Chapter 178 Good days will come
The children were wearing shorts and barefoot and happily catching fish in the river. They exclaimed from time to time. Each one of them was covered in mud, but the harvest was quite good. There were a lot of fish in the buckets.
Looking at them like little clay figures, Xia Chan really didn't know what they were going to do after they got home. Where could they get so much water for bathing now?
The water levels in several wells in the village have also dropped a lot. Now they have begun to restrict water use. Water can no longer be used unlimitedly as before. After all, this water is the source of life. If there is no well water, it is estimated that Everyone just has to wait to die.
Since the water in the stream became turbid, Xia Chan's family also got water from the well of the production team. After their brothers finished work, they went straight to the line to fetch water and then carried it home, so that they didn't have to run anymore. One trip.
Xia Chan uses water for cooking and washing vegetables from the "Crossing Mall". The water there is not expensive, only 2.8 yuan per cubic meter, which is equivalent to about 2,000 kilograms. She used plastic buckets to collect the water from small streams. The water is used to water vegetables and the things she planted on the mountain.
Xia Chan walked around the river and then went back. She did not fight for fish with the children. She had collected a lot of fish and she was not short of fish at all.
Xia Chan was preoccupied along the way. It is now July. The crop will definitely not be cut off, but the yield will definitely be reduced a lot. After the heavy rain last year, they hurriedly replanted. Later, the weather became normal and the yield was not low. But this year Depending on the weather, there is no way to replant, we can only wait. If this continues, we will have to think of other ways.
Fortunately, there are many rabbits this year. As long as you keep them well, you can go out to buy coarse grains when you make money at the end of the year. So there is no need to be too pessimistic. It is just that in the days before selling rabbits, everyone's life may be a bit difficult.
But as long as you get through it, good days will come.
Xia Chan lay on the bed at night, tossing and turning, unable to fall asleep.
She took good care of the cassava she planted on the mountain, so that she could help everyone when the time came.
When the water in the river behind was no longer scoopable, and the mud in the ditch had turned white in the sun, there was no need to carry water, because there was no water to carry, and there were not so many jobs to be done in the village, so everyone just The last day was a day off, and even on the day of work, there was nothing to do. There was no water in the ground, and even the grass was almost dry. Everyone was just wandering around in the ground frowning!
Finally, I got up and went to the toilet. The toilet in their house used to be a pit with two wooden boards on top. It was renovated later and turned into a squatting pit like in the city. There is a slope below so that the excrement can be flushed to the back.
Thinking of this, Xia Chan is no longer so anxious. This matter cannot be solved by her alone. There are leaders above, and the leaders will definitely not ignore everyone.
Two squatting pits were also built, separated by mud brick walls. Because Xia Chan was a girl, it would be too embarrassing for her brothers to see some sanitary products, so Xia Chan strongly asked them to move the toilet They were separated, and the words "male" and "female" were posted on the door to prevent people from going to the wrong place.
As soon as Xia Chan entered the bathroom, she rushed directly into the hotel suite. She first took a comfortable hot bath, then sat on the hotel bed and studied on her mobile phone.
The domestic tap water she bought before cost 2.81 cubic meters. It was really too expensive. If she bought too much, she couldn't afford it. After all, her savings in the 21st century were so small that she could only buy a house. How can a one-third set solve the current drought? But can I buy well water, river water, or raw reservoir water?
Xia Chan searched and found that there was actually well water, but it only cost one yuan per cubic meter, wild river water and reservoir raw water cost 50 cents per cubic meter, and there was also 'muddy water' below that cost 30 cents per cubic meter, but once The order requires 300 cubic meters.
Xia Chan was a little puzzled, what kind of water is ‘muddy water’?
Could it be the swollen water after the rain?
Then the water should be usable after it settles, right?
Thinking of this, Xia Chan felt particularly excited and eager to experiment, so she hurried out of the hotel room, and then did not go back to the room. Instead, she took the flashlight directly from the space and turned on the flashlight. Out the door.
In the dark night, the mountains were extremely quiet, with shadows dancing in the trees. There were only vague outlines of the ridges, and no sound could be heard. As if there were no such things, Xia Chan walked step by step to the edge of the swamp, and then walked from 'Crossing the Mall' 'Place an order for 'Muddy Waters'.
The 'muddy water' she ordered first went into a large plastic white bucket, which was exactly one cubic meter. She poured the water in the big white bucket into the swamp, and then the second bucket of water came again, waiting for the three hundred cubic meters of 'muddy water'. When the water enters the swamp, there is only a shallow layer of water in the swamp. It can be seen how big the area of the swamp is. One cubic meter of water is equal to about two thousand kilograms. How many kilograms is three hundred cubic meters? This is not enough for a small swamp.
Xia Chan observed this 'muddy water'. It should be the water after rain. It is not that clean but not that dirty either. It should be fine for watering crops, but Xia Chan doesn't dare to water it directly into the rice fields for fear of ruining it. paddy.
But it should be fine. After all, vegetables that have been exposed to rain will not die, so rice should not die either.
Thinking of this, Xia Chan left the swamp, went down the mountain, and went to the rice field of the production team. She placed another order for 300 cubic meters of 'muddy water'. One acre of rice field was irrigated with 10 cubic meters, for a total of 30 acres. We will water this amount of rice fields tonight and observe them for two days. If there are no problems, we will water other rice fields.
Xia Chan poured all the water into the rice fields bucket by bucket. Repeating the same action for a long time was too much for her body. Xia Chan went to the hotel to rest for a while before turning around and going home.
As soon as she walked into the yard, she saw dim lights on in the house. Xia Chan was a little confused. Which brother discovered that she was missing?
Xia Chan opened the door and walked in. Sure enough, she saw Xia Qi sitting on the kang. Xia Chan asked, knowingly, "Brother, you can't sleep?"
"Where have you been?" Xia Qi asked worriedly.
"I went to the bathroom. I felt very stuffy in the back, so I walked around twice. I brought a flashlight, so it's okay." Xia Chan smiled sheepishly, then opened the bed curtain and got on the kang on her side. , and then lay down to rest.
I hope I can bring you good news in two days.
Today I spent 90 yuan to buy water to water the crops. In the 21st century, this is a very small amount of money. A casual meal in a restaurant costs one or two hundred yuan. This amount of money is really not worth it. No matter what, if she could help everyone, she wouldn't feel guilty.