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Chapter 287
After the beginning of spring, the weather is gradually getting hotter, but there is no rain from the sky. The water in the Maixiang River is getting smaller and smaller, and the waterwheel can barely be pushed, and the water level of the upstream reservoir is also dropping day by day.

In the middle of March in the lunar calendar, the water trucks went on strike, and it was useless to change the waterway because the water flow was too small. On the one hand, it was due to the continuous drought, and on the other hand, it was also because of the reservoir built upstream.

By mid-April, the lower reaches of the Maixiang River below the reservoir were almost cut off, and above the surface, only a few deep water areas remained.

The Maixiang brigade, including most of the production brigades along the Maixiang River, could only carry water from the river and weir ponds. The water is concentrated in some low-lying wheat fields.

The water level in the reservoir is also getting lower and lower.

At the beginning of May, the Maixiang River was almost on the shore, and the original deep water area became a depression, most of the riverbed was exposed, and the wheat in the field was drooping, and most of the ears of wheat were shriveled. Although the villagers have tried their best to fetch water for irrigation, many people inevitably died in the scorching sun and heat.

After the wheat harvest was over, compared with previous years, the production was reduced by about [-]%, and this figure was only a lot more. The loss was not insignificant. Looking at the little wheat harvested that was of poor quality, the villagers felt as if they were fried. like.

This is due to the complete water conservancy facilities and adequate preparations of the Maixiang Brigade, while the other brigades suffered even more heavy losses, and the most serious ones almost failed to harvest.

Although the past few years were basically good weather, with the advanced technology promoted by Wang Zhong, the county encourages all brigades to build water conservancy projects based on the encouragement of Maixiang Brigade, and it can be regarded as a bumper harvest every year.

But no matter how rich the family background is, they can't stand the influence of exaggeration. The output reported by each brigade in the past two years has been steadily increasing, and the public grain handed in is naturally increasing year by year.

Especially last year, with the exception of the Maixiang Brigade, the average yield per mu of almost every brigade exceeded [-] jin, some even several thousand jin.

Before the report, everyone thought that the higher authorities would not collect public grain according to this figure, but when it was time to pay the public grain, it was too late to regret.

With such continuous dry weather, summer grain is hopeless.

At this moment, without Wang Zhong's reminder, the villagers spontaneously cut down on food and clothing. Although there was still food at home, they also found wild vegetables and fruits all over the mountains and plains.

The folks also know in their hearts that if they really have to wait until the end of the mountain to find wild vegetables and fruits, it will be too late.

Who knows how long this severe drought will last, at this time, it is a little bit to save a little.

At night, the folks got up on the kang early in the morning, wishing they could lie on the kang all day long without moving, so as to consume less energy, get hungry more slowly, and eat less.

Wearing coarse clothes and a straw hat, Wang Zhong, carrying a bow and arrow, and carrying a machete, took advantage of the night to pick up a few thin hares and two raccoons with wooden sticks and went home. .

Hearing the noise from the backyard, Jiang Hongguo, who had been asleep for a while, jumped up immediately, with a look of vigilance on her face: "The head of the house?"

"it's me!"

Wang Zhong responded, and Dahong Erhong spontaneously got into the kennel. Wang Zhong walked into the courtyard along the sidewalk, and pushed the door straight in.

Jiang Hongguo had already turned on the light and walked out.

Jiang Hongguo used a feather duster to help Wang Zhong dust off the grass and dust from his body.

"It's too dry today, and there are a lot fewer animals in the mountains!" Three thin hares and two raccoons were placed on the table.

"Hurry up and wash!"

"I'll do whatever I want to eat!"

"No need!" Wang Zhong took Jiang Hongguo's hand and smiled slightly: "I've already had dinner."

"Help me rub my back!"

"Ok!"

Wang Zhong dragged Jiang Hongguo into the bathroom, stripped naked in a numb manner, and sat in the big wooden basin, Jiang Hongguo poured water from Wang Zhong's head.

Wang Zhong rubbed his face and asked, "How is the team these days?"

"It's nothing, the folks are still looking for wild vegetables in the mountains and plains."

"There are no wild vegetables! All that should be dug has been dug up." Wang Zhong said with emotion: "The rest are dry, dry!"

During the severe drought, which lasted for more than a year, the crops in the field were all sunburned to death, and the shrubs, weeds and wild vegetables all over the mountains and plains were not spared.

Wang Zhong washed it simply, using only a few ladles of water, then wiped his whole body with a wet towel, and asked Jiang Hongguo to rub his back hard with the loofah, only then did he feel clear all over his body .

Although the wells drilled in the brigade can produce water, but at this time, it is better to save energy.

After taking a shower, I came out of the bathroom, changed into the clothes prepared by Jiang Hongguo, and soaked the dirty clothes in the wooden basin filled with bath water. After scrubbing the clothes, the water had to be used to water the ground, so nothing was wasted.

Now even going to the toilet at home is in the dry toilet built temporarily in the backyard, just to save the little water used for flushing the toilet.

On the kang, the two sons in short coats were lying on their backs, sleeping soundly, the weather was hot, but fortunately the kang was cool.

The two sons were relatively dead in sleep, and they belonged to the kind that could not be shaken by thunder. Wang Zhong grabbed Jiang Hongguo who was about to go to the kang, and leaned into her ear and whispered: "Let's go to the wing room!"

Jiang Hongguo's pretty face flushed, her beautiful eyes slightly raised, just in time to meet Wang Zhong's undisguised hot gaze.

The couple immediately turned around and went out, and entered the wing room.

As soon as the door bolt was inserted, Wang Zhong couldn't wait to step forward and hugged Jiang Hongguo from behind, and gnawed on the swan-like white and slender neck.

Although he has to do farm work all year round and is exposed to the sun, his face and hands are tanned, but other parts of his body that are not exposed to the sun all year round are extremely fair.

"do not·····"

"Don't stay here..."

"Go to the kang!"

Jiang Hongguo struggled to finish these eight words, and then she was embraced by Wang Zhongheng, and her hands subconsciously wrapped around Wang Zhong's neck.

The two sons are getting bigger and bigger, and it's really hard to make out in front of the two sons. Although the two boys sleep soundly at night, who knows that one day they won't wake up in the middle of the night, if they happen to see My father is bullying my mother, if he comes up with good intentions to start a fight, it will be called embarrassment.

After some cloud and rain, Jiang Hongguo was still leaning against Wang Zhong's chest, with fine sweat oozing from his forehead and body.

Feeling the heat coming from Jiang Hongguo, Wang Zhong showed a satisfied smile on his face, and kept fanning a cattail fan in his hand, bringing cool wind to drive away the heat, and at the same time, diffused the heat in the air. The residual smell in the air gradually dissipated.

Jiang Hongguo's breathing was still a little short, but Wang Zhong's was still breathing smoothly. It seemed that an hour of high-intensity exercise was like eating and drinking to him.

At this time, it was the end of July, and it was night, and it should be unbearably hot, but Jiang Hongguo was lying in Wang Zhong's arms.

"If you don't know, let the two of them move to the wing room, and move the study to the one in the main room..."

"There's no need to move, the two brothers on the left and right have reached the age of Kaimeng, so I'll just make another desk!"

Wang Zhong said softly.

"Is it too early?"

"It's already eight years old, it's getting late!"

Both boys were born in the summer of 1960, and now it is [-], and they are seven or eight years old.

After biting her lip for a while, Jiang Hongguo compromised: "I just listen to you."

Wang Zhong chuckled, and his hands became irregular again.

"Are you coming?" They were all old couples, so Jiang Hongguo was naturally not that shy, but she just recovered from her breath, her body was limp, and she was a little powerless.

"Aren't Ziping and Zi'an clamoring for younger brothers and sisters! Let's work harder to have a son, let him have your surname Jiang, and inherit the incense of your old Jiang family."

Hearing this, Jiang Hongguo's eyes immediately turned red. Jiang Hongguo's grandparents all disappeared in the famine in [-]. His father, uncle and brothers were arrested and sacrificed on the battlefield. Although my mother escaped the great famine, she also suffered from the root cause of the disease, and she died within two days after returning to her hometown.

Immediately came the founding of the country, the land reform, and looking forward to the future, Jiang Hongguo married the husband in front of her on the advice of her relatives, but after only a few months of marriage, her husband fell ill and was bedridden. I couldn't live anymore, and it happened to catch up with the famine again, and I couldn't live on, so I was kicked out by the husband in front of me.

"The head of the family!" Jiang Hongguo looked at Wang Zhong with tearful eyes, crystal tears shone in her eyes, and her eyes seemed to be stained with some kind of emotion: "You... are you serious?"

Wang Zhong grinned, put his right hand on the back of Jiang Hongguo's head, and leaned forward to touch the red lips like a dragonfly on the water, and he said, "You'll know it when you're born!"

Jiang Hongguo didn't know where the strength came from, so she rushed forward and pushed Wang Zhong down on the kang, and straddled Wang Zhong.

"Aren't you out of strength?" Wang Zhong's mouth was blocked as soon as he spoke, his already vigorous energy was like a gunpowder keg, it exploded at a touch.

Although she is as young as a wolf and a tiger, she is still no match for someone who opened a cheater. Early the next morning, Jiang Hongguo rarely slept in. The chickens raised in the backyard crowed several times, but she still didn't wake up.

"Father, where's mother?" The two sons asked stupidly. In the past, Jiang Hongguo should be busy preparing breakfast for the family at this time by the stove.

"Mother is not feeling well. She is asleep in the wing room. You two are acting strange to me. Don't bother her!" It's a pity that these words fell into the eyes of the two demon kings. The two got into the wing room.

Looking at the mother on the kang with her eyes closed, who was obviously still asleep, Ziping just opened his mouth when his younger brother with quick eyes and quick hands covered his mouth.

"Shh!" Zian raised his finger: "Didn't you hear what dad said, mother is not feeling well!"

Ziping pushed his younger brother's hand away, looked at his mother, and asked in a low voice: "What do you think is wrong with mother?"

Zian's eyes were also full of concern: "How do I know!"

"Haven't you been studying medicine with your father?"

Zian didn't want to talk to Ziping, so he just looked at his mother quietly, with a bit of worry in his eyes.

When Jiang Hongguo woke up, listening to the two sons' concern, she was inevitably a little embarrassed.

Polenta and vegetable dumplings for breakfast. There is not much oil and water in the food these days, and there is no picky eater. The two sons ate the vegetable dumplings.

Wang Zhong said: "Starting tonight, you two go to sleep in the wing."

"Why?" The brothers' eating movements coincided with each other.

Jiang Hongguo thought that Wang Zhong would come up with some good reason to talk to the two sons, but Wang Zhong's words almost made her blush.

"Don't you want younger brothers and sisters? You always sleep with us, how can your mother and I give birth to younger brothers and sisters for you!"

The two sons looked at each other, then looked at the parents opposite in unison, and said in unison: "Okay! Let's move after dinner!"

Jiang Hongguo pinched the soft flesh of Wang Zhong's waist, and then let go of the hand that had been exerted a little bit of force just now. The reaction of the two sons was somewhat beyond his expectations.

After dinner, the two brothers were busy moving their belongings to the East Wing. Jiang Hongguo wanted to help, but Wang Zhong refused.

Just as Wang Zhong was about to go out, Qiao Yue and Niu Dadar ran over with their children in their arms, worried.

"Big worm, take a look, what's wrong with the dog?"

Niu Bold and Qiao Yue's child is almost one year old, and his nickname is Gou'er. He is about the same age as Ma Renli's son, Ma Gongshe, and is now more than eight months old.

Wang Zhong took the child over and examined it carefully, and heaved a sigh of relief: "There is no major problem, but malnutrition, plus a little heatstroke, heatstroke is easy to say, but this one is malnourished."

Wang Zhong looked at Qiao Yue, the meaning was self-evident, the child was only eight months old, and he hadn't reached the age of weaning.

"The child is still young, so he can eat some rice noodle soup, but he still needs to rely on breast milk for nutrition."

"Should I prescribe medicine?" Niu boldly asked nervously.

"No, I'll give the dog a massage, and then feed some mung bean soup properly. By the way, do you have mung beans at home?"

Niu boldly shook his head.

"Then ask Guoer to take some back for you. Remember, just drink a small bowl at a time. The dog is too young, drinking too much is not good for your health."

Wang Zhong gave the dog a massage, told him what to pay attention to, and sent away Niu Bold's family of three.

On the mountain, Yang Deng'er, Mrs. Jinhua, and Han Chunmei carried the child on their backs with a cloth, and were digging grass roots with a hoe in their hands.

The wild vegetables on the mountain were basically all sun-dried, only some grass roots and leaves of all the big trees were spared. As early as the summer harvest, the villagers began to go into the mountains to dig wild vegetables and grass roots.

Ziping and Zi'an carried the small hoe alone, and followed Jiang Hongguo, together with several others.

"When will it rain today!" Aunt Jin Hua raised her sleeves and wiped the sweat off her forehead, feeling a little tired.

Now that the crops can't be grown, what I eat every day is thin, there is no oil in my stomach, and naturally I don't have much strength.

"Sister-in-law Deng'er, doesn't your Renli know the weather? Did he tell you?"

"Hey!"

Yang Deng'er stopped what he was doing and stood with a hoe in his hand, with sadness in his eyes: "We can still say that there is no rain."

Mrs. Jinhua said: "It's been drought for more than a year, and the Maixiang River has stopped flowing. I heard that the water in the reservoir has also bottomed out. Do you think this year's autumn sowing can still proceed normally?"

Han Chunmei said: "Looking at the current situation, winter wheat must not be produced. Didn't the team plant a lot of buckwheat seeds? When autumn comes and the weather cools down, it's just a matter of replenishing buckwheat."

"It's a crop of buckwheat that needs to be replenished. It's hard to say what it might turn out to be." Yang Deng'er said with some concern.

"There must be a way for the car to reach the mountain!" Jiang Hongguo said: "It's useless for us to worry about it. Let's take a step and see."

Mrs. Jinhua looked at Jiang Hongguo: "Guo'er, I find that you are more and more like your man now!"

Han Chunmei couldn't stop nodding.

"Oh, isn't that Qiao Yue?" Everyone looked at Aunt Jin Hua's position, and saw a woman wearing a plaid thin shirt, also carrying a child on her back, carrying a hoe, with a rattan basket tied around her waist, with shoulder-length short hair and The woman with bangs is going up the mountain.

"What's so strange!" Yang Deng'er only glanced at it, then looked away.

"Don't tell me, Qiao Yue has changed a lot in the past two years." Mrs. Jin Hua still looked at Qiao Yue.

"When she first married Captain Niu, she was so squeamish. One day she felt uncomfortable here, but tomorrow she felt uncomfortable there. She asked for leave to avoid laziness, but she refused to work in the fields and asked Captain Niu to serve her."

"That's all happened in the past, why are you still talking about this!" Jiang Hongguo said: "Besides, Captain Niu and his wife are doing well now!"

Speaking of this, Mrs. Jinhua's gossip ignited: "If you want to talk about this, your man knows best. When Qiao Yue saw the sky and quarreled with Captain Niu, it was Big Chong and Cai Baozi who were together. I was persuaded only when I came to the door."

"Guo'er, tell everyone, how did your man and Cai Baozi persuade you?" Aunt Jin Hua looked curious.

"How can I persuade them? Isn't it just those words to let them live a good life." Jiang Hongguo's heart skipped a beat, thinking of Wang Zhong's instructions, she didn't dare to tell the truth, otherwise Qiao Yue's reputation in the village would be ruined.

Counting the days away from her husband and refusing to give birth to her own man...
In Jiang Hongguo's cognition, this is like a bolt from the blue, impacting the three views.

"Have you met Captain Niu's brother?" Jiang Hongguo changed the subject.

Without the fact that the yield per mu is tens of thousands of catties, the folks in the Maixiang brigade are living better than in the original plot. Although last year's autumn grain production was not light, this year's summer grain is very serious. From now on, there will not be much left in the hands, but every household still has a lot of property, and there is also grain in the brigade's grain depot. The days of the Maixiang Brigade, let alone in the Maixiangling Commune, are placed in the county. That can also be number one.

Niu Bold's younger brother and his mother were also hit by a disaster, and the exaggeration was raging, and it seemed that they could no longer survive. One night not long ago, Niu Bold's half-brother came to the door behind his mother's back.

There was still a lot of food in the house, so Niu boldly left him behind.

Aunt Jin Hua shook her head and said, "Didn't it mean that Brother Bold's younger brother left on the night he brought Brother Bold back? Few people in our brigade seem to have seen him, right?"

"I've never seen it!" Han Chunmei also shook her head.

Yang Deng'er didn't speak.

Han Chunmei said: "It's hard to live outside now. Why don't you say Brother Bold and his younger brother stay? At least he can stutter!"

"A man!" Aunt Jin Hua said, "If it wasn't that he couldn't survive anymore, maybe Brother Bold and his mother might not be willing to come back."

Yang Deng'er remained silent, concentrating on brandishing the hoe.

"I heard that Brother Bold and his mother fell ill as soon as he came back?" Aunt Jinhua said.

Han Chunmei said: "It's because I'm sick. When the head of the house and I went to see it, my aunt couldn't get out of health, and I didn't have much strength."

Jiang Hongguo said: "I have visited several times by the head of the family. The old man is too old, and his bones are already weak. In addition, he has been starving for a long time and travels all the way. It hurts his vitality. He can only recuperate slowly."

"Can you take care of yourself?" Aunt Jinhua asked curiously.

Jiang Hongguo shook her head: "It's hard to say! After all, my aunt's age is there."

"Hey!" Han Chunmei sighed: "Now it's such a situation again!"

Aunt Jinhua also expressed emotion: "Who says it's not!"

Jiang Hongguo's eyes also flickered, thinking of the past.

Only Yang Deng'er didn't say a word.

(End of this chapter)