don't go near that tree

Chapter 55

After returning to the village, considering that the village was harvesting autumn and had little time during the day, Wu Chun discussed with the village head and found a time in the evening to get everyone together to talk about this matter.

The amount of the subsidy above has been clarified now. Wu Chun contacted several construction teams, the repair materials needed for several wells near the village, and the stone slabs needed to cover the large and small wells in the village. Each villager also needs to pay about one hundred.

The amount was less than what Wu Chun had imagined, and Wu Chun planned to collect one hundred in advance, and Wu Chun and the village head would make up for the remaining money to repair the main road in the village.

The only main road in this village is a dirt road.

Everything around is developing, but here it seems to be stagnant.

There must be a broad road that can bring in all wealth, and can bring in most of the resources from outside.

After discussing with the village chief, Wu Chun saw that there was still some time before lunch, so he decided to go for a walk in the village. During this time, the land in Wu Chun's hand was hardly moved, so he decided to put it aside for a while. First, solve the immediate problems in the village, and then take advantage of this opportunity to communicate more with the villagers.

Wu Chun stopped in a field close to a water source. Sweet potatoes are planted here. Although the rain this year is not too heavy, the water level of this lake has risen a lot, and the water has directly flooded half of the field. At this moment, many farmers, He took off his shoes and rolled up his trousers, touching sweet potatoes in the water.

Wu Chun counted the time, and it seems that it is not yet time to harvest sweet potatoes.

But judging by the situation in front of us, it will not work if we don't accept it.

Wu Chun didn't think for too long, and immediately took off his shoes and socks, and got off the ground.

The weather was a bit hot, but the water on the soles of the feet was extremely cool. When the feet stepped on the gravel, there was a slight tingling sensation from the soles of the feet.

"Son, what are you doing down here?"

Seeing Wu Chun walking down, an old man hurried forward to stop him. His movements in the water were much slower than usual. Seeing the uncle's slightly clumsy steps, Wu Chun couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth slightly.

"It's okay, uncle, I'm idle too."

As Wu Chun spoke, he pulled up his sleeves and put his hands into the water.

The sweet potatoes had been completely soaked in the soil. When they were taken out, the purple-red skin of the sweet potatoes did not touch any soil. Perhaps it was because of the water soaking that the skin was a little whitish.

"It will take some time for sweet potatoes to grow well."

Wu Chun said something casually, but unexpectedly, the uncle let out a heavy sigh.

"There is no way, the ground is close to this lake, so it doesn't matter what you plant. Every year, when the harvest is almost over, the water comes up, and you have to harvest it. If you don't harvest it, it will rot in the ground. Count on these lands."

As the uncle said, he let out a heavy sigh again.

Wu Chun felt very uncomfortable when he heard it, but he couldn't think of a good solution at the moment. Usually, under such circumstances, people's sense of helplessness will deepen.

"Grandpa, let me take it for you. This way the hand time will be faster. It is not good for people to stand in the water for a long time."

As Wu Chun spoke, he went to the front line. Apart from a few older people, there were also some middle-aged women in this line.

After Wu Chun asked a few words, he learned that most of these middle-aged women were husbands who went out to work, and they stayed at home, not only taking care of the elderly and children, but also caring for the land at home. Some of them lived most of their lives, and even Never been out of this town.

"We don't have the ability to make money, so we can only stay at home and rely on these few acres of land every year to fill some household expenses." One of the women said.

Wu Chun felt even more uncomfortable hearing these words.

These people put in a lot of labor at home every year, and Wu Chun has deeply felt the hard work of farming in the past few years.

What impressed Wu Chun the most was harvesting peanuts. The season for harvesting peanuts is usually the hottest time of the year.

Wu Chun has seen that those people working in the field, from the morning before dawn, with lunch and a large bottle of water, stay in the field for a whole day. During the hottest time at noon, they don’t even know Take a break, Wu Chun has seen that many people will have a layer of skin peeled off their arms in just two days.

But who is easy?

Hard work at home is not easy for people outside.

Wu Chun still remembers that one year he went to a factory with the school to inspect and study at the university. Wu Chun stayed there for a month and found a worker who had eaten steamed buns and pickles for a long time. Beside him, he gave the worker the meat on his plate.

A word from the worker, Wu Chun, is still fresh in his memory.

"Things outside are expensive, so I only earn that amount every day. If I don't save money on food and expenses, how can I save money?"

Thinking of this, Wu Chun sighed slowly.

Unexpectedly, the aunt next to him questioned, "Young man, you are so young, why are you sighing?"

"It's okay, I just feel a little emotional all of a sudden." Wu Chun said with a smile.

"What's there to be emotional about? These days, as long as you work hard, you won't be hungry." As the aunt said, she dipped her hands into the water, fished out a large handful of sweet potatoes, and put them in the box beside her.

After a while, she said again, "It's just that we can do some work for us when we don't harvest in autumn. We can earn as much as we can. When we don't harvest in autumn, we feel a little flustered when we are idle at home."

Hearing this sentence, Wu Chun's hand paused.

Whether it is planting or harvesting, the work in the farmland seems to be concentrated at one time, while other times will be vacated.

Wu Chun had never thought of this before.

"By the way, young man, what are you going to do with the village chief in the town today?"

Wu Chun's thoughts were interrupted again, thinking about what he was going to say tonight, Wu Chun didn't have any scruples, so he told the story in detail.

"This is a good thing!"

The reactions of the people present were very excited, which Wu Chun did not expect.

"Those wells, unlike this lake, have a buffer edge, and the wells will be finished with one step." The man said with a soft sigh, "In these years, how many young people have died in it? , including the child a few days ago. So this is a good thing, young man! You have done a great thing for the village! We will definitely get 100 yuan."

"No way." Wu Chun said with a smile, "It's not a good thing I did, but everyone did it together."

……

Wu Chun still went to Shili Mountain in the afternoon.

There are a lot of things to do tonight, and he doesn't know if he still has time to come over.

But just before sunset, Wu Chun and Xu Shiyao still had a short time to get along with each other.

At sunset, Xu Shiyao appeared from the tree on time.

"I have a new idea today." Wu Chun said as soon as he came up.

"what idea?"

Wu Chun moved two relatively large stones and sat down with Xu Shiyao.

"Can you introduce some relatively small "factories" in the village to solve the employment problem of left-behind women in some villages?"

"Ok?"

The sudden arrival inevitably made Xu Shiyao a little confused, and Wu Chun also realized that he was too impatient, so he recounted today's experience to Xu Shiyao.

After finishing speaking, Xu Shiyao frowned slightly. After a while, he asked softly, "Factory?"

Only then did Wu Chun realize that these two words were new to Xu Shiyao.

Wu Chun briefly explained to Xu Shiyao that as the transportation has become more and more developed in recent years and many industries have emerged outside, many young people have chosen to leave the village and work outside, but at present, most of them are men. .

The women stayed behind in the village, dealing with a series of problems at home.

"You mean you want to have some factories like this in the village?" Xu Shiyao asked.

Wu Chun nodded.

"I don't think this matter should be rushed." Xu Shiyao said without thinking for too long, "This matter must require a lot of money."

Wu Chun nodded again.

"You can write down this matter first, and then do it when the surrounding environmental conditions are ripe." Xu Shiyao continued.

"Do you think I can do this?" Wu Chun asked.

Obviously he just came here not long ago, but he has already written a lot in the notebook. Sometimes Wu Chun thinks about these things, and even feels that there are some things that he is playing with his imagination.

For some things that seem to be very confused at present, Wu Chun needs an affirmative voice other than himself, so as to alleviate his inner worries.

Sometimes there are too many worries, not because the things in front of you are too difficult, but more because of uncertainty about the unknown.

Wu Chun got an affirmative answer from Xu Shiyao as he wished. He smiled slightly, and the hand on Xu Shiyao's lap slowly moved down, holding tightly with Xu Shiyao's hand.

And at this moment, Wu Chun heard a shout.

It was my grandfather's voice.

Wu Chun turned his head immediately, and saw his grandfather leaning on a wooden stick, standing on the side of the mountain road, with his waist bent.The figure has also lost a lot of weight.

Grandpa is getting old.

Wu Chun's eyes became hot, he hurriedly got up and helped grandpa to this side.

"Grandpa, the mountain road is not easy to walk, why did you come here?"

"The village chief said that you have something to do tonight. I thought you were here, so I came to take a look." The grandfather suddenly lowered his voice, "Is the child there?"

Wu Chun turned around, saw Xu Shiyao's somewhat bewildered figure, and said with a smile, "Here he is. He's sitting under that tree."

Wu Chun saw that after he finished saying this, Xu Shiyao's expression was visibly startled.

"Little Yao!" Grandpa said and walked there, and finally sat between Wu Chun and Xu Shiyao. He held Wu Chun's hand with one hand, and spread the other hand to a place he couldn't see on the other side.

Wu Chun understood immediately. He took Xu Shiyao's hand and put it on his grandfather's hand. Then, his grandfather's hand was slowly closed. When it touched Xu Shiyao's hand, it passed through like air, "I guess Xiaoyao can't remember." Me." Grandpa said with a smile, "You used to always love to come with your mother. When Chun Chun was not born, people looked at her as a little sister, so your mother made an agreement with Wu Chun's mother. , I will make a baby kiss for you, when you came to find your little sister, you cried when you saw it was your little brother."

Hearing what grandpa said, Wu Chun was a little embarrassed, and his face turned slightly red.

"Can you hear Grandpa?" Wu Chun asked Xu Shiyao.

Xu Shiyao nodded.

"Can Xiaoyao hear it?"

"Yeah, grandpa, you can just say it, he can hear it."

Hearing this sentence, grandpa smiled and opened up the conversation completely.

"At that time, you questioned your mother at the beginning, saying where the little sister went, but in the end you didn't know what happened, so you stopped asking. You lay next to Wu Chun every day, and when you saw no one was there, you grabbed Wu Chun and kissed him."

Wu Chun burst out laughing, so that guy Xu Shiyao plotted against him since he was a child!

Wu Chun glanced triumphantly at Xu Shiyao, and got a gentle smile from Xu Shiyao.

"What else? Grandpa?" Wu Chun asked with great interest.

"There's a lot. When you were just walking, in winter, the water in the river froze, and you went skating with Yaoyao. In the end, you accidentally slipped and fell into the ice hole. I remember clearly, Yaoyao in winter Take off your own clothes and put them on for me, light a fire, only wear autumn clothes to bake your coat, when we passed by, Yaoyao's lips were purple from the cold."

Wu Chun didn't expect that he had so many interactions with Xu Shiyao when he was a child. It stands to reason that he should have an impression.But after growing up.But he didn't remember Xu Shiyao anymore.

Thinking of this, Wu Chun felt a little guilty again.

"Chun Chun. I heard from the village chief that you want to do something big when you come back?"

Wu Chun never told his grandfather the purpose of coming back, he didn't know whether to tell his grandfather.

He habitually looked at Xu Shiyao, and when he met his encouraging eyes, Wu Chun froze for a moment.

"Speak." Xu Shiyao said softly, "This is the person you trust the most."

Xu Shiyao's words were like a motivating agent, and Wu Chun made a decision almost instantly, and decided to tell his grandfather about it.

"Yes, Grandpa, I intend to make the people in the village live a better life!"

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One edamame:

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