The rice fields of the Laku production team... were almost destroyed.
Thousands of kilograms of dead wood, big trees, and thousands of kilograms of boulders were swept down by powerful flash floods with thundering force.
Wherever the torrent passed, not a single blade of grass grew. No animals or crops remained.
Luo Xuan was pushing his handcart through the rice fields in the valley.
But I didn't see what I imagined: there were no people beating their chests, crying, or wailing beside the rice fields.
Except for the roaring flood, everything was calm.
At this time, there were only a few villagers wearing bamboo hats and bare feet.
On the slope, check the damage to your rice fields from a distance.
The hookahs in their hands were still smoking. The fleas on the mountain residents were still crawling in and out wantonly.
The faces of these people were like carved wood and clay sculptures, expressionless.
In contrast,
There were quite a few young boys and girls in the village playing and playing beside the rolling torrent, busy catching crabs and fish and shrimps.
This kind of fish is mixed with so much sediment that even a 2-foot-long carp cannot withstand the impact of the sediment during a flash flood.
They were also washed up so dizzy that they could only float in Huishui Bay or linger in the shallows.
This gave the young men and girls in the village some unexpected joy.
Everyone was excited and busy catching fish, playing in the water, picking up pieces of cloth, clothes, etc. in the mud...
Hear them laugh happily.
Luo Xuan couldn't help but shake his head, he really couldn't use words to comment on what they did.
I wonder if they, who are so happy at this moment, would have thought that in the coming days, their family would have to run out of food?
but,
It seems that this is not something they should worry about.
People in the village have a relatively loose family organization.
Most adults don't care about children eating, especially the girls in the family, who grow wild and develop freely.
Anyway,
As long as there is food at home, the mother-in-law will cook a pot of rice and eat it when it is ready...
They definitely don't have the habit of waiting for the whole family to get together before eating together.
If there is extra after cooking, put it there.
If you want to eat, come back and scoop it up.
If you're lucky, there will be some wild vegetables stewed in the pot. Maybe 2 or 3 pieces of air-dried pheasant meat or field mouse meat are chopped into it.
Or python meat, snails, etc.
If the children at home have finished eating when they come back...then think of a way to go up the mountain to find something and fill your belly!
Anyway, the adults at home usually don't care whether their children have food or not...
Luo Xuan looked at the messy rice fields, pushed the cart and prepared to go home.
"Luo Xuantong, comrade... do you want to get a wife?"
At this time, I was sitting on the slope, smoking a hookah.
The man looked helplessly at the rice fields destroyed by floods in the ravine.
Turns out he is Nami’s father.
It's just that he was wearing a hat before, and the wide brim of the hat covered his face.
Before Luo Xuan recognized this person, he came to the friend who once blackmailed him for 15 yuan.
Luo Xuan ignored him and continued to push the cart toward the production team.
"What you are pushing in your cart is grain...yo, there are so many good things?"
Nami's father stood up and approached the trolley with a smile on his face.
His eyes were full of greed, "The enamel basin, the towel...that red and green jar...is this a can?"
I saw it in a store on the street...the salesperson wouldn't let me touch it, saying that I couldn't afford it anyway..."
Luo Xuan sighed, "Just look, can you please stop moving your hands and feet? Why don't you look at how dark it is between your nails?"
Nami's father chuckled, "It's okay. This tin can won't get dirty even if you touch it."
"So much cloth?"
Nami's father continued to rummage through the pile of sacks containing grain, "A whole piece of cloth? Tsk, tsk, tsk, how many pigs do you have to buy to buy so much cloth?"
Luo Xuan pushed the cart on the muddy path, but he couldn't go very fast.
"A piece of cloth, take Nami away."
Nami's father laughed and said, "We also follow the rules of you mainlanders.
My family doesn’t want you either, you’ve been here to help with the work for four years...Give me this piece of cloth, Nami, and I’ll bring it to you in a moment, how about it?”
Luo Xuan replied, "It's not about singing songs from whichever mountain you go to.
Last time you asked me for money, you said that when I arrived at your Laku Village, I had to follow your rules?"
"The rules are dead, but people are alive!"
Nami's father smiled and said, "A piece of cloth can be exchanged for a very diligent girl... Nami actually doesn't eat much, so it's a good deal for you."
Luo Xuan said, "Put down my cloth quickly. You don't even look at your body. Now you are covered in mud and water."
What have you dyed the cloth into for me?"
Nami's father chuckled, "How about half a piece of cloth?"
Luo Xuan gritted his teeth, "If you don't let go, I will throw you into the paddy field!"
"Don't be like this, hehe, there are so many..."
Nami's father said and opened his arms.
Prepare to figure out how much cloth you can get as a gift to marry his daughter Nami back home.
More appropriate.
This is also a guy who is not full of brains!
As soon as he let go, the piece of cloth suddenly fell from his arms into the muddy water...
Luo Xuan's quick eyes and quick hands are a shame!
As soon as one end of the fabric fell to the ground, quickly put down the cart and pick up the fabric!
"roll!"
Holding the fabric in his hand, Luo Xuan raised his leg and kicked...
With a "pop" sound, Nami's father flew backwards a few meters away and plunged into the slope of the road.
"Gululu" rolled a few times and suddenly fell into the rice fields below the slope...
"Hey, Luo Xuan, don't leave. Let's discuss it again. Why don't you give me 30 yuan... Hey, hey, hey, don't go!"
In the rice fields, there is mud as high as the rice seedlings.
Nami's father was deeply trapped in it, and for a while, it was really difficult to struggle out.
He was so anxious that he yelled in the mud, "Hey, hey, hey, are you still short of workers over there?
I'll ask Nami to come over in the afternoon and help you with some work... Oh, don't leave.
Nami's injuries are basically healed now. She can't do heavy work, but she can help you chop banana cores and boil swill to feed the pigs..."
Luo Xuan pushed the trolley and left, ignoring what Nami's father was saying.
You can't be too polite to this kind of person!
A guy who likes to rub his nose and face.
If Nami's father met him when they were not familiar with him at the beginning, Nami's father would be timid and introverted.
But after getting familiar with him, Nami's father, he would deliberately look carefree, as if he was very familiar with her.
He actually did this for a purpose:
I just want to see what goodies there are when I come to visit my family.
After chatting for a few words in the end, he will easily get what he has set his sights on in advance.
Many people in the village actually have this problem...especially those old women who are already married.
Don't dare to get too familiar with them!
Otherwise, when it's time for dinner, these people will definitely come to visit us.
It's just a casual meal, but it's not really that big of a deal.
But the problem is, when it's time to work, these women... are nowhere to be seen!
Luo Xuan, including Lao Min, had actually been deliberately keeping a certain distance from the old women and slackers in the village.
Only in this way can the things in your home be preserved.
Want to come and have a meal?
This can... help with the work, and you will have food to eat!
Want something?
Okay! But you have to help with the work.
if not,
Luo Xuan and Lao Min will not give them the slightest chance to take advantage of themselves...
When I got home, Luo Xuan was very tired.
On top of the cart, there are two large bags of food: 200 kilograms of rice, which are for human consumption.
There are also 200 kilograms of corn, which are used to feed pigs, chickens, ducks and geese.
There are also a lot of cloths, bottles of veterinary drugs, cans, soaps and other miscellaneous items.
Although he said that when he took these things out from the space, he was actually not far from the village.
But the goods on the trolley were too heavy and the road was difficult to navigate.
It was such a short journey, but it was only due to my good physical fitness and the blessing of my mind.
Otherwise,
Ordinary people really can't push these things back smoothly.
"How is the situation at home now?"
As soon as he sat down, Luo Xuan asked Zhang Xiaoli, "Is there any accident? Did the violent storm last night cause any damage to the family?"
Zhang Xiaoli shook her head, "Three chickens flew away, but Nali and the others said that the chickens here are very wild.
If you go out and wander around for a few days, you will come back. So if you run away with a few chickens, it's okay.
It’s just that in the ground behind the house, some of the bamboo poles we built for green beans and cowpeas were dumped.”
Zhang Xiaoli said, "Also, the thatched roof was a bit unstable. Sister Miao Meisha braved the heavy rain and helped strengthen it overnight."
Luo Xuan nodded, "As long as you're fine. Everything else is just a minor problem."
Zhang Xiaoli added, "In the village, it seems that the huts of several families collapsed last night.
This morning Namu and Najudi came over very early in the morning to help with the work... They asked me to ask you.
For a while now, they are living here and helping with work every day. Is this okay?"
Luo Xuan replied, "Okay. But tell them that they will work like sisters Miao Meisha and Hanzhu from now on."
Well done, I will add meat to them every three days.
If you still work as hard as before, then eat sour bamboo shoots and wild vegetables every day. If you want to eat meat, you have to behave well."
Now some houses in the village have collapsed.
In addition, their rice fields in the ravines were basically destroyed.
If you don't take this opportunity to give Namu, Nali and the others a good beating, let them become more diligent.
What if we wait until later, when their conditions improve.
Until then,
If you want to change Namu and Nali's free and undisciplined state of fishing for three days and drying the net for two days.
It will become more difficult.
This flash flood can be regarded as the biggest crisis I have encountered since I came to cut off the production team.
Crisis, crisis.
There are both dangers and opportunities.
It depends on whether you can make good use of it this time.
"Luo Xuan! Are you back?"
Luo Xuanzai was in the room, talking to Zhang Xiaoli.
At this time, Lao Dao's voice came from outside the house, "Have you prepared your money? The people in the village don't even bother to repair their houses.
Early this morning, we have already gone up the mountain to catch cattle for you..."
Talking and talking,
Lao Dao, who was all wet, had already gotten into the house, "Luo Xuan, you are back as expected... I still listen to Nami's father. How about it, are you ready to buy 10 cows?"
Normally, Lao Dao would not leave the village easily.
If anyone wants to talk to him about something, he has to go through many rounds until Lao Dao has enough airs.
Today, he actually came to the door, which means that the situation in the village is already very urgent.
The great master Lao Dao is so anxious that he no longer even bothers to put on airs.
Luo Xuan scratched his head, "In the past two days, I still have a bit of money on hand..."
I saw Lao Dao's face turn from sunny to gloomy.
Luo Xuan quickly added, "However, I am ready to buy 5 or 6 cows first...but..."
Lao Dao's mood was ups and downs, and his face was sometimes gloomy and sometimes clear.
Hearing this, Lao Dao quickly asked, "What's the matter? You should tell me quickly!"
Luo Xuan replied, "But I have to choose whose cow I want to buy."
Lao Dao was a little hesitant.
Luo Xuan added, "Don't worry, Chief Villager, the price will still be the same as what we discussed before! It's just that as a buyer, I have to pick and choose."
Originally, Lao Dao could not only make money from this transaction.
And whose cattle are they buying?
Whose cows should I buy, and how many cows should I buy?
Through this incident, Lao Dao can also control the mountain people in the village and consolidate his own authority.
nowadays,
This power has been taken away by Luo Xuan inadvertently.
When it comes to buying cattle, Lao Dao's only advantage is that he can make a small difference in price.
That's why Lao Dao hesitated just now.
only,
The reason given by Luo Xuan made it difficult for Lao Dao to refute: You can't let the buyer choose the things without paying for them, right?
But when Luo Xuan was picking things, whose cow was he picking?
Or are you just picking bullshit?
This is a bit unclear.
In the end, in desperation, Lao Dao could only nod in agreement with Luo Xuan's "reasonable" request.
no way...
Now the people in the village, including Lao Dao himself, are in urgent need of money to buy food.
Of course, you have to buy cigarettes and smoke them.
Man! Without tobacco and alcohol, walking around in this world is useless...
Luo Xuanzhi did this because he wanted to slowly and bit by bit establish his prestige in the village.
Otherwise, the elders in the village would never be able to give orders.
Then in the future, should I continue to build my own rubber plantation?
Lao Min once said: Most of the time, the great gods in the village had red-hot pokers falling on his insteps.
Only then will he jump up and down.
Most of the time,
They either smoked in the sun or drank rice wine and sunbathed...
Now that their house has collapsed and the banker's house has been destroyed...this is when they started to get busy!
In that case, let him be busy for a while first, and then let’s talk!
