Chapter 18 Digging a Well

At 7 o'clock in the evening, the landlord of Xu met with the representatives of the tenants in Xuzhuang, and had a cordial conversation with them, and after a night of discussion, they finally reached a consensus:

That is to strengthen win-win cooperation, strengthen infrastructure, improve the living standard of Xuzhuang, take economic construction as the center, revolve around the banner of Xuzhuang landlords, and work together for the brilliant future of Xuzhuang. Reporter Xu Qi sent a report at the scene.

Uncle Zheng's house:

"Mother, don't weave tomorrow......" Uncle Zheng said to his wife Zheng Liu with a playful face.

"What, look at Master Xu's rent reduction, lazy?" Zheng Liu said.

"How can it be, Master Xu will tell us to do things tomorrow......" Uncle Zheng explained.

"What? Work?! Hmph, I know that it's rent reduction and meat again, so I don't have the ...... kindness" Zheng Liu didn't know why he looked resentful.

"Look at what you said, people pay you two meals a day, ten cents! Don't talk nonsense......" Uncle Zheng continued to explain, not saying half a sentence.

"What, you dead old man, why didn't you say it earlier, it will cause me to wronged others." Zheng Liu blushed and smiled.

"Hey, hey, hey......"

"Don't laugh, you go and do things, I can't be lazy at home...... When the child is old and doesn't save some money, who will marry him? Zheng Liu looked worried.

"No, Master Xu has arranged a job for you, five cents a day, just to cook for everyone......" Uncle Xu said as if to take credit.

"Ask someone to cook? What kind of work, so many people ......" Zheng Liu still refused to believe it.

"To repair wells, we also need to dig ponds...... I can't get off for a month......"

"Master Xu, Master Xu, tsk, tsk, good people......"

"You just said that people ......"

"Shut up!"

In the swarthy Zhuangzi, similar conversations were also heard from different villages.

The seven families in Xuzhuang, 14 Ding, plus Liu San, were divided into three groups next to Xu Qing's house, next to the tenant house, and next to the farmland far away from these two places, and dug a square well respectively.

A group of five people, two people dig, one pulls the soil, two people go to carry water, mix up the dug mud, put some straw and step on it evenly, pile it outside to dry, and make large adobe bricks, and the five people take turns.

In addition, several children in the village were also busy, the girl was busy weaving a kind of side basket with wicker, and the boy was responsible for bringing the basket and filling it with stones, all for two pennies.

The people in the village are all beaming, and Uncle Zheng's wife is even more proud, she only earns three cents a day when she works in the weaving house for a month, and now she earns five cents a day! It's very energetic to cook.

Xu Qing checked the money bag over and over again, and after a month, he couldn't get his salary and food without five or six taels of silver. Tut-tut, distressed......

Now Xu Qing is digging a square well, according to the length unit of later generations, it is a rectangular pit with a length of 2.5 meters and a width of 1.5 meters. After digging, the soil inside the well is pressed tightly with a frame of stones. Then use adobe bricks to build a fence around the wellhead, cover it with wooden boards, and leave only a hole for everyone to draw water.

Such a well, if it goes well, can be used by nearly 100 people. And three in the village can save the crops in times of drought.

Xu Qing also wanted to dig a pond in the low-lying area of Zhuangzi, plant lotus flowers in it, put a few fish, and turn the surrounding area into paddy fields, so that in the future, one crop of rice and one season of wheat can be planted. Anyway, the surrounding land is all Xu Qing's, and there is no precise boundary monument, so you can get it as you want.

The landlord's good life is coming, and it is comfortable to think about it, and the pain caused by the silver is much less......

Master Xu, now he reluctantly accepts the word master, no matter how he emphasized, the difference between the master and the young master, the Zhuangzi still calls him master. Only those in their own family will call the young master.

Mr. Xu is now inspecting the No. 1 drilling site, yesterday day, only dug a little more than a meter, fortunately the omen is good, more than a meter underground, very wet.

Then Mr. Xu inspected a number of construction sites in a row, cordially expressed his condolences to the workers who were struggling on the front line, and experienced it by the way, but he was driven out.

"Steward Zhao, these days, why can't those people in the saline-alkali land come? Could it be that they have earned enough rations......" Hu Fu said as he looked at the piles of unchopped firewood and chores at home that had not been processed properly.

"Master, the Zhuangzi in the saline-alkali land is now called Xuzhuang, and somehow a rich man came over there, and the land there is his."

"Huh? Where did the people come from? Hu Fu frowned.

"I don't know, maybe it's the one who does business." Steward Zhao guessed.

"And what should I do if I have so much work here, if I don't finish it, it's winter, it's a big loss." Hu Fudao.

"Master, we can invite someone else... There are many other Zhuangzi people... It's not bad for Xu Zhuang..."

"No, everyone else has to come with two buckets of rice, and those people in the saline-alkali land are honest...... Hehe" Hu Fu's eyes narrowed, "In this way, you go to Xuzhuang for a walk, and let the other person surnamed Xu call someone, who in Luonan County doesn't give me face?" ”

Hu Fu is the closest landlord to Xuzhuang, his family's land is less than 100 acres, but they are all good land, in terms of value, it is about the same as Xu Qing's 200 acres, usually people in Xuzhuang come to his house to work for a short time.

The three brothers of the Hu family, the eldest Hu Gui works in the county government, the warden, Hu Fu is the second, guarding the family's land, and is a well-known cautious iron rooster, and there is a third brother, who opened a cloth shop in the county, and a cousin is Lizheng in the township. Therefore, the Hu family is still quite influential in Luonan, and ordinary people really dare not offend.

Hu Fu had never heard of anyone surnamed Xu in Luonan, so he naturally thought that the Xu family was a businessman who came to Luonan to settle down. Since ancient times, businessmen have been the cheapest, inferior, and have no background in officialdom, so they have never done much.

And the big landlord Xu was happy that the first well had successfully pumped water, and he didn't know that there was a little trouble coming to him. The first sip of water came out of the house next to Xu Qing's house, and it was only four meters to dig up, and there was too much water to do, so he continued to stiffen his head, scooped out the water, and dug another half a meter. Then stack the stone frames one by one, and it may be ready to use the next day.

The other two wells also came out of the water one after the other, and the stone walls and planks were laid one by one, as they had been said, and a fence was put on the outside, and littering was forbidden inside. After digging the well, Xu Qing organized and began to dig the pond, the pond did not have the strict requirements of the well, and Xu Qing would not always guide or something. So enjoy leisure at home, and occasionally tease Xiaoyue Xiaoru. And Xu Qi and Xiaoyue are studying girl red, one needle and thread, weaving and spinning, embroidery and the like.

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