As soon as the wheat harvest was over, Ma Renli led the people back to the reservoir, but he had only been there for less than a month, and he ran back with a roll of bedding.

Looking at the dejected and gray Ma Renli, Wang Zhong laughed unabashedly.

"Wasn't it just driven down from the dam, how did you look like a lost dog?" Wang Zhong teased unceremoniously.

"What a lost dog!" Ma Renli was a little angry: "I regret it."

"Regret is useless, who told you kid can't keep his mouth shut!" Wang Zhong said angrily: "Trouble comes from the mouth, don't you a college student still know?"

"Hey!" Ma Renli sighed, with a look of remorse, pointed to his mouth and said, "I understand the truth, but I just can't control this mouth."

"I just put forward a few construction suggestions with the chief engineer, and I was hung up with a white flag."

"I'll send you eight words!" Wang Zhong said: "Ten thousand words, it is better to be silent!"

"Ten thousand words, is it better to be silent?" Ma Renli pondered these eight words, and his mouth was dripping.

"Especially at this time, be sure to control your mouth, whether it is in the village or in front of outsiders, this time you are just driven back from the dam, and if you cause trouble again next time, maybe you will go in, and then I can't protect you with a small branch secretary."

"It's not that serious, is it?" Ma Renli frowned and asked a little worriedly.

The king glanced at him again: "Forget it, what am I telling you to do this, if you can control that mouth, you won't be driven down from the dam, go, go to your house, I'll talk to your daughter-in-law."

As he spoke, Wang Zhong walked over and grabbed Ma Renli's shoulder.

Ma Renli shook his shoulders and took a few steps to the side: "What do you want my daughter-in-law to say."

Wang Zhong said: "Let the lamp take care of you, especially your mouth, just say what you should say, scold when you scold, and get started when you should get started, you kid is itchy and itchy, and you don't need to clean up."

Ma Renli gritted his teeth and said, "Then I have to thank you well!"

Looking at Ma Renli's gritted teeth, Wang Chong couldn't help but want to laugh, but he couldn't help but endure it, and nodded as if it should be so: "If you really want to thank me, just invite me to a drink."

[In view of the general environment,

"Why don't you die!" Ma Renli said angrily.

"Seriously, this year's weather, I don't look normal, the rain is too little, read the newspaper said, since last year, many places have been drought, after the beginning of spring this year, the drought has not improved, but more and more serious, the scope is also expanding, some time ago, Hebei and some parts of the northeast have a drought, now what is the situation on the dam?" Wang Zhong suddenly asked with a straight face.

Ma Renli also put away his emotions, put on a straight face, and said with a straight face: "There is a lot of water on the dam, and it seems that there is really no rain this year, are you worried that there will be a drought here too?"

"Can you not worry?" Wang Chongdao: "The villagers all live by farming, and rely on God to reward food, if there is a real drought, the crops in the field will definitely be reduced."

Ma Renli nodded, with a bit of memory in his eyes: "I remembered when you said this, the water level on the dam seems to be gradually decreasing."

"Didn't the grain reserves in our warehouse exceed 50,000 catties last year, and this year we have added a lot, even if there is a real drought, we can carry it over."

Wang Zhong said, "The grain reserve can only be moved when it is forced to do it, but there are some things that we can do in advance."

"Do you want to prepare for drought in advance?" Ma Renli guessed Wang Chong's idea at once.

Wang Zhong did not answer directly, but asked, "Are your meteorological instruments still good?"

Ma Renli said, "No problem!"

In the past few years, Ma Renli has been insisting on observing the weather, but recently he has been staying on the dam, so naturally he has no time to tinker.

"Let's go! Go to your house!"

Wang Chong just knew that Ma Renli had been driven back, so he came to the village entrance to wait for him for this matter

Target.

"Renli? Why did you get back?" Yang Deng'er had a big belly, drying the quilt on the clothes pole in the yard, and held a short stick in his hand, which was used to whip the bedding.

Ma Renli's old face was red, his family status at home was not high, and he was a man of pity and cherishing jade, and even if it was really hard, he might not be hard than Yang Deng'er, he wanted to improve his family status by repairing the reservoir, but he didn't think that now the reservoir has not been repaired, so he was sent back first.

"Sent back!" Wang Zhong was behind the yin and yang weird way.

"Sent back?" Yang Deng'er poured herbal tea for the two of them, and asked curiously, "Are we sent back?" You're in trouble again?"

"I just made a few construction suggestions with the chief engineer of the reservoir!" Ma Renli said in a curtled manner.

Yang Deng'er was stunned, and subconsciously wanted to have a seizure, but in front of Wang Chong, it was not good to be too upset in front of Ma Renli, so he snorted and said, "It's okay to come back."

"Alright, you two will be warm at night, hurry up and move your guy out first!" Wang Zhong urged beside him.

"Yes, yes, yes!" Ma Renli came back to his senses at this time, and hurriedly moved out the set of meteorological instruments with Wang Chong.

"Why are you in such a hurry? Is something wrong?" Yang Deng'er and Ma Renli have been married for a long time, and they often see Ma Renli tinkering with these guys, so they don't think it's strange, it can be seen that the two are in a hurry, but they can't help but be curious.

"Wang Chong and I feel that the weather this year is a bit abnormal, and since the beginning of last year, there have been droughts in many parts of the country, and we are worried that we will also suffer from drought here."

Yang Deng'er said: "From the beginning of spring to the present, it seems that there is not as much rain as last year."

"Then you get busy first! I'm going to cook for you." Yang Deng'er knew that she couldn't help, and she didn't mean to force it up, so she turned around and went into the house to cook.

Wang Zhong kicked Ma Renli lightly: "Your daughter-in-law's body is getting heavier and heavier, don't you want to find something good to replenish her body?"

"Why not!" Ma Renli said, "I want to get it, but I can't buy an old hen except for eggs!"

Now that there are old hens at home, they all keep them to lay eggs, and who is willing to sell the old hen that lays eggs.

In the past, when Ma Renli was alone, he didn't raise any livestock at home, but after Yang Deng'er got married

"I have it at home!" Wang Zhong said: "But the ugly words are said first, the brothers still have a clear account, you want the old hen, you should give no less money."

"Really?" A smile suddenly appeared on Ma Renli's face.

"Don't forget it!"

"If you want to ······."

"I'll get it done later, go to my house and grab one."

After a few days of observation, the expression on Ma Renli's face gradually became solemn.

"What's wrong?" Yang Deng'er brought the finished sesame sauce noodles to the table in the courtyard, and when she saw that Ma Renli's expression was wrong, she couldn't help asking.

Ma Renli closed the notebook, walked to Yang Deng'er, and said quite seriously as he walked, "According to my observations in the past few days, we really haven't had any rain here recently."

"Isn't it only June?" Yang Deng'er said.

"It's June, but it's also the rainy season, and it's not raining at all, so it's even harder to say when it's autumn and winter." Ma Renli's face was a little worried.

"Is there really a drought here for us?" Yang Deng'er also beat the drum in her heart.

Ma Renli took the fast child handed over by Yang Deng'er, sat on the stool, and stirred the noodles in the bowl: "It's hard to say now, maybe there will be a turnaround, after all, the weather fluctuates greatly in summer."

On this day, Wang Chongzheng was in the house, and Niu boldly suddenly came to the door.

"I heard that there is a new good seed in Hebei, and the yield is not low, I plan to buy some seeds and come back and try to plant one, what do you think?" After a few greetings, Niu Daring went straight to the point and went straight to the point.

"Now is not the time to think about seeds!" Wang Chong shook his head and said.

Cow bold

Said: "Now I don't think about when to consider the seeds, when you told Secretary Wang last time, didn't you say that if we want to increase the yield, we will only have the problem of fertilizer and seed varieties!" Now we can't solve the fertilizer problem on a large scale, so we can always try good seeds!"

"It's not a question of trying or not trying!" Ma Renli explained, "Don't you think the weather is not quite right this year?"

Niu boldly nodded in hindsight: "The weather this year is indeed hotter than usual, and there is less rain, and there have not been a few rains since the beginning of spring."

Wang Chongdao: "The newspaper said that there have been droughts in many parts of the country, and the drought is quite serious.

"No!" Niu boldly smiled and said, "We are leaning on the Maixiang River, and now we are building a reservoir, even if there is a real drought, we can divert water from the reservoir to irrigate the land."

Ma Renli shook his head and said: "The big insect means that now is not a good time to go out to buy good seeds, although Hebei and us are not too far away, but there is still a difference in climate, Hebei's good seeds to us, there must be a process of adaptation, if the wind and rain are smooth, maybe we can adapt, but if we catch up with the drought, coupled with the water and soil adaptation, it is uncertain!"

"This ......" Hearing Ma Renli say this, Niu Daring couldn't help but hesitate. Although Niu is a bit pedantic and stubborn, he is not the kind of person who is rigid and arbitrary and does not listen to other people's opinions at all.

"Bold, I know, you are now bent on raising production up again, and you want to get more food, but there are some things that we should consider that we also have to consider."

"Now the little money in our brigade's account is what we have saved for many years, and it is all the hard-earned money of the villagers, if we just go down the drain, can we afford the hard work of the villagers year after year!"

"I ······" Speaking of this, Niu Daring didn't know how to fight back, so he could only sigh faintly: "Hey!"

Wang Chongdao: "Go to Hebei, not to mention the money to buy seeds, just the round-trip expenses and expenses, it will cost a lot of money, the key variables are too big, even if we really buy the high-yield wheat seeds, it may not be able to achieve the effect we want, anyway, it's only June now, it's still early for autumn sowing, if you believe me, let's wait and see for a while?"

"Okay! You two have a point, and I listen to you." The cow's bold stubborn donkey temper didn't come up in the end.

As the days passed, the weather became hotter and hotter, and there were only two light rains scattered throughout June.

In the evening, in the yard, Ziping and Zi'an were playing with Da Hong Erhong, Da Hong Erhong was hugged back by Wang Chong since he was a child, and his own spirituality was quite high, that is, the two little guys dragged their tails hard, and the two dogs would not move their mouths, not to mention that Wang Chong was watching with a pu fan.

"It's time to eat!" Jiang Hongguo carried a large basin of noodles with cold water and placed it on the stone table in the courtyard.

Ziping and Zi'an, who were petting the dog, heard Jiang Hongguo's voice, and immediately put down the big red and second red in their hands, and rushed to the edge of the stone table with a puff of smoke.

"Hmm~~~" Before the two of them could climb the edge of the table and clear their throats, the brothers immediately stiffened as if they had been immobilized by a monkey, and then they drooped their heads and walked quickly to the edge of the water tank in the courtyard.

Wang Chong scooped water and washed the hands of the two brothers, wiped their faces, and then the two of them squeezed to the stone table and sat down.

"Mother, hurry up, I want to eat noodles!" The brothers were too short to sit and could not reach, so they could only stand on the edge of the stone table and urge their mother.

"It's coming, it's coming!" Jiang Hongguo used a tray to bring out the bowl of fried sauce, cucumber shreds, oil chili peppers and other ingredients.

Wang Chong took the bowl, sandwiched two bowls, mixed the sauce, and brought it to Ziping, Jiang Hongguo also brought the mixed noodles to Zi'an, and the two sons couldn't wait to eat the wooden fork that Wang Chong had sharpened himself.

Da Hong and Er Hong also came around, wagging their tails around and looking at the fragrant food on the table.

Wang Zhong also sandwiched a bowl, scooped the sauce, spread the cucumber shreds, and poured it into the rice bowl under the eaves after mixing.

"It's coming sooner and later

It's getting hotter!" Jiang Hongguo handed the mixed noodles to Wang Chong.

Wang Chong said, "Summer, isn't that it!"

"It's nothing to do now, I'll go into the mountains tomorrow and pick some herbs by the way, this time it may take a little longer."

Jiang Hongguo sighed: "It's good to go into the mountains, you can also avoid the limelight, and mix a little less."

Wang Zhong said, "No matter what happens, let's talk less and listen more, and there will be no problem."

Jiang Hongguo nodded and changed the subject: "By the way, I see that Qiao Yue has been listless all day long, do you think she has it?"

"I'm not sure if I don't have a pulse, but it's also possible that it's too hot, and I might have a heat stroke."

"If Qiao Yue really has it, it will be the second child, do you think we also want another one?" While talking, Jiang Hongguo buried his head in eating the noodles in the bowl.

"It's not impossible!" Wang Zhong looked at the two sons and said, "Daping, Er'an, will my father and mother add you another little sister?"

The two brothers, whose mouths were full of oil, looked up at Wang Chong in unison and said in unison, "Okay!"

Zi'an said, "Dad, I want a little brother!"

"Daddy, I want a little sister!" Ziping was not to be outdone.

Wang Zhong couldn't help laughing: "Then give birth to a few more! Dad and Mom will add a nest of younger brothers and sisters to you."

"What are you talking about, I'm not a rabbit, I gave birth to a litter!" Jiang Hongguo also had a smile on his face.