In April the sun grew bigger and brighter, and hung brightly in the sky, and there was not a single cloud in the sky, for it did not rain, and the color was not very blue, but a cloudy yellow.

In the sound of cicadas, the heat wave evaporates and dust hits the face, making people's hearts heat up.

Everyone in Aoyagi Town did not look like they were smiling as usual, and there were a lot more bitter feelings, and there were many more people who were worried about the Chengri family.

Lily couldn't sleep well night after night, and every time she dreamed that the flowers and branches were scorched all over the ground, she stood in the flower field in despair and wanted to cry without tears.

Waking up in the middle of the night is always covered in a cold sweat, Song Haonian always has to coax her to sleep again, or fetch warm water to wipe her body, as the days go by, the husband and wife look a little haggard.

However, these days there are many haggard people in the town, and the appearance of the two of them is not conspicuous, even the old man Liu, who is dedicated to being a hidden master, was alarmed, and personally summoned the villagers to discuss how to prevent disasters and how to prevent fights between various ethnic groups over water and other things.

Master Liu specially restrained his own grange from competing with others for water, his family is big, and there are many fields, if he is close to the grange first, the water source elsewhere is only afraid that it will be affected.

When Lily talked to Aunt Sheng, she heard her say: "We still have a few wells on Zhuangzi, the waterwheel is also easy to use, and the ditches dug in the previous two years have also come in handy. ”

Lily said: "The house is benevolent and righteous, God is looking at it, and he will not let the house suffer." ”

If she can't keep her few acres of flower fields, it will really hurt her muscles and bones, but she doesn't have the habit of complaining when she sees people, and only keeps things in her heart.

Although she didn't say it, Aunt Sheng could guess a few points, and comforted her: "I know that you are not having a good time now, but you have to take a long-term view, you and Danian are both young and strong, but you can't get together for a while, but you can be relieved in three or five years, don't be discouraged." ”

Lily cheered up and said, "I want to ask if there is any way in the house not to draw water from a waterwheel?"

Aunt Sheng pondered for a while, but after all, she couldn't think of a way, so she only said that she asked Song Haonian to go to Zhuangzi by herself to see, and when she saw the method, she would learn, and she would keep the family's land first.

Lily knew that Song Haonian had already been to Zhuangzi, and there was nothing to do, so she could only nod her head and agree, not saying much, and gossiping with Aunt Sheng for a while.

Aunt Sheng suddenly remembered something: "Do you want to see your sister?"

"Is she free now?" Lily has been so busy these days, and she hasn't seen Yingchun go home, she originally wanted to ask Yingchun to quit the errand in Liufu and go back to help her, but now she doesn't want to.

Aunt Sheng shook her head: "She is very busy now, and she has no time." ”

Lily said, "Then I'll come to see her when she's free." Then he said goodbye to Aunt Sheng.

Aunt Sheng shook her head behind her: "The girl who welcomes spring"

In the final analysis, she is still someone else's daughter, and she has a little incense with her, and she can still take care of one or two in her hands, but now she can't control it, but it's good to let go.

Lily walked on the road, frowning, still thinking about the matter of water diversion, and suddenly saw Ju'er playing with a group of little boys, taking wheat straw and sucking a pot of sugar water to drink.

In an instant, a lightning bolt struck her brain, and Lily was terrified, and then ran up quickly, and when she got home, she didn't have time to catch her breath and said, "I think of a way, you can try it!"

These days, she came up with a way to divert water, not to mention one or twenty, but only three or five can be used, and it is not as good as someone to carry it on her shoulders when it comes to saving effort, but fortunately, Song Haonian is full of patience and lets her toss, Song Ermei and Wang Yongxing are also convinced that she has many methods, and she is willing to try whatever she says.

At this time, Lily instructed a few people to tie the thick bamboo pipes together, tie them tightly with strips of cloth and oiled paper, and put them aside first.

Song Haonian and Wang Yongxing, two men, first dug an extremely deep soil pit at the head of the ground, almost at the level of the river, and compacted the inside of the pit to facilitate water storage, and first poured half of the pit water for later use.

Then dip one end of the bamboo pipe in the Baishui River, and put the other end on the edge of the soil pit.

Because the pipe is long and the bamboo is tough, it doesn't hurt to bend a little in the middle, and the two ends can just be put down.

Lily took a handful of straw and stuffed it into the hole at the end of the pit in the bamboo pipe, and lit a fire, and several people looked at her nervously, not knowing what kind of medicine she was selling in her gourd.

Lily suddenly remembered the siphon she had seen in her previous life, a good quality could lead water from the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain, and from the Baishui River to the flower field was no more than two feet high, and she only hoped that this time it would be successful.

As the straw slowly burns out, the air in the bamboo pipe is constantly consumed and emptied, and the river water naturally wants to fill the gap, so it is sucked into the bamboo pipe.

Eventually, a thin stream of water flowed out of the bamboo pipe, and it grew larger, and it was the water that was sucked up from the river, and Lily almost cried with joy, and quickly pressed the bamboo pipe into the puddle.

I saw that the water in the puddle was accumulating more and more, and when it was almost full, it did not move. Lily was very worried, took a bucket of water, scooped a few buckets out, saw that the water level dropped significantly first, and after a while, it slowly came back, she couldn't help but smile in surprise: "It's done!"

Song Haonian and several people looked at the trick, seeing that she could attract water with a fire, they were very in awe, and hurriedly took a bucket to water the ground, and sure enough, as long as the water level in the puddle was lowered, the river water would continue to be replenished.

Lily was beaming with joy, and because she had been squatting in the ground for too long, she stood up suddenly, and when she landed, she was dizzy, her ears were buzzing, and she was unsteady on her feet.

Song Haonian took a step forward to catch her and asked urgently, "What's wrong with you?"

After a while, Lily regained her senses, and said with a smile: "I'm in a hurry, dazzled, now it's okay, don't panic." ”

Song Haonian immediately asked Lily to rest, and Lily just smiled: "It's so easy to pump water up, I don't look at these water pouring down, how can I be sure?"

"Then you watch us do it. Song Haonian pressed the lily to the ground and sat under the shade of the tree, and did not allow her to move again.

Several people are busy working all the day, at this time the sun has been slanting westward, the ground is not as hot as noon, you can already water the ground when the sun is the largest, remember not to water the ground, otherwise the hot soil and cold water will be excited, and the flower roots will be scalded to death.

Buckets of water were splashed down, and the ground immediately made a thirsty rustling sound, and all the flower seedlings that had been drenched with water were washed away from the gray and yellow dust, and they were much fresher when they landed.

Song Haonian splashed half an acre of land, and then looked back at the first few watered plants, between which their listless leaves had become watery, and the whole flower plant was in good spirits.

Water enough water first, and then put the chickens in to eat a lot of insects, these flower seedlings can save more than half, Lily only then put her mind at ease, only to feel extremely sleepy, leaning against the willow tree to doze off.

She only said that she hadn't slept well these days, and she wanted to sleep as soon as her mind relaxed, but she didn't know that others would see that her face was already white, and she fell to the side like no bones.

Song Haonian wanted to look at her every once in a while, and the first one found that something was wrong, and when he saw her fall soft, he was really heartbroken, threw down the bucket and ran over, hugged the person and pinched the person first.

Second Sister Song also hurried over, touched Lily's forehead first, then rolled her eyes, and said hurriedly: "This doesn't look like heat stroke, send it home quickly, Brother Yongxing will invite Langzhong!"

Several people didn't care about the work in the field, so they hurriedly rushed home with people on their backs, followed those who helped, and ran to ask Lang Zhong as if they were flying.

It was cool in the east room, Song Haonian put Lily on the bed, unbuttoned the first button of her collar, pinched her in the middle of the tiger and called her by name without daring to leave an inch.

Song Ermei hurriedly twisted her hand towel to wipe her forehead and neck, this is all a way to relieve the heat, but Lily's appearance really doesn't look like heat stroke, and both of them are panicked.

Fortunately, Liu Langzhong came quickly, he couldn't even wipe his sweat when he entered the door, he first diagnosed the pulse and then pricked the needle, and the needle as thick as wheat straw pierced the middle finger of the lily, Song Haonian's whole person trembled, and the tip of his heart throbbed.

A few bits of black blood were released from between his fingers and earlobes, and Liu Langzhong put on a fine needle and pierced it all over Lily's body, and said to Song Haonian: "Boil brown sugar water." ”

"Brown sugar?" How much does he know that brown sugar is warm, and his daughter-in-law can stand it on this hot day?

Liu Langzhong said: "It's not that she is suffering from heat stroke, but that she is weak. Saying that, he glanced at Song Haonian.

Song Haonian's heart was like a knife, and he quickly went to the kitchen to boil a bowl of brown sugar water, and poured two bowls to warm it. Liu Langzhong tested the temperature with the back of his hand, and then he was willing to praise: "It's also careful." ”

Lily's lips were tightly closed, and even her breath was very weak, and the brown sugar water couldn't be poured in. Song Ermei took a spoon and asked Song Haonian to pinch Lily's mouth open, and try to pour it to her, who knew that there was more than what was drunk.

In the panic, Song Haonian did not completely lose his mind, he suddenly picked up the bowl and said, "You go out first, and I'll feed her water." ”

He remembered that sometimes Lily woke up in the middle of the night to drink water, but he didn't want to get up, so he told him to pour water. She refused to drink the poured water honestly, and when she drank it herself, she would give him half a mouthful of water, which often made him go crazy, and she turned around and fell asleep again.

When his mind turned here, the eyes of such a tall man turned red and he almost burst into tears.

Song Ermei hurriedly pulled Lang Zhong and Wang Yongxing's family out, and poured water for Lang Zhong's bench to drink.

Song Haonian held back his tears, first took half a mouthful of brown sugar water himself, and then approached her. Lily's lips were very cold, and there was still some heat in her mouth, Song Haonian couldn't wait to give her half of her exuberant vitality immediately, warm her body, and wake her up.

The lips are tightly pasted, and the brown sugar water that leaks out is less, Song Haonian saw that it was useful, and he no longer hesitated at the moment, just gave her the sugar water one bite at a time.

When he boiled the sugar water, his heart trembled, his hands trembled, and he put too much sugar at once, and the sugar water was so thick that it was a little bitter, but he couldn't taste anything.

Song Haonian stared at Lily for a moment, always feeling that her eyelashes trembled slightly, and she was about to wake up with her eyes open, and when she looked again, she still didn't move. After staring at it for a long time, his eyes were a little sore, he blinked, and a string of tears rolled down, only to realize that the iron-beaten man also had tears like rain.