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Chapter 116 Water Episode "Approaching Science"

After confirming the general position, Wang Manyin stepped out of the cave.

"How's it going, Man Yin?" Seeing the person appearing, Wang Yanqiang hurriedly asked.

"Uncle Yanqiang, I heard the sound coming from the flue, could something have fallen into it?" Wang Manyin didn't hold back, and directly stated his speculation.

"The flue? You said there is something XZ in the flue. How could it be... If there was something, it would have been scorched when the fire was lit for cooking." Wang Yanqiang's face was full of disbelief.

"That's right, if there are mice or something, they will definitely bark. We cooked dinner yesterday morning." Liu Xiangyang also refuted aloud.

Although there is no open flame in the long flue, the heat rises when cooking, and it can reach at least a high temperature of hundreds of degrees.

If there is any animal hidden, even if it is not scorched, it will probably be smoked to death, how can it survive for such a long time.What's more, from the beginning to the end, no one heard the animal's cry.

"Whether it's true or not, you'll know if you check it."

Wang Manyin did not talk nonsense and decided to prove everything with facts.

He climbed up to the side of his head again, and reached into the dark chimney to fumble.Probably because of the rain the day before yesterday, part of the loess at the top of the flue collapsed.As soon as my hand penetrated more than 20 centimeters, I touched a horizontal wooden stick with a rope tied to it.

Wang Manyin pulled subconsciously, and the rope swayed slightly.

The next moment, I heard Wang Yanqiang yelling loudly in the cave: "There is another movement, it seems to be coughing!"

Is it because of the flue?Wang Manyin completely relaxed.

Seeing his movements, the people outside the cave couldn't help asking: "Brother Wang, what's inside?"

Wang Manyin didn't answer, just kept swinging the rope.

The noise in the cave became clearer and clearer. It sounded like something was constantly scraping the flue, or like a human coughing in a low voice.

Curious, Wang Manyin pulled up the rope.Seeing clearly what was hanging at the end of the rope, he couldn't laugh or cry for a while.

So, many times people scare themselves.

In order to test his thoughts, he lowered the rope again, and rushed into the cave again, "Uncle Yanqiang, is there any movement now?"

"Yes, yes, I still can't find it." Wang Yanqiang was still searching around in the cave.

"Brother Wang, don't be fooled, what the hell is it!" the educated youths urged with curiosity written all over their faces.

Even the panic-stricken female educated youths approached one after another.

"You'll know when you come up and see for yourself..."

When Liu Xiangyang and the others came to the head, they also reached out to explore the depths of the flue.

After someone pulled the rope, Wang Yanqiang was heard shouting inside.

"Really or not, how could such a thing cause trouble, I'll go down and listen again?!" Liu Xiangyang looked at the piece of ginger stone tied to the end of the rope, and didn't want to believe it at all.

There is even a feeling of IQ being rubbed on the ground by someone.

Everyone has made various speculations before, and in the end they were all confused.The truth turned out to be too ordinary to be accepted.

Shang Zhimin's face was also in disbelief, and he couldn't help asking: "Brother Wang, what's going on? Who is free to tie a stone and throw it in the flue to scare people..."

"That's right, this matter needs to be investigated to the end," You educated youth said with murderous intent.

Wang Manyin gave the other party a white look, and explained: "It's really not that someone deliberately sabotaged it. This rope was used by the craftsmen to straighten the flue when they dug it. It is equivalent to a lead weight. It is estimated that they forgot to take it out after the flue was dug. , has been hanging here."

The chimneys of the cave dwellings on the Loess Plateau are not built with bricks. Instead, the chimneys are drawn directly from the stove to the side of the head, which is similar to drilling holes straight up and down.

This is definitely a technical job, and it needs to be done precisely by people holding tools in a small space.Because the flue should not be too thick, otherwise it will easily collapse after a long time.

And for proper ventilation, the entire flue must be kept straight...so a plumb bob is used in the process.

"Why didn't we hear the voice in the past few months?" Shang Zhimin still found it hard to accept.

Hearing this, other educated youths also voiced their doubts.

It has been nearly half a year since they came to the village to jump in line. If the plumb bob had always existed, it should have rang a long time ago. Why is it now.

"The reason is simple. It rained the day before yesterday, and the rain washed along the cliff, causing the top of the flue to collapse a bit. Inadvertently, the rope deviated from its position and stuck to the flue. Coupled with the wind... the flue was filled with water. Wind, that's why it's like this, if you don't believe me, ask a few girls if the pots and stoves are particularly difficult to cook these two days?"

For Wang Manyin, since he knows the truth, it is actually not difficult to deduce it in reverse.

However, if this plot is placed in later generations, it will definitely be worth an episode of "Approaching Science".

Hearing this, Liu Lanying nodded immediately and said, "I cooked the meal yesterday morning, and there was indeed smoke in the cave..."

"Is there really ginger stone in the flue?" At this time, Wang Yanqiang hurriedly climbed to his mind after hearing Liu Xiangyang's narration.

Then, he shook the rope to verify it himself.

Sure enough, there was another cough...

As for why the sound sounds like a cough, it should be that the loess flue has been baked for a long time, and the soil wall has been burned dry and thoroughly, turning it into a brick-like ceramic, so the sound of collision sounds particularly strange.

"Damn it, if word of this spreads, I will definitely lose my life in Shigejie Commune..."

After running up and down a few times, Wang Yanqiang finally admitted helplessly: After tossing everyone for two days, the thing that made a group of people nervous was a small ginger stone.

It's as simple as that.He almost ruined his fame in the first life.

In order to completely dispel the fear of the female educated youths, they did not directly remove Jiang Shi, but asked the other party to come up one by one to do experiments.

Shen Jinqin was even more thankful in her heart, fortunately she didn't drink that bowl of boy's urine, otherwise she would be too wronged.

Wang Manyin did not participate in the next matter.

But after this incident, his ability in the hearts of everyone has increased a bit.A person's prestige is often accumulated from small things.

When Wang Manyin got home, the mother-in-law and aunt had already prepared the meal.

Seeing her husband coming back from the village, Lan Hua immediately asked curiously: "Man Yin, what's going on? What is the sound of the female educated youth's cave dwelling? Have you found the reason?"

When I was cooking just now, a villager came over to buy something, and he took a bite by the way.

When Wang Manyin told the story, Lan Hua also couldn't laugh or cry.

After the meal was finished, she talked about other topics: "Manyin, Aihua's sister-in-law came to chat this morning, and said that many people in our Guanzi Village are running out of food. She also said that you are well-informed, do you know when the commune will sell back the food this year? come down?"

"I don't know either," Wang Manyin was silent for a while, shaking his head.

The so-called resale grain refers to the return of grain to farmers based on the shortage of spring grain in rural areas, which is also called "resale grain".

The price of the surplus grain levied at the beginning, and the price at which it was sold at the time of sale, did not increase by a penny.

Of course, this is not something that the village or the production team can make a decision on.There is a complete set of procedures, so the time and quantity of reselling food every year cannot be determined.

"Well, grab a few handfuls of dried sweet potatoes, and get two scoops of sorghum noodles, and I'll send them to brother Qiusheng's house..." Wang Manyin thought for a while and said.

There are so many families in the village who are almost out of food, and Wang Qiusheng's family is probably no exception.But Wang Manyin didn't dare to take too good food, he just let him get some dried sweet potatoes and sorghum noodles.

When he went out with the cloth bag, across the deep ditch, he heard the cry of a child from the opposite side.

Entering the courtyard, I saw Wang Qiusheng squatting at the root of the cliff, holding a half-sized broken baby in his arms, which was a stone.

At this moment, the little guy was crying softly with tears on his face.

"Brother Qiusheng, what's wrong? Is Shitou sick?" Wang Manyin asked hurriedly.

"It's nothing, it's nothing. Man Yin, why are you here, have you eaten yet?" Wang Qiusheng hurriedly put the child on the ground to greet him.

"I don't think there's anything wrong with the stone, why don't we take him to the hospital."

"No, your sister-in-law Dongmei got some chaff from her mother's house two days ago, and baked some pancakes... She ate too much stone all at once, and couldn't poop. She complained of a stomachache. I rubbed it for him."

Wang Manyin was stunned, handed the bag with difficulty and said, "Brother Qiusheng, I just found out that your family has run out of food. I still have some food at home, I'll get some for you, and let's make do for a few meals first."

He didn't say anything stupid about children not eating chaff... Everyone knows chaff is bad.

Just like what Wang Qingming said the last time he was working, even if the rice chaff was squeezed into an ingot, it would be hard to swallow.Even if the white flour is kneaded into a donkey stick, it still tastes delicious.

"Man Yin, you have helped us enough..."

"Brother Qiusheng, don't say anything, it's important to let a few broken babies fill their stomachs, and it will be fine when the wheat is harvested."

Wang Qiusheng nodded, his lips moved, but he didn't say anything.

Of course Wang Manyin knew that what he had done was a drop in the bucket, but... that was the only way to go.

For the second team of Guanzi Village, what is really helpful is to quickly build the earth dam and silt up more than ten acres of good Sichuan land.

With the growth of time, Wang Manyin has completely regarded himself as a part of the pot village.Now in his heart, he has never been so eager to accomplish something.

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"Man Yin is here, come in and sit down. Look at you, you always take something..." In the yard, Guo Chaowang and his mother-in-law greeted him enthusiastically.

"There's nothing good about it. It rained a few days ago. I caught a few crucian carp from the Dongla River. I thought you would like to eat them, so I sent them here..."

Wang Manyin responded with a smile, and handed over the cloth bag containing several fresh crucian carp.

This time it was indeed caught from the Dongla River. Last night, he quietly released another hundred catties of fish.

"Well, it's strange this year. There are a lot of fish in our Dongla River." After taking the cloth bag, Mrs. Guo quickly found a water basin and poured a few crucian carp into it to raise.

Wang Manyin had discovered before that the fish produced in the space had significantly better survivability than ordinary fish in the outside world. Even in the turbid waters of the Dongla River, they could survive for a long time and thrive.

Take the crucian carp in front of me as an example, even if they are out of the water for half an hour, most of them are still alive.

(End of this chapter)