"Excuse me, sir? Are you alright?"
Looking at the middle-aged man lying not far from the entrance of her house in a shaded spot, the little girl paused for a moment and then cautiously approached, asking with a hint of worry.
"Hmm?" The gaunt man lying on the ground, who looked like he was barely hanging on, opened his eyes slightly and looked at the little girl holding a water jug in front of him, weakly responding,
"It's nothing, just very thirsty."
"So that's it..." The little girl noticed the man's sallow complexion and chapped lips and immediately realized, wasn't this the symptom of not drinking water for a long time?
"I..." the little girl, clutching a clay pot filled with murky well water, showed hesitation in her eyes when the traveler from afar finally spoke up with a request.
"Kind child, could you give me some water to drink? I really can't hold on much longer."
