The next day, Jiang Hui woke up amid the noise of pots and pans. Come to the water press and brush your teeth and wash your face.

If you want to say that this water press, it is also a very nostalgic object. There is a lot of water in the south, and when you dig five or six meters down from a piece of land, you can generally get water, and when tap water has not yet spread to the countryside, most families in the countryside generally have two ways to get water, go to the nearby to fetch water to drink and dig their own wells. Some of the self-dug water armies use buckets to draw water directly from wells, and some install hand-cranked water presses. Of course, it gradually changed to tap water or electric water pumps.

The house where Jiang Hui lives now was built more than ten years ago when Jiang Hui was just in kindergarten, and at first he had to go to a distant place to fetch water to drink, which was really inconvenient, and then he dug a well and installed a hand-cranked water press, which finally solved the problem of drinking water.

The principle of this water press is actually very simple, it is actually a piston water pump, which is mainly composed of the shell and piston and the rubber sealing ring set on the piston. Under the piston, the water inlet valve is closed on time, the water is pushed out of the water outlet along the water outlet valve under the joint action of the piston and the rubber ring, when the hand is released, the booster spring in the piston pushes the piston up, the volume in the pump becomes larger and produces negative pressure, the outlet valve is closed, the water inlet is opened, and the water is pumped into the pump under the negative pressure of the pump body, so that the round-trip water will flow out continuously, so as to achieve the purpose of pumping.

However, this device is more common in the south, but it is rare in the north. The main reason is that the hand-cranked water press generally works when the depth of the well is less than eight meters, and the deeper water must be pumped by the motor. The depth of water sources in the north is generally more than ten meters or even tens of meters, so there is definitely no need for a hand-cranked water press.

After Jiang Hui finished washing, he had some breakfast and planned to go to the next village to see his grandmother. After my grandfather died of illness two years ago, my grandmother's health began to deteriorate.

Jiang Hui's grandmother has three sons and three daughters, the eldest uncle is an ordinary clerk in the town government, the second uncle is the principal of the middle school, the eldest aunt married to the next town, the third uncle works in the power supply bureau, the fifth is Jiang Hui's mother, the younger aunt married to other villages in the town, and the grandmother now lives with the uncle.

In the early years, my grandfather fought with the guerrillas for several years, and after the founding of the People's Republic of China, he successively worked in various towns and villages, and when he retired, he was the commune secretary of the next township. Because of this, several uncles read more than ordinary rural children, and had the opportunity to break away from the life of facing the loess with their backs to the sky.

When Jiang Hui came to his grandmother's house, his aunt had already gone to work in the field, and his grandmother was sitting in the yard sprinkling the sun. It was very happy to see that their grandson came to see them. Several of the uncles gave birth to daughters, and because they worked in a government unit, they could only have one. Therefore, Jiang Hui, the grandson, is the most favored in the eyes of his grandparents.

This is actually related to the preference for sons over women in rural areas, of course, it does not mean that there is no such phenomenon in cities, but it is only that rural areas are particularly serious. In the countryside, if a person does not have a son, the neighbors often gossip and bully you in some daily disputes. Although this phenomenon has been alleviated in recent years with family planning and reform and opening up, it has only been alleviated, and the original prejudice still exists.

Jiang Hui moved a stool and sat next to the old lady and accompanied her all morning. In fact, it is nothing more than the three aunts and six mothers-in-law who build a new house, whose daughter and son are doing, and who in the village has what is going on, but the point is not what is said, the old lady cares about someone who is willing to sit down and talk to her.

As young people go out to work, only the old, weak, sick and disabled are left in the countryside in normal times. Jiang Hui's village primary school was also canceled and merged into the next village because the number of students dropped too much the year before last. Even after the merger, the primary school will not survive for a few years, and in the end, the town center primary school will still survive, which is just a short breath.

In the next few years, the housing prices in various small counties have risen sharply, which is related to the overall rise in housing prices, but a very important reason is that a large number of rural people actively and passively go to the county to buy houses. For example, in Jianghui Village, there is no kindergarten, there is no village primary school, and most people can't afford to buy a house in the place where they work outside or think that it is just a place to work, and they will not stay there for the rest of their lives, so most of them buy houses in the county, and some build houses at home, but most of the houses built at home are families that no longer have the problem of children going to school.

After chatting with the old lady all morning, the eldest aunt also came back, and after saying hello, Jiang Hui was ready to go home. The second and third uncle's houses are usually empty, and they both have houses in the county seat, but they will come back during the Chinese New Year.

On the way home, Jiang Hui looked at the rivers that were still quite clear, and the two sides of the stream were full of bamboos. Dress up, but you can also make a leisure place for the people of County C. This way the village will not be so sparsely populated.

However, now I do not have the economic strength to engage in tourism, and the living standards of the people in the county have not reached the level of later generations, so I can only delay it for a few years and start again.

In the countryside, the hottest thing in the next few years is pig farming, although the price of pork rises and falls, but the overall is still rising. However, due to the construction of various non-standard pig farms, the water quality of various rivers has deteriorated rapidly, and fish and shrimp have basically disappeared.

Jiang Hui's village is the most upstream of the water flow, and the impact is not so great, but in later generations, there were also six or seven large and small pig farms in the village.

This relatively good pig farm is located in the col next to Jiang Hui's house, because that place has its own independent water source, and no one lives, it is very suitable for the development of breeding industry. At the beginning, there were talented people in the village who had contracted the col and built a small-scale pig farm, but due to the low pig prices and plague one after another, it was almost impossible to hold on. In the previous life, during the Spring Festival of this year, the owner of the pig farm transferred it to the village chief at a low price, and within a few years, the village chief became the richest man in the village, driving a BMW to live in a self-built villa, and the original boss regretted all his intestines.

Jiang Hui is thinking about how to let his father take over this pig farm, his own family will take the lion's share, and let the uncle's family also contribute some money to occupy some shares, after all, the uncle has been the village party secretary for many years, and will continue to do it in the future, so that his family and his own family can do it together, which is more foolproof.