Since the beginning of spring, the weather has been good and the harvest has been good, so even experienced farmers think that this year will most likely be a year of good harvest.
But things don't always go as planned. Who would have thought that in the last two crucial months, the weather would remain dry. Not to mention rain, there wasn't even a trace of cloud to be seen.
This made the villagers very anxious. The seedlings in the fields had already grown tall and were just waiting for a supply of grain. If there was a lack of water, then no matter how well the crops grew or how neatly they emerged, all would be in vain.
In order to complete the production task and solve the problem of lack of agricultural water, the team leader led the villagers to search for water everywhere. The water in the ponds everywhere was quickly searched out, and he had to lead the villagers to the distant reservoir to fetch water.
The journey was long, and the water was limited, so it was not enough.
Even if they traveled such a long distance to fetch water, they might not be able to get much, because the drought affected not just their production team, nor their commune, but the entire city to varying degrees.
So wherever there is a reservoir, not only the nearby villages, but also the communes far away will come to fetch water.
The water in the reservoir was dropping at a speed visible to the naked eye, and in the end each production team could only get a small amount of water.
Because there was not enough water, all the seedlings that had grown tall before have wilted. Not only that, some of the leaves have begun to turn yellow.
If things continue like this, the number of yellowing leaves will only increase and eventually they will wither and die. Not only will there be no harvest, but even the public grain payments will certainly not be made in full.
Huang Yuelan's family was not too worried. After all, they had a mountain spring at home, and they did not rely on work points for a living. They mainly relied on Wang Jianguo to send money and tickets back home.
Despite this, you will still be affected. After all, the whole city is short of food. Where can you buy food with your money and tickets?
Huang Yuelan had discovered a hidden spring behind her house before. She just dug a shallow pit, which was enough for daily use for eating, washing clothes and other daily necessities. Huang Yuelan thought there must be a bigger spring underneath.
Moreover, this spring water is not affected by surface water. Due to the severity of the drought this year, the surface water is almost used up, but the water flow in the house is not affected, so it is probably groundwater.
If her speculation was correct, then digging out the hidden spring and using it to irrigate the farmland of their production team should be enough.
However, Huang Yuelan did not intend to tell the captain about the spring water in her home. Instead, she tried to dig it out from somewhere else and pretended that she had just discovered it, so as to avoid getting into trouble.
Otherwise, if the villagers knew that I had been using the secret spring before, someone would definitely gossip and cause trouble.
It is better to have less trouble than more, so Huang Yuelan pretended to look for wild vegetables on the back mountain that day, and at the same time looked for other water outlets of the hidden spring.
"Look, isn't that the hunter's wife? What is she looking for behind the house?"
"He was carrying a bamboo basket and holding a shovel. He looked like he was digging wild vegetables."
"How can you dig it up so close to home? It's already been dug up."
"She has so many children at home, and she's several months pregnant now. How can she run far? She can only wander around near her home and try her luck."
Huang Yuelan dug and searched, and finally found a place where the soil and stones were very moist, similar to the last time she found it!
Seeing this, Huang Yuelan was secretly delighted, and estimated that there was most likely a hidden spring here.
The small shovel was not enough, and it couldn't even move the bigger stones. Huang Yuelan turned around and went back home, carried out the hoe, and started digging hard.
The deeper we dug, the wetter the soil became. After a while, water seeped out and the soil quality changed, becoming shale.
Although it was difficult to dig, Huang Yuelan still dug hard.
The villagers who had just seen Huang Yuelan were puzzled again. "She was digging wild vegetables with a small shovel just now, but now she is using a hoe all of a sudden. She is digging vigorously as if she has found some treasure."
"What are you thinking about? You're so funny. If you found a treasure at home, would you dig it up in public? You must have dug it up secretly in the middle of the night when no one is around!"
The other person thought it made sense, but the two of them were even more puzzled by Huang Yuelan's confusing behavior.
Huang Yuelan dug for a while and found a very small stream. Since a stream was found, there must be a hidden spring here. She could find a team leader and let the villagers continue digging until the entire hidden spring was dug out.
Huang Yuelan turned around and carried her hoe home, preparing to go down the mountain to the brigade headquarters to find the brigade leader Fan Ming. She happened to see the brigade leader walking towards the north slope, probably to supervise the work.
Because it is a collective labor period at this time, many people like to be lazy and like to find a cool place to sleep when no one is around. In order to prevent this situation, the team leader will conduct random checks.
Of course, they usually only look for those who like to be lazy to conduct spot checks. Those who are active and not lazy on weekdays will not be checked at all, because everyone else is very self-conscious.
"Captain!" Huang Yuelan shouted to the captain in the distance.
When the captain saw Huang Yuelan, he smiled and said, "Yuelan, what do you want to talk to me about?"
Before leaving, Wang Jianguo looked for the team leader and hoped that the team leader could help take care of his family if he was not at home.
After all, although Huang Yuelan's maternal family was in the same production team, everyone in the village knew that it was almost the same whether she had a maternal family or not. The Huang family didn't recognize her at all, and they took advantage of her when she was most helpless and in need, and drove the three siblings out.
Of course, the team leader Fan Ming knew about this. It was he who took Huang Yuelan and her brother to ask for compensation. So when Wang Jianguo found him, he told Wang Jianguo not to worry. With him around, no one in the village would dare to bully his family.
Huang Yuelan: "Captain, I was looking for some wild vegetables behind the house just now, and I found a piece of land that was particularly moist. I dug it and found a hidden spring there."
As soon as Captain Fan Ming heard the word "Dark Spring", his eyes immediately changed.
You know, the most difficult task in the production team right now is water.
Before, people in the production team took turns to fetch water from a distant reservoir every day, but the water in the reservoir was almost dry and could no longer be used for irrigation.
Now hearing Huang Yuelan say that they had discovered a hidden spring, it was like pie in the sky.
"Where is it? Take me to see it quickly!" Team leader Fan Ming was not in a hurry to supervise the work. He wanted to find the dark spring first, for fear that if he went a little late, the dark spring would disappear.
Huang Yuelan brought the team leader Fan Ming to the newly dug pit.
When the team leader saw the dug pit, which had accumulated a lot of water, his eyes were filled with surprise.
"Captain, although it looks like there's only a trickle here now, I think we're still digging too shallowly. If we continue digging deeper, the water flow will definitely get stronger." Huang Yuelan analyzed to the captain.
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