After a while, Hua Shi came back holding a large piece of leaves and a cup of water.
Hua Yu had already carried water twice and walked step by step from the ridge to the field. Although he looked shaky, he walked several meters but finally returned to the field steadily.
He was busy watering when he heard the sound of flowers blooming again.
"Come and drink some water. I don't know if you've eaten yet. If there's any harvest in the mountains later, I'll grill some meat for you..."
Hua Shi handed the leaf in her hand over, and when she looked up, she saw that her lips, which had been peeling and cracked from the dryness, had become much moister, obviously because she had just drunk some water.
She paused halfway through her words.
Hua Yu just looked up, his gaze lightly falling on the leaf in her hand. He glanced at it and put it back, with no intention of taking it.
Hua Shi walked up to the edge of the field, glanced at the turbid yellow mud water in the wooden barrel, and then looked at the expressionless boy who was working with his head down.
The water in the lake is the water that villagers have used to irrigate their fields for many years. It is mixed with a lot of muddy fields. The water is extremely turbid and yellow, and it is completely undrinkable...
"Did you drink the water from the lake?" Hua Shi asked.
Hua Yu replied without even looking up, "Yeah."
Hua Shi heard a rhetorical question from his tone.
If I don’t want to drink, do I have to go all the way to the stream to drink?
The boy had long been accustomed to it. The things he was used to seeing in his time and space seemed somewhat unacceptable to Hua Shi.
"That water is dirty. Drinking it will give you diarrhea and it's not good for your health." Hua Shi held back and still tried to persuade him.
The air was silent for a moment. Hua Yu sneered at her words and his eyes were cold.
It's hypocritical. He's been drinking for so many years, so what if he has a stomachache? He won't die after all.
On the other hand, she became more and more nosy, always saying things in a pretentious manner that made people laugh...
"You'd better not drink it in the future. Clean water is fine, but you should bring water from home. Don't you have bamboo tubes at home? Fill four or five tubes, enough for a day."
Hua Shi looked at him busy watering the plants and said again.
She rambled on and on, all of which were her true feelings spoken subconsciously.
Hua Yu worked non-stop for several months, and his legs and feet became weak. The exposed skin on his hands and feet was sunburned.
The delicate skin of a man of his age was as rough as tree bark and had peeled off. If you looked closely, you could see a thick layer of calluses on the palms and soles of his feet, which had been worn away.
Looking at his miserable appearance, it is not difficult to imagine how tired and hard he must have been...
Hua Shi looked at him with such composure that he acted as if it was nothing, and she felt sorry for him, so she muttered a few words to herself.
Hua Yu finished watering the plants and then carried the wooden bucket towards the lake without saying a word to her.
Hua Shi sighed. After the sun rose high, her back and the exposed skin were sunburned and felt a little painful. She quickened her pace and followed Hua Yu.
The young man limped in front, and Hua Shi followed closely behind.
Perhaps because he noticed Hua Shi following him, Hua Yu's steps became a little messy and impatient, and he felt a little irritated.
When they reached the lakeside, Hua Yu squatted down, bent over, scooped up the turbid water, and swallowed several mouthfuls in front of Hua Shi.
Hua Shi saw this scene.
Forget it, you didn’t listen to a word of my advice just now.
Instead, it was as if he was going against her. He drank it anyway, and even took several sips.
Hua Yu filled two wooden buckets with water and staggered back. Hua Shi followed him all the way but didn't see any way he could help.
The terrain of the soybean field is high and the water from the lake is below. It is difficult to dig a canal to bring water to the field. There are several pieces of dry land in the middle, so we can only carry water back and forth along the ridges to irrigate the fields.
Such labor-intensive and torturous land is usually unwanted wasteland. Canals cannot be dug to divert water, and the land can only be harvested one load at a time. It is time-consuming, laborious, and thankless, so the villagers don't want such land.
It was only because Li was greedy for this small advantage that she rarely took care of the land herself, leaving it all to a fifteen-year-old boy.
In order to grow crops, Hua Yu almost lived in this dry land, and there was no place to get shade.
Carrying water back and forth for several months, I was exposed to the sun and became as thin as a monkey. After being tortured all the time, my hands and feet were rotten...
If it were her, or any other ordinary person, they would definitely be filled with resentment and hatred towards the culprit, Li...
This is simply exploiting child labor and not even giving them food. It's completely unscrupulous.
Hua Shi stood on the shore of the lake, daydreaming for a while, and Hua Yu came back with two wooden buckets to fetch water.
When he saw the flowers, he just stood there, ignoring them and continuing to fetch water.
Hua Shi looked at his bruised veins and bulging blood vessels and said, "How about I help you fill a bucket? Maybe it will be faster with two people."
She didn't see any extra buckets of water on the edge of the field. She saw that he was exhausted, sweating and panting, and the calluses on the palms of his hands were worn out.
In the end, I couldn't bear it, so I wanted to help and finish watering the fields quickly to make things better...
Hua Yu did not stop her from reaching out to take the wooden barrel. He stood there and looked at her leisurely.
Hua Shi was startled as soon as he picked up the wooden barrel.
The wooden barrel was empty, with no water in it, but it was not light at all, it was so heavy that I could hardly hold it steady.
After she had struggled to fill it with water, using all her strength and both hands, she still couldn't lift the full barrel.
The weight of the water, plus the buoyancy of the water surface and the barrel, meant she couldn't pull it out even after dragging for a long time...
“Aiya!”
Hua Shi poured out half of the water inside, and then pulled hard, and finally managed to lift the wooden barrel.
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