Chapter 15: Will there be a reduction in production?
Qiao Xi heard Chen Feng's broadcast, nodded secretly, the analysis was very reasonable, and the organization was clear, Chen Feng was indeed qualified as a teacher in the school, and he could teach these flowers of the motherland.
Chen Feng finished the broadcast, rushed back with a shovel, and helped her clean up the garbage in the spout without saying a word.
The garbage in the outlet was cleared, and the accumulated rainwater flowed into the river, and the water in the village was reduced to a certain extent.
Chen Feng checked the outlet that rushed into the river to see if it was blocked, and Qiao Xi walked to the wheat field in the village, it had rained heavily for such a long time, would the wheat be fine.
When she reached the slope of the mountain, she looked down, and then she was shaken, and all the wheat fell to the ground, and the ears of wheat swayed in the wind.
Zhang Shouye stood not far away in a raincoat, looking at the wheat in the field and sighing from time to time. The village mainly lives on crops in the field, wheat and corn. Corn had been planted in the gap between the rows of wheat, and green seedlings had emerged, but if the rain did not stop, the seedlings would have been watered to death.
Qiao Xi walked over, "Old village chief, will this wheat be reduced if it is poured like this?" ”
Zhang Shouye wiped the rain on his face, and said with a heavy heart: "If the rain stops, it will be cut early, and it will be better." When the wheat rots in the ground, this year's harvest will be over. ”
After he finished speaking, he narrowed his eyes, looked at Qiao Xi and snorted, "I asked you to use the poverty alleviation funds allocated by the government to buy wheat harvesters, but now it's okay, it's rained a few times, and the roads in the mountains are not easy to walk, where to hire a wheat harvester to come to the village?" ”
Qiao Xi's eyes moved slightly, but he didn't speak.
Zhang Shouye sighed for a long time, "The wheat has grown, and because there is no wheat harvester to harvest it, it is all rotten in the ground, and the living path of the whole village is broken." ”
"I'll figure it out." Qiao Xi was silent and spoke.
Zhang Shouye smiled: "Think of a way? If it could be so simple, our village would not be poor until now. Every year when the wheat is ripe, I have to go out and run many legs, begging people to come to the village to cut the wheat for the old and young masters, and then send them to kneel. In this way, I also cut all the wheat in the surrounding villages before I came to our village. Now that it's raining so hard, everyone knows that the first thing they do when the rain stops is to grab wheat at home. By the time the wheat in their family had been harvested, the wheat in our village would have rotted long ago. ”
As he spoke, several figures came running in the distance, each wearing a raincoat, a hat, and a sickle in his hand.
They rushed into a field and braved the rain to harvest wheat frantically.
Some people are cutting wheat, and some people are putting them in woven bags, all because they are afraid that the wheat will rot in the ground, and they can grab as much as they can at home.
"Nonsense!" Zhang Shouye scolded and ran over quickly.
Qiao Xi was also shocked, it was too dangerous to cut wheat in the field in the weather of thunder and lightning, or to use the most primitive sickle, not to mention how long it would take.
"Old Xutou, what are you doing leading your family? Don't you want to die? Zhang Shouye ran into the field, pulled up an old man who was bending down to cut wheat, and scolded with wide eyes.
"Shouye, it's not that you don't know that if you don't cut this wheat now, you won't have a chance to cut it in the future. My little daughter-in-law is about to give birth, and she is still counting on the money from selling grain! Lao Xu raised his head, his wrinkled dark face showed sourness, stomped his feet fiercely, and hurriedly bent down to cut the wheat.
Zhang Shouye turned his head and glanced at Qiao Xi fiercely, "You have seen it now, if I had bought a wheat harvester, would there have been so many things?" You're sending the whole village to the knife! ”
He looked at Lao Xu and the others, and shouted at the top of his voice: "Stop me, no one is allowed to cut wheat again, let me go home." ”
Zhang Shouye has been the village chief for so many years, and his official authority has always been there, and he stopped hesitantly.
Lao Xu frowned, grabbed Zhang Shouye's hand and cried: "Shouye, this god has been going on and on, how can you say this is good?" ”
Zhang Shouye had no choice, and turned his head to look at Qiao Xi.
Lao Xu's family looked over, and the obese second daughter-in-law pinched her waist and scolded Qiao Xi: "I heard that you didn't let you buy a wheat cutter at the beginning, but now when the rain stops, there will be no wheat cutter coming over for a while." If our wheat rots in the ground, I will ask you for compensation. ”
Qiao Xi was silent, "Don't worry, I promise to let everyone harvest the wheat home." ”
"You promise? What is the use of guarantees? The old Xu family burned their anger on Qiao Xi's head one by one.
"Since I said it, I will definitely do what I say." Qiao Xi looked at the large black clouds that gradually gathered in the sky, and went over to help them put away the tools on the ground, "Big guy, hurry home......"
As soon as she picked up a woven bag, she was viciously grabbed by Lao Xu's second daughter-in-law, staring at her all the time, and she didn't plan to leave the field.
Qiao Xi suddenly became angry, gritted his teeth and said: "Okay, I will promise you now, as long as your wheat rots in the ground, I, Qiao Xi, will compensate you for smashing the pot and selling iron." ”
After speaking, her tone softened and she sighed, "Can you get out of here now?" Maybe a bigger storm is coming, don't delay here, big guys, okay? ”
Lao Xu watched such a girl in her twenties being forced to do this, and couldn't bear it, so he shouted to the rest of his family, "Just listen to her, let's all go home." ”
Although a large family still complained about Qiao Xi, they still walked out of the wheat field, followed by a flash of lightning in the sky, a storm poured down, and several people ran wildly.
Zhang Shouye glanced at Qiao Xi, and also lowered his head and ran home in the rain.
Qiao Xi's heart was a little blocked, and her mind was turning over and over to think about whether her original decision was right or not, and her eyes immediately became firm.
She has no regrets about building a school for her children.
When she returned home, she had a high fever and her eyelids were a little puffy, so she customized seven or eight alarms for herself for fear that she would not wake up at noon.
At noon, she also cooks for the needy families who have been resettled in other households.
She is the first secretary of the village and should lead by example.
Just as predicted, it rained for three days, and on the afternoon of the third day, it turned into a light rain, and almost all the wheat in the village fell, and almost all the people of the village went out to cut the wheat in the field with their sickles.
The wheat was poured out to the ground, and everyone was afraid to rot in the ground.
Because the wheat field was muddy, when the wheat was cut, the corn seedlings between the gaps in the wheat were trampled and rotted. Moreover, the speed of manual wheat cutting is very slow, and if you move a little fast, you may fall directly into the ground.
Qiao Xi summoned party members to stop this behavior, but no one listened to her, but reprimanded her because she stopped buying a wheat harvester in the first place.
In the evening, the people in the wheat fields were scattered, and they were busy for more than two hours, and they did not harvest much. I don't know who mentioned it first, but they all snorted angrily and arrived at Qiao Xi's door, wanting to ask her for an explanation.
Qiao Xi's door was locked, it was completely dark, and she didn't come back.
Someone went to the village and village committee to look for her, but they didn't find her, and she seemed to have disappeared out of thin air.
On the dirt road out of the village, there was a thin figure, wearing a raincoat and rain boots, walking forward with difficulty.
The hair dripped, sweat from time to time, and wiped it hard, revealing Qiao Xi's youthful face, just a little more sickly pale.
She was still suffering from a high fever, but she had to go to the town, and she had to go to the town party secretary for help.
She needed Sun Honggang's help to contact the wheat harvester and invite the wheat harvester to the village.
It was more than 20 kilometers to the town, and the roads were so muddy that she had to walk. Covered in hot sweat, the steps under my feet are becoming more and more vain, and I can only rely on willpower to move my steps again and again.
Sun Honggang held a meeting in the government until dark, and when he went home, it was already seven or eight o'clock in the evening, and when he arrived at the door of the house from the stairs, he subconsciously raised his head, and then was stunned for a moment.
A girl is unconscious in front of his house......
He identified it, and was even more shocked, how did Qiao Xi find it?!
He opened the door and shouted his wife's name inside, "Jianhong, come out and help, Qiao Xi, this little girl fainted at the door of our house." ”