slack farmer in the wasteland

Chapter 26 Drilling a Well ([-])

"Haiwazi, come up to eat!" Hu Shijie yelled at the bottom of the well.

"Understood!" Cang Hai responded, and then motioned for Ping An to hang another basket of soil up.

After the basket fell down again, Cang Hai sat in the basket and asked Pingan to hang himself up.

The lunch meal was served at Hu Shijie's house. Cang Hai not only brought some meat, but also a dozen bottles of wine. Although the price of four and fifty yuan is not high, everyone still likes it. It is said that it is the most suitable, but it is more expensive and they are a bit reluctant to drink it.

A table of dishes, almost half of the table is offered by Cang Hai. In addition to ham, there are also several canned meats. It's delicious, but full of country flavor.

The staple food is steamed buns with white flour.

"Haiwazi, don't be stubborn. No water can be dug out of this well. We went to see it in the morning. The soil that was blown out didn't contain water vapor, even worse than the soil on the roadside."

While eating, everyone persuaded Cang Hai to give up the unrealistic idea of ​​digging a well.

Cang Hai naturally won't give up, and he doesn't want to discuss this issue with everyone now, when the time comes they will understand that Cang Hai can create sweet springs in the desert as long as he wants to.

"Grandpa Hu, why don't you help me hire someone to build a kiln? Now that it's spring, it's no problem to build a kiln, right?" Cang Hai said.

Hearing what Cang Hai said, Hu Shijie thought about it for a while and agreed to it: "Well, after I finish eating, I will go to the town to find someone to build a kiln!"

"Then thank you," Cang Hai said.

Thinking of a few months later, Wen Yidao, a big fool, would come over, Cang Hai said again: "If possible, after I finish the production here, I will invite them to build a few kilns on the west slope."

"What kind of kiln is there?" Hu Shijie asked curiously.

The Xipo side is more than ten miles away from the village, and there is no such thing as a ghost?
"A friend of mine is going to come to these kinds of trees! The rented land is almost on the west slope, and there will be a place to shelter from the wind and rain when they come with a few kilns." Cang Hai put a chopstick of side dishes into his mouth, biting I took a bite of steamed buns.

After chewing a mouthful, something happened in his mouth, and he thought: What the hell is sand again!
The water is not clean, and it is unavoidable that some fine sand gets mixed into the steamed buns. It used to be fine for a child to eat, but now let Cang Hai eat it, and Cang Hai can't eat it anymore.

But in front of everyone, Cang Hai couldn't spit out the steamed bun, he gritted his teeth and swallowed the steamed bun.

Hearing that someone came here to plant trees, and they were friends of Cang Hai, everyone thought in their hearts: What a fool, Haiwazi is acting stupid, and so is his friend.

Hu Shijie said: "As long as you have money, you can build a kiln wherever you want!"

"That's fine!" Cang Hai nodded and said.

"In addition to the kiln, I would also like to trouble you to help buy a few large trucks of bricks, preferably blue bricks. If you see how many trucks you want for a kiln, you can help buy a few trucks. Besides this, there is also cement. You can also help me buy some sand and so on..." Cang Hai raised his request.

Hu Shijie was not surprised when he heard this. Bricks, sand and cement are all things used in the kiln. In the past, it was enough to paste a newspaper on the roof of the kiln. Now the kiln is usually dug and cement mortar is used. The floor has to be tiled or something.

Then the topic at the dinner table changed a bit. Everyone asked about Haiwazi's lifelong events. Generally speaking, almost all those as old as Cang Hai were married. They were in their twenties and almost thirty. These few have entered the category of older youth.

Cang Hai smiled and said, "With my current situation, how can anyone marry me?"

Hearing what Cang Hai said, everyone was stunned.

Li Liren sighed: "It's also because you are so stupid. You are so good that you don't stay in the devil and come back to do nothing. It would be great if you married a beautiful and fair city girl in the devil's capital. You I don't know how happy I am under the big nine springs, but you... hey!"

Cang Hai said with a smile: "Second Grandpa Li, let's not look at it as a mountain of loess now, it looks worthless in the eyes of others, but in my eyes it is a mountain of gold and silver."

"Don't talk about it. I have lived for most of my life as your second grandfather. I have never seen Jinshan Yinshan. The unlucky guy has seen a lot. According to my opinion, you will live for a few months at most. Let's go to the devil's capital, it's still a hundred and eight thousand miles away from green water and green mountains," Li Liren said.

Starting with Li Liren, everyone persuaded Cang Hai for a while, as if they wished that the pride of the village before would return to the metropolis of Shanghai. What a fart, I can't say that Cang Hai is being stupid, that would be ridiculous.

How can Cang Hai listen to everyone's persuasion? After a while, everyone understands. Although everyone bears the names of elders, they also understand that if Cang Hai's father is not dead, this matter can still be twisted. There is no need for these people to screw with Cang Hai.

After finishing the meal, Cang Hai handed a card to Hu Shijie, and then wrote out a list. After clearly stating what to buy, Cang Hai listed the matchmaker tanks in addition to the things on the dinner table. It is carried in the space of Zao Canghai. The medium cylinder cannot be bought in the magic capital. This thing needs to be ventilated.

After saying this, Cang Hai got into the well again, and started digging with a pickaxe.

With Cang Hai's card in his pocket, Hu Shijie got the car, and before leaving, he came over to the well to take a look. When he saw the dry loess brick, he sighed and drove the car out of the village, slowly He rushed towards the direction of the town.

Hu Shijie's two sons are both in the town, so there is naturally a place for the old man to live. The people in these four miles and eight villages are poor, and there are no robbers on the road, let alone robbers, it is difficult to find a mouse , where would there be blind bandits, so the old man didn't rush on his way, and slowly arrived at the town after seven o'clock.

The whole family got together and sighed Cang Hai who had burned out his brain again. The old man still took care of the things that Cang Hai wanted to do one by one.

Not to mention that Mr. Hu Shijie is busy shopping in the town and looking for someone to build a kiln, but that Canghai digs wells every day except for eating. As more and more soil is dug out, there is still no trace of moisture. The folks who came to see it from time to time did not appear by the well anymore.

The only one who stayed by the well and believed that Canghai could draw water was the idiot Ping An.

Cang Hai has been hanging in the well for three days, during which Ping An came in to dig.

At this time, Cang Hai did not keep digging down, but began to dig the bottom of the well, that is to say, dig the bottom of the well larger, so that it is easier to save more water, and it will be convenient to put the pump at that time. It is still such a small place, if the water is not enough, it will be gone after a few more pumps. Isn't that a waste of energy for Cang Hai?

On the fourth day, Cang Hai and Pingan had repaired a round belly with a diameter of about three meters, and the two brothers continued to dig deeper.

On the fifth day, Mr. Hu Shijie came back with the kiln builders. At the same time, all the water tanks in the village had bottomed out, and it seemed that it was time to fetch water again.

After everyone had harnessed the carts, set up the tin buckets and tied them up, and harnessed the animals, when they were about to leave, they suddenly heard a loud roar from Ping An.

"Water vapor! Water vapor!"

Everyone couldn't help being stunned when they heard it, and looked at each other as if they didn't believe in the words of peace.

"Why is Ping An so stupid?"

"Staying with Haiwa for too long?"

It seems that Cang Hai is more stupid than Ping An.

Although everyone was puzzled, but they heard that there was moisture, they stopped the animals one after another, and the gentlemen handed over the reins of the animals to the hands of the women and girls and trotted towards the mouth of the well.

Pingan was grinning at this time, smiling with the soil in his hands, and when he saw the crowd coming, he immediately spread the soil in his hands.

"Water vapor, water vapor!"

Upon hearing this, everyone took two steps forward and looked at the soil in Ping An's hands.

The soil still looked dry, but it was from farmers. When he reached out and touched it with Ping An's hand, he knew that there was water in the water. Although it was not much, it was indeed water.

"Second uncle, it's water vapor!" Wei Wenkui squeezed, looked at Li Liren and said.

After hearing this, Li Liren immediately put the cigarette bag in his left hand, stretched out his hand and squeezed the mud in Wei Wenkui's hand.

It seemed that pinching was not enough, and finally I put it in front of my nose and smelled it.

"It's water vapor!" Li Liren said with certainty.

After hearing that Li Liren confirmed that there was water vapor in the mud, everyone became excited. The presence of water vapor means that water will be dug out soon. Even if there is no good water, it will save the villagers The time spent running back and forth.Even if there is a bad well in the village, many things are easy to handle.

"Haiwazi, Haiwazi! There is moisture in the mud!"

Wei Wenkui ran to the side of the well and shouted at Canghai down the well.

"What?" Cang Hai pretended to be confused, pretending to be confused. The so-called water vapor was just something he created. If it wasn't for Cang Hai, he might not see a trace of water vapor if he swung down 40 meters.

"Haiwazi, there is water vapor in the mud, there is water vapor in the mud, good luck to you silly boy!" Li Liren yelled loudly at Cang Hai at the bottom of the well.

Hu Shijie, who happened to be entering the village at this time, saw a group of old women at the entrance of the village who looked like they were pulling the poles of the animal station, and couldn't help frowning: "Where are you guys?"

"I heard that water vapor was dug out of the well, the head of the house went to have a look," Qian Ximei said.

"steam?!"

Upon hearing these two words, Hu Shijie was stunned: "Are you sure?"

As soon as he asked this question, he heard a burst of cheers from the village. Someone kept shouting "Shuiqi, Shuiqi". Upon hearing this sound, Hu Shijie didn't even want his car, and quickly ran towards the well.

(End of this chapter)