Jiangmen's direct daughter is busy farming

Chapter 68 Benefiting the Southern Suburbs (5)
As soon as a few people stepped into the gate of Xiaozhuangzi, they saw many people in shabby clothes around the yard, some of them were carrying a small wooden barrel, and there were even two or three half-year-old children.When these people saw Jingyue and the others coming in, they hurriedly saluted and greeted her.

"You don't need to be polite, please get up! Liu Guanshi, what happened?" Jingyue saw that Liu Guanshi was holding a middle-aged man with a cane and his left leg seemed to be broken.

Guanshi Liu handed over the middle-aged man to Tong Daniu to support him, then walked up to Jingyue, and said respectfully, "Second miss, the thing is like this. Didn't you save Ling'er and Daniu a few days ago? After that day, County Magistrate Zhang didn’t bother Tongjia Village any more. In order to thank you, the villagers went to the mountains to carry water for our village. Legs. So, today I asked Liu Fang to tell them not to carry water for us anymore, there are people in our village who do these things. But they all came anyway, you see—"

"Why do you want to carry water from the mountains?" Jingyue has never cared about the issue of water use. Could it be that the water she uses to bathe and wash her face every day is picked up by these villagers bucket by bucket from the mountains?
These days, Guanshi Liu saw that Jingyue was focusing on patrolling the mountains, so he didn't find time to talk to her about the situation in the southern suburbs in detail. Let's just tell her all about it today.

"Second Miss, you don't know that the reason why our southern suburbs are poor is not only because there are many mountains and few lands, and the land is sparse, but because the most lacking here is water. The people in the southern suburbs depend on the sky for food, although There is a lot of rain here in summer, but it can’t hold it at all. If there is a dry season, let alone the fields, people and animals have no water to drink. Therefore, there are fewer and fewer people in the southern suburbs, and the land is becoming more and more barren. Only the mountains A small ear river in the village maintains drinking water for the villagers, but the mountain road is not easy to walk, and fetching water is very difficult.” Thinking of the miserable situation of the people in the southern suburbs these years, Guanshi Liu can only lament.

When Guanshi Liu said this, Jingyue became even more puzzled. There is still water in this world that cannot hold water. Is there anything special about the geology here?But when she went to check the fields, she found that the fields here were not different from other places, but there were more stones.

Jingyue decided to check the land in the southern suburbs again carefully and in detail, so she asked Guan Liu to send the villagers of Tongjia Village away first, and then put aside the chestnut matter, and let Zhongbao, Zhongda, and Liu Fang look for it. With some handy shovels and shovels, she started digging in a corner of the courtyard she designated.

During the process of digging the soil, Jingyue kept watching from the side. She found that there was a three-foot-thick layer of ordinary soil, followed by a three-foot-thick sandy loam layer. After digging deeper, it turned out to be a loose sandy soil layer. No wonder it is difficult to store water in the land here, and the ancients did not know how to improve the soil layer, so it has been so difficult for the people in the southern suburbs to drink water for many years.

"Second Miss, do you want to continue digging down?" Zhongda didn't understand why Jingyue kept asking them to dig deep pits, even when they dug wells and built rivers by the government, they never dug so deep.

Jingyue looked into the dark pit, then looked at the high mounds of soil in the yard, thought for a while and said, "Dig again, I want to see how deep the sandy layer is, let the bottom of the pit Zhong Er, pay attention to safety."

"Understood, Second Miss!"

Zhongda and Liu Fang were hanging a bamboo basket with thick ropes to hold the soil outside the pit. Since Zhong Er was relatively thin and flexible, he was responsible for digging the soil at the bottom of the pit.

An hour later, Zhong Er suddenly shouted in surprise from the bottom of the pit: "Miss Er, my subordinates have dug water!"

Jingyue hurriedly asked Zhongda and Liu Fang to pull Zhonger out, and soon Zhonger appeared in front of everyone in a rusty suit.

"Zhong Er, thank you for your hard work. I will give you a great credit later! Tell me quickly, how thick is the sandy layer that you dug to get the water?" Jingyue secretly rejoiced, she knew that there must be some underground water here. Water, and not particularly deep, here is neither a plateau nor a desert, it is impossible not to hold water.

Zhong Er thought for a while and said, "About about ten feet."

"Great! Zhongda, you guys should cover this deep pit with wooden planks first, and don't tell other people about this, let me think about it!" Jingyue felt that she needed to make a good plan for the southern suburbs. future.

After Jingyue returned to the room, she brought charcoal pencils and paper, and locked herself in the room alone, not allowing anyone to disturb her until late at night when Xiao Chenyu came in with a hot meal.

"Eat!" Xiao Chenyu snatched the charcoal pencil in Jingyue's book with a bad expression, and stuffed a pair of chopsticks into her hand.

"What are you doing! Don't you see that I'm busy?" Jingyue was trying to recall what she was drawing, and if there was anything missing, Xiao Chenyu suddenly appeared and interrupted her train of thought.

Xiao Chenyu's complexion became even worse: "I can't see, I only know that you didn't eat lunch or dinner!"

Tonight, Xiao Chenyu originally planned not to come to the southern suburbs, but recently his legs became more and more uncontrollable, even if he just took a look at her.So, he came. Unexpectedly, as soon as he got here, her four maids stood outside her room door with worried faces. After asking, they found out that she locked herself in the room without eating or drinking. matter.

"It's okay to skip a meal or two. What I have to do now is more important!" Jingyue put down the chopsticks and took another charcoal pencil, but this time Xiao Chenyu still took it away.

"Eating is the most important thing! If you are disobedient again, I don't mind tying you back to the Yue Palace!" Seeing Jingyue not caring about her body so much, Xiao Chenyu felt angry in his heart. She could not care, but he was very angry. care.

Seeing Xiao Chenyu's face turn cold, Jingyue knew that she couldn't hold him back, so she had to pick up chopsticks to eat.

Xiao Chenyu waited until Jingyue had eaten and drank enough before pointing to something she drew on the paper and asking: "What is this?"

Anyway, Xiao Chenyu will know sooner or later, Jingyue explained: "This is a household pressurized well, which can pump water up from the ground."

"How do you draw it?" Xiao Chenyu asked with interest.

Jingyue began to explain to Xiao Chenyu the working principle of the water pumping well, and at the same time took out another piece of paper, on which was a drawing of the household pumping wells she often saw in the countryside.

Xiao Chenyu is very smart, as long as Jingyue gives a little hint to these novel objects and new words that Jingyue said, he can understand them, and he can quickly infer other things from one instance.He also wondered why Jingyue knew so many novel things, but he was confident that one day, she would take the initiative to tell him these things.

In the end, Jingyue gave Xiao Chenyu the design drawings of the two wells, because he said that he could find the best blacksmith to make the long iron pipes and the strange water well device she needed, and most importantly, He said it would be provided for free.That being the case, Jingyue thought to herself, why not take advantage of it!

However, what Jingyue didn't expect was that not only did she take advantage of the water well pressure, but Xiao Chenyu also got her an imperial decree from the emperor, which said that Jingyue performed well at the Mid-Autumn Festival dinner, and that the Song family's southern suburb farm Dozens of mountains around as a reward.

(End of this chapter)