During previous severe droughts, the land was cracked, the crops withered, the fields were vast, and famine was widespread.

After the Great Famine passed and everyone recovered, the team leaders in their county organized the county to build the Grand Canal.

After investing a lot of manpower in the past few years, the Grand Canal in the county has been completed. The commune has also issued tasks. When the production tasks of each village are not heavy, manpower must be organized to join the brother villages next door to build it together. reservoir.

After the rice planting was completed a while ago, most of the work in the fields was handed over to the women in the village. The young and middle-aged people were organized to invest in the construction of the reservoir. The working people are the most glorious. At this time, everyone is vying to be the first and the most popular. As a flag bearer, it is almost impossible to find anyone who is lazy.

Productivity was low at this time. There were no excavators, tractors and other machinery. All projects had to be dug with shovels and lifted with poles, a modern version of "The Foolish Old Man Moves Mountains".

Every day, as soon as the trumpet sounds on the construction site, people get excited. Those who dig and load trucks, and those who set up trailers, wearing single shirts and shorts, or with bare backs, towels on their necks to wipe sweat and shoulder pads, shout the trumpet. The son works hard.

The work was heavy and the food was not good.It's getting late when I get back after work is completed, so every time I get home from work, I usually finish eating, take a shower, lie down on the bed and fall asleep.

So Lin Qiuxia took on the housework within her ability, including cooking, cooking, and washing clothes.

After taking a shower in the evening, the dirty clothes at home were put into a wooden barrel in the yard. One was because there was no electricity in the countryside at this time, so it was dark and inconvenient. The other was that there was no well in the house, so I had to fetch water for daily use. It is such a waste of labor to carry water and wash clothes.

Labor Day ended early today because her deskmate Sanqi had something to do at home and went home. Without her playmate Lin Qiuxia, she didn't have fun with the others.

She took her brother with her to take a shower and change out of today's clothes, and then used a pole to pass through the bucket of clothes. The two of them carried it to the downstream of the river near the village to wash. This location is located on the west side of the village. I chose this location because it is close to the river. Their home is relatively close.

Usually, most of the friends go to the river on the east side of the village. The adults have not finished work yet, so there is almost no one here at this time. When she was preparing to wash clothes, she found that there were some left at home, so she asked her brother to look at them. Then she quickly ran back to get it.

When Lin Qiuxia came back to the river, she found that her brother had gone somewhere, and their bucket had somehow ended up in the river, and was still floating downstream.

Liu Qiuxia didn't have time to think about anything. She immediately dropped the clothes in her hands and rushed into the river, running in her slippers. She didn't come back to her senses until she grabbed the barrel in the river. She was frightened by herself, and then the water rushed over her. His feet just slipped and he fell into the river.

His hands were still holding the barrel tightly, and his feet couldn't find a point of strength. He choked on the water a few times, and the discomfort in his nose went straight to his forehead.

Lin Qiuxia's mind was agitated, and she suddenly thought of a popular science video about firefighters that she had watched in her previous life. If there is a flood disaster and there are no items at home, you can use a basin with the basin facing upward. As long as you tilt it into the water, you can support it in the water when you are an adult. Floating inside.

Fortunately, her bucket was not knocked over. She forced herself to calm down and hugged the bucket suddenly, with the soles of her feet facing each other forming an O-shape.Finally, it stopped going up and down, and the part above the shoulders surfaced, floating steadily with the barrel.

There was nothing I could do at this time, so I tilted my body slightly toward the river. While ensuring that the barrel did not tip over, gravity moved toward the shore.After drifting for a while, we were finally not far from the shore. Then we stood up, tried our best to steady our legs and walked slowly towards the shore.

In fact, the water not far from the shore is not very deep. I am afraid that if my feet slip, I will fall into the water. If the water rushes again, I can drown in shallow water.

After coming back to her senses, Liu Qiuxia held her breath and shouted directly in Saipan: "Lin Donghai, Lin Donghai died somewhere, come back to me immediately."

Lin Donghai ran over immediately when he heard it. It turned out that he was not far away, just under a tree not far away: "Third sister, what's going on, why are you so fast? Third sister, why are you all wet?"

Not to mention it was okay, but she was very angry. After hearing these words, Lin Qiuxia was so angry that she raised her hand to Lin Donghai's shoulder and gave him a big slap. Then she held him down with her left hand and twisted his arm with her right hand.

"Ah, it hurts so much, it hurts so much, third sister, it hurts so much." Lin Donghai was pinched so hard by her third sister that her facial features were so painful that she almost ran away from home.

"It hurts you so much. I asked you to look at your clothes. I saw that the barrels were floating in the river. You can wear a skirt made of banana leaves as clothes tomorrow. Just have fun. Just run and play. Wait a minute. Isn't it okay?" Lin Qiuxia beat her brother hard and let out a breath, but there was still half a breath left, so she cursed fiercely.

"Sister, I just saw a wax-skinned lizard and ran over there. This thing is so difficult to encounter. I had to chase it quickly, but it ran away. And the barrel was on the ground. Why did it run away? Go to the river." Lin Donghai said dejectedly, rubbing the place where his sister had pinched him with his hands.

While rubbing it with his hands, he said "hisssssss~". It could be seen that it was really painful. Tears almost fell down and his eyes were red.

Think about it, if you put a nice wooden barrel on the ground, even if there is water, it is not strong enough to pull it down.

At this point, the clothes still needed to be washed. While squatting by the river, I took out the clothes, grabbed a handful of sand and put them on the clothes, and started scrubbing the clothes with both hands.

He didn't forget to ask, "Has anyone been here after I went back to get my things? Did you look at the bucket?"

"Ah, I saw Sister Erni and heard her calling Dabao. She must be looking for her brother, but she just called for a while and went back without finding him."

Lin Donghai thought for a while and then added, "When I heard her voice, I also looked at our buckets. They were all there, so I lay down under the tree again. You came back behind me. I saw you running very fast, and There was no need for me to go out to look at the bucket, I just happened to have a cricket so I didn’t run out.”

Tap the screen to use advanced tools Tip: You can use left and right keyboard keys to browse between chapters.

You'll Also Like