Chapter 261: Repair the reservoir
In early November, a sudden notice was issued in the village that a reservoir was to be built upstream of the creek that runs around the village.
At this time, there was no mechanical help to repair the reservoir, and the villagers basically dug it out with hoes and baskets, step by step.
Although it is difficult, the construction of the reservoir is still very necessary, the reservoir can store water during the rainy season, release water during the dry season, and effectively irrigate farmland for several surrounding villages during the dry season to ensure production.
Therefore, everyone's enthusiasm for building the reservoir is still very high.
Because of this incident, the village suddenly became lively and discussed.
The site of the reservoir is located in the farmland under the jurisdiction of Chenhui Village, which is only seven or eight minutes' walk from Chenhui Village.
It was a terraced rice field sunken inward, and in the middle was a spring, and the water that came out of it was groundwater, so clear and very cool, that the water that had just been scooped out was as if it had been chilled in a freezer, and the water was fetched with a glass bottle, and a layer of mist appeared on the bottle filled with spring water.
Other people don't know, anyway, the oldest old man in Chen Hui Village has never seen that spring dry up.
In the past, when the village was in the dry season, when there was no water to drink for two or three months, they would go there to fetch water and come back to drink, and even the small animals in the mountains would go there.
If you want to build a reservoir, just rely on the youth and strength of Chen Hui Village, of course, it will not work, if you only rely on the people in Chen Hui Village, you don't know how to work until the Year of the Monkey.
Therefore, the young and strong people in other villages will also go, counting the work, one work is three cents, and it is no problem to work hard for a day, seven or eight points, not to mention, and eat a lunch.
Now is the time of farming, many people are planning to go there to work, tired is a little tired, but you can also earn more than two cents! It's better than being idle at home.
At this time, the efficiency of the work was very high, the place was selected, and the next day, the village organized people to repair the reservoir.
The village was suddenly empty and much quieter.
Qin Jiang, Qin He and He Yuan all went, Tang Ying mixed with Qin Xi every day, either to mow the grass and feed the rabbits together, or to cook for He Yuan at the Zhiqing Point, and his life was very regular.
Although the reservoir is in charge of a lunch, she still has to make breakfast and dinner for He Yuan.
The two don't know what's going on, anyway, now that the relationship has been formalized, the two are now officially talking about each other.
After He Yuan formalized the relationship between the two, he was called a hard-working worker, and when he didn't go to work, he couldn't be idle, cutting grass and collecting firewood, Tang Ying was distressed for a while, you come and go, the relationship between the two is better and more sticky.
Qin Xi asked Tang Ying how the two of them determined their relationship, but Tang Ying vaguely changed the topic.
Although she was curious, she could still restrain this curiosity, and since Tang Ying didn't want to say it, she wouldn't ask.
The rabbits in the family have grown a little fast during this time, and because of the number of rabbits in the firewood room, fights are frequent, Qin Xi is so busy that he is about to die of exhaustion, this is tired, those rabbits are too worrying, and he has no heart to guess and explore the reason for the rapid development of the relationship between the two.
For the rabbit locked in the firewood room, she is still quite relieved, she has now found out, the window has already been nailed, even the door is a double guarantee, ordinary people, it is difficult to break through the defense line of their firewood room, so, her rabbit, is still very safe.
A few days ago, the captain Chen Aiguo lost a few rabbits at home, which was not a thief who came to steal it, but his rabbit secretly made a hole in the corner, they didn't find it, and ran five rabbits out.
In the end, only two were recovered, and as for the remaining three, I don't know whose house they entered.
Of course, there is another possibility, that is, the rabbit ran into the mountain, but this possibility is very small, after all, Chen Aiguo lives in the center of the village, if the rabbit can really break through the blockade and run into the forest, the lucky attribute must be full.
Qin Jiang, Qin He and He Yuan, after working in the reservoir for a week, are a little unable to hold on, every day tired hands tremble, the work of digging mud in the reservoir is much harder than working in the field.
The three of them took a day off and rested at home, while Qin Xi and Tang Ying took advantage of their free time on this day to take a bus into Yongxin County early in the morning with a basket on their backs.
There is still a month to go before the New Year, and the rabbits in the family are growing up one after another, and the smallest ones are four and a half pounds, and they should be sold one after another.
Only when you get the money in your hand is it a really good thing.
The rabbits of the two are still selling well on the black market, although the price is a piece of four and one catty, but in the end, most of the transaction prices are one piece of three and one catty, which is not much different from before, after all, there are very few people in the black market who do not bargain.
Qin Xi brought six rabbits, Tang Ying was three, and she only had a dozen rabbits, so this time she picked the three largest rabbits.
Tang Ying's rabbits were fed by her one by one to be fat and strong, the largest one was more than seven catties, this fat rabbit was sold by her at the price of four a piece, only three rabbits were sold, and she had an extra twenty-five yuan and eight cents in her pocket.
Qinxi's rabbits, the largest one is only more than six catties, and the six rabbits are sold for forty-seven yuan and five cents, and they are also full of harvest.
The pork in the black market, two yuan and five pounds, is very expensive, but the pork ribs are only one piece and eighty-one pounds, which is much cheaper.
At this time, people don't like pork ribs, there is no meat or oil, it is difficult to sell, and they are generally sold and digested internally.
Qin Xi and Tang Ying bought two pork ribs for more than two yuan, and the meat seller also gave two extra shaved stick bones without a trace of meat, one for each person.
Tang Ying learned from Qin Xi, buy pork ribs and go back to add winter melon stew soup to drink, as for stick bones, if you don't hesitate to firewood, you can also boil a big pot of broth, whether it is used to play hot pot shabu or add ginger to warm up and drive away the cold, it is a good choice.
After the two of them came out of the black market, the smile on Tang Ying's face couldn't be suppressed, she was so happy.
"Qin Xi, it's good that you remembered the stubble of raising rabbits before, otherwise I wouldn't know how to live this day!"
If she hadn't followed Qin Xi to raise rabbits, then she would probably have sold the watch in her hand, and then spent every day worrying, because she didn't know when she would spend the money, and she had no hope at all.
Now that she has it, she is looking forward to the rabbit at home growing fatter and fatter, and earning her a lot of money.
She has also experienced the ups and downs of life, and now she has money in her hands, best friends around her, and people she loves, it seems that she is not so resistant to going to the countryside.
(End of chapter)