The woman does not want anything, just a jar of water, and she can get married.
Now that you are married, it is not a car, it is a house, or it is money, who will use a can of water as a dowry?
However, the other party only needs a jar of water, and this can of water has not been exchanged for a daughter-in-law, but has forced the old woman to die, which has become a tragedy for the family.
The story begins in 1959 in LinXian County, Henan, China.
One day in 1959, Shi Shuisheng, as a villager in Shangkong Village, today he took his sister to dragon king's nose to collect water.
This Dragon King's nose maintains the water source of two villages, one is the upper knot village, the other is the lower knot village, and they both live on this drop by drop water source until now.
Linxian perennial drought, according to the memory of shi aquatic life, there is almost no drought years, generally 10 years there are 9 years of drought, because Linxian has many stones, seepage, generally can not maintain water, so Linxian is in drought for many years.
Whether it is people, animals, or plants, they are in a state of water shortage.
1959 was the driest year.
Yesterday Shi Shuisheng had already received a can of water, and today they came to pick up the water again, and the people queuing behind them had already lined up far away, and they also endured the pain of lack of water and waited.
Shi Shuisheng had been standing next to him, protecting his sister Shui Lian, and the people queuing below began to make a fuss.
Shi Shuisheng did not forgive, and he must let go of the harsh words and let the water lotus fill a jar of water.
Pan Shui is a villager in Xia Pimple Village, he sees that the aquatic life is too arrogant, so he returns to the village to call friends and let everyone run to the Nose of the Dragon King to confront each other.
Shi Shuiwang, as the younger brother of the aquatic, immediately picked up the hammer and made a gesture to smash the Dragon King's nose, preparing to burn a jade stone, smashing the water sources of the two villages, so that the big guys did not have water to drink.
The two sides are difficult to reconcile.
Shui Lian and Shui Wang knelt down to everyone, hoping that everyone would give a chance, tomorrow is the day when the brother Aquatic marries his daughter-in-law, everything is ready, the other party does not want anything, as long as a jar of water, there is a jar of water.
A jar of water is hard for a hero and a good man.
Once Shi Shuisheng was born in the war years, and he also ran legs for the Eight Roads, delivered letters, and was considered a person who had contributed to the war, but now for the sake of water, everyone has long forgotten the past and turned the weapons in their hands at their own people.
The ancients had clouds, and the three great joys of life were: he met the old knowledge, the night of the cave flower candle, and the title of the gold list.
It is reasonable to say that Shi Shuisheng's tomorrow is a big day, and the villagers in the township should help each other and love each other, but they don't think so.
Pan Shui said, what does your marriage have to do with us? You should follow the rules, and you can't break the rules just because you're married.
The woman next to her also echoed: adults can tolerate it, but children can't tolerate it, and you have to think about your children when you get married.
Her child was already on the verge of fainting from a lack of water.
In this era of water scarcity, who can still happily congratulate others, and who can happily give in?
Secretary Lin came to the scene and assured everyone that he would find a way to solve the water problem for everyone, which made the people of the two villages stop a fight.
Water Lotus finally filled a jar of water and took her home happily, putting her on the table.
The aquatic mother came out with a large jar and asked Shui Lian to pour the water she had just hit into the big jar.
Shui Lian looked at the water, very happy, said that this water is so clear yo, is not ordinary water.
The aquatic lady said: Of course it is not ordinary, but this is your sister-in-law.
In order to marry the daughter-in-law of the aquatics, the family has done a lot of work, and the words of joy are hung in front of the house and behind the house, but the aquatic mother's face cannot see the word happy at all.
She was very worried.
Looking at the irrigation, she didn't know where to put it, she kept carrying it around, as if it was a priceless treasure, hiding everywhere afraid of being stolen, and putting it everywhere felt unsafe.
Shui Lian went to cook, ran over to her mother to order water, she said that she did not have to cook, she would eat the rest of the cake.
Shui Lian said, then give the animals a little water to drink, she said no, endure, everyone endured.
Everyone can only endure, waiting for the daughter-in-law to be married back tomorrow, and they will be at ease.
At this moment, with a "bang", the water jug fell from the table to the ground and spilled all over the ground.
This sound is a sound of hope and disillusionment.
The aquatic lady was dumbfounded, she said that it was not useful, it was not used, and she kept nagging.
Shui Lian asked with a dissatisfied face: How did you get it? While talking, he took a towel to suck the water on the ground as far as possible, but unfortunately it was difficult to harvest the water, only a little bit of water was absorbed back, and the rest flowed away.
Watching the water that had been received so hard to receive was spilled, The Water went out angrily, sitting on a stool, overwhelmed.
And the aquatic lady said, I will pick up another can, so I took the jar out of the door.
How is it possible to receive water?
This jar of water almost got into a fight with someone before it was picked up.
The aquatic lady also knew, but what should she do?
Tomorrow everyone knows that her family is going to marry her daughter-in-law, and now the water is gone, and the daughter-in-law is gone.
She was sorry for her son, sorry for this family, she had nowhere to go, and finally hanged herself.
And because aquatic did not have that jar of water, there was no dowry, the other party's family did not agree to the girl marrying him, and he lost two people related to him at the same time.
He was unfortunate, he lived in that era when there was no water, no resources.
A jar of water stumped a family.
This is the story of the first episode of "Red Flag Canal", which lets us know, why does Red Flag Canal exist? Because there is no water, many people die because of it, brothers turn against each other, family members lose their lives, and happy things are never worth rejoicing.
Water is more expensive than life.
There's a question on a platform: What's the thing that makes you feel incredible?
One of the answers of Gao Zan is: Linxian Hongqi Canal.
Premier Zhou Enlai said: This is a major miracle of New China.
Foreign media have also commented that the Hongqi Canal is the eighth wonder of the world.
In that year, the people of Linxian County leveled 1250 mountains with their bare hands and carved out 1500 kilometers of artificial canals between the cliffs, and the people of Linxian County spent 10 years to complete this seemingly impossible task.
And they not only completed the task, but also completed the task with the least amount of money.
Without money, they went to earn their own money, without explosives, they made their own explosives, they ate weeds, drank porridge, saved money, 550,000 people, worked together in 10 years, completed this artificial canal.
A dream is to solve the problem of water.
A group of people, they only do one thing, and that is to do it.
Because of their persistence, because of their efforts, they have created the "Red Flag Canal" that is now famous in the world, which is the heroic dream of all ordinary people.
"Hongqi Canal" is a rural inspirational theme drama directed by Kang Ning, starring Yu Zhen and An Yuexi, starring Zeng Li, Xu Guangyu, Ma Dongyan, Li Qinqin, Kou Zhenhai, Liao Jingsheng, Du Yuegang, Xu Zhinuo, Jing Le, Chen Che, Intoxi, Xu Shendong and Yu Siyuan.
This is a different drama, a drama worth your attention to chasing.