Time is like sand, slipping away quietly in the busy day after day. In the blink of an eye, it is midsummer in July. The scorching sun shines on the earth diligently, and the cicadas chirp tirelessly. People have already changed into light clothes, and the palm-leaf fans in their hands can barely bring a hint of coolness in the heat wave.
Fortunately, the second semester of her second year of high school ended and Su Qingyun had her summer vacation, otherwise she would have been very hot going to and from school every morning and evening.
The weather is too hot, so the villagers have moved their working time to the morning and evening. They take a rest during the hottest time, otherwise they will get heatstroke, which will be counterproductive.
Wu Guixiang sat at the door, sighed, and felt a little worried. "The weather this year is too hot. The leaves of the crops in the fields are curling up. It rains less than twice a day. What will happen if it continues like this?"
Farmers depend on the weather for their livelihood. If the weather is good and there is enough rain, the crops they grow will have a good harvest. But if they encounter severe and extreme weather, then it will be a disaster. They may work hard for a year, but in the end, the harvest may not even be enough to pay the public grain.
This is what the older generation of farmers worry about most.
"Mom, things are better now than before. Even if there is no rain, we can still draw water from the river, right?" Li Xiu Lian said.
"The water in the river?" Wu Guixiang was still frowning. "You don't know, the Nan River, which is closest to us, is drier than in previous years. In the past, the water near the shore could easily drown a tall man, but now it's so deep that it barely covers a person's head. If this continues, the Nan River will dry up, and our crops will be completely ruined."
Nanhe River is the largest river in the surrounding area. When there is insufficient rain, the crops are irrigated with the water from this river. This year, the weather is too dry. So many villages rely on this river for irrigation, and not much water can be allocated to it. This is why Wu Guixiang is so worried.
Qin Ying said from the side: "Mom, don't worry. Technology is advanced now. If it doesn't rain, we can still make it rain artificially." She had heard her teacher talk about artificial rainfall when she was in school.
Su Qingyun had just finished a set of questions. The intense brain work gave her a headache, so she sat at the door to rest. When she heard her mother's words, she frowned slightly.
Artificial rainfall was actually invented in the 1950s, but it is not an easy task. Artificial rainfall does not come out of nothing. It has specific conditions. It requires sufficient water vapor, cloud conditions and an appropriately large number of condensation nuclei. It also needs to be approved and filed by various departments such as meteorology and air traffic control. In short, the requirements for artificial rainfall are extremely high, and the actual operation is even more troublesome.
If the climate really reaches the point of drought, things will be troublesome. Su Qingyun looked at the scorching sun in the sky, sighed, and hoped that it would rain for a few days later.
The whole family was basically at home, and everyone was worried about the day. Li Xiu Lian was even a little worried about her daughter-in-law.
"I don't know if Sisi's body can handle this hot weather?" She looked worried. "I told her to take a leave, but she thinks she can still hold on and insists on going to work. I'm so worried."
Wen Sisi has been pregnant for more than five months now, and her belly is already quite big. There are many people and machines in the factory, and Li Xiu Lian is worried that she might get hurt. Although it is not time for her to take maternity leave yet, she still wants Wen Sisi to take leave and stay at home to take care of the baby. But Wen Sisi feels that she can still do it. There are so many pregnant women in the factory with eight or nine months' big bellies who are persisting, and it is not easy for her to ask for special treatment and appear pretentious.
Because of this, Li Xiu Lian was extremely worried and often went to the county even in such hot weather.
Zhang Xinlan curled her lips slightly. It wasn't like she was about to give birth, so why was she so precious? When she was pregnant with Congwu, she had to take care of Congwen, who was just over a year old, and she didn't see them so worried.
But after learning from the last time when Li Xiulian treated her coldly, she dared not say this out loud, and could only say a few words in her heart. Moreover, now that Congwu was married, she also hoped that Wu Shuhui could give their second wife a grandson.
Speaking of Congwu, she inevitably thought of Congwen and sighed, "I wonder how Congwen is doing in the army now? Is he dating?"
Su Qingyun looked at her, "Second Aunt, didn't my second brother send me a letter last week?"
"A letter?" Zhang Xinlan rolled her eyes. "That guy only writes about what he ate today, what he ate yesterday, and what he ate during the holidays. He can write more than a page about food on two pages. Who wants to read that? He doesn't talk about serious matters, like whether he knows any girls or something."
Now when she received Su Congwen's letter, she could guess the general content without even reading it, and her mood changed from the initial excitement of receiving the letter to calmness.
"Congwen is in the army, and those things are confidential. How can we tell you what mission they've been on without telling you what they've eaten?" Su Dalin, a man of few words, spoke up now. He frowned at his second daughter-in-law and said, "Stop constantly nagging Congwen about dating. He joined the army to serve his country, not for romantic relationships."
Zhang Xinlan shrank her neck. In this family, Su Dalin usually didn't speak easily, but once he opened his mouth, there was basically no room for others to argue. Sometimes she dared to argue with Wu Guixiang, but when her father-in-law spoke, she didn't dare to retort at all.
"Yes, Dad, I understand." Zhang Xinlan could only utter this sentence with her head hung down.
She was worried about her son in the army, and Qin Ying was also worried about her parents far away. She heard that it was hotter in the new province than here, and there was a big temperature difference between morning and evening. She didn't know how her parents were doing. She was afraid that they would get sick but not tell her, and only tell her good news and not bad news.
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