Chapter 48: Drought
I thought about it for days and finally came up with names for the three puppies. The one with a slight black hair in the coat color is called black gold, the one with black lines on the mouth is called a golden bean, and the one with a golden body is the most vigorous, called a soybean. As soon as I came back, I would give this sister a burst of vitality every day. Until now, wherever I go, this sister will follow.
Black Beans also love this sister very much, and I don't know if it's the idea of taking this sister as an aunt in the future. Brute is good, and my mother-in-law can have as many as she wants.
Huang Shulang and Ma Jindong came over every day, looking at my three little yellow dogs, and they couldn't take their eyes off.
"Master, you all have black beans in your house, these three small ones, why don't you give one to each of our senior brothers? Huang Shulang looked at me with blank eyes.
I immediately kicked Huang Shulang away: "Don't keep looking at me with the eyes of my little yellow dog. It's not that I'm stingy, you can't take these three puppies away. Confess the Lord. If you have the ability, if you can get them to follow you obediently, I won't regret that all three of you will leave. ”
Huang Shulang wilted all of a sudden, and it was impossible to deceive the little yellow dog away. Everything I raise at home is spiritual, not to mention dogs, even the chickens and ducks I feed at home are very spiritual, and I go to other people's houses every day to grab food, and when I am full, I go home by myself. Sometimes not only do they come back by themselves, but they also abduct other people's livestock.
"Don't keep staring at this little thing in my hand. You have to figure it out by yourself when you get a dog. After my hand, do you think you can still take it? Didn't my grandfather's dog hold cubs again? Wouldn't it be better for you to let your old man take a few catties of meat and exchange it for one? That's the same seed as black beans. ”
My words made Huang Shulang's eyes light up again. Ma Jindong's reaction was not slow, the two brothers looked at each other, and then ran away. I heard that my grandfather's dog had only given birth to two, and it was not yet a full moon. In the morning, I met my grandfather and said that I didn't know to talk to him, and if I opened my mouth, no one else would want to touch me.
I went to town to buy a dog, not only because Black Beans didn't do well last time, but also because I heard that babies born from close relatives can become stupid. The dogs in the village are close relatives of the grandpa's female dogs. I'll have to find a way to find a few aunts for Black Bean who aren't close relatives.
The next day, Huang Shulang and Ma Jindong went to school with a puppy in their arms. The cub wasn't full moon yet, and it barked all the way.
"Why did you bring the puppies here, can you keep them alive?" I asked worriedly.
"It's okay, we prepared milk. Some dolls in the village don't have milk to drink, don't they also drink milk?" Huang Shulang took out a milk bottle from his schoolbag and stuffed it into the puppy's mouth. This little thing is also spiritual, and it sucks hard while nibbling on the pacifier.
Ma Jindong was the same, and he also picked up the puppy in the same way.
I would have liked to hug the puppies they fed, but these two bastards were on guard against me like a thief.
"Master, it's not that we don't want to give you this little dog, it's mainly that if this thing gets into your hands, we're afraid we won't come back. Huang Shulang hugged the puppy tightly.
"Who is rare. Black gold, come here. I waved to the dogs who had been following me at my feet. Every day when I went to school, Heidou would take my three child daughters-in-law to see me off, and when I arrived at school, I went home with three little yellow dogs.
Although one person was holding a puppy in his hand, Huang Shulang and Ma Jindong were still so hot when they saw the four dogs I raised. There's no way their family would allow them to have so many dogs.
Huang Shulang and Ma Jindong were also angry for a day, and after returning home, the puppy was sent to the grandfather's house to reunite their mother and son.
When Mr. Lin was in class, two puppies in the classroom were in a frenzy, and Mr. Lin was furious on the spot and ordered the two boys to send the puppies home and go to class again. Only then did I know that these two boys were trying to find a way to transfer the grandfather's female dog away from the mountain, and then stole the puppy out. Sending the puppy back, he naturally ate a meal of fried fresh meat with bamboo shoots. But the grandfather still agreed. When the two puppies are full moon, let them take them home. Because of me, my grandfather was also very kind to my two apprentices.
The fire at the city gate affected the fish in the pond, and I also touched the head because of these two boys. Mr. Lin put the culprit of this dog stealing incident on my head. I was really shot while lying down and sleeping.
Teacher Lin's reason is very direct and sufficient, if I didn't have so many dogs, there would not be this unhealthy trend in the class. Teacher Lin took the opportunity to kill chickens and monkeys to make an example of this unhealthy trend in the class. And I, unfortunately, became the chicken that set an example for the monkey.
During the Dragon Boat Festival, it didn't rain. The old man in the village said that this was not a good sign. The rain of the Dragon Boat Festival is indicative of this year's climate. Farming and farming are all about watching the sky and eating. If the rain is bad, the life of the peasants will not be easy.
Since the Dragon Boat Festival, there has not been a drop of water in the sky. The rice, which was already close to filling, was still shriveled. The villagers are still waiting for the reservoir to release water.
But soon bad news came: during the Chinese New Year last year, the cadres of the reservoir released all the water in the reservoir in order to catch more fish, thinking that they would fill it up again during the rainy season. Drainage during the dry season is naturally not in accordance with the rules. But people's ** can make courage swell. However, this year's rainy season did not receive much rainfall. The reservoir simply wasn't able to store much rainwater. As a result, when the drought came, not a single drop of water could be released from the reservoir.
"If we continue to do it, this season's early rice harvest will be completely lost. "Grandpa was talking to grandpa in the yard about the fields.
"yes. Why is there so little rain this year? There was water in the ditch all the time last winter, and I didn't feel right. It turned out that someone from the Water Conservancy Bureau had dried up the reservoir. These people are really damned, who in this reservoir is the lifeblood of our township farmers. This time it's really fatal. Grandpa sighed.
"It's not fatal. Now young people are going out to work. There are not many who really feed on the crops in the fields. Most people always have some surplus grain in the barn at home. But I see that the harvest will be available in a month. As a result, they all died. It's really distressing. The grandfather took a puff of smoke, and two puffs of white smoke came out of his nostrils.
"If this is the Republic of China, the village must have begun to ask for rain. Now it's different, there is water conservancy construction, and everyone is counting on this reservoir. Grandpa also smoked with his head down. A few acres of land at home are also working hard.
I looked up at the sky, and there was not a single white cloud to be found in the blue sky. The leaves of the fruit trees in the back mountains have become wilted under the scorching sun. This year has been a severe drought. There was no moisture in the air at all, and when you walked on the road in sandals, you could feel the sandals softening a little from the hot ground.
Black Bean and the three little yellow dogs lay under the grape trellis, all of them opened their mouths, stuck their tongues out, and kept panting. When I walked past them, they were listless.
I squatted next to a few dogs, and after a series of vitality slapped into the bodies of several dogs, the four dogs immediately gained vitality and rejoiced around me. The three little yellow dogs have grown up a lot, but they all look very cute. They all lunged at me, and they kept making noise on me.
Huang Shulang and Ma Jindong came to the door of my house with a bucket and a fishing net.
"Second grandfather, is my master at home?" Huang Shulang walked to the door and didn't pay attention to me squatting under the grape trellis.
"What are you doing?" I replied.
"Master, the water in the Dama River is almost dry, and many people have gone to catch fish. Come and see if you're going?" Ma Jindong's stammering was almost good.
"Where are you going? If it doesn't rain again, all the fish in my fish pond will die. When I caught a fish, I didn't have a place to put it. I said angrily.
I'm worried about this. Now the rice in the field is about to dry up, and everyone is staring at the water in my pond, which is strange to say, as if the water in this pond can't dry up at all, until now, it is still slowly getting a pond of water. In fact, this pond seems to have a lot of water, but in fact it can't be watered much.
"Yangyang, fat man, they are looking for you to play, so you can go play with them for a while. Boys, don't stay at home all day. Seeing that Huang Shulang and Ma Jindong were a little disappointed, Grandpa immediately said loudly.
"Okay. "I was getting ready to go out.
Teacher Lin walked in.
"Where are you going?" Teacher Lin glanced at the things in Huang Shulang and Ma Jindong's hands.
"Mr. Lin, we're going to go to the Dama River to catch fish. Huang Shulang raised the fishing net in his hand.
"Huang Jingyang, you go too. Wait a minute, I'll go with you. ”
"You're going?" said the three of us in unison.
"What are your expressions? Can't I go?" Teacher Lin glared, and a few of us immediately closed our mouths one by one.
As soon as Mr. Lin entered, I kicked Huang Shulang's ass: "You have a lot of mouths." ”
Walking to the river, I was startled by the sight of the Dama River, which is usually running fast. In the river channel more than ten meters wide, only a deep ditch in the middle is still water. The banks of the river are full of diesel engines, rumbling to pump water from the river into the fields for irrigation.
There are also a lot of little kids and big kids like us running around with fishing nets. Some little kids simply took off their pants, and as soon as the water moved, they immediately pounced. From time to time, I heard people cheering, and fish of all sizes were caught from the big yards of the river.
It makes my heart ache to see it, these are my fish!