Everyone has to choose to save the family's young labor force first, and then the children. Only if they survive can the family have hope.
As for the old, weak, sick and disabled...
on the construction site,
There are quite a lot of single men like this from other places, as well as young couples.
As for how they passed through the many obstacles along the way, it is still unclear.
Maybe they only walked through the wilderness and stayed in the wilderness all the way, and then they arrived at the boundary of Hongxing Commune.
There is another thing called "survivor bias".
Perhaps the people who finally appeared on this construction site were a small part of the survivors. This is entirely possible.
In short,
Among the nearly 200 people on the construction site, it is easy to pick out the number 1 and 20 people you are satisfied with.
After a while,
Luo Xuan selected 15 of them. They looked honest and honest, not the kind of people who talk a lot.
Maybe they used to joke and have lively personalities, right?
However, if a person has experienced too many ups and downs, I'm afraid most of them will become as taciturn as they are.
The heart has nothing to rely on,
What is alive is just a body that has lost its soul.
After selecting suitable candidates, Luo Xuan took them and prepared to leave.
only.
Before Luo Xuan had time to move, he caught sight of a petite figure running towards him in a hurry.
"Comrade, can you recruit me too?"
The woman looked to be in her early 20s, less than 1.6 meters tall, and skinny.
He looked at Luo Xuan eagerly and said, "Don't worry, little comrade! Even though I'm not tall, I can work really fast.
Even if my strength is not as strong as others, then if I work overtime and work a little longer, I can always achieve the same amount as others, right?"
People who are willing to work hard are always worthy of respect.
Before Luo Xuan could say yes.
This woman seemed to be afraid that Luo Xuan would not want her.
So he added: "I only need 1 catty of grain every day... No, 8 taels will do! Do you think it's okay?"
I haven't even lowered the price to the other party yet, but the woman in front of me has taken the lead in rolling it up?
Luo Xuan sighed slightly, "Just one and a half kilograms of grain. Everyone is treated equally here. If you are weak, you can do the work for the weak. Even if you are weak, as long as he is willing to use his brain, he can always find it.
Useful place."
The woman was overjoyed: "Thank you, comrade! Thank you, leader!"
This promise means that something will happen!
In just 2 or 3 minutes, Luo Xuan was surrounded by many women, women, and young men.
They all looked at Luo Xuan eagerly, begging to let them have a job.
after all,
This canal repair project is about to be completed.
If they don't quickly find another new job to do.
You can imagine the consequences they will face next...
finally,
In desperation, Luo Xuan picked from thousands of people and took away about 20 women who didn't know whether they were aunts or women.
Together with the 15 young and strong men selected earlier, there are a total of 35 laborers.
Luo Xuan first asked these people to continue working on the canal construction site.
He planned to wait until he had taken care of all the things on hand before sending someone to send them to the mountains.
These people are all good at their jobs.
With their help, I can open up more wasteland and cultivate more land.
Normally, if they encounter work in the fields and are not too busy, they can also dig up bird droppings in order to store some high-quality fertilizer.
The reason why I choose these people with whom I have nothing to worry about is mainly for confidentiality reasons.
Luo Xuan only hopes to harvest a large amount of food through the food harvested in his own space and the land reclaimed in the mountains.
In the end, I can help a few more people, a few people.
But in order to do this, you must first ensure your own safety.
Therefore, when Luo Xuan recruits people, the first thing he requires is that these people must be tight-lipped, and preferably be the kind of people who have no worries outside the mountains.
Thus,
They stay in the mountains, have food and drink, and maybe in the future they can automatically match each other to form a young couple.
In this case, there is basically no need for them to go out.
As for them, sometimes they need some daily necessities. Their space is now similar to a grocery store, and there are quite a lot of supplies stored.
If there is anything that is not enough, just send someone to deliver it to them when the time comes.
Take care of food, housing, and purchasing.
As long as these people do not come out of the mountains, their own safety can be guaranteed to the greatest extent.
As for the time to come, when the difficult period passes, the national economic situation will be greatly improved.
At that time,
How to settle these people will only be considered at that time.
Anyway, no matter what, let’s get through these three difficult years first.
As for the safety of Chen Xiaoduan’s mother, and how to properly arrange for her in the future?
Luo Xuan didn't think that was something he should consider by himself.
Now that Ji Xuyuan has taken over, what if he, a very capable man, cannot even protect the woman he loves?
That would be an underestimation of Ji Xuyuan’s abilities!
If you say that you are a little fox, then Ji Xuyuan is the real old fox.
That guy is known as the iceberg that has surfaced: the bulk of it is still under the water.
This guy Ji Xuyuan is truly worthy of the words "Old, cunning, and unfathomable"...
Recruit good people.
Luo Xuan took Tuo Haili and continued walking along the aqueduct.
Not long after, Luo Xuan arrived at the boundary of the Tuanbiao Brigade.
But I saw a large group of community members busy building a small aqueduct.
The current disaster caused by locusts has been suppressed a lot through the hard work of the members day and night to exterminate the locusts.
In the fields, most of the people who are still busy killing locusts are the old, weak, women and children.
This job is not heavy physical work, nor does it have much technical content.
As long as it's one person, it can be done.
so,
This allowed the members of the Tuanbiao Brigade to mobilize some of their strong labor force to build irrigation canals.
"What are you doing?"
Luo Xuan stood on the high main irrigation canal, condescendingly asking the commune members who were busy working non-stop: "Are you planning to wait until all the fields of Zhengxing Brigade have been irrigated?
Are we going to dig up canals to divert water, or are we going to cut them off in front?"
In the production team, there is an unwritten rule: that is, if it is not the turn of the production team to use water.
That production team had no right to open a gap in the ditch.
However, commune members can be allowed to carry water in buckets from the main canal to irrigate the crops of their production teams.
That is to say,
It's okay to use human power to carry it on your shoulders and carry it on your back, and to carry water to irrigate crops.
But it is absolutely not allowed to open a gap in the main canal without authorization!
I heard Luo Xuan ask.
Among the crowd, a man who looked like a production captain walked out immediately.
I saw him raising his head.
He said to Luo Xuan, "I said why does it look so familiar? It turns out to be Luo Xuan. Hey, I said you don't go to the city to enjoy the happiness, but why are you wandering around in the countryside?
Everywhere is smoky, and the fires with sulfur are choking. How can you sit comfortably in the park in your city?"
Luo Xuan snorted coldly, "Don't be so weird with me. I just want to ask you, are you ready to open the main canal and use the irrigation water of our Zhengxing brigade to cut off the water in advance?"
The production captain smiled sheepishly.
Then, he climbed up the stone trough of the aqueduct and stood side by side with Luo Xuan.
Just listen to him explain, "As you know, the drought this year is getting more and more serious.
If we don't water the ground properly now, the corn seedlings and sweet potato seedlings will be damaged, and we'll be totally doomed this year."
Luo Xuan said, "Since you also know the importance of watering and protecting seedlings, when our Zhengxing brigade organized manpower and material resources to build new canals.
Then why is your team so indifferent?
Even if you send a few fewer members, come over to help and work together to build the canals.
After all, you have contributed to this main canal, so you are naturally qualified to use some of the water for irrigation first.
But you haven’t done anything, so why are you so blatantly stealing the fruits of other people’s labor?”
"Comrade Luo Xuan, we are doing this for the collective benefit, how can we call it stealing?"
Seeing that he couldn't deal with it, the production team leader had no choice but to sink his face and rebutted and corrected Luo Xuan's statement, "If it were my own private land, I promise not to use a drop of water from your Zhengxing brigade.
But I can see that the crops on the ground are almost scorched by the sun. If we don't water them quickly, this year's crop harvest will definitely suffer great losses.
So, as long as there is water, we will use it! Who cares who it belongs to?
We are all a big collective, and we do this to safeguard our collective interests..."
"Snapped--"
Luo Xuan slapped him with his backhand!
The beating made the production captain, who was ready to steal the fruits of other people's labor but still spoke plausibly, stumble...
"Ah? You, how do you hit someone?"
The production team leader was furious: "Even our cadres will not beat or scold the masses for no reason. Why do you beat me up?"
at this time,
The members who were busy building canals stopped their work and stood there to watch.
It's just that the person who did it was Luo Xuan.
So for now, no one dares to come over with a drill or a shovel to help.
Luo Xuan rubbed his hands: "No, no, no, you, comrade production captain, have misunderstood. This is not me personally beating you, but to safeguard the collective interests of Zhengxing Brigade."
I saw the production team leader covering his face and standing there with his face red with anger.
Luo Xuan said to him coldly, "Don't just try to suppress others with your righteousness. Don't even try to put a big hat on me."
“What collective interests? For the sake of collective interests, you can appropriate the fruits of other people’s labor?
Is it okay to blatantly harm the interests of others to safeguard your private interests?"
Luo Xuan pointed to the aqueduct of the regimental standard brigade, which had been initially formed, and shouted: "I will put my words here today!
If our Zhengxing brigade's fields have not been irrigated, who dares to open the canals we built without authorization?
I will make him regret his selfish behavior! I will make him never see a drop of water!"
"To put it lightly, eat a lamp grass."
Among the people standing and watching under the canal, some people were unconvinced: "Your Zhengxing brigade has militia, doesn't our team brigade have it?"
If the canal passes through our land, we have the right to use the water there!
I will also leave my words here: If anyone dares to stop us from diverting water to irrigate the fields, we will fight him! Even if he is beaten to a bloody head, we will not hesitate!"
Luo Xuan stared at the man and said: "This main canal was built by our Zhengxing Brigade without hesitation in investing huge manpower and material resources.
The right to use it first will naturally belong to the Zhengxing Brigade.
After three days, the fields of our Zhengxing brigade will be watered. All the production teams along the way will benefit from this. By then, everyone can line up and use water in an orderly manner.
Why do we have to use knives and guns to do something that can obviously be well coordinated?"
That man is also stubborn,
Wenyan Kangsheng said: "The drought situation is serious and time waits for no one. As long as there is water, we have to use it!"
I don’t care where this water comes from! No one’s name is written on it, and no one’s official seal is stamped on it.
Why can others use it but we can’t?”
The other members of the Tuanbiao Village Brigade also started to cheer:
"That's right! The water in the ditch is public property, and everyone has the right to use it."
"That's right, when the time comes, pull out all the militiamen from our brigade! Then let the elderly and children lie down in the gap in the main canal. Let me see what they can do to us?"
"Oh, Wang Mazi, this is a good idea! If they dare to bully the elderly or children, we will beat them up."
"Yes! Beat him. They have guys in their hands, and ours is not a fire stick..."
Standing on the stone trough of the main canal, Luo Xuan looked coldly at the group of members of the group standard brigade who were in a turbulent mood, and couldn't help but sneer in his heart!
Everyone has a herd mentality.
The monkeys in Nanshan will drink every ball.
If any of their members were singled out, they would all be cowards!
But once they get together and someone takes the lead in stirring up trouble, each one of them will become a master of talking.
"You don't want to have a serious discussion, do you?"
Luo Xuan said coldly: "Let me ask you one last time, are you willing to discuss water use with the Zhengxing Brigade?"
"in spite of!"
The production team leader who was slapped shouted loudly: "As long as there is water in the ditch, we will dig it out and use it! We have no control over other things."
"That's right. If you don't use water when you have it, wouldn't you be a fool?"
"That's right, this water flows across the boundary of our brigade, how could we let it go in vain?"
Luo Xuan looked around coldly.
"Okay! You have the guts. I just hope that when the time comes, you will be so stubborn and don't come to Zhengxing Brigade crying and howling, begging us to let go."
After saying that, Luo Xuan turned around and left!
"Hahaha, this water channel runs from our boundary. How is it possible that we would beg their downstream brigade to release water?"
"Yes! Hahaha, this Luo Xuan is said to be very powerful and smart. But how can he say such words without thinking?"
"Yes! How can you ask people downstream to release water? Unless he can make the water flow back..."
