Gu Qi, she just wants to farm

Chapter 372 General Mobilization of the Village

"The fish and shrimps in the river pond were moved on the first day, and the people from Shanghetang Village came to find them the next day? There are several miles of mountain roads between your two villages, and the relationship has always been bad. How do you know?" so clear?"

Xu Dongfu shook his head: "There used to be quite a few residents in the village, but it's unknown how many of them have good relations with Shanghetang Village."

The little old man spoke quite reservedly.
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Gu Qi is not interested in the grievances between Xiahetang Village and Shanghetang Village, but the river mud in Xiahetang will have to be emptied tomorrow.

Since I have taken over the mess of the lower river pond, I must ensure that the people in this area get through the flood safely, so that I can use this to ask Liu Shouzheng for more convenience.

"It's urgent. To protect the safety of the village, the river mud in the Xiahetang pond must be hollowed out. If people from the Xu family in Shanghetang really come to find trouble because of this, let them come and find it.

I have a relationship with the county magistrate of Taikang County once, and the magistrate of the county knows right from wrong and loves the people like a son, so he will naturally know the priorities of this matter, and he will definitely not blame the villagers of Xiahetang village. "

"The master said so."

Xu Dongfu didn't dare to say whether the county magistrate really loved the people like a son, but Gu Qi's words made Xu Dongfu's eyes shine.

Why did he forget that the man in front of him has friendship with the magistrate, so he can naturally talk to the magistrate of Taikang County.

With this master around, even Xu's family would not dare to trouble him again.

Xu Dongfu was persuaded to come forward, and it was a matter of life and death in Xiahetang Village. The farmers in the village were quite cooperative.

When the rain stopped on the third day, whether it was registered farm laborers or other villagers who were not assigned to be responsible for various reasons, all the old and young who could make up their strength would wear coir raincoats and bring them home. Some farm implements gathered by the river pond.

Even the villagers from the original Wangjia Village, who had just moved into Shanghetang Village and didn't even care about settling in, rushed over to help under the arrangement of the patriarch Wang Fugui.
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What Gu Qi didn't know was that just yesterday evening, not long after he and Jiang Pinghouzi left the mountain stream, they had been thinking about Wang Fugui from Wangjia Village, and they also secretly found the mouth of the mountain stream.

Originally, Wang Fugui was just thinking about the few acres of land at home and wanted to take a look at it one last time, but he didn't want to wait for him to look down, and what he saw was that the entire Wangjia Village had been flooded and ruined overnight.

Wang Fugui didn't know how he got back to his residence that night, he was in a daze and lost all energy.

The old lady of the Wang family was terrified when she saw her old man go out for a trip and even lost her soul. She thought it was her rush to sell the house and land that broke her old man's heart.

Just don't know how to appease, but saw Wang Fugui was stunned for a moment, then buried his face in his hands and cried loudly.

"It's gone, it's gone!"

"What's gone? Old man, don't you still think about the few acres of land at home?"

Seeing Wang Fugui crying uncomfortably, the always fierce old lady Wang also softened, and persuaded earnestly: "Old man, you should also be at ease, as we are older, we will have to leave sooner or later.

Wangjiacun is always a bit out of the way, and the situation has not been good in the past two years, so we have to leave a way for the younger ones in the family. "

Wang Fugui's face was pale at this moment, how could he listen to Mrs. Wang's consolation, and just kept repeating: "It's all gone, everything is gone."

It wasn't until the second day that Wang Fugui fully woke up. After that, he changed his normal routine and never said a word about returning to Wangjiacun. He even started calling his son to get busy repairing the house and settling down.

The next day, when Xu Dongfu, the village head of Xiahetang Village, informed the whole village to gather at Hetang, he did not call anyone from Shangwangjiacun. Once it's over, let people do the work.

Unexpectedly, when Wang Fugui learned that Xu Dongfu was going to summon the whole village to dig river mud to lower the water level in the river pond, he personally called out all the villagers from the original Wangjia Village who had stayed in Xiahetang Village, and replaced them with I took my coir raincoat and farm tools to help.

The rain has subsided, but the muddy and slippery side of the river pond, which has been raining heavily for several days, is very difficult to walk. In order to facilitate the work, Xu Dongfu asked the villagers to bring out their own hemp ropes and tie each of them to the other. At both ends, a thick old tree was found and tied.

The tall young man took a shovel and punted down the river pond with Jiang Ping's men, and the older ones were responsible for pushing the dug up river mud aside with a cart.

The women were busy putting the river mud into sacks, and some half-grown children followed them to seal the sacks filled with river mud.

On this day, in order to keep the village, the villagers of the entire Xiahetang Village worked together and united as one, and no one complained, but no one who had the strength to go out thought of being lazy.

And those villagers who stayed at home because of their poor health were not idle. Under the leadership of the old lady of the Xu family, a large pot of ginger soup was boiled at home, and they were ready to send the ginger soup to the river pond for the villagers to warm up at any time. .

On Gu Qi's side, the cook has already arranged for the cook to prepare enough rations for all the villagers, so as to ensure that the villagers' physical strength can keep up at any time.

On such a rainy day, it is not a joke to let dozens of people go into the water to dig river mud at the same time in the nearly full river pond. Both the difficulty and the risk are more than several times higher than those on a sunny day.

If there is not a mouthful of hot soup at any time and enough rations to satisfy their hunger, I am afraid that not many people can survive in such a harsh environment for too long.

The size of the Xiahe pond is not small, and the river mud under the river pond has accumulated for hundreds of years. The villagers dug for two days in a row. The river mud dug out is as high as a hill, and the water level of the river pond It also fell by as much as one and a half feet.

That's it, if you go down again, you can still find the soft mud under the river pond below, obviously the river mud has not been completely emptied.

However, since the water level has dropped by a foot and a half, and the excavated river mud was packed into sandbags and moved by the villagers around the river pond, and on both sides of the main channel connecting the flood discharge, thus forming a simple flood protection wall ;

In this way, there is no need to rush to clean up the remaining river mud in this case.

After all, the river mud was dug deeper and deeper, even if the water level dropped at the same time, but in the absence of professional mechanical tools, the risk of relying purely on manpower is still too great.
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Fourth day, fifth day, sixth day.
God seemed to have made a big joke on the Yuzhou government, and the torrential rain continued to pour down.

Hundreds of villages under the jurisdiction of several counties in the Yuzhong area were hit by floods three times in a row; some villages with low terrain and no adequate preparations were swallowed whole without even reacting to the arrival of the flash floods. .

(End of this chapter)