"Are you thirsty? Can auntie give you some water?" Shen Shuli said gently.
Su Tianze swallowed his saliva after hearing this, resisting the urge, and shook his head, saying, "Aze is not thirsty. Second Aunt said that children don't need to drink too much water if they don't work. We should save it for adults and for the little brother in Second Aunt's belly."
When Shen Shuli heard this, her face immediately darkened.
She thought that even if Zhang Lanhua had some ulterior motives, she was at least a smart person and would not show them.
But she didn't expect that she would dare to withhold water from the child!
"Aze, lying is not a good thing. You didn't lie to your aunt?"
Shen Shuli thought it would be better to confirm it again.
Su Tianze immediately shook his head and reached out to wipe the sweat that had dripped onto his eyelashes.
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Xiao Lian said seriously: "Aunt, Aze never lies. Aze hasn't had a sip of water today."
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Shen Shuli looked at her nephew's lips, which were dry and white and about to peel, and she chose to believe him.
Such a young child should not be able to lie, and Li Jiao'e is still in a coma so it is impossible that she instigated the child to say so.
Then what he said must be the truth.
"Come, Aze, I'll give you some water. Children need to drink plenty of water and eat enough food so that they can grow taller quickly."
"Auntie told you to remember that although you don't work, you are weak and need to eat and drink on time to avoid getting sick. Otherwise, if you get sick, you will have to trouble adults to take care of you. Isn't that a hindrance?"
"If your second aunt says something similar again, doesn't give you food or drink, or deducts your rations and makes you starve, you must tell your grandparents or aunt, understand?"
Shen Shuli taught patiently.
Although she had taken her anger out on Su Tianze because of Li Jiao'e's behavior, it was only to teach Li Jiao'e a lesson.
Her parents would definitely find an opportunity to feed the child. How could they really be too harsh on the child?
"I understand, aunt."
Su Tianze looked at Shen Shuli with sparkling eyes, thinking that his aunt was the best aunt in the world.
His aunt wouldn't let him go hungry.
Shen Shuli touched the child's face and found that his temperature was a little low fever.
She fed the child 50ml of Lingquan water to prevent the child from heatstroke.
"Auntie, this water tastes delicious and sweet."
Su Tianze felt that his head was not as heavy as before, and it tasted very good. He couldn't help but exclaimed in surprise.
"Well, Auntie added some sugar. Are you sleepy? Do you want to take a rest?"
"I'm a little sleepy, but it's too hot. My clothes are wet and I'm uncomfortable and can't sleep." Su Tianze sighed.
He knew there was a water shortage at home, but he never made a fuss. His mother hadn't changed his clothes for a long time.
He felt like he was smelly all over.
"Bear with it a little longer, auntie will give you a bath and change you into clean clothes at night." Shen Shuli wanted to touch her nephew's head.
But his hair was greasy and there was visible dust on it, and he had no desire at all.
Su Tianze was a little tempted, but knowing that there was a water shortage at home, he held back and shook his head and refused: "No, I won't take a bath. Let's wait until we are not short of water before taking a bath."
Shen Shuli was moved by the child's childish words.
Perhaps, Su Changan and Li Jiao'e's contribution to the Su family is that they gave birth to such a cute and well-behaved child.
Shen Yuehua came back after delivering the medicine.
She was sweating from the heat and told Shen Shuli the situation.
"The child was saved. Fortunately, we had the medicine in time, otherwise the child would definitely not have survived." Shen Yuehua said with lingering fear, "Why does it feel much hotter today than the previous few days?"
Shen Shuli explained in a low voice: "It's already 40 degrees now. By noon, it will probably rise another two or three degrees."
When Shen Yuehua heard this, her face turned even paler.
She didn't expect the temperature to be so high now!
It’s hard to imagine that summers were so hot in ancient times.
"Oh my god, look, what's that black thing? It's blocking out the sun!"
"Hahaha, dark clouds, yes dark clouds! Is it finally going to rain? God, please don't let me go!"
"It's really dark clouds. The sun has gone out!"
"Oh my god, those are not dark clouds! They are bugs! They are densely packed with bugs!"
"Yes, it's locusts! Those are locusts! A locust plague has come! God wants to kill us and push us to death!"
Shen Shuli and Shen Yuehua listened to the loud shouts outside and really thought that there were dark clouds and it was going to rain.
Unexpectedly, it was a swarm of locusts passing through!
"Aze, just sit still in the car and don't get out, remember?" Shen Shuli quickly said to Su Tianze.
"Okay, auntie, Aze won't move." Su Tianze immediately responded obediently.
Shen Yuehua had already gotten out of the car and looked up at the dense swarms of locusts above her head, her eyes filled with fear.
Shen Shuli had never seen locusts passing through her territory before, and at this moment, she couldn't help but feel terrified when she saw these billions of locusts!
Fortunately, these locusts will not attack people at will, their only target is food along the way.
The entire northern border has been experiencing drought for more than ten months. Not only has the crops failed, they can't even grow!
Only where there are big rivers can crops be grown.
The people have long been cut off from water and food. If the only food they have is destroyed by these locusts, it will only accelerate the people's demise!
The locust plague has already occurred and cannot be stopped by human power!
Even though Shen Shuli wanted to deal with it, she was powerless.
She has no solution!
What's more, these locusts are just passing through Qingzhou and migrating southwards.
There was no way she could keep these trillions of locusts from staying.
I just hope that officials in other places can receive the news earlier and respond earlier!
But Shen Shuli knew that this was just a beautiful wish in her heart.
The foundation of Dayong had long been rotten, and it was filled with corrupt and greedy officials.
Is there any good official who truly cares about the lives of the people and makes sincere plans for them?
Seeing this, Su Yunhai immediately asked the villagers to speed up their journey!
When locusts pass through, Qingzhou will definitely guess that the food of the people along the way will be destroyed!
Guess there will be a large influx of refugees!
The city gates will be closed in advance to keep the refugees out!
Furthermore.
The only benefit of these overwhelming locusts is probably that they can help block the strong sunlight.
Walk as far as you can while it's cool.
But many locusts fly very low, looking for edible food.
Many locusts were crawling on the grain bags of many villagers.
The villagers screamed and drove away the locusts to protect the food, and the team not only slowed down its pace, but stopped instead.
Su Yunhai's several carts of food were well protected. In order to prevent the refugees along the way from seeing what they had, they were covered with several layers of oilcloth.
But the Su family was not so lucky.
A whole cart of grain was covered with dense locusts.
No matter how hard we tried, they wouldn't leave; instead, there were more and more of them.
Cui Yuhong was so heartbroken that she kept crying and cursing.
The lips, which had been cracked for a long time, were torn in several places due to the large amplitude, and blood flowed all over the mouth.
The rest of the Su family is similar.
There was no way. They had no water at all and couldn't get water from the second brother, so they could only bear it.
Fortunately, the villagers of Taohua Village led by Zhang Shiwen fetched a lot of water from their houses in Qingyun City.
They were short of food, so they distributed some of it to the families in the team who were short of water in exchange for food.
The Su family also exchanged grain for some water so that they could have a full meal in the morning.
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