My village can't be like this

Chapter 7 Digging a Pool in the Yard

Zhang An's family has a very large yard, as small as half an acre of land.

In addition to the cemented courtyard dam, there is also a part of the muddy field beside it, and a pool less than two meters dug on it.

This pool was dug by my father when he built the house, because a lot of water was needed to build the house at that time, and there was very little water in the small ditch at the door, so a large pit was dug to store water.

Store it overnight, the pool will be full, enough water for the next day.

Later, after the house was built, the pond was not filled, because the remaining land behind the house was used as a vegetable garden. Whether it was growing vegetables or raising seedlings, it needed watering, so the pond was kept as a reservoir.

But today, Zhang An came up with the idea of ​​this pool.

Changqing is a village that rises along the river and mountains, so there are no ponds.

Thinking about the fish in the space, if you don't take it out all the time, it will be a waste of resources.

Zhang An felt that he was not a wasteful person.

I stood by the pool and looked at it for a long time. The water source in the pool currently comes from the small ditch outside the yard.

This stream of water flows down the mountain. Although it is small, it has been flowing for many years.

If you expand the pond to use as a fish pond now, as long as there is no drought, basically don't worry about the water source.

Moreover, Zhang An still has a secret in his heart, that is, a spring will emerge from the rock behind his house after he dug it open.

This happened more than ten years later. The weather was very hot that year, and there was no rain since the Dragon Boat Festival until the spring of the following year.

The big river at the entrance of the village has dried up to the bottom, and the wells have also dried up, making domestic water difficult.

It persisted until September and October, when there was really no way, and the people in the village began to organize to find water sources.

After looking around, I only found three places where there was water. One was to find the source along the ditch in front of Zhang An's house, and it was in a rock.Although the rocks were finally pried open and the water became bigger, but I was not thirsty.

It was a coincidence that in the winter of that year, Zhang An came back to celebrate the New Year, and because he was driving back, his father used a part of the vegetable field with cement as a parking place.

At that time, because my father heard the rumor that the homestead behind was not allowed to expand, he first built two houses in the yard.

If you want to drive the car to the vegetable field behind, you can only go through the rock wall.

It was this chisel that saved the entire Changqing Village.

Gunpowder was not allowed at that time. If you want to chisel it, you have to smash it with a steel drill and a sledgehammer, but it is too laborious to do so.

Finally, Zhang An asked the engineering team to use the excavator to dig.

When the bottom layer of the rock wall was broken, the water below rushed up, directly submerging the entire vegetable field.

The villagers were very excited when they found out, and they bought a piece of land to exchange with Zhang An's family for the piece of land where the water came out.

A large well was directly built here. It is said that the water was cleaned by geologists at the time and measured. The quality of the water is very good, and it should be a stream of groundwater.

Then it rained, and the original big well also came out.

Many mineral water manufacturers came to the village and said they wanted to contract the water source, and even went to the county to make connections.

But children who have been exposed to rain know the value of umbrellas.

So no matter how much money is given, they are not allowed to contract out.

Even though the county put pressure on it, the villagers finally protected the water source under the united determination of the villagers.

It's going to be contracted out, in case there is another drought one day, there will be no water everywhere.

As long as this water is still there, what other people spent money at that time was money in other people's pockets, so what should I do?

So Zhang An wasn't worried about the water source issue at all, at worst, he would find an excuse to release this water source.

But if it's early, if it's late, mining groundwater without permission will have to step on a sewing machine.

There is an idea in the heart, and the mind is like wanting to act.

"Dad, it's a waste of our pond to just leave it like this. Or, let's dig a bigger fish pond and feed the fish in it all the time."

"What do you think? It's time to come out. You want to raise horses for a while, and you want to raise fish for a while. After a while, the trustee will give you a letter to find a job. When the time comes, I will be at home with your dad, so I can take care of you." Don't come here."

Before Dad could speak, Mom gave Zhang An a blank look.

"Then it's a big deal, I'll farm the land with you guys at home, it's fine if I don't go out."

"You grow crops at home with us? How much money can you earn by growing crops, facing the loess and back to the sky, it's hard and tiring, and there is not much money left in the end."

It's true that farming can't make money, but Zhang An has a big baby. With this thing, Zhang An can't grow crops honestly, because that thing really doesn't make much money a year.

Zhang Jianguo clicked on the cigarette in his mouth, and then exhaled a puff of smoke.

"Okay, since my family Zhang An wants to do it, then dad will do it with you."

Zhang Jianguo knew that his son liked raising things since he was a child, whether it was animals or plants.

When I was in elementary school, I liked to catch sparrows and raise them. The rows of flowers and plants in the yard are Zhang An's masterpieces.

Anyway, there's not much work to do, just treat it as playing, at worst, it won't affect anything if a layer of cement board is built on it in the future.

As soon as he said it, Zhang An took the lime and sprinkled the ground.

Fortunately, the ground on this side has not been compacted, and the soil has not yet consolidated.

The area to be dug is not large, and the newly added size is less than two square meters.

The father and son scooped up all the water in the pond first, and then began to clean the pond. Not to mention, there were still a lot of fish in it, but most of them were small fish with the width of one or two fingers.

Moreover, Zhang An caught two grass carp weighing more than one catty. He usually doesn't pay attention to this pond, and these fish don't often swim upstream, so it's hard to be noticed.

Even if you know there are fish, you don't know how many small fish fry rushed in from the small ditch.

"Mom, take out a basin and fill it up. Let's eat the fish ourselves." Zhang An, covered in mud, called to his mother.

Wang Fang came out with an enamel basin and looked at the fish her son was carrying, "There are still some. I usually only see those fry swimming up, but I didn't expect there to be big ones."

The pond is not big, and the father and son dug it together, and the other transported the mud. It was dug in two hours.

Zhang Jianguo also picked up a circle of stones to surround the inside.

The newly dug walls will definitely seep water out.

However, due to the problem of soil quality, after filling the water, soaking for a period of time, and the mud inside sticks to the pool wall, there will be very little seepage.

Anyway, water from the ditch will flow in every day, just like this pool was just dug a hole before, and the water has been filled in the back, and it has not seeped into the yard.

By the time Wang Fang called for dinner, the work was basically finished.

After introducing the water in the ditch, I left it alone.

After dinner, I went out to see that there was already a layer of water at the bottom of the pool, which was shining brightly under the moonlight.

Maybe when I get up tomorrow, the pool will be full.

"Dad, I have to get some stones to build the edge of the pool tomorrow. I'm afraid someone will come to our house at night and go inside. We still have to pay attention to safety issues."

"Well, it's fine to pick up some stones and build them casually tomorrow. If you build them wider, people can still sit on them."

"That's a good idea, let's do it."

After digging the hole all afternoon, it was Zhang An who secretly filled the water tank with spring water, and his mother Wang Fang used it to make tea, which relieved a lot of fatigue.

The bodies of Zhang Jianguo and Wang Fang looked much better than before, because they drank space water every day during this period.

At night, Zhang An didn't think about anything, he just emptied his mind, didn't have the space to go shopping, and fell asleep after lying on the bed for a while.

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