military marriage

Chapter 22 The Mysterious Red House (2)
As for Chuanjia, no matter how indifferent Yu Suo is to him, he insists on atonement in his own way, when he tipes Xiaochun, Xiaochun always cannot refuse...

Most of the days in the desert are always sunny, the sun's brilliant light drives away the long winter, and the noon of spring has a hot taste of summer without a trace.The fiery wind is burning all over the sky, and it seems that it is secretly marveling at a woman's creativity.In Yusuo's yard, the neatly cut pig pen and chicken coop are already a lively scene of flocks of pigs and chickens.

In the cave dwelling, the huge cement kang was gone, replaced by a large mahogany bed covered with a pink bed cover.The hanging curtain of red roses on a white background wafts the gorgeous breath of spring, and the fragrance of jasmine replaces the dark and rotten smell in the first impression.Women running a family are like ants moving house, which should not be underestimated.

Yusuo felt that the family work could come to an end, so he turned his eyes to the outside of the house, preparing to face the wider desert outside the home.

Seriously, Yusuo, it’s okay to coax people from outside to play around, but don’t waste your hard-earned money.Wang Guoqiang refused Yusuo's request to go to the provincial capital to buy grass seeds and saplings, shaking his head like a rattle. If this place can be turned into an oasis, if it can grow living trees, unless you can let Chang'e in the moon come down to sow seeds!Don't think about it as soon as possible, the government has thought of the way it should think...

Unexpectedly, Yu Suo suddenly opened his mouth to laugh, a kind of heartfelt laughter that spread from the inside to the outside.Once the laughter started, she couldn't hold it back and couldn't control it. She laughed so loudly that every cell in her body was shaking and jumping in the giggling laughter.

"What are you laughing at? What are you laughing at? What are you laughing at?" He asked repeatedly, "What I said is all true. Once the seeds were scattered here, they were all swept away by the wind and sand. The kiln where we drink water is all two It is more than ten meters deep, and there is no water in the ground. It is impossible for trees and grass to grow roots here, and they cannot grow roots..."

Yu Suo's laughter disappeared suddenly, her white and neat teeth were biting her lower lip as brightly as pearls, and the slightly upturned corners of her eyes and brows revealed a hint of success. "Then I want to let you see what Chang'e can't do, but I can. Yu Suo turned around and raised her brows, looking at Wang Guoqiang challengingly. Do you believe it? Yu Suo sighed, saying different ways, not conspiring with each other!" ".

Yusuo's stormy and confident footsteps aroused Wang Guoqiang's strong suspicion and curiosity.He kept chasing, "What can you do? Tell me, tell me, you are a single woman, can I help if I can?"

"I know where there is groundwater! Yu Suo is confident, isn't Populus euphratica recognized as a cold-resistant and drought-resistant tree species in desert areas? There are also sand willow, seabuckthorn, wool strips, Haloxylon, and flower stick trees... These trees not only have windproof and sand-fixing properties The role of water sources, some tree species have economic value. Everything is difficult at the beginning, if you help me overcome these difficulties, can I not pay you?"

"This... this... I am a man with a lot of strength, how can I ask for a woman's money? Wang Guoqiang was a little surprised by what Yusuo's expert said. His feet paddled on the sand, and the fine sand that rose up quickly covered him. Where is the water that can plant trees? Tell me!".

Yusuo turned around and left, took Wang Guoqiang straight to Shahai Lake, dragged off his sneakers without thinking, and sat on them together, rubbing his hands and kicking his feet, sliding to the bottom of the dry lake.Then he looked proudly at Wang Guoqiang who was in a daze, and thought that I should be grateful for my childhood life in the mountain village. Chuanlong often took her up the mountain "flying": picking up some green pine branches, and then laying them under the buttocks, from the tall black Sliding up and down the rocky hill.

"You dare?"

"What's the matter? You dare!" Wang Guoqiang put the shoes under his buttocks like Yusuo, gritted his teeth, and slid down with his eyes closed.

"Dig dig, dig dig!" Yu Suo began to dig.

Wang Guoqiang didn't want to admit defeat, and dug vigorously. The dry yellow sand that was stirred up surrounded the two of them like a fog, and the turbid air made them unable to breathe.Wang Guoqiang took off his undershirt and handed it to Yusuo, who was puzzled.

"Wrap your head, face, and mouth!" He said, "Now is not the time to talk about looking good!" Then he took off his vest, covered his mouth and nose, stretched the vest behind his head and tied it in a knot.

The excavated sand piled up under their knees to form a hill, but the flying dust became smaller and smaller, which invisibly conveyed a kind of power to Wang Guoqiang: water, lying in the ground not far away! "Come on, come on, see the water soon! This woman is not talking nonsense."

"Water, water!" Wang Guoqiang exclaimed suddenly, the sand held in his rough hands, sticky, wet water color, moistened two pairs of eyes full of great surprise and hope.

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The news that there is underground water a few feet deep in Shahai Lake is so shocking. Wang Xiuying was supported by her honest eldest daughter-in-law to verify it; Shahai Lake can support a forest, and Sikeshu Village can be surrounded by greenery. It's so attractive, so the two residents who stayed in Sikeshu Village are not abandoned, but they are the meritorious ministers who saved the village and transformed the desert!Wang Xiuying's old tears are cloudy, count me in, I will spend my family money to buy saplings for you!Her cane rustled on the ground.

"Da Cui, bring my son and all the money you have paid for me!" the old man ordered the eldest daughter-in-law.

This was something Yu Suo hadn't expected in advance. With trembling hands, she took a small bag of sweaty-smelling bills from the old man, ranging from a dime to a hundred yuan, and counted them three times. For five yuan, Yu Suo returned the change to let the old man arrange daily expenses, tied the three thousand round number with a rubber band, and gave the old man an IOU.She can't live up to the old man's hope, she is confident that if she buys pigs and chickens in winter, she will be able to pay them back.

What moved Yusuo even more was that Wang Guoqiang persuaded Yusuo to add his share with his 4000 yuan family fortune.He said that only when it turns green can people stay here, and his black egg can find his mother. It is not an option to let Huang Sha bury his neck and dawdling around. We have to pursue it a little bit. We are only a few people in the village. Let's take a gamble.

In this way, together with Yusuo’s more than 3000 yuan, she has a total of 9 yuan in cash. She followed Wang Guoqiang to the Provincial National Seedling Center and bought back more than 1 Populus euphratica, Salix salix, Maotiao, Haloxylon, and flower sticks. Drought-tolerant saplings such as seedlings, and according to the recommendations of local plant experts, purchased more than [-] grapes, apricot kernels, crabapple and other crops that are windproof, sand-fixing, water conservation, and have certain economic value.

The green seedlings are bouncing on the way of being transported by trucks. Between the vigorous and yellow world, the small green buds emerging from the branches gather into clusters of rich green, like The vivid green flame on the top of the candlestick is burning like a small green flame. This green flame spreads out in Sikeshu Village and falls on the edge of Shahai Lake. It looks like green is wrapped in green, and green is inlaid with golden stamens. It is dazzling It ignites the passion in the hearts of the tree planters, and let the joy of life leap out of every gentle and benevolent gaze with peace of mind, as if everyone is a flower, a bud and a happy bird.

In fact, ever since Yusuo put the desert greening action into practice, this dream has become the aspiration of the whole village. Since everyone's family fortune has been shared in the feat of buying saplings, the three families have basically lived together. It became a family, and everyone did their best to make this activity very warm.Wang Xiuying limped and lamely steamed the steamed buns, and together with Heidan pushed the cart to send lunch to Shahai Lake. Yusuo and the old man's simple-minded daughter-in-law divided the saplings into two categories: apricot kernels, grapes and other delicate crops. Dig trenches and plant them as soon as possible. Before the Populus euphratica, Salix and other trees could be planted in time, Wang Guoqiang dug deep and large wet pits to bury all their roots.

The three of them, when they set out every morning, would bring two buckets of water from the cellar at home, put them on their shoulders, shake and confidently come to Shahai Lake, and pour three buckets of water into the saplings that were too late to transplant. pits to prevent the saplings from drying out and dying.

Wang Guoqiang and Dacui, who is honest and not good at words, are all good hands at work. They hunched their waists and worked hard all day long, sweating in the sand, pulling iron by iron and throwing them into the deep sand, turning over There was a cloud of dust.Gradually, the dust and mist became smaller, and the rows of gutters revealed a gratifying dampness...

After more than 1 cash crops were planted in tanks, the groundwater was far from meeting their needs, and their uprooted roots were still too weak to actively absorb groundwater.So the work of the three people was adjusted to Wang Guoqiang's digging trenches—a job that required a lot of effort; Dacui shuttled back and forth between the village and the Hongshui River, using a shelf cart to pull water back and forth. Buckets of water often take more than an hour, and the wheels are stuck in the sand, which is laborious and time-consuming, and it is also a hard job; in comparison, they left the easiest job to Yusuo.Put the crop seedlings into the ditch, cover them with soil and pat them down, and then they will be connected to Dacui's water truck, and together with Dacui, they will unload buckets of water from the rack truck, lift them to the bottom of the lake, and then evenly distribute them to grape roots and apricots. Ren... the draft of psammophytes must be distributed like human beings.

In five days, all the cash crops were planted, and there were very few dead or injured seedlings.It was dark and the work was over, and the three of them were very excited, discussing that they would be able to plant drought-resistant saplings tomorrow. If this continues, Sikeshu Village will have great hope, and their efforts will soon be rewarded surprisingly...

The protruding night wind howled suddenly all night, stirring the dark time and space, engulfing the yellow sand, and beating the doors and windows overwhelmingly, as if to uproot the entire red house, causing cocks to crow and pigs to howl.

Yu Suo was worried about the saplings that had just been planted, and he couldn't sleep after thinking about it. He got out of bed and wrapped his winter clothes, wrapped his head and face with a scarf, leaving only his nostrils to vent his breath, and his eyes to explore the way. The tent slammed at her violently, and the thick grains of sand splashed all over her face in an instant, and mercilessly poured her entire neck along the collar, forcing her to the corner of the wall.

It was the sound of crying that made her suddenly wake up. She rushed to the door with all her strength and tried to hold on to the two doors, but the sand grains under her feet had already accumulated an inch deep.Yu Suo sat on the ground, leaning against the empty door with his back, using his hands and feet to push away the sand accumulated on the threshold, and quickly closed the door, leaning against the door and gasping for breath...

In the early morning, the wind was still blowing, but compared to the evening, it had weakened a lot.Yusuo tucked the quilt over Yuanyuan who was sleeping, locked the door behind her, and ran straight to Miaodi.

The sky with yellow sand flying all over the sky makes the whole world turbid.With the tearing of the wind, the sand dunes on the ground moved little by little, moved to the wall of the red house, and then curled up motionless.

Along the way, groups of sand danced wildly in the air, and the wind raged like crazy. The earth trembled in the wind, and only a vast expanse of dry sand dunes spread to the sky.Yu Suo ran forward desperately, wishing to open his arms to embrace the entire sapling in Shahai Lake!But as soon as one step was taken, one step was deep and the other was shallow, the center of gravity was very unstable. After a while, he fell, and then got up again, rolling and crawling to bring Shahaihu. Hit her: the tree ditch just selected the day before was filled up silently by the wind and sand, and the finger-thick seedlings just planted were either uprooted by the wind and sand, or buried in the sand dunes, and countless saplings were buried in the sand dunes. Torn into several pieces, the emerald green leaves have long been crushed into mud by wind and sand...

Yusuo suddenly felt helpless and dizzy, fell on the sand, and cried, letting the wind and sand cover her.I don't know how long it has passed, but in a daze, Wang Xiuying's trembling voice came: "My good boy, Yusuo, good things are so hard, good things are so hard..."

Grandma Wang was leaning on crutches and kept exploring towards the edge of the sandy cliff. A gust of wind and sand hit her, and she leaned forward. Then, the flowing sand quickly submerged her...

"Grandmother—" Yu Suo's exclamation resounded through Shagu.

(End of this chapter)