The sun is to the west.
The air was very hot. There was shade under the big locust tree, but there was no wind. After walking for a while, I started to sweat all over.
Cheng Wanwan looked at Li Zheng and said: "Now that there is a severe drought, except for Dahe Village, other villages will lose their harvest. By then, Dahe Village will become the target of public criticism..."
Li Zheng asked: "What is the target of public criticism?"
Cheng Wanwan: "..."
Is now a shameless time to ask?
"The target of public criticism is that everyone attacks the target of jealousy." She continued, "The county magistrate promoted the digging of ditches. This is a good thing. There is still half a month of harvest. If water is introduced into the fields one day earlier, the crops will come back to life one day earlier. , we can more or less harvest some food. However, not every village can find water sources, and finding water sources is not an easy task."
"I just want to ask Dashan Niang, how did you find the water on the mountain?" Li Zheng was thirsty for knowledge. "The county magistrate said that he hopes Dahe Village can send some people to help, firstly to help find water sources, and secondly to help with planning. Digging routes, three, and digging trenches also requires help.”
Cheng Wanwan changed the subject: "There has been nothing strange in the village these days. The patrol team in the village seems to have relaxed a little."
Li Zheng didn't know why she suddenly mentioned this matter, but he still echoed: "After there is water in the field, the rice grows, there are more weeds, and there are many insects. Not only do we have to pull the weeds and remove the insects, but we also have to apply fertilizer." , fertilize more so that the rice grows fuller, and the fields are busy, so no one really pays much attention to patrolling."
Cheng Wanwan said in a serious tone: "Because patrolling has no obvious benefits, once they feel that there is no danger, people in the village will naturally be unwilling to go to work. Uncle Li Zheng, you must be on guard against others. I think patrolling We must not slack off on the team work for a day, we must set up a special patrol team and pay wages.”
Ancient people had little legal awareness, and she hoped to live in a village with a relatively high sense of security.
Li Zheng sighed: "How can the village have enough money to support a patrol team?"
The village's income is the money from selling wasteland. A few decades ago, refugees came to reclaim wasteland, and the village still had some income. However, in recent years, there have been no outsiders in Dahe Village. Every household has land. Who would buy wasteland and reclaim it? The income earned a year ago was used to build public water wells and support some destitute households, and it has been completely spent long ago.
Cheng Wanwan said with a smile: "This ditch digging is an opportunity. Dahe Village will help the county magistrate solve an urgent problem. Should the county magistrate provide some funds? How much money can be applied for depends entirely on Uncle Li Zheng's ability. , this money can be used as the initial fund to support the patrol team."
Li Zheng's jaw almost dropped in shock.
What kind of brain does Dashan Niang have? She can actually come up with a legitimate idea to get money from the county magistrate.
He is also planning to take Er Gouzi and his two useless sons to see the county magistrate tomorrow, and go to the village below to find water sources with the county magistrate. He is indeed prepared to help the county magistrate solve the big trouble for free. ...But now he figured it out, and rushed to help and asked to please Yue. If the county magistrate needed him again, he would be a help in times of need.
And Dashan Niang is right, Dahe Village is getting better and better, and it is easy to be jealous, so the patrol team cannot relax.
After the county magistrate allocated funds, the patrol team was officially established, and every household in Dahe Village no longer had to worry about food being stolen.
When Cheng Wanwan started her own business, she had a technical team. If these people wanted to write a plan for any project, and she thought it was feasible, she would ask the finance department to allocate ten projects. As long as one of them could succeed in research and development, the company would win. Everyone will make a lot of money, this is a pre-investment.
Now, Dahe Village has already had a successful case, and the county magistrate's investment will be 100% returned. As long as Li Zheng just mentions it, there is a high probability that the county magistrate will not refuse.
After chatting with Li Zheng, Cheng took a circuitous route home.
When she walked to the door of her house, she saw green sprouts sprouting from the fields in the yard. These green vegetables were growing really well.
When the vegetables in front of and behind the house grow, there won’t be only wild vegetables on the table.
On the edge of the vegetable field, two hens and twenty ducklings were walking around looking for food. The big rooster stood on the woodpile and croaked.
Zhao Dashan went to the fields. Standing at the door of his house, he could see his eldest son busy in the fields.
Zhao Ergou is watering the vegetable field at home. The weather is hot and the vegetable field must always have water so that the vegetables can germinate, sprout leaves and grow up.
Zhao Sanniu went to the mountain to chop firewood.
Zhao Sidan went to the fields to dig wild vegetables and came back to feed the chickens and ducks.
The sun is setting in the west, the smoke from the village kitchens is rising into the sky, the yellow rice ears are swaying in the wind, and the scenery is as beautiful as an oil painting.
At this moment, Cheng Wanwan was in a very good mood.
In my previous life, I struggled alone to build a company. This is a life.
In this life, it is also a kind of life to lead a family to struggle and slowly live a good life.
She walked into the house and saw Wu Huiniang sitting at the table cutting vegetables. When she saw her mother-in-law coming in, Wu Huiniang had to get up as a conditioned reflex.
Cheng Wanwan pushed her back: "You go and cut the clothes, I'll cook tonight."
Wu Huiniang said quickly: "Mom, I feel much better today. I'll definitely be fine if I stand for a while."
"Okay, don't be brave. If something happens again, the family won't have the money to hire a doctor for you. When you get better, there will be more opportunities to cook."
Cheng Wanwan dropped these words and went to the kitchen next door.
Wu Huiniang eats alone at noon. She can eat whatever she wants. It is relatively simple. In the evening, she has to cook for six people, which cannot be done in a short while.
From the time she could remember, she ate in the canteen of the orphanage, and then ate in the school canteen after studying. Later, when she started working, she ordered takeout every day and rarely cooked by herself. Her cooking skills were at the level of fried rice with eggs.
However, in her spare time, she usually watches short videos of cooking, what to put first and what to put next, and what needs to be paid attention to. Her theoretical knowledge is particularly rich.
Having been in ancient times for only half a month, she also knew how to make a fire in an earthen stove. After igniting the fire with hay, she put in firewood and the fire slowly started to burn.
First steam the corn in a broken pot, then put oil in another pot, pour in the cut jade bamboo shoots and stir-fry. The moment the oil was poured in, the oil splashed on his hands, and Cheng Wanwan couldn't care less. Pain on the back of my hand, I quickly stirred the vegetables in the wok for fear of being burnt...
Half an hour later, a dinner was finally made, including a stir-fried jade bamboo shoot, a wild vegetable egg pancake, and six bowls of corn rice.
The jade bamboo shoots were fried and the wild vegetable omelette had too much salt. Cheng Wanwan drank a large bowl of water after taking one bite.
However, the faces of the four boys and my daughter-in-law in front of me looked normal. They ate two bowls of not-so-palatable dishes.
After eating, Wu Huiniang said cautiously: "Mom, I'll be the one cooking from now on. I'll sit in front of the stove with a taller stool and let Sidan help watch the fire in the stove. There'll be no problem."
It's not because the food is unpalatable. These days, no one will object to it as long as it is edible. The main thing is that my mother put at least two spoons of salt in this bowl of wild vegetable omelette. Such a precious thing cannot be wasted.
Cheng Wanwan shook his head: "I'll leave the cooking to you after you finish taking the anti-fetal medicine in two days."
You can't let someone who is still taking medicine cook. She can't do it to tease her daughter-in-law.
But the eldest daughter-in-law didn't do anything and seemed guilty and uncomfortable, which was not conducive to raising a baby.
After the family finished their meal, it was Zhao Ergou's turn to wash the dishes, and the rest of the family quickly prepared to make ice powder while it was still light.
Six hundred bowls of ice powder, which is almost six buckets, requires about three kilograms of stone flower seeds, which is quite a workload.
