Chapter 1043: Some People Are Reluctant to Give Up Their Iron Rice Bowl, Some People Are Eager to Jump Out

The flood came fast and went fast. By the next day, the flood that came down from the reeds was not even knee-deep.

Li Jianguo drove the tractor to the west flood-prevention canal, hung the bulldozer blade, and blocked the flood discharge. The water in the main canal still needs to be sent downstream. The opening was opened to discharge the flood earlier, but now the flood has retreated, so it must be blocked, otherwise, the water management station will release water here in a while, and the water will flow into the reed ditch.

Actually, everyone knows that in July or August, there will be a big flood coming again, but let's talk about it then. Now let's take care of the things in front of us first.

When Hearing Li Long went to the Fourth Team again the next day, he heard another news.

"In the East Big Ditch, when the flood passed, the upper reservoir, middle reservoir, and lower reservoir were all washed away!"

The East Big Ditch is less than three kilometers east of the Fourth Team. It was a river a long time ago, close to the Huke Highway built later. Later, the river water upstream changed its course, and this place became a dry ditch. Hearing Li Long had caught rabbits in it before.

Last year or the year before, I don't know who made a decision with a pat on the head, and blocked three dams on the upper, middle, and lower reaches of the East Big Ditch, and then transformed the front of the dam, turning it into three reservoirs—but there was no water.

The person who built the dam should have thought that when the flood comes, use the dam to block the flood, and the reservoir will take shape. By then, whether it is fish farming or water storage, it will be quite good.

The person who built the dam still had some common sense. After blocking it with a dam, he specially repaired three sluice gates, meaning that the upper reservoir and middle reservoir release the sluice gates when the flood comes, letting the water go to the lower reservoir first. If the lower reservoir has enough water stored, and if there is still flood, continue to release it downstream. The downstream is directly connected to the Big Haizi and the Baitukeng Reservoir, which can divert the flood.

If the water volume is not enough, then close the sluice gates separately, so that water can be stored in the three reservoirs.

The ideal is full, but the reality is skinny.

The north dam line of the reservoir was pushed out directly by a bulldozer, almost without compaction treatment. In the eyes of these people, the dam line was piled three or four meters high, and the tractor pressed it twice on it, so it should be able to block the flood.

After all, in their experience, the flood every year is not large, and it is impossible to break through the dam body.

And the sluice gates they repaired were not at the lowest place of the terrain, but in the middle of the dam body, at a position that was neither high nor low.

The ideal situation is that the dam body blocks the water. When the water volume reaches half of the dam body, open the sluice gate to release the water, let the water go downstream, and at the same time slowly accumulate water volume in the reservoir.

However, this year is an exception. The water volume of the flood is more than three or four times larger than before, and it belongs to the kind of "head-to-head water". A flood peak came over, directly washing out a twenty-meter-wide opening at the lowest place of the water dam of the upper reservoir, and then rushed downstream, and the middle reservoir and lower reservoir suffered the same fate!

The three reservoirs were not used, and they were directly scrapped.

"I don't know what those people are thinking. Just piling up soil and wanting to become a dam? When the dam of Little Haizi was piled up, it was pressed by a tractor for many times, and we used stones to ram it for many days before it stood up!" Xu Chengjun's face carried a mocking expression, "Patting the head and wanting to succeed? How can it be so easy?"

In Hearing Li Long's impression, such things happened more than once. Ten years later, someone thought of these three unbuilt reservoirs, and blocked the opening. Then the spring flood was blocked, and these people were secretly happy, directly putting a large number of fish fry into the three reservoirs, preparing to make a fortune in the autumn.

Unexpectedly, the snowmelt flood hit again in July, and the three reservoirs were strung into candied haws by a flood, and they collapsed again. This time it was different. The valuable fish in the three reservoirs were all washed away, and the loss was heavy!

It seems to be 1996?

Hearing Li Long sat in Xu Chengjun's house for a while and then went to his eldest brother's house.

"Your father has nothing to do, he went to patrol the canal, saying that there should be fish in the canal, he wants to go over and see."

Fish are definitely there, maybe even big ones. After all, the flood volume is large, carrying fish downstream. Whether it is in the reed ditch or the main canal and branch canal, after the flood retreats, the fish will be stranded, and that is the best time to catch them.

The eldest sister-in-law was cleaning the silt in front of the door. The flood passed, the sun was warm, and the road surface dried in one day, but the dam built earlier and the silt brought by the flood needed to be cleaned, otherwise the road would not be flat.

Hearing Li Long followed to help, finished this work, and Li Qing Xia also came back. He was quite happy. Although the Haizi was messy and couldn't be netted, he got seven or eight kilograms of big and small fish from the canal, which was quite good.

"The fish in this Haizi is too single. If it were in the hometown, after such a flood, there would have to be some shrimp, mussels, and snails..."

The snails Li Qing Xia said are river snails. There are some in the river in the hometown. Whether the flood passes or not, it is relatively easy to catch if you want to.

Northern Xinjiang doesn't have these things here, or at least there are no such things in Little Haizi. In a few years, more people will raise fish, and fish fry will be brought in from inside the pass, and some shrimp and river snails will be brought along.

Even now, Hearing Li Long hasn't seen frogs in Northern Xinjiang, only toads. He can hear the sound, it's different. It's almost ten years later, when he saw the first frog in the canal, it was a hybrid, with bumps like a toad, but not obvious, mainly three green lines on the back are relatively clear.

Another is that the toads here won't jump, and frogs will jump, which is the main feature that can be distinguished.

As for shrimp, it also appeared at that time, and crabs, this stuff, will have to wait another ten years, until the beginning of the new century, when they appear in the Big Haizi, and some people raise them.

Actually, Hearing Li Long thought that if he could let Zhao Hui or Huang Lei bring some shrimp fry and crab fry from inside the pass, it would be fine. It's just that it's not like later generations to come from inside the pass. It takes at least several days to come over. In these few days, those fry, I guess they are all dead, right?

It's just a thought.

"What are you thinking so much for? Can the hometown have this dogfish?" Du Chunfang is very satisfied with this place, she can't look at anything in the hometown now, "That water rises, the whole village has to guard the dam, maybe the village will be flooded..."

"Isn't it flooded here too." Li Qing Xia didn't care, and didn't even think this was a quarrel, "It's just that if there were so many fish in the hometown, it wouldn't be our turn. It's different here, I don't see many people catching... There are still many small fish in the canal, I don't even bother to pick them up."

Alright, Old Li is also rich now, picking big fish.

At noon, Hearing Li Long openly and honestly bummed another lunch here, then carried the cleaned and gutted fish home.

On the way back, he saw students finishing school early, or not going to school at all, with their trouser legs rolled up above their knees, carrying a small washing powder bag, wading in the reed ditch, bending down from time to time to pick up a crucian carp from the reed leaves and put it into the bag.

Those crucian carp looked like they were dead at first glance, but when he reached out to take them, the crucian carp jumped—they really had no strength.

The appearance of being slaughtered.

Occasionally, he could see children wading in the water and bumping into big fish hiding under the reed leaves, and then suddenly jumping up, which could scare the children, and then it was a surprise, chasing in the direction of the fish.

They might be scratched by the reed stubble, but as long as they can catch the fish, even if their legs are injured and bleeding, they don't care.

Hearing Li Long saw a child holding a two or three-kilogram big silver carp, excitedly showing off to his companions.

In less than two days, Huang Lei and Zhao Hui called again, saying the jerky was sold out, and asked him to make another batch quickly.

Hearing Li Long thought about how to do it?

In the Old Horse Corral, he saved the winter lambs for a year, and now there are only a dozen left. These are reserved for eating meat this year and cannot be slaughtered anymore.

He could get another batch from Huang Yang and the others, but it's just spring, and Hearing Li Long doesn't want to get their cattle and sheep again. This year, Huang Yang and the others have enough forage, and the fat of the cattle and sheep hasn't dropped. This spring, I think someone should go to buy cattle and sheep, so let Huang Yang and the others earn some.

The price of his own cattle and sheep is relatively low, and Hearing Li Long doesn't want to take advantage of them anymore.

So he thought, then go to the livestock wholesale market by the Ma River. This first flood has retreated, so the livestock wholesale market should be able to open, right?

But it's always himself doing the cattle and sheep, Hearing Li Long feels it's not a long-term thing.

He handed the acquisition station to Gu Bo Yuan, handed the 75 tractor to his eldest brother and Meng Hai, and instigated Chen Hongjun to open an acquisition station in Beiting. In fact, he wanted to be lazy.

Making this beef and mutton jerky itself was just a temporary interest. Who would have thought it would become a career?

You can't keep yourself tied to this cattle and sheep, right?

Hearing Li Long thought about whether to find someone to wholesale beef and mutton for himself. In this way, he only needs to be responsible for the quality of production and sales.

Periodically someone sends beef and mutton, and he doesn't have to run around.

He first thought of his brother-in-law Chen Xingbang—Chen Xingbang does this, which is quite professional.

With the sales channel inside the pass, Hearing Li Long believes that at least two hundred sheep and ten cows are needed every month. Even if Chen Xingbang earns one yuan per sheep, the money earned in a month is not small.

And how could he earn only one yuan? Plus skins and offal, earning seven or eight yuan per sheep is absolutely no problem. After all, he only needs pure meat—Hearing Li Long can feel that pure meat jerky sells faster, and the one with bones is relatively cheap. ===== CHAPTER 1044 =====