The leisurely life of farmers in mountain villages

Chapter 197 The Reservoir Has Started to Store Water
Ever since Wang Shaodong's mother went to take care of Wang Shaodong's confinement, Wang Shaodong's family suffered a lot.

Wang Fumin is a man who seldom does housework. It doesn't mean that he is machismo, but because Zhao Shiling always dislikes the housework he does. Either the table is not wiped clean enough, or the floor is not swept thoroughly enough.In the end, Wang Fumin was unwilling to do it anymore, and Zhao Shiling didn't bother to get angry, so gradually the housework at home became Zhao Shiling's errands.

Now that Zhao Shiling has something to do, she won't be able to come back for three or two days, and then Wang Fumin's house has no one to sweep, and no one to wash the dishes.Wang Shaodong went home and shook his head when he saw that the house was clean three days ago.

"Dad, do we have to hire a housekeeper to clean up for us?"

Wang Fumin was stunned for a moment: "What does housekeeping do?"

Wang Shaodong realized that most of the common people did not know what to do when raising housekeeping in 2003, let alone the common people in mountain villages.

"It's just cleaning for others."

"Is there anyone else doing such a job?" Wang Fumin was surprised.

However, Wang Shaodong is not sure whether there is a housekeeping service company in Gangcheng County at this time, and it is more likely that there is no housekeeping service company.

"Is there in the big cities, but we probably don't have them here. Dad, let me see you, let Aunt Yulong and Aunt Yujiang come over and clean our house later. If we don't clean it, we won't be able to get in."

Wang Fumin glanced back into the room and scratched his head in embarrassment.At this time, he felt that his wife was really good.

Wang Shaodong took a roll of steel ruler from home, put it in his pocket, and left.

It has rained for two days in the last three days, and Wang Shaodong estimated that the rainfall in these two rains should be [-] millimeters.

Wujiayuzi Reservoir has a relatively large upstream mountain area, about four to five thousand mu of land.The rain in the past three days has been heavy, and it should have flowed away before it soaked into the soil.Wang Shaodong wanted to go to Wujiayuzi Reservoir to see how much water the reservoir had accumulated in the past three days.

When the Wujiayuzi Reservoir is full of water, the water surface area can reach 80 mu, the deepest water depth is more than seven meters, and the average water depth is about four meters.The total water storage capacity of the entire Wujiayuzi Reservoir can reach [-] cubic meters, which can meet the irrigation needs of [-] mu of fertile land.

In fact, there is only [-] mu of land downstream of the Wujiayuzi Reservoir, and the Wangjia Reservoir can fully meet the irrigation needs.

Moreover, there are many springs in the upper reaches of the Wangjia Reservoir, some of which are even springs that flow continuously throughout the year. Starting from the rainy season in June in summer, the spring water flows into the reservoir, which can even offset the amount of evaporation from the sun from the reservoir.Most springs will not stop flowing until winter, and then when winter comes, the evaporation will decrease, and there is no need to worry about the water level in the reservoir will drop.After spring, the reservoir releases water for irrigation, while planting lotus root, fishing and so on.

Of course, these are Wang Shaodong's long-term plans. As for now, what Wang Shaodong is most concerned about is when the reservoir will be full of water.

Coming out of the house, walking not far to the south, I saw black rubber dams at both ends, blocking the narrowest part of the Wujiayuzi exit.

The entire Wujiayuzi is now surrounded by Wang Shaodong with barbed wire. The white barbed wire is like a sentinel standing guard, protecting the cherry orchard and the reservoir.

The survival rate of the tens of thousands of cherry trees planted by Wang Shaodong is not bad. 90.00% of the cherry saplings have survived. By next year, the first batch of big cherries will be harvested.

These days, the price of this big cherry is very expensive, about 20 yuan a catty, which is not affordable by the poor at all.Moreover, this thing is still very scarce. In 2003, there were no more than [-] acres of land where big cherries were planted in Luzhong City, and the output was very scarce.

Wang Shaodong did know that Beitaizi Village, Huangzhuang Township, Gangcheng County later became the largest production base of large cherries in Luzhong City, and there would be a cherry picking festival held every year.However, the big cherries in Beitaizi Village will not take shape until 2007, and even if they do, they are incomparable to Wang Shaodong's cherry orchard.

In the next step, the cherry production base in Luzhong City must belong to Wang Shaodong.

There are two houses on the east side of the barrage of Wujiayuzi Reservoir, and there is an electric control room inside the house, which is used to control the rubber dam.Now, in order to ensure safety and prevent naughty children from making trouble inside, Wang Shaodong arranged for Er Er Wu and the others to sleep in the duty room next to the electric control room and watch the house every night.The door of the electric control room is closed, but the door of the duty room is always open, and there must be someone watching inside.

There used to be six people on the mountain, including Su Yulong, Liu Yujiang, and Wu Laoer, but now Su Yulong and Liu Yujiang were sent by Wang Shaodong to build toilets on Songbai Mountain, and only Wu Laoer and the others remained on Wujiayuzi Mountain. Four old men.

Of the four old men on the mountain, the youngest is 60 years old. Wang Shaodong's daily salary of 20 yuan also takes care of them.

Take good care of these old men, and then their children, grandchildren, and nephews will be respectful when they see their Wang family.

When Wang Shaodong came to the duty room, he saw Wu Lao Er was singing Erhuang while listening to the radio.There are a lot of plastic water pipes piled up in the duty room, which are used to water the cherry saplings.It's the rainy season now, so there's no need to water, so Wu Lao Er and the others are brisk.

"Second Grandpa, is it up?" Wang Shaodong asked with a smile.

Seeing that his boss was coming, Wu Lao Er hurriedly turned off the radio and sat up from the bed.

"Dongzi is here?"

"Well, come and see how much water our reservoir has filled."

"These two heavy rains have accumulated a lot."

While talking, Wu Lao Er put on his clothes and followed Wang Shaodong outside.

The huge reservoir is like a bowl, and now the bowl is one-third full of water.

Wang Shaodong roughly calculated that the area of ​​the mountain upstream of the reservoir is about 100 mu, and the total precipitation of the two rains is about 23 millimeters, that is to say, the precipitation that may flow into the Wujiayuzi Reservoir. A total of about 10 cubic meters of water in two days.Then Wang Shaodong made a rough calculation, and now there is about [-] cubic meters of water in the reservoir.Based on this calculation, their reservoir should be full of water this summer.

Wang Shaodong looked up at the water pumping station on the top of the mountain, then smiled and said to Wu Laoer: "Second Grandpa, from now on, let's pump water from the water pumping station, just directly from the reservoir."

If you want to water the cherry orchard, you need to pump the water into the pumping station first, and then use the pipes to continue.This pumping station can store more than 100 square meters of water, and when it is full, the entire cherry orchard can be watered once.

Wu Er Er smiled and said, "It will save trouble in the future."

Wang Shaodong looked up at the sky, it was cloudy, he really hoped that there would be a few heavy rains soon to fill his reservoir with water.

(End of this chapter)