The people who dig the channel are very hard, they get up before dawn to work, and they can only eat a meal when the sun rises, and they are still not thick or thin chestnut rice paste and coarse noodles mixed with sorghum noodles.

Song Lingxue had eaten this kind of nest when she first came over, and it was hard and coarse and unpalatable when it was a little cold, it was very unpalatable, but there was no way, there were so many people here, it would be good to be full of such food.

Fortunately, the meal in the afternoon was not bad, the noodle tube of all kinds of soup noodles was full, although it was still black multigrain noodles, but the pasta eater was energetic, and he had the strength to work when he was full.

The last time the original owner came, he also took a lot of wowotou and a jar of pickles for the father and son to add food, and stayed here for two hours before going back, Yao Dazhuang is a taciturn person, and the eldest son Yao Shizhu is honest and stupid, that is, the second son Yao Shizhu can speak well when he is young, so he listened to the second son Yao Shizhu said a lot about digging channels.

These people were recruited by the government from these ten miles and eight villages, so they all demarcated the route of the canals according to the villages under each town, and each small section was supervised by the soap officials and miscellaneous servants who were assisting the government in each mile.

And their Yaojia Village and several villages next door belong to Shangheli, led by Zhang Lizheng in Shanghe, who is responsible for the downstream canal.

The downstream section of the river is not short, and according to the work of less than 200 people in the river they went upstream, even if the progress is accelerated, it will take about two months for them to complete this section of the river.

The good thing is that the weather is hot, the river is basically dried up, and the silt inside the riverbed is also cracked into pieces of mud, although it is difficult to dig outside, but after digging out the hard mud outside, the soil inside is much softer and easier to dig up.

In addition to taking care of the food, the work here is also hard and boring, so in order to prevent the people from being too physically and mentally exhausted, it is stipulated that every ten people are in a group, and every five days can take turns to rest for half a day.

This morning is the turn of the Yao family father and son to rest for half a day, early in the morning Yao Shizhu is looking forward to it, hoping that his mother will come over, can bring them some delicious food, the last time his mother left, he deliberately said a few good words, although he was scolded by his mother, said that he knew how to eat the tamping goods, but he still held hope, his mother this time don't be so stingy, bring something delicious over.

Sure enough, as Song Lingxue thought, there were people in the shed elsewhere who had their turn to rest, all of them were lying on the board bed under the grass shed with their chests bare, and they were all asleep, she walked very fast without squinting, and it didn't take a few steps to reach the third straw shed.

As soon as she got there, a black shadow popped out of it, rushed to Song Lingxue's side, startled her, and when she saw the person clearly, she suddenly became angry, and before her brain could react, she followed the usual inertia of the original owner, raised her eyebrows and glared at her and blurted out: "Second brother, you rammer, what are you doing here, you want to scare your mother to death!" ”

"My mother, how dare my son scare you, isn't this waiting for you to come over early in the morning, I've traveled so far, it's hard work!" Yao Shizhu said with a smile, after more than half a month of work, the whole person was black and red, and the short undershirt he was wearing became black and gray, no wonder he was running fast like a black shadow.

Song Lingxue saw that the second child helped her unload the basket on her back, and led her down to the grass shed.

When she entered the straw shed, she took a closer look, and it was all temporary bed piers made of mud bricks, with some wooden boards on them, and after a thin layer of straw, she brought her own bedding, and she sweated after not bathing for a long time. As a result, although it is ventilated everywhere, there is still a smell of sweat.

This straw shed is basically full of people from the same village, although it is a shift to rest, there is no one in the shed, but there are still one or two, but they are all sleeping, Song Lingxue did not go up to say hello, she has a good relationship in the village with Aunt Liu's family, and Aunt Liu's family has a tofu workshop that is inseparable from her man, so she made money to let her man avoid the draft.

"What about your father and your eldest brother?" Song Lingxue didn't see Yao Dazhuang and Yao Shishi for a long time, so she asked strangely.

Yao Shizhu didn't dare to rummage the basket without his mother's orders, so he had to pick up the kettle at his bedside, drank a sip of water, and replied absent-mindedly: "My father accidentally fell into the ditch in the river the day before yesterday, and there was no ......."

There was water in his mouth, and he stopped and swallowed the water halfway through his words, which frightened Song Lingxue again, and his voice was much louder: "What's the matter, what about your father?" Why is your father's good and dignified gone? ”

When Song Lingxue was stunned, she heard Yao Shizhu say unhurriedly: "Without the position of team leader, maybe I feel uncomfortable, I haven't said a word since I woke up yesterday, and I ran to the crooked neck willow tree over there before dawn this morning in a daze, and the eldest brother should have gone to see my father." ”

"You unlucky child, you still pant with a lot of breath, you scared my mother to death!" Song Lingxue was so angry that she was going to die, and there were countless alpacas rushing past in her heart in an instant, and she couldn't wait to go up and slap him, but she was very depressed after thinking about it, she was now the mother of this unlucky child, and she couldn't scold herself.

"It's not convenient here, let's go over there and find your father and them."

Song Lingxue said and stepped back from Yao Shizhu, who was sitting on the bed one after another, Yao Shizhu quickly got up to lead his mother and picked up the back basket.

This is the downstream, near the willow village outside Huaihua Town, that is, Aunt Liu's maiden home, there are many willow trees from the river to the entrance of the village, so the willow village is named.

The downstream edge has not been dug up by the working people, so it is very quiet here, not far away I saw a willow tree that grew a little crooked, growing alone, and there were two people sitting in the shade under the tree, and it was not difficult to see that the two were burly men from the back.

Song Lingxue took another look at Yao Shizhu, who was slender and thin, although a little black and red, but with beautiful facial features, and at first glance, she followed the original owner's mother, and Yao Shishi followed his father Yao Dazhuang in figure and appearance, after all, the original owner was not his own mother, and it was impossible to be like the original owner.

"Daddy! Mother came to see us! When he was still a few steps away from the two of them, Yao Shizhu shouted.

Song Lingxue also learned from the original owner, and shouted: "Be in charge." ”

This is just a title, in fact, Yao Dazhuang doesn't care about the family's affairs at all, if you really count it, the original owner is the real master of the Yao family.

"Mother!" Yao Shishi quickly stood up when he heard the voice, and smiled innocently at Song Lingxue.