Chapter 79: A long drought calls for rain

With the lesson from the last time, she is a lot more honest and well-behaved, and she will not go to their house easily, but whenever Jiang Qinglime is in the house, she will follow up.

When Jiang Qingling left, she would come out with her.

Of course, every time she came in, Jiang Qingling would drive her away. And every time Li Xing'er was pushed by her, she was obedient, and immediately turned around and left.

Such a move made Jiang Qingling scold her for not, and not for not scolding her.

Anyway, in the recent days, as soon as she saw Li Xing'er, she was very irritable.

Time flies.

June has passed in the blink of an eye.

During this period, there were two rains, and the corn and soybeans planted in the field grew well.

But as soon as July arrived, the weather became even hotter. The water level in the pit at the head of the village is getting lower and lower day by day, and by the middle of July, there has been no rain for half a month, and the big puddle has become a small pond.

You can't wash your clothes.

Only a few children often run into puddles to fish.

In addition to the children, the men were not idle, and took advantage of the low water level to take out their fishing nets and go to the river to fish. In the first few days, they were able to catch quite a few fish.

However, most of them are small crucian carp, and occasionally there are a few catfish and shrimp.

Cooking fish at home, Jiang Qinglime also ate some fish. In addition to fish, there are also two more meat dishes at home from time to time, one is fried frog legs, and the other is fried cicada chrysalis.

The fried frog legs are caught by the men of the family at the water's edge at night, and the fried cicada chrysalis is touched by the children of the family in the dark.

These two stir-fried dishes actually taste pretty good, but Jiang Lime rarely touches them.

The leisurely days at home lasted until mid-July, because there was no rain and high temperatures all day, so the crops in the field could no longer hold on.

Every household began to carry water to water the ground.

Yang's family has a big yellow cow, put on a big yellow cow, and pull a cart of water into the ground.

Of course, before watering the ground, a hoe should be used to make a pit in the cornfield and water should be poured into the pit to water it. The task of watering is very heavy, because there is a shortage of water in the ground, and a single oxcar cannot water much land at all.

Carrying water, pulling water, and having to withstand the scorching sun, so after two days, the men in the family were very tired.

Fortunately, there are many men in their family, otherwise this job would not have been done at all.

"Sister-in-law Shen, tomorrow we are going to the Land Temple to burn paper, will you go?"

The men of the family water and protect the crops.

The women sometimes went to help, but it hadn't rained for nearly twenty days, and they couldn't sit still. One by one, they began to burn incense to worship their ancestors, and when they saw that it didn't work, they began to form gangs, planning to go to the land temple together to ask for rain.

When I went to ask for rain, in addition to preparing paper and incense by myself, I also had to scrape together money to buy offerings.

"Yuexiang, give you the fat aunt five cents."

If someone goes to worship, their family naturally has to go and worship with them.

Shen glanced at the old sister standing outside the wall, and immediately shifted his gaze to Chen and asked her to take the money. In this matter, the Chen family was not good at not paying for it, so he took out five cents and walked to the wall and gave it to the fat aunt in Shen's mouth.

As soon as she took the money, the fat aunt's smiling eyes narrowed, "Then I'll go, I'll call you tomorrow morning." ”

The fat girl took the money and left happily.

Here, Shen instructed Chen again, "You prepare some burning paper and incense, which will be easy to use tomorrow." Lime, go, follow the milk down to the ground and take a look. ”

He has lived for more than seventy years.

The Shen family had never encountered anything, and when there was such a drought, it only happened once in his memory forty years ago.