4 At noon, the muddy stream.

At this time, there was a lively scene on the edge of the muddy stream, regardless of the old and the young, most of them were busy with their families. Women hold on to bamboo, men chop or saw, children chase on the side, and sometimes there are two or three men standing next to them, pointing out one or two from time to time. The big guys are busy chopping bamboo.

Bamboo is not worth two dollars, and you have to pick a good shade dry to sell. But, this does not include giving away for free, you read that right, Zhou Gongzi said that bamboo is given away for free! Just three days. Although there are many bamboos in the mountains, there is no land that is ownerless, can you take it for nothing? Do you try? I'm heavens! This person, it's a fool not to take advantage of it! It's only the first day, and all the neighbors have come out, and they are not stupid at all! Except for Zhou Gongzi.

The boulder is drawn out with lime to the south of two parallel lines of two zhang and five widths, and the white line goes down the steep slope with a little bit, there are nearly 100 zhang long, this is the newly drawn river channel, in fact, when you want to dig the earth, it will be narrower, the upper width and the lower narrow. Xu Wa'er was gesturing there, so that people could only cut bamboo between the white lines or not go too far.

Zhou Dao wore a white robe and hung around the busy crowd with his hands behind his back. Dangling seemed to have become his logo, nodding with this one, and playing with those few haha. With these tattered clothes, arm-to-arms and legs, they seem to be both easy-going and a little outstanding.

"Zhou Gongzi is really kind, he is a scholar, and he is extravagant." People sighed. While talking, a few mothers-in-law built a stove with stones and set up a few pots, "Gongzi Zhou invites everyone to eat porridge, and there will be a meal in the evening." A woman who made a fire shouted to the busy crowd, and two other mothers-in-law helped to pour miscellaneous grains into the pot, as well as vegetable leaves and vegetable gangs, and stirred them together.

"Just sprinkle a few more grains of salt in the porridge! A guy squatted on the ground, holding a porridge bowl in his hand and sighed. "You're shitty and beautiful! It's taken for free, and eaten for free! There is such a good thing in the world, thanks to Zhou Gongzi. The person next to him laughed and scolded. Someone saw the free multigrain porridge and smiled and took the cake he brought back into his arms.

"I heard that the work will start every two days, but it's a dry meal, not like this." A man took the second bowl of porridge and said with a wink. "Okay, you Shen Shun'er, are you still too tired of eating for nothing? Dry and thin, roll if you don't eat it. The fire-burning lady laughed and scolded. Hey! You are a princess, you owe it. I mean that I mean that when I go to work, I eat better, and I get paid. "Yes, yes. There was another laugh on the slope.

For the next month, dozens of men sweated and dug ditches with hoes and shovels every day. The actual length of the diversion part is about 80 zhang, it is forming little by little, the canal is wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, there are seven feet deep, the bottom of the canal is eight feet and the canal surface is one zhang, and the section is a trapezoid. The slope here is large, and the water is turbulent and not easy to silt. The canals were dug wide and deep to prevent the calculation of summer rainfall at its heaviest. These people are all old croppers, digging the ground is exactly what they do, and the progress is quite fast.

As for the house-like boulder that blocked the waterway, there are roughly two ways to remove it. One is to hollow out one side under the stone, raise the other side a little bit, and use the weight of the stone to make it roll away again and again. This method was not used because the stone was a bit semi-circular in shape, buckled to the ground, and the diameter was too large to be turned. So I had to use the second stupid way to get rid of it little by little.

On the big rock, several people were sitting or standing on the iron hammer, dancing and beating the sledgehammer again and again, and the top of the stone gradually recessed, and the thick gravel was laid at the foot of their feet. At this time, the stream is noticeably smaller, and they want to open the canal before the year.