After the night of the return to the township regiment, Wang Chong immediately became a big hero in the entire Maixiang Village, killing 26 enemies alone, and the next day he was promoted to the captain of the militia team.

But Wang Chong said that he had feelings for the villagers of Maixiang Village, and he didn't want to leave Maixiang Village, so he politely declined the invitation of the county brigade, but he also gained a lot of goodwill from the villagers.

Although he had become the militia captain of Maixiang Village and gained a lot of fame in the village, Wang Zhong still had to continue to work in the fields.

The corn, soybeans and peanuts in the field are ready to be harvested.

There was an extra sister-in-law Jin Hua in Wang Chong's mutual aid group, from the original four people to five people, but the sister-in-law only planted a little corn and soybeans, and not much.

After careful consideration, Ma Renli's heart and mind Qiao Yue still chose to stay in Niu Daring's group, not because she didn't want to join Wang Chong's mutual aid group, since Wang Chong became famous in the first battle with the homecoming group, Qiao Yue has been thinking about Wang Chong, but Wang Zhong is a hard-hearted person, and Qiao Yue is a ten-finger person who doesn't touch the spring water, and she can't even cook, let alone farm work.

Qiao Yue stayed in Niu Daring's mutual aid group, at least there was a pity for Niu Daring to help share the farm work, when the group members were working in the field, Qiao Yue occasionally took a hand, most of the time was lazy, fishing, and singing for everyone.

On the contrary, Wang Chong's group is very meticulous about who does what work.

Harvesting, processing, processing the straw and the remaining stems and leaves of the crop into small sections, putting them into the soil pit dug in advance, adding manure, swill, and usual kitchen waste from the toilets to make fertilizer.

Whether it is in the city or in the countryside, manure is limited, if it is absolutely not enough to rely on manure alone, now the war is not over, the country has not been established, although the north has been liberated early, but everything is still in a hundred wastes to be revived, fertilizer has not yet been popularized.

Sneaking around in the middle of the night to dig out public toilets like Niu Daring is no way to go.

After the corn and peanuts and soybeans are harvested, they will be ploughed for autumn planting.

Wang Zhong called several people from the mutual aid group together and said that he wanted to buy cattle.

"We must be willing to buy cattle, but the key is that we don't have the money!" Three monkey road.

"Even if we sell all this year's wheat, soybeans and corn, it is estimated that we will not be able to make up enough money to buy cattle." ”

Not long after Sister-in-law Jin Hua joined the mutual aid group, she didn't express her opinion, but she was obviously inclined to the old ganstick and the three monkeys.

Several people are from poor backgrounds, the land is only half a year old, the family property is only a few houses, a few hundred catties of new wheat, in the past it was hungry and full, but now it is slightly better, hundreds of catties of wheat milled into flour, but barely able to satisfy the stomach, and now a lot of corn and soybeans have been produced, and those who run to hand in, the rest can have a good year.

But he can't come up with any money to spare, although Lao Ganbang has saved some money by following Wang Zhong to make windmills for others these days, but it is not much, and it is definitely not enough to buy cattle.

"What about Renli, what do you say?" Wang Zhong looked at Ma Renli.

Ma Renli is now also a veteran of the mutual aid group, after more than half a year of farm work, his skin is dark, his strength has grown, his hands have also grinded out calluses, his mouth is sharp, he knows how to talk to please the big guy, and even the three monkeys are no longer the nose is not the nose and the eyes are not the eyes as before.

"I also agreed to buy cattle, but the money to buy cattle is really a problem." Ma Renli said.

"What you said and didn't say the same!" The three monkeys were not angry.

Wang Zhong looked at Sister-in-law Jin Hua and asked, "What about Sister-in-law Jinhua?" ”

"Huh?" Sister-in-law Jin Hua was stunned, she didn't think that she would ask her own opinion for this kind of thing, looking at Wang Chong, Sister-in-law Jin Hua gritted her teeth and said: "I'm a woman, I don't eat much, if I really want to buy it, I can take out fifty catties of new wheat this year." ”

Everyone looked at Sister-in-law Jin Hua in surprise.

"Not really."

Wang Zhong smiled and said, "As long as everyone agrees, money is not a problem!" During this time, Lao Ganbang and I saved a lot of money for making windmills and threshers, plus the money I earned from selling vegetables and hunting these days, it should be enough to buy a cow. ”

"I think so, what about the cow, I bought it alone, even if this cow is mine, if it is sold or killed in the future, I can dispose of it, but I can buy it back and use it together."

The three monkeys were the first to say: "Brother Big Worm, you paid the money alone, this cow must be yours!" ”

The crowd followed.

Wang Chongdao: "But now there is another problem, if this cow is bought, it must need someone to take care of it, I think so, we are all men, just Jinhua's sister-in-law is a female comrade, and the lesbian must be more careful than our old men, so in the future, can the work of raising cattle be handed over to Jinhua's sister-in-law." ”

"Okay, Sister-in-law Jinhua must be more careful than a few of us."

"Yes, yes, if the cow is handed over to Sister-in-law Jinhua to take care of, it will definitely be taken care of!"

Several people didn't have any opinions, but Sister-in-law Jin Hua herself said: "Although I am a woman, I also have strength, and I can do heavy work." ”

Wang Zhong smiled and said: "I think so, anyway, we are all singles now, and we don't have daughters-in-law, when the farm is busy, we simply let Jinhua's sister-in-law be responsible for the logistics of our group, cook and wash for us, and do some easier work when we are free, such as cutting wheat, harvesting wheat, ploughing the land, these heavy and tiring work, we are a few big men try to wrap up the round, and let Jinhua's sister-in-law take hands when we are too busy, let's match men and women, and divide labor reasonably, you see if it works." ”

"I agree!" The three monkeys were the first to raise their hands in agreement, and the speed was so fast that people smacked their tongues.

"I'm okay with that!" The old gan stick also showed his attitude.

Ma Renli has always been a drifter, so naturally he has no opinion.

Seeing that everyone took such good care of him, a warm current welled up in her heart: "As long as everyone believes in me, I will definitely do a good job in logistics!" ”

"In that case, it's decided, and tomorrow I'll go to the cattle market and buy the cattle." Wang Zhong made the final decision.

"Next, I will tell you about our work plan for the second half of the year."

"First of all, autumn ploughing and autumn sowing, seeing that the day is approaching, after the cattle are bought, I and Lao Ganbang, three monkeys, Ma Renli, the four of us are responsible for ploughing, Jinhua is responsible for our three meals a day and sowing, the grain big guy eats as much as he wants, and the food is handed over to Jinhua's sister-in-law the night before, everyone has no opinion, right?"

"No comment!"

"Brother Big Worm, let's listen to you."

There have been several times when they have worked together like this, and everyone knows that the division of labor and cooperation is more efficient, so naturally they have no opinion and agree one after another.

Wang Zhong continued: "If this crop wants to grow well, there are three important points, the first is the seed, which we can't do, the second is fertilization, our conditions are limited, we can do as much as we can, the third is irrigation, as long as the water is enough, the wheat can grow well, and after the autumn sowing is over, we have to start preparing for winter irrigation and spring irrigation in the next spring!" ”

"Winter irrigation? Spring irrigation? ”

"How to irrigate in winter? Carrying water? ”

"I've done it in previous years, but it's all from the river, which is tiring and slow."

"It's definitely not good to carry water, a few of us have a dozen acres of land together, and we can pick up when to go by shoulders, and now there is no dam, my suggestion is to find a few groups of land and our next to each other, if you can, it is best to organize the whole village together."

Let's work together, discuss together to dig out the canal, and then use a water truck to pump up the water from the Maixiang River, don't we have cattle, but also use cattle to push the water wheel, and then pump up the water along the dug irrigation canal from top to bottom all the way down, these days I have seen, let's dig a ditch to divert water at a point upstream, and then find a suitable location to dig a few weir ponds to store water, should be able to meet the requirements of winter irrigation and spring irrigation. ”

"Water wheels? Weir pond? Everyone looked at Wang Zhong curiously.

Wang Chongdao: "Don't worry, the waterwheel is not difficult to make, Renli, didn't you study agriculture in college, you should also know the waterwheel, right?" ”

Ma Renli nodded and said, "I know, I know, I've seen patterns." ”

"During this time, you will take the time to draw the pattern of the waterwheel! Remember to make the watermill bigger. ”

"No problem!" Ma Renyi patted his chest and promised: "Wrap it up on me." ”

Wang Chong asked again: "You should also know about the weir pond!" ”

"Yes, yes!" Ma Renli said with a smile: "The weir pond can store water during the rainy season, if it is as you said, the weir pond and the irrigation canal are connected together, even if it is a dry season, we only need to build two more waterwheels, we can also pump the water from the Maixiang River into the weir pond for storage, and then use the water wheel to pump it into the irrigation canal and leave it in the ground." ”

"If you really do this, it will definitely not be enough for a few of us, it is better to mobilize the whole village to do it together."

The water truck pumps water easily, but if you want to send water to the field, if it is a plain area, then it is okay to say, but Maixiang Village is next to Maixiangling, the terrain is undulating, and many fields are in the middle of the slope, and some are even at the top of the slope.

"In this way, I will buy the cattle back first, there are still a few days before the autumn ploughing, let's go to the field for a field trip in the next few days, carefully study and study, figure out the charter, and then go to Captain Zhou and Village Chief Wang to discuss this matter." Wang Chongdao.

"I'll see it!" Ma Renli nodded seriously.

The rest of the people looked at the two of them, and they couldn't interject a word, but listening to their discussion, the situation of pouring the water of the Maixiang River into their own fields came to their minds, and their faces also showed a look of expectation.

"Do you have any different opinions?" The king looked at the rest of the people.

Everyone shook their heads.

"Brother Big Worm, let's all listen to you, whatever you say, we'll do it!" The three monkeys stand very firmly.

"That's right! We all listen to you! "Not to mention the old, since he followed Wang Chong to make windmills for people, Wang Chong taught him the craft without reservation, and the old has already died to Wang Chong.

Sister-in-law Jin Hua will not have an opinion.

The next day, Wang Zhong and Ma Renli went to the livestock market, and bought a bull with slender legs, upright limbs, and blazing eyes, which was about five years old, and was in the prime of life, Wang Chong's medical skills were as high as five levels, but he looked at the words and looks, and the health of the cow was clear inside and out, and there was absolutely no problem with the whole body, and it was a bull that could not be healthier.

When the three of them brought the cattle back, it also caused a lot of sensation in the village, after all, it was only less than a year since the land was divided, but the villagers also knew that Wang Chong had recently made a lot of money by helping people work on windmills, and they were not surprised.

Although the Ma family used to have farming cattle, there were not many of them, and they were all assigned to mutual aid groups formed by several poor households.

The ploughing ox was brought back, and the three monkeys hated to lead the oxen around the village.

Wang Chong and they led the cow straight to Jinhua's sister-in-law's house, Jinhua's sister-in-law's house is not big, just two rooms, with a yard, the stove is on the edge of the kang, the house is quite big and spacious, and the home is very simple.

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"You don't have a shed here!" The yard was also empty, not even a tree, but there was a vat under the eaves. There was a simple hut against the courtyard wall, and there was a pile of firewood and hay in it.

"In this way, sister-in-law Jinhua, you look at the cow first, let's go to my place and carry a few pieces of wood over, and build a shed for the cow first!"

Just do it, Wang Zhong immediately led the three of them back home and carried seven or eight pieces of wood of different sizes, and spent most of the day to build a simple cowshed opposite the firewood shed of Jinhua's sister-in-law's house, and spread dry straw underneath, and the old dry stick made a simple cow trough on the spot.

Sister-in-law Jin Hua patted her chest and assured everyone that she would take care of the big scalper like her own father.

In the evening, Wang Chong stood in the courtyard to practice, and the country had not yet been founded at this time, and there was naturally no electricity available in a rural place like Maixiang Village.

An hour of pile work, half an hour of fists and feet, an hour of blades, after half an hour of rest, and when everyone is asleep in the dead of night, there are still two hours of Qi practice practice, this is Wang Chong's daily cultivation course.

Practicing martial arts is to sail against the current, do not advance or retreat, since the place of martial arts so far, has gone through more than 100 cold and summer, Wang Chong's entry into the realm is really not fast, and those who emerged in an endless stream of grandmasters in the Republic of China are far inferior, one is because of the environment, Wang Chong has experienced all kinds of copies of the world, except for a "Shuangqi Town Swordsman", the rest are peaceful and prosperous, unlike the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, the internal force of the imperial court is rotten, there are foreign powers to invade, eyeing the tiger.

Wang Chong has also experienced a war of less than a month, the time is too short, there is no great terror between life and death, if you just rely on your own hard training, the fifth level is almost already the top.

Since the copy of "Swordsman in Shuangqi Town", after learning the qi training method handed down by the child's brother, and killing the people who oppressed the good one-sword immortals, Wang Chong's martial arts realm that had been stuck for a long time has been loosened again.

Wang Chong can clearly feel that the true qi in his body is slowly growing with every time he cultivates, whether it is quality or quantity, and his own national art realm is also slowly improving.

It's just that such a breakthrough still needs an opportunity.

At one o'clock in the middle of the night, just after the hour, in the dark night, in the quiet room, Wang Chong opened his eyes, and there was a flash of light in his eyes, but unfortunately there was still a certain gap between the white room and the void room.

Wang Zhongxin moved and summoned the system.

[Host: Wang Chong

Yang Shou: 26/53

Condition: Robust

Body: 68~98

Force: 66~96

Speed: 67~97

God: 65

Skills: Cooking (Level 5), National Art (Level 5), Shooting (Level 5), Medical Skills (Level 5), ······

Exercises: Nameless Qi Exercises (Level 3)

(Note: Skill points can be consumed to increase)

Potential: 40

Skill points: 60

System credits: 570

Memory Orb: x4

System space x1 (64m3)】

After doing a game with the homecoming group that time, the nameless qi practice technique broke through to the third level, and the true qi in the body increased several times, and even the upper limit of various basic attributes was approaching one hundred, and the yang longevity increased by one year, and the spiritual attributes also increased significantly, and they slowly caught up.

Early in the morning, after waking up in the morning, Wang Zhong played two sets of boxing techniques, which were used to activate the meridians and stimulate qi and blood.

After breakfast, it was dawn, and Ma Renli had already arrived outside the house.

The two of them first carefully surveyed the terrain around the village, and then ran around all the fields in the village, discussing and recording while observing, not forgetting to write and paint, and in the afternoon, they went all the way up the Maixiang River.

It was determined that the method of pumping irrigation was feasible.

When they returned home in the evening and had dinner, the two of them talked with candles and began to discuss the general direction of the irrigation canal, its direction, the location of the weir pond, and so on.

Early the next morning, the two went to find Zhou Yihu and Wang Wanchun.

The idea of digging irrigation ditches and diverting water from the Maixiang River to irrigate the fields was told to the two.

"Dig a ditch to divert water?" Zhou Yihu and Wang Wanchun glanced at each other, and they both saw shock in each other's eyes.

"Captain Wang, it's not that we don't believe you, but can this method really work?" Wang Wanchun said: "The villagers of Maixiang Village have lived in Maixiang Village for generations, if they can dig a canal to drink water, after so many years, no one has thought of it?" ”

"Secretary Zhou, Village Chief Wang, Ma Renli and I have repeatedly surveyed, as long as we use three overturned trucks, two weir ponds, and dig ditches, most of the land in the village can be poured with Maixiang River water."

Zhou Yihu and Wang Wanchun were still a little incredulous.

Wang Chongdao: "Secretary Zhou, Village Chief Wang, there is no basis for what you say, or let's go to the scene to have a look, Ma Renli and I will tell you our ideas, combined with the topography of the scene, it doesn't work, just take a look!" ”

Zhou Yihu said: "Wanchun, let's go with them and take a look!" ”

"Okay! If it really works, Captain Wang, Ma Renli, you have made a great contribution. ”

The two led Zhou Yihu and Wang Wanchun directly to the upper reaches of the Maixiang River.

"Ma Renli and I have repeatedly surveyed three times, and this is the most suitable location for the generation along the river, the terrain and water level here are not low, and the difference between the river bank and the water surface is just right, even if there is a big flood, it will not wash away the waterwheel."

"A six-meter-high waterwheel is enough here, let's start digging a ditch from here, until we get to the small hill beam in front, dig a big weir pond, dig two canals up and down, the bottom one goes straight to the ground, and the top one goes all the way to the front seventy or eighty meters, dig a weir pond, dig the canal, and pump the water up with a rollover······"

Wang Chong and Ma Renli's plan was to divide the main channel of the canal into two layers, turn it with four weir ponds, and then set up an outlet to introduce the secondary canal and irrigate it into the field, but in this way, the amount of work was large.

It took more than an hour just to get around the road and talk as I walked.

Listening to the two of them painting and explaining in detail, Zhou Yihu and Wang Wanchun didn't know how to express themselves.

"Comrade Wang Chong, Comrade Ma Renli, if you follow this plan, this project is not small!" Zhou Yihu said with emotion.

Wang nodded and said: "It's really not small, so Ma Renli and I divided this forehead irrigation project into three stages!" Let's dig out the bottom ditch and weir pond first, in this way, only need a waterwheel, can complete the irrigation of one-third of the village's land, the village can basically account for half of the land planted with wheat, let's dig a small ditch first, if the whole village can go out together, at most fifteen days, it should be completed, if we move faster, it may not be so long. ”

"When the first stage is completed, let's start the second stage, dig the weir pond and ditch, set up a dump truck, and divert water from the first weir pond, if it is completed, two-thirds of the land in the village can basically be poured with water from the Maixiang River."

"With water, we can carry out winter irrigation and spring irrigation, and when we are slack next year, we will enter the third stage and widen and repair the canal! We will further improve our entire irrigation system. ”

"Can it really be done?" Wang Wanchun looked incredulous.

Wang Chongdao: "Irrigation with a water truck is a method of irrigation invented by our ancestors more than 1,000 years ago, whether it is in the south, or in Gansu or by Shaanxi, Shanxi and other northern regions are very widespread, Captain Zhou goes to the county, there is no need to find someone who knows, as long as it is to go south and north, you should have seen it." ”

"Why don't we try?" Zhou Yihu looked at Wang Wanchun and said tentatively.

Wang Wanchun was a little hesitant, but looking at Wang Chong and Ma Renli, who were full of confidence, thinking of the windmill and thresher made by Wang Chong, as well as the way the two of them were talking just now, he gritted his teeth and asked, "Let's calculate the cost first!" ”

Zhou Yihu immediately reacted, looked at Wang Chong and said, "Wan Chun is right, how much does it cost to make these things?" ”

Wang Chongdao: "I can take a few carpenters in the village to do it, the key is the material, a six-meter-high waterwheel, three overturned trucks, need a lot of wood." ”

Zhou Yihu said: "How much do you want, you tell me the number!" ”

Wang Chongdao: "······"

Zhou Yihu and Wang Wanchun naturally did not agree directly, such a big matter requires the whole village to work together, and they must call the men, women and children of the whole village together for a meeting to discuss, and ask everyone's opinions.

After dinner in the evening, Wang Wanchun, the village head, asked the village chief to ring the bronze bell that gathered the villagers, called everyone to the front of the stage at the entrance of the village, and asked Wang Chong and Ma Renli to roughly explain the preparation of the water diversion and irrigation project.

Wang Chong is also an old orator, first told all the benefits of irrigation canals, what saves time and effort, once and for all, etc., first hooked everyone's curiosity and sense of expectation, let everyone agree with this matter, and then said that the work and effort of the matter, there were many villagers who moved that day.

The next night, Wang Wanchun convened a meeting of the villagers again to vote, and in the end, more than three-quarters of the villagers supported digging a ditch to divert water, and the remaining part only hesitated, and there was no direct opposition.

Under the auspices of Wang Wanchun, the first phase of the Maixiang Village Water Diversion and Irrigation Project was officially launched.