Chapter 94: Digging Wells and Working Part-time
When Qin Yin went all out to finish her university studies, her hometown of Linjiang County and small mountain villages set off a lot of enthusiasm for going out to work. For thousands of years, there has been a welcome change in the phenomenon of peasants fixing themselves in one place for agricultural production.
First of all, more than a year ago, the Ah Quan family in the small mountain village had sufficient labor, and it was more than enough to do a good job in the field. Therefore, Ah Quan has more free time, so he helps the villagers dig wells, so that the villagers can drink water conveniently and quickly. At that time, there was no running water in the small mountain village, only water from the creek, but the water quality of the creek became very poor on windy and rainy days, and every day I had to carry a bucket to fetch water hundreds of meters away. Ah Quan began to help the people in the neighboring village dig wells, learned the craft of digging wells, and dug a well in his own house in a small mountain village, everyone felt that Ah Quan's family had clean water to drink since the well was dug in the wind and rain, and also saved the trouble of picking up water and storing water, so they planned their own well digging affairs, and the big guys could only rely on digging wells to improve the quality of drinking water life.
At that time, Ah Quan was young and strong, and he began his career of digging wells with great strength. He helped each household in the small mountain village plan a household well, provided drilling tools himself, and provided the proprietor with materials such as bricks, stones, tiles, etc. The well water is very clean, and the people in the village are very happy to drink it directly.
Gradually, Ah Quan's technique of digging wells has improved greatly, and the efficiency has gradually improved. The fastest time was before the harvest was rushed, and there were several families who were optimistic about the days piled up in three days, and he arranged for all of them to be dug well, and a well could be dug in five or six hours at the earliest.
Ah Quan opened dozens of wells for his neighbors, digging a well for one yuan and one meter, some digging five meters for five yuan, and some even digging more than ten meters to have water. Later, Ah Quan unified the price, no matter what well, he charged 20 yuan. Ah Quan gradually made some money by digging wells, and some people calculated that digging wells could earn 10,000 yuan a year.
It may be difficult for people today to imagine the importance of wells to farmers' lives in the past. In the past, wells provided farmers with a stable and clean source of water, just like mineral water is now. There is a large water tank in the farmhouse kitchen, which is full of well water, and some people do not use the big water tank at all after digging the well, and directly shake the water on the well, which can be used as water for cooking and daily life. Of course, later, as the people's bungalows were upgraded to buildings, and gradually everyone installed running water, the role of the well gradually became smaller. However, for people in the seventies and eighties of the last century, it is simply full of memories of that era......
Ah Quan's reputation for digging wells has been so great that even the building materials factory in the county invited him to dig wells. It was the largest well that Ah Quan had ever dug. In order to deal with the "factory-farmer relationship" between the factory and the local people, the building materials factory asked Ah Quan to dig a large well in the village near the factory, which was five meters in diameter and 18 meters deep.
Within a few days, the well was dug. The people of the village are very happy because with the well, not only do they not have to carry water remotely, but they also meet the domestic water needs of all the villagers. The villagers sent a letter of thanks to the building materials factory, and Yu An took the letter of thanks and explained that Qinmei, who was standing next to her, should thank the master who dug the well.
Kotomi brought someone from the office to inspect the well, and she had no idea how much she should pay for such a large well, so she inspected the well and praised again and again: "Wow! Who dug this well, this well opening and digging technology is good, much more powerful than Ah Quan, the best well digging master in our village." ”
When Kotomi knew that this was the well dug by Ah Quan, and Ah Quan was standing in the crowd of onlookers, her face was embarrassed, and in order to alleviate this situation, she immediately changed her words and said: "I said, who can dig such a well in these four miles and eight towns? It turns out that it is really Uncle Quan from our village!"
Ah Quan smiled honestly on the side: "It's the first time I've dug such a big well." ”
Qinmei naturally took good care of Ah Quan in the same village, and wanted to give Ah Quan more wages, so she asked Ah Quan to set a price by herself, and the factory would give it to her. Who knew that Ah Quan was only forty, which was equivalent to the price of two wells in normal times.
Ah Quan dug a big well in a factory like a building materials factory, and although he only received 40 yuan, it seemed that he had suffered a loss, but he won a reputation for being fair and honest in distinguishing between public and private. Since then, more and more people in the vicinity have asked Ah Quan to dig wells.
Of course, Ah Quan began to feel unbearable digging the well alone, so he hired two helpers to dig the well together. The two helpers learned the technique of digging wells, so they left Ah Quan to do it themselves, and soon hired their own helpers. Soon, almost every village in the commune had men who could dig wells.
Many people have tasted the sweetness of digging wells, and the local wells have almost been dug, so they think of going out to dig wells. As a result, a peculiar phenomenon appeared in the mountainous area, that is, groups of people went out to dig wells. They bought a bicycle and wrapped a long aqueduct around the bike frame in a loop, leaving a place for the bike in the middle and a well digging tool in the back seat.
The well diggers who came out of the mountains, either in groups of three or five or alone, set out at the beginning of the year and returned to their hometowns at the end of the year. During the year, they walked from village to village, from neighboring counties to neighboring provinces, from nearby mountain villages, to every corner of the village in southern Guangdong.
They became the first batch of people in the small mountain village to travel from south to north and go out to make money, starting from being penniless to earning hundreds or thousands of people to return to their hometowns. The well diggers who returned to their hometowns brought the candy that the children liked to eat, and the special snacks that were only available in other places. When they go out, they become the hope of improving the living standards of their families, and when they return to their hometowns, they become a beautiful scenery that the children of the family look forward to.
The wave of going out to dig wells that started more than a year ago has made young men in the mountains eager to try. Qin Sheng has long wanted to go out, even if Zhang Miao made a special trip to visit him in a small mountain village later, he also felt that his feelings were actually full of changes, and the only thing that remained unchanged was to work hard to earn money to improve his life.
Qin Sheng also imagined that those who went out to dig wells, bought some equipment and prepared to go out to dig wells. At this time, the workers who had been working together at the aqueduct construction site made a special trip to the small mountain village to find Qin Sheng, saying that there were many construction and installation tasks in the special economic zone, and they hoped that Qin Sheng could go there to contract some projects together.
Whether it is better to go out to dig a well or go out to contract a project, Qin Sheng has no idea for a while, he is very troubled, and he is hesitant.
At dinner, the Qin family got together and discussed whether it was better to go out to dig a well or go out to contract a project in response to the distress of Qin Sheng. Qinmu said: "Nowadays, there are many people who go out to dig wells, and I am afraid that there are not so many wells to dig wells, so it is better to go out and contract projects." Qin's father said: "Wouldn't you have to pay some money when you go out to contract the project? It just so happened that Kotomi was also eating at home, and Kotomi said, "No matter what you do, you can choose whatever kind of money you make." ”
Qin Sheng listened to the opinions and suggestions of his family, but muttered in his heart: The project that the workers are talking about is the project of building a hospital! Isn't Zhang Miao working as a nurse in a hospital? Qin Sheng is very sensitive to the construction project of the hospital and has a special fondness.
He secretly made up his mind that he must go to the special economic zone with his co-workers to build a hospital project, and in the future, when the hospital is completed, he will make money, and Zhang Miao will go to work in the hospital that has just been built......
Qin Sheng had the dream of going out, imagining the future life, and couldn't help but laugh stupidly. Then he went out and went to his co-worker. Take a hundred plating to read the latest chapter of "Dream Chaser Huazhang Claw Book House" for free for the first time.