When Su Yun mentioned this, Xiao Lin immediately thought of the reservoir above their village. Everyone near the reservoir knew that it was called Niujiaowan Reservoir.
Not only do I know it, I'm very familiar with it.
This Niujiao Bay, as the name suggests, is that the terrain there is similar to that of an ox horn, but this horn is upside down, that is, the end of Zhaojia Village is the narrow side, and it becomes wider and larger as it goes up, and it is curved like an ox horn.
almost.
This is the origin of Niujiao Bay.
The Niujiaowan Reservoir was first built in the 1950s. It was the reservoir built by Su Yun and her grandfather, Mr. Su and their predecessors, who carried baskets and loads on their shoulders and backs, using mud and stones.
Before the reservoir was built, Zhaojia Village would be flooded during the rainy season, and the fields underneath were soaked in water, resulting in crop failure all year round.
The old village chief at the time saw that this was not going to work. In such a big village, with hundreds of households and hundreds of thousands of people, we couldn't hope for less rain every year, right?
As the saying goes? There are always more solutions than difficulties.
Although for a while it seemed that it was indeed impossible for their village to trim the reservoir to block the water flowing upstream. However, the old village chief also believed that with so many people working together, even a mountain could be leveled, let alone just trim it.
A reservoir.
After making up my mind, the old village chief at the time reported the project. The leaders of Hongqi Town happened to have a headache because of this matter. When they heard that the people of Zhaojia Village wanted to build a reservoir in Niujiao Bay to block the uncontrolled water in the upper reaches, they
The mayor slapped him on the leg.
This idea coincided with his. Just one word and do it.
With the strong support of the town mayor, the preparation work for the reservoir went extremely smoothly. They first invited experts from the city to design how to build the reservoir, and then allocated part of the government's funds to subsidize it.
The residents, the villagers in Zhaojia Village, all have money and the ability to contribute.
Invested heavily in the construction of Niujiaowan Reservoir.
Of course, the construction process was very difficult. It took three and a half years to build the reservoir that took 50 years to excavate. There are many huge rocks on the tens of meters high dam, and those rocks were all made by the villagers.
Lift it up little by little...
Having said all this, I just want to tell everyone that the Niujiaowan Reservoir is not only related to their survival for Zhaojiacun, but also related to the hard work of their elders.
If it is true as Su Yun said, those people did not give up even after destroying the quarry and causing a big accident, and still want to cause a bigger accident, there is no doubt that Niujiaowan Reservoir will be the first choice.
After thinking about this clearly, Xiao Lin's face became serious.
"I'll go find the village chief."
"good."
Although I don't know whether this guess is correct or not, it is related to the lives of the whole village, young and old, and there is no room for carelessness. After Xiao Lin told Su Yun and the others, he turned around and hurried out of the house, and went to the village again to discuss with the village chief Zhao Hongwei.
When the old lady saw Xiao Lin going out, she immediately asked Su Yun who was walking to the door of the courtyard to bolt the door.
"Xiaoyun, this door must be tightly bolted. No one will open it except when Anzi comes back." The way Chen Jinzhou was drugged just now makes Mrs. Xiao still frightened just thinking about it.
"Fortunately, your mother Zhang is so powerful, otherwise it would have been me and the children..." The old lady covered her chest, feeling terrified.
Su Yun walked to the old lady, stretched out her hand to help the old lady walk into the house, and comforted her as she walked: "No one knew that there would be such a crazy person in this village. Brother Lin and I didn't expect it.
We shouldn’t go out today.”
"That won't work. Tomorrow is the Chinese New Year, and there are so many people in the family who can't live without food."
If it were just a few of them, it wouldn't matter if they could eat anything. Mrs. Xiao had come through hard times, and she had lived through the days of having a bowl of vegetables with brown rice cakes during the Chinese New Year.
Now that life is getting better, she won't say that she must eat big fish and meat to survive.
Even if there are other people at home, they can't let them eat boiled wild vegetables too.
Su Yun smiled and nodded, "Grandma, what you are saying is that I bought a lot of things today, and you want to see what we can cook for tomorrow?"
"It's up to you to decide what to cook. Everything you cook is delicious and I like to eat it all." The old lady smiled, showing her full trust in Su Yun.
Su Yun also smiled back, and the two of them talked about other topics, which made Mrs. Xiao feel a little more relaxed.
After letting Mrs. Xiao into the house, Su Yun was going to the kitchen to pack the things she bought today. When she walked to the kitchen, she saw Xiao Dao sorting the dishes she bought today.
Seeing Su Yun come in, he smiled and said hello.
"sister……"
"Well, thank you for your hard work." Su Yun walked over and saw that Xiao Dao had almost packed it up. She didn't fight with Xiao Dao. Instead, she lit the earthen stove that had been left with fire and made an open flame, and then put a pot on the noodle stand.
Add water to make ginger soup.
The weather has been getting colder and colder these two days, and it feels like it's freezing. Su Yun often wonders if she will wake up at night and find everything covered in snow the next morning.
When we were in the capital, it started to snow in late autumn and continued until the spring of the next year. Su Yun had seen countless heavy snows and light snows in the past few months. She should not think that snow is a rare thing.
That's right.
But strangely enough, Su Yun just felt that if it snowed in her hometown village, it would be much more beautiful than the capital city... As soon as this thought came to her mind, Jiang Kai's exclamation came from outside the yard.
.
"It's...snowing..."
Su Yun raised her head and looked outside in confusion, and saw the occasional snowflakes falling from the sky through the open door.
"Is it really snowing?"
She put down the firewood in her hand and stood up and walked to the door. A snowflake fell on the back of her hand, which was ice cold and felt particularly clear.
"It's really snowing."
"I didn't expect it to snow on the day before the Chinese New Year." Xiaodao also walked out and saw his son Jiang Kai jumping and running around in the yard.
This is the second time I’ve seen snow this heavy.”
Su Yun turned her head and glanced sideways at the knife, her tone full of disgust, "How did you say that? How old is Xiao Kai?"
A child who is more than one year old and almost two years old, from Xiaodao's mouth, seems to be a person who is several decades old. This sounds so weird.
Xiaodao smiled, glanced at his son, turned around and continued working.
"Sister, go and warm the fire in the main room. I've finished cleaning up here. I'll just cook the ginger soup."
"Okay, thank you for your hard work."
It was freezing cold today, and Su Yun didn't want to do too much work and freeze her hands. Since Xiao Dao was so diligent, it didn't matter if she was lazy for a while.
Su Yun thought to herself, walked to the yard with a smile on her face, and called Jiang Kai, who was running in the wind and snow, to come into the house.
"Xiao Kai, would you like to go inside the house with your aunt to eat sweets?"