The Pretty Military Wife

Chapter 451 Daoliang Village is a Poor Village

While the main construction of the canal was in full swing, the routes of the canals in each village and brigade of each commune were also determined.

Director Ren was really very busy. For the sake of this long-term plan, he had to go through the routes confirmed by various communes and brigades.

We need to go and see the situation in person.

Although Liang Xinyue has not yet visited all the communes in the county, she knows that the workload is huge.

"Director Ren, I just have a problem with my hand. How about this? I'll go check out the nearby communes, and you go to the communes farther away. We can go there at the same time and try to get the work started earlier in each commune."

In order to ensure next year's spring ploughing, we have to determine the route of the canal as early as possible. Once it is determined, each commune can start construction on its own.

Director Ren agreed, but after discussion, he transferred one of the county party committee's cars to Liang Xinyue for use, transferred Xiao Wei back from the construction site, and sent another person from the bureau to the construction site as an inspector.

In order to let Ding Shiqing learn something, Liang Xinyue directly transferred Ding Shiqing out, and let Ding Shiqing, Xiao Wei and a geological expert. Of course, Guo Xiaoxue was also driving.

Xinshui Village is naturally Liang Xinyue’s first stop.

Xinshui Village is very close to the main canal because it turns a corner here. If you stand on the canal at the turning point, you can still see most of Xinshui Village.

Therefore, the canal in Xinyue Village is very simple. After checking the terrain, the route was determined and Xiao Wei, who followed, was asked to mark it with a hoe.

The team leader and accountant of Xinyue Village who came with them also followed with hoes to determine the route.

The large drainage canal previously dug in Xinshui Village was noticed by geological surveyors:

"If you ask me, the best route for building a canal in your village is this ditch. You just need to connect this ditch to the main canal above. This N-shaped ditch is well designed."

The accountant smiled and said:

"This is what Deputy Director Liang set when he built the greenhouse for us. It was Deputy Director Liang who actually measured and set it step by step!"

The geologist laughed and said:

"Deputy Director Liang, it seems that you really know everything."

Liang Xinyue smiled and said:

"You are laughing at me. I just wanted to use this ditch to take care of the drainage needs of every greenhouse."

It seems that this ditch is still very useful now, and if there is water, this ditch will connect the small ditches in each field. In this way, it can ensure that every field has water.

When the people from the commune who came with us heard about it, they thought it was a good thing and it also saved them from having to re-determine the route of the canal.

The canal route of Xinshui Village only needs to connect to the main canal.

So, it was quickly confirmed.

Because the plan today was to visit several villages, after Liang Xinyue and the others had confirmed everything here, they asked the accountants to estimate the manpower and arrange the work for the villagers.

Because the village has drawn some young and middle-aged people to repair the main canal, some people have to stay to ensure the planting and harvesting of vegetables for the vegetable store, so basic production is still necessary.

Similarly, some people have to stay to ensure the construction of the village's water channel. Therefore, compared with other villages, Xinshui Village is about to enter a busy period.

They need more labor, and some people may do two jobs, for example, serving vegetables in the morning and helping to repair canals during the day.

But people like this should be given double work points.

Liang Xinyue briefly reminded the accountant, and the accountant said he understood.

We arrived at the next village, which was behind the mountain of Xinshui Village. However, because there was a mountain between them, their water channel could only be directly connected to the main channel.

But when she arrived at the village, Liang Xinyue was a little silent.

This village is separated from Xinshui Village by only a mountain. Of course, the mountain is not small, but they are in two different states.

The land on their side is even drier, almost like a Gobi Desert. The company commander's trees are all skinny and lifeless.

The people here are as skinny as the crops they grow, and there are almost no decent houses in the whole village.

Liang Xinyue got out of the car and was stunned when she saw this place.

Looking at the person originally sent by the commune to work with him, that person also sighed and said:

"Daoliang Village is a poor village in our county. There used to be more than 70 households in the village. Now there are only about 40 households registered here, and less than 30 households actually live here."

Liang Xinyue understood. In other words, all the people in the village who had some ability had left, and those who were left were even poorer.

Liang Xinyue said:

"Does the commune provide them with any special care?"

The people in the commune knew that Liang Xinyue had just come to work in their county, but they also knew that she had brought out the richest village, Xinshui Village.

Then he paused and said:

"Whether it's the county or the commune, every year they would reserve some of the relief grain for the people in this village. And..."

At this point, he paused and said:

"Everyone in the commune unanimously agreed that as long as this village remains a poor village, it does not have to pay public grain."

Liang Xinyue also understood that in this era, paying public grain was an obligation that farmers had to fulfill. There was no room for doubt about this, and they had to pay even if their own family had nothing to eat.

Moreover, the tax is paid by each village. Looking at the crops grown in the fields of this village, Liang Xinyue knows that their income is not enough to guarantee their survival.

Guo Xiaoxue followed them into a house casually. There was really no way to describe this family. The two old people were like skin and bones. The skin was black and wrinkled, and looked like tree bark.

These two old people have four sons. The youngest of their sons is over 40 years old, and none of them has married.

Their family's house is just four thatched huts with bare walls. This is the most accurate way to describe their home.

Liang Xinyue did not enter the house. There were only two elderly people in their family. The four sons were all repairing the canal.

"Let them go. The eldest is over 50 years old and can still work. At least they can have a full meal every day. They can also bring us two steamed buns, so we don't have to burn firewood at home."

Liang Xinyue didn't know what to say after hearing this. In other words, the two old people only had two steamed buns to eat every day.

Guo Xiaoxue was even more surprised. She knew that people's lives were hard nowadays, but she didn't expect that their lives could be so hard.

Liang Xinyue frowned, looked at the commune cadre and said:

“How many villages like this are there in our county?”