Chapter 6 Nine True and One False Yi Zhonghai

In densely populated and relatively wealthy cities,
Due to the lack of infrastructure, the main source of drinking water for people is still well water.

However, since cities in agricultural societies do not have large-scale treatment capabilities, the pollution caused by large amounts of human and animal feces and domestic wastewater has long caused the groundwater quality to seriously deteriorate.

For example, in Beijing at this time,
According to the Qing Dynasty's "Draft of the Records of the Capital's Lanes and Alleys",
There are 1258 wells in the inner and outer cities of Peking, and most of them are bitter water wells.

The food cooked with this kind of well water always has a strange smell, and the clothes can never be washed clean.

If you drink raw water, it is no different from eating E. coli cultivated by others using poop.
It's worse than drinking urine.

In rural areas where the population is dispersed, poor and backward,

The situation is even more serious.
Since a large amount of firewood was taken away by relatively wealthy cities, the limited fuel could only be used to meet the needs of food and heating.
Drinking raw water is actually the only option.

The consequence of drinking raw water in large quantities is that severe infectious diseases such as smallpox, plague, cholera, malaria, and schistosomiasis have emerged one after another, repeatedly broken out, and continuously.
It seriously damages the health of the people.

Take the most common schistosomiasis as an example.
The epidemic areas cover as many as 12 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions, with an area of ​​more than 1200 million square kilometers. million people have been infected and more than million people are directly threatened.

Poverty, plague, war,...

Countless people are living a precarious life.
This is an age where you never know which will come first, tomorrow or an accident.

"Zhu Zi, pour yourself another bowl. I'm dying of thirst."

He Yuzhu, who was distracted, just heard Xu Damao's words, and then he felt his hands were empty, and the bowl in his hand had been taken away.

Looking at Xu Damao who was gulping down the water, He Yuzhu did not say anything like "I've already drunk it". Most people these days don't care about such things.

"I'm asking you if you can do this, as if boiled water is free.

By the way, why are you back at this time? Aren’t Aunt Zhang and Jia Dongxu moving Uncle Jia’s body? Didn’t you go and help? "

Xu Damao simply ignored He Yuzhu's complaints, because He Yuzhu did the same thing when he drank the water from his house.
"The old man is instigating you to beat me and pull my ears.
Why should I help!
I didn't run over to spit because we've been neighbors for so many years.
Want me to help.
Grandma!

But did you go out just now? Otherwise, how would you know that Lao Bangzi was moving Uncle Jia's body?"

Hearing this, He Yuzhu thought that Xu Damao was indeed a vengeful person.

of course,

To be honest, Sha Zhu and Xu Damao are no different. They are both the kind of people who would want to retaliate immediately if they suffer the slightest loss.

What makes Sha Zhu better than Xu Damao is that there are always people behind him to make excuses for him.
There are always people who treat him as a fool.

Looking at Xu Damao who was still indignant, He Yuzhu nodded slightly.

"I looked at the entrance of the alley.

I saw Gao Shigui pointing a gun at Jia Dongxu and threatening Aunt Zhang, and when they started to exchange money, I came back. "

Seeing that He Yuzhu really went out and didn't help Jia Zhang and her son, Xu Damao looked at him with surprise.
"Hey! You really have changed.
If this had happened in the past, you would have gone to help, but now you just came back without even asking.

So you won't fight with me anymore, is that true?"

"So you haven't believed it yet.
No wonder you turned around and ran away without even thinking when Aunt Zhang called me just now. "

"I thought you were bluffing me.
If I had been caught by you just now, I would have been at least skinned alive, so I naturally wouldn’t have trusted you so easily.”

Seeing Xu Damao taking it for granted, He Yuzhu also knew that trust was not so easy to establish, and this matter could only be done slowly. Anyway, as long as Xu Damao didn't provoke him, he didn't intend to embarrass this brother.

“This is still my fault!

If you ask me, you really deserve to be punished.

Normal people would feel unlucky when seeing a corpse, but you actually wanted to spit on it.

Don’t you understand the principle that the dead are the greatest?

Or do you really have such a deep hatred and grudge against Aunt Zhang?"

Hearing He Yuzhu say this, Xu Damao felt that he had gone too far, and said with a smile,
"I'm angry, so I don't care about so many things. I just say whatever makes me feel comfortable.
Besides, I didn’t go there.”

……

“Woo woo…
Old Jia! You died miserably!
How did you end up provoking that damned Gao Shigui, and he beat you to death just like that?"

Hearing Jia Zhang's cries,

The two people who were chatting at home after drinking water turned their heads and looked outside the door. It turned out that Yi Zhonghai, Liu Haizhong and others had exchanged money and helped Jia Zhang's mother and son carry old Jia's body back to the courtyard.

Then He Yuzhu put down the bowl and was about to go out.

"Zhu Zi, where are you going? Are you here to help? Are you so forgetful?"

"whispering sound!

I'm not in such a hurry.

I'm going to the side room to watch over Yu Shui and Zhao Di, to prevent them from coming out and getting involved in this bad luck."

Hearing what He Yuzhu said, Xu Damao was indescribably happy and followed him without thinking.

"It's not like they haven't seen dead people before.
But since you're not going to help Lao Bangzi, I'll go with you. I don't want Zhao Di and the others to join in the fun."

He Yuzhu didn't think that much just now, it was completely subconscious behavior.
When Xu Damao talked about this, he remembered that in this chaotic world where people are worse than dogs, He Yushui and her friends, although young, had also seen people die suddenly.
But the words were already spoken, and he was too lazy to change them.

As soon as he walked out of the house, he was stopped by Yi Zhonghai and his men.

"Zhu Zi, Damao, since everything is fine, come and help us. Go to the alley and find Shui San'er. Ask them to bring some water. We have to hold the funeral for your uncle Jia.
But you two should calm down and stop fighting. You are not going to hold back when it comes to hitting me."

"Okay, Zhuzi, Uncle Yi is calling us, so let's go outside and look for Shui Saner first!
Got it, Uncle Yi, we'll go right away."

Seeing that Xu Damao just muttered a few words to him and then directly agreed to Yi Zhonghai, He Yuzhu did not find it strange.
Children in old Beijing were taught by their parents to “get along well with neighbors” and “get along well with people” from a young age.
And Yi Zhonghai is an expert in this field.

He has already established a good image of being helpful among his neighbors.

Neighbors nearby often remind their children to learn how to behave in society from Yi Zhonghai.

In He Yuzhu's opinion, Yi Zhonghai is at least the kind of person who speaks and acts in a shallow manner.

Pooh!
He is a person who speaks and acts in a way that is true and false.
After all, those who can survive these days are all smart people.

If Yi Zhonghai was really a hypocrite who could be seen as fake at first glance, he would not be able to escape their detection.

(End of this chapter)