In a field where water was available, the owner of the field quickly planted the seeds, but God did not show mercy to the spring rains.

As it didn't rain for longer, the officials and people in Fuxing County became more and more anxious.

Just when everyone was wondering whether to start watering the ground for the third time, God finally showed a light rain on his face.

The seedlings in the field survived dangerously, but before everyone could breathe a sigh of relief, the drought continued again.

Until the seedlings in the field grow to half the height of the adult plant, the vast majority of Fuxing County still has not fallen.

Seeing that the crops that everyone had managed to raise so far were about to dry up, Guzhi County once again mobilized the masses for artificial irrigation.

However, with the continuous evaporation of water from rivers and lakes and the continuous decline of groundwater levels, it is not so easy for people to find water sources for artificial irrigation.

The rivers and lakes near the farmland are basically all at the bottom.

There are only private wells and ponds for each family, and because they have never been of any use, there is a lot of well water and pond water stored in them.

However, at such times, who is willing to contribute their own private water source? Don't they have to water their own fields?

Gu Zhixian was almost sad about this, but he had no position to ask those squires and rich families to contribute the water source on their Zhuangzi.

What he didn't expect was that the Ming family and the Yu family actually stood up for the first time.

The Ming family contributed all their ponds in Wulitun to the village, this matter was made by the old man Ming, he did not force the Xie family, the Huang family and other people who also dug the pond to move in the same pace with their own family, but before announcing the news, he personally went to these houses to greet them.

It was the time when the green and yellow were scarce, and at least thirty percent of the people in the village only dared to eat wild vegetable cakes and wild vegetable paste porridge, and the old man knew that they must have been frightened by the severity of the drought.

Although Wulitun has been much richer than other surrounding villages in recent years because of the Ming family, with the extremely high grain prices that have almost doubled now, these ordinary people will only eat and drink with their bellies open when they are stupid.

It's not that they're done this year, and next year the family won't have to continue to live on a budget, and they are reluctant to finish the meager family money they have saved with all their hard work.

In particular, God doesn't want it to rain until now, and they should be ready for no harvest this year from now on.

This is undoubtedly an extremely cruel thing for the countrymen.

They look at the crops like their own children, they work hard for half a year, they are afraid and suffered, not to mention, but in the end they can't even catch a single hair, which is simply ripping out their hearts.

Old Man Ming himself is also an authentic farmer, so he can understand the anxiety of those old guys in the village.

This made it impossible for him to hold on to his own ponds, and he couldn't watch the vast majority of the families in the village lose their harvest.

The old man Ming came to the door basically the relatives and friends of the Ming family who learned the Ming family to raise fish and lotus roots, and the old man Ming said his thoughts, and his old buddies did not hesitate at all, and they all chose to keep the same tone with the Ming family.

Old Man Ming could see that these people were not all thinking like him, and they obviously just wanted to keep pace with the Ming family than they felt pitiful to those villagers.

However, this is not a bad thing for the Ming family and even the old man Ming, so the old man Ming is also happy to continue to Zhang Luo.

Zhou Lizheng was also very worried during this time, the small streams and rivers around Wulitun did not have a lot of water, and to this day, the only thing he could make up his mind was the dozens of ponds in the village that stored a lot of water.

But the problem is that those ponds do not belong to the village, and he does not have the power to allocate the water in those ponds by himself.

Zhou Li, who had been sleepless all night, was pacing back and forth in the yard, and the old man Ming brought a few of his old brothers to find him.

After listening to what they meant, Zhou Li was excited and just wanted to look up to the sky and howl.

He very enthusiastically invited Mr. Ming and others into his main house, and then loudly shouted to his daughter-in-law to prepare tea, snacks and a table of noodles.

Lizheng's daughter-in-law, who hadn't seen her man so happy for a long time, endured the pain of the flesh and killed a chicken, cut a piece of meat, and then combined it with other foods available at home, and made a chicken stewed with dried mushrooms, a braised pork and stewed potatoes, a scrambled egg with leeks, a fried peanut, a steamed eggplant with garlic, and a cabbage vermicelli stewed tofu.

She was reluctant to use all the fine grains for the staple food, and after thinking about it again, she took her little girl to cook a pot of sorghum rice and steam a pot of Sanhe noodles steamed buns for this group of men.

Li Zheng was actually not very satisfied with this kind of food, after all, Old Man Ming and others came to send him "timely rain", and he felt that he should treat the other party with a good meal.

If nothing else, at least the steamed buns can be steamed with white flour, and the rice can be replaced with millet or even rice, and it would be even more perfect if you could prepare a small jar of wine for them.

Of course, he never dared to say this to his daughter-in-law.

Now that the year is not good, Li Zheng knows that killing a chicken, cutting a pound of meat, and taking out a small jar of wine to entertain guests is already the limit of his daughter-in-law's "generosity", if he dares to be picky, then his daughter-in-law will definitely give him a face in front of all the guests.

For the sake of the precious dignity of his eldest man, Li Zheng did not find fault with his daughter-in-law.

Of course, Mr. Ming, they will not find fault with whether Lizheng's daughter-in-law is generous or picky, firstly, there is no shortage of food in their own home, and secondly, none of them came to eat this lunch at Lizheng's house.

Several old men discussed with Li Zheng about the subsequent artificial irrigation of the fields with pond water, and then stayed at his house for lunch under Li Zheng's sincere retention.

By the afternoon of that day, Li Zheng summoned all the villagers of Wulitun to the threshing floor at the head of the village.

The people were dizzy in the hot sun, but the good news that Li Zheng announced in person from the high platform made almost everyone cry with joy.

The harvest in their field was saved!

They don't have to worry about losing their crops this year!

They don't have to spend a lot of money to buy food in the town or even in the county!

People look at me, I look at you, and their mouths are all talking excitedly.

Yu Shouyi and Yu Shouli's faces were very bad, because while announcing that the Ming family, the Huang family, the Xie family and other families were willing to give the water in the pond to the villagers, Zhou Lizheng also said in passing that he wanted to "give priority to these families who donated the pond and those who are good friends with these families."