea leaf eggs...
At this time, Feng and his family also left the house, and the village chief hurried over to ask Xiao Nuobao.
"Nuobao, the grandpas are here to find you, just to ask you, do you know when it will rain here?" The village chief looked pleading, with a lot of bloodshot in his eyes.
Xiao Nuobao put down his bowl and tried to visualize, but soon, worry appeared on his round face.
"Not good!" The sound of the milk was a little more urgent.
In the yard, everyone held their breath.
When Xiao Nuobao raised her head again, her eyes were already flashing with anger: "The punishment from heaven has worsened. Within three years, there will not be a drop of rain here!"
What?
These words were like thunder, shocking everyone present.
The color had drained out of the village chief's face.
Feng almost fell to the ground.
"Three years? No rain? Isn't that going to kill us farmers!" Old Li was so scared that he gasped.
Little Nuobao shook her head: "Not only farmers, but everyone will suffer from this disaster, from the emperor to the common people."
Just now, she imagined that this morning, the old emperor Murong Hun of the Southern Ji Kingdom, in order to have an heir, secretly asked the eunuchs to leave the palace to offer sacrifices for him without the knowledge of the imperial teacher.
Murong Hun has always been fascinated by sorcerers. This time, in order to ensure the efficacy of the sorcerer, he even sacrificed 30 pairs of boys and girls!
The children were so innocent, but their lives were ruined in vain because of the emperor's incompetence.
This act once again angered the gods, and they brought down heavy punishments, which made the drought in Nanji Kingdom worse ahead of schedule. Overnight, hundreds of rivers dried up.
The flowers, plants and trees in the north also changed from a vibrant image to a withered and yellow one.
Xiao Nuobao knew that the destiny of Nanji Kingdom was over, unless a strong man could intervene...
She raised her head and looked at the sun, which had doubled in size without her noticing, which further confirmed her thoughts.
"No rain, no water... God is going to severely punish the Nanji Kingdom!" Nuobao murmured and shook his head: "This is the end of the emperor's lack of virtue, but it's a pity that the people also bear the bitter fruit..."
Seeing Nuobao's determined face, the village chief and his men could no longer bear it, and they all stumbled to the village well, holding on to the remaining hope, trying to get some more water.
However, after they guarded for a day, the village well only produced a bowl of water at most, and even the bucket could hardly scoop it up...
The village chief was silent for a long time.
He was thinking about going to other villages to borrow some water first, at least enough for the villagers to eat and drink.
But who would have known that at this moment, Yang Tianmei came running in from outside: "Dad, it's bad, other villages are out of water too. I went around asking around, and found that the wells, rivers, and mountain springs in every village have all dried up overnight!"
The village chief's eyes went dark and he almost fainted.
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