After traveling to ancient times, I became a superb shrew

Chapter 260 The Smartest Junior

The scorching heat is approaching, and the sun in the sky makes the stones hot every day. The river has stopped flowing, leaving only a few small ponds deep in the river bed.

The second well in Gujia Village also bottomed out.

Before dawn, someone had already gone to Dongjia Village and came back aggrieved.

"The people in Dong's Village are really good-for-nothings! They took the opportunity to sell water, and they wanted five hundred yuan for a bucket of water. Why didn't they grab it!"

"Dongjiacun is better than Zhangjiacun after all. Zhangjiacun said that seven hundred coins can be exchanged for a bucket of water."

"Without water, how can we do the food business in the commercial street?"

"Ask the princess first. It's really not possible. We can only close all businesses. The food street in our village consumes too much water. If we continue to operate, I'm afraid we will run out of drinking water in two days!"

"Even if the business is closed, our whole village can't survive for a few days with just that one well. The fields need water, and people also need to drink water. In such a hot day, if you don't drink water for a day, you will really die..."

"Lizheng is here, let's see what Lizheng has to say..."

Li came over with a serious face. She stood on the high ground, cleared her throat, and said, "Everyone, be quiet."

Everyone looked at Lizheng expectantly. Apart from Gu Qing, Lizheng was the pillar of the Gu Family Village. They believed that these two people would be able to come up with a regulation.

"A bucket of water for [-] Wen, Dongjia Village will really take advantage of the fire." Li Zheng said in a deep voice, "Yujia Village raises a lot of fish, shrimp and crabs and there is no extra water for us. Zhangjia Village has [-] Wen for a bucket of water. Rain, we can't survive this natural disaster even if we emptied our family..."

Li Zheng's words made many people panic.

If the water supply is completely cut off in a few days, the entire village will die of thirst.

Gujia Village, where the ancestors lived for generations, will soon be starved to death...

An old man at the bottom cried: "The people of Gu's Village have never done anything bad, why does God punish us like this, for committing crimes..."

"Everyone be quiet!" Li Zheng raised his voice, "God is not so heartless, he will always give us a way to survive."

Last night, Lizheng had already figured it out. The trees and wild vegetables on the mountain can survive, and some pheasants and rabbits are also alive well, which means that there must be a source of water on the mountain. What Yang Pei said is well-founded. Can only hold this hope.

"There is still water in the well, so don't worry about it, just do what you need to do." Li Zheng said slowly, "I will give you an explanation before the sun goes down."

The fact that there is water on the mountain has not yet been confirmed, so we cannot reveal too much for the time being.

Without waiting for more questions from the crowd, Li Zheng left with his hands behind his back.

Having been a Lizheng for 30 to [-] years, he is full of prestige in the village. After saying this, the villagers really slowly got out of the panic.

Gu Qing and Yang Pei brought Xia Zhu, Gu Er and Li Zheng to meet at the foot of the mountain.

Li Zheng was followed by his eldest daughter, Jin Hua Niang.

After more than half an hour, the group arrived at the valley between the two peaks.

As soon as you walk over, there will be cool water vapor blown by the wind, refreshing you.

Jin Huaniang strode over, and when she saw the water seeping out from the stone wall drop by drop, she couldn't be more excited: "There is really water! There has always been water here, why has no one discovered it! My God! Ah, Gu Family Village is saved!"

Li Zheng was trembling all over: "Because there was no shortage of water in the past, no one wanted to come here to find water. If there was no Yang Tianguan, Gujia Village would have a hard time this year..."

Jin Huaniang stepped forward with a shovel on her shoulders, and started digging without saying a word. She only dug a small opening, and a stream of clear spring gushed out from the ground, and the group drank to their heart's content.

Jin Huaniang was very ashamed: "Officer Yang Tian, ​​I didn't believe you before, so I'll admit your mistake here."

"They're all from the same village. If you say that, you'll be offended." Yang Pei didn't care about being misunderstood. Gu Qing turned to the topic and said, "If the water here is led down the mountain, the rice will be saved."

Li was wracking his fingers. According to the normal season, it should be the period of grain filling and maturity. The rice in the village is forming ears, and it is the time when a lot of fertilizer and water are needed. It is better to divert water down the mountain sooner rather than later.

But the water source is too far from the bottom of the mountain, and it takes more than an hour to go back and forth. Even if people are used as livestock, it is impossible to water all the rice fields within ten days, which is a bit tricky.

Li Zheng squatted on the ground, washed his face, and said slowly: "Princess, what's your idea?"

For some reason, he always felt that Gu Qing would have a good idea, and he didn't know where this feeling came from.

Gu Qing looked at Yang Pei with a smile: "Brother Yang, the idea you came up with yesterday, talk about it and discuss it with Aunt Lizheng."

Yang Pei nodded, cleared his throat and said, "The paddy field in our Gujia Village has thousands of acres, and it's definitely not possible to rely on people's shoulders and hands. I wondered if we could dig a ditch from the mountain to the bottom of the mountain and divert water to the fields. ..."

Before he finished speaking, Jin Huaniang immediately shook her head: "Guan Yang Tian, ​​do you know how many miles it is from the foot of the mountain to here? It's more than ten or twenty miles, longer than the embankment for flood protection..."

Gu Qing took a step towards Yang Pei, and said softly, "Aside from digging ditches, can you think of other better ideas?"

Everyone was silent, they couldn't figure it out.

"Boy Yang, keep talking." Li Zheng said, "What if it works?"

Yang Pei stayed up all night last night, thinking about how to better dig canals to divert water.

This is the most important thing in the whole village, and it is also what he should do as an official of the imperial court.

"A dozen miles sounds like a long distance, and it takes more than half an hour to walk, but in fact, as long as the dozen miles are divided into countless small sections, and each person is responsible for a section, this is not a difficult task."

He stood up, took three or four steps, and continued.

"It's about a zhang, and one person can dig it in an hour. But if it doesn't rain, the soil is very hard, and there are stones in the soil, so it would take two hours for one person to dig a zhang."

Yang Pei talked eloquently, "I went down yesterday and measured it. The total is about three thousand feet. It takes two hours for one person to dig for one foot, and two hours for 3000 people to dig for three thousand feet..."

Li Zheng often had to calculate these numbers in his head when dealing with common affairs in the field, and she gave the answer in an instant.

The middle-aged labor force in Dahe Village has about 45 people between the ages of 500 and [-]. It takes about fifteen or sixteen hours for so many people to go to battle together.

It is impossible for a person to work intensively all day long. If the time is divided, it will be about two and a half days.

In two and a half days, the water from the mountain can be diverted to the rice fields. This is an absurd thing that Lizheng never dared to think about before.

"Boy Yang, you're so smart..." Li Zheng couldn't believe it, "I used to think that Mrs. Gu was the smartest junior in our Gu Family Village, and from today on, you're one of them."

(End of this chapter)