It is rare for the production team to work at night. It usually only happens when watering the fields in summer and harvesting in autumn.
So when the members received the notice, most of them were stunned and didn't know what happened, and rushed to the brigade headquarters.
But when they learned that the gates would be opened soon to release water to irrigate the fields, everyone was very happy.
Although repairing irrigation canals is not an easy job, it is nothing to them.
It's a bit hard and tiring, as long as you can ensure a food harvest in the fall. After all, if the food harvest is abundant in the fall, you won't be hungry in the winter!
For ordinary people like them, poverty and hunger are memories rooted in their bones. Isn’t the purpose of hard work to get rid of this fear from the soul?
In fact, it has not rained during this period, and many people have begun to worry.
Although Yunshan County cannot be said to have nine droughts in ten years, it will suffer from droughts for at least three years in ten years. Therefore, the older generation of commune members know that the situation is not optimistic when they see this year's situation.
In the past, when encountering this kind of situation, if there was water on the small river bend in the village, the water from the small river bend would be used to irrigate the land to fight drought.
But this year, the amount of water in Xiaohewan is also seriously insufficient. It is almost drying up, and there is no hope at all.
So everyone can only pray to God for rain soon, there is no other way!
As for the Baofeng Reservoir upstream, they have no hope at all.
Although water has been released several times since the reservoir was built, due to the severe lack of rainfall in Yunshan County in recent years, the water level of the Baofeng Reservoir has been declining every year, and no water has been released to irrigate the fields for several years.
However, what they didn't expect was that this year the reservoir actually agreed to release water to them to fight the drought, which made everyone very happy.
Once the reservoir releases water, there will be enough water for crops to irrigate until the next rainfall, basically ensuring a bumper harvest this year.
Therefore, the members who received the news did not even bother to eat dinner, so they hurriedly received their tasks and went to work.
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Due to time constraints, Li Fengnian didn't say anything else, but silently asked someone to carry out the team's long-unused cauldron.
Then he called a few women to the brigade headquarters to cook for the members who worked night jobs. Today he wanted to give the members a big pot of rice.
Zhou Yang's memory of big pot rice is no longer very deep.
Because when he jumped into the Babao Liang Brigade, the members here were already eating their own food.
There are many reasons why members do not eat together, but the main reason is because they think there is something wrong with doing so.
The biggest disadvantage of big pot rice is that the distribution is unreasonable.
In the past, rations were controlled by communes and production teams, which was equivalent to handing over the wealth of many people to some people for safekeeping, and then redistributing it to these people.
Some people are afraid that the distribution will be unfair or unreasonable, so they often hide the distribution plan and do not make it public.
For a long time, it has become a practice not to disclose the distribution plan.
This will cause some people to lose their professional responsibilities, coupled with the lack of supervision, it is easy to breed corrupt ideas.
Ever since, it has happened that most people eat glutinous rice bran, while some people eat and drink without restraint, forming a terrible situation where a few people are superior to the collective.
As time goes by, the members will naturally become dissatisfied with this, and eventually the big pot of rice can no longer be eaten, and everyone has to eat from each family.
In recent years, the entire brigade has had very few opportunities to eat from a big pot. During the harvest season in autumn, everyone is busy and occasionally eat from a big pot for a few days.
Since Zhou Yang was reborn, this was the first time he had eaten from a big pot, so this made him feel quite rare!
Since canal construction is a manual job, in order to ensure that the members have enough physical strength to dig the canals and weed, Li Fengnian asked two production teams to each provide 150 kilograms of white flour, and also got some vegetables such as potatoes and cabbage, and decided to give the members a big meal. Steamed steamed buns with stewed vegetables.
The person cooking for everyone is Yang Xiuzhi, a well-known clever daughter-in-law in the village. Her father is a famous master chef from all over the country. Usually, most families will invite her to have a daughter-in-law to celebrate their birthday, or when an old man dies. Dad goes to hold the spoon.
Under the influence of her ears and eyes, she also learned a few tricks.
So every year when the village eats a big pot of rice, she is basically the one in charge.
In addition, Li Fengnian sent four more women to help her.
After all, there are more than 300 young people participating in the labor. With so many people eating, it is impossible to cook for so many people if there are fewer people.
Fortunately, whether it was Yang Xiuzhi or other women who were doing the trick, they were already used to it, and they got into the intense work with ease.
This meal starts at half past six in the evening and is not ready until nine o'clock!
Later, Li Fengnian notified the commune members in the field to come back for dinner through the loudspeaker of the brigade headquarters.
Half an hour later, the members who received the notice returned to the brigade headquarters one after another.
Since everyone did not bring bowls and chopsticks with them when they came, one person from each family went home to get bowls, chopsticks or lunch boxes, while the rest sat around in the yard of the brigade headquarters bragging and chatting, enjoying this rare opportunity. laid back.
At a quarter past ten, we are almost ready!
Following Li Fengnian's order, everyone began to line up for meals.
Unlike sitting down and sitting upright while eating, there are not so many rules when eating in a big pot.
After everyone finished eating, they walked around with their bowls in hand, squatting or sitting, or laughing and chatting while eating.
All in all, everything feels comfortable and the atmosphere is very relaxed and lively.
In addition, another feature of eating big pot rice is that it can be eaten!
It is said that people are in high spirits during happy events. If this person is happy, his appetite will be greatly increased.
In addition, today is a group meal, so everyone can eat freely.
Not to mention those men, even those women who usually say they can't eat much, only have two big steamed buns as a base.
Not to mention the men, three or four large steamed buns are a normal amount of food. Wang Dazhuang, the most eater in the village, made eight of them, which is really shocking.
Zhou Yang is no exception. He usually only has two mixed-faced steamed buns made of white flour and cornmeal, and that's when he's particularly hungry.
But today I ate three of them, and I also had a big bowl of stew!
Even he himself couldn't believe this fighting power!
Since the reservoir will open the gate to release water tomorrow, we are pressed for time.
Therefore, after eating, the members did not go home, but continued to go to the fields to catch up on the progress.
Others are not idle either, preparing for tomorrow's watering.
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