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Naturally, the old village chief couldn't hide what happened in the village, so he also came to check what happened here.

"Marshal, are these stones brought by your family?" The old village head asked Zhang Taiping.

Zhang Taiping nodded and said: "Yes, I was just pulled back from other places."

"Why, are you going to build a building?" The old village head looked at the pile of stones and continued to ask. Zhang Taiping was taken aback, and then he understood why the old village head asked such a question. In rural areas, buildings are usually built with concrete. So many such egg-sized stones are needed for the roof.Shaking his head and laughing, "No, there is no plan to build a house in the near future. These stones are going to be used to build a swimming pool."

"Building a swimming pool?"

Zhang Taiping nodded: "Yes, I am going to build a swimming pool in the garden. Look, these stones are different from our usual stones."

"What's the difference?" The old village chief turned his head and looked carefully at the pile of stones, and he really saw the difference.First of all, the color of these stones is very strange. It is not common to see a uniform blue color, but a variety of colors; and the shape is also unusual, some are like dyed eggs, and some are strange shapes that change in various colors. gesture.The old village head picked up one, looked at it, threw it away, picked up another one and said, "Hey, why are all these stones bare?"

Zhang Taiping said with a smile: "This stone is called pebble, not our stone."

"Cobblestone?" The old village chief had never heard of it before. "Where is that place?"

"It is usually found in the downstream of the river near the coast. The smoothness is formed by the erosion of the river or sea water."

"Then you brought the stones from the coast?" asked the old village chief.

Zhang Taiping nodded: "That's it."

"You are really, really laborious."

Zhang Taiping spread his hands, smiled wryly and did not speak.

After the old village chief left, some children from Yaya came over. The beautiful stones immediately attracted the children's attention, and they ran to the pile of stones to pick out their favorite stones.

Zhang Taiping said to the Xiaowas: "You can choose a few that you like, but don't mess around, you know?"

"Understood!" Hearing that you can choose a few to take away, the little dolls happily responded.

Zhang Taiping also looked around and picked out a few stones the size of pillows or some strange shapes.

"Brother also likes these stones?" Fan Ming said with a sneer from the side. Generally speaking, girls and dolls like these things, and it is rare for a big man to like these things.

Zhang Taiping said: "Look at these stones, it's okay, pick a few and go back to carve a few things."

Fan Ming became interested: "What are you carving?"

Zhang Taiping said: "This depends on the shape of the stone." Then he took out a large piece and said, "Like this piece, if you carve it a little bit, it can become a stone Buddha statue."

"What about this piece?" Fan Ming casually picked up a piece from the pile and asked.

Zhang Taiping said angrily: "I can carve anything, but it only takes some work."

Fan Ming looked down and saw that what he was holding in his hand didn't look like a stone for beating eggs, stuck out his tongue and threw it into the pile of stones, clapped his hands and asked, "What kind of stone do you need? "

Zhang Taiping replied: "These stones are very hard. You must first select some stones that look like something, so that not only the carved things will have charm, but also cheap and easy to carve."

"Oh, that's it." After finishing speaking, he went to the stone pile to choose.

After the selection, Fan Ming put a pile of stones in front of Zhang Taiping and said: "These things can be carved, this one can be carved into a puppy, this one can be carved into a little monkey, this one is fine." over again.

Zhang Taiping said with a wry smile, "Why do you need so many carvings?"

"I'll keep this one for myself after I'm done carving it. I'll give this one to Daniel, and this one to me." He said a bunch of people's names.

"But, these are all for me to carve." Zhang Taiping spread his hands and said.

"Hee hee, big brother, it's hard work for those who are capable!" Fan Ming said rascally.

Zhang Taiping shook his head helplessly.Looking at the increasingly heavy sky, he said to the little dolls who were still rummaging on the pile of stones: "Okay, it's time for you to go home, it's going to rain heavily, and you'll get wet when you go back to eat. When you get sick, you need to get an injection.”

The little dolls were not afraid of getting wet, but if they were told to give injections to the higher authorities, they would immediately become afraid and ran towards their respective homes.

Before Zhang Taiping and the others ran back to the house, the bean-sized raindrops fell. Zhang Taiping first put the bamboo basket with stones in his hand on the ground, hugged Yaya and Tiantian in his arms, and then wrapped them in raincoats , ran quickly towards the house, Xing Rushui and Fan Ming also ran behind.As for the bamboo baskets, it won't be too late to pick them up after the rain stops.

The bean-sized raindrops were quite painful when they hit people, but it turned into a downpour. Even if a few people quickly ran back to the house, they were still drenched in water.Zhang Taiping's raincoat didn't work, the rain dripped down his face, only the two little girls were tightly wrapped by Zhang Taiping and kept out of the rain.

Seeing that the three of them were drenched like this, Cai Yazhi handed over a dry towel and said, "Hurry up and wipe it off. If it rains, come back quickly. You must get drenched like this."

Fan Ming wiped the rain from his head and said, "It started to rain on our way back, and we couldn't even run in time."

"Go into the house and change into dry clothes." Cai Yazhi said to Fan Ming and Xing Rushui.

After the two entered the room, Zhang Taiping also changed his clothes and came out, looking at the continuous rainstorm, he said: "Looking at the weather, this rain may last for a long time."

However, not long after his words fell, the rain miraculously stopped, and after a while, it stopped unexpectedly. If it weren't for puddles of rainwater remaining on the ground, it really made people think that the heavy rain just now was a rainstorm. A short dream.

Zhang Taiping frowned and looked at the still extremely gloomy sky, and said, "What does all this mean?"

Cai Yazhi beside her shook her head. She didn't know why the torrential rain, which seemed to be taking a long time to stop, became hot for 3 minutes.

Fan Ming changed his clothes and came out of the house. He was very surprised to see this situation, and asked, "Where is the rain, where is the rain? Why hasn't it rained for a while? Could it be to shower us just now?"

Zhang Taiping said with a smile: "Maybe you are really right."

Fan Ming ran into the courtyard wearing a pair of slippers and looked towards the sky.But before putting his hands on the brows, he ran back covering his forehead with an ah.

Zhang Taiping was startled by her sudden scream, and just about to ask what happened when he heard crackling in the sky, he knew what happened without asking.Hailstones the size of rock sugar grains fell from the sky, not very densely packed, but hitting the ground was like hitting people's hearts.

"Ah! Is there a hailstorm?" Cai Yazhi exclaimed after Fan Ming ran into the house.

Zhang Taiping nodded, looking worriedly at the hailstones that hit the leaves with a crackling sound.You must know that the hail at this time will destroy all the crops in the ground, especially things like watermelons, melons, and tomatoes.

Zhang Taiping is not worried about the watermelons in his own field, but the crops of the villagers. Many people have harvested some crops this year, just like Wang Shunyou's winter tomatoes. Although they are still seedlings, if The hail had been heavy for a long time, and the seedlings were smashed to pieces even if they were not frozen to death by the ice that fell on the ground.Such a loss is not something the villagers, who are already in a recession, can bear.

At the same time, the whole village was boiling, there were little dolls who were inexplicably happy, and all the adults were sad.

Wang Shunyou heard the crackling sound of hailstones hitting the roof tiles. At first, he thought it was the little dolls throwing pebbles randomly, so he didn't pay attention. However, after a few seconds, he finally felt that something was wrong and got up. Check out the house.

When he saw the hailstones falling all over the sky, his face immediately turned pale, as if he had been picked up.Knowing that running into the ground would not have any effect, he still picked up the dustpan and put it on his head and ran towards the ground.

After running into the ground and looking at the ice cubes that fell on the ground, I couldn't help but rejoice that I haven't built a greenhouse and covered it with plastic paper for the time being, otherwise thousands of dollars would be wasted.

At the same time, Wang Laoqiang ran towards the watermelon field holding a wooden plank to protect the top of his head.

Watermelons are most afraid of hail. When a piece of hail hits it, a watermelon bursts with a bang. In a short time, there are all cracked watermelons inside, with red and white flesh scattered all over the ground.

Wang Laoqiang stood next to the ground and sighed, this is an extinct household!But he just sighed. The watermelons in his field are not like the sweet potatoes in Zhang Taiping. It is almost time to take them off the shelves at this time of year. The money that should be earned has been enough. The fields are full of small melons or Xiaoguapida, at least, will lose two to three thousand yuan, but it is not too much for him who has already earned fifty or sixty thousand.

His daughter-in-law who followed was not as open-minded as he was, standing on the ground almost crying: "What can I do, the melons are all rotten!"

Wang Laoqiang went back and scolded: "I have earned enough this year, and if I die, I will die. God wants to be like this, otherwise what else can you do? The sky is going to rain, mother wants to marry, can you stop it? What should I do?" Do it!" After finishing speaking, he turned around and walked back. Although he said so, it still hurts to see the watermelon being smashed, so he could only keep out of sight and out of mind.

Wang Shunyou also stood on the ground and sighed. It seemed that the seedlings that had been planted could not be kept. Fortunately, there were some surplus seedlings when raising seedlings at that time, so they had to wait two days to go back to work again.

Just when he turned around and was about to go home, he felt that the sound above his head was sparse. He stopped and looked to the side. As expected, there were fewer ice cubes falling on the ground, and the sound stopped after a while.

Wang Shunyou took the dustpan off his head, and it was gone!He breathed a sigh of relief and hurried to the ground to check.The hailstorm didn't last long. Although some seedlings were smashed, they were only a few, and it would take less than a morning to repair them.

Wang Laoqiang and his wife, who had just run to the road, felt that the hail had stopped, and they turned around and ran back to the watermelon field.

Besides, when Zhang Taiping was in a trance, the hail stopped. Before he could react, Cai Yazhi said calmly, "I don't know what happened to the watermelons and grapes in the field."

Zhang Taiping came back to his senses and said: "Go, go and have a look." After finishing speaking, he ran towards the ground, Cai Yazhi and Cai Xiaomei followed, Ye Ling, Xiao Yaya, and Fan Ming who was covering his forehead also followed .

First, I went to the watermelon field and went around. These watermelons were all gone. Almost none of them were intact. Some were punched with a hole, and some were directly smashed to pieces.

Shaking their heads, a group of people came to the orchard again. The leaves on the vines were smashed into holes. Fortunately, the grapes were protected under the clumps of leaves and the hailstorm did not last long, so the grapes basically Didn't suffer any damage.

Cai Yazhi went to the edge of the orchard to have a look. The whole body of the pumpkin was hard, but there was no harm. At most, there was a shallow pit on it, but it would recover within two days, and it would not affect the quality and appearance of the pumpkin.

The wax gourd is not so hard, and it doesn't fall apart like a watermelon, but there are one or two more holes on the top.

Cai Yazhi pointed to one and asked Zhang Taiping, "Can you still buy this wax gourd with a hole in it?"

Zhang Taiping shook his head and said: "If you can't buy it, if you sell it again, it will be a blow to your own brand."

"Oh." Cai Yazhi sighed and said, "How can we deal with so many winter melons being beaten like this?"

Zhang Taiping said: "Pick off all the wounded ones, keep some at home, and give the rest to the villagers."

Cai Yazhi nodded and said, "It's just a show."

Back in the watermelon field again, Zhang Taiping said: "Everyone looks for edible watermelons in the field and picks them. I think it will rain heavily today, and the smashed watermelons will go bad if they are put in the field. Come down and give it to the village headquarters so that the bad ones are good here."

When families, big and small, were picking watermelons in the field, it started to rain. It was still a heavy rain, but not as violent as before.

Zhang Taiping said to Fan Ming: "You take Ling'er, Yaya and Tiantian back."

Ye Ling said: "Master, let me help here too."

Zhang Taiping shook his head and said, "You go back and cook for us."

Because it was raining, Zhang Taiping didn't search carefully, but just searched roughly. Even so, when he returned home, several people had already turned into water men.

After Zhang Taiping entered the room, he said to Ye Ling: "You can make some ginger soup for your aunts and the others." After speaking, he took out half a jar of wine from the cabinet and said to the drenched people, "One person first. Take a few sips of wine to warm yourself up."

And he himself changed into dry clothes, and when the rain subsided a little, he put on a raincoat, held up a big umbrella, and went out with an old basket of watermelons and winter melons.

The leaves of corn and soybeans in the fields on both sides of the road were beaten to a pulp.

I just experienced hail, and few people can sit at home at the moment, and there are villagers holding umbrellas or wearing raincoats and rubber boots along the way.They are all on the edge of the field, either looking at the vegetables in the field or the corn and fruit trees. In short, there are not many people who do not have worries on their faces.If the corn leaves are rotten like this, the corn production will be greatly reduced this year. Even if the stock at home is not harvested for a season, people will not be starved to death, but this is always a loss, isn't it?

Zhang Taiping gave a watermelon or wax gourd to everyone he met.It took a few trips like this to finish delivering a lot of things in the house.On the road, I also met Wang Laoqiang who was doing the same thing in the same attire.