Chapter 1379 Water shortage
"I hope it will rain in the next month as the old people in the village said. Otherwise, if it continues like this, all the crops in the village will die of drought." Lu Xiaoxiao said worriedly.
"It will definitely rain. The old people in the village have eaten more salt than we have eaten rice. What they say must be right."
"Um."
"Xiaoxiao, are you going to cut grass for the pigs this afternoon?" Liu Ermei asked Lu Xiaoxiao.
"No, the sun is too strong."
"I plan to go cut two more baskets of pig grass this afternoon. Since you're not going, I'm going home now to get the baskets and cut the pig grass."
"good."
After Liu Ermei left, Lu Xiaoxiao went to the kitchen to make soup. Yesterday, she told the masters that she would send them the specialties she brought back from Yunnan Province today, so she made a pot of soup with mushrooms and sent it to them.
At 7:30 in the evening, after Lu Xiaoxiao put the cooked food in a basin, she carried the basket and walked towards the cowshed.
When Lu Xiaoxiao arrived at the door of the cowshed, she saw the captain walking out of the cowshed, so she immediately hid behind a tree.
She waited until the captain walked away before walking out from behind the tree, then quickly walked towards the cowshed. She wanted to know what the captain was doing in the cowshed.
"Xiao girl, you came, you didn't meet the captain, right?" Old Fan asked Lu Xiaoxiao after seeing her walk into the room.
"No, but I saw the captain leave the bullpen."
"It's good that we didn't run into each other."
"Master, what is the captain doing in the bullpen?"
"Nothing. He just asked us to take good care of the cows. It hasn't rained in the past month, so the fields are already short of water. If it doesn't rain in a week, the captain will have to let the cows fetch water. So the captain asked us to feed the cows well during this period, otherwise he was afraid that the cows would be too tired to bear it."
"Master, do you think it will rain in the next week?" Lu Xiaoxiao asked after hearing what Master Fan said.
"I don't know, but it's a bit uncertain based on the current situation."
"If it doesn't rain in the next week, the crops in the fields will probably start to dry up. Relying on villagers to fetch water alone is not enough to solve the problem. Also, the water in the river cannot support the villagers' carrying. There is only one river in this area. If every village goes to the river to fetch water for irrigation, the water in the river will dry up in less than a week."
"There is nothing we can do about it. Farming is all about relying on the weather."
"Xiao girl, this is not something you should worry about. If it doesn't rain in the next week, the captain will definitely find a way to solve it." Foreman Xie said to Lu Xiaoxiao after seeing Lu Xiaoxiao's helpless look.
"Foreman Xie is right. This is not something for a little kid like you to consider." Professor Zhang echoed after hearing what Foreman Xie said.
"I know that even if I want to help, I can't do anything because I don't have the ability to make it rain. Now I can only pray silently in my heart that God will send rain soon, otherwise everyone will have a hard time in the next six months."
After hearing what Lu Xiaoxiao said, Mr. Fan and the others prayed in their hearts that God would send rain soon. Everyone's life has been better in recent years, and they didn't want to see everyone go back to the hard life they had before.
Seeing that Master Fan and the others were getting worried because of what she said, Lu Xiaoxiao felt bad immediately, so she immediately took out the soup from the basket and said to Master Fan and the others, "Masters, I made chicken soup for you today. Come and drink it quickly, otherwise it will get cold soon."
(End of this chapter)
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