Chapter 27 Chapter 27 Technology Failure

The three of them returned home and told He Junqiu about their plan. He Junqiu strongly supported them. She quickly took out the cold medicine and large packages of brown sugar ginger tea that they had stored at home, and actively offered to run errands herself.

He Junxia: ...

He Junxia stared at her suspiciously.

Although this was a decision they made together, I haven't seen her work so actively before.

He Junqiu's scalp tingled under the stare. He chuckled dryly and said, "Brother, why are you looking at me? Why don't you go and send me off?"

He Junxia: "Forget it, go ahead."

After bending over and working for the whole morning, he just wanted to sit down and have a good rest, and take a nap.

He Junqiu hurried out of the house carrying a plastic bag in one hand and an umbrella in the other.

He Juanxia looked at her back and held his chin in his hand: "Dad, Mom, do you think there's something wrong with Xiaoqiu?"

"No, what's wrong?"

Zeng Xiuping and He Chengcai didn't understand what he meant.

He Junxia tapped the table lightly with his fingers, not knowing how to describe the feeling. He couldn't say that He Junqiu was too active in his work.

Maybe I've grown up and become more considerate?

He Junxia convinced himself and didn't delve any further, but he didn't know that he would regret it so much when he found out the truth in the future.

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This seemingly endless storm finally stopped on the seventh day, and Hejia Village welcomed the long-awaited bright sunshine.

Even though the massive influx of rainwater has turned the dirt roads in the countryside into soft, mushy mud flats, making people's shoes and pants dirty wherever they step, it does not affect people's enthusiasm in the slightest.

The warm sunshine dispelled the chill brought by the autumn rain, and the children were allowed to run around happily, looking so happy and leisurely.

But don't think that everything will be fine once the rain stops.

If farmland is not disinfected and sterilized in time, the large number of bacteria that grow after heavy rains can cause serious diseases and pests. For example, potatoes are prone to black mole, black shank, and early blight.

In addition to sterilization and disinfection, it is also necessary to loosen the soil to prevent it from becoming compacted and hardened, increase the oxygen circulation rate, and add fertilizer to supplement nutrients.

These tasks will consume a lot of manpower and material resources. In Hejia Village, where there are far more patients than healthy people, it is not something that can be completed quickly in a day or two.

Even if we force everyone to hold on a little longer, we still need the assistance of the county in terms of material resources, otherwise a good cook cannot cook without rice.

However, the disaster affected too many areas, almost covering all the surrounding towns and farms. The county town where Hejia Village is located is a small county town with an underdeveloped economy, and there are only a small amount of agricultural items in stock in the farmers' market.

The small amount of inventory was divided up, and each farm could only get a tiny portion. Even small farms couldn't get enough, let alone a farm like Hejia Village with a large and extensive area.

What to do now?

Serve cold.

The person in charge called several team leaders to a meeting to discuss how to solve the problem. Fortunately, the old farmers in the village had experienced the era of building something from scratch, and based on their many years of experience, they proposed another solution - burning wood ash.

Wood ash is a natural fungicide and organic fertilizer that can improve soil structure, enhance soil fertility, increase crops' resistance to diseases and pests, and increase crop yields.

Since the ancient times of slash-and-burn agriculture, wood ash has played a huge role in agricultural planting.

It was not until the rapid development of modern science and technology that various artificial fertilizers emerged one after another. In addition, in order to protect the atmospheric environment, the government introduced policies to ban the burning of straw, and wood ash gradually faded out of people's sight.

Today, human technology is restricted by invisible magnetic fields. Factories are shut down, businesses are shut down, cars are out of service, and the harm caused by burning poles to make ash has become negligible.

This plan was agreed by everyone.

Wood ash is simple to make and easy to obtain. After the power outage, burning firewood in the kitchen became the main way to cook. There are a lot of wood ash piled in the stoves of every household, and the canteen that provides a large amount of meals every day is a big consumer of wood ash.

Within half an hour after the meeting, several team leaders had filled several plastic buckets with wood ash collected from their team members' homes, which was estimated to be about 100 pounds.

However, in Hejia Village, where the cultivated land area is as high as hundreds of acres, a few hundred kilograms of wood ash is still not enough to meet the needs of all the land.

So the people on the farm were divided into three groups. One group took the collected wood ash to plow the fields, one group went to the mountains to pick up dead branches and leaves and cut down some trees, and some people with more serious illnesses stayed in the canteen to help add fire to the stove so that the wood and dead branches in the stove could burn faster.

The fire is burning and the stove is not idle.

Under the burning flames, white steam slowly floated out, and the cold river water in the big iron pot gradually began to bubble up, and then rolled and splashed, making a gurgling sound.

One thermos cup and old-fashioned kettle after another was filled with hot water, and the remaining hot water was left for people with severe colds, so that they could soak their feet, wash their hair, and wipe their bodies to relieve the discomfort caused by the illness.

This benefit is only for the sick. The very few who are not sick, like He Junxia, ​​have to go to the fields to work with the security staff.

At this time, there is no distinction between your group's land and our group's land. They are all farm lands and not a single piece can be left behind.

After being busy all day long, He Junxia fell asleep as soon as she got home. At most, she would take a few minutes to play with the two puppies who were in an awkward period. She had no time to think about other things, such as how to make Luo Yangbo fail the internship assessment.

But even if he didn't have time to deal with Luo Yangbo, Luo Yangbo was almost finished.

He took sick leave after only one day of light rain, and did not come back to cancel his leave until the rain was over. During this period, he even refused to do some small work that did not require him to be exposed to the rain, saying it was a headache.

But he was more active in eating than anyone else. He didn't look like someone who was so sick that he couldn't do any work, or rather, he didn't look like a sick person at all. According to Luo Yangbo's roommate, Luo Yangbo was lively and energetic in the dormitory, his voice was normal, his spirits were normal, he only drank cold water and not hot water, and he was too lazy to even take the cold and anti-inflammatory medicine prescribed by the village doctor.

How could those who insisted on working despite being sick feel at ease seeing his appearance?

Although the internship assessment has not yet arrived, Luo Yangbo has already been sentenced to death in the hearts of the two team leaders. The villagers are also hiding a lot of dissatisfaction with him, but they just don't show it on their faces.

After all, Luo Yangbo is destined to leave Hejia Village. There is no need to make enemies with him. Just endure it for a while and it will be over.

Luo Yangbo himself was still complacent about his own cleverness.

Although he failed to perform in front of the person in charge of Hejia Village as originally planned, most of the people on the farm were sick now, and he was the only one who used the excuse of being sick to avoid working, and he was full of energy and vigor.

When the repair work is completed after the rain and there are no more disgusting leeches in the fields, he will definitely shock everyone when he returns to work. By then, he will be the most capable person on the farm.

In his previous life, he heard from his cousin that during the Chinese New Year, the farm would award Model Worker Awards to outstanding employees, with a reward of 100 yuan.

I just don't know what's wrong with He Junqiu's brother, otherwise he could still date a girl in the village like his cousin and ask the girl's family to help him find an easier job.

Luo Yangbo was happily making plans, but he didn't know that he wouldn't be able to survive even the next month, let alone the New Year.

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One day, two days, three days, four days...

The post-disaster land restoration work was gradually completed, and the farm employees had a long-awaited holiday and could finally have a good rest.

However, the second batch of newcomers to Hejia Village did not dare to relax at all, because the internship assessment that would determine whether they could stay at Hejia Village Farm was coming.

For a while, there was a lot of panic, and the newlyweds behaved in a well-behaved and polite manner. Even if there were conflicts between them, they kept them secret and waited until the storm was over before dealing with them.

Unexpectedly, a shocking news from the neighboring county arrived first, shocking the surrounding cities, counties, towns and villages like a bolt from the blue.

A sudden mudslide on a farm in a village in the neighboring county resulted in 10 deaths, 13 injuries, and 5 people missing.

There are many factors that led to this tragedy.

One reason is that many people were working on the mountain when the mudslide occurred, which led to this tragedy.

Second, the continuous heavy rains brought a large amount of rain, which made the loose land more moist and gathered into powerful water flows, driving the occurrence of mudslides.

But the fundamental reason was that the people on the farm cut down too many trees on the mountain in order to open up wasteland, causing the land to become loose, resulting in serious soil erosion and unable to withstand the erosion of heavy rain.

The people of Hejia Village felt sympathetic when they learned the whole story, and their faces were full of fear. They almost ended up like the people in the neighboring county.

Not to mention that the person in charge has already ordered that villagers are not allowed to approach the over-cultivated hill. Even if the person in charge didn't say anything, no one would dare to go there because of the precedent.

The children in the village were strictly educated by their parents, for fear that some of them would be naughty and run away to play in the mountains.

I don’t know if the subsequent remedial work of returning farmland to forest was effective, but the hill that was once avoided by everyone stands safely and steadily, with no signs of a mudslide at all.

A period of tension passed like this, and the shadow brought by the mudslide was replaced by a new topic, but the news brought by the person in charge drew everyone's attention back.

Because their village had pointed out early on that excessive land reclamation might cause mudslides during the rainy season, and reminded them again after the heavy rains arrived, the farm leaders who learned the news asked their employees to stay away from the reclaimed mountains.

Therefore, the county town and surrounding towns of Hejia Village all survived the week-long downpour. Even though some villages experienced small mudslides, no casualties were reported.

After receiving praise from the city, the county leaders commended the head of the Hejia Village farm. After being praised by the county leaders, the head decided to commend He Junxia, ​​who first discovered the problem, and gave him a reward of 100 yuan.

He Junxia: (⊙.⊙)

He Junxia didn't expect that a sentence he said more than a month ago would still have after-sales service, but he did not accept the praise from the person in charge. Instead, he told the whole story and said that Xu Li was the first person to discover the problem.

Xu Li didn't expect that the benefits would fall on her.

She had implicitly reminded He Junqiu that excessive land reclamation might cause mudslides, and asked the He family to speak about it, both because she had no say and to express her gratitude to Zeng Xiuping for taking care of her.

Xu Li was also unwilling to accept the reward from the person in charge.

Although she initially made friends with Zeng Xiuping and He Junqiu with the intention of taking advantage of them, with their genuine care, she had already regarded them as family and friends, and felt ashamed of her original intention of taking advantage of them.

How could she accept this reward?

Faced with the two people's rejection, the person in charge was not angry but laughed out loud. He divided the 100 yuan bonus into two parts and gave 50 yuan to each person.

He Junxia and Xu Li looked at each other and accepted it with pleasure.

After all, if they refuse again, it would seem that they are too ungrateful.

After the commendation meeting, the gathered villagers dispersed in twos and threes. He Junxia was also about to leave, but suddenly caught a glimpse of Luo Yangbo's gloomy and hateful eyes.

Who is he looking at?

He Junxia followed Luo Yangbo's gaze and couldn't help but frown. He had never heard that Luo Yangbo and Xu Li had any conflicts.

He Junxia opened his mouth to remind Xu Li to be careful of Luo Yangbo, but before he could say anything, Luo Yangbo turned and left the square, disappearing into the night.

He Junxia asked Xu Li: "Do you have a conflict with Luo Yangbo?"

Xu Li was bewildered: "No, he and I haven't spoken much."

That's strange.

He Junxia told Xu Li what had just happened. He Junqiu heard it and interrupted, "Could he be looking at you?"

After all, their family and Luo Yangbo had already fallen out.

He Junxia shook her head: "No."

He was very sure that Luo Yangbo was looking at Xu Li.

Seeing He Junxia's confidence, Xu Li couldn't help but worry. Although she didn't understand how she had offended Luo Yangbo, it was always better to be careful.

But no matter how careful he was, he still couldn't stop someone from getting his way. Luo Yangbo still found an opportunity to meet Xu Li alone.

Oh no, not alone.

He Junxia, ​​who was identifying herbs on the mountain, heard a shocking statement.

"You are also reborn!"

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The author has something to say: The knowledge about wood ash in this article comes from the author Nongziren527's article "Detailed explanation of the role of wood ash, what role does wood ash play in agricultural planting?"