After being noisy for a long time, the scene finally calmed down a little. Seeing this, Ma Defu quickly raised his voice again and repeated what he had just said.
This time, the villagers finally heard what he said clearly.
As soon as he finished speaking, Li Dayou immediately took a step forward and asked earnestly.
"Defu, you won't be a squib again this time, right?"
Although the others did not ask along with him, their eyes were all focused on Ma Defu. Their eyes were the same as Li Dayou's, full of expectation and eagerness.
The people at the scene were all diaozhuang households who immigrated from Yongquan Village. As the aborigines of Xihaigu, they were really afraid of lack of water.
The Qingshui River is the only river that flows through the Xihaigu area, but the Qingshui River is a typical arid and semi-arid river, and most of the areas it flows through are places with high salt content, so the river water is all bitter.
The high salt content makes the water from Qingshui River difficult to drink and irrigate.
Ma Defu is a native of Xihaigu. No one understands the worries and sorrows of the villagers better than him. He will never forget that most of the water he drank was bitter since he was a child.
"Guaranteed!"
"There will definitely be water today!"
"If you don't come, go to the county to find the leaders. If the county can't do it, go to the city. I'll definitely give you an explanation!"
As soon as these words came out, the crowd burst into cheers.
Tick tock!
Tick tock!
In the blink of an eye, the sun rose higher and higher, and the time came to ten o'clock.
Han San and a group of villagers stood closely beside the canal. The expressions on their faces were exactly the same. They all pricked up their ears and stared longingly at the two-foot-wide canal.
Seeing the sun climbing higher and higher, Han San thought that it was almost time. However, in Jintan Village, watches were an out-and-out luxury item. After searching the whole village, he could not find ten watches.
Block table.
Han San, who has been poor for half his life, is naturally not one of them.
However, just because he didn't, it didn't mean that there weren't people next to him. There was one of the people squatting by the ditch.
"Brother Six, what time is it?"
The man whom Han San called Sixth Brother lowered his head and glanced at his watch. When he saw the time clearly, there was a trace of anxiety in his eyes.
"It's already ten o'clock!"
When the time came, but the water hadn’t come yet, the villagers at the scene immediately went crazy!
For a time, the crowd was excited!
"What? It's ten o'clock? Where's the water?"
"Where's the water? Where's the water?"
"Yes, why don't you come with this water?"
"Uh, don't we just rejoice in vain again?"
"Where's Defu? Where's Defu? Didn't this broken boy promise that he would definitely get water today?"
"Let's go find him!"
"Yes, together! Together!"
I don’t know who was the first to mention Ma Defu. After such a reminder, the villagers at the scene immediately remembered the guarantee he made. Then the villagers quickly unified their opinions and rushed towards the village headquarters.
Wow!
However, just as they were about to set off, there was suddenly a sound of water flowing in the distance.
The sound of water flowing is neither beautiful nor pleasant enough, but to the ears of the villagers who have been suffering from water for a long time, it is like the sound of nature.
"The water is coming!"
"The water is coming!"
I saw a figure in the distance approaching from far away, shouting with joy and waving the hat in his hand.
The villagers who heard the sound of water flowing and shouts one after another suddenly gave a collective pause.
The next moment, everyone turned around and looked at the canal, only to see the turbid water surging in front of them, rushing towards them.
"The water is coming!"
"The water is coming!"
The villagers clapped their hands and shouted happily, "The water is coming, the water is coming," and everyone had a smile on their face.
Spring plowing is approaching, and many people's fields have not even been watered. The villagers all pointed to the water pumping station to release water to irrigate the fields today.
Therefore, as soon as the water came, the villagers had no time to find trouble with Ma Defu, and they all rushed towards the farmland one by one.
(Watering before planting can make the soil more moist, which is conducive to soil maturation, and the viscosity is reduced, making it easier to turn)
In the one-third acre of land in Jintan Village, the news spread very quickly. It didn't take long for the cheers of the villagers to reach Ma Defu's ears. Hearing the joyful shouts of the villagers, Ma Defu couldn't help but curl up with a smile.
smile.
When the water comes, it means that the land can be cultivated. When the land can be cultivated, the villagers will be able to work hard.
At noon that day, the villagers didn't even bother to take a bite of food. Everyone in the village, even seven- or eight-year-old children, were called to the fields by their parents. The whole family came together and rushed to water the fields.
water.
It’s impossible not to race against time!
On the surface, what flows in the ditch is water, but in fact, what flows is white silver!
Jintan Village uses water from Qingtongxia Pumping Station, which is more than 30 kilometers away. Due to the long distance, only 0.6 cubic meters of every cubic meter is left in the ground, and the evaporation rate is as high as 40%.
A rough calculation shows that the annual water fee per mu of land is more than 120 yuan. One mu of land is 120 yuan, and ten acres of land is 1,200 yuan.
For the vast majority of villagers, 1,200 yuan is definitely a 'huge sum'. If the superiors had not considered that the villagers had just come to the village and had no money in their pockets, and allowed the villagers to default on their water bills for a year, I am afraid that a lot of money would have been paid.
People can't even spare the money to buy water.
Because this water was bought with a huge sum of money, the villagers were racing against time to get it.
At noon, Shuihua walked to the edge of the field carrying a kettle in her left hand and a basket in her right hand, and shouted to the two brothers who were struggling in the field.
"Defu, Debao, take a rest for a while, come up and drink some water, eat something and then do it again."
Hearing his wife's call, Ma Defu moved his hands, glanced at the increasingly sparse water in the canal, and then looked at the land that had only been watered for two-thirds, and then replied.
"Just put the things there and eat them when you're done."
Ma Debao on the side heard his brother's response. He first glanced down at his withered belly, then at his sweating brother, and then silently took back his steps.
Upon seeing this, Shui Hua smiled and shook her head. She immediately put down the meal in her hand, rolled up her sleeves and walked into the field. In the blink of an eye, she came to Ma Debao. She patted Debao on the shoulder and said with a smile on her face.
"Debao, give me the stuff. You can rest for a while and eat something."
Ma Debao tightened the farm tools in his hands, shook his head and said, "No, sister-in-law, I'm not hungry."
Goo!
Goo!
However, his stomach made an uncooperative sound.
Ma Debao:-_-#
Splash:(⊙o⊙?)
The two stared at each other for a while. After a while, Shui Hua chuckled, rubbed Ma Debao's head and said softly.
"Okay, go ahead and come and take your brother's place when you're done eating."
"..."
Ma Debao no longer insisted, nodded with a blushing face, and handed the farm tools in his hands to Shui Hua.