The laboring brigade and the group of relatives and friends came one after another, and when they heard that the trees had been cut down, they were so annoyed that they wanted to go back in time, and they also took advantage of the moonlight to start work. Seeing that the people had almost arrived, Yu Dana cleared his throat, and the crowd of people suddenly quieted down, and then they found that Feng Dalang, who was usually always the first to speak up, not only did not ask questions today, but stood next to Yu Dana with Second Uncle Lu, with a posture of standing opposite to them.

"Folks, listen to me, the trees to be cut down in the West Bank are gone. "......" is gone, and the coolie brigade is a little too quiet, with questions on their faces, but none of them speak up.

"Starting today, everyone started digging trenches along the boundary of the ground, that is, along the way where the trees were dug, two meters wide and two meters high, and the excavated soil was to be sent out and spread over there. Yu Dana pointed to the lower riverbank, which is always flooded during the rainy season, so he simply fills it with dug earth. "Trenches are also divided according to work, and for every two meters of trenches dug you get a hundred copper plates. ”

There were whispers from below: "Trench?!" "Shouldn't we build a wall?" and I brought an axe. "Me too......" "Yesterday Dana ordered the ladel to come, and you still have axes. "Isn't this the difference, I thought that Brother Dana was not clear in his mind and ordered the wrong thing. ”

After Yu Dana announced such a surprising piece of news, he threw out another piece of heavy news, "Feng Dalang and Second Uncle Lu will tell everyone how to dig, and only if they meet the specifications can they get money, and if they are not wide enough, not deep enough, and with slopes, they can't take money." "Yu Dana has already told Feng Dalang and Second Uncle Lu that the width and depth of the trench are two meters, and the two sides must be cut straight down, without a little slope.

There were bursts of whispers below: "Ah!!" "Feng Jialang and Second Uncle Lu are officials!" "You don't have to work, you can get money with your mouth, such a good thing, why isn't it me!" "Feng Dalang, let's talk, how to dig." "There are people who have a close relationship with the Feng family, thinking about how to let Feng Dalang let go, loosen his mouth, and give some advantage.

Feng Dalang and Second Uncle Lu led the team to the forest to demonstrate, in fact, just now the two of them had already instructed their families to dig a four-meter trench as an example, and their movements were so fast that even Yu Dana didn't know.

After seeing the example, the coolie brigade dispersed and worked hard to dig on the land boundary, many places in the land boundary have become potholes because of the previous digging of trees, the land is a lot loose, it is not difficult to dig, but this straight section is not easy to master.

The terrain of the entire west bank is long and narrow, and the trenches that need to be dug are at least more than two thousand meters, Feng Dalang and Second Uncle Lu patrolled back and forth, and when they saw that they were digging incorrectly, they quickly stopped them, and those who still wanted them to turn a blind eye knew that they were thinking too well. The matter of the long-term work has not yet been decided, Feng Dalang and Second Uncle Lu treat the supervisor as an extremely serious matter, which is related to their family's livelihood in the future, how can they not be strict.

There are many people who are concerned about the West Bank, and the news has spread under the first spade of the toiling brigade. The first to bear the brunt is Yangjiazhuang, Zhou Changle waited on the east bank of the Yaoshui River early in the morning, and he didn't want to leave the Yaoshui River to gather the labor brigade, Yu Dana said what he said, he listened to it word by word, and then hurried back to talk to the young master.

Feng Qixiang is in Yangjiazhuang, there are annoying flies waiting for rabbits at the gate of Yangjiazhuang, he can't go out casually, he is really bored, he relies on Zhou Changle to kill time with the news he heard, he is interested in the West Bank, Zhou Changle is not doing anything now, just listening to the news as a serious matter.

As soon as Feng Qixiang finished using up the breakfast, Zhou Changle came in with a big grin, picked up the cold tea on the side and poured a few sips first, "Young master, the West Bank will start to dig a ditch without cutting trees today." With that, he picked up the teapot and poured another cup into his mouth.

"Don't cut it, will you finish cutting it or won't cut it?" Feng Qixiang wondered.

"It's been cut down, and all the trees have been cleared along the boundary left by the officials. ”

"......" isn't this a little faster? "What's the deal with digging a trench?"

"It's still along the boundary of the ground, digging a ditch two meters wide and two meters deep, and this, like this. Zhou Changle compared two straight sections, "The dug mud will be spread on the bank of the Yaoshui River." ”

"Hehe......" After thinking about it a lot, Feng Qixiang understood the mystery, and he couldn't help but chuckle, "Sure enough, he is a very smart person, it's good to find a chance to get to know him." ”

"Young Master, you actually smiled, you look so good when you laugh!" Zhou Changle said stupidly, and one sentence made Feng Qixiang's smile freeze on his face, he still didn't know it, and he was so flattering, "Young Master, I don't understand......!

"......" Feng Qixiang wondered, why did he leave such a fool by his side? He was so stupid that he always made him angry, and when he saw his ignorant and unconscious stupidity, he really didn't know whether to continue to be angry or let him go.

Landlord Zhang checked in his new land today, although it was forcibly blocked by the county magistrate, but in the end it has been allocated to his family, not to mention the yield and harvest, at least it must be scraped and the tax money will be scraped out.

It's just that the more he looks at it, the more desperate he becomes, this land is as hard as iron, I don't know how much manpower and material resources it takes to reclaim it, and this land is too far away from the water source, and basically can only look at the harvest in the future!!

"Master!!" Far away, Landlord Zhang's butler rode a bantam horse and galloped, "Master, it's not a good thing!"

Before the old housekeeper got off the horse and didn't stand still, he was kicked to the ground by the landlord Zhang, "Your master is fine, you short-lived ghost, dare to curse your master and me, I'm impatient, right?" ”

"It's not...... No, sir...... It's the West Bank, and the West Bank is not good. The old butler was not even out of breath, and he was talking one by one.

"Aren't they cutting down trees, what's going on?" Landlord Zhang paid so much attention to the West Bank, and now he was willing to walk away and come to check the site because he felt that nothing big would happen in the West Bank for the time being.

"Now...... Now instead of cutting down trees, change ...... Dig the ground instead. The old butler said breathlessly.

"Digging the ground?!Digging the ground so quickly, what the hell?!What about the tree, don't cut it down in half?"

"They told them that the tree had been cut down!"

"Nonsense, more than 1,000 trees, 2,000 trees, 100 people, how can it take ten days and half a month to cut down, it's only been four days, how can it be cut down. Where did you find out about the fake news? ”

"Really, it's true, sir! This matter has spread, the brothers of the Feng family took their mother-in-law and children to cut down trees together, and received at least five or six taels of silver before and after, according to twenty or thirty yuan each, it is almost two hundred trees, you see there are so many other people. ”

"This is too ......" Anyone who hears this will be surprised, what kind of speed is this......

Everyone thought that the Qiao family was too stupid to build a wall after cutting down trees, but he did the opposite, and had people dig a trench, which was said to be wider than a person and taller than a person. ”

"......" If Landlord Zhang still doesn't understand when he hears this, then he will be the head of the Zhang family in vain. Then where is the Qiao family too stupid, it's simply that the Qiao family is too fine.

Zhu Qishan, the county magistrate of Lishan County, soon got the latest news on the west bank, and learned that in addition to building walls, there was also such a clever plan as digging trenches to stop wild boars, he couldn't help but shout, "Wonderful!" Zhu Qishan could already foresee the grand situation on the west bank, land, food, and population ...... This time, he really wanted to meet Yu Dana's master and drink two more glasses.

Qiao Lan, who changed from the fool of the Qiao family to the master of the Qiao family, finally completed her book on how to grow sweet potatoes, she carefully made the cover, drew an ugly sweet potato, and then described it many times, and felt that she could write the title well, so she wrote two words "potato wish" seriously.

In the evening, after Yu Dana came back, Qiao Lan solemnly handed him this "Potato Wish", Yu Dana took the "Potato Wish", and saw the things painted on it, if it weren't for the word "potato", if it wasn't for Qiao Lan telling him about this book, he wouldn't have been able to understand what was painted on it, let alone think that this was the sweet potato he was lucky enough to meet a few times and then planted in the vat.

Yu Dana opened "Potato Wish" in a stable mood, and when he saw the words on it, the muscles in the corners of his eyes couldn't help twitching, although he only went to school for two years when he was a child, but in good conscience, he had never seen such a distorted word. He didn't understand, the fact that the young lady could write so many words showed that she was literate, but the writing was so ugly that it was really puzzling.

Yu Dana put away the book and said calmly, "Miss should practice more calligraphy when she is free!" ”

Qiao Lan wanted to stop him and tell him that in fact, her handwriting was very good, and she was just not used to writing with a brush, but could she? Obviously, she couldn't, so she could only hold her grievances.

The next day, Yu Dana still got up early, washed up, and then took the one left by Zhang Niangzi to go out early, last night Qiao Lan said that he wanted to use Fang Xiaoyong, so today he went to the West Bank by himself.

The trench on the west bank was dug very quickly, and under the watchful eye of Feng Dalang and Second Uncle Lu, the labor brigade dug the trench so meticulously that it accidentally collapsed, and a shovel of mud would be used to fill it and shoot it tightly, which was really like that example.

After yesterday's day, Yu Dana was very satisfied with the supervision work of Feng Dalang and Second Uncle Lu, and today he let them be responsible alone, today he guarded by the Yaoshui River, guiding the people who carried the mud to pour the mud evenly, so as not to pay attention, there are a few more mud mountains on the west bank of the Yaoshui River.