After the beginning of spring, the weather gradually became hotter, but there was not a drop of rain in the sky, the water of the Maixiang River became smaller and smaller, and the water wheel could only be barely pushed, and the water level of the upstream reservoir was also falling day by day.

In the middle of March of the lunar calendar, the watermills went on strike, and it was useless to change the waterways, because the water flow was so small, partly because of the continuous drought, and partly because of the reservoirs built upstream.

By mid-April, the lower reaches of the Maixiang River below the reservoir were almost cut off, and only a few deep waters remained above the surface.

The Maixiang Brigade, including most of the production brigades along the Maixiang River, could only carry water from the river and weir ponds one by one, and the Maixiang Brigade, under the strong leadership of Wang Chong, concentrated the water picked up from the river and watered some low-lying wheat fields.

The water level in the reservoir is also getting lower and lower.

At the beginning of May, the Maixiang River almost came ashore, the original deep water area became a depression, most of the riverbed *** outside, the wheat in the field is also drooping, most of the wheat ears are also dry and shriveled, although the villagers have tried their best to carry water to irrigate, but it is inevitable that many people are killed in the scorching sun and heat.

After the end of the wheat harvest, compared with previous years, the yield was reduced by about sixty percent, and this number was only a lot more, and the loss was not unmistakable.

This is still because the Maixiang Brigade has perfect water conservancy facilities and is well prepared, and the losses of other brigades are even heavier, and the most serious ones are almost unreaped.

Although the past few years have basically been smooth and the advanced technology promoted by Wang Chong, the county has encouraged various brigades to refer to the water conservancy projects instigated by the Maixiang Brigade, which can be regarded as a bumper harvest every year.

No matter how thick the family foundation is, it can't withstand the influence of the exaggerated wind, and the output reported by each brigade in the past two years has been rising steadily, and the public grain handed over has naturally increased year by year.

Especially last year, except for the Maixiang Brigade, the average yield per mu of almost every brigade exceeded 1,000 catties, and the high one even exceeded several thousand catties.

Before the report, everyone thought that the above would not levy public grain according to this figure, but when it was time to pay public grain, it was too late to regret it.

With such continuous dry weather, there is no hope for summer food.

At this time, there is no need for Wang Chong to remind, the villagers spontaneously cut down on food and clothing, although there is still food at home, but they also find wild vegetables and fruits all over the mountains.

The villagers also know in their hearts that if they really have to wait until the mountains and rivers are exhausted to find wild vegetables and fruits, it will be too late.

Who knows how long this drought will last, and when this happens, a little will be saved.

At night, the villagers all went to the kang early, and they couldn't wait to lie on the kang all day long, consume less energy, be hungry more slowly, and eat less.

Dressed in coarse cloth and wearing a straw hat, Wang Chong, carrying a bow and arrows and a firewood knife, took advantage of the night to carry a few skinny rabbits with wooden sticks, and saw that there was not much meat on the hare and two raccoon dogs.

Listening to the noise from the backyard, Jiang Hongguo, who had been asleep for a while, immediately jumped up, showing a vigilant expression: "The master?"

"It's me!"

Wang Chong responded, Da Hong Erhong spontaneously got into the kennel, Wang Chong walked into the courtyard along the sandwich road, and pushed the door straight in.

Jiang Hongguo had already turned on the lights and walked out.

Jiang Hongguo used a feather duster to help Wang re-dust off the grass clippings and dust on his body.

"It's been a dry day, and there are so few creatures in the mountains!" Three skinny hares and two raccoons were placed on the table.

"Hurry up and wash!"

"I'll do whatever I want!"

"No!" Wang Chong took Jiang Hongguo's hand and smiled slightly, "I've had dinner."

"Rub my back!"

"Hmm!"

Wang Chong pulled Jiang Hongguo into the bathroom, took himself off numbly, sat in the big wooden basin, and Jiang Hongguo scooped water and poured it on Wang Chong's head.

Wang Zhong rubbed his face and asked, "How are you in the team these days?"

"It's nothing, the villagers are still looking for it all over the mountains

Wild herbs."

"What wild herbs! Everything that needs to be dug has been dug up." Wang Zhong sighed with emotion: "The rest is dry and dry, and the dry is dry!"

In the great drought season, and it lasted for more than a year, the crops in the fields were sunburned, and the shrubs, wild grasses and wild vegetables that spread all over the mountains could not be spared.

Wang Chong simply washed it, only used a few scoops of water, and then wiped his whole body with a wet towel dipped in water, and asked Jiang Hongguo to rub his back hard with a loofah, and then he felt transparent.

Although the wells drilled by the brigade can produce water, it is necessary to save some energy at this time.

After taking a shower, I came out of the bathroom, changed into the clothes prepared by Jiang Hongguo, and soaked the dirty clothes into the wooden basin with the bath water.

Now I even go to the toilet in the backyard to save the little water that I use to flush the toilet.

On the kang, the two sons in short coats were lying on their backs, sleeping sweetly, the weather was hot, but fortunately it was cool on the kang.

The two sons slept relatively dead, belonging to the kind of thunder that could not be beaten, Wang Chong grabbed Jiang Hongguo, who was about to go to the kang, leaned into her ear and whispered, "Let's go to the wing!"

[The app that has been running stably for many years is comparable to the old version of the book-chasing artifact, which is used by old bookworms.]

My father, uncle, and brothers were captured and sacrificed on the battlefield, and although my mother escaped the famine, she also fell ill and died within two days of returning to her hometown.

Immediately after the founding of the country, land reform, seeing that there was hope for the future, Jiang Hongguo married the husband in front of the head under the agreement of relatives, but after only a few months of marriage, the husband fell ill, bedridden, and couldn't get off the ground.

"Master!" Jiang Hongguo looked at Wang Chong with tears in his eyes, his eyes flashed with crystal tears, and his eyes seemed to be dyed with some kind of different feelings: "You... Are you serious?"

Wang Zhong grinned, put his right hand on the back of Jiang Hongguo's head, stepped forward and touched the red lips like a dragonfly, "If you are born, you will know!"

Jiang Hongguo didn't know where the strength came from, so he rushed forward and pressed Wang Chong down on the kang and straddled Wang Chong.

"Don't you have no strength?" As soon as Wang Chong's words came out, his mouth was blocked, and his already vigorous energy was not like a powder keg, which exploded at one point.

The next morning, Jiang Hongguo rarely slept lazy, and the chickens in the backyard crowed several times, but still had no intention of waking up.

"Father, mother?" The two sons asked stupidly, in the past, Jiang Hongguo should have been busy preparing breakfast for the family by the stove at this time.

"My mother is not feeling well, she is asleep in the side room, you two are weird to me, don't bother her!" It's a pity that these words fell in the eyes of the two demon kings of the mixed world, and it was the same as if they didn't say it, as soon as Wang Chong entered the house to prepare breakfast, the brothers went into the side room.

Looking at his mother who was obviously still asleep with her eyes closed on the kang, Ziping had just opened her mouth, and was covered by her younger brother who was quick to move next to him.

"Shhhhhh Zi'an raised his fingers: "Didn't you listen to your father, my mother is not feeling well!"

Ziping took his brother's hand away, looked at his mother, and asked in a low voice, "What do you say is wrong with my mother?"

Zi'an's eyes were also a little concerned: "How do I know!"

"Haven't you been studying medicine with your father?"

Zi'an didn't want to talk to Ziping, so he looked at his mother quietly, with a little worry in his eyes.

When Jiang Hongguo woke up, listening to the concerns of the two sons, he was inevitably a little embarrassed.

Breakfast polenta and vegetable dumplings, this year's meal oil and water are not much, there is no picky eater, the two sons grab the vegetable dumplings and feast.

Wang Zhong said, "Starting tonight, you two will go to sleep in the wing."

"Why?" The two brothers ate in unison.

Jiang Hongguo thought that Wang Chong would come up with some good reason to talk about the two sons, but he didn't think about Wang Chong's words, but he almost didn't make her red-faced.

"Don't you want younger brothers and sisters, you always sleep with us, how can I give birth to younger brothers and sisters with your mother!"

The two sons glanced at each other, looked at the father and mother opposite, and said in unison, "Okay! We'll move after we've eaten!"

Jiang Hongguo pinched the soft flesh on Wang Chong's waist, and the hand that had just used a little force was also released, and the reaction of the two sons was somewhat unexpected by him.

After eating, the brothers were busy moving their things to the East Wing, Jiang Hongguo wanted to help, but Wang Chong didn't let him.

Wang Chong was about to go out, but Qiao Yue and Niu boldly ran over with a worried look on their faces while holding the child.

"Big worm, take a look, what's wrong with the dog?"

Niu Daring and Qiao Yue's child is almost a year old, and his nickname is still called Gou'er, which is about the same age as Ma Renli's son Ma Commune, and he is now more than eight months old.

Wang Zhong took the child and examined it carefully, and breathed a sigh of relief: "It's not a big problem, it's just malnutrition, plus a little heat stroke, this heat stroke is easy to say, but this malnutrition."

Wang Zhong looked at Qiao Yue, the meaning was self-evident, the child was only eight months old, and he had not yet reached the age of weaning.

"When the child is still young, he can eat some rice lake noodle soup, but he still has to rely on breast milk to supplement it

nutrition."

"Do you need to prescribe medicine?" Niu asked boldly and nervously.

"No, I'll give the dog a massage, and then feed a little mung bean soup appropriately, by the way, do you have mung beans at home?"

The cow shook his head boldly.

"Then let Guo'er bring you some back, remember, drink a small bowl at a time, the dog is too young, drinking too much is not good for the body."

Wang Zhong gave the dog a massage, instructed the matters to pay attention to, and sent away Niu Daring's family of three.

On the mountain, Yang Deng'er and Sister-in-law Jin Hua, Han Chunmei carried the child on their backs with a cloth, holding a hoe in their hands, and were digging grass roots.

The wild vegetables on the mountain are basically sunburned, only some grass roots and the leaves of all big trees have been spared, as early as after the summer harvest, the villagers have begun to dig wild vegetables in the mountains, digging grass roots.

Ziping and Zi'an carried this small hoe on their shoulders, followed Jiang Hongguo's side, and got together with a few people.

"When will it rain on this day?" Sister-in-law Jin Hua raised her sleeves to wipe the sweat from her forehead, a little tired.

Nowadays, the crops can't be planted, the food is thin, there is no oil and water in the stomach, and naturally there is not much strength.

"Sister-in-law Deng'er, doesn't your family know how to look at the weather, what did he say?"

"Hey!"

Yang Deng'er stopped what she was doing and stood with a hoe, her eyes full of sorrow: "Can we still say, there is no rain."

Sister-in-law Jin Hua said: "It's been dry for more than a year, the Maixiang River has been cut off, and I heard that the water on the other side of the reservoir has also bottomed out, do you think this autumn sowing can still be carried out normally?"

Han Chunmei said: "Look at the current situation, winter wheat is definitely not ready, didn't the team put a lot of buckwheat seeds, and when the autumn comes, the weather cools down, just make up for a crop of buckwheat."

"It's a crop of buckwheat that needs to be supplemented, and it's hard to say what it might become." Yang Deng'er said with some concern.

"There must be a road before the car reaches the mountain!" Jiang Hongguo said, "It's useless for us to worry, let's take one step at a time."

Sister-in-law Jin Hua looked at Jiang Hongguo: "Guo'er, I found that you are becoming more and more like your man now!"

Han Chunmei couldn't help nodding.

"Alas, isn't that Qiao Yue?" Everyone looked along the position of Sister Jin Hua, and saw a woman wearing a plaid thin shirt, also carrying a child, carrying a hoe, a rattan basket tied around her waist, and with shoulder-length short hair and bangs, going up the mountain.

"What's so strange!" Yang Deng'er only glanced at it, and then withdrew her gaze.

"Don't say it, Qiao Yue has changed a lot in the past two years." Sister-in-law Jin Hua still looked at Qiao Yue.

"When she first married Captain Niu, ouch yo that is called a squeamish, today is uncomfortable here, tomorrow there is uncomfortable, see the day to ask for leave to be lazy, just refuse to work in the field, ask Captain Niu to serve her."

"That's all before, what are you talking about!" Jiang Hongguo said, "Besides, aren't the two of them doing well now, Captain Niu!"

Speaking of this, the gossip fire in Sister-in-law Jin Hua's heart burned: "If you want to talk about this, your man knows best, when Qiao Yue saw the sky and Captain Niu quarreled, it was the big worm and the vegetable bun who came to the door together to persuade him."

"Guo'er, tell everyone, how did you persuade your man and Cai Baozi?" Sister-in-law Jin Hua looked curious.

"What else can you persuade, isn't it just those words that let the two of them live a good life." Jiang Hongguo chuckled in his heart, remembering Wang Chong's instructions, he didn't dare to spit out the truth, otherwise Qiao Yue's reputation in the village would be over.

Counting the days and living far away from her husband, she refuses to give birth to her man······

In Jiang Hongguo's cognition, this is like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, impacting the three views.

"Have you seen that brother of Captain Niu?" Jiang Hongguo changed the subject.

Without the matter of 10,000 catties per mu, the villagers of the Maixiang Brigade are better than in the original plot, and they don't know how many times, although last year's autumn grain production was not light, and this year's summer grain is very serious

, the days of the Maixiang Brigade, don't say that it is in the Maixiangling Commune, even if it is placed in the county, it can also count first.

Niu Daring's younger brother and his mother also suffered a disaster, and it was when the exaggerated wind was raging, and he couldn't live anymore, one night a while ago, Niu Daring's half-brother came to the door with his mother behind his back.

There was still a lot of food at home, so Niu boldly left the people behind.

Sister-in-law Jin Hua shook her head and said, "Didn't you say that Brother Daring's younger brother sent Brother Daring back and left that night! It seems that few people in our brigade have seen him, right?"

"I haven't seen it!" Han Chunmei also shook her head.

Yang Deng'er didn't speak.

Han Chunmei said, "It's not easy to live outside now, why don't you say that Brother Daring and his brother don't stay? At least I can stutter!"

"Man!" Sister-in-law Jin Hua said, "If it weren't for the fact that I couldn't survive, it is estimated that even Brother Daring might not be willing to come back."

Yang Deng'er remained silent, concentrating on wielding the hoe.

"I heard that Brother Daring and her mother fell ill as soon as she came back?" Sister-in-law Jinhua said.

Han Chunmei said, "It's sick, when I went to see it with the master, my aunt couldn't get off the kang, and she didn't have much strength."

Jiang Hongguo said: "I have been there a few times, the old man is too old, his body is already weak, and he has been starving for a long time, and he has been running all the way, which has hurt his vitality, so he can only slowly recuperate."

"Can you recuperate?" Sister-in-law Jin Hua asked curiously.

Jiang Hongguo shook his head: "It's hard to say! After all, my aunt's age is there."

"Hey!" Han Chunmei sighed, "It's like this again!"

Sister-in-law Jin Hua also sighed with emotion: "Who said it wasn't!"

Jiang Hongguo's eyes also flashed, remembering the past.

Only Yang Deng'er didn't say a word.