Era: My backyard is the garbage dump of the universe

Chapter 346 Watermelon Seduced Me

Because of the hot weather, Liu Qingsong and his group were all sweating profusely before they had even walked 50 meters. Zhou Chuanxiong was so wet that there was not a single dry spot on his body.

Seeing this, Liu Qingsong originally wanted to go back and get a straw hat to wear, but when he saw the dust on the ground mixed with his sweat, he didn't care about it anymore and quickened his pace towards the Toad Production Team.

After leaving the territory of the Huaishu Production Team, Liu Qingsong discovered that due to the drought, many farmlands of the Toad Production Team had been cracked due to the sun.

The seedlings in the farmland were dried up by the sun and had long lost their vitality.

But even so, many villagers still bring their whole families to fetch water from Diaozi River to irrigate the seedlings.

Even though they couldn't save him, they still didn't give up.

To the southeast of Diaozi River, Captain Tang Haiyun was leading two villagers to install a pump, preparing to pump water from Diaozi River to irrigate the seedlings.

When Liu Qingsong saw this scene, he sighed and walked away.

To be on the safe side, he specifically told Zhou Chuanxiong, Wang Yaoqing and others not to act rashly and to follow his instructions in everything.

After all, the current drought situation in the Toad Production Team is much more serious than that in the Sophora Tree Production Team. If you put yourself in their shoes, other things, including the destruction of public canals, are no longer that important.

Liu Qingsong also believed that destroying the public canal was not Tang Haiyun's original intention.

As soon as this thought came to mind, Liu Qingsong and his group came to Tang Haiyun's side.

Tang Haiyun was checking the switch of the water pump at this time. Seeing that the water pump wouldn't work no matter how hard he fiddled with it, he got angry and threw away the electric pen in his hand.

"You hung the wrong wire." Liu Qingsong smiled and pointed at the electric pole to remind him.

Hearing this, Tang Haiyun looked at the electric pole and saw that the wire was really hung up wrong. He chased the young villager next to the electric pole and started to fight: "You little bastard, you eat more than anyone else every day, and now you can't even hang a wire. I'm going to beat you to death today!"

The young villager was beaten and ran away with his head in his hands.

Tang Haiyun did not chase him, but turned to look at Liu Qingsong: "Captain Liu, you brought so many people here because of the destruction of the public canal, right?"

"Yeah," Liu Qingsong nodded.

"Alas! This is my fault, but my intention was good." Tang Haiyun put his hands on his waist: "I wanted the water from the Crucian Carp Reservoir to irrigate the seedlings of the Toad Production Team..."

The words are not finished yet.

Zhou Chuanxiong interrupted him: "What are you thinking? The Crucian Carp Reservoir belongs to our Huaishu Production Team. The water is not enough. If we use it to irrigate the seedlings of your Toad Production Team, what will happen to the seedlings in our fields?"

"That's right, you are too shameless." A villager echoed angrily.

"Okay, okay." Liu Qingsong said quickly: "Don't scold Captain Tang. If I were the captain of the Toad Production Team, according to the current situation, I would also want to borrow water from the Crucian Carp Reservoir. After all, if all the seedlings died, people would starve to death."

"But Captain Tang, have you ever thought about this? Even if I agree to lend you the water from the Crucian Carp Reservoir, what if it's still not enough to save the seedlings?"

"This...this is impossible?" Tang Haiyun said.

If the seedlings cannot be saved, the Toad Production Team will be in trouble now that the land has been distributed to each household.

"Nothing is impossible. The weather is not decided by us, but by God.

If I were you, I would change my strategy and take the villagers to buy some food for emergencies, and then go out to work and earn money. In this way, even if the seedlings die, everyone will have a way out. "Liu Qingsong reminded softly.

"But the problem is that it's not that easy to find a job these days?" Tang Haiyun replied with a smile.

If it were easy to find, I'm afraid that more than half of the Toad Production Team would not be willing to farm at home.

"How do you know you can't find it if you don't go looking for it?" Liu Qingsong asked back.

"This..." Tang Haiyun couldn't answer.

"Let me remind you that there are still many empty stalls in the Dongfanghong Farmers' Market. You can lead everyone to do business. Wouldn't that way you will have a job? I can't guarantee that you will make a lot of money, but it will definitely be no problem to have enough food and clothing." Liu Qingsong added when he saw that there were no outsiders around.

Tang Haiyun's eyes lit up when he heard this: "Then I will go and call a meeting of the villagers. If anyone wants to do business at the Dongfanghong Farmers Market, you have to help speak a few good words to your second sister who is the manager."

"My second sister is not the manager of the farmers' market now. My brother-in-law is. But it makes all the same. If anyone in your team wants to do business, I can just say hello to them directly." Liu Qingsong replied.

"Okay! Okay!" Tang Haiyun nodded repeatedly.

"Then I'll go first. Remember to repair the damaged canal." Liu Qingsong said this and took Wang Yaoqing, Zhou Chuanxiong and a dozen other villagers towards the Huaishu Production Team.

On the way, Wang Yaoqing couldn't help but ask Liu Qingsong: "Why do you want to help the Toad Production Team like this?"

Zhou Chuanxiong and a dozen other villagers were also somewhat puzzled.

"Because the lips and teeth are interdependent, if the Toad Production Team has a hard time, then our Sophora japonica Production Team will be the first to suffer." Liu Qingsong sighed and replied: "And I have the ability to help them, why not help?"

"This can eliminate many hidden dangers. You will know later."

This is the truth, not a lie.

Before his rebirth, the Toad Production Team had a harvest failure due to drought, and many villagers turned into thieves and bandits. His third uncle's house was robbed once, and Wang Yaoqing was stabbed three times by a thief.

Although the person is not dead.

But the price was heavy.

Therefore, he had the ability to help the Toad Production Team, so he naturally had to help. Otherwise, when the time came, the hungry villagers of the Toad Production Team would definitely first harm the Sophora japonica Production Team.

"Okay!" Wang Yaoqing smiled awkwardly.

Only then did he realize that Liu Qingsong's overall view was much better than his.

……

After returning home.

Because of the hot weather.

Liu Qingsong hid in the tent, enjoying the electric fan and not going anywhere.

It was not until noon that he got up and went to the makeshift kitchen to cook.

In the kitchen, Liu Lijuan was already washing rice.

Seeing Liu Qingsong coming in, he said, "Fenfen has gone back with Mr. Li. They told me to tell you that they won't be here for a few days because they have to pump water to irrigate the seedlings."

"Oh." Liu Qingsong nodded.

It's time to irrigate the crops again. It looks like the drought of 1979 is officially about to begin.

"Uncle, uncle..." Little Nuomi, sweating profusely, suddenly appeared at the kitchen door with his short legs running: "Do you have watermelon? I'm... I'm so thirsty."

"All you do is eat the whole day. Didn't you eat up the last watermelon yesterday?" Before Liu Qingsong could answer, Liu Chunhua couldn't help but retorted.

“Hehe…” Little Nuomi scratched his head embarrassedly.

"Big sister, please don't talk about Xiao Nuomi. It's so hot today, I also want to eat watermelon to cool down." Liu Qingsong said, holding Xiao Nuomi's hand: "How about this! I'll take her to the vegetable garden to see if there are any watermelons."

If I remember correctly, there should have been five watermelons in the vegetable garden, but they were not ripe at that time, so he did not pick them to eat.

"Okay! Go ahead!" Liu Chunhua nodded.

"Oh... let's go pick watermelons!" Little Nuomi cheered and ran towards the vegetable garden with his short legs.

Liu Qingsong followed behind with a smile.

Soon, the two of them arrived at the entrance of the vegetable garden.

The vegetable garden is overgrown with weeds and you can no longer see any vegetables or watermelon vines.

But little Nuomi soon found a big watermelon in the weeds, weighing more than ten pounds.

Liu Qingsong also found two watermelons and five cantaloupes.

But apart from these, there were no other fruits or vegetables in the entire vegetable garden.

"Uncle, uncle... I'll take this watermelon first, you can take the others." Little Nuomi said, picking up the watermelon that was bigger than his head and walked happily towards the kitchen.

"Walk slower." Liu Qingsong originally wanted to help, but when he saw Xiao Nuomi carrying a watermelon weighing more than ten kilograms without any effort, he didn't bother to help.

"I know." Xiao Nuomi agreed readily, and then disappeared from Liu Qingsong's sight.

In the kitchen, Liu Chunhua saw Xiao Nuomi coming in with a large watermelon weighing more than ten kilograms. She took it and washed it, then put it in the water tank: "You can't eat this watermelon now. You have to let it cool down, understand?"

"Oh!" Little Nuomi was a little unhappy, but still nodded obediently, then ran to find Liu Qingsong and took back all the remaining watermelons and cantaloupes.

Seeing that the kitchen was extremely hot and the eldest sister's forehead was covered with sweat while cooking, Liu Qingsong even took the large electric fan from the temporary tent, plugged it in and quietly adjusted the temperature to about 18 degrees. "Huh? How come it's cool all of a sudden?" Liu Chunhua was surprised.

"Yeah, it's so cool." Little Nuomi was also very happy.

"It will definitely be cooler with an electric fan." Liu Qingsong reached out and wiped the sweat off his forehead: "Sister, after I eat, I'll go to the city to see if I can buy a refrigerator."

Without a refrigerator, it would be difficult to preserve food on such a hot day.

"Okay! Bring back a barrel of oil as well. We don't have much salt left." Liu Chunhua reminded.

"Okay! Okay!" Liu Qingsong put on an apron and started helping to cook.

……

After finishing lunch and taking a half-hour nap, Liu Qingsong said goodbye to Liu Chunhua and drove away on his sidecar.

At around five in the afternoon, Liu Qingsong brought back a large, dilapidated refrigerator.

The reason it is shabby is because it came from the garbage dump of the universe.

This large refrigerator has been transformed by a liquid robot and has its own hidden space. If nothing goes wrong, storing one or two tons of food in the summer should be no problem.

But Liu Qingsong had no intention of telling this secret to his elder sister, nor did he plan to tell Xiao Nuomi, his youngest sister, and the others. It was purely for his own convenience.

Seeing that the elder sister had stepped forward to lend a hand and was ready to help lift the large refrigerator, Liu Qingsong said, "I can carry it by myself, elder sister, you just watch from the side."

"Okay!" Liu Chunhua nodded, then asked, "Why did you buy a second-hand refrigerator?"

"Second-hand ones are cheaper! Besides, it's hard to buy a new refrigerator in Dayu City at this time. You can't buy one without tickets and connections." Liu Qingsong replied with a smile.

"That's true." Seeing that Liu Qingsong had carried the refrigerator into the temporary kitchen while they were chatting and laughing, Liu Chunhua hurriedly ran to find an electrical socket.

After a while, they came and powered up the refrigerator.

Liu Lijuan thought the refrigerator was very dirty, so she picked up a large bucket of water and prepared to wipe it.

But she soon realized she was wrong. Not only was the refrigerator incredibly clean, but everything inside looked like new.

"Big sister, stop looking at it stupidly, put the ingredients in quickly!" Liu Qingsong reminded her, "I asked someone to replace some of the things in here, so they look like new."

"Oh, so that's it!" Liu Chunhua suddenly realized, but without further investigation, she quickly put all the ingredients in the cupboard and on the stove into the refrigerator.

Liu Qingsong cut the big watermelon in the water tank into two halves and put it into the fresh-keeping area, and also put the cantaloupe in there.

Seeing that it was still empty, he thought for a moment and filled a military kettle with water and put it in.

"Qingsong, your refrigerator is so big and very convenient. Can you buy me one tomorrow?" After feeling the coolness coming from the refrigerator, Liu Chunhua was reluctant to leave.

After all, it was too hot outside, so hot that it was difficult for her, a pregnant woman, to breathe.

"Okay! But second sister, you have to wait for a while. This second-hand refrigerator can't be bought just like that." Liu Qingsong replied softly.

"Of course I know that." Liu Lijuan saw that it was getting late and was about to go wash rice and cook when she heard the honking of a jeep outside, followed by Wang Kuiwu's voice: "Chunhua, are you there?"

"Here!" Liu Chunhua ran out of the kitchen.

Liu Qingsong closed the door of the refrigerator and followed behind.

What the siblings didn't expect was that this time Wang Kuiwu drove here alone, and the jeep he drove was new.

"Brother-in-law, did you buy this jeep?" Liu Qingsong asked after he realized what was going on.

Liu Chunhua was also a little surprised.

"Yes, I bought it." Wang Kuiwu smiled innocently, "I've made a lot of money on the battlefield recently, so Kui San and I discussed it and decided to buy this jeep."

"Have you passed the driving test?" Liu Qingsong asked.

"No! But I went to see Director Tao, and he said he would find a way to help me get a license through the company." Wang Kuiwu patted the passenger seat and said, "Chunhua, don't just stand there, let's go! I'll take you for a ride."

"I won't go, and I don't dare to sit down. I still have to cook dinner!" Liu Chunhua replied.

"No..." Wang Kuiwu didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Why don't you believe me?"

"It's not that I don't believe it, but my elder sister is pregnant! It's always better to be careful." Liu Qingsong reminded.

"That's right." Wang Kuiwu nodded: "Then I won't go for a ride. I will stay and accompany your elder sister."

"Okay, I'll go cook." Liu Qingsong agreed and walked towards the kitchen.

Seeing that there was no one else around, Wang Kuiwu stepped forward and took Liu Chunhua's hand: "Wife, have you missed me these days?"

"I..." Liu Chunhua just opened her mouth when Xiao Nuomi's sweet and surprised voice came from behind her: "Dad, when did you come?"

"I've just been here." Wang Kuiwu looked back.

Liu Chunhua quickly pulled her hand back, after all, the child had seen a lot.

"Did you bring anything good?" Little Nuomi asked, tilting his head.

"This..." Wang Kuiwu scratched his head: "I forgot, how about I bring it to you next time?"

"Hmph! Forget it next time! I knew you were here to see Mommy, not me." Little Nuomi said angrily and ran straight into the kitchen.

Wang Kuiwu: “…”

Liu Chunhua: "..."

This little girl, why is every word she says so sarcastically now?
……

After the family sat together and happily finished their dinner, Liu Qingsong was about to dismantle the vegetable greenhouse when Tang Haiyun came over with a dozen villagers, carrying eggs and some mountain products.

See what they mean.

It was obvious that he was planning to do business at the Dongfanghong Farmers' Market.

Liu Qingsong didn't hesitate to accept the eggs and mountain products and drove his sidecar to take them to find his second sister.

When I came back, it was already past ten o'clock in the evening.

Liu Qingsong, who was feeling a little tired, was about to take a hot bath and go to bed, but he heard some noise in the kitchen.

"Who?" Liu Qingsong became alert.

No one answered and the kitchen was silent.

This made Liu Qingsong frown, and he picked up a stick and walked over.

When I got closer, I found that it was Xiao Nuomi who opened the refrigerator and stole the watermelon.

Xiao Taoqi, Yaomei, Wang Ba, Ye Qubing, Pangdun and Jin Yutou were also there, each holding an icy watermelon in their little hands.

When they saw Liu Qingsong coming towards them with a stick, they lowered their heads in embarrassment.

Liu Qingsong was at a loss whether to laugh or cry when he saw this scene: "If you want to eat watermelon, just eat it openly. Why do you have to be so sneaky?"

"If the stick in my hand had hit you just now, you would never be able to eat watermelon in your life."

"Uncle, we don't want to be sneaky, but... Mommy doesn't allow us to. She said we can only eat one piece of watermelon every day. But we feel thirsty while sleeping and we also want to eat watermelon." Little Nuomi explained in a low voice.

"Yeah...it was the watermelons that seduced us first, and we couldn't help it, so we opened the refrigerator and ate them." Little Prank agreed.

Liu Qingsong was amused when he heard this: "You don't need to explain. Eat watermelon if you want. If there's no more, I'll just go to the market to buy some. It's summer now, so there should be plenty of watermelons."

"Really?" Little Nuomi's big eyes lit up.

"Of course it's true." Liu Qingsong replied.

"Oh, that's great." The children cheered, then sat together and eat the ice watermelon in big mouthfuls.

Liu Qingsong saw that there were several slices of watermelon on the stove and was about to reach out to take them, but Xiaojuzi suddenly appeared at the door, called out, and then disappeared into the darkness.

"What's going on?" Liu Qingsong was stunned and chased after him.

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