Chapter 162: Go, go!

Song Youping: “…”

You are chatting like this?

At this time, Chen Yanming came back from outside carrying Tiantian and Panpan.

He was just showing off, and he had to experience the feeling of Old Lu holding two kids alone. Thanks to his great strength, even though Tiantian and Panpan gained a few pounds after growing a year older, he could still hold them.

The bulging muscles in his arms looked particularly powerful in the eyes of outsiders.

Song Youping glanced at him, and was immediately filled with the overflowing hormones in his body, and her heartbeat quickened.

Are all Lu Shaotang's comrades the same as him... so powerful?

Lin Shu said angrily, "Yan Ming, why are you holding them? You are so idle."

Tian Tian and Pan Pan laughed, "Hurry up, let's pack water and leave quickly, otherwise they will catch all the fish."

A waterway was being built by the northwest river. Fish came in when the ditch was dug. Huang Shaoye asked Hou Bo and Lu An to catch fish with a sieve.

How could Tian Tian and Pan Pan miss such an interesting thing?

They stopped catching grasshoppers and bean worms and took little Hou Wei and Bao Er to catch fish.

Originally, they thought they didn't need to bring water when they went out because of the cold weather. After running around like crazy, they were so thirsty that they couldn't hold on any longer. Lin Bao Er held the river water and wanted to drink it. Fortunately, Pan Pan was quick-witted and slapped him away.

"If you drink river water, you will have worms in your stomach, and they will eat up your intestines later."

After scolding Lin Baoer, Panpan and Tiantian were even more thirsty, so they asked their godfather to carry them back to drink water, and also to bring water to the others.

Seeing the two kids lying on the stove and scooping boiled water from the earthenware jar and gulping it down, Lin Shu said: "..."

The reason why they are so thirsty is because Panpan gave Hou Wei and Lin Baoer salted duck eggs as a reward at noon.

Chen Yanming helped to fill the water bottle, but one bottle was definitely not enough, so he had to bring a thermos and a pot of boiled water.

Song Youping was surprised and said, "It's getting dark and time for dinner, why did you bring water over? Can't you just let them come back and drink it?"

She felt that this family was all pretty fools!

Panpan turned her head and looked at her, "That won't work, they still have to keep an eye on the fish, if they all come back, wouldn't we be doomed?"

Who are you? You don't understand and yet you're talking nonsense!

Tiantian stuffed two handfuls of hawthorns into her pocket, the sour taste quenched their thirst, she told Baoer and Hou Wei that eating hawthorns would make them "see the plum and quench their thirst".

Chen Yanming filled the water, holding a kettle in one hand and a soup pot in the other, and asked Panpan to take a large teapot and lunch box, "If we catch a lot, we can grill fish there, let's go!"

The three of them said something to Lin Shu, and hurried out again, without bothering to ask who Song Youping was.

Lin Shu: "..."

Chen Yanming in the book had a broken leg, and the whole person was serious and quiet, giving people the impression that he was serious, but why in reality... so stupid?

Why can he play so well with a six-year-old child?

Song Youping was also shocked. This person... and Lu Shaotang are exactly the same style, but he is a little blind like Lu Shaotang.

Didn't you see that she is so big?

He didn't even take the initiative to greet her, nor did he secretly look at her!

You know, every time she went somewhere, the men around her would secretly look at her. When she went to the county for a meeting, some men deliberately passed by her again and again just to see her.

She was a little unhappy, so she asked Lin Shu: "Isn't this man from the incense factory?"

Lin Shu: "Oh, no, he is my husband's comrade-in-arms, and they came here for vacation together."

Song Youping: "You are on vacation at your comrade-in-arms' house, and you don't help with the work during the busy autumn harvest. You are really..."

You have no tact.

At this time, Fang Dihua shouted from the east: "What's the matter, Song?"

Song Youping: "What's the matter? Here you are!"

Fang Dihua let her continue to help with the work.

Song Youping: "..."

I am here to supervise the learning, not to be your free worker.

Fang Dihua was not polite and treated her as a free worker, because the cadres who came to the countryside to work ate and worked with the members.

For several days in a row, Lu Shaotang and Chen Yanming went to Hou Jianwen to help.

They were even able to put forward feasible and effective suggestions, which made Hou Jianwen exclaim that it was a pity that Lu Shaotang did not study engineering.

After the waterway was repaired, the three turbine pumps that Hou Jianwen had ordered from the pump factory also arrived.

In addition to the turbine pump, an outlet pipe is also needed, which is also a large iron pipe made of cast iron. It is long and can raise the low water level to a higher place.

It was a clear and cool autumn day with the warm sun in the sky. The technical team was going to start pumping!

It has been installed for two days in total. Today is the third day, the day to officially open the gate to release water.

The branch secretary and the team leader of the Lujiazhuang Brigade did nothing that day, just followed the technical team to witness this miraculous moment.

Originally, they wanted to invite Director Qin and others to witness it, but they were afraid that it would not work the first time and they would be embarrassed. It would be better to invite them to visit after debugging. That would definitely not be embarrassing, and they would only show their faces.

The branch secretary tapped the tobacco pot, and the faster the tapping frequency, the more excited and nervous he was.

The team leader also invited the elementary school Chinese teacher and the art teacher to come and witness this moment, write it down, draw it, anyway, to make a record.

It would be great if there was a camera!

Tiantian, Panpan and the kids were also ready.

Panpan carried a water bottle and helped Tiantian hold the red and blue pencils.

Tiantian held a wooden board with her little notebook on it. She also wanted to help record.

Little Hou Wei and Baoer helped to get the pencil case.

Xu Xiaoyou also came. She cooked sugar chestnuts and was responsible for feeding them to the cubs to replenish their energy.

Lin Shu and Sister Lin also brought Lu Xiuxiu and Hou Ying to see. Song Youping was not squatting at the incense factory either, so they came to visit together.

Over there, Hou Jianwen, Huang Shaoye and others were barefoot and rolled up their pants, going back and forth in the cold autumn river to adjust the angle of the machine. Lu Shaotang and Chen Yanming were also helping inside.

They were strong, brave, and careful. Their movements were fast, accurate, and ruthless, and they were better than the technicians themselves.

They installed the turbine pump and had to connect and seal the water pipes.

At noon, when the sun was the brightest and the light was the best, they opened the gate to release the water!

Everyone watched the gate being opened, and the water in the pond rushed towards the waterway. The jumping waves were as orderly and joyful as soldiers.

"Put down the fence over there to block the branches, fallen leaves, and aquatic plants in the water from rushing in!" Hou Jianwen shouted, directing everyone to do their job.

Several fences were set in front of the turbine pump to filter out all kinds of debris to prevent them from rushing in and jamming the pump.

As the fences were lowered, the water was filtered and became clear.

"Wow !" "

Boom !"

The water column rushed and hit the blades of the water turbine pump, driving the water turbine pump to rotate.

"It's moving!"

"Wow, there's a vortex!"

Everyone was excited and ran to the shore again, "Go and see if the water is coming out!"

After a while, the people guarding on the shore exclaimed: "It's coming out, it's coming out!"

"It's amazing, it's amazing! The water is coming out!"

Everyone danced with excitement. They really had never seen such a magical situation.

No oil, no electricity, no people, no effort, the water just flowed from the bottom to the top.

Haha, it's amazing.

The secretary's eyes were wet. This was the first time he had seen such a magical scene in his life. He saw it with his own eyes.

He turned to Lu Hehuan and asked, "Did you write it down?"

Lu Hehuan: "Secretary, I wrote it down."

Lu Hehuan has a certain literary talent, and his writing is full of emotion and passion, while Lu Jinling next to him writes...dryly. Although she is an elementary school Chinese teacher, Lu Jinling's writing is the kind that is bald after writing a 300-word composition.

Originally, the secretary wanted Xu Shihua to come and write, but Xu Shihua refused, even if Xu Xiaoyou forced him to come.

The secretary did not force him.

He decided to go back and organize a water turbine pump station composition competition, let teachers, students and even educated youth members participate, and whoever writes well will be commended.

He will also send the well-written ones to the county to publish and earn royalties!

He wants people to record this exciting moment with words and pictures!

The captain on the shore had already arranged for people to dig ditches.

For irrigation purposes, ditches had been dug in this area a long time ago, but they would collapse and become blocked every year, and had to be dredged every year.

The water came up now and flowed directly into the ditches, gurgling forward.

Once the dry land received the signal of water, it tried desperately to retain it, and would not let the water flow down until it was full.

Tiantian, Panpan, Xu Xiaoyou and a few other children squatted at the water outlet, exclaiming repeatedly, "Wow, wow!"

Tiantian: "The soil is thirsty, and it drinks water like us, and when it is full, it burps, letting the soil behind it continue to drink."

"Fish, fish!" Several finger-sized fish were lifted up, and Baoer immediately reached out to catch them.

Little Hou Wei was quicker than him, and he grabbed one fish each with his hands, taking them home to raise.

Without a container, Pan Pan opened the kettle, let the kids gulp down the water, then filled it with river water, put the fish in and took them home to raise.

The river water flowed up from low places to high places, into the canal, and into the fields.

The team leader smiled and said, "In this case, it's no problem to continue planting winter wheat on this land this year. With water and more fertilizer, the harvest will definitely be the same as other land!"

The branch secretary thought so too.

Who would be willing to leave the land empty these days? Even if you plant a lot and get a small harvest, it's still an income.

In their opinion, they would rather plant more corn, soybeans, sweet potatoes, millet, and sorghum, which are sufficient food, and plant less wheat because the yield is low. They plant as much cotton as they can get from the team, because cotton is too troublesome to take care of.

Unfortunately, the higher-ups want tasks, so they have to plant.

Wheat and cotton are very important to the higher-ups. Because of this piece of land, their team is very tight on wheat every year, and in order to make up for the public grain, the members of the team get very little.

This year is good!

The yield is higher, and after paying the public grain, the members of the team can also get an extra two kilograms.

With this water turbine pump, it is convenient to irrigate not only this piece of land, but also other lands.

The team leader said, "Secretary, should we install a few more?"

The secretary smacked the cigarette bag pot that had already extinguished its sparks, and his mouth was full of the smell of cigarette oil. He coughed, "If there is a lot of rain, we won't need that many. If there is little rain, our team doesn't have a reservoir, and we have to wait for the reservoir to release water. We don't need to install too many, two will be enough."

The main thing is these few pieces of land, and other places are not short of water. If there is a real shortage of water, it will be dry everywhere if it doesn't rain. It won't work if there is a water turbine pump without water.

The main thing is that water turbine pumps also cost money, about 700 yuan per set.

Even if there is an incense factory, they don't have the money for two sets.

Lin Shu gave them a good suggestion, asking them to go to a credit union to borrow money, so that their brigade could pay for one set and borrow money to install another set, first use the low interest period of government support for the brigade, and then pay it back next year when the money from the incense factory arrives.

The branch secretary didn't understand this, they always didn't owe debts if they could, they only saved money and never borrowed money.

But they could get a loan in advance to use a set of water turbine pumps to irrigate the land, and pay it back next year when the incense factory earns money, without the brigade having to spend extra money.

The branch secretary thought, damn, is there such a good thing in the world?

It's like the brigade doesn't spend a penny, but they are pretending to be a big shot?

The brigade has not made any moves regarding the dividends from the incense factory. After all, the money earned from selling surplus grain and other side businesses was used to buy fertilizers and farmland, and they kept the money from the incense factory for electricity.

Now, for the water turbine pump, they have to spend it in advance.

But since the incense factory has been making money, then they are not afraid of the money for electricity?

The secretary is now as confident in Lin Shu as Fang Dihua. Lin Shu said that if the loan is good, then the loan will be granted, and some interest will be paid in advance, and the brigade will pay it back next year with the money from the incense factory. It will not be a problem for the brigade at all.

As soon as Lin Shu said that, the branch secretary went to the credit union two days ago and quickly borrowed money, and gave it to the water turbine pump factory. Now two sets of water turbine pumps were taken to work by train.

For several days in a row, all the members of the brigade, regardless of gender and age, found time to come and see the magical iron guy that pumped water from the bottom of the river.

Unfortunately, they came late, and now they can't see the true face of the machine, but only see the water vortex.

Several old men and women in the village who can't go to work have moved their positions. Instead of chatting under the big locust tree at the entrance of the village, they ran to the water turbine pump station to watch.

They called it patrol, so that no bad guys would come and damage it!

After the water turbine pump was installed, Hou Jianwen began to fulfill his promise to Lin Shu - installing a hydraulic mill.

Originally, if you want to drive the stone mill with water power, you have to install a waterwheel. Now the water wheel pump acts as a waterwheel, directly contacting several mill-pushing rods, connected to the stone mill, and the stone mill can rotate continuously.

Larger stone mills can also be pulled.

However, the space is limited, and the size of the stone mill is also limited. Anyway, it is enough to grind flour and grind fragrant noodles.

Hou Jianwen and his team installed two stone mills with two water wheel pumps.

As the saying goes, "The millstone does not enter the house, and the millstone does not leave the house." The custom of the people is to put the large stone mill in the threshing ground for everyone to use, and the small stone mill is placed in the yard for each family to use.

There are stone mills and stone mills in the village. It is not troublesome to queue up to push the mill, and everyone can gather together to chat. If you come here to push the mill, it is a bit far.

But grinding fragrant noodles as a sideline of the brigade is no problem!

So everyone agreed to give the two stone mills to the incense factory to grind incense flour.

The happiest person with the water-powered stone mill was Lu Ersao.

Now she is the person in charge of grinding incense flour in the incense factory. She is really like an old donkey, grinding the mill as soon as she opens her eyes. She is still grinding the mill before going to bed. Except for three meals and going to the toilet, she is almost grinding the mill all day long. When she sleeps on the kang at night,

she feels that the kang is turning. But Lu Ersao is actually... quite happy about it. She thinks it is more comfortable than working in the fields.

Working in the fields is not only exposed to the wind, sun, and rain, but also requires bending over to exert force. How tiring!

Now that there is a water-powered mill, Lu Ersao is suddenly much more relaxed. It is easy for her to take care of two millstones by herself.

The captain saw that she used to be lazy when she went to the fields, but now that she is the only one in charge of the millstone and has no one to shirk responsibility, she never slacks off!

The captain thought to himself: Well, that's good, Comrade Lin Shu and Comrade Fang Dihua know how to arrange people.

Look at Brother Lu and Sister Lu, who used to be lazy and slacking off, now they are actively working to generate income. They are all good comrades, and they were not placed in suitable positions before.

He praised Sister Lu and said, "Now I will arrange for someone to build a shed for you to block the sun and rain."

The main thing is that her face can't be exposed to the rain.

Sister Lu looked flattered and surprised, "Captain, don't worry, I will definitely work hard!"

Never slack off!

The main reason was what Lin Shu had said at home. According to her workload, she could get at least five yuan a month in dividends at the end of the year, excluding the public share.

This was exclusive to her, not counted as public.

Every year, she could get less than twenty yuan from her mother-in-law at most, and she could get five yuan a month, which was sixty a year! She made more than the men who worked!

Whenever a man wanted her job, she would not wait for his consent.

After the Mid-Autumn Festival, when the water turbine pump and water mill were installed, Lu Shaotang and Chen Yanming went back to work.

Lin Shu was thinking about the brigade's farm, so she gathered Huang Shaoye, the branch secretary, and the brigade leader together to discuss it.

Huang Shaoye originally thought that Lin Shu was just asking casually, and he was just saying it casually based on his own experience. After all, Lin Shu was not a brigade cadre.

How could he know that his young wife took it seriously!

Huang Shaoye looked at the notebook that Lin Shu took out. It not only recorded the population, labor force, amount of cultivated land, etc. of Lujiazhuang, but also some data of Houtun.

She even drew a few tables and icons, classified and compared them, and came to a conclusion that a pig farm could be opened in Houtun, which would be managed by people sent by the brigade. This would not conflict with the pigs raised by the members themselves, and each family could still raise task pigs and private pigs.

The pigs raised by the brigade can be given to the public at a normal price for part of the task, and the rest can be sold to the canteens of major factories at a high price.

The normal price of pork is limited by quantity. Now pork is graded, with first-grade pork at 85 cents per pound, second-grade pork at 80 cents, and third-grade pork at 76 cents.

Ordinary people basically buy third-grade pork.

Even this third-grade pork is not something you can buy casually. Urban residents can get 300 to 500 grams of pork per month based on their food supplements. It also depends on whether the vegetable market has supply. If there is no supply, you can't buy it even if you have a quota.

Therefore, high-priced pork is basically just over one yuan. During festivals or in emergencies, a pound can be sold for 1.3 yuan or even 1.5 yuan.

Some units with good performance spend money to buy black market pigs to improve the diet of their employees.

Their brigade cannot go to the city to sell pork secretly like those speculators, so they don't pursue the price of 1.3 yuan or 1.5 yuan. They just need to find a suitable buyer and sell it for 1.1 yuan or 1.2 yuan.

Apart from other things, the director of the steel rolling mill office had complained to her several times before, asking her "Don't you raise more pigs in your team? If you do, give us one every month."

Listen, the steel rolling mill is rich and generous, and it is not short of money.

Last year, when Lin Shu came back from the steel rolling mill, the director of the factory office prepared a New Year gift for her. The pork in it was not the normal quota meat, but the expensive meat they bought from the meat processing plant at a higher price.

The leaders of the meat processing plant sold extra meat outside the quota, and the extra money went into their pockets, not into the public account.

Lin Shu is of course positive. If she opens a pig farm, won't she be able to have pork freedom in the future?

For her freedom to eat meat, go for it!