And as many people went home to get ropes and madder juice that could dye the ropes red, many older people in the village also came to the dam after hearing the news.
It happened that Mrs. Xu wanted to discuss matters with these older people:
"Fourth Uncle, Seventh Uncle, and all the young and old gentlemen, you came just in time. This is the situation.
Now the boys also decided to go down to the river to have a look.
It would be best if there were no holes under the embankment. I would rather be scolded by everyone for messing around.
But if it does, do you have any good ideas about what to use to fill it? It's best if it can swell when exposed to water, or if you don't just use rocks to plug the hole, it has gaps. "
I must ask for advice on this matter.
Because in modern times, soybeans are used to fill them. When soaked in water, the soybeans swell and can completely block the duct hole.
But here, let everyone throw soybeans into the river? That means killing everyone.
The Fourth Uncle and the Seventh Uncle were suddenly asked about their foreheads. For a moment, they couldn't remember how to pat their foreheads. They really didn't know.
An old man in his seventies in the village suddenly said: "Go to the fields to collect Thunder Man's excrement. The stuff will swell when exposed to water, and mixed with soil and stones can block holes. The back wall of our house has been blocked, and it doesn't matter how much it rains outside. leak."
The old man who spoke does not work on the dam on weekdays.
Because Liu Laozhu wanted him to live too long, his wife and children were all gone. No one had survived him. He was the only one left in the family and he was old, so what kind of work could he do?
But today, Mrs. Xu sent someone to deliver a bowl of bone soup to the old man. The old man heard that it was from Meizhuang, so he thought of coming to the dam to see Meizhuang. I didn’t even understand why I was sharing the bone soup, so I came with a cane in hand and a newly made basket under my arm, thinking that I couldn’t eat the younger generation’s food in vain. If there is any happy event, use a small basket as a gift.
Fortunately, he came. After the old man reminded him, many older people immediately agreed: "Yes, that thing is fine. It is filled with rocks and bugs. It swells very much when exposed to water. You can try it with it." try."
Mrs. Xu knew in her heart that no matter how good something is, it is definitely not as good as being blocked with soybeans.
But given the conditions in ancient times, this is already the most useful thing at present.
Mrs. Xu immediately summoned the women who were looking at each other.
To be honest, the old lady team has been in a state of confusion. What are they going to do?
Don't worry about what you are doing, just pick up the soil baskets, and everyone quickly goes to the fields to dig two baskets of thunder excrement.
"The last few came back..."
At this moment, silence is louder than sound, just like strangling someone's neck.
Mrs. Xu quickly took out the charcoal pen and a few pieces of paper she had blackmailed from Liu Laozhu.
She doesn't have this thing at home, so she must blackmail it.
And the moment Mrs. Xu took out the paper and pen from the side lapel of her coat, the old lady with one ear rushed out with a basket made of dirt.
You must not leave anything to say to that stinky bitch.
The one-eared old woman swore that she would be the first to dig out two baskets.
The other mothers-in-law also reacted immediately: Emma, Tian Xin Nai, please stop painting now, we will start running now.
Mrs. Xu looked at the backs of the women rushing towards the earth like hot wheels, and she pursed her lips and secretly laughed.
It's time for you to stop fighting with me before.
Later, Mrs. Xu really started writing and remembering, but what she wrote could only be seen clearly by the family members in the live broadcast room. It said: Whose family contributed how much rope? Also contributed madder juice.
As for why she needed madder juice, it was because she remembered a saying in modern flood control formulas: Dangerous areas should be marked.
One is to use red to mark where there are holes on the shore. Lest the boys finally emerge from the river but forget where they are.
Second, when young men go down into the river, they will tie a rope around their waists. No matter how deep they go, they need to dye the rope red first. Once the rope reaches a meter, they can no longer go down, in order to prevent someone from having leg cramps below or blindly going too deep and causing an accident. .
At this time, Mrs. Xu began to greet the main women's army again.
To be on the safe side, she planned to have a group of ten pull the rope on the shore later.
Turning around, he saw Meizhuang: "Meizhuang's group of five is enough. Where is your man?"
"He wants to go down the river too. He says he has good water skills." I don't know whether it's true or not.
Mrs. Xu addressed the women's army and said: "We must hold on, even if our hands bleed, we must not let go. Then there are men like you below. Answer loudly to me, can you do it?"
"able!"
The uniform voice startled the men who were warming up to jump into the river.
But? Meizhuang motioned to Mrs. Xu to look under the dam. It seemed there was no need for women like them anymore.
In the distance, there were first ten or eight, and then groups of villagers suddenly came out.
Lao Zhaitou was standing at the crossroads, trembling and beating the gong: "Everyone..." Come out!
It's not a family matter, it's a village matter, isn't it?
More and more people are coming towards the dam.
Leading the way were the fourth uncle and the seventh uncle and other older people. They left just now because they went back to ask for help.
They were dressed in shabby clothes, and some of them were so old that they had to rely on crutches to walk.
Many of them were carrying buckets, quilts and firewood on their backs. They planned to heat hot water on the spot after reaching the dam so that the boys who would come ashore later could have a hot towel to wipe their hair and keep warm.
It can be seen that every household has given up all their work, no longer going to the cellar, no pickling, no weaving baskets, no more picking up firewood piles, and no one is calculating that each household must have one person.
This scene will make people in the live broadcast room say:
Grandma Xianggua’s eyes were red.
It's just that grandma blinked hard again, and she couldn't tell it unless she looked carefully.
If the assistant hadn't first taken a distant shot and then taken a close-up of grandma's eyes, they wouldn't have noticed.
Yes, it would be absolutely false to say that Mrs. Xu was not touched in her heart.
Especially when you hear so many old people telling you: "Children, you must be careful."
The young men were barefoot, rolled up their trouser legs and sleeves, with shovels tied to their bodies, and jumped into the cold river one after another without hesitation.
Then a chant was shouted on the shore, and the rope was loosened little by little, and then pulled up little by little.
Loosening the rope means: "Whoop, howl, howl!"
The pull up is: "咾咾咷,咾咾咷!"
At this time, even the background music in the live broadcast room changed to: We are in the same boat and the sea gives way, a chant shouts that the waves come to the side; hundreds of boats are competing for the current and thousands of sails are exhausted, and the waves are behind the shore and ahead.
The waves are rolling on the river.
Wang Yusheng, who was sinking into the river, took out the shovel he brought with him and dug a hole into the embankment. He only had one voice in his heart. Fortunately, he came down to look. When he came out of the river, he shouted: "There is a hole!"
Then Sanmengzi's side also popped up: "This is a small hole!"
The handsome son-in-law on the other side looks like he is as skinny as a little chicken and doesn’t seem to have much ability. As soon as he enters the river, he looks like a white-striped water rat in the waves. It seems that he is the best at holding back and floating under the water. As soon as I got out of the river, I shook my wet hair vigorously: "Auntie, I have a hole in my boss's eyes!"
After hearing such a result, people on the shore didn't know whether to breathe a sigh of relief or to be more worried.
The fourth uncle and the seventh uncle stared at the river with their single eyes. While instructing everyone to quickly put the mark on the mark and go down to fill it in later, they looked at the old lady Xu and hesitated to speak.
Fortunately, the woman in front of me was in charge today, and she would rather risk being scolded than insist on letting everyone go into the river.
If Liu Laozhu was still confused and just piled big rocks, he would have to wait for a heavy rainstorm to cause the dam to sink.
It is conceivable that if there is another heavy rainstorm, the houses that live close to the shore will be flooded, and their houses may collapse.
(End of chapter)
