Happy Farm Ranch

Chapter 41 The Reservoir

"This is so powerful, that is, it is used for land reclamation now; it will also be useful in the pasture in the future. When all the crops are planted in this area, I will buy a harvester, and it will be able to beat this thing with a bang. Hum for a long time!" Seeing that the work efficiency was good, Su Mu stood on the ground and laughed.

Everyone else felt fresh and looked left and right around the two lawn mowers.

Hearing what he said was amazing, Mrs. Hei curled her lips first, "Just brag, how can there be such a powerful machine! If it really exists, just a few people will plant so much land, and the others will eat and drink what they want? "

Su Mu just smiled and did not refute.

It is not surprising that people in the village have never gone out or seen it, and they will only buy it when it is time to harvest it with a machine.By that time, the farms and pastures should have taken shape. The villagers felt safe working in the farms and pastures to get paid, so they were allowed to see large-scale machinery, otherwise it would easily cause panic.

Just like Mrs. Hei said, one person drove the machine and cultivated such a large piece of land, what should they do?
The reform of machinery is too fast. Not only will it not add to the life of the mountain village, but it will scare the villagers who have not been exposed to too many new things.

"The plowing can start. Let's try to open up ten acres of land today!" The leading team leader calculated according to this speed. Using a lawn mower, two people can easily mow a large piece of open land.It's just that this job is easy, and it can't be just the two of them, everyone has to take turns.

There are many people and strength, so it shouldn't be a problem to take care of ten acres of land a day today.

It takes less than 10 minutes to mow grass, bundle, turn over the ground, pull grass roots and rocks, and level the ground. Under the leadership of several team leaders, the land reclamation team forms a fast and effective assembly line;
The transportation team that stayed in the village has not moved yet. They have to take out the retting manure first, and then pull it into the field with a horse-drawn cart and spread it evenly.

Those steps are only needed after the land is leveled, so there is no rush.

Su Mu saw that they were very busy, talking and laughing with great energy, and wanted to join in the fun and try what it was like to do farm work.I didn't expect to pick up the shovel and dig the ground for a while, only to feel the burning pain in my hands. When I opened my palms, I saw two big blisters!
"Is it blistering? Digging the ground is not easy, and you are a student who has never done farm work, so let's put it down quickly. It won't be easy for us to dig some food in the ground!"

Dali had just exchanged the lawn mower to someone else, and he was ready to do the hard work with a shovel. Seeing Su Mu grinning and looking at the blisters on his palms, he handed him a pot of water, "Let's rest on the ground for a while, I haven't done it yet. Physical work is such a toss, be careful that your whole body will be sore tomorrow and you won’t be able to get up.”

"I saw how easy it was for you to dig the ground, but I didn't expect that it would be tedious to do it." Su Mu waved his hand and didn't take the water bottle, but obediently handed the shovel to Dali.

He vigorously spat on the palms of his hands, shook off his arms and started digging the ground, without delaying the chat, "Muzi, what are you going to do with these lands after opening up the wilderness? This side is getting farther and farther away from the river bank, let alone this land. Thousands of acres cannot be irrigated by manual watering. If the rain is not frequent in summer and the sun is shining, I am afraid that there will not be much harvest.”

"How did our village deal with Xia Tian before?" Su Mu looked in the direction he pointed. The land was wide and flat, but it was too far away from the Taohua River. Except for the occasional sheep herding, the villagers were unwilling to come and tend it.

As the name suggests, the strong man, his dark arms are full of black and shiny muscles when he works, and he is super fast when he does the hard work of turning the ground.

I saw the shovel shoveling down and turning up. It didn't take long, and everything it passed was new soil mixed with grass roots.

"Our village has a lot of land and few people. Before you contracted, other people would open up wasteland whenever they wanted, but they always chose the location close to the river bank. If there is little rain in summer, the whole family will carry water from the river to the field. Anyway, every household can't plant too much land, and a few days of hard work will do.

You are the first one in our village to open up wasteland so far away from the river bank like you!Therefore, we have no experience in what to do in summer. "

While speaking, Dali had already begun to sweat.He casually took off his coat and threw it on the ground, wiped his sweat and said, "You have to find a way to solve the watering problem, or else you really have to depend on the sky. Then if you spend such a large amount of money, don't you want to get water for nothing?" Nice!"

"Will the water flow of Taohua River decrease greatly in summer?" Su Mu stood on the carriage, pushing his glasses and looking into the distance under the awning.

Looking from here, the Taohua River flowing through patches of farmland is sparkling, and the green willows and poplars on both sides are very beautiful.

"Unless there is a severe drought, the water in the Taohua River is generally similar to this!" Dali glanced over there and replied casually.

Su Mu already had an idea in his mind.

Whether you are growing vegetables or food, the production and quality assurance depends entirely on space water.If water is pumped from the river according to the ordinary irrigation method, it is really impossible to evenly irrigate the space water into the field, so my farm must have a closed water storage space.

"I'm thinking of digging a well in the middle of the whole land, and then building a large reservoir around the well. If there is a lot of rain here in summer, it can be used to store water; if the rainwater is not enough, we will use electricity every once in a while. The pump pumps water into the cistern. What do you think?"

Su Mu took a small stick and sketched a pattern on the ground.

He wanted to transform the entire Huatanao into a picturesque place, so even the construction of wells and reservoirs was based on how to make them beautiful.The water well in the middle is built in the shape of an ancient small tower; the surrounding reservoir is built into a circle, which looks like a small lake from a distance.

I can just use this closed space to blend space water in it.

A gate is installed at the outlet of the reservoir leading to the field. Just open the gate and you can irrigate as usual; when you don’t need to water the field, it can also be used as a fish pond, and some fruit trees are planted beside it. , rowing a boat.

After calling the land reclamation team together, Su Mu briefly explained his thoughts.

"The method you mentioned can be done, but the amount of work is really big! Digging a well is very easy. A few of us take turns to work, and we can dig a well in five or six days. But, Muzi, you want to make this water storage The pool is not easy to fix, what if it collapses?" Dali whispered to the others for a moment, and asked the only question.

After all, this is a man-made water storage tank, and one of them will collapse, which will waste time and energy.

"How could it have collapsed?" Su Mu looked at them strangely, "The entire reservoir was built with bricks and then cemented, and when the time comes, the kids will be mobilized to pick some pebbles by the river and stick them on it, which is beautiful and strong. Many parks and lakes in the city are built in this way, and they will never collapse.”

"Cement?" Scratching his hair vigorously and laughing, "The houses in our village are all made of smashed adobes. How can we use such foreign things. If you want to use cement to build them, you have to find a fool to do it. He used to go out to work, it seems On the construction team, he only knows how to fiddle with a lot of foreign things."

Unexpectedly, the stupid fool was one of the few people in the village who had ever been outside, and had worked on the construction team, so this relatively simple wall-building should be no problem.

"Brother Er Leng went to work outside? Then why did you come back?"

"It's not good in the city!" The fast-talking black sister-in-law took over the words, and said loudly: "Didn't you see that he lost a finger on his right hand? It was cut off by a machine while working in the city. But that black-hearted His boss directly threw him to the hospital and left him alone. Even the wages that had been suppressed for three months were recovered with the help of others!

None of the villagers who went out with him came back, saying that the living conditions outside were good.The second fool came back but refused to go out. He said that the people outside were too dark, and there was a sick old lady at home to take care of. It was much better to stay in the village than to stay outside. "

"So that's the case." Su Mu nodded and understood a little bit, it is indeed much harder to wander outside alone.

This means that different people have different choices. Many migrant workers have worked hard outside and worked hard to create their own small world;It is natural to worry and work hard outside, but what you get is material convenience and broad vision.Staying in the village, although the conditions are more difficult, is happy to be at ease.

"Then tidy up this land first, and when the well is dug and the prototype of the reservoir is made out, let's let Brother Er Leng come over to finish it." Su Mu threw the stick aside and patted the dirt on his hands Standing up, I was thinking about the approximate location of the well.

Wiping the sweat off his forehead vigorously, he looked at the middle of the whole wasteland, "It's easy to dig a well, but the range of the reservoir is too large. I'm afraid we won't be able to finish it in a while, or we will do it right now." Free up a few people to work first? If you open up wasteland, it will be much easier to start, and both sides will start working together!"

"Then you just look at the assigned tasks." Su Mu nodded and just responded, suddenly remembered something and hurriedly asked: "If we dig a well, do we need to tell the village chief?"

"What are you talking about? Muzi, do you still have to report when you dig a well outside? We don't have such a big rule, just dig if you want, and work with your own strength, and the heavenly king doesn't care about it!" Mrs. Hei was surprised. Looking at Su Mu, he whispered to the young wives beside him, "If you dig a well in your own house in the city, you have to be supervised, so do you have to report it if you fart?"

"Hahaha! You can't control the sky and the earth, and you can't control people's shit and fart. What you said, black sister-in-law, is too unreliable!" Immediately, a young daughter-in-law began to refute.

On the contrary, it was Liu Dali's wife who liked to listen to outside stories, and had been pestering Su Mu's mother for a few days.Hearing what they were talking about, I leaned over and whispered: "I heard that even smoking outside is not allowed! You will be fined for spitting!"

"Tsk tsk, the outside control is really wide!" The old man who likes to smoke also expressed his dissatisfaction.

But there are still many young people clamoring and retorting, "What good is smoking? Choking someone to death, not letting smoke is a good thing! Spitting fines are also justified. On a clean street, if you spit and he spits, how much is it?" Disgusting people. If you want me to say, we really can’t close our eyes and cover our ears all the time, and ignore the things outside. Learn more from Muzi, and let the children learn more knowledge in the future. More promising than us!"

(End of this chapter)