Everyone was happily eating melons, only Su Qingyun heard her mother's whispered muttering, she leaned over and whispered: "Grandma, they may eat more watermelons over there than we eat, but watermelons are abundant over there." ”

Because of the unique climate of the new province and the large temperature difference between day and night, the watermelons grown are very sweet and have a high yield.

Qin Ying naturally didn't know this, but she definitely believed her daughter's words, so she was happy after listening to it, "That's good." ”

After the family ate the delicious watermelon, they slept enough during the day, and they were not in a hurry to sleep at night, the family sat in the yard to enjoy the coolness, and in the summer night, there was finally a cool breeze, blowing over, although it could not relieve the heat, but it was better than nothing.

"There are so many stars in the sky." Someone looked at the sky and sighed.

The dark canopy of the sky was dotted with countless stars, like a pair of eyes, bright and shining, as if they had stayed there for eternity, observing and watching everything in this world.

"Tomorrow is another sunny day." Wu Guixiang was still thinking about the crops, and was a little worried, "When will it rain now?" ”

Su Aiguo said: "When I came back today, I met Youfu, he said that he had to go to the Nanhe River to bring water, otherwise the crops would really not be able to stand the sun." ”

"With so many villages waiting, where is the water in the South River?" Wu Guixiang is not optimistic at all.

Hearing this, everyone was a little silent.

"Don't think about it, let's sleep first, there must be a way before the car reaches the mountain, there is always a way." Su Aimin comforted everyone.

This is providence, manpower is difficult to change, everyone is in a hurry and has no choice, so they can only go back to the room in silence to rest, looking forward to tomorrow.

In the room, Su Aimin discussed with Qin Ying.

"Now the weather is uncertain, if this year is really dry and the harvest is not good, should we prepare early? Take some money to go to the black market to buy some old grain from previous years, and you won't be blind when you run out of food at home. Qin Ying said.

In the past three years, when there were natural disasters, everyone had experienced it, and the feeling of hunger, as if the whole person had been evacuated, eating grass roots, tree bark, and then even these could not be grabbed.

If you don't want to go through that kind of life again, you have to plan ahead.

Su Aimin thought for a while and said, "Let's not panic first, and then wait, didn't the eldest brother just say that Brother Youfu is going to divert water for irrigation?" Maybe things aren't that bad? ”

"This is not the same as buying other things, it is too attention-grabbing, and it is difficult for us to avoid the eyes of other people, so we should not do it unless we have to."

He had actually thought about it, but he still felt that he should not risk going to the black market to buy food for the time being, this was different from him secretly doing business, other good things could still be hidden, and it was difficult for food to hide from other people's eyes, of course, if he was hungry and the whole family survived, he couldn't care about anything else, or it was important to save his life.

Qin Ying thought about it, it wasn't to that point yet, and it wasn't too unfounded, "Okay, listen to you." ”

"However, we can still keep an eye on the price of food on the black market at any time."

"I know." Su Aimin nodded, "Okay, let's sleep first, don't think about it." ”

Su Qingyun, who is separated by a wall from them, is also thinking about this, although the gap between the rich and the poor is still huge in later generations, but there are still very few people who can't afford to eat, the birth of various new types of rice and wheat, excellent cultivation and breeding, so that the vast majority of people in China can eat enough, and now although hybrid rice has come out, but now, the task of making Chinese people eat enough is still a long way to go.

She turned over and sighed faintly, although she came from the later generations, and her knowledge and vision were much ahead of now, but for this kind of people's livelihood problem of the country's great plan, she was still powerless, Su Qingyun was more deeply aware than ever that she was just an ordinary person.

Since you can't change those big things, let's do what you should do.

Thinking about it, she also fell into a deep sleep, and in her dream, the golden ears of rice grew taller than sorghum, and the grains were the size of peanuts, and people could even enjoy the shade below.

The golden dream made her smile sweetly in her sleep.

The next day, it was another sunny day, Su Qingyun got up early and went to the test site, she now has more time to stay at the test site during the summer vacation.

Qi Chu, as the leader of the test team, is shouldering the burden of the whole group, and every process of the test is very important, and now the drought and lack of water have also caused great trouble to their experiments.

But fortunately, the area of the test site is not large, and they need to irrigate themselves to carry water in the river, bucket after bucket, but they can barely cope, but if the time is long, there is still no rain, the river water is not enough, what will happen to them in this experiment, if the wheat seeds are dried up, so many people's hard work will be ruined, and they will have no place to cry, so the test team is also thinking of ways to solve this possible problem.

When Su Qingyun arrived, the test team was in a meeting, and this was what he was talking about.

Qi Chu's face was solemn, "Everyone has to be mentally prepared, according to the news sent from other places, this year is not only our S province has less rain, but many provinces are also facing the same water shortage problem, the crops that the people have worked hard for so long, and our hard work for so long, can not be in vain, we can't sit still." ”

The other experts also looked serious and fell into deep thought.

Li Wenjun was in the corner of the table, raising his hand weakly, "Team leader, if you want to talk about the real drought, can't we artificially rain?" ”

Qi Chu glanced at him, "Artificial rainfall, it's easy to say, how can it fall without those conditions?" This rain did not come out of nowhere. "If only it could rain artificially, they wouldn't be so worried.

Li Wenjun silently shut up and stopped speaking.

"Team leader, let's see if water diversion and irrigation can work, right?" Su Qingyun spoke, "Now that there is a shortage of water in all villages, the captain is already preparing to go to the Nanhe River to divert water, I hope there is good news, at least to solve the urgent need first." ”

"That's all it can do for now." Qi Chu sighed, "Let's get ready to carry water." ”

"Yes."

As soon as his words fell, a group of people were about to get up, when there was a knock on the door outside, Qi Chu was stunned, who is coming at this time?

"Please come in."

The person who came in was Qin Youfu, who they were talking about just now, and he walked in, his face was not very good-looking.

"Captain, why are you here?" Qi Chu asked, he was a little puzzled, and then suddenly thought of something, his face changed, "Captain, it can't be that something happened to the water diversion and irrigation side, right?" ”

"That's it!" Qin Youfu sat down, his face becoming more and more ugly.

Qi Chu hurriedly asked, "What's going on?" ”

"Zhaojia Village, next to the Nanhe, they won't let us dredge the river and bring water over." Qin Youfu held his breath and said, "The young and middle-aged people in their village guard the rivers and don't let people dig them, not only on our side, but also on the other rivers. ”

In previous years, the rain was abundant, and the water level of the South River was also high, which inevitably flooded the farmland, and the rivers leading to the villages were blocked, leaving only the rivers leading to the big rivers, and now there is a shortage of water, and it is necessary to divert water for irrigation, so it is necessary to re-dredge the blocked rivers and divert the river water to the farmland from top to bottom.

But as soon as Qin Youfu went, he ran into a wall, and the river was not allowed to be dredged at all, and he even drove them away.

"What?" As soon as these words came out, everyone was shocked.

Su Qingyun's face also changed, she thought about the location of Zhaojia Village, and seemed to understand something.

"Why?" Qi Chu is unbelievable, when has this been, and is it still guarded that the river is not allowed to be dredged?

Qin Youfu looked angry, "It's not because Zhaojia Village is the closest village to Nanhe, their village has always relied on Nanhe for food, but now that there is a shortage of water, they want to use the farmland of several nearby villages first, and villages like ours that are a little farther away have no way at all." ”

"The people guarding the river said that if we really want to divert water, then it will be fine, we only need to give them 20% of this year's grain harvest to Zhaojia Village."

Qin Youfu's face was extremely gloomy, he wanted to go to the captain of Zhaojia Village to theorize, but he was prevaricated by the people of their village for various reasons, and he couldn't see their captain at all, and this was not the meaning of a village in Zhaojia Village, it was the common idea of several villages around them that surrounded Nanhe.

"Impossible!" Qi Chu trembled with anger, "The river is a national resource, everyone is qualified to use it, and this is not a private property resource of their village, who gave them the courage to do this?" This is simply too much! ”

Su Qingyun said in her heart: Sure enough, just now she guessed whether it would be this possibility, but she didn't expect it to be true.

"They don't have the right to do that!" Qi Chu felt that this would not work, "We must report this matter to the county and even the city, we can't let the situation continue to develop like this, if we continue to let them do this, then what will happen to Zhaojia Village?" Occupy the river as king? ”

He can understand that everyone is worried about the harvest in the field and wants water, but this practice is too selfish, not by the river, the river is their appendage, this is a national resource, it is shared by everyone, all of them are used in one place, what about other places?

It can't go on like this, it must be reasonably distributed.

"If we go to the county to report, and then wait for them to send someone down to deal with it, I'm afraid it's too late, maybe I'll freeze with them." Qin Youfu suddenly gritted his teeth and said, "It's really not good, while we sent people to the county, we let the young adults forcibly dig it." ”

"In addition to our Luoshui Village, we can also unite several villages next to us."

Qi Chu frowned, and in the end he could only nod, now there is only this way, several nearby villages are all in sympathy, they go together, maybe they can talk about it well, and it can be done, so as not to make things the worst situation, if it can be handled well, it will be handled well.