Chapter 79 Dredging the River, Odds and Ends_1

He Tiantian did not have time to reminisce about her past life's lost love before she received Village Chief Qi's call to mobilize the entire village, organizing everyone to dredge the river (for water conservancy projects), removing the silt from the riverbed to facilitate next year's irrigation. Some places needed heightened flood defenses, others required reinforcement...

It was already autumn, and everything had to be completed before winter set in. The schedule was tight, requiring twenty days in total.

The worksite was ten miles from Qijia Village; they would go in the morning and return at night, eating lunch at the worksite. Besides providing lunch, each person could earn fifty cents and four liang of grain per day.

Although the work was exhausting, the opportunity to earn money and grain meant that many were willing to go. Last year, Wang Lei and Zhang Qingshan had gone and were very happy not only to have their fill of food but also to earn some extra to bring home.