"Look, quickly!" The woman pointed to the place where they stored water inside the house, her eyes filled with surprise and disbelief.
The wooden bucket in the main hall was the only one openly placed by their family, containing merely the bottom layer of water. Just now, the children were extremely thirsty, and seeing her grandchildren's lips crack and continually bleed, she gritted her teeth thinking of drawing some water to boil for them to moisten their lips. But when she lifted the lid, she found the bucket was unexpectedly full, instinctively calling out to the children's father.
After the initial shock, the two almost simultaneously ran to the underground cellar where there were two large jars, three big wooden buckets, and ten large bamboo buckets.
It could be said that the cellar was piled with water and grain, with barely any room for their dozen family members to sleep, let alone any activity space larger than the size of a palm.
