Qiao Jiayue and Qiao Xiaofeng were so hot that they were out of breath after climbing the mountain for a while, and the two of them searched for a long time, but they didn't find the wild fruits that were common in the past.

"It's really strange, why are there so few fruits this year, have they all been plucked?" Qiao Xiaofeng muttered to himself.

She doesn't have many opportunities to come out now, because she has to help Wang Xiuhong take care of her younger brother and help with other things, and she is very busy.

So he couldn't find the fruit, Qiao Xiaofeng was very disappointed, and always felt that this trip to the mountain was in vain.

Qiao Jiayue sighed, "Didn't you notice that it rained less this year?

When Qiao Xiaofeng heard this, he thought for a while, and suddenly said: "The well near our house, if it is late to fetch water recently, it has bottomed out, and the water is very muddy. ”

"Jiayue, what do you say you want to do?" Qiao Xiaofeng grabbed Qiao Jiayue's arm, a little six gods and no master, "Do you want to be like eight years ago?"

Qiao Xiaofeng is older than Qiao Jiayue, and she has an impression of those three years, and she is very reluctant to recall, and her face is even more pale at this time, and the fear in her eyes is almost overflowing.

"It's okay, don't think about it. Qiao Jiayue patted Qiao Xiaofeng's head, and she opened the system mall separately to see if she could find anything raining.

But after checking, the goods are there, not to mention that the price is not cheap, the key is that things must be scattered into the air, and they can't do it at all.

Qiao Jiayue turned to check the tools for drilling wells, and then she thought about her own digging truck, it looked so good, building basements and underground passages knew to avoid water layers, so digging wells should not be difficult.

It seems that we still have to discuss it with Qiao's father again.

Not only Qiao Jiayue and Qiao Xiaofeng found that there were fewer wild fruits on the mountain, but the other children were the same.

Without these fun-filled wild fruits, life feels meaningless, and during this time, there are many dejected children in the brigade.

Qiao Hongzhi and Qiao Hongyuan are about to graduate, this is the first graduate of Changyun Middle School, Li Qing attaches great importance to it, and others are no exception.

But Li Qing ran to the commune and asked about the high school entrance examination, but found that there was no shadow at all.

Everyone doesn't know the decisions from above, and they don't dare to make decisions at will, so they can only wait.

Li Qing was a little frustrated, among the students in this year's class, there are really several good seedlings, especially Qiao Hongyuan, he feels that he is very good, and he must continue to study.

In fact, Qiao Hongyuan and Qiao Hongzhi don't really care about whether they can go to middle school, they don't have a lot of self-taught content, and it doesn't matter if they go to school or not.

What's more, schools now teach even less than they used to.

And in Du Yueping's letter exchange, they also know the current situation in Haishi, and it is really difficult to learn anything in class, which is basically a political class, so it is a waste of time to go.

As for this year's junior high school graduates, many of them are not young, and they have begun to inquire about the news of the commune and the city, whether it is a factory or any other organizational unit, as long as there is a foreign recruitment, they have to take the exam.

After all, the recruitment of workers in the city all has academic requirements, and they finish junior high school under pressure, isn't it just to have a good job and change their lives?

However, everyone found that there are really too few jobs in the city to recruit workers, and even if there are recruitment, they are still given priority to people with urban hukou, and they come from the countryside, and the chance of being selected is pitiful.

It was a bad year, the crops in the field were not growing well, the first junior high school could not find a way out, and the weather was hot, so the fire went straight up.

Therefore, during this time, there were a lot of quarrels and even fights in the brigade.

All cadres also have to mediate from it, and they are too tired to do it.

The weather is getting hotter and hotter, and many wells are relatively shallow, and the water coming out is pitifully small, and it is simply supplied to nearby people as before.

People had no choice but to walk farther to other wells to fetch water, and many people lined up with buckets before dawn.

The bucket was made of wood, and it was very bulky, and it was really enough for adults to pick up.

Fortunately, Qiao Jiayue's family has no water problem for the time being, and there is a waterhole behind the house, and the water output is acceptable.

But these days, there are more people who come to fetch water, and the path has been stepped on.

When there are too many people, it is noisy, Qiao Jiayue cleaned up the things that should not appear in the house, and the rice and noodles were put away separately.

After all, some people go to other people's homes as if they are the masters, and they have to open everything to take a look, which is disgusting.

And now, the brigade is also anxious, even if the water outlet of the rice field is blocked, but the sun still takes away a lot of water, and the water in the rice field is visibly reduced.

In the paddy fields where rice fish are raised, you can already see some rice fish floating on the water.

At this time, they regretted it, why didn't they listen to Qiao's father in the first place?

The distressed members could only fish out the fish from the rice fields as much as possible and put them in the pond in the brigade.

The water from the stream is getting less and less, and it is getting harder and harder to get to the fields, because it seeps and evaporates halfway through, and it's basically useless.

It is believed that under such a big sun, it will not be long before large paddy fields will crack and rice will wither.

At this time, they could only rely on manual water for irrigation, and the four production teams, which were originally in harmony, also broke out a lot of quarrels because of the competition for water sources.

This is not surprising, after all, the water source is limited, and the rice fields are the lives of the members, how can they not fight?

Drought is not common here, and at its worst, the harvest was out for a whole season, the fields cracked, and only a few springs in the mountains were still watering.

This year, the situation has not yet reached its worst.

But even if you carry water, those ponds will soon dry up, and the brigade headquarters has already had to dig wells before the meeting, but no one has been found to watch the wells.

Looking at the water source of the well is also a technical job, because of the drought this year, people who know how to do this job have become sought-after batons, and the alpine brigade has to wait in line to find it.

There was no way, so the members had to dig in the moist low-lying areas of the fields based on experience, and if they were lucky, the water would come out all at once, and that would be great.

Qiao's father had Qiao Jiayue's help, and a few days ago, he probably knew where the Alpine Brigade had rich groundwater.

But he doesn't know how to look at the water himself, so he has to leave this matter to someone else.

But who is the right fit?

Qiao's father knocked on the table, his eyes narrowed, and he decided to hand over this matter to Old Man Qiao Xiangbai.

He used to be a landlord, went out to study, and had seen the world, so what skills he had on him, in fact, the members of the club didn't know it at all.

What's more, Qiao Xiangbai needs a talisman.

He was glad that their alpine brigade was located in a remote area, and there was still a buffer period before the arrival of this torrent, so he could arrange it.

For Qiao Xiangbai, perhaps only the contribution made at this moment can be remembered by the members!