After listening to his mother's suggestion, Bai Anyan thought about it for a moment, but did not object. He had been paying attention to the water level of Qingshui River in the past two days, and it was already on the decline.
The old farmer Bashi said that we are not afraid of drought, we are afraid of falling water levels. Once this phenomenon occurs, the drought will last longer.
He went to see it specifically and found that the area where his mother used to fish had already lost a foot of distance.
"Mom, I want to take a look at the tenant farm."
Bai Anyan was worried about the situation with the tenants. Although he dug a well, he didn't want to drink water for irrigation, lest the tenants cause trouble, so he had to go and take a look.
Baiyunxi looked up at the scorching sun, feeling hot even before noon.
"I'll go and take a look with you. The tenants will inevitably be anxious under the current situation. Please enlighten them more and be less angry."
With that said, he asked Wenyou to set up the car.
"Don't worry, Mom, I won't have any conflict with the tenants. The weather is too hot. You'd better stay at home. Heat stroke won't be good."
"It's okay. I'm not working. I just went for a walk. It'll be fine."
Baiyunxi took the handkerchief and wiped the sweat from his forehead.
The weather in summer is indeed abnormal. If this weather continues, it will cause drought. A while ago, I told the Song Wang family that the weather would be good this year, but it was suddenly slapped in the face.
"I don't know when it will rain. If it continues like this, the river will dry up."
Bai Anyan wiped his forehead and tied the cloth around his wrist so as not to delay his work.
"Thankfully, we bought the land and hired someone to dig a well. If there was only one well, the crops in Xiaowangzhuang would be in dire straits."
Speaking of this, Bai Anyan slapped his leg suddenly,
"Mom, do you think Squire Wang had already predicted that there would be a drought this year due to lack of rain, so he sold the fields?"
Otherwise, it would be a coincidence. As soon as they took over, God stopped raining. One hundred acres of dry land was supported by just one well.
If his mother hadn't kept reminding him not to forget to hire someone to dig a well, he might have had the tenants make trouble at the door of his house.
Listening to the second child staring at him with wide eyes, Bai Yunxi was also stunned, and then shook his head,
"It's just a coincidence... However, as a senior landowner who has cultivated land for so many years, he will always encounter droughts and floods several times. It is normal to have more experience than us. Didn't Zhao Yalang also say that Mr. Wang is the
I sold it because I was too old to take care of it. Since I wanted to buy it, I naturally chose the most difficult field to manage."
Seeing the surprised look in the second child's eyes, Bai Yunxi smiled and said,
"Fortunately, we dug the well in advance and avoided trouble. As for the current situation, it should be a natural disaster and has nothing to do with humans."
"Yes, if it is easy to take care of, Squire Wang will not easily agree to send a season's worth of grain."
Bai Anyan brought a pot of water, Baiyunxi took a cattail leaf fan, and the three of them took a carriage and went all the way to Xiaowangzhuang.
As soon as I turned into the field path, I saw people everywhere in the farmland. Some were carrying poles and buckets. They were carrying buckets to the fields, and women and children were watering them one by one with water ladles.
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Looking from a distance, there are heads everywhere, as if going to a market.
"Children are running around in the fields, and they are not afraid of trampling on the crops?" Wenyou looked at the children running around in the fields and frowned.
Listening to Wenyou's surprised tone, Baiyunxi chuckled lightly,
"Children from poor families have long been in charge of their own affairs. They have been taken to the fields by their parents since they were young. They know from an early age that food is their ration and cannot be wasted."
Especially for children from tenant families, if they step on a seedling, their bottoms will suffer, and over time they will form a habit.
As soon as their carriage heard the sound of the field, the nearby tenants immediately surrounded them.
"Boss, you are here. The well is not enough. We were fetching water in the morning and we almost started fighting."
"Yes, I don't know when this weather will end. Can my boss dig a few more wells for us?"
"The water level in the river ahead has begun to drop. If it doesn't rain again, it's probably time to grab water."
Listening to everyone's chatter, Bai Yunxi got out of the carriage with the support of his son, and waved to everyone,
"It's dry and dry, you all should take it easy and don't be too impatient."
"Master, we have to be in a hurry. We watered it in the morning and dried it in the afternoon, and we didn't dare to stop all day long. Can we not be in a hurry?"
"Yes, if this continues, the crops in the fields may not be able to withstand it."
Looking at the tanned men in front of her, Bai Yunxi raised her head and looked at the scorching sun. She couldn't control God's affairs.
"Dear neighbors, you and I can't make decisions about God's affairs, but you have to take it easy. Since we don't know when it will rain, we have to continue watering the ground, but we can't tire people out."
"You are the backbone of the family. If you collapse from exhaustion, what will the whole family do?"
Listening to Bai Yunxi's comfort, the people who were shouting just now also stopped talking.
Everyone also knew that it would not rain and it would be useless if the boss came, but seeing the crops wilting, they felt anxious.
"My boss, can you dig a few more wells? Don't worry, as long as you find a well-drilling master, we will also be responsible for digging the wells and will not ignore them."
Irrigation is the most important thing right now. As long as the crops can be saved, it doesn't matter if we do more work.
Listening to the tenant farmer's suggestion, Baiyunxi turned to look at his second son, "When we were digging a well a while ago, the location was favored by the well-drilling master. Please tell everyone what he said at that time."
Bai Anyan looked at the encouragement in his mother's eyes, sighed, and clenched his fists to encourage himself.
"Please be patient. When I brought the well digger here, he walked around the field before settling on the position. In other words, except for the few positions he pointed out, water could not be drilled from the rest.
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As soon as these words came out, everyone fell silent and looked at Bai Anyan suspiciously.
Seeing everyone's disbelieving looks, Bai Anyan's face became solemn,
"When the well was being dug, several of us from Xiaowangzhuang followed us and never left. What did the master say at that time? Everyone was listening. I wasn't the only one. If you don't believe it, just ask."
After hearing this, everyone looked at each other. After a while, someone silently raised their hands.
"I was there at the time, and the master did say that those three positions are the easiest to get out of the water."
"I did say that. He also said something about soil quality, rock formations, etc. I couldn't understand it either..."
Bai Yunxi looked at the two of them and smiled slightly, "They all say that there are specialties in the industry, there are experts in farming, and there are masters in digging wells. As long as I can produce water, I will still be stingy with one or two wells? You don't even think about it. If you reduce production, what will you do to your employer?
what is the benefit?"
Everyone: "..."
This is indeed true, and with the testimony of my own villagers, it is indeed more credible than what my boss said.
But right now, we have to queue up to use these four wells to water the ground.