Whether beautiful things can be regarded as benevolence and benevolence will make everyone happy, we can't decide yet. It depends on the performance of the boy.
But it is certain that each family can have multiple bowls of bone soup this morning, making the extremely poor families in the village feel a little bit happy.
Many villagers queued up to get a bowl of bone soup, and then hurried home to add water to a large pot and boil it again. It would be even better if you get a bone stick in the bowl, so that all the little ones in the family can share it.
Unfortunately, there were more people who helped yesterday but didn't get a sip of soup at all.
Many of them are the breadwinners of their families, eating pancakes facing the river.
Some mothers want to be filial to their elders, but put their children first before everything else, and come back after sending the soup back. Women of this age are also the main force of dam ladies.
What's surprising is that there are many old ladies who don't even bother to go home and worry about how to distribute the bowl of broth.
Otherwise, I would even have to take care of the wild vegetable porridge on weekdays.
These were all people who had quarreled with Mrs. Xu. They were afraid of being fined, so they simply prepared the soil baskets before starting work, as if they were ready to pick up soil at any time.
But the strange thing is that Tian Xinnai still doesn’t say anything.
Wang Yusheng, who had a good relationship with Xu Youtian in the past, came over from the Wang family of the Four Greatest Surnames.
"Auntie, it's time for us to go dig out rocks from the mountains."
Only then did Mrs. Xu stand up from the river. Her hands were covered in mud and her feet were covered in mud.
While rubbing the mud on his hands and feet with the big stone next to him, he asked: "Are you the one coming to your house today?"
I knew in my heart that this guy wanted to support Arita in her work because of her reputation.
Otherwise, with Wang Yusheng's status in the family, there would be no need to come to Dam at all.
Wang Yusheng first looked back to see if there was anyone nearby, then took two steps forward and reminded: "Auntie, you must not do less than when Uncle Li Zheng was here in the past few days, otherwise he will come back to clean up things. I am also worried about the future. If there is any danger, he will blame you."
Wang Yusheng thought about it last night and felt that Uncle Li Zheng had another purpose in choosing Aunt Xu.
After thinking about it, the dam work must not be delayed.
In order to prevent the heavy rain from causing trouble, Liu Laozhu would complain that if his aunt had tightened the control, how could it have been flooded.
And this is human nature. When there is a loss at home, there are a few people who can reflect on their laziness. There are a few people who can carefully analyze and analyze. No matter how tight or tight the control is, they can't prevent the fact that the accident happened. They will just blame the aunt along with them without any reason.
Mrs. Xu didn't hide it and said honestly: "Yusheng, it's precisely because I don't want the village to be flooded that I'm thinking about it. I want to do something more troublesome."
"What do you mean, aunt?"
"You come with me."
Mrs. Xu led Wang Yusheng down the dam again and stepped on the mud to the position where she had been squatting just now.
She pointed to the edge of the water flow and said to Wang Yusheng: "Do you think the water ripples here are different from the ones next to them? Don't look at the position where our feet are stepping on. It's very strong with our feet, but I suspect that there are different sizes of ripples down there. The gush of water.”
The small one may only be a few centimeters, and the large gap may be several meters.
If not treated and filled in time, once heavy rains occur and the floodwaters grow and surge, those water inlets will gradually become larger. The bottom and roots of the dam will become very fragile.
When the bottom collapsed, just filling the top with mounds of earth and big rocks was of no use as Liu Laozhu requested. A two-pronged approach must be taken.
"Yusheng, this is equivalent to a mouse digging a hole. The ground looks fine now, but in fact it is riddled with holes underneath. Once the flood comes, it will be easily broken through."
Wang Yusheng was confused: "Auntie, it's too difficult for us to go down. This is a river, not a small puddle on the other side of the mountain. Only a boy with good water ability dares to go down, and he has to be held by a rope to prevent him from being washed away by the current. . And we will have a lot more work to do, and you will not be able to complete what Liu Lizheng told us."
Liu Laozhu gave Lao Liu a long distance and asked everyone to finish the work before he returned home in seven days.
Once the work is not completed, as I said before, my aunt will bear the brunt of being blamed.
If he farts again and it rains heavily, won't this return to his biggest worry?
By then, without Liu Laozhu having to say anything, the whole village would first complain about his aunt's troubles, and say that without the aunt's blind guidance, they would have finished their work long ago. Look, they are flooded now.
"And you can't just look at the water flow and say it's messed up down there. Let's pull it down to the river and dive in to feel it. If there are no holes..." Now the villagers will talk about the aunt indiscriminately.
Mrs. Xu nodded and admitted, "Yes, I'm not completely sure, but don't we have to go down and have a look to find out? Otherwise, we'll just be busy piling stones on the shore."
Even though she said this, Mrs. Xu was 90% sure in her heart that she was just like a mouse digging a hole.
Why do you say that?
When she was seventeen or eighteen years old in modern times, she remembered that when there was flooding in her hometown, an old man said that it was not a good thing to see muddy water.
Later, after fighting against the floods in 1998, the officials came up with a jingle based on years of experience:
If water seeps and the corners of the dike are wet, observe carefully and don't hesitate.
If the seepage is muddy water, it is definitely a pipe gushing.
The cave expands rapidly and can easily cause a breach.
So modern people don’t have large-scale facilities and machines, so the summed up experience is not more reliable than just looking at it here?
Besides, who is Liu Laozhu? You still have to listen to him. He can't even recognize all the words, and he just gets stuck. He knows nothing.
Old Mrs. Xu thought to herself: She was not only worried about everyone, but mainly because she was afraid that if the embankment burst, would she lead her granddaughter forward in the heavy rain, or would she lie on the roof and wait for rescue?
In ancient times, when someone came to rescue me, grass would grow on my hair.
"Yusheng, please support my aunt. Can I joke about this kind of thing? I'm not stupid. I'm willing to let others judge me, right? When I was a child, I heard someone say that this kind of muddy water is not good."
It's just that the original person is so out of touch, he has to go around explaining to others when deciding what to order.
This is because of her modern character, so that others can believe her.
Fortunately, Wang Yusheng also had a straightforward character. He took a deep breath and said: "Sure, then I will take the lead down the river."
After Wang Yusheng helped Old Mrs. Xu ashore, he took the initiative to gather the men on the dam and learned again the worries that Old Mrs. Xu had just told him.
And he also said to the men:
“In these days, no one understands that doing more is worse than doing less.
Even if you find something and feel confused, the best way to keep silent is to complain.
It's easy to be a good person, but it's easy to be discouraged by those who do things.
But after my aunt heard so many things I said, she would rather bear the burden of being blamed by everyone, but she still planned to give it a try.
Let me ask you, why is she and what is she trying to do?
It's just that when there is a heavy rainstorm, every family in our village really makes a mistake, and the fault is not only for herself, but for the parents, wives and children of every family in the village.
So how can we, the old men, not be as responsible as my aunt?
At worst, it will be all in vain. If you go down and take a look, you will give up. Then everyone will get up early and work late at night, and it will be over! "
The men on the dam understood.
The men felt the same way as Wang Yusheng. Indeed, they had to go down and take a look before giving up.
Otherwise, you will always be like a rabbit in your heart, worrying that the dam is not strong.
And through this incident, they discovered that they had never known what kind of person Aunt Xu was before.
No, maybe through yesterday's incident with Mei Zhuang, including the fairness of the soup sharing this morning, they should have discovered why the Xu family was able to teach a man as loyal as Arita.
They saw with their own eyes a large bone stick with the most meat on one ear.
Some of them were sent by Aunt Xu to run errands and deliver bone soup to the homes of lonely old people.
In fact, if you think about it carefully, even the three brothers of the Xu family who have grain, warehouses and silver are not bad, which shows that the family tradition is upright.
The first person to express his stance was San Mengzi, who came back alive from the battlefield: "Auntie, I understand. I will do what is good for the whole village. I am good at water."
Then Yier, Erchangzi, Changjin, Changhai, Shuanqian, Chunshan, Iron Hammer... More and more young and strong laborers on the dam said: "We can all go into the water."
Some people who are not good at water are also calling their wives: "Go home quickly and get all the ropes!"
4.21 reward list:
Thanks to Yue Xi Lingxi for the reward of 500 starting coins; thank you to Qing Ping Diao for the reward of 200 starting coins; thank you to Xun'er and Lili for the reward of 100 starting coins each.
(End of chapter)
