Return To 1998

On duty at the polder, most of the time I am idle and have nothing to do.

As a result, some people get together to smoke and chat; some people get together to put shoe soles or make sweaters, and chat by the way; some people secretly hide in the corner and play poker to pass the time.

Perhaps it was because Tongdao Xu's publicity in the village today spread to the polder. Soon after Tongdao Xu and Tonglin were sitting there, several women and old people gathered and asked questions curiously.

It was nothing more than asking if he really hit Xu Hengbing?

or something else.

It's all related to what Xu Tongdao did this morning.

Xu Tongdao was not very excited, and answered one sentence after another, but these people who were bored didn't care, so they gathered with him and Xu Tonglin to chat.

The country people these days, the most like is to gossip.

Time passed so little by little, until someone in the house shouted, It's time for dinner...

As soon as they heard the meal, everyone outside the house got up and walked into the house, and some people were still trotting.

Before leaving home in the afternoon, Tongdao Xu had eaten a bowl of rice dumplings soaked in duck soup, so he was not hungry.

But when Xu Tonglin got up, he called him, Let's go on the trail! Your mother has handed over rice, hurry up! If you are late, you will be filled! Hurry up, hurry up!

People here say that they are full of rice, but generally they say that they will add rice.

Xu Tongdao hesitated slightly, then got up and followed.

He was afraid that if he didn't eat now, he would be hungry in the middle of the night.

He remembered that when he was a teenager, although he was a little thin, he ate a lot and got hungry quickly. After all, it was when he was growing up.

The lunch box his mother brought, he knew.

When I entered the kitchen, I was in a pile of lunch boxes and lunch jars, and I recognized it at a glance.

But when he opened the lunch box and saw the dishes in the lunch box, he felt a little uncomfortable.

The dishes in the lunch box were prepared in advance by my mother.

On duty at the polder, everyone pays rice uniformly, and then assigns a woman to borrow the host's cauldron to cook a cauldron of rice.

And for the dishes that everyone eats, everyone needs to bring ready-made ones from home.

Tongdao Xu glanced at the dishes in other people's lunch boxes, and at a glance, they were basically much better than the dishes in his mother's lunch box.

And his mother's lunch box contained only a little pickle and a small pile of fried vegetables.

These are the dishes that the mother prepared for herself, but now it is his son's dishes.

Such a dish, he will not be unable to eat.

But thinking about the fact that his mother was on duty at the polders every day, and that's what he ate every day, and he still had a fever and didn't get rid of it, he felt uncomfortable.

The hatred for that unsatisfactory father grew even stronger.

Following behind everyone, half a lunch box of rice was added. When Xu Tongdao put down the spatula, Xu Tonglin said in surprise, Xiaodao, you only eat this much at night? Are you losing your appetite for the food your mother left behind? It's fine! Add some rice, let's eat my dishes together! Really! My mother cooked two crucian carp for me today and steamed bacon! Let's eat together, enough!

Tongdao Xu glanced at him, smiled slightly, turned away from the stove, and said casually: No, no! I ate it when I came in the afternoon, and now I'm not very hungry, you can eat yours!

Although he said that, when he came to the back of the house and squatted under the eaves to eat, Xu Tonglin, who came over, enthusiastically took a braised crucian carp and a few pieces of bacon from his lunch box and put it on Xu Tongdao's meal. on the head.

Xu Tongdao couldn't refuse, and he was also a little moved.

He is so young, he is really nice, at least he is nice to Xu Tongdao, it would be a pity if this guy was allowed to drown in the river like the original time and space.

The two squatted under the eaves and ate a few mouthfuls before the sky started to rain again.

During the rainy season this year, it seems to rain heavily every night.

it rains,

Xu Tongdao, they can only go into the house to eat.

As soon as I entered the house, I heard a man say: Alas! This ghost day, this is trying to kill people! The water level in the river is so high, and it's raining so hard... Captain! We won't be going to the polders again tonight to pick up the extras. Head ridge?

Another man answered: I guess I'm going to pick soil again tonight!

Others babbled about similar things.

Tongdao Xu recognized the captain of their production team.

Although the farmland has been contracted by households for a long time, the production team of that year has no sense of existence on weekdays, but things like flood control in Shangxu are still organized in the form of production teams.

At this moment, Tongdao Xu heard the leader of their production team shaking his head and said, It's hard to say, I guess I'm going to pick a head ridge. The water level in the river is too high!

Jiatou ridge is a means of flood control during floods.

When the water level of the river is too high and it is about to overflow the porch, manpower is needed to carry the soil, and a soil ridge about half a meter wide is added on the porch to stop the river water that is about to overflow the porch.

This kind of work is very tiring, because when it is necessary to pick and add head ridges, it is often during the critical flood season, usually in windy and rainy weather, urging everyone to speed up and carry the soil from a distance.

Tongdao Xu prayed in his heart that he would not have to do this work tonight.

Because he has a 17-year-old body now, his shoulders have not yet carried anything. If he really wants to go to carry the soil and carry the head ridge tonight, his shoulders may not be able to bear it.

This has nothing to do with his current strength. People who don't often carry burdens on weekdays can't bear this force on their shoulders.

pity……

His prayers obviously didn't work. Just a few minutes after they had eaten here, a man in a raincoat came outside the house. Before entering the door, he stood in the heavy rain outside and shouted to the house: The third team's Go to the polder, go to the polder! All take the burden and hurry up to the polder to pick the head ridge!!

Inside the house, Xu Tongdao, the captain of their third production team, agreed, and the man outside the house strode away.

It seems that he has gone elsewhere to notify other production teams.

Have you heard it? What are you dawdling about? Hurry up and take the burden and follow me to the polder! It's going to be bad luck if you go late!

The captain urged everyone loudly.

Tongdao Xu saw everyone going to get their raincoats and poles, and heard everyone complaining in a low voice.

Including the complaints from Xu Tonglin next to him, Ce fuck! I've been messing around, and I've caught up with Tiejiatou ridge, my mother attacked!

Xu Tonglin's complaint was actually the voice of Xu Tongdao at this time.

But what can be done?

The above instructions were passed down, but he didn't dare not go. He was really caught by the above, which was bad luck.

I had no choice but to ask the captain, where are his raincoats and burdens? After being instructed, Tongdao Xu put on a raincoat, a pole and a pocket, and went up to the polder with everyone.

As soon as he reached the polder, he was startled.

On the river surface several hundred meters wide, the water level is no more than one meter away from the top of the polder.

The turbid river water is still rolling downstream in the river, such a high water level, he has grown so big, and he has been a human in two lifetimes, he has never seen it before.

He had heard of heavy rain like tonight. If the water level in the river rises by more than one meter next night, it is possible.

Is this going to be broken?

Although he knew the original time and space and their township was not broken, Xu Tongdao couldn't help but worry when he saw that the water level in the river was so high.

At this moment, Xu Tonglin, who was not far away from him, seemed to be suddenly frightened. With a frightened exclamation, Xu Tongdao was taken aback and quickly turned to look.

But he saw Xu Tonglin rushing forward like crazy. Amid the exclamations and restraints of everyone, Xu Tongdao hadn't reacted yet, and Xu Tonglin had already rushed out of the porch, with a thud, and headlessly plunged into the tumbling river water. At that time, Tongdao Xu was so shocked that his hair stood on end, and the whole person was stunned.