Hard times have room

Chapter 599 The Water Level Drops
That's right, the current work points are nothing in the eyes of the villagers. This is not because they are bold, but because they see the situation this year.

More than two months have passed, and the entire Shanghe Village has not fallen a drop of rain. With such weather, this year's annual harvest and the subsequent summer harvest can basically be seen at a glance, and there is no hope.

This work point is important, and then there must be food to support it. If there is no food, this work point is a piece of shit!

So, how to choose now, needless to say, basically all people are picking up the few bamboo shoots and wild vegetables in their own homes, so how can they care about the work points that are not expected at all.

Baolin is very busy in the morning, but in the afternoon, she is even busier, because she has to fetch water from the Daqing River to water the vegetable field behind her house. Three plots of land a day, every three days, no idle time.

With the help of space, she can pour two pieces of land every day, and the remaining piece is handed over to her parents.

It's not just their family who fetched water in the Daqing River to irrigate the land. The people who planted the land in the village picked it there. Even if they didn't plant sweet potato seedlings, they also planted peanuts and soybeans in their vegetable fields. Can't be empty.

By this time, they all understood that it would be too late for the second crop, and it would be uncertain whether the sweet potato seedlings would be able to be planted. Do not plant sweet potatoes.

After more than two months of consumption, the water level in the Daqing River has dropped significantly, and the water level has dropped to the level of Paulin's knees. Of course, this is not the height of the one-meter-wide small river in the middle.

Baolin also went down that small river to touch the snails before, where the water level reached her waist, and she would not be able to dry for a while.

She spends a long time at home every day. When she has nothing to do, Pauline likes to take a notebook to write about her days.

After waiting for a long time, I will come back and look again. It is also very interesting to think about the mood when I wrote this diary before.

Time passed by in a hurry, but what remained the same was the bright red sun above the head. I don't know why, but the weather is getting more and more sinister now.

Since the big sun hung in the sky at the beginning of the year, it has been reported every day, and it has not set for a day. This is really strange, even if it was a little gloomy that day, after a few hours, it was re-hanging. The red sun will break all people's illusions.

The days soon approached the beginning of May, and Shanghe Village was no longer calm, and there was a turbulent scene in the village.

It's not for anything else, it's just for the water in the Daqing River. That's right, now the Daqing River is about to dry up. Even if you go to the very center of the Daqing River, the one-meter-wide river will only reach the water. Pauline's knee, this is still in the normal flow of the river.

Usually in the afternoon, people in the village would draw water from the Daqing River on a large scale to irrigate their vegetable fields. At this time, the water level would drop significantly, and the water level at that time would only reach Baolin's ankle.

As for what the villagers thought about planting rice seeds at the beginning of February, those thoughts have also been dissipated. Now in this weather, it is very good to keep those sweet potato fields. As for rice or something, it is completely impossible. There is no such condition!
In addition to sweet potatoes, peanuts, soybeans and corn are collectively planted in the village. Anyway, the seeds left in the warehouse have been planted.

At the same time, the remaining wasteland, after a meeting in the village, is also allowed to be claimed by the villagers. As long as you think you can take care of it, you can go to the wasteland to open a piece of land and plant seeds.

This greatly stimulated the enthusiasm of the villagers at that time. Among them, the most popular ones were the remaining lands by the Daqing River. For the ownership of those lands, some of them almost fought. In the end, It was only under the mediation of the village cadres that it stopped.

Many people go to grab the paddy fields that used to grow rice. Of course, the land is really good, and the bad land will not become the village's paddy field to grow rice.

Wang Jiandang didn't go to grab those lands. There was a piece of land next to his house, which was enough for him to toss, and it wasn't very far from Daqinghe.

The land is three acres and three points in total, divided by four families, because the location is not bad, after all, it is close to the Daqing River, which is still very rare for the villagers, and it is convenient to water.

In the past, the land was used to grow sweet potatoes, peanuts, beans and corn, and they were all planted in rotation, because if the same crop was planted all the time, the harvest was really average.

That piece of land, Wang Jiandang, only accounted for five points because he had the smallest family, but that was enough.

In that five-point land, the three of their family are a little too busy to do it. Weeding and digging the ground and watering the seeds are really enough for the three of them.

Among them, the most tiring and time-consuming thing is watering. Just watering all the five parts of the land to the point where the seeds can be planted and then germinate smoothly, the family of three has been busy for several times. God, my tired waist is almost unable to straighten, let alone other things.

Following Pauline's advice and his own considerations, Wang Jiandang only planted two crops, peanuts and sweet potatoes, both of which are drought tolerant.

As for soybeans and corn, it is not that they have not considered it, but the seeds of these crops are all knotted outside, and they may be eaten by others before they grow up.

In this day and age, raw beans and raw corn are rare good things. If this really bears fruit, it is definitely not good for hooking people. There may be those with dirty hands and feet, and they will be stolen from you in the middle of the night. When it is clean, there will be nowhere to cry.

Sweet potatoes and peanuts are better. The fruit grows in the ground. Until the last moment of excavation, I don’t know whether the fruit underneath will bear or not, and if it bears a lot of fruit, is it good? do not know.

In addition, when the Daqing River ran out of water, if the ground was not watered, the ground would be very dry. Trying to pull the peanuts and sweet potatoes out of the ground with both hands would be delusional. Hoe, but then, the movement will be bigger, and the difficulty will be improved.

Compared with peanuts and sweet potatoes, which can only be eaten with a hoe, I believe those beans and corn that can be picked and eaten directly are more attractive.

Peanut seeds are available at home, and there is even a surplus, so there is no need to buy them, but the sweet potato seedlings were exchanged by Xu Tao, a good brother of Wang Jiandang. Yes, they were exchanged with peanuts.

Xu Tao’s family has a lot of sweet potatoes, and they don’t want to plant too many sweet potatoes in their own land. Thinking that eggs can’t be put in the sweet potato basket, it happens that Wang Jiandang’s family has peanuts, so they changed the seeds for one share of the land. , not much, but the two are quite satisfied.

(End of this chapter)