Parents are busy farming

Ye Zifen did not immediately go looking for Xiang Xiang and Xiang Zhibo. Instead, I followed the route in my memory to the location of the pond.

She wanted to see how the pond was dug.

Before we even reached the pond, we saw many strong laborers carrying baskets and pushing carts, talking and laughing in one direction.

"Uncle, what are you doing with these things?" Ye Zifen asked a random person.

"Hey, little girl, you are not very old, but you can drive a car by yourself. It's amazing! We are going to dig a river channel." After the man praised Ye Zifen, he said where he was going.

"Why are you digging a river channel in such a cold weather?" Ye Zifen said as if unintentionally.

"Hey, little girl, you don't understand this! People don't feel cold when they work, and you don't know how good we are now by digging rivers for food and giving them food. Where can you find this kind of food?" That's a good thing. In the middle of winter, when we can't do farm work, we can still earn a share of food. Isn't this a double benefit? To tell you the truth, we cook meat and vegetables once every ten days, but we don't have such good food even at home. However, the manager said that we will stop digging after the ground freezes, but we still hope to continue working.”

The man said a lot without knowing it, but it could be seen from the meaning of his words that Xiang Zhibo did not wrong them.

Ye Zifen felt a little relieved.

At this time, an old man also joined their walking team. The strong man who had just chatted with Ye Zifen immediately greeted the old man, "Uncle, what are we eating today?"

It turned out that the old man was the old man of the family who was in charge of feeding these people.

The old man chuckled, "Guess what you're going to eat today?"

"Is it another ten days?" The man looked at the old man expectantly.

"Although it's been less than ten days, I told the manager that we can't work for two more days and I'll give everyone a meat meal."

When everyone heard the old man's answer, they were happy to be able to eat meat, but also felt disappointed because they were about to go home and live in their old age.

"Hey, why did you stop? Although it's a bit difficult to dig out the frozen food, it's not impossible! I haven't eaten at home for more than a month, and the family has saved a lot of food, so the children can eat enough." One of the people suddenly said.

"Who says it's not the case? Although the work of digging the river is a bit tiring, the food is really good. I never saw that I gained weight while doing such heavy physical work!" said another person.

"Oh, don't talk in such a dejected way. After the river is dug, our area will not be so dry. Let's have a good talk with the new owner. Maybe the owner will be kind-hearted and agree to us using the river water to irrigate the fields. When more food is produced, the family will be able to eat enough." The old man suddenly said.

"Is it possible? The new owner has spent so much energy and used so much food, will we let us use the water in the river for no reason?" Some people think this is wishful thinking.

Ye Zifen heard their conversation and thought: 'He must be willing to let them use the water in the river. When their food output increases, the price of food around here may be able to drop again. ’

"Hey, why are you still following us, little girl? Are you looking for someone along the way with us?" The strong man who had been talking to her noticed that the little girl had been following them and reminded her kindly.

Ye Zifen smiled and said: "I am going to find the manager you mentioned, so we are going the same way."

"So you are going to find Manager Xiang! Then you should go with us. Now Manager Xiang must be waiting for us there. Hurry up and get on the carriage and always accompany us. Don't you want to go with us all the way? You’re tired, we rough guys are used to walking, you’re a pretty little girl, you’d better get in the car!”

After Ye Zifen heard what he said, she shouted to the people behind her: "If you want to take a car, please take a few steps. Let's go in the car together."

"Girl, just take the car by yourself. We are really used to walking, and we'll be there soon." The old man advised Ye Zifen.

Ye Zifen had no choice but to sit on the shaft of the car and drive slowly.

Soon after, we could indeed see more people gathering together, and the figure among them seemed familiar. It was none other than Xiang Zhibo.

"Guanshi Xiang, you're fine!" Just when Xiang Zhibo looked at her, Ye Zifen had already spoken out first.

Xiang Zhibo found out it was Ye Zifen and quickly raised his hands to say hello, "Miss Fifth, are you back?"

Ye Zifen nodded, "You guys are working very fast! Has the pond been dug?"

Xiang Zhibo was a little proud, but deliberately showed a humble attitude and said: "The pond has been dug. I think it is still early, so I will lead everyone to dig another section of the river."

Zi Zifen said: "You can arrange your current work first, and then we will go take a look at the dug pond."

Xiang Zhibo nodded excitedly and said, "Okay, Fifth Miss, please wait a moment!"

Xiang Zhibo assigned work to these strong laborers, and then said to everyone: "Before we start work, come and meet our boss. This is the boss's idea, let us dig the river to solve the problem of water shortage in the surrounding area."

Several people who were walking with Ye Zifen at first looked at the little girl in surprise.

The one who talked to Ye Zifen the most pointed at her and said: "You... you are actually the new owner? Then... did you hear everything we said on the road?"

Ye Zifen smiled and said: "I heard it, and I also agree that you can use water from this river to irrigate the fields in the future."

"Is this true? Tell me if this is true? The new owner actually agreed to let us use water from the river to irrigate the land. Then we will be able to have a bumper harvest here in the future." A strong man grabbed the hand beside him. The companion has to rock back and forth.

He couldn't believe what he heard was true, it was like a pie fell from the sky and hit them just right.

"Oh... let go! It's my clothes! It's true, it's true! I heard it too. Don't grab my clothes when you get excited. I can wear this one to go out!"

The man quickly patted the wrinkled clothes he caught and said, "Oops... Oops, I'm sorry, I'm so excited, hee hee... hehe!"

Xiang Zhibo said at this time: "I know everyone is a little excited when they hear the good news, but everyone needs to calm down. The work still has to be done. Let me tell you another news, today is the last day of digging rivers this winter. . Let’s continue next year during the slack season. And we’ll eat meat at noon today.”

After Xiang Zhibo finished speaking, the laborers were not as excited as before when they heard about eating meat. Instead, they felt disappointed because they could not continue digging the river.