I farmed and raised cubs in ancient times

Chapter 78
Jiang Zhi had asked beforehand that the land by the river was unowned, so no one would care what she wanted to do on it.Jiang Zhiyang began to dig deep with the hoe. After training, her strength became stronger and stronger, and digging was easy.

Her hands are slightly callused, so it won't cause blisters immediately.

After digging about three feet deep, the soil was wet.

Jiang Zhi's legs were stained with dirt, she couldn't care less, she had to continue digging, at least ten feet deep.

When Ye Erlang came back from school, Jiang Zhi had already dug a six-foot-deep hole.

She stood in by herself, and people outside couldn't see her at all.

"Sister-in-law, replace me quickly." Ye Erlang stretched out his hand to pull Jiang Zhi up.

Jiang Zhi was out of shape now, her hair was messy, and there was still a lot of mud hanging on her feet. The insteps of her feet were completely soaked in the mud, and all her clothes were covered with mud.

All in all, nothing is clean.

Jiang Zhi didn't raise her head, she said: "No need, the bottom is dirty, I can just dig another three feet, you and little sister go to the river beach to find some more stones."

Ye Xiaomei has already picked up two large boxes of stones and piled them beside the deep pit.Occasionally, she would help Jiang Zhi dump the soil dug up from below.

Jiang Zhi dug two feet down again with difficulty, and the water in it seeped more and more.

The bottom is no longer soil, but stones.

Jiang Zhi was helpless, the place she was looking for was leaning against a rock, the hole was round, and half of the earth was like a stone, to prevent the hole from collapsing due to compression.

After digging for more than eight feet, Jiang Zhi couldn't dig anymore, so Jiang Zhi had to use all her strength to hammer the hole wall on the soil surface, and then hammered in the stones picked up by the two older children together.

At night, Jiang Zhi was still working, as if she was tireless, lighting the oil lamp to hammer the stone-studded cave wall under the night, leaving only one place for drilling a hole leading to the river.

"Let's go back, sister-in-law, you haven't rested all day." Ye Erlang and Ye Xiaomei took turns persuading Jiang Zhi.

"It's okay, it's almost there." Jiang Zhi lay on the ground, leveled the last point, and then covered the hole with a bamboo fence to prevent anyone from accidentally falling in.

I have to go down and drill the hole tomorrow.

After dinner, Jiang Zhi and Ye Erlang assembled the manual pumping device together. The pumping piston inside was wrapped by Ye Xiaomei with rags and scrapped layer by layer. The tank did an experiment and really pumped out the water.

"It's amazing, it's amazing!" Ye Erlang couldn't help shouting, raising his arms.

"When the river is unblocked tomorrow, we can pump water to go to the fields." Jiang Zhi also laughed.

Early the next morning, Jiang Zhi changed into yesterday's dirty clothes, and dragged a straight bamboo pole and wooden bucket with the bamboo joints through to the deep pit dug yesterday.Uncovering the pleats of the bamboo strips, one can see that the inside is half-soaked in water, which is crystal clear after a night of precipitation.

This is impossible, she has to go down and drill the hole.

Ye Daniu was walking towards his field with a load of water from the river, when he suddenly met Jiang Zhi who was about to go down to the cave.

"Big sister, why are you digging this hole when you have nothing to do? You can't choose this place to dig a well. It's so far away from home, and it's not convenient to carry water."

Jiang Zhi was about to go down into the hole to scoop out the water inside.

"It's not digging a well. Everyone will know when I make it." Jiang Zhi waved her hand, stirred the water a few times with a branch to make sure there were no long small animals in it, and then slowly went down while supporting the cave wall.

Ye Daniu saw that Jiang Zhi didn't intend to ask him for help, so he carried water and left, the land at home was still waiting for water to save his life.

It was about six feet away from Xiaoye River, but digging the hole horizontally was more painful than digging vertically.If only she had great strength.

Ye Erlang refused to go to the school no matter what he said, and wanted to stay to help Jiang Zhi. The family worked together to scoop out the water, and Jiang Zhi began to punch holes.

There were a lot of gravel inside, and Jiang Zhi's mouth was broken because of hitting the stone with too much force. She didn't care about so much, and she couldn't delay her hard work, otherwise she would have to suffer another day.

So I drilled harder.

At this moment, she is like a gopher, with her calf soaked in mud, and she is digging holes with a stone-knocking tool in both hands.

Two hours later, Jiang Zhi went ashore to replace Ye Erlang.

The two of them took turns drilling for a whole day, until at dusk, finally a gust of icy cold water rushed over Jiang Zhi's cuff.

Become!

"Erlang quickly pull me up." Jiang Zhi raised her hand and came out of the cave with the help of Ye Erlang.

She didn't dare to delay, and ran directly to the place where the bamboo pole was erected to mark the river. At this time, a small vortex appeared in the river, and the entrance of the cave was slightly shifted than expected.

"Sister-in-law, what should I do?" Ye Erlang asked.

"I'm going to dive into the river later, insert the bamboo pipe through the bamboo joints into the hole, and use a wooden barrel to pump out the water in the hole. Don't let the water in the hole exceed the hole we drilled."

"it is good."

Jiang Zhi tied a straw rope around her body, and then handed the other end of the rope to Ye Xiaomei and Ye Heng. Safety measures must be taken.

"Baby, can you and my little aunt help my mother grab the rope?"

"Yeah, mother, be careful." Ye Heng nodded.

Jiang Zhi dragged the bamboo pole and went down the river without taking off her straw sandals.

The Xiaoye River is not polluted and the water is clear. When she dives, people on the shore can still see her shadow.

In the water, Jiang Zhi struggled to find a hole to enter the water, and had to go to the surface of the water to take a breath from time to time.

A group of villagers gradually surrounded the bank, asking Ye Xiaomei and Ye Erlang one after another, what are they doing?

Ye Xiaomei didn't know much about it either, and Ye Erlang couldn't explain it all, only that it was made to irrigate the fields.

Everyone doesn't believe it, dig a hole to irrigate the field?Are you kidding me?
The Ye family's field is at least more than ten feet away from the river, not to mention that the field is still high.

Digging pits to store water is not dug at the edge of the fields, but at the riverside, who am I kidding?
At this time, Jiang Zhi emerged from the water, and Ye Xiaomei hurriedly said: "Uncles and aunts, our sister-in-law is still in the water, please don't look at it again, go back first, we have our own reason to dig this, It’s nothing special, when it’s ready, uncles and aunts will know what it is.”

"You girl, we didn't see your sister-in-law."

"That's right, isn't this here for help? The little girl has something to say, forget it, there is still a grassy mountain in my house that hasn't been cleared, come back, come back."

The onlookers retreated one after another. Jiang Zhi floated up and down to breathe three times, and finally found the hole she had worked so hard to drill. So she aimed the bamboo tube at the hole and inserted it in. The water flow on Ye Erlang's side suddenly became smaller. up.

When choosing the bamboo, the size was measured, so a part of it would be exposed in the river. Jiang Zhi came out of the water, took the thin stick handed by Ye Heng, and poked it at the bamboo tube. The silt in the bamboo tube was pushed out. into the pit.Then Jiang Zhi took out the thin stick, took out the prepared silk cloth from her bosom, and tied it to the water inlet of the bamboo pipe, so that it could serve as a filter.

(End of this chapter)