Start as a farmer from an ordinary world

Chapter 33 The Vast World

Just as Wang Manyin thought, Wang Fuchang had already started calling for people before dawn.

Moreover, the other party was afraid of wasting time tossing back and forth, so he drove the two donkey carts over.

One person can drive two donkey carts at the same time, which is the ability of the old crop handle.As a native of the Loess Plateau, driving a donkey cart is a basic skill.

These days, Wang Manyin has helped the team deliver soil dung several times, and he is no stranger to this.

Wang Fuchang was well prepared, with a wind lantern hanging on the handlebar, and a bundle of crushed wheat straw in the carriage, which was fodder for the donkey.

Knowing that time was running short, Wang Manyin didn't dare to delay, he waved his whip and yelled, and set off with the donkey.

Da da da……

The donkey cart dangled in the night, but did not dare to go too fast.

It is mainly dark, and it will be troublesome to fall into the ditch.

It wasn't until I came out of the Shigejie Commune that my genius dawned.

Wang Manyin was originally sitting on the donkey cart, but after half an hour he couldn't take it anymore and was shivering from the cold.He simply jumped off the cart and trotted along behind the donkey.

After running for a while, my body finally warmed up.

After a while, the two of them had traveled more than 40 miles, so they stopped to rest and feed the donkey with fodder.

After taking good care of the donkey, Wang Fuchang suddenly asked, "Man Yin, have you brought dry food?"

"No," Wang Manyin shook his head.

I have space to exist, and I have never worried about dry food when I go out.

On the contrary, Wang Fuchang scratched his head straightly: "You coward, why don't you bring dry food when you go out for a day. Forget it, I will eat less, and I will give you a nest."

He prepared two sorghum nests, and originally planned to eat one for breakfast and lunch.

Now I can only go hungry, and I can't eat by myself, watching Wang Manyin on an empty stomach for a day.

Wang Manyin accepted it gratefully, took a bite and said, "Thank you, Uncle Fu, I have food stamps with me, and when I get to Yuanxi County, I will treat you to eat buckwheat noodles."

In this day and age, it is considered a great kindness for the family to give you a bite to eat.

Wang Manyin didn't care that Gaoliang Wowo was scratching his throat, and swallowed heavily... The main thing was to drive dozens of miles early in the morning, he was really hungry.

After eating a lot, Wang Fuchang got up again and said, "Let's go, let's go drink some water?"

"Drinking water, where is the well?" Wang Manyin looked around and asked blankly.

They rested beside the dirt road, and there were no village caves nearby.

"Just off the cliff, I remember there is a silting dam. Let's go and have a look, but we don't know if there is any water." Wang Fuchang picked up the prepared water tank from the car and pointed.

The check dam is also a great invention of the suffering people on the Loess Plateau.To put it simply, it is to build a ground dam at the bottom of the cliffside ditch, which is mainly used to intercept water flow and sediment, and then form silted land for field reclamation.

As early as the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, there were historical records about check dams.

However, most of the check dams in this period were intercepted by loess, and the design was unreasonable, so the shortcomings were obvious.Once the summer rain is slightly heavier, it is easy to be washed away.

When the two arrived at the dam site, they saw a shallow puddle of more than ten square meters at the end, which was dirty, with a lot of grass foam and sheep dung balls floating on it.

Wang Fuchang swung the water with his hand, put down the jar and scooped up half of it, and was about to pour it into his mouth.

"Wait, Uncle Fu. You can't drink this water. If you drink it, you will get sick!" Wang Manyin was startled, and hurriedly spilled the water.

In this era, rural areas have always had the habit of drinking unboiled water, even in their predecessors.

But that is drinking well water, or flowing river water.

If you drink a puddle like the one in front of you, you will probably get sick if you drink it.

"You're so particular about it. It's all rainwater. How can you get sick? We sufferers are not so delicate." Wang Fuchang said disapprovingly, and was about to drink again.

Wang Manyin said that he would not let it go: "Uncle Fu, you must listen to me. Let's bear with it, there will be a small river a dozen miles ahead, and then we will drink the river water."

According to the memory of the predecessor, there should be a small river in front of it.

"You coward, if you catch up with the fire failure a few years ago, you will either die of starvation or thirst." Wang Fuchang knew the other party's good intentions, so he didn't insist anymore, "If people don't drink, it's okay for animals to drink, right?"

With that said, he filled the jar and walked back.

In this way, after giving water to both donkeys, they continued on their way.

After arriving at the river, Wang Manyin asked Wang Fuchang to rest on the side of the road, and ran down the cliff to fetch water by himself.Turning over a small hill, seeing that his vision was completely blocked, he looked around and stepped into the space.

For the convenience of drinking water, Wang Manyin has always prepared cold boiled water in the space.

After gulping it all together, he filled the jar in his hand again.

After he came out, he walked to the river with the pot in his hand, and then turned back.

Wang Fuchang took two sips from the jar, and said, "Man Yin, why does this water taste a bit sweet?"

"Is there? I don't think it's anything." Wang Manyin was full of doubts.

He has been drinking space water, and he really doesn't feel sweet.

However, Lan Hua also mentioned it before, but she didn't care about it at the time.Now it seems that the space spring water is indeed very special.

Wang Fuchang just said casually, took a few sips and prepared to continue on his way.

As a result, a voice was heard from behind him: "Fu Chang, is this brother Fu Chang?"

Hearing the voice sound familiar, Wang Manyin hurriedly turned his head to look the way he came.He saw several donkey carts coming slowly behind him, and the man in front of him was wearing a sheepskin jacket with a white sheep belly towel on his head. It was old man Sun Yuhou.

When several donkey carts approached, Wang Manyin found that apart from Sun Yuhou and another villager from Shuangshui Village, the other two were from Shichuan Village on the opposite side of the mountain, and one of them was old man Du, the shepherd.

No need to ask, they should all go to the county to pick up educated youths.

"Uncle, you are here." Wang Manyin greeted hurriedly.

"Man Yin, are you going to the county too?" Old man Sun asked after parking the donkey cart.

"Well, I was sent out by the team, saying that I am familiar with Yuanxi County."

The three villages are not far apart, and even the fields are next to each other, so they all have some impressions of each other.Seeing that it was not early, the people did not dare to delay, and drove on the donkey cart.

Around noon, several large vehicles finally entered Yuanxi County.

It was the first time for Wang Manyin to enter Yuanxi County. Although he had the memory of his predecessor, he was a little disappointed when he first saw the county.

The foot is a loess road, occasionally paved with a few horizontal stone slices.The roadside is full of gray and low houses, and further away on the edge of the cliff are rows of cave dwellings.

Except that there are more people, it is no different from Shigejie Commune, and it is not even as good as ordinary township markets in later generations.

Of course, the fiery atmosphere is much stronger than that of later generations, and many walls are painted with positive slogans.

After Old Man Sun and the others entered the county seat, they all became dazed.

"Man Yin, where should we go next?" Wang Fuchang couldn't help asking.

"Isn't it clearly stated in the certificate given by the brigade? Let's go to the county high school to gather. There are people waiting in the commune." Wang Manyin replied.

When I came to the county to participate in the activities, I had been to the county high school, and I was quite familiar with that area.

Then he led the six donkey carts through the streets and alleys, and finally arrived outside the county high school.

They were already relatively late. At this moment, people from several communes near the county seat had arrived early, and the donkey carts almost blocked the narrow streets.

There was a mess everywhere, and it was impossible to find where the person in charge of the Shigejie Commune was.

"Uncle Fu, why don't you rest here, I'll find someone to ask." As a junior, Wang Manyin naturally did the errands.

Now the county high school has already closed classes, and there are big slogans written in white lime on the walls of the yellow mud courtyard: "Educated youth go to the countryside to receive re-education from the poor and lower-middle peasants", "The countryside is a vast world, and there is a lot to do there. ", "The vast world refines the red heart".

At this moment, there are many young faces standing on the side of the road, their clothes are obviously different from those of the original Xixian people.Many people wore warm cotton army coats, and a few wore general school clothes, which looked very foreign.

Some of these people looked condescending, or excited and bewildered, pointing at the surrounding farmers.

Or for them, everything they are about to face is very new.

To Wang Manyin's disbelief, there were a few girls who took out leftover bread and steamed buns and fed them to the dirt dogs running around on the roadside.

He wanted to condemn him in his heart, but when he thought that he loved Rhubarb in every possible way, he felt that he had no position.

(End of this chapter)