Chapter 5: Drought (1)

This year's drought in Jinzhou was particularly severe.

The temperature is close to 39 degrees on dog days, and the power plant in the industrial city is loaded every day, but with air conditioning and wifi, everyone's life can be lived.

In addition to occasionally lamenting the environmental degradation caused by the greenhouse effect, it is to tell the lament that I have to work to earn money to support my family......

All in all, there is air conditioning, wifi, watermelon, and the days are not much harder, just like that.

It is the greening of the city, every day the sprinkler truck passes through the road, to the early morning or night, there must be a special garden maintenance to spray, otherwise it is more drought-resistant trees, and the leaves are wilted at the moment.

Urban planning, greening, is also a very important one, another month to start the creation of the guard, if these branches and leaves can not survive this month, are how many years old trees, then things will not be easy to do.

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But at the end of the day, greening is just greening, and this state of affairs is not in the scope of the city's concern at the moment.

They are more worried about crops.

Jinzhou is located in the Central Plains, with vast plains, and is a famous granary of the world. But now, the crops that should have been full in the granary of the world are now half dead.

It's dry.

From June to now, there has not been a drop of rain for two whole months, but there are daily high temperature warnings.

A cadre of leaders walked around the room, their hair gray.

At this moment, such a small thing as greening is not their primary concern.

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In such a hot weather, it doesn't rain for a week, and the water in the moat is shallow. Now, two full months have passed, the temperature continues to soar, and as far as the eye can see, the streets are full of all kinds of exhibitions and fried eggs.

Car hood fried egg, road fried egg, slate fried egg......

Their drought is known to the whole country.

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The waterworks in Hudong District saw that the water in Nanhu Lake was getting shallower day by day, and the river beach was getting more and more exposed day by day, so it couldn't help but react to the Greening Bureau and the Municipal Council - can you restrain yourself when the sprinkler truck sprays water every day?

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These sprinkler trucks usually use water to steal from the water supply pipes in the middle of nowhere, and the water plant does not get any real benefit anyway.

However, the department to which the sprinkler belongs is paid according to the number of trips.

Therefore, it can often be seen that the water trail has not dried up on the road section that has just rained, and the sprinkler truck will pounce and spray again......

Including urban greening, the greening maintenance of the city center is not traced, and when it comes to the sparsely populated road section now, after sprinkling water, it is like playing with a spray gun, puffing through one after another......

The most puzzling thing is that the lawn on the edge of the river beach can be sprinkled with water two or three times a day!

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These things, usually the people don't raise officials and don't hold them accountable, and it's over with a haha.

Sprinkling water is also a good thing to maintain roads and greenery.

- Anyway, the greenery is good, as for whether it can absorb water by itself by the river, then they don't care,

The number of trains is sufficient.

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There is nothing wrong with this kind of behavior in normal times, but this year is different, this year's drought is so serious, and everyone up and down are worried about the water problem.

Jinzhou's water supply group is already in great difficulty.

At this critical juncture when the whole people are short of water, no one dares to disagree with this hard "suggestion" at this time. As a result, the road sprinkler trucks, including those that water the greenery, have stopped a lot and only do basic maintenance every day.

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But as the drought worsens, even basic maintenance is becoming more difficult.

At this time, the greenery on the edge of the city has long been left unattended.

By the moat, a lawn had long since turned yellow, and the leaves of the big trees above them that held the sun on them were curled up.

Only the summer cicadas chirped more and more arrogantly, and the trees were unbearable.

"—stop arguing."

The tree lamented.

"I haven't drunk enough water for a few days, I'm dizzy every day, and my skin is hot, so you should stop it."

The cicadas paused for a moment.

"But ......"

The other party was also pitiful: "This is our instinct, we can't control it." ”

The cicadas suggested: "Let's be on the edge of the moat, you dig deeper, there must be water ...... underneath."

"Where is the water?"

The old tree sighed: "Look how far this river beach has spread, this place has long been dry......

- No, I exhausted my eyes and saw a puddle of mud at the end.

A few trees lamented, and they all felt that they would not be able to survive this summer.

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After all, they didn't feel anything in the air about the moisture that was going to rain......

This weather, in addition to being hot or hot.

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In the summer and summer, I stayed up step by step until August.

The wind in the early morning is not cool at all, and it is still dry. In the green belt by the moat, a few old trees were dying, and they couldn't speak.

At this moment, I felt a chill on my body!

The next moment, the feeling of being soaked in moisture made them feel like they were still in a dream!

"Cheer up!"

With water, the trees seem to have spirits, and they barely lift their spirits—

Someone came to water it?

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But I saw a little girl, pedaling a small three-wheeled at the moment, and in the open-air car body above, a large green-brown bucket was being pulled with difficulty.

The little girl was about eight or nine years old, with pink cheeks and fleshy arms, and she was very cute.

But at this moment, she is working hard to water the roots of the big tree with a gourd scoop, one scoop after another.

However, such a small girl, pulling this cart is indeed very small, and the water in it is only enough to keep these big trees from dying.

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— but that's enough.

The trees cried out with joy. But after working for too long, my mind was damaged, and I was vague at the moment, and I couldn't see what the situation was.........

I'm afraid of a kind person!

They rejoiced, only to find another life.

The little girl didn't speak, and she did things every day. In addition, it seems that he is afraid of being noticed, so he comes late at night every day, and he is busy a few times back and forth to reluctantly water these trees, and then hurries back......

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The trees don't mind either.

They are inherently chronic.

During this period of time, even if the other party has never said a word, these old trees are very satisfied.

In this hot summer, it was all thanks to her actions that they could barely hang on for their lives.

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But that lasted less than ten days.

One night, when the little girl was trying to water, a patrol car slowly drove by.