This summer, Shangwan Village has experienced significantly more rainfall than usual.
As spring begins, the snow and ice on the mountains melt, flowing into streams and eventually into rivers, creating the spring flood season.
Some elderly people chatted idly, discussing the year's harvest in twos and threes, and eventually concluded that the situation was not very good.
There may be major flooding this summer.
A great flood is a flood.
That's a deadly thing.
Xiao Weimin, as the brigade leader, and his second brother, the Party Secretary of Shangwan Village, also felt this.
We've also discussed this topic back and forth during our occasional drinking and small gatherings.
The final conclusion is that it's going to rain; it's a sign that God isn't giving us a way out.
They had no way or ability to change it; all they could do was dredge the silt and reinforce the dikes.
Therefore, after finishing the spring plowing, the production team organized people to work on the dikes before the summer floods.
Riverbeds are generally divided into three types: rocky, sandy, and silty.
There are usually more stones on the mountain.
In their village, some areas are sandy, and some are muddy.
Neither of them are easy to clean.
Especially the silt.
This silt smells terrible, and many people don't want to do this work.
However, everyone likes the dredged silt because it can be used to fertilize the fields.
However, this can easily lead to soil compaction.
It is detrimental to crop growth.
Of course, the hardworking and intelligent Chinese people have long had a solution.
If it takes a little effort, give me some time.
Use silt mixed with rotten vegetable leaves, human and animal excrement, and withered branches and leaves to make compost.
That way, the soil will be more fertile and won't cause soil compaction.
Moreover, when dredging silt, you can often find a lot of small fish, shrimp, crabs and the like.
So when the silt is being cleared, not only do the children like to stand by and watch.
Some elderly people who are unable to work also like to carry a bucket and wait nearby.
Collect those lively little fish and shrimp, and when you get home in the evening, it'll make for a decent meal.
This is the kind of treatment that only people from this village receive.
After repeated dredging, the river near Shangwan Village has become deep and wide.
The villages downstream were also whispering about this.
Should we come along or not?
After all, these old farmers have dealt with nature their whole lives.
You can more or less tell the wind direction.
But if we really want to prevent floods, we need to put a lot of effort into dredging the silt.
Many people can't make this decision.
After all, there's no direct output.
However, after seeing the actions taken in Shangwan Village...
The villages downstream also began dredging the silt.
Another measure is to reinforce the dikes.
The current dike is just a mound of earth.
The cross-section is trapezoidal.
It's wide at the bottom and narrow at the top.
This structure is better able to resist the pressure of river water.
After the silt was dredged, the excavated loess was directly applied to the embankment.
And it's on the other side where there's no water.
This one step alone significantly increased the workload.
Su Ruobai usually goes into the mountains.
They also do not communicate with the village's mysterious intelligence organization.
Therefore, she knew none of these things.
When she learned about these actions in the village...
It has been raining heavily for several days, and the river has swelled.
Su Ruobai sat at the doorway, gazing at the layers of dark clouds in the sky.
I have little interest.
It's been raining non-stop for days.
With nothing to do, she could only read books, specifically junior high school math books.
However, after reading for a few days, all she wants now is to go into the mountains.
I'm not looking for food, I just want to relax and clear my head.
Even just hunting a wild pheasant would be fine!
She also wanted to go to the state-run restaurant to buy some food.
She's almost eaten everything in the space.
She has finally discovered a flaw in herself.
She's not very good at cooking.
The original owner's skills weren't great either.
Although she cooks vegetarian dishes, she usually succeeds on her first try.
The taste was alright.
However, she loves to eat meat.
She wants to eat meat.
She's not a rabbit; she can't just eat some vegetables and radishes.
Ah, if only we were in the educated youth settlement.
Go out and pack some things, then hand them over to Qian Huan when you get back.
She doesn't worry about anything at all.
How about we get Qian Huan to be our cook?
Then Su Ruobai frowned again.
This era doesn't seem to be working.
Feeling melancholy, Sister Su looked at the vegetables she had planted.
It's been more than half a month.
They have mostly sprouted.
It's a pity, it would have been better if they hadn't come out at all.
Once you're out there, you have to endure the relentless wind and rain.
Su Ruobai was indulging in melancholy and lamenting the passing of spring and autumn.
The door to her yard rang.
At first, Su Ruobai thought she had misheard.
Upon closer listening, it really was their own.
Su Ruobai did not open the door immediately.
Instead, he was pondering: Who could it be? His mother-in-law? His eldest brother? His second brother?
She's been living outside for so long, and all she does is bring food to her mother-in-law, or her mother-in-law brings her food.
And coincidentally, her mother-in-law never came over; she always gave it to her when she was about to leave.
She was very satisfied with this undisturbed life.
So here's the question: who's knocking on the door now?
The man knocked several more times, but no one answered or opened the door.
He knocked harder on the door and shouted, "Xiao Su, it's your second brother. Mom sent me to bring you some food!"
Although Xiao Yiyun was already shouting.
However, due to the heavy rain...
All that reached Su Ruobai's ears were two words: "Send food."
The door was opened the very next second.
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