There has been a drought for days, and there is a drought everywhere.

The sun was shining, and although the sun was not as hot as it was in June and July, carrying a load of water back and forth between the fields and the stream under the sun was just as tedious and laborious.

Although the people of Guanzhong are industrious, the drought fighting for days has also made everyone tired enough.

Old Master Yang, the head of Lanxi Academy, walked in front with two large buckets of water on a flat shoulder, and the ten gentlemen of the academy also followed behind with a load of water, and the first and second grade students walked behind with two buckets of water.

Although the gentlemen are literati, no one is lazy at this time.

The school can no longer meet the demand for drought resistance every ten days, and now the college has begun to pick up water for an hour every morning and evening to ensure that the farmland and vegetable fields that the college has cleared.

Although Li Xiao has said several times, this year the weather is too dry, and the wasteland opened by the academy is far away from the stream, so it will be wasted, and we will see if we can plant another season in the summer.

But although Yang Dayan is a scholar, he is also very simple. Li Xiao allocated a piece of the Li family's wasteland to the academy as the academy field, and they had already said that they wanted to be self-sufficient, so they couldn't leave it behind now.

After all, the entire Blue Creek is in a severe drought, and hundreds of people are fighting the drought, carrying water every day, and it is the same hard work.

This may be the simple concept of people in this era, the reader is not helpless, and the reader does not just eat and work.

Carry water every morning and evening, but also to ensure that schoolwork is not delayed, and it is very hard to get up early and be greedy for darkness. The shoulders of Mr. Yang and the teachers had already been worn out by the shoulders, but they tore off the broken skin at night, and the cloth on the shoulders continued in the morning.

The students have little strength, so they carry a bucket in two, and although the students are very young, although they are tired, no one will say a word, and no one will throw down the bucket.

Perhaps it is because the students are originally from many peasant families, and they are not arrogant, coupled with the daily morning exercise and recess exercises after entering the academy, these children are also much stronger, and the nutrition of the meals is guaranteed, so that their health is not bad.

A bucket of water was lifted to the ground, and a gourd was picked up and poured down, and the land that had already been dried to white ground could make a swishing sound, and the water was directly absorbed and dried.

I watered it once in the morning and evening, but the ground was still not moist at all.

And the grain that was planted in the ground did not move at all.

Thanks to the Township Covenant Hall organized by Li Xiao, at least although dams and weirs have been built on all sections of Lanxi, they have not been completely stopped as in previous years.

The blue stream is still flowing, not stopped, even if the water is very small and small, but this is the water of life. The trickle of flow guarantees the small hope of villages and fields downstream.

Shoulder-carrying, carrying, hand-carried, old people and children, men and women, all the people have joined the army in this fight against drought.

At the meeting, Li Xiao proposed that the drought was getting worse and worse, and the water in Lanxi was getting less and less, and proposed to take the initiative to reduce the yield by two percent again to ensure that there would be a harvest in the end.

It was a difficult decision.

It was also a painful decision.

Everyone has worked hard for so long, carrying water every day to irrigate, but now they have to give up 20% of the land, and those fields are watered in vain these days, and the seeds planted are also in vain.

But if you don't give up, you can't take care of it.

If it drags on, not only will the two percent definitely not be able to be kept, but even the remaining three percent may be delayed.

Maybe it's because of Li Xiao's prestige, or maybe it's because everyone has already experienced a painful decision to cut production, although this decision is still painful, but when the directors and councillors convey this proposal back to the villages, the feedback is still gratifying.

Everyone basically agreed to cut production again.

Lanxi Township is very calm, and the drought here is still severe, but everyone has accepted it, and this acceptance is not resigned to fate, but is standing strong.

Hold on, when you can't do anything, it's not about doing nothing, but holding on, maybe you don't know when it's a head, but you can hold on until the end, maybe you can finally hold on to the dawn.

The people of Guanzhong are resilient, they are like those weeds in the arid field, they can hold on for a long time without water.

However, the people of Lantian County are also in Lantian County, and the situation in other townships is not so harmonious compared to Lanxi.

Recently, the county commander Liu Qi has been running around to vigorously publicize and promote the township covenant, the villagers' convention, and the concerted efforts to fight drought and provide disaster relief.

The results are there, but not great.

All localities follow the example of Lanxi, and under the supervision of the county government, dams and weirs are built at the rivers and streams in the township, and only part of the water is intercepted. But the first few days were fine, but when the drought continued to be severe, slowly, the dams and weirs everywhere were secretly intercepting the flow.

In some villages, only a small part of the dam is cut off during the day, but at night the dam is secretly raised, and even the water is cut off.

The villagers downstream refused, and began to quarrel and quarrel, and even developed to the point of forcibly destroying the dam.

The water brawl began again, and although the township covenant group in charge of the county government intervened in a timely manner, and the matter did not make a big deal and no one died, but it was very bad in nature and had a bad impact.

The little trust of the villagers that the township covenant hall has built with great difficulty is being lost.

When the county asked the townships to take the initiative to reduce production again, the implementation did not go smoothly. It has been reduced by half, and now it is going to be reduced, many people do not agree, and if it is reduced again, there will be no more acres of land. Especially in many places, which have been hard watered for a long time.

Many people thought that if they held on any longer, they might be able to hold on until the afternoon, but they were unwilling to give up, so Liuxian ordered officials to go around to persuade the people, but the effect was not obvious.

At the same time, the price of grain in the county began to rise, and many grain shops began to sell in limited quantities, and wealthy landlords began to hoard grain.

"If the drought continues like this, even if it is a three-percent field after the yield reduction, I am afraid that it will not be able to be saved."

On the bank of Lanxi, several Li Zheng are now looking at Li Xiao's horse everywhere, and everyone is looking at the less and less Lanxi water, and they all gather around him, wanting to ask Li Xiao for a solution.

Li Xiao actually had no choice, although his corn had already been harvested.

But even if we are still rushing to plant now, seven corns can't even be planted on one acre of land, and even if corn is planted on this acre of land, it will yield a thousand catties.

1,000 catties of corn, if it is used as autumn seeds, can be planted on three or four hundred acres of land, but for the moment, it is far from quenching thirst.

"We can't afford to relax our drought preparedness, but we need to start thinking about summer food rations." Li Xiao spoke earnestly to a few people.

The Li family and several Li Zheng are all big landlords, and they still have a certain amount of grain storage at home, but many people actually don't have much rations at home. If the summer harvest is normal, then there will be food after the summer harvest, but if the summer harvest fails, then everyone will definitely not be able to hold on.

After all, from last year's autumn harvest to the summer harvest, there will be a period of green and yellow time, and many families have to borrow all kinds of grain, or rely on wild vegetables to survive.

If the summer harvest is lost, then you can only go and ask for food.

But this year, there is a great drought in the southern capital of Guanlongshan, and there is no place to go for that meal.

"Think about it, build the righteous warehouse of the Township Covenant Hall first, and donate some grain to everyone who has food, or sell some grain into the warehouse, so as to appease everyone's increasingly anxious heart, otherwise, few people can hold on any longer." Li Xiao proposed.