I handed the knife to Nie Chunxian.

"Pure Immortal, stew dragon and phoenix soup at night, now you come to deal with this snake. ”

Nie Chunxian nodded, she was not afraid or refused.

"What should I do?"

She'd seen how I handled snakes before, but she didn't think she could be as clean as I was.

I threw a branch to her and said, "Use the branch to control the snake's head, and then cut its neck with a knife." ”

Chen Xinyi watched the whole process, in fact, he also wanted to try it, but because of that dream, she is now respectful of snakes.

It takes five or six days for the seedlings to be reclaimed, during which time the land has to be irrigated and fertilized, and the land here is only recently cultivated, and the soil quality is not bad.

Now the problem is how to bring the water source over when it is far away.

The water source is low, and the farmland is high.

As the saying goes, water flows low, so digging a ditch to divert water doesn't work.

Yue Qianrou looked at the farmland and said, "The farmland used to be close to the water source and convenient to get water, but now it is up to people to carry water to irrigate the farmland. ”

"That would be half the effort, and we have to find a way to bring the water from below. ”

"Water goes low, and it's unlikely and unrealistic to let it go high. ”

Su Ye shook his head and said, "Everything is possible, otherwise how would those terraced fields be irrigated?"

The wisdom left by our ancestors is endless, and one of them is a method of using waterwheels to divert water.

So I'm going to make a waterwheel.

The waterwheel, also known as the overhead crane, is more than 10 meters high and is supported by an axle with a length of five meters and a diameter of 0.5 points, which is supported by 24 wooden spokes, which spread out in a radial shape.

Each spoke is topped with a scraper and bucket. The scraper scrapes the water, and the bucket fills the water. The river rushed, slowly turning the spokes with the inertia of the movement of the water potential, and one by one the buckets filled with river water were lifted up step by step.

Yue Qianrou looked at the sketch of the waterwheel with some surprise.

"This thing looks so complicated, how did you come up with this kind of thing?"

"I didn't come up with this thing, the waterwheel was invented more than a thousand years ago, and there have been many changes over the years. ”

However, it is a pity that with the development of the times, this backward production tool has been eliminated.

"Little Brother Su!"

Xiao Qian hurriedly ran over, her face a little ugly.

"What's wrong?

That's what I thought of right away.

Xiao Qian shook her head and said, "There is a water ghost! A child was pulled down by the river just now!"

"Water ghosts, how can there be water ghosts in broad daylight?"

Riverside.

One of the children of the Luna clan was lying on the ground soaking wet, with a bulging belly, he had just been fished out of the water and was being rescued.

"Just now I heard someone shouting for help and came to take a look, and I saw him struggling in the water, as if something was dragging him in the water and wouldn't let go. ”

Xiao Qian's description caused the people around her to panic, since they want to live here, they must often come to the river to fetch water.

But now there are water ghosts in the river, and everyone is afraid.

"Do you see what that thing looks like?"

Xiao Qian thought about it carefully and said, "At that time, I was so scared that I didn't pay much attention to it, I only saw that thing had a lot of long hair, just like aquatic plants. ”

Yue Qianrou frowned and said, "Aquatic plants? Maybe you are dazzled and regard aquatic plants as water ghosts." ”

Anyone who swims in the river knows that once the aquatic grass entangles your feet, it is like someone is pulling you, and people with poor psychological quality will mistakenly think that they have encountered a water ghost and are struggling desperately.

And the most wrong thing to do if you get entangled in the water is to struggle, because that will only make the weeds more entangled. The right thing to do is to stay calm and don't move, and wait for the aquatic plants to let go of you by themselves as the water flows.

"If it's not a water weed, it's probably a water monkey. ”

"Water monkeys?"

Su Ye nodded and said, "The water monkey is just a folk name, and the legend is that it is a creature that lives in the water, and its appearance is similar to that of an ape. It is commonly known as water ghosts in folklore, and there are also water lions, water ghouls, and ghouls, etc., and the names vary from place to place. ”

Water monkeys generally live in the water, and sometimes come ashore, and are mostly found in wild water sources such as mountain ponds and reservoirs.

Water monkeys are dependent on water, and their limbs are weak after ten minutes out of the water. In the water, the water monkey is several times more powerful than humans, so if it is held in the water, it is life-threatening.

Folklore has it that the water monkey has a huge and mysterious power in the water, can dig under the water and shuttle through different ponds and rivers, catch the person who falls into the water and drag it to the bottom, and cover the victim's seven orifices with silt, causing it to suffocate to death, and even legend has it that the water monkey sucks human blood, eats human nails and eyeballs.

Of course, these are just legends after all, they are fiction.

Nowadays, people believe in science, and research has found that the habits of the otter are very similar to those of the water monkey.

"Tell everyone not to go into the water casually, and don't come to the river alone to get water. ”

Yue Qianrou nodded.

"Little Brother Su, since you know what it is, can you find a way to catch it?"

Otherwise, there will always be a shadow in everyone's heart.

"It's not easy. ”

Not to mention that it lives in the water all year round and swims fast, and even if it can catch it, I can't guarantee that it will be this one in the water.

We just fetch water, don't go into the water and disturb them, and it should be fine.

Xiao Qian was frightened during the day, and stewed dragon and phoenix soup at night just to suppress it.

Chen Xinyi said that she didn't want to eat snake meat, and she didn't even drink soup.

Nie Chunxian took a bite of snake meat and drank a mouthful of soup.

"It's delicious! ”

Chen Xinyi frowned and said, "You can put such a terrible thing in your mouth, aren't you afraid that the snake will come back to life in the middle of the night and bite your stomach?"

"Don't scare me, I'm cowardly. ”

"Did you bury that snake head?"

Nie Chunxian nodded and said, "Buried." ”

"If you bury it, you don't have to worry that the snake will come to take revenge. ”

There is a saying in the countryside that after killing a snake, you must cut off its head and bury it, otherwise it will come back in the middle of the night to stuff your pillow.

I've had this experience before, killing a water snake during the day, and in the middle of the night I felt something crawling around my neck, much like a snake.

Of course, it's probably psychological, but it's a real feeling.

There is also a theory that if the head of a snake is exposed, it will be discovered by other snakes, see what the person who killed it looks like in its eyes, and then help it take revenge.

I think the second statement is even more outrageous, but any legend is not made up out of thin air, and there is a story prototype that can be traced.

"Yaoyao seems to have started to grow baby teeth, and I think it's time to wean. ”

After eating, Nie Chunxian was teasing the child, and suddenly found that Yaoyao had baby teeth.