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Chapter 342: Less talk, more action!!
"Now please start voting!! Those who agree to conduct experiments in our Qian Family Manor, please raise your hands."

After Qian Laosen finished speaking, he was the first to vote in favor and raised his hand.

Although he was a loyal and honest farmer, he was not pedantic and was not afraid of people gossiping about him behind his back.

Since he believed that this water turbine pump had the potential to help improve the village's irrigation conditions, he raised his hand and didn't care what people were saying behind his back about his relationship with Zhang Shenfei.

With Qian Laosen taking the lead, this experiment is really tempting.

The most important thing is that the experiment was carried out in Qianjiazhuang and had nothing to do with several other villages in the commune.

If it fails, there will be no loss to their village. If it succeeds, their village will also benefit.

Who can disagree with this thing which has only advantages and no disadvantages? ? ?

So all the other commune cadres raised their hands, and finally the proposal was passed unanimously.

"Okay, then let's meet early tomorrow morning at the creek below our village." Qian Laosen made the final decision.

After exchanging a few words with other cadres, he took Zhang Shenfei and others home.

We had a horse-drawn carriage when we came here, but when we returned it was already dark and the carriage had to be returned to the commune, so we could only walk in the afterglow of the sunset.

Fortunately, the commune is not far from Qianjiazhuang. It only takes about 40 minutes to walk over two hills to get there.

After entering the door,

The black-faced big yellow dog that Lao Qian's family let out to look for food during the day squatted at the door and started barking when he saw so many outsiders.

"Heizi, stop making noise, we are all family." Lao Qian shouted, and the dog immediately changed from a ferocious roar to a whimper, and the look in its eyes when it looked at the few people became much softer.

Tong Luoyang came from the countryside and had raised many dogs at home since he was a child. When he saw Heizi's appearance, he praised him: "He is long, thin, and human-like. At first glance, he is a good dog to guard the house."

Heizi became even more obedient, coming over with his tail erect to rub against everyone.

"Of course not. Usually my brother Zhuzi takes Heizi with him when he goes up the mountain to hunt. So he can both watch the house and hunt, so he has multiple jobs." Zhang Shenfei said as he scratched the dog's head that was rubbing against him.

I still remember that the last time he came to Qianjiazhuang, Heizi was still a puppy, but now, he has become so majestic.

Although they haven't seen each other for several years, Heizi obviously still remembers Zhang Shenfei. When he was scratched on the head by him, he immediately squinted his eyes with an expression of enjoyment, and his ears turned into airplane ears.

Seeing this, Lou Xiao'e came over curiously to tease him, and even took out the leftover steamed bread from the afternoon from her pocket and threw it over to him.

Heizi wandered around in the woods for the entire afternoon but didn't find anything delicious to eat, and he was starving.

Seeing Wotou's eyes glowing green, he seized the opportunity, jumped up, and grabbed Wotou in mid-air. His posture was so cool and handsome that he drew cheers from everyone.

Seeing this, Heizi swallowed the steamed bread and raised his chin like a general who had returned from a great victory.

……

After entering the house, the group began to discuss where to stay for the night.

The Qian family has a total of three large tiled houses, two of which have kangs.

It was easy to allocate the people now. Zhao Guihua, Lou Xiao'e, and Qian Tiezhu's wife, whom he had just married two years ago, lived together in a room with a small kang.

The main room with a big kang used to be the bedroom of Qian Laosen and Zhao Guihua, but tonight the men were living there together.

There is enough room, but not enough quilts.

Fortunately, Zhang Shenfei and the others had already foreseen this scene when they arrived, and they all carried bedding over. Now they each made their own bed, washed up, and lay down.

There are no entertainment facilities in cities at this time, let alone in rural areas.

It was just past eight o'clock in the evening, and the small mountain village had already fallen asleep.

The occasional barking of dogs outside the window not only does not seem noisy, but instead adds a sense of subtlety.

There was a gurgling sound, I didn't know whose stomach was growling loudly.

Xiao Cheng, who came with Tong Luoyang and is also a student of the Department of Mathematics and Physics, opened up: "I grew up in the city and later was admitted to Yenching University...

Having never been to the countryside, I really didn’t know the situation here was so serious.”

It is no exaggeration to say that he had completely digested today's dinner by the time he left the commune and walked to Qianjiazhuang.

Although he lay down to sleep as soon as he came back, he was already starving before he fell asleep.

When he thought that it was only an occasional experience for him, but the mountain people in Qianjiazhuang and Youth Commune lived like this every day, he felt extremely complicated.

"Luoyang, now I finally understand why you have been working so hard to study the water turbine pump..."

Compared to him who was born in the city, Tong Luoyang was born in a small village in a mountainous county town under the jurisdiction of Luocheng City. His family background was not the worst in their mathematics and physics department, but it was among the top three from the bottom.

Although Qianjiazhuang is located in Yanshan Mountain, it is not far from Sijiucheng, otherwise it would not have been included in the territory of Sijiucheng in the past few years.

A place like this is definitely better than Tong Luoyang's hometown, right?

What would Tong Luoyang's hometown look like? ? ? ?
Others also became interested.

Tong Luoyang spoke in a low voice, talking about what he saw and heard after returning to his hometown: "Who said it wasn't true? I went back to my hometown during the Chinese New Year this year..."

Qian Laosen, Qian Tiezhu, Xiao Cheng and another helper Datou listened quietly, and after he finished speaking, they began to talk about their own difficulties.

In the end, Datou even sighed and wished he had thousands of mansions.

Seeing that several people were about to reminisce about the good old days, Zhang Shenfei had to speak up.

Tomorrow is the day of war, how can we be discouraged today? ?
He turned over and lay on the kang: "Comrades, don't just talk about these useless things. The only thing we can do now is to solve the problem of the water turbine pump.

As long as this is accomplished, it will be more effective than lamenting the hardships of people's lives a hundred or ten thousand times!!"

Qian Laosen nodded: "That's right, life is hard now, right? But it's much better than before liberation.

How big was the gap between the rich and the poor at that time? The rich had delicious food and drinks every day, and their dogs could eat meat every day.

In a poor family, the whole family wears the same pair of pants, and whoever goes out to do business wears the same pair.

How could the women have clothes to wear? In winter, they would wrap themselves in blankets, and in summer, they would work in the fields naked...

When life becomes difficult, there are many people who sell their children, daughters, and even pawn their wives.

Although life is difficult now, it is all natural disasters. As long as we can work together, life will get better one day. "

Finally, he made a concluding statement: "Alright, stop talking. I'm already hungry, and the more I talk, the hungrier I'll get.

Go to sleep quickly. You won’t feel hungry when you fall asleep. You still have important things to do tomorrow.”

Well, now that the host has spoken, everyone stopped talking and closed their eyes to try to fall asleep.

……

Early the next morning,

Zhao Guihua got up when the first rays of morning glow appeared in the sky.

Sweep the courtyard, wash clothes, feed water to the dog, wring out the rag to wipe the tables and chairs. In the past, the Qian family courtyard was much more lively than it is now.
Zhao Guihua was a woman who could not sit still. Not only was she responsible for the food, drink, defecation and urination of the whole family, she also raised chickens, ducks, geese and two pigs at home.

I cut grass for pigs, chop chicken food, and drive ducks into the water every day. I am always busy.

Although the current policy allows people to keep a certain number of families and animals outside the collective, it is often a one-size-fits-all policy at the grassroots level...

Although Qian Laosen was a commune cadre, he would never allow his family to be treated specially, so now there were no other living creatures in their house except Heizi and his family of four.

This made Zhao Guihua, who had been busy all her life, feel at a loss, but she always followed the man's instructions and did not refute.

After Zhao Guihua finished cleaning everything, Zhang Shenfei and others had already gotten up.

After washing up, the group went to the commune canteen for dinner. Today's breakfast was still wild vegetable soup and cornmeal steamed bread, no different from yesterday's dinner.

After eating, everyone set out to walk towards the stream.

When we arrived at the place, we saw a large group of villagers already surrounding the place in three layers inside and three layers outside.

Seeing that the number is more than all the people in Qianjiazhuang combined, I guess people from other villages in the Youth Commune also came here specially to watch the fun.

"I'm coming."

“No oil, no electricity…”

"Is that the water pump on that man's back?"

"Yenching University...tsk tsk tsk...how do you draw?"

Amid the discussions and eager anticipation of the crowd, Tong Luoyang and his assistants began to prepare to install the water turbine pump.

Although the water turbine pump modified by Tong Luoyang is said to be able to lift water fifteen meters without the need for a water level difference, it can be more effective if installed in a place with a water level difference.

Therefore, they did not install it directly by the stream, but walked back and forth looking for a suitable location.

At last,
Select a place where the upper and lower water levels differ by about 30 centimeters.

"This is it." Tong Luoyang said, then he took out the water turbine pump from his backpack and started installing it.

The water turbine pump is not big, weighing only about 40 to 50 kilograms in total, and the installation procedure is not difficult. While he was operating it, a group of villagers gathered around to watch.

Seeing this, Zhang Shenfei took Tong Luoyang's assistant to meet with Qian Laosen and another village cadre to finalize the subsequent steps.

Everyone in Qianjia Village has the surname Qian, and another village cadre is called Qian Laobai.

Seeing Zhang Shenfei and the others coming over, he hurriedly put the pipe under his armpit and rubbed it for a few times, then filled it with tobacco leaves and handed it over: "Young man, take a puff, these are all good tobacco leaves that I soaked in sesame oil myself."

"Even though the cigarettes you bought may look high-end, they taste nothing like mine..."

Zhang Shenfei glanced at the cigarette holder that had turned burnt yellow and refused calmly: "No, Uncle Bai, I can't stand the strong smell of dry tobacco."

Qian Laobai didn't force it. He smiled and said that he was young after all and couldn't enjoy such a good thing. He put the pipe in his mouth and smoked it happily.

Zhang Shenfei did not waste any time and directly asked Tong Luoyang's assistant Xiao Cheng to start talking about business.

Qian Laosen nodded frequently and called over several young men from the village, asking them to move the pipe where the diesel water pump was installed a little to this side, and then move it upwards at a 75-degree angle so that the water outlet of the pipe was placed on the canal.

everything's ready,
The turbine pump started to operate under the watchful eyes of everyone. After sucking water in from the water inlet, it went through a series of internal operations and entered the pipeline.

The sound of water trickling was heard, and soon Qian Tiezhu's excited voice was heard from the other end of the pipe.

"It's coming out of the water, it's coming out of the water, it's really coming out of the water!!!"

“It really works! It pumps up water without using oil or electricity!”

"We can use the canal from now on!!! No need to carry water!!!"

"As expected of a student from Yenching University, this is truly amazing!!!"

Around him, the young men from Qianjiazhuang showed excitement on their faces after a long time, and talked about it in a buzz.

During this period of time, they all had calluses on their shoulders from carrying water. If we were to say who would benefit the most from the success of the water turbine pump, it would be them!!!

As the water turbine pump worked continuously, the water in the canal flowed to the Youth Commune and Qianjiazhuang Village's responsibility fields.

The villagers no longer needed to carry water to save the rice seedlings. They surrounded Zhang Shenfei and his group, laughing and talking loudly.

It's lunch time.

Zhang Shenfei and his party no longer ate with the villagers, but were specially entertained at a banquet set up by the commune.

On the table were pork belly stewed with tofu, chicken stewed with mushrooms, scrambled eggs with ground vegetables, hot and sour shredded potatoes and salted duck eggs. The soup was shrimp and seaweed soup, and there was plenty of white flour steamed buns.

The food standards are completely in line with the specifications set by city leaders in the commune.

"Uncle..." Zhang Shenfei looked around at the dishes and hesitated, "Everyone is eating steamed bread outside, and we are eating and drinking inside. This is not good..."

It's not that he doesn't want to eat good food, but these days, if he prepares such a meal, and they eat and drink their fill, wipe their mouths and leave, he's afraid that his uncle's reputation among the people will be ruined.

Qian Laosen knew what his nephew was worried about, and quickly explained: "Everyone, feel free to eat. This thank-you banquet for you was prepared after all the people voted by raising their hands."

"That's right, those who came down to inspect usually ate this. You have made more contributions than them..." Qian Tiezhu at the side suddenly interrupted, but before he could finish his words, he was slapped hard by his father.

"You are the only one who can do it. You are the only one who has a mouth and you are the only one who can speak!!!"

Well, Qian Tiezhu covered his head and shut up.

Qian Laosen looked at the other commune cadres around him and smiled: "The children are young and don't understand..."

"What did the child say? We didn't hear it clearly just now." A white-faced cadre curled his lips and smiled, and several others echoed him.

Qian Tiezhu is not the only one who has complaints, it's just that they are not in a position to speak out.

In addition, now everyone has seen the power of the water turbine pump, and they also know that this thing was brought by Qian Laosen’s nephew.

Everyone was hoping that the water turbine pump could be installed in their own village, so why would they feel uncomfortable looking for Qian Laosen now? ? ?

The atmosphere suddenly became harmonious and everyone started eating and drinking.

There were six dishes for a dozen people, not a lot, but there were enough steamed buns, so everyone still enjoyed the meal.

The wine is sweet potato liquor brewed by the farmers themselves. It is strong enough that when you drink it in one gulp, the burning sensation goes straight from your throat to your stomach.

After three rounds of wine and five dishes, several cadres could not help asking about the price of the water turbine pump.

The water turbine pump currently installed in Qianjiazhuang is an experimental product of Zhang Shenfei and his team, and it will also be dismantled when they leave.

But after watching the wonderful uses of this water turbine pump this morning, the cadres of the Youth Commune have already figured out several suitable locations to install the water turbine pump, especially in their own village!!!

Now the priority is,
In addition to purchasing the water turbine pump that is currently working, the purpose is to test the value of the water turbine pump and purchase several units at the most favorable price.

Tong Luoyang obviously didn't think that far ahead. He was slightly startled when he heard the cadres' questions: "Price?? This, I don't have it yet..."

(End of this chapter)