Dressed as a farmer group pet

Chapter 184 Chapter 184
Seeing that it has entered the twelfth lunar month, the last rain was in mid-October.

The water in the river has bottomed out, and everyone is holding on to the last bit of muddy water to irrigate the sorghum as much as possible.

The rapeseed and wheat in the field are all slumped, but no one cares about it. In this afternoon, the wheat and rapeseed are doomed to dry out, but the sorghum can be rescued.

Sorghum has always been a drought-resistant grain, and nothing unusual has been seen so far. Even the branches are still as thick as before. After pouring some muddy water, it seems to grow better overnight.

Several wells in the village were also covered with stone slabs, not to prevent people from using them, but to avoid evaporation, they went to fetch water at the same time every day, and then covered them again.

The most enviable thing now is the Jiang family, which has a well of its own. According to Jiang Hu, the water level is quite high, at least for household use, so there is no need to worry about it for the time being.

Jiang Hu also told the village about the water pool in the back mountain, and took a dozen men to find out the location.

Jiang Hu guessed right, the pool was indeed not from the same water source as the river. There were more than a dozen of them with buckets on their backs, and each of them fetched a bucket of water, but there was no shortage of water in the pool.

Of course, there is no overflow at all.

What a surprise!

With this discovery, every household found all the containers that can hold water in the house, and stored all of them with water. If the running water will deteriorate and grow insects after a long time, they should all be boiled and stored!
Jiang Hu and Qixi went to carry water, Erniang and Aunt Yang went to the mountain to cut firewood, and Uncle Liu and a few children boiled and filled water at home.

Jiang Hu also specially bought more than a dozen large water tanks from the town, and used the room of Xiaomi and Tie Dan to put the water tanks.

Of course, the same is true for other houses. The prices of the water tanks in the town have been raised by them.

But within ten days, from Fu'an Village to the water pool, a path was trampled out.

At this time, the water level of the pool finally dropped a little.

This discovery spread throughout Fu'an Village in an instant.

The village chief didn't even bother to eat, so he went directly to Jiang's house. When he met Liu Yang on the way, the two of them simply came over together.

Jiang Hu's family is having lunch, a bowl of buckwheat steamed buns, a bowl of fish soup, and a plate of pickles.

"Village Chief, Liu Yang, have you eaten yet?"

As Jiang Hu said, he stuffed a steamed bun for one person, regardless of whether he ate it or not, even if he ate it, he could still eat another steamed bun.

I wasn't hungry at first, but my stomach growled when I smelled the smell of steamed buns.

After taking a bite, the village chief's frown loosened a little: "I don't know how you grow the crops, but these steamed buns are better than ours."

Liu Yang nodded again and again: "Yes, Brother Jiang is too powerful."

Er Niang scooped up a bowl of fish soup for them, and they squatted under the eaves outside the kitchen without entering the house.

The village chief ate two mouthfuls of steamed buns and drank half a bowl of fish soup to fill his stomach. He was no longer hungry, and finally remembered the business.

"Xiao Jiang, the water level of the pool has also dropped, you know that?"

Jiang Hu was surprised: "I went to town in the morning, I really don't know about this, what's the matter, wasn't it fine yesterday?"

The village head nodded sullenly: "It seems that something is really wrong. I guess it is caused by the drop in the water level of the underground river."

In the past few days, while everyone was carrying the water, they did not forget to check around. They found nothing at all, and there were no other sources of water around.

Then the only reason is the underground river.

"Brother Jiang, don't you stop selling your vegetables? Why are you going to the town?" Jiang's family now only has cabbage and radishes left, and the other vegetables are all withered.

The cabbage and radishes have long since ceased to be sold, and have been stored in the cellar.

"I took a few pigs and some chickens and rabbits to the town. Now that there is a lack of water, I can't keep so many things at home."

Jiang Hu didn't hide it either: "By the way, how much is there in the pool? I bought coarse salt and I'm going to catch some chickens and rabbits in the afternoon and go directly to the mountain to dispose of them."

It is far less convenient to carry chickens and rabbits back to the mountains for processing. They can be preserved for a long time by salting and air-drying.

"Then hurry up, the water level has dropped almost a foot today, and no one knows when the pool will dry up."

Jiang Hu nodded with a sullen face: "I see. By the way, my family kills pigs at night. If possible, I will also drive the pigs to the mountain. It's just that there are not enough people in the family. I would like to ask you for a favor."

Liu Yang immediately said: "Why kill a pig at night, when will my father and I come over earlier."

Jiang Hu explained: "Today I brought six pigs to Tongfu Restaurant, and the restaurant hired a pig butcher to deal with the six pigs during the day and come to my house at night. The main reason is that there is a shortage of water. If we don't fix them sooner, I'm afraid there will be no water. .”

Killing pigs and scalding pigs will get a lot of water.

The villagers have not been to the town for a long time, but now they are surprised: "Is there still water in the town?"

They thought that the town might be more miserable than the village.

Jiang Hu: "I heard that there is an ancient well in the town, and the water level has not dropped yet."

After finishing speaking, several people looked at each other: "Could it be an underground river like Houshanshuitan?"

The more you think about it, the more likely it is.

The village chief stroked the beard on his chin: "Forget it, instead of worrying about those things, we should think about ourselves. Xiao Jiang's method is good. I will tell other people later that the chickens, ducks and geese in the family can be killed. , saying that there is still water, so prepare more food."

Liu Yang nodded vigorously: "Jiang Ge is still wise, we can't care about wheat and rapeseed, but this year's sorghum may be harvested."

Had it not been for Jiang Ge's "unfounded worry", I am afraid that there would be nothing in the field now.

The village chief stood up and patted Liu Yang on the shoulder: "Let's go, let's go back first."

Go back to have a meal, and inform the villagers about these things.

Jiang Hu sent the two of them out, and then came back to continue eating. Erniang and Aunt Yang had already gone to catch chickens and rabbits.

After eating two mouthfuls of steamed buns, he realized that Uncle Liu was frowning and reading the letter, which he brought back just now, and said it was a letter from Ozawa's parents.

Looking at Liu Bo's appearance, something seems wrong.

Jiang Hu thought for a while, and then asked: "Uncle Liu, what's the matter, is the situation with Ozawa's parents not optimistic?"

Apart from this, there seems to be no other possibility.

Uncle Liu nodded with a sullen face: "Well, the price of food in the county has already started to rise. His parents asked us to stock up some food first, and..."

Having said that, Uncle Liu hesitated.

Jiang Hu asked: "And what? Did you tell you not to go to the county?"

Uncle Liu said before that he would go to the county in the middle of the twelfth lunar month to celebrate the New Year with Ozawa's parents, but now it seems that the county is more serious than their mountain.

Uncle Liu was surprised: "How do you know?"

Then he sighed and shook his head: "That's true, he told us to stay in the town, keep the gate closed, don't go out, it's safer than in the county."

Jiang Hu frowned, is the situation in the county already so serious?

Immediately following him, he said, "Uncle Liu, don't go back to any town. I saw it today, and people in the town are panic-stricken. During this time, you can stay in Fu'an Village with peace of mind."

(End of this chapter)