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Chapter 167 Water Control
The moonlight was like water, sprinkling on the quaint village, giving every small stone of different sizes on the road a layer of silver luster.
The night breeze blows gently, making people feel a little cool.
On this quiet and mysterious night, bursts of laughter and joy came from under the big locust tree in the village. Those were the sounds of the children in the village playing happily.
Their figures danced in the moonlight, and their laughter was like the clearest bells in the night sky, dispelling the silence of the night.
They were either in groups of three or five, chasing each other, or sitting under an old locust tree, lying on their mothers or family members, laughing as they watched other children playing.
The night grew darker, but the children's enthusiasm remained undiminished.
The adults stopped talking and watched the children playing carefree with a smile. At this moment, I really wanted to be like a child, without thinking about anything, without considering anything, and just play with them as they please.
As the night deepens, stars begin to twinkle in the sky, as if they are appreciating the beauty of this world.
Finally, the village chief's voice rang out, interrupting the peace that everyone was enjoying at that moment.
"Alas! There is no other way. Now we can only limit the amount of water each family can use. We have people guarding the two wells in the village every day, and we set a limit on how much water each family can draw every day based on the number of people in the family.
In difficult times, everyone suffered a little and used water sparingly. But our village was relatively good off, at least at the beginning of the year we listened to Xiao Xia's advice and dug two deep wells.
I heard that some villages only have diving wells, and now they have no water supply.”
The same is true for Kaoshan Village. The original diving well in the village can no longer draw water.
Everyone now has almost enough food stored, but water has become a problem.
Fortunately, there is still enough water in our two deep wells, but the water level has dropped seriously.
That's why the village chief gathered everyone under the old locust tree tonight to discuss countermeasures.
Does Xia Shengsheng have any other solutions to the dropping water level?
After a long drought, there may even be no water to drink. This is just the beginning.
After hearing the village chief's proposal, the villagers sighed! But after sighing, they were also somewhat thankful that they still had water to drink.
They can only hope in their hearts that there will be more rains next year. Otherwise, even if they have a lot of food stored, it will be useless as they will die of thirst!
"Village chief, the two deep wells in my factory are also available for everyone to use. I'll make some arrangements later to see how to distribute and pump the water!"
Xia Shengsheng is the one who is least short of water. Even if her family does not have these wells, the drinking water problem of her family can be completely solved.
Now she has two deep wells in her own yard, plus two in the factory.
There is nothing wrong with contributing some for everyone to use, so this suggestion is made.
Village chief Ma was very excited after hearing this, and so were the villagers.
Although they all knew that Xia Shengsheng's family had many wells, almost no one would think about it that way. In their hearts, they believed that Xia Shengsheng had helped them enough, so how could they possibly think about the wells in Xia Shengsheng's family?
Unexpectedly, Xia Shengsheng took the initiative to offer to contribute the most important thing to them right now to everyone.
If this happened to any one of them, they might not be able to do it at this time.
"Xia! I'll bring everyone here to thank you..."
The village chief stood up excitedly, his hands trembling a little. He wanted to say something but didn't know what to say. In the end, he could only leave these words.
The same thing happened to other people in the village, their eyes were filled with gratitude.
Xia Shengchen made his statement, and there was no need for anyone to say more.
Tao Siyuan looked at Xia Shengsheng like this and suddenly felt a special feeling of admiration.
Xia Shengsheng's children have always admired Xia Shengsheng, and this time is no exception!
The other members of the Xia family admired their master very much, and felt from the bottom of their hearts that being able to follow such a kind master was a blessing they had earned in several lifetimes.
Before everyone left, Village Chief Ma selected a few people to guard the well. Because Xia San and others had always been at the factory, and Chen's parents also lived there, the well there did not need to be specially guarded.
After the daily water consumption of each household was stipulated, everyone finally dispersed!
On the way back, Xia Shengsheng held Chen Siyao and talked.
"Yaoyao, the water well over there is for the villagers to use, so you don't have to be afraid. I have two more wells at home, which are enough for our whole family to eat and drink!"
Chen Siyao smiled and nodded, saying that she was sorry for causing trouble for Xia Shengsheng!
Xia Shengsheng also persuaded Chen's parents to eat with their whole family and not to cook alone in the future.
Anyway, when Chen Siyao is free, she always comes to help Xia Shengsheng cook, so it would be better for the two families to eat together.
There are more than 20 people in Xia Shengsheng's family, so it doesn't matter if he adds two more pairs of chopsticks.
But no matter how we persuaded them, the father and daughter still refused to agree!
Xia Shengsheng had no choice but to give up and could only do as before, occasionally sending some of the delicious food to the father and daughter!
During the conversation, Xia Shengsheng deliberately looked at Ercheng and found that he was studying something with Ye Chao and Tao Siyuan.
He didn't pay any attention to Xia Shengsheng at all.
Xia Shengsheng also discovered that after more than a year of getting along, Ercheng stopped calling Chen Siyao sister and started calling her aunt like everyone else.
I no longer always pay attention to Chen Siyao, and my mentality is more balanced.
Xia Shengsheng was very satisfied with this. No one exposed his little thoughts and no one said anything. As the child grows up, he will naturally change.
As people often say, what can a ten-year-old child understand?
I'm afraid that in their hearts, they don't understand what liking, admiring, and worshipping are!
So don't worry too much.
Everything should be left to nature! Give everyone some space, and things will develop in a smooth direction.
After Tao Siyuan returned, he took Sicheng and Xiaotian Dog to play for a while, looking very heartless.
But at night, everyone lay in bed and fell asleep, but Tao Siyuan lay there for a long time, unable to fall asleep.
My thoughts are also in a lot of twists and turns.
His father had passed away several months ago. During these months, he had received no news from the outside world and had no idea how his father Tao Wuji was doing now!
It had clearly been agreed that he would accompany his father to handle the family business, but he didn't expect his father to change his mind in the end and insisted on sending him to Aunt Xia's place.
Come if you want, but don’t give him any news in the past few months. He hasn’t received any news at all. How can he not worry about his father?
Even though he couldn't show it in front of others during the day, he was still worried in his heart at night!