The reservoir was built not far from the dark river below, which was surrounded by mountains and was relatively cool.

After two months of construction, the reservoir was finally built, and the place where the underground river was higher than the reservoir terrain, and the location of the reservoir was also taken into account at that time. This reservoir is two acres of land, two meters deep, and after being paved with stone slabs, it is one meter eight deep. With so much water, just to drink, it can last for two months.

We cut a lot of bamboo on the mountain, and used a bamboo tube, a large set of small ones, to connect a water pipe, the distance between the two sides is not very long, and the water pipe is quickly done. Everyone opened the outlet of the underground river and inserted the bamboo pipe into it. After a while, there will be water in the reservoir.

Liu Gen found a few half-sized children to guard the reservoir, five minutes a day, and also built a thatched hut on the edge of the reservoir. Let people keep watch day and night to prevent anyone from stealing water. Now there is almost no water in the river, and when there is no water at all, the water in this reservoir is life-saving water.

Now that it is time for the summer harvest, there are two crops of rice here, but this year there is a lack of water, and the rice can no longer be planted after harvesting. Even now, many ears of rice are shriveled.

All the men, women and children of the village participate in the summer harvest. Liu Gen also arranged for people to guard the grain drying yard to prevent people from stealing grain. Now that everyone is starving, there is no telling what will happen.

At this time, everyone is not lazy, it is related to their own rations, although the drought has been for a long time, in case it rains at this time, the grain is not dry and easy to mold, and the grain will be destroyed.

Liu Gen saw that this year's rice yield per mu was only a few dozen catties, and there were a lot of empty corn, and the yield of corn per mu was only more than 100 catties, and the team mainly planted rice, corn and potatoes. Rice is the most planted, and it is necessary to pay public grain. It costs 2,000 catties to pay 2,000 catties for rice grain and 6,000 catties for corn, so rice is planted every year. After the public rations were handed over last year, it was not enough for everyone to distribute the food, and the team still owed some people food. This year's output is so low, and the public grain is not enough, Liu Gen is worried.

Liu Gen and the village party secretary were going to the county to have a look. This drought is not their own village, and it depends on how other villages pay the public grain. While the grain was still drying, the two went to the county party committee.

When I arrived at the county government, I found that many village chiefs had come, and everyone was talking about public grain. Later, a person in charge finally came out, saying that this year's situation is special, and the grain only needs to be paid half of the previous public grain.

Liu Gen calculated, it would be enough to put together all the rice in the village, and then returned to the village with the news.

The villagers also breathed a sigh of relief, and everyone hurriedly dried the grain and handed over the public grain. There are more than 5,000 catties of corn and potatoes in total, and more than 100 households in the village get grain according to their work. After paying the public grain and some rice, the families who had a lot of work changed some rice.

Liu Yimiao's family had a lot of labor, so they gathered together and distributed 300 catties of grain. Mrs. Liu dried the grain and put it away. 14 people have three hundred catties of grain, to eat three or four months, on average, each person only has six or seven catties of grain a month, even if you add wild vegetables, you can't eat enough, although the child eats less, but half of the size eats the poor. This must be insisted on until the next grain harvest, which is definitely not enough.

The reward for repairing the reservoir last time has been issued, and there is also a reward of 60 catties of grain for carrying water for two months, and Liu Yimiao is ready to take it out. After the drought, there will be no water to pick.

After everyone planted some grain, it actually rained lightly, and before everyone could cheer, the rain stopped. The ground was only slightly wet. It's August now, the riverbed is completely dry, and every house has installed buckets of water. It was impossible to take a bath, clothes were not washed, water was used for cooking every day, and there was a sip of water when they were really thirsty, and everyone was very nervous.

Some people in the village who don't have water to drink know that there is water to drink. Liu Gen also arranged for militia and patrols to guard the reservoir and villages. Those who have poor relatives only need to be willing to skip water, and most of the villagers are ruthless and ignore those relatives. One night, Liu Yimiao stopped Mrs. Liu: "Mom, the old lady who wants to recognize me as a godmother knows about the drought in our village and brings me some food.

Mrs. Liu couldn't believe it, but she wouldn't doubt Liu Yimiao: "Good baby, hurry up and bring your eldest brother and third brother over, it's bad if you don't be taken away by others."

Mrs. Liu didn't tell the eldest and the third child anything, so she told them not to talk and follow Liu Yimiao out.

The grove was not far from Liu Yimiao's house, the surrounding neighbors were far away, this grove was against the mountain, and no one came around, so Liu Yimiao hurriedly asked the eldest brother and second brother to carry the sack home.

When she arrived at home, Mrs. Liu hurriedly opened her pocket, and when she saw the white rice, she suddenly felt a little weak: "Good baby, you godmother is too good to you." Don't talk about it, if everyone knows about it, thinking that the high-ranking officials in the provincial capital are corrupt, it will be bad if they don't have dealings with our family in the future. ”

Everyone looked at the rice and gave a wolf-like gaze, and they all felt that they wanted to hug this golden thigh, and they promised not to say it. The adults told the two younger children that they were too scared to speak if they said that they would not have anything to eat if they went out.

The next day, the old lady scooped up about a pound of rice and made a big pot of rice soup.

Everyone slowly sucked the rice soup in their mouths, and it had been a long time since they had drunk such a mellow rice soup, and everyone carefully held the bowl, afraid of spilling. Even Liu Liang and Liu Mi drank rice soup because their parents helped them fix the bowl before drinking.

Everyone went to work in the field after drinking the rice soup, and Liu Yimiao felt idle for a while.

"Ding, host, you have to make persistent efforts, this system can be upgraded, you can upgrade after completing ten tasks, the rewards will be doubled after upgrading, and there will be upgrade packages. Mandatory task: The host finds 1000 catties of grain to the villagers within three months, reward: 100 catties of flour, punishment: 3 cm shorter. ”

Now Liu Yimiao is only 1.55 meters, and she wants to grow taller the most. Liu Yimiao didn't do farm work, Liu Yimiao's skin was still relatively white, he was fatter before, and his face couldn't be seen, but now he has lost weight after two months of exercise, and his facial features are still very beautiful. The family looked at it every day, but they didn't notice it.

Where does Liu Yimiao want to get food, the fishing village must not go anymore, there is not so much food to exchange.