"That Xiucai, don't boast, we have already drilled more than a dozen wells, but none of them have produced water. Can you find a well and be sure that you can draw water? Zheng Chun stepped forward and said to Su Hao.

Zheng Chun spoke like this for a purpose. After all, Chen Guanyu is a professional feng shui master, and he drilled a well according to the well position he instructed, and he had an explanation if he couldn't get water. Su Hao is just a scholar, listening to Su Zhong's meaning, Su Hao is a nerd at all, maybe he just wants to escape the charge of beating the official, Zheng Chun of course can't beg him to point out the well.

However, the conversation between Su Hao and Chen Guanyu clearly showed that Chen Guanyu was exhausted, which showed that Su Hao still had some ability. In Zheng Chun's heart, he also hopes that Su Hao may be able to solve his current predicament, otherwise, after spending so much money and not getting any water out, he will not be able to go back to pay the errand.

So, Zheng Chun used such a trick to capture the old man, waiting for Su Hao to speak by himself.

Now this Su Hao is not the original nerd, Zheng Chun's little caution, where can he hide Su Hao? However, Su Hao didn't bother to fight with Zheng Chun, the warden of the county government was just a small deputy section-level cadre in the future, is it worth thinking about anything for Su Hao?

Su Hao did not answer Zheng Chun's question, but pushed aside the crowd and came to the side of the well being drilled, looked inside, and asked, "How deep is this well?" ”

"40 feet." The well-driller next to him replied.

"Give me the torches, and I'll go down and have a look." Su Hao said.

The craftsman looked at Zheng Chun who was following behind Su Hao, and Zheng Chun waved his hand, signaling that the craftsman could give Su Hao a torch. The craftsman lit a torch and handed it to Su Hao. Su Hao lifted his robe and stepped into the hanging basket of the well with a torch.

"Brother Hao!" Lu Xiu'er was a little anxious and shouted.

Su Hao smiled at her and said, "What are you afraid of, it's just to go down the well and take a look." ”

"But......" Lu Xiu'er didn't know whether she should stop her brother's actions, looking at the people around her with curious looks, she couldn't say anything more, so she could only whisper: "You should be more careful......"

Going down this kind of well is simply commonplace for Su Hao, a geological expert in later generations, and he has gone down to a well hundreds of meters deep, and he doesn't think it's dangerous at all. He made a gesture to the two workers who were rocking the wheel, and the workers turned the knob and lowered the basket little by little.

Su Hao sat in the hanging basket, holding a torch to inspect the rock and sand layers on the wall of the well, and suddenly he couldn't understand the place, so he pulled the hanging rope and asked the people above to stop first. About ten minutes later, he gave a signal from the well and asked people to pull him up. The situation down the shaft was about the same as he had predicted, and the place was indeed an anticlinal formation, and he went down to understand the thickness of the rock formation, and its possible course.

"How's that, Xiucai, what do you see?" Zheng Chun impatiently stepped forward and asked.

Su Hao shook his head: "The secret of heaven must not be leaked...... I'm going to see where the wells are. ”

More than a dozen wells are scattered around the village. Originally, it was going to be filled in, in case someone stumbled and fell. But these days, everyone is busy digging new wells, and the matter of filling the wells has been put on hold for the time being. Zheng Chun saw that Su Hao's spirit was full of confidence, and he trusted him a little more, so he asked the craftsman who drilled the well to take the reel rack, rope and hanging basket to inspect the other dry wells with Su Hao.

Su Hao didn't look at all the more than a dozen wells, and after drilling out of the fifth well, he looked up at the sky, muttered a few words, and then pointed to the southeast direction with his finger and said, "From this direction, 700 steps." ”

"What do you say? 700 steps to water? Zheng Chun couldn't help but shudder a little, he wanted to believe that what Su Hao said was true, because it meant that his political life would be saved.

"Hit 60 feet deep, out of the water...... 400 taels per hour. Su Hao helplessly converted the ancient unit of measurement, one quintal is 100 catties, and 400 quintals is 40,000 catties, which is equivalent to 20 tons of water. According to his estimates, a 20-meter well drilled at that well location would produce 240 tons of water a day and night, which should be about the same, even if there is an error of about 20%, everyone will not be able to detect it.

"You're talking nonsense!" Chen Guanyu finally broke out. Previously, he was really frightened when he saw Su Hao's confident demeanor, and felt that Su Hao might really have some tricks. Now that he heard Su Hao dare to say exactly how much water is out, he is down-to-earth and thinks that Su Hao is definitely talking nonsense. Throughout the ages, no matter how good the feng shui master is, no one dares to make any assertions about how much water is per hour, and it is already against the sky to be able to accurately say whether there is water or not. This young talent dared to assert how much water could be produced, which fully showed that he didn't know how to survey the location of the well at all, and he didn't even have a minimum of common sense.

Su Hao looked at Chen Guanyu with pity and said, "Chen Shenguo, if I were you, I would definitely go find a place to pee at this time." ”

"What do you mean?" Chen Guanyu was stunned by Su Hao's words, and he didn't know what the allusion to peeing was.

Su Hao said: "Go back to the well and dig it out, there are 400 quintals of water in an hour, you have to drink 40 quintals, if you don't go to pee now, can you drink it then?" ”

With a snort, Lu Xiu'er, who had been following Su Hao, couldn't help laughing, it was really difficult for a girl to get involved in such a topic as peeing, otherwise she would definitely follow her brother to demean Chen Guanyu.

"My lord, look at ......" Xie Changfa, the leading craftsman, looked at Zheng Chun and asked for his opinion.

"Xiucai, you said that you can hit the water in 700 steps, if you can't hit it, what are you going to do?" Zheng Chun asked Su Hao.

Su Hao said lightly: "Then you can send me to the official, and you can punish me no matter what." ”

"Brother......" Lu Xiu'er was desperately pulling Su Hao's shirt behind her, she knew that her brother had never learned any feng shui at all, how could he know how to find a well position. The official family has dug so many wells and there is no water, he can draw water with a finger of his hand?

Su Hao ignored Lu Xiu'er's reminder, but looked at Zheng Chun with a smile and asked, "This official, if you do what I said, if you hit the water, what will you say?" ”

"I will give you credit for knowing the county." Zheng Chun patted his chest and said.

"Okay, let's get started." Su Hao waved his hand and said, he didn't expect Zheng Chun to give him more promises, according to Su Hao's thoughts, whether he remembered the credit or not came second, it was better to give a bonus more affordable.

Zheng Chun looked at Chen Guanyu and then at Su Hao, hesitated, stomped his feet, and said, "Okay, I'll just believe that you are only a showman." If you can't get water, I'll settle accounts with you. ”

This is also the so-called rush to the doctor, Chen Guanyu pointed out so many wells, but no water was produced, and Zheng Chun had to pin his hopes on this Xiucai who pretended to be a ghost.

Seeing Zheng Chun nodding, Xie Changfa walked up to Su Hao and asked, "Sir, you just said that 700 steps from this direction, the little one is afraid that he won't be able to understand what Mr. means, can you trouble Mr. to give him some pointers?" ”

This is Xie Changfa's prudence, digging a well is not a trivial matter, if you choose the wrong position, it will be in vain. Su Hao pointed so casually, if he doesn't admit it in the future, who is to blame for this mistake?

"Absolutely." Su Hao replied that he has always been arrogant and not arrogant, and he will have a cold face towards officials, but he has always been very respectful to ordinary workers. He walked 700 steps in the direction he had chosen, with a standard step distance, then stood down, picked up a piece of rubble, drew a circle on the ground, and said, "That's it, if you go down 60 feet, you will be able to get out of the water." ”

"This is 700 steps......" Xie Changfa scratched his head and looked at Su Hao in surprise.

"yes, didn't you just count with me?" Su Hao asked.

"Uh...... Sir, we countrymen count steps, we count them according to one step on each left and right foot, and you count one ......step for each foot," Xie Changfa said sneeringly.

"Ahem, this is the method of surveying the well position, and this step is different from what we usually say." Su Hao knew that he had put an oolong, so he hurriedly covered it up and said. The steps that the people of the Ming Dynasty said, as Xie Changfa said, refers to the length of one step on the left and right, and Su Hao still follows the habits of later generations, one step is 70 cm, so it is no wonder that Xie Changfa wonders. Fortunately, Xie Changfa did not make his own decisions, and went to drill the well according to the distance of 700 steps as he understood, otherwise, this well is estimated to be hit to the edge of the structure again, which would be a big joke.

Seeing that Su Hao had already set the location of the well, Xie Changfa greeted him, and several well-drilling craftsmen and small workers came over together, picked up shovels and pickaxes, and began to dig the soil. After the surface soil is excavated, they have to set up a wheel and use a hanging basket to hang it down the well, and these things are already very skilled for them.

Li Chang Su Zhong walked over, he looked at the work of the craftsmen, and then said to Zheng Chun: "My lord, you don't have to guard here, can you get out of the water, just let the people below report to you when the time comes." You've worked hard today, so why don't you go back to the village and rest. ”

"Okay." Zheng Chun nodded, said a few words to Xie Changfa, and then took the servants and followed Su Zhong back to the village. I don't know who will be in charge of entertaining these officials tonight, in short, they must be killing chickens and buying meat, and they will have a little blood.

"Master Xie, I'm bothering you here, after you get out of the water, remember to let someone tell me." Su Hao also explained to Xie Changfa, and then turned back to Lu Xiu'er and said, "Let's go, Xiu'er, let's go home too." ”