Chapter 104 Being Held Hostage
In order to protect the water source, Lai Fu asked someone to bring a stone mill to serve as a manhole cover. Fortunately, there was a hole in the stone mill, otherwise Ding Xiaodie would not be able to move it at all.
She quickly inserted the cuckoo machine into the opening and began to crank the handle rapidly.
He kept muttering, "Guguji, please show some courage. It's not easy for the villagers. Please give them more water. Please, please."
Coo! Coo!
After a while, the cuckoo machine seemed to obey human commands and waded into the water.
Ding Xiaodie was ecstatic.
He looked anxiously towards the door while shaking the handle.
I don’t know if God really has pity on them, or if the Cuckoo Machine is very smart, but this time the water output is even greater than last time, and half the well is full of water in a short time.
After a while, two-thirds of the well water was full.
But at this moment, Erbao's voice suddenly came from outside: "Brother, why don't the rats run out of the government office? This way we don't have to fight with the villagers anymore!"
Dabao asked curiously, "Hey, where's Xiaodie?"
Ding Xiaodie quickly put away the cuckoo machine and hid it in her arms.
Finished!
If she walked out of the backyard now, it would seem too suspicious. The two brothers were not stupid. They saw her, Ding Xiaodie, in front and then saw the well was full of water. Isn't that strange?
The most important thing was the water she discovered last time. This time, it was linked to her head, which seemed a bit like trying to cover up the truth.
In a hurry, Ding Xiaodie saw a rockery in the corner of the courtyard.
The rockery was now idle because there was no water source. Ding Xiaodie hurried over, stepped on the rocks of the rockery, climbed up the wall of the courtyard nimbly, and jumped out.
She hadn't thought about what was outside before she jumped.
Only after settling down did I realize that it was a hill, and then I remembered that the town government office had a mountain behind it.
At this moment, Erbao's scream came from the courtyard: "Brother... water... there is water."
"What?"
Dabao didn't seem to believe it, but after checking it out, he was also very surprised: "Go tell Dad, quickly."
I guess once these two brothers were happy, they would forget about the existence of Ding Xiaodie.
Ding Xiaodie reached out to pick off the dead branches above her head and patted the mud off her hands. Okay, she would go back to the main gate of the yamen in a while and pretend that she had deserted her post, and the matter would be resolved!
But before she took two steps, a hand suddenly stretched out from behind her and strangled her neck.
“…”
Ding Xiaodie was stunned!
Her first instinct was to think that she had encountered desert soldiers.
The opponent was very strong, but she was weak and helpless, so he easily subdued her.
"Don't make a sound. If you make a sound, I will kill you now."
Well!
When this man finished threatening her and asked her to turn around, Ding Xiaodie looked at him in confusion. It turned out to be Miao Daxing.
It turns out that Miao Daxing did not go far after being driven out of Yangliu Town by the Lu family. Instead, he quietly returned and hid in the mountains. It was by coincidence that he met Ding Xiaodie here.
At this moment, the only thought in Ding Xiaodie's mind was, why am I so unlucky?
"Little girl, I've had bad luck my whole life, but today I finally have a change of heart. Your father Ding Gui teamed up with the Lu family to drive me out of Yangliu Town. I'm afraid Ding Gui never dreamed that a little girl like you would fall into my hands."
Miao Daxing's eyes flashed with ferocity: "Answer me honestly, or I will kill you."
Ding Xiaodie looked helpless as she nodded, "Don't worry, I'll tell you everything I know."
"Okay, then let me ask you, how are my family now? Are the children and their mother all right?"
"Great! The Lu family has given us food rewards twice in the past few days, and there's now a water source in the well. Uncle Laifu and everyone else distribute water to them every day. Every household is treated the same, without favoritism, and the same goes for your children and wife. The only downside is probably that I miss you. Uncle Daxing, if you had known this would happen, you shouldn't have..."
"Shut up!"
Miao Daxing pushed her in anger and said, "Move forward and stop talking nonsense."
…
The home of Lai Fu Village Chief.
Rats were running everywhere on the street. Village chief Lai Fu originally wanted to catch one to feed the old ancestor, but the old ancestor stopped him.
"Forget it. There are many people in the village who are in a worse situation than ours. Let them arrest me. I'm fine."
How can you say that you are okay? A 90-year-old man has been displaced and says that he is okay, but he is hungry from one day to the next and his money has been almost gone.
The ancestor was thinking about the villagers, how could Lai Fu not know it?
Just as the villagers' cheers were heard outside the door, Lai Fu was squatting in the corner smoking his pipe inside the house.
Bang!
Ding Gui suddenly pushed open the door and rushed in: "Brother."
"Stop persuading me, I won't go." Lai Fu thought he was here to persuade him to go out and catch mice, and he turned sideways impatiently.
Ding Gui was confused: "No, brother, I haven't told you anything yet!"
Lai Fu said, "Aren't you trying to persuade me to catch mice?"
"Who told you this?" Lai Fu was stunned for a moment and then he didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Brother, I didn't come here for this matter, just listen to me first..."
Then Ding Gui said it again.
Then, Lai Fu stared at him for three seconds without saying a word.
Finally, he blurted out, "Don't talk nonsense, you bastard. I'm older than you, and I've seen all sorts of things, but I don't dare to speak carelessly."
Ding Gui was so anxious that he tried to defend himself: "But that's the fact. There were strange phenomena in the sky, and living things were running around. My master said... this is a sign of ground fog."
"You still have a master?"
Lai Fu didn't take his words to heart at all, because in his life experience, this was simply impossible. Who said that mice moving meant an earthquake?
But Ding Gui's face was full of sincerity: "To be honest, big brother, I was bullied a lot when I was in the village. Later, when I went to the city to buy food, I met a great man. At that time, I just wanted to avoid being bullied again, so I took him as my master. Later, when I fled the famine, I used all the knowledge and experience I learned from my master.
Brother, please believe me this time. Actually, this is not difficult. I just want you to inform everyone, and then we can set up some simple tents in the empty city and live in them.
Even if there really aren't any earthquakes in the future, we won't suffer any loss, right?"
"You talk about ease, but nowadays everyone has finally managed to get a full meal, and some people would rather lie in bed than move, fearing that the little food in their stomachs will not be digested! Do you think such a person would be willing to give up his own house and go out to build a home with branches? That's physically demanding work."
Ding Gui was so anxious that sweat broke out on his forehead from the perspective of Village Chief Yu Laifu. He knew from the original owner's memory that the villagers of Aozi Village had never experienced an earthquake, and they didn't understand how terrible the consequences would be.
(End of this chapter)
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