The two places of water canals and farmland make Hao Jiali like a treasure.

The severity of the reality and the situation of the family are urgent, Hao Jiali knows how to go into the water a little earlier and get the snails to sell the money earlier, so that the family can be improved like the fish pond in the first three months, and Jiali's own plans can also be realized.

Thinking like this, Hao Jiali was full of hope and first went to the canal of the production team.

Unfortunately, Hao Jiali didn't expect that this method would still be that the earth turned around and returned to the same place, and it didn't work.

When she went up the mountain to chop wood, Hao Jiali passed by this canal every time.

The canal is located halfway up the mountainside, the width of the canal is the size of an adult's arms outstretched, and the depth of the canal is 1.8 meters, standing at the bottom of the canal and just above the head of the canal.

It was a purely hand-dug channel that was used by the production team to irrigate the fields with water from the river behind the commune office in case of drought.

Because in addition to the low-lying places by the stream, there is also a lot of farmland in the middle of Hao Jiali's hometown.

These farmlands usually rely on rain all day long, if there is a drought, the water in the village stream can not flow back to the upper half of the mountainside, these farmlands do not have the stream water irrigation early rice is a little better, the spring spring rain in the southern Hunan area does not stop, the early rice basically does not encounter drought, but the late rice can not escape the drought day.

The growth and maturity period of late rice is July, August and September, and the weather in these three months is dog days, and the dog days farmers in the southern Hunan region are looking forward to the next rain that is really long-sighted, so these late rice seedlings in the middle of the mountainside begin to compete with the drought days of these three months.

When the production team did not dig this canal, the cracks in the fields of these fields that were cracked by the sun at this time could be inserted into the thumbs of people, and the seedlings in the fields were dried by the sun before the rice tasseled or the strong grains turned golden brown, and then the late rice could not be harvested, which means that the farmers were busy in vain this season.

If there is no harvest of late rice, every household has to reduce the amount of grain when the production team distributes the grain, and many families will not be able to eat enough even if they have the main labor force to fill their work.

Based on this situation, the production team later bought a diesel pumping machine to pump water to irrigate the fields.

The pumping machine is fast, and the sound of "whooshing" in half an acre of land will be full of water, but what is another headache is that it will cost a lot of money to buy diesel.

And after pumping a full hill of water in a field, if it doesn't rain all the time, a week later, the water in the field is dried by the sun, and then you have to pump water and spend money to buy diesel, and repeat the cycle, and finally although this method saves the seedlings in the farmland, the money to buy diesel at the end of the year The production team still has to convert and deduct from the dividends of the team members' millet, coarse grains, pork, and fish, which is equivalent to changing the soup but not the medicine.

Later, all the team members didn't want to bear this cost, so the production team organized the team members to dig this channel.

This channel is connected to a wooden trough by the river behind the commune, and there is a carpenter's waterwheel at the entrance of this trough.

When the water from the river reaches the canal, the production team will arrange for a special water watcher to dig a gap in the canal, and the water brought in from the river by the canal will quickly flow into a hill of farmland halfway up the mountain through these gaps.

When the water hoarding is full, the team members who watch the water also dig a gap in the ridge of the farmland, and immediately the river water flows into the next hill of farmland, and so on, until the farmland in the middle of the mountain is fully irrigated, and then the team members who watch the water will seal all the gaps and stop pumping.

After a week, when the water in the fields was gone, the work continued, and the irrigation work stopped when the late rice was harvested, and the farmland halfway up the mountain survived and saved the money for diesel fuel from the pumper.

The canal plays a key role in irrigating the production team's farmland.

And Hao Jiali will also wash her face by the canal when she finishes chopping firewood, and in summer it is so hot that she can't stand the water in the canal to wash her hands and feet to cool down.

In Hao Jiali's memory, this canal has always had water this summer, and there should be snails.

Instead of Hao Jiali climbing out of breath in order to survive, she climbed up to the side of the canal halfway up the mountainside with hope, and then looked into the canal, the canal had dried up, not to mention that there was not even a drop of water in the canal.

Hao Jiali was so desperate that she sat on the edge of the canal and couldn't breathe.

Then, after sitting for a long time, Hao Jiali remembered that it was already the weather in October of the Gregorian calendar, and the late rice in the farmland of the production team had already harvested the millet into the granary, and Hao Jiali turned around and looked at these farmlands on the hillside, all the farmland on the hillside was planted with sweet potato seedlings for the production team, and wheat seeds and other coarse grains for the winter. Hao Jiali's hope of finding snails from the canal to sell them for money has come to naught.

There was no hope, Hao Jiali had to drag her heavy and weak legs down the mountain.

After going down the mountain, Hao Jiali immediately went to the endless rice fields around the village stream to stand on the ridges, looking at these paddy fields, there is water in the paddy fields, but there are no snails Hao Jiali is not sure in her heart, and the water in the paddy fields is very shallow, but the mud looks very deep.

Hao Jiali pulled a firewood stick on the ridge to support the loofah vine and tried it at the bottom of the mud, and then compared the mark of the mud on the stick to her legs.

Hao Jiali slashed the stick a few more times, and the mud was almost buried at the base of Hao Jiali's thigh.

Hao Jiali knew that no matter how deep the mud was, it could not be as deep as the water in the fish pond, and after the test, Hao Jiali was relieved, Hao Jiali was afraid that the mud in the paddy field would be cold, Hao Jiali dipped her hand in the water in the field, and Hao Jiali felt that the water had begun to be cold.

The water is cold, so the mud in the field has been infiltrated by water for many years, even if there is no water in the mud bottom, Hao Jiali estimates that the temperature of the mud should be about the same as the water on the mud surface.

This time, Hao Jiali thought that even if there were snails in the paddy fields, the weather would be so cold in October of the lunar calendar, even if Hao Jiali could grit her teeth and endure the cold rising from her legs to her body, but when it snowed in December and January, the biting cold could no longer bear it.

Whenever this time, Hao Jiali went to the well to wash clothes, the well water was still lukewarm, Hao Jiali's little hands were frozen red, not to mention that the water and snow in this paddy field were soaked in these mud, this mud was no way to get down, the cold would freeze people shiver and freeze people, Hao Jiali had to think about it, to go to the paddy field, you must first find a way to deal with these mud.

In order to deal with the sludge, Hao Jiali dug out a few old fiber bags from her home, and then poured a bucket of well water into the fiber bags.

Hao Jiali saw that the well water did not flow out of the fiber bag all at once, but slowly seeped out.

Hao Jiali originally wanted to use two such fiber bags to wear on her feet and then tie the mouth of the bag to the root of her legs to go to the field, thinking that this would prevent the water in the field from contacting her legs with the cold of the field mud, but this time, Hao Jiali knew that this method would not work, and the leakage of the fiber bag meant that the water would enter, so Hao Jiali had to turn around and go to her uncle's house again.

Hao Jiali asked Chen Qing for a pair of long water boots worn by adults.

This pair of water boots Hao Jiali usually wears when the boot is worn by her uncle, the boot mouth has reached her uncle's knee, Hao Jiali's small foot stepped into the sole of the boot, and sure enough, the boot mouth reached the root of Hao Jiali's thigh.

Hao Jiali was overjoyed in her heart, and hurriedly stuffed a lot of cotton and rags into the soles of her boots, because Chen Qing's water boots were too wide, too long and too long, Hao Jiali's little feet stepped into the water boots and walked like a paddle rowing without positioning in the water, and Hao Jiali was also worried that her feet were small, the mud was strong, and the footboard was not resistant enough after entering the water, afraid that when walking, the legs and footboards were pulled out, and the water boots were still in the water.

Hao Jiali thought that this time she was thoughtful, but what Hao Jiali didn't expect was that when she went down to the paddy field in this pair of water boots that were stuffed with cotton rags, she couldn't take a step.

The mud glue of the paddy field stuck to the water boots on her feet, Hao Jiali raised her feet and took a step forward, and the foot board jerked hard, but what was pulled out was a large pile of cotton and rags, and the water boots were stuck in the mud.

Hao Jiali was unwilling, Hao Jiali used her feet with water boots to turn around in circles on the front and back of the mud, trying to remove the mud, and then pulled her feet and raised her legs to walk forward.

However, Hao Jiali's leg turned a big hole in the water in the same place and it didn't work.

These mud follow Hao Jiali's legs as if they are at the bottom of the water, Hao Jiali pushes away the mud to the left, and the mud gathers with the water from the right to the water boots, Hao Jiali pulls away the mud from the front of her, and the mud gathers from behind her to the direction of the water boots, tossing and turning, so that Hao Jiali wants to get angry, scold, and shed tears Hao Jiali's water boots are still stuck in the mud and can't pull them out.

Hao Jiali ran out of options, she stood firmly in the mud and didn't move at all, and bit her lower lip so tightly that she didn't let go of one tooth mark after another.