Dressed as a farmer group pet

Chapter 188 Chapter 188

Since the village head told Jiang Hu not to worry about it, Jiang Hu really didn't care about it. Anyway, if the family has water and food, it can be said that they don't leave the door, and go to the study to take lessons.

However, sometimes Jiang Hu would take a ladder and climb up to the roof to see the situation outside.

It can be seen that there are still people carrying water down the mountain, but obviously not as many as before.

Jiang Hu deliberately guarded once, going up the mountain alone, at least one hour later before coming down.

It seems that the water is still getting out, but the amount is small.

Until the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, there were only a few people who went to the mountains to fetch water. They probably knew that the water was difficult to get up. Many people came once and then stopped.

Yes, Jiang Hu also understood, seeing that everyone has saved a lot of water.

Otherwise, even if it is difficult to deal with, I am afraid that there will be people guarding the pool every day.

There were fewer people in the village, so Jiang Hu was no longer afraid, and the gate opened, allowing the children who had been closed for a long time to play by themselves.

With the incident of the old woman kneeling directly in front of Xiaomi, he was really worried about what those people would do to the children.

Jiang Yu held Liu Ze in one hand and Tie Dan in the other, just like a big dog who had finally let the wind go, he ran to find Liu Hai to play with while roaring.

"Xiaoxue, don't you go out to play?" Jiang Hu looked at Xiaoxue who was still sitting under the eaves, she was practicing embroidery.

When Liu Bo first came to Jiang's house, he brought a lot of things for the children in the family.

Jiang Yu's Four Treasures of the Study, Xiaoxue's various embroidered patterns, Xiaomi Tiedan's snacks, etc.

"I'm almost finished embroidering this one, I'll go play later, Dad, you can take Xiaomi out to play first."

"Millet?"

Jiang Hu asked back, and when he lowered his head, he realized that Xiaomi was standing next to him. Looking at it, he might have been waiting for a long time.

Jiang Hu picked up Xiaomi without any hassle: "I said why didn't I go out with Big Brother and the others? Why, are you going to be with Daddy today?"

Xiaomi nodded with a smile: "Yeah, let's go with Daddy."

Daddy will definitely go to the village chief and grandpa, and she also wants to hear what's going on on the mountain.

Jiang Hu didn't think much, greeted Erniang and Uncle Liu, picked up Xiaomi and went out.

I don't go out these few days, not because I'm afraid of things, but because I don't think it's necessary, and I'm worried about the children's accidents.

But after being locked up at home for the past few days, not to mention the boredom of the children, he himself couldn't stand it anymore, and there were no outsiders in the village, so he went out for a walk.

The rapeseed and wheat in the field had already withered, and the ground was so dry that it cracked, so the sorghum was still growing tenaciously.

Not to mention watering, all the excrement in the latrine was scooped up.

Now, I just hope that the sorghum can be harvested a bit.

When I met other people on the road, they all had gloomy faces. Because there was no water, they were reluctant to wash with water. Everyone's face was dusty.

But when he sees Jiang Hu, he still greets him with a smile, and then praises how good Xiaomi is.

In fact, the Jiang family is the same, even Liu Ze, the young master who was very expensive at first glance, is now dusty, and he hasn't washed his hair, bathed or washed his clothes for a month or two.

There is no way, the conditions are difficult now, every drop of water is extremely precious, no one is willing to waste water to wash their face and clothes, even if their body smells stinky.

Fortunately, this is winter and spring, and I hardly sweat much. Although it is a bit uncomfortable, it is not impossible to persevere.

After all, compared to being dead, everything else is nothing.

Looking at the situation outside, Xiaomi sighed in his heart, if only artificial rainfall could be done.

Unfortunately, there is water in her space, but there is nothing that can turn water into rain.

There is a river in the village, but when the water is put in, it just flows away, so we have to find a way.

While thinking about it, Jiang Hu had already carried her to the village chief's house. The village chief was sitting on the edge of his courtyard, watching the situation in the village, smoking dry tobacco, frowning, and didn't even notice Jiang Hu came over.

"Village head," Jiang Hu called out, put it on Xiaomi to let her play by herself, and then sat next to the village head.

Xiaomi rolled her eyes and sat beside her father.

"Xiao Jiang is here, what's the matter, someone has troubled your house again?"

Jiang Hu's family lived at the end of the village, and they couldn't know what happened in time, so the village chief's first reaction when he saw Jiang Hu was that there was another person who didn't have long eyes.

Jiang Hu shook his head: "That's not true. The house is quite quiet these days, but there are not many people fetching water, so I came to ask about the situation."

When the village chief saw that Xiaomi smelled the smoke, he pinched his nose, paused, knocked off the dry smoke on the stone beside him, and stopped smoking.

"It's true that there are not many people, mainly because the water is not easy to get."

Jiang Hu hurriedly asked what was wrong.

It turned out that there is indeed water, but it is very deep, deeper than they imagined!

On the day they came back from the mountain, some people went up the mountain to fetch water. Unfortunately, it was not as easy as imagined.

I tied the wooden barrel with a rope and put it for nearly ten meters, but it stopped moving, and not a drop of water came up.

Everyone guessed that the hole below should be very small, and they replaced it with something smaller than a wooden barrel. They were going to try to see how big the hole was.

"For the opening of the bowl-sized hole, everyone made a small bucket of this size in time, and put nearly 40 meters of rope to bring the water up."

"And the opening of the hole is very small. When you pull it up, it always hits the stone wall, and half of the water is sprinkled. When you pull it up, it's just like a bowl of water. You can't get a few buckets of water a day."

No wonder there are fewer and fewer people fetching water. The efficiency is indeed very slow. If there is no water at home, it will basically be slow.

Jiang Hu nodded: "Anyway, it's better than not having a drop of water, less is less, at least it can save lives."

However, the sadness on the village head's face did not decrease at all.

"It's true to say that, but it's just a little water, it won't work. If it doesn't rain anymore, there will be no harvest in the field, and we won't be able to grow food. What can we eat?"

Jiang Hu sighed softly: "I can only resign myself to fate, what can I do if it doesn't rain in the sky."

If it doesn't rain, we can't grow food. Even if we still have food and drink now, if we continue to work for a while, the family will run out of food. When it rains, we can grow food, but the harvest will take more than half a year.

How will I live for half a year?
"This one is rushing one after the other. Seeing that everyone's life is getting better, it's catching up with this again."

Jiang Hu didn't know what to say. Although his family's situation was better, if it didn't rain, he would encounter the same predicament sooner or later.

"The water is so deep." Xiaomi, who was listening to his father and the village chief, dragged his cheeks, suddenly said.

Jiang Hu touched Xiaomi's little head, the child is too young to know the seriousness of the matter.

Xiaomi looked at Dad and the village chief curiously: "Daddy, can we dig a deep, deep hole, so that there will be water?"

Opening his arms, he gestured big and big.

"It's like a well, but it's very big, very deep!"

Because there is a river in the village, there is no pond or anything. If there is a pond, she can find a chance, such as midnight or something, and secretly fill the pond with water.

There are dozens of tons in the space, maybe even more than that, and if they are left unused, they are wasted.

"Dig a well?"

The village head and Jiang Hu looked at each other, and both saw the surprise in each other's eyes.

Xiaomi shrugged, "It's not a well. Daddy and the village chief's grandpa are both stupid. The well is so small that you can't walk down it."

The village head laughed suddenly: "Xiaomi is really smart, Xiao Jiang, anyway, it's fine every day, I'll tell the villagers, let's find a place to dig and see, maybe we can really dig out water."

Jiang Hu also nodded again and again: "Okay, water can be obtained from the mountain, which means that there is still underground, but it may be dug very deep."

The village chief waved his hand: "It doesn't matter how deep it is. If you can really dig out water, you can dig as deep as you want. Besides, there are hundreds of people in the village. What are you afraid of?"

Then he smiled and praised Xiaomi: "Xiaomi is really smart. There was no river next to our village, but there were several ponds. After so many years, I actually forgot."

Indeed, not all villages are built near water. In many places there are no rivers. We just dig one or two ponds in the village, dig a little deeper, and dig two ditches around them. A single rain can accumulate a lot of rainwater.

Whether it is washing sweet potatoes or peanuts, it can be washed in the pond.

Sometimes when there is less rain, we just carry water from the pond to irrigate the fields, no problem at all!
It's just that when I arrived in Fu'an Village, I got used to the fact that there was a river next to it, and the river water could flow into the field along the canal, so I forgot about the pond.

The village chief laughed out loud, as if the water would be dug out immediately, and he seemed extremely happy.

Only Xiaomi looked dazed, as if he didn't know what happened.

Just do what you said, the village chief immediately went to Liu Yang, and then asked Liu Yang to help him inform other people.

Jiang Hu sent Xiaomi home first, and then went to the village chief's house for a meeting.

In just a short while, Xiaoxue had finished embroidering the previous pattern, and was about to go out with Erniang.

"Xiaomi, we are going to dig grass roots, do you want to go together?"

Xiaoxue carried a dustpan and dug grass roots to feed the bamboo raccoons. The four raccoons were not affected by the drought at all, and even gained weight.

"Go!" Xiaomi hurriedly followed happily, "Where are we going to dig today? The wheat in the field is dead, will the grass roots die too?"

"Miss Xiaomi, grassroots don't die so easily, so be strong." Aunt Yang was also carrying a hoe, and it seemed that she was going to go together.

Xiaomi looked around: "Grandma Yang, where are Grandpa Liu and Uncle Qixi?"

You were still at home before, why did you disappear so soon, and when you came back, you didn't see them?
"Master and Qixi went to the mountain, and they said they were going to see the situation on the other side of the pool."

Although Uncle Liu had always known about the water pool, he hadn't been there yet, and it happened that there were not many people on the mountain now, so he asked Qixi to take him to have a look.

"Oh, that's it." Xiaomi said he knew.

Er Niang has already carried the basket on her back: "Let's go, let's dig some near the old house, and the bamboo raccoon can't eat too much."

Xiaomi jumped up and down to keep up, completely unaware that just now, because of her words, the whole village became busy.

There is a piece of wasteland next to the old house. In the past, it would have been covered with green weeds, especially pig lenticels and wild chrysanthemums, but now, there is nothing here.

On the field ridge next to the wasteland, there is usually vigorous thatch, whether it is cut to feed rabbits or cows, it is very good.

But now, the thatch has long since dried up, and the soil is hard with a hoe, and it takes several strokes to dig it out.

Just like what Aunt Yang said, even though the top has died a long time ago, even the surrounding soil has dried into pieces.

But the thatch roots below are still fresh, even plump, as if they haven't been affected in any way.

Even Aunt Yang was surprised: "The roots of this grass grow really well, and they are so tender."

Er Niang is still busy digging grass roots: "This area is better, and the other places are not good, and they are a bit dry."

Xiaomi Xin said, of course, these grasses are for feeding rabbits and cows, and she has watered the spring water a lot, so the vitality must be very good.

Because Erniang didn't know about the Lingquan water, she used to dig grass roots everywhere, wherever it was suitable.

I came here two days ago and realized that the grass roots here are so fresh.

Feed the bamboo raccoon with fresh grass roots, and the raccoon can also drink less water. On the other hand, it can be regarded as saving water.

Erniang and Aunt Yang dug, smashed pieces of soil with a hoe and put them aside, while Xiaomi and Xiaoxue shook the grass roots off the soil and put them in a basket or dustpan.

It didn't take long for the few people to be busy, and they packed a small half of the back basket. Erniang thought it was almost enough, enough for the bamboo raccoon to eat for a few days, so everyone went back.

It happened that Jiang Hu also came back from the meeting, picked up the hoe and shovel, and was ready to go out.

Er Niang quickly asked him what he was doing.

When Jiang Hu sent Xiaomi back just now, he hadn't had time to explain the matter of digging the pond, so he just said it together now.

"Dig the pond, where do you dig it? What if the water cannot be dug?"

Erniang is more worried about this. If the busy work is in vain, will someone blame Xiaomi?
The husband and wife have a good understanding, and Jiang Hu can see Erniang's worry at a glance.

Regardless of whether it was in the public or not, Jiang Hu shook Erniang's hand directly, but fortunately he let it go soon.

"Don't worry, I told the village chief, not to mention that Xiaomi said it, and the digging of the pond was voted by everyone with a show of hands. Everyone agreed, and we just started."

Er Niang breathed a sigh of relief: "That's good, where to dig?"

Jiang Hu pointed in a direction: "It's very close. It's on the side of our old house, near the river. The village chief said that it's the closest to the pool, and it's the most likely to be dug out."

Er Niang was even more puzzled: "Then why not just dig the other side of the pool and make the hole bigger, wouldn't it be more convenient?"

"That's not acceptable." It was Uncle Liu.

Just as Liu Bo came back from the mountain, he happened to overhear the conversation between the two.

"Most of the pools on the mountain are surrounded by rocks, not the dirt that was dug up casually. If one is not good, it will collapse, and the consequences will be unimaginable."

First he explained, then turned to look at Jiang Hu.

"But Xiao Jiang, it won't work to dig a pond at the foot of the mountain next to your old house. You won't be able to get water out of it."

Jiang Hu was taken aback: "Uncle Liu, how do you know?"

Qixi, who was following behind, raised her brows: "Brother Jiang, you forgot what my master does. The master knows these things at a glance."

Jiang Hu immediately remembered that Uncle Liu was indeed good at public opinion.

"Uncle Liu, what should we do? Have you stopped digging?"

Uncle Liu shook his head: "Not really..."

(End of this chapter)