I Had a Home In 1982

   Chapter 457 456. The Well Drilling Team Walks Out of the Commune (Ask for a Monthly Pass)

   Knowing that Wang Yi has a big job again, Zhong Shiping's envious eyes bulged out: "Mr. Wang, you are really a big businessman, you have big business every day!"

   Wang Yi said: "This time I'm going to pick up the big yellow croaker, what's wrong, do you think this business is not big?"

  Zhong Shiping saw that buying and selling was in his own interests, he quickly nodded his head like garlic: "Big, very big!"

   After finishing the work that should be done, Wang Yi didn't want to stay and wasting time, so he said "disturbing Boss Xiao's rest", lifted his **** and left.

  Zhong Shiping wanted to keep him for a late-night snack, but Wang Yi was not interested. He was very full after eating and drinking at night, and he didn't want to eat any more.

   He asked Qiu Danian to drive him to the civil servant community, and on the way he talked to him about the work in the repair shop.

   Originally this was his main job tonight, but it was inferred by his blind chicken neck on the road that the arrangement was disrupted, and this topic has not been discussed again until now.

  The repair shop has changed its development direction now, and it doesn’t take up the maintenance work much, at least there is no pressure to take over the work—

   Now the economy is down. Although the logistics and freight industry has grown even more during the epidemic, the industry has begun to take all the winners. Large shipping companies have acquired a large number of small and medium-sized companies to occupy the market.

   And the ships of large shipping companies will not be sent to a small repair shop like them for maintenance. The predecessor of Wang Yi’s repair shop is mainly to maintain and repair some small fishing boats and small motor boats.

   That is, their target customers are small fishermen.

   In this case, in order to obtain customers, the maintenance workers also need to sell properly. This is a tricky operation that the former boss learned from the bank. The bank tellers and lobby managers need to pull deposits, and the maintenance workers also need to bring customers to repair or maintain the boat.

   As a result, the maintenance workers are naturally under a lot of pressure.

Wang Yi has now changed the operation direction of the repair shop. Instead of forcing outside work, he has purchased some old ship machines from the 1980s and 1990s. Not only the engine, but also other ship rudders, water meters, transfer pumps, etc. can be received. .

   If you have marine machines from the 1960s and 1970s, you can even collect them!

   After receiving it, repair, refurbish and maintain it, and try to restore relevant functions.

   The repairmen in the repair shop didn't understand the purpose of Wang Yi's work. Wang Yi didn't connect with them, nor did he explain to them, which saved a lot of trouble.

  The repairmen have changed from Party B who used to beg people to come to Party A to acquire Party A. Their status has changed, and their work pressure has also changed.

   So Qiu Danian said on the road just now that the repairmen are working very actively and have a very positive attitude.

   Nonsense, no work pressure, timely pay, and standard eight-hour workdays are so rare these days, can workers not be serious and active?

   They hope that they can do the work at hand well now, and don’t be dismissed from the project because they don’t do well—this is what Wang Yi told the head of the class to pass on.

  If the project of renovating the old ship engine is not done well, then cancel this project and let them go outside to attract customers for repairs.

   Now the repair shop has picked up a batch of old parts and repaired them, and also acquired some old-fashioned repair machines:

  What high pressure washers, vintage air compressors, angle grinders, hot air blowers, all kinds of grinders, pressure guns, fusers, diesel-powered drills and cutters, and more.

   Qiu Danian's work attitude is very serious. He has to chat with Feng Yangui every day about the work progress of the repair shop, so he is quite familiar with the situation of the repair shop.

  For related machines, he asked Feng Yangui to take photos and send them over, and he made a special folder to count the daily work progress.

  Wang Yi nodded after seeing it.

Although sometimes he thinks that Qiu Danian and Dunzi are his wolves - Zhuang Qiang and Daqing in "The Richest Man in Xihong City", but in fact this is a bit insulting. Qiu Danian and Dunzi have strong working ability. too much.

   Take Qiu Danian as an example. He is not sure how much taller he is than Zhuang Qiang, who can only draw in meetings. Not to mention his excellent work, at least he packs up in an orderly manner. He is very qualified to be an assistant.

  Wang Yi sees that the repair shop has already advanced the work, and in 1982, he can prepare to build a factory on Mangrove Island.

   He planned that the early mangrove island and machine parts factory would be closed and secretly managed, and they would not have much contact with the outside world.

   In this case, he is not going to use cement bricks to build a factory building. He brought color steel tiles and some boards from 22 years ago, and went to cut and build a color steel tile house by himself.

   Simple and fast, easy to pack!

   In case of any accident, the color steel tile house can be dismantled quickly, and the house can be dismantled in a few hours while the machine is hidden.

   So he asked Qiu Danian to purchase color steel tile houses.

He has studied the color steel tile. This thing is in the shape of a long piece. It is relatively long but not too wide. It can be installed on the car and dragged along. Watt dragged over.

  Things are easy to handle.

   Dump tricycle is a really good thing.

  Wang Yi really wants to endorse the dump tricycle. Once the tricycle manufacturer has two time travelers like him to endorse it, it will definitely kill him, but unfortunately he can't endorse it.

   has dealt with all aspects, and arranged a new procurement plan for Qiu Danian, and Wang Yi returned for 82 years.

  Open the locked door, get a good sleep on the hot kang, and have a good dream!

   He looked at the time.

   It is already 12 midnight.

  The first day of the last month of 1982 just passed.

   On this day, Wang Yi experienced a lot of things. From digging wells in the morning to midnight, he was exhausted physically and mentally, and he fell asleep when he lay down.

  Woke up on Thursday, December 2nd.

  Wang Yi simply stopped going to class, and directly handed over the course to Sha Shengquan. He will not teach much in the future, and is exclusively responsible for the school's administrative work and the operation and development of communal teams and enterprises.

   After breakfast, he went to the office to formally hand over to Sha Shengquan, and saw Sha Shengquan and Xu Heng discussing "Shaolin Temple" enthusiastically...

   He asked, "Teacher Sha, where did you read "Shaolin Temple"?"

   Last night, Xu Heng went to Lijiazhuang to show the movie but did not show "Shaolin Temple". The martial arts movie was "The Mysterious Buddha". In addition, there was a war movie and a country comedy movie.

Sha Shengquan said: "I watched it at the cinema. It was really good. I didn't have much money at the time, so I only watched it twice. If our screening team goes to Dingjia Village to show the movie tonight, let's show Shaolin Temple. I want to watch it again. once!"

  Wang Xianghong put down the newspaper and said with a smile: "Mr. Sha is a movie fan and a TV fan. He has been actively watching TV since the first night he arrived on our island, and he didn't leave until the end."

  Xu Heng said: "He was also very excited to watch movies. Last night I played three movies and I was so cold that even the members who watched the movies were freezing. In the end, Teacher Sha also shouted that he wanted another one!"

  Sha Shengquan said with a haha: "Watching movies can cultivate people's sentiments, and watching TV can help you understand social dynamics. Actually, I don't like watching movies or watching TV. I want to cultivate sentiments and understand social development!"

  Wang Yi said: "Mr. Sha, you are really good, this mouth is too good to talk, you have to go up to a high level to watch a movie and TV, you are really not afraid of the cold!"

  Sha Shengquan laughed.

  Wang Yi suspected that this guy came to Tianya Island to return to the secular world because of the movie and TV, because when he was helping Shi Ai, he kept asking about the progress of electrification on the island!

  The two temporarily handed over work, and Wang Yi had nothing to do, so he strolled to the pier to prepare to go to the Loess Commune to dig wells for others.

   There is no rush to set off today, they have to send Yu Wenshan and others back to the county, and they were confused by a drink last night, and they won't get up very early in the morning.

  Today's cold wind is cold and fast, blowing the waves like a thousand piles of snow.

  The sea breeze and waves washed the island, causing the grass and trees to wither and the sand and gravel to dissipate on Tianya Island.

   This is clear water out of the island, and natural carvings are removed.

  The sea breeze is cold, but when the sun rises, the old people come out with the small benches of Maza to find a sheltered place and start to bask in the sun.

  The temperament of the island in 1982 should be lively. Compared with the current island village in 22 years, there are so many people.

   A group of strong laborers discussed the work to go to sea, many laborers went to reclaim the barren fields, and the children read aloud from the top of the mountain with the wind.

   He walked past the ancestral hall, and the old men greeted him again to come over and chat in the sun:

   "Mr. Wang, come and sit, it's warm and sheltered from the wind."

   "He can't sit down, isn't the doll going to class now? He has to go to class."

   "Have a cup of hot tea before leaving, and warm yourself up with a cup of hot..."

Wang Yi greeted them with a smile, and after the grandfather called him, he finally said, "I handed over the teaching work to other teachers, and I will be mainly responsible for the development of our company, team and enterprise, and then cooperate with the captain to lead the development of our production team. "

   Lord Shou Xing stood up when he heard this and said, "Okay, Nawa Xianghong should help you, the Major General, to mount the horse. You and him are like Huo Qubing and General Wei Qing..."

   "Shou Xingye's statement is not good, didn't Huo Qubing of the Han Dynasty die when he was in his twenties?" An old man dared to interrupt him.

Lord Shou Xing said: "Huo Qubing is the star of martial arts in the sky, he is not gone, he has returned to the sky to return to life - you know shit, you have only lived for seventy or eighty years, you know very little, wait for you to live another forty or fifty Years to understand."

  Wang Yi listened to their words and laughed.

  Shou Xing Ye is so playful.

   However, these people actually knew that the Han general Wei Qing and the champion Hou Huo were ill, which was beyond his expectations.

  Shou Xing Ye hummed and said, "Anyway, you should get on the horse and lead our royal family to work hard. I can rest assured that you are able to lead the people. You are capable and dedicated to the people. It's a good thing!"

   "I will support you in your work in the future. If anyone is bullying you, tell me, and I will use a cane to break his head!"

   Wang Yi gave a salute to the birthday star.

   Okay, the clan power is here!

   He bid farewell to the old men and went to the pier. The sea slowly and firmly swept in. The water surface was no longer the blue of spring and summer, and it began to become deep and secluded. There is really a kind of beauty in sorrow.

  Only the blue sky, whether it is spring, summer or autumn and winter, is always blue and clear, and the clouds are as white and elegant as ever.

  Wang Yi turned to look up the mountain, the mountains in winter have a unique style.

  The vegetation growing around the island did not lose its original color in the cold winter wind.

   Not to mention the evergreen holly pines and cypresses, but the Miscanthus, Digum grass, and reeds growing all over the island, their white color is still as vigorous as autumn.

  These weeds have something in common, they are resistant to salt and alkali, can grow, and will head in autumn, and the ears that are pulled out are beautiful white.

   Looking at it from a distance, these large pieces of white rippling neatly in the rustling sea breeze.

  When the wind blew, the tassels suddenly began to undulate like waves, like the sea water spreading up the foot of the mountain, the **** of the mountain, and even to the top of the mountain…

   When he saw the top of the mountain, he could also see some red surprises, including jujubes, persimmons, and various unpicked dried fruits.

  The reason why the living members did not pick these fruits is either because the location is too dangerous, or they have been pecked by insects and birds, and there is no need to pick them home.

   He admired the winter style of the island. Wang Dongbao, Wang Dongfang and other members of the well drilling team came over with luggage.

  Wang Yi looked at their outfits and said, "That won't work. As the staff of our production team who carry out foreign aid work and develop their style in winter, you must be energetic."

   "People rely on clothes, Buddha relies on gold clothes, go, follow me to listen to Taoju, I will change your equipment!"

  He first went to the ancestral hall to find a costume team.

The    clothing team is sewing cotton coats and blue scrims.

   The fabric he brought over was denim, a thicker yarn-dyed warp twill, indigo blue, strong and thick.

   These are the work clothes he prepared for the commune members who went out to sea during the heavy snow festival to take part in the octopus flood competition. When the time comes, the fishermen of the Wang family will wear such clothes, which are warm, neat, durable, and will definitely make the commune members work more vigorously.

However, there is still a week left for the heavy snow, so Wang Yi first allocated a batch of work clothes to the members of the well drilling team: "One set for each person, go get the belt and luggage with me, we have to wear the same clothes, so it's official! "

  It is a pity that there is no work cap. Fortunately, men in every household have felt hats. It is also good to wear a felt hat in this weather.

  It is not fashionable or beautiful, but it is warm and practical!

  Wang Yi went to lead them to Ting Tao Ju to change into clothes, and gave each of them a handbag—a denim bag, like the kind used for fitness, which can hold clothes and luggage.

   The well-drilling team changed their outfits, and everyone in the team was overjoyed.

  A new outfit, still warm and thick workwear, they know the fabric of denim, and now there will be advertisements for denim on TV.

   After putting on the zipper, Wang Dongbao said with a smile, "It's like that, we're like workers now!"

  Some people are reluctant to wear them: "Going to dig a well is both water and soil. It's a waste to wear these clothes. Can you wear them again during the New Year?"

  Wang Yi said: "There is a New Year's dress for the New Year. The current one is work clothes, that is, what you need to wear when you go to work. Wear them all."

The team members looked at each other, and Wang Dongfang changed his clothes carelessly and said: "Okay, don't be so cunning, it's just one piece of clothes, looking at your appearance, people in the city will think that we farmers are all peasants. No clothes to wear."

   The big guy jokingly slapped a few times, changed his clothes one after another, and dumped the changed clothes and the lunch box and cutlery in the net pocket into the bag.

   Having unified the tooling and bags in this way, they looked at each other and couldn't help but smile.

   Put on your work clothes and feel confident in your heart.

   Yu Wenshan and others also got up at this time, and a member of the commune led them to the big kitchen for breakfast:

   Fried rice, sweet soy milk, and hot and sour appetizing pickles, you can eat these Ludi men.

  Yu Wenshan greeted Wang Yi and said, "Mr. Wang, where did you buy this stove in your team? That's great. Last night, the stove was normally sealed, and the fire is still there this morning, so you don't need to start another fire."

   Dabai drank the soy milk and said vaguely, "Well, yes, the stove was hot all the time last night, and it was more comfortable to sleep in your team than in the city."

  Wang Yi smiled and said, "It's a new type of iron furnace produced by the Northeast Factory. The Northeast is cold. Ordinary furnaces are not durable. This kind of furnace is easy to use."

   "Captain Yu, do you like it? It's easy. I can buy a few stoves for you, and just bring them back when you come to deliver coal next time."

   Yu Wenshan asked tentatively, "This stove doesn't look cheap, does it?"

   Wang Yi said: "One ton of coal for one stove!"

   Hearing this, Dabai hurriedly said, "Then I'll change, I'll change! I'll change two, and I'll change one for my partner's house!"

   "Then you have to change three people," the person next to him laughed. "You can't go out to live after you and Xiaojuan get married? Her family's house and your parents' house are in your house. It takes three stoves!"

  Wang Yi said: "As long as you say it in advance, the stove can be prepared, and I can change how many you need."

  The big guys chatted, Yu Wenshan and others wiped their mouths after eating, went to wash the dishes and chopsticks and then set off by boat.

  Wang Yi is in charge of sailing.

   One of the team members muttered unhappily: "The loess commune is really good, please let's go dig a well, they don't even have a boat?"

  Wang Yi urged: "Just take care of the meal, you change your mind, we are not going to be uncles for others, we are helping to dig wells with our style, don't take people's minds to beg us to do things."

  Wang Dongfang said: "Listen to Teacher Wang."

  Wang Yi further explained: "Comrades, I'm not showing you how high my consciousness is and how helpful I am."

   "But I understand the truth, let's go to help the Loess Commune dig wells for free, isn't this a big favor?"

  The big guys nodded.

  Wang Yi said: "It's a human relationship, so let them take it to heart! So we have to behave well when we go there, and we can't shy away or make demands. This will make people feel uncomfortable, and the quality of the human relationship will drop."

   "It may even happen that we go to volunteer to help dig wells, but we end up provoking hatred. Wouldn't the gain outweigh the loss?"

  Wang Dongbao stood up and said, "Mr. Wang's words really speak to my heart. We really have to correct our attitude and say that we are going to dig wells for free. In fact, we are here to gain favor and fame."

   "Our production team has a lot of business and involves a wide range of areas. If the Loess Commune owes us favors and misses us, they can work hard if we need help in the future, and they will definitely work hard for us."

Wang Yi said with a smile: "Captain Dongbao has seen this through, taking the recent incident as an example, our public restaurants need a lot of vegetables and food, and they are not only expensive to buy at the market, and some have to ask for tickets. "

   "The loess commune is rich in vegetables, and even introduced the winter greenhouse planting technology from the hometown of Captain Yu. When the time comes, they will reveal a little quota of vegetables from the cracks of their fingers, which is enough for our restaurant, isn't it?"

  The members are convinced, and no one has any more opinions.

  Tianya No.3 stopped at the county pier first, and then drove along the coastline to the pier where Huangtu Township is located.

  Tong Buming was already waiting for them.

  The weather was quite cold, he shrugged his head, rubbed his hands, stomped his feet, and waved his hands happily when he saw Tianya 3 coming.

  Wang Yi docked and got off the boat to shake hands with Tong Buming and said with a smile, "Lord Tong, look at you, why do you have to come pick us up? I'm afraid we can't find the door of your unit?"

  Tong Buming said: "It should be, it should be, you are obliged to help dig the well, and we should pick up the boat to send it off, but we didn't arrange for the boat to go there. It is the minimum and necessary etiquette to arrange for someone to wait for you here."

   He shook hands with the team members one by one, looked at the team members' clothes and exclaimed: "My dear, your clothes are so stylish, you don't look like our rural well drilling team, but like the workers of the urban exploration unit."

  The team members shook hands with him proudly and happily.

   They would have complained a bit on the way.

   Now that they are on the ground, they are all honest, and I am very proud and moved to see the leaders come to receive them and shake hands with them.

   Huang Zhongqiang went to the county for a meeting, otherwise he would personally come to receive the well drilling team.

  The demand for fresh water in Huangtu Township is the highest in the county, and wells are their lifeline!

  The township arranged for a few strong and powerful members to come and help. Wang Yi said that he didn’t need it. It was enough for them to prepare some diesel for the machine.

  Tong Buming smiled and said, "This is definitely ready. We have prepared 50 liters of diesel for you. It's not enough. It's just enough. If you have more, you can bring it back!"

  Wang Yi waved his hand and said, "We are obliged to dig wells..."

"Don't come here, Teacher Wang, don't say this." Tong Buming interrupted him firmly, "You are here to dig wells, so we are very grateful to you, but we can't say that we really take your labor for granted. , is that kind of talk? It's not talkative!"

   He said to the team members: "Comrades, we are very happy that you have come to help us dig wells. Please rest assured that we will not make everyone sweat and cry, and we will definitely not wrong everyone!"

  Wang Dongbao said with a smile: "You Tong leads you, no matter what happens next, we will not feel wronged in our hearts!"

   They have to stay in Huangtu Township for at least ten days, so the township has to arrange dormitories for them.

  Tong Buming led them to the dormitory, a three-room house.

   There are iron canopy beds with bunk beds for school dormitories. There are futons on the beds, and there are kettles, stoves and kettles in the room. The preparations are quite complete.

  In this way, the team members put down their luggage and packed up their clothes, and they will start work with Wang Yi.

  Tong Buming smiled and said, "Sit down and drink some hot water and take a break?"

  Wang Yi said: "Today is a good day. There is no rain and no snow. We will work first while there is a good day. We may have to rest when the weather will fail later."

  Tong Buming said: "Okay, that's a lot of hard work, comrades, now where do we go first? What's the process?"

  Wang Yi pointed to the seaside and said, "There's a dirt mountain over there, right? Go and take a look, I see that there can be water over there."

   The earth mountain he mentioned is called Beimang Mountain, because the front and back of the mountain are covered with Miscanthus.

   The locals call Miscanthus australis. On a cold day, other grasses and trees on the mountain have withered away, and only the backwoods are tall and strong.

No one comes to this place on weekdays. The hillside is covered with Miscanthus, which is as high as one person. In winter, Miscanthus is heading white. When the wind blows, this white field is overwhelming. When the wind is not blowing, people's eyes are full of white flowers. , like the heavy snow in the northeast.

  Wang Yi led the well-drilling team up the hillside, surrounded by white grass and boundless sea water in front of him.

  The wind blew up the waves, and the ocean smoke and waves were vast and magnificent!

  Some people have nothing to do in winter, so they come to watch the fun when they learn that they are here.

   They followed Wang Yi up Beimang Mountain, and some locals asked in disbelief: "Can a well be drilled here? Impossible, this is the seaside, and the seawater has already penetrated down the mountain!"

   "Absolutely, or else can there be so many white-backed awns here? White-backed awns can grow in seawater."

Tong Buming also said: "Mr. Wang, I'm afraid it's not easy to get fresh water from this place, not to mention it's close to the sea, look at this place - not only the hillside you are standing on, but also the surrounding area. White-backed awn!"

"There used to be other flowers and plants here. When the land was reclaimed in the 1960s, some people set their sights on this hillside. As a result, they worked so hard to cultivate the land. In the end, they couldn't grow crops at all, let alone vegetables. What's going on? Because of this Below is sea water, saline water!"

  Wang Yi hired an exploration team to investigate the use of wells in various areas of the county, and recorded the well drilling age, water output, service life, local soil conditions, and water source conditions.

   Among them, the most detailed records about Beimang Mountain.

  Why did Wang Yi promise to drill a dozen wells in Huangtu Township?

  Because Bimang Mountain has the largest water vein on the main island!

In the first few years of the 21st century, huge fresh water resources were discovered in this place. First, nine wells were drilled. Later, in 2011, the county directly integrated these wells into the county's residential water system to supply the county residents. Use water.

   So we must dig a well in this place, the water source here is so good.

  Wang Yi said calmly: "Leader Tong, fellow villagers, your thoughts are completely wrong."

   "First of all, why can't other flowers and plants grow here? Because there are too many Miscanthus and the competitiveness of Miscanthus is too strong, other flowers and plants cannot survive here..."

   "That's impossible. If there is a lot of fresh water down here, it's impossible for the backside to eat all the fresh water, right? Can the other flowers and plants not be able to grab even a little bit of it?" Someone shook his head and laughed.

   Another person in the crowd said, "Five, stop talking nonsense. This is Mr. Wang from Changlong Commune. He is literate and good-natured. Just listen to what he says!"

  Wang Yi took a closer look.

   Yo heh.

   It was an acquaintance who pressed his mouth against him: the old bug.

The members of the    well drilling team even pushed him against him. The impulsive Wang Xincai pointed at the fifth man and said, "You know the shit, this is professional well drilling work, don't make a fuss if you don't understand!"

  Wang Yi smiled and said: "Everyone listen to me patiently, I can explain your doubts."

   In fact, it is not that he can explain these doubts, but the information provided by the exploration team.

   He continued: "There is indeed a lot of fresh water hidden here, but other flowers and plants can't really grab the back. These two things are not in conflict."

   "Why? Because water is preserved three-dimensionally, the root system of the awn is the deepest, and it can absorb more water than other flowers and plants."

   "And the roots of other flowers and plants are not as deep as the backsides. In this case, everyone is grabbing fresh water within a certain depth range. Isn't it normal that they can't grab the backsides?"

   "In addition, look at how tall the backs are? It's more than one meter! They will block the sunlight, and flowers and plants will grow longer without sunlight. They rely on sunlight to grow..."

   "No, flowers, plants, grains and crops grow on the fertility of the ground." The locals immediately questioned again.

  Wang Yi said with a smile: "I won't tell you about this, because it is very complicated to explain, and it involves many issues such as photosynthesis and the role of elements in the soil in the process of plant growth."

   "But here I can answer why you have cultivated farmland but your crops are not growing well, because the content of some elements in the soil here exceeds the standard and the content of other elements is too low!"

  Tong Buming nodded and said: "Oh, about this news, the agricultural scientist in the provincial capital who came before also said it."

   "The distribution of elements in the soil of our commune is very uneven, some are rich in potassium and some are rich in selenium - forget it, others don't shout, just listen to Teacher Wang's arrangement!"

  Wang Yi took out the expanded map to find the specific location and drew a circle, indicating that the well drilling team could prepare.

  The team members went into battle with high spirits, digging pits, preparing machines for preparing machines, and preparing materials for preparing materials.

   Everything is in order.

   In particular, they are uniformly dressed, and their dress is formal, and they look more presentable, which makes the onlookers talk a lot:

   "It's more like the experts and students who came from the provincial capital in the past two years."

   "Look at their clothes, they are denim, only foreign workers in Europe and the United States can wear such work clothes..."

   "The exploration team in the past 74 years is not as formal as them. Tianya Island is really good now, everything is decent."

   Listening to the discussion of the common people, Wang Yi asked Tong Buming curiously: "Leader Tong, did an exploration team and a well drilling team come to your commune before?"

  Tong Buming smiled and said, "Well, in 1974, you didn't come back at that time, you didn't experience the great drought, your comrades on the well drilling team must have a deep memory."

   "Absolutely profound," Wang Dongfang said with lingering fears, "I was still a young man back then. They all said that this year's drought was incomparable to that of 1974. In 1974, there was a severe drought. This is not an exaggeration, but what I heard on the radio."

   "Yes, it was a severe drought. There were only a few drizzles that lasted for nine months, and there has never been a serious rain that can make the surface water converge into a trickle." Tong Buming said with a sigh.

   Hearing their chat at this time, the old bug and others also started chatting:

   "At that time, the water supply in our county mainly depended on the artificial reservoirs of Changfei Lake, Xiafei Lake, Haiwu Reservoir, and Donghai Reservoir. These reservoirs could intercept the surface water of streams to store water supply."

   "Because it hasn't rained for a long time, the streams have dried up. There is not a single drop of water flowing into the reservoir in the whole county's many kilometers around the island, and there is not much water under the reservoir."

   "There is no way to do it in the county, the water supply is rationed, and the water supply is not enough, the reservoir is already dry!"

   "Mr. Wang, do you know how the people in our county drank water at that time?"

  Wang Yi asked: "How to drink water? A small cup of water?"

The old bug said positively: "At that time, there was really no water. In order to supply water, the county leaders decided to hire a 10,000-ton ship to pack water from the city and send it to our county. One cubic meter of water cost ten thousand dollars. Two bucks!"

   "Twelve dollars in 1974!"

When    mentioned the past, everyone present groaned.

   That memory is too painful.

   (end of this chapter)