There is a spring on the hillside a few miles away from Yiyun Village.
This spring was originally discovered by Pei Yun's father. It is thanks to this spring that people in the mountain village can have some drinking water.
Not only people from Yiyun Village get water to drink here, but people from Zhongxin Village also get water to drink here.
However, with the arrival of drought, the water outflow from the spring became slower and slower, and began to turn yellow and turbid. It often took a day and a night to fill a jar.
There is someone at the spring at this moment, he is from Zhongxin Village.
The bearded man's jar was thrown aside, and the water inside was poured into the jars of the two bandits from Zhongxin Stronghold.
One of the two bandits was wearing a tattered linen shirt that hung loosely on his skinny body.
He was wearing a pair of cloth shoes full of holes, with his toes sticking out of the holes, looking dirty.
There was an equally tattered cloth wrapped around his head, with a few strands of dry and messy hair hanging down from the edge of the cloth.
The other bandit was wearing a short brown shirt with many patches on it. The collar of his shirt was open, revealing his dark and skinny chest. His collarbone protruded high like a rugged rock.
When the two saw the bearded man coming, the hemp-clothed bandit smiled and said, "Beard, Master Zhong asked us to fetch water. There are few people in your mountain stronghold, so just bear with it for a while."
Although he was smiling, his right hand reached behind him and grasped the hatchet tucked behind his waist.
The same was true for the short-browed bandits. They didn't know that the bearded man was an undercover agent left by Pei Zhong in Yiyun Village. They both poured each other's water, and in this year of severe drought, that was a huge hatred.
Even if they had lived in the same village before and had a good relationship, when there was a water shortage, all relationships were useless.
If the bearded man dared to come up and grab water, they would kill him.
"It's you two. Don't worry, I won't steal your water."
Seeing the two men looking alert, the bearded man smiled, picked up the can thrown aside, turned around and left.
The two bandits looked at each other. Is he so easy to talk to?
But the bearded man walked a few steps and then turned back, and the two bandits immediately became nervous.
"Don't be nervous, I just want to ask if you want to have a full meal."
The bearded man felt guilty towards Pei Yun, thinking that it was a shame that Pei Zhong bribed him with such a small amount of money.
Since I have already vowed to be Pei Yun's dog, I have to achieve some results.
Didn't you, Pei Zhong, want me to bring Baldy, Pockmarked Face, and Skinny Monkey to Zhongxin Village to join you? Then I will take the people from your village away.
It can also be regarded as a token of my allegiance to the boss.
The two bandits were stunned when they heard the bearded man's words. "Beard, who doesn't want to have a full meal? Do you have a solution?"
The bearded man smiled and said, "You can have food if you follow me back to Yiyun Village."
"You're just bragging. Everyone knows that your village has been out of food for a few days. Let alone food, I'm afraid there's not even any grass roots or wild vegetables left."
"Yes, do you know what we are going to eat today? It's a porridge made from grass roots. We can eat it after we get some water back."
The two bandits licked their cracked lips as they spoke, and swallowed their saliva when they mentioned the paste. It was obvious that grass root paste was a delicacy to them.
The two of them looked a little boastful.
We in Zhongxin Village have porridge to eat, but do you in Yiyun Village have it? I'm afraid you can only eat dirt.
I thought I could have a meal if I went back to Yiyun Village with you, you’re kidding!
The bearded man looked at the two of them with some sympathy, thinking that he was just like them in the past and was satisfied as long as he had porridge to eat.
But now, even if the paste is placed in front of him, he won’t even look at it.
"I'm telling the truth. We ate pork yesterday. Do you think Pei Zhong really took all the food away?"
"Don't you think about who founded Yiyun Village? The boss's father had long been on guard against Pei Zhong, that ungrateful bastard. The pork we had for lunch yesterday and the rice porridge we drank at night were really delicious."
The two bandits were stunned.
Pork! Rice!
They didn't even dare to think about it. The wild vegetable porridge in Zhongxin Village was the highest standard, and not everyone could eat it. Ordinary bandits only ate grass root porridge.
And it's not pure grass root paste, but half of the firewood ground into powder is added to it.
Otherwise, there wouldn’t be enough grass roots to eat. This is already very good, better than those people who have to eat soil at the foot of the mountain.
But now the bearded man told them that the Yiyun village was actually eating meat, and they were eating two meals at a time.
It sounds like a fantasy.
Although they usually had two meals a day, during famine years, not to mention two meals, sometimes they had no meal at all.
Yiyun Village still has enough food for two meals! ?
The hemp-clothed bandit was moved. "Hu Zi, are you telling the truth?"
"Of course it's true. You poured me water. If it was before, I would have fought you to death. But now it doesn't matter. The boss has stored a lot of water. I drank a lot before coming here."
"As long as you follow me back and are loyal to the boss, I can't say you will have meat to eat, but you will definitely have rice to eat. Do you want to eat grass root porridge or rice? It's up to you to choose."
The two bandits looked at each other and said, "As long as what you said is true, we will definitely be loyal to the boss."
"Come back with me and you'll know if it's true. I won't harm you two."
The two bandits nodded and prepared to follow and take a look.
The bearded man felt the urge to urinate at this time, so he urinated directly into the jars that the two bandits had not yet filled with water. He then poured half of the water from another jar that was full of water into it, and after combining all the water, he led the two bandits towards the Yiyun bandits.
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Inside the village.
Pei Yun had already filled two large vats with water. He bought a wooden barrel from the mall and let Baldy and Pockmarked Face take a bath.
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