"Cousin, this summer is so dry, how is the harvest of the farmer in the field?"

"It's been a dry year." My cousin sighed: "Our village is okay, we have that deep well to support it, and the water in the field can keep up, but people are a little tired, this is nothing, country people, it is normal to exert force." In fact, natural disasters are not terrible, but what is really terrible is man-made disasters. ”

"Qishan, how do you say that?"

"You may not know that there is a township on the other side of Beihe that lost tens of thousands of kilograms of grain because of the carelessness of the staff when it collected grain some time ago."

"Ten thousand kilograms?" This number made Li Heng and Fang's father stupid.

"Isn't it?" My cousin took a puff of cigarette, and his face was full of distress.

"After we finish harvesting the grain, each village must hand it over to the town's grain collection point according to the standards."

After seeing the two of them nodding, he continued: "The grain collection point in the town, after receiving the grain, will be stacked in one place, stacked into a hoard, each hoard is about twenty or thirty thousand kilograms.

After all the collection is completed, it will be handed over to the grain station in the county together, and there will be a process. Under normal circumstances, it takes about a week to collect all the towns.

During that time, the weather was hot, and the grain handed over must have been not thoroughly dried, so many grains were piled together, so we should pay attention to the temperature, and be careful that the grain piled down below would sprout and mold because of the high temperature and humidity.

Therefore, every day, someone will be sent to hold a special thermometer and insert it into the grain pile to see the temperature at the bottom, and once the temperature is high, it needs to be turned over.

The town was doing this work at that time, a young man, maybe he didn't understand, but he must have been careless, he didn't take the work to heart, he didn't notice that the thermometer was broken, and the temperature measured for three or four days in a row was the same for every hoard. That's not going to happen. ”

Speaking of this, my cousin stopped and sighed, Li Heng and Father Fang didn't interject, waiting for him to continue.

In this way, after three or four days, an old man who often came down to collect grain noticed that something was wrong, and hurriedly reported it to the leaders of the town, and took out all the food that had been hoarded and checked it.

Alas, it's a pity, it's late, and in three or four days of such a high temperature, a lot of grain below has already sprouted. In the last count, nearly 20,000 kilograms were lost. ”

This loss is not insignificant.

"Cousin, how did you deal with this later?"

"What else can be done, all the people in that town who are doing grain collection work have been arrested by the county, and I heard that the leaders were going to shoot them at that time, of course, how to deal with it, the results have not yet come out, but I think they are not much better."

It's really not impossible, 20,000 kilograms of grain, which is enough to feed as many people as possible.

And this is a complete dereliction of duty, how can such an important work be handed over to a young man who has no common sense of life, at least an old man must be arranged.

In addition, the work of temperature measurement must be carried out at least three times a day, and it must be registered, so is there no one who takes a look at the registration book?

During this period, as long as one person can serve snacks, this kind of tragedy will not happen, let alone three or four days, and you can find that there is a problem here after a test.

How can a dozen hoards of grain be stacked at the same temperature.

Even if they were shot, they deserved it.

Speaking of this cousin, I felt panicked in my heart, the peasants had worked hard for a year to grow so much grain, and it was ruined like this, and the peasants in that town did not kill those people on the spot, which was enough restraint.

"Hmph, the boy and his father, you said it was less." The aunt who chose the vegetables took over and said: "At that time, if it wasn't for the leaders from above to appease those villagers and repeatedly promise that they would seriously deal with everyone involved, I'm afraid that those arrested in the town would not have been able to leave the town."

At that time, the people from the county were going to take those people away, and the nearby villagers with hoes, shovels, climbing plows, and even some with knives, surrounded them in the courtyard, shouting that they were going to kill the people in the town on the spot.

Later, the matter was reported to the city, and the big leaders on the side came early the next morning, so they persuaded everyone to take the people away and deal with it after the grain collection work was all over. ”

Every grain of grain is the blood and sweat of farmers, and who can not be angry when they see their hard work for a year being wasted like that, especially in this era when there is a shortage of food.

The topic was so heavy that several people quickly diverted their attention to something else.

With the chat, the cousin gradually relaxed, and when he talked to Li Heng, he was no longer in that restrained state, he could still joke from time to time, and invited him to his home as a guest.

When the meal is ready, and two more glasses of wine, the atmosphere in the room is even more lively.

I didn't dare to drink for a long time, at this time it was already dark outside, and my cousin and aunt wanted to ride back in the dark, and several people couldn't persuade them.

"Sister, brother-in-law, Xiaoya Erheng, we have to go back, although the land has already been harvested, but there is still a lot of work, seeing that this day is getting colder day by day, I dare not delay, if it weren't for meeting Erheng, the new son-in-law, we would both have already arrived home."

Seeing that she couldn't be persuaded anymore, Fang's mother walked into the back room, and when she came out again, she was holding a small burden in her hand.

"Qishan, Juan'er, here is a little cloth and two catties of cotton, take it back and watch it make new clothes for the children. When you come back when you're free, you come in a car and bring your children with you. ”

Looking at the burden handed over by his cousin, his cousin was silent for a moment, and then reached out to take it.

"Thank you, sister, thank you, brother-in-law."

"By the way, Juan'er, has Lei Lei introduced the object?"

"Yes, sister, I don't know if you remember, the old Feng family in the east of the village."

"Old Feng's family? Uncle Feng? Is there a problem with the right eye? I remember that his eldest son seemed to work in a factory in the county. ”

"Yes, yes, it's his family, Uncle Feng's second daughter, Feng Cuicui."

"Hey, I remember this girl, she grew up as a water spirit when she was a child."

"It's not a problem, the two children can be said to have grown up together since childhood, and they themselves are willing." The look of joy on my aunt's face was undisguised, and it could be seen that she was very satisfied with this daughter-in-law.

"When are you going to get married?"

"At the end of the year, we discussed with Feng Lao Er that we would marry the two children by the end of the year."

"Qishan, Juan'er, after the wedding date is set, you must inform us in advance, I haven't been back for two years, I have to go back to see."

"Don't worry, sister, no one can miss you, Erheng, ......"

"Hey, aunt, you say."

"Then you'll have to go back to the village with you."

"That's a must."