"It can last for half a month. Zheng Tong thought about it in his heart, "This is even counting our work on the construction site and eating a meal, otherwise we can only last for ten days." ”

Zhong Yuemin held the shovel, "How much money do we have?"

"Where is the money?" Zheng Tong heard Zhong Yuemin mention money, and he couldn't do it in distress, "The money has been used by you to buy medicine." ”

"It's all spent?" Zhong Yuemin remembered this, and that night he gave Wang Hong all the medical books he brought from Beijing, and asked someone to buy some standing medicines.

Zheng Tong was anxious, "You can buy some anti-inflammatory drugs and disinfectants, but what are you buying penicillin for? This thing used to be called penicillin when I was fighting, and it was too expensive." ”

"Isn't this prepared!" Zhong Yuemin snorted.

Zheng Tong wanted to say a few more words, but someone came over and called Zhong Yuemin, "Yuemin, Zhao Ye and Uncle Chang Gui let you go." ”

"Did you say anything?" asked Zhong Yuemin.

The person who came shook his head, "The village cadres are discussing big things, but they can't be mixed, Yuemin, go quickly, there's still waiting over there!"

"Okay, you go get busy, I'll go right away. ”

When Zhong Yuemin arrived, Lao Zhaotou, Chang Gui, and some cadres from the two villages were all squatting on the ground with sad faces.

"What's wrong?" Zhong Yuemin also found a place to squat.

"There is no food on the construction site!" Chang Gui said dejectedly.

The leader of a production team said strangely: "Which kind of grain is this? Why is there no food?"

Everyone looked at Accountant Zhang Jinsuo, who had long hair and was dusty, and kept his head down and didn't say a word.

Chang Gui stood up and scolded: "I don't think it's to blame Jin Suo, you donkeys don't have enough to take advantage of the public, you donkeys drink thin at home, and eat three people on the construction site, why didn't you donkeys die on a day!"

Another cadre whispered: "It's all like this, don't you lose if you don't eat more!"

"Yes, those old ladies are dragging their families and eating more than strong laborers, why don't you care?" said the production captain who spoke before.

With the one who took the lead, everyone else also defended themselves, anyway, they had their own reasons, and it was not their own fault.

Chang Gui was so angry that his brain was bruised.

Lao Zhao stopped Chang Gui, who was about to scold people again, and said: "What's the noise, it's all over, now it's useless to blame anyone, there is no food on the construction site, this dam can't be built, what do you say?"

When Lao Zhao asked, there was no sound at all, and those who stood up just now also squatted back, all shrunk their heads and put their hands together.

Chang Gui took a puff of cigarette, sighed deeply, and squatted down, scratching his head worriedly.

"Accountant Zhang, how many days can you eat food?" Zhong Yuemin asked.

"I can't eat for a few days, and I can only drink gruel when I go to work today, and I'm afraid that I will make trouble when I start eating in a while. Zhang Jinsuo replied.

"Then why can't the daily ration be controlled?"

Last year's harvest was not good, and now every family is short of food, so they point to the construction site to have enough food, and as soon as the meal arrives, they will rush up to grab it...... After eating the ration of food every day, half of the people still have not eaten, so they can only make more. ”

Only then did Zhong Yuemin remember that when the construction site was open every day, basically everyone in the village came to move.

"Is there still food in the village?" ”

Chang Gui said: "Where is there still food, just like that, I still deducted it, otherwise I wouldn't dare to move the mind of damming." ”

Zhong Yuemin looked at Lao Zhao again.

"There is no food in the village, and there are already young people who are not going to work and have to go out to beg for food. Old Zhao said sullenly.

Zhong Yuemin is also gone, and now no one can supply so much food.

"Why don't we stop work first and work next year?" Chang Gui suggested when everyone was silent.

Some of the village cadres were silent, while others spoke out in agreement.

Zhong Yuemin disagreed with 10,000 people in his heart, but the food problem could not be solved, and the villagers had no food in their stomachs and had no intention of working.

The news of the lack of food soon spread throughout the construction site, when some women threw away their tools, dragged the men of the family and dragged the baby away.

"Where are they going?" Jiang Biyun asked in surprise as he watched the crowds of people leave the construction site.

"Go to the county seat to beg for food. The old lady who was with her said.

"Huh, that's it?"

"Why do you have to go to beg for food, and you have to go home and change into clean clothes? With that, the old woman also got up and walked back.

"Auntie, are you going to beg for food too?"

"If you don't beg for food, you can't starve to death? You have to drink some gruel first, otherwise I'm afraid that you won't be able to reach the county seat, and you will fall down." ”

There are fewer and fewer people on the construction site, and the educated youth are standing there at a loss.

"Yuemin, what should we do?" Zheng Tong and the others gathered around Zhong Yuemin, and everyone looked at him.

"There was no food on the construction site, and the people in the village went out to beg for food. Zhong Yuemin looked at everyone, "Our food is only enough to eat for ten days, everyone will talk about what we should do." ”

Guo Jie said: "Otherwise, let's all rest, this dam is not what we want to fight, no one in their village will do it, and we can't do it." ”

"Yes, Yuemin, let's think about our stomach problems in ten days. Zheng Tong also agreed.

"Otherwise, let's go begging for food, I haven't begged for food since I was a child!" Zhao Dayong had no heart or lungs.

Wang Hong said disgustedly: "What's so fun about begging, I don't want to go." ”

"Do the others still have ideas?" Zhong Yuemin and the others stopped talking and asked.

Zheng Tong said directly: "Yuemin, you just say what to do, let's listen to you." ”

"Yes, Yuemin, you have an idea!" the others agreed.

"I want to keep damming. ”

"I'm with..." Zheng Tong just wanted to support, but he reacted: "Yuemin, what did you say?"

Yuemin said that he would continue to build the dam. Cao Gang replied helpfully.

"I heard it, but what are we going to do with just these people?" Zheng Tong interrupted Cao Gang and said to Zhong Yuemin urgently.

Zhong Yuemin smiled and said, "Didn't you just say that you wanted to support my decision? Why did you change your mind now?"

"But I didn't expect you to continue to fight the dam!"

"The dam is already halfway completed, and if it is completed sooner, it will be fertile fields for harvesting in a few months. ”

Zhong Yuemin looked around at everyone and said softly: "I'm not a **, I don't want to build this dam or I don't want to starve in the future." As you can see, the land in Ishikawa Village is all dry land, and not to mention the hard work of irrigation, there is not much grain to be harvested. The original harvest in the village is no longer enough to eat, and with us, it is even more clumsy. ”

Everyone listened quietly.

Zhong Yuemin continued: "We can't just rely on the people in the village to move rations from our mouths, we also have to save ourselves. ”

"Yuemin is right, we can't just add a burden to the village, I also have to build a dam. Wang Hong was the first to stand up in support.

Qian Zhimin followed: "I also support it." ”

Then Jiang Biyun agreed.

"But our food is about to bottom out, so we can't build a dam on an empty stomach, right?" Zheng Tong saw that several other people were also a little moved, and quickly asked.

"Our food can last for a few days, and I will find a way to get food in the future, but this project cannot be stopped, otherwise half of the overflow channel will be wasted." ”

Everyone looked at each other, and they didn't know where Zhong Yuemin could get food.

Zhong Yuemin looked at everyone's expressions, and pretended to be relaxed: "It's a big deal, let's go begging for food together when the time comes!"

"Cut ......," everyone booed.