125. Water scarcity crisis
When I was studying, I always felt that there were too few holidays, too much homework, and when I graduated and had nothing to do, I complained about how it was a holiday, which made people who were gnawing at the old go to the party? For customers, everything is discounted during the holiday, and for vendors, the holiday is a great promotional opportunity.
Yang Liu felt that she was very busy, she had been very busy, in her impression, it seemed that every two or three days was a holiday, every two or three days was a holiday, and there was not much time to really rest. Soon it will be the Mid-Autumn Festival, what jewelry should I sell, do I want to sell moon cakes? When the willow side was busy, the people in the tunzi spontaneously gathered under the old locust tree in the middle of the tunzi, they had no way not to worry, the rice was filled, but there was a lack of water in the field. Without water, can this rice still produce rice? I've got to figure it out.
Li Qiang was the first group of people to arrive, fortunately found a stone to sit down, took out the dry tobacco from his arms, and slowly stuffed the tobacco into the pipe, while listening to what others said.
"What are you doing here, your family is not short of this little food for the winter." Li Qiang's shoulder was tapped on the shoulder, and then a person sat next to him, "You still learn these old ladies to smoke dry tobacco." ”
Turning his head, Li Qiang saw that the person who spoke was Li Qiang. That's right, the two have the same name, but this Li Qiang is a month younger than him, and in order to distinguish him, everyone calls him Li Xiaoqiang. Over time, his real name was no longer called.
"I have several mouths waiting to eat at home, and there is nothing missing, just eat enough and not starve." Li Qiang smiled.
Rich people talk about money and shout poverty, not to mention that he has no family background, and his family is worried about eating and drinking.
"Come on. I won't borrow it from you, why are you so pitiful? Don't pretend to me. Now no one here knows that your family has made a lot of money. Li Xiaoqiang shrugged his shoulders and said, "Your family is now a veritable rich family in our tunzi." ”
"I fell and stayed on the kang for more than a month. I can't do any work, and I have to eat and drink well. The two babies in the family still have to study, and the house can't live in, so they are all places to use money, and the money in hand has not been covered and used again, is this also considered rich? Li Qiang also knew what Li Xiaoqiang said about their family's money, and Li Qiang didn't hide it, but just counted the places where his family needed to use the money. Those who understand will naturally understand, and those who don't understand will not be able to explain in vain. Besides, he doesn't steal or rob. Do you still have to care if other people's eyes are red or not?
"Sending a baby to study, building a house at home, listening to it is something that only rich people will consider." Li Xiaoqiang sighed, "I don't know when I will be able to move out of my family's thatched huts." ”
"If your family lives in a thatched house, our family lives in a shack, so you know that I am being said." Li Xiaoqiang's family has a few spacious big tiled houses, what is there to be dissatisfied with living in such a house? What was the situation of my family a few years ago, do you need to say more?
"So, no, it's not very Tailai. God still has eyes. Li Xiaoqiang patted Li Qiang's shoulder, "Don't say it, Li Zheng is here." ”
He was accompanied by Wang Yuan. Although he only lived in Lijiatun temporarily, he also had the heart to contribute. In order to have a good reputation.
It seems that I haven't seen him for a few days, and Lao Lizheng is much older again. Everyone swallowed the words of complaining, and was busy asking about Lao Lizheng's physical condition.
"I'm fine. This old bone is worrying everyone. Lao Li was coughing and waving his hand.
The grandson who followed behind hurriedly set up the rattan chair in his hand. Fu Laoli is sitting down.
"Lizheng, you have to take care of your health."
"To be old is to be old. How can you compare with you young people? Clenched his fist against his jaw and coughed twice, Lao Lizheng said: "Let's talk when we have time, let's talk about the most important thing at the moment." ”
Everyone also immediately cut to the point, the people take food as the sky, and they don't care.
"The fields are a finger's width apart, and now there is no other way but to borrow water from the Tongling Lake." Someone hit the nail on the head.
Naturally, there are also helpless singers: "Borrowing water from the gods, which is such a simple thing?" ”
"It's not easy to get together the three sacrifices for a hundred days."
"If you want me to say, with that spare money, I would have bought enough food for a long time." There were also disapproving voices in the crowd. It is not the first time that Li Jiatun has used a hundred days of three animal rites to sacrifice the gods in the psychic lake, although the number is not much, but which one is the number less? It was a hundred days for every household in the entire tunzi, the time was harsh, and the price was several times higher. It's not wrong to spend money to buy the right one, the point is that there are not many old people with this kind of eyesight now...
Then someone chimed in: "It's better to have this lake than not to have it." ”
If not, forget it, the drought is not his family, everyone is the same, and their hearts are balanced. And now that Tongling Lake is there, I have a thought in my heart, if there is a chance not to let myself be lost, who would be stupid not to try it? But the cost of this trial is not much different from that of a season's crops.
"It's a real problem." Li Xiaoqiang frowned, rubbing the green stubble on his chin with two fingers, "But it's too late to wake up." ”
People are lucky, thinking that things are not until the last step, and they are always strict and can't go anywhere. No matter how bad it is, there is still a Tongling Lake in Tunzi, as long as the lake is there, it will not be cornered. Thousands of years of farming life has been inherited by relying on God to eat, the role of manpower is not large, like their place, the mountains are not rich and the water is not deep, once God is a little bit not strong, you will be hungry.
"yes, it's that simple." Li Qiang turned the dry tobacco stick in his hand, "Where can I find those eligible livestock at this time." ”
Relying on it for too long, people have inertia.
Listening to the gossip of the people in the tunzi but no actual progress was discussed, Li Xiaoqiang smacked his lips: "It seems that today is in vain again." Do you think Mr. Wang has any ideas? ”
"These, Wang is really powerless." Wang Yuan shook his head.
What are these people saying, the lake has a spirit, and there is a gluttonous ghost living in it, they all believe it. The lack of water in the fields is not a matter of money at all, oh no, it is all something that money can do, but is it worth it?
"Look, Mr. Wang can't do anything, what else can we do? Let's wait to be hungry. Immediately someone spread out his hands and faced the crowd.
In addition to the prestige Lao Lizheng, the learned Wang Yuan ranks second in everyone's hearts, and everyone is willing to ask Wang Yuan if he doesn't understand. The key is that Wang Yuan has a gentle personality, especially attracting the love of a group of middle-aged and elderly women.
"This friend of women." Willow pouted. (To be continued......)