Chapter 178: Digging a Pond
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Yang Yun took out thirty taels of silver from the general ledger at home, and Yang Yun estimated that it would cost at least dozens of taels of silver to dig a pond and build a house, and the labor wage alone was a lot of money.
"Yun girl, your Uncle Li said that he can help you dig the pond if he is free, and you have to find a few more people to dig the pond?" Grandpa just came back from Uncle Li's house, and such a big pond can't be dug by Grandpa and Uncle Li alone.
"Grandpa, I want to find twenty people to dig the pond, you can help me go to the village to ask, are there any uncles and uncles in the village who are willing to come and help our family dig the pond, the salary is forty yuan a day, not including food, our family is now limited in manpower, and there is no way to cook so many people's food." The day's salary in the town is only about 30 yuan, not including food, Yang Yun generously gave 40 yuan.
"You girl, why do you want so many people and find so many people to work, is there enough money in the family?"
"Grandpa, don't worry, I have a plan to use the money at home, and it is absolutely enough. Now we have to seize the time to dig the pond, now the weather is still warm, dig the pond can be early to release the fish fry, and when the winter comes, the fry grow up, and they are not afraid of freezing to death. ”
"Okay, I'll go to the village tomorrow morning and ask if anyone is coming to dig the pond." Grandpa took care of finding someone to work. Yang Yun only needs to draw out the planning of six acres of wasteland, and then be responsible for directing the villagers to work.
When the family had dinner in the evening, Yang Yun roughly told her family about her plan for six acres of wasteland by the river, and won the support of the family. Grandpa also said that the matter of the wasteland by the river is up to Yang Yun to decide, and if you need manpower, grandpa will go to find someone. Yang Yong and Yang Xuan said that they would help with the work when they went home in the afternoon, and with the support of their families, Yang Yun could rest assured and boldly do what she wanted to do.
The next day, my grandfather went to the village early in the morning to find people and asked them if they would like to help dig the pond. As soon as everyone heard that the salary was forty wen a day, or that it was settled on the same day, they all promised to come to help. Grandpa quickly found twenty people, and some of them knew that the wages were so high, and they all told Grandpa that they would come to work too. According to Yang Yun's explanation, Grandpa first told everyone that he was only looking for twenty people for the time being, and if there were not enough people at that time, he would definitely ask more people to help with the work.
Grandpa asked someone to see the day, and two days later it was a good day to start work. Yang Yun was in a hurry to dig up the pond first, and two days later would be the fastest and most suitable day. The people that grandpa is looking for this time are all looking for several families who are familiar with the Yang family, Chun'er's father, Chubby's father, and several chubby uncles. Although there is no food, but the water still has to be boiled, Yang Yun ran to Dr. Xu's house, and asked Dr. Xu to prescribe perilla, sand cucumber, jade bamboo and other cool medicinal materials, boiled water for the workers to drink, you can put some down.
Perilla can not only sweat and dissipate cold to relieve the evil spirit, but also can be wide-ranging, with tangerine peel, it is the most suitable to drink in the autumn season. It is easy to sweat when working in autumn, and because of the large temperature difference between morning and evening, after the clothes are soaked with sweat, it is easy to get cold, and drinking perilla and tangerine peel water can prevent colds. Sand cucumber with jade bamboo, can play: nourish yin and generate Jin, clear heat and cool blood, moisturize dryness, remove annoyance, quench thirst and other effects, autumn is easy to take a bath, these two herbs boiled water to drink the effect is very significant.
The day before digging the pond, Yang Yun, her grandfather and Uncle Li, drew one and a half acres of wasteland by the river with lime powder circles, and dug the location of the pond.
The next day, the villagers who came to the river to help dig the pond came early, and Yang Yun stood by the river early in the morning and waited for the villagers.
"Uncles and uncles, everyone help dig the location of the pond, I have already drawn it with lime powder, so let's start digging according to the location I have drawn." Yang Yun pointed out the location for everyone to see.
"Okay, let's do the work." The villagers who helped saw the location pointed out by Yang Yun started to work. Although there is a lot of sand and gravel by the river, fortunately, the geology is not too hard, and because it is close to the river, it is easy to dig out the sand and gravel.
Aunt Li and grandma were responsible for boiling water, and Yang Yun asked grandma to boil a bucket of boiled water, a bucket of perilla and tangerine peel water. You can drink any bucket of water according to your needs. The next day, you can change to boiled sand cucumber and jade bamboo water, grandma boiled the water, Yang Yun asked Uncle Li to help pick it up and go to the river for everyone to drink, Yang Yun used a basin to fill a pot and take it to the river.
This time the business by the river, the Li family does not need to contribute any capital, just need to help take care of it, and Yang Yun gave 20% of the profits to the Li family. In the future, Yang Yun plans to leave the poultry farm by the river to Yang Yong, and the industry here will be managed by Yang Yong. Yang Yun is now starting to buy industries, all of which are to be left to Yang Xuan and Yang Yong, and the "Flower World" workshop belongs to Yang Yun, of course, the money earned so far is still owned by the family. Later, when everyone grows up, these industries will be dealt with separately.
This time, I asked someone to dig the pond plus Uncle Li and Grandpa, there were a total of twenty-two people, there were many people, and the speed of digging was very fast, Yang Yun asked everyone to dig out the sand and gravel, and then picked a place not far from the pond, that place was the place where Yang Yun planned to build a poultry house, and the sand and gravel were needed to build houses and fences in the future, and these sand and gravel were very good things.
It took ten days to dig the pond by the river, and the wages of the workers alone cost eight taels of silver. After the pond was dug, Yang Yun asked her grandfather and Uncle Li to sprinkle a layer of lime powder in the pond to sterilize and disinfect. It takes three days before the pond can be irrigated.
"Grandpa, Uncle Li, tomorrow you go to the town, find an intermediary in the town, and ask him if he can help us buy fish fry." Grandpa and they finished sprinkling lime powder, and the two families were having dinner at Yang's house in the evening, and Yang Yun told grandpa that they went to buy fish fry.
"If you want to raise fish in the pond, you can catch some fish from the river and put them in the pond to feed, where you need to buy fish fry." There were a lot of fish in the river, and my grandfather couldn't understand why his granddaughter still had to buy fish fry.
"Grandpa, I know there are fry in the river, but I'm looking for a fish called the pond catfish, and its scientific name is bearded catfish. This fish is so difficult to catch that it cannot be caught unless the river is drained, and it likes to hide in the dirt. Raising this kind of fish, there are great benefits, in addition to the delicious fish, this fish also eats the sediment of the pond, it especially likes to eat the feces of other fish, and the pond fish can play a role in cleaning the pond. ”
"And such fish?" Grandpa and Uncle Li heard this kind of fish for the first time, in fact, they didn't blame grandpa for not knowing, mainly because there are few people in the nearby villages who raise fish, and there should be more such fish in the south of the Yangtze River. Yang Yun hopes that the intermediary in the town can help him find this fish.
"Yes, don't worry, let the town find an intermediary first, help us contact it, if there are about five hundred to come back, if not, let's find someone to inquire slowly."
"Okay, tomorrow I'll go to the town with your Uncle Li to ask, you let us sprinkle lime powder on the pond, when can we fill it with water."
"After three days, we can refill the pond and sprinkle it with lime powder to help sterilize the pond, which will reduce the disease rate of the fry." Although Grandpa and Uncle Li didn't understand what sterilization was, they understood that sprinkling lime powder was good for fish fry.
The next day, Grandpa and Uncle Li went to the town, found an intermediary to contact the fish fry, and went to the town to book some bricks and stones for building houses. Yang Yun planned to build two large sturdy houses, one for those who tended the fry and poultry, and the other for hatching poultry. Yang Yun plans to hatch all poultry by herself in the future. Incubating poultry at home can save costs, and as for the incubation technology still needs to be experimented, Yang Yun knows that the most important part of poultry incubation is to maintain a constant temperature.
Chickens, ducks, and geese can be built simply, just use civil structures, as long as the house is kept warm in winter and ventilated in summer.
Grandpa and Uncle Li returned to Zhoujia Village in the afternoon, and Grandpa came back and said that the bricks and stones had been booked, and the merchants in the town would send the bricks and stones to Zhoujia Village in three days. There is no news about the fish fry that the intermediary is looking for, and the intermediary in the town said that they will help pay attention to it, and if they find the fish fry, they will immediately send a message to the Zhou's grocery store in the town.
Three days later, Uncle Li and his grandfather dug a passage from the river to the pond to allow the river water to pour into the pond. When the pond is full, the channel is filled. The merchants in the town also sent a few truckloads of bricks and stones at the agreed time, and Yang Yun asked people to transport these bricks and stones to six acres of land by the river, and by the way, the balance was settled, and a few truckloads of bricks and stones alone cost Yang Yun five taels of silver. No wonder people say that a blue brick and tiled house cannot be built without a few dozen taels of silver.
After the pond was filled with water, Yang Yong and Dabao and Xiaobao came back from the school at noon, and after eating in the afternoon, they took buckets and fishing nets to the river to net fish, and all the fish caught in the net were thrown into the pond. Yang Yong and the others kept throwing fish from the river and netting fish to the pond to feed, although some of the fish died, but most of the fish survived.
The beams that my grandfather bought with the villagers have also been moved to the pond, and now I just have to wait for a good day to see that I can hire someone to start building a house. The villagers knew that the Yang family was going to build a house, and they all told the Yang family that they would invite them if they wanted to work. The wages given by the Yang family are too high, and the villagers are unwilling to let go of this opportunity to make money, as long as they don't cheat and cheat, Yang Yun is naturally willing to invite them to work.
Yang Yun bought all the materials used to build the house in advance. Grandpa asked someone to look at the date again, and it was determined that the construction would start in three days. At this time, it was already October 20 in Zhoujia Village, the weather began to turn cooler, and it was already necessary to put on a thin coat during the day and night, and winter was coming. Yang Yun plans to build two rooms before winter comes. (To be continued.) )