Chapter 702: Drought

After listening to his mother's suggestion, Bai Anyan thought about it for a moment, but did not object. He had been paying attention to the water level of Qingshui River in the past two days, and it was already declining.

The old farmer Bashi said that we are not afraid of drought, we are afraid of falling water levels. Once this phenomenon occurs, the drought will last longer.

He went to see it specifically. The place where his mother used to fish had already lost a foot of distance.

"Mom, I want to see the tenants."

Bai Anyan was worried about the situation with the tenants. Although he dug a well, he didn't want to drink water for irrigation, lest the tenants cause trouble, so he had to go and take a look.

Baiyunxi looked up at the scorching sun, feeling hot even before noon.

"I'll go and take a look with you. Under the current situation, the tenants will inevitably be anxious. Please be more enlightened and less angry."

With that said, he called Wenyou to set up the car.

"Don't worry, Mom, I won't have any conflict with the tenants. The weather is too hot. You'd better stay home. Heatstroke won't be good."

"It's okay. I'm not working. I just went for a walk. It'll be fine."

Bai Yunxi took the handkerchief and wiped the sweat from his forehead.

The weather in summer is indeed abnormal. If this weather continues, it will cause drought. A while ago, I told Mrs. Song that everything would be going smoothly this year, but in the blink of an eye I was slapped in the face.

"I don't know when it will rain. If it continues like this, the river will dry up."

Bai Anyan wiped his forehead and tied the cloth around his wrist so as not to delay his work.

"It's a good thing that we bought the land and hired someone to dig a well. If there was only one well, the crops in Xiaowangzhuang would be miserable."

Speaking of this, Bai Anyan slapped his leg suddenly,

"Mom, do you think Squire Wang had already predicted that there would be a drought this year due to lack of rain, so he sold the fields?"

Otherwise, it would be a coincidence. As soon as they took over, God stopped raining. One hundred acres of dry land was supported by just one well.

If his mother hadn't kept reminding him not to forget to hire someone to dig a well, he might have had the tenants make trouble at the door of his house.

Listening to the second brother staring at him with wide eyes, Bai Yunxi was also stunned, and then shook his head.

"It's just a coincidence... However, as a senior landowner who has cultivated land for so many years, he will always encounter several droughts and floods. It is normal to have more experience than us. Didn't Zhao Yalang say it, Mr. Wang is I sold it because I was too old to take care of it. Since I wanted to buy it, I naturally chose the most difficult field to manage. "

Seeing the surprised look in his second child's eyes, Bai Yunxi smiled.

"Fortunately, we dug the well in advance and avoided trouble. As for the current situation, it should be a natural disaster and has nothing to do with humans."

"Yes, if it is easy to take care of, Squire Wang will not easily agree to send a season's worth of food.

Bai Anyan brought a pot of water, Bai Yunxi took a cattail leaf fan, and the three of them took a carriage and went all the way to Xiaowangzhuang.

As soon as I turned into the field path, I saw people everywhere in the farmland, some carrying poles and buckets, carrying buckets to the fields, women and children watering them one by one with gourds. .

Looking from a distance, there are heads everywhere, as if going to a market.

"Children are running around in the fields, and they are not afraid of trampling on the crops?" Wenyou looked at the children running around in the fields and frowned.

Listening to Wenyou's surprised tone, Baiyunxi chuckled lightly,

"Children from poor families have long been in charge of their own affairs. They have been taken to the fields by their parents since they were young. They know from an early age that food is their ration and cannot be wasted."

Especially for children from tenant families, if they step on a seedling, their bottoms will suffer, and they will develop a habit over time.

As soon as their carriage heard the sound of the field, the tenants nearby immediately gathered around.

"Boss, you are here. The well is not enough. We were fetching water this morning and we almost started fighting."

"Yeah, I don't know when this weather will end. Can my boss dig a few more wells for us?"

"The water level in the river ahead has begun to drop. If it doesn't rain again, it's probably time to grab water."

Listening to everyone's chatter, Bai Yunxi got out of the carriage with the support of his son, and waved to everyone,

"It's dry and dry, you all should take it easy and don't be too impatient."

"Master, we have to be in a hurry. We watered it in the morning and dried it in the afternoon. We don't dare to stop all day long. Can we not be in a hurry?"

"Yes, if this continues, the crops in the fields may not be able to withstand it."

Looking at the tanned men in front of her, Bai Yunxi looked up at the scorching sun. She couldn't control God's affairs.

"Dear neighbors, you and I can't decide what God does, but you have to take it easy. Since we don't know when it will rain, we have to continue watering the ground, but we can't tire people out."

"You are the backbone of the family. If you collapse from fatigue, what will the whole family do?"

Listening to Bai Yunxi's comfort, the people who were shouting just now also stopped talking.

Everyone also knew that it would not rain and it would be useless if the boss came, but seeing the crops wilting, they felt anxious.

"Master, can you dig a few more wells? Don't worry, as long as you find a well-drilling master, we will also be responsible for digging the wells and will not ignore them."

Irrigation is the most important thing right now. As long as the crops can be saved, doing more work is nothing.

Listening to the tenant farmer's suggestion, Baiyunxi turned to look at the second child, "When we were digging a well a while ago, the location was chosen by the well-drilling master. Please tell everyone what he said at that time."

Bai Anyan looked at the encouragement in his mother's eyes, sighed, and clenched his fists to encourage himself.

"Everyone, please be patient. When I brought the well digger here, he walked around the field before deciding on the location. In other words, except for the few locations he pointed out, no water can be pumped out from the rest."

After these words were spoken, everyone fell silent and looked at Bai Anyan with suspicion.

Seeing the unbelieving eyes of the crowd, Bai Anyan's face became serious.

"When we were digging the well, several people from Xiaowangzhuang followed us all the time and never left. What the master said at that time, everyone listened, not just me. If you don't believe it, just ask."

After hearing this, everyone looked at each other, and after a while, someone raised his hand silently,

"I was there at the time, and the master did say that those three locations were most likely to produce water."

"He did say that, and he also said something about soil quality and rock formations, which I didn't understand..."

Bai Yunxi looked at the two of them and smiled slightly, "It is said that everyone has their own expertise, farming has experts, and well digging has masters. If water can be produced, would I be stingy with one or two wells? Don't you think about it? If you reduce production, what good will it do to the boss?"

Everyone: "..."

This is true, and with the testimony of the villagers, it is indeed more believable than ten sentences from the boss.

But now, you have to queue up to use these four wells to irrigate the land.