Chapter 21: The River in the Field
This matter originally had nothing to do with our family.
But it covers a wide range of villages.
So our family has naturally become one of the beneficiaries.
Let's start with a river.
In our village, there is a field in the southernmost part.
The land is very rich and nutritious, and it grows very tall no matter what it grows.
One downside is that the area requires a lot of water for farming, but there is no river around
So the village chief came up with a solution called the South-to-North Water Diversion.
It's the same method as the history books say, which is to transport water from the south.
Oh no.
That's called the North-South Water Diversion.
Normally, if you want to irrigate, you need a horse-drawn cart to pull buckets over, and it may take a morning to irrigate not many acres of land.
Water is far from sufficient, very inadequate, and crops are growing too poorly and predictably.
Later, when the village chief agreed, he gathered the young and strong people in the village to find a way to open a canal.
With this river, then the village will be rich, which is a good thing for everyone.
It's all democratic now.
The village chief took everyone to a meeting, and the minority obeyed the majority, and after the meeting, most of the people in the village were very satisfied.
So the village chief posted a notice.
Ask for a man from each family.
I can help open the canal.
It is more practical and reliable to find people in your own village for things in your own village, and it also saves money.
After all, no one can fool themselves.
After we discussed it, our family chose me to take on the job.
In fact, I'm still a little baby, not very old, and compared to those strong men, I am not strong.
But my grandfather told me that everything in this village has to be done.
What's more, our family still planted a bud rice field in that place.
Once the canal is successful, his family will also benefit.
In any case, we should do the same.
I said okay.
So I found a few people from the village to go with me and volunteered to sign up.
After that, a squad of five people.
I don't know how many teams there are, but I'll do it anyway.
I'm in charge of digging ground next to the canal.
Others are engaged in transportation, and some are engaged in design.
Anyway, there are all walks of life, self-produced and sold.
Who knew something strange was going to happen on the first day I went.
I was digging and was tired from morning to night.
Our engineering team rested relatively early, and there was such a meal at about 4 o'clock in the afternoon.
In other people's homes, there are three meals a day, and four meals a day are dry.
Also at the construction site while eating.
At that time, the foreman beat the gong and drum and told everyone that when I was eating, I walked over to take a look, and today I was eating cabbage stewed meatballs.
But as soon as we started using the chopsticks, we found that there was one person missing from our team.
Generally speaking, when eating, everyone will be together, as soon as the time comes, they will put down their work, after all, they are all their own people, and they don't spend money to come, and the work is more casual.
And the name of the person who didn't come was Da Zhuang.
Li Dazhuang.
This guy is about 1.8 meters tall, twenty-five or sixteen years old, and is the most capable person on our construction site.
Everyone liked him very much, he was tall and easy-talking.
Usually when everyone eats, they are the first to think of him.
After all, the more people do, the more they eat.
The foreman thought that this guy didn't know how far to eat, so he asked me to run an errand and take a look.
At that time, he put down the dishes and chopsticks, and at this time, he walked about two miles before he found that Li Dazhuang was still moving stones.
It was quite far away, so I shouted: "Da Zhuang has started eating, it's almost ready, how can you still work hard?"
Da Zhuang didn't reply, and was still struggling to carry the stones.
I then shouted: "Brother, put down what you are doing, say something ugly, no matter how much you do, you can't share a few more pieces of land in your family!"
The other party still didn't answer, I was still working.
At this time, he stepped forward and patted the other party on the shoulder, but who knew that this guy was not very good-tempered and pushed me to the ground.
Turn your back to me and tell me to get out.
I don't know what kind of medicine this guy took wrong, so I went back with a huff.
After returning to the construction site, I told the foreman, Li Dazhuang, not to come to eat.
So we ate and drank to our heart's content, but this foreman was also interesting enough, and left a copy for Li Dazhuang.
So far, I haven't found anything abnormal, and when I was ready to start work in the evening, Li Dazhuang didn't come back.
Everyone thought that the other party was tired from working too much in the past few days, so they let each other rest and didn't say anything.
During the break halfway, some people said that they saw Li Dazhuang coming back.
and ate the food that the foreman had left for him.
The day ended in such a hurry, and when we got to work the next morning, we found that Li Dazhuang was still not there.
The next day, if everyone was fine, they didn't want to call him, and doing this kind of work was voluntary, and there was no pay.
It's understandable to be lazy once in a while.
As a result, I felt that something was wrong, because when I went home last night, my eldest daughter-in-law, Ma Furong, told me that there was going to be an accident on your construction site recently, and my bride didn't know what was going on.
So I kept an eye on it.
In the middle of the group, he said: "Without Li Dazhuang, we can't do anything, we met a few stones yesterday, with a few of our body bones, we can't move a bit, or find him!"
My opinion was adopted by everyone, so everyone went to look for it, but they searched the whole village, but they didn't see any trace of this person.
Li Dazhuang married a daughter-in-law, two years ago.
He has always been childless, and after we went to his house, his daughter-in-law also said that she had not seen him come back.
His daughter-in-law also asked if we were resting on the construction site.
That's a strange thing.
No matter how hard and tiring we worked during the day, we never worked overtime at night.
Generally, they have already gone back to their respective homes and looked for their own mothers.
But where did this kid go? And he didn't have any bad habits.
Everyone told the village chief about this, and after two or three days of hard work, the village chief went everywhere with his head to look for it, but he had no clue.
And the last person who saw Li Dazhuang was the foreman of our team.
He said that he was tired from his work and was about to go back to the tent, and when he was resting, he saw that he was squatting there in the tent and was constantly eating.
But at that time, it was the foreman who did not go in.
Leave the guys down and get busy with other things.
The man has not been seen since.
We searched for three days and there was no news, but we can't delay the project because of this incident.
Why should we wait until the spring and autumn planting season to open up this river?
So we had to get back to work.
As a result, who knew that he saw Li Dazhuang when he first started work.
It's just under the river.