My 1995 Small Farm

   Chapter 117 Carrying Water

The foundation was dug deeply and firmly, and the house and yard were raised high. The guy had a bare foundation of more than one meter. After the entire house was built, it would be twice as high as the previous house. It can be built into a two-story building.

   But no exaggeration.

why?

  Because he listened to Wang Lixian's advice, he was afraid of being flooded again, so he built a courtyard dam this time.

  Although we have to build more walls and build steps at the gate of the courtyard, at least we can live comfortably.

As soon as this idea came out, the villagers followed suit.

   Anyway, this time there is government assistance for the construction, so it’s better to use more materials, and you don’t have to pay for it yourself.

   Just one by one doing it in full swing.

   "I said, rich brother, I heard that you are going to build a new house, why haven't you heard anything yet?"

   This morning, Chen Ling and Wang Susu were eating at home, and several men from the city's engineering team each carried two buckets into the yard.

  Chen Ling heard the words and only said that there is no hurry, and help Wang Jusheng to finish the work first.

   Then he got up and helped pack up the things next to the pressurized well and let them fetch water.

  After the flood, it was not just the houses that collapsed in the village.

   Many people's wells also suffered.

  The originally clear and sweet well water has become turbid, and some even become yellow muddy water, let alone people, the livestock will not drink it.

Not to mention the water in the    Reservoir and Laohewan.

Not long after the flood receded, there were all kinds of dirty things in the water. Even if people from the county and the township did not come to tell them, no one dared to drink the water in such places. The ancestors have learned a lesson. Drinking this kind of water can sometimes kill people. .

   The well of Chen Ling's house in the whole village was not affected.

  In the past, the villagers had no access to clean water, so they basically went all the way to the mountains to fetch water. Later, after Wang Susu loosened up, she ran to Chen Ling's house these days, knowing that Chen Ling was helping Wang Jusheng, so there were the most people in the morning and evening, and sometimes there were queues at night.

   These engineering team members are no exception.

   "Then remember to say when you start the construction, and the materials are enough."

   "Haha, that's right, if we're not busy, we'll help you too."

  “…”

  The men were smiling and very enthusiastic.

   Chen Ling has seen this kind of situation a lot these days, so he took a few buns and stuffed them to eat.

   "Oops, how embarrassing this is."

   "It's not easy to eat home-cooked meals when you are away from home. You guys are welcome."

   "Brother you..."

   "Take it."

  Chen Ling shook his head and smiled and sent them out the door.

   Before he could go back to the dining table and sit down, there were quite a few village wives and daughters-in-law who came to fetch water, and he was used to it these days.

  The sun rose, and fewer people came to fetch water, so they locked the door and rushed to Wang Jusheng's house.

   It took more than ten days to build the house and repair the courtyard dam.

   In fact, it is said to have been built, and it is only three main rooms that are completely built.

   Others are just to build a foundation for the repair of the dam, and I am not in a hurry to build it.

   Wang Jusheng's requirements are not high, as long as there are two or three rooms that can live in, the rest of the couple can take it slowly, or after a while, they can invite people specially.

   After all, no one is busy now, and he is embarrassed to bother the Chen Ling family too much.

   After the completion of the three rooms, I invited the two families to sit down and have a big meal to express my gratitude.

   When he said that Chen Ling was going to build a new house, remember to call him, Chen Ling responded, but in his heart he was not as anxious about building a new house as before.

Not to mention Wang Lixian and Wang Jusheng, Chen Ze, Chen Jiang, and the younger generation in the village also said they wanted to help him build a new house, and they didn't talk about it, they went home to find them. When he came to the door, he had to call them when he started the construction.

   Actually speaking, these young people didn't have a good relationship with him before, and they were similar to Chen Ze, and they had a lot of trouble in the past few years.

  People don't look down on him either.

   A lazy **** can't do anything, and the mud can't support the wall, it's all disgusting.

   That is, in the past six months, he has become more or less like a man, he is willing to be down-to-earth, and he has settled down to live a serious life, and he has changed a lot.

   But the change is the change. In fact, after walking and meeting, that's the same thing. Saying hello and laughing and passing by, it's not much better than before.

   What really eased their relationship with Chen Ling was the fact that the well water was polluted after the flood.

   Every household has no access to clean water. These days, they often go to Chen Ling's house to fetch water.

   If you accept someone's love, you have to recognize it.

   After going over and over again, I found that Chen Ling is really good now.

   Especially looking at Chen Ling's recent performance, he really deserves a good post.

   Now I don’t care how much I care about my family, I need strength and strength, and work very fast.

   Helping Wang Lixian and Wang Jusheng is not small. You help me and I help you, Sanjiazi, and the good relationship is eye-catching.

   It’s definitely not wrong to befriend someone like this.

   So there was a group of people in the village recently. Every time they saw Chen Ling, they yelled and urged him to build a new house quickly. When it came time to help him, they wanted to rub him a few meals.

  Otherwise, you can smell the fragrance wafting from his house all day long, and you won't be able to eat it in your mouth, which will make people greedy enough.

  Chen Ling just said that he is not in a hurry. It will not be too late for the big guy to finish the work in the house. It will be faster if there are more people working.

   But there are so many people who can't stand to ask, which makes him a headache.

   A person who didn't talk much before suddenly became enthusiastic, and that guy made him really hard to resist.

   Say hello to people every day and say more things than you say in the whole year.

   But, it’s not a bad thing to have someone to help build a house, and he can only deal with it.

   After getting used to it, I found out that this is actually not bad.

   At least he and Wang Susu, with the enthusiasm of the villagers, unconsciously smile more than before. Every day they are happy, lively and cheerful, and their mental outlook is completely new.

   After a long time, Chen Ling suddenly realized that he had unknowingly integrated into this era and was deeply rooted in this small mountain village.

  …

   In the blink of an eye, most of the seventh month of the lunar calendar has passed.

  The hot summer is maddeningly hot.

   After more than a month, the scars caused by the flood are recovering little by little.

  The mountains became more and more beautiful after the flood.

  The small ravines that have been dried up and dried up in previous years are like sponges that have absorbed enough water. Take a look at them. There are large and small puddles everywhere, inlaid in the fields, showing a bright green.

Not to mention this, even the river channel of Laohewan has become fatter and more than ten meters wide. Now it has become clear and clarified. Under the hot sun, the slowly flowing water glitters with golden light. Very dazzling.

When Chen Ling was wandering around, he went to test the water, and found that it was almost as deep as a human waist. After a while downstream at the foot of the southern mountain, he suddenly realized that it turned out that the depleted mountain spring on Nanshan had regained its vitality and poured into Laohewan. , it quickly becomes clear.

This mountain spring is cool and sweet, Chen Ling swam to a nearby place, washed his face with a handful of mountain spring water, and roughly washed the mud off his body. After thoroughly feeling the freshness of the mountain spring, he returned to the shore and put his clothes on his shoulders. , and walked shirtless to his own fields.

   Now new crops have been sown in the farmland, corn, soybeans, peanuts, cotton, sorghum, sweet potatoes, etc. have all emerged, and the vegetable gardens of each family have also re-opened a few fields.

In the fields, flowers and plants are prosperous, grasshoppers and crickets are jumping around, and from time to time there are various birds soaring into the sky, causing the two dogs to keep chasing around. They are now flexible and quick to respond. I can really catch a few birds and bring them to Chen Ling.

   However, there are not many wild birds that can feed, and Chen Ling was not interested in these things, so he let them eat them all.

   Only those who have caught pheasants and rabbits are allowed to stay.

   Walking all the way, looking around at the changes after the flood, when he walked to his own field, Chen Ling found that it was different from what he expected.

   The saplings were not affected, but grew a lot.

   In contrast, vegetables are not very good, entangled with dense weeds and wild vines, making a mess.

Perhaps it was to compete for territory with weeds, growing everywhere, and the loofah and beans began to climb the trees. Although the eggplants and tomatoes were piled up, the branches were full of strings, but without Chen Ling's watering, they matured slowly. Covered by weeds and trees, there is almost no sunlight, the tomatoes are still green, and when they are picked, they are as hard as rocks, and they are still crooked.

   Leeks too, they don’t see the sun every day, and their living space is squeezed by weeds. Now they are almost turning into leeks.

   "Oh, let's weed and water when it gets cooler in the evening."

  Chen Ling sighed and continued to go deeper.

  After the flood, the two of them never came. They were so busy that they didn't have much time to come. They didn't know what was going on in the fields.

   When vegetables are in short supply, these can be sold for money, but they cannot be left rotten in the field.

Chen Ling walked deep, worried that there were snakes in the grass, so he took a long stick from the cave and kept poking at the grass. Before he could go far, the two dogs suddenly raised their ears alertly, with a big "wow". With a cry, he jumped out of the grass and ran towards the other end of the field.

   "Did this find something again?"

  Chen Ling stepped to look around, but couldn't see what was going on.

   But when his dog sees rabbits, pheasants, etc., he gets excited, and he doesn't take it too seriously.

  It wasn't until he heard the strange cry that Chen Ling knew something was wrong, but the forest was deep and the grass was dense, and he couldn't see any poison hidden there.

When I walked over, I found that the bush was by the side, Heiwa was biting by a strange beast, and Xiao Jin was digging furiously at a hole in the bush. There seemed to be something hidden in the hole. The dog was so frightened that it howled miserably with the beast outside, barking incessantly.

   "Damn it, what kind of weird thing is this?"

Chen Ling was stunned when he saw the appearance of this beast. It was similar in size to a small wild boar, with long mouths and fangs, short limbs, a few vertical white stripes on its head, and gray-brown hair on its body, which was rough and hard. The color of the tail is all white...

   Now he was bitten by Heiwa, his whole face was bloody, and he couldn't tell for a while.

   (end of this chapter)