After working on the sand dunes for a day, the six teachers and students walked home slowly.
While walking, Agudam began to tell Kurbanjiang and Ilya, who came from afar, about the past of this land.
"From here to there, there used to be grass and a few puddles, alas, they are all gone now..."
"In the past few years, the wind and sand have become more and more severe. When the wind and sand are strong, houses will be knocked down and livestock and poultry will be buried alive. There is really no way..."
"Since three years ago, some people in the village couldn't bear it anymore, and they really couldn't survive..."
"I'm not leaving. I want to change this place back to how it used to be. Even if I can't do it in my life, I still want my children to keep doing it..."
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It can be seen that Agudam has a deep affection for this land and the village. In his rambling words, some Kurbanjiang and Ilya have heard them several times these days, but he still said seriously with.
A group of people walked into the village, and the village was full of deserted courtyards.
Some houses are only ruins, and some are buried in yellow sand, leaving only a little outline of the house.
It seems that it won't be long before this place will completely become a village ruins, just like other village ruins that can be seen everywhere in the Northwest.
"Agudam, you're back."
"Why did you come back so late today?"
"Tell us about the tree you planted, how is it doing?"
Although there are fewer and fewer people in the village, and there are only a few sporadic families left, there are still people after all. When they are free, they will gather under the only surviving old Populus euphratica tree at the entrance of the village to chat.
Seeing Agudam's family and Kurbanjiang entering the village, someone greeted Agudam from afar.
Agudamu glanced at those people, nodded, and said nothing.
When Kurbanjiang and Ilya first arrived, they discovered that the relationship between the Agudamu family and these people in the village was not good. Even if they met, they only nodded and never took the initiative to talk to these people.
For this, Kurbanjiang and Ilya asked Agudam specially after dinner, and Agudam replied at that time: "They are all cowards, and they have no ambition. I said that I want to plant trees here Sha, change the village back to the way it was before, they not only don’t help, they even laugh at me, I don’t care about such people.”
"Agudamu, why is your luck so good? There is a boss who is willing to pay for your land and pay you to plant trees. You don't want to introduce this kind of good thing to us, let the people in the village All stained."
Among the few people under the Populus euphratica tree, there was a man in his forties who was thin and thin. He looked at Agudam with a frivolous expression, and with one sentence, everyone else agreed: "Yes, yes. Ah, you don't think about us even if there are good things, it's not right for you to do this."
Agudam was coaxed by these people, so he couldn't stop talking. After thinking for a while, he said in a low voice: "I am willing to plant trees honestly, so the boss is still willing to help me. If anyone is willing, you can come first." I'll work in the land I contracted for a while, and when it's almost done, I'll talk to the boss about it, how about it?"
The skinny man laughed and said, "Go to work in your field, who owns the trees you plant? It's not bad to ask your boss to pay us wages and help us, but it's not good to work for nothing."
Agudamu shook his head: "Nai Rentai, the boss wants to help those who are willing to plant trees. If you don't want to plant trees, why don't you give you money for nothing?"
The skinny man continued to laugh: "If we plant trees here, it means that they will be planted in vain. Instead of throwing money into this sea of sand for nothing, your boss might as well help us. How can this be free money?" Woolen cloth?"
Agudam didn't like to listen to the other party's words. His only belief in life was to plant trees to control desertification, and to return this place to its former green mountains and green waters: "You are wrong, planting trees here will not be white. , the boss’s money will not be thrown into the sea of sand for nothing.”
The skinny man said disdainfully: "You are stupid, do you think all of us are stupid? Do you think you can plant trees by yourself? Several state-run forest farms nearby have been barely maintained in the past few years, and there is no way to let them grow. The range of the sand sea has shrunk, you can see that the grass squares we made in the past two years are all abandoned."
Although the grass grid is a good way to control sand, it is time-consuming and labor-intensive.
Moreover, after the grass squares are dug down, if the trees cannot be planted in time, the withered grass will sooner or later fall under the action of wind and sand, so it will have to be dug again in a few years, which will increase the difficulty of sand control in the future.
Since the failure of contracting land to plant trees last time, Agudam has been working in the state-run forest farm. Of course, he knows the situation in the state-run forest farm.
Due to various reasons, the environment has become worse and worse. In recent years, planting trees in the vicinity has no effect on sand control. Not only did it not reduce the scope of the desert, but it also expanded it to a certain extent. Squares are abolished, this is a fact.
Agudam said in a low voice: "The difficulty is only temporary. I don't care what happens to the state-run forest farm. Anyway, I will continue to plant trees... Well, Nairentai, you are a coward yourself, but you can't think about making others like you. Something has to be done by someone.”
Hearing this, the skinny man unnaturally showed a trace of anger: "Agudam, you say I'm a coward, well, I admit it, but I want to see how long you can persist. Yes There is an old saying that manpower cannot conquer the sky, if you don’t even understand this, you are a fool.”
Agudamu snorted coldly, said no more, and walked to his courtyard with the shovel on his shoulders.
Kurbanjiang and Ilya followed behind, listening to Agudamu's mother-in-law's explanation: "He Nairentai, who is the head of our family, played with Andari since childhood. A few years ago, the two of them planted trees together and contracted the land together. They said they wanted to change the place back to its original state, but then the land acquisition failed. Both our head and Nai Rentai lost a lot of money, so we had to work together in the state-run forest farm... Our head is a stubborn donkey, and we have to plant trees. Willing to give up... Nai Rentai is different. While working part-time, he started a business of collecting wild goods, specializing in finding oases and digging medicinal materials from the desert... Our master said that Nai Rentai would make the environment better by doing such a business. Bad, I will not associate with him from now on..."
To put it bluntly, Nairentai has just become a local rat.
Although he made money, he was really destroying the environment and breaking the law. No wonder Agudam, who wanted to restore the original environment, looked down on this person.
"Our head of the family fell out with the people in the village because of planting trees. Sometimes I really want to leave here, but he doesn't listen to me, and I can't help it. If you didn't come, maybe I would I'm going to take my children to work outside."
Kurbanjiang and Ilya were very emotional when they heard Mrs. Agudamu's words. After thinking about it, Kurbanjiang comforted: "Sister Wurentuya, don't worry, as long as you sign up according to our contract Plant trees, at least you don’t have to worry about this year’s salary, and when the young trees and Cistanche grow up, life will be better.”