When I'm on duty at the fair, most of the time I'm idle and there's nothing to do.
So, some people gathered together to smoke and chat; some gathered to put away shoe soles or knit sweaters and chat by the way; and some secretly hid in the corner and played poker to pass the time.
Perhaps it was because news about Xu Tongdao's limelight in the village today spread to the Wei. Not long after Xu Tongdao and Xu Tonglin were sitting there, several women and old people gathered over and asked curious questions.
It was nothing more than asking him if he really beat Xu Hengbing?
Or something else.
They are all related to what Comrade Xu did this morning.
Xu Tongdao was not interested in talking and answered every sentence, but these boring people didn't care and gathered around him and Xu Tonglin to chat.
What country people like most these days is chatting.
Time passed like this little by little until someone in the room shouted "dinner is ready..."
As soon as they heard that dinner was ready, everyone outside the house got up and walked into the house, some even trotting.
Before Tongdao Xu left home in the afternoon, he had eaten a bowl of crispy rice with duck soup, so he was not hungry.
But when Xu Tonglin stood up, he called him, "Let's go to the trail! Your mother handed over rice, hurry up! If you are late, someone will finish the meal! Hurry up, hurry up!"
When people here say filling rice, they usually say adding rice.
Comrade Xu hesitated slightly, then stood up and followed.
He was afraid that if he didn't eat now, he would be hungry in the middle of the night.
He remembered that when he was a teenager, although he was a little thin, he ate a lot and got hungry quickly. After all, it was the time when he was growing taller.
He recognized the lunch box his mother brought.
When I entered the kitchen, among the piles of lunch boxes and jars, I recognized him at a glance.
But when he opened the lunch box and saw the vegetables inside, he felt a little uncomfortable.
The dishes in the lunch box were prepared by my mother in advance.
When on duty at the fair, everyone hands over rice, and then assigns a woman to borrow the owner's big pot to cook a big pot of rice.
As for the food that everyone eats, everyone needs to bring ready-made food from home.
Tongdao Xu glanced at the dishes in other people's lunch boxes. At a glance, they were basically much better than the dishes in his mother's lunch box.
And his mother's lunch box only contained a few pickles and a small pile of fried vegetables.
These were originally dishes prepared by the mother for herself, but now they were dishes prepared by her son.
He won't be unable to eat such a dish.
But thinking about his mother who has been on duty at Wei every day, eating this every day, and still has a fever that has not gone away, he feels bad.
The hatred in my heart for the unfulfilled father became even stronger.
Following everyone, he added half a lunch box of rice. When Xu Tongdao put down the spatula, Xu Tonglin said in surprise: "Xiaodao, that's all you eat at night? Is it because you don't have an appetite for the food left by your mother? It's okay! You can do it again
Add some rice, let’s eat my food together! Really! My mother cooked two crucian carps for me today and steamed bacon! Let’s eat together, it’s enough!”
Tongdao Xu glanced at him, smiled slightly, turned away from the stove, and said casually: "No, no need! I ate when I came in the afternoon, and I'm not very hungry now. You can eat yours!"
Although he said so, when he came to the back of the house and squatted under the eaves to eat, Xu Tonglin who followed him still enthusiastically took a piece of braised crucian carp and a few slices of bacon from his lunch box and placed them on Xu Tongdao's rice
On the head.
Comrade Xu couldn't refuse, and he was a little moved.
He is a very kind person, at least he is very kind to Comrade Xu. It would be a pity if this guy is allowed to drown in the river like he did in the original time and space.
The two of them squatted under the eaves and had a few bites when it began to rain heavily again.
During this year’s Meiyu period, it seems like it will rain heavily every night.
When it rains, Comrade Xu and the others can only go inside to eat.
As soon as I entered the house, I heard a man say: "Oh! Damn it, you are trying to kill people! The water level in the river is so high, and it's raining so heavily... Captain! We won't be asked to go to the fair to pick water tonight.
Tou Geng, right?”
Another man answered: "I guess I'm going to pick dirt again tonight!"
Others also said similar things.
Comrade Xu recognized the captain of their production team.
Although rural areas have long implemented family contracting of farmland, and the production teams of those days no longer have much of a presence, things like Shangwei flood control are still organized in the form of production teams.
At this time, Comrade Xu heard the captain of their production team shake his head and say, "It's hard to say. I guess I have to raise the head ridge because the water level in the river is too high!"
Adding head ridge is a means of flood prevention.
When the water level of the river is too high and is about to overflow the polder, manpower is needed to carry the soil, and an earth ridge about half a meter wide is added to the polder to stop the river water that is about to overflow the polder.
This kind of work is very tiring, because when it is necessary to pick up the first ridge, it is often when the flood situation is critical, usually in windy and rainy weather, urging everyone to speed up to carry the soil from a distance.
Xu Tongdao prayed in his heart that he would not have to do this work tonight.
Because he has a 17-year-old body and his shoulders have not carried much yet. If he is really asked to carry earth and carry ridges tonight, his shoulders may not be able to bear it.
This has nothing to do with his current strength. People who don't often carry burdens will not be able to withstand this force on their shoulders.
pity……
His prayers obviously had no effect. A few minutes after they had eaten here, a man in a raincoat came outside the house. Before entering, he stood outside in the heavy rain and shouted to the house: "Team 3.
! Go to the fair, go to the fair! Get your burdens and hurry up to the fair to pick up the first ridge!!”
Inside the room, Comrade Xu and the captain of the Third Production Team agreed, and the man outside strode away.
Apparently, he went elsewhere to notify other production teams.
"Did you hear that? Why are you dawdling? Hurry up and get your load and follow me to the pier! You'll be in trouble if you get there late!"
The captain loudly urged everyone.
Comrade Xu saw everyone going to get their own raincoats, poles and other items, and also heard everyone's low voices complaining.
Including the complaint of Xu Tonglin next to him, "What the hell! I came here to have a good time, but I caught up with Tiaojia Tougeng, and my mother attacked me!"
Xu Tonglin's complaint was actually Xu Tongdao's inner voice at this time.
But what can be done?
When the instructions from above came down, he didn't dare not go. If he was caught by the above, it would be a disaster.
He had no choice but to ask the captain where his raincoat and burden were. After receiving the advice, Comrade Xu put on his raincoat, took the pole and bag, and followed everyone up to the bald ridge.
As soon as he stepped onto the polder, he was startled.
On the river surface that is hundreds of meters wide, the water level is no more than one meter from the top of the polder.
The turbid river water was still rolling in the river and flowing downstream. He had never seen such a high water level in his entire life.
He had heard that if it rained heavily like tonight, the water level in the river would rise by more than one meter next night.
Is this going to break the barrier?
Although he knew that in the original time and space, their village had not broken the dikes, seeing the water level in the river so high, Comrade Xu couldn't help but feel worried.
At this moment, Xu Tonglin, who was not far away from him, seemed to be suddenly frightened by something. He screamed in fear. Xu Tongdao was startled and quickly turned around to look.
But Xu Tonglin was seen running forward like crazy. Amidst everyone's exclamations and stops, before Xu Tongdao could react, Xu Tonglin had already rushed out of the polder, and with a pop, he dived headlessly into the rolling river.
At that time, Comrade Xu was so shocked that the hair on his body stood up, and he was completely stunned.