Chapter 136

After the use of solar energy equipment, the quality of life of the villagers has improved a lot. Even though long-term use of air conditioners may further worsen the extreme climate, when faced with the life-threatening situation of not using cooling measures, people can only Being able to choose the present and then work hard to figure out how to save the near future.

Since they can use air conditioning in their own homes, these parents are too embarrassed to let their children bother Wen Zheng and his son again. In order to express their gratitude to them, the villagers often call Wen Zheng and Tuan Tuan to come over for dinner.

In the past, when there was no electricity, calling people over to eat would be a complete misfortune. Now the problem has been solved, and almost everyone in the village is calling Wen Zheng and Tuantuan over.

The two of them went to one every day for more than a month.

When Wen Zheng and Tuantuan wanted to stay at home, they refused outright. Occasionally they wanted to go out for a walk, so they first asked the good ones what they were doing today, and then told them when they had made their choice, and then wandered around after the sun went down. Go have dinner.

The villagers who saw the father and son on the road all greeted them warmly. The villagers who lived near the diners would quickly share some of their home-cooked food with them, or they were close friends and would simply go over and share a table with the cooked food.

Nowadays, Wen Zheng and Tuantuan have unique and transcendent status in the village.

It’s hot and we eat late. After dinner, it’s dark, but I don’t have much thought about sleeping. In summer, it’s easy to sleep less when it’s hot. If you have nothing to do when you get home, why not just get together and watch the latest news on TV? News, and then casually chatting with the folks.

As we chatted, the topic turned to Tuantuan’s teaching of children.

Adults are always prone to this problem. After praising Tuan Tuan, someone suddenly asked various questions to the other children in the room. They were also concerned about their learning progress at home after not going to class recently. The children who were having fun were He showed an awkward smile, making it clear that he didn't want to bring up this disappointing topic.

Even the children who are willing to learn and have been asking questions to Tuantuan on their mobile phones these past few days are too willing to answer these questions. However, there are parents who don't agree and are urging their children to answer quickly.

Wen Zheng sighed softly in his heart. Just as he was about to change his topic, the news on the TV attracted everyone's attention.

The helpless migration began.

Some high-heat areas in the country have reached temperatures that were only seen in the tropics in the past. All refrigeration equipment such as air conditioners have become less important. High temperatures have brought about an extreme shortage of water sources.

For the villagers of Dongxi Village who often suffered from floods in the past, the land that was dry and cracked with deep cracks was a scene they only saw on TV.

Thousands of miles of bare ground, not even a blade of grass can grow.

The dry and cracked land can no longer accommodate any plant growth, and there is only a meager amount of water left in the deep wells. The water resources here are no longer enough to meet the survival needs of the locals.

Compared with transporting water from other places thousands of miles away, it is a more reasonable choice to move people to live in places with abundant water sources.

The state had arranged everything for them, and most people followed the arrangement and started packing their things at home. However, there were still a large number of people, especially the older people, who shook their heads and were unwilling to leave.

Facing other people's persuasion, the lean old man sat on the ground, not caring about the ground that was too hot due to the sun. He stroked the land without any moisture in his hands, grabbed a piece of soil with force, and used a few fingers to touch it. After exerting all his strength, he raised it forward again, and the fine yellow sand scattered on the ground.

The expression on the old man's face seemed to be crying but not smiling. The complex expression of multiple emotions could not be described in words. It just made everyone who saw it feel the dryness arising from the bottom of their hearts.

"I encountered such a severe drought when I was a child. It was because my two brothers saved their own food rations that I could survive alone. Later, I thought that life would get better and better. Our The government has really brought hope to my generation, making me think that future generations will not have to go through the pain that I have experienced, but God just doesn’t want people to have an easy time.”

The old man's voice was not choked at all, and even his final words about complaining to God were extremely calm. He refused the help of others, stretched out his hand to support the still hot ground and insisted on standing up: "I'm an old man and don't want to bother anymore, so just let me stay here. There is still enough water in the well for me alone." ”

It's easy to say this, but leaving such an old man alone in this land that has become difficult to survive without anyone to help him should anything happen. This old man who insisted on staying had already made up his mind to die. Instead of moving to a distant place and struggling to survive for a few more years, he would rather stay buried under the soil of his hometown.

Neither the government personnel who were trying to persuade him nor the reporter who was filming could say anything. Later, Wen Zheng saw on the Internet that this incident had become a hot topic of discussion. There were not many accusations in the comments, "If it were someone else, I would have cursed him a long time ago." , but looking at this grandfather, one can feel the pain in his heart."

Everyone in the room who saw the news was silent. The loudest thing in the room was the TV that was playing the news. The initial joy due to the installation of power generation equipment gradually dimmed, and in many places their compatriots had to make painful choices.

It's just a little bit more luck for them to be able to sit in a comfortable room and watch TV.

"It's hard to leave your hometown. If you really can't survive, who would be willing to go far away? If it's me, I don't want to leave the village again." An old man in the house looked at the scene on TV and felt the same way. He lowered his head to cover up and quickly wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes with the back of his hand.

The others present noticed it and quickly persuaded the old man, but they no longer had the heart to chat and have fun. After saying goodbye to each other and going home, they couldn't help thinking about these scenes all night.

But what can they do with their strength?

All they can do every day is to pay attention to the latest developments reported on the news. In their free time, they will keep themselves busy and complete the physical work assigned by the village committee in the morning and evening. In the hot daytime, activities that do not require strenuous exercise are the most popular. Those handmade products that young people are about to forget have become popular again in the village.

Once they are free, they always think about them in their hearts. So when the destination of the migration department shown on TV included the three words of their Huaiyang City, some villagers became alert. When the village chief announced that some people would indeed move to their village, the villagers did not raise any objections. They also turned their full discomfort and love for their compatriots into practical actions and quickly prepared rooms for them to live in the village.

The village committee's office building was cleared out for these people first, and the rooms on site did not need to be renovated and left vacant. They only needed to put some missing furniture and arrange them to be habitable. In addition to the village committee being busy with the arrangement, each household in the village provided some daily necessities. Even if each family only sent one, the total number and variety would be quite a lot.

Before waiting for the new members to come to their village, another small episode happened. In July, the temperature was so high that a breath outside was hot, the ground was completely able to quickly fry an egg, and all the plants without shelter gradually withered.

So when thick black smoke appeared on the horizon, the villagers felt that it was expected, but also unexpected.

There was a fire in the neighboring village last summer. The temperature this year has reached a new high, and there is a great possibility that the grass leaves will burn again and cause a big fire. Unexpectedly, since May, the country has learned from last year's lessons and began to require all places to pay attention to fire prevention. As a result, there are still fires that produce so much black smoke.

I don't know which village is so careless.

The villagers of Dongxi Village have been frightened by the fire that almost affected their village last year, so they have made preparations this year. When harvesting grain, they use agricultural machinery and dig fire-proof ditches in various places in the village.

Later, as the plants turned yellow and dried under direct sunlight and became flammable, the village committee divided the villagers into different teams and went out to pull out the hay in the morning and evening.

By clearing the flammable materials and blocking the spread of the fire, Dongxi Village can be said to have minimized the possibility of fire.

This year, during the Qingming Festival and other days when people need to go up the mountain to worship, the custom of burning with fire was completely abandoned. All kinds of prepared food were offered in front of the graves, two glasses of wine were poured, and then a lot of words were said, and it was over.

After receiving the news, the village chief looked up at the black smoke in the sky. The black smoke seemed quite close in the air, but if the distance was converted to the ground, it was estimated that it was at least one village away from Dongxi Village.

After making a few phone calls to ask, it turned out that the fire really came from the next village next door. It was said that the villagers there quarreled because some people did more work and some did less work. Later, they simply stopped working. The village cadres failed to solve the problem in time and let the conflict continue to develop.

The wild grass lay on the land in large areas, and it became the most powerful fuel when it met a spark. The conflict between the villagers there has never been resolved, so even when fighting the fire, they failed to cooperate well, which delayed the progress of the firefighting. Even though as many fire extinguishers as possible are now equipped everywhere, in the end, most of the village was burned down. More than a dozen people were sent to the hospital for emergency treatment, and it is not known whether they can survive.

After listening to this call, the village chief was very glad that the villagers have been getting along more and more harmoniously in the past two years, and even quarrels rarely occur. This incident suddenly woke him up, so the village chief took this case that happened not far away and reminded the villagers again that conflicts should be resolved as soon as possible, and they must not let a little personal grudge affect other people or even the entire village.

In this atmosphere, several relocated families arrived before the end of July, the hottest time.

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