Chapter 306: Drought

Early the next morning, when Wang Yongping opened the courtyard door, he saw that the ground outside his yard had been swept clean, and the pile of straw in the firewood stack was still there, but the Lin family was gone.

Wang Yongping thought that the Lin family had left, look at the sky, the Lin family was so noisy yesterday, and no one slept well.

I got up a little late today, and I went to the fields at this time of the week, and since the beginning of summer, it has not rained for many days, and even the water level of the river at the edge of the village has now dropped by half, revealing a large riverbed.

Now it is almost time for the rice to tassel and flower, and it is the time to need water, and if there is no water in the fields, the harvest in the fields will be sharply reduced.

Wang Laozhu has been so worried these days that he has no mind to care about anything else, and he only pounces on the field.

Wang Yongping didn't see Wang Laozhu when he got up, so he estimated that he was going to the paddy field, so he packed up and wanted to go out.

After walking a few steps, he ran into an acquaintance, who squeezed his eyebrows at Wang Yongping: "I said, Wang Laosi, your eldest brother plans to reconcile with the Lin family?" ”

Wang Yongping's eyes widened: "What nonsense?" When does my eldest brother plan to reconcile with the Lin family? No, stop messing around, or watch out for the fists of labor-"

"Cut, still loaded? If you don't reconcile with others, they are busy in your Wang's fields early in the morning? ”

Wang Yongping was stunned for a moment, realized something, and ran to his own field.

The Wang's paddy field is low, and although there has been no rain for a long time these days, the water in the field has almost dried up, leaving only a layer of soft and rotten silt.

These paddy fields are watered by a ditch by the river, and because the water level of the river has dropped, the water in the ditch is only muddy.

In the distance, I saw a thin figure, struggling to step on the waterwheel, trying to pump the muddy mud into the Wang family's paddy field.

In the past few days, for their own paddy fields, several waterwheels have been erected on the ditch, but where is this enough, only at night barely soak a little water from the river into the ditch, before dawn to rush to the field, in order to pump a little water to the field, to ensure that the paddy field does not dry up.

That figure didn't need to look too much, you knew that it was the Lin family, it is estimated that she came in the middle of the night, the Wang family's paddy field has most of the muddy mud, with the moisture of water, and the rice of her own family looks more energetic.

Wang Yongping paused, took a few steps forward, and walked to the waterwheel: "Our Wang family's field, naturally our Wang family's people are in charge, don't worry about it!" ”

Lin didn't argue, and when he saw Wang Yongping coming, he didn't stay, he lowered his head to wipe his sweat, and he didn't go back to the village, but walked directly to the mountain.

Wang Yongping opened his mouth to ask her what she was doing, but he held back.

The most important pumping work had already been done by Lin, and Wang Yongping inspected the rice fields again before going home for breakfast.

At the dinner table, I couldn't help but tell Lin about his behavior in the morning.

The others were fine, the two brothers, Jin Dou and Jin Ke, looked at each other and slowed down their eating.

Wang Yongzhu swept her eyes and knew what the two brothers meant, but she didn't see it and looked at Wang Yongfu.

Wang Yongfu's face was flat: "Let her go, she is a bitter trick, as long as she ignores her, it is estimated that she will not be able to resist in a few days, and she will have to leave." ”

Since Wang Yongfu is so sober, then others don't have much to do.

In the next few days, the Lin family went up the mountain to look for food during the day, and came back to the straw pile in front of Wang's house at night to make do in the middle of the night, and went to help the Wang family pump water in the middle of the night, and he was still pulling in the paddy field when he had nothing to do

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Grass, occasionally go up the mountain to touch a few rare fruits, always wash it, wrap it in leaves, and put it at the door of the courtyard of the Wang family.

The Wang family has Wang Yongfu's attitude, but they can't see the Lin family.

Except for Jin Dou and Jin Kettle, who saved some rations every day and sent them to the Lin family, but never said a word.

The people in the village watched it as if it were a joke, and the boring people bet to see how many days the Lin family could last? In the end, the Wang family couldn't stand the Lin family's entanglement, or the Lin family couldn't bear it and left by themselves.

But within a few days, the people in the village were no longer in the mood to care about these things in other people's homes.

Because the weather is getting hotter and hotter, but not a drop of rain is falling, even the paddy fields in the low-lying land have run out of water.

The ground was high and the ground was cracked open by the sun.

Zhuanghu's family, two harvests a year, the whole family is pointing to this life, if you continue to do this, I am afraid that this year will not be harvested.

Nowadays, the most important thing in these nearby villages is to fight drought.

Qilidun is next to the big black mountain, there is a river next to the village to pass by, the situation is not bad, there is no river in the village, it is said that people have to carry water to the field to water.

It's just a drop in the bucket, and it doesn't help.

In the past ten years, Qilidun has not encountered such a major drought, and occasionally there is a small drought, which is why the whole village must work together to grab water, grab enough water for the fields in their village, and put them in the paddy fields to close up.

In this year's situation, the village Li Zheng couldn't sit still for a long time, and discussed with the opinions of several families and respected old people whether they were going to grab water.

In particular, I heard that the upstream water was barely enough, but the upstream villages were afraid that the water would not flow away enough for them, so they blocked the river and blocked the water, so in the past few days, the water downstream has become less and less.

As soon as this news came out, Qilidun exploded, this is a vicious way to create evil that breaks the way of life?

The upstream water is enough, but what to do in the middle and lower reaches?

After a noisy morning, Li Zheng and several patriarchs decided to go and grab water!

Take advantage of the darkness to run to the dam upstream and open the dam to let the water flow down.

It is also necessary to learn from the upstream, after the river flows through Qilidun, also build a river dam to store the water, first close to the paddy field of Qilidun to retain the water, and then release the water downstream.

The plan has been decided, and the assignment of tasks begins.

In previous years, when there was a small drought, the Wang family has always arranged it like this, Wang Yongping has great strength and fierce temperament, and has always been a good hand in the village to grab water from the river dam and fight with the descendants of the upstream village.

They are young and vigorous offspring and are responsible for bringing water to the village.

The Lin family and Wang Yongfu were responsible for grabbing the water from their own paddy fields, and when the water came to the village, every household had to race against time to dig up their own ridges and release water into it.

They also had to prevent people further downstream from digging up the ridges of their fields and bringing water to their fields.

This is all manual work, very tiring, every night to guard the ridge, for fear that people will steal the water from their fields.

But this year, the patriarch of the Wang family arranged for Wang Yongping to be the same as in previous years, in his own field, although Wang Yongfu is not able to do heavy work in the field now, but it is still okay to patrol the ridges so as not to steal water from others.

As for digging ditches and waterproofing their own fields, only Wang Laozhu brought a golden bucket and a golden pot.

(End of chapter)