And as many people went home to get the rope and get a madder juice that would dye the rope red, many of the old people in the village heard that Xin'er had also come to the dam.

It just so happened that Mrs. Xu was going to discuss things with these older people:

"Fourth uncle, seventh uncle, and all the old and young masters, you have come at the right time, and this is the situation.

Now the boys have also decided to go down to the river to have a look.

It's better if there are no holes under the embankment, and I'd rather be scolded and tossed around.

But if there is, do you have any good ideas to fill in the plug? It is better to be able to rise when exposed to water, or not only to plug the hole with stones, it has a gap. ”

This must be consulted.

Because soybeans are used to fill in modern times, soybeans can be soaked in water, and the soybeans will swell, which can block all the pipe gushing eyes.

But here, let everyone throw the soybeans into the river? That's to kill everyone.

The fourth uncle and the seventh uncle were asked coldly, and they couldn't remember what they were doing for a while, and they really didn't know.

Or a seventy-year-old man in the village suddenly said: "Go to the field to pick mine, that thing bubbles up when it is blistered, and it can plug the hole with dirt and stones." The back wall of our house has been blocked, and no matter how heavy the rain outside, it doesn't leak. ”

The old man who spoke was not used to work on the dam on weekdays.

Because Liu Laozhu remembered that he had lived too long, he had all his daughter-in-law and children gone, and no one had ever lived him.

But today, Mrs. Xu sent someone to send a bowl of bone broth to the old man, and the old man heard that it was given by Meizhuang, so he thought about coming to the dam to see Meizhuang. I didn't understand why I was dividing the bone broth, so I came with a crutch in my hand and a newly woven basket under my arm, thinking that I couldn't eat the younger generation's for nothing. If there is a happy event, use a small basket to salute.

Thanks to him, after the old man reminded him, many old people immediately echoed him: "Yes, yes, that thing is okay, it is covered with stones and insects, and it is very swollen in water, so you can use it to try." ”

Mrs. Xu knew in her heart that no matter how good things were, they must not be as good as plugging them with soybeans.

But in ancient times, under this condition, this is already the most useful thing at present.

Mrs. Xu immediately summoned the mothers-in-law who were looking at each other.

To be honest, the old lady's team has been in a daze, what are you going to do?

Don't worry about what you do, pick up a basket of soil, and each person quickly go to the field to dig two baskets of thunder.

"The last few ...... to return"

At this time, silence is better than sound, like the rope around Nale's neck.

Mrs. Xu took out the charcoal and a few pieces of paper that she had stolen from Liu Laozhu.

She doesn't have this thing at home, so it has to be faked.

And at the moment when Mrs. Xu took out the pen and paper from the placket of her gown, the old lady with one ear swooped and rushed out with a basket of soil.

You must not leave a handle for that stinky woman.

The one-eared lady swore that she would be the first to dig up the two baskets.

The other mothers-in-law also reacted immediately: Emma, Tian Xinnan, don't paint yet, let's run.

Mrs. Xu looked at the backs of the mother-in-law rushing to the earth like her feet on hot wheels, pursed her lips and secretly laughed twice.

Yes, let you fight with me before without lightness.

Subsequently, Mrs. Xu really wrote a note to remember, but the thing she wrote, only the family members in the live broadcast room can see it clearly, and it is written: Who's family contributed how much rope, and whose family contributed madder juice.

As for why she wanted madder juice, she remembered that there was a saying in the modern flood prevention mantra: the danger area should be marked.

One is to mark where there are holes on the shore in red. lest the boys finally come out of the river and forget where it is.

The second is that the young men will tie the rope on the waist of the river for a while, and how deep the rope needs to be dyed red on the rope first, and the rope can not go down to the number of meters, in case someone has leg cramps below or blindly goes too deep and it is easy to have an accident.

At this time, Mrs. Xu began to greet the main women's army again.

To be on the safe side, she planned to have a group of ten people pull the rope on the shore later.

As soon as he turned around, he saw Meizhuang: "Meizhuang's group of five people is enough, what about your man?" ”

"He's going to go down the river too, and he says he's good at water." I don't know if it's true or not.

Mrs. Xu spoke to the women's army: "We must hold it, and we must not relax when our hands are bleeding, so there are still you people below." Give me a loud answer, can you do it? ”

"Yes!"

The neat and uniform voice startled the men who were warming up and preparing to jump into the river.

But? Meizhuang motioned to Mrs. Xu to look under the dam, as if she didn't need them anymore.

I only saw that in the distance, there were ten or eight at first, and then groups of villagers suddenly came out.

Lao Zhai Tou was standing at the crossroads, trembling and beating the gong: "All ......" come out!

It's not a family business, it's a whole village business, isn't it?

More and more people are coming in the direction of the dam.

The ones who led the way at the front were the four uncles and seven uncles and other older ones, and they left just now to go back and ask someone to go.

They were dressed in rags, and some of them were so old that they had to rely on crutches to walk.

Many of them carried buckets, quilts, and firewood, and planned to boil hot water on the spot when they went up to the dam, so that the boys who would come ashore later could have a hot towel to wipe their hair and warm up.

It can be seen that every household has put down all their work, no cellars, no pickles, no baskets, no more picking up firewood, and no one has calculated that one household must produce one person.

This scene wants the family members in the live broadcast room to say:

Grandma Melon's eyes were red.

It's just that grandma blinked hard again, and she couldn't see it if she didn't look closely.

If it weren't for the little assistant who first gave the distant shot and then gave the grandmother's eyes a close-up, they wouldn't have found out.

Yes, it is absolutely false to say that Mrs. Xu was not touched in her heart.

Especially when you hear so many old people telling one after another: "Children, you must be careful." ”

The boys, barefoot, with their trouser legs and sleeves rolled up, and shovels strapped to their bodies, jumped into the icy river one after another without hesitation.

Then the trumpet was shouted on the shore, a little loosening of the rope, and a little pulling up.

The loose rope is: "Howl, howl!" ”

The pull up is: "Whew, Wow!" ”

At this time, even the background music in the live broadcast room has become: make way for the sea in the same boat, and pull aside as soon as the horn shouts the waves; Hundreds of boats compete for thousands of sails, and the waves are in the back shore in front.

The waves are rolling on the river.

Wang Yusheng, who sank into the river, took out the shovel he brought with him, and a hole appeared on the side of the embankment with only a light chise, and he had only one voice in his heart. ”

Then the three fierce men also appeared on their heads: "This is a small hole!" ”

On the other side, the beautiful son-in-law who came to the door, you see that he is so thin that he doesn't seem to have any great ability with a chick, as soon as he enters the river, he is like a white water mouse in the waves, and it seems that he is the most able to hold it under the water, and when he surfaces on the river, he shakes his wet hair all over his head: "Auntie, I have a boss's hole in my eyes!" ”

Hearing such a result, the people on the shore did not know whether to breathe a sigh of relief or to be more worried.

The fourth uncle and the seventh uncle stared at the river with one eye, and while directing everyone to quickly mark the mark, and then go down to fill it in later, they looked at Mrs. Xu and stopped talking.

It's a shame that the woman in front of her is in charge today, and she would rather go out and be scolded than insist on letting everyone go down the river.

If you listen to Liu Laozhu and only pile up big stones, then you have to wait for a heavy rainstorm, and the dam will have to sink.

It is conceivable that if there is another heavy rainstorm, the homes of people living close to the shore will be flooded, and the houses will collapse.

(End of chapter)