A day, a day or two,......, as time went on, the drizzle continued to fall, and there was no sign of stopping.

At this moment, the villagers who planted vegetables began to panic!

Normally, rain for several days in a row will cause vegetables to rot and turn yellow, and the harvest will be reduced or even eliminated. Now it has been freezing rain for several days, and I am afraid that the vegetables in the vegetable field will rot their roots.

However, for this situation, the villagers of Liang Village are helpless, and can only watch the vegetable fields decay day by day.

On such a rainy day, going out to pick vegetables in the rain is afraid that even the middle-aged people will be seriously ill, and the villagers naturally dare not act rashly. There was a lot of ice on the road, and the restaurants in the county town would not venture out to buy vegetables, and the whole Liang Village suddenly became much quieter.

The sudden drop in temperature caused water droplets to freeze on power lines and telephone lines, and villagers could see bright icicles hanging from the power lines when they looked up. This is also the first time that the vast majority of villagers in Liangcun have seen natural ice, and in the past, in a tropical village like Liangcun, it was really rare to encounter such extreme weather in a century.

Many old hunters who have been to Fairy Lake have naturally seen the vast white snow and those glaciers, but most of the villagers have never seen the imprint of ice and snow in their lives.

Perhaps, this year's extreme weather will impress many people.

The bad weather has already cut off the power in Liangcun, and there is no car to go back and forth, and it has almost become an isolated island. Fortunately, the phone has been kept smooth because there is also a backup power supply and generator.

Many villagers also have radios in their hands, so they can listen to various broadcasts and find out what is going on.

From the news on the radio, it can be seen that a large area in the south has experienced extreme weather such as widespread cooling, cold snaps, and freezing rain this winter, and there have been rare frost and rain weather. Not only in Liangcun, but also in Qingzhou, Qingshan and other places, the situation is the same.

The bad weather has made the roads icy, and the road traffic and material transportation have basically come to a standstill, which is also an important reason why there are no cars to come to Liang Village to buy vegetables.

At present, the emergency repair teams in the telecommunications, electric power, and transportation sectors are mainly concentrating their efforts on repairing communications, electricity, and roads in important cities and regions. As a result, a small place like Liangcun was naturally forgotten and became almost like an island.

For seven days, the villagers of Liang Village could only stay at home, and unless necessary, they would go out in the rain to buy something and go to the vegetable field to choose some vegetables to eat at home. The best mood these days is Wang Shaozhang, although he braves the freezing rain every day to go out to deliver wine, and his lips are purple from the cold, but he is still happy.

For Wang Shaozhang, this rain was like an unusually timely rain, allowing him to truly accept Liu Rui's various customers near Qingyun Town.

After receiving the wine-making equipment, Wang Shaozhang successfully brewed rice wine with a good taste under the guidance of Liu Rui, and also began to deliver wine to the customers handed over by Liu Rui one after another. However, Wang Shaozhang knew that these customers continued to order with him for the sake of the Liu family's face, and the relationship between the two parties was not solid.

Once Wang Shaozhang's rice wine tastes bad, or the delivery is not timely, some customers may be lost.

Just when Wang Shaozhang was racking his brains and thinking about how to consolidate the relationship with these customers, this freezing rain fell.

Because of the freezing rain, the villagers in Qingyun Town and surrounding villages basically sit at home to eat and drink, and the demand for rice wine has risen sharply. There is a custom here in Qingyun, and the villagers do not like the bottled high-strength wine, but prefer to drink low-alcohol bulk rice wine with a temperature of about 20 degrees.

Because this rice wine is fermented and brewed from pure grains, it will not go up even after getting drunk, and it will still be alive and well the next day, and you can work in the field. In addition, the price of these rice wines is relatively cheap, which is the best choice for villagers who work hard to earn money.

In order to consolidate the relationship with customers, Wang Shaozhang can be said to be out of the way these days, whenever the customer calls, he drives a motorcycle out of the rain and fog without saying a word, and delivers rice wine to customers in a timely manner.

Under the guidance of Liu Rui, the taste of the rice wine brewed by Wang Shaozhang has reached a certain level, which is much better than that of ordinary wineries.

As the so-called blessing and misfortune depend on each other, this freezing rain has caused certain losses to many villagers, but for Wang Shaozhang, it is an opportunity for his winemaking career to be stable.

Because of the rain and the approaching Spring Festival, most of the villagers, who had been tense for a whole year, finally relaxed, took a good rest, and began to prepare for the New Year.

Villagers who don't grow vegetables are carefree at home eating hot pot and drinking wine, enjoying the most comfortable time of the year. As for the villagers who grow vegetables, they have now resigned themselves to their fate and no longer care about the vegetable fields that have been soaked in freezing rain.

It wasn't until the twenty-third day of the lunar month that the dark clouds began to disperse, revealing a clear sky.

The twenty-third day of the lunar month is a small year, from the white mountains and black waters in the north to the border in the south, it has begun to enter the countdown to the New Year. On this day, every family has to prepare a sumptuous dinner and worship the king of the stove with offerings, hoping for good weather and abundant grains in the coming year.

Although it is now the 21st century, scientific and technological progress and social development have made most people aware that the so-called fairies and ghosts are ethereal things. However, as a traditional custom, worshipping the Lord of the Stove has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people and can never be erased.

Early in the morning, Liu Zhi and Tongtong, under the leadership of Zhang Guizhi, began to clean the kitchen in an all-round way, striving to be spotless.

Liu's kitchen is a brick structure, and cobwebs will naturally breed on the beams, coupled with the smoke and fire, the roof of the kitchen looks like a flavor. Speaking of which, this kind of black appearance is only used to by people in the countryside, and if people in the city see it, they will inevitably feel a little uncomfortable.

In the future, if Liang Village wants to develop farmhouses, the first thing to be renovated in the farmers' homes is the kitchen and guest rooms, and only clean and hygienic eating and living conditions can attract tourists.

Although the Liu family has been using biogas for cooking for a while, the layout of the kitchen still retains many traces of the past, and it is not a modern kitchen.

In Liu Rui's plan, after the spring of the next year, if the economic conditions allow, the old house will be renovated.

However, now they can only carefully clean up the kitchen, carefully wipe the pots and pans at home, and celebrate the Spring Festival brightly.

In the past, Liu Rui would also clean the house under the leadership of his mother, but this year, he has broken away from this ranks and become the main force in the family.

After breakfast, watching his younger brothers and sisters begin to circle under the command of his mother, Liu Rui showed a knowing smile and left the Liu family compound on a motorcycle.

Although the rain had stopped, and the sky was no longer cloudy, there was still no sun, at most the sky was brighter. The asphalt road was wet and seemed to be a little slippery, so Liu Rui had to slow down and slowly drive towards the pig farm.

The north wind, which has been blowing for the past few days, shows no signs of stopping, and is still whining from the direction of the lake. The temperature in the air did not rise after the rain stopped, but rather it became colder.

The motorcycle passed by the vegetable field by the lake, and Liu Rui saw many villagers working in the vegetable field, although the scene was lively, but it was not festive at all.

In the past, when the villagers were working in the vegetable fields, they would always discuss some farming skills loudly, or talk about interesting anecdotes that had just happened, and laugh constantly. Even when some villagers are happy, they still don't sing a song, and the original mountain song floats on the fields between the green mountains and green waters, bringing joy and hope to the villagers.

However, today's vegetable patch is very abnormal, and the atmosphere of the vegetable patch is a little depressing!

The villagers silently plucked the rotten vegetables from the vegetable patch, threw them on the ground, and then continued to walk forward, continuing to clean up all the vegetables.

Liu Rui's eyes were sharp, and he immediately saw that the roots of these vegetables were already rotten, and they could no longer support the growth and development of vegetables. I watched all the villagers repeat the same action, pulling up all the vegetables, leaving only the empty vegetable beds.

As usual, these vegetables can create good economic value for the villagers, and can make these vegetable farmers have a happy Spring Festival. However, the sudden freezing rain made the hopes of the vegetable farmers come to naught, and the villagers could only endure the pain to pull up the [***] vegetables, preparing to dry the land and continue to grow vegetables.

The experience of growing vegetables in the past few months has already made these vegetable farmers taste the sweetness, although this freezing rain has wiped out their upcoming income, but it cannot stop the enthusiasm of vegetable farmers to continue production.

Every time the vegetable farmers pull out a vegetable, they feel like they have cut a knife in their hearts, and they are drenched in blood. However, the villagers felt much better at the thought that they would be able to sow seeds and grow new vegetables after the sunny days, and that there was hope.

As a matter of fact, the peasants' demands are so simple: as long as they have land to plant, income, and hope, no matter how big or difficult they are, they cannot bend their backbones.

In such a sad, depressed and hopeful mood, Liu Rui rode a motorcycle through the field and came to the pig farm.

Seven days of freezing rain have made the temperature very low, especially after dark, and even at some times, the temperature outside has been infinitely close to freezing, which is the lowest recorded in Liang Village.

After the power outage, there was no way to implement the plan of using incandescent lamps to provide heat to the piglets, so Liu Rui and his family could only use straw to warm the piglets.

For seven consecutive days, in order to closely observe the condition of hundreds of piglets, Zhang Zhenguang's three brothers and several aunts of Liu Rui almost ate and lived in the pig farm, and they couldn't go into the pigsty to sleep with the piglets.

They work tirelessly to inspect the pens to see how the piglets react in such extreme weather and to respond accordingly.

Under their careful care, most of the piglets in the pig farm finally survived the sudden cold snap and survived safely!

This result made Liu Rui and others cheer, after all, if these piglets can't survive, the Zhang family will lose tens of thousands of investments. Although these investments are not enough to bankrupt the Zhang brothers, they will also break their bones.

Liu Rui walked into the pig farm and saw his fourth uncle Zhang Zhenzu guarding the guard room with red eyes, and said hello to Liu Rui weakly.

"Xiao Rui, here?!"

"Uncle, go and rest, it's not raining today, it shouldn't cool down anymore, and the situation will get better." Looking at the tired appearance of the fourth uncle, Liu Rui was also a little distressed.

"Hmm!" As soon as he saw Liu Rui coming to take over, sleepiness immediately came to his head, Zhang Zhenzu yawned, waved his hand, and walked into the room near the guard's room.

When the pig farm was built, several houses were built to live in. Originally, it was considered to keep it for the workers who would work on the pig farm after the expansion of the pig farm, but now Zhang Zhenzu and others can only live in the pig farm because of the vigil.

After routine disinfection measures, Liu Rui walked into the pigsty fully armed and inspected the condition of the piglets in the pigsty one by one.

Compared with the lively and clever situation of the piglets some time ago, the piglets in the pigsty now seem to be less fond of exercise because the weather is too cold, but tightly crowded in the corner of the pigsty, looking afraid of the cold.

After walking around the pig farm, although he didn't see that the piglets had big problems, Liu Rui still saw some small conditions.

Maybe the temperature is too low, some piglets still inevitably catch a cold, even if Liu Rui walks on the side, he can hear the slight panting of the piglets.

It seems that it is necessary to add cold-proof drugs to the feed, and to leave the more severe piglets alone to infect other piglets.

After walking around, Liu Rui immediately walked into the pharmacy and began to configure the corresponding drugs for the piglets, and they could be fed for the piglets after a while.

Because of Liu Rui's identity and education, he had to start learning about veterinarians in the early days of pig farm construction. After a few months, he didn't dare to say that he had become a qualified veterinarian, but some common symptoms could still be distinguished, and some commonly used drugs still knew how to use.

Of course, Liu Rui, as an amateur veterinarian of a pig farm, is just a stopgap measure, and it is okay to deal with the current small situation of hundreds of heads. If the scale of the pig farm expands in the future, with tens of thousands of heads in stock, Liu Rui still wants to be a veterinarian, I am afraid he will not be able to do anything.

In the future, the development direction of pig farms will still be large-scale and specialized, and the recruitment of professional and technical personnel such as veterinarians will soon be put on the agenda.

After the attack of this cold snap, Liu Rui realized that the space spring water is not omnipotent, and it is not that everything can be worry-free with the space spring water.

At most, space spring water can speed up the growth and development of animals and plants, and can improve the quality and taste of products, but it cannot change the special surname of the thing itself.

For example, these piglets, even if they use the space spring water as their main drinking water, it still can't change the reality that they are pigs. After drinking the space spring water, the piglet cannot become Ultraman overnight.

Therefore, the piglets will still be afraid of the cold, they will still catch colds, and if they are not taken care of, they will still cause losses.

Of course, without the magical effect of the space spring, these piglets would not have survived this cold snap at all, and there would have been no great loss.

After a week's hard work by several members of the Zhang family, Zhang Ji Pig Farm finally survived the chilling freezing rain and basically had no loss. Perhaps after such an experience, several managers of the pig farm will be able to accumulate enough experience to have greater benefits for the future development of the pig farm.

For the Zhang brothers, there is no loss in the pig farm, which is something to celebrate, but for Liu Rui, this freezing rain has caused him heavy losses.

In the past few days, Liu Rui has gone out to see the little tomatoes in the rain almost every day, but every time he goes to see it, his heart sinks to the bottom.

Because the tomatoes had just been picked before the rain, there were basically no ripe tomatoes, and Liu Rui couldn't do anything even if he wanted to harvest them. As the freezing rain continued, the small tomatoes that seemed to have no problems at all began to freeze, and the agate-like tomatoes began to fall to the ground one after another, spreading a thick layer.

The original green leaves also start to turn yellow near the roots, and slowly spread towards the tips of the branches. Soon, the small tomato tree, which resembles emerald, turns golden like a frosted maple leaf.

Liu Rui plucked some small tomatoes and saw that the root system under them had begun to rot, and some branches had been frostbitten and could not transmit nutrients.

In seven days, the small tomatoes on two acres of land have changed from golden egg-laying hens to dead chickens, and there is no hope at all.

It is estimated that the income of 100,000 yuan will come to naught in a blink of an eye, Liu Rui has taken care of it carefully for several months, and he is full of expectations to drive the villagers to plant cash crops through these two acres of small tomatoes.

If someone else had suffered such a blow, I am afraid that his hands and feet would have been weak and he would have no strength at all.

Fortunately, Liu Rui has Shennong space and strong confidence in the future, and the loss of 100,000 yuan did not hit him too hard.

In the past six months, after owning the Shennong space, he has been smooth sailing, which has already made him feel a little proud. For Liu Rui, this defeat was like a basin of cold water, poured on his somewhat hot head, which made him sober up a lot!

A loss may turn out to be a gain?

Perhaps, through such an experience, Liu Rui can better sum up his experience, face the successes and failures in entrepreneurship more calmly, make greater progress, and have a brighter future.

The heavy loss did not dampen Liu Rui's confidence, he still faced it optimistically, thinking about how to better use Shennong's space to create greater value?

From this point of view, Liu Rui's setback this time will be a good catalyst, which can prompt Liu Rui to burst out more entrepreneurial passion and inspiration!

(To be continued)