Now push the timeline back a month.

It would be an absolute lie to say that the weather at the beginning of July was not hot. The wheat was harvested in early June, and corn was planted on June 10. Half a month passed in a flash, and the height of the corn seedlings grew to about half a meter tall.

This year's weather has been very abnormal. The weather fluctuates from hot to cold. Now the weather is hot and dry, and the corn seedlings are wilting. Lao Zhang looked at those little corn seedlings and felt very uncomfortable. They lowered their heads, as if to tell Lao Zhang, "Water, water, we are dying of thirst, we have to drink water." ”

These crops are Lao Zhang's life! is his only source of income. Zhang Tiancheng is about to go to college, and he has to rely on them for the tuition fees he needs.

But the wheat harvest was bad. Lao Zhang's heart was very anxious. But Lao Zhang never shows it on his face. Although he is a peasant, he deeply understands a truth: joy and anger are just reckless behaviors, which are useless and cannot solve any problems. And it will affect the mood of the people around you, and no one in the family will be happy, and the life will be boring. If the harvest is not good, it will be made up for next year, and if you lose your temper because of this incident and make the family relationship stiff, it will really outweigh the losses.

Lao Zhang borrowed 200,000 yuan from relatives and friends, which was enough to buy fertilizers and pesticides. In fact, there was some money that could be used, but it was the tuition and living expenses that Lao Zhang specially left for Zhang Tiancheng to go to college. You can't use that to compare money with anything. You must not cut off your child's future! If he can't go to college because of money, even if Zhang Tiancheng doesn't care, Lao Zhang will regret it for the rest of his life.

In drought, corn seedlings have to be watered. Otherwise, it will really die of drought. After waiting for half a month, it was always cloudy, and there was not a drop of rain. Lao Zhang knew that he couldn't wait any longer. Lao Zhang's side is relatively backward, and he still uses flood irrigation to water crops. But the contrast is always relative. Maybe they are inferior to Lao Zhang in other more advanced places, but if they are compared with other farmers in the village, Lao Zhang will definitely be able to stand out from the crowd! He dared to say second, and no one dared to say first. The title of a large farmer in the former Zhangzhuang is well deserved. Who says you can't get rich if you farm? According to Lao Zhang's words, if you give me 1,000 acres of land, I will tidy it up, only grow wheat and corn, and earn 1 million a year is like a joke!

It's a pity that no one gave him that thousand acres of land.

At four o'clock in the morning, Lao Zhang got up, and he didn't even have time to eat breakfast, so he drove the new tricycle he just bought this year to the field. Most of his land is owned by others, and the rent is so expensive that the corners of Lao Zhang's mouth twitch.

It was also cold at four o'clock in the morning in mid-July, making people shiver. Fortunately, Lao Zhang's daughter-in-law is a careful person and brought two thick clothes to the two of them, so that Lao Zhang was not frozen.

The second elder has long been accustomed to this kind of life of getting up early and greedy for darkness. Sitting in the cold seat of the tricycle, neither of them spoke, except for the rhythmic crash of the cylinders of his new tricycle. Lao Zhang enjoys this sound very much, and he is very down-to-earth.

The field to be watered now is right next to the river. The river is the famous Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. But it didn't feel very wide to flow to him. Maybe it's because it hasn't rained all the time, and there's not much water in the river.

Lao Zhang carried the submersible pump down to the river, and in the first few years there was a well on the slope, and Lao Zhang had been using that well to water it, and the water pumped up was really pitiful. And it's still far from his few pieces of land, which can make the old man worried. Later, when Lao Zhang was wandering in the field, he accidentally saw someone carrying a submersible pump into the river to water it, and the effect was very good. Lao Zhang thinks that people can do this, why can't he? Just do it! So he quickly added a set of special equipment. At the beginning, due to various reasons, the effect was not very ideal, but is Lao Zhang the kind of person who gives up easily? So with his perseverance, the problem was finally solved and good results were received!

There is also a bend in front, and after that bend, walk a distance south to reach Lao Zhang's few pieces of land.

The rhythmic sound of the tricycle can be heard from afar, and the range of the orange light on the tricycle is really flattering.

"Huh? There seems to be a person in front of you. Lao Zhang's daughter-in-law had sharp eyes, and when she was about to walk to the bend in front, she suddenly saw a black shadow. Looking in the direction pointed by Lao Zhang's daughter-in-law, Lao Zhang also saw the figure. I don't know if it's a man or a woman. Lao Zhang nodded, and his hand subconsciously pinched the steering wheel.

The tricycle roared and soon came to that corner. The old couple finally saw clearly, this was a very young and beautiful girl who didn't talk to her. She was wearing a black dress, but it was uncomfortably cold in the early hours of the morning. She kept stamping her feet, snorting and shivering. She carried a black bag on her shoulder, small and delicate, just like the woman in front of Lao Zhang's daughter-in-law.

"Girl, whose family are you? Why are you standing here? It's so cold here, you can't go to the village and can't go to the store, what should I do if it's frozen? Lao Zhang's daughter-in-law didn't look at Lao Zhang's gloomy face, she jumped out of the car directly, came to the girl who was too beautiful to speak, and asked in dialect. There's no way, I've lived in this place for most of my life, I've almost never been out, and I don't have any culture, and the Mandarin spoken is really not standard, and even I will dislike myself when I say it, so it's better to use dialects.

Lao Zhang had no choice but to step on the brakes and turn off the fire. For a moment, there was only the sound of a cool breeze blowing.

"I ...... Waiting for someone. The girl looked at Lao Zhang's daughter-in-law, hesitated, and replied. Very standard Mandarin. Very nice sound.

"Oh, wait a minute, it's such a cold day," said the old daughter-in-law Zhang, who took off her coat and draped it over the girl in front of her. The girl shirked it several times, and when she saw that she couldn't resist Lao Zhang's daughter-in-law, she obediently wrapped her coat tightly. There was something glittering in her eyes.

Lao Zhang's daughter-in-law was very surprised, she didn't expect that the girl in front of her who was so beautiful that she could understand what she said. This girl's temperament is too special. At first glance, it's a city person, no, no. It's not that the daughter-in-law of Lao Zhang in the city has never seen it, and when she was young, she followed Lao Zhang to set up a stall in the city, and the people in the city have also seen a lot. But the girl in front of me is so beautiful.

Ladylike! Yes, that's the word. The word suddenly popped up in the mind of Lao Zhang's daughter-in-law. Only a big family would raise such a smart girl.

"Wear it so thin, don't freeze!" Lao Zhang's daughter-in-law looked at the girl with big eyes, "We are working over there, if there is anything, go over there to find us, girl." ”

The girl, who was too beautiful to speak, nodded dumbly.

"Oh, what a good person, see you for the first time in my life." Lao Zhang's daughter-in-law chattered endlessly as if she had picked up a treasure. Lao Zhang's daughter-in-law saw the girl's doubts, so she explained, "Good people are our dialect here, which means to praise a girl for being beautiful." Old Zhang's daughter-in-law's eyes were about to narrow into two slits. Seeing that this girl is about the same age as my family's Tiancheng, if she can become a daughter-in-law......

When the girl heard the old daughter-in-law say this, her cheeks suddenly turned red.

"Hey! It's not a job, is it? Lao Zhang was also puzzled, but he didn't have the unrealistic ideas of Lao Zhang's daughter-in-law. reminded his daughter-in-law, and then launched three rounds.

Lao Zhang's daughter-in-law smiled at the girl, then turned her head and looked at Lao Zhang with a resentful expression. That means I didn't see the old lady talking to her future daughter-in-law, why is she so blind!

Lao Zhang didn't seem to see her expression, he blushed, took off his coat and draped it on his daughter-in-law's body.

Lao Zhang's daughter-in-law looked at the coat on her body, smiled silently, and grabbed the coat with both hands, not knowing what she was thinking.